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Bugs and insects have always fascinated children. Creepy Crawly Critters introduces young readers to a wide variety of critters they might find in their backyards. Readers can discover physical characteristics, habitat, diet, and more.
Some of our world’s most intriguing animals are among its creepiest. Creepy Creatures inspects the ground, observes plants, and peers into crevices to spotlight six more mini-beasts that scurry, fly, slide, or crawl. Each book matches clear text with up-close (and often startling) photos to give young readers an easy-to-follow introduction to the featured creature’s body, growth process, behaviour, food sources, and common habitats. Each title concludes with an activity that emphasizes the animal’s defining physical characteristics
The world is full of odd-looking animals. This exciting series introduces readers to six of these fascinating creatures. Each book describes an animal3s habitat and life cycle, along with some of the animal3s weirdest features and behaviours.
Some of our world’s most intriguing animals are among its creepiest. The Creepy Creatures series peers into dirt, under rocks, and in dark corners to spotlight six mini-beasts that scurry, crawl, wriggle, or hop. Each book matches clear text with up-close (and often startling) photos to give young readers an easy-to-follow introduction to the featured creature’s body, growth process, behaviour, food sources, and common habitats. Each title concludes with an activity that emphasizes the animal’s defining physical characteristics.
Animals that feed on blood, plants that feed on flesh, viruses that cause zombie-like behavior; science can be strange and surprising. Dynamic visuals and lively storytelling will keep readers entertained as they discover the stranger and weirder side of science. colourful images, intriguing Side Bars, and accessible text lead students back in time, under the sea, and into the bodies of organisms both living and dead in pursuit of creepy, kooky knowledge.
Solving crimes is often not as easy as it appears on television shows or in movies. It involves hard work, patience, and science. Readers learn the fascinating details behind crime scene investigations, including the purpose of body farms and the steps involved in processing DNA evidence. The informative main text is paired with eye-catching fact boxes, enlightening Side Bars, and full-colour photographs. Annotated quotes from experts in their fields are also included to give readers first-person accounts of what it is like to be on the front lines of crime scenes that range from missing persons cases to drug trafficking investigations.
Solving crimes is often not as easy as it appears on television shows or in movies. It involves hard work, patience, and science. Readers learn the fascinating details behind crime scene investigations, including the purpose of body farms and the steps involved in processing DNA evidence. The informative main text is paired with eye-catching fact boxes, enlightening Side Bars, and full-colour photographs. Annotated quotes from experts in their fields are also included to give readers first-person accounts of what it is like to be on the front lines of crime scenes that range from missing persons cases to drug trafficking investigations.
There is a science to solving crime, and this series explains it! Readers will discover how the latest science and technology is used to crack cybercrime, understand criminal psychology, close cold cases, and much more in this exciting exploration of the criminal world. From using forensics to hunt killers to relying on state-of-the-art technology to foil terror plots and stop espionage, this illuminating series will shine a spotlight on the scientific masterminds behind solving crime.
Television and movies are rife with crime-scene detectives, but forensic science is a very real and very important field. Future sleuths and scientists alike will find this foray into criminal investigations fascinating. Each truly thrilling volume focuses on a branch of forensic science, transporting the reader to a crime scene and inviting them along as detectives to try to close the case. Forensic anthropology, criminal profiling, pathology, and computer forensics are some of the career paths presented with a special emphasis on science concepts used every day to get the job done.
Harlow Wintergreen has been named the new Matriarch of VisionCrest, the powerful religious organization previously led by her father. There's just one problem. The real Harlow is trapped inside a Cambodian temple, and her double, the evil Isiris, is out in the world masquerading as her. With VisionCrest at her command, Isiris moves all the pieces into position for her genocidal endgame. To stop her twin from unleashing a super-virus designed to eradicate civilization, Harlow must escape the temple and reunite with the Resistance. But in trying to save the people she loves, Harlow gets a taste of the power Isiris wields . . . and her battle against the horror takes on a new and dangerous dimension.