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The Life of a Leaf

Author : Steven Vogel
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226859398
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book The Life of a Leaf written by Steven Vogel and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-10-17 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its essence, science is a way of looking at and thinking about the world. In The Life of a Leaf, Steven Vogel illuminates this approach, using the humble leaf as a model. Whether plant or person, every organism must contend with its immediate physical environment, a world that both limits what organisms can do and offers innumerable opportunities for evolving fascinating ways of challenging those limits. Here, Vogel explains these interactions, examining through the example of the leaf the extraordinary designs that enable life to adapt to its physical world. In Vogel’s account, the leaf serves as a biological everyman, an ordinary and ubiquitous living thing that nonetheless speaks volumes about our environment as well as its own. Thus in exploring the leaf’s world, Vogel simultaneously explores our own. A companion website with demonstrations and teaching tools can be found here: http://www.press.uchicago.edu/sites/vogel/index.html

The Book of Leaves

Author : Allen J. Coombes
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022617686X
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book The Book of Leaves written by Allen J. Coombes and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-12-10 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of all our childhood memories, few are quite as thrilling, or as tactile, as those of climbing trees. Scampering up the rough trunk, spying on the world from the cool green shelter of the canopy, lying on a limb and looking up through the leaves at the summer sun almost made it seem as if we were made for trees, and trees for us.Even in adulthood, trees retain their power, from the refreshing way their waves of green break the monotony of a cityscape to the way their autumn transformations take our breath away. In this lavishly illustrated volume, the trees that have enriched our lives finally get their full due, through a focus on the humble leaves that serve, in a sense, as their public face. The Book of Leaves offers a visually stunning and scientifically engaging guide to six hundred of the most impressive and beautiful leaves from around the world. Each leaf is reproduced here at its actual size, in full color, and is accompanied by an explanation of the range, distribution, abundance, and habitat of the tree on which it’s found. Brief scientific and historical accounts of each tree and related species include fun-filled facts and anecdotes that broaden its portrait. The Henry’s Maple, for instance, found in China and named for an Irish doctor who collected leaves there, bears little initial resemblance to the statuesque maples of North America, from its diminutive stature to its unusual trifoliolate leaves. Or the Mediterranean Olive, which has been known to live for more than 1,500 years and whose short, narrow leaves only fall after two or three years, pushed out in stages by the emergence of younger leaves. From the familiar friends of our backyards to the giants of deep woods, The Book of Leaves brings the forest to life—and to our living rooms—as never before.

Leaves from the Book of Life

Author : Charles SHAW (Author of “Leaves from the Book of Life.”.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Leaves from the Book of Life written by Charles SHAW (Author of “Leaves from the Book of Life.”.) and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Song Leaves from the Book of Life and Nature

Author : Matthew Bennett Wynkoop
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Song Leaves from the Book of Life and Nature written by Matthew Bennett Wynkoop and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Song Leaves from the Book of Life and Nature. By an American [i.e. Matthew Bennett Wynkoop].

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Song Leaves from the Book of Life and Nature. By an American [i.e. Matthew Bennett Wynkoop]. written by and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Book Of Gold Leaves

Author : Mirza Waheed
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0241968119
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book The Book Of Gold Leaves written by Mirza Waheed and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2014-10-30 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Shortlisted for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2016* Mirza Waheed's extraordinary new novel The Book of Gold Leaves is a heartbreaking love story set in war-torn Kashmir. In an ancient house in the city of Srinagar, Faiz paints exquisite Papier Mache pencil boxes for tourists. Evening is beginning to slip into night when he sets off for the shrine. There he finds the woman with the long black hair. Roohi is prostrate before her God. She begs for the boy of her dreams to come and take her away. Roohi wants a love story. An age-old tale of love, war, temptation, duty and choice, The Book of Gold Leaves is a heartbreaking tale of a what might have been, what could have been, if only. 'I loved it. The voice is lyrical, to match the beauty of Kashmir, and yet it is tinged with melancholy and grief, as is the story it tells' Nadeem Aslam (on The Collaborator) 'Waheed's prose burns with the fever of anger and despair; the scenes in the valley are exceptional, conveying, a hallucinatory living nightmare that has become an everyday reality for Kashmiris' Metro (on The Collaborator) Mirza Waheed was born and brought up in Kashmir. His debut novel The Collaborator was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and the Shakti Bhat Prize, and longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize. It was also book of the year for The Telegraph, New Statesman, Financial Times, Business Standard and Telegraph India, among others. Waheed has written for the BBC, The Guardian, Granta, Al Jazeera English and the New York Times. He lives in London.

Leaves from a Bachelor's Book of Life

Author : Francis Copcutt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book Leaves from a Bachelor's Book of Life written by Francis Copcutt and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Leaves from the Book of Life

Author : Charles Shaw (author of Leaves from the book of life.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Leaves from the Book of Life written by Charles Shaw (author of Leaves from the book of life.) and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

House of Leaves

Author : Mark Z. Danielewski
Publisher : Pantheon
ISBN 13 : 0375420525
Total Pages : 738 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (754 download)

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Download or read book House of Leaves written by Mark Z. Danielewski and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2000-03-07 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A novelistic mosaic that simultaneously reads like a thriller and like a strange, dreamlike excursion into the subconscious.” —The New York Times Years ago, when House of Leaves was first being passed around, it was nothing more than a badly bundled heap of paper, parts of which would occasionally surface on the Internet. No one could have anticipated the small but devoted following this terrifying story would soon command. Starting with an odd assortment of marginalized youth -- musicians, tattoo artists, programmers, strippers, environmentalists, and adrenaline junkies -- the book eventually made its way into the hands of older generations, who not only found themselves in those strangely arranged pages but also discovered a way back into the lives of their estranged children. Now this astonishing novel is made available in book form, complete with the original colored words, vertical footnotes, and second and third appendices. The story remains unchanged, focusing on a young family that moves into a small home on Ash Tree Lane where they discover something is terribly wrong: their house is bigger on the inside than it is on the outside. Of course, neither Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Will Navidson nor his companion Karen Green was prepared to face the consequences of that impossibility, until the day their two little children wandered off and their voices eerily began to return another story -- of creature darkness, of an ever-growing abyss behind a closet door, and of that unholy growl which soon enough would tear through their walls and consume all their dreams.

Fallen Leaves

Author : Will Durant
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476771561
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)

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Download or read book Fallen Leaves written by Will Durant and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-12-09 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praised as a “revelatory” book by The Wall Street Journal, this is the last and most personal work of Pulitzer Prize–winning author and historian Will Durant, discovered thirty-two years after his death. The culmination of Will Durant’s sixty-plus years spent researching the philosophies, religions, arts, sciences, and civilizations from across the world, Fallen Leaves is the distilled wisdom of one of the world’s greatest minds, a man with a renowned talent for rendering the insights of the past accessible. Over the course of Durant’s career he received numerous letters from “curious readers who have challenged me to speak my mind on the timeless questions of human life and fate.” With Fallen Leaves, his final book, he at last accepted their challenge. In twenty-two short chapters, Durant addresses everything from youth and old age to religion, morals, sex, war, politics, and art. Fallen Leaves is “a thought-provoking array of opinions” (Publishers Weekly), offering elegant prose, deep insights, and Durant’s revealing conclusions about the perennial problems and greatest joys we face as a species. In Durant’s singular voice, here is a message of insight for everyone who has ever sought meaning in life or the counsel of a learned friend while navigating life’s journey.

Leaves

Author : David Ezra Stein
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0399246363
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book Leaves written by David Ezra Stein and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-08-16 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's a young bear's first autumn, and the falling leaves surprise him. He tries to put them back on the trees, but it doesn't work. Eventually, he gets sleepy and burrows into the fallen leaves for a long nap. When he wakes up, it's spring, and there are suddenly brand-new leaves all around, welcoming him. Graceful illustrations and a childlike main character offer the perfect way to talk with children about the wonder of the changing seasons.

Green Leaves for Later Years

Author : Emilie Griffin
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 0830863370
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Green Leaves for Later Years written by Emilie Griffin and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2012-08-02 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What wisdom do I bring to the later years? Nothing more than the wisdom of dwelling in the present moment. No more than the courage of God's promises. Nothing more than the courage to walk through sorrow. No more than the unlimited future of God's love." So, Emilie Griffin, author, teacher, spiritual director, writes in her seventy-fifth year. In these pages she reflects on the beauty and the difficulty of aging. Pain mingles with gratitude. With her we learn again how to draw close to the Lord who longs to guide us through. Ideal for both individuals and discussion groups, each chapter ends with reflection questions and a prayer. Discover a spirituality that will sustain you in the later years.

Leaves Falling Gently

Author : Susan Bauer-Wu
Publisher : New Harbinger Publications
ISBN 13 : 160882554X
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Leaves Falling Gently written by Susan Bauer-Wu and published by New Harbinger Publications. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A life-limiting illness may have taken hold of your body, but you can still live more fully and openly than ever before. You can enrich your life by exploring ways to make peace with yourself and deepen connections with friends and family. This book will help you reap the benefits of mindfulness and acceptance, one day at a time. Leaves Falling Gently is a comforting guide to the mindfulness and compassion practices that will help you embrace the present moment, despite your illness. With each simple practice, you’ll deepen your appreciation for the experiences that bring you joy and enhance your capacity for gratitude, generosity, and love. As you work through each personal reflection and guided meditation, you’ll regain the strength to live fully, regardless of the changes and challenges that come.

The Nature of Life and Death

Author : Patricia Wiltshire
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0525542248
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book The Nature of Life and Death written by Patricia Wiltshire and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riveting blend of science writing and true-crime narrative that explores the valuable but often shocking interface between crime and nature--and the secrets each can reveal about the other--from a pioneer in forensic ecology and a trailblazing female scientist. From mud tracks on a quiet country road to dirt specks on the soles of walking boots, forensic ecologist Patricia Wiltshire uses her decades of scientific expertise to find often-overlooked clues left behind by criminal activity. She detects evidence and eliminates hypotheses armed with little more than a microscope, eventually developing a compelling thesis of the who, what, how, and when of a crime. Wiltshire's remarkable accuracy has made her one of the most in-demand police consultants in the world, and her curiosity, humility, and passion for the truth have guided her every step of the way. A riveting blend of science writing and true-crime narrative, The Nature of Life and Death details Wiltshire's unique journey from college professor to crime fighter: solving murders, locating corpses, and exonerating the falsely accused. Along the way, she introduces us to the unseen world all around us and underneath our feet: plants, animals, pollen, spores, fungi, and microbes that we move through every day. Her story is a testament to the power of persistence and reveals how our relationship with the vast natural world reaches far deeper than we might think.

The Last Leaves Falling

Author : Fox Benwell
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1481430661
Total Pages : 17 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (814 download)

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Download or read book The Last Leaves Falling written by Fox Benwell and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Japan, teenaged Abe Sora, who is afflicted with "Lou Gehrig's Disease," finds friends online and elicits their help to end his suffering.

Falling Leaves

Author : Adeline Yen Mah
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0767903579
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (679 download)

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Download or read book Falling Leaves written by Adeline Yen Mah and published by Crown. This book was released on 1999-04-06 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The emotionally wrenching yet ultimately uplifting memoir of a Chinese woman struggling to win the love and acceptance of her family. Born in 1937 in a port city a thousand miles north of Shanghai, Adeline Yen Mah was the youngest child of an affluent Chinese family who enjoyed rare privileges during a time of political and cultural upheaval. But wealth and position could not shield Adeline from a childhood of appalling emotional abuse at the hands of a cruel and manipulative stepmother. Determined to survive through her enduring faith in family unity, Adeline struggled for independence as she moved from Hong Kong to England and eventually to the United States to become a physician and writer. A compelling, painful, and ultimately triumphant story of a girl's journey into adulthood, Adeline's story is a testament to the most basic of human needs: acceptance, love, and understanding. With a powerful voice that speaks of the harsh realities of growing up female in a family and society that kept girls in emotional chains, Falling Leaves is a work of heartfelt intimacy and a rare authentic portrait of twentieth-century China. "Riveting. A marvel of memory. Poignant proof of the human will to endure." —Amy Tan

Leaves

Author : Grace Hansen
Publisher : ABDO
ISBN 13 : 1680802496
Total Pages : 27 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Leaves written by Grace Hansen and published by ABDO. This book was released on 2015-12-15 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complicated topic is made easier with this title introducing leaves and explaining their anatomy and how they make food for plants. Labeled diagrams and photographs and a glossary will make learning the important jobs of leaves even simpler!