"A group of children learn about the human body through visits with Wilhelm Roentgen, Edward Jenner, Leonardo da Vinci, Rosalind Franklin, and Watson and Crick"--

Marcus has a cold. Ning breaks her arm. It seems like every "body" is falling apart! Can Zac put it all together with help from Leonardo da Vinci, Rosalind Franklin, and more?

Acorn books provide carefully levelled non-fiction to introduce key curriculum concepts. This series introduces parts of the human body and why we need them. Includes notes for parents and teachers.

This graphic nonfiction book introduces the concept of addition and provides strategies for solving addition problems. Building Blocks of Mathematics features quirky characters who introduce and demostrate critical basic mathematics concepts. This fun and inventive series was designed in collaboration with elementary mathematics education experts.

Written by a distinguished cast of contributors, Alan Turing: Life and Legacy of a Great Thinker is the definitive collection of essays in commemoration of the 90th birthday of Alan Turing. This fascinating text covers the rich facets of his life, thoughts, and legacy, but also sheds some light on the future of computing science with a chapter contributed by visionary Ray Kurzweil, winner of the 1999 National Medal of Technology. Further, important contributions come from the philosopher Daniel Dennett, the Turing biographer Andrew Hodges, and from the distinguished logician Martin Davis, who provides a first critical essay on an emerging and controversial field termed "hypercomputation".

Preeminent psychologist Lisa Barrett lays out how the brain constructs emotions in a way that could revolutionize psychology, health care, the legal system, and our understanding of the human mind. “Fascinating . . . A thought-provoking journey into emotion science.”—The Wall Street Journal “A singular book, remarkable for the freshness of its ideas and the boldness and clarity with which they are presented.”—Scientific American “A brilliant and original book on the science of emotion, by the deepest thinker about this topic since Darwin.”—Daniel Gilbert, best-selling author of Stumbling on Happiness The science of emotion is in the midst of a revolution on par with the discovery of relativity in physics and natural selection in biology. Leading the charge is psychologist and neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett, whose research overturns the long-standing belief that emotions are automatic, universal, and hardwired in different brain regions. Instead, Barrett shows, we construct each instance of emotion through a unique interplay of brain, body, and culture. A lucid report from the cutting edge of emotion science, How Emotions Are Made reveals the profound real-world consequences of this breakthrough for everything from neuroscience and medicine to the legal system and even national security, laying bare the immense implications of our latest and most intimate scientific revolution.

Offers an illustrated encyclopedia of general science, with informative and fun facts on a broad array of scientific topics.