miscellanea

Provides answers to a variety of questions about the human body including "Why do you blush?", "Why do you need two ears?", "How strong is hair?", and "What are goose bumps?".

Provides answers to such questions about various species of whales and dolphins as "Do all whales have teeth?", "How long do most whales live?", "Why do dolphins whistle?", and "Can dolphins save humans?".

Profiles fifty accidental inventions, such as the ice cream soda, nitrous oxide, fingerprinting, and dynamite, explaining how they came to be.

Provides answers to such questions about trees as "How do trees grow?", "How do trees change with the season?", and "How do leaves make food for the tree?".

"Golden book." Question-and-answer format presents amazing-but-true facts about insects.

A brief look at a wide variety of exotic animal species such as monkeys, elephants, and jungle cats.

Reveals the inner workings of animal homes, illustrated with three-dimensional models that show termite towers, different nests, cocoons, underground and underwater abodes.

Offers a visual guide, with brief explanatory text, to comparative sizes, heights, weights, and numbers in such areas as capacity, population, growth, weather, disasters, speed, and others.

A collection of original stories, poems, riddles, games, and hands-on activities which introduce math as it is used in astronomy and other aspects of space.

A collection of stories, poems, riddles, games, and hands-on activities focusing on the mathematical aspects of a trip to the zoo.