Author: Michael F. Land
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199581134
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 291
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This book covers the way that all known types of eyes work, from their optics to the behaviour they guide. The ways that eyes sample the world in space and time are considered, and the evolutionary origins of eyes are discussed. This new edition incorporates discoveries made since the first edition published in 2001.
Author: Juan Carlos Alonso (Graphic designer)
Publisher: Walter Foster Jr.
ISBN: 1633221962
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 131
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From the rainforests of the Amazon to the plains of Africa, Land Mammals of the World guides you on an exploration of the world's most fascinating mammals.
Author: Hugh F. Pyle
Publisher: Sword of the Lord Publishers
ISBN: 9780873985659
Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 156
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Scamper Squirrel is on the trail to solve mysteries in Fabel Forest.
Author: John Farndon
Publisher: Hungry Tomato ®
ISBN: 1512420050
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35
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Meet some of the coolest land animals on Earth, and learn about their amazing abilities—from camouflage and communication to super senses and use of tools. Find out how these clever creatures and others use their smarts and skills to thrive in even the harshest environments.
Author: Makoto Raiku
Publisher: Kodansha Comics
ISBN: 9781632366535
Category : COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Orphaned after her parents were killed by Lynxes, Monoko is the only tanuki (raccoon dog) in her village without a family, until she finds a human baby in a river. Animal Land is a world inhabited solely by animals, so this human child is a mystery. The baby is Monoko's only chance at having a family and she is determined to raise the human child as her own. Animal Land is a cute and original story about Monoko and the mysterious human baby, with fun artwork and imaginative world environments.
Author: Karen Bradshaw
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226571225
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 211
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Humankind coexists with every other living thing. People drink the same water, breathe the same air, and share the same land as other animals. Yet, property law reflects a general assumption that only people can own land. The effects of this presumption are disastrous for wildlife and humans alike. The alarm bells ringing about biodiversity loss are growing louder, and the possibility of mass extinction is real. Anthropocentric property is a key driver of biodiversity loss, a silent killer of species worldwide. But as law and sustainability scholar Karen Bradshaw shows, if excluding animals from a legal right to own land is causing their destruction, extending the legal right to own property to wildlife may prove its salvation. Wildlife as Property Owners advocates for folding animals into our existing system of property law, giving them the opportunity to own land just as humans do—to the betterment of all.
Author: Barbara Kingsolver
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061795836
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 403
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Bestselling author Barbara Kingsolver returns with her first nonfiction narrative that will open your eyes in a hundred new ways to an old truth: You are what you eat. "As the U.S. population made an unprecedented mad dash for the Sun Belt, one carload of us paddled against the tide, heading for the Promised Land where water falls from the sky and green stuff grows all around. We were about to begin the adventure of realigning our lives with our food chain. "Naturally, our first stop was to buy junk food and fossil fuel. . . ." Hang on for the ride: With characteristic poetry and pluck, Barbara Kingsolver and her family sweep readers along on their journey away from the industrial-food pipeline to a rural life in which they vow to buy only food raised in their own neighborhood, grow it themselves, or learn to live without it. Their good-humored search yields surprising discoveries about turkey sex life and overly zealous zucchini plants, en route to a food culture that's better for the neighborhood and also better on the table. Part memoir, part journalistic investigation, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle makes a passionate case for putting the kitchen back at the center of family life and diversified farms at the center of the American diet. "This is the story of a year in which we made every attempt to feed ourselves animals and vegetables whose provenance we really knew . . . and of how our family was changed by our first year of deliberately eating food produced from the same place where we worked, went to school, loved our neighbors, drank the water, and breathed the air." Includes an excerpt from Flight Behavior.
Author: GOTTESMAN ET AL
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783038602477
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 384
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A unique documentation of how ideology translated into colonialism, settlement, urbanization, infrastructure, and mechanized agriculture radically reshaped the environment of Palestine-Israel. The biblical metaphor of a "Land of Milk and Honey" has denoted for millennia a prophecy and promise for plenitude. This book, published in conjunction with the Israeli Pavilion at the seventeenth International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, examines the reciprocal relations between humans, animals, and the environment within the context of modern Palestine-Israel, and demonstrates how this promise has become an action-plan over the course of the twentieth century. Land. Milk. Honey investigates how colonialism, urbanization, and mechanized agriculture radically reshaped the environment and altered human-animal relationships. It shows how the celebrated metamorphosis of the region into a prosperous agricultural landscape was entangled with irreparable damage to the environment, as well as the disruption of human communities. And it highlights the predicaments that both the environment and its inhabitants are facing after the territory has, over a century, been the testbed of modernist aspirations for plenitude. The fundamental changes the region has undergone are portrayed through the stories of five local animals: cow, goat, honeybee, water buffalo, and bat. These case-studies and analysis construct a spatial history of a place in five acts: Mechanization, Territory, Cohabitation, Extinction, and the Post-Human. A rich collection of literary excerpts, historical documents, archival photos, as well as short original vignettes reveals the story of this remarkable transfiguration and redesign.
Author: Hugh Pyle
Publisher: Sword of the Lord Publishers
ISBN: 9780873980036
Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 100
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Author: Mary Rice Hopkins
Publisher: Good News Publishers
ISBN: 9780891079682
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 38
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An alphabet book of animals from A to Z, which also features a brief Biblical quotation for each letter.
