Chronicles the stories, statistics, records, seasons, players, coaches, and franchise histories of the American sports world, from the 2013 baseball playoffs results to the year-to-year records of NASCAR.
Presents a brief exploration of the history of architecture and how different building styles have become popular over time, from the first human dwellings in mud huts and caves to the Roman Coliseum and the latest new age buildings.
Discusses the history of music, song, and dance that are an integral part of African American culture and describes their impact on the arts and entertainment world in the United States. Traces the history from early minstrel shows up through the present day and provides biographical information about many of the stars. Presents an activity and includes a timeline, a short quiz, photographs and illustrations, a glossary, and an index and explains how to use this media enhanced book.
Presents a history of the gay rights movement of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, discussing its origins and where it stands in its goal of legalizing gay marriage throughout the United States in 2013.
Explores the scientific contributions of the early Islamic empires to science, medicine, and mathematics, including public hospitals, libraries, and universities; their achievements in mathematics and astronomy; the pursuit of alchemy; Arabic numbers; optics; music and musical instruments; and poetry and education.
Describes how the Muslim religion started, including the life of the Prophet Muhammad; the Hegira and Kaaba; caliphs; the split of the Sunni and Shi'a and the beliefs of both; Sufism; the Muslim calendar; key events that are remembered in Islam today; and the Hajj, or pilgrimage to Makkah.
Explores the life and humanitarian efforts of people like Charles Loring Brace and President Theodore Roosevelt in helping the many homeless children of New York between the 1850s and the 1930s as well as what some of these children went on to be after they were given a second chance riding the orphan trains across the country.
