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Citing recent innovations in aquarium design and how they have dramatically expanded the potential of aquarium attractions and significantly impacted tourism, a profile of more than twenty-five international aquariums is comprised of more than seventy photographs and an interview with the photographers.

Chronicles the life of the Indian nationalist leader whose advocacy of the principles of nonviolence helped to bring about the independence of his country and influenced other reformers.

Chronicles the life of the French artist noted for his paintings and posters of Parisian nightlife, who struggled to overcome injuries that left him in pain all his life, told as if recounted by his mother.

Profiles the men who explored America's western frontier in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, including Daniel Boone, Lewis and Clark, and Zebulon Pike. (view table of contents)

Looks at the life of the eighteenth-century Austrian composer, from his acclaim as a child prodigy through his prolific musical career to his early death in 1791 at age thirty-five.

Chronicles the life of the British naturalist whose voyage around the world led him to develop the theory of evolution by natural selection.

A biography of the late-fifteenth to mid-sixteenth-century Italian artist Michelangelo Buonarroti, whose first famous work, the Vatican Pieta, was displayed in St. Peter's Basilica when he was only twenty-five years old.

Shows geyers and active and dormant volcanoes, from Hawaii to Mount Saint Helens

Covers private reserves and national, state, and local parks open to public use