Nardo, Don

This colorful book for young readers includes the rousing tales of Aeneas's danger-filled journey to Italy, where he founded the Roman race; Romulus's establishment of the city of Rome; brave Horatius's single-handed defense of Rome's main bridge against an entire army; and much more.

Looks at the earliest human civilizations to spring up along the rivers of Mesopotamia, Egypt, India, and China.

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.

Explores the Roman Empire from its mythical founding by Romulus, through development and expansion to decline after the barbarian invasions of the fourth and fifth centuries.

Presents fourteen primary and secondary documents on everyday life in ancient Rome, covering homes, roads, slavery, religion, weddings, and leisure, and includes a chronology and further reading list.

Examines the origins, history, beliefs, culture, and spiritual leaders of Christianity.

Examines the origins, history, beliefs, culture, and spiritual leaders of the Islamic faith.

Examines the events leading up to the 1929 Stock Market crash that resulted in the Great Depression; and explores the methods enacted by both President Hoover and later President Roosevelt to bring the country back.

Describes the cultural, political and social life of ancient Mesopotamia.

Examines how DNA is used in crime solving and discusses the development of DNA profiling and how it works, cases which used the forensic technique, and legal and ethical issues of DNA testing.