[PDF] Rain Forest Literatures eBook

Author : Lisa Trumbauer
Publisher : Capstone Classroom
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 14,72 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780736852586

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This book introduces the Amazon rain forest, presenting information on its trees, plants, and animals.

Author : Christina Mia Gardeski
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 12,40 MB
Release : 2017-08
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1515776794

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What can you find in a rain forest? From chattering birds and sleepy sloths, the tall trees of the rain forest are full of life! Discovering the secrets of the rain forest will captivate beginning readers. All Little Pebble books have an Accelerated Reader ATOS level of 1.0 or below.

Author : Melvin Berger
Publisher : Newbridge Educational Publishing
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 14,21 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781567842258

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Student Book

Author : Ted O'Hare
Publisher : Rourke Publishing (FL)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 13,26 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Rain forests
ISBN : 9781595151513

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Discusses where tropical rain forests are located and the plants and animals that are found in the rain forest

Author : Susan K. Mitchell
Publisher : Arbordale Publishing
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 49,34 MB
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780976882367

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Children will delight in discovering the many plants and animals who call the rain forest home in a clever adaptation of the song The Green Grass Grows All Around.

Author : Candace Slater
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 45,25 MB
Release : 2004-03-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 0822385279

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The essays collected here offer important new reflections on the multiple images of and rhetoric surrounding the rain forest. The slogan “Save the Rain Forest!”—emblazoned on glossy posters of tall trees wreathed in vines and studded with monkeys and parrots—promotes the popular image of a marvelously wild and vulnerable rain forest. Although representations like these have fueled laudable rescue efforts, in many ways they have done more harm than good, as these essays show. Such icons tend to conceal both the biological variety of rain forests and the diversity of their human inhabitants. They also frequently obscure the specific local and global interactions that are as much a part of today’s rain forests as are the array of plants and animals. In attending to these complexities, this volume focuses on specific portrayals of rain forests and the consequences of these characterizations for both forest inhabitants and outsiders. From diverse disciplines—history, archaeology, sociology, literature, law, and cultural anthropology—the contributors provide case studies from Latin America, Asia, and Africa. They point the way toward a search for a rain forest that is both a natural entity and a social history, an inhabited place and a shifting set of ideas. The essayists demonstrate how the single image of a wild and yet fragile forest became fixed in the popular mind in the late twentieth century, thereby influencing the policies of corporations, environmental groups, and governments. Such simplistic conceptions, In Search of the Rain Forest shows, might lead companies to tout their “green” technologies even as they try to downplay the dissenting voices of native populations. Or they might cause a government to create a tiger reserve that displaces peaceful peasants while opening the doors to poachers and bandits. By encouraging a nuanced understanding of distinctive, constantly evolving forests with different social and natural histories, this volume provides an important impetus for protection efforts that take into account the rain forest in all of its complexity. Contributors. Scott Fedick, Alex Greene, Paul Greenough, Nancy Peluso, Suzana Sawyer, Candace Slater, Charles Zerner