Offers a perspective on the current global crisis while challenging readers to shift away from stereotypical opinions, presenting strategies for addressing and resolving cultural problems that are resulting in conflict.

In an engrossing anecdotal format, historian and bestselling author Alan Axelrod turns to the dark side of audacious decision-making, and explores history's most tragic errors, the people who made them, and why they happened. While Axelrod looks at the hopelessly dumb and the overtly evil, the main focus is on smart people who had the best of intentions, but whose plans went disastrously wrong. The 35 compelling stories include the sailing of the...

Is the traditional, accepted view of the life of Christ in some way incomplete? - Is it possible Christ did not die on the cross? - Is it possible Jesus was married, a father, and that his bloodline still exists? - Is it possible that parchments found in the South of France a century ago reveal one of the best-kept secrets of Christendom? - Is it possible that these parchments contain the very heart of the mystery of the Holy Grail? According to the...

"Fully updated and revised ... This year's edition compiles the very best of the thousands of new records approved over the past year--

Describes the history, physical characteristics, and behavior of parakeets, and presents information on choosing, training, and caring for one as a pet.

This book discusses facts about tree frogs, bullfrogs, Goliath frogs, poison dart frogs, and others.

Describes 101 science experiments or activities that can be done with household items and easily found ingredients.

Presents brief facts and color photographs of fantastic machines, including excavators, watercraft, trains, and airships.

Presents, in question and answer format, information about the behavior, food-gathering, defenses, anatomy, and surprising habits of all kinds of insects.

Examines how developments in modern science, such as DNA analysis and spectroscopy, have helped to reopen archaeological mysteries about ancient cities, Egypt's first female pharaoh, a missing expedition to find the Northwest Passage, and more, with illustrations, maps, and photographs.