Patricia Lauber

Color photos augment the dramatic story of the eruption, aftermath, and gradual return to life of the volcano. This is a spectacular book; Lauber's narrative describing the eruption, aftermath, and gradual return of life to the Mount St. Helens slopes devastated by the 1980 eruption is anchored with stellar color photographs that show each phase of the destruction and the healing.

Describes the 1994 discovery made in Chauvet, France, of a cave with Stone Age rock paintings, and discusses the significance of cave art to people living in prehistoric as well as modern times.

Explains various changes in humanity's beliefs about the shape of the earth, from the flat earth theories of the ancients to the round earth theories which were proven true by the voyages of Columbus and Magellan.

Text and photographs taken from space depict the nature, evolution, and future of Earth.

Through a true-or-false format, presents statements about the history, uses, and behavior of horses and discusses them.

Describes life at a school for cats, where the students learn to be "purrfect."

Discusses how fossilized remains of plants and animals reveal the characteristics of the prehistoric world.

Presents recent archaeological findings about the first people to settle the Americas, how they got here, and from what continent they came.