Bortolotti, Dan

An exploration of tigers, their natural environment and in captivity, the threat of extinction, and the conservationists who are working with them.

Profiles over seventy current professional baseball players and provides coverage of the 2010 regular season, playoffs, and World Series. Includes over 170 full-color photographs.

An exploration of pandas, their natural environment and in captivity, the threat of extinction, and the conservationists who are working with them.

Contains eighty captioned colored photographs of auroras, and provides information on the folklore and science associated with the northern lights.

An often harrowing account of the men and women who struggle to improve the lives of people in desperate need. The humanitarian organization, Doctors Without Borders (also known as M?decins Sans Fronti?res or MSF) delivers emergency aid to victims of armed conflict, epidemics, natural disasters and those who lack reliable health care. Each year, more than 2,500 volunteer doctors, nurses, and other professionals join locally-hired staff to provide medical aid in more than eighty countries. This book follows these volunteers as they risk their health and lives to treat patients in need. It also covers the raucous founding of Doctors Without Borders in 1971 as the first non-governmental organization to both provide emergency medical assistance and publicly bear witness to the plight of the populations they served. In 1999, the organization was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.--From publisher description.

Profiles the top players in professional baseball, highlighting the careers and accomplishments of seventy players who are making baseball history.

Describes the experiences of individual medical professionals who work for Doctors Without Borders around the world, including Africa, Asia, and Europe, and explains how Doctors Without Borders was founded, and how the organization has reacted to world events.

A natural history of the blue whale, the largest creature that has ever lived, looking at what scientific research has revealed about how they dive, where they live, what they eat, their migration, and other aspects of their lives, and discussing how they were driven to the brink of extinction in the early twentieth century, and signs that the population is recovering.