Author: Ellen Rodger
Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company
Keywords: potatoes, biography
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2007-03
List price: $26.60
ISBN-10: 0778724921
ISBN-13: 9780778724926

Ages 7 to 14 years. Spanish conquistadors brought the potato from South America to Europe in the 1500s. Since then, the potato has helped to keep peasants from starving, fed armies, and is today the world’s most popular vegetable. This book underlines the importance of this source of nutrition.

Author: Ellen Rodger
Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company
Keywords: involved, activist, rights, human
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2009-08
List price: $26.60
ISBN-10: 077874695X
ISBN-13: 9780778746959

"Get Involved!" explores the world of social activism. Each fascinating book will inspire children to learn about the rights all humans have as well as their responsibilities for the world, its peoples, and animals. ’Special Field Notes’ sections bring the words of prominent activists to life. ’Get Active!’ boxes encourage exploration and research, and offer everyday ways to become a positive force for peacefully changing the world. In many countries, people do not receive basic rights, such as the right to freedom of expression or the right to equality. This clearly wr

Author: Ellen Rodger
Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company
Keywords: revolution, energy, community, building
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2008-03
List price: $26.60
ISBN-10: 0778729168
ISBN-13: 9780778729167

This title is suitable for children of ages 7 to 12 years. ’Green living’ means changing the way we live and use resources so that the environment is able to produce indefinitely the things we need to live. "Building a Green Community" walks young readers through a model community identifying green living practices at work, at home, on our highways, and at the store. This fascinating book also includes case studies of ’green’ communities around the world.

Author: Ellen Rodger
Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company
Keywords: revolution, energy, community, building
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2008-08-15
List price: $8.95
ISBN-10: 0778729303
ISBN-13: 9780778729303

This title is suitable for the children of ages 7 to 12 years. ’Green living’ means changing the way we live and use resources so that the environment is able to produce indefinitely the things we need to live. "Building a Green Community" walks young readers through a model community identifying green living practices at work, at home, on our highways, and at the store. This fascinating book also includes case studies of ’green’ communities around the world.

Author: N. A. M. Rodger
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: britain, 1649â­, history, naval, ocean, command
Number of Pages: 976
Published: 2006-05-17
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 0393328473
ISBN-13: 9780393328479

An Economist Best Book of 2004: "Destined to remain the reference on the subject for the coming generations."—U.S. Naval Institute The Command of the Ocean describes with unprecedented authority and scholarship the rise of Britain to naval greatness, and the central place of the Navy and naval activity in the life of the nation and government. Based on the author’s own research in a dozen languages over more than a decade, it describes not just battles, voyages, and cruises but also how the Navy was manned, supplied, fed, and, above all, how it was financed and directed. N. A. M. R

Author: N. A. M. Rodger
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: navy, georgian, anatomy, world, wooden
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 1996-07-17
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0393314693
ISBN-13: 9780393314694

"[Rodger] provides the reader with the most authoritative and enjoyable text on the subject that can be imagined."—Patrick O’BrianFrom the award-winning naval scholar N. A. M. Rodger comes the most revealing account yet of the mighty Georgian navy and British naval society of the eighteenth century. Meticulously researched, Rodger’s portrait draws the reader into this fascinatingly complex world with vivid, entertaining characters and full details of life below the decks. The Wooden World provides the most complete history of a navy at any age, and is sure to be an indispensable

Author: N. A. M. Rodger
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: britain, history, naval, sea, safeguard
Number of Pages: 692
Published: 1999-11-17
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0393319601
ISBN-13: 9780393319606

"[An] awesomely scholarly study. . . . The importance of this book is not only in its intrinsic interest, or its usefulness as a superb resource, but its demonstration that [Britain’s] story cannot be told without a thorough knowledge of what happened at sea."—Alan Judd, Sunday Times [London] Throughout the chronicle of Britain’s history, one factor above all others has determined the fate of kings, the security of trade, and the integrity of the realm. Without its navy, Britain would have been a weakling among the nations of Europe, could never have built or maintained the empi