Best Selling Books by Paul Beck

Explore outer space from our solar system to the edges to the universe! Extreme 3-D: Outer Space pairs the most bizarre and mind-blowing facts about our planets with breathtaking images—all in 3-D!

Warning: Extreme danger! They stalk, sting, pounce, and chomp. They're the deadliest creatures on earth, and now you can see why as you explore them all through incredible action photos. Extreme: Dangerous Animals brings you face-to-face with tigers, wolves, great whites, and cobras—and a few animals you might not expect!

Explore outer space from our solar system to the edges to the universe! Extreme: Outer Space pairs the most bizarre and mind-blowing facts about our planets with breathtaking images!

Warning: Extreme danger! They stalk, sting, pounce, and chomp. They're the deadliest creatures on earth, and now you can see why as you explore them all through incredible 3-D photos. Extreme 3-D: Dangerous Animals brings you face-to-face with tigers, wolves, great whites, and cobras—and a few animals you might not expect!

You're having fun on your tropical trip. But as you dash to catch your flight home, your dream vacation quickly turns into a nightmare. Your plane crashes in the Himalayas! You're charged by a rhino in India! A rip current in Australia sucks you out to sea! What do you do! In each situation, you'll have a choice to make-and the actions you choose will determine whether you make it home. See if you've got what it takes to get yourself out of life-or-death encounters with wild animals, national disasters, freak accidents, and just plain bad luck. In a world of danger, will you survive? Book jacket.

There is more to outer space than what we can see in the night sky. Explore it all with Amazing World Stars & Planets and be a real space traveler. How is a star born? Why does it die? What is the difference between a star cluster and a planetary nebula? Discover the answers to these questions and more in Amazing World: Stars and Planets! This exciting exploration is a door to the infinite realm beyond the pale blue dot we call home. From stellar nurseries, to glowing green clouds, to spiral galaxies, find out about the dramatic lives of these explosive players in our universe. This is the perfect introduction to the great celestial bodies of outer space for science lovers and their children. Kids will love the gorgeous, bright images, and will also learn quickly from the easily digestible bites of information on each page. Amazing World Stars & Planets also includes a collection of glow-in-the-dark stickers to put on notebooks, folders, bedroom ceilings, anywhere!

Calling landlubbers and swashbucklers alike! Inside Out: Pirate Ship explores everything you need to take to the seas, from swabbing the deck to walking the plank. Alongside beautiful illustrations and photographs, an interactive die-cut model reveals the many nooks and crannies of the classic pirate ship. Though piracy's golden age was in the 1700s, many still long for a life searching for treasure. From famous pirates like Blackbeard and Captain Kidd, to precious plunder like Spanish coins and colorful jewels, to the less glamorous tasks of climbing dangerous ropes or cleaning dirty decks, Inside Out: Pirate Ship takes you deck by deck into the scourge of the sea. Get a fascinating glimpse into how these crews lived, worked, and attacked. You will be amazed by everything from the sky-high crow's nest, to the billowing sails, to the teeny-tiny sleeping quarters. When it comes to hidden treasure, there's always somewhere else to look! The Inside Out series also includes: Inside Out: Human Body, Inside Out: Shark, Inside Out: T-Rex, Inside Out: Mummy, Inside Out: Horse, and Inside Out: Medieval Castle.

An exciting, interactive kit that combines natural science with robotics, Robotic Gorilla teaches kids everything they want to know about gorillas--and even lets them build their own robotic gorilla!Gorillas are remarkable creatures and there is much we can learn from them. In fact, scientists are studying gorillas' special skills--walking, grabbing and using tools--to build highly specialized robots like Coco, a gorilla-bot named after the world's most famous gorilla, Koko. In Robotic Gorilla, young naturalists will be inspired to build their own moving robotic gorilla with glowing light-up eyes. Look out King Kong!

Fierce Fighters Predators put the most dominant predators in the world into hypothetical fights and analyzes their power, quickness, venom, to see who would win. For the world’s fiercest predators, winning is second nature. But what would happen if they forgot their prey and battled one another, instead? Featuring dozens of the world’s greatest hunters, Fierce Fighters: Predators showcases the most epic battles imaginable between the champions of the land, sea, and sky. Grizzly versus mountain lion. Electric eel versus piranha. Orca versus great white shark. Komodo dragon versus tiger. Python versus king cobra. These aren’t just head-to-head match-ups—they are tooth-to-tooth and claw-to-claw. Deadly venom against powerful jaws. Speed and agility against brute force. Brainy mammals against cold-blooded reptiles with a survival instinct millions of years in the making. Weigh the skills of the contestants and try to guess who will emerge victorious, then check and see if the experts agree. In these dozens of earth-wide battles, can you predict the most ferocious fighters of all?

Traces the history of the region from World War I to the present, and describes influential events, movements, and individuals.

City of parks -- A city at work -- City people -- Building a city -- A city alive -- About Murphy Library.

From the appetizing intestines to the tasty respiratory system, explore every part of the human body through a zombie's rotting eyes.

Learn about the world of bats and how they have inspired the design of robots.

Dans la France occupée de 1942, Daniel, un jeune Juif de dix ans, trouve refuge chez trois soeurs, dans un petit village de la Loire. Chez elles vit aussi Lucie la sauvageonne, orpheline de quinze ans. Lorsque les S.S. prennent possession du village, les membres d'un réseau de résistance dirigé par l'une des soeurs sont un à un capturés et exécutés. Quand les Allemands s'en vont, Paul découvre le corps de Lucie, exécutée d'une balle dans la tête. C'est elle que la rumeur accuse de trahison. Quinze ans plus tard, Paul revient au village pour rétablir une vérité qui tourmente sa conscience. Les langues se délient. Et le jour se fait progressivement sur la véritable identité du meurtrier de Lucie... Paul Bëck s'est inspiré de faits réels pour écrire une histoire en partie autobiographique.