The Giraffe S Neck

Author : Judith Schalansky
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781620403396

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The Giraffe's Neck by Judith Schalansky Pdf

Adaptation is everything. Inge Lohmark is well aware of that; after all, she's been teaching biology for more than thirty years. But nothing will change the fact that her school is going to be closed in four years: in this dwindling town in the eastern German countryside, there are fewer and fewer children. Inge's husband, who was a cattle inseminator before the reunification, is now breeding ostriches. Their daughter, Claudia, emigrated to the U.S. years ago and has no intention of having children. Everyone is resisting the course of nature the Inge teaches every day in class. When Inge finds herself experiencing intense feelings for a 9th-grade girl, her biologically determined worldview is shaken. And in increasingly outlandish ways, she tries to save what can no longer be saved.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Folklore
ISBN : 0440832691

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How Giraffe Got Such a Long Neck, and why Rhino is So Grumpy by Anonim Pdf

During a terrible drought in which there is nothing to eat, Man prepares a magic herb that results in Giraffe's long neck so he can reach the high leaves on the trees and a grumpy Rhino, who arrives too late for the magic.

Author : Jory John
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-09
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780593127728

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Giraffe Problems by Jory John Pdf

The bestselling creators of the hilarious Penguin Problems, Jory John and Lane Smith, turn a giraffe's problematic long neck into an enviable advantage in this fun board book. Edward the giraffe can't understand why his neck is as long and bendy and, well, ridiculous as it is. No other animal has a neck this absurd. He's tried disguising it, dressing it up, strategically hiding behind bushes--honestly, anything you can think of. Just when he has exhausted his neck-hiding options and is about to give up, Cyrus the turtle ambles in (very slowly) and helps Edward understand that his neck has a purpose and, besides, looks excellent in a bow tie. Along with a heavy dose of humor comes a gentle reminder about the importance of acceptance.

Author : Peter Stamm
Publisher : Other Press, LLC
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2010-02-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781590514085

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Unformed Landscape by Peter Stamm Pdf

Unformed Landscape begins in a small village on a fjord in the Finnmark, on the northeastern coast of Norway, where the borders between Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia lie covered in snow and darkness, where the real borders are between day and night, summer and winter, and between people. Here, a sensitive young woman like Kathrine finds few outlets for her desires. Half Norwegian, half Sami (an indigenous people), Kathrine works for the customs office inspecting the fishing boats arriving regularly in the harbor. She is in her late 20s, has a son from an early marriage, and has drifted into a second loveless marriage to a man whose cold and dominating conventionality forms a bold stroke through the unformed landscape of her life. After she makes a discovery about her husband that deeply wounds her, Kathrine cuts loose from her moorings and her confusion and sets off in search of herself. Her journey begins aboard a ship headed south, taking her below the Arctic Circle for the first time in her life. Kathrine makes her way to France and has the bittersweet experience of a love affair that flares and dies quickly, her starved senses rewarded by the shimmering beauty of Paris. Through a series of poignant encounters, Kathrine is led to the richer life she was meant to have and is brave enough to claim. Using simple words strung together in a melodic alphabet, Peter Stamm introduces us, through a series of intimate sketches, to the heart of an unforgettable woman. Her story speaks eloquently about solitude, the fragility of love, lost illusions, and self-discovery. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Author : Claudia Lloyd,Edward Gakuya
Publisher : Ladybird Books
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Animals
ISBN : 0723273294

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Tinga Tinga Tales: Why Giraffe Has a Long Neck - Read It Yourself with Ladybird by Claudia Lloyd,Edward Gakuya Pdf

A Tinga Tinga tale inspired by traditional stories from Africa. Once upon a time, Giraffe had a short neck. But then one day she sticks her head in a tree to get some honey - and can't get out again! Read it yourself with Ladybird is one of Ladybird's best-selling series. For over thirty-five years it has helped young children who are learning to read develop and improve their reading skills. Each Read it yourself book is very carefully written to include many key, high-frequency words that are vital for learning to read, as well as a limited number of story words that are introduced and practised throughout. Simple sentences and frequently repeated words help to build the confidence of beginner readers and the four different levels of books support children all the way from very first reading practice through to independent, fluent reading. Each book has been carefully checked by educational consultants and can be read independently at home or used in a guided reading session at school. Further content includes comprehension puzzles, helpful notes for parents, carers and teachers, and book band information for use in schools. Tinga Tinga Tales: Why Giraffe Has a Long Neck is a Level 1 Read it yourself title, suitable for very early readers who have had some initial reading instruction and are ready to take their first steps in reading real stories. Each story is told very simply, using a small number of frequently repeated words.

Author : Elise Parsley
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780316466752

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Neck & Neck by Elise Parsley Pdf

In this crowd-pleasing read-aloud from the creator of the bestselling If You Ever Want to Bring an Alligator to School, Don't!, a giraffe's self-esteem is tested during a hilarious confrontation between unlikely look-alikes! Everybody loves Leopold the giraffe. He inspires awe and wonder. His adoring fans gaze and cheer. Best of all, they feed him lots of deeeelicious snacks! But, one day, a shiny, bobble-headed new rival comes in and ruins everything...a giraffe-shaped balloon! Just how far will Leopold go to prove that he's the hero of the zoo? Readers learn that actions speak far louder than looks in this laugh-out-loud face-off from Elise Parsley--the New York Times bestselling creator of the Magnolia Says DON'T! series.

Author : Judith Schalansky
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781408843789

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The Giraffe's Neck by Judith Schalansky Pdf

Longlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2015 Adaption is everything, something Frau Lohmark is well aware of as the biology teacher at the Charles Darwin High School in a country backwater of the former East Germany. A strict devotee of Darwin's evolution principle, Lohmark views education as survival of the fittest: classifying her pupils as biological specimens and scorning her colleagues for indulging in 'favourites'. However, as people move West in search of work and opportunities, the school's future is in jeopardy and the Lohmark is forced to face her most fundamental lesson: she must adapt or she cannot survive.

Author : Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig
Publisher : MV-Verlag
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783869914718

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The Evolution of the Long-necked Giraffe (Giraffa Camelopardalis L.) by Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig Pdf

"Darwin (1871) and many African folk legends before him [...] proposed a simple but powerful explanation for the large and elongated shape. Long necks allowed giraffe to outreach presumed competitors, particularly during dry-season bottlenecks when leaves become scarce; (Simmons and Scheepers). However, this old African folk legend which is still commonly taught in high schools, fails to explain, among other things, the size differences between males and females. Giraffe cows are up to 1.5 meters shorter than the giraffe bulls, not to mention the offspring. The wide migration range of the giraffe and the low heights of the most common plants in their diet likewise argue against the dominant selection hypothesis. Also: 1) The fossil "links," which according to the theory should appear successively and replace each other, usually exist simultaneously for long periods of time. 2) Evolutionary derivations based on similarities rely on circular reasoning. 3) The giraffe has eigh t cervical vertebrae. Although the 8th vertebra displays almost all the characteristics of a neck vertebra, as an exception to the rule the first rib pair is attached there. 4) The origin of the long-necked giraffe by a macromutation is, due to the many synorganized structures, extremely improbable. 5) Sexual selection also lacks a mutational basis and, what is more, is frequently in conflict with natural selection ("head clubbing" is probably "a consequence of a long neck and not a cause"; see also Mitchell et al. 2009). 6) In contrast to the thus-far proposed naturalistic hypotheses, the intelligent design theory is basically testable. 7) The long-necked giraffes possibly all belong to the same basic type inasmuch as 8) a gradual evolution from the short-necked to the long-necked giraffe is ruled out by the duplication of a neck vertebra and the loss of a thoracic vertebra. 9) Chance mutations are principally not sufficient to explain the origin of the long-necked giraffe. 10) The intelligent design theory offers an adequate and satisfying solution to the problems and points to numerous "old" and new research projects. 11) Mitchell and Skinner present a good analysis of the selectionist problem; however, their phylogenetic hypotheses presuppose the correctness of the synthetic evolutionary theory, and their claims of "intermediate forms" are unproven (similarly summary Part 2). Part 1 shows why Dawkins and Kutschera are wrong. The scientific facts speak for design."

Author : Lynn Sherr
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1997-08
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0836227697

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Tall Blondes by Lynn Sherr Pdf

Traces the cultural history of the giraffe, includes ancient and contemporary descriptions, and studies the impact of giraffes on the human imagination.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0723273316

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TINGA TINGA TALES by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet de Lamarck
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 507 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-03
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781108038423

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Zoological Philosophy by Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet de Lamarck Pdf

Lamarck outlined his theory of 'soft inheritance', which influenced Darwin, in this 1809 work, eventually translated into English in 1914.

Author : Daphne J. Fairbairn
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780691169781

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Odd Couples by Daphne J. Fairbairn Pdf

The remarkable and unique ways that male and female animals play out gender roles in nature While we joke that men are from Mars and women are from Venus, our gender differences can't compare to those of many other animals. For instance, the male garden spider spontaneously dies after mating with a female more than fifty times his size. And male blanket octopuses employ a copulatory arm longer than their own bodies to mate with females that outweigh them by four orders of magnitude. Why do these gender gulfs exist? Introducing readers to important discoveries in animal behavior and evolution, Odd Couples explores some of the most extraordinary sexual differences in the animal world. Daphne Fairbairn uncovers the unique and bizarre characteristics of these remarkable species and the special strategies they use to maximize reproductive success. Fairbairn also considers humans and explains that although we are keenly aware of our own sexual differences, they are unexceptional within the vast animal world. Looking at some of the most amazing creatures on the planet, Odd Couples sheds astonishing light on what it means to be male or female in the animal kingdom.

Author : Jerry A. Coyne
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780191643842

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Why Evolution is True by Jerry A. Coyne Pdf

For all the discussion in the media about creationism and 'Intelligent Design', virtually nothing has been said about the evidence in question - the evidence for evolution by natural selection. Yet, as this succinct and important book shows, that evidence is vast, varied, and magnificent, and drawn from many disparate fields of science. The very latest research is uncovering a stream of evidence revealing evolution in action - from the actual observation of a species splitting into two, to new fossil discoveries, to the deciphering of the evidence stored in our genome. Why Evolution is True weaves together the many threads of modern work in genetics, palaeontology, geology, molecular biology, anatomy, and development to demonstrate the 'indelible stamp' of the processes first proposed by Darwin. It is a crisp, lucid, and accessible statement that will leave no one with an open mind in any doubt about the truth of evolution.

Author : Art Wolfe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Africa
ISBN : 0967591813

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Africa by Art Wolfe Pdf

A renowned photographer celebrates Africa with this collection of photographs covering five ecosystems--savannah, woodland, rainforest, wetland, and desert--depicting habitat, animals, and human inhabitants for each. Essays written by Michelle Guilder address the need to protect each ecosystem. 252 color photos.

Author : Book Company Publishing,Inc. Penton Overseas
Publisher : Book Company International
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2002-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1740472608

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Marty and the Long Necked Giraffe by Book Company Publishing,Inc. Penton Overseas Pdf

Mini Books & Box Set Two delightful pop-up books alone or in a slipcase. Help Marty as he tries to find out whether the elephant is the biggest animal and as he tries to find his friend the long-necked giraffe!