[PDF] Natures Olympics eBook

Author : Janet Ruth Heller
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 48,95 MB
Release : 2021-11-11
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1666730734

GET BOOK

Nature’s Olympics offers concise poems about the natural world, including plants, animals, and birds. This book focuses on the flora and fauna of the Midwest. Nature’s Olympics has four sections dedicated to the different seasons: summer, autumn, winter, and spring. Poetic forms include haiku, tanka, sonnets, and free verse. The poems in Nature’s Olympics concern both wilderness areas and cities and show that the natural world inspires insight into human life. Readers will find the poems accessible.

Author : CARRON BROWN
Publisher : Ivy Kids
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 36,80 MB
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1782409874

GET BOOK

Are you ready to meet some of the most incredible Olympians in the world? These animal athletes are at the top of their game, and they’re ready to go for gold! This fascinating book for readers aged 5+ examines the incredible abilities of animals from all around the globe with a captivating and original conceit – in Animal Olympics, the creatures are competing, and the reader has a front row seat to the action. In each event, animals are awarded bronze, silver or gold for their skills. Events featured in the book include diving, wrestling, rock climbing and gymnastics. Readers will discover all kinds of astounding animals, from the bar-headed goose, which flies at heights of up to 6,300 metres, to the flic-flac spider, which cartwheels across the Moroccan desert. Fun vignettes show the animals in their heat, and are accompanied by absorbing, fact-packed captions. On your marks, get set, and off we go to the Animal Olympics!

Author : Tim McNulty
Publisher : Mariner Books
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 21,93 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Nature
ISBN :

GET BOOK

Relates the park's history, personality, and distinctive natural features; and includes checklists of plants and animals, visitor information, and maps.

Author : Nagano Olympic Winter Games Organizing Committee
Publisher :
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 41,11 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Olympics
ISBN :

GET BOOK

Explains the "native forest" project begun by Nagano to promote the restoration of Japan's native forests.

Author : Tim McNulty
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 24,83 MB
Release : 2018-04-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 0295743271

GET BOOK

Renowned for its old-growth rain forest, wilderness coast, and glaciated peaks, Olympic National Park is a living laboratory for ecological renewal, especially as the historic Elwha River basin regenerates in the wake of dam removal. In this classic guide to the park, Tim McNulty invites us into the natural and human history of these nearly million acres, from remote headwaters to roadside waterfalls, from shipwreck sites to Native American historical settlements and contemporary resource stewardship, along the way detailing the park’s unique plant and animal life. McNulty reminds us that though “the mountains and rivers remain ‘timeless,’ our understanding of the lifeforms that inhabit them—and the effects our actions have on their future—is an ongoing, ever deepening story.” Color photographs Practical advice on how to make the most of your visit Handy flora and fauna species checklists Inspiring descriptions of endangered species recovery Detailed look at Elwha River restoration after dam removal

Author : J. Karamichas
Publisher : Springer
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 49,29 MB
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1137297476

GET BOOK

This book examines the environmental credentials of Olympic Host cities and the opportunities afforded by hosting the Games towards the ecological modernization of the host nation by using perspectives offered by environmental sociology. It also sets out projections for the environmental legacy of London 2012.

Author : Jules Boykoff
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 32,25 MB
Release : 2016-05-17
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1784780731

GET BOOK

A timely, no-holds barred, critical political history of the modern Olympic Games The Olympics have a checkered, sometimes scandalous, political history. Jules Boykoff, a former US Olympic team member, takes readers from the event’s nineteenth-century origins, through the Games’ flirtation with Fascism, and into the contemporary era of corporate control. Along the way he recounts vibrant alt-Olympic movements, such as the Workers’ Games and Women’s Games of the 1920s and 1930s as well as athlete-activists and political movements that stood up to challenge the Olympic machine.

Author : Jules Boykoff
Publisher : Critical Issues in Sport and S
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 36,90 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813562025

GET BOOK

In Activism and the Olympics, Boykoff provides a critical overview of the Olympic industry and its political opponents in the modern era. After presenting a brief history of Olympic activism, he turns his attention to on-the-ground activism through the lens of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics and the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, drawing from personal interviews with activists, journalists, civil libertarians, and Olympic organizers.

Author : Gail Herman
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 25,55 MB
Release : 2016-03-22
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0399542906

GET BOOK

Back in 775 BC, athletes from all over Ancient Greece came together to compete in various games. The contests were held every four years and winning athletes brought honor and respect to their homelands. The tradition of the Olympic Games faded over time until 1896, when they were brought back to life. The first modern Olympics were held in Athens, Greece, with over two hundred athletes from fourteen countries. Today, nearly three thousand years after the first Games, the Summer Olympics attract one hundred thousand top athletes from over two hundred countries. Billions of fans around the world cheer on their national teams to bring back the gold.