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As an ancient Egyptian, your body is being prepared for the afterlife. But it's fairly disgusting business, and you can't be sure that you will alw...

It's the end of the 15th century, and your local castle is looking for a jailer. Do you want the job? Your charges will include all sorts of people...

Get ready you are MP and famous diarist samuel pepys , living in london in the 1660s .little do you suspect that you are about to witness this anc...

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 ...

It is 1577 and Francis Drake, the Queen of England's favourite adventurer, has been ordered to command a new expedition leaving from Plymouth. Drak...

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...

Describes the disadvantages to being one of the many builders during the construction of a Medieval cathedral, including masons and quarrymen, and ...

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

?By the light of the moon, each budding creature came to see that they?re not like one another, and that was meant to be. All have a purpose, and t...