Rafferty, John P

Provides an overview of raptors, sharks, and crocodiles, with information on their hunting methods, habitat, appearance, behavior, and natural history.

An overview of primates that discusses their general features, morphology, paleontology, evolution, lemurs, monkeys, apes, early hominins, and humans.

Describes various types of rodents, such as rats, mice, beavers, chinchillas, and flying squirrels, types of bats, including Old World and New World bats, and types of xenarthrans, which includes armadillos, sloths, and anteaters, discussing their importance to people, their natural history, evolution, form and function, habitats, life cycles, and classification.

An in-depth exploration of the different reptiles and amphibians of the world, discussing their diversity of species, their wide geographic distribution, the roles they perform in their ecosystems, and their purity of form and function.

Provides an overview of the world's carnivorous animals, with information on each meat-eating species' habitat, hunting style, and natural history.

Provides information on the world's grazing animals, covering the abundance, distribution, natural history, eating habits, behavior, and appearance of even-toed ungulates, deer, antelopes, sheep, goats, cattle, swine, giraffids, horses, grazing marsupials, and proboscideans.

Discusses minerals and the study of mineral structure, and includes information on the different mineral classifications, their native elements, their physical and chemical characteristics, and where they are located on Earth.

Explores what scientists have learned about the Precambrian period on Earth, describing the methods that have been used to date and study geological samples from that time.

Examines in depth the general properties as well as the three major categories of igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks.