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Science+Nature: Amazing Animals
Language
English
Description
Journey into the wilds of planet Earth to discover some of the most amazing animals on the planet. Inside, we’ll venture into the dead of night and meet nocturnal night-crawlers, come face-to-face with some of the most powerful predators in the animal kingdom, grab a magnifying glass and get up close and personal with intriguing insects, and much, much more. We’ll also don our investigation hats and get to the bottom of some
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Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
Looks at some of the visible ways that the earth can be changed in a matter of minutes, and discusses how the natural forces involved in earthquakes and volcanoes can raise mountains, build islands, change weather and help to produce varieties of plants and animals.
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Explores color's countless manifestations, providing insight into such phenomena as the visible spectrum, light absorption and reflection, how humans see color, how vision evolved, the sky, rainbows, colored gems, animal pigmentation, how animals use color to find mates and to protect themselves, and the use of color in human religion, ritual, design, navigation, communication, and personal identity.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Award-winning writer Lyanda Lynn Haupt's highly personal new book is a brilliant invitation to live with the earth in both simple and profound ways. She invokes rootedness as a way of being in concert with the wilderness--and wildness--that sustains humans and all of life"--
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Explores color's countless manifestations, providing insight into such phenomena as the visible spectrum, light absorption and reflection, how humans see color, how vision evolved, the sky, rainbows, colored gems, animal pigmentation, how animals use color to find mates and to protect themselves, and the use of color in human religion, ritual, design, navigation, communication, and personal identity.
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) wrote short, often-enigmatic poems that are widely anthologized, quoted, and read by students of every age. Yet, as widely known as her poetry is, Dickinson as a person is considered to have been an inscrutable recluse--a silent figure who wore only white, wrote in secret, never left her Amherst, Massachusetts, home, and had no interest in sharing her poetry with others. In Becoming Emily, young readers will learn how--while...
Author
Language
English
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"How does God speak through His creation, and what is He saying? Chapters include interviews with leading scientists. We were made to wonder. To live in awe of God. This book expands our hearts and minds so that we might delight in the wisdom and power of our triune God!"--
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"It will take something extraordinary to show four women who they truly are . . . October 1840. A young woman staggers alone through a forest in the English countryside as a huge pair of impossible wings rip themselves from her shoulders. In London, rumors of a "fallen angel" cause a frenzy across the city, and a surgeon desperate for fame and fortune finds himself in the grips of a dangerous obsession, one that will place the women he seeks in the...
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