"Ripley's Twists" bring a fun, engaging and uniquely Ripley's approach to a whole range of topics, from the human body to space. Each title blends stunning full-colour photographs and illustrations with clear explanations and extraordinary facts that are guaranteed to inform and to entertain. In "Wild Animals" you will find: key information - everything from how much an elephant eats per day to how flies digest their food; intriguing bite-size facts - a swarm of desert locusts devours 32 million kilograms of food every 24 hours; real-life stories - like the Malaysian reticulated python who swallowed an entire sheep and then, too full to move, had to be hauled off the road by firemen; 'Big word alert' glossaries - clear and straightforward explanations of difficult words such as 'omnivore'; stunning photographs and detailed diagrams; and, a full-colour pull-out poster.

Wild Animals. [Written by Camilla de La Bedoyere]

Camilla De La Bédoyère

Ripley

<p>From monster trucks to sail-powered ocean liners, this book presents the most extraordinary, technologically advanced or eccentric vehicles on land, sea, air and in space. Each colourful, entertaining page contains a montage of photographs, fact panels, tales of amusing and extraordinary feats and information boxes explaining technologies such as jet propulsion and the internal combustion engine.</p>

Mighty Machines. [Written by Ian Graham]

Engineering & Transportation

Ian Graham

Engineering

"Ripley's Twists" bring a fun, engaging and uniquely Ripley's approach to a whole range of topics, from the human body to space. Each title blends stunning full-colour photographs and illustrations with clear explanations and extraordinary facts that are guaranteed to inform and to entertain. In "Human Body" you will find: key information - everything from how we breathe to how our muscles work; intriguing bite-size facts - the average person breathes around 700 million times during their lifetime; real-life stories - like the man who managed to spend over 10 minutes chained and handcuffed underwater without taking a single breath, before escaping; 'Big word alert' glossaries - clear and straightforward explanations on difficult words such as 'respiration'; stunning photographs and detailed diagrams; and, a full-colour pull-out poster.

Human Body. [Written by Camilla de La Bdoyre]

"Ripley's Twists" bring a fun, engaging and uniquely "Ripley's" approach to a whole range of topics, from the human body to space. Each title blends stunning full-colour photographs and illustrations with clear explanations and extraordinary facts that are guaranteed to inform and to entertain. In "Oceans", you will find: key information - everything from lazy floating blobfish to how to survive a shark attack; intriguing bite-size facts - Atlantic giant squid and colossal squid have the biggest eyes of any living animal, and each eyeball can measure ten inches across; real-life stories - like the man who free dives, with no fins or oxygen, to a depth of 282.15 feet; 'Big word alert' glossaries - clear and straightforward explanations of difficult words such as 'vertebrate'; and, stunning photographs and detailed diagrams.

Oceans. [Written by Camilla de La Bedoyere]

"Ripley's Twists" bring a fun, engaging and uniquely "Ripley's" approach to a whole range of topics, from the human body to space. Each title blends stunning full-colour photographs and illustrations with clear explanations and extraordinary facts that are guaranteed to inform and to entertain. In "Dinosaurs", you will find: key information - everything from a carnivore's menu to the size of the largest dinosaur tooth; intriguing bite-size facts - most dinosaurs walked on their toes and the smallest dinosaurs were about the size of a chicken; real-life stories - like the man who spent 17 years collecting dinosaur bone fragments and ended up with 5,796 bones, which he used to build a lodge the size of a Diplodocus; 'Big word alert' glossaries - clear and straightforward explanations of difficult words such as 'paleontologist'; and, stunning artwork and detailed diagrams.

Dinosaurs. [Written by Rupert Matthews]

Rupert-Matthews

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