In search of a less restrictive way to live, two young people break away from their colony of Persons on the planet Earth, become involved with the inferior Creatures who inhabit Earth, and are thrust into the forefront of a revolution.
Fourteen-year-old Jason Walker is transported to a strange world called Lyrian, where he joins Rachel, who was also drawn there from our world, and a few rebels, to piece together the Word that can destroy the malicious wizard emperor, Surroth.
In a toxic world, a community lives underground, when Sheriff Holston asks to leave and go outside, mechanic Juliette is appointed as the new sheriff and learns how badly her world is broken.
Examines the causes and effects of the uprisings in Mexico in the first half of the twentieth century, and discusses why various groups were so opposed to the leadership of Porfirio Diaz.
Examines the causes and effects of the uprisings in France in the late eighteenth century, and discusses why various groups were so opposed to the leadership of King Louis XVI.
Discusses the new ideas introduced in Europe during the Renaissance and Reformation, explains how they led to the philosophies of the Enlightenment, and describes the Enlightenment's influence on the American and French Revolutions as well as nonrevolutionary change in England and other countries.
A comparative history of the revolutionary age in the Americas, looking at the American Revolution of 1776, the slave revolt in Saint Dominque (now Haiti) in 1791, and the Spanish-American fight for independence, and arguing that the issues at stake in those wars remain central in modern American politics.
