"A guide to exploring the outdoors and asking questions about nature"--

"Poetic nonfiction text describes a child's sensory experience of various kinds of outdoor space. On each spread, facts related to observation center on a particular theme, including rain, animal homes, fruit, soil, flowers, seeds, water, roots, leaves, vegetables, pollinators, and the benefits of spending time outdoors"--

"A collection of some of John Muir's most memorable and inspirational words reminds us of a shared responsibility and inescapable bond-that all inhabitants of this planet "travel the Milky Way together.""--

One of the greatest experimental scientists of all time, Michael Faraday (1791–1867) developed the first electric motor, electric generator, and dynamo - essentially creating the science of electrochemistry. This book, the result of six lectures he delivered to young students at London's Royal Institution, concerns another form of energy - candlelight. Faraday titled the lectures "The Chemical History of a Candle," choosing the subject because,...

A selection of nature-themed essays by the biologist author of Magdalena Mountain explores such subjects as his early years as a national park ranger, the (3z(Bwilderness(3y(B of modern times and the life of Vladimir Nabokov.

Florida has an amazing biohistory. Its fossil record reveals that 8-ton ground sloths, giant beavers, and tiny horses once roamed its 66,000 square miles. Its human history is the story of people who arrived some 12,000 years ago after a journey that took them from Asia across the Bering land bridge and then south across the North American continent. Today, Florida is home to historic St. Augustine, the futuristic Kennedy Space Center, and the mysterious...