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(0)Kenneth C Davis
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.4 - AR Pts: 35
Language
English
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Where do we come from? Why do stars shine and the seasons change? What is evil? Since the beginning of time, people have answered such questions by crafting imaginative stories that have served as religion, science, philosophy, and popular literature. In his irreverent a question-and-answer style, Davis introduces and explains the great myths of the world, as well as the works of literature that have made them famous. He tackles Mesopotamia's Gilgamesh,...
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Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
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An iconoclastic look at America's past: overlooked episodes that shaped the nation's destiny and character. Spanning a period from the Spanish arrival in America to George Washington's inauguration in 1789, these narratives bring to light little-known but fascinating, myth-busting facts. Read the story of the first real Pilgrims in America, who were wine-making French Huguenots, not dour English Separatists; the coming-of-age story of Queen Isabella,...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt & Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 9.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"A nonfiction account of some of the deadliest dictators in modern history"--
What makes a country fall to a dictator? How to authoritarian leaders acquire their powers? Davis profiles five of the most notoriously ruthless dictators in history. The examines their personal lives and historical periods, and shows how these factors shaped the leaders they'd become. -- adapted from jacket
7) Don't know much about history: everything you need to know about American history, but never learned
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Series
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
©1990.
Language
English
Description
Question-and-answer format provides information about American history from exploration of the New World through the present.
Author
Publisher
Smithsonian Books/HarperCollins
Pub. Date
©2010
Language
English
Description
Explores America's hidden history in the first half of the nineteenth century, one of the most tumultuous but overlooked periods in the nation's early history.
In the dramatic period from 1800 through 1850, the United States emerged from its inauspicious beginning as a newborn nation, to a near-empire that spanned the continent. It was a time in which the "dream of our founders" spread in ways that few men of that Revolutionary Generation could possibly...