Thursday, April 16, 2009

New Nonfiction Books

From the series Looking at Nature by Bobbie Kalman:

How Does It Move?
Looks at the many different ways in which people and animals move.







What Are Natural Structures?
Simple text and photographs explore the forms and structures of animals and plants as well as landforms.

What Are These Animals Doing?
Simple text and photographs explore animal behaviors, such as hiding from predators, dancing, migrating, and caring for their young.





What Time Is It?
Explains what time is and how people tell time, and looks at different segments of time, focusing on a year of seasons.

Shel Silverstein, Poet - Rachel Lynette
Examines the life of poet and children's author, Shel Silverstein.

Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland - Sally M. Walker
This book reports on the work of forensic scientists who are excavating grave sites in James Fort, in Jamestown, Virginia, to understand the people who lived in the Chesapeake Bay area in the 1600s and 1700s.

Ed Emberley's Complete FunPrint Drawing Book

Instructions for creating a variety of shapes and figures using fingerprints and a few simple lines.

Transportation Technology - Brian Williams
Describes new technologies that are helping make road transportation, railroads, ships, airplanes, and space travel more efficient and discusses how transportation will change in the future.

Military Technology - Ian Graham
Describes new technologies that are helping make military aviation, land warfare, warships and submarines, intelligence, non-lethal weapons, and space weapons more efficient and discusses the implications these technologies have on current and future warfare.

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