Natural World category: 7079 books

Environment of Man is the eighth of the Croom Helm series of mono­ graphs on Biology and the Environment. The first volume, by this author, was a straightforward review of the principles of ecology as applied to the history of the earth. The second volume by J.L. Cloudesley-Thompson applied ecological...

Did you know that much climate change is caused by natural events? But how do humans influence climate change? Answer this question and learn how scientists make predictions about climate change. This title supports NGSS for Earth and Human Activity.

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Los niños aprenden sobre la metamorfosis de la oruga a la mariposa en todas las aulas del mundo, empezando en los primeros grados. ¡Pero nunca la han visto así! Con ilustraciones bellas y coloridas y un texto simple de comprender, este libro cautiva a los niños con su descripción del proceso:...

Tiernos y torpes, los ponis son adorados por niños de todo el mundo. No importa si se encuentran en los zoológicos o corriendo libres por las montañas, estos animales son los favoritos tanto de los adultos como de los niños. En este libro, información fascinante se complementa con imágenes bellas...

The Magic Seeds is the adventure of a couple of kids and their friends: Andes the condor, Pumpkin the armadillo, Speedy-the-Hare the jackrabbit, and Zorro the fox. Floods and natural disasters are devastating the planet so the Animals' Council entrusts this group with the task of solving the...

Yeasts are the active agents responsible for three of our most important foods - bread, wine, and beer - and for the almost universally used mind/ personality-altering drug, ethanol. Anthropologists have suggested that it was the production of ethanol that motivated primitive people to settle down...

Studying ecology today is more valuable than it has ever been because of pollution and other environmental factors continuing to be a mainstream issue of concern across the globe. This volume engages the reader with bright images of animals and other life in their natural settings and informs on what...

This compelling text examines evolution, its definition, the scientific evidence that evolution has taken place, natural selection, Darwin’s Origin of Species, genetics and evolution, population genetics, patterns in evolution and species concepts, the story of life and geological time, and human...

This book has developed from an earlier monograph, 'Renal Function' (1962; London, Edward Arnold). It retains the general purpose of that book in relating the composition of the blood to the volume and com­ position of the urine of animals, including the new data of the intervening 20 years. As indicated...

Recent emphasis upon the importance of the physical environment has made science and the public even more cog­ nizant of the many components of the biosphere. While much attention has been given to ionizing electromagnetic stimuli which causes blatant and unalterable changes in biological systems,...

The diversity of plant and animal life on the planet is a topic of both high interest and importance for young readers. This text explores a biome that many will easily identify and with which they may have some familiarity. Several types of grasslands are explored, including details on their formation,...

Because protecting environmental resources has become an issue of scientific, political, and historical import, service-learning projects that serve the planet have become an important part of a wide range of curricula. Students will find a wealth of opportunities both at home and abroad that will...

This lavishly illustrated, fact-filled atlas--a follow-up to Maps of the World--allows children to discover the fascinating and mysterious world below sea level with links to explore even further on computers and tablets. Covering every ocean and major sea in the world, Maps of the World's...