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Publisher : Marshall Cavendish
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 13,19 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Animals
ISBN : 9780761458166
Buddy Bear and Mama spend the day at a pond learning about wildlife.
Author : Gilbert Waldbauer
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 47,91 MB
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780674022119
A water strider darts across a pond, its feet dimpling the surface tension; a giant water bug dives below, carrying his mate’s eggs on his back; hidden among plant roots on the silty bottom, a dragonfly larva stalks unwary minnows. Barely skimming the surface, in the air above the pond, swarm mayflies with diaphanous wings. Take this walk around the pond with Gilbert Waldbauer and discover the most amazingly diverse inhabitants of the freshwater world. In his hallmark companionable style, Waldbauer introduces us to the aquatic insects that have colonized ponds, lakes, streams, and rivers, especially those in North America. Along the way we learn about the diverse forms these arthropods take, as well as their remarkable modes of life—how they have radiated into every imaginable niche in the water environment, and how they cope with the challenges such an environment poses to respiration, vision, thermoregulation, and reproduction. We encounter the caddis fly larva building its protective case and camouflaging it with stream detritus; green darner dragonflies mating midair in an acrobatic wheel formation; ants that have adapted to the tiny water environment within a pitcher plant; and insects whose adaptations to the aquatic lifestyle are furnishing biomaterials engineers with ideas for future applications in industry and consumer goods. While learning about the evolution, natural history, and ecology of these insects, readers also discover more than a little about the scientists who study them.
Author : Nancy Elizabeth Wallace
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 47,96 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Animals
ISBN : 9780545470148
One summer day, Buddy and his mother take a walk around a pond and observe the animals and insects that live there.
Author : Lindsay Barrett George
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 16,5 MB
Release : 1996-09-16
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0688143768
Cammy and William follow an old deer path around the pond in search of blueberries. But unexpectedly they find a lot more. Clue after clue tells them what kind of animal has been there before and left its trace behind. Share their adventure in this handsome and informative companion toIn the Woods: Who's Been Here?andIn the Snow: Who's Been Here?
Author : Anna Milbourne
Publisher :
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 29,37 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Pond animals
ISBN : 9780746070734
Follow the adventures of a wriggly tadpole as it grows up and encounters enormous fish, fluffy ducklings and shimmering dragonflies before turning into a fully grown frog.
Author : W. Barksdale Maynard
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 10,2 MB
Release : 2004-02-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198037682
Perhaps no other natural setting has as much literary, spiritual, and environmental significance for Americans as Walden Pond. Some 700,000 people visit the pond annually, and countless others journey to Walden in their mind, to contemplate the man who lived there and what the place means to us today. Here is the first history of the Massachusetts pond Thoreau made famous 150 years ago. W. Barksdale Maynard offers a lively and comprehensive account of Walden Pond from the early nineteenth century to the present. From Thoreau's first visit at age 4 in 1821--"That woodland vision for a long time made the drapery of my dreams"--to today's efforts both to conserve the pond and allow public access, Maynard captures Walden Pond's history and the role it has played in social, cultural, literary, and environmental movements in America. Along the way Maynard details the geography of the pond; Thoreau's and Emerson's experiences of Walden over their lifetimes; the development of the cult of Thoreau and the growth of the pond as a site of literary and spiritual pilgrimages; rock star Don Henley's Walden Woods Project and the much publicized battle to protect the pond from developers in the 1980s; and the vitally important ecological symbol Walden Pond has become today. Exhaustively researched, vividly written, and illustrated with historical photographs and the most detailed maps of Thoreau country yet created, Walden Pond: A History reveals how an ordinary pond has come to be such an extraordinarily inspiring symbol.
Author : Jennifer Gardiner
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 43,36 MB
Release : 2019-01-31
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1984570110
“A Trip Around The Pond” is the story of Georgette Mae’s fanciful search for the City of Love-Paris. After complaining of boredom, Georgette’s Granny encourages her to spend her day traveling around the pond. Along the way, she encounters many adventures. Beautifully written and illustrated, “A Trip Around The Pond” captures the innocent heart and vivid imagination of a little girl’s quest to find Paris.
Author : Alyssa Satin Capucilli
Publisher : Hyperion
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 21,28 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781562826758
The leap of a little green frog signals the start of a new day as the creatures of the pond awaken and go through a variety of morning rituals.
Author : David A. Dutton
Publisher :
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 18,1 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Government publications
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Author : George Saunders
Publisher : Random House
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 42,72 MB
Release : 2021-01-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1984856049
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the Booker Prize–winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo and Tenth of December comes a literary master class on what makes great stories work and what they can tell us about ourselves—and our world today. LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/DIAMONSTEIN-SPIELVOGEL AWARD • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, NPR, Time, San Francisco Chronicle, Esquire, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Town & Country, The Rumpus, Electric Lit, Thrillist, BookPage • “[A] worship song to writers and readers.”—Oprah Daily For the last twenty years, George Saunders has been teaching a class on the Russian short story to his MFA students at Syracuse University. In A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, he shares a version of that class with us, offering some of what he and his students have discovered together over the years. Paired with iconic short stories by Chekhov, Turgenev, Tolstoy, and Gogol, the seven essays in this book are intended for anyone interested in how fiction works and why it’s more relevant than ever in these turbulent times. In his introduction, Saunders writes, “We’re going to enter seven fastidiously constructed scale models of the world, made for a specific purpose that our time maybe doesn’t fully endorse but that these writers accepted implicitly as the aim of art—namely, to ask the big questions, questions like, How are we supposed to be living down here? What were we put here to accomplish? What should we value? What is truth, anyway, and how might we recognize it?” He approaches the stories technically yet accessibly, and through them explains how narrative functions; why we stay immersed in a story and why we resist it; and the bedrock virtues a writer must foster. The process of writing, Saunders reminds us, is a technical craft, but also a way of training oneself to see the world with new openness and curiosity. A Swim in a Pond in the Rain is a deep exploration not just of how great writing works but of how the mind itself works while reading, and of how the reading and writing of stories make genuine connection possible.