"Once there was a tree...and she loved a little boy." So begins a story of unforgettable perception, beautifully written and illustrated by the gifted and versatile Shel Silverstein. Every day the boy would come to the tree to eat her apples, swing from her branches, or slide down her trunk...and the tree was happy. But as the boy grew older he began to want more from the tree, and the tr…
The Infinity series brings the world of non-fiction to life, with a detailed look at some of the world's most popular subjects. In Ice - Discover what life is really like in the world's coldest places. Explore the wondrous world of icebergs and glaciers and dive with the penguins in the waters of the Antarctica. Each title features embossed covers and come with a free computer game inside.
Welcome to the explanatorium. A microscope, a telescope, and a kaleidoscope rolled into one.
Race is not a biological reality. Racism thrives on our not knowing this.
In our unique genomes, every one of us carries the story of our species—births, deaths, disease, war, famine, migration, and a lot of sex. But those stories have always been locked away—until now. Who are our ancestors? Where did they come from? Geneticists have suddenly become historians, and the hard evidence in our DNA has blown the lid off what we thought we knew. Acclaimed science writ…