The World's Most Pointless Animals is a witty, quirky, colorfully-illustrated book featuring fascinating facts about some very silly animalswho we find are perhaps not so pointless after all.
A book that actually takes you inside - and around - the human body to see how it works, with the help of some truly unique illustrations and some very small people!
Step inside the extraordinary world of Stephen Biesty and find out how a variety of curious things are made, from tower blocks and underground tunnels to the milk, chocolate, and doughnuts on your table, via matches, diamond rings, and sports shoes - not to mention racing cars, planes, and rockets.
Strange But True is an eye-popping compendium of extreme, bizarre and weird animals, places and strange phenomenaDid you know there's a plant that eats mice?
A splendid account of the Supreme Court's rulings on race in the first half of the twentieth century, From Jim Crow To Civil Rights earned rave reviews and won the Bancroft Prize for History in 2005.
*Shortlisted for the Charles Tyrwhitt Children's Sports Book of the Year Award 2025*Travel to Greece and watch Cynisca, a Spartan princess, become the first ever woman to win at the ancient Olympic Games.
A splendid account of the Supreme Court's rulings on race in the first half of the twentieth century, From Jim Crow To Civil Rights earned rave reviews and won the Bancroft Prize for History in 2005.
By exposing the sickening conditions people with mental illness endured in jails, almshouses, and basement cells, Dorothea Dix (1802-1887) single-handedly transformed the U.
