Product Description: Told through the eyes of 13-year-old Joan, Dark Matters introduces young readers to the fragile wonders that thrive below our increasingly threatened night-time skies. This book is packed with fascinating and unexpected facts and illustrations about how plants and animals react to light pollution, and comes up with tips and suggestions on how young people can help protect our important night-time environments...read more

Product Description: Trees have been around for nearly 400 million years, and today about 25,000 species of trees have been identified. We’ve relied on trees for everything from fuel, food, and medicine to building houses and railways. Today, trees still touch our lives in countless ways...read more

Product Description: Encouraging words to help readers live an inspiring life. This collection of 100 motivational pep talks helps individuals cope with everyday challenges. Each vignette offers encouraging thoughts to embrace when one is overwhelmed with stress, anxiety, sadness, or hopelessness...read more

Product Description: The most up to date space information, engaging photos, and dynamic charts give readers a guided tour of the solar system and beyond.

Product Description: The most up to date space information, engaging photos, and dynamic charts give readers a guided tour of the solar system and beyond.

Product Description: Stars live for billions of years. But their deaths are just as spectacular. Get an up close look at the supernovas and black holes that stars leave behind.

Product Description: Explore Alberta like never before. Alberta has some of Canada's most stunning scenery, from aspen forests and farmland to wetlands and foothills. Many of the province's natural wonders, cultural treasures, historical sites and recreational spots are within a two-hour drive of Edmonton...read more

By blending science with ancient myths, an addition to a best-selling series shows how the constellations have been used to create horoscopes, the difference between astrology and astronomy, and how easy it is to search for the zodiac constellations by jumping between star groups in the sky. Original.

Product Description: Throughout history, the Earth's closest celestial neighbor has inspired and intrigued. People around the world have looked up in awe at the Moon and told stories to explain its mysteries. They imagined that the Moon represented people or animals and believed it to be the cause of strange behavior...read more

Shares the mythical stories of our solar system, revealing the link between mythological figures and the nine planets that bear their names.

Shares the mythical stories of our solar system, revealing the link between mythological figures and the nine planets that bear their names. (view table of contents)

Recounts the stories behind some of the best known constellations, provides instructions on the best ways of spotting each one in the night sky, and offers information about stars. (view table of contents)