Download or read book What Has Claws written by Mary Elizabeth Salzmann and published by ABDO. This book was released on 2007-08-15 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fun and informative series defines and illustrates the unique features of various animals. This book focuses on claws and highlights the animals that have claws. It also encourages creative thinking by asking readers to imagine what they would do if they had claws. The back matter includes a page showing images of additional animals, and a glossary. Colorful, engaging photos provide moderate support of text and assists with word recognition. This title strengthens reading and comprehension skills and strategies. It is designed for guided, shared and independent reading in the library, classroom and at home.
Download or read book Nature Red in Tooth and Claw written by Michael Murray and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2008-06-19 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Those who believe in God often puzzle over how God could permit evil and suffering in the world. Nature Red in Tooth and Claw focuses specifically on non-human animal suffering, and whether or not it raises problems for belief in the existence of a perfectly good creator.
Download or read book Feathers Paws Fins and Claws written by Christine A. Jones and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2015-09-14 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All readers interested in storytelling, fairy-tale history, and translation will treasure this beautiful collection.
Download or read book Claws written by Mike Grinti and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emma's sister is missing. Her parents have spent all their money trying to find her and the family has moved to a trailer park for Crags-magical creatures that live on the edge of human society-next to the dark forest. Here Emma meets a smooth-talking cat named Jack who has a plan to rescue her sister. He shows her how to shape-shift, to develop claws and cat senses. But cat magic isn't easy, and Emma soon learns her sister is in the thrall of the faeries, the most beautiful and dangerous creatures of all.
Download or read book Animal Weapons written by Douglas J. Emlen and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-11-11 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emlen takes us outside the lab and deep into the forests and jungles where he's been studying animal weapons in nature for years, to explain the processes behind the most intriguing and curious examples of extreme animal weapons. As singular and strange as some of the weapons we encounter on these pages are, we learn that similar factors set their evolution in motion. Emlen uses these patterns to draw parallels to the way we humans develop and employ our own weapons, and have since battle began.
Download or read book Wings Paws Scales and Claws written by Ruth Owen and published by Ruby Tuesday Books. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How are animal bodies alike and different? What characteristics make a mammal a mammal, and a reptile a reptile? In this title, readers will turn their investigative skills to studying animals. Packed with fascinating facts and fun challenges, students will meet a host of animals including blue whales, great white sharks, colorful chameleons, and the world's largest spider.
Download or read book Claws Coats and Camouflage written by Susan E. Goodman and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines adaptations of animals that allow them to live in their environment, including ways to stay safe, get food, and reproduce.
Download or read book The Wildcat s Claw Spirit Animals Fall of the Beasts Book 6 written by Varian Johnson and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The four heroes of Erdas are fugitives on the run in this new chapter of the New York Times bestselling series! The Heroes of Erdas are wanted fugitives. Conor, Abeke, Meilin, and Rollan have saved their world from countless threats. They are guardians from across the globe, united by their legendary spirit animals under one banner. But now the young heroes are running for their lives, framed for a crime they didn't commit.Branded as traitors, the four must uncover the plot against them, all while unraveling the mysteries of a set of powerful relics tied to an ancient secret.Their search brings Conor home to Trunswick, where there will be no hero's welcome. They find the city transformed: the castle burned to ground and the townsfolk poor and desperate. With a handsome reward offered for their capture, who can the heroes trust?
Download or read book Claws of the Panda written by Jonathan Manthorpe and published by Cormorant Books. This book was released on 2024-05-04 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Claws of the Panda tells the story of Canada’s failure to construct a workable policy towards the People’s Republic of China. In particular, the book tells of Ottawa’s failure to recognize and confront the efforts by the Chinese Communist Party to infiltrate and influence Canadian institutions and to exert control over Canadians of Chinese heritage. It shows how Canadian leaders have constantly misjudged the reality of the relationship while the CCP and its agents have benefited from Canadian naivete. The Expanded and Updated edition of Claws of the Panda arrives at a crucial point as Canada’s delusions abouts its friendly relations with the CCP have fallen apart since the book’s initial publication. This edition sets out to uncover Ottawa’s relationship with Beijing in light of the CCP regime’s increasingly suspicious and belligerent relations with the US and Europe. The age of a distinctly Canadian bilateral relationship with Beijing is over.
Download or read book Fighting with Fangs and Claws written by Stephanie Cargill-Greer and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2017-12-15 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many animals use their adaptations to defend themselves against predators, attack their prey, and compete for mates. Fangs and claws help animals do all of these things. However, these adaptations didn't appear overnight, they took millions of years. Animals such as tigers have both fangs and claws and use them to catch their prey. The information in this book explains how these adaptations appeared over time and how they benefit animals. Scientific discoveries are also highlighted to provide additional insight. Dazzling photographs of fangs and claws bring the subject matter into vivid focus.
Download or read book Claws written by Dan Greenburg and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2009-03-25 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Cody is 14, he runs away from home, leaving behind his abusive mother, and flees across the country. He doesn’t stop until he hits Texas and the Sam Houston Tiger Ranch. Under the guidance of Sunny, the ranch’s owner, he cares for the animals in ways he never imagined. He feeds them a diet of raw, bloody meat. He cleans out their cages. He takes them for exercise. He finds out how to get a tiger to back down, and when he should back down himself. But there is another lesson Cody has to learn—sometimes people are harder to handle than tigers.
Download or read book Animal Abuse and Unlawful Killing written by Ranald Munro and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2008-07-04 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book guides veterinarians and lawyers through the diverse and complex fields of alleged cruelty to, and unlawful killing of, companion animals, farm livestock and wildlife. It draws together current knowledge on how to approach, investigate and report forensic cases. - Covers all aspects of the forensic post-mortem including cause and time of death - Features the fundamentals of abuse and neglect - Allows rapid access to descriptions of different types of injuries and gives essential guidance on their interpretation - Backed by practical standard operative procedures from world experts to ensure proper and professional case management - High quality, specially selected photographs, a clear writing style and concise presentation informs and encourages the reader towards soundly-based conclusions
Download or read book Farm Animal Surgery E Book written by Susan L. Fubini and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **Selected for Doody's Core Titles® 2024 in Veterinary Medicine** Master the surgical techniques needed to treat large animals! A comprehensive resource, Farm Animal Surgery, 2nd Edition provides clear, step-by-step guidelines to performing common, field-tested surgical procedures. Coverage includes key information such as patient examination and preparation, diagnostic imaging, surgical procedures by body system, anesthesia concerns, fluid therapy, and postoperative management. Written by large animal specialists Susan Fubini and Norm Ducharme, along with a team of expert contributors, this resource is also an invaluable tool in preparing for ACVS or ECVS board exams. - Consistent, logical organization makes it easy to find important information, with each section devoted to a single animal and chapters organized by body system. - Step-by-step guidelines cover bovine, sheep and goat, and swine surgeries by body system. - 775 full-color photographs and anatomic drawings illustrate common disorders, techniques, and equipment for large animal surgery. - Up-to-date information on key surgical techniques keeps you aware of advances in the field and practical knowledge of animal care. - 35 expert contributors provide a diverse, authoritative perspective on the many aspects of large animal surgery. - References are provided for very specialized procedures. - NEW surgical procedures are included for each species — many with illustrated, step-by-step instructions. - NEW coverage of the physical examination includes cow, swine, goats, and sheep, to facilitate more accurate diagnoses of medical or surgical conditions.
Download or read book How the Leopard Got His Claws written by Chinua Achebe and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2011-09-27 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts how the leopard got his claws and teeth and why he rules the forest with terror.
Download or read book Paws Claws Hands and Feet written by Kimberly Hutmacher and published by Sylvan Dell Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We run, jump, leap, hop and rest, just like the critters and creatures featured in "Paws, claws, hands, and feet". Go along on the exciting dream journey from morning to night, playing alongside squirrels, monkeys, kangaroos and penguins. Finally, as the sun sets, snuggle beneath the covers and snooze, with recollections of animals at play. Includes "For Creative Minds" educational section.
Download or read book Claws written by Will Weaver and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2004-01-06 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jed and Laura, two popular Minnesota high school students, find their seemingly perfect lives suddenly in chaos when they discover that each has a parent who is having an affair with the other.
Download or read book The Night Has Claws written by Kat Kruger and published by Steampunk Unicorn Studio. This book was released on 2016-10-21 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When his DNA unlocked a cure for werewolves, Connor Lewis never imagined that would be the least of his concerns. Now he’s caught between two sides: born werewolves who want to preserve their way of life and bitten humans who want to save others from suffering their same fate. In the midst of a high stakes trial, werewolf hunters come calling, forcing Connor to make the decision of his life and figure out on which side of history he wants to stand. "The author deftly keeps all the furballs in the air. Incorporating elements of myth and religion, history and modern science, Kruger's action-packed thriller is a smart examination of teenaged alienation and rebellion, with fully fleshed out characters and just enough kitsch to appeal to a wide variety of readers." — Quill & Quire
