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When Gold Rush fever gripped the globe in 1849, thousands of Chinese came through San Francisco to seek fortune. In The Poker Bride, Christopher Corbett uses a legend of one extraordinary woman as a lens into this experience. Before 1849, the Chinese in the United States were little more than curiosities. But as word spread of gold in California, San Francisco's labyrinthine Chinatown sprang up, a city-within-a-city full of exotic foods and strange...
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Cradled in the valley of the Arno, its noble architecture fitly supplementing its numerous natural charms, lies the Tuscan city of Florence, the birthplace of immortal Dante, the early home of Michael Angelo, the seat of the Florentine Medici, the scene of Savonarola's triumphs and his tragic end. Fame has come to many sons of Florence, as poets, statesmen, sculptors, painters, travellers; but perhaps none has achieved a distinction so unique, apart,...
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Cuando en 1607 se fundó Jamestown, el primer asentamiento inglés en América, los españoles ya estaban establecidos en Florida y Nuevo México, eran dueños de un vasto territorio al sur y habían descubierto y colonizado parcialmente el interior del continente. Superaron también a los ingleses en humanidad, justicia y amabilidad hacia los nativos.
Este volumen ofrece primero la historia del descubrimiento y la conquista; luego, las aventuras...
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In 'The Not So Great America,' Gemechu takes readers on a side-splitting journey through the United States without ever setting foot on its soil. Through the lens of stories, books, gossips, news, movies, social media, and personal encounters, Gemechu humorously unravels the myths and realities of the USA. From the amazing 90s to post-9/11 era to the Obama years, to the thrilling Trump years and everything in between and beyond, join Gemechu on a...
5) Animal Minds
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Part of the nonfiction Orca Wild series for middle-grade readers and illustrated with color photographs throughout, this book examines how animals think and the ways scientists study their cognitive abilities. What's going on inside their heads?
A deep dive into the minds of animals and how they think.
Wouldn't it be amazing to see inside the mind of a lion, a gorilla, an octopus or even a bee? In Animal Minds: What Are They Thinking?, author...
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THE IDEA OF THE AMERICAN SPIRIT has always been rooted inexpansion and abundance- at great cost to the environment. Withthe world burning up, one can't help but wonder: how did we gethere? Wilderness and the American Spirit traces hundreds ofyears of The United States' relationship to the environment starting fromthe initial colonization of Native American land, to the developmentof land use policies, and the creation of resource...
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Una historia precursora de la novela de investigación judicial que presenta a los lectores un hecho real ocurrido en el Milán de 1630. Todo comienza con una denuncia interpuesta en un clima de histerismo provocado por una epidemia de peste, tras la que son detenidas varias personas acusadas de ser "untadores", es decir, supuestos individuos que restregaban por edificios y puertas de la ciudad un ungüento destinado a extender la peste entre la población....
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A tale of eighteenth-century invention and competition, commerce and conflict, this is a lively, illustrated, and accurate chronicle of the search to solve "the longitude problem," the question of how to determine a ship's position at sea-and one that changed the history of mankind.
Ships, Clocks, and Stars brings into focus one of our greatest scientific stories: the search to accurately measure a ship's position at sea. The incredible, illustrated...
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Paula Kolonitz, noble austriaca, integrante de las damas de compañía de Carlota y la única mujer en la Novara, fue una de los europeos acompañantes de Maximiliano durante el periodo en el cual gobernó a México y que escribieron las memorias de este viaje y del Segundo Imperio Mexicano. Pergeñó su experiencia en Viaje a México en 1867. Dicha edición precedió por escasos meses al fusilamiento de Maximiliano, lo cual la convirtió en una obligada...
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El descubrimiento de los manuscritos del Mar Muerto en 1947 es considerado el acontecimiento arqueológico más importante del siglo XX. Los documentos contienen los textos más antiguos de la Biblia hebrea y una amplia colección de escritos que describen el contexto social, político y religioso que se vivía en Jerusalén durante los orígenes del cristianismo. Desde el día en el que unos jóvenes beduinos recuperaron una cabra que se había perdido...
13) Deep field
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"Explores how the James Webb Space Telescope is able to follow light back to its source and can take deep field images of the sky"--
14) Our solar system
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"Examines what the James Webb Space Telescope can tell scientists about the beginning of our solar system and what makes up each planet of our galaxy"--
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Where Stars Go to Die covers the Webb Telescope's images surrounding black holes and what we're learning about them as a result. Features new discoveries being made with the Webb Telescope and the cutting-edge technology helping scientists make them. Activities for further learning Glossary of key words Index Informative sidebars Photo Captions Table of contents The Wonders of the Webb Telescope series gives readers a detailed look at the science...
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A memoir of one young woman's decade-long adventure with her husband in one of the most uninhabitable and inhospitable places on Earth. Raised as a well-to-do Virginia girl, Edna fell head-over-heels in love with a semi-literate and restless young man whose dreams of adventure and freedom were as wide as the California sky. "I can't take a soft life," he told his bride. "It rots a man." Thus began an uncommon love story. For ten happy years, 1931...
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"From bestselling and award-winning author-illustrator Marissa Moss, praised for her accessible blend of narrative nonfiction with graphic novel-style chapter openers in The Woman Who Split the Atom: The Life of Lise Meitner, comes another fascinating story of a groundbreaking woman in STEM. One of the founders of U.S. cryptology who would eventually become one of the world's greatest code breakers, Elizebeth Smith Friedman (1892-1980) was a brilliant...
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