Item category 2: Science & Technology

Say hello to spiders, scorpions, mites and ticks! Arachnids is a colourful, photo-filled animal science book for young readers and browsers. Not only will readers discover basic topics such as habitat, anatomy and diet, but they'll also be treated to fun topics such as arachnids in mythology and ...

Nicknamed the 'Real-Life Lorax' by National Geographic, the botanist and conservationist Meg Lowman takes us on an adventure into the eighth continent of the world's treetops, along her journey as a scientist, and into climate action. One of the world's first tree-top scientists, Meg Lowman is as...

This exciting new series explores the variety of habitats in our world and explains how animals have adapted to be able to make their homes in each and every one of them. Here readers can get their first taste of the diversity of life that our planet has to offer.

Explore the icy ends of the Earth, home to some of the world's most extreme habitats. Uncover the survival secrets of Penguins and polar bears and find out how people live and do research in the coldest conditions.

Scope and content: Follow along as a researcher observes and makes journal entries about their field trip through the Arctic ecosystem. Outstanding photographs highlight the animals, plants, and people that inhabit the frozen top of the world in Canada and the United States. Simple graphs show ho...

Learn to quickly build your own electronic gadgets that monitor, measure, and react to the real world -- with no prior experience required! This easy-to-follow-guide covers the programming and electronics essentials needed to build fun and educational sensor-based projects with both Arduino and R...

This book begins with an explanation of what Arduino is: an ecosystem that includes a small electronic board, a free software application used to program the board, and an online community that connects thousands users. Showing the reader what is required both in terms of hardware and software, t...

Have you ever wondered what humans did before numbers existed? How they organized their lives, traded goods, or kept track of their treasures? What would your life be like without them? Numbers began as simple representations of everyday things, but mathematics rapidly took on a life of its own, ...

What separates your mind from that of an animal? Is it the ability to design tools; a sense of self; or the grasp of past and future? In recent decades these claims have eroded, or even been disproven outright, by a revolution in the study of animal cognition. Waal explores both the scope and the...