miscellanea

Profiles many fictional figures from literature, myth, film, and other sources that have shaped society, culture, and the course of history, such as Rosie the Riveter, Lady Chatterly, Ebenezer Scrooge, and Hamlet.

Introduces a family of softsculptured dolls made from pantyhose, fabric and thread and provides instructions on how to make them.

Recounts the enduring products, inovative trends and fun fads of the past ten decades.

A photographic look back at the decade of the 1950s, discussing the Eisenhower presidency, surburbia, cars, the Cold War, McCarthyism, art and entertainment, television, and sports.

Question-and-answer format provides information about American history from exploration of the New World through the present.

This book provides assorted facts about each of the fifty states in question and answer format.

Provides facts about the universe, space exploration, black holes, astronomy and spacecraft using question and answer format.

Illustrations and text provide information about various aspects of outer space, covering the solar system, the sun and planets, asteroids, galaxies, moon missions, and other topics.