Download or read book Jungle of Snakes written by James R. Arnold and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The end of the Cold War promised a new, more peaceful era was at hand. But with the escalation of violence by terrorists, insurgents, and guerillas, former CIA director James Woolsey said "After forty-five years of fighting a dragon we finally killed it, and now instead, we find ourselves standing in a jungle with a bunch of snakes." The emergence of a fresh set of conflicts has forced militaries across the world to reevaluate their strategies or risk never-ending conflicts with insurgencies. James Arnold traces the successes and failures of counter-insurgency in the 20th century. He examines the US in the Philippines, the British in Malaysia, the France in Algeria, and the US in Vietnam, with an epilogue that looks at Iraq, where American generals are striving to apply the lessons of the previous conflicts. In A Jungle Full of Snakes, Arnold shows that the tug of war over civilian support and the build up of a strong central government are crucial victories for any attempted counter-insurgency.
Download or read book Don t Sleep There are Snakes written by Daniel Everett and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2010-07-09 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Daniel Everett was a missionary, far from converting the Pirahãs, they converted him. He shows the slow, meticulous steps by which he gradually mastered their language and his gradual realisation that its unusual nature closely reflected its speakers' startlingly original perceptions of the world. Everett describes how he began to realise that his discoveries about the Pirahã language opened up a new way of understanding how language works in our minds and in our lives, and that this way was utterly at odds with Noam Chomsky's universally accepted linguistic theories. The perils of passionate academic opposition were then swiftly conjoined to those of the Amazon in a debate whose outcome has yet to be won. Everett's views are most recently discussed in Tom Wolfe's bestselling The Kingdom of Speech. Adventure, personal enlightenment and the makings of a scientific revolution proceed together in this vivid, funny and moving book.
Download or read book Don Sturdy with the Big Snake Hunters written by Victor Appleton and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Don's uncle, the hunter, fills an order for some of the biggest snakes to be found in South America - to be delivered alive!" -- dust jacket.
Download or read book The Bird the Monkey and the Snake in the Jungle written by Kate Banks and published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2003 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a storm knocks their tree down, a bird, a monkey, and a snake travel the jungle in search of a new home, which they end up sharing together with their new friend, the frog, in a rebus picture book. Reprint.
Download or read book Kaa s Hunting The First Jungle Book written by Rudyard Kipling and published by Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-08 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the time Mowgli was with the wolf pack, he is abducted by the Bandar-log monkeys to the ruined city. Baloo and Bagheera set out to rescue him with Kaa the python. Kaa defeats the Bandar-log, frees Mowgli, and hypnotises the monkeys and the other animals with his dance. Mowgli rescues Baloo and Bagheera from the spell. The Jungle Book (1894) is a collection of stories by English author Rudyard Kipling. The stories were first published in magazines in 1893–94. The original publications contain illustrations, some by Rudyard's father, John Lockwood Kipling. Kipling was born in India and spent the first six years of his childhood there. After about ten years in England, he went back to India and worked there for about six-and-a-half years. These stories were written when Kipling lived in Vermont. Famous stories of The Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling: Mowgli's Brothers, Kaa's Hunting, Tiger! Tiger!, The White Seal, Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, Toomai of the Elephants, Her Majesty’s Servants.
Download or read book Mean and Lowly Things written by Kate Jackson and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2010-05-01 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2005 Kate Jackson ventured into the remote swamp forests of the northern Congo to collect reptiles and amphibians. Her camping equipment was rudimentary, her knowledge of Congolese customs even more so. She knew how to string a net and set a pitfall trap, but she never imagined the physical and cultural difficulties that awaited her. Culled from the mud-spattered pages of her journals, Mean and Lowly Things reads like a fast-paced adventure story. It is JacksonÕs unvarnished account of her research on the front lines of the global biodiversity crisisÑcoping with interminable delays in obtaining permits, learning to outrun advancing army ants, subsisting on a diet of Spam and manioc, and ultimately falling in love with the strangely beautiful flooded forest. The reptile fauna of the Republic of Congo was all but undescribed, and JacksonÕs mission was to carry out the most basic study of the amphibians and reptiles of the swamp forest: to create a simple list of the species that exist thereÑa crucial first step toward efforts to protect them. When the snakes evaded her carefully set traps, Jackson enlisted people from the villages to bring her specimens. She trained her guide to tag frogs and skinks and to fix them in formalin. As her expensive camera rusted and her Western soap melted, Jackson learned what it took to swim with the snakesÑand that thereÕs a right way and a wrong way to get a baby cobra out of a bottle.
Download or read book Jungle of Bones written by Ben Mikaelsen and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2014-01-28 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lost and alone in the jungle, one boy will have to let go of his assumptions and anger, or be dragged down with them. Dylan Barstow has finally crossed the line. After getting caught on a late-night joyride in a stolen car, Dylan is shipped off to live with his ex-Marine uncle for the summer. But Uncle Todd has bigger plans for Dylan than push-ups and early-morning jogs. Deep in the steamy jungles of Papua New Guinea, there's a WWII fighter plane named SECOND ACE that's been lost for years, a plane that Dylan's own grandfather barely escaped from with his life. In all this time, no one has ever been able to track down SECOND ACE -- but now Dylan and his uncle are going to try.Lush and haunted, vital and deadly, these alien jungles half a world away could mean Dylan's salvation, or they could swallow him whole.
Download or read book Cute Pandas Mysterious Snakes Intriguing Pictures Facts On Jungle Animals written by Kate Cruise and published by Speedy Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2014-08-03 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 3 In 1 Box Set Compilation includes Kate Cruise's & Timmie Guzzmann's intriguing & interesting panda & snake fact book for kids plus the LOL Dr. Seuss style unicorn jerk rhyming poem book with hilarious rhyming verses for kids. The compilation includes: Book 1: Panda Discovery Book Book 2: Snake Discovery Book Book 3: Unicorn Jerks Book Book 1: Inside you'll find interesting, intriguing, funny & weird snake moments like: * Ancient Snake Origins * Where Do Snakes Hang Out? * The Secrets Of A Snake's Skin * Do Snakes Have A 6th Sense? * What Is A Snake's Defense Tactic? * Can Snakes Fly & Other Snake Specialities * 16 Amazing Non-Venomous Snakes * Most Beautiful Snakes On Earth * Snakes As Pets and lots more... Book 2: Inside you'll find interesting, intriguing, funny & weird panda moments like: * A History Of Lovable Panda Bears * Where Do Pandas Hide And Where Do We Find Them? * Sniff sniff...and other Panda Senses * How Do Pandas Communicate? * Panda Moves & Panda Defense * Panda Baby Boom * How Do Pandas Spend Their Day? * Up For Some Panda Playtime? * Pandas & Bamboos * Pandas & Us Humans * Interesting, Curious & Intriguing Facts About Pandas and lots more... Book 3: Inside you'll find jerky unicorn moments like: * Rainbow Fairy Dust & Magical Ray Of Gooey Rainbow Dust * Unicorns & Clogged Toilets * Unicorn Dreads & Rainbow Spreads * Trees Are Like Guardian Angels * Rainbow Fairy Fluff * Turkey Dinner Turns Out Jerkier Than You Might Think and lots more... Get this 3 In 1 box set compilation today because buying the 3 in 1 box set compilation gives you more value for a smaller prize, but you can also buy each book individually. If your kid loves frogs, toads, snakes and hilariously funny cats this box set compilation will give you an awesome value and makes your child smiling longer!
Download or read book Snake Discovery Kids written by Kate Cruso and published by Infinityou. This book was released on 2018-09-21 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Snake Discovery Kids: Jungle Stories Of Mysterious & Dangerous Snakes With Funny Pictures, Photos & Memes Of Snakes For Children... Does your child love mysterious, gracious & beautiful snakes? Inside your child will learn: * Ancient Snake Origins * Where Do Snakes Hang Out? * The Secrets Of A Snake's Skin * Do Snakes Have The 6th Sense? * What Is A Snake's Defense Tactic? * Snake Specialities * 16 Amazing Non-Venomous Snakes * Most Beautiful Snakes On Earth * Snakes As Pets * Interesting, Curious & Intriguing Snake Facts * Myths & Truths About Snakes much more... This snake adventure book contains a journey of fun facts, amazing discoveries, curious & intriguing stories about snakes. You will find some interesting revelations and secrets you probably never heard about snakes. Some myths and truths and other curious stuff about snakes that children just find cool & groovy to know are included. This book will take your child through a journey of interesting facts, amazing discoveries, curious and intriguing stories about snakes, and touching pictures of snakes that are going to stimulate your child's interest to learn more about these mysterious creatures. You will find some interesting revelations and secrets you probably never heard about. Some myths and truths, and other curious stuff about snakes that children just find cool and groovy to know are included. Did you know that in captivity, many of the snake species can live for surprisingly very long times? The average is somewhere between 18-20 years! You and your child will learn lots more of such curious facts. As a mother of 3 young children and with the experience as an elementary teacher, writer, and publisher of many publications for kids, Kate Cruso has learned to listen to kids because this is a book series inspired by kids and for kids! Kids learn about new & interesting facts so that a combination of both the curious & the new materials and facts together with the visual aspect of the pictures. Children are entertained with the coolness factor of the discovery book plus they learn some new and a little bit harder to retain facts simultaneously with the cool stuff and this is how the child is going to retain info. It is a fact that kids just love these discovery picture books about weird animals and weird stuff that the animals are doing because they love the coolness & grooviness factor of the books. The discovery concept of this snake book, for example, transforms a little bit drier information and facts into brain-friendly information that the child will retain & that the child will be able to use as active information. This discovery book is brain-friendly and works in synchronization with your child's brain, not against it. If your child asks lots of questions you actually have the proof that providing discovery books to your child actually works because children who discover with their own senses & in an active and interactive way are able to develop intelligence on a much higher level than children who are not asking any questions and who are passively sitting in front of a TV all day long. Parents & home-schoolers alike are reporting unprecedented results from using her books as learning materials & they get results even with children who usually hate reading books & have learning & retaining new and dry information. Pick up a copy today!
Download or read book Don Sturdy with the Big Snake Hunters or Lost in the Jungles of the Amazon written by J. W. Duffield and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Don Sturdy with the Big Snake Hunters or Lost in the Jungles of the Amazon" by J. W. Duffield. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Download or read book Don t Sleep There Are Snakes written by Daniel L. Everett and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2008-11-11 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part passionate memoir, part scientific exploration, a life-changing tale set among a small tribe of Amazonian Indians in Brazil that offers a riveting look into the nature of language, thought, and life itself. "Immensely interesting and deeply moving.... One of the best books I have read."—Lucy Dodwell, New Scientist A riveting account of the astonishing experiences and discoveries made by linguist Daniel Everett while he lived with the Pirahã, a small tribe of Amazonian Indians in central Brazil. Daniel Everett arrived among the Pirahã with his wife and three young children hoping to convert the tribe to Christianity. Everett quickly became obsessed with their language and its cultural and linguistic implications. The Pirahã have no counting system, no fixed terms for color, no concept of war, and no personal property. Everett was so impressed with their peaceful way of life that he eventually lost faith in the God he'd hoped to introduce to them, and instead devoted his life to the science of linguistics.
Download or read book Snakes written by Charlotte Penhaligan and published by Character-19. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Snakes are fascinating creatures that have lived on earth for millions of years. Through years of complex evolution, they have developed into legless reptiles with cylindrical elongated bodies that we know and recognize throughout the world today. More than 3,000 different species inhabit the Earth; snakes are found in every continent except Antarctica, and have adapted to survive in a broad range of habitats, from the arid deserts of Africa to the humid rainforests in South America and Asia. Some species have evolved to suit an aquatic lifestyle, and solely reside in the Indian Ocean and southwest Pacific, while others have developed unique skills, such as flying snakes that are able to glide between trees in the rainforest. All snakes are carnivorous but types of prey that form their diet varies between species. While rodents and birds contribute to part of their diet, many snakes will also feed upon frogs, newts, and eggs, and some will even target domestic pets and agricultural animals should a large meal be required! More than a quarter of all snake species are venomous, enabling them to deliver a toxic concoction to paralyze and kill their prey. Others are constrictors, using their powerful muscles to subdue their prey. Snakes are vital in ecosystems around the world, and with studies on snake venom revealing some interesting surprises in the world of medicine, more efforts are being made to conserve these magnificent creatures. This book explores the diet, behavior, and habitats of a mixed range of some popular and well-known snake species – from the mighty anaconda to highly developed viper – and the anatomical differences, reproductive practice, and the evolutionary journey of 14 species of snake are detailed.
Download or read book Jungle Carpet Python written by Gregory Raymond and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-12 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In many ways, carpet pythons are one of the finest snakes a reptile-enthusiast could desire. They offer a unique combination of traits, aesthetics and tendencies, which make them wonderful pets for those with the necessary dedication and resources to provide them with a high quality of life. However, like all other snake species, keepers must educate themselves before acquiring their new pet. Keepers that fail to do so rarely keep their new pet healthy for very long
Download or read book The Jungle Book written by Rudyard Kipling and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Snake written by Drake Stutesman and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2005-11-15 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A snake smells with its tongue, hears with its flesh, and breathes under the sand with one lung; it can copulate for days with one snake or with fifty at once; it has infrared radar; and it can induce spontaneous bleeding if threatened. With all these qualities, it is easy to see how snakes have such varied associations in cultures around the world: while celebrated in tattoos and tales, and for medicinal benefits, snakes are also so universally feared that they constantly endure intense persecution and rarely enjoy protected rights. Drake Stutesman explores here in Snake the fascinating natural history of the maligned serpentine. Stutesman examines a wide range of sources to investigate the complex and widespread symbolism the snake has inspired, including the serpent's temptation of Eve in the Bible, Kaa in The Jungle Book, the Chinese zodiac, Indian snake charmers, and the Hollywood film Anaconda. She looks at the role snakes have played in human culture and science, from snake cuisine and the use of venom in medicine to the intriguing history of snake symbolism in art, architecture, cinema, and even clothing. Richly illustrated and written in an engaging style, Snake is an invaluable resource for snake enthusiasts and scholars, as well as for all who love, admire, or fear this fascinating and enduring animal.
Download or read book Snakes of the World written by Mark O'Shea and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2023-03-07 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gorgeously illustrated guide to the incredible diversity of snakes around the world Snakes are found on every continent except Antarctica and have evolved to occupy a vast range of habitats, from mountains to oceans and deserts to rain forests. Snakes of the World explores their extraordinary diversity, with an in-depth introduction covering anatomy, behavior, habitats, reproduction, conservation, and other essential topics. This expert guide also includes profiles of some of the approximately 4,000 species of snakes, featuring examples from every family and subfamily. Each family profile highlights the remarkable appearance, characteristics, and lifestyle of notable snake species. Covering how snakes use venom or constriction to subdue their prey, how a snake’s appearance can aid camouflage or boast of its killing capacity, and how habitat destruction is jeopardizing the future of many species, Snakes of the World is an invaluable guide to these fascinating reptiles. Features more than 200 stunning color photographs Presents species profiles with a commentary, distribution map, and table of information Includes examples from every snake family and subfamily
Download or read book Kali and the Rat Snake written by Zai Whitaker and published by Kane/Miller Book Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kali's father is a snake catcher - the best in the village. Kali knows that is really something to be proud of, but at school he sometimes gets embarrassed. The other children seem to think there is something very strange about having a snake catcher for a father and eating things like fried termites for a snack. Plus, Kali is the teacher's pet. How will he ever make friends?
