Batman: Earth One Vol. 1

Gary Frank

#1 New York Time Bestseller! Batman is not a hero. He is just a man. Fallible, vulnerable, and angry. In a Gotham City where friend and foe are indistinguishable, Bruce Wayne's path toward becoming the Dark Knight is riddled with more obstacles than ever before. Focused on punishing his parents' true ki...

5,000 Awesome Facts 3 (About Everything!)

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC KIDS

More fun than a barrel of monkeys and more interesting than reality TV-- thisbrain candy-filled book is an explosion of information about sensational topicskids love: royalty, gravity, bioluminescence, sloths, wildfires, bubblegum, cars, breakfast, aliens, you name it It's a fantastic, fact-filled editi...

How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present, and Future

Vaclav Smil

Delightfully contrarian, this is the one book you need to read to understand our modern world.  We have never had so much information at our fingertips and yet most of us don't know how the world really works. This book explains seven of the most fundamental realities governing our survival and prosperi...