Highlights the careers of leading abolitionists including Benjamin Lundy, William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Nat Turner, and John Brown.
Profiles six athletes who participate in the extreme sports of tow-in surfing, rock climbing without ropes, freeskiing, paddling, BASE-jumping, and freestyle motorcross.
Discusses the history of computers, the Internet and World Wide Web, navigating tools, and electronic commerce, with an emphasis on developers and entrepreneurs in the field.
Presents short biographies of such figures from ancient Greece as poets Homer and Hesiod, philosophers Plato and Aristotle, and leaders Alexander and Cleopatra, and includes a chronology and an annotated further reading list.
