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This arresting miscellany is jam-packed with intriguing and enlightening stories, facts, and trivia about all manner of murderers, miscreants, and malcontents. The book reveals incredible tales about criminal gangs around the world, such as the Japanese Yakuza, the L.A. Crips and Bloods, and the Italian Camorra. Plus, there are extensive lists of criminal slang throughout the centuries; an exploration of Russian prison tattoos; a confidence trickster's lexicon; insights into the world's most audacious crimes-like the the ft of the Mona Lisa-and quotes from the criminals themselves, and the cops who chased them. Inside are gritty black-and-white illustrations and revealing portraits of some of society's scariest criminals.
Ideal for use in school homework projects on World War II - packed with photographs and artworks, this book will help readers understand the bravery and sacrifice of ordinary people during World War II.
Be an eyewitness to one of the world's greatest playwrights -- from his Elizabethan world and the stories that inspired him, to boy actors playing women and dramatic special effects. Find out how music was used in plays. Discover what Shakespeare did when the theaters were closed due to plague. See what the interior of the Globe theater looked like. Book jacket.
Follows the history of Alexander the Great and his campaign to conquer the known world, including information on his traveling companions, armies of his time, ships, and food.
Describes typical features of theaters in Ancient Greece and many of the common objects used in them including armour, comic masks, papyrus rolls, and aulos.
The greatest ever rock 'n' roll soap opera. Now fully updated to include features on Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac and all the musicans and members that have made the band one of the best selling of all time. Fleetwood Mac - one of the greatest names in rock of all time - began as a little blues band in London, England, in 1967, named by its unassuming band leader and lead guitarist Peter Green in appreciation of his tight rhythm section: Mick Fleetwood on drums and John McVie on bass. Just 10 years later, by 1977, with the help of John's wife, Christine McVie, and two virtually unknown American musicians called Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham, they had become the world's biggest band who ...
Uses art and artifacts to examine the world of the Roman Empire from its political and religious structure to its cultural characteristics.
The theatres and how they were organised - Elizabethan plays - Actors - Stage, sets and costumes - Entertainment for the rich and the poor - Sports and outdoor activities - Timeline.
Presents a history of the ancient world, from 6000 B.C. to 400 A.D.