Berger, Melvin

Provides answers to commonly asked questions about space exploration, including "Which was the first living being in space?" and "Do you grow taller or shorter in space?".

Provides answers to such questions about the weather as "What makes the weather?", What is El Nino?, How big are hailstones?.

A series of questions and answers provides information about the physical characteristics, senses, eating habits, life cycles, and behavior of different insects.

Question and answers explore such topics as what the dinosaurs were, what they ate, what color they were, and how we know about them.

Provides answers to commonly asked questions about space exploration.

Questions and answers provide information about volcanoes and earthquakes, covering such aspects as why, how, when, and where these phenomena occur.

Lists 230 dangerous materials in the environment, explains terms used in the field, lists federal laws and agencies controlling hazardous substances, and gives government agencies and public interest organizations furnishing more information.

Traces the history of the development of the artificial heart, including experimentation with animal and human heart transplants, and discusses the psychological and ethical issues surrounding their use.

Discusses dinosaurs and different theories regarding their extinction, including climate changes, starvation, cosmic rays, and an asteroid collision with the earth.