How Animals and Plants Use Disguises and Deception
Seeing may be believing, but in nature not everything you see is always what it seems. From cryptic concealments to masquerades and flashy warnings, countless organisms utilise disguises to gain an advantage in their never-ending bid for survival. These remarkable adaptations, crafted by the uncompromising paintbrush of natural selection, have ......
The Australian mainland is surrounded by over 8,000 islands, islets and rock stacks. These offers unique habitats for animals and plants, which has driven the evolution of thousands of species that occur nowhere else on Earth. Exploring the islands, via outstandingcontributions from key conservationists and 360 beautiful images.
A Journey Through Our Planet's Spectacular Ecology
This book is to open young readers’ minds to some of the main ecosystems which are found across our world. As we journey through our world’s different ecosystems and habitats, many of the occupant animals, plants and fungi will be briefly documented, each accompanied by a generalised conservation indicator.
Camilla loves maps. Old ones, new ones, she loves them all! She often imagines what it must have been like to explore and discover a new path for the first time. One morning, Camilla wakes up to a snow storm. Her neighbour Parsley can't find the path to the creek. But Camilla has her old map-which inspires her to make her own path and her own map!
The way people live is different in many parts of the world. This series of colourful flap books, created with and for OXFAM, depict everyday situations and help us to discover what makes us different and what binds us together. This book shows the different homes people live in.
The Knowledge Quiz series is a deviously simple and effective way for students to revise for GCSE subjects. These easy-to-use books feature tear-out quizzes to help students memorise the body of knowledge that form the basis of success in exams.
This book takes explores the seemingly infinite scale, complexity and majesty of the Universe. The components of the solar system are systematically introduced covering the eight planets, the dwarf planets, the asteroid and Kuiper belt, and the Oort Cloud.The concluding chapters detail the exploration of Mars to date.on.
The geography of Planet Earth is incredible. From lava lakes, rainbow mountains, auroras, lost world mountains, glowing bioluminescent waters, blood falls, mud volcanoes and blue holes in the ocean. An exploration of 36 extraordinary geographic. These geographic subjects remain little-known and little-documented in other works. Incredible Earth ......