DK Secret Worlds Series. Brain: inner workings of the gray matter.DK SECRET WORLDS SERIES. Brain: inner workings of the gray matter. By Richard Walker Richard Walker may refer to:
Gladiators ate boiled beans and barley to build up their muscles, and fought about three times a year. A single shark may have 30,000 teeth in its lifetime. Julius Caesar Julius Caesar: see Caesar, Julius. used coded writing to keep his battle strategies under wraps. About one person in 25,000 can actually "hear" colors. These and other facts can be found in the Secret Worlds series, which includes books on apes, the body, bugs, code breakers, dinosaurs, explorers, Native Americans, mummies, sharks, and tornadoes. This colorful series appropriate for middle and high school libraries includes many facts and lavish color illustrations as well as top Web sites for each topic. Each book includes a reference section, index, and credits. Gladiators, for example, covers the history of Rome, the legions and their battle tactics, the Coliseum, the training of gladiators (some of whom were women), animal and Christian victims, gods and temples, and the decline and fall of both the Roman Empire and gladiatorial glad·i·a·tor n. 1. A person, usually a professional combatant, a captive, or a slave, trained to entertain the public by engaging in mortal combat with another person or a wild animal in the ancient Roman arena. 2. contests. The reference section of this book includes the emperors of Rome, a gladiator gladiator (Latin; swordsman) Professional combatant in ancient Rome who engaged in fights to the death as sport. Gladiators originally performed at Etruscan funerals, the intent being to give the dead man armed attendants in the next world. who's who, Roman numerals, nine Web sites, a list of gods and goddesses, a time line, and a glossary. The series is carefully researched, up to date, and engagingly written. Janet Julian, former English Teacher, Grafton H.S., Grafton, MA |
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