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A collection of questions and answers about breast cancer for teenage girls.

Follows storm chasers across the Great Plains and the Deep South, including into the eye of Hurricane Katrina.

Combining facts, informative opinion, and insights, this book includes more than 2000 chronolog entries, 2500 illustrations, decade-by-decade infographics, datalines, and essays on the events that shaped the twentieth century.

Answers questions about the human body, science and technology, space, and nature.

Answers questions about such marvels as the Pyramids, Taj Mahal, Grand Canyon, and Stonehenge, describing how they were made and what makes them great. An activities section is included.

Discusses animal evolution, classification, and behavior, emphasizing little-known facts about various members of the animal kingdom.

Dicusses the mysterious origins of the Egyptian pyramids and the strange power that the pyramid structure has had over people's imaginations throughout the ages. Also explores the hypothesis that the pyramids are clues to an ancient advanced science.

Presents ten crucial situations major league baseball team owners have had to face, permitting the reader to make the decision from reading the facts, before stating what actually happened.