Author: Linda Strachan
Publisher: Collins Educational
ISBN: 9780007422029
Category : Beetles
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
"Poppy the beetle like to sing all day. Did her sining save Harry the mouse?" --Back cover.
The Singing Beetle
Author: Linda Strachan
Publisher: Collins Educational
ISBN: 9780007422029
Category : Beetles
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
"Poppy the beetle like to sing all day. Did her sining save Harry the mouse?" --Back cover.
Publisher: Collins Educational
ISBN: 9780007422029
Category : Beetles
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
"Poppy the beetle like to sing all day. Did her sining save Harry the mouse?" --Back cover.
Empire of the Beetle
Author: Andrew Nikiforuk
Publisher: Greystone Books Ltd
ISBN: 1553658949
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Beginning in the late 1980s, a series of improbable bark beetle outbreaks unsettled iconic forests and communities across western North America. An insect the size of a rice kernel eventually killed more than 30 billion pine and spruce trees from Alaska to New Mexico. Often appearing in masses larger than schools of killer whales, the beetles engineered one of the world's greatest forest die-offs since the deforestation of Europe by peasants between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries. The beetle didn't act alone. Misguided science, out-of-control logging, bad public policy, and a hundred years of fire suppression created a volatile geography that released the world's oldest forest manager from all natural constraints. Like most human empires, the beetles exploded wildly and then crashed, leaving in their wake grieving landowners, humbled scientists, hungry animals, and altered watersheds. Although climate change triggered this complex event, human arrogance assuredly set the table. With little warning, an ancient insect pointedly exposed the frailty of seemingly stable manmade landscapes. Drawing on first-hand accounts from entomologists, botanists, foresters, and rural residents, award-winning journalist Andrew Nikiforuk, investigates this unprecedented beetle plague, its startling implications, and the lessons it holds.
Publisher: Greystone Books Ltd
ISBN: 1553658949
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Beginning in the late 1980s, a series of improbable bark beetle outbreaks unsettled iconic forests and communities across western North America. An insect the size of a rice kernel eventually killed more than 30 billion pine and spruce trees from Alaska to New Mexico. Often appearing in masses larger than schools of killer whales, the beetles engineered one of the world's greatest forest die-offs since the deforestation of Europe by peasants between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries. The beetle didn't act alone. Misguided science, out-of-control logging, bad public policy, and a hundred years of fire suppression created a volatile geography that released the world's oldest forest manager from all natural constraints. Like most human empires, the beetles exploded wildly and then crashed, leaving in their wake grieving landowners, humbled scientists, hungry animals, and altered watersheds. Although climate change triggered this complex event, human arrogance assuredly set the table. With little warning, an ancient insect pointedly exposed the frailty of seemingly stable manmade landscapes. Drawing on first-hand accounts from entomologists, botanists, foresters, and rural residents, award-winning journalist Andrew Nikiforuk, investigates this unprecedented beetle plague, its startling implications, and the lessons it holds.
Monthly Packet
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Languages : en
Pages : 680
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Pages : 680
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Singing Crickets
Author: Linda Glaser
Publisher: Millbrook Press
ISBN: 0822588064
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Cricka crick, cricka crick! This is the song papa crickets sing when they rub their wings together. Follow along as wingless baby crickets grow into singing adults.
Publisher: Millbrook Press
ISBN: 0822588064
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Cricka crick, cricka crick! This is the song papa crickets sing when they rub their wings together. Follow along as wingless baby crickets grow into singing adults.
The Monthly Packet of Evening Readings for Members of the English Church
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Pages : 1352
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Pages : 1352
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The Zoologist
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Category : Zoology
Languages : en
Pages : 526
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Category : Zoology
Languages : en
Pages : 526
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Zoologist
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Category : English periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 526
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Category : English periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 526
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The Zoologist
Author: Edward Newman
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Category : Zoology
Languages : en
Pages : 1100
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Category : Zoology
Languages : en
Pages : 1100
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Wonderbook
Author: Jeff VanderMeer
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN: 1613124635
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 867
Book Description
Now expanded: The definitive visual guide to writing science fiction and fantasy—with exercises, diagrams, essays by superstar authors, and more. From the New York Times-bestselling, Nebula Award-winning author, Wonderbook has become the definitive guide to writing science fiction and fantasy by offering an accessible, example-rich approach that emphasizes the importance of playfulness as well as pragmatism. It also embraces the visual nature of genre culture and employs bold, full-color drawings, maps, renderings, and visualizations to stimulate creative thinking. On top of all that, it features sidebars and essays—most original to the book—from some of the biggest names working in the field today, among them George R. R. Martin, Lev Grossman, Neil Gaiman, Michael Moorcock, Charles Yu, Kim Stanley Robinson, and Karen Joy Fowler. For the fifth anniversary of the original publication, Jeff VanderMeer has added fifty more pages of diagrams, illustrations, and writing exercises, creating the ultimate volume of inspiring advice. “One book that every speculative fiction writer should read to learn about proper worldbuilding.” —Bustle “A treat . . . gorgeous to page through.” —Space.com
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN: 1613124635
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 867
Book Description
Now expanded: The definitive visual guide to writing science fiction and fantasy—with exercises, diagrams, essays by superstar authors, and more. From the New York Times-bestselling, Nebula Award-winning author, Wonderbook has become the definitive guide to writing science fiction and fantasy by offering an accessible, example-rich approach that emphasizes the importance of playfulness as well as pragmatism. It also embraces the visual nature of genre culture and employs bold, full-color drawings, maps, renderings, and visualizations to stimulate creative thinking. On top of all that, it features sidebars and essays—most original to the book—from some of the biggest names working in the field today, among them George R. R. Martin, Lev Grossman, Neil Gaiman, Michael Moorcock, Charles Yu, Kim Stanley Robinson, and Karen Joy Fowler. For the fifth anniversary of the original publication, Jeff VanderMeer has added fifty more pages of diagrams, illustrations, and writing exercises, creating the ultimate volume of inspiring advice. “One book that every speculative fiction writer should read to learn about proper worldbuilding.” —Bustle “A treat . . . gorgeous to page through.” —Space.com
American Inventor
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Languages : en
Pages : 762
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Pages : 762
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