Learn everything you never knew (or have long since forgotten!) about astronomy and world history with these enlightening little books. You'll get a crash course in celestial know-how with Astronomy in Minutes, which covers everything from electromagnetic radiation and telescopes to dark matter and the formation of the first stars more than 13 billion years ago. World History in Minutes will introduce you to the first bipedal hominids and early civilizations before guiding you through the age of empires to the invention of the Internet. Though not comprehensive, each compact volume does include 200 brief yet enlightening entries—one page each with an accompanying black-and-white illustration—that are bound to teach you something you didn't know!