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462 Works 3,305 Membros 53 Críticas

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Don Nardo has written many books for young people. He specializes in history and loves writing about ancient civilizations.
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Obras por Don Nardo

Ancient Greece (World History) (1994) 28 exemplares
Egyptian Mythology (Mythology) (2001) 27 exemplares
The Roman Empire (1994) 20 exemplares
The Roman Republic (1994) 17 exemplares
Readings on Hamlet (1998) — Editor — 16 exemplares
Readings on the Canterbury Tales (1997) — Editor — 16 exemplares
Readings on Homer (1997) — Editor — 15 exemplares
Chernobyl (World Disasters) (1990) 13 exemplares
The Trial of Joan of Arc (1997) 12 exemplares
The Importance of Walt Disney (2000) 12 exemplares
Charles Darwin (1993) 12 exemplares
The Scopes Trial (1997) 12 exemplares
Biomedical Ethics (Compact Research: Current Issues) (2007) — Autor — 12 exemplares
Atlantis (The Mystery Library) (2004) 12 exemplares
The Indian Wars (America's Wars) (1991) 12 exemplares
The War of 1812 (America's Wars) (1991) 12 exemplares
Living in Ancient Egypt (Exploring Cultural History) (2004) — Editor — 11 exemplares
The Trial of Socrates (1611) 11 exemplares
Krakatoa (World Disasters) (1990) 11 exemplares
Readings on a Tale of Two Cities (1997) — Editor — 11 exemplares
Human Papillomavirus (HPV) (2007) 10 exemplares
Medusa (Monsters) (2004) 10 exemplares
Medea (Literary Companion Series) (2000) — Editor — 10 exemplares
The Vikings (World History) (2005) 9 exemplares
Readings on Antigone (1999) — Editor — 9 exemplares
Eyes on the Sky - Pluto (2002) 9 exemplares
Ozone (Lucent Overview Series) (1991) 8 exemplares
Readings on Romeo and Juliet (1997) — Editor — 8 exemplares
King Arthur (Heroes & Villains) (2003) 8 exemplares
Buddhism (World Religions) (2009) 7 exemplares
Readings on Sophocles (1996) — Editor — 7 exemplares
Ancient India (World History) (2007) 7 exemplares
Readings on Julius Caesar (1999) — Editor — 7 exemplares
Readings on Frankenstein (2000) — Editor — 7 exemplares
Mozart (Mysterious Deaths) (1997) 7 exemplares
Sculpture (Eye on Art) (2006) 7 exemplares
Architecture (Eye on Art) (2007) 7 exemplares
Biological Warfare (2006) 6 exemplares
Cyclops (Monsters) (2004) 6 exemplares
The Trial of Galileo: Science versus the Inquisition (2004) — Autor — 5 exemplares
Readings on Othello (2000) — Editor — 5 exemplares
Medieval Europe (World History) (2011) 5 exemplares
Ancient Rome (Daily Life) (2001) 5 exemplares
Heroes (Discovering Mythology) (2001) 5 exemplares
Eyes on the Sky - The Moon (2003) 5 exemplares
Daily Life in Ancient Egypt (2015) 4 exemplares
Voodoo : opposing viewpoints (1991) 4 exemplares
Frank Lloyd Wright (Eye on Art) (2012) 4 exemplares
Black Holes (Eyes on the Sky) (2002) 4 exemplares
Cleopatra (Influential Women) (2016) 3 exemplares
Ancient Egypt (Daily Life) (2002) 3 exemplares
Eyes on the Sky - Neptune (2002) 3 exemplares
Ancient Egypt (World History) (2006) 3 exemplares
Cloning (Science on the Edge) (2003) 3 exemplares
The Fall of Rome (2015) 3 exemplares
Sophocles (Literary Companion) (1997) 3 exemplares
Life of a Roman gladiator (2003) 3 exemplares
Volcanoes (Extreme Threats) (2009) 3 exemplares
Teen Guide to Mental Health (2019) 3 exemplares
Christianity (World Religions) (2009) 3 exemplares
Odysseus (2015) 2 exemplares
U-X-L World Eras: 10 Volume set (2016) 2 exemplares
Ancient Greece (Daily Life) (2002) 2 exemplares
Being LGBTQ (Lgbtq Issues) (2020) 2 exemplares
Medical diagnosis (1993) 2 exemplares
Leonardo Da Vinci (Eye On Art) (2012) 2 exemplares
The Battle of Saratoga (2008) 2 exemplares
Painting (Eye on Art) (2012) 2 exemplares
Gravity : The Universal Force (1990) 2 exemplares
The Alamo (World History) (2012) 2 exemplares
Eyes on the Sky - Asteroids (2002) 2 exemplares
Exploring Norse Mythology (2023) 1 exemplar
Gods of World Mythology (2021) 1 exemplar
Stand Up for LGBTQ Rights (2021) 1 exemplar
Exploring Chinese Mythology (2023) 1 exemplar
The Science of Vaccines (2021) 1 exemplar
Jobs if you like animals (2022) 1 exemplar
Great Jobs in Education (2019) 1 exemplar
Frida Kahlo (Eye on Art) (2012) 1 exemplar
Extraterrestrial life (2004) 1 exemplar
The big bang (2005) 1 exemplar
Missiles (2013) 1 exemplar
Helicopters (2013) 1 exemplar
British mythology (2012) 1 exemplar
Bernie Madoff (2011) — Autor — 1 exemplar
American mythology (2012) 1 exemplar
Vegan diets (2014) 1 exemplar
King Arthur 1 exemplar
Oil Spills: Hot Topics (2011) 1 exemplar
The 1940's (2004) 1 exemplar

Etiquetado

Conhecimento Comum

Outros nomes
NARDO, Don
Data de nascimento
1947-02-22
Sexo
male
Nacionalidade
USA
Local de nascimento
Columbia, Missouri, USA
Locais de residência
Natick, Massachusetts, USA
New York, New York, USA
Mashpee, Massachusetts, USA
Educação
home schooled
Syracuse University
Worcester State College
Ocupações
historian
composer
writer

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Don Nardo is a historian and award-winning writer who specializes in the ancient world, especially the civilizations of Greece and Rome. He taught high school for eight years, while writing part-time, before devoting himself to his research and book-writing full time. In the past two decades, he has published nearly 200 volumes on diverse historical topics. And having earned numerous favorable reviews, he is widely recognized as the country's leading writer of historical works for young adults. Mr. Nardo also composes and arranges symphonic music and writes screenplays and teleplays.

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Serviceable, but way too teleological. The people, the locations, the theories, the schools, all that is good. But with every instance of an ancient Greek cosmological or physical hypothesis that has some superficial resemblance to what we moderns know and the originating philosopher gets an implied gold star for being "almost right".
½
 
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themulhern | Jun 10, 2023 |
A reasonably well-written book marred by poor editorial choices. Most appropriate for YA, where available, due to the sophistication of the writing. "Difficult" words, which are designated so more or less arbitrarily are glossed in many quotations with an ugly bracket system. The quotations are taken from translations of original sources and the works of more or less contemporary historians.

Presents the history of classical Greece as a gradually deepening conflict between the two cities of Sparta and Athens, with the Persian Wars as a fairly brief interruption. The conflict, presented this way, seems analogous to WWI, as a network of alliances dragged more and more allies into the war. As in WWI, the adversaries were evenly matched and had effective fighting forces, so the war dragged on and on, with great suffering over a deal of the Mediterranean. Eventually, exhausted, both formerly great powers were defeated by the Macedonian king, Philip.

Also covers the Athenian campaign in Egypt.
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Assinalado
themulhern | Apr 27, 2023 |
I never mind seeing Hades and Anubis in books like these, but I do wish their presence didn't mean the absence of the many, many other death deities or psychopomps from other cultures that I haven't yet encountered. I enjoyed learning a little more about Hel and discovering Yan Wang, Iku, and Ala, but I suppose further forays into other cultures' gods of death will have to wait until the next book I read on the subject.
 
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slimikin | Feb 24, 2023 |
 
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Mustygusher | Feb 20, 2023 |

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Estatísticas

Obras
462
Membros
3,305
Popularidade
#7,744
Avaliação
½ 3.6
Críticas
53
ISBN
844
Línguas
1

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