Wow Bind-up: Discoveries, Inventions, Ideas and Events That Changed the World

Wow!

by Philip Ardagh

A bind-up of four books covering the ideas, events, inventions and discoveries that have changed the course of history. Short yet fact packed, they are a mine of information. For example, in "Discoveries" we learn about the discovery of DNA, antibiotics (if they had been around at the time of the Black Death 95 per cent of victims would have survived!), gravity and the Americas. In "Events" we learn about a man landing on The Moon, the knocking down of the Berlin Wall, the fall of Rome and the assassination of JFK. In "Ideas" we learn about Marxism, Communism, Darwinism, Christianity, Feminism and Suffrage. In "Inventions" we learn about the invention of the internal combustion engine, the wheel, railways, anaesthetics and the atom bomb.

384 pages, Paperback

First published July 5, 2002

About the author

Over six-and-a-half feet tall, with a bushy beard, Philip Ardagh is not only very big but also very hairy. He is the author of the Eddie Dickens Trilogy and when not writing silly books, Mr. Ardagh is quite serious and frowns a great deal. He lives in a seaside town somewhere in England with his wife and their son, Fred.