"Born in Blood and Fire" spans six centuries and covers twenty countries in a concise, compelling narrative of the Latin American experience, animated by stories about men and women from all walks of life and enriched by insightful analysis. -- From publisher's description.

"The story of American from the Chinese American perspective"--

¿Como nacieron el símbolo y la paloma de la paz? ¿Qué canciones son himnos del pacifismo? ¿Por qué los colegios celebran el día de la paz el 30 de enero? ¿Sabrías nombrar cnco monumentos por la paz? ¿Conoces la declaració universal de los derechos humanos? Encontrarás la respuestas todas estas preguntas en las páginas de este apasionante libro. Descubre anécdotas, momentos históricos curiosos y conceptos fundamentales sobre la paz....

From the Founding to today, this book tells the stories of seven former presidents who each changed history and offered lessons about how to decide what to do in the next chapter of life as they handled human problems of ego, finances and questions about their legacy and mortality. Thomas Jefferson was the first former president to accomplish great things after the White House, shaping public debates and founding the University of Virginia, an accomplishment...

"Part of the nonfiction Orca Timeline series, with photographs and illustrations throughout. This book explores why and how people have built walls all over the world throughout the course of human history."--

"From world-renowned historian and philosopher Yuval Noah Harari, the New York Times bestselling author of Sapiens, comes an exciting, brand-new illustrated book for middle-grade readers that looks at the early history of humankind. Even though we'll never outrun a hungry lion or outswim an angry shark, humans are pretty impressive-and we're the most dominant species on the planet. So how exactly did we become "unstoppable"? The answer to that is...

When Charlie receives a dire warning from the Land of the Dead about an impending catastrophe, he travels back in time to 1950s Cuba, where he unravels dark secrets and faces unspeakable evil in a race against time to save the world.

Britain, 60AD. Hoping to save her lover, her land, and her people from the Romans, Herla makes a desperate pact with the king of the Otherworld ars pass unheeded in his realm, and she escapes to find everyone she loved long dead. Cursed to wield his blade, she becomes Lord of the Hunt. And for centuries, she rides, leading her immortal warriors and reaping wanderers? souls. Until the night she meets a woman on a bloody battlefield--a Saxon queen with...

Barely able to walk and rendered mute by the cancer metastasizing in his throat, Ulysses S. Grant is scratching out words, hour after hour, day after day. Desperate to complete his memoirs before his death so his family might have some financial security and he some redemption, Grant journeys back in time. He had once been the savior of the Union, the general to whom Lee surrendered at Appomattox, a twice-elected president who fought for the civil...

"This book will expand the horizons of teen and pre-teen readers in an exciting and engaging way, by debating the Greatest of All Time in a variety of categories. Topics include the greatest athlete of all time, greatest band, greatest inventor, greatest scientist, greatest writer, greatest sci-fi franchise, and more"-- Who is the greatest athlete of all time? The greatest chess player? Inventor? Super hero squad? Volponi pairs up people in twenty-five...