Paul Robert Walker

A lively and intriguing tale of the competition between two artists, culminating in the construction of the Duomo in Florence, this is also the story of a city on the verge of greatness, and the dawn of the Renaissance, when everything artistic would change.Florence's Duomo - the dome of the Santa Maria del Fiore cathedral - is one of the most enduring symbols of the Italian Renaissance, an equal in influence and fame to Leonardo and Michaelangelo's works. It was designed by Filippo Brunelleschi, the temperamental architect who rediscovered the techniques of mathematical perspective. He was the dome's 'inventor', whose secret methods for building remain a mystery as compelling to architects as Fermat's Last Theorem once was to mathematicians. Yet Brunelleschi didn't direct the construction of the dome alone. He was forced to share the commission with his arch-rival, the sculptor Lorenzo Ghiberti, whose 'Paradise Doors' are also masterworks. This is the story of these two men - a tale of artistic genius and individual triumph.

Text and photographs recreate the history of the Wild West, beginning in 1848 with the discovery of gold at Sutter's Creek in California and continuing through the 1898 rush to the Klondike.

When baseball equipment starts disappearing from B.J.'s Little League team, he and his friends form the Sluggers Club to investigate the crime.

A collection of American tall tales featuring such legendary characters as Davy Crockett, Paul Bunyan, and Pecos Bill.

Explores the myths and scientific inquiries surrounding repeated sightings of such legendary creatures as the Loch Ness monster, Bigfoot, and the Yeti.

Profiles eight people who helped shape the popular image of the Wild West: Sitting Bull, Buffalo Bill, Jesse James, Wyatt Earp, Billy the Kid, Geronimo, Belle Starr, and Judge Roy Bean.

An intensive summer workshop on method acting brings fifteen-year-old Albie insight on sexual expression, identity, and conduct of life.

Tells the story of the struggles of successive waves of immigrants who came to America and includes the President's plea for a complete revision of our immigration law.

Learn about the many legends and mysteries surround giants like Polyphemus, the one-eyed cyclops to Baba Yaga, the hag of Eastern Europe.