classification

Examines the key characteristics of nonflowering plants, explaining what they are and what they look like, discusses classes of nonflowering plants, and features descriptions of a selection of nonflowering plant orders, including mosses, horsetails, conifers, and others.

Examines the history of criminal identification, looking at the methods that have been used to prove individual identity and discussing how society came to accept fingerprinting as infallible.

Examines the history of criminal identification, looking at the methods that have been used to prove individual identity and discussing how society came to accept fingerprinting as infallible.

A guide to the major divisions of nature's five kingdoms.

Presents a comprehensive guide with over one hundred forty illustrated photographs of marine mammals and discusses their physical traits, habitat, scientific names, and the status of threatened species.

Explains the system by which plants and animals are classified, describes each of the five kingdoms of life, discusses the classification of various species, and introduces the scientists who founded classification.

Explains what mammals are and how they differ from other animals, with an overview of the life cycle of a variety of mammals, including pouched mammals, sea mammals, and flying mammals.

Introduces the idea that animals can be classified into groups according to the characteristics they have in common, and shows the ways that different types of mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, and invertebrates are alike.

Examines the characteristics of living things and how they are classified into various groups, and describes the five main kingdoms of life.

Photographs and text describe animals which have recently been discovered.