stories masters martial escapes

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3 reviews
Laura Scandiffio

Annick Press, 2003

The Martial Arts Inspiration!
The best thing about this book is that it doesn't talk down to children. The author is careful to point out when she is telling a popular story and when she is telling history, and for this reason I feel her writing simultainiously gives children an acurate and traditional understanding of the roots of the major Asian martial arts traditions. Younger children will get much from the illistrations ...

Escapes! (True Stories from the Edge)

1 review
Laura Scandiffio

Rebound By Sagebrush, 2003

Escape the Boring Novels and Buy This Masterpiece
Most historical true stories although containing interesting facts are usually quite boring for most of the book. Not so with this non fiction novel, which reads like a fiction thriller, educating you on historical events along the way. Inside you will find ten stories of how someone either escaped from captives themselves or helped someone else to. All of the prisoners in this book are ...

Evil Masters: The Frightening World of Tyrants
Laura Scandiffio

Turtleback Books Distributed by Demco Media, 2005

Seven dramatic accounts of ancient and modern tyrants. History is full of evil rulers who rose to power despite the widespread suffering they caused. Though they ruled in different countries and often at different times, their behavior and actions have been frighteningly similar. How did they get away with it? Evil Masters reveals the typical characteristics of a tyrant and then profiles seven tyrannical rulers from the past 3,000 ...