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Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Grove Atlantic edition.
Physical Desc
357 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
An ecological history of Europe that focuses on the "land itself and the forces shaping life on it."--Dust jacket flap.
Author
Language
English
Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The classic chronicle of a “terribly misguided and terribly funny” (The Washington Post) hike of the Appalachian Trail, from the author of A Short History of Nearly Everything and The Body
“The best way of escaping into nature.”—The New York Times
Back in America after...
“The best way of escaping into nature.”—The New York Times
Back in America after...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xxiii, 370 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The "End of Illness comes" an ingenious guide to what our fellow animals can teach us about living longer, healthier, happier lives. Mother nature has a lot to teach us, if only we open our eyes. Pigeons and dolphins offer creative strategies for preserving our memories and warding off dementia, while squirrels and pigs harbor secrets for managing chronic pain. Rhinoceroses demonstrate the subtle power...
Publisher
Frederick A. Stokes company
Pub. Date
1937
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
vi, 65, [4] p. illus. (part double) 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Dorothy Lathrop's Animals of the Bible won the very first Caldecott Medal when it was originally published in 1937. Now, in honor of the sixtieth anniversary of this prestigious medal and its first recipient, comes this special deluxe edition of Lathrop's award-winning collection of some of the Bible's most extraordinary animals. Thirty richly detailed black-and-white drawings illustrate the favorite stories of the Creation, Noah's Ark, the first...
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
31 pages : color illustrations ; 19 x 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Learn how fossils are formed, how scientists search for and unearth them, and what they can tell us about life in the distant past."--
20) The mysteries
Author
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
72 pages : chiefly illustrations (black & white) ; 21 x 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"In a fable for grown-ups by cartoonist Bill Watterson, a long-ago kingdom is afflicted with unexplainable calamities. Hoping to end the torment, the king dispatches his knights to discover the source of the mysterious events. Years later, a single battered knight returns" --
From Bill Watterson, bestselling creator of the beloved comic strip Calvin and Hobbes, and John Kascht, one of America's most renowned caricaturists, comes a mysterious and...