An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power is a daring call to action, exposing the reality of how humankind has aided in the destruction of our planet and groundbreaking information on what you can do now. Vice President Al Gore, a leading expert in climate change, combines cutting-edge research from top scientists around the world with photos, personal anecdotes, and observations to document the …
Explains how particular exercises can benefit specific muscles, and offers modification options and tips on proper form
When did language begin? How did early humans populate the globe? By looking closely at four of the most significant hominins ever discovered, the authors explain how Turkana Boy, Lapedo Child, Kennewick Man, and Iceman have influenced debates about the nature of the earliest members of the family Hominidae.
For decades after identifying the structure of DNA, scientists focused only on genes, the regions of the genome that contain codes for the production of proteins. Other regions that make up 98% of the human genome were dismissed as "junk," sequences that serve no purpose. Yet recently researchers have discovered variations and modulations in this junk DNA that underwrite a number of intractable…
In nineteenth-century Norway, fourteen-year-old Astri, whose aunt has sold her to a mean goatherder, dreams of joining her father in America.
Thomas and his father live a normal, happy life in Belthorp. But that is all about to end. His father breaks the unbelievable news that they come from the planet of Ormingat and they must return. The past has caught up with them. Will they survive?
The Gwynns have lived outside New York for 14 years. But they have an astonishing secret unknown even to their daughter Nesta. One eveneing when she sees her father diminish and disappear into a stone lily pad in the garden pond, Nesta has to be told what she really is.
A horse in nineteenth-century England recounts his experiences with both good and bad masters. Presented in comic book format.
Thunderhead is the engrossing story of Ken's hopes for the mighty Thunderhead and their mountain adventure. It aims to captivate boys and girls alike.
A Buddhist activist who worked to expose human rights abuses by the Chinese government on Tibetan citizens describes his meditation studies, courier work exchanging messages between his teacher and the Dalai Lama, and the loss of faith that is being induced by Tibet's occupiers
An introduction to sexual and asexual reproduction, with terms and definitions, human development, life cycles, aging and diseases, as well as questions and answers.
Complex facts about the human body are reinterpreted as stylish infographics, which astonish, amuse and inform by turn.
Are our personalities inherited or made? What can DNA reveal about human history? How significant was the creation of Dolly the sheep? And will we soon be designing babies to order? Mark Henderson, science editor of 'The times', distills the central concepts of this newest of sciences in a series of 50 lucid and engaging short essays. Beginning with Darwin's theory of evolution and concluding w…