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First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong
"On July 20, 1969, the world stood still to watch thirty-eight-year-old American astronaut Neil A. Armstrong become the first person ever to step on the surface of another heavenly body. Perhaps no ... > read more -
A Forest of Kings: The Untold Story of the Ancient Maya
The recent interpretation of Maya hieroglyphs has given us the first written history of the New World as it existed before the European invasion. In this book, two of the first central figures in ... > read more -
The Last Days of the Incas
In 1532, the fifty-four-year-old Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro led a force of 167 men, including his four brothers, to the shores of Peru. Unbeknownst to the Spaniards, the Inca rulers of ... > read more -
Race Against Time: Searching for Hope in AIDS-Ravaged Africa (CBC Massey Lecture)
In 2000, the United Nations laid out a series of eight goals meant to guide humankind in the new century. Called the Millennium Development Goals, these targets are to be met by 2015 and are to lay ... > read more -
From Lucy to Language: Revised, Updated, and Expanded
In 1974 in a remote region of Ethiopia, Donald Johanson, then one of America's most promising young paleoanthropologists, discovered "Lucy", the oldest, best preserved skeleton of any erect-walking ... > read more -
The Demon in the Freezer
On December 9, 1979, smallpox, the most deadly human virus, ceased to exist in nature. After eradication, it was confined to freezers located in just two places on earth: the Center for Disease ... > read more -
Sputnik: The Shock of the Century
On October 4, 1957, as Leave It to Beaver premiered on American television, the Soviet Union launched the space age. Sputnik, all of 184 pounds with only a radio transmitter inside its highly ... > read more -
In the Company of Horses: A Year on the Road With Horseman Mark Rashid
When Kathleen Lindley showed up at one of Mark RashidÂ's horsemanship clinics, she told him that she didnÂ't know who he was and didnÂ't really care, as long as he could fix her ... > read more -
Life With Horses
In this beautiful full-color book, popular authors Mark Rashid and Kathleen Lindley team up to provide the reader with an intimate look into a world of horses and horsemanship clinics that few ... > read more -
Failure is not an Option: Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond
In 1957, the Russians launched Sputnik and the ensuing space race. Three years later, Gene Kranz left his aircraft testing job to join NASA and champion the American cause. What he found was an ... > read more
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