Young explorers will learn to define the geography of rain forests and locate where they occur as...

Edwin sees Earth in a different way than we do, through his four eyes. Readers follow along as he...

Jamestown Colony is often held up as a great achievement of colonization. It did help start the U...

Most of us enjoy watching colorful butterflies flutter about, but the world is full of less beaut...

A conflict between two herbivores might not sound like much of a battle, but when those plant eat...

The gaseous element radon (Rn) gets attention largely because it's radioactive. Radon is the heav...

When archaeologist Howard Carter saw gold gleaming in a dark chamber he excavated in Egypt in 192...

In AD 79, the residents of the booming Roman city of Pompeii were shocked when a nearby mountain ...

The plague, aptly known as the Black Death, swept through Europe in the 1300s, killing more than ...

This book analyzes critical topics that include the importance of conservation and the immediate ...

Trees are familiar and lovely signs of life for most people, including fruit trees, evergreens, a...

Imagine a battle between a bird and a rhinoceros. It might seem obvious that the rhinoceros would...