Ticktock guides

3 total works

Under the Ocean

by Paul Bennett

Published 26 June 1999

This absorbing new series for older children explores different world regions and the people and other creatures that inhabit them. Vivid full-color photos, maps, and diagrams.

The earth's ocean environment is at least as complex as any on land. Its living creatures range in size from whales to plankton -- drifting plants and animals of nearly microscopic size -- and from fast-swimming dolphins to stationary coral.

The Time

by Paul Bennett

Published 1 April 1999

Attractively laid out on illustration-filled pages with texts that speak clearly to their subjects, these books review the technological achievements that have helped to shape history. Each book has between 70 and 110 photos, modern illustrations of historical events, and reproductions of famous illustrations from the past.

Summarized here are ancient methods of timekeeping, including sundials and water clocks. The development of the Julian calendar, origins of names for days and months, and the assignment of number for each year are also explained. The development of highly accurate mechanical clocks in the eighteenth century changed methods of ocean navigation, exploration, and map-making. Modern time-keeping methods are reviewed, including speed-of-light measurements and atomic clocks.

The Hospitable Desert

by Paul Bennett

Published 26 June 1999

This absorbing new series for older children explores different world regions and the people and other creatures that inhabit them. Vivid full-color photos, maps, and diagrams.

Here is a look at many desert plants and animals in different parts of the world -- scorpions, fennecs (desert foxes), vipers, lizards, camels, dromedaries, and many others.