The almost unnaturally bright light of the Glow-worm has puzzled, charmed and fascinated generations of poets, artists, scientists and nature lovers. But now, this enigmatic species is in decline and under threat.This book describes the life of Lampyris noctiluca, how it feeds, grows, defends itself and breeds; its natural enemies, its evolution, and how and why it produces that remarkable and vivid light. Details of Glow-worm habitat, ecology and conservation are also con...

The insects of Bug Command are eating lunch and a group of alien slugs are invading their world, along with zombie squids attacking. It's up to Sammy Scorpion to stop them.

In this original tragedy, Alantis is an orphan raised by a mutated intelligent squirrel. She is trained in knighthood and finds love with a young man whose wicked father forbids the love between them. This wicked man will stop at nothing to keep them apart.

Sammy Scorpion has to fight off mutant katydids after a science experiment failed for new trained agents.

A scorpion taken from his home is made a superhero to defend the forest, recruited by insect agents of a command center.

In this final adventure, Whip and his four friends, Bobi, Pition, Fentruck, and Ezra, work in a science lab and a nerdy science toucan invents a time machine. Whip and the gang test it, and it glitches as a bomb sending them back to the time of the dinosaurs. They are stuck back in time to help a herd of herbivores battle the mighty T-Rex, Gish. Will this be enough to reactivate the time machine and zoom back to the present? Whip is to be married soon to his fiancée, Imogene (formerly know...

All our inner organs and tissues require a constant environment to work effectively. Warm-blooded animals keep a core body temperature around 98°F as the cells function at an optimal capacity at this temperature. The core body temperature of cold-blooded animals is the same as the surrounding environment and animals need to move into warmer or colder environments so that the internal state becomes ideal for physiological processes. One of the fundamental concepts in life sciences and medic...

Whip is back for a great exciting adventure. He and his gang are off to Mars. They do research and investigation like any astronaut would do. They enter an airtight town visiting a market and face great challenges such as fighting ferocious Martian monsters.

Whip has to babysit a pair of twin koalas for their parents have flown a plane to Australia to meet their relatives. The sister twin, Agatha, has discovered a strange console that took blew their house into outer space. Whip and his gang are about to face chaos in the whole galaxy for the evil king of the Vips, Brendor, returns with new plans up his sleeve, sending his (whole Vip) son, Prince Kazam, and a horde of aliens to capture the twin koalas and dispose of Whip and his pals.

Whip and his friends are going off to college to get an education. They have fun with new friends hanging at the bar and singing karaoke. They must face a challenge competing in theme park testing sports, the Amusers, against a cheating champion team known as the Arctics. It is up to Whip to save the world by winning the final competition and earning the trophy.

This is the final battle for the Heaven Federation against the Sharp Empire. The freedom fighters must save the galaxy and rescue a revived princess as Nala Boomer faces Darth Waternoose in combat as she is corrupted by the powers of Emperor Sharp. The immortal curse is broken, and the last enemies remaining are Brain Tentacles and the Phantom of the Galaxy. To learn more about the Sharp Empire, visit http://johns-books.wikia.com.

The freedom fighters of the Heaven Federation have recovered the Death Scales gem scales. Now they have a new enemy, Brain Tentacles and his mutant-mixed aliens. They are in alliance with the Sharp Empire. The aliens want to conquer the galaxy by using the galactic ghost gem. Artidector has revived Nala Boomer and a new recruited, revived crocodile hunter, Steve Irwin, to join the others in battle with the empire.