Panda

A New York Public Library Best Nonfiction Book of 2025 · A New York Times Book Review Critics’ Pick · A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2025 · Shortlisted for the Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Literature “A thrilling work of history that’s wilder than fiction.” —The...

Were dinosaurs really dumber than lizards? Why, after all, are roughly the same number of men and women born into the world? What led the famous Dr. Down to his theory of mongolism, and its racist residue? What do the panda's magical "thumb" and the sea turtle's perilous migration tell us about imperfections that prove the evolutionary rule? The wonders and mysteries of evolutionary biology are elegantly explored in these and other essays by the celebrated natural history writer Stephen Jay Gould.

New York Times bestselling author Teddy Fitzroy returns as FunJungle’s resident sleuth when the zoo’s newest addition goes missing—before she even arrives!—in the latest novel in New York Times bestselling author Stuart Gibbs’s FunJungle series. FunJungle is frenzied, awaiting the...

The #1 bestselling chapter book series of all time celebrates 25 years with new covers and a new, easy-to-use numbering system! Time-traveling brother-and-sister team Jack and Annie have to find a certain kind of food. The magic tree house whisks them off to a village in the mountains of...

A young boy who met the Lord of Death, a king who pleaded a cart driver to teach him lessons of life and thunder who left a message for the gods, demons and humans. Curious, aren’t you? These stories and many more form the heart of the Vedas and the Upanishads, one of the oldest written Hindu texts. Daaji’s keen curatorial selection brings an array of ancient tales of adventure, quests and wisdom. He engages with the narratives and simplifies the ancient wisdom to make it understandable and at the same time feed the imagination of children and set them on a path to self-discovery.

Merlin Mission Books 17-24 of the #1 New York Times bestselling Magic Tree House series available together for the first time ever! Magic Tree House Merlin Missions are more challenging adventures for the experienced Magic Tree House reader. In each adventure, Merlin the magician sends Jack...

In The Positive Panda Bedtime Stories Collection for Kids, you will find stories that will stimulate your child’s imagination, taking their creativity to another level.

Pudding the panda makes everyone smile at Edinburgh Zoo. But what would make her truly happy is a family to take care of - like her heroine, Mary Poppins. Meanwhile, Callum is having a hard time at home. His parents keep arguing; his sister is annoying; and his ninth birthday gift is a certificate for an "adopted" panda when all he’d wanted was Lego. Then by a twist of fate, the unbelievable happens, and the two come together on Callum’s front doorstep.

Red pandas have thick bushy ringed tails like raccoons, but they aren’t related to panda bears or raccoons—in fact, they have no close relatives anywhere on Earth. In this episode, we wander the Himalayas with a red panda and her cubs as they munch on bamboo, practice walking in the treetops, and settle in to nap together as the first snowfall of the year covers their forest home.

Take the next steps in your data science career! This friendly and hands-on guide shows you how to start mastering Pandas with skills you already know from spreadsheet software.

Who's that hiding in the tree? It's a panda! Listen to learn more about giant pandas.

Imagine Sword Art Online, Tron, and Dungeon Crawler Carl had an unholy digital love child — one raised on energy drinks, firewall logs, and a healthy distrust of cloud providers. You just found it. This isn’t your average power-fantasy grind. It’s a cybersecurity fever dream where the loot drops are threat-intel reports, the XP curve is governed by network latency, and trust issues are a core mechanic. Just like your mom hides vegetables in the spaghetti sauce, this book hides actual cybersecurity lessons inside a full-throttle, neon-litRPG dungeon crawl. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry,...

Here is the astonishing true story of Ruth Harkness, the Manhattan bohemian socialite who, against all but impossible odds, trekked to Tibet in 1936 to capture the most mysterious animal of the day: a bear that had for countless centuries lived in secret in the labyrinth of lonely cold mountains...

You and your child will find pictures of pandas in short simplified text for children learning to read or those who like picture books. Pandas: Photos and Fun Facts for Kids. It is Book 13 in the Kids Learn with Pictures Series. This book is around a clear concept: see pictures of pandas. This is a book of animals that ask questions of the pictures shown to the listener to encourage interaction and responses from the child.

Sun Tzu wrote it 2,500 years ago. Nation-states are using it today. The Art of War: A Cybersecurity Companion takes Sun Tzu's complete text — every verse of the Lionel Giles translation — and maps it to the modern reality of nation-state cyber conflict. Not as metaphor. As doctrine. Every verse is followed by an extended Cyber Parallel: a substantive analytical commentary connecting Sun Tzu's principle to how China's APT41, Russia's Sandworm, North Korea's Lazarus Group, and Iran's IRGC actually operate in the wild. Every verse is then grounded in a Field Note: a named actor, a named ...

Beginning with an in-depth explanation of the circadian clock - why it's important, how it works, and how to know it isn't working - The Circadian Code outlines lifestyle changes to make to get back on track. It's a concrete plan to enhance weight loss, improve sleep, optimize exercise, and manage technology so that it doesn't interfere with your body's natural rhythm. Dr. Panda's life changing methods show you how to prevent and reverse ailments like diabetes, cancer, and dementia, as well as microbiome conditions like acid reflux, heartburn, and irritable bowel disease.

Everyone thinks that Lin is the cutest panda in the world. So much so that they ship her off to the local zoo, away from her beloved brother, to be ogled at by the masses. But Lin HATES being cute, and now she will do everything in her power to prove that she's the baddest, meanest, most un-cute animal in the zoo.

When toxic mold and pollution turn her loving, intelligent sons into raging, out of control monsters, one mom must take her family on an extended camping trip in clean air so their brains can heal. Jen’s son hasn’t been himself for quite some time. She can’t quite put her finger on when things changed, but she knows this isn’t her kid. Then his twin brother goes off the rails, too. She lucks into the one-in-a-million doctor who knows what is going on: PANS (Pediatric Acute-onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome). But to get them better, she’ll have to find a way to get them into clean ...

Bestseller in Hard Science Fiction! Bestseller in Genetic Engineering Science Fiction! Some animals just seem doomed to extinction—until one rogue scientist takes a hand. Pandas: vanishingly rare, irresistibly adorable … and all owned and controlled by China. Biologist Buck Blackwood has a bold plan to change that. Driven by a passion to save pandas from extinction—and to liberate them from global politics—he secretly uses cutting-edge genetic engineering to create a new breed: the first-ever “all-American,” perfect pandas. But when whispers of an illegal panda farm in the ...

Friends Big Panda and Tiny Dragon journey through the seasons of the year together, day and night, in rain and in sun. Travelling through nature, they find hope and inspiration in the world around them, realising that even in the darkest of days, spring will always return. Feel the calming influence of Big Panda, who reminds us of the bigger picture while appreciating the simplicity of small moments. Explore your surroundings with the inquisitive eye of Tiny Dragon, our friend who is big in heart if not in stature.