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The Nineteenth Amendment: Women Get the Vote
Karen Price Hossell
Library Binding (Heinemann/Raintree, Aug. 1, 2002)Presents woman's struggle for equal rights, including important figures, events, and turning points during this time.
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Penicillin: A Breakthrough in Medicine
Richard Tames
Paperback (Heinemann, July 26, 2006)Discover how a moldy melon helped revolutionize medicine. This book focuses on the discovery of penicillin, analyzing how it came about, describing it, and discussing its consequences on history. Investigate the timeline to understand crucial dates in medical breakthroughs. Read the debate section so you can consider the arguments and weigh the evidence of its importance in history. Clear photographs, maps, contemporary views, a glossary, and tips for future research are included to help you to understand the importance of this turning point in history.
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The Invention of the Silicon Chip: A Revolution in Daily Life
Windsor Chorlton
Library Binding (Heinemann/Raintree, Feb. 1, 2002)Examines the events surrounding the development of the silicon chip, its uses, and its impact on civilization.
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The Invention of the Silicon Chip: A Revolution in Daily Life
Windsor Chorlton
Paperback (Heinemann, Feb. 12, 2002)How has the silicon chip made home life easier? What were school and work like before computers? How did the silicon chip help launch people into space? Find the answers to these questions. Includes eyewitness accounts and contemporary views on the event, timeline of important dates surrounding the event, informative pictures and maps.
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Hiroshima: The Shadow of the Bomb
Richard Tames
Library Binding (Heinemann, July 26, 2006)Find out why Japan was the first target for an atomic bomb. This book focuses on the impact of the bomb on Hiroshima, analyzing how it came about, describing it, and discussing its consequences on history. Investigate the timeline to understand crucial dates surrounding the bombing of Hiroshima. Read the debate section so you can consider the arguments and weigh the evidence about its role in history. Clear photographs, maps, contemporary views, a glossary, and tips for future research are included to help you to understand the importance of this turning point in history.
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Pearl Harbor: The U.S. Enters World War II
Richard Tames
Paperback (Heinemann/Raintree, April 1, 2001)Traces the rise of Japan as a military power and the emergence of the United States as a world superpower that found itself drawn into World War II after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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Pearl Harbor: The US Enters World War II
Richard Tames
Paperback (Heinemann, July 26, 2006)Discover why the Japanese risked awakening the "sleeping giant." This book focuses on the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor, analyzing how it came about, describing it, and discussing its consequences on history. Investigate the timeline to understand crucial dates surrounding this event. Read the debate section so you can consider the arguments and weigh the evidence about its role in history. Clear photographs, maps, contemporary views, a glossary, and tips for future research are included to help you to understand the importance of this turning point in history.
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The Fall of the Berlin Wall: The Cold War Ends
Nigel Kelly
Paperback (Heinemann, July 26, 2006)Investigate why the Berlin Wall was built. This book focuses on the fall of the Berlin Wall, describing it, and discussing its consequences on history. Investigate the timeline to understand crucial dates surrounding the Berlin Wall. Read the debate section so you can consider the arguments and weigh the evidence about its role in history. Clear photographs, maps, contemporary views, a glossary, and tips for future research are included to help you understand the importance of this turning point in history.
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The Nineteenth Amendment: Women Get the Vote
Karen Price Hossell
Paperback (Heinemann, Aug. 1, 2002)Contents include: Women get the vote; The rights of women in early America; The first women's rights conference; The fight for human rights; Fighters for the cause; The fourteenth and fifteenth amendments; The movement divides; The new suffragists; Women in World War I; Ratification; The equal rights amendment; Women make a difference; Women in government.
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Assassination in Sarajevo: The Trigger for World War I
Stewart Ross
Library Binding (Heinemann, July 26, 2006)Discover how one assassination led to world war. This book focuses on the assassination in Sarajevo, analyzing how it came about, describing it, and discussing its consequences on history. Investigate the timeline to understand crucial dates surrounding the assassination. Read the debate section so you can consider the arguments and weigh the evidence about its role in history. Clear photographs, maps, contemporary views, a glossary, and tips for future research are included to help you to understand the importance of this turning point in history.
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The Fall of Saigon: The End of the Vietnam War
Michael V. Uschan
Library Binding (Heinemann/Raintree, March 1, 2002)Discusses the events leading to the United States involvement in the war in Vietnam, key figures in the conflict, the actual course of the fighting, and the final American withdrawal in 1975.
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Assassination in Sarajevo: The Trigger for World War I
Stewart Ross
Paperback (Heinemann, July 26, 2006)Discover how one assassination led to world war. This book focuses on the assassination in Sarajevo, analyzing how it came about, describing it, and discussing its consequences on history. Investigate the timeline to understand crucial dates surrounding the assassination. Read the debate section so you can consider the arguments and weigh the evidence about its role in history. Clear photographs, maps, contemporary views, a glossary, and tips for future research are included to help you to understand the importance of this turning point in history.
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