Product Description: Describes the life and accomplishments of scientist, inventor, and teacher of the deaf Alexander Graham Bell, who is best known for inventing the telephone.

Product Description: Describes the life and accomplishments of scientist, inventor, and teacher of the deaf Alexander Graham Bell, who is best known for inventing the telephone.

Product Description: Ecotoxicology Essentials: Environmental Contaminants and Their Biological Effects on Animals and Plants provides a fundamental understanding of this area for students and professionals in ecotoxicology, ecology, conservation, chemistry, public health, wildlife management, fisheries, and many other disciplines...read more

Product Description: This book provides a review and synthesis of the current state of information on the ecotoxicology of contaminants in amphibians and reptiles. Twenty-six leading scientists present 15 chapters dealing with such topics as ecological, physiological, and distributional considerations; responses and body burdens of major groups of contaminants; specific contaminant-related problems including deformities, diseases, endocrine disruption, and declining populations; and the use of amphibians and reptiles in risk assessments...read more

Provides practical advice on equipment and techniques for beginning photographers and on taking pictures of the wonders of nature in parks, gardens, zoos, and even in urban neighborhoods

A biography of the scientist who discovered radium and won two Nobel Prizes

Product Description: Original research discusses the protocols and approaches to studying the effects of multiple environmental stressors on amphibian populations and gives new perspectives on this complicated subject. This new publication integrates a variety of stressors that can act in concert and may ultimately cause a decline in amphibian populations...read more

Photographs of wilderness areas and wildlife are accompanied by quotations and excerpts that discuss the connection between humans and nature

Product Description: A biography of Thomas Edison, the man who invented the phonograph, the electric light bulb, the motion picture and many other inventions.

Product Description: A biography of Thomas Edison, the man who invented the phonograph, the electric light bulb, the motion picture and many other inventions.