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Describes things which are found underground such as worms, coal, caves, tunnels, cables, and artifacts.

Describes different groups of musical instruments and the sounds we can make from them by striking, blowing, pulling a bow over strings, or plucking. Also traces the history of musical instruments from their primitive origins to the present.

Discusses the history of guns, their use and abuse in society, and the different types of firearms, including shotguns, rifles, and revolvers.

Describes important inventions in medicine, transportation, communications, and power, and the men and women responsible for them.

A brief introduction to the variety of human beings that people the earth. Includes Pygmy tribes of Zaire, Scandanavians, Tuaregs, Mongoloids, Samoans, Aborigines, and many others.

Explores the beginnings of civilization and describes the cultures of Sumeria, Ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome, China, and the Americas.

Examines how airports have developed as a vital part of the growing international air transportation network and describes some of the world's airports, from the vast complexes that serve major cities to the simple, functional airstrips of the world's remoter regions.

Examines the history of clothes and the factors that influence the clothes we wear.

Traces the evolution of money from barter to the development of coinage and paper money to the new forms of checks and credit cards.

Traces the history of spacecraft from the first satellite to the space shuttle, describing rockets and moon landings, how satellites affect our lives, and the latest space probes which are sending back information about unknown stars and planets.