More than 38 million people around the world live with HIV/AIDS. For decades, scientists have been studying AIDS and the HIV virus that causes it. This fascinating book describes its emergence as a new disease and the reasons why it took as long as it did to find a treatment. Find out how, thanks to new treatments and technologies, this disease that was once almost unstoppable can now be effectively treated and, in some cases, cured.
Military working dogs serve as detection, scout, and patrol dogs on military bases, airfields, and prisons. Find out how these dogs are able to detect threats that human eyes and noses cannot find.
What do herding dogs do? They watch over and guide livestock from one place to another so they can graze safely. Find out about the different breeds of herding dogs and how they also make great pets.
A detection dog is trained to smell certain scents and lead their handler to them. They can sniff out everything from bombs to cancer and many things in between. Find out how these dogs are out there every day making the world a safer place.
Have you ever wanted to design a building or a machine? You may want to become an engineer. Engineers train their brains to think in a problem-solving way. With the help of the ideas in this book, you can start to think like an engineer too.
Are you naturally curious about the world? You may want to become a scientist. Scientists train their brains to think in a questioning way about the world around them. With the help of the ideas in this book, you can start to think like a scientist too.
Do you like the idea of being able to travel to space one day? You may want to become an astronaut. Astronauts train their brains to think in a practical, decisive way. With the help of the ideas in this book, you can start to think like an astronaut too.
Have you ever wanted to create your own app, game, or website? You may want to become a coder. Coders train their brains to think in a logical way, step-by-step. With the help of the ideas in this book, you can start to think like a coder too.
Learn all about the foul things found in human bodies. Discover fascinating facts, from the cause of foot fungus to why bodies need mucus. Amazing photos and simple text make this book a great high-interest read.
Learn all about different kinds of stomach-turning smells. Discover fascinating facts, from the gases that make up farts to skunk behavior before a spray. Amazing photos and simple text make this book a great high-interest read.
Learn all about different kinds of sickening parasites. Discover fascinating facts, from the cousins of tongue-eating lice to how brainworms get inside animals. Amazing photos and simple text make this book a great high-interest read.
Learn all about different kinds of nauseating foods. Discover fascinating facts, from the texture of fish eyeballs to foods that are made with animal blood. Amazing photos and simple text make this book a great high-interest read.
Learn all about different kinds of vile animals. Discover fascinating facts, from fish that are known as vacuums with teeth to why some lizards spurt blood from their eyes. Amazing photos and simple text make this book a great high-interest read.
Vaccines are substances that help protect people from diseases and they have been proven to save lives. So why has something that should reassure people become so controversial? This useful and timely book looks at the facts, viewpoints, and perspectives surrounding vaccines and how they became a crossroads between science and individual rights.
Taxing carbon emissions, which contribute to global warming, is one method governments are using to help decrease or control climate change. This informative title looks at the costs and benefits of this sometimes controversial tax and how different jurisdictions are implementing them.
A hungry polar bear is one of the most dangerous animals you will meet. A marine mammal, it hunts mostly seals on the sea ice in the Arctic. Read all about their amazing sense of smell, their giant paws, and razor-sharp claws that rip easily through prey.
Twice as long as humans are tall, the great white shark is the largest predatory fish in the ocean. This fish will go through 20,000 teeth over its lifetime. Read all about the fish made famous by the movie Jaws.
Killer bees were created by humans who were trying to make a more efficient bee for making honey. The new bee they made would swarm and attack intruders in great numbers. Read all about this aggressive bee and its gradual spread north in North America.
A bite from a black widow spider has more venom than a rattlesnake's. It won't kill you, but it will cause you a world of pain. Sadly, they live on every continent in the world except Antarctica. Read about the cannibalistic habits of this spider and how to spot one by the red or orange hourglass shape on its abdomen.
Mislabeled as the King of the Jungle, African lions actually live on savannas, and it's the females who do most of the hunting. Read all about the African lion's keen senses and outstanding stalking and hunting skills for taking down large, fast-moving prey.
The black mamba eats mostly small rodents but kills thousands of people every year with its venomous bite when it feels threatened. As if that's not bad enough, it can move really fast! Read all about the biggest and deadliest snake in Africa.
When COVID-19 was declared a pandemic in 2020, nearly every country in the world went into some form of lockdown. Yet each was different. With fascinating images and informative text, this book looks at the rules and restrictions people lived under and how they affected work, school, commerce, and daily life. A detailed final chapter examines the success and failures of lockdown and how countries could approach future pandemics.
The COVID-19 pandemic put a spotlight on the problems and flaws in the way we live in modern cities and communities. This useful book analyzes why some cities and countries suffered more than others by the harms inflicted by the pandemic. By exploring historical and contemporary pandemics, we can learn how cities and countries can assess their vulnerabilities and find ways to reduce the risk to citizens in future pandemics.
When people boarded the Diamond Princess cruise ship in February 2020, they had no idea their luxury vacation would turn into a nightmare of quarantine, sickness, and death. Using real examples of living through the pandemic, this fascinating book gives an overall inside look at how much changed and how quickly during COVID-19--the first major pandemic since 1918. A useful timeline will help readers keep track of the major events during the pandemic.
Never having faced such a challenge, governments were mostly slow to respond at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Then came groundbreaking science, historically swift vaccines, and economic stimulus packages to try to keep the virus under control and ease the burden of faltering economies. This detailed book examines the unprecedented challenges brought about by the pandemic, and how governments and people have coped.
