Here, Plutarch introduces the major figures and periods of classical Greece, detailing the lives of nine personages, including Lycurgus, Solon, Themistocles, Cimon, Alexander, Pericles, Nicias, Alcibiades, and Agesilaus. Oxford presents the most comprehensive selection available, superbly translated and accompanied by a lucid introduction, explanatory notes, bibliographies, maps, and indexes.

Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
Written By: Plutarch

Genealogists and non-genealogists alike love old photographs and many people have photo collections of their ancestors. Preserving Your Family Photographs shows them how to organize and store these photos so that future generations can also enjoy them. Readers will learn how to care for family photos, identify different types of damage, learn basic conservation techniques, buy the proper ...

Manufacturer: Betterway Books
Written By: Maureen A. Taylor

Do you rummage through your grandmother's attic for pictures of old relatives? Have you ever wondered where your family came from? Would you like to know if you and someone famous share a common great-great grandparent? If you've answered yes to any of these questions you might be an amateur genealogist without even knowing it! Genealogical programs like Family Tree Maker are widely ...

Manufacturer: For Dummies
Written By: Matthew L. Helm, April Leigh Helm

Family History 101 brings the winning approach of Melnyk's popular Genealogy 101 course to Family Tree Books' friendly format. Readers ease into family history with: * Straightforward tips on tapping the power of the Internet * Checklists, forms, case studies and illustrations to make getting started fun and easy * Guidance to maximize existing information and become a better family ...

Manufacturer: Family Tree Books
Written By: Marcia Melnyk

Chances are excellent that your ancestors came to America from somewhere-England, Spain, Germany, China, Africa. Can you imagine how they felt as they left their homes, what they left behind? Do you want to know? Would you know where to even start looking for the details? Author and genealogist John P. Colletta prepares you to undertake the search. He tells you not only what fundamental facts you ...

Manufacturer: Ancestry.com
Written By: John Philip Colletta

Anyone interested in discovering their family genealogy should carry a copy of this book everywhere. Written by internationally recognized expert, George G. Morgan, this book is an irreplaceable resource for beginner to expert knowledge gatherers. Not only does Morgan explain how to get the search started – creating a family tree, locating and evaluating documents, selecting the appropriate ...

Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
Written By: George G. Morgan

The Mitfords were one of the 20th century’s most intriguing and controversial families—glamorous, romantic, and especially in politics, extreme. Among the six daughters and one son born to Lord and Lady Redesdale were Nancy, the novelist and historian; Diana, the wife of fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley; Unity, friend of Hitler; Jessica, a communist-turned-investigative ...

Manufacturer: Orion Publishing
Written By: Jonathan Guinness, Catherine Guinness

From locating an ancestor's homesite and where records might be kept to determining which route and roads forebears took when migrating from one area to another, maps are common tools in tracing family history. This book expands the reader's awareness of how maps and other geographic resources, such as atlases, gazetteers, and global positioning systems, will help them find their elusive ...

Manufacturer: Betterway Books
Written By: Melinda Kashuba

Susan Orlean, New Yorker staff writer and author of The Orchid Thief, has always been drawn to the extraordinary in the ordinary, so when her Esquire editor asked her to profile the child actor Macaulay Culkin using the title "The American Man at Age Ten," she insisted instead on writing about a "typical" kid. The result--one of the 20 profiles drawn from magazines such as ...

Manufacturer: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Written By: Susan Orlean

Manufacturer: Our Sunday Visitor
Written By: Thomas W. Sheehan