Got a thirst for knowledge of all things nasty? Then this yuckopedia’s for you! A team of cartoon characters guides you through a feast of festering facts so horrible they’re hard to believe. Featuring gross truths about the human body, food, animals, history, science, and even world records in horribleness, it’s a real education in all things rotten.
 . . . Enter ye not, those of a weak constitution . . .

The New World of Welfare, edited by Rebecca Blank and Ron Haskins, is an intense and thorough examination of all facets of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act, signed by President Bill Clinton in 1996. This bipartisan act was the most sweeping welfare reform ever. It was also widely criticized and clouded with controversy. Among the many items stirring debate was the five-year time limit imposed on the benefits, the level of funding devoted to child care, and the requirements meant to reduce out-of-wedlock births.

Drawing on the huge and comprehensive archive held by the Imperial War Museum in London, the author portrays the history of the British Fighter Command, year by year, from the outbreak of the war in September 1939 through to the Allied victory in May 1945. Fighter Command's war-winning aircraft are also featured in a series of detailed photographs.

This compelling and atmospheric pictorial record will have major appeal for everyone wanting to know more about the RAF in World War II.

 

For the Polish Forces in the Battle of Britain, an interesting and for many unknown stats, see here:

The story of the famous Polish 303 Squadron

Polish airforces in Great Britain and France

 

During the course of our lives, countless snippets of information are stored in the brain: some useful, others merely of interest.
This collection of quizzes tests your knowledge of the world and beyond.
Each round contains ten questions – and you may be astounded at just what you have picked up over the years!

Rudyard Kipling has been one of the most loved and the most loathed of English writers. Rudyard Kipling: A Literary Life is a study of the forces and influences that shaped his work--including his unusual family background, his role as the laureate of Empire, and the deaths of two of his children--and of his complex relations with a literary world that first embraced and then rejected him, but could never ignore him.