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Ali's Knockout Punch: How a Photograph Stunned the Boxing World by Michael Burgan
$16.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Captured History Sports Ser. | Reading Level: Grade 07-08
It's one of the most famous sports images of all time. Former heavyweight boxing champion Sonny Liston is sprawled on his back in the boxing rim. Muhammad Ali stands over Liston, holding his right hand as if ready to throw another punch. The reigning world champion had just thrown a short, right-handed ...Show more
Can You Protect the Coral Reefs? (You Choose) by Michael Burgan
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Category: Junior Nonfiction | Series: You Choose: Eco Expeditions Ser.
Pollution, climate change and overfishing are killing the world's coral reefs. But you can help! Navigate through three different stories in this ecological rescue mission. With dozens of possible story outcomes, it's up to you to save the coral reefs from extinction. The planet needs you. Will YOU CHOO ...Show more
Chernobyl Explosion - How a Deadly Nuclear Accident Frightened the World by Michael Burgan
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Category: History | Series: Captured Science History Ser. | Reading Level: Grade 07-08
The long-term damage from an accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant more than 30 years ago is still unknown. When explosions ripped through the reactor in rural Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union, they spewed huge amounts of radioactive material into the atmosphere and caused the worst nuclea ...Show more
Death at Kent State - How a Photograph Brought the Vietnam War Home to America by Michael Burgan
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Category: History | Series: Captured History Ser. | Reading Level: Grade 05-08
It didn't seem possible. Four college students shot dead May 4, 1970, by Ohio National Guardsmen during a protest against the Vietnam War. The shootings at Kent State University would shock the nation and spark a mass student strike across the country, the only one in U.S. history. A photojournalism stu ...Show more
Exposing Hidden Worlds - How Jacob Riis' Photos Became Tools for Social Reform by Michael Burgan
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Category: History | Series: Captured History Ser. | Reading Level: Grade 07-08
President Theodore Roosevelt called Jacob Riis "the best American I ever knew." The pioneering photojournalist--an immigrant from Denmark--drew attention to the poverty and evils of slum life in the late 1800s. Riis won national acclaim when his photos illustrated his bestselling book How the Other Half ...Show more
Exxon Valdez - How a Massive Oil Spill Triggered an Environmental Catastrophe by Michael Burgan
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Category: History | Series: Captured Science History Ser. | Reading Level: Grade 07-08
The biggest oil spill in U.S. history that polluted the pristine waters of Alaska decades ago and killed thousands of birds, mammals, and fish, still haunts the people who are living with its aftermath. On Good Friday 1989, the huge oil tanker, Exxon Valdez, ran aground in Prince William Sound, spilling ...Show more
Finding the Titanic: How Images from the Ocean Depths Fueled Interest in the Doomed Ship by Michael Burgan
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Category: Junior Nonfiction | Series: Captured Science History Ser.
On the night of April 14, 1912, as it made its first voyage, the luxury steamship Titanic struck an iceberg. Then, a few hours after midnight on April 15, the ship sank thousands of feet before settling on the ocean floor. And that's where it stayed, whereabouts unknown, for the next 73 years until it w ...Show more
Japanese American Internment by Angie Peterson Kaelberer; Michael Burgan
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Category: History | Series: Eyewitness to World War II Ser. | Reading Level: Grade 05-06
The United States entered World War II after a surprise attack by the Japanese on December 7, 1941. U.S. officials feared that Japanese Americans would betray their country and help Japan. Nearly 120,000 Japanese Americans were taken from their homes and moved into relocation centers, which some viewed ...Show more
Olympic Gold 1936: How the Image of Jesse Owens Crushed Hitler's Evil Myth by Michael Burgan
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Category: History | Series: Captured History Sports Ser. | Reading Level: Grade 07-08
Jesse Owens' gold-medal winning feats at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin struck a mighty propaganda blow against Adolf Hitler. The Nazi leader had planned to use the German games as a showcase of supposed Aryan superiority. Instead, there was American black athlete Owens on the podium being photographed by ...Show more
Popular Culture: 1960-1979 by Michael Burgan
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Category: History | Series: Popular Culture | Reading Level: Grade 05-08
The 60s and 70s are the decades most people think of when they think of pop culture. So much changed during these decades - from technological advances such as the moon landing, to conflicts like the Vietnam War. This series explains popular culture and examines it from the 1900s through to the age of ...Show more
Split History of World War I by Michael Burgan; Robert L. McConnell (Contribution by); Timothy Solie (Consultant Editor)
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Category: History | Series: Perspectives Flip Bks. | Reading Level: Grade 09
A Perspectives Flip Book, this title looks at World War I from both sides, from the point of view of the Allies and of the Central Powers. The sequence of events is objectively documented, with many photographs from the time included.Australian Curriculum: History - Historical Knowledge And Understan ...Show more
TV LAUNCHES 24-HOUR NEWS WITH CNN: 4D AN AUGMENTED READING EXPERIENCE (Captured Television History 4D) by Michael Burgan
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Category: English | Series: Captured Television History 4D Ser.
Forty years ago, there was no such thing as 24-hour news. In fact, the Big Three networks-CBS, NBC, and ABC-devoted only one half-hour every night to the evening news. If something major happened-a moon landing or an assassination-the networks covered that, but otherwise, TV programming was limited to e ...Show more