Nature's law of cycles is demonstrated in this description of the life cycle of man, animals, plants, and stars. Instructions for experiments are included.

When a young girl looks through the rose-colored glasses made from the stone she discovered in the woods, she suddenly enters the world of the woodland fairies.

A young donkey has a series of masters and adventures but is finally reunited with his mother.

You learn that a cruel circus owner plans to take over the country. Somehow you must get away and expose his scheme. The dangers you face are many and the choices are yours.

Art instrutor Rober Carter's illustrated book is both enjoyable and informative, written in an engaging style. Rhymes of Mother Goose he suggests, frequently are spiritual parables. He compares many of the famous aphorisms from Lao Tsu's Tao The Ching, noting simitarities of viewpoints. Carter feels that teaching of the Chinese philosopher and even Mother Goose nursery rhymes are addresses to some deeper level within each one of us. Consequently,...

By "reading" the bones of people killed in the town of Herculaneum by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, an anthropologist reconstructs their lives.

Photographs of the 1990 voyage of the new Nina, original illustrations, historical paintings, and maps present a:picture of what it was like to sail.

Describes the last voyage of the zeppelin, or airship, Hindenburg, which crashed in flames on a New Jersey airfield in 1937, and examines some possible causes for the disaster.