Collins Fascinating Facts Series II

Collins Fascinating Facts Series
Weird and wonderful facts you would never have guessed were true!
interesting, informative and fun. Fascinating facts will entertain and amaze you.

Key Features

全系列包含12 本讀本。
主題包含：科學、動物、恐龍、地震與火山、探險家、人體、海洋、科學、太陽系、神奇的地點、羅馬人、天氣、地球。
有趣的文字，搭配精美的插圖，有效提升學童的閱讀興趣。
內容涵蓋各種一般人所想不到的有趣事實，例如：加拿大擁有全世界最長的海岸線、北冰洋從不下雨只下雪、1913年七月，美國的死亡谷 (Death Valley) 被測出 56.72度C，是記錄上最高的溫度。
每本書都可免費下載電子書 (以 ISBN 註冊)。
定價：NT$ 250/本

9780008169237	Collins Fascinating Facts – Romans
	Hundreds of Fascinating Facts About The Romans Julius caesar, born in 100 BC, is perhaps one of the most famous Roman leaders. was a very clever politician and a powerful and ruthless army general. Discover hundreds of fascinating facts about the history of the Romans. The first Roman emperor was Julius caesar's nephew, Octavian. Mosaics were hugely popular in Roman times and tell us a lot about Roman life. Spartacus was a famous Roman gladiator who led the slave rebvellion in Rome.
9780008169213	Collins Fascinating Facts – Weather
	Hundreds of Fascinating Facts About The Weather Rainbows are created when raindrops split up the white light from the sun to reveal all the colours of the spectrum. Discover hundreds of incredible facts about the different kinds of weather. A tornado is a funnel of extremely high winds that can travel up to 100 kilometers per hour. Heatwaves occur when high – pressure air is pushed down towards earth. trapping hot air and preventing clouds from forming. In July 1913, Death Valley measured a temperature of 56.7^oC, the hottest on record.
9780008169206	Collins Fascinating Facts – The World
	Hundreds of Fascinating Facts About The World About half of all the world's plants, animals and insects are found in the Amazon, the largerst rainforest in the world. Discover hundreds of fascinating facts about the world, countries, cultures and environment. Canada has the world's longest coastline – it is 202000 kilometres long. Mount Everest was formed around 60 million years ago and its peak is 8848 metres high. It never rains in the Arctic Ocean – it only snows.
9780008169190	Collins Fascinating Facts – Amazing Places
	Hundreds of Fascinating Facts About Amazing Places Did you know there are over 1500 different types of fish and over 200 kinds of birds in Australia's Great Barrier Reef? Discover hundreds of fascinating facts about incredible places around the world. Stonehenge in Britain is over 3500 years old. Angel Falls is the world's highest waterfall and is nineteen times higher than the drop of Niagara Falls. Over 200 million people have visited the Eiffel Tower in Paris, making it the world's most visited monument.
9780008169183	Collins Fascinating Facts – Science
	Hundreds of Fascinating Facts About Science Energy cannot be created or destroyed. The amount of energy in the universe is constant – it just keeps changing frome one form to another. Discover hundreds of incredible scientific facts about Earth, space and everything in it! Bees can see ultraviolet light that humans can't see. All objects have gravity, even us humans, though it's so weak we don't notice it. There are so many plants on Earth that they make large parts of our planet look green from space.
9780008169220	Collins Fascinating Facts – Solar System
	Hundreds of Fascinating Facts About The Solar System The rings of saturn are about one kilometre thick and are made up of icy boulders and dust. Discover more fascinating facts about the planets of our solar system. The length of a day on the planet venus is the same length as 243 Earth days. Jupiter has 63 moons in orbit. The largest is called Ganymede which is larger than the planet Mercury. All the stars we see at night are part of the Milky Way galaxy, which appears to us as a hazy band of white light.