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Learn on Your Own Time at Home or On the Go
Author
Publisher
Lerner Publications
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
1160L
Language
English
Description
Text and illustrations present information on the geography, history and government, economy, people, cultural life and society of the nation known as the Czech Republic.
Series
Publisher
Schlessinger Media
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Join nine-year-old Miguel on his adventure across the United States. Explore the Southwest, including the states of Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas. See the Grand Canyon, the Painted Desert, and the Petrified Forest. Also sample foods of the region and visit a cattle ranch.
Series
Works issued by the Hakluyt Society volume 2nd ser., no. 151
Publisher
Hakluyt Society
Pub. Date
1980
Language
English
Publisher
TMC Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Follows author Bruce Feiler as he journeys by foot, jeep, rowboat, and camel through some of the greatest stories ever told, the five books of Moses. Begins in the holy city of Jerusalem and travels to a possible site of the garden of Eden on the banks of the Tigris and Euphrates in Turkey. Climbs Mt. Ararat in search of Noah's ark and explores the sulfurous land by the Dead Sea, with its salt pillars called "Lot's wife." Visits the ancient ruins...
Author
Publisher
New Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
World hunger was very nearly eradicated in our lifetimes-- but in the past five years widespread starvation has suddenly reappeared, and chronic hunger is a major issue on every continent. Ziegler lays out in clear and accessible terms the complex global causes of the new hunger crisis. He focuses on how the new sustainable revolution in energy production has diverted millions of acres of corn, soy, wheat, and other grain crops from food to fuel....
Author
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Rome may be renowned for individual sites like the Colosseum and St. Peter's Basilica, but its most captivating feature is its many overlapping-and surviving-layers of history. Over nearly 3,000 years, the Rome of the Caesars has given way to the Rome of the Popes, the Rome of the Grand Tourists, and several more incarnations down to the present. Along the way, it has also become perhaps the most frequently mapped city on the planet. This book is...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
From stories of resurrected mummies and thousand-year-old curses to powerful pharaohs and the coveted treasures of the Great Pyramids, ancient Egypt has had an unfaltering grip on the modern imagination. Now, in Egyptian mythology, Geraldine Pinch offers a comprehensive introduction that untangles the mystery of Egyptian mythology spanning ancient Egyptian culture from 3200 BC to AD 400. Pinch opens a door to this hidden world and casts light on its...