Download or read book Chomp written by Melvin Berger and published by Cartwheel Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A simple explanation of what sharks look like, how they hunt, what they eat, and how they are born.

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Download or read book The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World written by Peter A. Clayton and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1988. Can you name the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World? Did they even exist? The Pharos at Alexandria survived into the Middle Ages, but the Hanging Gardens of Babylon exist only in references by ancient authors and the Colossus of Rhodes if too improbable to have existed in the form and place traditionally ascribed to it. The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World sets the record straight, with an attractive account of each Wonder in the context in which it was built. The authors combine ancient sources with the results of modern scholarship and excavations to recreate a vivid picture of the Seven Wonders. All experts in their specialist fields, the contributors bring together facts and background that are remarkably difficult to find from any other single source and establish for the fist time the archaeology and location of each Wonder.

Download or read book Asian Mythologies written by Yves Bonnefoy and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1993-05-15 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These 130 articles Aisan mythologies and cover such topics as Buddhist and Hindu symbolic systems, myth in pre-Islamic Iran, Chinese cosmology and demons, and the Japanese conceptions of the afterlife and the "vital spirit". Also includes myths from Turkey, Korea, Tibet, and Mongolia. Illustrations.

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Download or read book Greedy Zebra written by Mwenye Hadithi and published by Hodder & Stoughton. This book was released on 1984 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the animals discovere a cave full of furs and skins, they discarde their drab skins for glossy new ones. Greedy zebra, arrives late, after a delicious snack, only to find a few stripes of black cloth. He squeezes into them but Greedy Zebra iis too big for them and his new coat bursts open! The story of how all the animals chose their clothing, except for Greedy Zebra, who had to take the left-over pieces . . .

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