From fearsome pirates and vikings to ferocious beasts and creatures to fascinating figures and landmarks.

A valuable, one-stop guide to collection development and finding ideal subject-specific activities and projects for children and teens. For busy librarians and educators, finding instructions for projects, activities, sports, and games that children and teens will find interesting is a constant challenge. This guide is a time-saving, one-stop resource for locating this type of information—one that also serves as a valuable collection development tool that identifies the best among thousands of choices, and can be used for program planning, reference and readers' advisory, and curriculum support. Build It, Make It, Do It, Play It! identifies hundreds of books that provide step-by-step instructions for creating arts and crafts, building objects, finding ways to help the disadvantaged, or engaging in other activities ranging from gardening to playing games and sports. Organized by broad subject areas—arts and crafts, recreation and sports (including indoor activities and games), and so forth—the entries are further logically organized by specific subject, ensuring quick and easy use.

An innovative series that combines art and history! The Vikings were marauders, traders, and colonists who sailed around the North Sea, the European coast, and the Americas. Meet these expert explorers, and learn about their voyages and culture. Begin by drawing a map of their home in Scandinavia, and then try your hand at capturing their runic alphabet, their elaborate woodcarvings, their weapons, the characters from their historical sagas (including a giant serpent), and their longships.

Simple step-by-step instructions make it fun and easy to draw a castle, a mammoth, or a chariot."--Page 4 of cover.

Spanning from the Caribbean to East Asia and covering almost 3,000 years of history, from Classical Antiquity to the eve of the twenty-first century, Persistent Piracy is an important contribution to the history of the state formation as well as the history of violence at sea.

The Wealthy Barbarian is a book for anyone who knows that most so-called experts do not have a clue. The world is a more dangerous place because we tend to believe these useless experts while a new breed of barbarian is at the gates.