With facts boxes and sidebars offering additional information, this book introduces the worst things about living in ancient Rome, from slave labor to poor farmers working in the countryside.

"A book that makes the case for evolution over design and skewers a widespread but dangerous myth: that we have ultimate control over our world"-- "The New York Times bestselling author of The Rational Optimist and Genome returns with a fascinating, brilliant argument for evolution that definitively dispels a dangerous, widespread myth: that we can command and control our world.The Evolution of Everything is about bottom-up order and its enemy, the...

Presents an introduction to ancient Egypt, discussing its history, pharaohs, pyramids, agriculture, important cities, religion, and practices of warfare.

A full-color exploration of the world of ancient Greece, chock full of STEAM projects, fascinating facts about everyone from gods to ordinary people, and essential questions that get kids ages 7 to 10 thinking critically about what survives from the past.

"It has been proclaimed many times, but perhaps never more convincingly than now, when every news cycle seems to deliver further confirmation of a world gone mad. Is this the endgame? Have we come to closing time in the West? Author Spencer Klavan is a classicist, with a Ph.D. from Oxford, and a deep understanding of the West. His analysis: The situation is dire. But every crisis we face today, we have faced before. And we can surmount each one. Klavan...