Mammoths

Author : Chris Flynn
Publisher : Univ. of Queensland Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780702263934

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Mammoth by Chris Flynn Pdf

The original, unforgettable and thought-provoking new novel by award-winning author Chris Flynn that will change how readers understand the world. Narrated by a 13,000-year-old extinct mammoth, this is the (mostly) true story of how a collection of prehistoric creatures came to be on sale at a natural history auction in New York in 2007. By tracing how and when these fossils were unearthed, Mammoth leads us on a funny and fascinating journey from the Pleistocene epoch to nineteenth-century America and beyond, revealing how ideas about science and religion have shaped our world. With our planet on the brink of calamitous climate change, Mammoth scrutinises humanity's role in the destruction of the natural world while also offering a message of hope.

Author : Peter Haining
Publisher : Robinson
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781780333649

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The Mammoth Book of Haunted House Stories by Peter Haining Pdf

Expanded and with great new stories, this is the biggest and best anthology of ghostly hauntings ever. Over 40 tales of visitation by the undead - from vengeful and violent spirits, set on causing harm to innocent people tucked up in their homes, to rarer and more kindly ghosts, returning from the grave to reach out across the other side. Yet others entertain desires of a more sinister bent, including the erotic. This new edition includes a selection of favourite haunted house tales chosen by famous screen stars Boris Karloff, Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee. Plus a top ranking list of contributors that includes Stephen King, Bram Stoker, Ruth Rendell, and James Herbert - all brought together by an anthologist who himself lives in a haunted house. Stories include: Something unspeakable lurks in a Connecticut apartment closet, in Stephen King's 'The Boogeyman'; An Irish castle holds something truly horrifying in wait, in 'The Whistling Room' by William Hope Hodgson; The lecherous old ghost of a Georgian country house eyes up his latest tenant, in Norah Lofts' 'Mr Edward'; An ancient mansion on a shelf of rock previously occupied by a doomed castle, in 'In Letters of Fire' by Gaston Le Roux; The hunter is hunted in James Herbert's tale of nineteenth-century country mansion, 'The Ghost Hunter'; Psychic phenomena and poltergeists, avenging spirits and phantom lovers - curl up and read on, but never imagine you are safe from a visit...

Author : Ginger Wadsworth
Publisher : Millbrook Press
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780822565307

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Woolly Mammoths by Ginger Wadsworth Pdf

Mammoths roamed Earth for more than two million years. They lived in Europe, Asia, and North America. Then ten thousand years ago, the mammoths vanished. What caused them to die out? Scientists are still trying to find out. In Woolly Mammoths, learn about how mammoths adapted to a changing planet and the possible reasons about how they became extinct.

Author : James Solheim
Publisher : Greenwillow Books
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0062397052

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Eat Your Woolly Mammoths! by James Solheim Pdf

Author : Jill Baguchinsky
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-06
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781684421961

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Mammoth by Jill Baguchinsky Pdf

The summer before her junior year, paleontology geek Natalie Page lands a coveted internship at an Ice Age dig site near Austin, Texas. Natalie, who’s also a plus-size fashion blogger, depends on the retro style and persona she developed to shield herself from her former bullies, but vintage dresses and designer heels aren’t compatible with digging for fossils. But nothing is going to dampen her spirit. She’s exactly where she wants to be, and gets to work with her hero, the host of the most popular paleontology podcast in the world. And then there’s Chase, the intern, who’s seriously cute, and Cody, a local boy who’d be even cuter if he were less of a grouch. It’s a summer that promises to be about more than just mammoths. Until it isn’t. When Natalie’s paleontologist hero turns out to be anything but, and steals the credit for one of her accomplishments, she has to unearth the confidence she needs to stand out in a field dominated by men. To do this, she’ll have to let her true self shine, even if that means defying the rules and risking her life for the sake of a major discovery. While sifting through dirt, she finds more than fossils—she finds out that she is truly awesome.

Author : Michael Oard,Beverly Oard
Publisher : New Leaf Publishing Group
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Glacial epoch
ISBN : 0890515085

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What Ever Happened to the Wooly Mammoth by Michael Oard,Beverly Oard Pdf

An exciting and engaging story about life in the Ice Age for Children

Author : Lisa Wheeler
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 015204700X

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Mammoths on the Move by Lisa Wheeler Pdf

Describes what is known of the prehistoric ancestor of the elephant and their treacherous journey south for the winter.

Author : Adrian Lister,Paul G. Bahn
Publisher : Chartwell Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-28
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0785833285

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Mammoths by Adrian Lister,Paul G. Bahn Pdf

A dazzling visual record of one of Earth's most extraordinary species, this updated and revised edition of Mammoths: Giants of the Ice Age integrates exciting new research to piece together the story of mammoths, mastodons, and their relatives, icons of the Ice Age. Incorporating recent genetic work, new fossil finds, new extinction theories, and more, Mammoths is a captivating exploration of how these mighty creatures evolved, lived, and mysteriously disappeared. The book features a wealth of color illustrations that depict mammoths in their dramatic Ice Age habitats, scores of photographs of mammoth remains, and images of the art of prehistoric people who saw these animals in the flesh. Have you ever wondered what a Mammoth would look like in real life? Find out what a Mammoth would look like today and so much more in Mammoths. Full of intriguing facts, boxed features, and clear graphics, Mammoths examines the findings, including intact frozen carcasses from Siberia and fossilized remains from South Dakota, California, England, France, and elsewhere that have provided clues to the mammoths' geographic range, body structure, way of life, and interactions with early humans. It is an enthralling story of paleontological, archaeological, and geological exploration and of the fascinating investigations of biologists, anthropologists, and art historians worldwide.

Author : Claudine Cohen
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2002-04-02
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780226112923

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The Fate of the Mammoth by Claudine Cohen Pdf

Reveals new information about the mammoth elephant, and about the science that grew up around its discovery.

Author : Eleanor Arnason
Publisher : PM Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2010-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781604863826

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Mammoths of the Great Plains by Eleanor Arnason Pdf

When President Thomas Jefferson sent Lewis and Clark to explore the West, he told them to look especially for mammoths. Jefferson had seen bones and tusks of the great beasts in Virginia, and he suspected—he hoped!—that they might still roam the Great Plains. In Eleanor Arnason’s imaginative alternate history, they do: shaggy herds thunder over the grasslands, living symbols of the oncoming struggle between the Native peoples and the European invaders. And in an unforgettable saga that soars from the badlands of the Dakotas to the icy wastes of Siberia, from the Russian Revolution to the AIM protests of the 1960s, Arnason tells of a modern woman’s struggle to use the weapons of DNA science to fulfill the ancient promises of her Lakota heritage. PLUS: “Writing SF During World War III,” and an Outspoken Interview that takes you straight into the heart and mind of one of today’s edgiest and most uncompromising speculative authors.

Author : Melissa Higgins
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781491421024

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Woolly Mammoths by Melissa Higgins Pdf

"Describes the characteristics, food, habitat, behavior, and extinction of woolly mammoths"--

Author : Michelle Robinson
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-21
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781466863996

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How to Wash a Woolly Mammoth by Michelle Robinson Pdf

Things can get a bit messy when you try to wash a woolly mammoth. Follow this step-by-step guide to successfully clean up your hairy friend. Be forewarned! A mammoth's tummy is terribly tickly. Young readers and parents alike will appreciate this hilarious bath time adventure from Michelle Robinson and Kate Hindley.

Author : Paul S. Martin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2007-05-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780520252431

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Twilight of the Mammoths by Paul S. Martin Pdf

"Paul S. Martin's innovative ideas on late quaternary extinctions and wildlife restoration have fueled one of science's most stimulating recent debates. He expounds them vividly here, and defends them eloquently. A must-read."—David Rains Wallace, author of Beasts of Eden "This is a marvelous read, by a giant in American prehistory, about one of the greatest mysteries in the earth sciences."—Tim Flannery, author of The Eternal Frontier "Whether or not you agree with Paul Martin, he has shaped how we think about our Pleistocene ancestors and their role in transforming this planet."—Ross D. E. MacPhee, Curator of Mammalogy, American Museum of Natural History

Author : Jordi Agust’,Mauricio Anton
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2005-12-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780231116411

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Mammoths, Sabertooths, and Hominids by Jordi Agust’,Mauricio Anton Pdf

In the 1930s a band of smart and able young men, some still in their twenties, helped Franklin D. Roosevelt transform an American nation in crisis. They were the junior officers of the New Deal. Thomas G. Corcoran, Benjamin V. Cohen, William O. Douglas, Abe Fortas, and James Rowe helped FDR build the modern Democratic Party into a progressive coalition whose command over power and ideas during the next three decades seemed politically invincible. This is the first book about this group of Rooseveltians and their linkage to Lyndon Johnson's Great Society and the Vietnam War debacle. Michael Janeway grew up inside this world. His father, Eliot Janeway, business editor of Time and a star writer for Fortune and Life magazines, was part of this circle, strategizing and practicing politics as well as reporting on these men. Drawing on his intimate knowledge of events and previously unavailable private letters and other documents, Janeway crafts a riveting account of the exercise of power during the New Deal and its aftermath. He shows how these men were at the nexus of reform impulses at the electoral level with reform thinking in the social sciences and the law and explains how this potent fusion helped build the contemporary American state. Since that time efforts to reinvent government by "brains trust" have largely failed in the U.S. In the last quarter of the twentieth century American politics ceased to function as a blend of broad coalition building and reform agenda setting, rooted in a consensus of belief in the efficacy of modern government. Can a progressive coalition of ideas and power come together again? The Fall of the House of Roosevelt makes such a prospect both alluring and daunting.

Author : Beth Shapiro
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-08
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780691209005

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How to Clone a Mammoth by Beth Shapiro Pdf

"Could extinct species like mammoths and passenger pigeons be brought back to life? The science says yes. In [this book], Beth Shapiro, evolutionary biologist and pioneer in 'ancient DNA' research, walks readers through the astonishing and controversial process of de-extinction. From deciding which species should be restored, to sequencing their genomes, to anticipating how revived populations might be overseen in the wild, Shapiro vividly explores the extraordinary cutting-edge science that is being used--today--to resurrect the past"--Amazon.com.