Dan Kainen

The latest title in the blockbuster series, BIRDS brings you up close and personal with eight different bird species in astounding motion. Seeing is believing with the innovative and bestselling Photicular books, and now Birds gives readers a fascinating, up close look at bird behavior in living motion. The book features eight incredible moving images: Penguins hopping, Grebes in an elaborate courtship dance, preening lovebirds, the blinking eyes of an owl, geese migrating in V formation, a hummingbird sipping nectar from a flower and a mother songbird feeding it's new hatchlings. The opening essay focuses on the incredible of birds and bird behaviors-the weird, the surprising-and birds' incredible ability to learn new behaviors. And the profile accompanying each animal image includes information on each species. It's an aviary that you can hold in your hands!

The latest title in the blockbuster series, BUGS brings you up close and personal with eight different bug species in astounding motion. Another addition to the bestselling Photicular series with over 1.3 million books in print, Bugs zooms into the tiny world of insects. Watch a grasshopper diving for its pray, a house fly rubbing its fore legs, a tarantula skittering across the floor, a leaf-cutter ant hauling a giant leaf up a branch, a dung beetle pushing its ball up a hill, a close-up of a damselfly's enormous eyes, and more. BUGS offers readers an up-close look at bugs in motion and a window into how they move and behave. Science writer Mara Grunbaum provides an opening essay that delves into the fascinating behavior of these wonderful creatures as well as a detailed profile accompanying each image.

Zasněženou krajinu zdolává psí spřežení. Polární záře zahaluje hvězdnou noční oblohu hedvábnou duhou. Oba póly jsou krajiny extrémů – vzdálené, tajuplné a řídce osídlené tvory, kteří se museli dokonale přizpůsobit drsným podmínkám. Skýtají nám pohled, jaký nenajdete nikde na Zemi. Pomocí unikátní techniky Photicular přibližuje knížka nezapomenutelný, avšak křehký svět, zachycený navždy v živých pohybech. Je to tanec života ve formě knihy. Přesvědčte se sami!

The bestselling series meets a bestselling subject. The Photicular books, created through their patented technology, are not only magic to look at but magic to sell. With over two million copies in print and a robust backlist presence, the series ships over 300,000 copies a year. Next up comes a title that's an instant wow: Dinosaur, a celebration of everyone's favourite prehistoric beasts. We see their bones in museums. We pore over their imagined likenesses in books. We love movies that bring them to the big screen. Now, see dinosaurs come to life as if you were traveling on an expedition a hundred million years back in time. Using extremely lifelike animation, Dinosaur shows us a herd of giant sauroposeidons, with their impossibly long necks, lumbering across the sun-drenched plains eons and eons ago. Two angry triceratops preparing to lock horns. A threatened velociraptor standing tall, waving its wildly feathered arms. And, almost tenderly, a pair of duck-billed parasauropholuses feeling spring in the air and nuzzling. Flipping through these pages is as close as we'll ever get to watching actual footage from earth's distant past. The informative and lively text by science writer Kathy Wollard then brings us even closer through its insights and setting-the-scene storytelling. With T. rex roaring on the cover, Dinosaur is utterly irresistible.