history

Illustrations, photographs, and text describe the fashion trends of the United States from the 1930s to the 1950s, with information on styles, designers, manufacturing, materials, and other related topics.

Volume two of a two-volume set featuring alphabetically arranged entries from M to Z profiling influential scientific expeditions and discoveries from the early fifteenth century to the early twenty-first century.

Contains short profiles of the presidents of the United States, from George Washington to Barack Obama, accompanied by illustrations and photographs of memorabilia associated with each man, and includes a clip-art CD.

Describes how exploration in the Middle Ages impacted the development of science, religion, medicine, travel, and the world as a whole.

Informative text, booklets, foldouts, maps, and excerpts from "The Travels of Marco Polo" provide information about the life and journeys of the Christian merchant.

Examines how the people of ancient Rome designed and used technology, covering concrete, arches, waterwheels, calendars, roads, sewers, heating, domes, and other topics.

Looks at how knowledge and inventions were discovered and how they spread to other parts of the world from Europe during the Renaissance, 1485 to 1714, discussing firearms, clocks, navigation, oil paint, arithmetic, distilled alcohol, and other topics.

Examines how the people of ancient Greece designed and used technology, covering money, pulleys, screw thread, city planning, mining, and other topics.

Examines how the people of ancient Egypt designed and used technology, covering pyramids, sailing ships, paper and ink, embalming, irrigation, measurement, and other topics.

Adrastos, a trainer, describes what it is like to be a sports hero in ancient Greece, looks at various Olympic events, and shares stories of famous athletes.