"When stormy winds start to twist ant incredible speeds, watch out for some wild weather!" -- back cover.

From blizzards and glaciers on the world's highest peaks to the challenge of free climbling.

Describes the research and discoveries of paleontologists that led to significant information on dinosaur species, fossil records, migration, and their evolution into birds.

Takes readers to the limit from steep skiing to freestyle motocross.

Lucy, Alice, and Jack are all getting ready for the horse show and anyone could win.

Describes how space shuttles, probes, satellites, the Hubble space telescope, and space stations allow astronaunts to explore the moon and planets.

Relates the story of how the bite of a radioactive spider turned Peter Parker into Spider-Man, and describes his family, his powers, and his foes.

Follows a humpback whale as he swims from the Caribbean Sea to the far north of the Atlantic Ocean.

Discusses the work of paleontologists searching in the Sahara desert for dinosaur fossils in 2000.