New Releases by Deborah Kops

Could there be other planets in the universe similar to those in our solar system? Yes! Scientists have discovered worlds circling distant stars. They call these objects exoplanets. In this book, you'll learn how scientists detect these faraway worlds. As part of the Searchlight BooksTM collection, this series explores outer space and sheds light on the question What’s Amazing about Space? Fantastic photos, kid-friendly explanations of science concepts, and useful diagrams will help you discover the answers!

How can robots help us explore space? A probe called New Horizons is zooming through the outer solar system. It's headed to Pluto. It and other space robots can go where people cannot survive. In this book, you'll learn how robots can work as our eyes, ears, and hands in space. As part of the Searchlight BooksTM collection, this series explores outer space and sheds light on the question What’s Amazing about Space? Fantastic photos, kid-friendly explanations of science concepts, and useful diagrams will help you discover the answers!

Here is the story of the extraordinary Alice Paul, a leader in the long struggle for votes for women. Alice Paul made a significant impact on both the woman's suffrage movement—the long struggle for votes for women—to the "second wave," when women demanded full equality with men. After women won the vote in 1920, Paul wrote the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), which would make all the laws that discriminated against women unconstitutional. Passage of the ERA became the rallying cry of a new movement of young women in the 1960s and '70s. Paul saw another chance to advance women's rights when the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 began moving through Congress. She set in motion the "sex amendment," which remains a crucial legal tool for helping women fight discrimination in the workplace. A true "girl power" book for today's young women, the title includes archival images, an author's note, a bibliography, and source notes.

This book covers the highlights of ancient Rome, including the founding of Rome, mythology, Pompeii, and Roman law, among other topics. The book also focuses on Roman civilization, Roman religion, social life and customs. Everyday life is also featured in the book as well, including the bread and circuses, the trade guilds, the blood games, chariot races, the baths, theatre, poetry, and education.

Discusses facts and myths about foods, including whether adding salt to water makes it boil faster, whether fortune cookies are a Chinese food, and what the Pilgrims ate at their Thanksgiving feast.

Discusses facts and myths about the development of technology, from whether the Gutenberg Bible was the first printed book, through whether Bell, Edison, and the Curies invented what people think they did, to the origins of the Internet.

Learn about the traditional ways of life of some of the region's first people. See how horses and the loss of the buffalo changed their lives. How did settlers and people traveling west affect the Native Americans of the Plains? Find out how they live today.

Learn about the traditional ways of life of some of the region's first people. See how horses and the loss of the buffalo changed their lives. How did settlers and people traveling west affect the Native Americans of the Plains? Find out how they live today.

Describes the discovery and excavation of Machu Picchu, an ancient city of the Incan Empire.

Mysterious ancient ruins, hidden deep in the jungle of southern Mexico... In May 1840, explorers John Stephens and Frederick Catherwood road their mules along a steep, muddy jungle path. They were hoping to find the ruins of an ancient, deserted site in Mexico they knew only from visitors’ accounts. Through the trees, they spied the remains of a crumbling stone palace. Palenque! In the weeks they spent there, the men discovered intricately designed buildings and mysterious glyphs, or symbols. Who built this city? What did the glyphs mean? The questions remained largely unanswered until the 1950s, when Mexican archaeologist Alberto Ruz Lhuillier began his work at Palenque. By this time, he knew the ruins were those of the ancient Maya, who lived across Mexico and Central America more than one thousand years ago. After exhaustive work, Ruz and his crew made an amazing discovery—a tomb buried deep inside a pyramid. Through intensive study of Mayan glyphs, they learned the tomb was that of the great Mayan king Pakal, who died in 683 A.D. Since then, archaeologists have discovered much more about Mayan pyramids, writing, and architecture. Read this intriguing volume to learn about Palenque and about the mysteries that still remain.

This book focuses on the debate surrounding racial profiling in the United States--including a historical look at criminal profiles and U.S. government initiatives like Japanese-American internment during WWII through to the modern anti-terrorist age--through scholarly opinions, statistics, and studies.

Presents a biography of Zachary Taylor

Profiles early leaders in the fight for women's rights, especially the right to vote, including Mary Wollstonecraft, Lucretia Mott, Sojourner Truth, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

Now, some of Blackbirch's most popular animal books are available in Spanish! Join a few of America's most celebrated wildlife photographers on their journeys through Africa, across North America, and into the oceans of the world. You'll come face to face with manatees, lions, grizzly bears, and wolves as you find out how all these creatures--and many more--survive in the wild. Full-color spreads provide details on each animal's physiology, habitat, reproduction, hunting, social life, and its relationship to humans. Action-packed photographs make all the information come alive in a way that will truly excite and inspire younger readers and report writers.

Focuses on the legal and political career the self-educated man who led the United States during the Civil War, and looks at its effects on his wife and children.

Presents the events leading up to the first major battle in the Civil War, at Bull Run in 1861, and describes that clash and its aftermath.

Discusses two raptors, the eagle and the osprey, including their physical characteristics, hunting and feeding habits, reproduction, and relationship with humans.