Books with author Professor of Latin David West

Ten exciting stories tell of the success and failures of many famous inventors and pilots in the quest for flight. Stories include: the first hot-air balloon to carry people, the Wright brothers and the first airplane, Charles Lindberghs nonstop flight from New York City to Paris, Amelia Earharts attempt at a round-the-world flight, breaking the sound barrier, and Felix Baumgartners skydive from space. Feature boxes add additional details and simple maps help readers better understand the flight paths.

Readers will enjoy learning all about frilled dinosaurs, perhaps some of the coolest creatures of prehistoric times. This book explores dinosaurs that spread their frills wide to make themselves look big and scary to predators. Readers will find fun facts about each dinosaur, from the well-known Triceratops to the amazing Archaeoceratops. Each dinosaur is described through information-rich text and a descriptive picture, so readers can grasp important facts about anatomy and behavior. Readers are sure to be thrilled by those freaky frills!

What’s up with that funny-looking dinosaur? Readers will love learning about dinosaurs that had heads that resembled today’s ducks. This book gives a detailed background of each duck-headed dinosaur from the Corythosaurus to the Edmontosaurus. Readers will learn about each dinosaur’s anatomy, behavior, and diet through accessible text, fast facts, and a colorful illustrations. This is sure to be a dynamic and exciting read that keeps budding paleontologists’ minds engaged.

This dynamic series takes readers into the thrilling and frightening world of prehistoric Earth. This volume, focused on the early days of ancient humans, is filled with lush, vivid illustrations that portray the Earth and its inhabitants at this time, accompanied by a lively and informative narrative. Special features include timelines, labeled illustrations, and scaled illustrations that demonstrate comparative sizes.

Ten boldly illustrated stories tell classic tales from different cultures of giants, who were usually villains being outwitted and defeated by mythological heroes. Myths include: the hero Heracles versus the hated giant Geryon, and Odysseus versus the giant Cyclops Polyphemus, from Greek mythology; the good-natured giant Finn McCool from Celtic mythology; the Mayan twins versus the destructive mountain giant Cabracan, from Mayan mythology; Sedna, the giant goddess of the sea, from Inuit mythology; and the giant Goliath who was slain by David, from the Bible. Feature boxes add additional details to help readers better understand concepts in the story as well as the time period in which the story was written.