Squanto recounts how in 1614 he was captured by the British, sold into slavery in Spain, and ultimately returned to the New World to become a guide and friend for the colonists.

Tells the story of the Avengers, a group of superheroes who use their super powers to fight evil.

Examines the causes, events, and legacies of the Holocaust which resulted in the extermination of six million Jews.

The bestselling author of Brunelleschi's dome and Michelangelo and the Pope's ceiling captures the excitement and spirit of the Renaissance in this chronicle of the life and work of 'the king of the world's booksellers" and the technological disruption that forever changed the ways knowledge spread.

Describes the orchestra, the families of instruments of which it is made, and the individual instruments in each family.

While mathematics itself may be a formidable subject for many, the lives and accomplishments of history's greatest mathematicians-from Pythagoras to Cantor-offer fascinating reading. In this delightful and informative recounting, for example, we learn how Pascal's life was abruptly changed by a family of fanatical bonesetters, how Descartes was influenced by three dreams, and how the scholarly Swiss Leonhard Euler (whose famous conjecture was finally...

A clever leprechaun who has amassed a pot of gold by making beautiful shoes for people decides to hide his money at the end of a rainbow, knowing that no one will find it there.

In a narrative nonfiction format, follows people who experienced the events of September 11, 2001.