How Nature Works – serie
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14 produkter
Catching Air
Taking the Leap with Gliding Animals
Inbunden, 2017
202 kr
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North America’s flying squirrels and Australia’s sugar gliders notwithstanding, the vast majority of them live in rainforests. Illustrated with arresting photographs, Catching Air takes us around the world to meet these animals, learn why so many gliders live in Southeast Asia, and find out why …
Extreme Survivors
Animals That Time Forgot
Inbunden, 2017
202 kr
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More than 99 percent of all life forms have gone extinct during the 3.6-billion-year history of life on Earth. Other organisms have changed dramatically, but not our extreme survivors. Evolution may have altered their physiology and behavior, but their body plans have stood the test of time. How …
City Fish Country Fish
How Fish Adapt to Tropical Seas and Cold Oceans
Inbunden, 2017
202 kr
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Through color, shape,size, and other adaptations, city fish and country fish have evolved to survive in their particular habitats.In City Fish, Country Fish, Mary Cerullo uses this powerful analogy and Jeffrey Rotman’s vibrant underwater photos to captivate young readers with the wild variety of …
Don't Mess with Me
The Strange Lives of Venomous Sea Creatures
Inbunden, 2018
202 kr
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Scorpions and brown recluse spiders are fine as far as they go, but if you want daily contact with venomous creatures, the ocean is the place to be. Blue-ringed octopi, stony corals, sea jellies, stonefish, lionfish, poison-fanged blennies, stingrays, cone snails, blind remipedes, fire urchins—you …
One Iguana, Two Iguanas
A Story of Accident, Natural Selection, and Evolution
Inbunden, 2018
202 kr
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Natural selection and speciation are all but ignored in children’s nonfiction. To help address this glaring deficiency, award-winning children’s science writer Sneed Collard traveled to the Galapagos Islands to see for himself, where Charles Darwin saw, how new species form. The result is this …
One Iguana, Two Iguanas
A Story of Accident, Natural Selection, and Evolution
Häftad, 2021
119 kr
Kommande
Natural selection and speciation are all but ignored in children’s nonfiction. To help address this glaring deficiency, award-winning children’s science writer Sneed Collard traveled to the Galapagos Islands to see for himself, where Charles Darwin saw, how new species form. The result is this …
Extreme Survivors
Animals That Time Forgot
Häftad, 2021
119 kr
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More than 99 percent of all life forms have gone extinct during the 3.6-billion-year history of life on Earth. Other organisms have changed dramatically, but not our extreme survivors. Evolution may have altered their physiology and behavior, but their body plans have stood the test of time. How …
Life Under Ice 2nd edition
Exploring Antarctic Seas
Häftad, 2019
105 kr
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Enormous jellyfish and fish with blood like antifreeze are just a few of the creatures captured in their unique habitat by underwater photographer Bill Curtsinger. This new edition is fully updated and traces the impacts of climate change and ice-shelf melt on the abundant life in the waters …
Blowholes, Book Gills, and Butt-Breathers
How Animals Get Their Oxygen
Inbunden, 2021
174 kr
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Explores a question unasked by any other book for young readers: What can we learn about nature and evolution from the bizarre and exotic ways some animals have evolved to get life-giving oxygen? An inquiry-based book designed to stimulate active minds; a STEM standout from a celebrated nature …
Catching Air
Taking the Leap with Gliding Animals
Häftad, 2021
119 kr
Kommande
North America’s flying squirrels and Australia’s sugar gliders notwithstanding, the vast majority of them live in rainforests. Illustrated with arresting photographs, Catching Air takes us around the world to meet these animals, learn why so many gliders live in Southeast Asia, and find out why …
Tiny Titans
The Big Story of Plankton
Inbunden, 2024
216 kr
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From zooplankton to phytoplankton, these small-scale superheroes are the foundation of the ocean’s food chain, keep our climate in check, generate up to fifty percent of the oxygen produced on the planet each year—and much more. Stunning microscopic photos and primary source research provide a …
Chasing Guano
The Discovery of a Penguin Supercolony
Av Helen Taylor
Inbunden, 2024
216 kr
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Poop—or guano to be more specific. She also knew who it was from (penguins), how many there were (a lot!), and what they were eating (krill). With the deadline for proposing boundaries for protected lands in Antarctica fast approaching, Heather built a team for a dangerous expedition to the Danger …
Don't Mess with Me
The Strange Lives of Venomous Sea Creatures
Häftad, 2021
119 kr
Tillfälligt slut
Scorpions and brown recluse spiders are fine as far as they go, but if you want daily contact with venomous creatures, the ocean is the place to be. Blue-ringed octopi, stony corals, sea jellies, stonefish, lionfish, poison-fanged blennies, stingrays, cone snails, blind remipedes, fire urchins—you …
Blowholes, Book Gills, and Butt-Breathers
How Animals Get Their Oxygen
Häftad, 2021
105 kr
Tillfälligt slut
Explores a question unasked by any other book for young readers: What can we learn about nature and evolution from the bizarre and exotic ways some animals have evolved to get life-giving oxygen? An inquiry-based book designed to stimulate active minds; a STEM standout from a celebrated nature …
