Download or read book One Million Things Animal Life written by and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-06-15 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything you want to know, see and find out about animals A visually amazing encyclopedia all about animals. Crammed full of incredible stuff to dip into, from cool crustaceans to amazing arachnids, all revealed in a fascinating, exciting, totally different way: it's like a natural history museum, a search engine and the world's biggest zoo all rolled into one. Loads of animal-related topics, hundreds of pictures, thousands of words and squillions of amazing things to discover and explore. So Find it. See it. Know it.
Download or read book Animal Life written by Richard Walker and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines animals such as sea animals, spiders, mammals plus their behavior, homes, and care of offspring and eggs.
Download or read book One Million Things written by DK and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-07-16 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No two pages look alike in this eye-popping children's encyclopedia. Exploring everything from amazing animals to art, this book is packed with fun facts for kids. With its unique visual approach, One Million Things! shows you a range of topics but presents them with a twist. Mingle with a bunch of snakes... on a ladder! Meet your mammal relatives in a photo album, or peek into a drawer full of prosthetic eyes to discover the science of genetics. An ice sculpture reveals the science behind states of matter, architectural marvels are displayed on a house of cards, and the story of space exploration is told through an astronaut's stamp collection. This comprehensive children's book covers technology, Earth, people, nature, history, science, the human body, and much more. With something new to discover on every page, One Million Things! will consistently entertain and inform. It's the ultimate children's reference book.
Download or read book Animal Life written by Richard Walker and published by DK Children. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines animals such as sea animals, spiders, and mammals, plus their behavior, homes, and care of their offspring and eggs.
Download or read book Metazoa written by Peter Godfrey-Smith and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Enthralling . . . breathtaking . . . Metazoa brings an extraordinary and astute look at our own mind’s essential link to the animal world." —The New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice) "A great book . . . [Godfrey-Smith is] brilliant at describing just what he sees, the patterns of behaviour of the animals he observes." —Nigel Warburton, Five Books The scuba-diving philosopher who wrote Other Minds explores the origins of animal consciousness Dip below the ocean’s surface and you are soon confronted by forms of life that could not seem more foreign to our own: sea sponges, soft corals, and serpulid worms, whose rooted bodies, intricate geometry, and flower-like appendages are more reminiscent of plant life or even architecture than anything recognizably animal. Yet these creatures are our cousins. As fellow members of the animal kingdom—the Metazoa—they can teach us much about the evolutionary origins of not only our bodies, but also our minds. In his acclaimed 2016 book, Other Minds, the philosopher and scuba diver Peter Godfrey-Smith explored the mind of the octopus—the closest thing to an intelligent alien on Earth. In Metazoa, Godfrey-Smith expands his inquiry to animals at large, investigating the evolution of subjective experience with the assistance of far-flung species. As he delves into what it feels like to perceive and interact with the world as other life-forms do, Godfrey-Smith shows that the appearance of the animal body well over half a billion years ago was a profound innovation that set life upon a new path. In accessible, riveting prose, he charts the ways that subsequent evolutionary developments—eyes that track, for example, and bodies that move through and manipulate the environment—shaped the subjective lives of animals. Following the evolutionary paths of a glass sponge, soft coral, banded shrimp, octopus, and fish, then moving onto land and the world of insects, birds, and primates like ourselves, Metazoa gathers their stories together in a way that bridges the gap between mind and matter, addressing one of the most vexing philosophical problems: that of consciousness. Combining vivid animal encounters with philosophical reflections and the latest news from biology, Metazoa reveals that even in our high-tech, AI-driven times, there is no understanding our minds without understanding nerves, muscles, and active bodies. The story that results is as rich and vibrant as life itself.
Download or read book One Million Things Planet Earth written by and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-08-17 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A photographic feast serves up imagery and information about all things planet Earth: from its place in the solar system, to what it's made of, to what grows in it and on it, to what hovers above it. Following on the incredible success of One Million Things: A Visual Dictionary, this spectacular book features dynamic photographic spreads that beautifully showcase the rocks, minerals, streams, oceans, layers, clouds, ancient sediments, and brand-new islands that make up our planet. There are millions of things to learn about Planet Earth!
Download or read book Animals Make Us Human written by Temple Grandin and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2009 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of "Animals in Translation" employs her own experience with autism and her background as an animal scientist to show how to give animals the best and happiest life.
Download or read book The Lives and Deaths of Shelter Animals written by Katja M Guenther and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2020-08-18 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “By investigating the . . . connection between the . . . shelter and the community . . . vastly expands . . . notions of intersectionality, democracy, and inclusivity.” —Leslie Irvine, American Journal of Sociology Monster is an adult pit bull, muscular and grey, who is impounded in a large animal shelter in Los Angeles. Like many other dogs at the shelter, Monster is associated with marginalized humans and assumed to embody certain behaviors because of his breed. And like approximately one million shelter animals each year, Monster will be killed. The Lives and Deaths of Shelter Animals takes us inside one of the country's highest-intake animal shelters. Katja M. Guenther witnesses the dramatic variance in the narratives assigned different animals, including Monster, which dictate their chances for survival. She argues that these inequalities are powerfully linked to human ideas about race, class, gender, ability, and species. Guenther deftly explores internal hierarchies, breed discrimination, and importantly, instances of resistance and agency. “Powerful and timely. . . . Katja M. Guenther unlocks the shelter door and eloquently explains this complicated and contested multispecies space, as she reflects on issues such as witnessing, vulnerability, advocacy, grievability, compassion, and animal resistance.” —Carol J. Adams, author of The Sexual Politics of Meat “In this compassionate, incisive ethnography . . . Katja M. Guenther illuminates the entangled injustices that shape human relationships with other animals.” —Lori Gruen, author of Entangled Empathy “With the perfect balance of intimacy and analytical depth, the author reminds us of how messy things can get when caring and killing become one, or when the value of the animal companion's life is measured by the race, gender, and zip code of the owner.” —Bénédicte Boisseron, author of Afro-Dog
Download or read book National Geographic Kids Almanac 2010 written by and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides the latest information on a wide range of topics, including animals, culture, geography, the environment, history, and science.
Download or read book National Geographic Kids written by National Geographic Kids and published by National Geographic Kids. This book was released on 2020 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides the latest information on a wide rage of topics, including animals, culture, geography, the environments, history, and science.
Download or read book National Geographic Kids Almanac 2012 written by National Geographic Kids and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2011 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An almanac for younger readers.
Download or read book Ten Million Aliens written by Simon Barnes and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-02-17 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Originally published in 2014 in Great Britain by Short Books."--Title page verso.
Download or read book National Geographic Kids Almanac 2017 written by National Geographic Kids and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2016-05 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides the latest information on a wide range of topics, including animals, culture, geography, the environment, history, and science.
Download or read book National Geographic Kids Almanac 2013 written by National Kids and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides the latest information on a wide range of topics, including animals, culture, geography, the environment, history, and science.
Download or read book National Geographic Kids Almanac 2014 written by National Geographic Kids and published by National Geographic Children's Books. This book was released on 2013 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Fun facts & 500 incredible photos! Plus digital extras including videos, games, and more!"--Cover.
Download or read book National Geographic Kids Almanac 2018 written by National Geographic Kids and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2017-04-24 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains facts, photographs, and maps that provide readers with information on animals, cultures, famous landmarks, science, the future, and many other topics.
Download or read book National Geographic Kids Almanac 2019 written by National Geographic Kids and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2018 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides the latest information on a wide range of topics, including animals, culture, geography, the environment, history, and science.-- provided by publisher.
