Do you Know Thomas? A true or fals Quiz : 1. Thomas Jefferson had a sweet tooth for vanilla ice cream. 2. He traveled across the county with Lewis and Clark. 3. Jeffersin liked to play the fiddle. Kenneth C. Davis weaves a smooth, flowing narrative into the trademark question and answers format of this outstanding biography with informational sidebars and compelling quotes. He makes peopl…
Isac Newton was a man with an imagination so large that just "by thinking on it" he invented a new branch of match-calculus-and figured out the scientific explanation of gravity. Yet Newton was so small-minded that he tried to destroy other scientists who dared question, he nonetheless spent for more time trying to predict the future from passages in the bible and to unlock the secret of turnin…
The winner of not just one but two Nobel Prizes, Marie Curie died in 1934 of radiation poisoning-from years of investigating the dangerous elements that she herself had discovered. Until, recently, her notebooks wew still so radioactive that scientist and scholars had to dign a medical release before looking at them. ut her work, which led t the atomic age in sceience, was also her salvations;…
In did it take creativity to find relativity, Albert Einstein? you will find answers to twenty questions about Albert Einstein. Facts you'll discover include : 1. How long did it take young Einstein to speak? 2. Why didn't Einstein get straight A's at school? 3. What idea made EInstein world famous? 4. How did Einsten help end World War II? You'll also learn about relativity-the amazing …
InDid you invent the phone alone, Alexander Graham Bell? you will find answers to twenty questions about bell. Some of the facts you'll discover include : 1. How did young alexander make his dog "talk"? 2. What inspired Bell to work with deaf children? 3. What accident led Bell to invent the telephone? 4. What other important devices did Bell invent? You'll also learn sound from how it's c…
In what makes the light bright, Thomas Edison? you will find answers to twenty questions about Thomas Alva Edison. Fatcs you'll discover include : 1. How did he get interested in electricity? 2. Was he really deaf? 3. How manya things did he invent? 4. Why was he called a wizard? You'll also learn about Edison's other inventions-from an improved telephone to the phonograph to a film proj…
Siapa Isaac Newton? Siapa penemu teropong bintang? Siapa Alexander Graham Bell? dan siapa penemu biola lampu? Apa Voltaire yakin Isaac Newton adalah manusia yang paling pintar di dunia, atau sekedar mencoba, menampilkan permasalahan filosofi karena dengan pertunjukan itu akan memancing pertanyaan-pertanyaan susulan: dari sekian milyar manusia yang pernah lahir di dunia, siapa diantara mereka ya…
Lending the intimacy of memoir and the panoramic sweep of eyewitness history, Wild Swans has become a bestselling classic in thirty languages, with more than ten millions copies sold. The story of three generations of women in twenttieh-century China, it is an engrossing record of Moa's impact on China, an unusual window on the female experience in the modern world, and an inspiring tale of cou…
Buku ini menguak bagaimana keluarga Kerajaan Majapahit terlibat perang perebutan tahta Kerajaan Majapahit akhirnya mengalami kemunduran di awal abad ke 16. Termasuk juga peranan daerah pesisir, terutama Kerajaan Islam Demak yang semakin memperlemah Kerajaan Majapahit dan membuat keluarga kerajaan itu melarikan diri. Girindrawardhana adalah Raja Majapahit di masa-masa sulit dan penuh pertengk…
THis series explore everyday life and customs in different countries around the world. Each book combines key geographical, historical and cultural facts with related activities, games and craft ideas.