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Medieval Europe
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American Originals
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A Great and Sublime Fool
While Twain was best known for his humor and wit, Caravantes shows in this enjoyable biography that his life was marked by tragedy, financial worries, and artistic difficulties. The text is solid and sheds new light on this well-known subject. The portrayal will make readers want to experience Twain's writing directly.
Savage Satire
A young adult biography of satirical Irish author Jonathan Swift
Oil
An account of the decline of the diminishing resource of oil
Business Leaders
Examines the life of Warren Buffett, from his childhood during the Great Depression to his life as one of the richest people in the world.
Women Adventurers
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Marching in Birmingham
In 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the case of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas that schools legally segregated by race were unconstitutional. It was the first major case won by activists for civil rights, and sparked a decade of reform in which people across America came together to fight injustice and end oppression.
Nelson Mandela
On February 11, 1990, South Africa's Nelson Mandela walked free after spending twenty-seven and a half years in prison-more than a third of his adult life. A delirious throng of well-wishers, numbering more than 100,000, greeted him in Cape Town with chants of "Viva Mandela," to which Mandela responded with a clenched-fist salute and an address that began with thanks to "friends, comrades, and fellow South Africans" for their "tireless and heroic sacrifices." Ordinary black South Africans had not heard the voice of their anti-apartheid hero, or even seen what he looked like, in a generation. Release of "the prisoner of the century" captured headlines around the world. The seventy-one-year-ol...
