A brilliant overview of world history from prehistoric times to the early 20th century

    Maps tell you about the world: where various countries are located, where the jungles and deserts are, even how to find your way around your own hometown. If you take a fancy to any place on earth, you can go there today and still be home in time for dinner. So open a map, spin a globe. The wide world awaits you.Supports the Common Core State Standards

    This colourful book explores the exciting worlds of mountains, jungles and deserts, their dramatic landscapes, the animals and plants that inhabit them and the people who live in the most beautiful and remote areas of the earth.

    Full color.

    -- Pictures and complementary text explain two fundamental principles of time-- Illustrated in full color

    The book encourages children to listen, read, and learn. Full color illustrations.

    There's something new to find with every look at the extraordinarily detailed illustrations, depicting the insides of a steam train, a coal mine, a castle, the Queen Mary, and more. Full color.

    Thomas Edison also invented the phonograph and an early form of motion pictures. This is the amazing story of his life---and of his inventions that changed the world.

    - These thought-provoking books offer a balanced exploration of the beliefs, history and customs of the peoples and religions of the world.

    This book takes you through the story of both conflicts - from the soldiers' terrifying experiences of the trenches in the First War, to the huge battles and bombing of cities in the Second. Stunningly illustrated with dramatic contemporary photographs, paintings, posters and maps, this is an accessible and thought-provoking introduction to the two most devastating wars the world has ever known.

    His most famous was the "Clermont," a steamboat he launched on the Hudson. Here is his boyhood.

    Jam-packed with information, photographs, charts and maps for additional study and research.

    With full colour illustrations.

    Eleven-year-old Toby’s vivid diary entries offer an insider’s view of day-to-day castle life, including tips on etiquette (where do you spit at a feast?) and exciting descriptions of hunting, jousting, and harvesting. Complete with glossary, index, and detailed endnotes, this is a rich look at medieval life that informs as much as it entertains.

    Marie Curie's scientific research and discovery of radium in 1902, helped open the door to our modern nuclear age.