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Apollo 8 - The Mission That Changed Everything by Martin W. Sandler
Category: Children's
A nation in need of hope, the most powerful rocket ever launched, and the first three men to break the bounds of Earth: Apollo 8 was headed to the moon. In 1957, when the USSR launched Sputnik I, the first man-made satellite to orbit Earth, America's rival in the Cold War claimed victory on a new front ...Show more
Atlantic Ocean: The Illustrated History of the Ocean that Changed the World by Martin W. Sandler
Category: History
Since 300 B.C.E., the Atlantic has served as the corridor for fundamental exchanges of peoples and technologies and as a pathway for the transfer of ideas and cultures. This, the first illustrated and comprehensive history of the Atlantic World, is at the forefront of an exciting new wave of study in un ...Show more
How the Beatles Changed the World by Martin W. Sandler
Category: Education
The Beatles' first appearance on the Ed Sullivan show, has been called "a night that changed the course of American culture." More than seventy million television viewers - the largest-ever audience for an entertainment show - watched the Beatles' performance that February 9, 1964. It was only the begi ...Show more
Imprisoned: The Betrayal of Japanese Americans During World War II by Martin W. Sandler
Category: Education
While Americans fought for freedom and democracy abroad, fear and suspicion towards Japanese Americans swept the country after Japan's sneak attack on Pearl Harbor. Culling information from extensive, previously unpublished interviews and oral histories with Japanese American survivors of internment cam ...Show more
Lost to Time: Unforgettable Stories That History Forgot by Martin W. Sandler
Category: History
The author has received many honours, including seven Emmys. In this fresh and fascinating collection of historical vignettes, Martin W. Sandler restores to memory important events, people and developments that have been lost to time. Though barely known today, these are major historical stories, from Z ...Show more
Lost to Time: Unforgettable Stories That History Forgot by Martin W. Sandler
Category: History
"Stories that history forgot... but readers will remember." "The only thing new in the world," said Harry S. Truman, "is the history you don't know." In this fascinating collection of historical vignettes, Martin W. Sandler (author of "Resolute" and "Atlantic Ocean") restores to memory important events, ...Show more
Race Through the Skies: The Week the World Learned to Fly by Sandler, Martin W.
Category: Children's Educational
From National Book Award winner Martin W. Sandler, a fascinating look at the week that brought aviation fever to the world In 1903, the Wright brothers made three brief flights, and no one was there to watch them. Six years later, Wilbur Wright traveled to Europe to evangelicize about aviation and raise ...Show more
The Impossible Rescue: The True Story of an Amazing Arctic Adventure by Martin W Sandler
Category: History
The dead of an Arctic winter. Whaling ships full of men, stranded in ice. Follow three rescuers in a race against time -- and all odds -- in this heartpounding true adventure. In 1897, whaling in the Arctic waters off Alaska's coast was as dangerous as it was lucrative. And in that particular year, wint ...Show more
The Impossible Rescue: The True Story of an Amazing Arctic Adventure by Martin W Sandler
Category: History
The dead of an Arctic winter. Whaling ships full of men, stranded in ice. Follow three rescuers in a race against time -- and all odds -- in this heartpounding true adventure. In 1897, whaling in the Arctic waters off Alaska's coast was as dangerous as it was lucrative. And in that particular year, wint ...Show more
The Letters of John F. Kennedy by Martin W. Sandler (ed)
Category: Biography
John Fitzgerald Kennedy led the United States for barely a thousand days, and yet he is regarded as one of the great Presidents of all time for his brave decisions on civil rights and international relations, and not merely as a consequence of his tragic fate. Kennedy steered his nation away from the br ...Show more
The Letters of John F. Kennedy by Martin W. Sandler
Category: Biography Memoir
John Fitzgerald Kennedy led the United States for barely a thousand days, and yet he is regarded as one of the great Presidents of all time for his brave decisions on civil rights and international relations, and not merely as a consequence of his tragic fate. Kennedy steered his nation away from the ...Show more
The Whydah: A Pirate Ship Feared, Wrecked, and Found by Martin W Sandler
Category: Children's
The exciting true story of the captaincy, wreck, and discovery of the Whydah -- the only pirate ship ever found -- and the incredible mysteries it revealed. The 1650s to the 1730s marked the golden age of piracy, when fearsome pirates like Blackbeard ruled the waves, seeking not only treasure but also l ...Show more