The Story of Inventions

DescriptionPencils You Should Know traces the evolution of pencils over time and across the globe. From the humble, handcrafted pencil of the 19th ...

Reducere. DescriptionThroughout his life, Atlanta resident George W. Wray Jr. (1936-2004) built a collection of more than six hundred of the rarest Confedera...

Reducere. We may not give much thought to the boxes in our freezers or the cans on our shelves, but behind the story of food preservation is the history of c...

Reducere. Tales of horror, madness, and death, tales of fantasy and morality: these are the works of South American master storyteller Horacio Quiroga. Autho...

Reducere. From #1 New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman, an outstanding array of short fiction that surveys the terrain between the illusory and the ...

Reducere. Worlds collide in this true story of weather control in the Cold War era and the making of Kurt VonnegutIn the mid-1950s, Kurt Vonnegut takes a job...

Reducere. Most people believe the Mongolian Empire was a small tribe known for looting, robbing, and pillaging. The Mongols used to be little more than nomad...

"Readers looking for short bursts of inspiration will be pleased."-Publishers Weekly Creativity comes from many places, but often the initial spark...

The untold story of how Japan became a cultural superpower through the fantastic inventions that captured--and transformed--the world's imagination...

Reducere. Vito "Tutuc" Cellini went from street gangster to soldier to resistance fighter to secret agent - all before he was 21 years of age. In World War T...

Reducere. Vito "Tutuc" Cellini went from street gangster to soldier to resistance fighter to secret agent - all before he was 21 years of age. In World War T...

Reducere. This volume tells the story of Jacques Cousteau, the legendary explorer who discovered the wonders of the underwater world, so close to our lives u...

Reducere. DescriptionEvery novel in this collection is your passport to a romantic tour of the United States through time-honored favorites by America's Firs...

iMac, iTunes, iPod, iPhone, iPad, iCon Steve Jobs and his inventions changed the world we live in. His extraordinary life story is brimming with pa...

Reducere. Journey through the history of the world, one day at a time!If you ever wondered what happened on your birthday 100 years ago, or on Christmas in t...

Reducere. Description"A powerful opener to a series that] will produce a combination of feisty protagonists and challenging circumstances to thoroughly invol...

Reducere. In the last few years many books have been written about the life and times of Nikola Tesla. But the majority have been from a strictly "scientific...