Expi: Shark Tales (6 Pk)
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Publisher : National Geographic Learning
Page : pages
File Size : 40,99 MB
Release : 2006-01-01
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ISBN : 9780736240987
Author :
Publisher : National Geographic Learning
Page : pages
File Size : 40,99 MB
Release : 2006-01-01
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ISBN : 9780736240987
Author : National Geographic Learning
Publisher : National Geographic Learning
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,2 MB
Release : 2006
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ISBN : 9780792281542
Single copy of Shark Tales. Learn the truth about the different fearsome sharks of the ocean and how people might to be blame for their attacks.
Author : National Geographic Learning
Publisher : National Geographic Learning
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 31,22 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Endangered species
ISBN : 9780792278160
Single copy of Shark Tales. Learn the truth about the different fearsome sharks of the ocean and how people might to be blame for their attacks.
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Publisher : National Geographic Learning
Page : pages
File Size : 10,12 MB
Release : 2006-01-01
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ISBN : 9780736241311
Author : Heather Lang
Publisher : Astra Publishing House
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 45,46 MB
Release : 2021-08-10
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1635926785
Here is a story of Alice Coachman, the first African-American woman to win an Olympic gold medal. When Alice Coachman was a girl, most White people wouldn't even shake her hand. Yet when the King of England placed an Olympic medal around her neck in 1948, he extended his hand to Alice in congratulations. Standing on a podium in London's Wembley Stadium, Alice was a long way from the fields of Georgia where she ran barefoot as a child. With a record-breaking leap, she had become the first African-American woman to win an Olympic gold medal. This inspirational picture book is perfect to celebrate Women's History Month or to share any day of the year.
Author : Tim Cooke
Publisher : Travel with the Great Explorer
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,95 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780778712466
Readers learn about the travels of English explorer and sea navigator Henry Hudson.
Author : Kathleen T. Isaacs
Publisher : American Library Association
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 39,3 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0838911269
This annotated resource by veteran children's book reviewer Isaacs surveys the best 250 nonfiction/informational titles for ages 3 through 10, helping librarians make informed collection development and purchasing decisions.
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Page : 488 pages
File Size : 15,79 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Children's literature
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Author : Sy Montgomery
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 37,20 MB
Release : 2016-07-12
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1501161148
Finalist for the National Book Award for Nonfiction * New York Times Bestseller * A Huffington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of the Year * One of the Best Books of the Month on Goodreads * Library Journal Best Sci-Tech Book of the Year * An American Library Association Notable Book of the Year “Sy Montgomery’s The Soul of an Octopus does for the creature what Helen Macdonald’s H Is for Hawk did for raptors.” —New Statesman, UK “One of the best science books of the year.” —Science Friday, NPR Another New York Times bestseller from the author of The Good Good Pig, this “fascinating…touching…informative…entertaining” (The Daily Beast) book explores the emotional and physical world of the octopus—a surprisingly complex, intelligent, and spirited creature—and the remarkable connections it makes with humans. In pursuit of the wild, solitary, predatory octopus, popular naturalist Sy Montgomery has practiced true immersion journalism. From New England aquarium tanks to the reefs of French Polynesia and the Gulf of Mexico, she has befriended octopuses with strikingly different personalities—gentle Athena, assertive Octavia, curious Kali, and joyful Karma. Each creature shows her cleverness in myriad ways: escaping enclosures like an orangutan; jetting water to bounce balls; and endlessly tricking companions with multiple “sleights of hand” to get food. Scientists have only recently accepted the intelligence of dogs, birds, and chimpanzees but now are watching octopuses solve problems and are trying to decipher the meaning of the animal’s color-changing techniques. With her “joyful passion for these intelligent and fascinating creatures” (Library Journal Editors’ Spring Pick), Montgomery chronicles the growing appreciation of this mollusk as she tells a unique love story. By turns funny, entertaining, touching, and profound, The Soul of an Octopus reveals what octopuses can teach us about the meeting of two very different minds.
Author : Colin Speedie
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 27,94 MB
Release : 2021-06-08
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0691232458
There are few marine creatures as spectacular as the Basking Shark. At up to 11 metres in length and seven tonnes in weight, this colossal, plankton-feeding fish is one of the largest in the world, second only to the whale shark. Historically, Basking Sharks were a familiar sight in the northern hemisphere – off the coasts of Norway, Scotland, Ireland, Canada and the USA, for example. In an 18th Century world without electricity, they became the focus of active hunting for their huge livers containing large amounts of valuable oil, primarily used in lamps. Catch numbers were small enough to leave populations largely intact, but during the 20th Century a new breed of hunter joined the fray, some driven as much by a need for adventure as for financial gain. With improved equipment and experience, they exploited the shark on an industrial scale that drastically reduced numbers, leading to localised near-extinction in some areas. From the 1970’s onward a new generation took to the seas, this time with conservation in mind to identify where the shark might still be found in the waters around the British Isles, employing new technologies to solve long-standing mysteries about the behaviour of this elusive creature. Using the best of both old and new research techniques, the case was built to justify the species becoming one of the most protected sharks in the oceans. Today, the Basking Shark is a much-loved cornerstone of our natural heritage. There are positive signs that the population has stabilised and may even be slowly recovering from the damage of the past, proving that timely conservation measures can be effective. Join us on a journey amidst wild seas, places, people and conservation history in the battle to protect this iconic creature – a true sea monster’s tale.