Author : Joseph Kuefler
Publisher : Balzer + Bray
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 47,97 MB
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780062364272
A stunning picture book about the power of imagination, perfect for fans of Extra Yarn and Journey, from debut author-illustrator Joseph Kuefler. Just behind an ordinary house filled with too little fun, Ernest D. decides that today will be the day he explores the depths of his pond. Beyond the pond, he discovers a not-so-ordinary world that will change him forever.
Author : Gilbert Waldbauer
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 25,28 MB
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780674022119
A water strider darts across a pond, its feet dimpling the surface tension; a giant water bug dives below, carrying his mate’s eggs on his back; hidden among plant roots on the silty bottom, a dragonfly larva stalks unwary minnows. Barely skimming the surface, in the air above the pond, swarm mayflies with diaphanous wings. Take this walk around the pond with Gilbert Waldbauer and discover the most amazingly diverse inhabitants of the freshwater world. In his hallmark companionable style, Waldbauer introduces us to the aquatic insects that have colonized ponds, lakes, streams, and rivers, especially those in North America. Along the way we learn about the diverse forms these arthropods take, as well as their remarkable modes of life—how they have radiated into every imaginable niche in the water environment, and how they cope with the challenges such an environment poses to respiration, vision, thermoregulation, and reproduction. We encounter the caddis fly larva building its protective case and camouflaging it with stream detritus; green darner dragonflies mating midair in an acrobatic wheel formation; ants that have adapted to the tiny water environment within a pitcher plant; and insects whose adaptations to the aquatic lifestyle are furnishing biomaterials engineers with ideas for future applications in industry and consumer goods. While learning about the evolution, natural history, and ecology of these insects, readers also discover more than a little about the scientists who study them.
Author : Elizabeth Pond
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 14,67 MB
Release : 2010-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780815705796
Beyond the Wall is the first book, in either English or German, to tell the whole story of the extraordinary revolution that demolished the Berlin Wall, ended the Cold war, and tore apart the Soviet regime. Elizabeth Pond, former Moscow and European correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor, was an eyewitness to the dramatic events of 1989-92 and to the fifteen years of relations between Germany and Eastern Europe leading up to them. Pond weaves together in riveting prose the strands of events that are usually recounted separately. Rather than looking just at the East German revolt or the process of unification that created a new nation, she traces the interaction of these events and their diplomatic consequences for Europe. Pond shows the political, economic, and social forces at work--leading up to the unification, during the transition process, and in the aftermath. Looking at the European framework, she explains how significantly the European Community and its move toward integration both affected and were affected by German unification. The book contains a wealth of new information form hundreds of interviews with top German and American policymakers, East German Politburo members and average German citizens. It also incorporates up-to-date research on such topics as the Stasi secret police and the midlife crisis of the German left. Pond concludes with an assessment of the roles of the United States and a unified Germany in the new Europe. Calling for a continued partnership between the United States and Germany, who "have come through a common baptism of fire since the fall of the Berlin Wall," Pond casts an optimistic eye toward the future.
Author : Frank Serafini
Publisher : Kids Can Press Ltd
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 23,61 MB
Release : 2010-02
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1553373952
Through the magic of close-up photography, the author first asks the reader to identify an object found in a pond in a super-close-up picture, with the next page revealing the entire picture.
Author : Joy McCullough
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 33,61 MB
Release : 2022-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1534471227
Moving to a Scottish castle allows seventh-grader Callie to escape friendship problems in San Diego, but finding new friends, even in the birding club an old journal inspires her to join, proves challenging.
Author : Claire-Louise Bennett
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 12,47 MB
Release : 2016-07-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 039957591X
“A sharp, funny, and eccentric debut … Pond makes the case for Bennett as an innovative writer of real talent. … [It]reminds us that small things have great depths.”–New York Times Book Review "Dazzling…exquisitely written and daring ." –O, the Oprah Magazine Immediately upon its publication in Ireland, Claire-Louise Bennett’s debut began to attract attention well beyond the expectations of the tiny Irish press that published it. A deceptively slender volume, it captures with utterly mesmerizing virtuosity the interior reality of its unnamed protagonist, a young woman living a singular and mostly solitary existence on the outskirts of a small coastal village. Sidestepping the usual conventions of narrative, it focuses on the details of her daily experience—from the best way to eat porridge or bananas to an encounter with cows—rendered sometimes in story-length, story-like stretches of narrative, sometimes in fragments no longer than a page, but always suffused with the hypersaturated, almost synesthetic intensity of the physical world that we remember from childhood. The effect is of character refracted and ventriloquized by environment, catching as it bounces her longings, frustrations, and disappointments—the ending of an affair, or the ambivalent beginning with a new lover. As the narrator’s persona emerges in all its eccentricity, sometimes painfully and often hilariously, we cannot help but see mirrored there our own fraught desires and limitations, and our own fugitive desire, despite everything, to be known. Shimmering and unusual, Pond demands to be devoured in a single sitting that will linger long after the last page.
Author : David Elliott
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 40,90 MB
Release : 2022-05-24
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1536205982
Poems and illustrations celebrate a day at the pond.
Author : David K. Anderson
Publisher : Magical Scrivener Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 50,31 MB
Release : 2013-02-17
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1939233054
They said her grandfather was dead. They said her grandmother was crazy. Christy knows they're wrong. When her grandmother dies, 13-year-old Christy inherits an old family secret: the pond behind her house is in fact a portal to another world. What’s more, she learns that her grandfather went through the portal when he mysteriously “disappeared” nine years ago. Christy tries to respect her grandmother’s final wishes and not go exploring, but when a classmate named Rob falls into the pond, she has to act. Since no one would believe her if she told them the truth about the pond, Christy arranges her own rescue party. In order to rescue Rob, she’ll have to brave a bizarre alien landscape, evade hostile creatures, and protect Danny, the boy from next door who followed her through the portal. Meanwhile on Earth, the grown-ups launch a frantic search, and they’re willing to drain the pond to find out what happened. Will Christy be able to find her grandfather, rescue Rob, and return safely to Earth before she becomes a permanent resident of the Empty World? Portal Through the Pond is the first book of the Empty World Saga, a science fiction adventure series for kids aged 8-12. If your kids have blown through the Land of Stories, devoured the Keeper of the Lost Cities, or can't wait for the next Wings of Fire, make the complete Empty World Saga their next read. Pick up your copy of Portal Through the Pond, and land in an alien world!
Author : Margaret Drabble
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 11,5 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Kenwood Ladies' Pond (London, England)
ISBN : 9781911547396
Combining personal reminiscence with reflections on the history of the place over the years and through the seasons, for the first time this collection brings together writers' impressions of the Pond.
Author : David Pond
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 20,25 MB
Release : 2016-10-08
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0738750875
Discover the path to your energetic core and bring each chakra into its full potential with Chakras Beyond Beginners. Building on concepts presented in Chakras for Beginners, David Pond takes you past basic understanding to explore the many ways chakras can enhance the flow of vital energy in all aspects of your life. Learn how to identify and remove the obstacles that inhibit your energy, as well as how to keep that flow open. Raise your awareness of other people's energy fields and use it to improve your relationships. Find fulfillment, security, and happiness by balancing your chakras. With this guide, you'll unlock your true essence and the source of your well-being. Praise: "[Chakras Beyond Beginners] catapults the serious student into a completely transformed self, awakening to a new reality. This broad-ranging powerhouse is the premier treatment of the subject and beyond!" —Diana Stone, author of Playing the Ascension Game "An insightful and uplifting gift—a true gem. David takes us on an enlightening tour of each chakra, explaining the energetic essence of who we are and making clear that when we control our energy, we control our destiny."mdash;Alex Holland, MAc, LAc, author of Voices of Qi "Anchored at the center of converging illumination, inspiration, and compassion, gifted teacher David Pond opens the way for a spiritually mature journey, embracing the depths and riches of the eternal path through the chakras."—Linda Howe, author of How to Read the Akashic Records "[Chakras Beyond Beginners is] a seminar preserved in book form so that we can refer back to it when stress gets our chakras get out of alignment."—Donna Cunningham, author of Counseling Principles for Astrologers "David's knowledge of the chakras is what Rumi is to sacred poetry and Eckhart Tolle is to the present moment."—Cheryl Thomas, owner and operator of Chapter One Bookstore in Ketchum, Idaho "David takes the reader on a journey, teaching new skills to deepen our relationship with our highly creative and magnetizing true selves."—Marie Manuchehri, author of Intuitive Self Healing "Without question, [Chakras Beyond Beginners] will be the 'go to' book for many years to come. David Pond has indeed penned both a valuable resource and a treasure."—Andria Friesen, author of Speak for the Trees
