Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Wild Discovery
Author: Discovery Channel PublishingPublisher: Time Life Medical
ISBN: 9780737000221
Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Finally, "Circle of Life" depicts animal aging and death, chronicling the respect still extended to an older lion by younger pride members and ultimate sacrifice paid by the sockeye salmon to ensure a new generation.
Discovery Kids Travel Through the Amazing World of Wild Animals
Author: Steve ParkerPublisher:
ISBN: 9781472389343
Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Travel around the world and learn facts about amazing animals. Complete the activities, puzzles, mazes, and more on your incredible journey of discovery.
Discovery
Author: Discovery
Author: Jon MayledPublisher: Nelson Thornes
ISBN: 9780748762231
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
A stand-alone textbook covering one of the most popular areas of study for RE GCSE. This is currently the only full and short course text book endorsed for OCR's 2001 specification B paper (1931/1031).
Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright OfficePublisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN:
Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 1328
Book Description
Wild by Design
Author: Laura J. MartinPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674275837
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
An environmental historian delves into the history, science, and philosophy of a paradoxical pursuit: the century-old quest to design natural places and create wild species. Environmental restoration is a global pursuit and a major political concern. Governments, nonprofits, private corporations, and other institutions spend billions of dollars each year to remove invasive species, build wetlands, and reintroduce species driven from their habitats. But restoration has not always been so intensively practiced. It began as the pastime of a few wildflower enthusiasts and the first practitioners of the new scientific discipline of ecology. Restoration has been a touchstone of US environmentalism since the beginning of the twentieth century. Diverging from popular ideas about preservation, which romanticized nature as an Eden to be left untouched by human hands, and conservation, the managed use of natural resources, restoration emerged as a “third way.” Restorationists grappled with the deepest puzzles of human care for life on earth: How to intervene in nature for nature’s own sake? What are the natural baselines that humans should aim to restore? Is it possible to design nature without destroying wildness? Laura J. Martin shows how, over time, amateur and professional ecologists, interest groups, and government agencies coalesced around a mode of environmental management that sought to respect the world-making, and even the decision-making, of other species. At the same time, restoration science reshaped material environments in ways that powerfully influenced what we understand the wild to be. In Wild by Design, restoration’s past provides vital knowledge for climate change policy. But Martin also offers something more—a meditation on what it means to be wild and a call for ecological restoration that is socially just.
Discovery and Invention
Author: Charles T. Stewart Jr.Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1796038814
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 499
Book Description
The history of humanity can be written in terms of discovery and invention. They are very different cognitive processes—search for order and problem solving. This book is a search for explanation of the Scientific and Industrial Revolutions. It surveys seven civilizations in terms of both their achievements and their failures. What were the characteristics they shared that promoted progress? What prevented or discouraged progress in discovery and or in invention? Sumer was creative, the mother of civilizations. Egypt was not. In Sumer, authority was divided, and it was a trading economy. Egypt was authoritarian and closed. Rome and Islam inherited the Greek legacy. Rome was not interested; it had a different agenda. Islam progressed, but civilization conflicted with religion and then regressed. China led in inventions but then stagnated and always lagged in discovery. Its ultimate failure has multiple explanations that include the scope of authority, structure of society and economy, and of language and script. But so was its preference for intuition over logic or evidence as the method of seeking the truth. It is Greek capacity for abstraction origin a mystery that was essential for its achievements: discoveries of the structure of the universe and the cognitive approach to truth seeking. Much invention was a byproduct of discovery. It is Greek achievements in discovery and abstract reasoning that Europe adopted and advanced, leading to the scientific and subsequent industrial revolutions. Ours is a new phase in human history. What were some of its consequences, and what are its prospects?
Animals on the Move (Animal Planet Animal Bites)
Author: Animal PlanetPublisher: Time Home Entertainment
ISBN: 1683303350
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
With more than 200 gorgeous photos of animals in their natural habitats, there's action and adventure on every page of Animal Planet Animals on the Move. This fast-moving addition to the Animal Bites series provides kids in the first years of schooling with the perfect bite-sized view of their favorite animals. Arranged thematically with a focus on animal behavior and family relationships, young readers will explore sections about migration, fast and slow, hunting and playing, and animal movement on land, in the air, and in water, Special book features designed for this age group include simple graphics and 'Just Like Me' sidebars with fascinating animal facts for young readers to learn more about themselves and the amazing animals that share our world. For more Animal Bites books, check out Animal Planet Ocean Animals, Animal Planet Polar Animals, Animal Planet Wild Animals, Animal Planet Farm Animals, and Animal Planet Baby Animals. A portion of the proceeds from the sale of books in the Animal Bites series benefits the principal partners of R.O.A.R. (Reach Out. Act. Respond.), Animal Planet's initiative dedicated to improving the lives of animals in our communities and in the wild.
Nature
Author: Sir Norman LockyerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 722
Book Description
Author: