A young snail faces many challenges as it tries to grow safely into an adult. All the facts a young child needs to understand the life of this intriguing backyard creature are packed into this engaging narrative.
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Truly fun for all ages, this unique coloring book subversively and playfully examines the female gender stereotypes that pervade daily life. A diverse group of pictures reinforce positive gender roles throughout the book and show that girls are thinkers, creators, fighters, and healers. Some of the characters who show the new face of the feminine include Rapunzel, who now has power tools and Miss Muffet, who tells the spider off and considers a career as an arachnologist. Deconstructing the homogeneity of gender expression has never been so colorful.
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Patterns in the numbers of species have fascinated naturalists for centuries. Understanding the causes of latitudinal gradients in species richness and biodiversity 'hotspots' is often considered to be the holy grail of ecology. Extinctions in the past offer insight into what may occur in the future under climate change and habitat loss. The subject of vegetation-climate interaction is a compelling issue scientifically and is also of importance for land management practices. This book examines the state of current understanding of species richness patterns and their explanations. As well as the present day world it deals with diversification and extinction, in the conservation of species richness, and the difficulties of assessing how many species remain to be discovered. The author will provide a readable, informative and up-to-date account of the patterns and controls on biodiversity and the scientifically compelling subject of vegetation-climate interaction. Jonathan Adams is uniquely qualified to write on the far-reaching and many-faceted subject of species richness. He is Assistant Professor in Ecology, Rutgers University, New Jersey, and is currently working on testing aspects of the Janzen-Connell hypothesis for forest diversity. He has published about 50 papers on many different aspects of ecology, including species richness, and the recently published Vegetation-Climate Interactions for Praxis.
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Earth’s surface is always changing. Landforms such as mountains, valleys, plains, and plateaus are made by natural forces. These natural forces, whether earthquakes, volcanoes, wind, or rain, wear down and reshape Earth’s landforms over a period of time. Some landforms are only a few hours old, while others are a million years old. Scientists who specialize in landforms are called geomorphologists. For more information, read Pioneers of Earth Scientists From Mercator to Evans, another book in the Mission: Science series.
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Illus. in black-and-white. Jack and Annie travel back in time to medieval England for an adventure inside a storybook castle, from feasting hall to dreadful dungeon.
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It's time for the annual science fair. This year, the kids at Rebus Elementary will be competing against the students of Piggot Academy. The prize is a trip to the American Museum of Natural History in New York! The members of the Abracadabra Club are dead-set on winning, but someone keeps sabotaging their projects. Who's to blame? That annoying Bug Jones? The snobby kids from Piggot? Someone is trying to make Rebus lose the competition-and to find the culprit, the Abracadabra Club must reach deep into its bag of tricks!
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Grab a flashlight and join the fun! The Magic School Bus is heading across the country in search of all kinds of bats: the biggest, smallest, and most endangered.
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Kids will love all the interactive adventures in the Nature Trail series. Each book features touch-and-feel pages that stimulate a child's curiosity and make learning about the natural world an entertaining experience. Feel the sticky nectar of a flower, then turn the flap to reveal the sticky tongue of an anteater. Touch the leathery feet of a seagull, then turn the flap and find a crab scuttling over the rocks. Every page is filled with Maurice Pledger's stunning and detailed illustrations and endearing animal characters. Hit the trail in all four adventures: By the Seashore, In the Forest, In the Rain Forest, and On the Mountain. Kids will also love Maurice Pledger's Sticker Books and Peek-and-Find Books.
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This single-volume compilation of three books centers on Hyperbolic Functions, an introduction to the relationship between the hyperbolic sine, cosine, and tangent, and the geometric properties of the hyperbola. Configuration Theorems concerns theories on collinear points and concurrent lines, and Equivalent and Equidecomposable Figures examines the dissection and reassembly of polyhedrons. 1963 edition.
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