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An illustrated guide to twentieth-century popular culture in America, featuring a year-by-year look at music, television, fashion, food, and other trends and events of the 1950s.

Profiles more than fifty British and Irish literary works--including novels, poems, plays, and essays--from 1837 through the end of the twentieth century, examining the historical periods in which the works are set and in which they were produced.

Information on the ten provinces and two territories of Canada, with facts on geography, climate, population, cities, government, politics, economy, history, culture, and education. Includes bibliographies of reference guideds and fiction and non-fiction works.

Presents profiles of twelve issues in U.S. history spanning 1869-1933, each comprising an overview, analysis of the pro and con arguments given on the issue at the time, and discussion of the issue's outcome, and includes sidebars, fact boxes, biographies, and document excerpts.

Presents profiles of twelve issues in U.S. history spanning 1791-1832, each comprising an overview, analysis of the pro and con arguments given on the issue at the time, and discussion of the issue's outcome, and includes sidebars, fact boxes, biographies, and document excerpts.

Presents profiles of twelve issues in U.S. history spanning 1635-1790, each comprising an overview, analysis of the pro and con arguments given on the issue at the time, and discussion of the issue's outcome, and includes sidebars, fact boxes, biographies, and document excerpts.

A compilation of information on the nicknames, land area, coastline, temperatures, population, and more for each of the fifty states.

Cartoon characters show how people in the past used constellations to tell time and direction, as well as giving tips on how to use star groups today to keep from getting lost on Earth or on a journey through the stars.

Presents a one-on-one matchup of U.S. presidents and Super Bowl games, providing accounts of each of the forty-four football contests, alongside information about the lives and achievements of the forty-four chief executives, from Washington to Obama.