Author: Carol K. Lindeen
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 9780736834032
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Text and photographs introduce the rain forest biome, including the environment, plants, and animals such as snakes, tree frogs, and apes.
Life in a Rain Forest
Author: Carol K. Lindeen
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 9780736834032
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Text and photographs introduce the rain forest biome, including the environment, plants, and animals such as snakes, tree frogs, and apes.
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 9780736834032
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Text and photographs introduce the rain forest biome, including the environment, plants, and animals such as snakes, tree frogs, and apes.
Life in the Rain Forests
Author: Lucy Baker
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780716652052
Category : Rain forest ecology
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Describes the importance of rain forests, types of plant and animal life that live there, and how rain forests are threatened by deforestation.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780716652052
Category : Rain forest ecology
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Describes the importance of rain forests, types of plant and animal life that live there, and how rain forests are threatened by deforestation.
Into the Rainforest
Author: Nicholas Harris
Publisher: Time Life Medical
ISBN: 9780783547855
Category : Ecology
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Uses flaps to enable the reader to create different scenes of rain forest animals, plants, and people, each accompanied by matching text on facing pages.
Publisher: Time Life Medical
ISBN: 9780783547855
Category : Ecology
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Uses flaps to enable the reader to create different scenes of rain forest animals, plants, and people, each accompanied by matching text on facing pages.
Rain Forest Plants
Author: Pamela Dell
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 9780736843249
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Tells about a variety of rain forest plants, how they are used, why they are in danger, and how they are being protected.
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 9780736843249
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Tells about a variety of rain forest plants, how they are used, why they are in danger, and how they are being protected.
Tropical Nature
Author: Adrian Forsyth
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439144745
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Seventeen marvelous essays introducing the habitats, ecology, plants, and animals of the Central and South American rainforest. A lively, lucid portrait of the tropics as seen by two uncommonly observant and thoughtful field biologists. Its seventeen marvelous essays introduce the habitats, ecology, plants, and animals of the Central and South American rainforest. Includes a lengthy appendix of practical advice for the tropical traveler.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439144745
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Seventeen marvelous essays introducing the habitats, ecology, plants, and animals of the Central and South American rainforest. A lively, lucid portrait of the tropics as seen by two uncommonly observant and thoughtful field biologists. Its seventeen marvelous essays introduce the habitats, ecology, plants, and animals of the Central and South American rainforest. Includes a lengthy appendix of practical advice for the tropical traveler.
The Tropical Rain Forest
Author: Marius Jacobs
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 364272793X
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
In recent years, tropical forests have received more attention and have been the subject of greater environmental concern than any other kind of vegetation. There is an increasing public awareness of the importance of these forests, not only as a diminishing source of countless products used by mankind, nor for their effects on soil stabilization and climate, but as unrivalled sources of what today we call biodiversity. Threats to the continued existence of the forests represent threats to tens of thousands of species of organisms, both plants and animals. It is all the more surprising, therefore, that there have been no major scientific accounts published in recent years since the classic handbook by Paul W. Richards, The Tropical Rain Forest in 1952. Some excellent popular accounts of tropical rain forests have been published including Paul Richard's The Life of the Jungle, and Catherine Caulfield's In the Rainforest and Jungles, edited by Edward Ayensu. There have been numerous, often conflicting, assessments of the rate of conversion of tropical forests to other uses and explanations of the underlying causes, and in 1978 UNESCO/UNEPI FAO published a massive report, The Tropical Rain Forest, which, although full of useful information, is highly selective and does not fully survey the enormous diversity of the forests.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 364272793X
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
In recent years, tropical forests have received more attention and have been the subject of greater environmental concern than any other kind of vegetation. There is an increasing public awareness of the importance of these forests, not only as a diminishing source of countless products used by mankind, nor for their effects on soil stabilization and climate, but as unrivalled sources of what today we call biodiversity. Threats to the continued existence of the forests represent threats to tens of thousands of species of organisms, both plants and animals. It is all the more surprising, therefore, that there have been no major scientific accounts published in recent years since the classic handbook by Paul W. Richards, The Tropical Rain Forest in 1952. Some excellent popular accounts of tropical rain forests have been published including Paul Richard's The Life of the Jungle, and Catherine Caulfield's In the Rainforest and Jungles, edited by Edward Ayensu. There have been numerous, often conflicting, assessments of the rate of conversion of tropical forests to other uses and explanations of the underlying causes, and in 1978 UNESCO/UNEPI FAO published a massive report, The Tropical Rain Forest, which, although full of useful information, is highly selective and does not fully survey the enormous diversity of the forests.
Zonia's Rain Forest
Author: Juana Martinez-Neal
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 1536222666
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 43
Book Description
A heartfelt, visually stunning picture book from Caldecott Honor and Robert F. Sibert Medal winner Juana Martinez-Neal illuminates a young girl’s day of play and adventure in the lush rain forest of Peru. Zonia’s home is the Amazon rain forest, where it is always green and full of life. Every morning, the rain forest calls to Zonia, and every morning, she answers. She visits the sloth family, greets the giant anteater, and runs with the speedy jaguar. But one morning, the rain forest calls to her in a troubled voice. How will Zonia answer? Acclaimed author-illustrator Juana Martinez-Neal explores the wonders of the rain forest with Zonia, an Asháninka girl, in her joyful outdoor adventures. The engaging text emphasizes Zonia’s empowering bond with her home, while the illustrations—created on paper made from banana bark—burst with luxuriant greens and delicate details. Illuminating back matter includes a translation of the story in Asháninka, information on the Asháninka community, and resources on the Amazon rain forest and its wildlife.
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 1536222666
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 43
Book Description
A heartfelt, visually stunning picture book from Caldecott Honor and Robert F. Sibert Medal winner Juana Martinez-Neal illuminates a young girl’s day of play and adventure in the lush rain forest of Peru. Zonia’s home is the Amazon rain forest, where it is always green and full of life. Every morning, the rain forest calls to Zonia, and every morning, she answers. She visits the sloth family, greets the giant anteater, and runs with the speedy jaguar. But one morning, the rain forest calls to her in a troubled voice. How will Zonia answer? Acclaimed author-illustrator Juana Martinez-Neal explores the wonders of the rain forest with Zonia, an Asháninka girl, in her joyful outdoor adventures. The engaging text emphasizes Zonia’s empowering bond with her home, while the illustrations—created on paper made from banana bark—burst with luxuriant greens and delicate details. Illuminating back matter includes a translation of the story in Asháninka, information on the Asháninka community, and resources on the Amazon rain forest and its wildlife.
Looking Closely in the Rain Forest
Author: Frank Serafini
Publisher: Kids Can Press Ltd
ISBN: 1553375432
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Through the magic of close-up photography, the author first asks the reader to identify an object found in a rain forest in a super-close-up picture, with the next page revealing the entire picture.
Publisher: Kids Can Press Ltd
ISBN: 1553375432
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Through the magic of close-up photography, the author first asks the reader to identify an object found in a rain forest in a super-close-up picture, with the next page revealing the entire picture.
A Death in the Rainforest
Author: Don Kulick
Publisher: Algonquin Books
ISBN: 1616209046
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
“Perhaps the finest and most profound account of ethnographic fieldwork and discovery that has ever entered the anthropological literature.” —The Wall Street Journal “If you want to experience a profoundly different culture without the exhausting travel (to say nothing of the cost), this is an excellent choice.” —The Washington Post As a young anthropologist, Don Kulick went to the tiny village of Gapun in New Guinea to document the death of the native language, Tayap. He arrived knowing that you can’t study a language without understanding the daily lives of the people who speak it: how they talk to their children, how they argue, how they gossip, how they joke. Over the course of thirty years, he returned again and again to document Tayap before it disappeared entirely, and he found himself inexorably drawn into their world, and implicated in their destiny. Kulick wanted to tell the story of Gapuners—one that went beyond the particulars and uses of their language—that took full stock of their vanishing culture. This book takes us inside the village as he came to know it, revealing what it is like to live in a difficult-to-get-to village of two hundred people, carved out like a cleft in the middle of a tropical rainforest. But A Death in the Rainforest is also an illuminating look at the impact of Western culture on the farthest reaches of the globe and the story of why this anthropologist realized finally that he had to give up his study of this language and this village. An engaging, deeply perceptive, and brilliant interrogation of what it means to study a culture, A Death in the Rainforest takes readers into a world that endures in the face of massive changes, one that is on the verge of disappearing forever.
Publisher: Algonquin Books
ISBN: 1616209046
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
“Perhaps the finest and most profound account of ethnographic fieldwork and discovery that has ever entered the anthropological literature.” —The Wall Street Journal “If you want to experience a profoundly different culture without the exhausting travel (to say nothing of the cost), this is an excellent choice.” —The Washington Post As a young anthropologist, Don Kulick went to the tiny village of Gapun in New Guinea to document the death of the native language, Tayap. He arrived knowing that you can’t study a language without understanding the daily lives of the people who speak it: how they talk to their children, how they argue, how they gossip, how they joke. Over the course of thirty years, he returned again and again to document Tayap before it disappeared entirely, and he found himself inexorably drawn into their world, and implicated in their destiny. Kulick wanted to tell the story of Gapuners—one that went beyond the particulars and uses of their language—that took full stock of their vanishing culture. This book takes us inside the village as he came to know it, revealing what it is like to live in a difficult-to-get-to village of two hundred people, carved out like a cleft in the middle of a tropical rainforest. But A Death in the Rainforest is also an illuminating look at the impact of Western culture on the farthest reaches of the globe and the story of why this anthropologist realized finally that he had to give up his study of this language and this village. An engaging, deeply perceptive, and brilliant interrogation of what it means to study a culture, A Death in the Rainforest takes readers into a world that endures in the face of massive changes, one that is on the verge of disappearing forever.
Here is the Tropical Rain Forest
Author: Madeleine Dunphy
Publisher: Web of Life Children's Books
ISBN: 9780977379514
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Cumulative text presents the animals and plants of the tropical rain forest and their relationship with one another and their environment.
Publisher: Web of Life Children's Books
ISBN: 9780977379514
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Cumulative text presents the animals and plants of the tropical rain forest and their relationship with one another and their environment.