Text and photographs introduce life in a country well-known for valuing calmness and harmony.

Traces the life of the pilot who became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean and mysteriously disappeared in 1937 while attempting to fly around the world.

A biography of the well-to-do woman who defied social conventionin order to establish nursing as a respectable career for womenand bring about reforms in hospital conditions and nursing care.

Text and pictures describe the events, fashions, inventions, andpersonalities of the 1920s.

"Step back in time 3,000 years to the shores of the eastern Mediterranean where one of the most enduring and influential civilizations of the Western world is emerging"--Publisher description.

Text and pictures highlight the main events of the 1980s.