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Penguin Random House LLC What Is the Statue of Liberty
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Penguin Young Readers Group Where Is The Great Wall
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Penguin Young Readers Group Where Are the Great Pyramids Where Is
Book SynopsisThe Great Pyramids of Egypt--all kids over the age of five recognize them instantly. These massive tombs were built thousands of years ago, and still no one knows exactly how the ancient Egyptians did it! In this informative account, Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler tell the story of the powerful pharaohs who commissioned the pyramids at Giza and offer a fascinating look at the culture of the afterlife in ancient Egypt, explaining exactly how mummies were made. Easy to read and scrupulously researched, this explores the mysteries that have attracted countless visitors to the pyramids for centuries.
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Penguin Young Readers Group What Was the Holocaust
Book SynopsisThe Holocaust was a genocide on a scale never before seen, with as many as twelve million people killed in Nazi death camps - six million of them Jews. Gail Herman traces the rise of Hitler and the Nazis, whose rabid anti-Semitism led first to humiliating anti-Jewish laws, then to ghettos all over Eastern Europe.
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Cambridge University Press Hitler Chamberlain and Appeasement by McDonough Frank Author ON Apr042002 Paperback
Book SynopsisAn engaging range of period texts and theme books for AS and A Level history.Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Anglo-German relations 1918–1933; 2. The impact of Adolf Hitler: foreign policy aims and actions, 1933–1937; 3. Why appeasement? 4. Chamberlain and appeasement (1) The period of hope, May 1937 to October 1938; 5. Chamberlain and appeasement (2) The road to war, October 1938 to September 1939; 6. The historical debate; Chronology; Select bibliography.
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Cambridge University Press Cambridge IGCSE India Studies
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Cambridge University Press A History of South and Central Africa
Book SynopsisThis is a history of Africa south of the Congo Forest from about A.D.1000 to the era of the establishment of independent states. Work of contemporary researchers is presented in a simpler form than in most scholarly books thereby reflecting a complete picture of the early history of South and Central Africa.Table of ContentsList of maps; Acknowledgements; Preface; Part I. Origins of African Societies, 1000–1800: 1. Iron age states (1): the Luba and Lunda empires; 2. Iron age states (2): West Coast states; 3. Iron age states (3): Eastern Central Africa; 4. Iron age states (4): empires and kingdoms between the Limpopo and the Zambezi; 5. Peoples south of the Limpopo; 6. The growth of long-distance trade; Part II. African Societies, 1800–80: 7. New pressures (1): the Mfecane; 8. New pressures (2): the spread of white settlement in the South; 9. New pressures (3): the Afrikaner invasion; 10. New pressures (4): the impact of the Mfecane north of the Limpopo; 11. New pressures (5): commercial expansion in Central Africa; Part III. African and European Societies under Colonial Rule, 1880–1939: 12. The growth of European interest in Africa; 13. Partition and reaction (1): collapse of the great Bantu kingdoms; 14. Partition and reaction (2): the conflict north of the Zambezi; 15. Partition and reaction (3): the Western Region; 16. The British and the Boers: the final reckoning; 17. The period of colonial rule (1): the British sphere; 18. The period of colonial rule (2): the Portuguese sphere; 19. The period of colonial rule (3): the Belgian and German spheres; Part IV. The Re-Emergence of African Societies, 1940–65: 20. Independence (1): the Congo; 21. Independence (2): Zambia, Malawi and Rhodesia; 22. The white-dominated South; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Pompeii
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Cambridge University Press Elizabeth I Cambridge Topics in History
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Cambridge University Press Change and Continuity in British Society 18001850 Cambridge Topics in History
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Cambridge University Press charlesi
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Cambridge University Press Women in Ancient Greece and Rome
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Cambridge University Press The Roman World
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Cambridge University Press Revolutionary France Liberty Tyranny and Terror Cambridge History Programme Key Stage 3
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Cambridge University Press Industrial Britain The Workshop of the World Cambridge History Programme Key Stage 3
Book SynopsisAn investigative history course directly accessible to all pupils at Key Stage 3. Each book provides teachers with all the material they require to develop fully their pupils'' historical knowledge, skills and understanding.Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Great Exhibition; OVERVIEW: THE WORKSHOP OF THE WORLD: 1. Population growth and urbanisation; 2. Changes in farming; 3. The birth of the factory; 4. Iron, coal and steam; 5. Canals, roads and railways; 6. A worldwide Empire; 7. A trading nation; OVERVIEW: CHANGES IN SOCIETY: 8. Child labour in mills and mines; 9. Winners and losers; 10. Squalor and splendour; 11. Religion; 12. On the move; 13. The role of women; 14. Growing up; 15. The real world of work?; OVERVIEW: POWER AND AUTHORITY: 16. Power and the people; 17. The Peterloo Massacre; 18. The Great Reform Act; 19. The Chartists; The legacy of industrialisation; Attainment target grid; Index.
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Cambridge University Press African Peoples of the Americas
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Cambridge University Press Change and Conflict
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Cambridge University Press Germany 191845 Cambridge History Programme Key Stage 4
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Cambridge University Press The USA 19171941
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Cambridge University Press Russia and the USSR 19051991 Cambridge History Programme Key Stage 4
Book SynopsisA range of textbooks covering many of the options available on GCSE history specifications.Table of Contents1. Russia's problems under Tsar Nicholas II; 2. The Tsar's opponents and supporters; 3. The events of 1905; 4. 1905 – the aftermath; 5. The First World War; 6. The March 1917 Revolution; Review: Events leading to the collapse of the Tsarist regime in 1917; 7. The Provisional Government and the Bolsheviks; 8. The fate of the Provisional Government; 9. The Bolsheviks seize power; 10. The Civil War; 11. The communist victory; 12. War Communism; 13. The New Economic Policy; Review: How the Bolsheviks gained control; 14. Trotsky and Stalin; 15. The rise of Stalin; 16. Collectivisation; 17. The Five-Year Plans; 18. The effects of the Five-Year Plans; Review: The impact of Stalin's economic policies; 19. The purges; 20. Threats to Stalin's power; 21. Stalin gains control; review: How did Stalin win and hold on to power?; 22. The Great Patriotic War; 23. Stalin's successors; Review: The Soviet Union after 1941.
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Cambridge University Press South Africa 19481994 Cambridge History Programme Key Stage 4
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Cambridge University Press Conflict in Indochina 19541979 Cambridge Senior History
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Cambridge University Press The European Dictatorships Hitler Stalin Mussolini Cambridge Perspectives in History
Book SynopsisAn engaging range of period texts and theme books for AS and A Level history.Table of Contents1. Dictatorship and Totalitarianism; 2. From Leninism to Stalinism, 1919–1928; 3. Stalin's 'Revolution from above; 4. The Stalinist state; 5. The rise of Italian Fascism, 1919–1925; 6. The corporate state, 1925–1939; 7. Weimar and the rise of Nazism, 1919–1933; 8. The Nazi 'revolution', 1933–1939; 9. Consolidating and maintaining the Nazi dictatorship, 1933–1939; 10. Comparisons and contrasts.
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Cambridge University Press Ancient Egypt Reconstructing the Past
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Cambridge University Press Ancient Rome Using Evidence
Book SynopsisThis text presents a detailed coverage of three crucial centuries in the history of the Roman people: the second and first centuries BC and the first century AD. It examines major issues including the development of the Roman republican form of government and Rome's expansion in the Mediterranean.Table of ContentsList of illustrations; List of maps; Part I. Introduction to Roman History: 1. The evidence; 2. The geography of Italy and its influence on the development of Rome; 3. The foundation and early development of Rome; 4. Roman society in the early republic; Part II. The Roman Conquest of Italy and Constitutional Developent: 5. Conquest and organisation; 6. The plebeian struggle for equality and the government of Rome; Part III. Rome's Expansion in the Mediterranean, 264–146: Carthage, Macedonia, Greece and Asia: 7. Background to the wars with Carthage; 8. The First Punic War, 264–241; 9. Background to the Second Punic War, 229–218; 10. The Second Punic War, 218–201; 11. The Third Punic War, 149–146; 12. Rome and the east, 200–146; 13. The immediate and long-term effects of the wars of expansion; Part IV. The Late Republic: First Phase, 146–78: 14. The Gracchi; 15. marius and Sulla; Part V. The Late Republic: Second Phase, 78–28: 16. The rise of Pompey and the period of his eastern commands, 78–61; 17. From the First Triumvirate to the death of Caesar, 60–44; 18. From republic to principate, 44–28; Part VI. Augustus and the Julio-Claudians 28 BC–AD 68; 19. The principate of Augustus, 27 BC–AD 14; 20. The forums of Rome in the time of Augustus; 21. The Julio-Claudian dynasty, AD 14–68; 22. Life in an imperial city in the first century AD; Notes to the text; Glossary; Bibliography; Acknowledgments; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Ancient Greece Using Evidence
Book SynopsisThis book presents a detailed coverage of Greek history from the period of colonisation through to the death of Alexander the Great. This is not only an excellent preparation for examinations in Ancient History, but also a very readable account of the main periods in the history of ancient Greece.
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Scholastic Inc. Five Epic Disasters I Survived True Stories 1
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Random House USA Inc Dinosaur Book for Kids
Book SynopsisColor and learn fun facts about 25 of the greatest dinosaurs that ever lived!Meet 25 of the world's most amazing dinosaurs! This learn-through-coloring book provides kids with hours of coloring fun and teaches them exciting facts about these prehistoric beasts at the same time. Did you know that Triceratops had up to 800 teeth? Or that Dilophosaurus could run almost as fast as an Olympic runner? Here's what the dinosaurs looked like, how they protected themselves, how big they were, and so much more. Children will have fun coloring the dinosaurs, learning about them, and becoming dinosaur experts.Dinosaur Book for Kids features: Learning while having coloring fun! Kids will discover amazing facts for each dinosaur that they can share with family and friends. 50 age-appropriate illustrations, perfect for little hands. Name and pronunciation guide for every dinosaur, so kids can proudly (and accurately) show off what they know.
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Random House USA Inc Caste Adapted for Young Adults
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Penguin Young Readers Treasures of the Earth
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iUniverse Cadets At War The True Story of Teenage Heroism at the Battle of New Market
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iUniverse The Fieldston Guide to American History for Cynical Beginners Impractical Lessons for Everyday Life
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iUniverse The Beast of Rickards Road and the Ghost of Payne Road True Ghosts Stories from North Carolina
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Clarion Books Black Potatoes
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Liz Tay Vasco da Gama of Portugal
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Princeton University Press The Career Arts
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Snyder Enterprises LLC Walk Ride Rodeo A Story About Amberley Snyder
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DK Eyewitness American Revolution
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DK DK Eyewitness Books Mesopotamia Discover the
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