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Introduce young basketball fans to the extraordinary history of the WNBA's Chicago Sky with a photo-laden narrative of the team's greatest successes. Beginning with the franchise's early years, readers get the highlights of the team's superstars and memorable seasons as well as its playoff runs and recent championship title. A colorful layout drives home the action, and sidebars capture unforgettable moments and players, such as Sylvia Fowles and Courtney Vandersloot. Middle grade sports fans ex
All the mythologies of peoples around the globe contain fascinating, at times frightening, tales of a wide array animals and monsters. Stories about dragons, for instance, are especially numerous, not only in China, but also Greece, Scandinavia, England, and other parts of the world. Also common are tales about giants, shape-shifters, and flying menaces. This book contains tales about such creatures from the lore of Egypt, China, Greece, northern Europe, Japan, Korea, the United States, and else
This series offers an indispensable analysis of the most vicious killers of all: dwarves, elves, and orcs. Born and bred for war, to these creatures, war is life. Beginning with an examination of the fighting methods of the individual warrior, these examinations expand to look at how the creatures do battle within their war bands and in vast armies. Using vivid, illuminating illustrations, the tactics, technology, and strategies of the creature troop types are revealed. Finally, specific key bat
Get up close with creepy crawlers through amazing augmented reality experiences! Jumping spiders soar through the air to inject venom into unsuspecting prey. Ticks chew through skin to suck blood, while stick insects hide in plain sight. Learn the fascinating details of insect and arachnid life cycles with fascinating facts and pictures. Augmented reality experiences accessible via a tablet or smartphone show readers creepy-crawly critters like they've never seen them before!
They’re everywhere—creepy crawlies in the jungle, in the woods, even in your home! Young readers can learn all about the life cycles of these minibeasts, including fleas, ants, and honey bees. Up-close photos and a life cycle diagram make these books perfect for young entomologists.
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-perso
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
The media regularly reports on border walls, migrant caravans, asylum seekers, and undocumented immigrants. But what are the stories behind the headlines? Crisis on the Border: Refugees and Undocumented Immigrants closely examines the people, the politics, and the policies driving one of the most important issues of the day.