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Zane: Brit Lit: Charles Dickens: Time, Life, & Works	Zane: Brit Lit: Thomas Hardy: Time, Life, & Works
Survey the works of Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870). Learn how the characters in his novels affirmed his belief in the goodness of human nature. See how conditions in England moved him to write about factory, prison, and legal reforms; education; and housing. Includes a 33-minutemultimedia presentation; 200 photos; and Barron's Book Notes, guides to the plots of 'David Copperfield,' 'Great expectations,' 'A Tale of Two Cities,' 'Hard Times,' and 'Oliver Twist.'Windows 95/98/Me/2000/XP/Vista and Mac Price: 6.99	Trace the career of novelist and poet Thomas Hardy (1840 - 1928), whose works traverse the moors and woodlands of southwestern England. Discover how Hardy's writings focus on human relationships and the conflicts between spirit and flesh, thought and instinct. Includes a 39-minute multimedia presentation; 400 photos; and Barron's Book Notes, guides to the plots of the 'The Return of the Native,' 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles,' and 'The Mayor of Casterbridge.'Windows 95/98/Me/2000/XP/Vista and Mac Price: 6.99
Zane: Brit Lit: William Wordsworth: Time, Life, & Works	Zane: Brit Lit: Geoffrey Chaucer: Time, Life, & Works
Examine the life and poetry of William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850), whose poems herald 'the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings' extolled by the romantic movement. Celebrate the senses and the imagination in poetry inspired by the beauty of England's Lake District. Listen to dramatic readings of selected poems by Wordsworth, who was appointed poet laureate of England in 1843. Includes a 25-minute multimedia presentation and 200 photos.Windows 95/98/Me/2000/XP/Vista and Mac Price: 6.99	Explore the world of Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1340 - 1400), the Father of English poetry, whose insights to human nature found timeless expressionin 'Canterbury Tales.' Learn how Chaucer chronicled his world through an ingenious collection of stories that revealed the many contrasts defining medieval society. Includes a 65-minute multimedia presentation;280 photos; and Barron's Book Notes, a guide to the plot of 'Canterbury Tales.' Windows 95/98/Me/2000/XP/Vista and Mac Price: 6.99
Zane: US History: Reconstruction	Zane: US History: (1788-1933) Foreign Policy
Explore the difficulties of rebuilding a nation torn asunder by civil war. A 30-minute multimedia presentation with more than 400 images examines the United States in the decades following the Civil War. Learn about the efforts of freed slaves and their Republican allies to gain equality in postwar America, and trace the stubborn attempts of theSouth to suppress the rights of blacks through elaborate legal codes and intimidation. Windows 95/98/Me/2000/XP/Vista and Mac Price: 6.99	Follow America's transformation from a newcomer on the international scene to a leader in world affairs. A 40-minute multimedia presentationreveals the young nation's isolationism through the mid-nineteenth century, and explains the reasons for its gradual shift to imperialism and a world leadership role around 1900. Includes more than 550 images,plus selections from the speeches of Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, and others.Windows 95/98/Me/2000/XP/Vista and Mac Price: 6.99
Zane: US History: (1933-1963) Foreign Policy	Zane: US History: The Great Depression
Chart the growing involvement of the United States in world affairs fromthe 1930s to the Kennedy administration. A 55-minute multimedia presentation, with more than 600 images, explores the nation's retreat into isolationism during the Great Depression, and its return to a world leadership role during and after World War II. Discover why the United States pursued a new goal during the cold war: the containment of communism throughout the world. Windows 95/98/Me/2000/XP/Vista and Mac Price: 6.99	Explore the economic and social conditions that contributed to the Great Depression, and survey the upheavals triggered by the stock market's collapse in 1929. A 70-minute multimedia presentation examines the excesses of the Roaring Twenties, reveals the effects of the depression on American society, and shows how President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal programs attempted to pull the country out of economic crisis. More than 750 images enhance the presentation.Windows 95/98/Me/2000/XP/Vista and Mac Price: 6.99
Zane: US History: (1866-1977) US Government	Zane: US History: Social Reform Movements
Chart the path of the U.S. government in the decades following the Civil War. In a 45-minute multimedia presentation enhanced by more than 550 images, you'll explore the changes that occurred in government as the nation's leaders dealt with the problems of an emerging industrial nation - massive immigration, poverty, and a devastating depression. Discover how new foreign policy challenges helped to shape the role of the government.Windows 95/98/Me/2000/XP/Vista and Mac Price: 6.99	How does a society address the need for massive social change? A 65-minute multimedia presentation, with more than 800 images, surveys reform movements in America, showing how they emerged from an ever-changing national conscience. Explore the crusade to end slavery in the 1800s; the activism of the Progressive Era, when reformers worked to stop the abuses of big business and industry; and the welfare reformsand unionism of the 1930s.Windows 95/98/Me/2000/XP/Vista and Mac Price: 6.99
Zane: Animal Kingdom: Mollusks: Segmented Worms, and Minor Phyla	Girl Detective Roaring Twenties
Provides detailed coverage of the molluscs (chiton, abalone, limpet, cowrie, periwinkle, conch, cone, whelk, murex, nudibranchs, sea hare, land snails, slug, bivalves, octopus, nautilus, squid); segmented worms (featherduster, myxicola, earthworm, leech); and waterbears. Includes a 40-minute multimedia presentation and more than 600 photos.Windows 95/98/Me/2000/XP/Vista and Mac Price: 6.99	When a computer accident sends Julia hurtling through time, she ends up lost in the middle of Jazz Age Paris. Confused and disoriented, Julia soon finds herself embroiled in the biggest art scandal in the city! Nowshe has to track down a thief and recover the stolen items, or she'll never return to the present. Though since she's fallen in love with a young French artist, maybe staying in the past wouldn't be so bad after all...Slip into another time as you travel through a city of artists and bohemians. Two separate storylines will challenge your deductive skills as you search for clues, interrogate suspects and collect evidence. Can you crack this caper and get the goods or will you be left holdingthe bag?Windows 98/2000/XP/Vista Price: 6.99
Girl Detective Sweet Sixties	Extreme Riverboat Racing
Julia is a typical teen dealing with typical things: homework, parents and a crush on the hottest guy at school. But that all changes when a computer accident sends her spinning through time! Trapped in San Francisco during the 1960s, Julia discovers that someone is trying to change history and keep her parents from ever meeting. Now it's up to her to find the guilty person and fix the past--or she might not have a future!Slip into another time as you travel with Julia through a flower-powered San Francisco. Two separate storylines will challenge your deductive skills as you search for clues, interrogate suspects and collect evidence. Will you solve the mystery, or is this trip going to be a total drag?Windows 98/2000/XP/Vista Price: 6.99	Steer past unexpected obstacles and dangerous enemies as you push your boat to the extreme! Choose from classical and 3D camera modes as you fight hostile warboats, collect bonuses and refuel. Plus, cool special effects such as motion blur put you in the middle of the action!Windows 98/XP/Vista Price: 6.99
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