Describes the characteristics and behavior of mammals, and looks at species found in forests, grasslands, rain forests, deserts, oceans, and homes

Product Description: Survival stories are more gripping than endangered stories and this book describes the Mammals populations that have been able to recover from the human and climater factors that drove them to the edge of extinction. Both success story and science learning...read more

Readers enter the intriguing world of invasive insect species with this text, a fun yet informative look at the insects whose goal is not just to survive, but to dominate new territories. Readers will be amazed at how the tiniest creatures can take down entire trees, fields of fauna, and even other insects by simply upsetting the delicate balance of the ecosystems they invade. Readers are encouraged to think critically about the relationships between living things. Colorful photographs accompany the age-appropriate text, and informative fact boxes offer even more fascinating information.

Product Description: Even though mammals can be found almost everywhere on Earth, they make up only a small percentage of animal species. Even so, the diversity among mammals is staggering. This volume explains mammals similarities and differences from one another, their anatomy and behaviors, and more...read more

Product Description: Mammals can be found everywhere, and no matter where you look youre bound to find them doing something interesting. Awesome acrobats, singing superstars, and other mammals with jaw-dropping adaptations of all kinds are gathered here into a single volume, paired with fun photography that will show young readers a whole new side of the animal kingdom...read more

Product Description: This beginner’s guide offers a first glimpse into the diverse and natural world of mammals.In this addition to the acclaimed About… series, educator and author Cathryn Sill uses simple, easy-to-understand language to teach children what mammals are, what they eat, and where they live...read more

Describes the physical characteristics, habits, and behavior of mammals, and discusses the mammals of fields, forests, mountains, fresh and salt water, and cities

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Product Description: From tiny bats and mice to massive whales, mammals are a highly diverse group of animals. Readers will learn about the common traits shared by the approximately 5,000 species of mammals living today, discovering how animals as seemingly unalike as human beings and kangaroos could be related...read more

This eleventh volume in the Poincaré Seminar Series presents an interdisciplinary perspective on the concept of Time, which poses some of the most challenging questions in science. Five articles, written by the Fields medalist C. Villani, the two outstanding theoretical physicists T. Damour and C. Jarzynski, the leading experimentalist C. Salomon, and the famous philosopher of science H. Price, describe recent developments related to the mathematical, physical, experimental, and philosophical facets of this fascinating concept. These articles are also highly pedagogical, as befits their origin in lectures to a broad scientific audience. Highlights include a description of the manifold fundamental physical issues in play with time, in particular with the changes of perspective implied by Special and General Relativity; a mathematically precise discussion of irreversibility and entropy in the context of Boltzmann's and Vlasov's equations; a thorough survey of the recently developed “thermodynamics at the nanoscale,” the scale most relevant to biological physics; a description of the new cold atom space clock PHARAO to be installed in 2015 onboard the International Space Station, which will allow a test of Einstein's gravitational shift with a record precision of 2 × 10-6, and enable a test of the stability over time of the fundamental constants of physics, an issue first raised by Dirac in 1937; and last, but not least, a logical and clarifying philosophical discussion of ‘Time's arrow’, a phrase first coined by Eddington in 1928 in a challenge to physics to resolve the puzzle of the time-asymmetry of our universe, and echoed here in a short poème en prose by C. de Mitry. This book should be of broad general interest to physicists, mathematicians, and philosophers.

What is a mammal? Dogs, whales, elephants, and many other creatures are all mammals! Clever rhymes from Brian P. Cleary and comical illustrations from Martin Goneau explain the traits that all mammals have in common and help you determine which creatures belong in this hairy group. Animal names are printed in color for easy identification, and the goofy CATegorical cats make learning fun!

Product Description: Spectacular photographs of many animals will engage readers at every level and informative text teach them where each animal belongs in the animal kingdom. Readers will discover interesting facts about koalas, blue whales, orangutans, and other mammals, too...read more