Product Description: Despite the daily news coverage of chronic unrest in the Middle East, many students remain confused about this tangled and politically charged situation. UXL's Middle East Conflict Reference Library is designed to meet the pressing need for a lucid, comprehensive and objective overview of the people, events and documents that are key to understanding the region...read more

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Product Description: Despite the daily news coverage of chronic unrest in the Middle East, many students remain confused about this tangled and politically charged situation. UXL's Middle East Conflict Reference Library is designed to meet the pressing need for a lucid, comprehensive and objective overview of the people, events and documents that are key to understanding the region...read more

Product Description: Volume three of a set of three; Primary Sourcesincludes the kidnapping of Julius Caeser by pirates, a transcript of the trial of Anne Bonny and Mary Read, and an interview with a modern-day Somali pirate. The voume also features literary works such as Treasure Island and The Corsair...read more

Product Description: Volume two of a three volume set; Biographiesspotlights famous names such as William Kidd and John Paul Jones, as well as lesser-known but intriguing and infuential figures like Barbarossa and Kanhoji Angria, and female pirates such Cheng I Sao and Grace O'Malley.

Product Description: Volume one of three volume set: Almanacbegins in the ancient Mediterranean, where the Greeks and Romans fought to control the growing scourge, and continues to piracy's golden age in the late-18th and early-19th centuries, when the Jolly Roger heralded the arrival of seagoing outlaws...read more

Product Description: During the reign of Elizabeth I, 1558-1603, England was transformed from a backward and isolated island to a leading military power and commercial center in which culture and the arts flourished. Filling the gaps left by other Shakespearean resources, Elizabethan World Reference Library covers the broad sweep of the culture of the times, from Elizabeth's court to rural life, and from the New World explorations to the remarkable flowering of literature and drama for which the era is renowned...read more

Presents an overview of British civilization during the reign of Elizabeth I, covering daily life, the religious controversies of the era, England's emergence as a world power, and the flowering of the arts, philosophy, science, and especially drama in this time period.Presents an overview of British civilization during the reign of Elizabeth I, covering daily life, the religious controversies of the era, England's emergence as a world power, and the flowering of the arts, philosophy, science, and especially drama in this time period.

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Product Description: The three-volume "Early Civilizations in the Americas Reference Library" provides a comprehensive overview of the history of the regions of the American continents in which two of the world's first civilizations developed: Mesoamerica (the name for the lands in which ancient civilizations arose in Central America and Mexico) and the Andes Mountains region of South America (in present-day Peru and parts of Bolivia, northern Argentina, and Ecuador)...read more

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Product Description: Today's newspapers are filled with reports of conflicts between nations. Some conflicts have recently erupted; many have been going on for years. But most of them have deep-rooted, historical causes that are not explained in the media...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)