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32 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 29 cm.
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English
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"Peel back the corners of the desert to discover the incredible organisms that survive in this ecosystem, from scorpions and cacti to musk oxen and seals. Find out how deserts work as a system, carving out an existence in one of the most extreme biomes on Earth. Learn, too, how deserts are found all around the world and what you can do to help protect these amazing wildernesses."--Amazon.com.
5) Cactus hotel
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32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
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English
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Describes the life cycle of the giant saguaro cactus, with an emphasis on its role as a home for other desert dwellers.
7) Desert biome
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English
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Introduces the idea of a biome and describes the four different types of desert biomes--hot and dry, semiarid, coastal, and cold--and the plants and animals that may live there.
8) A desert
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24 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
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English
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"Desert ecosystem and the animals that live, eat, and sleep from morning to night"--
10) Desert
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46 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 27 cm.
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English
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Introduces the plants, animals, and peoples that live in deserts and describes what kind of adaptations they have have developed to live in such a spare environment.
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"This title will introduce readers to desert ecosystems, the plants and animals that thrive there, its climate, its food web, any threats to it, and conservation efforts. Readers will also learn about the most well known deserts and their unique characteristics."--Publisher's website.
13) Cactus desert
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48 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
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English
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Describes the plants and animals that thrive in a desert, including saguaros, scorpions, and yuccas.
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325 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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"A book about the literal and figurative end of time and what that means for us as conscious beings, Desert Notebooks looks at how both the unprecedented pace of destruction to our environment and our increasingly unstable global socio-political institutions have led to an existential crisis orders of magnitude greater than any humankind has confronted before. As inhabitants of the Anthropocene what might some of our own histories tell us about how...
16) Desert animals
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48 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 23 cm.
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English
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Discusses the physical characteristics, behavior, and habitat of various animals that live in the desert biome.
17) Desert biomes
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"This beautiful book gives readers core information about subtropical, polar, coastal, and rain shadow desert biomes. Find out where each kind is found, how animals and plants have adapted to lack of rain, who lives in these deserts, and how humans impact life there."--
18) Surveyor
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250 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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A friendship between two men ends when the outside world intrudes. The two are wartime buddies who lead a reclusive life in the New Mexico desert, exploring an underground river. The beginning of the end comes with the arrival of archeologists and a woman. A first novel.
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47 pages : color illustrations color map ; 27 cm.
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English
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"Tour 6 North American deserts in 24 hours from day break in the Mojave Desert through midnight in the Great Basin while learning about why these deserts are in danger and how to save them"--
"Tour 6 North American deserts in 24 hours from day break in the Mojave Desert through midnight in the Great Basin. This meticulously illustrated picture book takes readers on a cross-continental tour in 24 hours, visiting 6 different deserts at different hours...
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