Describes the characteristics of several horned animals and explains the ways in which they use their headgear in courtship andbattle.

Discusses how individuals with insight and curiosity were able to form successful companies by finding creative solutions to problems.

Discusses animals with no backbones, including protozoans, sponges, worms, mollusks, arachnids, and arthropods.

Provides a history of the toy and game industry and profiles seven people who have succeeded in that realm.

Describes various companies that succeeded despite initial rejection and the certainty of "experts" that the product they offered would fail.

Profiles eight founders of the computer industry, including Thomas Watson, Jr. of IBM, An Wang of Wang Laboratories, Seymour Cray of Cray Research, Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore of Intel, Bill Gates of Microsoft, Steve Jobs of Apple Computers, and Steve Case of America Online.

Presents brief biographies of the enterprising individuals who started such products and companies as Apple computers, Sears, the Dow Jones Index and The Wall Street Journal, J.C. Penney, Hershey's chocolate, Ebony magazine, and Kinney shoes.

A detailed description of avalanches which includes their types and causes as well as the prediction of their occurrence and techniques of survival and rescue afterwards.

Describes various species from every animal family that use some kind of venom to protect themselves or as a means of acquiring food.