Provides readers with a comprehensive look at the social structure, eating habits, and hunting methods of these amazing sea creatures, enhanced with color photographs. Reprint.[...]
Vicki Le?n, the popular author of the "Uppity Women" series (more than 335,000 in print), has turned her impressive writing and research skills to the entertaining and unusual array of the peculiar jobs, prized careers and passionate pursuits of ancient Greece and Rome.
From Architect to Vicariu[...]
Parrots are among the most beautiful -- and endangered -- creatures on the planet. Concentrating not on the familiar, tame, caged variety but on parrots in the wild, "A Rainbow of Parrots features a dazzling display of beautiful birds. Color photographs reveal the bright splendor of macaws, the sati[...]