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From the first kings of the Nile to the modern republic: the complete story of Egypt in one illustrated volume.For more than five thousand years, a single river has shaped one of the longest-running stories on Earth. EGYPT follows that story from the farming villages of the Nile Valley, through the pyramid builders and the empire of the pharaohs, to the Greek, Roman, Christian, Islamic and Ottoman worlds, and on to the modern republic.Along the way you will meet Imhotep and...

From a wolf-suckled myth on the banks of the Tiber to the fall of Constantinople two thousand years later: the complete story of Rome in one illustrated volume.SPQR tells the whole arc, not just the highlight reel. It follows the Republic that conquered a sea, the emperors who inherited it, and the slow, uneven collapse that followed, then keeps going to trace the Eastern Empire that carried the Roman name for another thousand years.You will meet Romulus, Hannibal, Scipio, ...

From the first colonies to the present day: the story of the United States in one illustrated volume.AMERICA follows the nation from the Native peoples and English settlers of the colonial era through the Revolution, the Constitution, the Civil War, two world wars, the Cold War and the early twenty-first century. It is a story of presidents and founders, generals and inventors, reformers and ordinary families.You will stand in the Assembly Room at Independence Hall, at Sara...

There was never one Native America. There were, and are, hundreds of nations, each with its own language, government, homeland and history. This illustrated volume tells their story from the first peoples to the 575 federally recognized tribal nations of today.The book begins with the mound builders of Poverty Point, Adena, Hopewell and Cahokia and the great houses of Chaco Canyon and Mesa Verde. It then travels through the homelands of the Arctic, Northwest Coast, California, the ...

From a small island in a lake to the greatest city in the Americas, and the siege that ended it: the complete story of the Mexica in one illustrated volume."Aztec" is the name the modern world gave them. They called themselves Mexica, and from their island capital of Tenochtitlan they and their allies in Texcoco and Tlacopan built the Triple Alliance, a tribute empire that stretched across central and southern Mexico. AZTEC follows the story from the long migration and the founding...

According to Wikipedia: "Mary Mapes Dodge (26 January 183121 August 1905) was an American children's writer and editor, best known for her novel Hans Brinker… n 1859 she began writing and editing, working with her father to publish two magazines, the Working Farmer and the United States Journal. Within a few years she had great success with a collection of short stories, The Irvington Stories (1864), and a novel was solicited. Dodge then wrote Hans Brinker, or the Silver Skates, which beca...

BE EMPOWERED!Bright Star Kaleidoscope Story for children is all about being empowered to be your true self and follow your dreams and aspirations!Finding your joy, discovering who you are, and knowing you can achieve anything with determination and self-belief. Children are taken on a magical adventure into their imagination as they travel with Little Star, and experience all of the inspiring and uplifting messages woven throughout the journey. Bright Star is 100% story med...

" The Yoga Plate brings us compassion and living right for our families, our planet and our animals—a beautiful offering for good all around." — Julie Piatt and Rich Roll, bestselling authors, wellness leaders, chefs, and podcast hostsDiscover 108 nourishing and delicious vegan recipes in the first modern cookbook to marry yoga's principle of ahimsa with nutrition.We take a lot of care when it comes to cho...

A road trip novel from the author of Fup that "reads like Kerouac's On the Road as it might have been written by Hunter S. Thompson" ( The Plain Dealer).George Gastin is a Bay Area tow-truck operator who wrecks cars as part of an insurance scam. One of the cars he is hired to demolish is a snow-white Cadillac that was supposed to be a present for the Big Bopper, who died in the Iowa plane crash that killed Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens. ...

Most histories of Australia begin in 1788. The people who lived on this continent had already been here for tens of thousands of years, through ice ages, rising seas and the loss of giant animals, and their cultures are living today.This illustrated history follows the evidence from the ancient continent of Sahul to the arrival of ships: the first crossings, the oldest archaeological sites, kinship and law, homes and food, languages, astronomy, fish traps and fire management, tools...

The first missing day is not a clerical error. At the Geneva Continuity Archive, Teo Rask watches a Wednesday disappear from every copy, without a trace of deletion. Across the solar system, air engines stall, crops fail, and a lake behaves as if its rules have changed.On Mars, engineer Anselm Okonkwo-Reyes finds a patch of ground where tools stop working. At the lunar Deep Space Array, signal analyst Lin Sato-Marsh tracks a faint pulse whose intervals keep shrinking. Titan medic W...

A spellbinding time-travel romance set in a mysterious Scottish bookshop, where an occult artifact and a connection across decades intertwine lives in a tale of historical fantasy and love that transcends time, perfect for fans of The Time Traveler’s Wife and The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry.1955. Pen Turner, long bound by responsibility, is finally given the chance to go on an adventure of his own when he inherits a bookshop in the...