Brian Williams

Now in paperback, the New York Times Bestselling sequel to TUNNELS, with bonus materials and a sneak peek at the third book in the series!In TUNNELS, boy archaeologist Will Burrows went in search of his missing father--and discovered a sinister subterranean world. Now, wandering the dark, hot bowels beneath the Colony with his best friend, Chester, and his brother, Cal, Will stumbles across the Styx's dastardly plan to enslave all Topsoilers by poisoning...

This book explores what life was really like for everyday people in the Indus Valley civilization. Using primary sources and information from archeological discoveries, it uncovers some fascinating insights and explodes some myths. Supported by timelines, maps, and references to important events and people, children will really feel they are on a time-traveling journey when reading this book.

Who Invented the Automobile? looks back at the history of the automobile-a machine that we could not imagine living without today.

In this sixth and concluding book of the Tunnels series, the Styx and their cohorts of deadly Armagi have swept across England, leaving death and devastation in their wake. It seems nothing can stop them now. Only a miracle can save the day and, in the inner world at the centre of the earth, Will and Elliott might just have stumbled upon one as they uncover ancient secrets that are fundamental to al human and Styx life.

Roderick Gordon and Brian Williams' New York Times best-selling series that began with Tunnels has captivated countless readers of all ages. This fourth adventure finds Will Burrows deep in the "land of the second sun," reunited with his long-lost father. While Will attempts to decode the cryptic messages scrawled across the land's three mysterious temples, an army of darkness begins its march. And all the while the Rebecca’s continue their relentless...

Commemorating the 100th anniversary of the end of WWI, discusses the build-up to the war, along with battles, history, technology, and more. Fun facts, amazing pictures, quizzes.

Chronicling the spectacular rise to power of General Abdul Rashid Dostum, this is an intimate profile of the one of the most powerful warlords to have dominated Afghanistan in the years since the Soviet withdrawal in the late 1980s. His rise from simple peasant villager to warrior against the repressive policies of the Taliban and Al Qaeda is told by one of the few outsiders to be accepted into Dostum's stronghold in the northern deserts of Afghanistan....

A biography concentrating on the childhood of the British statesman, soldier, and historian.

A biography of the Frenchman who crowned himself Emperor in 1804.

Summarizes attempts to climb to the top of Mount Everest from the first expedition in 1922 to the first ascent by an all-woman team in 1975.