Author: David Saltzman
Publisher: Jester & Pharley Phund
ISBN: 9780964456310
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : es
Pages : 64
Book Description
When they discover that laughter is missing from their kingdom, a jester and his helpmate set out on a quest to find it.
Bufón Ha Perdido Su Gracia
Author: David Saltzman
Publisher: Jester & Pharley Phund
ISBN: 9780964456310
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : es
Pages : 64
Book Description
When they discover that laughter is missing from their kingdom, a jester and his helpmate set out on a quest to find it.
Publisher: Jester & Pharley Phund
ISBN: 9780964456310
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : es
Pages : 64
Book Description
When they discover that laughter is missing from their kingdom, a jester and his helpmate set out on a quest to find it.
Jingle Dancer
Author: Cynthia Leitich Smith
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 068816241X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Jenna, a contemporary Muscogee (Creek) girl in Oklahoma, wants to honor a family tradition by jingle dancing at the next powwow. But where will she find enough jingles for her dress? An unusual, warm family story, beautifully evoked in Cornelius Van Wright and Ying-Hwa Hu's watercolor art. Notable Children's Trade Books in the Field of Social Studies 2001, National Council for SS & Child. Book Council
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 068816241X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Jenna, a contemporary Muscogee (Creek) girl in Oklahoma, wants to honor a family tradition by jingle dancing at the next powwow. But where will she find enough jingles for her dress? An unusual, warm family story, beautifully evoked in Cornelius Van Wright and Ying-Hwa Hu's watercolor art. Notable Children's Trade Books in the Field of Social Studies 2001, National Council for SS & Child. Book Council
My Backyard Jungle
Author: James Barilla
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300184018
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
DIVThe captivating story of an urban family who welcomes wildlife into their backyard and discovers the ups and downs of sharing habitat/div
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300184018
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
DIVThe captivating story of an urban family who welcomes wildlife into their backyard and discovers the ups and downs of sharing habitat/div
The Cumulative Book Index
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Darwin Comes to Town
Author: Menno Schilthuizen
Publisher: Picador
ISBN: 1250127831
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
*Carrion crows in the Japanese city of Sendai have learned to use passing traffic to crack nuts. *Lizards in Puerto Rico are evolving feet that better grip surfaces like concrete. *Europe’s urban blackbirds sing at a higher pitch than their rural cousins, to be heardover the din of traffic. How is this happening? Menno Schilthuizen is one of a growing number of “urban ecologists” studying how our manmade environments are accelerating and changing the evolution of the animals and plants around us. In Darwin Comes to Town, he takes us around the world for an up-close look at just how stunningly flexible and swift-moving natural selection can be. With human populations growing, we’re having an increasing impact on global ecosystems, and nowhere do these impacts overlap as much as they do in cities. The urban environment is about as extreme as it gets, and the wild animals and plants that live side-by-side with us need to adapt to a whole suite of challenging conditions: they must manage in the city’s hotter climate (the “urban heat island”); they need to be able to live either in the semidesert of the tall, rocky, and cavernous structures we call buildings or in the pocket-like oases of city parks (which pose their own dangers, including smog and free-rangingdogs and cats); traffic causes continuous noise, a mist of fine dust particles, and barriers to movement for any animal that cannot fly or burrow; food sources are mainly human-derived. And yet, as Schilthuizen shows, the wildlife sharing these spaces with us is not just surviving, but evolving ways of thriving. Darwin Comes toTown draws on eye-popping examples of adaptation to share a stunning vision of urban evolution in which humans and wildlife co-exist in a unique harmony. It reveals that evolution can happen far more rapidly than Darwin dreamed, while providing a glimmer of hope that our race toward over population might not take the rest of nature down with us.
Publisher: Picador
ISBN: 1250127831
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
*Carrion crows in the Japanese city of Sendai have learned to use passing traffic to crack nuts. *Lizards in Puerto Rico are evolving feet that better grip surfaces like concrete. *Europe’s urban blackbirds sing at a higher pitch than their rural cousins, to be heardover the din of traffic. How is this happening? Menno Schilthuizen is one of a growing number of “urban ecologists” studying how our manmade environments are accelerating and changing the evolution of the animals and plants around us. In Darwin Comes to Town, he takes us around the world for an up-close look at just how stunningly flexible and swift-moving natural selection can be. With human populations growing, we’re having an increasing impact on global ecosystems, and nowhere do these impacts overlap as much as they do in cities. The urban environment is about as extreme as it gets, and the wild animals and plants that live side-by-side with us need to adapt to a whole suite of challenging conditions: they must manage in the city’s hotter climate (the “urban heat island”); they need to be able to live either in the semidesert of the tall, rocky, and cavernous structures we call buildings or in the pocket-like oases of city parks (which pose their own dangers, including smog and free-rangingdogs and cats); traffic causes continuous noise, a mist of fine dust particles, and barriers to movement for any animal that cannot fly or burrow; food sources are mainly human-derived. And yet, as Schilthuizen shows, the wildlife sharing these spaces with us is not just surviving, but evolving ways of thriving. Darwin Comes toTown draws on eye-popping examples of adaptation to share a stunning vision of urban evolution in which humans and wildlife co-exist in a unique harmony. It reveals that evolution can happen far more rapidly than Darwin dreamed, while providing a glimmer of hope that our race toward over population might not take the rest of nature down with us.
Speak Cantonese
Author: Parker Po-fei Huang
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN:
Category : Cantonese dialects
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Speak Cantonese, Book Three, is one of a series of books that teaches the modern spoken language of Cantonese, one of the major dialects of Chinese. As appropriate for a text of its kind, it is entirely in romaniation. This volume is the last of the Speak Cantonese series. It emphasizes introducing more idiomatic expressions heard in daily-life situations- a chat in a teahouse, an argument on a bus, a skit broadcast on the radio, etc.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN:
Category : Cantonese dialects
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Speak Cantonese, Book Three, is one of a series of books that teaches the modern spoken language of Cantonese, one of the major dialects of Chinese. As appropriate for a text of its kind, it is entirely in romaniation. This volume is the last of the Speak Cantonese series. It emphasizes introducing more idiomatic expressions heard in daily-life situations- a chat in a teahouse, an argument on a bus, a skit broadcast on the radio, etc.
The Vassar Miscellany
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Category : Universities and colleges
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
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Category : Universities and colleges
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
The Dial
Author: Francis Fisher Browne
Publisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 954
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 954
Book Description
The Yale Literary Magazine
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Category : College students' writings, American
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : College students' writings, American
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Adam Smith: An Enlightened Life
Author: Nicholas T. Phillipson
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300174438
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
Nicholas Phillipson's intellectual biography of Adam Smith shows that Smith saw himself as philosopher rather than an economist. Phillipson shows Smith's famous works were a part of a larger scheme to establish a "Science of Man," which was to encompass law, history, and aesthetics as well as economics and ethics. Phillipson explains Adam Smith's part in the rapidly changing intellectual and commercial cultures of Glasgow and Edinburgh at the time of the Scottish Enlightenment. Above all Phillipson explains how far Smith's ideas developed in dialog with his closest friend David Hume. --Publisher's description.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300174438
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
Nicholas Phillipson's intellectual biography of Adam Smith shows that Smith saw himself as philosopher rather than an economist. Phillipson shows Smith's famous works were a part of a larger scheme to establish a "Science of Man," which was to encompass law, history, and aesthetics as well as economics and ethics. Phillipson explains Adam Smith's part in the rapidly changing intellectual and commercial cultures of Glasgow and Edinburgh at the time of the Scottish Enlightenment. Above all Phillipson explains how far Smith's ideas developed in dialog with his closest friend David Hume. --Publisher's description.