Category: Biographies

By Norma Jean Lutz

ISBN-10: 0791059626

ISBN-13: 9780791059623

ISBN-10: 0791061191

ISBN-13: 9780791061190

ISBN-10: 1438101104

ISBN-13: 9781438101101

- Compelling snap shots of yankee history's so much outstanding female and male leaders- contains informative sidebars- attention-grabbing, easy-to-understand content material- enhances college curriculum

By Montrew Dunham

ISBN-10: 1882859383

ISBN-13: 9781882859382

ISBN-10: 1882859405

ISBN-13: 9781882859405

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By Rosalie Kaufman

ISBN-10: 1599152088

ISBN-13: 9781599152080

Fifty retellings from Plutarch's Lives skillfully tailored for kids. comprises the conquests of Alexander the nice, how Demosthenes turned an orator, the conspiracy opposed to Caesar, the lifetime of Lycurgus the law-giver of Sparta, the exploits of Pyrrhus and others.

By Judith Levin

ISBN-10: 0791092585

ISBN-13: 9780791092583

ISBN-10: 1438104693

ISBN-13: 9781438104690

Hugo Chavez has captured the world's cognizance because his victory within the 1998 Venezuelan presidential election. Many global leaders give some thought to him risky and can't omit his 1992 coup try. but, his aim of a really democratic Venezuela makes him exceedingly well known one of the reduce periods in his state. even if he's a liberator of the folk or a power-hungry agitator is still noticeable, yet he's absolute to allure controversy. This new, full-color biography deals readers a perceptive creation to this unpredictable chief.

By Cynthia O'Brien

This attractive ebook follows the travels of Italian explorer Christopher Columbus. historic details and high-interest truth bins are offered in an exciting tabloid variety as Columbus navigates his strategy to the recent international. themes comprise what led Columbus to develop into an explorer, early ideals in regards to the geography of the area, lifestyles on sea voyages, failed colonies, and the legacy of Columbus.

By Tim Cooke,Joan Curtis

By Jameson Anderson

By Joanne Mattern

During this name, unwrap the lifetime of proficient Hershey's chocolate author, Milton Hershey! Readers will get pleasure from getting the inside track in this nutrients Dude, starting together with his youth close to Lancaster, Pennsylvania. scholars can stick with Hershey's luck tale from his apprenticeship at Royer's Ice Cream Parlor and backyard to his institution of the Lancaster Caramel corporation. Hershey's discovery of chocolate and decided construction of the Hershey bar additionally highlighted. attractive textual content familiarizes readers with issues of curiosity together with town of Hershey, Pennsylvania, and the Milton Hershey college. An wonderful sidebar, a important timeline, a word list, and an index, complement the historic and colour photographs showcased during this inspiring biography. Checkerboard Library is an imprint of ABDO Publishing corporation.

By Norman Kretzmann, Eleonore Stump

ISBN-10: 0521431956

ISBN-13: 9780521431958

ISBN-10: 0521437695

ISBN-13: 9780521437691

One of the nice philosophers of the center a while Aquinas is exclusive in pursuing it appears disparate initiatives. at the one hand he built a philosophical realizing of Christian doctrine in a completely built-in method encompassing all normal and supernatural fact. nevertheless, he used to be confident that Aristotle's philosophy afforded the simplest on hand philosophical portion of this kind of approach. In a comparatively short occupation Aquinas constructed those tasks in nice element and with an marvelous measure of good fortune. during this quantity ten major students introduce the entire very important elements of Aquinas' idea, starting from its historic historical past and dependence on Greek, Islamic, and Jewish philosophy and theology, in the course of the metaphysics, epistemology and ethics, to the philosophical method of Biblical observation. New readers and nonspecialists will locate this the best, available advisor to Aquinas at present in print. complicated scholars and experts will discover a conspectus of modern advancements within the interpretation of Aquinas.

By Minnie Belle Mitchell

ISBN-10: 1882859111

ISBN-13: 9781882859115

Energetic and stressed, “Bud” Riley, the boy who might turn into one of many nineteenth century’s most well-liked and revered poets, had a difficult time sitting nonetheless in school—unless he used to be drawing or writing the “poems he heard in his head.” superb illustrations and textual content wealthy with historical past draw younger readers into James Whitcomb Riley’s international at the fringe of the Midwestern desert. teenagers absolutely adventure Riley’s energetic formative years, from studying to swim (nearly drowning within the approach) to performing as ringmaster in his personal circus, entire with animal acts, song, and acrobats. enjoyable evidence approximately James Whitcomb Riley supply youngsters with a preview of the poet’s grownup accomplishments and little-known evidence concerning the guy significantly well-liked through novelist Mark Twain and President Benjamin Harrison.