Author: Axel Lewis
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 1434265714
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
The second leg of the Robot Races take Jimmy and Maverick to the Amazon Rain Forest.
Rain Forest Rampage
Author: Axel Lewis
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 1434265714
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
The second leg of the Robot Races take Jimmy and Maverick to the Amazon Rain Forest.
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 1434265714
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
The second leg of the Robot Races take Jimmy and Maverick to the Amazon Rain Forest.
Robot Racers: Robot Racers: Rain Forest Rampage
Author: Axel Lewis
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 1434298035
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Jimmy and his robot, Maverick, were thrilled to qualify for Robot Races. After finishing second in the first race, they're out to win the next challenge, in the Amazon rainforest. But Jimmy's enemy Horace has other ideas.
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 1434298035
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Jimmy and his robot, Maverick, were thrilled to qualify for Robot Races. After finishing second in the first race, they're out to win the next challenge, in the Amazon rainforest. But Jimmy's enemy Horace has other ideas.
Arctic Adventure
Author: Axel Lewis
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 1434265722
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
Jimmy and Maverick compete in the Robot Race in the Arctic, where not everyone is playing fair.
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 1434265722
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
Jimmy and Maverick compete in the Robot Race in the Arctic, where not everyone is playing fair.
Desert Disaster
Author: Axel Lewis
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 1434265730
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
Jimmy and Maverick much cross the Sahara Desert during this leg of the Robot Races.
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 1434265730
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
Jimmy and Maverick much cross the Sahara Desert during this leg of the Robot Races.
In Search of the Rain Forest
Author: Candace Slater
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822385279
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
The essays collected here offer important new reflections on the multiple images of and rhetoric surrounding the rain forest. The slogan “Save the Rain Forest!”—emblazoned on glossy posters of tall trees wreathed in vines and studded with monkeys and parrots—promotes the popular image of a marvelously wild and vulnerable rain forest. Although representations like these have fueled laudable rescue efforts, in many ways they have done more harm than good, as these essays show. Such icons tend to conceal both the biological variety of rain forests and the diversity of their human inhabitants. They also frequently obscure the specific local and global interactions that are as much a part of today’s rain forests as are the array of plants and animals. In attending to these complexities, this volume focuses on specific portrayals of rain forests and the consequences of these characterizations for both forest inhabitants and outsiders. From diverse disciplines—history, archaeology, sociology, literature, law, and cultural anthropology—the contributors provide case studies from Latin America, Asia, and Africa. They point the way toward a search for a rain forest that is both a natural entity and a social history, an inhabited place and a shifting set of ideas. The essayists demonstrate how the single image of a wild and yet fragile forest became fixed in the popular mind in the late twentieth century, thereby influencing the policies of corporations, environmental groups, and governments. Such simplistic conceptions, In Search of the Rain Forest shows, might lead companies to tout their “green” technologies even as they try to downplay the dissenting voices of native populations. Or they might cause a government to create a tiger reserve that displaces peaceful peasants while opening the doors to poachers and bandits. By encouraging a nuanced understanding of distinctive, constantly evolving forests with different social and natural histories, this volume provides an important impetus for protection efforts that take into account the rain forest in all of its complexity. Contributors. Scott Fedick, Alex Greene, Paul Greenough, Nancy Peluso, Suzana Sawyer, Candace Slater, Charles Zerner
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822385279
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
The essays collected here offer important new reflections on the multiple images of and rhetoric surrounding the rain forest. The slogan “Save the Rain Forest!”—emblazoned on glossy posters of tall trees wreathed in vines and studded with monkeys and parrots—promotes the popular image of a marvelously wild and vulnerable rain forest. Although representations like these have fueled laudable rescue efforts, in many ways they have done more harm than good, as these essays show. Such icons tend to conceal both the biological variety of rain forests and the diversity of their human inhabitants. They also frequently obscure the specific local and global interactions that are as much a part of today’s rain forests as are the array of plants and animals. In attending to these complexities, this volume focuses on specific portrayals of rain forests and the consequences of these characterizations for both forest inhabitants and outsiders. From diverse disciplines—history, archaeology, sociology, literature, law, and cultural anthropology—the contributors provide case studies from Latin America, Asia, and Africa. They point the way toward a search for a rain forest that is both a natural entity and a social history, an inhabited place and a shifting set of ideas. The essayists demonstrate how the single image of a wild and yet fragile forest became fixed in the popular mind in the late twentieth century, thereby influencing the policies of corporations, environmental groups, and governments. Such simplistic conceptions, In Search of the Rain Forest shows, might lead companies to tout their “green” technologies even as they try to downplay the dissenting voices of native populations. Or they might cause a government to create a tiger reserve that displaces peaceful peasants while opening the doors to poachers and bandits. By encouraging a nuanced understanding of distinctive, constantly evolving forests with different social and natural histories, this volume provides an important impetus for protection efforts that take into account the rain forest in all of its complexity. Contributors. Scott Fedick, Alex Greene, Paul Greenough, Nancy Peluso, Suzana Sawyer, Candace Slater, Charles Zerner
Eyewonder: Rain Forest
Author: Helen Sharman
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0756648025
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Prowl through the undergrowth and meet the amazing creatures that lurk there. Favorite animals such as tigers, snakes, and chimpanzees rub shoulders with marmosets, katydids, and sloths, and every animal is shown in its correct layer of the forest. A wealth of facts, combined with dramatic photography, ensures that Eye Wonders are the perfect educational start for young children. Eye Wonder is a groundbreaking reference series specially developed for younger children aged five plus. In a stunning style departure for DK, wonderful photography shows subjects within their natural setting, offering a whole new level of information through powerful images. Vocabulary is accessible to children aged five and up, with the meanings of new, subject-related words clearly explained. The series provides an excellent knowledge base on the natural world for children starting to learn. The combination of breathtaking visuals and informative, accurate text will hook even those children who usually avoid books. Open your eyes to a world of discovery.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0756648025
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Prowl through the undergrowth and meet the amazing creatures that lurk there. Favorite animals such as tigers, snakes, and chimpanzees rub shoulders with marmosets, katydids, and sloths, and every animal is shown in its correct layer of the forest. A wealth of facts, combined with dramatic photography, ensures that Eye Wonders are the perfect educational start for young children. Eye Wonder is a groundbreaking reference series specially developed for younger children aged five plus. In a stunning style departure for DK, wonderful photography shows subjects within their natural setting, offering a whole new level of information through powerful images. Vocabulary is accessible to children aged five and up, with the meanings of new, subject-related words clearly explained. The series provides an excellent knowledge base on the natural world for children starting to learn. The combination of breathtaking visuals and informative, accurate text will hook even those children who usually avoid books. Open your eyes to a world of discovery.
Eye Wonder: Rain Forest
Author: DK
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1465421106
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
An in-depth look at the sprawling trees and dense undergrowth of the ecosystem of the rainforest, Eye Wonder: Rainforest welcomes young readers into the world of tigers, snakes, and chimpanzees, as well as marmosets, katydids, sloths, and more. A precursor to DK's awarding-winning Eyewitness series, Eye Wonder was specially developed for children aged five plus, featuring astonishing photography exhibiting subjects within their natural setting, offering a whole new level of information through powerful images. Each title in the series now contains educational activities including true and false questions, quizzes, matching games, and mazes. Vocabulary is accessible to young readers, with the meanings of new, subject-related words clearly explained. The combination of visuals and informative, accurate text will hook even those children who usually avoid books.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1465421106
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
An in-depth look at the sprawling trees and dense undergrowth of the ecosystem of the rainforest, Eye Wonder: Rainforest welcomes young readers into the world of tigers, snakes, and chimpanzees, as well as marmosets, katydids, sloths, and more. A precursor to DK's awarding-winning Eyewitness series, Eye Wonder was specially developed for children aged five plus, featuring astonishing photography exhibiting subjects within their natural setting, offering a whole new level of information through powerful images. Each title in the series now contains educational activities including true and false questions, quizzes, matching games, and mazes. Vocabulary is accessible to young readers, with the meanings of new, subject-related words clearly explained. The combination of visuals and informative, accurate text will hook even those children who usually avoid books.
The Rainforests of West Africa
Author: MARTIN
Publisher: Birkhäuser
ISBN: 3034877269
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Nowhere eise in the world did industrialized countries leave such early marks in the rainforest as in West Africa. Past and present developments here are in one way or the other significant for rainforests on other continents as weil. West Africa is a pioneer in both a good and a bad sense. This is reason enough to take a closer Iook at the history of moist tropical West Africa. Until recently, no one really seemed to be interested in the rainforests except for a few specialists. The world's scientific community neglected to study the incalculable riches of tropical forests, to make the public aware of them and their due importance. Although interdisciplinary research has been a popular topic for some decades now, it was not applied to just the most complex habitat on earth. Scientists from all fields studied only that which was easiest to record, seemingly blind to a myriad of details awaiting closer examination. Botanists wentabout establishing their herbariums and paid much too little attention to the vegetation as a whole, or to the significance of useful plants for local populations. Zoologists, too, busied themselves with collecting and describing species. Anthropologists, on the other hand, tended to overlook faunal details: in their ignorance of the animal world, they wrote of tigers and deer in Africa. And finally, foresters saw neither the forest nor the trees for the timber - and even confused rainforests with monocultures of fir trees.
Publisher: Birkhäuser
ISBN: 3034877269
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Nowhere eise in the world did industrialized countries leave such early marks in the rainforest as in West Africa. Past and present developments here are in one way or the other significant for rainforests on other continents as weil. West Africa is a pioneer in both a good and a bad sense. This is reason enough to take a closer Iook at the history of moist tropical West Africa. Until recently, no one really seemed to be interested in the rainforests except for a few specialists. The world's scientific community neglected to study the incalculable riches of tropical forests, to make the public aware of them and their due importance. Although interdisciplinary research has been a popular topic for some decades now, it was not applied to just the most complex habitat on earth. Scientists from all fields studied only that which was easiest to record, seemingly blind to a myriad of details awaiting closer examination. Botanists wentabout establishing their herbariums and paid much too little attention to the vegetation as a whole, or to the significance of useful plants for local populations. Zoologists, too, busied themselves with collecting and describing species. Anthropologists, on the other hand, tended to overlook faunal details: in their ignorance of the animal world, they wrote of tigers and deer in Africa. And finally, foresters saw neither the forest nor the trees for the timber - and even confused rainforests with monocultures of fir trees.
The 21st Century Crossword Puzzle Dictionary
Author: Kevin McCann
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 9781402721342
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 820
Book Description
Finally, a crossword dictionary with all the words solvers need--and none of the ones they don't! When it comes to puzzle dictionaries, it's the "quality" of what's inside that counts. To make the dictionary even easier to use, the most popular answers stand out in easy-to-see red, while charts highlight frequently sought-after information such as Oscar winners and Popes' names. Crossword fans will keep this right next to their favorite puzzles!
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 9781402721342
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 820
Book Description
Finally, a crossword dictionary with all the words solvers need--and none of the ones they don't! When it comes to puzzle dictionaries, it's the "quality" of what's inside that counts. To make the dictionary even easier to use, the most popular answers stand out in easy-to-see red, while charts highlight frequently sought-after information such as Oscar winners and Popes' names. Crossword fans will keep this right next to their favorite puzzles!
African Rainbow
Author: Lorenzo Ricciardi
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
The first known boat crossing of Equatorial Africa provides for a dramatic story that brings out the beauty and danger of the Dark Continent. 160 photos.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
The first known boat crossing of Equatorial Africa provides for a dramatic story that brings out the beauty and danger of the Dark Continent. 160 photos.