Juvenile Nonfiction

Lily has settled into life in Connecticut after her parent's divorce but it's been harder on her eight-year-old brother Michael. After their mother remarries, her brother chooses to go live with his father in Washington, D.C., until the day he calls home from the Baltimore-Washington Airport where his father has abandoned him. more...

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A Mathematical Jamboree contains 114 puzzles and activities to challenge people of all ages. more...

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World War I was a bloodletting so vast and unprecedented that for a generation it was known simply as the Great War. Casualty lists reached unimagined proportions as the same ground -- places like Ypres and the Somme -- was fought over again and again. Other major bloody battles remain vivid in memory to this day: Gallipoli and the Battle of Jutland are but two examples. Europe was at war with itself, and the effect on Western civilization was profound, its repercussions felt even today. World War I saw the introduction of modern technology into the military arena: The tank, airplane, machine gun, submarine, and -- most lethal of all -- poison gas, all received their first widespread use. Professor Stokesbury analyzes these technological innovations and the war's complex military campaigns in lucid detail. At the same time he discusses the great political events that unfolded during the war, such as the Russian Revolution and the end of the Hapsburg dynasty, putting the social and political side of the war into the context of modern European history. A Short History of World War I is the first history of this war to be written in twenty years. It incorporates recent research and current thinking about the war in a highly readable and lively style. more...

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Narrative about a boy (and his mum) who meets up with his uncle (an actor) to be given a tour of a theatre, including backstage, before watching a play. The play is Flat Stanley, and the uncle plays the Flat Stanley role. The tour includes looking at the play's scenery, props, costumes, and the Flat Stanley puppets. Covers details of theatre terminology, such as box office and auditorium, and who and what is involved in putting on a production. Also look into the workshop, the wardrobe department and the actors' dressing room. Information boxes includes further details about the roles of the director, the stage manager, and the lighting and sound technicians, and the making of props. more...

Price: $3.99

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