Leaves Of A Life

Author : Steven Vogel
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-17
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780226859392

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The Life of a Leaf by Steven Vogel Pdf

In its essence, science is a way of looking at and thinking about the world. In The Life of a Leaf, Steven Vogel illuminates this approach, using the humble leaf as a model. Whether plant or person, every organism must contend with its immediate physical environment, a world that both limits what organisms can do and offers innumerable opportunities for evolving fascinating ways of challenging those limits. Here, Vogel explains these interactions, examining through the example of the leaf the extraordinary designs that enable life to adapt to its physical world. In Vogel’s account, the leaf serves as a biological everyman, an ordinary and ubiquitous living thing that nonetheless speaks volumes about our environment as well as its own. Thus in exploring the leaf’s world, Vogel simultaneously explores our own. A companion website with demonstrations and teaching tools can be found here: http://www.press.uchicago.edu/sites/vogel/index.html

Author : Susan Bauer-Wu
Publisher : New Harbinger Publications
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-01
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781608825547

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Leaves Falling Gently by Susan Bauer-Wu Pdf

A life-limiting illness may have taken hold of your body, but you can still live more fully and openly than ever before. You can enrich your life by exploring ways to make peace with yourself and deepen connections with friends and family. This book will help you reap the benefits of mindfulness and acceptance, one day at a time. Leaves Falling Gently is a comforting guide to the mindfulness and compassion practices that will help you embrace the present moment, despite your illness. With each simple practice, you’ll deepen your appreciation for the experiences that bring you joy and enhance your capacity for gratitude, generosity, and love. As you work through each personal reflection and guided meditation, you’ll regain the strength to live fully, regardless of the changes and challenges that come.

Author : Will Durant
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-09
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781476771564

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Fallen Leaves by Will Durant Pdf

Praised as a “revelatory” book by The Wall Street Journal, this is the last and most personal work of Pulitzer Prize–winning author and historian Will Durant, discovered thirty-two years after his death. The culmination of Will Durant’s sixty-plus years spent researching the philosophies, religions, arts, sciences, and civilizations from across the world, Fallen Leaves is the distilled wisdom of one of the world’s greatest minds, a man with a renowned talent for rendering the insights of the past accessible. Over the course of Durant’s career he received numerous letters from “curious readers who have challenged me to speak my mind on the timeless questions of human life and fate.” With Fallen Leaves, his final book, he at last accepted their challenge. In twenty-two short chapters, Durant addresses everything from youth and old age to religion, morals, sex, war, politics, and art. Fallen Leaves is “a thought-provoking array of opinions” (Publishers Weekly), offering elegant prose, deep insights, and Durant’s revealing conclusions about the perennial problems and greatest joys we face as a species. In Durant’s singular voice, here is a message of insight for everyone who has ever sought meaning in life or the counsel of a learned friend while navigating life’s journey.

Author : Mark Z. Danielewski
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 738 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2000-03-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780375420528

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House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski Pdf

“A novelistic mosaic that simultaneously reads like a thriller and like a strange, dreamlike excursion into the subconscious.” —The New York Times Years ago, when House of Leaves was first being passed around, it was nothing more than a badly bundled heap of paper, parts of which would occasionally surface on the Internet. No one could have anticipated the small but devoted following this terrifying story would soon command. Starting with an odd assortment of marginalized youth -- musicians, tattoo artists, programmers, strippers, environmentalists, and adrenaline junkies -- the book eventually made its way into the hands of older generations, who not only found themselves in those strangely arranged pages but also discovered a way back into the lives of their estranged children. Now this astonishing novel is made available in book form, complete with the original colored words, vertical footnotes, and second and third appendices. The story remains unchanged, focusing on a young family that moves into a small home on Ash Tree Lane where they discover something is terribly wrong: their house is bigger on the inside than it is on the outside. Of course, neither Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Will Navidson nor his companion Karen Green was prepared to face the consequences of that impossibility, until the day their two little children wandered off and their voices eerily began to return another story -- of creature darkness, of an ever-growing abyss behind a closet door, and of that unholy growl which soon enough would tear through their walls and consume all their dreams.

Author : Henry Clay Lewis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1843
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OSU:32435005538657

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Odd Leaves from the Life of a Louisiana "swamp Doctor" by Henry Clay Lewis Pdf

Author : Kazembe Olugbala Bediako
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0984571531

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Leaves of Life by Kazembe Olugbala Bediako Pdf

Leaves of Life, Volume1: Single Plants, the author of the Behutet series and native of Guyana, posits the view that herbal medicine is becoming more popular in contemporary life and that there is a herbal remedy for any ailment. Scientists have come to recognize the capacity of the rainforest to treat or cure ailments and diseases that plague modern life, such as AIDS, cancers, venereal diseases, heart problems, diabetes, Alzheimer's, arthritis, infertility, leukemia, multiple sclerosis and more. This priceless resource of over one hundred and twenty single Plants, thought to be lost over the generations, will ever be at your finger tips. Leaves of Life, Volume1: Single Plants, cites the enormous importance of the natural world of plants at a time when plant resources are decreasing at a rapid rate. No other time in history have human beings placed such importance on the natural world of plants. Guyana, which lies at the point where the Caribbean meets South America on its North Atlantic seaboard, consists of 80% rainforest and is home to one of the richest regions of the world with expanses of untouched neotropical forests and different species of plants found nowhere else on earth. Leaves of Life, Volume1: Single Plants reveals the true secrets of its tropical vegetation which was traditionally confined to the "Bush Men," the individuals who make their living off the local plant lore. These secrets have eluded European explorers like Walter Raleigh, the first European to record the existence of curare, a paralytic, plant-derived poison used in fishing and hunting in Guyana. Curare causes death by asphyxiation through the loss of control of muscles essential in respiration and is used in modern medicine as a muscle relaxant for shock treatment of mental illness, and as an adjunct to anaesthesia in heart surgery.

Author : Meeran Chadha Borwankar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1973164353

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Leaves of Life by Meeran Chadha Borwankar Pdf

Meeran Chadha Borwankar, an IPS officer of Maharashtra, has a story to share with young girls and women. A story that is important, honest and pertinent. A story every young woman with dreams of making it big and leading a dignified life must read. It is the story of a small town girl from Punjab cracking the UPSC exam and battling for survival in a male dominated police department. Could she just strive or did she thrive? Full of real life interesting anecdotes from her career, Meeran wants to share the lessons she learnt with the youth. She wants to flag some action points that would enable the young to steer their lives and careers in the right direction. She wants to contribute to enhancing leadership skills of the young. Hence along with wielding the baton, this police officer also decided to pick up the pen.

Author : Allen J. Coombes
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 2007 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226176864

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The Book of Leaves by Allen J. Coombes Pdf

Of all our childhood memories, few are quite as thrilling, or as tactile, as those of climbing trees. Scampering up the rough trunk, spying on the world from the cool green shelter of the canopy, lying on a limb and looking up through the leaves at the summer sun almost made it seem as if we were made for trees, and trees for us.Even in adulthood, trees retain their power, from the refreshing way their waves of green break the monotony of a cityscape to the way their autumn transformations take our breath away. In this lavishly illustrated volume, the trees that have enriched our lives finally get their full due, through a focus on the humble leaves that serve, in a sense, as their public face. The Book of Leaves offers a visually stunning and scientifically engaging guide to six hundred of the most impressive and beautiful leaves from around the world. Each leaf is reproduced here at its actual size, in full color, and is accompanied by an explanation of the range, distribution, abundance, and habitat of the tree on which it’s found. Brief scientific and historical accounts of each tree and related species include fun-filled facts and anecdotes that broaden its portrait. The Henry’s Maple, for instance, found in China and named for an Irish doctor who collected leaves there, bears little initial resemblance to the statuesque maples of North America, from its diminutive stature to its unusual trifoliolate leaves. Or the Mediterranean Olive, which has been known to live for more than 1,500 years and whose short, narrow leaves only fall after two or three years, pushed out in stages by the emergence of younger leaves. From the familiar friends of our backyards to the giants of deep woods, The Book of Leaves brings the forest to life—and to our living rooms—as never before.

Author : Left Brain Kids
Publisher : Left Brain Kids
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1683766180

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A Plant's Life Cycle! from Small Sprouts to Big Leaves - Botany for Kids - Children's Botany Books by Left Brain Kids Pdf

From a seed to a tree, how do plants come to be? Let's explore the enchanting world of botany! This powerful educational resource includes important information that you wouldn't want to miss out on. You can go over the pages of this book on your own pace as there is no pressure to learn everything at once. Grab a copy today!

Author : Patricia Wiltshire
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-03
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9780525542247

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The Nature of Life and Death by Patricia Wiltshire Pdf

A riveting blend of science writing and true-crime narrative that explores the valuable but often shocking interface between crime and nature--and the secrets each can reveal about the other--from a pioneer in forensic ecology and a trailblazing female scientist. From mud tracks on a quiet country road to dirt specks on the soles of walking boots, forensic ecologist Patricia Wiltshire uses her decades of scientific expertise to find often-overlooked clues left behind by criminal activity. She detects evidence and eliminates hypotheses armed with little more than a microscope, eventually developing a compelling thesis of the who, what, how, and when of a crime. Wiltshire's remarkable accuracy has made her one of the most in-demand police consultants in the world, and her curiosity, humility, and passion for the truth have guided her every step of the way. A riveting blend of science writing and true-crime narrative, The Nature of Life and Death details Wiltshire's unique journey from college professor to crime fighter: solving murders, locating corpses, and exonerating the falsely accused. Along the way, she introduces us to the unseen world all around us and underneath our feet: plants, animals, pollen, spores, fungi, and microbes that we move through every day. Her story is a testament to the power of persistence and reveals how our relationship with the vast natural world reaches far deeper than we might think.

Author : Kate Grenville
Publisher : Text Publishing
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781925923469

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A Room Made of Leaves by Kate Grenville Pdf

The first new novel in almost ten years from award-winning, best-selling author Kate Grenville.

Author : Grace Hansen
Publisher : ABDO
Page : 27 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781680802498

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Leaves by Grace Hansen Pdf

A complicated topic is made easier with this title introducing leaves and explaining their anatomy and how they make food for plants. Labeled diagrams and photographs and a glossary will make learning the important jobs of leaves even simpler!

Author : Estelle Watson Sanders
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-29
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781664171992

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Leaves Falling Upon the Sky by Estelle Watson Sanders Pdf

The collection of poems, Leaves Falling Upon the Sky, a Reflection of a Life So Far, invites the reader to examine ordinary life events such as “Mowing the Lawn” or “Peeling Potatoes” from a unique perspective. Estelle’s way of seeing is, as the title suggests, like looking at autumn leaves drifting upward towards the sky rather than falling down to earth. By looking at our shared experiences from the humorous morning weigh-in depicted in “The Scale” to the serious business of caring for loved ones in “The Sick Child”, the writer shows that we can find meaning in the routines that make up a life. In the Reflections section, the poem “On Ageing” recalls the ageing Ulysses embarking on a new quest as an optimistic view that old age can be a beginning rather than an end. Finally, some thoughts on our shared Covid isolation in “My Library Fridge” and “Acres of Time” demonstrate the variety and relevance of this Reflection of a Life So Far. The works mentioned are just an excerpt from over 50 pieces in this book that I hope you will find inspiring as well as fun to read.

Author : Rochelle Strauss
Publisher : Kids Can Press Ltd
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781554539611

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Tree of Life by Rochelle Strauss Pdf

A dazzling and stunningly illustrated introduction to the diversity of life on our planet.

Author : Charles Shaw (author of Leaves from the book of life.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1867
Category : English fiction
ISBN : OXFORD:600069698

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Leaves from the Book of Life by Charles Shaw (author of Leaves from the book of life.) Pdf