Learn all about the National Basketball Association. Discover fascinating facts, from record-breaking stars to winning teams and important positions.
Learn all about Major League Baseball. Discover fascinating facts, from record-breaking stars to winning teams and important positions.
Learn all about Major League Soccer. Discover fascinating facts, from record-breaking stars to winning teams and important positions.
Learn all about the S-Class by Mercedes-Benz. Discover fascinating facts and specs, from high-performance parts to sleek designs and unique details.
Learn all about the R8 by Audi. Discover fascinating facts and specs, from high-performance parts to sleek designs and unique details.
Learn all about the Range Rover by Land Rover. Discover fascinating facts and specs, from high-performance parts to sleek designs and unique details.
Learn all about the Escalade by Cadillac. Discover fascinating facts and specs, from high-performance parts to sleek designs and unique details.
Learn all about the Phantom by Rolls Royce. Discover fascinating facts and specs, from high-performance parts to sleek designs and unique details.
Learn all about the Continental GT by Bentley. Discover fascinating facts and specs, from high-performance parts to sleek designs and unique details.
People have long searched for the resting places of great leaders and tried to make sense of puzzling unidentified burial sites. From deadly tombs to treasure deep at sea, follow along and gather evidence to answer questions about lost tombs and treasure around the world.
Stories about unsolved disappearances have surfaced throughout history. Lost explorers, missing armies, and hidden princes are just a few of these perplexing mysteries. Follow along and gather evidence to answer questions about all kinds of mysterious disappearances.
Fakes are objects or stories that seem real, but are not. Hoaxes are tricks that deceive people into believing things that are not true. From giants and lake monsters to lost princesses, follow along and gather evidence to find out why fakes and hoaxes capture the minds of so many.
Which lost civilization built Angkor Wat, in Cambodia? What is found at the remains of Cahokia, the ancient Mississippian city? Follow along and gather evidence to answer questions about Earth's lost kingdoms, empires, and their leaders.
Where is the Bermuda Triangle and what happens to travelers who pass through the area? Where did the huge stone figures on Easter Island come from? Follow along and gather evidence to answer questions about Earth's most mysterious places.
Stories of alien visitations have shocked and bewildered people for centuries. From mysterious patterns left in desert sand to bone-chilling alien abductions, follow along and gather evidence about where and when aliens may have visited Earth.
What makes a protest and why are protests important to democracies? This timely book examines the phenomena of protests historically and discusses the different ways people voice their opinion to effect change.
Vaccines are substances that help protect people from diseases and they have been proven to save lives. So why has something that should reassure people become so controversial? This useful and timely book looks at the facts, viewpoints, and perspectives surrounding vaccines and how they became a crossroads between science and individual rights.
It is estimated about 150 million people around the world are homeless. What homelessness means, why people become homeless, and how governments and organizations work to end homelessness are some of the topics addressed in this detailed examination of a complex problem.
Taxing carbon emissions, which contribute to global warming, is one method governments are using to help decrease or control climate change. This informative title looks at the costs and benefits of this sometimes controversial tax and how different jurisdictions are implementing them.
A hungry polar bear is one of the most dangerous animals you will meet. A marine mammal, it hunts mostly seals on the sea ice in the Arctic. Read all about their amazing sense of smell, their giant paws, and razor-sharp claws that rip easily through prey.
Killer bees were created by humans who were trying to make a more efficient bee for making honey. The new bee they made would swarm and attack intruders in great numbers. Read all about this aggressive bee and its gradual spread north in North America.
When COVID-19 was declared a pandemic in 2020, nearly every country in the world went into some form of lockdown. Yet each was different. With fascinating images and informative text, this book looks at the rules and restrictions people lived under and how they affected work, school, commerce, and daily life. A detailed final chapter examines the success and failures of lockdown and how countries could approach future pandemics.
The COVID-19 pandemic put a spotlight on the problems and flaws in the way we live in modern cities and communities. This useful book analyzes why some cities and countries suffered more than others by the harms inflicted by the pandemic. By exploring historical and contemporary pandemics, we can learn how cities and countries can assess their vulnerabilities and find ways to reduce the risk to citizens in future pandemics.
When people boarded the Diamond Princess cruise ship in February 2020, they had no idea their luxury vacation would turn into a nightmare of quarantine, sickness, and death. Using real examples of living through the pandemic, this fascinating book gives an overall inside look at how much changed and how quickly during COVID-19--the first major pandemic since 1918. A useful timeline will help readers keep track of the major events during the pandemic.
Never having faced such a challenge, governments were mostly slow to respond at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Then came groundbreaking science, historically swift vaccines, and economic stimulus packages to try to keep the virus under control and ease the burden of faltering economies. This detailed book examines the unprecedented challenges brought about by the pandemic, and how governments and people have coped.
