The first volume in a new annual series featuring the finest science writing by American authors offers a remarkable selection of works on topics ranging from biochemistry and physics to evolutionary theory, cognition, and astronomy, by Stephen Jay Gould, Timothy Ferris, Deborah M. Gordon, Susan McCarthy, Peter Galison, and other notable writers. (view table of contents)

In a photographic board book featuring real animals at the Smithsonian Institution's National Zoological Park, Elephant spends the day swimming, playing, and eating pumpkins, always staying close to his mother.

A baby giraffe is born at the zoo. On board pages.

A young orangutan leaves his mother to play various ape games on the zoo's play equipment with other young orangutans

Follows a panda through its day, eating bamboo, sitting on a bridge, having a snack, taking a nap, playing in the water, and eating a bamboo dinner

A baby rhinoceros and his mother enjoy a muddy bath and a shower in their cage before having a snack and a nap

Product Description: Tamarin is learning to find his own food in his rain-forest habitat at the zoo.

Two tiger cubs imitate their mother and learn how to climb a wall and hide among the bamboo shoots.