cities and towns

Examines how towns across the United States have grown thanks to the existence of one large business being run from the community, discusses how those single-business communities have influenced the American economy, and explores the benefits and consequences of these towns.

"A Golden book." Words in special panels depict objects from Busytown's everyday activities.

Compares village life with town life in England, from the Middle Ages to the present, describing how technological developments have blurred the differences.

A collection of urban legends--true-sounding but utterly false stories that pass from person to person--grouped in the categories of animal stories, automobiles, horrors, contaminations, sex and scandal, crime, and products, professions, and personalities.

Ivy, upset by the development that is changing her neighborhood, plans a defiant prank that backfires and starts Ivy's summer on a sour note that just keeps getting worse.

Uses computer graphics, archival film, reconstructions, and dramatizations to examine significant people, places, and events in the ancient civilizations of Rome and Pompeii, Athens and Greece, Egypt, and the Aztec and Maya empires.

An impoverished town becomes the beneficiary of an economic boom after a plaster statue "miraculously" begins weeping tears of blood.