James Marshall

After lying dormant for centuries, an ancient alien life force awakens with a hunger for humans. An elite SWAT team led by a fierce assassin must save mankind from a fate worse than death.

Three bears return home from a walk to find a little girl asleep in baby bear's bed.

A poor woodcutter's children, lost in the forest, come upon a house made of cookies, cakes, and candy, occupied by a wicked witch who likes to have children for dinner.

Buddy McGee eagerly awaits a promised Christmas visit from his friend, the thing from outer space.

The reader is invited to regard poetry as a distillation of life's experience. In Search of Poetry offers poems sequenced somewhat to reflect increasing maturity. The first group, "Whimsy," is followed by another that demonstrates some elements of poetic Form. These groups, together with following ones on Music, Nature, Philosophy and Feelings, contain about two-thirds of the book's poems. The final and largest group, Narratives, has broad scope and...

James A. R. Marshall is professor of theoretical and computational biology at the University of Sheffield. Social behavior has long puzzled evolutionary biologists, since the classical theory of natural selection maintains that individuals should not sacrifice their own fitness to affect that of others. Social Evolution and Inclusive Fitness Theory argues that a theory first presented in 1963 by William D. Hamilton-inclusive fitness theory-provides...

The kids in Room 207 take advantage of their teacher's good nature until she disappears and they are faced with a vile substitute.

The notorious Miss Swamp reappears at the Horace B. Smedley School, this time to shape up the football team and make them win at least one game.

Three stories chronicle the ups and downs of a special friendship between two hippopotamuses.

Five new episodes in the friendship of the two hippopotamuses.