Science and Math
Get inspired by nature on your birdwatching journey Start your birdwatching journey in the safe hands of a lifelong birder. Through a series of chapters, you will build from an absolute beginner, exploring your own backyard, soaking up useful tips and insights gained from years of birdwatching. Whether you are in a city or deep in the country, birds are guaranteed and provide an easy doorway into nature. Learn where, when, and how to look and what to look out for. Find out what equipment to buy and how to use it. Discover the different characters and characteristics of birds--from the shy bittern to the bold robin and gymnastic red kite. As you build skills and experience, the book will help you expand horizons from walks with binoculars around your "local patch" to visiting remote wildlife reserves and other nature hot spots, with their contrasting birdlife and different demands, from dense woodland to expansive estuaries teeming with flocks of waders.
Don't miss this jumbo workbook from the learn-to-read Bob Books(R) program. It's bursting with stickers and phonics-based activities created specifically for children who are just starting to learn to read!200+ pages of activities--There are several activities tying into each storybook in the More Beginning Readers and First Stories sets, plus additional activities to add to the fun! For ages 4 to 6; Pre-K to First Grade Writing activities are based on three-letter words with short vowels in simple sentences. Open-ended drawing activities encourage creativity. Full-color, friendly illustrations feature characters that children love to learn to draw on their own. Builds fine motor skills Checklists and cut-out certificates build reading confidence and allow children to show off their hard work! 100+ stickers can be used as rewards or just for fun!
This jumbo workbook is the perfect way to engage young readers, increase reading comprehension, and nurture pride and confidence in their reading skills. The 224 pages of writing and drawing activities can be done alongside the Bob Books: More Beginning Readers and Bob Books: First Stories phonics boxed sets, or by any child who is just starting to sound out (decode) words. An excellent choice for learning at home!
Created by a teacher, Bob Books has been helping children learn to read through simple phonics, playful text and illustrations, and an emphasis on building young readers' confidence, success, and love of reading for more than forty years!
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A must-read owner's manual for every body. Take a head-to-toe tour of the marvel that is the human body in this "delightful, anecdote-propelled read" (The Boston Globe) from the author of A Short History of Nearly Everything. With a new Afterword.
"You will marvel at the brilliance and vast weirdness of your design." --The Washington Post Bill Bryson once again proves himself to be an incomparable companion as he guides us through the human body--how it functions, its remarkable ability to heal itself, and (unfortunately) the ways it can fail. Full of extraordinary facts (your body made a million red blood cells since you started reading this) and irresistible Brysonesque anecdotes, The Body will lead you to a deeper understanding of the miracle that is life in general and you in particular. As Bill Bryson writes, "We pass our existence within this wobble of flesh and yet take it almost entirely for granted." The Body will cure that indifference with generous doses of wondrous, compulsively readable facts and information. As addictive as it is comprehensive, this is Bryson at his very best.
"You will marvel at the brilliance and vast weirdness of your design." --The Washington Post Bill Bryson once again proves himself to be an incomparable companion as he guides us through the human body--how it functions, its remarkable ability to heal itself, and (unfortunately) the ways it can fail. Full of extraordinary facts (your body made a million red blood cells since you started reading this) and irresistible Brysonesque anecdotes, The Body will lead you to a deeper understanding of the miracle that is life in general and you in particular. As Bill Bryson writes, "We pass our existence within this wobble of flesh and yet take it almost entirely for granted." The Body will cure that indifference with generous doses of wondrous, compulsively readable facts and information. As addictive as it is comprehensive, this is Bryson at his very best.
It's fun to be smart! These two illustration-based card decks are packed with early learning questions that promote language development, cognitive growth, and social skills for children ages 3-4. Loved by kids, teacher approved, and trusted by parents, Brain Quest For Threes question-and-answer cards help children explore and learn about the alphabet, counting, recognizing shapes, comparing and matching, and more! In a set of two decks, Brain Quest For Threes features hundreds of questions to help kids learn exactly what they need to know, when they need to know it. Featuring: Two full-color Q&A decks in a reusable flip-top storage box A parent guide to help maximize the learning and fun 300 questions that set the foundation for pre-school learning
What's New?Technology questions: Introduce children to the basics of computers and technology Expanded social and emotional learning: Explores feelings and interactions with peers Updated content: Fresh and relevant to today's families
Brain Quest decks are: Aligned with early learning, child development milestones Vetted by award-winning educators Great to play with and learn from
Also available: Brain Quest Workbooks (Pre-Kindergarten through 6th Grade), Summer Workbooks (Pre-Kindergarten-Kindergarten through 5th-6th Grades), and My First Brain Quest First Words board books and early learning concept board books.
What's New?
Brain Quest decks are:
Also available: Brain Quest Workbooks (Pre-Kindergarten through 6th Grade), Summer Workbooks (Pre-Kindergarten-Kindergarten through 5th-6th Grades), and My First Brain Quest First Words board books and early learning concept board books.
From Pre-K through 2nd grade, help your child learn the letters of the alphabet and improve their overall handwriting skills with the help of this book's dry-erase marker and wipe-away practice surface. Featuring 64 pages filled with fun activities and adorable illustrations meant to joyfully instill essential writing skills, the Get Ready for School: Handwriting Wipe-Off Workbook is ideal for children ages 4-7. Focused on teaching lowercase and uppercase letter formation, the Get Ready for School: Handwriting Wipe-Off Workbook features lessons that will teach young writers how to:
write and trace all 26 letters of the alphabet in uppercase and lowercase learn to recognize and write all 26 letters using basic sight words learn to recognize vowels and consonants practice writing their own name and home address
Great for on-the-go summer learning, and for reinforcing lessons taught during the school day, this wipe-off workbook will help the young writer in your life improve their handwriting.
Great for on-the-go summer learning, and for reinforcing lessons taught during the school day, this wipe-off workbook will help the young writer in your life improve their handwriting.
This Learn to Write Brain Quest workbook helps children practice tracing and writing letters and words to prepare them for success with independent reading and writing in kindergarten and beyond. In Brain Quest Learn to Write: Letters, children ages 4 and up practice their penmanship while learning to write the letters of the alphabet. Learning to write and recognize letters and their sounds are key early literacy skills. Each workbook page includes engaging illustrations, multiple practice exercises, and fun activities that give children ample opportunity to master the content and experience the joy of learning.
This Learn to Write Brain Quest workbook helps children practice tracing and writing numbers to prepare them for success with math in kindergarten and beyond. In Brain Quest Learn to Write: Numbers, children ages 4 and up practice their penmanship while learning to write numbers 0-20. This workbook also introduces them to early numeracy concepts like recognizing, counting, and comparing numbers. Each workbook page includes engaging illustrations, multiple practice exercises, and fun activities that give children ample opportunity to master the content and experience the joy of learning.
This Learn to Write Brain Quest workbook teaches children how to trace and draw the basic strokes and shapes they need for writing success in kindergarten and beyond. In Brain Quest Learn to Write: Pen Control, Tracing, Shapes, and More, children ages 3 and up practice pen control while learning the strokes, lines, and shapes that are important precursors to writing letters and numbers. Learning shapes is also key to math skills like categorization, geometry, and spatial awareness. Each workbook page includes engaging illustrations, multiple practice exercises, and fun activities that give children ample opportunity to master the content and experience the joy of learning.
NOW IN PAPERBACK - THE MILLION COPY NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, FEATURING NEW MATERIAL "I highly recommend this book." --Wim Hof "A fascinating scientific, cultural, spiritual and evolutionary history of the way humans breathe--and how we've all been doing it wrong for a long, long time." --Elizabeth Gilbert "This book is amazing. " --Joe Rogan
No matter what you eat, how much you exercise, how skinny or young or wise you are, none of it matters if you're not breathing properly. There is nothing more essential to our health and well-being than breathing: take air in, let it out, repeat twenty-five thousand times a day. Yet, as a species, humans have lost the ability to breathe correctly, with grave consequences. Journalist James Nestor travels the world to figure out what went wrong and how to fix it. The answers aren't found in pulmonology labs, as we might expect, but in the muddy digs of ancient burial sites, secret Soviet facilities, New Jersey choir schools, and the smoggy streets of São Paulo. Nestor tracks down men and women exploring the hidden science behind ancient breathing practices like Pranayama, Sudarshan Kriya, and Tummo and teams up with pulmonary tinkerers to scientifically test long-held beliefs about how we breathe. Modern research is showing us that making even slight adjustments to the way we inhale and exhale can jump-start athletic performance; rejuvenate internal organs; halt snoring, asthma, and autoimmune disease; and even straighten scoliotic spines. None of this should be possible, and yet it is. Drawing on thousands of years of medical texts and recent cutting-edge studies in pulmonology, psychology, biochemistry, and human physiology, Breath turns the conventional wisdom of what we thought we knew about our most basic biological function on its head. You will never breathe the same again.
No matter what you eat, how much you exercise, how skinny or young or wise you are, none of it matters if you're not breathing properly. There is nothing more essential to our health and well-being than breathing: take air in, let it out, repeat twenty-five thousand times a day. Yet, as a species, humans have lost the ability to breathe correctly, with grave consequences. Journalist James Nestor travels the world to figure out what went wrong and how to fix it. The answers aren't found in pulmonology labs, as we might expect, but in the muddy digs of ancient burial sites, secret Soviet facilities, New Jersey choir schools, and the smoggy streets of São Paulo. Nestor tracks down men and women exploring the hidden science behind ancient breathing practices like Pranayama, Sudarshan Kriya, and Tummo and teams up with pulmonary tinkerers to scientifically test long-held beliefs about how we breathe. Modern research is showing us that making even slight adjustments to the way we inhale and exhale can jump-start athletic performance; rejuvenate internal organs; halt snoring, asthma, and autoimmune disease; and even straighten scoliotic spines. None of this should be possible, and yet it is. Drawing on thousands of years of medical texts and recent cutting-edge studies in pulmonology, psychology, biochemistry, and human physiology, Breath turns the conventional wisdom of what we thought we knew about our most basic biological function on its head. You will never breathe the same again.
In our unique genomes, every one of us carries the story of our species--births, deaths, disease, war, famine, migration, and a lot of sex. But those stories have always been locked away--until now. Who are our ancestors? Where did they come from? Geneticists have suddenly become historians, and the hard evidence in our DNA has blown the lid off what we thought we knew. Acclaimed science writer Adam Rutherford explains exactly how genomics is completely rewriting the human story--from 100,000 years ago to the present.