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AMERICA'S LOST TREASURE was a scheduling challenge. Roundtable was approached by the publisher of the best-selling title Ship of Gold to create an illustrated tie-in in a hurry. Starting with only a rough manuscript, Roundtable brought the text and accompanying original photography to bound books in just six months.

Atlantic Monthly Press, 1998
by Tommy Thompson
192 pages, 10.75" x 10.75"

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This essential one-volume reference contains over 1,000 detailed entries exploring the beauty, triumphs, and tragedies of a 3,500-year-old civilization. Ten years in the making, the book contains an extensive system of cross-referencing that links concepts, people, and events. The book also features photograph's by Roundtable's Susan E. Meyer.

Facts on File, 1998
by Dorothy Perkins
662 pages, 8.5" x 11"

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The first encyclopedia to cover the Victorian period throughout the world, this illustrated reference contains entries representing nearly every nation and region and every field of human endeavor and daily life.

Henry Holt, 1996
by Melinda Corey and George Ochoa
524 pages, 7.25" x 9.375"

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When Roundtable decided there was a need for a book on spiritual music, we approached Richard Newman at the W.E.B. DuBois Institute at Harvard to write it. GO DOWN, MOSES pairs his commentary on the lyrics to 200 spirituals with Terrance Cummings's powerful illustrations. The final touch: a foreword from Cornel West.

Clarkson Potter, 1998
by Richard Newman; Foreword by Cornel West;
Illustrations by Terrance Cummings
224 pages, 7.5" x 9.25"

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NAPOLEON'S LOST FLEET combines naval history with cutting edge marine archaeology to tie in with a Discovery Channel® broadcast. Over a period of only five months working with Discovery, the authors, and a team of consultants, Roundtable produced a handsome and lively 216-page book that features more than 200 color photos, expedition images, portraits, scenic paintings, and original illustrations and maps of the Battle of the Nile.

Discovery Books/ distributed by Random House, 1999
by Laura Foreman and Ellen Blue Phillips
Foreword by Franck Goddio
216 pages, 10" x 10"

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Simon & Schuster came to Roundtable to develop a book with their author Walter Boyne, former director of Smithsonian's Air and Space Museum. In SILVER WINGS, Boyne narrates the history of the U.S. Air Force in a lively text accompanied by hundreds of dramatic historical photographs.

Simon & Schuster, 1993
by Walter J. Boyne; Foreword by James H. Doolittle
Introductory Note by Lee Ewing
336 pages, 9.375" x 11.25"

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Conceived, edited, and designed by Roundtable, the SMITHSONIAN CHILDREN'S ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AMERICAN HISTORY was more than two years in the making and became on publication the illustrated American history reference for children. Lavishly illustrated with more than 750 historical photographs, drawings, paintings, posters, and period advertisements—as well as detailed maps and diagrams—this one-of-a-kind volume brings the story of America to vivid life. Chosen as a Main Selection of the Children's Book of the Month Club.

DK, 2003
by David King
304 pages, 8.75" x 10.875"

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In a unique format conceived by Roundtable, these helpful references chronicle the people and events that shaped history in lively, thoroughly researched text and a reader-friendly thematic organization.

Perigee Books, 1994
by Tom Cowan and
Jack Maguire
Foreword by
Richard Newman
368 pages, 7.5" x 9.25"

Perigee Books, 1996
by Sue Heinemann
400 pages, 7.5" x 9.25"

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