Richard Platt

"Be an eyewitness to the bloodthirsty activities of pirates, from the barbarous corsairs of the Mediterranean to the cutthroat buccaneers of the Spanish Main"--Cover, p. [4].

Presents information about men and women spies throughout history as well as about the tools and equipment they used in espionage and intelligence service

Various kinds of spiders, including the black widow, tarantula, and water spider, describe their physical characteristics, behavior, and habitats

Introduces stinging plants, poisonous plants, and plants that eat animals

Documents some of the most devastating events in world history, including natural disasters, accidents, and plagues

Uses the perspective of tiny people traveling through a man's body to present its various systems and organs and how they work. A book that actually takes you inside - and around - the human body to see how it works, with the help of some truly unique illustrations and some very small people! Explore your brain, your bones, and everything in between in incredible cross-section drawings of all the body systems. Inside each one are teams of tiny characters...

A brief history of the Aztec Indians including their way of life, religion, and rulers