Twisted True Tales from Science: Insane Inventors
10 best books like Twisted True Tales from Science: Insane Inventors (Stephanie Bearce): Ask the Past: Pertinent and Impertinent Advice from Yesteryear, Everything You Need to Ace English Language Arts in One Big Fat Notebook: The Complete Middle School Study Guide, Arms & Armor, We Were There, Too!: Young People in U.S. History, D-Day: The Invasion of Normandy, 1944 [The Young Readers Adaptation], How They Choked: Failures, Flops, and Flaws of the Awfully Famous, The Whydah: A Pirate Ship Feared, Wrecked, and Found, Knight, Ancient Rome, Religion for Dummies
Ask the Past: Pertinent and Impertinent Advice from Yesteryear
| Author | Elizabeth P. Archibald |
| ISBN | 0316298891 |
Want to know how to garden with lobsters? How to sober up? Grow a beard? Or simply how to make a perfect omelet? Look no further. Rather, look backward.
Based on the popular blog, Ask the Past is full of the wisdom of the ages--as well as the fad diets, zany pickup lines, and bacon Band-Aids of the...
| Author | Elizabeth Irwin |
| ISBN | 0761160914 |
It’s the revolutionary English language arts study guide just for middle school students from the brains behind Brain Quest.
Everything You Need to Ace English Language Arts . . .takes students from grammar to reading comprehension to writing with ease, including parts of speech,...
| Author | Michele Byam |
| ISBN | 0756606543 |
-Para curiosos y para aquellos que buscan documentos gráficos particularmente interesantes sin recurrir a internet (o que los buscaban cuando la red no estaba en todas partes).-
Género. Historia.
Lo que nos cuenta. Aproximación a las armas y armaduras desde la Prehistoria...
| Author | Phillip Hoose |
| ISBN | 0374382522 |
"This may be the most exhilarating and revelatory history of our country. It is must reading for today's youth-as well as their elders." --Studs Terkel
From the boys who sailed with Columbus to today's young activists, this unique book brings to life the contributions of young people throughout...
| Author | Rick Atkinson |
| ISBN | 1627791116 |
Adapted for young readers from the #1 New York Times–bestselling The Guns at Last Light, D-Day captures the events and the spirit of that day—June 6, 1944—the day that led to the liberation of western Europe from Nazi Germany's control. They came by sea and by sky to reclaim freedom from the occupying...
Over the course of history, famous people made mistakes that were so monumental they could never escape them, no matter how brilliant their successes! Ferdinand Magellan is credited as the first man to sail around the world . . . but he only actually made it halfway. His terrible treatment of everyone...
| Author | Martin W. Sandler |
| ISBN | 0763680338 |
The exciting true story of the captaincy, wreck, and discovery of the Whydah the only pirate ship ever found and the incredible mysteries it revealed.
The 1650s to the 1730s marked the golden age of piracy, when fearsome pirates like Blackbeard ruled the waves, seeking not only treasure but also...
| Author | Christopher Gravett |
| ISBN | 0756630037 |
"After the Battle of Hastings, Duke William brought the knight, the castle, and the feudal system to England."
From some troublesome Vikings paid off with Normandy, to the high philosophical ideals of mercy and devotion to the needs of the physically weak, it's hard not to be fascinated by...
| Author | Simon James |
| ISBN | 0756606519 |
Full-color photos. "An excellent glossy catalogue of entertaining information about a civilization of antiquity. Family life, household effects, cosmetics, sports, children's dress and games--all these and more are on display in eye-filling spreads. Either read chronologically or browsed...
| Author | Marc Gellman |
| ISBN | 0764552643 |
Why are we here?
How should we live?
What happens after we die?
Why does evil exist? Religion For Dummies explains how the world's great religions answer questions that persist through generations. Authors Rabbi Marc Gellman and Monsignor Thomas Hartman are trusted religious advisors...
| Author | David Stabler |
| ISBN | 1594748993 |
The series that began with Kid Presidents and Kid Athletes has a new volume that chronicles the childhoods of 16 celebrated artists—everyone from Claude Monet and Vincent van Gogh to Mary Cassat, Frida Kahlo, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and even Dr. Seuss! Readers will learn:
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Shit Doesn't Just Happen: Titanic, Kegworth, Custer, Schoolhouse, Donner, Tulips, Apollo 13: The Gift of Failure
| Author | Bob Mayer |
| ISBN | 1621252078 |
Saying “shit happens” indicates events are random, have no meaning and there is no accountability or responsibility. It indicates such events could just as easily happen again and there’s nothing we can do about them. Bull. This book is about catastrophes and how to avoid them, mitigate their...
| Author | David Long |
| ISBN | 0571316018 |
Winner of the Best Book With Facts Blue Peter Book Award 2017
Beautifully presented in a large, hardback format, and fully illustrated in colour throughout, this wonderful anthology is a treat for all the family. Be shocked and amazed by these incredible real-life stories of extreme survival,...
| Author | Sally M. Walker |
| ISBN | 0763677558 |
The worst maritime disaster in American history wasn't the Titanic. It was the steamboat Sultana on the Mississippi River -- and it could have been prevented.
In 1865, the Civil War was winding down and the country was reeling from Lincoln's assassination. Thousands of Union soldiers, released...
War Bonds: Love Stories from the Greatest Generation
| Author | Cindy Hval |
| ISBN | 1612002900 |
America s World War II is most often told through the stories of its great battles, when an entire generation of our young men was suddenly thrust across the oceans to represent the New World in deadly combat against the great powers of the Old. On sea, in the air, and on land our boys fought against totalitarian...
| Author | Bathroom Readers Institute |
From the 20th century to the Old West, from the Age of Enlightenment to the Dark Ages, from ancient cultures all the way back to the dawn of time, Strange History is overflowing with mysterious artifacts, macabre legends, kooky inventions, reality-challenged rulers, boneheaded blunders, and mind-blowing...
| Author | Leo Marriott |
| ISBN | 0765106477 |
At the launching of The Titanic, contemporaries believed the ship was unsinkable, but on Sunday, April 14, 1912, the "greatest liner on earth" was the subject of a terrible human tragedy which claimed the lives of 1522 passengers and crew. Illustrated with fascinating photographs and drawings of...
| Author | Tanya Anderson |
| ISBN | 0966925874 |
With thousands of men off fighting in the Civil War, the government hired women and girls—some as young as ten—to make millions of rounds of ammunition. Poor immigrant girls and widows paid the price for carelessness at three major arsenals. Many of these workers were killed, blown up and burned...
The Battered Bastards of Bastogne: The 101st Airborne and the Battle of the Bulge, December 19,1944-January 17,1945
| Author | George Koskimaki |
| ISBN | 0891418946 |
The Battered Bastards of Bastogne is the product of contributions by 530 soldiers who were on the ground or in the air over Bastogne. They lived and made this history, and much of it is told in their own words. The material contributed by these men of the 101st Airborne Division, the Armor, Tank Destroyer,...
Downton Abbey: Rules for Household Staff
The household staff of Downton Abbey carries out their duties with effortless dignity, finesse and pride. Yet how do they know how exactly to lay the table, when to leave the room to give Lord and Lady Grantham their privacy, how to care for Lady Mary's furs and which uniform to wear when? This recently...
