Dodo

Author : Alan Grihault
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Dodo
ISBN : STANFORD:36105122948933

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Dodo by Alan Grihault Pdf

It took less than a hundred years of human influence in Mauritius to wipe out the Dodo. The delicate balance of nature was suddenly tipped and became a threat to the survival of the Dodo, which had reigned supreme on this island for thousands of years. For nearly two hundred years after its extinction, the Dodo was forgotten, and there were some doubts as to whether it actually lived at all. It seemed that these strange birds had only been part of the imagination and exaggeration of sailors. Today, the once remote island of Mauritius is home top over a million people of European, African, Indian and Chinese origin. It can boast of being one of the most stable democratic countries in the world and it is host to thousands of tourists who find shops full of Dodos in many forms, shapes and sizes. Yet, there is an unfortunate lack of information about this island's unique national icon. This book allows the reader to examine various eyewitness writings, drawings, paintings and skeletal remains, which depict the Dodo as it actually was, and helps us to understand how it was driven to extinction. It also traces what happened after the final demise of the bird, and how worldwide evidence was pieced together to provide a reasonable idea of how the Dodo lived and died.--Back cover.

Author : Neal Stephenson,Nicole Galland
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-06-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062409171

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The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. by Neal Stephenson,Nicole Galland Pdf

A New York Times Bestseller From bestselling author Neal Stephenson and critically acclaimed historical and contemporary commercial novelist Nicole Galland comes a captivating and complex near-future thriller combining history, science, magic, mystery, intrigue, and adventure that questions the very foundations of the modern world. When Melisande Stokes, an expert in linguistics and languages, accidently meets military intelligence operator Tristan Lyons in a hallway at Harvard University, it is the beginning of a chain of events that will alter their lives and human history itself. The young man from a shadowy government entity approaches Mel, a low-level faculty member, with an incredible offer. The only condition: she must sign a nondisclosure agreement in return for the rather large sum of money. Tristan needs Mel to translate some very old documents, which, if authentic, are earth-shattering. They prove that magic actually existed and was practiced for centuries. But the arrival of the scientific revolution and the Age of Enlightenment weakened its power and endangered its practitioners. Magic stopped working altogether in 1851, at the time of the Great Exhibition at London’s Crystal Palace—the world’s fair celebrating the rise of industrial technology and commerce. Something about the modern world "jams" the "frequencies" used by magic, and it’s up to Tristan to find out why. And so the Department of Diachronic Operations—D.O.D.O. —gets cracking on its real mission: to develop a device that can bring magic back, and send Diachronic Operatives back in time to keep it alive . . . and meddle with a little history at the same time. But while Tristan and his expanding operation master the science and build the technology, they overlook the mercurial—and treacherous—nature of the human heart. Written with the genius, complexity, and innovation that characterize all of Neal Stephenson’s work and steeped with the down-to-earth warmth and humor of Nicole Galland’s storytelling style, this exciting and vividly realized work of science fiction will make you believe in the impossible, and take you to places—and times—beyond imagining.

Author : Kae Nishimura
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0618336141

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I Am Dodo by Kae Nishimura Pdf

When a professor who believes that the dodo is not yet extinct finally finds one in New York City, he does everything he can think of to capture the bird until he learns why Dodo should be free.

Author : Aubre Andrus
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781338768022

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Comeback Kids: Three Animals Who Overcame the Impossible (The Dodo) by Aubre Andrus Pdf

These adorable little animals -- as seen in The Dodo's viral videos -- have the BIGGEST personalities! Angel the miniature zebu calf couldn't even stand months after she was born. Potato, an especially tiny Munchkin cat, was born with a body that was too small. And Bueller, a bulldog puppy, had weak legs that made it too hard for him to walk. What do these three animals have in common? They all overcame the impossible. Luckily, Angel, Potato, and Bueller all had the help of supportive humans to help them beat the odds -- from vets and foster parents to their very own forever homes! These three inspiring true stories show that with a little love and kindness -- and a lot of hard work -- we can get through anything together. Each short story in this collection is the perfect length for middle-grade readers. This book also includes a 16-page full-color insert, featuring photos of all three animals. Angel, Potato, and Bueller's stories have been featured on The Dodo, one of social media's most popular animal brands, with over 33 million followers! Their inspiring stories are the perfect example of just how far an animal can go when they have the love of a supportive human by their side.

Author : Peter Brown
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2010-09-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0316083399

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Flight of the Dodo by Peter Brown Pdf

From New York Times bestselling author Peter Brown, Flight of the Dodo is a humorous and universal story about the desire to fly, persistence, the love of adventure, and most important of all....poop! Not all birds can fly--a fact Penguin knows all too well. When Penguin gets pooped on by a goose flying overhead, he becomes more determined than ever to fly himself! He gathers up his three flightless friends (they call themselves the Waddlers), and sets about building a flying machine. Readers will know Peter Brown's quirky characters from bestselling books like Children Make Terrible Pets and Mr. Tiger Goes Wild. Kids and adults alike will love the Waddlers' hilarious adventures!

Author : David Quammen
Publisher : Random House
Page : 706 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-31
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781448137404

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The Song Of The Dodo by David Quammen Pdf

Why have island ecosystems always suffered such high rates of extinction? In our age, with all the world's landscapes, from Tasmania to the Amazon to Yellowstone, now being carved into island-like fragments by human activity, the implications of this question are more urgent than ever. Over the past eight years, David Quammen has followed the threads of island biogeography on a globe-encircling journey of discovery.

Author : Benson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ZHBL:ZHBL-00025061

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Dodo by Benson Pdf

Author : David Quammen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-18
Category : Biogeography
ISBN : 143950329X

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The Song of the Dodo by David Quammen Pdf

Thirty years ago, two young biologists named Robert MacArthur and Edward O. Wilson triggered a far-reaching scientific revolution. In a book titled The Theory of Island Biogeography, they presented a new view of a little-understood matter: the geographical patterns in which animal and plant species occur. Why do marsupials exist in Australia and South America, but not in Africa? Why do tigers exist in Asia, but not in New Guinea? Influenced by MacArthur and Wilson's book, an entire generation of ecologists has recognized that island biogeography - the study of the distribution of species on islands and islandlike patches of landscape - yields important insights into the origin and extinction of species everywhere. The new mode of thought focuses particularly on a single question: Why have island ecosystems always suffered such high rates of extinction? In our own age, with all the world's landscapes, from Tasmania to the Amazon to Yellowstone, now being carved into islandlike fragments by human activity, the implications of island biogeography are more urgent than ever. Until now, this scientific revolution has remained unknown to the general public. But over the past eight years, David Quammen has followed its threads on a globe-circling journey of discovery. In Madagascar, he has considered the meaning of tenrecs, a group of strange, prickly mammals native to that island. On the island of Guam, he has confronted a pestilential explosion of snakes and spiders. In these and other places, he has prowled through wild terrain with extraordinary scientists who study unusual beasts. The result is The Song of the Dodo, a book filled with landscape, wonder, and ideas. Besides being a grand outdoor adventure, it is, above all, a wake-up call to the age of extinctions.

Author : E. F. Benson
Publisher : VM eBooks
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Dodo's Daughter by E. F. Benson Pdf

Chapter I Nadine Waldenech's bedroom was a large square apartment on the ground floor at her mother's cottage at Meering in North Wales. It was rather a large cottage, for it was capable of holding about eighteen people, but Dodo was quite firm in the subject of its not being a house. In the days when it was built, forty years ago, this room of Nadine's had been the smoking-room, but since everybody now smoked wherever he or she chose, which was mostly everywhere, just as they breathed or talked wherever they chose, Nadine with her admirable commonsense had argued uselessness of a special smoking-room, for she wanted it very much herself, and her mother had been quite convinced. It opened out of the drawing-room, and so was a convenient place for those who wished to drop in for a little more conversation after bed-time had been officially proclaimed. Bed-time, it may be remarked, was only officially proclaimed in order to get rid of bores, who then secluded themselves in their tiresome chambers. The room at this period was completely black with regard to the color of carpet and floor and walls and ceiling. That was Nadine's last plan and since it was the last, of necessity, a very recent one. She had observed that when it was all white, people looked rather discolored, like mud on snow, whereas against a black background they seemed to be of gem-like brilliance. But since she always looked brilliant herself, the new scheme was prompted by a wholly altruistic motive. She liked her friends to look brilliant too, and she would have felt thus even if she had not been brilliant herself, for out of a strangely compounded nature, anything akin to jealousy had been certainly omitted. There had been a good many friends in her bedroom lately, and there were a certain number here to-night. She expected more. Collectively they constituted that which was known as the clan.

Author : Jan den Hengst
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Art
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119430069

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The Dodo by Jan den Hengst Pdf

Author : Suzy Wall
Publisher : Benchmark Education Company
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Children's plays
ISBN : 9781410842213

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The Dodo's Last Stand by Suzy Wall Pdf

Perform this script about how the only dodo bird left in the world saves himself from extinction.

Author : Mark Shulman
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1402728727

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Louis & the Dodo by Mark Shulman Pdf

Louis is a little boy who is a friend of birds, so when he sees a poster showing a little dodo bird being kept in a circus and made to do dangerous tricks, he must take action.

Author : Nicholas John Frith
Publisher : Arthur A. Levine Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Dodo
ISBN : 1338089390

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Hello, Mr. Dodo! by Nicholas John Frith Pdf

Martha loves birds, so one day when she meets and makes friends with a Dodo, a species supposed to be extinct, in the woods behind her house, she resolves to keep him secret to keep him safe--but sometimes it is hard to keep a big secret.

Author : Tom Angleberger,Jared Chapman
Publisher : ABRAMS
Page : 101 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-19
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781683354758

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Didi Dodo, Future Spy: Recipe for Disaster by Tom Angleberger,Jared Chapman Pdf

Meet Didi Dodo. She's a dodo and a spy. Or she will be, once she's hired! Meet Koko Dodo. He's a dodo and a baker. He gives Didi Dodo her first case! Someone has stolen Koko Dodo's Super Secret Fudge Sauce for the Royal Cookie Contest! But don't worry. Didi Dodo has a daring plan to catch the culprit.

Author : John Gardner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0860095657

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The Dancing Dodo by John Gardner Pdf