Describes various aspects of life in Europe during the eighteenth century including new discoveries and inventions, social structure, education, religion, government, entertainments, and industry and trade.
Describes the ways in which desert animals such as the spadefoot toad, desert shrimp, chuckwalla, and sand grouse adapt in order to survive in the hot, dry climate.
Describes such living fossils as the horseshoe crab, coelacanth, lungfish, cockroach, Galapagos tortoise, and other animals that have survived, almost unchanged, since prehistoric times.
Introduces the history and culture of the best known of the African peoples, who make up about twenty-five percent of the black population of South Africa.