Performed as early as 1611 and published in the "First Folio" in 1623, Shakespeare's "Cymbeline" weaves an elaborate tale of palatial envy and power in Ancient Britain. Cymbeline, King of Britain, commands that his lovely young daughter Imogen marry Cloten, the violent and callous son of the current Queen by her former husband. With her heart already promised to the poor yet heroic Posthumus, Imogen refuses. Disgusted at the prospect of his daughter...

Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, with marginal notes and explanations and full descriptions of each character.

After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille, the aging Doctor Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There the lives of two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer, become enmeshed through their love for Lucie Manette. From the tranquil roads of London, they are drawn against their will to the vengeful, bloodstained...

Dr. King’s best-selling account of the civil rights movement in Birmingham during the spring and summer of 1963 
 
On April 16, 1963, as the violent events of the Birmingham campaign unfolded in the city’s streets, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., composed a letter from his prison cell in response to local religious leaders’ criticism of the campaign. The resulting piece of extraordinary protest writing, “Letter...

Find out how jet planes get into the air and stay there.

A cool, confident Zamboni machine works his moves to clean the ice before the hockey game gets back underway. He can do it in 18 minutes with no sweat. See, he's cool like that.

More than 99 percent of all life forms have gone extinct during the 3.6-billion-year history of life on Earth. Other organisms have changed dramatically, but not our extreme survivors. Evolution may have altered their physiology and behavior, but their body plans have stood the test of time. ? How have these living links with Earth's prehistoric past survived? The search for answers is leading scientists to new discoveries about the past-and future-of...

Explains how animals communicate with one another, and describes various cues, such as color changes, body language, songs, calls, and scents, used by animals to tell others when they are ready to mate, if they are dangerous to eat, or if a predator is nearby.

Explains how animals depend on one another for survival, and describes mutualism, commensalism, and parasitism, and how they provide animals with food, transportation, and shelter.

Explains how animals make homes, and describes the construction of nests, burrows, and lodges and the keeping of ranges and territories.