Best Selling Books by Dan Green

Dig deep to discover our rocky planet, packed with natural wonders. Earth''s extraordinary minerals, gems, shells, and fossils are all on dazzling display in this essential visual encyclopedia for children. Feast your eyes on the ultimate treasure trove that any pirate would envy. More than 1,000 stunning photographs showcase rocks and gems in glorious detail, ensuring you can recognise sedimentary from sandstone, metamorphic from marble, and pyrite from pearl. The unique qualities of each eye-catching material are described in-depth, together with their broad range of uses in art, industry, architecture, and science. Keep your eyes open for rainbow rocks, fluorescent minerals, priceless diamonds, and meteor showers on your geological journey of discovery. Meet dinosaurs in the prehistoric period to understand how fossils form, join the pyramid builders of ancient Egypt to investigate the limestone bricks, and take a dip in the ocean on the hunt for clams, cowries, and cockles. Treasure seekers, get set to start your own collection with The Rock and Gem Book.

Presents brief explanations of inventions used in our everyday modern lives.

This text continues the exploration of the use of MATLAB tools and features in visualizing physical processes. The symbolic math packages are important in solving those problems which are amenable to closed form solution, while the numerical packages are used for the remaining problems. The results for the solutions use the MATLAB graphics packages to help visualize the properties of the solutions. User dialogues are designed to allow users to change the input parameters in order to see how the dynamics of the solutions depends on the parameters of the specific problem. In particular movies are used to display the dynamical evolution of solutions in time.

Provides over one thousand facts about science, including such topics as living things, earth and space, your body, matter and reactions, inventions and discoveries, and invisible science.

The bestselling author of "Math" and "Punctuation" now turns his attention to the fun and funky characters in "Geometry and Algebra." Discover the secrets of their world and how they like to throw their numbers about.

Ready, shoot . . . SCORE! Can you help the busy footballer to win the match? Join in and use the flaps to pass the ball, tackle the player, and shoot for the goal. With interactive action-flaps, you can do it, too! Each clever flap provides an action or scene-change to encourage children to actively engage and explore. The playful flaps are perfect for little hands to develop fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination.

Each title contains 101 different Horse & Pony images in all manner of shapes, sizes and poses.Simple step-by-step line illustrations make it easy for children to draw with confidence.Perfect as party gifts or pocket money purchases. Encourages creativity and improves hand-eye co-ordinationPaperback book with full colour cover and 48 black and white pages

What is energy? Where does it come from? Can it be destroyed? What will we do when we run out of fossil fuels? Is dark energy real? Ideal for young readers, Eyewitness: Energy explains all key concepts of energy in easy-to-understand language. Learn about energy, its different forms, properties, and how we use different forms of energy in our daily life. The book also describes how energy is created, harvested, and how it transfers from one form to another. From measuring the total amount of energy consumed by everyone on the planet to what could be our future sources of power, this companion covers it all. Each topic is supported with colorful images and simple yet detailed illustrations. Eyewitness reference books are now more interactive and colorful, with new infographics, statistics, facts, and timelines. Great for projects or just for fun, learn everything you need to know about energy with Eyewitness: Energy. Awards: 8-time National Council for the Social Studies Award Winner 4-time Society for School Librarians International Social Studies Trade Book Award Winner 2-time Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Gold Book Award Winner A Parents'' Choice Award Winner

An interactive series to introduce a diverse range of jobs and daily routines through cleverly constructed flaps, simple, friendly text, and charming illustrations. Help the busy vet as she listens to Buster''s heart, gives Carla her medicine, and X-rays Bella''s leg.

Discover chemistry and the periodic table as you''ve never seen them before! The major chemistry topics and all 118 elements each have their own unique quirky, illustrated character describing who they are, and why they''re important. Meet Compound -- a chemical chef who combines elements together, and devious Manganese -- a sneaky spy who can change appearance when exposed to air. The Complete Guide to Chemistry and the Periodic Table lifts the lid on difficult concepts, making them easy to learn and enjoyable. It''s an essential guide to the explosive guys who fizz, react, and combine to make up everything around us.

A song of self-esteem and hope sung between adult and child, celebrated through the use of colorful quilted illustrations, expanded by sign language.

Simple step-by-step drawings to follow.

Ms. Frizzle''s class learn about the incredible systems that work together to make the human body function.

Learn how to draw 101 different things that go! From the multi-million selling "How to Draw 101" series comes this action-packed activity book that contains step-by-step line drawings to help budding artists draw 101 different vehicles in various shapes, sizes, and positions. It''s easy! Follow the simple step-by-step drawings and you will soon be amazing all your friends with your newfound artists'' skills! From a racing car, a freight train, and construction trucks to a helicopter, a tractor, and rescue vehicles, there are 101 work machines and vehicles to learn to draw. Since each image is broken down into six simple steps, children will quickly gain in confidence when they see their finished results, and will soon be adapting their designs and drawing freehand pictures of their own. Ideal for junior artists age 5+.