Did you know that after Edison invented light bulbs we had to build a power station so people could use them? Or that scientists can make square tomatoes? Journey into the wonderful world of genes, germs, computers, comets, atoms, and astronomy.
Colorful photographs, astounding statistics, and challenging quizzes highlight these softcover 32-page nonfiction books. Fun fonts and graphics engage student readers with new facts on every page. Three-question quizzes entice kids to pit their wits against some brain-bogglers and discover more about the topic (answers are in the back of the book).
This book explores the lives and writings of ten figures
whose work conveyed new knowledge of other cultures, including Sir
George Grey, Winwood Reade, Roger Casement, and Gertrude Bell.
Embracing issues such as gender and travel, racial science, the
globalization of "native management," the internal colonies and more,
and the essays will engage all those with an interest in cultural
geography, postcolonial studies, anthropology, biography and travel
writing.
Whilst on a mission up the Volga, a representative of the ruler of Baghdad meets a Viking chieftain who has been summoned back to Scandinavia by his besieged relatives. The two men journey together northwards to engage in mortal combat with the dark, hairy brutes who threaten to empty the land.
