Author : Moira Butterfield
Publisher :
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 26,65 MB
Release : 2020-08-06
Category :
ISBN : 9781912756018
Every creature in the ocean - from the tiny snail to the enormous blue whale - depends on water for survival. This beautifully illustrated book introduces children to the animals that live in the world's waters.
Author : Moira Butterfield
Publisher : 360 Degrees
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 16,47 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Aquatic animals
ISBN : 9781680107388
"Every creature in the ocean-- from the tiny snail to the enormous blue whale-- depends on water for survival. This engaging book introduces children to the animals that live in the world's oceans, rivers, lakes, and ponds. It also presents fascinating facts about the water cycle, different modes of transportation in water, and how water is prepared for drinking"--Back cover.
Author : Moira Butterfield
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,98 MB
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1944530967
Every creature in the ocean—from the tiny snail to the enormous blue whale—depends on water for survival. This engaging book introduces children to the animals that live in the world’s oceans, rivers, lakes, and ponds. It also presents fascinating facts about the water cycle, different modes of transportation in water, and how water is prepared for drinking.
Author : James Fox
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 19,1 MB
Release : 2021-10-07
Category : Art
ISBN : 0141976667
'Extraordinary. An intellectual feast as well as a visual one' Edmund de Waal, author of The Hare with Amber Eyes The world comes to us in colour. But colour lives as much in our imaginations as it does in our surroundings, as this scintillating book reveals. Each chapter immerses the reader in a single colour, drawing together stories from the histories of art and humanity to illuminate the meanings it has been given over the eras and around the globe. Showing how artists, scientists, writers, philosophers, explorers and inventors have both shaped and been shaped by these wonderfully myriad meanings, James Fox reveals how, through colour, we can better understand their cultures, as well as our own. Each colour offers a fresh perspective on a different epoch, and together they form a vivid, exhilarating history of the world. 'We have projected our hopes, anxieties and obsessions onto colour for thousands of years,' Fox writes. 'The history of colour, therefore, is also a history of humanity.'
Author : Leisa Stewart-Sharpe
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 31,89 MB
Release : 2020-11-05
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 140594661X
This is our Blue Planet: a beautiful blue marble suspended in a sea of stars. Unlike billions of other worlds in the Milky Way, 71 per cent of our Blue Planet is covered by ocean. It's home to the greatest diversity of life on Earth but is our least explored habitat; we've better maps of Mars than of the ocean floor. With so much more to discover, take a deep breath . . . and dive into a wondrous world beneath the waves. Explore coral reefs that shimmer in a kaleidoscope of colours. Venture to the bottom of the ocean where creatures beyond your wildest imagination live in the dark. Chase sea otters through kelp forest seas, and glide the open ocean with humpback whales. Discover all there is to love about our Blue Planet, the stories of its inhabitants, and realise how you can help protect this wilderness beneath the waves. In collaboration with BBC Earth, this illustrated non-fiction book will capture the wonder, beauty, and emotion of the iconic BBC Blue Planet II TV series.
Author : Ruth Strother
Publisher : Sleeping Bear Alphabets
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 21,8 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781585364541
Readers examine Earth's diverse ecosystems (deserts), discover geological wonders (karst caves), learn weather phenomena (hurricanes), and more. Full color.
Author : James Honeyborne
Publisher : Random House
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 42,53 MB
Release : 2017-10-19
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1473530075
Take a deep breath and dive into the mysteries of the ocean. Our understanding of ocean life has changed dramatically in the last decade, with new species, new behaviours, and new habitats being discovered at a rapid rate. Blue Planet II, which accompanies an epic 7-part series on BBC1, is a ground-breaking new look at the richness and variety of underwater life across our planet. From ambush hunters such as the carnivorous bobbit worm to cuttlefish mesmerising their prey with a pulsating light display, Blue Planet II reveals the never-before-seen secrets of the ocean. With over 200 breath-taking photographs and stills from the BBC Natural History Unit's spectacular footage, each chapter of Blue Planet II brings to life a different habitat of the oceanic world. Voyages of migration show how each of the oceans on our planet are connected; coral reefs and arctic ice communities are revealed as thriving underwater cities; while shorelines throw up continual challenges to those living there or passing through. A final chapter explores the science and technology of the Ocean enterprise – not only how they were able to capture these amazing stories on film, but what the future holds for marine life based on these discoveries.
Author : Isabelle Simler
Publisher : Eerdmans Young Readers
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 34,73 MB
Release : 2017-02-20
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1467464538
A lovely and tranquil celebration of nature The sun has set, the day has ended, but the night hasn't quite arrived yet. This magical twilight is known as the blue hour. Everything in nature—sky, water, flowers, birds, foxes—comes together in a symphony of blue to celebrate the merging of night and day. With its soothing text and radiant artwork, this elegant picture book displays the majesty of nature and reminds readers that beauty is fleeting but also worth savoring.
Author : Philip Ball
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 27,77 MB
Release : 2003-04-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780226036281
From Egyptian wall paintings to the Venetian Renaissance, impressionism to digital images, Philip Ball tells the fascinating story of how art, chemistry, and technology have interacted throughout the ages to render the gorgeous hues we admire on our walls and in our museums. Finalist for the 2002 National Book Critics Circle Award.
Author : James Fox
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 26,9 MB
Release : 2022-04-12
Category : History
ISBN : 125027852X
A kaleidoscopic exploration that traverses history, literature, art, and science to reveal humans' unique and vibrant relationship with color. We have an extraordinary connection to color—we give it meanings, associations, and properties that last millennia and span cultures, continents, and languages. In The World According to Color, James Fox takes seven elemental colors—black, red, yellow, blue, white, purple, and green—and uncovers behind each a root idea, based on visual resemblances and common symbolism throughout history. Through a series of stories and vignettes, the book then traces these meanings to show how they morphed and multiplied and, ultimately, how they reveal a great deal about the societies that produced them: reflecting and shaping their hopes, fears, prejudices, and preoccupations. Fox also examines the science of how our eyes and brains interpret light and color, and shows how this is inherently linked with the meanings we give to hue. And using his background as an art historian, he explores many of the milestones in the history of art—from Bronze Age gold-work to Turner, Titian to Yves Klein—in a fresh way. Fox also weaves in literature, philosophy, cinema, archaeology, and art—moving from Monet to Marco Polo, early Japanese ink artists to Shakespeare and Goethe to James Bond. By creating a new history of color, Fox reveals a new story about humans and our place in the universe: second only to language, color is the greatest carrier of cultural meaning in our world.
