Look at all these stripes and spots! From cheetahs to zebras, honeybees to coral snakes, some animals have amazing markings in different colors, shapes, and sizes. Young readers will learn all about animals with stripes and spots and how these markings help them survive in this fun Pre-reader. Through text features such as the vocabulary tree and the wrap-up activity, kids will be introduced to new words and concepts, helping them expand their understanding...

An innovative, hilarious, and expansive picture book about the biggest question of all: What is life?

"Did you know that oxpeckers help out giraffes by eating pesky insects off of them? Or that turtles hitchhike on hippos to sunbathe and regulate their body temperatures? These animals show that you don't need to be the same size, or even the same species, to be best buddies!"--

What can live in a harsh, dry desert? Make reading your superpower with DK's beautiful, leveled nonfiction. Use your reading superpowers to learn all about different deserts and the amazing animals and plants that can survive in them - a high-quality, fun, nonfiction reader - carefully leveled to help children progress. Desert Plants and Animals is a beautifully designed reader all about hot and cold deserts - what makes a place a desert, and what...

"Shortlisted for the 2013 Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books" Enrico Coen is a plant molecular geneticist based at the John Innes Centre in Norwich, United Kingdom. He is the author of The Art of Genes, a fellow of the Royal Society, and a foreign associate of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. His awards include the Linnean Gold Medal and the Royal Society Darwin Medal. The science of change from cells to culture Cells to Civilizations...

How does your brain create your reality? Are you in control, or is your brain controlling you? Discover the surprising answers based on the latest research in this journey into the human brain with neuroscientist Heather Berlin. Your brain--for centuries a black box--is slowly giving up its secrets to modern neuroscience, shedding light on big questions that go to the very heart of who you are.

Who hasn’t fantasized about the unique thrill of working among charismatic and clever dolphins in the wild? Now we no longer have to rely solely on our imaginations. With Dolphin Confidential, Maddalena Bearzi invites all of us shore-bound dreamers to join her and travel alongside the dolphins. In this fascinating account, she takes us inside the world of a marine scientist and offers a firsthand understanding of marine mammal behavior, as well...

François Jacob (1920–2013) was awarded the Nobel Prize for medicine in 1965 and was one of the world's leading molecular biologists. "The most remarkable history of biology that has ever been written."-Michel Foucault Nobel Prize–winning scientist François Jacob's The Logic of Life is a landmark book in the history of biology and science. Focusing on heredity, which Jacob considers the fundamental feature of living things, he shows how, since...

Six years after Charles Darwin announced his theory of evolution to the world, Gregor Mendel began studying the inheritance of traits in pea plants. Mendel's research led to his discovery of dominant and recessive traits and other facts of evolution, which he reported in his groundbreaking 1865 paper, Experiments in Plant Hybridization. His findings languished until 1902, when William Bateson revived interest in the subject with this book, a succinct...

Remote and wild, the Yukon is a river of extremes; in summer a restless giant, in winter, a river of ice. Home to grizzlies, moose and great runs of salmon, the Yukon lies at the heart of a vast northern wilderness. From indigenous hunters to gold-prospectors, musk ox to caribou, the Yukon’s natural riches have long sustained people and animals and continue to do so despite its changing fortunes.