Author: Edwin Tunis
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Keywords: history, pictorial, weapons
Number of Pages: 152
Published: 1999-06-17
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 0801862299
ISBN-13: 9780801862298

Weapons is the rich and exciting story of arms through the ages -- from the first tied stone thrown by prehistoric hunters to the super bombs of today. Illustrated with the unusually detailed and astonishingly realistic drawings of Edwin Tunis, it is a weapon-by-weapon account of human ingenuity in the invention and improvement of arms for defense and offense. The detailed and engaging text is filled with useful information and anecdotes that bring history to life.Tunis begins with the Stone Age, describing its slings and spears, its axes and bows and arrows, and follows developments through t

Author: Edwin Tunis
Publisher: Ty Crowell Co
Keywords: time, ways, living, thinking, new, doing, learning, states, change, growth, united, democracy
Number of Pages: 159
Published: 1976-06
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0690010656
ISBN-13: 9780690010657

Describes the history, government, industries, schools, society, culture, and westward expansion during the first fifty years of United States independence.

Author: Edwin Tunis
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Keywords: history, pictorial, wheels
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 2002-08-07
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0801869293
ISBN-13: 9780801869297

Nothing like the wheel exists in nature; it may be one of humanity’s greatest inventions. In Wheels, writer and illustrator Edwin Tunis traces the development of the wheel over 5,000 years, his accurate drawings and lucid text depicting the human victory over space and inertia. Beginning with the first primitive form of wheel--the captive roller--Tunis takes readers through the history of land transportation from the Elamite chariot--the first recorded passenger chariot--to the ancient wheeled vehicles of the Egyptians, Assyrians, Greeks, Persians, Romans, Chinese, and Indians; th

Author: Edwin Tunis
Publisher: The Lyons Press
Keywords: life, america, pioneer, guide, living, illustrated, frontier
Number of Pages: 168
Published: 2000-08-01
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 158574137X
ISBN-13: 9781585741373

Frontier Living brings to light every significant aspect of daily life on the American frontier, with vivid text and more than 200 wonderful drawings. Immerse yourself in the character and culture of the men and women who stood at the harsh cutting-edge of our civilization: their dwellings, clothing, food, furniture, household articles; their hunting, farming, schooling, transportation, government; their amusements, superstitions, and religion. In Frontier Living the reader finds the forest frontiersman in his log cabin, the ranchero in his casa, the sodbuster in his prairie sod house. Here is

Author: Edwin Tunis
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Keywords: living, colonial
Number of Pages: 152
Published: 1999-06-17
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0801862272
ISBN-13: 9780801862274

Colonial Living is EdwinTunis’s a vigorous re-creation of 17th- and 18th-century America -- of the everyday living of those sturdy men and women who carved a way of life out of the wilderness. In lively text and accurate drawings we see the dugouts and wigwams of New England’s first settlers and the houses they learned to build against the cruel winters; the snug Dutch and Flemish farmhouses of Nieuw Amsterdam; the homes of the early planters in the South which would one day be kitchens for the houses they dreamed of building when tobacco had made them rich.Long research and love

Author: John R. Tunis
Publisher: Harcourt
Keywords: odyssey, tomkinsville, kid
Number of Pages: 278
Published: 2006-03-01
List price: $5.95
ISBN-10: 0152056416
ISBN-13: 9780152056414

Shortly before a serious accident ends his dream of pitching, Roy Tucker is called up from a small-town team in Connecticut to help the Brooklyn Dodgers out of a slump.Includes an introduction by Bruce Brooks.

Author: John R. Tunis
Publisher: Sandpiper
Keywords: classic, odyssey, kids, keystone
Number of Pages: 252
Published: 2006-03-01
List price: $5.95
ISBN-10: 0152056343
ISBN-13: 9780152056346

When two young brothers join the Brooklyn Dodgers, one becomes team manager and must battle dissension and prejudice to unite the team and convince the players to accept the new Jewish catcher. Includes an introduction by Bruce Brooks.