history

Chronicles the experiences of a team of mountain climbers who were trapped on Mount McKinley in Alaska during one of the worst storms to hit the mountain in the twentieth century.

Discusses how statistics have changed the field of science in the twentieth century, focusing on the theories and ideas of famous scientists and thinkers.

Reveals how, in 1956, two Bell Labs scientists, mathematician Claude Shannon, and physicist John L. Kelly, Jr., used their scientific knowledge to create a formula for making money that helped them beat the casinos in Las Vegas, make money on Wall Street, and win money in other ventures.

Explains how the attempts of two young nineteenth-century mathematicians--Frenchman ?variste Galois and Norwegian Niels Henrik Abel--to solve the quintic equation spawned group theory and examines the role of symmetry in nature, human perception, and human endeavor.

Presents an examination of the history of the use of visual graphs in the presentation of information, from its eighteenth century origins in art, logic, to the graphic explosion of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, where communication shifted from words to pictures.

Examines the beginnings of the Christian Church, its growth and spread, its problems, and its triumphs.

Draws from the letters of parents, children, and school officials at Haskell Institute in Kansas, and the Flandreau school in South Dakota, to explore the emotional history of Indian boarding school experiences in the early twentieth century.

Melba Pattillo chronicles the experiences she had after she and eight other African-American students who integrated Little Rock's Central High School.