Join author Michael H. Roffer as he explores 250 of the most fundamental, far-reaching, and often-controversial cases, laws, and trials that have profoundly changed our world – for good or bad. Offering authoritative context to ancient documents as w...

Cookies packed with protein. Savoury crackers that help balance blood sugar. Chocolate truffles bursting with anti-aging antioxidants. With benefits like these, you'll never look at snacks the same way again! Julie Morris, author of the bestselling S...

From an astronaut in space to Voyager, yellow dwarf and zenith, this ABC board book opens up the entire universe to children! Created in tandem with the American Museum of Natural History, it takes kids on a photographic journey through comets, flare...

Engineering is where human knowledge meets real-world problems and solves them. It's the source of some of our greatest inventions, from the wheel to the jet engine. Marshall Brain, creator of the How Stuff Works series and a professor at the Enginee...

Penny Dreadfuls: Sensational Tales of Terror is an anthology of twenty tales of horror and the supernatural published in the nineteenth century. In addition to works by Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Conan Doyle, Bram Stoker, Wilkie Collins!, and other well...

Tweens know: everything is better when you do it with your BFF! That's why this super-fun keepsake journal will become their favourite. It's got an awesome question-and-answer format specially created for best friends to fill out together, plus loads...

From the emergence of life, to Leewenhoek's microscopic world, to GMO crops, "The Biology Book" presents 250 landmarks in the most widely studied scientific field. Brief, engaging, and colourfully illustrated synopses introduce readers to every major...

When Beauty's father steals a rose from the Beast's garden, the Beast demands his life in return – unless Beauty comes to live in his castle. Will Beauty ever be able to see that the Beast's ugliness is only skin deep?

When a thirsty fox sees some tasty-looking grapes, he's delighted. But he just can't reach them, no matter how high he jumps or how hard he tries. Bitterly disappointed, he walks off, calling them "'sour". Aesop's charming animal fable gently teaches...

Although King Midas is a kind man, he always wants more: more jewels, more silver, more gold. So when he's granted a wish for doing a good deed, he asks that everything he touches turn to gold. But after his flowers, his food and even his daughter ar...