Cecilia Fitzsimons

Pamela Forey

Christopher Fitzsimons

An Instant Guide to Stars and Planets is an ideal compact identification guide to our night sky. A system of season-by-season star charts enables the reader to identify quickly and easily the major constellations visible in the Northern Hemisphere. The Solar System and its planets are described and illustrated using data from the Voyager and Mariner missions. Information on stars, star clusters, nebulae, galaxies, and black holes provides the background needed to understand the structure of the universe and how it functions. Detailed, full-color illustrations and a concise but informative text provide everything the novice starwatcher needs to explore the sty.

Instant Guide to Stars and Planets

Contains 50 nature projects on plant and animal life in ponds, at the seaside, in woods, fields, hedgerows and the back garden, as well as indoor experiments, with over 300 step-by-step colour photographs to illustrate each project and the equipment required.

50 Nature Projects for Kids

A fantastic how-to-book full of projects and activities to help children learn about the natural world, with simple experiments, things to make, games to play and things to find - in the woods, on the beach, in a field and in the backyard (and even indoors). More than 350 lively photographs show you exactly what to do.

Fun-Packed Outdoor and Indoor Things to Do and Make

Henry Gee

S. McCormick

The Pocket Reference Guide to Fossils is an ideal compact identification guide to the plant and animal fossils which can be found in the countryside, quarries and along the coasts of Europe. It provides a fascinating insight into life on earth millions of years ago. From ammonites to trilobites, brachiopods to graptolites, an easy-to-follow system of colour-coded bands and symbols designating major zoological or botanical groups, leads rapidly and easily to the correct section of the book. Detailed full-colour illustrations and concise, informative text detailing characteristic features, geological age and principal locations, allow you to identify accurately the most common fossils found in Europe.

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