Batty's efforts to impress visitors at the zoo fail, but he is determined to be popular like the other animals. First he goes to the penguin pool but the water is cold and he doesn't like fish. Then he tries the gorilla enclosure but he doesn't have any fleas for the gorillas to pick off him. He tries to laze in the sun with the lions but its far too bright for his sensitive eyes. When eventually he returns to his bat cave he finds that everyone else is trying to be like him, hanging upside down. This clever and witty story is brought to life with Batty's upside down view of his surroundings, involving the reader in turning the book upside down with him. With its warm-hearted theme it is sure to delight readers young and old.

Battina is a glamorous diva. Will you help her get ready for her very busy social schedule? This incredibly chock-full novelty book includes: -A lentincular cover -Over 40 stickers of dresses and accessories -Lift-the-flaps -Oversize pop-ups -A reflective mirror -Scratch n' sniff perfumes -Removable and sendable postcards -Battina personalized stationery And a whole lot of fashion sense!

Bo, a Mexican free-tailed bat, journeys across Texas to teach young readers about the important role bats play in Texas ecology and describes the thirty-two different types of bats that make their home in the Lone Star State.

A Batty Book is a combined book title and author that create a pun or play on words. 1001 Batty Books is a collection of over 1000 such combinations with over 100 hand-drawn illustrations to bring the book titles to life.

The creature called Man-Bat escapes Arkham Asylum with a secret weapon and a sonar shriek that makes citizens turn batty, and it is up to Batman to keep Gotham City from becoming a city of bats.

A proposal for a new way to understand cities and their design not as artifacts but as systems composed of flows and networks. In The New Science of Cities, Michael Batty suggests that to understand cities we must view them not simply as places in space but as systems of networks and flows. To understand space, he argues, we must understand flows, and to understand flows, we must understand networks—the relations between objects that compose the system of the city. Drawing on the complexity sciences, social physics, urban economics, transportation theory, regional science, and urban geography, and building on his own previous work, Batty introduces theories and methods that reveal the deep structure of how cities function. Batty presents the foundations of a new science of cities, defining flows and their networks and introducing tools that can be applied to understanding different aspects of city structure. He examines the size of cities, their internal order, the transport routes that define them, and the locations that fix these networks. He introduces methods of simulation that range from simple stochastic models to bottom-up evolutionary models to aggregate land-use transportation models. Then, using largely the same tools, he presents design and decision-making models that predict interactions and flows in future cities. These networks emphasize a notion with relevance for future research and planning: that design of cities is collective action.

Read along with Disney! In "Going Batty," the new girl in town is looking forward to making some new friends! But when her family's strange ways spook the neighbors, Vampirina goes a little batty trying to scare up a play date.