Richard Platt

Here is a spectacular and informative guide to the dangerous and adventurous life of piracy, privateering, and buccaneering. Full-color photographs of weapons, ships, flags, maps, and treasure offer a unique and revealing view of pirate life on the high seas.

Describes the history of shipwrecks, famous wrecks, causes, navigation and rescue techniques, and underwater archeology and the exploration of wrecks.

"Meet plants that prickle, sting, or even munch insects for lunch!"-- Plants cover the surface of the Earth, and provide food for animals and people. Did you know there are some plants that make poisons to keep animals from eating them? Some arm themselves with spikes or stings-- and some even catch animals to eat! Platt shares information on stinging, scratching, and biting plants, and explains how they adapted to defend themselves against threats....

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...

The fictional diary of a ten-year-old boy who, in 1716 sets off from North Carolina to become a sailor, but ends up a pirate instead.

In ancient Egypt, Nakht records his experiences as his family moves from small town Esna to the big, exciting city of Memphis, where he studies to be a scribe like his father and helps discover who has been robbing graves. Includes nonfiction information about Egyptian culture.

"Follow the triumphs and turmoils of one of the world's most famous cities, from 1600 until the present day. Meet Manhattan's native people, watch the arrival of Europeans, witness riots and revolution, and experience life in the Big Apple..."--P.[4] of cover.

Through Time: Beijing follows the story of several grand palaces and cities in what we now know as Beijing. Beginning in prehistoric times, an agricultural community slowly evolves. By the medieval period an imperial palace is taking shape. The reader follows the story of daily life under the different imperial dynasties, and of the cities that rise and fall around this site.