Item category 2: Science & Technology

Describes history's biggest and most destructive floods from around the world.

Describes history's biggest and most destructive hurricanes from around the world.

Describes history's biggest and most destructive tornadoes from around the world.

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

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.