Helen of Troy: Goddess, Princess, Whore

Bettany Hughes

As soon as men began to write, they made Helen of Troy their subject; for close on three thousand years she has been both the embodiment of absolute female beauty and a reminder of the terrible power that beauty can wield. Because of her double marriage to the Greek King Menelaus and the Trojan Prince P...

5,000 Awesome Facts 3 (About Everything!)

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC KIDS

More fun than a barrel of monkeys and more interesting than reality TV-- thisbrain candy-filled book is an explosion of information about sensational topicskids love: royalty, gravity, bioluminescence, sloths, wildfires, bubblegum, cars, breakfast, aliens, you name it It's a fantastic, fact-filled editi...