"Discover beloved playwright William Shakespeare's plays and poetry in this spectacular novelty book from the Reduced Shakespeare Company comedy troupe. Featuring dramatic pop-ups and foldouts and loaded with jokes and fascinating facts, this hilariously informative and fully immersive look into the Bard's world invites you to experience Shakespeare's works as you've never seen them before!" -- Back cover.

A history of the world during the nineteenth century. Includes the early Industrial Revolution in Europe, growing colonial empires, conflicts over slavery, and America's emergence as an industrial giant.

An adaptation of the bestselling adult version of The Century, offering young Americans a unique look at the past 100 years, via not only archival material but through the eyes of the people who lived through it.

"Pop Art burst onto the scene in the mid-20th century, filling the gray post-World War II years with life, color, and fun! Pop artists from Andy Warhol to David Hockney strived to make art accessible for everyone, celebrating the popular symbols fo the modern age--from cars to hamburgers--in their work. In the process they changes the face of art forever."--

Covers major events and discoveries of the twentieth century in chronological sequence.

Introduces ways of seeing, experiencing, and appreciating art through the examination of contemporary American works.

Though eight-year-old Aidan and his friend Gussie want to go to school, like many other children in 1903, they work twelve hours, six days a week, at a cotton mill in Pennsylvania instead. So when the millworkers decide to go on strike, the two friends join the picket line. Maybe now life will change for them. But when a famous labor reformer named Mother Jones comes to hear of the millworkers demands, she tells them they need to do more than just...

"A non-fiction introduction to the massive scale of the known universe"--Provided by publisher.

"1493 for Young People by Charles C. Mann tells the gripping story of globalization through travel, trade, colonization, and migration from its beginnings in the fifteenth century to the present. How did the lowly potato plant feed the poor across Europeand then cause the deaths of millions? How did the rubber plant enable industrialization? What is the connection between malaria, slavery, and the outcome of the American Revolution? How did the fabled...