History in 50

Describes fifty natural disasters from antiquity to present times including volcanoes, fire, floods, disease, and more.

Highlights fifty key events and landmark discoveries in the history of medicine which greatly advanced human knowledge of the body and its diseases, from the 5,000-year-old mummy with tattoos on its acupuncture points to modern capabilities of biotechnology.

A history of con artists and hoaxes.

Explores the history of human travel, and the various vehicles over air, land, and sea that make it possible.