Born to a family of farmers, Lincoln stood out from an early age?literally (He was six feet four inches tall.) As sixteenth President of the United States, he guided the nation through the Civil War and saw the abolition of slavery. But Lincoln was tragically shot one night at Ford's Theater?the fi[...]

President Abraham Lincoln guided the nation through the Civil War and promoted the abolition of slavery. The life of this remarkable man is now told in Spanish with over 100 black-and-white illustrations and maps.[...]

No one knew the boy they called Jumping Badger would grow to become a great leader. Born on the banks of the Yellowstone River, Sitting Bull, as he was later called, was tribal chief and holy man of the Lakota Sioux tribe in a time of fierce conflict with the United States. As the government seized [...]

Provides an integration of basic computing concepts with Pascal programming to foster the use of programming as a problem-solving tool. This title covers from algorithms and artificial intelligence to computer interfacing and operating systems.[...]

The theme of the erotic is ever present in the work of Auguste Rodin, both in his sculptures and in his many drawings. Taking a chronological path through Rodins life, this book offers an intimate approach to the many faces of sex and sensuality in his body of work and in the society within which hi[...]

Each volume of this series of companions to major philosophers contains specially commissioned essays by an international team of scholars, together with a substantial bibliography, and will serve as a reference work for students and nonspecialists. One aim of the series is to dispel the intimidatio[...]

Focussing on the physics of low-temperature radio frequency plasmas, for graduate students and researchers in applied physics and electrical engineering.[...]