Looks behind fortress walls to explore how they were built to house hundreds of people and animals, how a boy rose from page to knight, and what castle life was like.

Traces the history of the Roman Empire and the Dark Ages which followed through a description of common objects, tools, clothes, dwellings, food, and day-to-day activities of the people in both the cities and in the country.

"Charging enemies. Defending castles. Fighting loyally for kings and lords. Learning to move under the weight of heavy armor. Welcome to the life of a medieval knight! Discover how knights were trained, and learn about the horses they rode and the weapons they used. Find out about the structure of the feudal system, the various orders of knights and their codes of conduct, and changes in armor. Learn what life was like for a knight off the battlefield."--from...

"Take a breathtaking journey though time as a street evolves from a camp of nomadic hunter-gatherers to the present day and then 50 years into the future" --

"A biography of Jimmy Winkfield, who battled racism and other obstacles on the road to becoming one of horseracing's best jockeys and, in 1902, the last African American to win the Kentucky Derby"--Provided by publisher.

"Take a breathtaking journey through time as a street evolves from a camp of nomadic hunter-gatherers to the present day."-- p. 4 of cover.

this book describes several of the epidemics that have significantly influenced historical events. It describes how the discovery of germs in the last two centuries was able to reverse millennia of superstition and ignorance in the treatment of infectious diseases. Finally, it explains how and why the world of microbial organisms has been able to thwart many of medical science's greatest efforts to eliminate, or, at least, control them.

Examines the causes, effects, and legacy of the epidemic that killed millions of people in Europe during the fourteenth century.