How It Works: World of Animals – Book of Sharks & Ocean Predators (2015)
Is there anything more terrifying than the dorsal fin of a great white shark peeking through the waves? What about over 150 pages of the fiercest jaws and claws and the sharpest teeth the ocean has ever seen? The World of Animals Book of Sharks and Ocean Predators brings together the scariest monsters that make the deep blue sea such a terrifying place, from the usual suspects like the great white and the tiger shark to the octopuses whose camouflage talents mean they could be hiding anywhere.
In Shark Alley, South Africa, people often go underwater in protected environments to watch sharks in their natural surroundings. Some people believe this makes the sharks more violent. Others feel there's no change in behavior. Two researchers want to find the truth. How do they study the sharks? What do they find out?
Super Shark Encyclopedia and Other Creatures of the DeepSuper Shark Encyclopedia uncovers the secrets of the oceans by exploring a remarkable array of 80 sharks and other sea creatures — from Barrel Shrimp to Blue Sharks, Starfish to Bat Fish, and Hammerhead Sharks to Sandtiger Sharks, plus surfing penguins, deep-sea monsters, rays, eels and more.
Packed with jaw-dropping facts about animal behavior and anatomy, new x-ray artworks utilize cross-sections and strip layers away to show key anatomical features in detail.
How can a cheetah accelerate from zero to forty miles per hour in three seconds? How do termites build cooling systems into their homes? What is that Alien-like set of jaws in a moray eel's mouth for? These questions and more are explored in Super Nature Encyclopedia, an interactive look at the "wow" factor of the natural world — spotlighting Great White Sharks, African Elephants, Emperor Moths, Howler Monkeys and more of the world's most fascinating and surprising animals in remarkable detail.
In this eye-opening adventure, which spans the globe, Juliet Eilperin explores why, after millions of years, sharks remain among nature's most awe-inspiring creatures. She also shows the fascinating ways in which humans relate to the ocean's top predator. From the Bahamas, to South Africa, to Shanghai, sharks are still the object of an obsession that may eventually lead to their extinction. Yet people and sharks can also exist alongside each other: surfers tolerate their presence and eco-tourists swim with sharks that locals no longer need to hunt.
