Barnes-Svarney, Patricia L

Provides answers to questions about criminal investigations, including the history of forensic science, the scientists behind the breakthroughs, and more.

Contains over one thousand questions and answers about math, covering the history of mathematics, math basics, math in science and engineering, and math in the humanities, daily life, and as recreation. Includes equations, photographs, and illustrations.

Offers information on nutrition, discussing the history of food and diet, how the body processes food, nutritional benefits and pitfalls, the latest scientific discoveries, the best way to cook foods to preserve nutrients, and more.

Provides answers to more than six hundred questions about dinosaurs, discussing fossils, evolution, different species, eating habits, physical characteristics, extinction, and other related topics.

Answers over 1,200 common questions about the human body. Includes over 140 color illustrations, diagrams, and charts.

Your fitness, health, and well-being depend on food and proper nutrition. Yet, knowing what is in the foods we eat, understanding the differences between good and bad fat, learning which foods are good sources of vitamins, keeping up on the latest scientific discoveries, or discerning the effectiveness of different diets can be challenging. To help answer these questions there's The Handy Nutrition Answer Book. Additionally, the book scrutinizes the pros, cons, and effectiveness of the biggest, most popular, and trendiest diets on the market today.

Provides information about biology topics in question and answer format.

Examines thirty major topics related to the natural history of Earth, arranged alphabetically from amphibians to volcanoes; each with an introduction, a timeline, a detailed description of early and modern highlights within the topic, and definitions of terms.

Surveys the history of the National Science Foundation, describing its structure, function, and influence on American society.

Offers information on scientific theories, meanings of terms, and listings of the major scientists in each field of study and their discoveries.