A fully illustrated expert guide to over 575 mammals, amphibians and reptiles of the African and European continents. Every in-depth entry provides a full description of each animal and details on distribution, habitat, food, size, life span and conversation status. Includes all the magnificient large mammals such as the lion, African elephant and giraffe; endangered wildlife such as the Eur…
Learn how your body is made, from the top of your head to the tip of your toes. With easy-to-follow experiments that really allow you to explore how your body is constructed, this is an entertaining and imaginative approach to the science of human biology.
100 ideas that changed history. The thoughts and deeds of great thinkers always make great stories, and here we have one hundred all together. Each story relates a ponderable, a weighty problem that became a discovery that changed the way we see the world. Knowledge does not arrive fully formed, it requires many minds to puzzle over the evidence, and, step by step, edge ever closer to the ans…
A monkey has flexible arms to swing through the trees, a long tail for balance, good eyesight to spot food and predators and - most important of all - a large brain to make sense of its world. This fascinating guide offers a unique insight into the complicated lives of monkeys and other small primates. Discover why some Japanese macaques wash their food before eating it, find out how the fearso…