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|  | Illustrated Dictionary of Science by Chris Oxlade, G. Smith, Jane Wertheim, Kirsteen Rogers, Kuo Kang Chen
Description not available.Contains key terms and concepts of physics, chemistry, and biology, arranged thematically and cross-referenced within and between the three sections. AUTHOR: Chris Oxlade, G. Smith, Jane Wertheim, Kirsteen Rogers, Kuo Kang Chen
PUBLISHER: Usborne Publishing, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Science & Nature 
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 | Incredible Animal Adventures by Jean Craighead George
Newbery-award winning author Jean Craighead George has collected 10 true-life stories about animals that have done some very impressive things--a cat named Sugar who traveled over 1,000 miles to find her human family; a dog named Balto who risked his life to bring medicine to a small town in Alaska. Readers can discover these and many more amazing animal stories accompanied by color illustrations. AUTHOR: Jean Craighead George
PUBLISHER: HarperCollins Children's Book Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Science & Nature
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 | The Value of Life by Stephen R. Kellert
Debate on the threat to humanity posed by the massive and widespread loss of biological diversity has largely emphasized economic and ecological consequences. In The Value of Life, a leading social scientist adds a critical new dimension. Stephen R. Kellert explores the actual and perceived importance of biological diversity for humankind`s physical, emotional, intellectual, and even spiritual well-being. Kellert identifies ten basic values, which he describes as biologically based, inherent human tendencies that are greatly influenced and moderated by culture, learning, and experience. Throughout, Kellert argues that the preservation of biodiversity is fundamentally linked to human well-being as he illustrates the importance of biological diversity to the human sociocultural and psychological condition. His discussion provides the reader with a deeper understanding of how humans depend on a vast matrix of affiliations with other living things to achieve lives rich in meaning and value. AUTHOR: Stephen R. Kellert
PUBLISHER: Island Press
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Science & Nature
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 | The Invention of the Silicon Chip by Windsor Chorlton
Description not available.Examines the events surrounding the development of the silicon chip, its uses, and its impact on civilization. AUTHOR: Windsor Chorlton
PUBLISHER: Heinemann Library
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Science & Nature
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 | Designing the Molecular World by Philip Ball
What this book aims to do is to present a selection of some of the things that a chemist today may find her or himself engaged in studying. If by doing so it succeeds in demonstrating simply that the new chemistry is no longer a matter of test tubes and bad smells (although both may be encountered along the way), that is fine enough. For this demonstration we will need to take a cursory glance not only at some of the basic principles of chemistry but also at a pot-pourri of ideas from disciplines as diverse as genetics, climatology, electronics and the study of chaos. AUTHOR: Philip Ball
PUBLISHER: Princeton University Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Science & Nature
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 | Trilobite by Richard Fortey
A senior paleontologist at the Natural History Museum of London writes warmly about his pet subject--a 500 million year old arthropod called the Trilobite. This former sea-dwelling crustacean-like creature survived 300 million years of climate change and continental drift, but now its closest living relative is the horseshoe crab. Fortey writes enthusiastically as he describes the world from the Trilobite's point of view. AUTHOR: Richard Fortey
PUBLISHER: Knopf, Alfred A. Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Science & Nature
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