Colorado Parks & Wildlife Research Library

A history of the causes and consequences of the Depression.

In A.D. 781 King Charles of the Franks is crossing the Alps with his family and tells his son, Carl, that one day he will be King. But what about Pepin, the first born? Was he to be dispossessed? THis many-faceted story will stir the minds and imaginations of young people.

By putting over 3,000 years of faces on the search for the elemental principles -- from the Greek philosopher Anaximander, who held that all the material world was made of four "elements", Earth, Air, Fire, and Water; to teams of modern scientists who race to create new elements -- Benjamin Wiker has moved chemistry off the shelf of dry-and-dusty arcania and given the reader a gum-shoe tale filled with odd and interesting characters.