Written for a young audience, this intense memoir explores the harsh realities of life on the streets in contemporary North Korea.
Every Falling Star is the memoir of Sungju Lee, who at the age of twelve was forced to live on the streets of North Korea and fend for himself. To survive, Sungju creates a gang and lives by thieving, fighting, begging, and stealing rides on cargo trains.
Sungju richly recreates his scabrous story,...

In The Revenge of Geography, Kaplan builds on the insights, discoveries, and theories of great geographers and geopolitical thinkers of the near and distant past to look back at critical pivots in history and then to look forward at the evolving global scene. Kaplan traces the history of the worlds hot spots by examining their climates, topographies, and proximities to other embattled lands. The Russian steppes pitiless climate and limited vegetation...

Did you know that the Rocky Mountains range is more than 3,000 miles long? It stretches all the way from Canada in the north to New Mexico in the south. Some people call them the "Backbone of North America." But how were they formed? What caused their peaks to rise so high? Read this book to find out!

Describes some of the remarkable places on earth, including the hottest, coldest, windiest, snowiest, highest, and deepest.

A glossary of geographic terms, from "archipelogo" to "zones", with definitions and descriptions of the Earth's features.