Parker, Steve

Presents an introduction to the basic scientific concept of light, in simple text with illustrations, including experiments and projects to help enhance understanding.

Presents an introduction to the basic scientific concepts of air, in simple text with illustrations, including experiments and projects to help enhance understanding.

Details the life and work of Marie Curie from early childhood to the discovery of radium and her two Nobel Prizes.

With a mixture of facts, experiments, and tricks, shows how we can measure the speed of light, fly to the moon, or buy things in a shop with only ten numbers.

Photographs and text examine the world of mammals, depicting their development, feeding habits, courtship rituals, protective behavior, and physical adaptation to their various ways of life.

Describes the invisible world of bacteria, viruses, fungi, yeasts, tiny animals in the soil, and parasites.

Describes through text and photographs unusual animals that fly in the air, live on the ground, burrow under it, and swim in the oceans.

Describes the different parts of the body and uses activities and experiments to help explain how they do what they are supposed to do.

The sense organs and how they work together to give us information about our surroundings. Sections on pain control, anesthesia, taste and artifical food flavorings--Catalog.

Discusses the differences between rocks and minerals, their formation and composition, how they are mined, how they are used now, and how they may be used in the future.