Adaptation and Survival

Adaptation and Survival introduces the key concept of adaptation through fun, engaging and detailed descriptions of great white sharks' camouflage,...

Reducere. DescriptionJoin Max Axiom as he explores the science behind animal adaptation. Max helps young readers understand why adaptation is important to su...

A real-life story of adaptation and survival. Acclaimed science writer Sandra Markle and celebrated artist Alan Marks team up for the fifth time in...

Reducere. Adaptation has never been so important as it is now, in the disruptive wake of the COVID-19 onset. We are undergoing a whole systems change. The fa...

Reducere. An exploration of how plant behavior and adaptation offer valuable insights for human thriving. We know that plants are important. They maintain th...

Reducere. A spellbinding tale of maritime disaster, survival, and an absolutely daring rescue from Michael J. Tougias, the author of The Finest Hours, which ...

DescriptionPersonal stories of surviving after the trauma of sexual assault. In the era of #MeToo, we've become better at talking about sexual assa...

Reducere. A gorgeous, Caldecott Honor-winning version of the classic storyFor over one hundred years The Ugly Duckling has been a childhood favorite, and Jer...

Reducere. This book examines how the Wamapanoag Indians' adoption of Christianity and other selective borrowing from English culture contributed to Indian/En...

There is only one bird species that hunts in summer and rears its young in winter: the Emperor Penguin. These extraordinary animals survive the rel...

When a sailboat disappears in the Gulf Stream during a disastrous storm, three weary sailors struggle to survive aboard a life raft in violent wave...

Reducere. When a sailboat disappears in the Gulf Stream during a disastrous storm, three weary sailors struggle to survive aboard a life raft in violent wave...

Reducere. H.G. Wells's science fiction classic, the first novel to explore the possibilities of intelligent life from other planets, it still startling and v...

Reducere. On the night of February 18, 1952, during one of the worst winter storms that New England has ever seen, two oil tankers just off the shore of Cape...

Reducere. It took Charles Darwin more than twenty years to publish this book, in part because he realized that it would ignite a firestorm of controversy. On...

DescriptionContemporary adaptations of Shakespeare's plays have brought into sharp focus the legacies of slavery, racism and colonial dispossession...

Reducere. There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when on...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: James G. March"The first component of intelligence involves effective adaptation to an environment. In order to adapt effec...

DescriptionACSM's Guide to Exercise and Cancer Survivorship presents the science behind the benefits of exercise for cancer survival and survivorsh...

A powerful portrait of the personal consequences of war as seen through the innocent eyes of children, from a Nobel Prize-winning writer. Nobel Pri...

With prose that is every bit as raw, intense and bitingly honest as the world it depicts, Barry Hines' "A Kestrel for a Knave" contains a new after...

Reducere. DescriptionThe bestselling adaptation of the iconic video game Halo: Combat Evolved featuring the Master Chief--part of the expanded universe based...

Reducere. --ABRIDGED EDITION of the True Story of the Rescue of a Holocaust Death Train in World War II-- SUITABLE FOR Grades 9-12 and BeyondAS A YOUNG TEEN ...

Four young men in a tiny lifeboat brave a dreadful storm to save dozens of lives in this illustrated chapter book adaptation (for readers 6-9) of t...