Nagel, Rob

Includes Bee Creek Cave harvestman, no-eyed big-eyed wolf spider, Tooth Cave spider, short-tailed albatross, yellow-shouldered blackbird, Abbott's booby, California condor, Siberian crane, whooping crane, Hawaiian crow, Eskimo curlew, Laysan duck, bald eagle, Philippine eagle, Chinese egret, American peregrine falcon, Laysan finch, Andean flamingo, Hawaiian goose, Puna grebe, purple-winged ground-dove, Audouin's gull, Galapagos hawk, Hawaiian hawk, crested honeycreeper, northern bald ibis, kakapo, Mauritius kestrel, black-cheeked lovebird, Lear's macaw, Seychelles magpie-robin, marbled murrelet, northern spotted owl, golden parakeet, imperial parrot, Dalmatian pelican, yellow-eyed penguin, cheer pheasant, piping plover, resplendent questzal, Lord Howe wood rail, Rothchild's starling, shite-breasted thrasher, black-capped vireo, Cape vulture, Kirtland's warbler, ivory-billed woodpecker, red-cockaded woodpecker, Hell Creek Cave crayfish, Nashville crayfish, Madison Cave isopod, California freshwater shrimp, Kentucky Cave shrimp, Australian ant, American burying beetle, bay checkerspot butterfly, Corsican swallowtail butterfly, Queen Alexandra's birdwing butterfly, Hine's emerald dragonfly, Saint Helena giant earwig, pygmy hog sucking pig, wetapunga, queen conch, fanshell, dwarf wedge mussel, ring pink mussel, little-wing pearlymussel, Iowa Pleistocene snail, Manus Island tree snail, James River spinymussel, and stirrupshell.

Profiles over 90 Hispanic Americans, living and deceased who have made notable contributions in various fields such as politics, literature, entertainment, science, and athletes.

Explores the physical structure of the Earth's landforms, including what they are, how they look, how they were created and change over time, and major geological events associated with each.

Presents volume one of a five-volume set and explores key developments in the history of space exploration including ancient views of the universe and the laws of planetary motion, early and modern rocketry, manned space flight, and the Apollo project.

Contains over six hundred alphabetically arranged entries that provide information about topics related to the life, earth, and physical sciences, as well as to engineering, technology, math, psychology, and the environment.

Entries on 200 extinct, endangered, vulnerable, and threatened animals and plants describe the individual species, its habitat and current distribution, and efforts to protect and preserve it.

Presents an illustrated examination of the anatomy and physiology of the human body, looking at the design, workings, ailments, and care of eleven body systems; and includes discussion of the senses of hearing, sight, smell, and taste.