"The Private and Personal Reading Journal" is full of distinctive and delightful graphics that highlight features such as: specific pages that encourage children to record each book they read (up to 19); the date read; what they're about; and how they feel about them questions that explore readers' favorite stories and characters poems and fun facts about books recommended books for future reading favorite books of well-known people from many walks of life.

Soils have been called the most complex microbial ecosystems on Earth. A single gram of soil can harbor millions of microbial cells and thousands of species. However, certain soil environments, such as those experiencing dramatic change exposing new initial soils or that are limited in precipitation, limit the number of species able to survive in these systems. In this respect, these environments offer unparalleled opportunities to uncover the factors that control the development and maintenance of complex microbial ecosystems. This book collects chapters that discuss the abiotic factors that structure arid and initial soil communities as well as the diversity and structure of the biological communities in these soils from viruses to plants.