miscellanea

"This big book of 96 info-packed pages introduces young readers to all the key science and facts about dinosaurs in a ... question and answer format"--Amazon.

"Provides young curious readers with striking visual clues and simply written hints. Using the photos and text, readers rely on visual literacy skills, reading, and reasoning as they solve the animal mystery. Clearly written facts give readers a deeper understanding of how the gecko lives. Additional text features, including a glossary and an index, help students locate information and learn new words."--Provided by publisher.

Uses poetic text to describe various types of spiders, and includes a glossary of terms and notes on poetic forms.

"Collects the thoughts of almost two hundred of today's leading thinkers on the issue of artifical in telligence"--OCLC.

A concise guide to historical information, from the Stone Age to the early twenty first century, covering wars, disasters, epidemics, and more.

Answers dozens of questions cat owners have about their pets' behavior, discussing feline senses, emotions, instincts, and intelligence, the mysteries of purrs and meows, cat habits, litter box solutions, eating and grooming, toys, tricks, safety, and entertainment.

"Mathematicians Hannah Fry and Thomas Ol?ron Evans discuss the traditional holiday season with diagrams, sketches and graphs, equations, Markov chains, and matrices.

Presents 1,000 tips on a number of subjects.

"You've heard of the game: Every story in this book is strange and astounding, but one out of every three is an outright lie. Picking out the fakes isn't as easy as you think, however. Some false stories are based on truth, and some of the true stories are just plain unbelievable! Don't be fooled by the photos that accompany each story--it's going to take all your smarts and some clever research to ferret out the truth"--Provided by publisher.