Product Description: This is the series that explores animal life ...but not as we know it! "Everything You Need to Know About Sharks" - Great White, Hammerhead, Tiger and Basking - in fact, a whole host of shark types. Take a look at these amazing creatures from all angles, from fascinating information on habitat and breeding habits, as well as oddities - did you know that sharks have no bones at all, just cartilage? Packed with close-ups, quizzes and games to teach you all about these ultimate predators...read more

Product Description: Discover the big ideas that changed our world. From matches to mobiles, antibiotics and the flexible drinking straw - some inventions don't just change the way we do things but change the world. Marvel at some of the world's most amazing discoveries that have made a sensation, from the first wheel to satellite navigation...read more

Product Description: Following on the very hot heels of Pick Me Up, Do Not Open, and Take Me Back, comes Open Me Up, and irreverent, graphically dynamic, intelligently hilarious, and gruesomely informative book about the goings on of our innards. A spectacular 3-D cover (featuring an incredible die cut to reveal the internal organs) will wow browsers, while the superb interior design, imagery, and information will seal the deal...read more

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Filled with valuable information for would-be ancient tourists, this intriguing study explains what it would be like to take a boat trip down the Egyptian Nile, go on a chariot ride through imperial Rome, worship at the Parthenon in ancient Greece, or avoid becoming a human sacrifice at an Aztec temple in Tenochtitlan.

Using a travel guide format, describes eleventh-century Viking society with information about their homes, food, clothing, customs, voyages, and conquests. 15,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

Readers are asked to solve a variety of math problems as they journey with Zeno the Martian across the galaxy.

Young readers can delve into the enthralling world of Elizabethan London in a travel guide that provides a bevy of travel tips, from visiting the royal menagerie at the Tower of London to attending a service at St. Paul's Cathedral.

Help Zeno the Martian solve the mathematical puzzles that he encounters on his visit to Planet Omicron.

A tour of Greece in the time of Pericles--designed like a city travel guide--examines the theater, Acropolis, countryside, food and drink, marketplace, clothing, methods of travel, Olympics, and more.

An informative and colorful travel guide, which includes a fold-out map, presents a look at the sites and society that existed in San Francisco during the time of the Gold Rush in the 1850s.