Author: Carole Jerome
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 103919902X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Oscar is not like all the other sloths in his tropical rainforest, who are called Osos Perezosos, or Lazy Bears. Oscar is adventurous, and with the help of remarkable friends like a blue butterfly, a green lizard, a vegetarian ocelot and a clumsy anteater, he sets out on a Quest to find his long-lost Uncle Francisco, and bring him home. Oscar stows away on a sailboat run by scientists who protect Nature. With them he has many adventures and meets the Arenal Dragon, Maritza Macaw and the Spice Monkeys, a fabulous Quetzal bird, and a new best friend, a valiant sloth named Olivia. The two sloths learn about dangers which threaten the rainforest, and how children around the world are helping to protect it and all the wildlife in it. The Stowaway Sloth offers youngsters a magical adventure, fascinating wildlife lore, and hope for the future.
Stowaway Sloth
Author: Carole Jerome
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 103919902X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Oscar is not like all the other sloths in his tropical rainforest, who are called Osos Perezosos, or Lazy Bears. Oscar is adventurous, and with the help of remarkable friends like a blue butterfly, a green lizard, a vegetarian ocelot and a clumsy anteater, he sets out on a Quest to find his long-lost Uncle Francisco, and bring him home. Oscar stows away on a sailboat run by scientists who protect Nature. With them he has many adventures and meets the Arenal Dragon, Maritza Macaw and the Spice Monkeys, a fabulous Quetzal bird, and a new best friend, a valiant sloth named Olivia. The two sloths learn about dangers which threaten the rainforest, and how children around the world are helping to protect it and all the wildlife in it. The Stowaway Sloth offers youngsters a magical adventure, fascinating wildlife lore, and hope for the future.
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 103919902X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Oscar is not like all the other sloths in his tropical rainforest, who are called Osos Perezosos, or Lazy Bears. Oscar is adventurous, and with the help of remarkable friends like a blue butterfly, a green lizard, a vegetarian ocelot and a clumsy anteater, he sets out on a Quest to find his long-lost Uncle Francisco, and bring him home. Oscar stows away on a sailboat run by scientists who protect Nature. With them he has many adventures and meets the Arenal Dragon, Maritza Macaw and the Spice Monkeys, a fabulous Quetzal bird, and a new best friend, a valiant sloth named Olivia. The two sloths learn about dangers which threaten the rainforest, and how children around the world are helping to protect it and all the wildlife in it. The Stowaway Sloth offers youngsters a magical adventure, fascinating wildlife lore, and hope for the future.
Extraordinary Animals
Author: Ross Piper
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313085943
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Animals have existed on Earth for many hundreds of millions of years. In that time they have evolved into a great variety of forms, exploiting nearly every habitat the planet has to offer. In the dark depths of the oceans, in the seemingly inhospitable Polar Regions, in the driest deserts, even within the bodies of other animals, there are animal species that have developed unique and extraordinary means of surviving and thriving. Extraordinary Animals: An Encyclopedia of Curious and Unusual Animals is an exploration of those members of the animal kingdom who possess strange and bizarre adaptations that allow them to survive in the most extreme environments, or whose complex lives can only be said to be bewildering. From the tar-baby termite to the blue whale, from the harpy eagle to the naked mole rat, these species reflect the exceptionally broad spectrum of life, showing just how diverse the animal kingdom is. Extraordinary Animals has been thoroughly researched for scientific accuracy, but is accessibly written in everyday language. Each entry includes a description of the animal, an explanation of its odd behavior, other interesting scientific and trivial facts, and black and white illustrations. In addition, a fun and interactive Go Look section encourages readers to go look for the animals in the outside world.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313085943
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Animals have existed on Earth for many hundreds of millions of years. In that time they have evolved into a great variety of forms, exploiting nearly every habitat the planet has to offer. In the dark depths of the oceans, in the seemingly inhospitable Polar Regions, in the driest deserts, even within the bodies of other animals, there are animal species that have developed unique and extraordinary means of surviving and thriving. Extraordinary Animals: An Encyclopedia of Curious and Unusual Animals is an exploration of those members of the animal kingdom who possess strange and bizarre adaptations that allow them to survive in the most extreme environments, or whose complex lives can only be said to be bewildering. From the tar-baby termite to the blue whale, from the harpy eagle to the naked mole rat, these species reflect the exceptionally broad spectrum of life, showing just how diverse the animal kingdom is. Extraordinary Animals has been thoroughly researched for scientific accuracy, but is accessibly written in everyday language. Each entry includes a description of the animal, an explanation of its odd behavior, other interesting scientific and trivial facts, and black and white illustrations. In addition, a fun and interactive Go Look section encourages readers to go look for the animals in the outside world.
Current Law Index
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1254
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1254
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A New World of Animals
Author: Miguel de Asúa
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351962140
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
Many Early Modern Europeans who during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries travelled to the New World left written or pictorial records of their encounters with a surprising fauna. The story told in this book is woven out of the threads of those texts and pictures. A New World of Animals shows how the initial wonder at the new beasts gave way to a more utilitarian approach, assessing their economic and medical potential. It elucidates how shifts in European perceptions brought the animals from the realm of the fantastic into the mainstream of early modern natural history, while at the same time changing the way in which Europeans saw their own world. Indeed, the chronicles and treatises of those who in the wake of the discovery arrived in the new lands tell as much about the particular interests and mental worlds of the writers as about the 'new animals'. This book traces the amazement of the first explorers and colonizers, the chronicles of soldiers and Indians, the 'natural histories of the New World', the place of animals in the network of economic interests driving the early expansion of Europe, the views of the missionaries and those of natural philosophers and physicians. Taking the reader from the Brazilian forests to the erudite cabinets of the Old World, from Patagonia to the centres of empire, the story of the discovery of the unexpected menagerie of the New World is also an exploration of Early Modern European imagination and learning.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351962140
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
Many Early Modern Europeans who during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries travelled to the New World left written or pictorial records of their encounters with a surprising fauna. The story told in this book is woven out of the threads of those texts and pictures. A New World of Animals shows how the initial wonder at the new beasts gave way to a more utilitarian approach, assessing their economic and medical potential. It elucidates how shifts in European perceptions brought the animals from the realm of the fantastic into the mainstream of early modern natural history, while at the same time changing the way in which Europeans saw their own world. Indeed, the chronicles and treatises of those who in the wake of the discovery arrived in the new lands tell as much about the particular interests and mental worlds of the writers as about the 'new animals'. This book traces the amazement of the first explorers and colonizers, the chronicles of soldiers and Indians, the 'natural histories of the New World', the place of animals in the network of economic interests driving the early expansion of Europe, the views of the missionaries and those of natural philosophers and physicians. Taking the reader from the Brazilian forests to the erudite cabinets of the Old World, from Patagonia to the centres of empire, the story of the discovery of the unexpected menagerie of the New World is also an exploration of Early Modern European imagination and learning.
The Continental Classics
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 290
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 290
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Taras Bulba
Author: Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich Gogolʹ
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Languages : en
Pages : 296
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Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Taras Bulba
Author: Николай Васильевич Гоголь
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Category : Cossacks
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Taras Bulba, a Ukrainian folk hero, leads a Cossack revolt against the Poles, a violent confrontation that has devasting consequences for him when one of his sons, who has fallen in love with a Polish girl, is killed by his father in battle.
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Category : Cossacks
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Taras Bulba, a Ukrainian folk hero, leads a Cossack revolt against the Poles, a violent confrontation that has devasting consequences for him when one of his sons, who has fallen in love with a Polish girl, is killed by his father in battle.
Chasing the Ghost Bear
Author: Mike Stark
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496231953
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
No animal shakes the human consciousness quite like a bear, and few compare to the giant short-faced bears that stalked North America during the Pleistocene. Even among the mammoths and saber-toothed cats, they were a staggering sight: on all fours, the biggest would stare a six-foot person in the face and weigh close to a ton. On hind legs they towered more than ten feet, with jaws powerful enough to crush skulls and snap bones like twigs. The bears weren’t invincible, however. Despite their size, they were swept off the planet in a mysterious wave of Ice Age extinctions more than ten thousand years ago, then mostly forgotten. Chasing the Ghost Bear is Mike Stark’s journey into the bear’s enigmatic story—its life, disappearance, and rediscovery—and those trying to piece it together today. An engaging guide through his intrepid search, Stark’s story leads us from the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles to a cornfield in Indiana, the far ends of the Arctic, the plains of Texas, and the swamps of Florida. Part natural history, part travelogue, and part meditation on extinction and loss, Chasing the Ghost Bear returns these magnificent beasts to their rightful place in our understanding of the world just an epoch past.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496231953
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
No animal shakes the human consciousness quite like a bear, and few compare to the giant short-faced bears that stalked North America during the Pleistocene. Even among the mammoths and saber-toothed cats, they were a staggering sight: on all fours, the biggest would stare a six-foot person in the face and weigh close to a ton. On hind legs they towered more than ten feet, with jaws powerful enough to crush skulls and snap bones like twigs. The bears weren’t invincible, however. Despite their size, they were swept off the planet in a mysterious wave of Ice Age extinctions more than ten thousand years ago, then mostly forgotten. Chasing the Ghost Bear is Mike Stark’s journey into the bear’s enigmatic story—its life, disappearance, and rediscovery—and those trying to piece it together today. An engaging guide through his intrepid search, Stark’s story leads us from the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles to a cornfield in Indiana, the far ends of the Arctic, the plains of Texas, and the swamps of Florida. Part natural history, part travelogue, and part meditation on extinction and loss, Chasing the Ghost Bear returns these magnificent beasts to their rightful place in our understanding of the world just an epoch past.
Animal Kingdom
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Category : Zoology
Languages : en
Pages : 736
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Category : Zoology
Languages : en
Pages : 736
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News Bulletin of the Zoological Society
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Category : Zoology
Languages : en
Pages : 822
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Category : Zoology
Languages : en
Pages : 822
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