Artists Around the World
How did Michelangelo paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?
Who was Basho?
Where was Kiri Te Kanawa born?
What is 'scat' singing?
In Artists Around the World, you'll discover answers to these questions and many more. Through pictures, articles, and fun facts, you'll learn about the many kinds of art and meet some of the greatest artists of yesterday and today.
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Creatures of the Waters
How did the 'dabbling duck' get its name?
What fish can leap up waterfalls?
Is a sponge a plant or an animal?
What animals can live both in water and on land? In Creatures of the Waters, you'll discover answers to these questions and many more. Through pictures, articles, and fun facts, you'll learn about the great diversity of animal life found in waters around the world. $21.95 (AUD) British English $21.95 (AUD) America English
Exploring Space
What do stars really look like?
Could you live on Venus?
Are aliens waiting for us in outer space?
What did astronomers study hundreds of years ago?
In Exploring Space, you'll discover answers to these questions and many more. Through pictures, articles, and fun facts, you'll travel across time, visit outer space, meet fascinating people, and investigate strange and wonderful things
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Familiar Animals
Do snakes chew their food?
Why are donkeys called 'beasts of burden'?
What insect might survive a nuclear bomb blast? Are pigs smart?
In Familiar Animals, you'll discover answers to these questions and many more. Through pictures, articles, and fun facts, you'll encounter amazing animals from around the world.
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Food Plants
Is the tomato a fruit or a vegetable?
What crop was buried with the Egyptian pharaohs?
When is a nut not a nut? What are tubers?
In Food Plants, you'll discover answers to these questions and many more. Through pictures, articles, and fun facts, you'll learn about the great diversity of plant life found around the world.
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Legends, Myths & Folktales
What was Excaibur?
Who stabbed a one-eyed man-eating giant? Where do Jataka tales come from?
Was the ?Trojan horse? reallya horse?
In Legends, Myths and Folktales, you'll discover answers to these questions and many more. Through pictures, articles, stories, and fun facts, you'll learn about the exciting magical tales that have entertained us for centuries, taught us right from wrong, and explained the many mysteries of the world.
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Planet and Earth
What's an oasis?
Is a ?finger of land? smaller than your hand?
How can water be stronger than stone? What's another name for giant floating ice cubes?
In Planet Earth, you'll discover answers to these questions and many more. Through pictures, articles, and fun facts, you'll travel around the world, seeing the highest and the lowest, the hottest and the coldest, and the strangest and most beautiful places on Earth.
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Religions Around the World
Who is the Dalai Lama?
What religion requires men to carry a comb? Where was Buddha born?
What happened when Moses approached the Red Sea?
In Religions Around the World, you'll discover answers to these questions and many more. Through pictures, articles, and fun facts, you'll learn about the people, traditions, and diverse ideas that make up the many religions of the world.
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Remarkable People in History
Who is known as the Father of Europe?
What did Tenzing Norgay climb?
How did Cleopatra die?
Why did Ghandi march the sea?
In Remarkable People In History, you'll discover answers to these questions and many more. Through pictures, articles, and fun facts, you'll learn about extraordinary people who have changed the course of history.
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Science & Nature
What are tsunamis?
Why did the dinosaurs disappear?
How is sugar related to the color of a leaf?
What woman won twoNobel Prizes in the sciences?
In Science and Nature, you'll discover answers to these questions and many more. Through pictures, articles, and fun facts, you'll learn about weather, meet fascinating scientists, and see how plants and animals can change over time.
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Technology & Inventions
How can you draw with light?
What was Gutenberg's gift?
Where does medicine come from?
Can eyes ever hear?
In Technology and Inventions, you'll discover answers to these questions and many more. Through pictures, articles, and fun facts, you'll learn about the great inventors and inventions that have changed our lives.
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The Arts
What is a musical play?
Which country produces the most movies?
What makes a building artistic?
When did jazz become popular?
In The Arts, you'll discover answers to these questions and many more. Through pictures, articles, and fun facts, you'll learn about the wide variety of performing arts found in different parts of the world.
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Views of Africa
Who were the pharaohs?
What country was created as a home for freed slaves?
On what river would you find the Aswan High Dam?
What was apartheid?
In Views of Africa, you'll discover answers to these questions and many more. Through pictures, articles, and fun facts, you'll learn about the people, traditions, landscapes, and history that make up many of the countries and cities of Africa.
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Views of Asia, Australia and New Zealand
What is the largest continent?
Who built the Taj Mahal?
What city is holy to three major religions? Where is the Great Barrier Reef?
In Views of Asia, Australia and New Zealand you'll discover answers to these questions and many more. Through pictures, articles, and fun facts, you'll learn about the people, traditions, landscapes, and history that make up many of the countries and cities of Asia, Australia, and New Zealand.
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Views of Europe
Where is the Emerald Isle?
Why was the Berlin Wall built and torn down? What is a fjord?
What city in Eastern Europe was called 'Little Paris'?
In Views of Europe, you'll discover answers to these questions and many more. Through pictures, articles, and fun facts, you'll learn about the people, traditions, landscapes, and history that make up many of the countries and cities of Europe.
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Views of the Americas
Who built Machu Picchu?
Why is the United States called a melting pot? What's an isthmus?
How does the Panama Canal work?
In Views of the Americas, you'll discover answers to these questions and many more. Through pictures, articles, and fun facts, you'll learn about many of the countries and cities of North, Central, and South America. $21.95 (AUD) British English $21.95 (AUD) America English
Wildlife Wonders
What kind of bears aren't really bears?
What's inside a camel's hump?
Will a mongoose and a cobra ever be friends? Where would you find a platypus?
In Wildlife Wonders, you'll discover answers to these questions and many more. Through pictures, articles, and fun facts, you'll encounter amazing animals, study their actions, and learn how their habitats have changed over time.
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