Photo Acknowledgments
The images in this book are used with the permission of: Natalie Faye
Image Source/Newscom, p. 4; JEFF TOPPING/REUTERS/Newscom,
p. 8; Alexander Porter Image Source/Newscom, p. 12; © Eldadcarin/
Dreamstime.com, p. 16; AP Photo/DANNY JOHNSTON, p. 19; © Mareen
Fischinger/CORBIS, p. 20; © Keri Wiginton/Tribune News Service/Getty
Images, p. 27; © Duc Dao/Shutterstock.com, p. 32; © Featureflash/
Dreamstime.com, p. 35; AP Photo/Ronald Zak, p. 40; © John Moore/
Thinkstock, p. 42; © Bigapplestock/Dreamstime.com, p. 44; RICHARD
B. LEVINE/Newscom, p. 46; Paul Venning Image Source/Newscom,
p. 49; BRIAN SNYDER/REUTERS/Newscom, p. 56; © Todd Strand/
Independent Picture Service, p. 58; © Richard Levine/Alamy, p. 60;
© epa european pressphoto agency b.v./Alamy, p. 66; KARL MONDON/
MCT/Landov, p. 69; © Byrion Smith/flickr.com (CC BY 2.0), p. 70;
© David Paul Morris/Bloomberg/Getty Images, p. 72; © iStockphoto.
com/ferrantraite, p. 75; Maksim Kabakou/Shutterstock.com, number
backgrounds throughout.
Front cover: © Maksim Kabakou/Shutterstock.com
About the Author
Brendan January is an award-winning author of more than twenty
nonfiction books for young readers. Among his young adult titles for
TFCB are
The Iranian Revolution
—a JLG selection and a NCSS/CBC
Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People—and
Genocide:
Modern Crimes against Humanity
—also a NCSS/CBC Notable
Social Studies Trade Book for Young People and featured on VOYA’s
Nonfiction Honor List. He attended Haverford College in Pennsylvania
and the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism in New York. He was
also a Fulbright scholar in Germany. He lives with his wife and two
children in Maplewood, New Jersey.
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