Product Description: This title offers a high-interest introduction to insects for reluctant readers and will hold special appeal for visual learners. It's filled with a dynamic mix of labeled illustrations, cutaway views, maps, graphs, and process diagrams that reveal an insider look at the world of insects...read more

This series meets National Curriculum Standards for: Science: History and Nature of Science Social Studies: Time, Continuity, & Change

Product Description: This book provides a fascinating look at the planet we live on, from its devastating volcanoes and earthquakes to the amazing creatures surviving in the hottest deserts, coldest plains and deepest ocean abysses. It also looks at the Big Bang evolution and how mountains, deserts and oceans formed...read more

An introduction to rainforest habitats, providing a comprehensive overview of the subject. The title offers an in-depth exploration of the natural world stressing environmental issues.

As an apprentice barber surgeon of the 1500s you are embarking on a career in which you will have to treat the gruesome diseases of people who are ill. From plague victims to wounded soldiers, you treat them all, with the help of leeches for blood-letting and false noses and ears. This book explores the aspects of medicine in Tudor times.