Handprints on Hubble - An Astronaut's Story of Invention

Kathryn D. Sullivan

The Hubble Space Telescope has revolutionized our understanding of the universe. It has, among many other achievements, revealed thousands of galaxies in what seemed to be empty patches of sky; transformed our knowledge of black holes; found dwarf planets with moons orbiting other stars; and measured pr...

Wicked Enchantment: Selected Poems

Wanda Coleman

'Hateful and hilarious, heartbroke and hellbent' Mary Karr 'Wanda Coleman is not just wickedly wise, she is transcendent' Washington Post Nobody wrote about police hassle like she did. Nobody wrote about making ends meet, about the history of the slave trade or the comedy of the daily grind, with the sa...

Fossil (DK Eyewitness)

DK

Find shells, bones, teeth, and plants, all turned to rock, and learn how they tell a story of a long-lost world that existed before modern people. Learn how fossils form and how palaeontologists dig to find out about ancient life forms. See a shell with a precious coating, find out which type of early h...