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Describes the importance of rain forests, types of plant and animal life that live there, and how rain forests are threatened by deforestation.
Author : Lucy Baker
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 31,54 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Rain forest ecology
ISBN : 9780716652052
Describes the importance of rain forests, types of plant and animal life that live there, and how rain forests are threatened by deforestation.
Author : Pamela Dell
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 41,19 MB
Release : 2005-09
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780736843249
Tells about a variety of rain forest plants, how they are used, why they are in danger, and how they are being protected.
Author : Adrian Forsyth
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 33,19 MB
Release : 2011-05-24
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1439144745
Seventeen marvelous essays introducing the habitats, ecology, plants, and animals of the Central and South American rainforest. A lively, lucid portrait of the tropics as seen by two uncommonly observant and thoughtful field biologists. Its seventeen marvelous essays introduce the habitats, ecology, plants, and animals of the Central and South American rainforest. Includes a lengthy appendix of practical advice for the tropical traveler.
Author : Madeleine Dunphy
Publisher : Web of Life Children's Book
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 17,56 MB
Release : 2012-10-24
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 098833030X
Lyrical words and lush, naturalistic paintings introduce children to the tropical rain forest and the animals that live within its wet, green world. From swinging monkeys and upside-down-hanging sloths to graceful caimans and stalking jaguars, Here Is the Tropical Rain Forest envelops young readers in a stunning jungle while teaching them an important lesson about the ecosystem. Madeleine Dunphy’s rhythmical, cumulative text shows how each plant and animal of the rain forest is inextricably linked with the others in a chain of life. Michael Rothman’s deeply hued and shadowed paintings brilliantly evoke this singular environment.
Author : A. Fowler
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 37,25 MB
Release : 2000-09
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780613547321
For use in schools and libraries only. A Rookie Read-About Geography.
Author : Deborah Hodge
Publisher : Kids Can Press Ltd
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 47,44 MB
Release : 2008-02
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1554530415
Illustrations and simple text introduce young readers to the animals that live in a rain forest.
Author : Marius Jacobs
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 18,33 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 364272793X
In recent years, tropical forests have received more attention and have been the subject of greater environmental concern than any other kind of vegetation. There is an increasing public awareness of the importance of these forests, not only as a diminishing source of countless products used by mankind, nor for their effects on soil stabilization and climate, but as unrivalled sources of what today we call biodiversity. Threats to the continued existence of the forests represent threats to tens of thousands of species of organisms, both plants and animals. It is all the more surprising, therefore, that there have been no major scientific accounts published in recent years since the classic handbook by Paul W. Richards, The Tropical Rain Forest in 1952. Some excellent popular accounts of tropical rain forests have been published including Paul Richard's The Life of the Jungle, and Catherine Caulfield's In the Rainforest and Jungles, edited by Edward Ayensu. There have been numerous, often conflicting, assessments of the rate of conversion of tropical forests to other uses and explanations of the underlying causes, and in 1978 UNESCO/UNEPI FAO published a massive report, The Tropical Rain Forest, which, although full of useful information, is highly selective and does not fully survey the enormous diversity of the forests.
Author : Allan Fowler
Publisher :
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 31,81 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Planets
ISBN : 9780516241456
Provides brief information about each of the nine planets that makes up our solar system.
Author : Nancy Smiler Levinson
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 26,37 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Rain forest ecology
ISBN : 9780545112031
An introduction to what a rain forest is and the kinds of plants and creatures that live in them.
Author : Don Kulick
Publisher : Algonquin Books
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 37,13 MB
Release : 2019-06-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1616209046
“Perhaps the finest and most profound account of ethnographic fieldwork and discovery that has ever entered the anthropological literature.” —The Wall Street Journal “If you want to experience a profoundly different culture without the exhausting travel (to say nothing of the cost), this is an excellent choice.” —The Washington Post As a young anthropologist, Don Kulick went to the tiny village of Gapun in New Guinea to document the death of the native language, Tayap. He arrived knowing that you can’t study a language without understanding the daily lives of the people who speak it: how they talk to their children, how they argue, how they gossip, how they joke. Over the course of thirty years, he returned again and again to document Tayap before it disappeared entirely, and he found himself inexorably drawn into their world, and implicated in their destiny. Kulick wanted to tell the story of Gapuners—one that went beyond the particulars and uses of their language—that took full stock of their vanishing culture. This book takes us inside the village as he came to know it, revealing what it is like to live in a difficult-to-get-to village of two hundred people, carved out like a cleft in the middle of a tropical rainforest. But A Death in the Rainforest is also an illuminating look at the impact of Western culture on the farthest reaches of the globe and the story of why this anthropologist realized finally that he had to give up his study of this language and this village. An engaging, deeply perceptive, and brilliant interrogation of what it means to study a culture, A Death in the Rainforest takes readers into a world that endures in the face of massive changes, one that is on the verge of disappearing forever.