Want to know how to live and thrive in space? This book, for kids from 10 to 100, describes the basics of living in space, from space ships, to space stations, to asteroid mines, to moon bases, space hotels, and Mars colonies. It uses very simple, easy to understand drawings, descriptions and explanations, so anyone, even a kid, can understand the whys and whats. Fun experiments and projects using household items make learning about space living fun. How do astronauts get water and food? How will space colonists recycle air and farm? What are the kinds of space habitats? How does a space suit work? These are all answered inside. Join the great adventure of space exploration and you too will design space habitats

California has a wonderful diversity of ocean worlds, from mountain rivers and deltas, to beaches, to kelp forests and deep sea. This book includes a variety of these worlds, with thirty-six species of fish including sharks, halibut, tuna, sea bass, beautiful Garibaldi Damselfish, rock fish, and salmon. With these fish, are whales, sea otters, seals, sea lions, sea urchins, lobsters, sea stars, and crabs. All are shown in real world ecosystems, as you might find them. An identification guide is included, and challenges the readers and listeners to find all the fishes, mammals, and invertebrates in the book, or in the wild. Appropriate for kids of any age, and fun for kids from 1 to 101. Younger kids will enjoy the colorful pictures and calming story, older kids will learn basic ecology and marine biology. Even adults will learn something new about California's Pacific Ocean.

Have you ever wondered how fish, whales, dolphins, seals, turtles, plants, and many other things relate? In this fully illustrated book, you will learn what fish eat, and how knowing what they eat can answer many questions. You will learn to draw a food web, linking the species together to understand how an ecosystem works. Thirty-two fish based food webs are included, with a question for each, and answers at the end of the book. Over seventy species of fish, whales, dolphins, crustaceans, and other animals are used and illustrated. From fifth grade to graduate school, every reader will learn something inside. What do sea dragons eat? Why do Orcas sometimes kill great white sharks? What to fruit trees have to do with pink dolphins? Why do snappers follow manatees? Why are crayfish good for recycling? Why are sea turtles important for blue marlin? Why should California crab lovers thank sevengill sharks? Why are silver carp affecting walleye? Suitable as a text for elementary through high school and maybe college biology courses, this book might also make the reader a better angler, and allow you to see the watery world around you very differently.

Description: A world of colorful and fantastic fish and animals await in Benjamin's Coral Reefs, the seventh book in the Fishes and Whales Series. Readers, or those read to, from 0 to 110, will learn all about coral reefs and the fish that live around them. Seventy-two species of fish, sea turtles, sea snakes, anemones, sea fans, and corals of many types are shown in real world ecologies, with sharks, butterflyfish, groupers, snappers, ballyhoo, jacks and trevally, damselfish, angelfish, and lionfish, among them shown as they live. Around the world in 28 pages, from the Red Sea to the Indian Ocean, to the Great Barrier Reef, to the Hawaiian Islands, to the Central American Pacific islands, to the Florida Keys and Caribbean. A handy fish identification guide, detailed enough to match against real fish in the wild or aquarium, is at the end, and the reader can hunt for the fish in the pages inside. Young children will enjoy the colorful pictures and calming blues, older children the science and wildlife. Learn and discover coral reefs and enjoy the wonders they have to explore.

Wonders abound in the world deep below the surface of Earth's oceans This book covers those animals that visit the dark world and also those that make it home, from glowing jellies, to fanciful squid, to toothy fishes, and many more. A species index is provided at the end to give the reader, or those read to, a chance to find real species in the pages inside. Time to explore this little known world, and learn what we can from it. The deep sea is ready for you to explore Beyond the sunlight, deep away from view is a barely discovered world of forgotten fishes, swimming giants, colorful lights, and interesting animals. This book takes the reader or listener miles into the oceans, to sharks, fishes, squid, shrimps, jellies, and others. A full color picture-based species index makes the book fun and active for everyone. Anyone (even grownups) can learn about this dark world of life. Join the journey and prepare to learn

Swim with playful dolphins and sea cows from around the world This learning book for all children shows a few of the great variety of dolphins and their relatives, from river dolphins, to open ocean dolphins, to shallow water dolphins. Can you find each of the dolphins, fishes, and seacows in the pages of the book? Two of the dolphins are harder to find than the others The pictures and story will get a smile from even the youngest or oldest audience, and even a parent may learn a little bit about the seas. Can be read to any age. 2nd Edition.

A colorful playfully illustrated younger children's story-style guide to the wildlife and wonders of Antarctica, stepping readers (or those being read to) through the watery and icey world of fishes, penguins, seals, skuas, squid, and others, showing key interactions. A learning experience for both young and old, complete with a species guide and simple map.

Want to know how rocket engines work? This learning guide for kids from 10 to 100 covers the basics of how rocket engines from solid fueled boosters, to liquid fueled moon rockets, to backpack thrusters, to nuclear thermal engines, ion drives and others work. In simple, non-technical language, the physics and engineering of how these marvels work is explained, in a slowly building way, so that even a kid with no math background can understand. There are lots of diagrams of both the engines, and how they fit into spaceships. Funny characters take the fear out of rocket science for everyone to enjoy, and home experiments make the basic principles easy to understand. Let's explore space, and You Will Design Rocket Engines.

A fun and educational adventure that takes the reader from a river's mountainous beginning to the deep sea and describes the fish and whales encountered along the way. It contains identification guides for each of dozens of fish and four types of whales included, and challenges the reader to find them all. The Expanded Edition includes two more whale species, and a page just to identify the four total species of whales, 24 pages total. Can be read to any age, and is a learning experience for grown ups and kids.

A children's coloring book with dozens of kinds of fish, squid, whales, dolphins, seals, penguins, amphibians, caimans, turtles, snakes, salamanders, and otters. What makes a fish, reptile, mammal, mollusc? What eats what? How do lakes get water? How does a fish live? How do oceans get salt? What is a toothed whale? Many nature, ocean, animal, and river questions answered inside. Coloring fun and nature learning at once.

Explore the mighty Amazon River Take a trip down South America's Amazon and see piranhas, anacondas, arapaima, oscars, pufferfish, catfish, caimans, turtles, otters, mantees, and dolphins. This book shows the reader (or those being read to) the habitats and the myriad of species that inhabit this still mysterious river system. The reader will see how the species interact, where they live, and learn about the fishes, reptiles, and mammals that call the mighty Amazon home. At the beginning is a simplified map, and at the end of the book is an identification guide to the fourty-four kinds of animals inside, and challenges the reader to find them all. From little explorers to the grown adventurers who play guide, everyone will learn from this adventure. Can be read to any age.

Poor Buck's Trial is a short story set in the mid-twentieth century, about an innocent misunderstanding. The word 'trial' has multiple meanings, and a child (the storyteller) can pick the wrong one. Since the child also loves a dog (Buck), a 'Dog Trial' has special meaning. The story covers both how the child experiences a normal weekend, has a very bad dream, and learns something new. In the process the story covers the excitement of a child's fishing day, and the love of a mother and father for the child. The story is made to be read to younger children, and be read by children 8 years in age and older. The child can be anyone of any race or gender. Anyone who loves the outdoors, loves fishing, and loves dogs, will find it fun. The print version has many extra illustrations, in color.

A short novella with illustrations in the classic sci-fi mode, a taste of archeology, with modern technologies, and a quick pace that doesn't require a long reading commitment. The next age of exploration has dawned for human kind. Our machines scan the heavens, new planets are discovered, and the first interstellar ships are ready. A green planet shrouded in cloud awaits over one hundred and fifty light years away, and a solar-system sprawled humanity is ready to explore it. Below the clouds an old civilization with very familiar technologies awaits on towering houses above a very alive sea. A alien unique society with its own mysteries and problems, some day-to-day, some much more critical, connected and networked. Explore with the humans, feel with the aliens, and solve the mysteries that await both. Combines archeology adventure, alien undersea worlds, and tropical islands. How will we interact not only with truly alien cultures, but with our own artificial intelligences? How will our mastery of technology enhance how we experience new worlds? This print edition has twenty-two maps, designs, drawings, and diagrams to tickle your internal muse.