Best Selling Books by Steve Parker

Discusses a variety of flowering plants and trees, describing their physical characteristics, life cycle, and products made from plants.

Professor Protein, Carol Calorie, and their friends tell how to get fit, stay healthy, keep clean, relax and rest, and enjoy life through the best foods, drinks, exercises, and sports.

This book provides suggestions for experiments that examine some of the qualities of sound.

Take a journey from your doorstep into outer space! Zoom through the Solar System, discovering satellites, comets and asteroids along the way. Explore craters on Mars, moon-hop around Jupiter, and get a close-up view of Saturn''s amazing rings. Just don''t travel too close to the Sun! Packed with lively illustrations to reveal our amazing universe, this book is perfect for a child to read with a parent or to explore independently.

Describes what causes things to rot, and examines the types of insects and microlife that survive on rotting items.

Explains how the spinal cord and nerves function and discusses illnesses and injuries that can affect the nervous system and spinal cord.

Explains why bacteria and viruses make people sick and how the body fights against them.

Uncover nature’s best-hidden creatures in a major new book on animal camouflage. Camouflage is essential to surviving in the wild. Both a built-in defence mechanism and a cunning tactic for attack, this biological advantage helps animals hide from dangerous predators and catch unsuspecting prey. It is used in many different ways, primarily to mask one’s identity, movement or location, and changes over time as animals evolve and adapt to live. This stunning photographic collection reveals 100 camouflaged creatures from around the world paired with fascinating insights from leading UK zoology author Steve Parker. Each elusive animal will have a profile of 300 words paired with striking photographic examples featuring a wealth of colour and ingenious camouflages. Examples include: THE GIRAFFE is the world’s tallest mammal yet it remains tricky to detect among trees thanks to its spots. The spots also help to regulate their temperature. THE OCTOPUS can change its opacity, colour and pattern in response to threats. THE WALKING LEAF INSECT has evolved a strikingly similar shape and colour to the leaves it eats. THE ARCTIC FOX changes its fur colour to white in the winter, perfectly blending in with the snow – but climate change is disrupting this age-old adaptation. THE TURTLE uses colour and pattern to camouflage on sand, rocks and the ocean floor to escape its predators.

Explains how lasers work, describes ways in which they have revolutionized our lives, and predicts how they may be used in the future.

This book introduces the microscopic world of bacteria and examines how bacteria move, feed, and reproduce.

Describes, in text and illustrations, the physical characteristics and habits of various kinds of dinosaurs, their natural environment, and how recent discoveries have enhanced our knowledge about these prehistoric creatures.

This volume is both an exploration of the scientific discoveries made by Bell and a biography of Bell. It looks at the changes in the world that have happened as a result of his work. Feature boxes contain additional information.

Describes the long-necked sauropod dinosaurs and the types of behavior they may have exhibited.

Provides a wide variety of information about insects and small animals, including spiders, scoprions, snails, earthworms, etc.

Describes the dinosaurs called hadrosaurs, which are distinguished by their duck-like mouths. It describes many of their social behaviors including how they cared for their young. It goes into great detail about the Maiasaura or "good mother lizard."

Examines the physical characteristics, habitat, and behavior of various frogs, toads, salamanders, and other denizens of the amphibian world.