history

Offers a comprehensive and richly illustrated chronicle of contemporary world events.

Presents a collection of eight essays by philosopher Hannah Arendt, and includes a discussion of modern societies' loss of meaning in traditional areas of politics, justice, reason, responsibility, virtue, and glory.

Examines some of the highlights of human achievement over the course of two thousand years, looking at topics in the areas of everyday life, the arts, science, medicine and health, politics and government, building and engineering, transport, war and weapons, communications and the media, and sports and leisure.

A collection of interesting trivia.

Profiles thirty-five separate situations in history where major political, military, scientific, or economic decisions led to disaster including George Armstrong Custer's fatal mistakes at the Little Bighorn and Japan's Isoroku Yamamoto's decision to bomb the naval base at Pearl Harbor.

A collection of jokes and riddles about history.

Examines how developments in modern science, such as DNA analysis and spectroscopy, have helped to reopen archaeological mysteries about ancient cities, Egypt's first female pharaoh, a missing expedition to find the Northwest Passage, and more, with illustrations, maps, and photographs.

Presents a children's collection of humorous jokes about history.

Highlights amazing discoveries from around the world and throughout history, including the discovery of Machu Picchu, the remains of China's Terra-Cotta Army, the coelacanth, and the diamond mines in Kimberley, South Africa, and their worldwide impact.

A collection of nineteen stories that attempt to piece together events in history when not all the information is available, and includes stories of the Edmund Fitzgerald, Martin's Hundred, the Great Wall, Herculaneum and Pompeii, and Custer's Last Stand.