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|  | What Do You Do with a Tail Like This? by Robin Page, Steve Jenkins
In this interactive guessing book, readers will learn about amazing animals who do such things as use their noses for digging, their ears for seeing, and their eyes for squirting blood. Color illustrations accompany the text. AUTHOR: Robin Page, Steve Jenkins
PUBLISHER: Houghton Mifflin Company
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Science & Nature 
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 | Great American Bridges & Dams by Donald Jackson
Among the 330 feats of engineering genius documented here are bridges found all over the United States, from Brooklyn to the Golden Gate and landmark dams such as the Hoover, Grand Coulee, Norris and Shasta. The introduction presents an overview of bridge and dam history, while special sections outline preservation issues and demonstrate the significance of these structures in America`s history. AUTHOR: Donald Jackson
PUBLISHER: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Science & Nature
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 | Book of the Tongass by Carolyn Servid, Donald Snow
In the southeast corner of America`s most rugged state lies the last contiguous expanse of temperate rain forest on the planet, much of it within the Tongass National Forest. With Glacier Bay at its northern end, the Tongass lies on a maze of islands and along a coastal strip protected by a range of mountains. The Tongass lives up to its state`s reputation for wildness, natural beauty, and battles over how the land has been and will be used. In The Book of the Tongass, 13 Alaskans describe the region`s spectacular forest and wildlife, its economic opportunities, and in two pieces by Tlingit storytellers, its oral history. AUTHOR: Carolyn Servid, Donald Snow
PUBLISHER: Milkweed Editions
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Science & Nature
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 | Armament & History by John F. Fuller
Although skill, leadership, strategy, and number of forces have been important factors in battles, armaments have played the most decisive role in determining ultimate military victory. Entranced by the power and precision of armaments, man has continuously invented faster, more accurate, and more devastating weapons, from the javelin, stone axe, sword, and the arrow to the cannon, musket, rifle, tank, super-fortress, and missile. In this study of the influence of armaments on history, J. F. C. Fuller shows how the inventive genius of man can potentially obliterate his sense of moral values and destroy civilization. Divided into armament epochs -- Ages of Valour, Chivalry, Gunpowder, Steam, Oil, and Atomic Energy -- Armament and History examines the most influential military innovations of each period as well as the key leaders (including Alexander, Caesar, Gustavus Adolphus, and Napoleon) who skillfully employed these weapons. Although the author acknowledges that war cannot be eliminated entirely, he urges man to impose restrictions on warfare before society descends into a second Dark Age. Completed immediately after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki -- chilling examples of mass-destruction caused by armaments -- this impassioned work remains relevant a half-century later. AUTHOR: John F. Fuller
PUBLISHER: Da Capo Press, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Science & Nature
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 | Robotics by Mark Beyer
Description not available.Takes a look at the current state and future of the field of robotics, emphasizing that robots are already playing an important role in making our lives easier. AUTHOR: Mark Beyer
PUBLISHER: Scholastic Library Publishing
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Science & Nature
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 | Shrinking Mouse by Pat Hutchins
As Fox, Rabbit, Squirrel, and Mouse watch their friend, Owl, fly away, it looks as if he is getting smaller and smaller. Worried, the friends set out to save Owl before he becomes so small that he disappears forever. Color illustrations accompany the text. AUTHOR: Pat Hutchins
PUBLISHER: HarperCollins Children's Book Group
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Science & Nature
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