Download or read book Horns Tusks and Flippers written by Donald R. Prothero and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the extinction of the dinosaurs, hoofed mammals have been the planet's dominant herbivores. Native to all continents except Australia and Antarctica, recent paleontological and biological discoveries have deepened understanding of their evolution. This text reveals their evolutionary history.
Download or read book Elephants written by Adele Richardson and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2002 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an introduction to elephants, describing their physical characteristics, habitat, young, food, predators, and relationship to people.
Download or read book The Fixer written by Bradley Tusk and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The famed political advisor to Uber, FanDuel, Lemonade, Tesla and other startups reveals what really happens at the intersection of politics, tech and business Most new startups today are in highly regulated industries with strong incumbents - transportation, hotels, drones, energy, gaming, education, health care, cannabis, finance, liquor, insurance. The more startups try to snatch a piece of the establishment's pie, the more they risk running into a political wall. That's where Bradley Tusk comes in. Described as "Silicon Valley's Political Savior" (Fast Company) "Uber's Political Genius" (Vanity Fair) and "Silicon Valley's Favorite Fixer" (TechCrunch) Tusk deploys the skills and knowledge he developed working with Chuck Schumer, Michael Bloomberg, Rod Blagojevich, and other political and business legends to help startups fight back. This book goes behind the scenes on how he helped stop the taxi industry from killing Uber in its infancy, how he held insurance companies at bay while startup Lemonade launched in each state, and how he helped online sports betting sites FanDuel and Draft Kings escape the regulatory death grip casinos tried to put on them. As Tusk writes, "Every new company is essentially a tech startup. And when you disrupt someone in any industry, they don't say thank you. They punch you in the nose. These are the lessons startups need to learn to punch back and survive the clutches of politics." Combining a firsthand glimpse behind the curtain with tangible advice for how any new venture can play the political game, THE FIXER is a must-read for aspiring entrepreneurs.
Download or read book Tusk Tusk written by David McKee and published by Random House. This book was released on 2018-08-09 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once, elephants came in two colours: black or white. They loved all other creatures - but each set wanted to destroy the other. Peace-loving elephants ran and hid in the deepest jungle while battle commenced. The war-mongers succeeded: for a long time it seemed that there were no elephants in the world at all, not of any colour. But then the descendants of the peace-loving ones emerged from the jungle, and by now they were all grey. ‘This book was one of my favourites as a kid, I simply relished in the gloriousness of a load of elephants battling it out in a bizarre forest. It wasn’t until I was a bit older that I recognised the importance of the message that lay (not so subtly) underneath.’ OLIVER JEFFERS
Download or read book Walrus written by Stephen Person and published by Bearport Publishing. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces the physical characteristics, behavior, habitat, and migration of walruses, sea mammals that have flippers and tusks.
Download or read book We Are Australians written by Duncan Smith and published by . This book was released on 2022-03-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For those born in Australia, it's easy to take citizenship and its responsibilities for granted. But there is much more to being an Australian citizen than having a passport and the right to vote.
Download or read book Jelly Boy written by Nicole Godwin and published by Walker Books. This book was released on 2024-08-06 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when a jellyfish falls in love with a plastic bag she mistakes for a jelly-boy? Jelly-Boy is different. He is big and strong. And not as wobbly as the other Jelly-Boys. By the time Jelly-Girl discovers the dangerous truth about her new friend, it may already be too late. This is an inventive approach to tackling a conservation issue that is plaguing our world: too much plastic in the ocean. Told in a kid-friendly and humorous way, this is a story with the potential to encourage dialogue around an important issue.
Download or read book Tooth by Tooth written by Sara C. Levine and published by Millbrook Press. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What animal would you be if a few of your teeth grew so long that they stuck out of your mouth even when it was closed? What would you be if your top canine teeth grew almost all the way down to your feet? This picture book will keep you guessing as you read about how human teeth are like—and unlike—those of other animals.
Download or read book The Tusk That Did the Damage written by Tania James and published by Random House India. This book was released on 2015-02-25 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a young elephant is brutally orphaned by poachers, it is only a matter of time before he begins terrorising the countryside, earning his malevolent name from the humans he kills and then tenderly buries with leaves. Manu, the studious son of a rice farmer, loses his cousin to the Gravedigger and is drawn into the alluring world of ivory hunting. Emma is working on a documentary set in a Kerala wildlife park with her best friend. Her work leads her to witness the porous boundary between conservation and corruption and she finds herself caught up in her own betrayal. As the novel hurtles toward its tragic climax, these three storylines fuse into a wrenching meditation on love and revenge, fact and myth, duty and sacrifice. In a feat of audacious imagination and arrestingly beautiful prose, The Tusk That Did the Damage tells an original and heart-breaking story about how we treat nature, and each other.
Download or read book TUSKS written by Gene Hale and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01-16 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the foothills of Wyoming to the vast savannahs and rainforests of Central Africa, this action-packed adventure story takes the reader on a thrilling roller-coaster ride as Cheyenne Cole and his four friends battle the forces of evil. With a colorful cast of characters and a fast-paced storyline, Tusks exposes the needless slaughter and destruction of elephants to fuel the ivory trade. Honoring his father’s dying wish, Cheyenne, a cowboy and ex-marine, with a lightning-fast draw, embarks on a quest to save the elephants of Africa. Poachers and ivory hunters are decimating the elephant tribes, and Cheyenne and his friends are determined to stop them. Batting the murderous Python and his two sidekicks, the friends encounter Black Bart, an infamous gunslinger, and dance a deadly dance with the Black Mamba and Monsoon, a rampaging elephant whose only intent is to destroy man. With the help of the Ho Goo and Ji-Hi tribes, they strive to defeat their enemies, only to face their greatest challenge: Al-Qaida! Missiles are primed and ready to destroy New York City and Israel. Will the friends be in time to prevent the annihilation of the free world? Will they save the elephants? Will they escape the deadly fangs of the Black Mamba? Will the mighty Monsoon emerge victorious from his final battle? Tusks is a story of courage, determination, and deep friendship. Friends who will lay down their lives for one another, friends who will stop at nothing in their pursuit of what is just and right, loyal friends united in their quest to defend the elephant. The elephant whose only predator is man! The elephant who never forgets . . .
Download or read book Library of Small Catastrophes written by Alison C. Rollins and published by Copper Canyon Press. This book was released on 2019-06-18 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Library of Small Catastrophes, Alison Rollins’ ambitious debut collection, interrogates the body and nation as storehouses of countless tragedies. Drawing from Jorge Luis Borges’ fascination with the library, Rollins uses the concept of the archive to offer a lyric history of the ways in which we process loss. “Memory is about the future, not the past,” she writes, and rather than shying away from the anger, anxiety, and mourning of her narrators, Rollins’ poetry seeks to challenge the status quo, engaging in a diverse, boundary-defying dialogue with an ever-present reminder of the ways race, sexuality, spirituality, violence, and American culture collide.
Download or read book The Bodhisattva s Tusks written by Nanditha Prasad Ram and published by Bindumandala Press for Mind Body Spirit. This book was released on 2020-08-19 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Novella is set in a Buddhist monastery at the foothills of the Khangchendzonga mountains in north east India. The inspiration for this work comes from an exquisite painting of the same name, ‘The Bodhisattva’s Tusks’ by Abanindronath Tagore, in which a meditating prince has draped his flowing locks of hair over the ivory tusks of an elephant. The book deals with characters who From New Zealand to New Delhi and beyond, the characters travel the metaphoric distance from being too comfortable with themselves to feeling a great level of personal and emotional turmoil and then finally arrive at the gates to self knowledge.come to this monastery for their slice of personal truth, and each one’s moment of reckoning inevitably arrives.
Download or read book Get Tusked written by Ken Caillat and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-11-22 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this behind-the-scenes look at the making of Fleetwood Mac’s epic, platinum-selling double album, Tusk, producers and engineers Ken Caillat and Hernan Rojas tell their stories of spending a year with the band in their new million-dollar studio trying to follow up Rumours, the biggest rock album of the time. Following their massive success, the band continued its infamous soap opera when its musical leader and guitarist, Lindsey Buckingham, threatened to quit if he didn’t get things his way, resulting in clashes not only with his band but especially Caillat, who had been essential to the band’s Grammy-winning sound. Hernan Rojas’s story recounts a young man who leaves Chile after General Pinochet’s coup to seek his future in the music industry of Los Angeles, where he finds success at one of the hottest studios in town. When Fleetwood Mac arrives, Rojas falls in love with its star singer, Stevie Nicks, and the two of them become romantically involved. Throughout the book, both Caillat and Rojas detail not only the trials and sacrifices they made to finish the album, but also triumphs of musical inspiration and technical innovation that have made Tusk the darling of music critics and indie rockers today.
Download or read book Tusk and Stone written by Malcolm Bosse and published by Paw Prints. This book was released on 2008-08-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When his caravan is attacked by robbers and his Brahman top-knot is shorn off, Arjun loses his family and his identity, but he rises in fame as a great warrior in the hopes of finding his kidnapped sister.
Download or read book Creepy Cross Stitch written by Lindsay Swearingen and published by Page Street Publishing. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CROSS-STITCH GOES WITCHY WITH DARK AND ELEGANT DESIGNS From spooky skulls to ghoulish graveyards, Lindsay Swearingen of Tusk and Cardinal gives cross-stitch a dark yet whimsical update. Curious creatures like phantom felines, legendary fixtures from folklore like Baba Yaga and all manner of haunted houses make the perfect subjects for these needlework masterpieces. Fun and easy to learn, cross-stitch is an art form that truly anybody can master. Lindsay gives you a crash course in the basics to ensure you have all the materials and techniques you need to start off on the right foot. Then, dive into her incredible patterns and stitch yourself some oddities that range from quirky to downright eerie. Anyone with an appreciation for the macabre will swoon for patterns like Lovers’ Graves, which features twin headstones and a heart-shaped weeping willow. Meanwhile, the ghosts, ghouls and ghastly bats of Trick or Treat and Haunted Wings are perfect pieces to hang on your wall to keep the spirit of Halloween in your home year-round. With moody tones, muted hues and spooky subjects, this collection of bewitching patterns makes it easy to add a little subversive charm to your cross-stitch repertoire.
Download or read book Narwhals written by Todd McLeish and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2013-06-18 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among all the large whales on Earth, the most unusual and least studied is the narwhal, the northernmost whale on the planet and the one most threatened by global warming. Narwhals thrive in the fjords and inlets of northern Canada and Greenland. These elusive whales, whose long tusks were the stuff of medieval European myths and Inuit legends, are uniquely adapted to the Arctic ecosystem and are able to dive below thick sheets of ice to depths of up to 1,500 meters in search of their prey-halibut, cod, and squid. Join Todd McLeish as he travels high above the Arctic circle to meet: Teams of scientific researchers studying the narwhal's life cycle and the mysteries of its tusk Inuit storytellers and hunters Animals that share the narwhals' habitat: walruses, polar bears, bowhead and beluga whales, ivory gulls, and two kinds of seals McLeish consults logbooks kept by whalers and explorers and interviews folklorists and historians to tease out the relationship between the real narwhal and the mythical unicorn. In Colorado, he visits climatologists studying changes in the seasonal cycles of the Arctic ice. From a history of the trade in narwhal tusks to descriptions of narwhals' vocalizations as heard through hydrophones, Narwhals reveals the beauty and thrill of the narwhal and its habitat, and the threat it faces from a rapidly changing world. Watch the trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHwaqdKyLCQ&list=UUge4MONgLFncQ1w1C_BnHcw&index=9&feature=plcp
Download or read book The Riverside Natural History written by John Sterling Kingsley and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
