Download or read book The Incredible Journey of Plants written by Stefano Mancuso and published by Other Press, LLC. This book was released on 2020-03-24 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named a Best Book of the Year for the Know-It-All by The Globe and Mail In this richly illustrated volume, a leading neurobiologist presents fascinating stories of plant migration that reveal unexpected connections between nature and culture. When we talk about migrations, we should study plants to understand that these phenomena are unstoppable. In the many different ways plants move, we can see the incessant action and drive to spread life that has led plants to colonize every possible environment on earth. The history of this relentless expansion is unknown to most people, but we can begin our exploration with these surprising tales, engagingly told by Stefano Mancuso. Generation after generation, using spores, seeds, or any other means available, plants move in the world to conquer new spaces. They release huge quantities of spores that can be transported thousands of miles. The number and variety of tools through which seeds spread is astonishing: we have seeds dispersed by wind, by rolling on the ground, by animals, by water, or by a simple fall from the plant, which can happen thanks to propulsive mechanisms, the swaying of the mother plant, the drying of the fruit, and much more. In this accessible, absorbing overview, Mancuso considers how plants convince animals to transport them around the world, and how some plants need particular animals to spread; how they have been able to grow in places so inaccessible and inhospitable as to remain isolated; how they resisted the atomic bomb and the Chernobyl disaster; how they are able to bring life to sterile islands; how they can travel through the ages, as they sail around the world.

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Download or read book A Polyglot Commercial Correspondence Compiled on a Special Plan in the English German French Italian Spanish and Portuguese Languages Each Part Forming an Original Text and the Others Being the Translations Or Keys to it English part 1919 written by Gaetano Frisoni and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Zachary and the Great Potato Catastrophe written by Junia Wonders and published by . This book was released on 2018-02-10 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A clever little rat named Zachary lives a quiet life under the floorboards of a bakery -- until a new delivery causes unexpected trouble! A charming rhyming tale of friendship and sharing. With gorgeous illustrations, readers from 3 years and up will delight in this delicious and hilarious tale.

Download or read book The Dare Game written by Jacqueline Wilson and published by Random House. This book was released on 2008-09-04 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracy is back on TV in My Mum Tracy Beaker! Watch the major TV series on CBBC and iPlayer. A fabulous new cover look for this brilliant story starring Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson's most enduring and popular character. I'm Tracy Beaker, the Great Inventor of Extremely Outrageous Dares - and I dare YOU not to say this is the most brilliant story ever! I've bought a big fat purple notebook for writing down all my mega-manic ultra-scary stories in. But especially for my own story. Of how my foster-mum, Cam, has turned out to be a real meanie. No designer clothes, when I really need them. A pokey flat, and a horrible new school. No wonder I keep bunking off . . . Still, it will have to do until my real mum comes and gets me. And until then, no-one is going to be better at the Dare Game than me!

Download or read book The Night the Monsters Came written by Junia Wonders and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-25 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suitable for readers aged 4 and up. A bedtime monster read-aloud with equal amounts of shivers and giggles! The Night the Monsters Came is for young readers who love creatures that are a little bit spooky and ridiculous. In a humorous and playful way, this rhyming picture book shows its young readers that it's never too early to start creating healthy habits, such as washing their hands and brushing their teeth, as part of their routine. Moreover, this bedtime monster story relies on humor, wit, and courage to help children overcome fear. It is bedtime. Siblings Jack and Joy have finished their bedtime routine and are ready to go to sleep. But tonight is a night like no other. It is a cold and moonless night: not a sound is sounding, not a single star in sight. It is the night the monsters come to visit. What do you do if you get visited by a bunch of hungry monsters? Fret not! Siblings Jack and Joy know exactly what to do. It involves: being polite and showing good manners, keeping healthy habits and maintaining proper hygiene, being brave and courageous, having a sense of humor and, most importantly, having each other's backs. With just the right amount of shivers and giggles, this picture book is sure to make your little one's bedtime reading session a night to remember. And with Lisa Ciccone's wildly imaginative, funny, and engaging illustrations, this is sure to become a new snuggle time favorite. Come and join Jack the Little Wizard and his fairy sister, Joy, and find out how they are able to outwit the hungry monsters. With courage, proper hygiene, and a little sprinkle of magic... wouldn't you say anything is possible? If you would like your kids to embrace the idea of washing their hands, brushing their teeth, and maintaining healthy habits and good hygiene daily...this is the perfect book for you! The Night the Monsters Came is: Recommended for children aged 4 and up. Written with expressive rhymes and dialogues to capture young listeners' attention and imagination. Entertaining: The book is full of funny rhymes that are sure to elicit plenty of giggles. Charmingly illustrated with playful characters and not-too-spooky monsters, brimming with expression and humor that small children will love. An empowering rhyming story that relies on humor, wit, and courage to help kids overcome fear. Written to encourage and inspire little ones to start and maintain healthy habits and proper hygiene as part of their routine.

Download or read book Playthings in Early Modernity written by Allison Levy and published by Medieval Institute Publications. This book was released on 2017-02-22 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An innovative volume of fifteen interdisciplinary essays at the nexus of material culture, performance studies, and game theory, Playthings in Early Modernity emphasizes the rules of the game(s) as well as the breaking of those rules. Thus, the titular "plaything" is understood as both an object and a person, and play, in the early modern world, is treated not merely as a pastime, a leisurely pursuit, but as a pivotal part of daily life, a strategic psychosocial endeavor.

Download or read book The Work of Art written by Gérard Genette and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What art is--its very nature--is the subject of this book by one of the most distinguished continental theorists writing today. Informed by the aesthetics of Nelson Goodman and referring to a wide range of cultures, contexts, and media, The Work of Art seeks to discover, explain, and define how art exists and how it works. To this end, Gérard Genette explores the distinction between a work of art's immanence--its physical presence--and transcendence--the experience it induces. That experience may go far beyond the object itself.Genette situates art within the broad realm of human practices, extending from the fine arts of music, painting, sculpture, and literature to humbler but no less fertile fields such as haute couture and the culinary arts. His discussion touches on a rich array of examples and is bolstered by an extensive knowledge of the technology involved in producing and disseminating a work of art, regardless of whether that dissemination is by performance, reproduction, printing, or recording. Moving beyond examples, Genette proposes schemata for thinking about the different manifestations of a work of art. He also addresses the question of the artwork's duration and mutability.

Download or read book Melchiorre Caf written by Alessandra Anselmi and published by Midsea Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication is the first truly collective attempt to study the work of Melchiorre Cafa'. In a variety of studies, it discusses specific and synoptic issues related to his oeuvre. The book also presents a check-list of works by (or attributed to) the artist; this check-list aims at establishing a critical repertory of his oeuvre.

Download or read book Enrico Corte Spectrospective Ediz italiana e inglese written by Enrico Corte and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enrico Corte (1963) vive e lavora a New York e Roma. Adotta fin dal suo esordio un ruolo antinomico rispetto alle modalità abituali del fare arte, scegliendo di mostrare &"ciò che non si vuol vedere&", il lato oscuro della creatività che spesso confina col suo opposto, ossia con l&'autodistruzione. Corte si colloca lontano sia dal gusto tipicamente italiano per la &"leggerezza&" sia dalla ricerca dello scandalo a tutti i costi, trovando invece inedite forme di bellezza plastica, fatali fascinazioni di fronte all&'Ignoto. Capovolgendo le regole stabilite del mercato dell&'arte, che vorrebbero l&'artista specializzato in un singolo &"segno&" riconoscibile nel tempo, Corte è intervenuto direttamente nel sociale tramite una moltiplicazione di stili, tecniche e soluzioni estetiche sufficienti per attrarre l&'attenzione del suo pubblico e condurlo nei territori del turbamento e vertigine. I temi del pieno e del vuoto, e dell&'equilibrio delle forme - tipici dell&'arte scultorea classica - subiscono nuove metamorfosi e divengono metafore tragicomiche di un malessere sociale. In questa monografia su Corte, un saggio critico di Gianluca Marziani analizza una selezione di opere secondo un&'ottica &"spettrospettiva&" che annulla i concetti tradizionali di Evoluzione e Maturità. Attraverso questa interpretazione, il lavoro di Corte si colloca in una dimensione neurale, imitando lo sviluppo labirintico che regola il macrocosmo dei più oscuri ed inquietanti processi cerebrali.