Rourke Educational Media

"Adopting a dog from a rescue or shelter has become more popular than ever. With all the stray, unwanted, and abandoned dogs in the U.S., get all the factual information you need to research different dog rescues and shelters within your city or town. Browse through real photographs of actual rescue and shelter dogs, sidebars and text boxes with information about statistics, and a checklist to see if adopting a rescue or shelter dog is right for you!...

"Living in a world as vast as Earth, it can be easy to forget that this blue planet is actually a tiny speck within a massive universe filled with planets, moons, stars, asteroids, comets, dark matter--and maybe even alien life. Read about Earth's place in the Milky Way and the larger universe and how humans are learning about the endless frontier of space--and whether we are alone" -- Back cover.