Author: Elizabeth Tayntor Gowell
Publisher: Bunker Hill Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 9781593730208
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
Presents an entertaining and authoritative look into the little-known world of jellies.
Amazing Jellies
Author: Elizabeth Tayntor Gowell
Publisher: Bunker Hill Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 9781593730208
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
Presents an entertaining and authoritative look into the little-known world of jellies.
Publisher: Bunker Hill Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 9781593730208
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
Presents an entertaining and authoritative look into the little-known world of jellies.
Weird, Wild, Amazing!: Exploring the Incredible World of Animals
Author: Tim Flannery
Publisher: WW Norton
ISBN: 1324015446
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Are zombie jellyfish real? Do seahorses have stomachs? What’s it like to wrestle a python? Tim Flannery has the answers. Introducing some of the most spectacular and unusual creatures on Earth, from water to sky and the forests and deserts in between, he offers in-depth and often bizarre facts about extraordinary animals that live in each habitat. Flannery ties concepts of climate change, evolution, conservation, and taxonomy to each animal’s profile, firmly connecting the animal and its environment while sparking wonder at its role in the natural world. Did you know that lions once roamed North America, or that albatrosses sleep-fly? Have you ever heard a piranha bark, or wondered how the sloth got its name? Packed with vibrant illustrations and guided by real-life anecdotes from one of our greatest science communicators, Weird, Wild, Amazing! teaches readers to cherish and delight in our planet’s ecosystems with Tim Flannery’s signature mix of humor and wisdom.
Publisher: WW Norton
ISBN: 1324015446
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Are zombie jellyfish real? Do seahorses have stomachs? What’s it like to wrestle a python? Tim Flannery has the answers. Introducing some of the most spectacular and unusual creatures on Earth, from water to sky and the forests and deserts in between, he offers in-depth and often bizarre facts about extraordinary animals that live in each habitat. Flannery ties concepts of climate change, evolution, conservation, and taxonomy to each animal’s profile, firmly connecting the animal and its environment while sparking wonder at its role in the natural world. Did you know that lions once roamed North America, or that albatrosses sleep-fly? Have you ever heard a piranha bark, or wondered how the sloth got its name? Packed with vibrant illustrations and guided by real-life anecdotes from one of our greatest science communicators, Weird, Wild, Amazing! teaches readers to cherish and delight in our planet’s ecosystems with Tim Flannery’s signature mix of humor and wisdom.
Explore Your World: Weird, Wild, Amazing!
Author: Tim Flannery
Publisher: Hardie Grant Publishing
ISBN: 1743586582
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Get ready for a whole new look at the world around you. You’re about to meet the weirdest, wildest and most amazing animals on the planet. Are zombie jellyfish real? Do frogs like opera? Which animals eat poop? (And more importantly, WHY?!) What’s it like to wrestle a python? Buckle up – you’re about to find out! Bursting with bizarre facts, packed with vibrant illustrations and guided by one of the world’s greatest living scientists, Professor Tim Flannery, this deep-dive into the natural world will enthral and enlighten readers. It will also make them laugh out loud … and squirm in disgust. Shortlisted for the 2020 ABDA Best Designed Children's Non-Fiction and 2020 Environment Award for Children's Literature Longlisted for the 2020 ABIA Book of the Year for Younger Children
Publisher: Hardie Grant Publishing
ISBN: 1743586582
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Get ready for a whole new look at the world around you. You’re about to meet the weirdest, wildest and most amazing animals on the planet. Are zombie jellyfish real? Do frogs like opera? Which animals eat poop? (And more importantly, WHY?!) What’s it like to wrestle a python? Buckle up – you’re about to find out! Bursting with bizarre facts, packed with vibrant illustrations and guided by one of the world’s greatest living scientists, Professor Tim Flannery, this deep-dive into the natural world will enthral and enlighten readers. It will also make them laugh out loud … and squirm in disgust. Shortlisted for the 2020 ABDA Best Designed Children's Non-Fiction and 2020 Environment Award for Children's Literature Longlisted for the 2020 ABIA Book of the Year for Younger Children
Amazing World Sea Creatures
Author: Lee Martin
Publisher: becker&mayer! kids
ISBN: 0760355363
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 51
Book Description
Some ocean animals have the incredible ability to make their own light! Amazing World: Sea Creatures shows off twenty of these unique animals with facts and photos. From the lanternfish, to the Atolla jellyfish, to the glowing bioluminescent octopus, the ocean is filled with animals that gleam and glow. Go on an electrifying journey to see how these living lights use bioluminescence, fluorescence, and symbiotic bacteria to light up! Amazing World: Sea Creatures reveals the fascinating lives of strange and amazing marine animals. This beautifully illustrated and photographed book for kids explores twenty incredible creatures you'll only find under the sea. You will learn how each of these underwater animals create their own light, and how they put it to good use. Is that wasn't enough, Amazing World: Sea Creatures even includes a sheet of glow in the dark stickers! You won't believe all the cool, beautiful, and sometimes downright weird animals that live under the ocean. They're not aliens, they're sea creatures!
Publisher: becker&mayer! kids
ISBN: 0760355363
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 51
Book Description
Some ocean animals have the incredible ability to make their own light! Amazing World: Sea Creatures shows off twenty of these unique animals with facts and photos. From the lanternfish, to the Atolla jellyfish, to the glowing bioluminescent octopus, the ocean is filled with animals that gleam and glow. Go on an electrifying journey to see how these living lights use bioluminescence, fluorescence, and symbiotic bacteria to light up! Amazing World: Sea Creatures reveals the fascinating lives of strange and amazing marine animals. This beautifully illustrated and photographed book for kids explores twenty incredible creatures you'll only find under the sea. You will learn how each of these underwater animals create their own light, and how they put it to good use. Is that wasn't enough, Amazing World: Sea Creatures even includes a sheet of glow in the dark stickers! You won't believe all the cool, beautiful, and sometimes downright weird animals that live under the ocean. They're not aliens, they're sea creatures!
Weird, Wild, Amazing! Water: Exploring the Incredible World Beneath the Waves
Author: Tim Flannery
Publisher: WW Norton
ISBN: 1324019514
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 137
Book Description
Internationally renowned author and scientist Tim Flannery explores our planet’s rivers and oceans and the extraordinary animals that live in them. Can jellyfish become zombies? Are narwhals unicorns? Can a turtle live in a tree? Tim Flannery has the answers. In this informed and accessible book, he introduces some of the most spectacular and unusual creatures in Earth’s waters with in-depth and often bizarre facts. Flannery ties together concepts of climate change, evolution, conservation, and taxonomy throughout each animal’s profile, firmly connecting it to its environment while sparking wonder at its role in the natural world. Packed with vibrant illustrations and guided by real-life anecdotes from one of our greatest science communicators, Weird, Wild, Amazing! Water teaches readers to cherish and delight in our planet’s ecosystems with Tim Flannery’s signature mix of humor and wisdom.
Publisher: WW Norton
ISBN: 1324019514
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 137
Book Description
Internationally renowned author and scientist Tim Flannery explores our planet’s rivers and oceans and the extraordinary animals that live in them. Can jellyfish become zombies? Are narwhals unicorns? Can a turtle live in a tree? Tim Flannery has the answers. In this informed and accessible book, he introduces some of the most spectacular and unusual creatures in Earth’s waters with in-depth and often bizarre facts. Flannery ties together concepts of climate change, evolution, conservation, and taxonomy throughout each animal’s profile, firmly connecting it to its environment while sparking wonder at its role in the natural world. Packed with vibrant illustrations and guided by real-life anecdotes from one of our greatest science communicators, Weird, Wild, Amazing! Water teaches readers to cherish and delight in our planet’s ecosystems with Tim Flannery’s signature mix of humor and wisdom.
The Jellies and the Crunchers
Author: Matt Bell
Publisher: Covenant Books, Inc.
ISBN: 1646708555
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 31
Book Description
The Jellies and the Crunchers is a tale of a town sharply divided by their own personal choice, in this case, what to eat and how to eat it! The two groups of town folk become more and more critical and angry with each other, which leads to a very crazy type of confrontation that will change the town forever. It takes the heart of a brave little girl to try something new and lead the town back together again. Come read about this quirky and interesting town and the even more interesting people groups that make it up.
Publisher: Covenant Books, Inc.
ISBN: 1646708555
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 31
Book Description
The Jellies and the Crunchers is a tale of a town sharply divided by their own personal choice, in this case, what to eat and how to eat it! The two groups of town folk become more and more critical and angry with each other, which leads to a very crazy type of confrontation that will change the town forever. It takes the heart of a brave little girl to try something new and lead the town back together again. Come read about this quirky and interesting town and the even more interesting people groups that make it up.
Thinking with Water
Author: Cecilia Chen
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773589341
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
Emphasizing the role that vivid personalities – including engineers John Laing Weller and Alex Grant as well as contractors and labourers – played in the construction of the canal, Roberta Styran and Robert Taylor use archival sources, government documents, newspapers, maps, and original plans to describe a saga of technological, financial, geographical, and social obstacles met and overcome in an accomplishment akin to the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway. A story of Canadian skill, courage, vision, and hardship, This Colossal Project details the twenty-year excavation of the giant channel and the creation of huge concrete locks amidst war, the Great Depression, political change, and labour unrest.
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773589341
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
Emphasizing the role that vivid personalities – including engineers John Laing Weller and Alex Grant as well as contractors and labourers – played in the construction of the canal, Roberta Styran and Robert Taylor use archival sources, government documents, newspapers, maps, and original plans to describe a saga of technological, financial, geographical, and social obstacles met and overcome in an accomplishment akin to the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway. A story of Canadian skill, courage, vision, and hardship, This Colossal Project details the twenty-year excavation of the giant channel and the creation of huge concrete locks amidst war, the Great Depression, political change, and labour unrest.
Jellies
Author: Twig C. George
Publisher: First Avenue Editions
ISBN: 0761314857
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Describes the physical characteristics, habits, and natural environment of many species of jellyfish, through simple text and photographs.
Publisher: First Avenue Editions
ISBN: 0761314857
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Describes the physical characteristics, habits, and natural environment of many species of jellyfish, through simple text and photographs.
World Atlas of Jellyfish
Author: Gerhard Jarms
Publisher: Dölling und Galitz Verlag
ISBN: 386218157X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 828
Book Description
The »World Atlas of Jellyfish« presents in a lavishly illustrated multi-author compendium the more than 260 species of medusae (Scyphomedusae and Cubomedusae) described so far. The general, first part deals with their structure, complex life cycles and rare fossil records. But it also details on collection, cultivation and fishery methods, even gives hints for photography and cooking recipes. Additionally, it covers the nature of medusae venoms, the effects and treatment of their stings. The second part gives concise systematic descriptions of all jellyfish species and their developmental stages known so far. Numerous illustrations, distribution maps, taxonomic keys and literature lists allow for detailed identification and information. Outstanding among the wealth of wonderful illustrations are hitherto unpublished artistic colour paintings by Ernst Haeckel. The beauty of the animals is underlined by the demanding typesetting of the book. This »Atlas« is a unique overview summarizing our knowledge on the world's jellyfish in all their facets. It is of importance not only for scientists worldwide, but also a source of fascination for divers and lovers of marine life. Corresponding to its far-reaching relevance and to the internationality of contributing authors the volume is written in English.
Publisher: Dölling und Galitz Verlag
ISBN: 386218157X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 828
Book Description
The »World Atlas of Jellyfish« presents in a lavishly illustrated multi-author compendium the more than 260 species of medusae (Scyphomedusae and Cubomedusae) described so far. The general, first part deals with their structure, complex life cycles and rare fossil records. But it also details on collection, cultivation and fishery methods, even gives hints for photography and cooking recipes. Additionally, it covers the nature of medusae venoms, the effects and treatment of their stings. The second part gives concise systematic descriptions of all jellyfish species and their developmental stages known so far. Numerous illustrations, distribution maps, taxonomic keys and literature lists allow for detailed identification and information. Outstanding among the wealth of wonderful illustrations are hitherto unpublished artistic colour paintings by Ernst Haeckel. The beauty of the animals is underlined by the demanding typesetting of the book. This »Atlas« is a unique overview summarizing our knowledge on the world's jellyfish in all their facets. It is of importance not only for scientists worldwide, but also a source of fascination for divers and lovers of marine life. Corresponding to its far-reaching relevance and to the internationality of contributing authors the volume is written in English.
Jellyfish
Author: Susan H. Gray
Publisher: Cherry Lake
ISBN: 1624316247
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
This book takes readers on a journey under the sea to discover the fascinating facts about jellyfish, including physical features, habitat, life cycle, food, and more. Photos, captions, and keywords supplement the narrative of this informational text, while additional search tools--including a glossary and an index--help students locate and review important information.
Publisher: Cherry Lake
ISBN: 1624316247
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
This book takes readers on a journey under the sea to discover the fascinating facts about jellyfish, including physical features, habitat, life cycle, food, and more. Photos, captions, and keywords supplement the narrative of this informational text, while additional search tools--including a glossary and an index--help students locate and review important information.