The Mosquito is the extraordinary, untold story of the mosquito's reign through human history and her indelible impact on our modern world order.
With Clark's terrifying and perilous experience, the league finally was provided the scare and the impetus to study sickle cell. It was quickly discovered that other players were also genetic receivers of this ancient guard against ...
Driven by surprising insights and fast-paced storytelling, The Mosquito is the extraordinary untold story of the mosquito’s reign through human history and her indelible impact on our modern world order.
For three years Ross struggled. His work was interrupted by a cholera epidemic in Bangalore, which he tried to combat with a sanitation program that got little support from his fellow health officers. Millions died as Ross's ...
A game of hide-and-seek forms the backdrop of a mosquito's life cycle. Micrographs show details of the mosquito and what she sees as she searches.
... Work in the United States Being Conducted by State Board of Health in Perry, Fla,” Sunday Times-Union (Jacksonville: Florida State Board of Health Scrapbook, Lee County Mosquito Control District, Ft. Myers, Florida, 1920), 1.
Everyone knows that mosquitoes are bloodsuckers.
Close-up, eye-catching photographs and high-interest text combine to make this an engaging read for even the most reluctant reader. Fascinating fact boxes are included throughout the book to add to the reader’s learning experience.
Accompanied by quirky line drawings by Spanish illustrator Erica Salcedo, this is a gently humorous and remarkably informative nature-adventure story about an unlikely pointy-nosed hero with big dreams and an even bigger heart.
. . . Matching the art is Aardema's uniquely onomatopoeic text . . . An impressive showpiece." -Booklist, starred review. Winner of Caldecott Medal in 1976 and the Brooklyn Art Books for Children Award in 1977.
In his debut novel, MacAlister combines crooked pharmaceutical companies, a CIA plot gone horribly awry, a terrorist weapon that comes in a small package, and a grief-stricken scientist determined to make America pay for its indifference to ...