Author: Paul Demko
Publisher: High Noon Books
ISBN: 1571289178
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 50
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Tsunamis, volcanoes, meteors, droughts—nature can do some damage! This high-interest nonfiction series includes reading experiences in five content areas: Life Science, Earth and Space Science, History/Social Studies, Technology, and Careers. It introduces grades 48 content-area vocabulary in a medium that struggling readers can master. Read-UP! with 3 levels of readability. Each level (set of 5 books) contains a book from the five content areas, so a student can keep reading in one content area if he or she prefers.
Author: V. M. Thompson
Publisher: Zebra Books
ISBN: 9780821723302
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 429
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Jim Chambers, a former biology teacher, becomes worried when his son Chip brings home a variety of mutant insects and animals
Author: Gerald N. Grob
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674037946
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 374
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The Deadly Truth chronicles the complex interactions between disease and the peoples of America from the pre-Columbian world to the present. Grob's ultimate lesson is stark but valuable: there can be no final victory over disease. The world in which we live undergoes constant change, which in turn creates novel risks to human health and life. We conquer particular diseases, but others always arise in their stead. In a powerful challenge to our tendency to see disease as unnatural and its virtual elimination as a real possibility, Grob asserts the undeniable biological persistence of disease. Diseases ranging from malaria to cancer have shaped the social landscape--sometimes through brief, furious outbreaks, and at other times through gradual occurrence, control, and recurrence. Grob integrates statistical data with particular peoples and places while giving us the larger patterns of the ebb and flow of disease over centuries. Throughout, we see how much of our history, culture, and nation-building was determined--in ways we often don't realize--by the environment and the diseases it fostered. The way in which we live has shaped, and will continue to shape, the diseases from which we get sick and die. By accepting the presence of disease and understanding the way in which it has physically interacted with people and places in past eras, Grob illuminates the extraordinarily complex forces that shape our morbidity and mortality patterns and provides a realistic appreciation of the individual, social, environmental, and biological determinants of human health.
Author: Frances Jones
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780760760123
Category : Dangerous animals
Languages : en
Pages :
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Text and pop-up illustrations depict six of the world's deadliest creatures: the scorpion fish, the black widow, the scorpion, the king cobra, the Gila monster and the blue-ringed octopus.
Author: Charles C. Hofer
Publisher: Raintree
ISBN: 1398222631
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 33
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Author: David Kessler
Publisher: Public Affairs
ISBN: 9781586481216
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 518
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Former FDA commissioner David Kessler guides the reader through a legal thriller, telling the story of the FDA's fight with big tobacco.
Author: Belinda Gallagher
Publisher: Discovery Explore Your World
ISBN: 9781782095286
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 24
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Explore our amazing planet with this series, from dramatic natural disasters to the fastest racing vehicles.
Author: Dan Riskin
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476767130
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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Book Description
A fun exploration of the darker side of the natural world reveals the fascinating, weird, often perverted ways that Mother Nature fends only for herself. It may be a wonderful world, but as Dan Riskin (cohost of Discovery Canada’s Daily Planet) explains, it’s also a dangerous, disturbing, and disgusting one. At every turn, it seems, living things are trying to eat us, poison us, use our bodies as their homes, or have us spread their eggs. In Mother Nature Is Trying to Kill You, Riskin is our guide through the natural world at its most gloriously ruthless. Using the seven deadly sins as a road map, Riskin offers dozens of jaw-dropping examples that illuminate how brutal nature can truly be. From slothful worms that hide in your body for up to thirty years to wrathful snails with poisonous harpoons that can kill you in less than five minutes to lustful ducks that have orgasms faster than you can blink, these fascinating accounts reveal the candid truth about “gentle” Mother Nature’s true colors. Riskin’s passion for the strange and his enthusiastic expertise bring Earth’s most fascinating flora and fauna into vivid focus. Through his adventures— which include sliding on his back through a thick soup of bat guano just to get face-to-face with a vampire bat, befriending a parasitic maggot that has taken root on his head, and coming to grips with having offspring of his own—Riskin makes unexpected discoveries not just about the world all around us but also about the ways this brutal world has shaped us as humans and what our responsibilities are to this terrible, wonderful planet we call home.
Author: Frankie Stout
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN: 1404241590
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 25
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Killer instincts help this group of animals to thrive in the wild. This book explores what makes an animal especially deadly and how they live to kill.
Author: Melissa Stewart
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1426313462
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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Describes how predators hunt, raise their young, and contribute to the food chain.
