What animal weighs more than 177 first graders? What bird is too tall to walk through most doorways? What Makes a giraffe's neck so Long? what cat is so fast that it can break a 55 mile per hour speed limit? The answers are here! 29 full-color photographs display animals big, small, and superfast.

Our Amazing Animal Friends (National Georgraphics Society - Kids Want to Know)

Gene S. Stuart

scholastic

Text and illustrations describe the daily life, homes, and families of three Indian children from different tribes--Cheyenne, Creek, and Nootka.

Three Little Indians

National Geographic Society

199 pp. with numerous color illus. 8vo.

The Mysterious Maya

George E. Stuart

Discusses the many problems that animals around the world face and what people are doing to help. A wall poster and a 24-page booklet of games and puzzles are included.

Wildlife Alert

Richly illustrated National Geographic Society title about the Aztecs - history, customs, cities and what remains today of their culture and empire

The mighty Aztecs

History

Americas

Hardcover with dust jacket. 1986 200p 10.25x7.00x0.75 CENTURIES AGO PEOPLE BUILT WITHOUT THE USE OF DRAFT ANIMALS OR THE WHEEL. HOW WERE THEY ABLE TO MOVE STONES THAT WEIGH TEN-OR EIGHT - TONS, OR EVEN MORE? ANSWERS AS BUILDERS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD AND MORE.

Builders Of The Ancient World: Marvels of Engineering

Arts & Photography

Richard A. Cooke III

Ron Fisher

Norman Hammond

Ann Nottingham Kelsall

Joyce Stewart

Architecture

The Society]

"America, say historians, was peopled by savages; but savages never reared these structures, savages never carved these stones." So concluded explorer John Lloyd Stephens in 1839 as he gazed upon the silent ruins of Copan in Honduras. He promptly bought the Maya city for 50 dollars and recorded his observations. Stephens was not the first to delve into mysteries of ancient urban America - and today his successors investigate sites throughout the continent. Spanning more than 14,000 years of human history, America's Ancient Cities reveals how settlements evolved and how urban centers grew and functioned. Millennia ago, prehistoric hunters and gatherers dispersed and peopled the continent. Later, Eastern Woodland cultures constructed mounds and earthworks, and fishing and whaling villages developed along the Northwest Coast. With the rise of agriculture, bison-hunting farmers settled along rivers in present-day Nebraska and the Dakotas. In the Southwest, the Anasazi built the multiroomed pueblos of Chaco Canyon and Mesa Verde. Urban centers in Mesoamerica surpassed all others in size and magnificence. Lofty Monte Alban dominated Mexico's Oaxaca Valley. Maya kings ruled city-states - Coba, Uxmal, and Mayapan among them. The Aztecs were so awed by the pyramids of Teotihuacan they believed gods had built them, while their own capital of Tenochtitlan became the New World's greatest city. Many sites lie unexplored, and intriguing questions remain unanswered. Experts still study Copan, and one archaeologist calls its piles of carved stones "the largest jigsaw puzzle in Mesoamerica." Another notes that the real charm of archaeology is "not what old mysteries it solves, but what new ones it poses." Mysteries are explored and recent discoveries described in Gene Stuart's thoughtful text; Rik Cooke's haunting photographs capture the grandeur of ancient cities and the artistry of vanished cultures; and specially commissioned paintings by H. Tom Hall bring to life ceremonies and customs of the past.

America's Ancient Cities

A book from National Geographic, In Spanish

Secretos del Pasado (Spanish Edition)

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

C.D. Stampley Enterprises

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