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David Cordingly es licenciado en Historia por la Universidad de Oxford y doctor por la Universidad de Sussex. Trabajó durante doce años en el Museo Marítimo Nacional de Londres, del que fue conservador y director de exposiciones. Es una autoridad en historia marítima y ha publicado diversos libros sobre pintura naval inglesa y holandesa y sobre historia de la piratería, entre los que destacan Maritime painting in England, 1700-1900 (1974), Nicholas Pocock, maritime artist (1986), Captain James Cook, navigator (1994), Pirates: an illustrated history (1996), Ships and Seascapes: an...

"With vivid photographs and simple text, books in this series introduce children to the concepts of currency, exchange, and global diversity. In this book, children learn how people spend money on goods and services around the world."

A community center has many exciting activities to choose from. You can play games, swim, and even learn how to cook there. As you read, you can compare the size of a tennis racket to a ping pong racket, use cubes to measure the world's smallest snake, and even use feet to measure the length of a basketball court. What would you use to measure a snake?

From art and architecture to politics, philosophy, and mathematics, "western civilization" owes a great deal to the achievements of ancient Greece, but what do we really know about this long-gone civilization? How did geography influence the politics of the Greek city-states? What's the difference between an agora and an acropolis? This book takes readers several thousand years into the past, when independent city-states ruled the Mediterranean Sea, to find the answers. Full-color photographs and maps, accompanied by accessible text, introduce readers to the many contributions the ancient...