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Surveys the childhood, education, employment, and political career of the Civil War president. ... More

Profiles the early life, career, family, and contributions of the fifth president of the United States. ... More

Describes the childhood, education, employment, and political career of the energetic man who served as the twenty-sixth president of the United States. ... More

Traces the life of the Virginia politician, American diplomat, and United States president and examines the domestic and foreign issues dominating his career. ... More

Examines the childhood, education, employment, and political career of the forty-first president. ... More

Through the dauntless pursuit of a dream or the unwavering belief in an idea, each of the individuals featured in these fascinating biographies has changed the world. ... More

Anything and everything you wanted to know about crabs.... More

First Published in 2015. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company.... More

First Published in 2015. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company.... More

Profiles the remarkable man who began as a shipyard electrician and who became the leader of Poland's Solidarity trade union movement, and who eventually was elected leader of the country.... More

Discusses the main concerns of the environmental movement in the 1960s, and how those have evolved since; what's changed for the better, what might be worse, and where do we go from here.... More

A biography of the seventh President of the USA, describing his frontier childhood, education, career as a soldier and politician, and his new approach to the presidency.... More

Panama Canal; juvenile nonfiction; Central American history; technology & engineering... More

1493 for Young People by Charles C. Mann tells the gripping story of globalization through travel, trade, colonization, and migration from its beginnings in the fifteenth century to the present. How did the lowly potato plant feed the poor across Europe and then cause the deaths of millions? How did... More

Charles Darwin’s groundbreaking On the Origin of Species is now available in an accessible, illustrated edition for young readers that includes an introduction, glossary, modern insight and information, and more!Charles Darwin’s famous theory of natural selection shook the world of science to its co... More

At some point during the last 100,000 years, humans began exhibiting traits and behavior that distinguished us from other animals, eventually creating language, art, religion, bicycles, spacecraft, and nuclear weapons--all within a heartbeat of evolutionary time. Now, faced with the threat of nuclea... More

A Young People's History of the United States brings to US history the viewpoints of workers, slaves, immigrants, women, Native Americans, and others whose stories, and their impact, are rarely included in books for young people. A Young People's History of the United States is also a companion volu... More

A longtime professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California at Berkeley, Ronald Takaki was recognized as one of the foremost scholars of American ethnic history and diversity. When the first edition of A Different Mirror was published in 1993, Publishers Weekly called it "a brilliant revi... More

Aimed at readers ages 12 and up, the brand new "Colonial Life" series complements the world history and American history curriculum and follows the National Standards guidelines. Easy-to-read chapters featuring full-color maps and illustrations take students from the early days of discovery and expl... More