Discusses the characteristics which make human beings different from other species and describes how scientists have learned about prehistoric people and their evolution.
Instructions for a variety of simple experiments examining the reflex, instinctive, and conditioned behavior of such animals as mealworms, fruit flies, and goldfish.
Recreated from Ovid's "Metamorphoses, " these stories, ballads, and headline news articles let the Minotaur, King Midas, Arachne, Bacchus, Persephone, and many more haunting figures walk the Earth once more.
For this companion to her "New York Times"-bestselling collection "A Family of Poems, " Kennedy has hand-selected more than 100 of her favorite poems that lend themselves to memorization.