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Bewigged, muscular and for his day unusually tall, adorned in soiled, rumpled clothes, beset by involuntary tics, opinionated, powered in his conversation by a prodigious memory and intellect, Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) was in his life a literary and social icon as no other age has produced. "Johnsonianissimus," as Boswell called him, became in the hands of his first biographers the rationalist epitome and sage of Enlightenment. These clichEs--though they contain elements of truth--distort the complexity of the public and private Johnson. Peter Martin portrays a Johnson wracked by...

Get out your magnifying glass and puzzle your way through these case histories from The Bible

Wanted: young detectives to examine the evidence, character files, locations, and witnessinterviews; sift through the clues; and decide for themselves who are the heroes and the villains, and whatreallyhappened. Each spread is crammed with information and lively graphics, and features a Bible character alongside the case notes of their story, with a flap featuring extra information. An excellent way to encourage reluctant readers, this book is alively and originaltake on telling Bible stories,...

The Bible is the book at the heart of the Christian faith; all over the world people are eager to explore what the Bible says. Delve into a mine of information in this thorough exploration of these ancient books, the customs of the time, the key stories, and the teachings.

Illustrations, photographs, maps, and timelines guide readers through the Bible, book by book. An invaluable reference for the origins of the Christian faith.

"Where's Waldo? "meets the Bible in this cleverly illustrated picture-search puzzle book for young readers

Young detectives can pore overmore than17 scenes of Bible events to find the answers to questions posed on each page in this brilliantly imagined seek-and-find puzzle book. Each two-page spread, accompanied by pertinent and engaging Bible trivia, isbrightly and engaginglyillustrated, with the main scene taking up the center of the page and the items to "seek" decorating the edges.Some puzzles involve looking for details of everyday life, others highlight things that happened in the...

Young detectives will never tire of this picture-search puzzle book. Readers can pore through 17 cleverly illustrated scenes of events from the life of Jesus to find the answers to the questions posed on each page. Some puzzles involve looking for details of everyday life, andothers highlight things that happened in the Bible stories offering hours of fun to readers as they search for the answers, as well as scores of animals, birds, and...