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Big ideas that changed the world volume 4
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
124 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
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"Narrated by Abigail Adams, We the People! explores how Athenian and Greek assemblies inspired our legislative and judiciary branches; how Enlightenment ideals of reason, toleration, and human progress shaped our founding fathers' thinking; how Mali's Manden Charter and England's Magna Carta influenced our Bill of Rights; and how the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy directly shaped the US Constitution. Explaining the fundamentals of democracy--liberty,...
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On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong took "one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind" when the Apollo 11 landed on the moon. But it wasnt just one man who got us to the moon. The Moon Landing explores the people and technology that made the moon landing possible. Instead of examining one persons life, it focuses on the moon landing itself, showing the events leading up to it and how it changed the world. The book takes readers through the history...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
104 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Description
Conveys the history of the Earth in humorous graphic novel format, from the big bang through continent formation, discussing how weather events and climate change continue to shape the landscape.
Author
Publisher
Etch, Houughton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2021].
Physical Desc
121 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
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This graphic novel chronicles the immediate aftermath of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York City through moving individual stories that bear witness to history and the ways it shapes the future.
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
96 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
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Presents a graphic account of the events of Hurricane Katrina and its effects on the city of New Orleans and its people, detailing the selflessness, heroism, and courage, while also noting the incompetence, racism, and criminality.
Author
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Houghton Mifflin, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
80 pages : color illustrations, color photographs ; 27 cm.
Description
A graphic novel account of the giant dust storms in the Midwest in the 1930s discusses the ecological and agricultural damage caused by the storms.
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