An island is about to be born- one that in time will become the home of plants and animals that exist nowhere else on Earth. This book is the biography of a Galápagos island- from birth, through adolescence, to adulthood, and beyond.

The world is filled with curious objects made by plants, animals, and even by the Earth itself. Dive into this collection of more than 100 intriguing items from the natural world and discover the stories behind them.

Infographics illustrate facts about the natural world, providing information about such topics as energy production, food webs, threatened species, and record-breaking animals.

For more than twenty-five years, paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould wrote a column called "The View of Life" for Natural History magazine. More than twenty entries from that column comprise this collection, which includes such essays as "Boyle's Law and Darwin's Details," "Brotherhood by Inversion (or, As the Worm Turns)," "Darwin's American Soulmate," "The Diet of Worms and Defenestration of Prague," "The Dodo in the Caucus Race," "Reversing Established...

Describes the plants and animals that live in the harsh environment of Antarctica, including algae, liverworts, threadworms, wingless flies, and penguins.

This volume contains new editions of two books: R. Pearson's Pasteur, Plagiarist, Imposter, Ethel Hume's Béchamp or Pasteur?, originally published in 1923, is the larger work, and provides the main body of evidence.

An illustrated guide to the world's many groups of plants and animals.

"There is an incredible diversity of life on Earth, from microscopic, single-celled organisms to giant redwoods and blue whales. 'The Kingfisher Nature Encyclopedia' is an authoritative and beautifully illustrated guide for the whole family to our world and its inhabitants--both flora and fauna..."--P. [4] of cover.