Written by Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa, a well-educated sea captain and cosmographer of the viceroyalty, 'The History of the Incas' is perhaps one of the best description of Inca life and mythology to survive Spanish colonization of Peru.[...]

In this book Yehuda Bauer, an internationally-acclaimed Holocaust historian, recounts the destruction of the shtetls, small Jewish towns in Poland and Russia, at the hands of the Nazis in 1941-1942. Bauer brings together all available documents, testimonies, and scholarship, including previously unp[...]

In just two weeks you'll lose weight, be healthier, and you can still eat your favorite chips, cookies, and ice cream The reason so many diets fail for so many people is that they force the dieter to cut out the foods they love and crave. With "The 90/10 Weight-Loss Plan," dieters learn to balance t[...]

A guide to "classical learning" helps readers fill in the holes in their education as it looks at great works of fiction, autobiography, history, poetry, drama, and other genres and provides annotated listings of suggested readings.[...]

From the schism of Rome and Constantinople to the rise of the T'ang Dynasty and to the birth of Muhammad, this erudite book tells the fascinating, often violent story of medieval kings, generals and the people they ruled.[...]

This educational bestseller has dominated its field for the last decade, sparking a homeschooling movement that has only continued to grow. It will instruct you, step by step, on how to give your child an academically rigorous, comprehensive education from preschool through high school. Two veteran [...]

How are the ice blocks of igloos so perfectly formed and fitted? How can you determine if fresh snow is as good to make a slab shelter with as a snowman? What are slab shelters, drift caves and snow block walls, and how would you go about building them, whether for fun or protection from the weather[...]

Loaded with the latest Photoshop tips and techniquesThe secrets of digital image editing - explained in plain English Photoshop CS3 is a powerhouse, and here's the fast and easy way to get up to speed on all the coolest features. This friendly guide helps you get images into Photoshop - and then tur[...]

This latest version of Photoshop has a few new tricks up its sleeve and "Adobe Photoshop CS4 For Dummies" will teach you how to use them. From the basics like getting your images into and out of Photoshop to enhancing, cropping, and color correction, it's all here You'll get all of the basics of dig[...]

The bestselling guide to the leading image-editing software, fully updated Previous editions of this For Dummies guide have sold more 650,000 copies. Richly illustrated in full color, this edition covers all the updates Photoshop CS5, the gold standard for image-editing programs. Used by professi[...]

LABORATORY INQUIRY IN CHEMISTRY teaches you the skills you need to easily complete your laboratory investigations. Each investigation begins with a scenario that puts a real-life spin on the problem at hand, provides you with a sense of why the project is relevant, and creates a scenario that is com[...]