Biology category: 3817 books
To Touch a Wild Dolphin
A Journey of Discovery with the Sea's Most Intelligent Creatures
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2011
To Touch a Wild Dolphin is the first intimate account of dolphin life in the wild. In 1982 Rachel Smolker traveled to Monkey Mia, a remote beach on the west coast of Australia where wild dolphins regularly interact with humans. Over the next fifteen years, Smolker and a team of fellow scientists were...
Summary of Lab Girl
by Hope Jahren | Includes Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Summary of Lab Girl by Hope Jahren | Includes Analysis
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In her memoir Lab Girl, Hope Jahren describes the life she’s lived and the knowledge she’s learned as a scientist trying to find her way in the world. Focusing mostly on a period of professional development...
Once We All Had Gills
Growing Up Evolutionist in an Evolving World
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
In this book, Rudolf A. Raff reaches out to the scientifically queasy, using his life story and his growth as a scientist to illustrate why science matters, especially at a time when many Americans are both suspicious of science and hostile to scientific ways of thinking. Noting that science has too...
by Baby Professor
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
There's something cool about how plants and animals live. Are you ready to discover their secrets? Open this book to find out! Learning about other living things can be made very exciting by adding vivid images and carefully selected texts. Pictures attract a child and makes him/her interested in the subject. Grab a copy today!
Experiments on the Nervous System with Opium and Metalline Substances
Made Chiefly with the view of Determining the Nature and effects of Animal Electricity
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
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When, in November last, I began to make Experiments on Animal Electricity, of which I read some account to the Royal Society on the 3d of December; I was not only much hurried with business, but could not procure a sufficient number of Frogs for the purpose. During the...
by Israel Rosenfield, Edward Ziff, Borin Van Loon
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2011
With humor, depth, and philosophical and historical insight, DNA reaches out to a wide range of readers with its graphic portrayal of a complicated science. Suitable for use in and out of the classroom, this volume covers DNA's many marvels, from its original discovery in 1869 to early-twentieth-century...
Sea of Cortez
A Leisurely Journal of Travel and Research
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2009
The collaboration of two friends—one a novelist, one a marine biologist—produced a volume in which fascinating popular science is woven into a narrative of man’s dreams, his ideals, and his accomplishments through the centuries. Sea of Cortez is one of those rare books that are all things to...
by Ben Williams
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Learn all about the amazing things your muscular system and skeleton do and how to keep them healthy and strong! With vivid images and clear, informational text in conjunction with supportive diagrams, readers are introduced to basic biological ideas and vocabulary.
by Dona Herweck Rice
Language: Spanish
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Language: Spanish
Release Date: July 6, 2017
¡Siga adelante y observe cómo los diferentes tipos de crías de animales crecen y cambian! Todos los animales comienzan siendo bebés. A pesar de que todos se ven muy diferentes, todos tienen las mismas necesidades básicas para crecer. Aprende sobre las crías de los pingüinos, gatitos, ballenas...
by Ben Williams
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 11, 2017
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 11, 2017
Learn all about the amazing things your brain does and how to keep it healthy and strong! Readers will discover the anatomy of the brain including neurons, the cerebellum, and the nervous system. Using vibrant images and informational text in conjunction with supportive diagrams, readers are encouraged to learn all about (and use!) their brains. This title has been translated into Spanish.
When Lunch Fights Back
Wickedly Clever Animal Defenses
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
The octopus spies a nice, tasty mantis shrimp. It swims over for a closer look at the small creature. Then—WHAM!—the mantis shrimp strikes a nasty blow with its hammer-like forelimb. The octopus shrinks back, defeated. That wasn't such an easy meal after all . . .
In nature, good defenses...
Penguins and Antarctica
A Nonfiction Companion to Magic Tree House Merlin Mission #12: Eve of the Emperor Penguin
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2012
The #1 bestselling chapter book series of all time celebrates 25 years with new covers and a new, easy-to-use numbering system! Getting the facts behind the fiction has never looked better. Track the facts with Jack and Annie!!
When Jack and Annie got back from their adventure in Magic Tree House...
by Gail Gibbons
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Introduce young readers to the fascinating process of how catepillars become butterflies.
Follow the transformation from a tiny white egg laid on a leaf to a brilliantly colored butterfly in this kid-friendly introduction to metamorphosis. With detailed, bright watercolors, Gail Gibbons illustrates...
Science Comics: The Brain
The Ultimate Thinking Machine
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
With Science Comics, you can explore the depths of the ocean, the farthest reaches of space, and everything in between! These gorgeously illustrated graphic novels offer wildly entertaining views of their subjects.
In this volume, Fahama has been kidnapped by a mad scientist and his zombie...