Highlights the many archaeological digs and findings in Greece and discusses what life was like in ancient Greece

Examines the history, work, family life, and culture of the Aztecs

Product Description: The series focuses on the people who inspire children today. Each book looks at the background, life and achievements of a personality, their impact on popular culture as well as detailing the everyday facets of their job and how they have gained such success.

Product Description: In Napoleon Bonaparte's novella, triumphant soldier Clisson turns his back on worldly success. He falls in love and marries Eugénie, and they live the simple life until Clisson is called back into battle.The tragic story of Clisson and Eugénie reveals that Napoleon was also an accomplished writer of fiction, and offers a fascinating insight into how he viewed love, women, and military life...read more

Product Description: The Industrial Revolution swept across the world in the late 18th century, changing not only the way we produce goods, but the entire socioeconomic and cultural landscape. The mechanization of manufacturing and all the changes that came with it did not just happenit was the work of many inventors, entrepreneurs, and everyday people...read more

Product Description: Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, brave women like Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Susan B. Anthony worked tirelessly to achieve equal voting rights for women. This factual and interesting approach to the topic uses primary sources to their fullest potential by including stirring speeches, fascinating articles, and period photography...read more

Introducing you to 30 people who met God, this title presents accounts to help you to know him better.

Explains how records of life become hidden and the efforts people have made to reconstruct past civilizations by examining their artifacts, caves, shipwrecks, and burial sites

Looks at how castles were built, castle life, castles under siege and knights and castles. This series contains books which have photographs and illustrations to help readers and also reveals interesting fact on each page.

Why was Jupiter the most important Roman god? Why was Minerva the goddess of arts and crafts? From country sports and war to commerce and travel, this work explores various aspects of Ancient Rome by looking at the traditions and religious beliefs of the society. It also includes photos, illustrations, glossary, and an index.

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Evil and suffering have always been part of human experience, but they present a significant challenge to Christian belief in a good and all-powerful God. The biblical writers have no time for unreal idealism, in which the life of faith is supposed to be free from anguish, pain and perplexity. But they are confident that God's power and wisdom are sufficient to overcome and transform evil and suffering, and to enable us to be "more than conquerors" in a broken and hurting world. Peter Hicks expounds a range of relevant biblical texts that enable readers to set the issue of evil and suffering in the context of the nature and purposes of God. They may, he says, be a mystery to us, but they are not a mystery to God. Central to his approach is the conviction that the key lies in the cross and resurrection of Jesus Christ, the suffering and triumph of God himself. He also explores the Bible's teaching on how we are to live in a world of evil and suffering. The author writes warmly and clearly, not only shedding light on two challenging biblical themes, but also offering valuable insights for those currently afflicted. His book thus bears the Bible Speaks Today marks of readability, reliability and relevance. It will be particularly useful for ministers and preachers, committed church members and theology students. As a companion to the Bible Speaks Today commentaries, the Bible Speaks Today Bible Themes Series focuses on the message of key biblical texts supporting differing facets of Christian doctrine in conversation with the history of Christian tradition. Rooted in Christian heritage and interactive with contemporary culture, the series provides a rich resource for preaching, teaching and spiritual growth.

Product Description: Andrea Palladio (1508­–1580), one of the most famous architects of all time, published two enormously popular guides to the churches and antiquities of Rome in 1554. Striving to be both scholarly and popular, Palladio invited his Renaissance readers to discover the charm of Rome’s ancient and medieval wonders, and to follow pilgrimage routes leading from one church to the next...read more

Product Description: Andrea Palladio (1508­–1580), one of the most famous architects of all time, published two enormously popular guides to the churches and antiquities of Rome in 1554. Striving to be both scholarly and popular, Palladio invited his Renaissance readers to discover the charm of Rome’s ancient and medieval wonders, and to follow pilgrimage routes leading from one church to the next...read more

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