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Author : Kay Jackson
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 38,38 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780736864046
A simple look at deserts and their animals and plants.
Author : Gary Paul Nabhan
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 47,46 MB
Release : 2020-11-10
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0816540284
In this refreshing collection, one of our best writers on desert places, Gary Paul Nabhan, challenges traditional notions of the desert. Beautiful, reflective, and at times humorous, Nabhan’s extended essay also called “The Nature of Desert Nature” reveals the complexity of what a desert is and can be. He passionately writes about what it is like to visit a desert and what living in a desert looks like when viewed through a new frame, turning age-old notions of the desert on their heads. Nabhan invites a prism of voices—friends, colleagues, and advisors from his more than four decades of study of deserts—to bring their own perspectives. Scientists, artists, desert contemplatives, poets, and writers bring the desert into view and investigate why these places compel us to walk through their sands and beneath their cacti and acacia. We observe the spines and spears, stings and songs of the desert anew. Unexpected. Surprising. Enchanting. Like the desert itself, each essay offers renewed vocabulary and thoughtful perceptions. The desert inspires wonder. Attending to history, culture, science, and spirit, The Nature of Desert Nature celebrates the bounty and the significance of desert places. Contributors Thomas M. Antonio Homero Aridjis James Aronson Tessa Bielecki Alberto Búrquez Montijo Francisco Cantú Douglas Christie Paul Dayton Alison Hawthorne Deming Father David Denny Exequiel Ezcurra Thomas Lowe Fleischner Jack Loeffler Ellen McMahon Rubén Martínez Curt Meine Alberto Mellado Moreno Paul Mirocha Gary Paul Nabhan Ray Perotti Larry Stevens Stephen Trimble Octaviana V. Trujillo Benjamin T. Wilder Andy Wilkinson Ofelia Zepeda
Author : Buffy Silverman
Publisher : Lerner Digital ™
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 18,23 MB
Release : 2017-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1512485276
Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience! The desert biome can be found all around the world. Land in this biome is dry and often hot. How do animals in deserts find water? And what kinds of plants thrive in deserts? Read this book to find out!
Author : Charles Bowden
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 25,79 MB
Release : 1988-04-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780816510818
Contains essays that depict and decry the rapid growth and disappearing natural landscapes of the Sunbelt
Author : Lonely Planet Kids
Publisher : Lonely Planet
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,69 MB
Release : 2017-02-21
Category :
ISBN : 9781786573148
Join our two young explorers - Marco and Amelia - as they travel to some of the hottest and driest places on the planet on a round-the-world adventure. Packed with pages to colour, puzzles to complete and stickers to add. A desert adventure awaits... let's explore!
Author : Ariel Dorfman
Publisher : Disney Electronic Content
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 23,15 MB
Release : 2011-06-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1426209029
The Norte Grande of Chile, the world's driest desert, had ''engendered contemporary Chile, everything that was good about it, everything that was dreadful,'' writes Ariel Dorfman in his brilliant exploration of one of the least known and most exotic corners of the globe. For 10,000 years the desert had been mined for silver, iron, and copper, but it was the 19th-century discovery of nitrate that transformed the country into a modern state and forced the desert's colonization. The mines' riches generated mansions and oligarchs in Chile's more temperate region—and terrible inequalities throughout the country. The Norte Grande also gave birth to the first Chilean democratic and socialist movements, nurturing every major political figure of modern Chile from Salvador Allende to Augusto Pinochet. In this richly layered personal memoir, illustrated with the author's own photographs, Dorfman sets out to explore the origins of contemporary Chile—and, along the way, seek out his wife's European ancestors who came years ago to Chile as part of the nitrate rush. And, most poignantly, he looks for traces of his friend and fellow 1960s activist, Freddy Taberna, executed by a firing squad in a remote Pinochet death camp.
Author : Lawrence R. Walker
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 26,23 MB
Release : 2018-03-27
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0816532621
Invites readers to explore the smallest and most unique southwestern desert, the beautiful Mojave--Provided by publisher.
Author : Barbara Gowan
Publisher : Sleeping Bear Press
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 42,73 MB
Release : 2012-06-25
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1410310698
D is for Desert: A World Deserts Alphabet uses the alphabet to explore desert regions around the world, explaining the science behind what determines a desert and showcasing fascinating features and desert inhabitants. Budding scientists will traverse the rocky deserts of Mongolia astride the Bactrian camel, spy on the poisonous Gila monster and other lizards in the Sonoran Desert, discover geological wonders in Bryce Canyon National Park, and learn about desert weather phenomena such as dust storms and flash floods, and much more. A glossary of key desert-science terms and concepts is included.
Author : Sheila Anderson
Publisher : LernerClassroom
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 17,68 MB
Release : 2010-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0761356746
Describes the physical and behavioral adaptations that some animals have adopted in order to survive in the desert.
Author : Jamale Ijouiher
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 39,4 MB
Release : 2022-11-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 0253063337
An essential introduction to the age of dinosaurs in Africa. Once Africa was referred to as the ''Lost World of the dinosaur era,'' so poorly known were its ancient flora and fauna. Worse still, many priceless fossil specimens from the Sahara Desert were destroyed during the Second World War. Fortunately, in the twentieth-first century, more researchers are now working in north Africa than ever before and making fascinating discoveries such as the dinosaur Spinosaurus. Based on a decade of study, The Desert Bones brings the world of African dinosaurs fully into the light. Jamale Ijouiher skillfully draws on the latest research and knowledge about paleoecology to paint a compelling and comprehensive portrait of the mid-Cretaceous in North Africa.