Animals In Flight

Author : Robin Page
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547349149
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Animals in Flight written by Robin Page and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2005-05-30 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wings carry tiny insects, fluttering butterflies, and backyard birds, and they even once propelled some dinosaurs up and through the skies. Find out how, when, and why birds and beasts have taken to the air, and discover how wings work in this informative and brilliantly illustrated book about flight.

Author : Dr. David E. Alexander
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199996776
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On the Wing written by Dr. David E. Alexander and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "On the Wing is the first book to take a comprehensive look at the evolution of flight in all four groups of powered flyers: insects, pterosaurs, birds, and bats."--Book jacket.

Author : Gabrielle Balkan
Publisher : Phaidon Press
ISBN 13 : 9780714875125
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Book of Bones written by Gabrielle Balkan and published by Phaidon Press. This book was released on 2017-09-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's a book of world records... of bones! Guess whose bones are the longest, shortest, heaviest, spikiest, and more. With touchable skeletons! An International Literacy Association Teachers' Choice Title (2018) A Texas Topaz Nonfiction Reading List Title (2019) Ten record-breaking animal bones are introduced through a series of superlatives set up as a guessing game with clues. Readers examine animals' skeletons and guess to whom they belong; the answers are revealed in vibrant, full-color scenic habitats, with easily understood — and humorous — explanations. This entertaining introduction to the connection between animal bones (anatomy) and behavior is playful, relatable, and includes touch-and-feel finishes that bring the bones to life!

Author : Colin Burgess
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0387496785
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Animals in Space written by Colin Burgess and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-07-05 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is as a detailed, but highly readable and balanced account of the history of animal space flights carried out by all nations, but principally the United States and the Soviet Union. It explores the ways in which animal high-altitude and space flight research impacted on space flight biomedicine and technology, and how the results - both successful and disappointing - allowed human beings to then undertake that same hazardous journey with far greater understanding and confidence. This complete and authoritative book will undoubtedly become the ultimate authority on animal space flights.

Author : Thom van Dooren
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231537441
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flight Ways written by Thom van Dooren and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A leading figure in the emerging field of extinction studies, Thom van Dooren puts philosophy into conversation with the natural sciences and his ethnographic encounters to vivify the cultural and ethical significance of modern-day extinctions. Unlike other meditations on the subject, Flight Ways incorporates the particularities of real animals and their worlds, drawing philosophers, natural scientists, and general readers into the experience of living among and losing biodiversity. Each chapter of Flight Ways focuses on a different species or group of birds: North Pacific albatrosses, Indian vultures, an endangered colony of penguins in Australia, Hawaiian crows, and the iconic whooping cranes of North America. Written in eloquent and moving prose, the book takes stock of what is lost when a life form disappears from the world—the wide-ranging ramifications that ripple out to implicate a number of human and more-than-human others. Van Dooren intimately explores what life is like for those who must live on the edge of extinction, balanced between life and oblivion, taking care of their young and grieving their dead. He bolsters his studies with real-life accounts from scientists and local communities at the forefront of these developments. No longer abstract entities with Latin names, these species become fully realized characters enmeshed in complex and precarious ways of life, sparking our sense of curiosity, concern, and accountability toward others in a rapidly changing world.

Author : Peter Brown
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0316088714
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flight of the Dodo written by Peter Brown and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2009-10-31 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Penguin gets pooped on by a flying goose, he doesn't just get angry--he decides to do something about it. Penguin and his flightless friends set out to build a flying machine that will give them the bird's eye view they've never had in this picture book. Illustrations.

Author : David E. Alexander
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801880599
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nature's Flyers written by David E. Alexander and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2004-11-17 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Nature's Flyers' is a detailed account of the current scientific understanding of the primary aspects of flight in nature. The author explains the physical basis of flight, drawing upon bats, birds, insects, pterosaurs and even winged seeds.

Author : Nic Bishop
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0395778484
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Secrets of Animal Flight written by Nic Bishop and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1997 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In text and photographs, presents birds, insects, bats, and other flying animals.

Author : Steve Jenkins
Publisher : Turtleback Books
ISBN 13 : 9781417717873
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Animals In Flight written by Steve Jenkins and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 2005-05-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces the world of animals that can fly, from little insects to soaring birds, and provides information about wings and how they work.

Author : Allan Janus
Publisher : Bunker Hill Publishing, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781593730482
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Animals Aloft written by Allan Janus and published by Bunker Hill Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2005 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the visual history and annecdotal story of the mascots, pets, companions and best friends that have made up a whole side of air history retrieved from legendary archives of the National Air & Space Museum.