Added by: Maria | Karma: 3098.81 | Kids, Non-Fiction | 25 June 2008
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The most trusted nonfiction series on the market, Eyewitness Books provide an in-depth, comprehensive look at their subjects with a unique integration of words and pictures.
A fascinating look into some of history's greatest music makers, from Beethoven to the Beatles.
You Started Something • It's Like Taking Candy From A Baby • Grieving For You • A You're Adorable • You're Just In Love • Beautiful Brown Eyes • Come On-A My House • Mixed Emotions • I'm Waiting Just For You • If Teardrops Were Pennies • I Wish I Wuz • Be My Life's Companion • Tenderly • Half As Much • Botch-A-Me • Too Old To Cut The Mustard • Blues In The Night • Who Kissed Me Last Night • You'll Never Know • If I Had A Penny • Hey There • This Ole House • Sisters Mambo Italiano • Count Your Blessings
TÚrin is born into a Middle–earth crushed by the recent victory of the Dark Lord, Morgoth, and his monstrous army. The greatest warriors among Elves and Men have perished and TÚrin's father, HÚrin, has been captured. For his defiance, HÚrin's entire family is cursed by Morgoth to be brought down into darkness and despair.
The Greatest Minds and Ideas of All Time by Will Durant
This engaging, accessible book of essays from Pulitzer Prize-winning philosopher and historian Durant, author of the authoritative 11-volume Story of Civilization, should be essential reading for anyone interested in the evolution of thought. Little, the founder and director of The Will Durant Foundation, includes in his slim compendium such works as "The One Hundred 'Best' Books For an Education" and "Twelve Vital Dates in World History." Durant's "The Ten 'Greatest' Thinkers" details minds as enlightening as Confucius and as influential as Darwin, whom Durant says "reduced man to an animal fighting for his transient mastery of the globe." "The Ten 'Greatest' Poets," charts a course from Homer's brilliance to Dante's haunted heart to Whitman's "frank and lusty" originality, in prose peppered with biographical bon mots and excerpts of the world's loveliest poems. Lay folks especially will find this a delightful introduction to Durant's irrepressible style. What else would one expect from Durant, an intellect who, when asked, "Whom in all of history would you most like to have known?" drolly replied, "Madame de Pompadour."
