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Author : Carol Matas
Publisher : Orca Book Publishers
Page : 37 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-12
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781459826786

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Who's Looking? by Carol Matas Pdf

★“In this delightfully original nonfiction picture book... the readable text offers understandable science, while the engaging illustrations promote careful investigation. A valuable addition to science and nature collections. Highly recommended.”—School Library Journal, starred review How do animals see the world? It turns out, very differently. In this nonfiction picture book, a young girl and her baby sister's outdoor adventure (hiking through the forest, picnicking in the grass and swimming in the ocean) is overseen by the local fauna. The way those animals view the girls is very different from how the girls see each other. Goats see far and wide in a panorama, whales don't see color the way humans do and a high-soaring eagle's sharp vision can clearly see a tiny mouse far below. Through clever illustrations and scientific prose, we are reminded that while we may see things differently, we all share this life together on planet Earth.

Author : P.K. Hallinan
Publisher : WorthyKids
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-09
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0824916980

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The Looking Book by P.K. Hallinan Pdf

In THE LOOKING BOOK, beloved author P. K. Hallinan uses lively rhyming verse to invite children to delight in the wonders of the world around them. Given a pair of "lookers" by their mom, two boys venture outside to see what they can find. To their surprise, they discover "tree-things and bee-things and roses and weeds . . . small things and tall things and flowers with seeds," right in their own backyard. Before long, the boys realize that they don't need the lookers at all. Whimsical illustrations and sturdy pages will make this book a favorite with young explorers.

Author : Ambeth R. Ocampo
Publisher : Anvil Publishing, Inc.
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9789712736827

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Looking Back 6 by Ambeth R. Ocampo Pdf

In these beguiling essays on what lies beyond the fringes of Philippine recorded history—whether pointing out the laughing carabao on the margins of a centuries-old map, or combing for shards of Ming porcelain on a coral beach—Ocampo reminds us that the endless gathering and joining and breaking apart of apparently 'useless' bits is, after all, what makes us what we are, and connects us with others in their own quest for identity.

Author : Jamie L. Pietruska
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226475004

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Looking Forward by Jamie L. Pietruska Pdf

Introduction: crisis of certainty -- Cotton guesses -- The daily "probabilities"--Weather prophecies -- Economies of the future -- Promises of love and money -- Epilogue: specters of uncertainty

Author : Stephen J. Garber
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Astronautics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105050289862

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Looking Backward, Looking Forward by Stephen J. Garber Pdf

Author : Benoît Masquida
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2024-04-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781786309778

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Looking at Ribozymes by Benoît Masquida Pdf

Behind the neologism “ribozymes” lies a family of fascinating molecules, ribo-enzymes, which have been relatively little studied. These catalytically active RNAs are found in all strata of life, from viruses to the human genome. At the end of the 1970s, the discovery of a catalytic RNA nestled in an intron, followed by another involved in the maturation of transfer RNAs, led to the discovery of new ribozymes and the transition from a strictly “proteocentric” vision, inherited from the dogma of molecular biology, to a more “nucleocentric” one. Since then, a variety of ribozymes have been identified in genomes, where their functions often remain mysterious. Looking at Ribozymes traces the discovery of these molecules and presents a picture of their functional diversity, catalytic mechanisms and distribution within the tree of life.

Author : Rosemary Johnson
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781647023263

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Looking Beyond by Rosemary Johnson Pdf

Looking Beyond: Invitation to Understanding Global Sustainability By: Rosemary Johnson Looking Beyond: Invitation to Understanding Global Sustainability encourages all humans to realize that each of us shares a responsibility for the present environmental crisis. A combination biography with personal passion and research, Rosemary Johnson will inspire you to expand your way of thinking, emphasizing that one person can make a difference in the world—even you!

Author : Lance Esplund
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-27
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780465094677

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The Art of Looking by Lance Esplund Pdf

A veteran art critic helps us make sense of modern and contemporary art The landscape of contemporary art has changed dramatically during the last hundred years: from Malevich's 1915 painting of a single black square and Duchamp's 1917 signed porcelain urinal to Jackson Pollock's midcentury "drip" paintings; Chris Burden's "Shoot" (1971), in which the artist was voluntarily shot in the arm with a rifle; Urs Fischer's "You" (2007), a giant hole dug in the floor of a New York gallery; and the conceptual and performance art of today's Ai Weiwei and Marina Abramovic. The shifts have left the art-viewing public (understandably) perplexed. In The Art of Looking, renowned art critic Lance Esplund demonstrates that works of modern and contemporary art are not as indecipherable as they might seem. With patience, insight, and wit, Esplund guides us through the last century of art and empowers us to approach and appreciate it with new eyes. Eager to democratize genres that can feel inaccessible, Esplund encourages viewers to trust their own taste, guts, and common sense. The Art of Looking will open the eyes of viewers who think that recent art is obtuse, nonsensical, and irrelevant, as well as the eyes of those who believe that the art of the past has nothing to say to our present.

Author : Jackie Ganem
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781462042241

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Looking for Comfortable Shoes by Jackie Ganem Pdf

This is a story about change the cultural change required of a Lebanese immigrant family new to the United States and the dramatic personal change that comes as the result of a family tragedy. The book is in two parts. Through a series of vignettes, the reader is introduced to a cast of unique characters in an immigrant family. Their stories are amusing and touching. The second part of the book is told in small stories and deals with the complex changes in a family after the attempted suicide and mental illness of the youngest child. The family's world as they knew it stopped. The author changed in such fundamental ways that it is as if she had two lives---one before this tragedy and one after. Her evolution took her from a traditional suburban housewife and mother to that of an ambitious career woman eager to grow and move away from all she had ever known. This is a true story told with great honesty, love, and surprising humor. Jackie Ganem's memoir is a sensitive look at growing up in America in a Lebanese immigrant family. Yet, it is so much more. Ganem skillfully documents her own life as she progresses through the roles of a wife in a difficult marriage, a mother learning to relate constructively and compassionately to her troubled daughter, and a devoted partner to her lifelong companion. Ganem's prose is evocative and descriptively specific to the remarkable woman who is central to this story. Jane Katims, author of Dancing on a Slippery Floor

Author : Mike Robertson
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2024-02-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9798823021333

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Looking For Memories by Mike Robertson Pdf

Like some people recently retired, Mark had taken on a diversion that pretty well takes up much of his time. At one time, he collected baseball cards, a pastime that required him to acquire cards through trades with fellow enthusiasts or winning cards through arcane competitions when the application of Facebook allowed him to accumulate cards more easily. Several years later, on an airplane flight from Montreal to New York City, Mark glimpses a television show being shown on a computer laptop belonging to a woman sitting in a seat across the aisle of that flight. Mark thinks and then becomes convinced that one of the actresses playing a woman in that show is in fact his first girlfriend. That realization results in a search for the identity of that woman though a variety of methods and sources, an effort that culminates in a rendezvous with his memory.

Author : L.M. Rostedt
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781643504285

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Looking for Jake by L.M. Rostedt Pdf

Reeling from a personal tragedy, science engineer Derek Hexum relocates his work from Southern to North Central California at a laboratory and military complex. Soon after his arrival, while hiking in the nearby woods one day, he stumbles into a brief encounter with a juvenile bigfoot. From that unexpected encounter between human and animal, an uneasy friendship begins to evolve. Already caught up in a murder investigation downstate in the LA area, Hexum becomes a further person of interest after an act of terrorism rips across the military base. Then a series of horrific killings begin to occur, first with livestock and later against area residents. The scientist is certain the gentle creature he's befriended isn't responsible. But if it isn't, what is? Local police are investigating the murders. The FBI is doggedly pursuing the specters of both domestic and foreign terrorists. Certain elements in the military are attempting to shelter base black ops programs from the general population. And the scientist is trying to protect his newly found "friend" from a Special Forces unit hunting down a shadowy assassin moving through the surrounding forests. Through it all, a titantic battle between Science and Nature begins to emerge. Which one wins may determine the safety of the local area and the invulnerability of the nation's defenses. It's a breathless race to the end, where any possibility may become the reality.

Author : Frank Serafini
Publisher : Kids Can Press Ltd
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781771381185

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Looking Closely through the Forest by Frank Serafini Pdf

Look closely. Look very closely. Is it € flakes of oatmeal? A moldy orange? Give up? Just turn the page and, lo and behold, it's a spotted toadstool! See what looks like gummy candy revealed as a millipede, a woolly scarf as frost on leaves, and many more surprises when you look closely through the forest. The Looking Closely series takes children on a journey of discovery through four environments -- the forest, the shore, the desert and the garden. Frank Serafini's camera lens enlarges each world through the magic of close-up photography. Young eyes will rediscover our planet as a place of beauty, mystery and delight. Readers are first challenged to guess the identity of each closeup photograph. The next page reveals the entire photograph of the plant, animal or natural object accompanied by a simple but detailed description of the habitat. By inspiring children to ask questions and use their imaginations, these books help build problem-solving skills. They also encourage curiosity about environments that, examined this closely, are full of unexpected wonders.

Author : Steve Backshall
Publisher : Gateway
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011-08-18
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780857820136

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Looking For Adventure by Steve Backshall Pdf

A Childhood Dream. A Lost Land. The Journey of a Lifetime. How do you become an explorer? It's a question every child has asked. And, Steve Backshall was no different. But after a rainy-day visit to an exhibition of artefacts from Papua New Guinea, it was a question that began to obsess the seven-year old Backshall. Due to this childhood interest, the vast, untamed wildness of Papua New Guinea was where Backshall forged his unlikely path. From crushing lows of early failures to the extraordinary highs of the BBC's Lost Land of the Volcano expedition, it was this dark island which gave Backshall his opportunity. Full of incredible wildlife, extraordinary wilderness, jungles, cannibals, pitfalls, triumph, danger and excitement, Looking for Adventure is the irresistible, inspiring story of a little boy who let his heart rule his head.

Author : Patricia Tipton Johnston
Publisher : Tate Publishing
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2008-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781604621464

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Looking for Papa by Patricia Tipton Johnston Pdf

During their sixteenth summer, Alex and Victoria Ashton discover the true path of their destiny and courageously follow it. Travel back in history in Looking for Papa, by author Patricia Johnston. By visiting the past of this great nation, Alex and Victoria see how the future reflects the events of the past. Watch anxiously as the Salem Witch Trials take place, behold the Statue of Liberty, the great beacon of freedom and promise, at Ellis Island, and meet several significant Americans, such as Harriet Tubman and Cotton Mather, who were instrumental in changing the existence of discrimination in America's history. As Victoria and Alex learn that as personal values become public standards, an individual must strive to develop a strong faith and a sense of morality to further a peaceful environment. As Alex and Victoria diligently search for answers to history's questions, they find more than they are looking for in Looking for Papa.

Author : Diana Laurence
Publisher : Living Beyond Reality Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2009-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780979274176

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Looking on Darkness by Diana Laurence Pdf

A British psychologist with a mysterious past and strange powers. A former monk with the voice of an angel and untamable vanity. A jazz performer who derives her confidence from a secret lover. A college student obsessed with becoming someone's "Lolita." These four haunted characters take separate paths to meet in 1991 Milwaukee, and the alchemy of their union creates thrilling, bizarre, magical and deadly results. Looking on Darkness is Diana Laurence's first full-length work outside the romance genre, and draws heavily from the psychoanalytical theory of Carl Jung. It is a mainstream novel of psychological vampirism that explores the deepest caverns of the mind and the darkest corners of the heart.