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Quick view Making It Home: Real-Life Stories from Children Forced to Flee by Beverley Naidoo In this inspiring collection, children living all over the world speak about being forced to flee from their homes as refugees in original, autobiographical accounts. Includes an 8-page photo insert and maps. View Details
Quick view Che: A Graphic Biography by Spain Rodriguez This dramatic and extensively researched book breathes new life into Ernesto Che Guevaras story, portraying his struggle through the medium of the underground political comic--one of the most prominent countercultural art forms since the 1960s. View Details
Quick view Last Man Down by Richard Picciotto The highest-ranking firefighter to survive the World Trade Center collapse--and the last fireman to escape the devastation after being buried alive for four hours--tells his story. First time in paperback with a new Afterword. View Details
Quick view The Blooding: The Dramatic True Story of the First Murder Case Solved by Genetic "Fingerprinting" by Joseph Wambaugh The old and the new, the traditional and the up-to-date, combine for one of Wambaugh's most unusual cases, the chilling story of a psychopath whose deeds might have remained forever undetected if a scientist doing research on DNA had not stumbled upon... View Details
Quick view Color: A Natural History of the Palette by Victoria Finlay For example: Cleopatra used saffron--a source of the color yellow--for seduction. Extracted from an Afghan mine, the blue "ultramarine" paint used by Michelangelo was so expensive he couldn't afford to buy it himself. Since ancient times, carmine... View Details
Quick view The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream by Barack Obama The rising democratic star and "New York Times" bestselling author of "Dreams From My Father" invokes the hopes and ideals that have made "our improbable experiment in democracy" work and proclaims his vision for more authentic politics. View Details
Quick view The Anti-Federalist Papers and the Constitutional Convention Debates by Ralph Ketcham The complete text of dissenting opinions of those who saw the Constitution as a threat are collected in this volume with Convention debates, commentaries, and lists that cross-reference to its companion Signet Classics volume "The Federalist Papers." View Details
Quick view The U.S. Constitution for Everyone: Features All 27 Amendments by Jeromne B Agel Published in celebration of our Constitition's bicentennial, this is a clear, easy-to-read introduction to America's founding document. A page of the Constitution's actual text faces a page of explanation and information in such a way that both young... View Details
Quick view Democracy in America by Alexis De Tocqueville A brilliant new translation of de Tocqueville's masterpiece also includes an account of Tocqueville's travels in Michigan among the Iroquois. View Details
Quick view Arctic & Anarctic [with CD-ROM and Wall Chart] by Barbara Taylor Shows and describes wildlife found in the polar regions, looks at Inuit clothing and artifacts, and depicts the equipment used by polar explorers. View Details
Quick view The Whydah: A Pirate Ship Feared, Wrecked, and Found by Martin W Sandler Describes what happened when a slave ship captured by pirates in 1717 was sunk by a brutal storm, the expedition to locate the wreck, and what was uncovered. Teacher Guide View Details
Quick view Dateline: Troy by Paul Fleischman A retelling of the story of the Trojan War illustrated with collages featuring newspaper clippings of modern events from World War I through the Persian Gulf war. Teacher Guide View Details
