Chronological Period/1990's
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Pollen: Darwin’s 130 Year Prediction
$25.99 Add to cartPOLLEN: DARWIN’S 130 YEAR PREDICTION
Elementary Science – POLLEN
How long does it take for science to find an answer to a problem?
On January 25, 1862, naturalist Charles Darwin received a box of orchid
- Series: Moments in Science
- Author: Pattison, Darcy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 34
- Publish Date: May 07 2019
- ISBN10: 1629441198
- Language: English
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Mae Jemison: Ready-To-Read Level 3
$5.99 Add to cartBlast off into space and get to know Mae Jemison–the first African-American woman to ever go to space–with this fascinating, nonfiction Level 3 Ready-to-Read, part of a new series of biographies abo… [more below]
- Series: You Should Meet
- Author: Calkhoven, Laurie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: September 06 2016
- ISBN10: 1481476491
- Language: English
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From an Idea to Google: How Innovation at Google Changed the World
$7.99 Add to cartFrom an Idea to Google is a behind-the-computer-screen look into the history, business, and brand of the world’s largest search engine. With humorous black & white illustrations throughout, learn abou… [more below]
- Series: From an Idea to
- Author: Sichol, Lowey Bundy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: July 09 2019
- ISBN10: 1328954927
- Language: English
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The Compton Cowboys: And the Fight to Save Their Horse Ranch
$16.99 Read moreIn this young readers’ edition, a rising New York Times reporter tells the compelling story of the Compton Cowboys, a group of African-American men and women who defy stereotypes and continue the prou
- Author: Thompson-Hernandez, Walter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 28, 2020
- ISBN10: 0062956841
- Language: English
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Toward the Goal, Revised Edition: The Kaká Story
$7.99 Add to cart“I learned that it is faith that decides whether something will happen or not.” At the age of eight, Kaká already knew what he wanted in life: to play soccer and only soccer. He started playing in fr
- Series: Zonderkidz Biography
- Author: Jones, Jeremy V.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 25 2014
- ISBN10: 0310738407
- Language: English
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Proud: Living My American Dream
$9.99 Add to cartThe inspiring and critically acclaimed all-American story of faith, family, hard work, and perseverance by Olympic fencer, activist, New York Times bestselling author, and Time “100 Most Influential P… [more below]
- Author: Muhammad, Ibtihaj
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 20 2019
- ISBN10: 0316477044
- Language: English
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Born to Kill: The Rise and Fall of America’s Bloodiest Asian Gang
$18.99 Add to cartThroughout the late eighties and nineties, a gang of young Asian refugees cut a bloody swath through New York’s Chinatown. They were the lost children of the Vietnam War, severed from their families b
- Author: English, T. J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 310
- Publish Date: June 09 2009
- ISBN10: 0061782386
- Language: English
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Storming the Court: How a Band of Law Students Fought the President–And Won
$19.99 Add to cartIn 1992, three hundred innocent Haitian men, women, and children who had qualified for political asylum in the United States were detained at Guantç–£amo Bay, Cuba — and told they might never be free… [more below]
- Author: Goldstein, Brandt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: December 01 2006
- ISBN10: 1416535152
- Language: English
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Locked in: The True Causes of Mass Incarceration-And How to Achieve Real Reform
$32.00 Read moreA groundbreaking reassessment of the American prison system, challenging the widely accepted explanations for our exploding incarceration rates
In Locked In, John Pfaff argues that the factors most c- Author: Pfaff, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 07 2017
- ISBN10: 0465096913
- Language: English
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Coming Back Alive: The True Story of the Most Harrowing Search and Rescue Mission Ever Attempted on Alaska’s High Seas
$22.00 Add to cartWhen the fishing vessel La Conte sinks suddenly at night in one-hundred-mile-per-hour winds and record ninety-foot seas during a savage storm in January 1998, her five crewmen are left to drift withou
- Author: Walker, Spike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 11 2002
- ISBN10: 0312302568
- Language: English
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No Greater Love: How My Family Survived the Genocide in Rwanda
$19.95 Add to cartDuring 100 days in Spring 1994, Rwanda’s descent into terror took an estimated 800,000 lives. The fastest-moving genocide in modern times was horrifying for its intimacy: Killers and victims were neig
- Author: Seminega, Tharcisse
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1937188035
- Language: English
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Best of Enemies: The Last Great Spy Story of the Cold War
$16.99 Add to cartThe thrilling story of two Cold War spies, CIA case officer Jack Platt and KGB agent Gennady Vasilenko — improbable friends at a time when they should have been anything but.
In 1978, CIA maverick J- Author: Russo, Gus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1538761335
- Language: English
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Once Upon a Time in Russia: The Rise of the Oligarchs–A True Story of Ambition, Wealth, Betrayal, and Murder
$17.99 Add to cartThe New York Times bestselling author of Bringing Down the House and The Accidental Billionaires tells his most incredible story yet: A true drama of obscene wealth, crime, rivalry, and betrayal from … [more below]
- Author: Mezrich, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 14 2016
- ISBN10: 1476771901
- Language: English
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Go, Flight!: The Unsung Heroes of Mission Control, 1965-1992
$39.95 Read moreThe inspiration for the documentary Mission Control: The Unsung Heroes of Apollo
At first glance, it looks like just another auditorium in just another government building. But among the talented men- Series: Outward Odyssey: A People’s History of Spaceflight
- Author: Houston, Rick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: December 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0803269374
- Language: English
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A Small Corner of Hell: Dispatches from Chechnya
$21.00 Add to cartThe recent murder of Anna Politkovskaya is grim evidence of the danger faced by journalists passionately committed to writing the truth about wars and politics. A longtime critic of the Russian govern… [more below]
- Author: Politkovskaya, Anna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: April 15 2007
- ISBN10: 0226674339
- Language: English
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Revolutionary Iran: A History of the Islamic Republic
$40.99 Add to cartIn Revolutionary Iran, Michael Axworthy guides us through recent Iranian history from shortly before the 1979 Islamic revolution through the summer of 2009, when Iranians poured into the streets of Te… [more below]
- Author: Axworthy, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 536
- Publish Date: September 01 2013
- ISBN10: 0199322260
- Language: English
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The Compton Cowboys: The New Generation of Cowboys in America’s Urban Heartland
$19.99 Add to cart“Thompson-Hern ndez’s portrayal of Compton’s black cowboys broadens our perception of Compton’s young black residents, and connects the Compton Cowboys to the historical legacy of African Americans in
- Author: Thompson-Hernandez, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 20 2021
- ISBN10: 0062910612
- Language: English
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From Warsaw with Love: Polish Spies, the CIA, and the Forging of an Unlikely Alliance
$21.99 Add to cartFrom Warsaw with Love is the epic story of how Polish intelligence officers forged an alliance with the CIA in the twilight of the Cold War, told by the award-winning author John Pomfret.
Spanning dec- Author: Pomfret, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1250848806
- Language: English
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TWA 800: Behind the Cover-Up and Conspiracy
$16.99 Read moreFrom the disastrous crash to the nefarious, high-level cover up, historian Jack Cashill introduces new documents and testimonies in his shocking account of the true chain of events leading to the trag… [more below]
- Author: Cashill, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 11 2023
- ISBN10: 168451455X
- Language: English
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The Monfils Conspiracy: The Conviction of Six Innocent Men
$20.95 Add to cartOn November 21, 1992, Thomas Monfils, an employee at the James River paper mill in Green Bay, Wisconsin, disappeared. After an intensive search, his body was found the next evening, submerged in a pul… [more below]
- Author: Gullickson, Denis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 520
- Publish Date: August 12 2009
- ISBN10: 0595484735
- Language: English
