Animals Of A Bygone Era An Illustrated Compendium
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Author | : Maja Säfström |
Publisher | : Ten Speed Press |
Total Pages | : 122 |
Release | : 2016-03-29 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 1607748320 |
New York Times bestseller • An artfully playful collection of unexpected and remarkable facts about animals, illustrated by Swedish artist Maja Säfström. Did you know that an octopus has three hearts? Or that ostriches can't walk backward? Or that a group of owls is called a parliament, or that they have three eyelids? Sea otters hold hands in their sleep, bees never sleep, and penguins laugh when they're tickled! This charming compendium contains over 100 pages of fascinating facts about the animal kingdom illustrated with whimsical detail.
Author | : Maja Safstrom |
Publisher | : HarperCollins |
Total Pages | : 112 |
Release | : 2019-11-29 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0008372373 |
Who doesn't love baby animals?
Author | : Michael Hearst |
Publisher | : Chronicle Books |
Total Pages | : 111 |
Release | : 2012-09-26 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1452104670 |
"Introduces the reader to a wealth of extraordinary life forms"-- P. [4] of cover.
Author | : Tim Fridtjof Flannery |
Publisher | : Atlantic Monthly Press |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Extinct animals |
ISBN | : 9780871137975 |
A short description of the extinct animal along with a color drawing.
Author | : Crescent Dragonwagon |
Publisher | : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers |
Total Pages | : 43 |
Release | : 2012-10-02 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0316230707 |
My little one, lay down your head.It's time to doze, it's time for bed.You tell me, "I'm not sleepy now.""Just try," I say. You ask me, "How?" In this lyrical animal ABC book, a mother tries to tuck her child in for the night by telling him about all the awake animals that are getting sleepy. From antlered Antelope to zzz-ing Zebra, this alphabet of animals becomes an exquisite celebration of language and nature, just right for lulling even the most wide-awake little ones into a cozy, soothing slumber.
Author | : Sue Coe |
Publisher | : OR Books |
Total Pages | : 123 |
Release | : 2017-03-16 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1682190757 |
Sue Coe’s advocacy of animal rights is unmatched in its eloquence, forcefulness, and lasting impact. She does so with a combination of extraordinary images and few words. In her unstinting insistence on tolerance and love, Coe brings us to a life-affirming philosophy that values compassion over greed, community over self, and life over capital. In 115 black-and-white woodcut illustrations for The Animals’ Vegan Manifesto, Sue Coe unleashes an outraged cry for action that takes its rightful place alongside the other great manifestoes of history. As a prize-winning artist, she bears witness to unspeakable crimes, and has long advocated that we human beings must take more responsibility for ourselves, our fellow species, and the planet. Her illustrations, in the tradition of Goya, Kollwitz, and Grosz, will be familiar to many; her paintings, drawings and prints have been exhibited in galleries and museum around the world, including New York’s Museum of Modern Art.
Author | : Barbara Taylor |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 80 |
Release | : 2022-03-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1681887371 |
Animals of every size and variety have disappeared from our planet for eons--most recently due to humans--but they can still be seen and known. Each entry includes full color illustration, Latin name, statistics, reasons they died out, and interesting facts about these animals which used to roam the Earth.
Author | : Steve Jenkins |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 213 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 054755799X |
Learn some amazing facts relating to over 300 animals.
Author | : Michelle Nijhuis |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2021-03-09 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1324001690 |
Winner of the Sierra Club's 2021 Rachel Carson Award One of Chicago Tribune's Ten Best Books of 2021 Named a Top Ten Best Science Book of 2021 by Booklist and Smithsonian Magazine "At once thoughtful and thought-provoking,” Beloved Beasts tells the story of the modern conservation movement through the lives and ideas of the people who built it, making “a crucial addition to the literature of our troubled time" (Elizabeth Kolbert, author of The Sixth Extinction). In the late nineteenth century, humans came at long last to a devastating realization: their rapidly industrializing and globalizing societies were driving scores of animal species to extinction. In Beloved Beasts, acclaimed science journalist Michelle Nijhuis traces the history of the movement to protect and conserve other forms of life. From early battles to save charismatic species such as the American bison and bald eagle to today’s global effort to defend life on a larger scale, Nijhuis’s “spirited and engaging” account documents “the changes of heart that changed history” (Dan Cryer, Boston Globe). With “urgency, passion, and wit” (Michael Berry, Christian Science Monitor), she describes the vital role of scientists and activists such as Aldo Leopold and Rachel Carson, reveals the origins of vital organizations like the Audubon Society and the World Wildlife Fund, explores current efforts to protect species such as the whooping crane and the black rhinoceros, and confronts the darker side of modern conservation, long shadowed by racism and colonialism. As the destruction of other species continues and the effects of climate change wreak havoc on our world, Beloved Beasts charts the ways conservation is becoming a movement for the protection of all species including our own.
Author | : Caspar Henderson |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 2013-04-10 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 022604470X |
From medieval bestiaries to Borges’s Book of Imaginary Beings, we’ve long been enchanted by extraordinary animals, be they terrifying three-headed dogs or asps impervious to a snake charmer’s song. But bestiaries are more than just zany zoology—they are artful attempts to convey broader beliefs about human beings and the natural order. Today, we no longer fear sea monsters or banshees. But from the infamous honey badger to the giant squid, animals continue to captivate us with the things they can do and the things they cannot, what we know about them and what we don’t. With The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Caspar Henderson offers readers a fascinating, beautifully produced modern-day menagerie. But whereas medieval bestiaries were often based on folklore and myth, the creatures that abound in Henderson’s book—from the axolotl to the zebrafish—are, with one exception, very much with us, albeit sometimes in depleted numbers. The Book of Barely Imagined Beings transports readers to a world of real creatures that seem as if they should be made up—that are somehow more astonishing than anything we might have imagined. The yeti crab, for example, uses its furry claws to farm the bacteria on which it feeds. The waterbear, meanwhile, is among nature’s “extreme survivors,” able to withstand a week unprotected in outer space. These and other strange and surprising species invite readers to reflect on what we value—or fail to value—and what we might change. A powerful combination of wit, cutting-edge natural history, and philosophical meditation, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings is an infectious and inspiring celebration of the sheer ingenuity and variety of life in a time of crisis and change.