Books published by publisher Marshall Cavendish Reference

The life and career of the famous aviator, from her girlhood in Kansas, through her successes breaking aviation records and her increasing fame, to her mysterious disappearance.

Examines the events of the French Revolution and how they influenced the course of history.

Gives the background and instructions for playing hopscotch, jacks, and a variety of games played with sticks, stones, and marbles.

Examines the activities, plant and animal life, and climatic changes found in an alpine meadow in the Rocky Mountains

Surveys the history of the conflict in Vietnam, from its involvement in France's colonial empire to the union of North and South Vietnam as a single communist nation after the withdrawal of American troops.

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Brief biographies of twenty rulers throughout history notorious for their despotic and tyrannical rule.

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Chronicles the history of a free Black family in Philadelphia during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, focusing on Amos Webber who became a musician, property owner, and abolitionist.

Brief biographies of twenty aviation pioneers from the Montgolfier brothers to Bryan Allen and his human-powered airplane.

Describes what life was like for a family on Nantucket in 1827, including home, school, religion, and the father's expedition on a whaling ship

Recounts the adventures of the Ward family who traveled by covered wagon from Missouri to California along the Oregon Trail in 1853