Involving avid travelers father jaguar and the cub, and a supersmart kid Evan Messenger, this book is packed with descriptions of the rare pediatric diseases that are poorly attended due to the health insurance constraints: Batten disease, Carpenter syndrome, Ellis van Creveld syndrome, Fucosidosis, Gaucher disease, Krabbe disease, Legg-Calve-Perthes disease, Niemann-Pick disease, and Prune Belly syndrome. An awareness raising brochure, it is dedicated to the Global Health Humanitarian Summit that takes place each year at Emory University, Atlanta, GA."

There is this hen Otthilda, who hates her own land and soporific lifestyle in the farm Spitak. Under frequent attacks of fame-fever, she dreams of becoming a celebrity in a 'big' town, like Roxbury Crossing/MA. With timely aid of her fairy godmother Galina-Alba, her dreams are about to come true. Alas, when the fairy godmother is on vacation, her replacement scams and mixes-up Otthilda's files and wishes. Since then, Otthilda gets small and junk surprises, and eventually makes her living on a yard sale.

"And it was then that all these kinds of things thus established received their shapes from the Ordering One, through the action of Ideas of Numbers" (Plato: in Timaeus). Indeed, the Hamilton's 'Principle of Least Action' is a mathematical discrimination between inorganic and organic systems. The geometrical progression of organic life has the property of producing by simple addition, a succession of numbers or similar shapes making the homothetic (gnomonic) growth-work by 'imbibition' (from inside outwards). Whereas, inorganic matters (crystals, snowflakes, rocks) grow by 'agglutination'...

Germination is a fascinating process. Seeing the life-preserving secrets of seeds, and a tiny seedling emerge from a dry, wrinkled seed and watching its growth and transformation is observing the mystery of life unfolding. While studying the seeds morphology ask yourself a simple question whether or not, a viable, fertile seed and optimal conditions for germination are enough to transform a tiny grain into a mature plant, bush, or tree? There is something else, isn't it, something mysterious that breathes life and vigor into a new development Designed for the Nature-lovers, this book...

One of the hot spots of the Mediterranean traffic, Sardinia was conquered from 1500 BC onward by the Phoenicians, Carthage, Romans, Arabs, Spaniards, and Austrians before obtaining its current semi-autonomous status within Italy. Bearing an inviting mix of all these cultures, Sardegna still delivers the very breath of reigns under the Houses of Aragon and Savoy, the Roman and Byzantine Empires and the Cardinals -- in the form of prehistoric stone forts, the proud nuraghi of Nora and Tharros. Today's Sardinia is popular with the jet-set presence of the rock climbers, wind-surfers, kayakers,...

From calculus, infinity, chaos theory, e-constant, to Euclidean logic and discrete topology, this junior-friendly illustrated book has something for everyone in the age range of 13 - 103 years.