Do you see these insects around your home? Watch out, they could kill you! Having the right knowledge will empower your child to handle animals correctly and safely. Reading will help strengthen your child’s knowledge across diverse topics. There’s much to learn from reading regularly. Develop the habit today!
Do you see these insects around your home? Watch out, they could kill you! Having the right knowledge will empower your child to handle animals correctly and safely. Reading will help strengthen your child's knowledge across diverse topics. There's much to learn from reading regularly. Develop the habit today!
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is the premier public resource on scientific and technological developments that impact global security. Founded by Manhattan Project Scientists, the Bulletin's iconic "Doomsday Clock" stimulates solutions for a safer world.
A thrilling tale of encounters with nature’s masters of biochemistry From the coasts of Indonesia to the rainforests of Peru, venomous animals are everywhere—and often lurking out of sight. Humans have feared them for centuries, long considering them the assassins and pariahs of the natural world. Now, in Venomous, the biologist Christie Wilcox investigates and illuminates the animals of our nightmares, arguing that they hold the keys to a deeper understanding of evolution, adaptation, and immunity. She reveals just how venoms function and what they do to the human body. With Wilcox as our guide, we encounter a jellyfish with tentacles covered in stinging cells that can kill humans in minutes; a two-inch caterpillar with toxic bristles that trigger hemorrhaging; and a stunning blue-ringed octopus capable of inducing total paralysis. How do these animals go about their deadly work? How did they develop such intricate, potent toxins? Wilcox takes us around the world and down to the cellular level to find out. Throughout her journey, Wilcox meets the intrepid scientists who risk their lives studying these lethal beasts, as well as “self-immunizers” who deliberately expose themselves to snakebites. Along the way, she puts her own life on the line, narrowly avoiding being envenomated herself. Drawing on her own research, Wilcox explains how venom scientists are untangling the mechanisms of some of our most devastating diseases, and reports on pharmacologists who are already exploiting venoms to produce lifesaving drugs. We discover that venomous creatures are in fact keystone species that play crucial roles in their ecosystems and ours—and for this alone, they ought to be protected and appreciated. Thrilling and surprising at every turn, Venomous will change everything you thought you knew about the planet’s most dangerous animals.
The Animal Book is the ultimate encyclopedia, exploring the majesty and drama of the animal kingdom. Packed with hundreds of awe-inspiring photographs and mind-blowing facts, children will be pulled in and engrossed from start to finish. The Animal Book looks at amazing natural events such as the life cycle of the Emperor penguin, awesome mammals such as the dancing sifaka, and deadly predators such as the great white shark.
Backpacker brings the outdoors straight to the reader's doorstep, inspiring and enabling them to go more places and enjoy nature more often. The authority on active adventure, Backpacker is the world's first GPS-enabled magazine, and the only magazine whose editors personally test the hiking trails, camping gear, and survival tips they publish. Backpacker's Editors' Choice Awards, an industry honor recognizing design, feature and product innovation, has become the gold standard against which all other outdoor-industry awards are measured.
This eclectic collection of fascinating facts is readers curious about how to beat an alligator in a fight, how to speak in secret code, which insects are edible, or what scolionophobia means.
