Provides information about the Colosseum, including such facts as how 50,000 people could fit in it and that sometimes the games lasted for months.
Provides information about Machu Picchu, including such facts as the lack of an Incan writing system and that the whole structure was built without mortar.
Begin a voyage of discovery with world-famous explorers! Discover everything you need to know about explorers with this brilliant book. One hundred facts, fantastic illustrations, and hilarious car…
An authoritative account of two of the deadliest conflicts in human history with analysis of decisive encounters and landmark engagements.
From one of our most accomplished and widely admired historians--a revelatory portrait of Benjamin Franklin's youngest sister, Jane, whose obscurity and poverty were matched only by her brother's f…
On the morning of December 26, 2004, on the southern coast of Sri Lanka, Sonali Deraniyagala lost her parents, her husband, and her two young sons in the tsunami she miraculously survived. In this …
Julie Powell is a bored, 30-year-old secretary living in a rundown apartment in Queens. She needs something to break the monotony of her life, so she invents a deranged assignment. She will take he…