Hamilton, John

A pictorial history of developments in transportation over the last millennium.

This book is an introduction to Humvees, multipurpose vehicles, describing their history, versions, suspension and tires, chassis and body, ground clearance, engine and transmission, cargo capacity, and weapons.

Photographs and text introduce the purpose and capabilities of Abrams tanks, describing the history of the vehicles, and explaining how they are used by the United States Army.

Discusses the office of Attorney General and the Justice Department. Includes various bureaus and a profile of Janet Reno, the present Attorney General.

Discusses the discovery of a meteorite suggesting to scientists that primitive life may have existed on the planet Mars over three billion years ago.

Discusses the United States space program Viking and its missions to Mars.

Describes the Mars Pathfinder project, in which a vehicle has landed on Mars to investigate the surface of the planet and send back data on Martian geology.

An introduction to the planet Mars, including information gathered from recent scientific missions.

Describes the Mariner space probe missions carried out between 1964 and 1972 in order to study the planet Mars.

Describes a series of missions, beginning in 1996 and continuing into the first part of the next century, designed to bring back data about the surface features, atmosphere, and magnetic properties of Mars.