This book forms part of our 'Pook Press' imprint, celebrating the golden age of illustration in children's literature. 'The Wind in the Willows' is a true classic of Children's literature, penned by Kenneth Grahame and first published in 1908. Alternately slow moving and fast paced, it focuses on four anthropomorphised animal characters in a traditional bucolic version of the English Thames valley - a novel notable for its adventure, mysticism, morality...

To those who found Ayn Rand's "Atlas shrugged" a powerful voice raised in defense of the individual, this book continues the theme. It proclaims the same philosophy, and its theme is the right of the individual to the pursuit of his own happiness. It portrays the impact of the Russian Revolution on three people who demand the right to live their own lives. It tells of a girl's passionate love, held like a fortress against the viciousness, cruelty,...

Discusses the formation, development and various types of tornadoes.

This book describes earthquakes and discusses the causes of earthquakes, the Richter scale, the moment magnitude scale, and the rescue work after an earthquake.

This book describes many kinds of fires and discusses firefighters and their equipment and safer materials that do not burn easily.

Explores seven of North America's natural wonders including Dinosaur Provincial Park in Alberta, Canada, Pacific Rim National Park on Vancouver Island, the Redwood Forests of Northern California, Niagara Falls in New York State, the Grand Canyon, Yellowstone National Park, and Paricutin Volcano in Mexico.

Introduces the military tactics of ancient societies, describing the development of weapons, military strategy, defensive walls, seige warfare, guerillas, and warships in the ancient civilizations of Egypt, China, Greece, Rome, India, and the Middle East.

Learn how humans used different tools throughout history to transport themselves and their belongings from place to place.

With a scientist's eye for detail and a poet's ear for language, DeBlieu examines one of nature's most elemental forces. From a light breeze cooling a hot brew to a gale that blows apart buildings, no other natural phenomenon affects people as directly as wind.

Emily Dickinson today has gaining her deserved place alongside Walt Whitman as one of the two greatest American poets of the nineteenth century. Beginning always with particulars of personal experience, her poems encompass life and death, love and longing, joyfulness and sorrow. With sparse, precise language, she conveyed a penetrating vision of the natural world and an acute understanding of the most profound human truths. The poems included in this...