"Eyewitness Matter" tells everything about Matter. It has chapters on solid matter, liquid matter and gas matter, plus chapters on molecules in motion, crystals, hot matter and more! All of the chapters in the book have descriptive information on the topics in Matter. If you have gotten the other Eyewitness Science Series books, then make sure you have this one.

This book gives an excellent insight to the long forgotten world of the Persian empire. The kings that once ruled ancient Persia have long been forgotten. They were known for there valour and sense of justice. This is perfectly portrayed in this book. This is a must read for history students who want to known about about this long forgetton empire.

Clear concise text with beautifully clear photos.There areenough details for a general knowledge and will make you want to digdeeper for more information. An excellent book in a wonderful series.

As you might guess from the title of this little book, one hundred hungry ants are marching towards a picnic to get some yummies for their tummies. However, marching single file in a line 100 ants long is going to take way too long to get from where they are to where they want to be and the littlest ant is worried the food will all be gone by the time they get there. So he comes up with the idea of marching in 2 lines of 50 instead as a way of getting there faster. That is just the first of several ideas the littlest ant has about how to divide up 100 ants in this story told by Elinor J. Pinczes and illustrated with what I assume are colored wood block prints. There are plenty of counting books, but "One Hundred Hungry Ants" deals with issues of multiplication and division. It seems to me that the key thing here is that sooner or later in reading this book young readers will be anticipating the littlest ant next suggestion. The front flap of the dust jacket points out that this book provides the math skills young kids can use to make change for a dollar and that certainly has to be a good thing, well worth the learning.

This book starts off with some basic principles, such as lapse rates and black-body radiation on up to atmoshperic waves, turbulance, and making short term predictions. It does well by trying to focus not just on Earth, but all the other planets in solar system.

This book will answer all your questions about tack, what it is used for and if you need it. Great book to have around!

I liked the interesting ways Jane Zaring shows time. Instead of her using minutes she uses Kleenex's, the reason why is because Egbert Sharke uses so many Kleenex's she mine as well use them as time. Probably my favorite section in the book was the escape. I was actually twisting and turning when Egbert Sharke almost caught Harry at the 4th of July party. I would recommend this book to readers ages 9 through 14, I am 14 and I still enjoyed this book.

The giant Great Basin Desert was covered by Great Lakes sized bodies of fresh water 10 000 years ago. Today it is dry and salty dotted with salty inland seas and isolated mountain ranges teeming with biodiversity.

This book is a journey through old Lake Bonneville and Lake Lahonatan to today's Lake Tahoe, Mono Lake, Great Salt Lake, and Pyramid Lake. Along the way we meet the Humboldt River and mountains of the Great Basin. A truly great read for natural history buffs and those fascinated by America's least known desert.

"The Wreck of the Andrea Gail" is factual, tightly constructed, and roars to a tragic conclusion like the earlier Melville classic (although this book is considerably shorter, which I found congenial). The narrative is clearer than the over-rated recent movie. Altogether, a good read. I would like to see more from this author. Her bio says she is an experienced sailor but an unsuccessful fisher. One senses that the details of sailing down-wind and "foundering" are slightly beyond her grasp as she describes the strategies employed by the Andrea Gail on page 28. Still, this is a small flaw in a far broader tapestry. Bravo! Shiver me timbers! Steady as she goes!

Like Edgar Alan Poe and Stephen King, Naeem Murr implies an atmosphere of fear and dread. "The Boy" is painted a young man/demon who embodies everyone's worst nightmare--the intelligent and psychologically astute predator.

A childhood devoid of love and nurturing leaves the boy suspicious of everyone, even the social worker who claims him as his "step" son. Throughout the novel, the "hero" plans revenge of the worst kind against all who have wronged him.

Dreary and completley humorless, this is a straight foreward, fast paced psychological thriller which draws the reader in because you can't help but eventually empathise with the "creature" .

Murr includes details about the "victims", telling why each victim was chosen and why each was so vulnerable to manipulation by The Boy, and you discover with horror that you, too, could easily be a victim because The Boy "found his form in others, in their memories."

"The Boy" is so captivating that one overlooks the very convenient and well-timed coincidences in order to prolong the fun of reading. A book that you will find difficult to put down. Highly recommended to fans of the horror/thriller genre.****

Reminiscent of both Steven King and Patrick McCabe in creating an atmosphere of fear and dread, Naeem Murr creates in The Boy a young man/demon who embodies everyone's worst nightmare--the intelligent and psychologically astute predator. Having grown up without the nurturing and love which makes us human, The Boy is being sought by Sean Hennessey, a social worker who was his foster father and may, in fact, be his real father. Both Messianic and consummately evil, The Boy controls the action throughout the novel, planning when, where, and how to wreak his vengeance against the world. Mere murder is not satisfying to him--it must be agonizingly slow and degrading.

Intensely dark and humorless, this is a taut and very fast-paced psychological thriller which draws you in because you think you "understand" this damaged creature. Murr further increases reader involvement by giving deep background information about the victims, too. You know why each victim was chosen and why each was so vulnerable to manipulation by The Boy, and you discover with horror that you, too, could easily be a victim because The Boy "found his form in others, in their memories." This novel is so absorbing that one overlooks the very convenient and well-timed coincidences in order to prolong the fun of reading. The perfect short novel to read all in one sitting!

I first saw "The Boy" in the local library, and it was the cover which caught my attention. It was a picture of a young boy with a haunting look about him that forced me to find and read the book. It is one of the best and most captivating books I have read. The Boy is both good and evil, straight and gay, friend and foe. He has control over all whom enter his spell, even the reader. The Boy's innocence makes his evil side even more evil, he uses others, affected by his trance, to carry out his plans. Naeem's imagery in the sceens with the fat man are almost too believable. I would recomend this book to anyone with a fascination of the phychology of youth or anyone who thinks little boys are just cute and innocent.