San Antonio College Library

Hamlet, a prince of medieval-era Denmark, senses treachery behind his royal father's death. His mother is all too dangerously entangled in that treachery.

Sketches of five men whose leadership shaped the growth of African trade, culture, and political organization in the years 1312 to 1617. Grades 6-10.

"Royalty has always been the object of intense curiosity; and even the most trivial detail in the everyday life of any royal figure continues to fascinate posterity, century after century. Gathered here is a rich and extraordinarily varied collection of anecdotes which literally breathes life into reigns that are now sometimes forgotten, or sometimes remembered for infamy, but were also sometimes magnificent. Kings and queens are observed firsthand--by...

A biography of Peter the Great, who became Czar of Russia in 1689, at the age of seventeen.

A biography of the king of France remembered as a patron of the arts, who constructed some of the splendid chateaux of the Loire Valley.

Mr. Lamb's tireless enthusiasm for research has produced an authentic picture of a great leader from his days as a youth with few kingly qualities to the time when he became a man who eventually brought the entire Western World under his control.

Assesses the influence of Charles I's reign on the political and cultural structure of Europe.