Jane Goodall is perhaps best known for significant research into primate behavior, but she is also an influential animal rights and environmental activist. This text excavates Goodall's life and work, allowing students to better understand the field of primatology and Goodall's contributions to this field. Through ample use of primary sources and field-specific context, students will learn about one of the most influential women in science today.

Readers will be mesmerized by these surreal and gorgeously rendered alphabet letters, cleverly shaped from flora, fauna, and more.

When everything starts going wrong on Annie and Liam's wedding day, Queen Karolina decides that they need the help of her fairy godmother, Moonbeam, but a magical fog keeps messengers from leaving so Annie and Liam themselves set out discover who ruined the wedding, and why.

Explores the planet Mercury and looks at its physical characteristics, history, and what the future might hold.

Presents the life and work of the famous sixteenth-century Italian astronomer and physicist.

"Like Michelangelo, Galileo is another Renaissance great known just by his first name--a name that is synonymous with scientific achievement. Born in Pisa, Italy, in the sixteenth century, Galileo contributed to the era's great rebirth of knowledge. He invented a telescope to observe the heavens. From there, not even the sky was the limit! He turned long-held notions about the universe topsy turvy with his support of a sun-centric solar system. Patricia...

Examines ghostly figures and what people have thought to be ghost-like experiences.

Columbia has been known as a land of violence -- Colombian people have reacted to the gospel of Jesus Christ by cursing the messengers, beating them, kidnapping them, killing them, burning down their houses. But from those fires have shot out sparks, flames and laser beams of light, as the gospel has continued to shine forth in the midst of darkness. God has delivered people from burning houses... God has healed ones who cursed... God has even rescued...

Describes the life and work of the courageous man who changed the way people saw the galaxy, by offering objective evidence that the earth was not the fixed center of the universe.