Authors:H. E. Wright, Barbara A. Coffin, Norman E. Aaseng,
Publisher: Univ of Minnesota Pr
Keywords: minnesota, peatlands, patterned
Number of Pages: 376
Published: 1992-11
List price: $54.00
ISBN-10: 0816619174
ISBN-13: 9780816619177

Author: Nathan Aaseng
Publisher: Oliver Press
Keywords: treats, sweets, builders, business
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2005-05-31
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1881508846
ISBN-13: 9781881508847

Author: Nathan Aaseng
Publisher: Oliver Pr Inc
Keywords: decisions, explorer
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 1999-10
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1881508552
ISBN-13: 9781881508557

Discusses the decisions faced by such explorers as Christopher Columbus, James Cook, Samuel de Champlain, and Robert Scott, offers options these men needed to consider, and analyzes the courses of action they chose.

Author: Nathan Aaseng
Publisher: Oliver Press
Keywords: series, innovators, impossible, building, construction
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 1999-11
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 1881508595
ISBN-13: 9781881508595

Profiles eight builders and their famous construction projects, including Imhotep and the Step Pyramid, Alexandre Eiffel and the Eiffel Tower, and William Lamb and the Empire State Building.

Author: Nathan Aaseng
Publisher: Oliver Press
Keywords: minn, minneapolis, profiles, traitors, treacherous
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 1997-04
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1881508382
ISBN-13: 9781881508380

Profiles ten figures in American history who have been accused of betraying their country, including Benedict Arnold, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, and Aldrich Ames.

Author: Nathan Aaseng
Publisher: Walker Books for Young Readers
Keywords: talkers, code, navajo
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 1994-01-01
List price: $9.99
ISBN-10: 0802776272
ISBN-13: 9780802776273

On the Pacific front during World War II, strange messages were picked up by American and Japanese forces on land and at sea. The messages were totally unintelligible to everyone except a small select group within the Marine Corps: the Navajo code talkers-a group of Navajos communicating in a code based on the Navajo language. This code, the first unbreakable one in U.S. history, was a key reason that the Allies were able to win in the Pacific. Navajo Code Talkers tells the story of the special group, who proved themselves to be among the bravest, most valuable, and most loyal of American sold

Author: Nathan Aaseng
Publisher: Oliver Press
Keywords: innovators, life, secrets, unlocking, genetics
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 1996-01
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 1881508277
ISBN-13: 9781881508274

Examines the lives and scientific breakthroughs of seven scientists who contributed to the field of genetics--Charles Darwin, Gregor Mendel, Thomas Hunt Morgan, Oswald Avery, James Watson, Francis Crick, and Har Gobind Khorana.