More than ninety articles describe monuments and memorials that commemorate people and events from our nation's history as well as battlefields, forts, factories, homes, churches, cemeteries, and laboratories.
Alphabetical articles profile men and women who have been leaders in many fields, including Arthur Ashe, Amelia Earhart, Andrew Jackson, Helen Keller, Nelson Mandela, and Rigoberta Menchu Tum
Hardcover
(Macmillan General Reference, Oct. 1, 1997)
Goes behind the scenes of movies and television to show how the puppets and special effects were created for such productions as "Babe," "The Storyteller," "101 Dalmatians," and "The English Patient"
Describes the background, accomplishments, struggles, and contributions of such mathematicians and computer scientists as Galileo, Copernicus, Mina Rees, and Bill Gates.
Dougal Dixon, Barry Cox, R.J.G. Savage, Brian Gardiner
Hardcover
(Macmillan General Reference, Nov. 1, 1988)
In a who's who of prehistoric life, readers take a visually spectacular trip through our evolutionary past going back more than 500 million years. All creatures are depicted in full-color paintings based on the latest paleontological information.
William H. Goetzmann, Glyndwr Williams, Malcolm Swanston, Isabelle Lewis, Jacqueline Land
Hardcover
(Macmillan General Reference, Oct. 1, 1992)
State-of-the-art cartography is organized chronologically by region to chart the fascinating course of North American exploration from the pre-Columbian voyages to the race to the North Pole in 1909.