Texas is home to some of our country’s most populous cities, but before major development came to Texas it was a wild frontier with just a few tiny settlements. Readers will enjoy a full history of Te
Most readers will recognize the name, but their information might be limited to Thomas Alva Edison's most famous inventions, including the light bulb, phonograph, and motion picture camera. This brief
Communication is a two-way street—we express and we receive information. Doing either without valuing the importance of each leads to a breakdown between ideas and people. This guidebook stresses the
Explains representing numbers in the billions and describes the Hubble Space Telescope that was put into orbit in 1990 and the space images it relays to us.
Stories have been a part of our lives since birth. Many parents were reading and recounting stories and tales to us before we could talk. This instructive volume explains what constitutes a work of fi
Chronicles the history of the American motorcycle manufacturer; profiles top models and includes information about their speed, performance, and appearance; describes how different motorcycles are use
Introduces readers to feral cats, including information on their physical characteristics, behavior, young, adaptation to urban environments, and how they live alongside people.
Introduces readers to squirrels, including information on some of the different species of squirrel, their behavior, young, adaptation to urban environments, and how they live alongside people.
Introduces readers to raccoons, including information on their physical characteristics, behavior, young, adaptation to urban environments, and how they live alongside people.
Introduces readers to mice, including information on their physical characteristics, behavior, young, adaptation to urban environments, and how they live alongside people.
Prior to the existence of the Eighth Amendment, there was little to protect citizens of the English colonies from excessive bail, excessive fines, and cruel and unusual punishments. The enduring freed
Describes the use of poetic form and meter in poetry and looks at examples of the poetry of William Shakespeare to illustrate why patterns are important to poetry.
Students explore probability and the measure of chance through true-or-false questions, multiple-choice questions, coin-tossing games, games using a spinner, and games played with dice.
Introduces electricity, discussing its static and current forms; the uses of batteries, generators, and power stations; and the importance of safety precautions.
Introduces the achievements of Venus and Serena Williams, from their childhood and early careers in tennis to their tournament wins and their roles as competitors and sisters.
The Big Book version of Inside the Human Body. This book explores the amazing workings of the human body while simultaneously helping students convert the data they encounter into scientific and expon
This fun paperback introduces the game of chess and its basic moves, then shows how to apply problem-solving skills to chess problems of varying difficulty. Includes detailed descriptions of each ches
Introduces the concept of probability and shows how it works when flipping coins, spinning a spinner, rolling dice, and picking marbles out of a bag, including how the odds change with different spinn
