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  • The Alamo

    Don Nardo

    Library Binding (Lucent Books, Dec. 17, 2012)
    Books in the World History series examine the eras, events, civilizations, and movements that have shaped human history, providing readers with insight into the past and its many legacies.; This title in Lucent Books' World History series tells the story of the battle at the Alamo and why this 13-day battle was so significant for the United States. It explains the events that led to the battle, provides a gripping description of the siege it; Vivid writing, full-color photographs and extensive use of fully cited primary and secondary source quotations provide a sense of immediacy. Sidebars, visual time lines, indexes, and annotated bibliographies, which appear in every volume, offer a wealth o
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  • Space Exploration

    Richard Brownell

    Library Binding (Lucent Books, Dec. 7, 2012)
    Books in the World History series examine the eras, events, civilizations, and movements that have shaped human history, providing readers with insight into the past and its many legacies.; This new title in Lucent's World History series examines human's exploration of space, beginning with the earliest civilizations' observations of the movement of the moon, the sun, the planets, and the stars up to the modern explorations of the outer reac; Vivid writing, full-color photographs and extensive use of fully cited primary and secondary source quotations provide a sense of immediacy. Sidebars, visual time lines, indexes, and annotated bibliographies, which appear in every volume, offer a wealth o
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  • What Is the Sign for Friend?

    Judith Greenberg, Gayle Rothschild

    Library Binding (Franklin Watts, April 1, 1985)
    A look at the special problems facing a deaf child in a normal school environment focuses on seven-year-old Shane's relationship with his classmates and includes an introduction to sign language for children
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  • The Lewis and Clark Expedition

    Eleanor J. Hall

    Library Binding (Lucent Books, Dec. 1, 1995)
    Chronicles the journey of the 1804-1806 Lewis and Clark Expedition which explored the unknown territory of the Louisiana Purchase and the Pacific Northwest from St. Louis to the mouth of the Columbia River.

  • Modern Japan

    Don Nardo

    Library Binding (Lucent Books, Jan. 1, 1995)
    Traces the history of Japan from the mid-nineteenth century, when its long isolation from the rest of the world ended, through World War II and the American occupation, to its rise as a world economic power
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  • World History Series - The Space Race

    Nathan Aaseng

    Hardcover (Lucent Books, June 26, 2001)
    For centuries, people dreamed of the possibility of traveling to the moon. In the middle of the twentieth century, two nations, the United States and the Soviet Union engaged in a fierce competition to see which would be the first to make that dream become a reality.
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  • Serpents and Werewolves: Stories of Shape-Shifters from around the World

    Lari Don, Francesca Greenwood

    Library Binding (Darby Creek TM, Aug. 1, 2016)
    A princess makes a daring deal with the Queen of the Snakes. A lonely sister weaves stinging plants together in order to save her brothers from their mother. A curious boy suddenly becomes a wolf cub. Discover a worldwide collection of shape-shifter stories, based on folktales and lore from the Americas, Asia, Africa, and Europe. From cursed princes to the first werewolves, things aren't always what they seem!
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  • Elizabethan England

    William W. Lace

    Library Binding (Lucent Books, Jan. 1, 1995)
    Describes life at court, in the cities, and in the country, and discusses the class system, the religious settlement, entertainment, the theater, the arts, science, superstitions, contact with the New World, and the influence of the Elizabethan period

  • American Counterculture of the 1960s

    Richard Brownell

    Library Binding (Lucent Books, Sept. 30, 2010)
    Each book in the comprehensive World History series offers a clearly written and visually enhanced overview of an important historical event or period. The series is designed both to acquaint readers with the basics of history and to make them aware that their lives and their own historical era are an intimate part of the ongoing human saga.
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  • Twentieth-Century Science

    Harry Henderson, Lisa Yount

    Library Binding (Lucent Books, April 1, 1997)
    Provides an overview of scientific developments that have had significant impact on our world, including atomic physics, genetic engineering, and computer technology.
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  • Traditional Japan

    Don Nardo

    Library Binding (Lucent Books, Sept. 1, 1994)
    Traces the history of Japanese civilization from legendary times through the end of the Shogunate in the nineteenth century

  • The Vietnam War

    Hal Marcovitz

    Hardcover (Lucent Books, Dec. 10, 2007)
    Presents a history of the Vietnam conflict, discussing such topics as the history of French colonialism, the Gulf of Tonkin incident, the peace movement in the United States, the fall of Saigon, and the aftermath of the war.
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