Presents a drug awareness guide that traces the history of marijuana, describing both its positive and negative effects, and efforts to make the drug legal for medical use.
Tells the story of the building of the Panama Canal as a shortcut around the southern tip of South America in a journey between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, and discusses the transfer of the canal zone from the United States to Panama nearly one hundred years after its construction.
Reviews the history of the Song Dynasty, and looks at what life was like in the ancient Chinese civilization, discussing government, Confucianism, technology and industry, and the capital city of Kaifeng.
Provides information about the geography, history, government, economy, people, and places of Kansas, and includes photographs, maps, sidebars, a time line, an almanac of state facts, and a gallery of famous Kansans.
Discusses the early life of King George III, his education, early turmoil, and the American Revolution as well as his last years and his role in history.
Presents information on a tsunami that hit Hilo, Hawaii in 1946, and includes information on how tsunamis occur, what the devastating effects can be, where the danger zones are, and how they can be predicted. Includes glossary.
Examines the birth, family, early years, and political career of Adolf Hitler, discussing his hatred of Jews, involvement in the Nazi Party, role in World War II and the Holocaust, and death.
A biography of the Spanish explorer Francisco Pizarro, discussing the tactics he used to conquer the Incan Empire with only two hundred men and sixty horses.
Presents a comprehensive survey of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in the Soviet Union on April 26, 1986, and examines the radioactive fallout that extended to most of Europe, the Soviet cover-up, and the long-term effects on the people and the environment.
