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Snakes!

Author : Laurence Pringle
Publisher : Astra Publishing House
ISBN 13 : 1590787447
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book Snakes! written by Laurence Pringle and published by Astra Publishing House. This book was released on 2009-08-01 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can you climb a tree without using arms or legs? Can you smell odors by wiggling your tongue in the air? Snakes can! Beginning with these simple questions, award-winning author Laurence Pringle invites readers to explore the remarkable abilities and lives of snakes. Snakes are legless reptiles, but thanks to their powerful muscles and hundreds of rib bones they can coil, creep, climb, and swim. Some can even glide through the air. Join Laurence Pringle in this NSTA/CBC Outstanding Science Trade Book as he takes a look at some of the more than two thousand snakes that are found almost all over the world. A lively and informative text, joined with Meryl Henderson's bold and realistic art, explains how snakes hunt for food, move, shed their skin, give birth, and play important roles in nature. While snakes may look strange, this fascinating book shows why they are also wonderful creatures.

Frogs!

Author : Laurence Pringle
Publisher : Astra Publishing House
ISBN 13 : 163592622X
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Frogs! written by Laurence Pringle and published by Astra Publishing House. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are kids going to love this book? Is a frog waterproof? The latest title in the popular Strange and Wonderful series delivers the awe-inspiring variety of frogs, the world's hoppiest amphibians. Did you know that the Goliath frog is more than a foot long? Or that the tiny gold frog could sit on a dime? Some frogs have camouflage. Others wear bold colors warning their enemies that they are poisonous. Some frogs leap, others hop, one is a runner, and a few glide from tree to tree with their big, webbed hands and feet! Surprising facts and beautiful, realistic nature illustrations come together in this celebration of one of nature's most fascinating marvels.

Dinosaurs!

Author : Laurence Pringle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780439683906
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (839 download)

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Download or read book Dinosaurs! written by Laurence Pringle and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes different kinds of dinosaurs, and how paleontologists study them.

Passing Strange and Wonderful

Author : Yi-fu Tuan
Publisher : Kodansha Globe
ISBN 13 : 9781568360676
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (66 download)

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Download or read book Passing Strange and Wonderful written by Yi-fu Tuan and published by Kodansha Globe. This book was released on 1993 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conventional wisdom suggests that aesthetic experiences - those moments when the senses come to life - are important only after more basic needs have been met. In this inspiring wealth of provocative ideas, Yi-Fu Tuan demonstrates that feeling and beauty are essential parts of life and society. The aesthetic is shown to be not merely one aspect of culture but its central core - both its driving force and its ultimate goal. Beginning with the individual and the physical world, the author's exploration progresses from the simple to the complex. Tuan starts by examining the building blocks of aesthetic experience - sight, hearing, smell, touch, taste - and gradually expands his analysis to include the most elaborate of human constructs, including art, architecture, literature, philosophy, music, and landscape. This leads him to the realm of politics, where he grapples with the fundamental question of the relationship between goodness and beauty, and of how the aesthetic can become a moral force within society. To guide the reader along this journey, the author describes how the aesthetic operates in four widely disparate cultures: Australian aboriginal, Chinese, medieval European, and modern American. Yi-Fu Tuan, one of our most influential and original thinkers, brilliantly conveys the profound fascination of multisensory reality, and in so doing enables us to make connections among even the most diffuse elements of our lives. While Tuan does not ignore human folly, Passing Strange and Wonderful is a celebration of the world around us, our experiences, and our creations.

Bats!

Author : Laurence Pringle
Publisher : Astra Publishing House
ISBN 13 : 1590787811
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book Bats! written by Laurence Pringle and published by Astra Publishing House. This book was released on 2009-12-01 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bats are among the world's most misunderstood animals. This Parents' Choice Award book gives readers an inside look at the earth's only flying mammals. Readers discover how bats can pluck insects from the air, fish from the water, and help giant trees and other tropical plants to reproduce, among other fascinating facts. Featuring stunning illustrations, this is a great introduction to an extraordinary mammal.

Strange and Wonderful Things

Author : Thomas Freese
Publisher : Publish America
ISBN 13 : 9781605639741
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (397 download)

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Download or read book Strange and Wonderful Things written by Thomas Freese and published by Publish America. This book was released on 2008-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Third in a series of five ghost story books by author Thomas Freese, this book features a dozen wonderfully crafted short story mysteries. Each tale displays the enchanting storytelleras voice that Thomas Freese gives in his performances as well as what readers of his previous two books enjoyed (Shaker Ghost Stories and Fog Swirler). Perfect for nighttime fare, reading to children or adding to your ghostly library, Strange and Wonderful Things shows off the authoras skill in creating surprise endings and karmic circumstances. Thomas Freeseas new book, Strange and Wonderful Things, is suitable for children and adults and provides readers with suspense, ghostly intrigue, life lessons and pleasurable entertainment. aCar Ridera brings new nuances to the classic hitchhiker tale. aThe Healing Childa sees a helpful spirit touch a manas heart. Other story titles promise fascinating narrative and charactersaaThe Witchas Rake, a aThe Closet, a aMoving Graves, a aHappy Campers, a aDust Bunniesa and aWhispers.a

Scorpions!

Author : Laurence Pringle
Publisher : Astra Publishing House
ISBN 13 : 1590784731
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book Scorpions! written by Laurence Pringle and published by Astra Publishing House. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We have been taught to fear scorpions in any form. But scorpions usually sting either to subdue their prey or to protect themselves. In fact, Earth has two thousand scorpion species, but only a few dozen are deadly to humans. With vivid descriptions of scorpions' life cycle, body structure, habits, and habitat and beautiful, realistic illustrations, this new entry in the popular Strange and Wonderful series explores one of nature's feared and misunderstood creatures.

Cicadas!

Author : Laurence Pringle
Publisher : Astra Publishing House
ISBN 13 : 1590786734
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book Cicadas! written by Laurence Pringle and published by Astra Publishing House. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Definitely the best cicada book for kids. Adults will appreciate it as well, as it is well written, factually accurate, and beautifully illustrated." —Cicadamania.com Discover why cicadas are all the buzz in the most complete, comprehensive book for kids about these noisy but harmless insects. Every year, annual cicadas emerge and pierce the air with their buzzing calls. Also every year, at least one brood of 13 or 17 year cicadas emerges in some part of the eastern or central United States. In Spring 2021, a group of 17 year periodical cicadas called Brood X will make their appearance in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. Author Laurence Pringle and illustrator Meryl Henderson have created the story of this fascinating and often misunderstood insect, one that deserves to be protected.

Crows!

Author : Laurence Pringle
Publisher : Astra Publishing House
ISBN 13 : 163592488X
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Crows! written by Laurence Pringle and published by Astra Publishing House. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You see them feeding along the sides of roads or flying to the tops of trees. They are known as common crows, but there is nothing common about them. The familiar sound of "caw, caw, caw" is just one of at least twenty-five distinct sounds crows make in order to communicate with one another. Laurence Pringle examines these remarkable creatures in a fact-filled text that explores how crows talk, behave, and survive. With beautifully detailed illustration by Bob Marstall, young readers get a fascinating look into the world of one of the smartest birds on earth in this winner of the John Burroughs Nature Books for Young Readers Award.

Alligators and Crocodiles!

Author : Laurence Pringle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1590782569
Total Pages : 35 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book Alligators and Crocodiles! written by Laurence Pringle and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dinosaurs were outlived by crocodile-like predators. today, their descendants are found on five continents. These animals are strange and wonderful indeed.

Nature Strange and Beautiful

Author : Egbert Giles Leigh
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300249160
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Nature Strange and Beautiful written by Egbert Giles Leigh and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-20 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautifully written exploration of how cooperation shaped life on earth, from its single-celled beginnings to complex human societies In this rich, wide-ranging, beautifully illustrated volume, Egbert Leigh explores the results of billions of years of evolution at work. Leigh, who has spent five decades on Panama’s Barro Colorado Island reflecting on the organization of various amazingly diverse tropical ecosystems, now shows how selection on “selfish genes” gives rise to complex modes of cooperation and interdependence. With the help of such artists as the celebrated nature photographer Christian Ziegler, natural history illustrator Deborah Miriam Kaspari, and Damond Kyllo, Leigh explains basic concepts of evolutionary biology, ranging from life’s single-celled beginnings to the complex societies humans have formed today. The book covers a range of topics, focusing on adaptation, competition, mutualism, heredity, natural selection, sexual selection, genetics, and language. Leigh’s reflections on evolution, competition, and cooperation show how the natural world becomes even more beautiful when viewed in the light of evolution.

Strange But True!

Author : DK
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1465449078
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (654 download)

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Download or read book Strange But True! written by DK and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-09-08 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bizarre beasts, incredible places, and peculiar phenomenons featured in this mind-blowing compendium are not just really weird - they're really real! With more than 125,000 copies sold worldwide, this wacky encyclopedia explores our world's most exciting oddities. Did you know there's a plant that eats mice? Or that you can dip your toe in a rainbow-colored river? From fiery tornadoes flying across the sky to huge sinkholes eating up the earth, each example is illustrated with jaw-dropping images and handy fast facts that provide the explanations behind the stories. Whether it's geography, people, places, animals, plants, or weather, Strange But True! is the ideal book for curious young minds who are fascinated by our weird and wonderful world.

All the Ugly and Wonderful Things

Author : Bryn Greenwood
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1466885807
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book All the Ugly and Wonderful Things written by Bryn Greenwood and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-08-09 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: - A New York Times and USA Today bestseller - Book of the Month Club 2016 Book of the Year - Second Place Goodreads Best Fiction of 2016 A beautiful and provocative love story between two unlikely people and the hard-won relationship that elevates them above the Midwestern meth lab backdrop of their lives. As the daughter of a drug dealer, Wavy knows not to trust people, not even her own parents. It's safer to keep her mouth shut and stay out of sight. Struggling to raise her little brother, Donal, eight-year-old Wavy is the only responsible adult around. Obsessed with the constellations, she finds peace in the starry night sky above the fields behind her house, until one night her star gazing causes an accident. After witnessing his motorcycle wreck, she forms an unusual friendship with one of her father's thugs, Kellen, a tattooed ex-con with a heart of gold. By the time Wavy is a teenager, her relationship with Kellen is the only tender thing in a brutal world of addicts and debauchery. When tragedy rips Wavy's family apart, a well-meaning aunt steps in, and what is beautiful to Wavy looks ugly under the scrutiny of the outside world. A powerful novel you won’t soon forget, Bryn Greenwood's All the Ugly and Wonderful Things challenges all we know and believe about love. 31 Books Bringing the Heat this Summer —Bustle Top Ten Hottest Reads of 2016 —New York Daily News Best Books of 2016 —St. Louis Post Dispatch

Elephants!

Author : Laurence Pringle
Publisher : Astra Publishing House
ISBN 13 : 1635924790
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Elephants! written by Laurence Pringle and published by Astra Publishing House. This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn all about the elephant in this nonfiction picture book that explores every aspect of these giant mammals. This latest title in the Strange and Wonderful series allows young readers to journey into the lives of elephants in various habitats throughout the world. Kids will learn how elephants use their trunk, how they communicate, what they eat, and about their family groupings. The book also shows how we can ensure that elephants continue to live and thrive. Combining careful research and beautiful illustrations, this book is perfect for those who have an interest in animals and conservation.

Strange and Wonderful

Author : Karen Polinger Foster
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190672544
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Strange and Wonderful written by Karen Polinger Foster and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-04 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since the creation of the world's first botanical and zoological gardens five thousand years ago, people have collected, displayed, and depicted plants and animals from lands beyond their everyday experience. Some did so to demonstrate power over distant territories, others to enhance prestige by possessing something no one had seen before. Exotica also satisfied intellectual curiosity, furthered scientific research, and educated and entertained. In addition, exotica, especially their state-sponsored representation, were often instruments of political persuasion, and in turn exerted considerable influence over expansionist policies. More than an account of gardens and menageries from antiquity to the present, Strange and Wonderful explores the imagery of exotic flora and fauna in Western art, seeking answers to certain fundamental and universal questions. How do artists, schooled in traditional modes of rendering the familiar, deal with the new and strange? Why are rare species deliberately introduced into images otherwise devoid of the unusual? What is the pictorialized relationship between exotic reality and artistic imagination? Karen Polinger Foster takes readers on a journey across millennia and around the globe, telling fascinating stories and meeting along the way such characters as Hatshepsut's baboons, Charlemagne's elephant, Dürer's rhinoceros, and Victoria's hippopotamus. What emerges is a sense of just how strong and far-reaching the pull of the unknown and exotic has been across time and space. Ultimately, images of the wonderful reveal as much about the indigenous as they do about the strange, enabling us to glimpse more vividly the power of imagination to mold the unknown to its purposes. This dazzling and richly illustrated volume offers a thoughtful, much-needed inquiry into a very human phenomenon.

Penguins! Strange and Wonderful

Author : Laurence Pringle
Publisher : Boyds Mills Press
ISBN 13 : 9781590780909
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Penguins! Strange and Wonderful written by Laurence Pringle and published by Boyds Mills Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces readers to the life and behavior of penguins.

Monkeyshines on Strange and Wonderful Facts

Author : Phyllis B Goldman
Publisher : EBSCO Publishing, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780962090028
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Monkeyshines on Strange and Wonderful Facts written by Phyllis B Goldman and published by EBSCO Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 1991 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monkeyshines on Strange & Wonderful Facts, 98 page volume of fascinating facts & miscellany, interesting reference alternative, illus. 8.95 plus 1.00 p/h (ISBN 0-9620900-2-6). Also available, Monkeyshines on the United States Presidents (Games, Puzzles & Trivia) illus., 98p. Interesting, informative & enjoyable view of the lives & work of the first 40 U.S. Presidents 12.95 plus 1.00 p/h (ISBN 0-9620900-1-8).