21st-Century Engineering Solutions for Climate Change (21st-Century Engineering Solutions for Climate Change)
The Coldest Tundra! Arctic & Antarctica Animal Wildlife Children's Polar Regions Books
by Baby Professor
The Amoeba Sisters' Cartoon Guide to Biology
by Sarina Peterson and Brianna Rapini
Join The Amoeba Sisters in this Fun Science Book for Kids (Ages 14-16)Biology doesn’t have to be hard. With The Amoeba Sisters, teachers and students alike can learn basic concepts of biology through easy-to-learn mnemonics, illustrations, comparisons, and so much more! This isn’t your basic biology book. Over 1 million people have tuned into The Amoeba Sisters YouTube channel to learn science and biology facts in a whole new way. In their debut science book for kids, you can dive deeper into b...
What does living green mean? For some, it means making a commitment to reduce, reuse, and recycle every day. For others, it also means respecting and conserving our natural resources, so they will be available in the future. In Living Green: The Ultimate Teen Guide, readers learn why protecting the environment is such a crucial undertaking and why and how young adults should take up this important cause. Living Green demonstrates how reckless indifference to our planet's needs jeopardizes not o...
WINNER OF THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR CONSERVATION 2023 The Sunday Times Science Book of the Year As seen on Countryfile ‘If anyone was born to save Britain’s rainforests, it was Guy Shrubsole’ Sunday Times Shortlisted for the Richard Jefferies Society Literary Prize Temperate rainforest may once have covered up to o...
El zorro y la estrella / The Fox and the Star
by Coralie Bickford-Smith
#ZorroyEstrellaUn maravilloso trabajo de prosa y diseño, una original fábula sobre la necesidad y la pérdida.Había una vez un zorro que vivía en un bosque denso y tupido. Desde que tenía memoria, la única amiga de Zorro era Estrella, que cada noche iluminaba los caminos del bosque para él. Pero una noche Estrella ya no estaba allí, y Zorro tuvo que enfrentarse solo a la oscuridad...El zorro y la estrella ha sido ganador, entre otros premios, del Book of the Year de Waterstones, la librería más i...
Keep Curious and Carry a Banana (Curious George)
by H A Rey, Justin Martin, and Liza Charlesworth
For more than seventy-five years, the world of Curious George has delighted readers with its playful charm and deceptively simple wisdom. Fans of the Keep Calm and Carry On craze will find comfort in this Georgified version of the popular book format. Each inspiration is humorously accompanied by an illustration from the original works of H. A. Rey's Curious George books. Sure to make readers chuckle as only George can, this book is packed with inspiration and humor. It's the perfect gift for...
Birds (Grzimek's Student Animal Life Resource S.)
by Bernhard Grzimek
Journeying by night through the dead of winter, she endures extreme cold, hunger, and a harrowing crossing of the St. Lawrence River in Montreal before her cries of loneliness are finally answered in the wilds of Maine. The mate she finds must gnaw off a paw to escape a trap. The first coyotes in the northern U.S., they raise pups (losing several), experience summer plenty, winter hardship, playfulness, and unmistakable love and grief. Blending science and imagination with magical results, this...
Incredible Creatures: Insects Paperback (Incredible Creatures)
by John Townsend
Creepy and fascinating insects can be found all over the world. Explore their world in this exciting title that divides insects according to animal classifications in order to establish a firm scientific basis. The title focuses on weird and wonderful examples of creatures that are not the norm. The title also include predatory behavior, but not as the main thrust of the book. A variety of text types such as newspaper reports are used to represent real life stories about the creatures covered.
Designed as a resource for botanists and all those interested in fungi, and suitable for the general reader or student looking for background reading, the focus of this text is the larger fungi; those which have an obvious fruiting body. Roy Watling MBE, a respected mycologist who has written widely on the subject of fungi, sheds light on these intriguing organisms in a clear, accessible text illustrated with colour photographs on every page. In a world without fungi, all the fallen trees, dead...
Combining truly amazing photography with a rich and readable text, BUZZ takes you into the field and under the fridge to explore the world of the insect, up-close and personal. The perfect balance of "yuck" and "wow", Buzz takes us into the fascinating world of insects and how they interact with each other, with their habitat, and with us. On the model of Chronicle's book On the Surface of Things, Buzz combines a highly-accessible text with eye-popping electron microscope photographs of bugs, pu...
This volume is part of a biography series exploring the lives and achievements of important inventors and pioneers of science. As well as providing the life story of Diane Fossey and an analysis of her work, this book places her achievements in context by looking at the technological and historical context of the time. The book includes: a look at the ongoing impact of Fossey's work; quotes and writings from the newspapers and journals of the time; and information about the men and women who aff...