Pollard, Michael

Profiles over 300 cat breeds, providing color photos and covering their temperament, history, and physical characteristics, and discusses general cat care, including nutrition, grooming, breeding, training, health care, and more.

Describes the development of making things move from the invention of the wheel, to engines, then finally to the present rocket technology.

Traces the course of the river Mark Twain immortalized; describes its physical features, history, and importance.

Traces the course of this famous river in India and describes its physical features, history, and importance.

Surveys the diverse forms of transport that have been developed since the invention of the wheel, including the bicycle, jet plane, high-speed train, and automobile, and explains the forces at work in making things move.

Traces the course of the third longest river in the world, the Yangtze in China, and describes its physical features, history, importance as a source of food and for transportation, and more.

Provides information about notable explorers from around the world and throughout history, including Polybius, Leif Eriksson, Vasco da Gama, Christopher Columbus, Robert Edwin Peary, and Yuri Gagarin.