Mary Ann Fraser

Profiles the inventor from his early life in Scotland with his mother, who lost most of her hearing to an infection, to his later life as a teacher in Boston, and describes his work with Thomas Watson to invent the telephone.

A moment-by-moment recreation of the first space flight to the moon, culminating in Neil Armstrong's step onto its surface.

Recreates Major John Wesley Powell's 1869 journey down the Colorado River and through the Grand Canyon.

William Finley and Herman Bohlman set up camp on Three Arch Rocks to study this unique habitat so they can convince lawmakers to make this the West Coast's first wildlife sanctuary.

Explains how the water cycle leads to different types of weather patterns.

Provides definitions, lists, records, brief biographies of scientists, and other information about physics, chemistry, the Earth, weather, water, plants, animals, the ecosystem, the human body, and outer space.

Introduces wonders of earth's atmosphere, including auroras, mirages, trade winds, dust storms, acid rain, meteor showers, sundogs and a host of other meteorological phenomena.

Surveys the exotic species of plants and animals that live in the world's rain forests.

Brief introductions to thirty animals with unusual and bizarre habits--such as the hognose snake who plays dead as a defense mechanism and the sand skink who can see through windows in his eyelids.