This book is an incredible reference resource. More than 300 pages cover a wide spectrum of subjects including Space, Wild Animals, Planet Earth and Dinosaurs, and each page provides knowledge, fascination and inspiration. Exactly 600 subject panels with bulleted facts are accompanied by detailed illustrations, diagrams and photographs, while Did You Know panels provide scattered chunks of extr…
Walk around any famous city and layers of history start to emerge. In London Roman Walls stand shoulder to shoulder with modern architecture. In Rome, ancient treasures like the Colosseum stand shoulder to shoulder with buildings from the Renaissance. In New York, skyscrapers from the 1920s and 1930s have been upstaged by enormous glass towers. In Cities in Layers, six famous world cities …
World War II was the biggest and most destructive conflict in human history. This book traces in great chronological detail the course of the tragedy that befell the world. Weapons technology and conflicting indeologies combined to create a distaster that left millions tens of millions dead and much of the world in ruins.