Download or read book Lonely Planet Kids World s Strangest Predators 1 written by Lonely Planet Kids and published by . This book was released on 2018-08-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers forty of the world's most unusual predators, including snakes, spiders, reptiles, and mammals.

Download or read book World s Strangest Predators written by Lonely Planet Kids and published by Lonely Planet Kids. This book was released on 2018-08 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the planet's weirdest and scariest predators. Our animal experts have found 40 of the planet's most bizarre species and ranked them in order of their oddness! With jaw-dropping facts and amazing photos, we reveal each creature's ferocity, beastly behaviour and cunning methods to catch their prey. Every creature needs to eat to survive, and for many that means tucking into other animals! To do this, they've created clever ways to hunt and gobble up their unsuspecting 'lunch'. Inside World's Strangest Predators, kids will discover plants that feast on insects, a real-life dragon that can tackle a buffalo and the snake with a unique disguise for catching birds. And with our 'strange-o-meter', they can compare each creature's danger, cunning, ferocity and strangeness! Predators include: Venus flytrap Piranha Arctic Fox Box jellyfish Trapdoor spider Komodo dragon Giant Amazon centipede Polar bear Great white shark African crowned eagle Anaconda Great grey shrike Tarantula hawk wasp Honey badger Other titles in the series include: - World's Strangest Places - World's Strangest Ocean Beasts - World's Strangest Creepy-Crawlies About Lonely Planet Kids: Come explore! Let's start an adventure. Lonely Planet Kids excites and educates children about the amazing world around them. Combining astonishing facts, quirky humour and eye-catching imagery, we ignite their curiosity and encourage them to discover more about our planet. Every book draws on our huge team of global experts to help share our continual fascination with what makes the world such a diverse and magnificent place - inspiring children at home and in school.

Download or read book Lonely Planet Kids World s Strangest Creepy Crawlies 1 written by Lonely Planet Kids and published by . This book was released on 2018-08-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers forty of the world's unusual species of "creepy crawly" bugs, including spiders, insects, butterflies, ants, and snails.

Download or read book World s Strangest Creepy Crawlies written by Lonely Planet Kids and published by Lonely Planet. This book was released on 2018-08-01 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enter the weird and wonderful world of creepy-crawlies. Our animal experts have unearthed 40 of the planet's most bizarre species and ranked them in order of their oddness! With jaw-dropping facts and amazing photos, we reveal each creature's seriously strange characteristics and the unusual ways they hunt, eat or defend themselves.

Download or read book Lonely Planet Kids Deadly Animal Atlas 1 written by LONELY PLANET. and published by . This book was released on 2024-11-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet the world's deadliest predators in this action-packed atlas! Navigate your way across the continents and discover killer facts, detailed maps and astonishing photos of sharks, crocodiles, snakes, scorpions, spiders, and more - with lift-the-flaps and life-size surprises that reveal all there is to know about our planet's fiercest hunters. Sharpen your claws and get ready to meet the most dangerous animals on our planet. What are the hunting techniques of each predator? How do they track and bring down their targets? What stops these ferocious creatures from becoming prey themselves? Learn all about how these exciting and scary beasts spend their lives, defend their territories, and maintain the health of our ecosystem. This is the ultimate book for curious kids who are wild about wildlife. Inside Deadly Animal Atlas: Thrilling photography, amazing illustrations, and original artwork make this a vibrant and engaging book for adventurous readers Insightful maps, diagrams, and fact-packed content guide children through the stealthiest predators on Earth, continent-by-continent Fun interactive elements like lift-the-flaps and open-the-gatefolds keep children entertained and bring this epic book to life Covers important topics including the problems animals are facing through habitat loss and climate change and highlights the measures being used to alleviate them Covers regions: North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, Australasia, Oceans & Antarctica Written by Camilla de la Bedoyere, author of over 250 books including Lonely Planet Kids' Bird Atlas Deadly Animal Atlas is the latest in Lonely Planet Kids' awesome animal atlas series, which includes Dinosaur Atlas, Animal Atlas, Ocean Animal Atlas, and Bird Atlas. This is the perfect gift for kids who wish to track down the world's most terrifying beasts - all from the safety of an armchair. About Lonely Planet Kids: Lonely Planet Kids - an imprint of the world's leading travel authority Lonely Planet - published its first book in 2011. Over the past 45 years, Lonely Planet has grown a dedicated global community of travelers, many of whom are now sharing a passion for exploration with their children. Lonely Planet Kids educates and encourages young readers at home and in school to learn about the world with engaging books on culture, sociology, geography, nature, history, space and more. We want to inspire the next generation of global citizens and help kids and their parents to approach life in a way that makes every day an adventure. Come explore!

Download or read book Lonely Planet Kids World s Strangest Places 1 written by Lonely Planet Kids and published by . This book was released on 2018-08-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers forty of the world's most unusual places such as Christmas Island, Stonehenge, Devil's Causeway, the Bermuda Triangle, and Pompeii.

Download or read book Project Hail Mary written by Andy Weir and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of The Martian, a lone astronaut must save the earth from disaster in this “propulsive” (Entertainment Weekly), cinematic thriller full of suspense, humor, and fascinating science—in development as a major motion picture starring Ryan Gosling. HUGO AWARD FINALIST • ONE OF THE YEAR’S BEST BOOKS: Bill Gates, GatesNotes, New York Public Library, Parade, Newsweek, Polygon, Shelf Awareness, She Reads, Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal • “An epic story of redemption, discovery and cool speculative sci-fi.”—USA Today “If you loved The Martian, you’ll go crazy for Weir’s latest.”—The Washington Post Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission—and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish. Except that right now, he doesn’t know that. He can’t even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it. All he knows is that he’s been asleep for a very, very long time. And he’s just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company. His crewmates dead, his memories fuzzily returning, Ryland realizes that an impossible task now confronts him. Hurtling through space on this tiny ship, it’s up to him to puzzle out an impossible scientific mystery—and conquer an extinction-level threat to our species. And with the clock ticking down and the nearest human being light-years away, he’s got to do it all alone. Or does he? An irresistible interstellar adventure as only Andy Weir could deliver, Project Hail Mary is a tale of discovery, speculation, and survival to rival The Martian—while taking us to places it never dreamed of going.

Download or read book The World s Cutest Animals written by Lonely Planet Kids and published by Lonely Planet. This book was released on 2019-04-01 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Warning: you may want to cuddle this book! We've found the planet's cutest animals and squeezed them inside this adorable title. From fluffy pandas and penguin chicks to pygmy possums and inquisitive quokkas, discover a mix of family favourites and lesser-known critters, all accompanied with fun facts and big, beautiful photos! Starting from North America, you'll travel through all the continents of the world to meet 100 outrageously cute creatures. Say a big "hello" to the fennec fox from the deserts of Africa, the northern pygmy owl from the western United States, the European hedgehog, Siberian chipmunk, the New Zealand fur seal and the bearded emperor tamarin from South America. You'll also meet endangered and nearly endangered species and learn how to get involved with different conservation efforts to help protect them. About Lonely Planet Kids: Lonely Planet Kids - an imprint of the world's leading travel authority Lonely Planet - published its first book in 2011. Over the past 45 years, Lonely Planet has grown a dedicated global community of travellers, many of whom are now sharing a passion for exploration with their children. Lonely Planet Kids educates and encourages young readers at home and in school to learn about the world with engaging books on culture, sociology, geography, nature, history, space and more. We want to inspire the next generation of global citizens and help kids and their parents to approach life in a way that makes every day an adventure. Come explore! Important Notice: The digital edition of this book may not contain all of the images found in the physical edition.

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Download or read book Sophie s World written by Jostein Gaarder and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2007-03-20 with total page 735 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print. One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving letters addressed to another girl. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning—but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.

Download or read book A Weird and Wild Beauty written by Erin Peabody and published by Skyhorse. This book was released on 2016-02-02 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The summer of 1871, a team of thirty-two men set out on the first scientific expedition across Yellowstone. Through uncharted territory, some of the day’s most renowned scientists and artists explored, sampled, sketched, and photographed the region’s breathtaking wonders—from its white-capped mountain vistas and thundering falls to its burping mud pots and cauldrons of molten magma. At the end of their adventure, the survey packed up their specimens and boarded trains headed east, determined to convince Congress that the country needed to preserve the land from commercial development. They returned with “stories of wonder hardly short of fairy tales,” to quote the New York Times. With the support of conservationists such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Frederick Law Olmsted, and John Muir, the importance of a national park was secured. On March 1, 1872, Ulysses S. Grant signed the Yellowstone Park Bill into law. It set aside over two million acres of one-of-a-kind wilderness as “a great national park for the benefit and enjoyment of people.” This important and fascinating book will introduce young adults to the astonishing adventure that led to “the best idea America ever had.” Today over 130 countries have copied the Yellowstone model, and billions of acres of critical habitat and spectacular scenery are being preserved for all of us to enjoy. This book has a wonderful ecological and historical message for readers ages 12 and up. No book about Yellowstone's founding has been written for this age group before, yet Yellowstone National Park is a major destination for many families, so many readers will likely have heard of Yellowstone or even have visited there. This is a great book for any school library or for history or science classrooms in middle and high school, where information can be used for research projects.

Download or read book The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet written by Becky Chambers and published by Hodder & Stoughton. This book was released on 2015-03-16 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEY'S WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 'A quietly profound, humane tour de force' Guardian The beloved debut novel that will restore your faith in humanity #SmallAngryPlanet When Rosemary Harper joins the crew of the Wayfarer, she isn't expecting much. The ship, which has seen better days, offers her everything she could possibly want: a small, quiet spot to call home for a while, adventure in far-off corners of the galaxy, and distance from her troubled past. But Rosemary gets more than she bargained for with the Wayfarer. The crew is a mishmash of species and personalities, from Sissix, the friendly reptillian pilot, to Kizzy and Jenks, the constantly sparring engineers who keep the ship running. Life on board is chaotic, but more or less peaceful - exactly what Rosemary wants. Until the crew are offered the job of a lifetime: the chance to build a hyperspace tunnel to a distant planet. They'll earn enough money to live comfortably for years... if they survive the long trip through war-torn interstellar space without endangering any of the fragile alliances that keep the galaxy peaceful. But Rosemary isn't the only person on board with secrets to hide, and the crew will soon discover that space may be vast, but spaceships are very small indeed. PRAISE FOR THE WAYFARERS 'Never less than deeply involving' DAILY MAIL 'Explores the quieter side of sci-fi while still wowing us with daring leaps of imagination' iBOOKS 'So much fun to read' HEAT 'Chambers is simply an exceptional talent, quietly and beautifully redefining the space opera' TOR.COM 'The most fun that I've had with a novel in a long, long time' iO9

Download or read book It s Complicated written by Danah Boyd and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2014-02-25 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surveys the online social habits of American teens and analyzes the role technology and social media plays in their lives, examining common misconceptions about such topics as identity, privacy, danger, and bullying.

Download or read book Space Rabbits written by Derek V. Everard and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-08 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hill-Clan Rabbit Tribe becomes entangled in a series of intriguing space adventures with the flying-rats from Rat-Star. Among the wooded hills and creeks they discover a wilding--Zack--a lone stripling--ill prepared for survival. In desperation he'd fled the Humans and that which was known as home--and launched his life into a 'river of no return'. Zack joins the Rabbit Clan and the Star-Rats. As a result of a Space-Time experiment--certain aspiring space-rabbits are drawn into the probing curiosity of the Black-Rabbits from planet Ektar. The Clan is stunned by the unexpected arrival of an Ektar space-craft, and become part of a Star-Alliance that allows them access to galactic exploration. Zack, Rudy-Rat and seven rabbits are invited on a special cosmic mission to the planet Ektar where they encounter dangerous alien life-forms. Zack the wilding wonders how a kid coming on fifteen has become part of an inter-planetary war. Eventually, as a cosmic Being, he joins up with his remaining Earth family.

Download or read book Bug Atlas written by Lonely Planet Kids and published by Lonely Planet Kids. This book was released on 2021-11 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third in Lonely Planet Kids' award-winning Atlas series, this book takes a tour of the magical miniature world of creepy crawlies. We travel around the globe to uncover all sorts of fascinating bugs: from zombie ants and giant millipedes to beautiful butterflies. Full-page gatefolds and small flaps reveal extra wonders and fascinating facts.

Download or read book Blindsight written by Peter Watts and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-10-03 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hugo and Shirley Jackson award-winning Peter Watts stands on the cutting edge of hard SF with his acclaimed novel, Blindsight Two months since the stars fell... Two months of silence, while a world held its breath. Now some half-derelict space probe, sparking fitfully past Neptune's orbit, hears a whisper from the edge of the solar system: a faint signal sweeping the cosmos like a lighthouse beam. Whatever's out there isn't talking to us. It's talking to some distant star, perhaps. Or perhaps to something closer, something en route. So who do you send to force introductions with unknown and unknowable alien intellect that doesn't wish to be met? You send a linguist with multiple personalities, her brain surgically partitioned into separate, sentient processing cores. You send a biologist so radically interfaced with machinery that he sees x-rays and tastes ultrasound. You send a pacifist warrior in the faint hope she won't be needed. You send a monster to command them all, an extinct hominid predator once called vampire, recalled from the grave with the voodoo of recombinant genetics and the blood of sociopaths. And you send a synthesist—an informational topologist with half his mind gone—as an interface between here and there. Pray they can be trusted with the fate of a world. They may be more alien than the thing they've been sent to find. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Download or read book Alien Out of the Shadows Book 1 written by Tim Lebbon and published by Titan Books (US, CA). This book was released on 2014-01-28 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE FIRST IN AN ALL NEW, OFFICIAL TRILOGY SET IN THE ALIEN UNIVERSE! Featuring the iconic Ellen Ripley in a terrifying new adventure that bridges the gap between Alien and Aliens. Officially sanctioned and true to the Alien cannon, Alien: Out of the Shadows expands upon the well-loved mythos and is a must for all Alien fans.