Product Description: The Best Book of Bugs looks at the life cycles, habitats, and amazing diversity of insects and spiders in stunning close-up detail. This book has everything a young etymologist would ever want to know.

Relates the history of corn and its various uses and examines the plant's appearance, structure, growth, and development.

Examines the stem, root system, leaves, and flowering heads of a sunflower and describes this unique plant's structure, growth, flowering, reproduction, and cultivation.

Product Description: The Impressionists explores the contributions of recognized masters through magnificent, full-color spreads and informative text. Designed and written to engage young readers, this title contains a history of the artist's life, his or her studio techniques, quality reproductions of the artist's masterworks, and social and historical contexts for the work...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A beautifully illustrated volume focuses on not only the history of buildings but the relationship of architecture and town planning, the science of construction, the use of landscape, and the people who benefit from the various structures.

A chronicle of four centuries of music drama, beginning with the seventeenth-century bel canto, the operas of Gluck, eighteenth-century classicists led by Mozart and Rossini, the grand operas of Verdi and Wagner, and many more.

Provides information on the planets in the solar system and answers frequently-asked questions concerning Jupiter's moons and Saturn's rings.

Young readers can take a colorful journey to four locations during thirteen time periods, from 550 million years ago to the present day, to see how different life was like in those places throughout millions of years.

Complemented by full-color reproductions, a close-up look at Giotto examines the life, work, innovative techniques, and world of the medieval Italian artist and assesses Giotto's impact on the evolution of later art trends, aesthetics, and painting techniques.