Library Binding
(Troll Communications Llc, June 1, 1978)
Presents a brief biography of the Venetian explorer who laid the first English claim to the North American continent and of his son who further explored the new territory.
From Dolly the sheep to the cloning of a human embryo, provides an overview of the technology and history of cloning and presents arguments for and against human cloning.
A biography of the South American general and revolutionary who helped liberate Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela from the domination of Spain in the early nineteenth century..
Discusses various eating disorders, with an emphasis on anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa, and tells the stories of people who have suffered from them
Jules, a ten year old, encounters the lonely nature of being one of the many colonists of a new outpost on Mars. Plucked from Earth in the year 2045, he and his Pops live a post-apocalyptic existence. As a member of this society on Mars, Jules is being educated and groomed to be one of the chosen to repopulate the Earth after it supposedly has suffered total annihilation from a nuclear war. Only that things don't seem as they really are.
A biography of the famous explorer explains how he became interested in becoming a navigator, why he decided to sail west to reach the Indies, and how he persuaded the Queen of Spain to sponsor his voyage