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Author |
: Brooke Smith |
Publisher |
: Chronicle Books LLC |
Total Pages |
: 59 |
Release |
: 2020-03-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781452170831 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1452170835 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (31 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Keeper of Wild Words by : Brooke Smith
A touching tale of a grandmother and her granddaughter exploring and cherishing the natural world. Words, the woods, and the world illuminate this quest to save the most important pieces of our language—by saving the very things they stand for. When Mimi finds out her favorite words—simple words, like apricot, blackberry, buttercup—are disappearing from the English language, she elects her granddaughter Brook as their Keeper. And did you know? The only way to save words is to know them. • With its focus on the power of language and social change, The Keeper of Wild Words is ideal for educators and librarians as well as young readers. • For any child who longs to get outside and learn more about nature and the environment • A loving portrait of the special relationship that grandparents have with their grandchildren For children who love such books as Outside Your Window: A First Book of Nature, And Then It's Spring, and Finding Wild. Brooke Smith is a poet and children's book author. She lives in Bend, Oregon, at the end of a long cinder lane. Brooke writes daily from her studio, looking at the meadow and many of the wild words she cherishes. Madeline Kloepper is a Canadian artist with a Bachelor of Fine Arts and Major in Illustration from Emily Carr University of Art and Design. Her work is influenced by childhood, nostalgia, and the relationships we forge with nature. She lives in Prince George, British Columbia.
Author |
: Claire Pye |
Publisher |
: Firefly Books |
Total Pages |
: 100 |
Release |
: 2003 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1552977250 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781552977255 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (50 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Wild World of the Future by : Claire Pye
A team of international scientists, documentary film makers and animators are imagining the future based on present-day science.
Author |
: Peter S. Rush |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 288 |
Release |
: 2017-08-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0999066501 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780999066508 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (01 Downloads) |
Synopsis Wild World by : Peter S. Rush
Set against the backdrop of the Vietnam War and the protest era of the early 1970s, WILD WORLD is a gripping novel of a power, corruption, injustice, courage, and hope¿and one tenacious young man whose determination to overturn the system holds unexpected consequences for his own life.Steve Logan wants to make the world better. Weeks before his graduation from Brown University, he meets a reform-minded cop from New York City who convinces Steve that to change the system, he has to get involved. Fueled by a strong sense of moral justice, Steve joins the Providence Police Department. Though he¿s eager to make a difference, fighting the establishment is overwhelming. His education makes him an outsider, and his honesty makes him a threat to the corrupt cops who use the badge for money and power. At home, his college friends think he¿s a traitor, and even Roxy, the med student he loves, has begun to pull away. But Steve isn¿t going to give up. He devises a dangerous plan to radically shake up the system and take his enemies down . . . unless they take him out first.
Author |
: Alexandru Scorpan |
Publisher |
: American Mathematical Soc. |
Total Pages |
: 642 |
Release |
: 2005-05-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780821837498 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0821837494 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (98 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Wild World of 4-Manifolds by : Alexandru Scorpan
What a wonderful book! I strongly recommend this book to anyone, especially graduate students, interested in getting a sense of 4-manifolds. --MAA Reviews The book gives an excellent overview of 4-manifolds, with many figures and historical notes. Graduate students, nonexperts, and experts alike will enjoy browsing through it. -- Robion C. Kirby, University of California, Berkeley This book offers a panorama of the topology of simply connected smooth manifolds of dimension four. Dimension four is unlike any other dimension; it is large enough to have room for wild things to happen, but small enough so that there is no room to undo the wildness. For example, only manifolds of dimension four can exhibit infinitely many distinct smooth structures. Indeed, their topology remains the least understood today. To put things in context, the book starts with a survey of higher dimensions and of topological 4-manifolds. In the second part, the main invariant of a 4-manifold--the intersection form--and its interaction with the topology of the manifold are investigated. In the third part, as an important source of examples, complex surfaces are reviewed. In the final fourth part of the book, gauge theory is presented; this differential-geometric method has brought to light how unwieldy smooth 4-manifolds truly are, and while bringing new insights, has raised more questions than answers. The structure of the book is modular, organized into a main track of about two hundred pages, augmented by extensive notes at the end of each chapter, where many extra details, proofs and developments are presented. To help the reader, the text is peppered with over 250 illustrations and has an extensive index.
Author |
: Emma Marris |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages |
: 353 |
Release |
: 2021-06-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781635574968 |
ISBN-13 |
: 163557496X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (68 Downloads) |
Synopsis Wild Souls by : Emma Marris
Winner of the 2022 Rachel Carson Environment Book Award * Winner of the 2022 Science in Society Journalism Award (Books) * Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize “Thoughtful, insightful, and wise, Wild Souls is a landmark work.”--Ed Yong, author of An Immense World "Fascinating . . . hands-on philosophy, put to test in the real world . . . Marris believes that our idea of wildness--our obsession with purity--is misguided. No animal remains untouched by human hands . . . the science isn't the hard part. The real challenge is the ethics, the act of imagining our appropriate place in that world." --Outside Magazine From an acclaimed environmental writer, a groundbreaking and provocative new vision for our relationships with--and responsibilities toward--the planet's wild animals. Protecting wild animals and preserving the environment are two ideals so seemingly compatible as to be almost inseparable. But in fact, between animal welfare and conservation science there exists a space of underexamined and unresolved tension: wildness itself. When is it right to capture or feed wild animals for the good of their species? How do we balance the rights of introduced species with those already established within an ecosystem? Can hunting be ecological? Are any animals truly wild on a planet that humans have so thoroughly changed? No clear guidelines yet exist to help us resolve such questions. Transporting readers into the field with scientists tackling these profound challenges, Emma Marris tells the affecting and inspiring stories of animals around the globe--from Peruvian monkeys to Australian bilbies, rare Hawai'ian birds to majestic Oregon wolves. And she offers a companionable tour of the philosophical ideas that may steer our search for sustainability and justice in the non-human world. Revealing just how intertwined animal life and human life really are, Wild Souls will change the way we think about nature-and our place within it.
Author |
: Margarita Engle |
Publisher |
: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages |
: 149 |
Release |
: 2012 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780547581316 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0547581319 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (16 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Wild Book by : Margarita Engle
In early twentieth-century Cuba, bandits terrorize the countryside as a young farm girl struggles with dyslexia. Based on the life of the author's grandmother.
Author |
: Cheryl Strayed |
Publisher |
: Vintage |
Total Pages |
: 435 |
Release |
: 2012-09-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780345805621 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0345805623 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (21 Downloads) |
Synopsis Torch by : Cheryl Strayed
The debut novel from the internationally acclaimed author of Wild weaves a searing and luminous tale of a family's grief after unexpected loss. • "A deeply honest novel of life after catastrophe, of intimacy lost and found." —O, The Oprah Magazine "Work hard. Do good. Be incredible!" is the advice Teresa Rae Wood shares with the listeners of her local radio show, Modern Pioneers, and the advice she strives to live by every day. She has fled a bad marriage and rebuilta life with her children, Claire and Joshua, and their caring stepfather, Bruce. Their love for each other binds them as a family through the daily struggles of making ends meet. But when they received unexpected news that Teresa, only 38, is dying of cancer, their lives all begin to unravel and drift apart. Strayed's intimate portraits of these fully human characters in a time of crisis show the varying truths of grief, forgiveness, and the beautiful terrors of learning how to keep living.
Author |
: Mel Sunquist |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 495 |
Release |
: 2017-05-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226518237 |
ISBN-13 |
: 022651823X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (37 Downloads) |
Synopsis Wild Cats of the World by : Mel Sunquist
Did you know that European royalty once used cheetahs to hunt deer, or that caracals can capture birds by leaping six and a half feet straight up into the air from a standing start? Have you ever wondered whether domestic cats really do land on their feet when they fall, or how Canada lynx can stalk their prey in the winter without falling through the deep snow? Wild Cats of the World is a treasure trove of answers to questions like these, and many others, for anyone who's interested in learning more about the world's felids, including the ones with whom we share our homes. Mel and Fiona Sunquist have spent more than a decade gathering information about cats from every available source, many of them quite difficult to find, including scientific papers, descriptions of hunts, archeological findings, observations by naturalists and travelers, reports from government agencies, and newsletters from a wide variety of organizations. Weaving information from these sources together with their own experiences observing wild cats around the world, the Sunquists have created the most comprehensive reference on felids available. Each of their accounts of the 36 species of cat contains a description of the cat, including human interactions with it, as well as detailed data on its distribution, ecology and behavior, status in the wild, and efforts to conserve it. Numerous photographs, including more than 40 in full color, illustrate these accounts. Ranging from the two-pound black-footed cat to the five-hundred-pound tiger, and from the African serval with its satellite-dish ears to the web-footed fishing cat of Asia, Wild Cats of the World will fascinate and educate felid fans of any stripe (or spot).
Author |
: Kwame Alexander |
Publisher |
: National Geographic Books |
Total Pages |
: 52 |
Release |
: 2017 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781426327674 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1426327676 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (74 Downloads) |
Synopsis Animal Ark by : Kwame Alexander
A howling wolf, a stalking tiger, a playful panda, a dancing bird - pairing the stunning photography of National Geographic photographer Joel Sartore with the delicate poetry of Newbery award-winning author Kwame Alexander, this lush picture book celebrates the beauty, diversity, and fragility of the animal world. Featuring more than 40 unique animal portraits, the pages invite kids to explore each creature's markings, textures, and attributes in stunning detail, while calling on all of us to help protect each and every one. Three picture-packed gatefolds inside showcase even more familiar and exotic species. These images are part of Sartore's lifelong project to photograph every animal in the world, with special attention given to disappearing and endangered species.
Author |
: Judy Sierra |
Publisher |
: Knopf Books for Young Readers |
Total Pages |
: 40 |
Release |
: 2012-07-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780449810316 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0449810313 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (16 Downloads) |
Synopsis Wild About Books by : Judy Sierra
OVER HALF A MILLION COPIES SOLD! Winner of the E.B. White Read Aloud Award It started the summer of 2002, when the Springfield librarian, Molly McGrew, by mistake drove her bookmobile into the zoo. In this rollicking rhymed story, Molly introduces birds and beasts to this new something called reading. She finds the perfect book for every animal—tall books for giraffes, tiny ones for crickets. “She even found waterproof books for the otter, who never went swimming without Harry Potter.” In no time at all, Molly has them “forsaking their niches, their nests, and their nooks,” going “wild, simply wild, about wonderful books.” Judy Sierra’s funny animal tale coupled with Marc Brown’s lush, fanciful paintings will have the same effect on young Homo sapiens. Altogether, it’s more fun than a barrel of monkeys!