Thomas Hoobler
1) Confucianism
Author
Series
Publisher
Facts on File
Pub. Date
[1993]
Language
English
Description
Describes how the teachings of Confucius evolved from a social order to a religion, infusing all phases of Chinese life for 2000 years.
4) Cleopatra
Author
Publisher
Chelsea House
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
A biography of the Egyptian queen who gained and maintained power over her kingdom through her alliance with Julius Caesar and later Marc Antony.
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"In this addition to the What Was? series, kids will experience what it was like to be in San Francisco in 1906 when the ground buckled in a major, catastrophic earthquake. One early April morning in 1906, the people of San Francisco were jolted awake by a mammoth earthquake--one that registered 7.8 on the Richter Scale. Not only was there major damage from the quake itself but broken gas lines sparked a fire that ravaged the city for days. More than...
Author
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
In eighteenth-century Japan, fourteen-year-old Seikei, a merchant's son in training to be a samurai, helps his patron investigate a series of murders and arson in the capital city of Edo, each of which is associated in some way with a popular geisha.
12) Joseph Stalin
Author
Publisher
Chelsea House
Pub. Date
1985.
Language
English
Description
The life story of the revolutionary who became leader of Communist Russia.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Our presidents loom so large in history that we often forget they are human. Are You Prepared for the Storm of Love Making? is a collection of handwritten love letters that offers a surprising and intimate portrait of the men who occupied the White House. From George Washington to Barack Obama, these are not the presidents we see in history books. Instead, when they courted the women they wanted to marry, or seduced women outside of their marriage,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Returning home to investigate the possible connection of his family's tea shop with smugglers, Seikei, now a samauri in eighteenth-century Japan, becomes involved in murder at a local puppet theater and saving the life of his sister's accused boyfriend.
Author
Series
Publisher
Raintree Steck-Vaughn
Pub. Date
[1993]
Language
English
Description
Presents biographical sketches of Nezahualcoyotl, Moctezume II, Malinche, Juan Diego, Diego de la Cruz, Juana Ines de la Cruz, Father Miguel Hidalgo, Benito Juarez, Pancho Villa, Emiliano Zapata, Diego Rivera, Frida Kahol, and Amalia Hernandez.