New Releases by John Townsend

Describes how specific animals are designed to handle extreme weather, including camels, frogs, geese, penguins, and polar bears.

A look at the crimes committed by children and teenagers throughout history and the punishments they received for their digressions.

Read this history of hospitals and find out how bedpans, blood, and bandages were a part of medical history. Learn why maggots are used in hospitals. Discover where people in ancient times went when they were ill. Read these real-life stories and fascinating news reports to learn how hospitals and medical treatment has changed throughout the years. Eye-catching photographs help you visualize medical treatment and conditions in this painful history of medicine book.

Explains the history of the treatment of diseases and medicine.

Describes the symptoms and treatment of certain illnesses throughout history, including scurvy, yellow fever, measles, typhoid, and polio.

Describes crimes that have occurred throughout the world, and the different punishments for these crimes.

Creepy and fascinating insects can be found all over the world. Explore their world in this exciting title that divides insects according to animal classifications in order to establish a firm scientific basis. The title focuses on weird and wonderful examples of creatures that are not the norm. The title also include predatory behavior, but not as the main thrust of the book. A variety of text types such as newspaper reports are used to represent real life stories about the creatures covered.

Looks at the physical characteristics and behavior of various unusual birds.

Learn how mollusks live, eat, breed, and the strange ways they can look and act in order to survive.

Provides an overview of amphibians, including frogs, toads, and lizards, discussing how they breathe, feed, reproduce, and defend themselves.

Explores organized crime, including its history, activities, and participants.

Looks at the behavior and characteristics of different mammals, from the sharp-toothed rodents that dwell throughout most of the world, to the duck-billed platypus that is found only in or near water in Australia.

This series examines weird and unexlained phenomena including aliens and ghosts. Each title ends with an open question and leads the reader to make up his or her own mind.

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Not everything believed as biblical truth is truly biblical. The co-directors of the Minirth Meier New Life Clinics West debunk 12 commonly accepted beliefs that cause bondage rather than liberty. They explain how nuggets of truth become cornerstones for error when wrongly understood, and they help build solid scriptural foundations that produce emotional freedom.