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Tells the story of how Isaac Newton developed the laws of motion and the law of universal gravitation. Written in graphic-novel format.

Photographs, illustrations, and facts describe the Antarctic expedition of Ernest Shackleton that began in 1914.

A fictionalized account of the life and career of Roger Casement, who fought for human rights of oppressed people in the Belgian Congo and the Amazon, but who was ultimately hanged by the British government in 1916 for treason, because he dared to draw a parallel between the injustices he witnessed in the African and American colonies and those committed by the British in Northern Ireland.

Photographs and text profile the experiences polar explorer Ernest Shackleton had as he tried to reach the South Pole in 1914.

Provides an illustrated biography of Isaac Newton chronicling his life and accomplishments. Includes a timeline and fact boxes on seventeenth-century life.

Details the astronomic discoveries of William Herschel, who discovered the seventh planet, and also did work with his sister Caroline to produce the first map of the night sky.

A group of gentlemen, including Harry Houdini, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and psychoanalyst Dr. Nandor Fodor, assemble in the realm of the imagination to hear the story of the haunting of the Bell family and offer their opinions on who or what the spirit really was.

Lists the plots and characters of Doyle's sixty Holmes stories discussed in relation to the author's own life and career.