Item category 2: Science & Technology

Describes the worst hurricanes in history, as well as formation, scale, and disaster tips.

Describes the worst tornadoes in history, as well as formation, scale, and disaster tips.

Describes the worst volcanoes in history, as well as formation, types, and disaster tips.

The Murray-Darling Basin, Australia's food bowl, is in crisis. For more than a century, the Basin has faced a series of environmental catastrophes: soil erosion, sand drifts and dust storms, salinity, algal blooms, the threat to native flora and fauna and the drying out of internationally recogni...

Discover that goats have rectangular pupils, that gorillas can catch human colds, and that rhinoceros beetles can carry up to 850 times their own body weight. This is a lively, fun book about animals that is certain to make you say Wow! again and again.

Describes the lives of the two American brothers who designed, built, and flew the first heavier-than-air aircraft to fly successfully, detailing the many mishaps and misadventures that preceded it.

Get to grips with facts about big cats and then become a word wizard and dazzle everyone with your newfound knowledge. Write On is a high interest information series with a difference, designed to help the newly independent reader become a confident writer, perfect for the 7-11 age group. Eye-cat...

Get to grips with facts about space and then become a word wizard and dazzle everyone with your newfound knowledge. Write On is a high interest information series with a difference, designed to help the newly independent reader become a confident writer, perfect for the 7-11 age group. Eye-catchi...

Get to grips with facts about space and then become a word wizard and dazzle everyone with your newfound knowledge. Write On is a high interest information series with a difference, designed to help the newly independent reader become a confident writer, perfect for the 7-11 age group. Eye-catchi...

Tim O'Reilly's genius is to identify and explain emerging technologies with world shaking potential - the World Wide Web, Open Source Software, Web 2.0, Open Government data, the Maker Movement, Big Data. `The man who can really can make a whole industry happen,' according to Executive Chairman o...