Marc Aronson
Author
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
134 p. : ill. (some col.), [8] p. of plates, map ; 22 cm.
Description
Tells the story of thirty-three miners trapped in a copper-gold mine in San Jose, Chile and how experts from around the world, from drillers, to astronauts, to submarine specialists, came together to make their remarkable rescue possible.
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
200 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
""The Rights of Man." What does that mean? In 1789 that question rippled all around the world. Do all men have rights--not just nobles and kings? What then of enslaved people, women, the original inhabitants of the Americas? In the new United States a bill of rights was passed, while in France the nation tumbled toward revolution. In the Caribbean preachers brought word of equality, while in the South Pacific sailors mutinied. New knowledge was exploding,...