Author: Ana María Rodríguez
Publisher: Enslow Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 0766086267
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 50
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Students will learn all about intriguing adaptations that help animals survive in their environments, such as what playing a video game can teach us about striped lizards, the power of the chameleons sticky tongue, how wriggling and slashing saves frog eggs, a good partnership between sweet plants and ants, and the secret of the swordfishs slippery head. Primary sources include interviews with scientists and original photos. Engaging yet simple language makes complicated scientific principles easy to grasp. A hands-on activity allows students to take on the role of scientist and examine these amazing adaptations themselves.
Author: Ana Maria Rodriguez
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780766088474
Category : Protective coloration (Biology)
Languages : en
Pages : 48
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Students will learn all about intriguing adaptations that help animals survive in their environments, such as what playing a video game can teach us about striped lizards, the power of the chameleon s sticky tongue, how wriggling and slashing saves frog eggs, a good partnership between sweet plants and ants, and the secret of the swordfish s slippery head. Primary sources include interviews with scientists and original photos. Engaging yet simple language makes complicated scientific principles easy to grasp. A hands-on activity allows students to take on the role of scientist and examine these amazing adaptations themselves.
Author: Ana María Rodríguez
Publisher: Enslow Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 0766088537
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 50
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Book Description
Students will learn all about intriguing adaptations that help animals survive in their environments, such as what playing a video game can teach us about striped lizards, the power of the chameleons sticky tongue, how wriggling and slashing saves frog eggs, a good partnership between sweet plants and ants, and the secret of the swordfishs slippery head. Primary sources include interviews with scientists and original photos. Engaging yet simple language makes complicated scientific principles easy to grasp. A hands-on activity allows students to take on the role of scientist and examine these amazing adaptations themselves.
Author: J. Sean Doody
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421440687
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 437
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Covering diverse species from garter snakes to Komodo dragons, this book delves into the evolutionary origins and fascinating details of the mysterious social lives of reptiles. Reptiles have been too often dismissed as dull animals with tiny brains and simple, "asocial" lives. In reality, reptiles engage in a remarkable diversity of complex social behavior. They can live in families; communicate with one another while still in the egg; and hunt, feed, migrate, court, mate, nest, and hatch in groups. In The Secret Social Lives of Reptiles, J. Sean Doody, Vladimir Dinets, and Gordon M. Burghardt—three of the world's leading experts on reptiles—bring together a wave of new research with a synthesis of classic studies to produce the only authoritative look at the social behaviors of the most provocative animals on the planet. The book covers turtles, lizards, snakes, crocodilians, and the enigmatic tuatara. Enhanced with dozens of images, it takes readers through a myriad of social interactions, tendencies, and intimacies ranging from fierce territorial battles to delicate paternal care and from promiscuous pairings to monogamous partnerships. This unique text • explains why reptiles have been neglected as subjects of social behavior studies; • provides numerous examples across all major reptilian groups that overturn the false paradigm of "solitary" reptiles; • explores the sensory, genetic, physiological, life history, and other factors underlying social behavior in reptiles; • presents the case that evolutionary "experiments" found among reptiles offer unparalleled opportunities for understanding how and why social behavior evolves in animals; and • identifies new and developing areas of research helping to reshape our view of reptiles. Revealing the secrets of reptilian social relationships through original quantitative research, field studies, laboratory experiments, and careful analysis of the literature, The Secret Social Lives of Reptiles elevates these fascinating animals to key players in the science of behavioral ecology.
Author: Adam Blake
Publisher: Sphere
ISBN: 0748123776
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 371
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For fans of Dan Brown's Origin and The Da Vinci Code, by the author of the award-winning, massive bestseller The Girl with All the Gifts, comes a thriller to keep you reading until dawn. Hidden in the Dead Sea scrolls - the secret of how Christ really died As ex-mercenary Leo Tillman and ambitious cop Heather Kennedy investigate a series of baffling deaths, the trail leads them to the Dead Sea Scrolls - and the deadly gospel hidden within them. But soon Tillman and Kennedy are running for their lives from a band of sinister assassins who weep tears of blood and believe themselves descended from Judas. These 'fallen angels' will stop at nothing to expose the world-changing secret of the Scrolls . . . the secret of how Christ really died. Rocketing from a spectacular plane crash in the American desert to a brutal murder at a London university to a phantom city in Mexico, The Dead Sea Deception is the most gripping, revelatory thriller since The Da Vinci Code. 'Hits all the genre tropes in fresh and exciting ways' Publishers Weekly 'Will grip you in its vice-like jaws to the very last breathless sequence. Escapism at its very best' Lancashire Evening Post 'Intelligence, good characterisation and an imaginative plot combine to make The Dead Sea Deception a delight' Reviewing the Evidence 'The Dead Sea Deception manages to soar, breathing new spirit into the genre' For Winter Nights
Author: Ron Niccum
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0557142636
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 654
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Techniques, technologies, and applications - the arts and sciences of interrogating criminal suspects, their victims, and the witnesses to their crimes. Sounds exciting, don’t it? ad–ver–saŕ–ial!“Oooooh,†kindâ€a gets you all tingly. Wow! And doesn’t it just set you to thinking about gladiators locked in the deadly dance of hand-to-hand combat? Secrets takes you through the entire process of interrogation from start to finish; BUT, if you were expecting â€waterboarding†and other inefficient methods of torture – FORGET IT! The Adversarial Interview not only works but it’s legal!
Author: Ernest Herndon
Publisher: Zondervan Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780310382515
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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When a computer error causes the CIA to select twelve-year-old Eric as an agent for their new wildlife conservation branch, he finds himself spying on renegade scientists who are tampering with the monitor lizards on a Pacific island.
Author: Ross Macdonald
Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
ISBN: 0307759679
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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Lew Archer returns in this gripping mystery, widely recognized as one of acclaimed mystery writer Ross Macdonald's very best, about the search for the long lost heir of the wealthy Galton family. Almost twenty years have passed since Anthony Galton disappeared, along with a suspiciously streetwise bride and several thousand dollars of his family's fortune. Now Anthony's mother wants him back and has hired Lew Archer to find him. What turns up is a headless skeleton, a boy who claims to be Galton's son, and a con game whose stakes are so high that someone is still willing to kill for them. Devious and poetic, The Galton Case displays MacDonald at the pinnacle of his form.
Author: Patrick Kimiti
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789966471239
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 142
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Author: Surazeus Astarius
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0359794386
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 500
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Hermead of Surazeus is an epic poem about the development of philosophy over 600 years in the lives and ideas of 26 of the greatest philosophers who contributed to the growth of civilization. This single volume edition presents in 126,680 lines of pentameter blank verse the tales of Hermes, Prometheus, Kadmos, Asklepios, Zethos Hesiodos, Thales, Anaximandros, Pythagoras, Herakleitos, Parmenides, Anaxagoras, Empedokles, Leukippos, Philolaos, Demokritos, Aristokles Platon, Aristoteles, Demetrios Phalereus, Epikouros, Arkhimedes, Ktesibios, Eratosthenes, Krates, Hipparkhos, Philodemos, and Lucretius.
