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1) Ancient Greece

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Read the action-packed adventures of the greatest athletes in ancient Greece and find out what it was really like to live in this land of legends and gods. Every page is packed with amazing illustrations, astonishing facts and detailed cutaways.

2) Cowboys: a journey down the long, lonely cattle trail in search of the hard-riding, gun-slinging cowhands of the Old West

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Ross, Stewart

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3) Into the unknown: how great explorers found their way by land, sea, and air

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Ross, Stewart

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Discover how the greatest explorers in history plunged into the unknown and boldly pieced together the picture of the world we have today. With the help of masterful cross sections, dramatic storytelling, and sidebars that highlight key concepts, places, and technology, readers explore fourteen historic journeys. Open this dynamic book and discover how the greatest explorers in history ? from Marco Polo to Neil Armstrong ? plunged into the unknown...

4) Pirates: the truth about buccaneers, brigands, corsairs, and their piracy on the high seas from the Spanish Main to the China Seas

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Ross, Stewart

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5) Beasts

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Discusses mythical beasts such as Bigfoot, dragons, and the Minotaur as well as real-life dangerous animals like tigers, polar bears, and snakes.

6) A crusading knight

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Ross, Stewart

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How they lived

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Describes the background of the Crusades and the day-to-day life of knights who pledged to fight in them. Also discusses the weapons, methods of warfare, and final outcome of these campaigns.

7) The story of Ludwig van Beethoven

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Ross, Stewart

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Lifetimes

8) Leaders of World War II

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Ross, Stewart

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World Wars

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Features the biographies of the key figures of World War II, including Winston Churchill, Adolf Hitler, Franklin Roosevelt, Josef Stalin, and General Hideki Tojo.

9) The story of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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Ross, Stewart

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Lifetimes

10) The United Nations

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Ross, Stewart

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Witness history

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Examines the founding of the United Nations, its work in peace-keeping, human rights, and human welfare, and its methods of functioning.

11) Oliver Twist

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Dickens, Charles

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Adentures of an orphan boy who lives in the squalid surroundings of a nineteenth-century English workhouse until he becomes involved with a gang of thieves.

12) Robinson Crusoe

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Defoe, Daniel

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"Shipwrecked off the coast of Trinidad, Robinson Crusoe - a young man with a thirst for adventure - finds himself washed up on a remote tropical island with nothing but a few tools and animals for company. Castaway for thirty years, he must battle cannibals, mutineers and the elements in a tale so convincing that many readers at the time believed it to be non-fiction. A true page-turner, Robinson Crusoe is one of the most enduring novels in the English...

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Stewart Ross

1) Ancient Greece

2) Cowboys: a journey down the long, lonely cattle trail in search of the hard-riding, gun-slinging cowhands of the Old West

3) Into the unknown: how great explorers found their way by land, sea, and air

4) Pirates: the truth about buccaneers, brigands, corsairs, and their piracy on the high seas from the Spanish Main to the China Seas

5) Beasts

6) A crusading knight

7) The story of Ludwig van Beethoven

8) Leaders of World War II

9) The story of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

10) The United Nations

11) Oliver Twist

12) Robinson Crusoe