Bender, Lionel

Photographs and illustrations introduce readers to the causes of blindness, color and night blindness, treatments and medical cures, and how people who are visually impaired cope with their infirmity.

Explores how medicine and the microscope are vital tools in aiding police investigations.

Photographs and text explore such inventions as the wheel, gears, levers, clocks, telephones, and rocket engines.

Discusses the formation of lakes, their characteristics and importance.

Describes the characteristics of deserts, how they are formed, and the plants and animals that live in them.

Describes the animals inhabiting the polar regions of the world and how they have adapted to the climate there.

A geological explanation of the reasons and ways in which caves are formed with a discussion of their uses throughout history.

A geological explanation of the formation, characteristics, and properties of islands with a discussion of their historical importance.

Traces the story of a volcano, how it is formed, and what happens when it erupts. Includes illustrations, photographs, and diagrams.

Photographs and text explore such inventions as the wheel, gears, levers, clocks, telephones, and rocket engines.