Don Nardo
Author of Migrant mother : how a photograph defined the Great Depression
About the Author
Don Nardo has written many books for young people. He specializes in history and loves writing about ancient civilizations.
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Works by Don Nardo
Assassination and Its Aftermath: How a Photograph Reassured a Shocked Nation (Captured History) (2013) 31 copies
The Split History of the Women's Suffrage Movement: A Perspectives Flip Book (Perspectives Flip Books) (2014) 16 copies
Braving the New World: From the Arrival of the Enslaved Africans to the American Revolution, 1619-1784 (Milestones in… (1994) 16 copies
The Golden Spike: How a Photograph Celebrated the Transcontinental Railroad (Captured History) (2015) 11 copies
Arts, Leisure and Entertainment: Life of the Ancient Romans (Lucent Library of Historical Eras) (1817) 9 copies
Mummies, Myth, and Magic: Religion in Ancient Egypt (Lucent Library of Historical Eras) (2005) 9 copies
Lords, Ladies, Peasants and Knights: Class in the Middle Ages (Lucent Library of Historical Eras) (2006) 9 copies
The Declaration of Independence: A Model for Individual Rights (Words That Changed History) (1999) 7 copies
Artistry in Stone: Great Structures of Ancient Egypt (Lucent Library of Historical Eras) (2005) 7 copies
Philosophy and Science: The Pursuit of Knowledge (Lucent Library of Historical Eras) (2004) 6 copies
Medieval Knights and Chivalry (The Library of Medieval Times) by Don Nardo (2014-08-02) (1749) 6 copies
Science, Technology, and Warfare of Ancient Mesopotamia (Lucent Library of Historical Eras) (2008) 5 copies
The Theory of Evolution: A History of Life on Earth (Exploring Science: Life Science) (2009) 4 copies
The Industrial Revolution's Workers And Their Lives (Lucent Library of Historical Eras) (2009) 4 copies
Hubble Deep Field: How a Photo Revolutionized Our Understanding of the Universe (Captured Science History) (2017) 3 copies
Freedom Fighter: William Wallace and Scotland's Battle for Independence (Taking a Stand) (2010) 3 copies
Readings on Frankenstein 2 copies
The Industrial Revolution: Social and Economic Effects (Lucent Library of Historical Eras: Industrial Revolution) (2009) 2 copies
The Presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt: Confronting the Great Depression and World War II (The Greatest U.S.… (2014) 1 copy
King Arthur 1 copy
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- Other names
- NARDO, Don
- Birthdate
- 1947-02-22
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Columbia, Missouri, USA
- Places of residence
- Natick, Massachusetts, USA
New York, New York, USA
Mashpee, Massachusetts, USA - Education
- home schooled
Syracuse University
Worcester State College - Occupations
- historian
composer
writer - Short biography
- Don Nardo is a historian and award-winning writer who specializes in the ancient world, especially the civilizations of Greece and Rome. He taught high school for eight years, while writing part-time, before devoting himself to his research and book-writing full time. In the past two decades, he has published nearly 200 volumes on diverse historical topics. And having earned numerous favorable reviews, he is widely recognized as the country's leading writer of historical works for young adults. Mr. Nardo also composes and arranges symphonic music and writes screenplays and teleplays.
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Greek and Roman Science by Don Nardo
Serviceable, but way too teleological. The people, the locations, the theories, the schools, all that is good. But with every instance of an ancient Greek cosmological or physical hypothesis that has some superficial resemblance to what we moderns know and the originating philosopher gets an implied gold star for being "almost right".
½
A reasonably well-written book marred by poor editorial choices. Most appropriate for YA, where available, due to the sophistication of the writing. "Difficult" words, which are designated so more or less arbitrarily are glossed in many quotations with an ugly bracket system. The quotations are taken from translations of original sources and the works of more or less contemporary historians.
Presents the history of classical Greece as a gradually deepening conflict between the two cities of Sparta and Athens, with the Persian Wars as a fairly brief interruption. The conflict, presented this way, seems analogous to WWI, as a network of alliances dragged more and more allies into the war. As in WWI, the adversaries were evenly matched and had effective fighting forces, so the war dragged on and on, with great suffering over a deal of the Mediterranean. Eventually, exhausted, both formerly great powers were defeated by the Macedonian king, Philip.
Also covers the Athenian campaign in Egypt.… (more)
Presents the history of classical Greece as a gradually deepening conflict between the two cities of Sparta and Athens, with the Persian Wars as a fairly brief interruption. The conflict, presented this way, seems analogous to WWI, as a network of alliances dragged more and more allies into the war. As in WWI, the adversaries were evenly matched and had effective fighting forces, so the war dragged on and on, with great suffering over a deal of the Mediterranean. Eventually, exhausted, both formerly great powers were defeated by the Macedonian king, Philip.
Also covers the Athenian campaign in Egypt.… (more)
I never mind seeing Hades and Anubis in books like these, but I do wish their presence didn't mean the absence of the many, many other death deities or psychopomps from other cultures that I haven't yet encountered. I enjoyed learning a little more about Hel and discovering Yan Wang, Iku, and Ala, but I suppose further forays into other cultures' gods of death will have to wait until the next book I read on the subject.
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- Works
- 464
- Members
- 3,334
- Popularity
- #7,663
- Rating
- 3.6
- Reviews
- 53
- ISBNs
- 845
- Languages
- 1