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Marrying Henry VIII was not an easy option - tips provided in this book include 'think carefully before accepting his proposal' and 'give birth to ...

An account of the story of one of the most difficult adventures of all time across the bitterly cold continent of Antarctica. This book charts the ...

Many dangerous diseases are carried by bacteria - tiny organisms that can get into the body and multiply inside it. Antibiotics are medicines that ...

Though most of them are too small to be seen with the naked eye, bacteria are everywhere. They appeared on Earth more than 3 billion years before t...

Imagine a world without books. You would have no information about the world outside, except what you could learn from travellers. You would know n...

We could not live without water. Almost two-thirds of our body weight is water. We rely on it to keep ourselves clean, to keep our bodies nourished...

Nowadays, going to the dentist is a safe and usually painless experience. But that wasn't always the case. In past centuries, the only cure for a d...

We depend on electricity in almost everything that we do. It gives us heat, light, transportation and entertainment. Electricity has always existed...

It's a nuisance when it rains on a picnic. It's a tragedy when a tornado destroys a neighbourhood. But our planet would be a very different place i...

Humans have always loved to play games, from dice games in ancient Iran 5,000 years ago to chess and cards in the Middle Ages. Today, fanaticism ov...

Nasty stinging creatures that destroy crops and spread disease - if that's your opinion of insects, read this fascinating book to discover the othe...

We rely on our mobile phones all the time, whether it's to keep in touch with friends, to play games, or to access the Internet. As phones become s...

For thousands of years, nurses have tended to the sick and the wounded. Although they don't get the glory, nurses are just as important as doctors....

Learn the surprising truth about just how important poo really is: it keeps our bodies healthy, and can also be used to power our cars, heat our ho...

Simple machines are around us all the time and we use them every day. You might not even think of them as machines. Many are built into complex (co...

Sleep is very mysterious. No one really knows why we do it. And how do we explain all those strange dreams? What scientists do know is that sleepin...

Trees are among nature's most remarkable achievements. They can live in baking hot deserts or icy arctic regions, fending off drought, flood, paras...

Profiles the building of the Brooklyn Bridge and why you wouldn't have wanted to work on it!

Suitable for National Curriculum Key Stage 1/2, a title in the YOU'D NEVER BELIEVE IT BUT... series which looks at the nature of lightning. Include...

Text and illustrations presents facts about the five senses, including information about how plants and animals sense their surroundings. Includes ...

The beginning of a weird, wacky, one in a million series about the plight of the truly nasty Mr Gum and a crazy cast of characters—a cross between ...

Daley B's lifeis full of questions : what is he ? Where should he live? What should he eat ? But the question he finds most perplexing of all is wa...

The earth is like a spaceship in orbit—it has everything on board that we need to survive: water, food, and air with oxygen. Unlike a space shuttle...

Mommy and Daddy Bear convince three worried cubs that there's plenty of love to go around in this comforting new tale from the incomparable team of...