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Packed with fascinating facts and up to 100 things to spot on every spread, helps children to develop reading, counting and identification skills. Ages 4+.
A vandalized burial in a pioneer cemetery brings 12-year-old Peggy and her archaeologist friend Eddy to Golden, British Columbia, to excavate. When Eddy discovers the vertebrae at the base of the skull are crushed, they have their first clue. Hoping to learn more, Peggy learns that sometimes good people do bad things.
Young readers can locate different dinosaurs in picture puzzles while learning about dinosaurs and the world in which they lived.
Young readers may solve a variety of puzzles as they help Dan and his Aunt Lucy compete in a cross-country automobile race.
It follows naturally from the widely accepted Darwinian dictum that failures of populations or of species to adapt and to evolve under changing environments will result in their extinction. Population geneti cists have proclaimed a centerstage role in developing conservation biology theory and applications. However, we must critically reexamine what we know and how we can make rational contributions. We ask: Is genetic variation really important for the persistence of species? Has any species become extinct because it ran out of genetic variation or because of inbreeding depression? Are demographic and environmental stochas ticity by far more important for the fate of a population or species...
This bumper book contains four titles from the 'Great Searches' series, bound together in one volume. Every spread is packed with detail and there are over 100 objects to spot within each scene. In addition to being a puzzle book, this is also an informative reference title, with snappy captions and facts featured throughout.
The fifth edition of this seminal textbook by best-selling author Andrew Heywood continues to lead the way in providing a comprehensive and authoritative introduction to politics. Renowned for its engaging and accessible style, this book helps students to understand the discipline's foundational concepts and theories and use these to make sense of its key subfields, from elections and voting to security and global governance. Systematically revised and updated throughout, it also uses a range of tried-and-tested pedagogical features to draw links between different standpoints and help make contemporary institutions, events and developments come to life. Drawing on a wide range of internation...
Features time travelling natural history expert, Nigel Marven, as he rescues endangered dinosaurs from extinction and establishes a prehistoric wildlife sanctuary.
THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER! For millennia, men have told the legend of the woman whose face launched a thousand ships—but now it's time to hear her side of the story. Daughters of Sparta is a tale of secrets, love, and tragedy from the women behind mythology's most devastating war, the infamous Helen and her sister Klytemnestra. As princesses of Sparta, Helen and Klytemnestra have known nothing but luxury and plenty. With their high birth and unrivaled beauty, they are the envy of all of Greece. But such privilege comes at a cost. While still only girls, the sisters are separated and married to foreign kings of their father's choosing—the powerful Agamemnon, and his brother Menelaos. Yet ev...
A fresh new edition in the classic Usborne Young Puzzles series, featuring a lively story linked with lots of fun picture puzzles; Detailed illustrations packed with things to spot ensure that the story can be read again and again; Young children will enjoy looking at these challenging books on their own, or sharing them with an adult.