Rick Thomas

Examines the causes of floods, how humans try to prevent them, and how to protect yourself if it floods.

Describes what a heat wave is, and how it affects both city life and country life.

Describes what a hurricane is, how it forms, and the damage it can do.

Esto no es un aguacero común y corriente. Después de los rayos, vienen los truenos. ¡Es una tormenta! Descubre más sobre las luces gigantes que saltan en el cielo y qué produce los truenos en este libro sobre las tormentas.

A powerful and intimate look into torture and its effect on both the tortured and the torturer. In May of 2005, the U.S. government finally acknowledged that the invasion of Iraq had spawned an insurgency. With that admission, training the Iraqi Forces suddenly became a strategic priority. Lt. Col. Bill Edmonds, then a Special Forces captain, was in the first group of "official" military advisors. He arrived in Mosul in the wake of Abu Ghraib, at...