Most Popular Books by Margaret Bateson

Stowaway Sam Swallow is looking for adventure, but when he hides aboard the Ruby Rose, the most notorious pirate ship ever to sail the Seven Seas, he gets more than he bargained for. Can Sam help Captain Crow find the pirate treasure, or will he be made to walk the plank? A swashbuckling pirate story with 3 pop-up and play scenes, plus a drawer full of pirate characters and amazing pirate accessories, which include hats, cutlasses, canons, treasure and an easy-assembly raft!

It''s the day of the Fairy Fashion Show. Daisy and Lizzie can''t believe their luck when they win special tickets to tour the fashion studio before the show and watch the fashion fairies at work. They even get to model on the catwalk.

Count five little piggies on your fingers and toes. Lift the flaps and find out what each busy little piggy is up to, whether it''s shopping, cleaning, cooking, painting-or coming back to a special surprise!

Offering an entire Victorian street scene with every detail recreated in intricate illustrations, a popular pop-up series continues with a Victorian village complete with four free-standing figures, food stalls, and a working Punch and Judy tent. Original.

The fairies of Snowberry Wood live in a sparkling world of ice and snow. This story unfolds this magical world of frozen waterfalls, snowy markets and cosy cabins. These fairies can go from scene to scene, zooming down ice toboggans, skating on the lake or playing in the toy and sweet emporium.

Discover a world of monstery surprises in this fabulous pop-up Monster House! Mich and Mulch, the monster twins, can hear strange noises in their home. Mummy and Daddy monster say it''s nothing - old houses creak and groan. But Milch and Mulch are determined to investigate. Will they be brave enough to get to the bottom of the mystery and find out what is lurking in the depths of the Monster House? A fabulous spooky adventure with pop-up house, press-out pieces, moving parts and hidden surprises.

A tired and hungry little girl helps herself to the belongings of three bears in the woods.

Genome sequences of two Synechococcus ecotypes inhabiting the Octopus Spring microbial mat in Yellowstone National Park revealed the presence of all genes required for nitrogenase biosynthesis. We demonstrate that nif genes of the Synechococcus ecotypes are expressed in situ in a region of the mat that varies in temperature from 53.5°C to 63.4°C (average 60°C); transcripts are only detected at the end of the day when the mat becomes anoxic. Nitrogenase activity in mat samples was also detected in the evening. Hitherto, N2 fixation in hot spring mats was attributed either to filamentous cyanobacteria (not present at u003e50°C in these mats) or to heterotrophic bacteria. To explore how energy-generating processes of the Synechococcus ecotypes track natural light and O2 conditions, we evaluated accumulation of transcripts encoding proteins involved in photosynthesis, respiration, and fermentation. Transcripts from photosynthesis (cpcF, cpcE, psaB, and psbB) and respiration (coxA and cydA) genes declined in the evening. In contrast, transcripts encoding enzymes that may participate in fermentation fell into two categories; some (ldh, pdhB, ald, and ackA) decreased in the evening, whereas others (pflB, pflA, adhE, and acs) increased at the end of the day and remained high into the night. Energy required for N2 fixation during the night may be derived from fermentation pathways that become prominent as the mat becomes anoxic. In a broader context, our data suggest that there are critical regulatory switches in situ that are linked to the diel cycle and that these switches alter many metabolic processes within the microbial mat.

Lift the flaps of this interactive pop-up adventure to see if Billy Bunny will find the butterfly he is searching for, or if the butterfly will find him.

Partial 16S rRNA sequences for eight thermophilic fermentative bacteria, seven of which were isolated from cyanobacterial mats in hot springs at Yellowstone National Park, are reported. All appear to be members of the "Gram-positive low G+C subdivision", including the Gram-negative staining Thermobacteroides acetoethylicus. T. acetoethylicus clusters tightly with two other asporogenous isolates, Thermoanaerobium brockii and Thermoanaerobacter ethanolicus, and Clostridium thermohydrosulfuricum. Three acetogenic clostridia, including two strains of Clostridium thermoauthotrophicum, and Clostridium thermoaceticum, form another tight cluster. Clostridium thermosulfurogenes forms a distinct branch between these two clusters.

Photosynthesis by Synechococcus lividus, the sole oxygenic phototroph inhabiting the surface of the 55°C cyanobacterial mat in Mushroom Spring, Yellowstone National Park, causes superoxic and alkaline conditions which promote glycolate photoexcretion. At O2 concentrations characteristic of the top 2 mm of mat during the day, up to 11.8% of NaH14CO3 fixed in the light was excreted, and glycolate accounted for up to 58% of the excreted photosynthate. Glycolate was neither incorporated nor metabolized by S. lividus, but it was incorporated by filamentous microorganisms in the mat. Incubation of mat samples with NaH''4CO3 resulted in labeling of both S. lividus and filaments, but the addition of nonradioactive glycolate increased the level of 14C in the aqueous phase and decreased the extent of labeling of filaments. This suggests that cross-feeding of glycolate from S. lividus to filamentous heterotrophs occurs and that underestimation of the extent of photoexcretion is probable.