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Truth is stranger than legend . . . and your journey into both begins here. Learn More

The first of its kind, Dinosaur Discoveries features a multitude of never before seen specimens. Learn More

From the advent of photography in the 19th and into the 20th century, medical students, often in secrecy, took photographs of themselves with the cadavers that they dissected: their first patients. Learn More

Benjamin Franklin was a pioneering scientist, leader of the Enlightenment, and a founding father of the United States. But perhaps less well known is that he was also the first person to use mouth-to-mouth resuscitation on an electric-shock victim. Odder still, it was actually mouth-to-beak resuscitation on a hen that he himself had shocked. Learn More

When Tusko the Elephant woke in his pen at the Lincoln Park Zoo on the morning of August 3, 1962, little did he know that he was about to become the test subject in an experiment to determine what happens to an elephant given a massive dose of LSD. Learn More

Encyclopedia of Haunted Places was the first directory of its kind to be written by dozens of the world’s leading paranormal investigators. Learn More

The average American weighs 175 pounds. But at a bit over one pound per day, every day of the year, that one person produces an annual output over twice their body weight! That lovely bit of math is merely the title of this book — the inside pages of Everybody Poops 410 Pounds a Year go even further, overflowing with amazing facts, fascinating trivia, and amusing stories. Learn More

Oh don't laugh. You know it's true. Learn More

An accessible graphic introduction to evolution for the most science-phobic reader. Learn More