Product Description: Explore the traditions that have surrounded death through the ages, with 10 interactive projects.

Product Description: Drive critical, engaged historical learning. Helping learners more deeply understand historical concepts, the student-centred approach of this new Course Book enables broader, big picture understanding. Developed directly with the IB and fully supporting the new syllabus for first examination 2017, the clear, structured format helps you logically and easily progress through the new course content...read more

Drawing on extensive historical and anthropological research, personal accounts, and interviews with people who work in the funeral industry, Penny Colman examines the compelling subjects of death and burial across cultures and societies. The text, enriched with stories both humorous and poignant, includes details about the decomposition and embalming processes (an adult corpse buried six feet deep without a coffin will usually take five to ten years to turn into a skeleton) and describes the various customs associated with containing remains (the Igala people in Nigeria have a custom of burying people in as many as twenty-seven layers of clothing). Intriguing facts are revealed at every turn; for example, in Madagascar winter was considered the corpse-turning season.This comprehensive book also includes a list of burial sites of famous people, images in the arts associated with death, fascinating epitaphs and gravestone carvings, a chronology and a glossary, and over a hundred black-and-white photographs, most of which were taken by the author.Penny Colman writes with compassion and intelligence and humanizes the difficult subjects of death and burial. The result is a powerful look at an inevitable part of life--death.

Product Description: Explore the fascinating history of sorcery through the ages, plus fun projects to try yourself.

Why did robbers steal precious works of art from Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 1990? In 2005, how did thieves in Amsterdam pull off the largest diamond heist in history? Throughout the world, some criminals seem to pull off the perfect crimes. They leave us asking, “How’d they do it?” or “Why’d they do it?” and “Could it happen again?” With dramatic photos and intriguing theories, readers can go on a journey around the world and learn about some tough crimes to solve.

An introduction to the basics of Czech features more than three hundred key words and phrases that are essential to common travel situations, with lessons on time, shopping, greetings, and more, as well as a handy pronunciation guide.

Product Description: Drive critical, engaged historical learning. Helping learners more deeply understand historical concepts, the student-centred approach of this new Course Book enables broader, big picture understanding. Developed directly with the IB and fully supporting the new syllabus for first examination 2017, the clear, structured format helps you logically and easily progress through the new course content...read more

Product Description: Caleb in the Country by Jacob Abbott.

When two radical Islamic fundamental groups and a Chinese narcobaron take control of the drug trade in Southeast Asia, waging war on the Colombian distribution lines in America and killing innocent people, Mack Bolan and the elite Phoenix Force are called in to destroy the enemy and put an end to a huge herion-producing operation. Original.

Describes Viking life and customs from the perspective of an invented family, including raiding, ship building, warrior training, sacrifice, battle, farming, the role of women, feasting, and funerals.

Product Description: Throughout human history, people have banded together to pass on traditions, climb the social ladder, and often just have a good time. And sometimes, keeping other people out is part of the fun. (Every hot club needs a velvet rope, after all...read more

Product Description: Introduces readers to ninja warriors, including their history and famous battles, uniforms and weapons, and training and tactics.

Product Description: Introduces readers to medieval knights, including their history and famous battles, uniforms and weapons, and training and tactics.

Product Description: Introduces readers to Aztec warriors, including their history and famous battles, uniforms and weapons, and training and tactics.

Product Description: Mathematics is more than just numbers. In this series, readers delve into the history of math to understand how and why it developed. Middle- and high-school readers will get a solid foundation in arithmetic; algebra; geometry and trigonometry; mathematics (study of numbers, quantity, and space); the number system and common and decimal fractions; and statistics and probability...read more