Brief text and labeled illustrations describe different types of aircraft, including long-range airliners, jump jets, supersonic fighter planes, and gliders

Explains how and why earthquakes happen, their effect on the environment, and how potential catastrophies could be prevented by predicting when earthquakes might occur

Complete with simple projects and experiments, young readers are introduced to the properties of electricity while exploring how it affects the body, becomes converted into various types of energy and more.

Ordinary appliances and gadgets around the house get a new look, with a view to understanding their origin, purpose, and function. Readers learn how to think up ideas for new and special tools and appliances.

Ordinary appliances and gadgets get a new look, with a view to understanding their origin, purpose, and function. Readers learn how to think up ideas for new and special tools and appliances.

Complete with glossary, index and map, this comprehensive book presents the benefits of grasslands around the world while highlighting the problems the planet is destined to face as more and more areas of natural grasslands are developed.

Explains the causes and effects of hurricanes and typhoons and examines their environmental impact and how they can be predicted

Explores the principles of light and color while providing practical experiments and applications, complete with index, glossary and full-color illustration throughout.

This colorfully illustrated book provided middle readers with an introduction to magnetism and its important force on nature, complete with experiments and hands-on projects.

This latest in the Closer Look At series for young readers examines some of the highest places on the planet, through up-to-date research, stimulating text, and visual images including maps, diagrams, and photographs.

Perhaps the most important element of any zombie apocalypse survival strategy is home preparation and defense. Zombie survivalists will learn here how to survey and repair any home defense weaknesses and deficiencies, how to build a store of rations and necessary supplies, and how to identify and establish ideal zombie-proof locations within the home. Also covered are strategies for surviving an extended zombie siege, how to clear your home and neighborhood of zombie infestations, how to integrate within your group survivors of zombie combat from outside your area, and how to link up and coordinate with other survivor groups.

Discusses the problem of rainforest destruction, looking at the reasons for and consequences of this destruction, and what can be done to stop it

Introduces experiments and projects designed to illustrate scientific principles such as flight, sound, chemistry, and electricity.

Offers middle readers an introduction to sound by exploring how it is formed and travels, complete with practical experiments, index, glossary and full-color illustration throughout.

A book on counting and measuring looks at how standard scales, tools, and units of measurement were developed and how they are used, offering projects and experiments the reader can do to test specific scientific principles.

Explains how and why volcanoes errupt, describes effects of their erruption on the environment, and suggests how predicting their activity may prevent catastrophies

This boldly illustrated book provides young scientists with an array of hands-on projects that will introduce them to the diverse properties of water in relation to boats.

Preparation and planning for the zombie apocalypse are all well and good, but at some point you are going to have to engage a zombie directly, in open mano-a-mano combat. This guide provides everything you need to know about armed and unarmed combat, effective weaponry, fixed defenses, and the crucial differences in combat you need to take into account when fighting a dead as opposed to a live adversary. Also included are zombie profiles, classic zombie, armless zombie, kiddie ghouls, bloaters, and the most effective strategies against each type. Driving through zombie territory, long-distance travel, and first contact protocols round out this truly life-saving resource.