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Explores the role of firefighting in human history while chronicling the world's most famous fires. An innovative, vividly illustrated chronicle of humankin...

This guide to the 20th century uses newspaper-style presentations to reveal the stories behind the heroes and villains of recent times, the major events tha...

Paperback and Chart. This entertaining Chart is a good educational item for every home, library or school - a must for all students of history and a lot of ...

remember That Time You Bumped Into Stephen Hawking At The Clambake And His Monologue On String Theory Went Completely Over Your Head? Man, Was That Awkwar...

With selections drawn from both constitutional and cultural history, this book invites students to examine evidence as historians do. Documents are arranged...

Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Barbara W. Tuchman, author of the World War I masterpieceThe Guns of August, grapples with her boldest subject: the perv...

Idenifies Key Individuals, Events, Places, Organizations, Movements, Political Parties, And Battles. Consultant Editor, Bruce P. Lenman ; Editor, Hilary Mar...

Wouldn’t it be great to understand all our Christmas traditions? Here, Jonathan Green offers the fascinating history behind our most beloved holiday tradi...

Sharp full-color photographs, a simple and concise text, and a newspaper-style format report the major events and people of the century, from world wars to ...

The Fifties Is A Sweeping Social, Political, Economic, And Cultural History Of The Ten Years That David Halberstam Regards As Seminal In Determining What Ou...

Completely new selection of guns featured - this book does not repeat the content of other similar volumes by the same author or with the same title.Categor...

A National bestseller, The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy has been widely acclaimed for identifying and defining the core body of knowledge that no litera...

Glorious Photographs Of Every Part Of The World. Delving Deeply Into Century-old Picture Archive National Geographic Presents The World's Hugely Diverse Pla...

The Rich Pageant Of Britains History Emerges Nowhere More Colorfully Than In The Story Of Its Kings And Queens. This New Paperback Offers An Attractive And ...

The definitive history of one of the fiercest battles of World War II Library Journal First published in Hungarian in 1998, Ungvary's account of the 100-d...

Fourth in the Kennel Club Books’ Classics series, The Golden Retriever recognizes the ever-popular all-American breed in this one spectacular volume. Writ...

Find out who did what first in this compelling, informative look at great achievements and discoveries, from the first pizza delivery to the first submarine...

indispensable For Every Home, Library, And Office, the Knowledge Book Distills Thousands Of Years Of Humankind's Most Significant Ideas And Achievements.....

Edited By Geoffrey Barraclough. Includes World Chronology, Glossary, And Index. Reprint. Originally Published: London : Times Books, 1993.Categories: Scienc...

New Ed.: London : Longman, 1988. Includes Index. Maps On Lining Papers.Categories: History Historical Study & Educational ResourcesReference