"From learning to make fire and using the stars as guides to cooking meals in microwaves and landing on the moon, prepare to uncover the secrets and superpowers of how we evolved from our first appearances millions of years ago"-- Provided by publisher.

Introduces endangered and extinct species and explains how human actions affect animal populations.

Discusses the importance of natural habitats to animals and explains how human actions both positively and negatively impact animal habitats.

Revealing how human society evolved and flourished, a world-renowned historian and philosopher tells strange, but true, stories about how humans established civilization, endured the consequences of it and created history-changing inventions along the way.

Combining poetry with intricate cut-paper illustrations, this stunning biography of our ever-growing universe shows how we humans--the curious ones, the storytellers--are active, vital, changing and growing, too.

"Tree is a novel about a tree written from a unique point of view: the chief narrator is a tree. Tree uses magical realism as a key to access the interrelated emotional realities of the many species that share one pristine valley in Topanga, California. Grass, birds, other trees and animals come to life on the pages, while one 19th century Mexican woman and one 20th century school boy, hearts opened by grief and loneliness, come to know one California...