Josepha Sherman

While investigating rain, learn about the water cycle and problems with rain, including droughts and floods.

Describes how rain falls, the water cycle, where and how often rain falls, why rain is necessary, and problems caused by too much or too little rain.

Learn what makes lightning flash across the sky, and the different ways lightning is created in thunderstorms.

From the dawn of history, individuals and civilizations have battled disease. The struggle shifted once epidemiologists, medical professionals, and other specialists identified the microscopic organisms often to blame for much of humanity's illnesses over time. This book examines both the history of battling disease and the ever-shifting frontlines of the modern struggle against germs, as well as possible future developments. From cutting-edge medical...

This resource aims to break down the construct of time in both its scientific and societal functions. The narrative begins with early man and moves to discuss the rudimentary devices-water clocks and sun dials-used by ancient civilizations, but moves forward, exploring clock making and the innovations that came in the Renaissance. The theories and discoveries of great scientists are expounded here in an easy-to-understand manner. The book concludes...

"Describes asteroids, meteors, and comets, including their histories, their compositions, and their roles in the solar system"--Provided by publisher.

Describes the life, explorations and voyages of Samuel de Champlain, the Father of New France.

Outlines the events of this English explorer's famous Arctic journeys and his search for the Northwest Passage to Asia.

Best-selling authors Josepha Sherman and Susan Shwartz are fan-favorite chroniclers of Star Trek adventures. Exodus and Exiles, the first two parts of the Vulcan's Soul Trilogy, introduced a brewing conflict that threatens the galaxy. In this final chapter, the secret history of the Romulans is revealed. And to stave off an escalation of galactic warfare, Spock and his allies race across time and space to confront a terrifying interstellar menace....