New Releases by Robert Snedden

Explores how cells work together to form the huge range of plants and fungi around us.

This series, available for the first time in paperback, explores aspects of change in materials, including material characteristics and states of matter. It also covers uses, material processes, and the technology used to make or alter materials. Experiment boxes, activities, and profiles of famous scientists and discoveries round out each book.

An overview of the work of scientists who have advanced the study of microorganisms including Robert Hooke, Edward Jenner, Louis Pasteur, Ferdinand Cohn, Joseph Lister, and Alexander Fleming.

Discusses such infectious diseases as rabies, smallpox, AIDS, influenza, and malaria and describes how they are transmitted and treated.

Discusses the beneficial uses of bacteria in applications ranging from brewing and baking to industry and sewage treatment.

Describes how people use different energy resources and explains how energy transfers from one use to another.

Discusses the Amazon River, including its history, geographical features, historical importance, wildlife, and environmental issues.

This series provides a detailed exploration of the world of materials. Each title looks at a key area of material science as required by the National Curriculum covering subjects such as: - states of matter - material characteristics and behaviour - uses of different materials - material processes and the technology used to make new materials or adapt existing ones for new purposes Each book contains explanatory diagrams, try-it-yourself experiments and fact boxes.

Discusses various aspects of light and sound, including noise, color, pitch, loudness, bouncing sound, music, vision, reflection, lenses, and diffraction.

Text, maps, and mazes follow the journeys of ten explorers, including Leif Erikson, Marco Polo, Vasco da Gama, David Livingstone, and Neil Armstrong and "Buzz" Aldrin.

Explains how the Internet has evolved into the massive system that it is today.

Surveys the technological changes that have taken place during our exploration of space, discussing missiles, space stations, the space shuttle, and other developments.

From a review by Horn Book: "The physical characteristics of insects are described in a simple, straightforward, explanatory text, illustrated by large color photographs. Drawings are used to diagram anatomical features and to show details, such as how insects walk with six legs."

From Horn Book reviews: "The four main types of reptiles and their physical characteristics are described; double-page entries are amplified by clear color photographs with relevant captions. Diagrams illustrate physiological characteristics in detail, and text boxes highlight especially interesting facts." This book makes answering questions about reptiles fascinating and fun.

From Horn Book reviews: "Large full-color photographs illustrate a simple, straightforward, explanatory text describing the physical characteristics of birds. Close-up drawings are also used to diagram such anatomical features as the tiny hooks that hold a bird''s outer feathers together." A glossary extends the information found in the text.

Describes different types of fish, their breathing, movement, senses, food, defences, and birth.

Discusses many areas in the study of life on Earth, including its beginnings, evolution, anatomy, genetics, and DNA.

Explores how the science of genetic engineering developed, from the earliest discoveries to up-to-date experiments.

Recounts how people for centuries have been trying to make sense of what they see in the heavens & explains how science has contributed to our growing understanding of space.

Une documentation succincte, structurée, abondamment illustrée. Chaque aspect abordé fait l''objet d''une double page que se partagent un texte court à caractère didactique, aux termes justes et des illustrations. De bonnes photographies en couleurs. Mise en pages variée.