Book Description
A dazzling and stunningly illustrated introduction to the diversity of life on our planet.
Author : Rochelle Strauss
Publisher : Kids Can Press Ltd
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 48,87 MB
Release : 2013-03
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1554539617
A dazzling and stunningly illustrated introduction to the diversity of life on our planet.
Author : A P J Abdul Kalam
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 14,54 MB
Release : 2015-10-25
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9351184501
In this moving collection of poems, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam takes us into his world, full of simplicity and beauty, understanding and compassion. Kalam’s love for the country hines through as he inspires us and urges us to break the barriers of caste, religion and language. He wonders at God’s creation in his paeans to nature, while imparting a deeply personal touch to his observations of human relationships. The Life Tree is an intimate introduction to Kalam the man, his life and his inspirational thoughts.
Author : Michael Rosenak
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 11,21 MB
Release : 2019-03-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1000009920
From the Preface: THE IDEA OF THIS BOOK came to my mind many years ago, after several conversations with my friend and colleague in Jewish educational studies Joseph Lukins professor at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York. He had suggested that an educated Jew is, among other things, one who lives in some spiritual and cognitive proximity to the weekly Torah reading, the parashat hashavua, "portion of the week." He insisted that issues in the philosophy of education might be in the liturgy's scriptural readings,that even the way messages of tradition divided the Torah into "portions" reflected discrete modes of teaching Torah.In this book, theoretical conceptions, garnered from many places, even if they do not precede reading of Torah, are certainly prisms through which I can read it.
Author : Joel Cracraft
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 13,87 MB
Release : 2004-07-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 0199729603
This edited volume is provides an authoritative synthesis of knowledge about the history of life. All the major groups of organisms are treated, by the leading workers in their fields. With sections on: The Importance of Knowing the Tree of Life; The Origin and Radiation of Life on Earth; The Relationships of Green Plants; The Relationships of Fungi; and The Relationships of Animals. This book should prove indispensable for evolutionary biologists, taxonomists, ecologists interested in biodiversity, and as a baseline sourcebook for organismic biologists, botanists, and microbiologists. An essential reference in this fundamental area.
Author : Michael A. Eisenberg
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 47,92 MB
Release : 2021-08-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1637580711
One of Israel’s most successful venture capitalists uses the words and actions of the Hebrew patriarchs to lay the foundations for a modern growth economy based on timeless business principles and values. Entrepreneurs, businessmen, and investors are constantly looking for principles and rules that will pave the way for success. Usually, those at the forefront are successful entrepreneurs from Silicon Valley or legendary Wall Street investors. But the principles of economic growth, wealth creation and preservation were written long before the rise of the modern market economy and its heroes. Michael Eisenberg—one of the most successful venture capitalists in Israel, and one of the first investors in Lemonade, and Wix—reveals in The Tree of Life and Prosperity the eternal principles for successful business, economics, and negotiation hidden in the Torah—and shows their relevance to the modern world we live in.
Author : Melvin Berger
Publisher : Belair Publications
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 47,65 MB
Release : 1998-12
Category : Forest animals
ISBN : 9781567843132
Tells about the different animals and plants that live in trees.
Author : Guillaume Lecointre
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 41,23 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780674021839
Did you know that you are more closely related to a mushroom than to a daisy? That dinosaurs are still among us? That the terms "fish" and "invertebrates" do not indicate scientific groupings? All this is the result of major changes in classification. This book diagrams the tree of life according to the most recent methods of this system.
Author : Suzanne Simard
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 14,5 MB
Release : 2021-05-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 0525656103
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • From the world's leading forest ecologist who forever changed how people view trees and their connections to one another and to other living things in the forest—a moving, deeply personal journey of discovery Suzanne Simard is a pioneer on the frontier of plant communication and intelligence; her TED talks have been viewed by more than 10 million people worldwide. In this, her first book, now available in paperback, Simard brings us into her world, the intimate world of the trees, in which she brilliantly illuminates the fascinating and vital truths--that trees are not simply the source of timber or pulp, but are a complicated, interdependent circle of life; that forests are social, cooperative creatures connected through underground networks by which trees communicate their vitality and vulnerabilities with communal lives not that different from our own. Simard writes--in inspiring, illuminating, and accessible ways—how trees, living side by side for hundreds of years, have evolved, how they learn and adapt their behaviors, recognize neighbors, compete and cooperate with one another with sophistication, characteristics ascribed to human intelligence, traits that are the essence of civil societies--and at the center of it all, the Mother Trees: the mysterious, powerful forces that connect and sustain the others that surround them. And Simard writes of her own life, born and raised into a logging world in the rainforests of British Columbia, of her days as a child spent cataloging the trees from the forest and how she came to love and respect them. And as she writes of her scientific quest, she writes of her own journey, making us understand how deeply human scientific inquiry exists beyond data and technology, that it is about understanding who we are and our place in the world.
Author : Hugh Nissenson
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,83 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN :
Set in Richland County, part of the Ohio frontier in 1811, this work takes the reader into the mind of Thomas Keene, a Congregational minister who has lost his faith and uses the challenges of frontier life to find his way.
Author : David Suzuki
Publisher : Greystone Books Ltd
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 26,58 MB
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1926685539
“Only God can make a tree,” wrote Joyce Kilmer in one of the most celebrated of poems. In Tree: A Life Story, authors David Suzuki and Wayne Grady extend that celebration in a “biography” of this extraordinary — and extraordinarily important — organism. A story that spans a millennium and includes a cast of millions but focuses on a single tree, a Douglas fir, Tree describes in poetic detail the organism’s modest origins that begin with a dramatic burst of millions of microscopic grains of pollen. The authors recount the amazing characteristics of the species, how they reproduce and how they receive from and offer nourishment to generations of other plants and animals. The tree’s pivotal role in making life possible for the creatures around it — including human beings — is lovingly explored. The richly detailed text and Robert Bateman’s original art pay tribute to this ubiquitous organism that is too often taken for granted.