Most Popular Books by Alastair Smith

Simple text and illustrations explain reproduction and the growth of a baby inside the mother''s womb.

Explains the terms and concepts associated with maps and how to make accurately-scaled maps of existing areas, as well as fantasy maps.

A collection of jokes and riddles pokes fun at school life, teachers, lessons, discipline, lunchrooms, getting sick, and other highlights and low points of the school day.

An illustrated tour of the universe, from our closest planetary neighbours, Mars and Venus, to star constellations, galaxies and black holes millions of light years away. With photographs, detailed illustrations and fascinating information about space, plus tips on trying astronomy at home and internet links to websites with the latest space news.

This book is an introduction to the world of physics and presents examples of modern technology which make use of light, sound, and electricity. Descriptions of Web sites are included.

A basic introduction to weather, the elements that create weather, and how to identify different kinds of weather.

A comprehensive and inspiring guide to drawing and painting subjects, ranging from people and animals to dinosaurs and buildings with plenty of full colour illustrations.

This guide provides explanations of how homework and revision Web sites work, with links to the best sites for information, pictures, and study guidance. It contains dos and don''ts for dealing with the Internet and explains how to create eye-catching assignments.

Fold over pages reveal homes from a Roman apartment, an Egyptian house, a medieval castle and a stone-age home. 4-8 yrs.

This sticker book is based on a story from the Farmyard Tales series. It is a rebus puzzle to solve, where sticker pictures replace words in the story, and missing parts of each full colour main picture can also be completed by adding the appropriate sticker.

This kit comes with working weather instruments. Just follow the easy instructions and learn to calculate wind speed in MPH and perform many other meteorological activities, so you can become an amateur meteorologist. Kit includes Weather Spotter''s Guide book, anemometer for measuring wind speed, wind vane, rain gauge, snow gauge, thermometer on card for hanging on nail or by string, 60 second sand timer for use with anemometer, compass for directional settings for wind vane and information regarding how to use these instruments to gather data.

Political leaders face both internal and external threats to their tenure as leaders. To retain office leaders need mass support, for instance to win elections. However, they also need to deal with potential internal party rivals. Using a game theoretic model, we examine how the incentives created by these competing pressures affect the retention of ministers across different political systems. Since non-democratic leaders face relatively little threat from the masses, their concern is to reduce internal party risk. Therefore, they remove high performing ministers and retain mediocre and poor performers. As it becomes easier for the masses to replace the party in power, leaders must tradeoff internal and external threats. Retaining competent leaders improves party performance but generates an internal party rival.

This lift-the-flap book uses the elements of discovery and surprise to interest very young children and help them explore the topic of dinosaurs. Lift the flaps to find out where a baby dinosaur spends most of its time or to spy an adult dinosaur hunting its prey.