"Relevant images match informative text in this introduction to red foxes. Intended for students in kindergarten through third grade."

"Space is a vast and mysterious place. There are many environmental challenges, including enormous distances between planets and moons, lack of air and gravity, extreme cold, and radiation. This book presents to young readers these problems and examines the technologies developed so far to overcome them and make living in space possible. Through compelling text and dynamic photographs, readers will learn about past space travel, life on the International...

"Simple text and supportive images introduce beginning readers to the physical characteristics and geographic locations of lakes"--Provided by publisher.

While boating together, a mother explains to her son what lies beneath the water of the pond.

Introduces the physical characteristics of rivers with simple text and colorful photographs.

"His insights are keen and refreshingly iconoclastic . . . [A] contrarian synthesis of political thinking and economic analysis" on the topic of climate change (Publishers Weekly). In this well-informed and hard-hitting response to the scaremongering of the climate alarmists, Nigel Lawson, former Secretary of State for Energy under Margaret Thatcher, argues that it is time for us to take a cool look at global warming. Lawson carefully and succinctly...

"Relevant images match informative text in this introduction to woodpeckers. Intended for students in kindergarten through third grade."

"I read this wide-ranging and thoughtful book while sitting on the banks of the Ganges near Varanasi—it's a river already badly polluted, and now threatened by the melting of the loss of the glaciers at its source to global warming. Four hundred million people depend on it, and there's no backup plan. As Steven Solomon makes clear, the same is true the world over; this volume will give you the background to understand the forces that will

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Introduces gorillas, describing their physical features, what they eat, where they live, and how they care for their young.

Un pueblito del norte del Chile muere lentamente a causa de la contaminación que provoca una empresa minera. Los pobladores emigran, otros resisten. El abogado que toma la causa, es asesinado.