Download or read book Inside Nature s Giants written by David Dugan and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2011-09-29 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a foreword by Richard Dawkins, and based on the BAFTA award-winning Channel 4 TV series, Inside Nature’s Giants gets under the skin of the largest animals on the planet. See them as you've never seen them before – from the inside out.
Download or read book Nature s Giants written by Graeme D. Ruxton and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautifully illustrated exploration of the science behind the awe-inspiring giants of past and present The colossal plants and animals of our world--dinosaurs, whales, and even trees--are a source of unending fascination, and their sheer scale can be truly impressive. Size is integral to the way that organisms experience the world: a puddle that a human being would step over without thinking is an entire world to thousands of microscopic rotifers. But why are creatures the size that they are? Why aren't bugs the size of elephants, or whales the size of goldfish? In this lavishly illustrated new book, biologist Graeme Ruxton explains how and why nature's giants came to be so big--for example, how decreased oxygen levels limited the size of insects and how island isolation allowed small-bodied animals to evolve larger body sizes. Through a diverse array of examples, from huge butterflies to giant squid, Ruxton explores the physics, biology, and evolutionary drivers behind organism size, showing what it's like to live large.
Download or read book Giants in the Earth written by Ole Edvart Rølvaag and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A narrative of pioneer hardship and heroism on the boundless Dakota prairie, as a Norwegian-American immigrant family passed through Ellis Island and worked to eke out a living in America's midwest.
Download or read book Nature written by Dr Saranne Taylor & Felicia Law and published by Bramblekids Limited. This book was released on 2020-08-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maths is everywhere - in nature, in machines, in space and even in us! At first, it might not be obvious but this cross-curricular series leads young readers all around our mathematical world. Using a topic-based approach each title explores and explains how math can be found in almost everything we do.
Download or read book In Pursuit of Giants written by Matt Rigney and published by Brandeis University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-04 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lyrical and passionate call to arms to save the world's great fish
Download or read book The Holy Land written by Robert Hichens and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Big Book of Giant Animals the Little Book of Tiny Animals written by Cristina Banfi and published by White Star Kids. This book was released on 2018-05-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the largest and smallest creatures of the animal kingdom, two books linked as to become a single volume.
Download or read book The Jaws Book written by I.Q. Hunter and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-09-17 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After 45 years, Steven Spielberg's Jaws remains the definitive summer blockbuster, a cultural phenomenon with a fierce and dedicated fan base. The Jaws Book: New Perspectives on the Classic Summer Blockbuster is an exciting illustrated collection of new critical essays that offers the first detailed and comprehensive overview of the film's significant place in cinema history. Bringing together established and young scholars, the book includes contributions from leading international writers on popular cinema including Murray Pomerance, Peter Krämer, Sheldon Hall, Nigel Morris and Linda Ruth Williams, and covers such diverse topics as the film's release, reception and canonicity; its representation of masculinity and children; the use of landscape and the ocean; its status as a western; sequels and fan-edits; and its galvanizing impact on the horror film, action movie and contemporary Hollywood itself.
Download or read book 110 Amazing Apps for Education written by Rane Anderson and published by Teacher Created Materials. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here's an easy-to-use, quick reference guide for apps that supplement student learning. It gives suggestions for how teachers can implement each app in the classroom and for how parents can use the apps at home to extend their child's learning. This resource is correlated to the Common Core State Standards, is aligned to the interdisciplinary themes from the Partnership for 21st Century Skills, and supports core concepts of STEM instruction.
Download or read book The Secret of Twmbarlwm written by Bernard Palfrey and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-04-18 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where does fact begin or fiction end? This is a story of four friends who gave the impression of ordinary men working in the task of warehouse labourers at a local biscuit factory.They reveal different views on religion. One named Austin a Seventh Day Adventist, one named Brynley a Roman Catholic and one a Jew named Joseph. The fourth is named Robin of no religious persuasion. In spite of the many different claims that are made regarding faith, there is evidence that there is just one God and one standard of acceptable behaviour leading along one path that is a guide to man's destiny.The four friends experienced the conviction that they were living on the brink of some momentous event that would change their lives forever. Yet they could never have imagined the extent of the change that destiny had prepared for them which led to an amazing vision that was the secret of Twmbarlwm.
Download or read book Making Sense of Nature written by Noel Castree and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-08-15 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We listen to a cacophony of voices instructing us how to think and feel about nature, including our own bodies. The news media, wildlife documentaries, science magazines, and environmental NGOs are among those clamouring for our attention. But are we empowered by all this knowledge or is our dependence on various communities allowing our thoughts, sentiments and activities to be unduly governed by others? Making Sense of Nature shows that what we call ‘nature’ is made sense of for us in ways that make it central to social order, social change and social dissent. By utilising insights and extended examples from anthropology, cultural studies, human geography, philosophy, politics, sociology, science studies, this interdisciplinary text asks whether we can better make sense of nature for ourselves, and thus participate more meaningfully in momentous decisions about the future of life – human and non-human – on the planet. This book shows how ‘nature’ can be made sense of without presuming its naturalness. The challenge is not so much to rid ourselves of the idea of nature and its ‘collateral concepts’ (such as genes) but instead, we need to be more alert to how, why and with what effects ideas about ‘nature’ get fashioned and deployed in specific situations. Among other things, the book deals with science and scientists, the mass media and journalists, ecotourism, literature and cinema, environmentalists, advertising and big business. This innovative text contains numerous case studies and examples from daily life to put theory and subject matter into context, as well as study tasks, a glossary and suggested further reading. The case studies cover a range of topics, range from forestry in Canada and Guinea, to bestiality in Washington State, to how human genetics is reported in Western newspapers, to participatory science experiments in the UK. Making Sense of Nature will empower readers from a wide range of fields across the social sciences, humanities and physical sciences.
Download or read book Giraffes written by Marissa Kirkman and published by North Star Editions, Inc.. This book was released on 2024-08-01 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes the habitats, diet, and life cycle of giraffes. Short paragraphs of easy-to-read text are paired with plenty of colorful photos to make reading engaging and accessible.
Download or read book Science Entertainment and Television Documentary written by Vincent Campbell and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-05-13 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The shift from traditional documentary to “factual entertainment” television has been the subject of much debate and criticism, particularly with regard to the representation of science. New types of factual programming that combine documentary techniques with those of entertainment formats (such as drama, game-shows and reality TV) have come in for strident criticism. Often featuring spectacular visual effects produced by Computer Generated Imagery these programmes blur the boundaries between mainstream science and popular beliefs. Through close analysis of programmes across a range of sciences, this book explores these issues to see if criticisms of such hybrid programmes as representing the “rotting carcass of science TV” really are valid. Campbell considers if in fact; when considered in relation to the principles, practices and communication strategies of different sciences; these shows can be seen to offer more complex and rich representations that construct sciences as objects of wonder, awe and the sublime.
Download or read book Animals written by Nathaniel Moore Banta and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Books do Furnish a Life written by Richard Dawkins and published by Random House. This book was released on 2021-05-06 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A rich feast of his essays, reviews, forewords, squibs and conversations, in which talent and passion are married to deep knowledge.' Matt Ridley 'Enjoy the unfailing clarity of his thought and prose, as well as the grandeur of his vision of life on Earth.' - Mark Cocker, Spectator 'Richard Dawkins is a thunderously gifted science writer.' Sunday Times Including conversations with Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Steven Pinker, Matt Ridley and more, this is an essential guide to the most exciting ideas of our time and their proponents from our most brilliant science communicator. Books Do Furnish a Life is divided by theme, including celebrating nature, exploring humanity, and interrogating faith. For the first time, it brings together Richard Dawkins' forewords, afterwords and introductions to the work of some of the leading thinkers of our age - Carl Sagan, Lawrence Krauss, Jacob Bronowski, Lewis Wolpert - with a selection of his reviews to provide an electrifying celebration of science writing, both fiction and non-fiction. It is also a sparkling addition to Dawkins' own remarkable canon of work. Plenty of other scientists write well, but no one writes like Dawkins... here is Dawkins the teacher, the scholar, the polemicist, the joker, the aesthete, the poet, the satirist, the man of compassion as well as indignation, the slayer of superstition and, above all, the scientist. - Areo Magazine
Download or read book Practical Essays written by Alexander Bain and published by IndyPublish.com. This book was released on 1884 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of articles and papers, most of which had appeared previously in magazines. From the Scottish philosopher, educationalist and author.
Download or read book Giant Pandas written by Marissa Kirkman and published by North Star Editions, Inc.. This book was released on 2024-08-01 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes the habitats, diet, and life cycle of giant pandas. Short paragraphs of easy-to-read text are paired with plenty of colorful photos to make reading engaging and accessible.
