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55 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm.
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"Explores a question unasked by any other book for young readers: What can we learn about nature and evolution from the bizarre and exotic ways some animals have evolved to get life-giving oxygen? An inquiry-based book designed to stimulate active minds; a STEM standout from a celebrated nature photographer and writer"--
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"Step right up, animal lovers! It's your turn to judge in this poetic competition of superlative animal abilities. Structured as a guessing game competition, and told through deftly crafted persona poems, the book celebrates animals' standout qualities, from the biggest (blue whale) to the smallest (shrew), with all the favorite creatures (speedy cheetahs, long-necked giraffes) plus some less common animals with equally amazing abilities (long-lived...
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159 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
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You humans have given us a bad rep! You say we're scary and spooky and dangerous and icky. Well we're here to set the record straight because we're fed up with the lies you've been spreading. So here are the facts about what we do, what we eat, how we communicate and how we actually help you humans loads. We're not bad animals at all! we're just misunderstood!
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176 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 29 cm
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"Join animals on as they embark on large scale migrations and travel through the natural world in this book that follows their incredible journeys; many are in search of food, some are looking for a mate, lots are heading to a warmer climate, and others are just seeking a new home"--
6) Ferris
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During the summer before fifth grade, Ferris Wilkey has her hands full with her little sister terrorizing the town, her Aunt Shirley moving into their basement, and her grandmother seeing a ghost -- one who has wild, impractical, and illuminating plans.
8) Wonder dogs!
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40 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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"A look at all that dogs do for us from the extraordinary to the everyday, as told by a dog on a walk with his owner"--
9) Travelers
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61 pages : illustrations, color ; 34 cm.
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"Calling all animal lovers! This is your chance to learn about 9 amazing animals considered 'smart travelers.' Are you curious to know where they're going? Travel with the Arctic tern, the Chinook salmon, the plains zebra, the red crab, the barn swallow, the great white shark, the common crane, the reindeer, and the monarch butterfly. Each page presents beautiful illustrations full of facts and habitat descriptions that will surely amaze and inform."...
10) Earth called
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Tales of a new world volume 4
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471 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
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"In this last installment of the Tales of a New World series, love and goodness are put to the ultimate test as gods, humans, and animals come together to save everything they hold dear"--
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Understanding Your Fearful, Reactive, or Aggressive dog, and Strategies and Techniques to Make Change Are your dog walks a nightmare?Lunging, barking, pulling you over, and putting on a blood-curdling display of aggression? You love your dog - a perfect peach at home - so why on earth is she doing this? Using entirely force-free proven methods, developed through extensive study and working with thousands of dog-owners - and a very readable, jargon-free...
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Gil G. Rosenthal is professor of biology and of ecology and evolutionary biology at Texas A&M University. He is codirector of the CICHAZ field station in central Mexico.
A major new look at the evolution of mating decisions in organisms from protozoans to humans
The popular consensus on mate choice has long been that females select mates likely to pass good genes to offspring. In Mate Choice, Gil Rosenthal overturns much of this conventional wisdom....
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"A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year" "Winner of the PROSE Award in Popular Science and Mathematics, Association of American Publishers" Lixing Sun is Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Central Washington University. He is the author of The Fairness Instinct: The Robin Hood Mentality and Our Biological Nature and the coauthor of The Beaver: Natural History of a Wetlands Engineer.
A natural history...
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157 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
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"Every animal illustrates how they thrive, offering a model of how you might choose to thrive, too. If we're willing to listen--to follow the pawprints--we just might discover a kinder, braver, more courageous way of life"--
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¿Alguna vez te has preguntado cómo las hormigas pueden trabajar en equipo para construir estructuras asombrosas? ¿O por qué los flamencos tienen ese llamativo color rosa? Entonces sigue leyendo… "Tenemos más que aprender de los animales, que los animales de nosotros." - Anónimo Seguramente estás leyendo esto porque te fascinan las historias extraordinarias del reino animal y deseas conocer mucho más. Para ello, seguramente tendrías que...
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"One of American Association for the Advancement of Science's Books for General Audiences and Young Adults 2014" Daphne J. Fairbairn is professor of biology at the University of California, Riverside. She has written widely on the science of sexual differences.
The remarkable and unique ways that male and female animals play out gender roles in nature
While we joke that men are from Mars and women are from Venus, our gender differences can't compare...
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Rosemary Lombard has maintained a private turtle lab for nearly half a century, first in Bloomington Indiana, then in Chicago, then Milwaukee, later in the Bay Area, and now in Hillsboro, Oregon. To my knowledge, only she and I have ever played Scrabble with a turtle-in my case, an Eastern box turtle named Diode. I've encountered many skeptics who have severe reservations about this claim. I've also met many more who are more than just skeptical;...
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Welcome to the amazing world of Snakes Photos and Facts for Everyone! The animal facts in nature book to be amazed by Snakes.
You will find Snakes in nature with pictures to include the many Snakes species, size, breeding, eating habits, and interesting facts. Snakes Photos and Facts for Everyone is Book 31 of the Learn with Facts Series. This book is around a clear concept: The amazing life of Snakes with facts and color photos.
Be sure to read...
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Wenfei Tong is a research associate in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University. Mike Webster is the Robert G. Engel Professor of Ornithology in the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior at Cornell University and director of the Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
A stunningly illustrated look at the mating and parenting lives of the world's birds
Bird Love looks at the extraordinary range of...
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Nature author Marianne Taylor's The Animal Mind is a fascinating exploration of animal intelligence and emotion, with thought-provoking essays, surprising insights, and breathtaking images by leading photographers Joel Sartore, Melissa Groo, Peter Delaney, and others.
We are only beginning to understand the ways in which the animal mind is as complex as our own. A prairie dog's vocal language is now the most sophisticated ever decoded, but their...
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