Describes the characteristics and behavior of small dogs in general, also discussing the physical appearance and place in history of some specific breeds.
Nine-year-old Tamika uses photographs, school yearbooks, movie ticket stubs, and other mementos to try to restore the memory of her grandmother, who has Alzeheimer's disease.
Discusses the social conditions of the decade during which prohibition was in effect, the results of the legislation, and its failure to preserve traditional values.
During the California Gold Rush Rosabel, an African American, and Sophie, a Jew, team up and search for gold to buy Rosabel's mother her freedom from a slave catcher.
Many groups of people, such as Poles, Russians, Gypsies, and homosexuals, were persecuted and killed by the Nazis because of Adolf Hitler's hatred for them and his attempt to create a "master race."
Traces the battles that societies have waged against infectious diseases from the Black Death of the fourteenth century to the Ebola virus of more recent times.
Examines how geothermal energy, the force underlying hot springs, geysers, and mudpots, is being used as an alternative energy source in various parts of the world.