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We all know Sydney is full of corruption and crime, but none of us expected to read about a Sydney businessman being shot in the back of his head, in his driveway, in front of his nine-year-old son

Hugh van Cuylenburg was a primary school teacher volunteering in northern India when he had a life-changing realisation: despite the underprivileged community the children were from, they were rema

There is the Bitcoin story of the headlines, but there is a more important one behind them: tangled plots sprawling like roots deep underground, entire worlds in which we are just passersby.

Did you know that Albert Einstein was a high-school dropout and that he failed his physics class when he finally made it to college?

Explores the fascinating world of social networking. With fun facts and engaging discussion topics, this short audiobook provides an inspiring look at this exciting technology.

Ben Franklin loved to swim and, at the age of eleven, he was determined to swim like a fish - fins and all!

Berries, apples, melons and grapes; oranges, grapefruits, bananas-yum!

What keeps objects from floating out of your hand? What if your feet drifted away from the ground? What stops everything from floating into space? Gravity.

In 1858, New York City was growing so fast that new roads and tall buildings threatened to swallow up the remaining open space.

Gail Gibbons combines clear, simple wording with her signature illustrations to present all the steps involved in building a house.

Reinhardt's mixed-media artwork includes several lighthearted moments (parallel scenes featuring Edison and Ford as children highlight the explosive results of early failed experiments).

Before Isaac Newton became the father of physics, an accomplished mathematician, or a leader of the scientific revolution, he was a boy living in an apothecary's house, observing and experimen

Clouds cover the sky in many shapes and sizes. Some clouds are thick and filled with rain. Others are thin and come with sunshine! Come cloud watch in this title for young readers.

From typing your name to playing a song, everything you do on computers uses code. But how do computers understand what we're telling them?

Where does an e-mail go when you hit send? Code zooms it through the millions of connections in the Internet!