The 'Industrial Revolution' was a pivotal point in British history that occurred between the mid-eighteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries and led to far reaching transformations of society. With the advent of revolutionary manufacturing technology productivity boomed. Machines were used to spin and weave cloth, steam engines were used to provide reliable power, and industry was fed by the construction of the first railways, a great network of arteries...

Factories, with their ingenious machinery and miraculous productivity, are celebrated as modern wonders of the world. Yet from William Blake's "dark Satanic mills" they have also fuelled our fears of the future. Telling the story of the factory, Joshua B. Freeman takes readers from the textile mills in England that powered the Industrial Revolution to the steel and car plants of twentieth-century America, Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, to today's...

The final volume of the Spiritwalker Trilogy finds Cat Barahal plagued by nonstop trouble, treachery, and magic. With revolutions to plot, enemies to crush, and handsome men to rescue, Cat and her cousin Bee have their work cut out for them.

"From the author of 1491--the best-selling study of the pre-Columbian Americas--a deeply engaging new history that explores the most momentous biological event since the death of the dinosaurs. More than 200 million years ago, geological forces split apart the continents. Isolated from each other, the two halves of the world developed totally different suites of plants and animals. Columbus's voyages brought them back together--and marked the beginning...

Alex has decided to camp out to find out what life was like for his European ancestors. Timeblazers Sam and Jen show him what life was like for the settlers of the North American wilderness. First, we learn that some of the first Europeans to explore North America were French fur trappers, also known as Coureur du Bois, that traded with Native Americans and learned their survival skills in the 1690s. Next we discover how 1860s prairie pioneers were...

Alex has a dream that his school disappears, which leads to the question, where did schools come from in the first place? Timeblazers Sam and Jen take him back to prehistoric times, when children learned everything they needed to know from their parents. Then they travel to 330 B.C. to Aristotle's Lyceum in Ancient Greece; they go to Sparta, where boys were trained to become fighting warriors. Next they travel to the Middle Ages when only monks received...

It is 1901 and Buffalo, New York, stands at the center of the nation's attention as a place of immense wealth and sophistication. The massive hydroelectric power development at nearby Niagara Falls and the grand Pan-American Exposition promise to bring the Great Lakes "city of light" even more repute. Against this rich historical backdrop lives Louisa Barrett, the attractive, articulate headmistress of the Macaulay School for Girls. Protected by its...

A chronicle of America's infatuation with the butterfly revealed in words and pictures. Their uniqueness is evident which lepidopterists and others clearly portray as they look at exotic species as well as common ones and bathe their minds in the wonder of their extraordinary variety and beauty.

In 'Misère', famed art historian Linda Nochlin reveals how, in the new form of civilization produced by the Industrial Revolution, in which the phenomenal growth of wealth occurred alongside an expansion of squalor, writers and artists of the nineteenth century used their craft to come to terms with what were often new and unprecedented social, material, and psychological circumstances. Nochlin charts the phenomenon of misery as it was represented...