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Humans have "subdued 75 percent of the land surface, concocted a wizardry of industrial and medical marvels, strung lights all across the darkness." We tinker with nature at every opportunity; we garden the planet with our preferred species of plants and animals, many of them invasive; and we have even altered the climate, threatening our own extinction. Yet we reckon with our own destructive capabilities in extraordinary acts of hope-filled creativity: we collect the DNA of vanishing species in a "frozen ark," equip orangutans with iPads, and create wearable technologies and synthetic...

It is the late 1960s. Cold war tensions and the Vietnam conflict dominate the media. John Bluderin, a drafted, dejected nineteen-year-old army specialist, has been assigned to military intelligence in Germany. Fluent in German and absorbed into the social fabric of Schwabisch Gmund, no one would ever suspect him of doing anything out of the ordinary. Specialist Bluderin is about to prove everyone wrong.

As John begins his first assignment, he meets Leda Beschworung, a petite, dedicated agent able to jump twenty yards at a clip and infiltrate the enemy seamlessly. Leda, a practitioner of...

»Großartig und faszinierend: eine neue Sicht auf die Vögel.« Sy Montgomery 

Neue wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse über unsere Vögel stellen vieles auf den Kopf, was wir von ihnen dachten. Wir wissen nun mehr darüber, wie sie leben, denken und agieren. Vögel können vieles, was wir vom Menschen kennen: Täuschung, Manipulation, Entführung etwa, aber auch kluge Kommunikation, Zusammenarbeit, Altruismus, Spiel. Manche Vögel machen Geschenke, manche stehlen, einige tanzen, trommeln oder malen gar. Gestützt auf eigene Beobachtungen und ornithologische Studien...

Parent and child can quack-quack and moo-moo away while they play and touch the five farm animal finger puppets: a duck, a cow, a pig, a cat, and a dog.

Introducing Little Scholastic, a developmental publishing program of interactive books created exclusively to give babies and toddlers a head start in learning.
Every book features:

*Interactive components * High color contrast * Rhyming, repetitive, or predictable text * Familiar subjects and surroundings...

A Gallery of Butterflies is a thought-provoking book that addresses a social problem of national proportions--the homeless--with lighthearted touches.