Books published by publisher New Discovery

Discusses food, farming, fishing, hunting, drinking, cooking, and feasts in ancient Egypt

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A stirring saga of bravery in ancient Greece explains how, outmanned, a small band of Spartan and Thespian soldiers held back the mighty Persian army for three days at Thermopylae.

Discusses food, farming, fishing, hunting, drinking, cooking, and feasts among the Vikings

Discusses food, farming, fishing, hunting, drinking, cooking, and feasts in ancient Greece

Surveys the history of India from the Indus Valley civilization to the present, introduces religion, the arts, and culture, and recounts the lives of Indian leaders and noteworthy visitors

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Discusses the opening of trade routes between Europe and Asia and explores the impact of the spice trade carried on over these routes

Chronicles the growth and development of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement and details its efforts worldwide to help those in need

A chronicle of a little-known event in American history describes how, from 1854 to 1929, the Children's Aid Society sent orphaned city children West to free them from crime and poverty, showing how these children lived in their new surroundings.

The 1986 explosion at the nuclear power plant at Chernobyl was a human as well as environmental catastrophe, and this thorough account of the accident examines its causes, the response of the Soviet government, and the tragic aftermath of a horror that still lives on.

Looks at the history of African Americans in baseball and the struggle to keep them out, covers the Negro League teams and their conditions, profiles Satchel Paige and other stars, and describes how Jackie Robinson and Branch Rickey finally broke the color bar