Author: Lesley Gibbes
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781760655488
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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This lovely story about a child and their grandfather searching for cicadas is part of the award-winning narrative nonfiction Nature Storybooks series. In the summertime, Grandpa and I go cicada-watching. We put our camping gear into my wagon and walk down to the local reserve. Last year we saw five Green Grocers, three Yellow Mondays and one Floury Baker. Can we find the rare Black Prince this year? This picture book brings together award winners Lesley Gibbes and Judy Watson to showcase the wonder and beauty of cicadas as well as highlight the common summer pastime of cicada-watching.
Author: Khomsanh Chanthalangsone
Publisher: Room to Read
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: Lang Elliott
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 258
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The Songs of Insects is a celebration of the chirps, trills, and scrapes of seventy-seven common species of crickets, katydids, locusts, and cicadas native to eastern and central North America. The photographs in this book will surprise and delight all who behold them. Many of the insects' colors are brilliant and jewellike, and they are displayed beautifully here. This book and accompanying CD provide a unique doorway to enjoyment of the insect concerts and solos that dominate our natural soundscape during the summer and autumn. The text includes information on the natural history of insects, identification tips, and an appreciation of insect song. A seventy-minute audio CD features high-quality recordings of the songs of all species, track-keyed to the information presented in the text.
Author: Sandy Santistevan
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595345662
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 246
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Back cover: Natty Hogue came to the desert seeking change but finds the harsh landscape as immutable as the past she hopes to escape. As director of nurses, she oversees the daily routine at "the San," a remote, Southern California tuberculosis sanitarium in the 1960s.
Author: Ariane O'Pry Trammell
Publisher: Pelican Publishing Company
ISBN: 9781455626120
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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Two little boys in the bayou are tucked in for the night when they hear the strange noise outside of a cicada calling out for a mate. Their mother tells them the story of the cicada's life cycle and how he goes about finding his love.
Author: Phoebe Giannisi
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811230244
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 90
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The celebrated Greek poet Phoebe Giannisi explores connections between language, life, and the natural world By one of Greece’s foremost contemporary poets, Cicada is Phoebe Giannisi’s second collection in English. The cicada signifies metamorphosis in this breathtaking, lyrical book, which evokes the spirits of Archilochus, Plato, Empedocles, and Heraclitus. As the translator Brian Sneeden remarks: “The ‘I’ in Giannisi’s poetry is never static, never a fixed point, but part of a process of rebodying the ambient.” Yet, despite the fluid, mythic nature of Giannisi’s poems, they are also exquisitely rooted in the everyday: the sea heard through a window, the murmur of a distant mechanical crane, a damp wind, a photo of John and Yoko. Giannisi is a poet internationally known for her idiosyncratic eco-poetics, as well as her poetic multimedia works and performances, and most of all for her brilliant vision glowing at the borders of language, voice, place, and memory.
Author: John Golding Myers
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cicada (Genus)
Languages : en
Pages : 348
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Author: Densey Clyne
Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing
ISBN: 9780836820577
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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Introduces the physical characteristics, life cycle, and behavior of this noisy little insect.
Author: G. R. F. Ferrari
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521409322
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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This full-length study of Plato's dialogue Phaedrus, now in paperback, is written in the belief that such concerted scrutiny of a single dialogue is an important part of the project of understanding Plato so far as possible 'from the inside' - of gaining a feel for the man's philosophy. The focus of this account is on how the resources both of persuasive myth and of formal argument, for all that Plato sets them in strong contrast, nevertheless complement and reinforce each other in his philosophy. Not only is the dialogue in its formal structure a dovetail of myth and argument, but the philosophic life that it praises is also shaped by an acknowledgement of the limitations of argument and the importance of mythical understanding. By means of this correlation of form and content Plato invites his readers, through the very act of reading, to take a first step along the path of the philosophical life.
Author: Ariane O. Trammell
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780986348549
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
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little boys ready for bed at night hear the sound of a cicada calling out for his love in the swamp. they ask their mother what the sound is and she tells them the tale of the cicada's life.
