Hamilton, Sue L.

Describes the characteristics of tsunamis, explains how they are happen, looks at tsunami survival strategies, and presents related historical data.

Describes the characteristics of earthquakes, explains how they are classified, looks at earthquake survival strategies, and presents related historical data.

Discusses Lennon's early life, Beatles career, and his tragic death.

This book describes attacks by bees, presenting information on bees' sense of smell, the speed and power of Africanized honeybees, the defense of bumblebees, a bee's alarm pheromone, and the attraction of bees to a person's head and face.

Explores the unsolved mysteries of the lost cities of Atlantis, Camelot, El Dorado, Shangri-La, Ubar, and Yonaguni, addressing questions about whether the cities really existed, where they might have been located, and why they became lost.

An introduction to crime scene investigating that describes the jobs of forensic scientists, including forensic anthropologists, artists, engineers, and others, and specialists in the field, such as fingerprint analysts, ballistics specialists, bloodstain pattern analysts, and forensic photographers.

Discusses actual human-wildlife encounters with sharks, creature information, survival strategies, and attack statistics.

Presents a brief history of Edward Teach, the eighteenth-century pirate known as Blackbeard that traces his range of piracy along the Atlantic coast of North America, the Caribbean, and the Gulf of Mexico.

Provides information about rattlesnakes, their senses, fangs, and venom, looks at different types of rattlers, and shares stories of people who have had the misfortune to be bitten by a rattlesnake.

Explores the unsolved mysteries of the Bermuda Triangle, an area of water in the Atlantic Ocean in which over one hundred planes and ships are said to have vanished without a trace, sharing accounts of some of these incidents, and examining ideas and theories about the strange disappearances.