You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.
Describes the physical characteristics and behavior of elephants, their family groups, food habits, and threats to their existence.
Details the geography, government, history, and culture of West Virginia.
Discusses the geographic features, history, government, people, and attractions of the state known as the Land of Ten Thousand Lakes.
When their class project for Ocean Awareness Day falls into Ms. Frizzle's fish tank, Tim and his classmates board the Magic School Bus with their teacher for a real underwater adventure.
Describes the physical characteristics, behavior, life cycle, and different kinds of butterflies and their relationship to humans.
Celebrate the richness and diversity of the United States of America in this exciting series.
Describes the physical characteristics, behavior, habitat, and life cycle of various types of bees.
A history of how, in the mid-twentieth century, we came to believe in the concept of creativity. Named a best book of 2023 by the New Yorker and a notable book of 2023 by Behavioral Scientist. Creativity is one of American society’s signature values, but the idea that there is such a thing as “creativity”—and that it can be cultivated—is surprisingly recent, entering our everyday speech in the 1950s. As Samuel W. Franklin reveals, postwar Americans created creativity, through campaigns to define and harness the power of the individual to meet the demands of American capitalism and life under the Cold War. Creativity was championed by a cluster of professionals—psychologists, engi...
Inspired by an exhibition at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, explores microbes and their implications for modern science and medicine.
A compelling and innovative exploration of how animals shaped the field of natural history and its ecological afterlives Can corals build worlds? Do rattlesnakes enchant? What is a raccoon, and what might it know? Animals and the questions they raised thwarted human efforts to master nature during the so-called Enlightenment--a historical moment when rigid classification pervaded the study of natural history, people traded in people, and imperial avarice wrapped its tentacles around the globe. Whitney Barlow Robles makes animals the unruly protagonists of eighteenth-century science through journeys to four spaces and ecological zones: the ocean, the underground, the curiosity cabinet, and th...