Mutually Assured Destruction

Mutually Assured Destruction: 101 Keys to Understanding the Cold War, is a Middle School/High School multi-touch electronic textbook. Written by master history teacher Brian Hurd and Zoomable Media, Inc., the book features descriptions of 101 essential events, people, places, and concepts of the Cold War, and is copiously illustrated with high resolution pictures and maps. It is available in editions for three major e-reading devices, including Apple's iBooks app on the iPad, the...
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Mutually Assured Destruction: 101 Keys to Understanding the Cold War, is a Middle School/High School multi-touch electronic textbook. Written by master history teacher Brian Hurd and Zoomable Media, Inc., the book features descriptions of 101 essential events, people, places, and concepts of the Cold War, and is copiously illustrated with high resolution pictures and maps. It is available in editions for three major e-reading devices, including Apple's iBooks app on the iPad, the Amazon Kindle, and the Barnes & Noble NOOK. The iBookstore edition for the iPad, created with iBooks Author, includes audio captions of interesting facts and little-known details about the Cold War, a clickable glossary of terms, and interactive review questions for students to self-check comprehension. With this edition, students also have access all other multitouch textbook features, including note taking, highlighting, and review cards of student notes and glossary entries.