Author: Kathleen Martin-JamesPublisher: First Avenue Editions
ISBN: 0822537699
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Introduces the physical characteristics, habits, and natural environment of the jellyfish.
Floating Jellyfish
Author: Kathleen Martin-JamesPublisher: First Avenue Editions
ISBN: 0822537699
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Introduces the physical characteristics, habits, and natural environment of the jellyfish.
Portuguese Man-of-war
Author: Natalie LunisPublisher: Bearport Publishing
ISBN: 1597169463
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Describes the natural habitat, physical characteristics, diet, and behavior of the Portuguese man-of-war.
Jellyfish
Author: Valerie BoddenPublisher: The Creative Company
ISBN: 1640006850
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Meet the jellyfish! Learn about how this strange sea creature lives without blood or a brain. Elementary-aged readers will discover jellyfish that can glow in the dark. Full color images and clear explanations highlight the habitat, diet, and lifestyle of these fascinating ocean animals. A Japanese folktale explains why jellyfish have squishy bodies.
The Skipper
Author: The Medicine Way
Author: White EaglePublisher: White Eagle
ISBN:
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Would you like to know how Prayer works? Would you like to be more successful in your relationships? Are you interested in Spirituality and the path of the Medicine person or Shamanism? Would you like to know about the special nature of Plants or Mineral Spirits? Would you like to be able to talk to your guides and the Creator in a Medicine Wheel? Have you wondered what the animals are trying to tell you or mean in your dreams? If you answered yes to any of those questions then this is the most comprehensive resource about such that exists on Mother Earth and a "Must Have" book that belongs on your shelf! This is A New Edited and Revised Edition of material that has been extensively used as support material for many classes and Workshops conducted by White Eagle for over two decades. Included in this New version is information about Tobacco and the Pipe Ceremony, the Smudging and Clearing of people, places, and objects and so much more like information about the Way of Ritual and Ceremony. There have been many books written about Medicine people and Shamanism in general but very few if any Real and Practical Guides so as to learn and experience the Way of it. Now one does and This is it! Over the years commonly referred to as "The Big Book" by White Eagle and those that have come to learn the Medicine Way from him, this is the first material written when Great Pop told White Eagle to: "Write This Book." The Medicine Way is actually seven books in one being that of: The Medicine of Prayer - The How To and Why of Prayer Earthwalk - The "How To" of being incarnate on Mother Earth Walking the Round Way - The How To of Relationships The Medicine Wheel - Not only the How To, but also the Why and What of it Mineral Spirit Medicine - Describes the Medicine and potential support from many of the different stones and minerals that White Eagle uses in his practice of the Medicine Way. Plant Spirit Medicine - Describes the Medicine and essential nature of most of the common trees and plants. Also described is the Medicine of the Spirit of common food plants as well the support one can receive from many of the herbs listed. Animal Spirit Medicine - Includes what different animals mean in vision or dreams as well as in one's daily encounters. After two decades this material has finally undergone formal editing and in the process its coverage has become expanded even further than before. Now it has finally become available in printed form in both color and black and white versions. This Book is for any and all that desire to know, and know more about Spirits, Spirituality, Medicine, and The Medicine Way.
Jellyfish
Author: Grace HansenPublisher: ABDO
ISBN: 1629708119
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 27
Book Description
Who would have thought that such a beautiful, delicate creature could be one of the ocean's toughest predators? Learn this and more alongside beautiful, full-bleed color photographs. Complete with glossary, index, and table of contents. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Abdo Kids is a division of ABDO.
The Guide to Nature
Author: Origins
Author: Frank H. T. RhodesPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501706772
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
"Fossils are the fragments from which, piece by laborious piece, the great mosaic of the history of life has been constructed. Here and there, we can supplement these meager scraps by the use of biochemical markers or geochemical signatures that add useful information, but, even with such additional help, our reconstructions and our models of descent are often tentative. For the fossil record is, as we have seen, as biased as it is incomplete. But fragmentary, selective, and biased though it is, the fossil record, with all its imperfections, is still a treasure. Though whole chapters are missing, many pages lost, and the earliest pages so damaged as to be, as yet, virtually unreadable, this—the greatest biography of all—is one in whose closing pages we find ourselves."—from Origins In Origins, Frank H. T. Rhodes explores the origin and evolution of living things, the changing environments in which they have developed, and the challenges we now face on an increasingly crowded and polluted planet. Rhodes argues that the future well-being of our burgeoning population depends in no small part on our understanding of life’s past, its long and slow development, and its intricate interdependencies. Rhodes’s accessible and extensively illustrated treatment of the origins narrative describes the nature of the search for prehistoric life, the significance of geologic time, the origin of life, the emergence and spread of flora and fauna, the evolution of primates, and the emergence of modern humans.
"Rise, Ye Sea Slugs!"
Author: Robin D GillPublisher: Paraverse Press
ISBN: 0974261807
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
Rise, Ye Sea Slugs! is a book of many faces. First, it is a book of translated haiku and contains over 900 of these short Japanese poems in the original (smoothly inserted in the main body),with phonetic and literal renditions, as well as the authors English translations and explanations. All but a dozen or two of the haiku are translated for the first time. There is an index of poets, poems and a bibliography. Second, it is a book of sea slug haiku, for all of the poems are about holothurians, which scientists prefer to call sea cucumbers. (The word cucumber is long for haiku and metaphorically unsuitable for many poems, so poetic license was taken.) With this book, the namako, as the sea cucumber is called in Japanese, becomes the most translated single subject in haiku, surpassing the harvest moon, the snow, the cuckoo, butterflies and even cherry blossoms. Third, it is a book of original haiku. While the authors original intent was to include only genuine old haiku (dating back to the 17th century), modern haiku were added and, eventually, Keigu (Gills haiku name) composed about a hundred of his own to help fill out gaps in the metaphorical museum. For many if not most modern haiku taken from the web, it is also their first time in print! Fourth, it is a book of metaphor. How may we arrange hundreds of poems on a single theme? Gill divides them into 21 main metaphors, including the Cold Sea Slug, the Mystic Sea Slug, the Helpless Sea Slug, the Slippery Sea Slug, the Silent Sea Slug, and the Melancholy Sea Slug, giving each a chapter, within which the metaphors may be further subdivided, and adds a 100 pages of Sundry Sea Slugs (scores of varieties including Monster, Spam, Flying, Urban Myth, and Exploding). Fifth, it is a book on haiku. E ditors usually select only the best haiku, but, Gill includes good and bad haiku by everyone from the 17th century haiku master to the anonymous haiku rejected in some internet contest. This is not to say all poems found were included, but that the standard was along more taxonomic or encyclopedic lines: poems that filled in a metaphorical or sub-metaphorical gap were always welcome. Also, Gill shows there is more than one type of good haiku. These are new ways to approach haiku. Sixth, it is a book on translation. There are approximately 2 translations per haiku, and some boast a dozen. These arearranged in mixed single, double and triple-column clusters which make each reading seem a different aspect of a singular, almost crystalline whole. The authors aim is to demonstrate that multiple reading (such as found in Hofstadters Le Ton Beau de Marot) is not only a fun game but a bona fide method of translating, especially useful for translating poetry between exotic tongues. Seventh, it is a book of nature writing, natural history or metaphysics (in the Emersonian sense). Gill tried to compile relevant or interesting (not necessarily both) historical -- this includes the sea slug in literature, English or Japanese, and in folklore -- and scientific facts to read haiku in their light or, conversely, bringor wring out science from haiku. Unlike most nature writers, Gill admits to doing no fieldwork, but sluggishly staying put and relying upon reportsfrom more mobile souls. Eighth, it is a book about food symbolism. The sea cucumber is noticed by Japanese because they eat it; the eating itselfinvolves physical difficulties (slipperiness and hardness) and pleasures from overcoming them. It is also identified with a state of mind, where you are what you eat takes on psychological dimensions not found in the food literature of the West. Ninth, it is a book about Japanese culture. Gill does not set out to explain Japan, and the sea slug itself is silent;but the collection of poems and their explanations, which include analysis by poets who responded to the author's questions as well has historical sources, take us all around the culture, from ancient myths to contemporary dreams. Tenth, it is a book about sea cucumbers. While most species of sea cucumbers are not mentioned and the coverage of the Japanese sea cucumber is sketchy from the scientific point of view, Gill does introduce this animal graced to live with no brain thanks to the smart materials comprising it and blessed for sucking in dirty sediment and pooping it out clean. Eleventh, it is a book about ambiguity. Gill admits there is much that cannot be translated, much he cannot know and much to be improved in future editions, for which purpose he advises readers to see the on-line Glosses and Errata in English and Japanese. His policy is to confide in, rather than slip by the reader unnoticed, in the manner of the invisible modern translator and allow the reader to makechoices or choose to allow multiple possibilities to exist by not chosing.Twelfth, the book is the first of dozens of spin-offs from a twenty-book haiku saijiki (poetic almanac) called In Praise of Olde Haiku (IPOOH, for short) Gill hopes to finish within the decade. Thirteenth. The book is a novelty item. It has a different (often witty) header (caption) on top of each page and copious notes that are rarely academic and oftehumorous.
The Sciences
Author: Edward Singleton HoldenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Readers
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description