Hidden Life Of The Desert

Author : Thomas Alan Wiewandt
Publisher : co-published by Wild Horizons Publishing, Inc. (dba Wild Horizons Productions) and Mountain Press Publishing Co.
ISBN 13 : 0878427139
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book HIDDEN LIFE OF THE DESERT written by Thomas Alan Wiewandt and published by co-published by Wild Horizons Publishing, Inc. (dba Wild Horizons Productions) and Mountain Press Publishing Co.. This book was released on 2022-09-22 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HIDDEN LIFE OF THE DESERT: And Our Future in the Drying Southwest is a greatly expanded, 120-page 2022/Third Edition, co-published by Wild Horizons and Mountain Press. Part 2 offers an up-to-date, well-researched, thought-provoking, non-technical synthesis of ideas for a future based on “desert thinking for desert living.” In the context of explosive population growth and climate change, consider outdated laws that govern land and water use in the Southwest, how water and energy are connected, pros and cons of desalination, crops suitable for arid lands, agri-solar studies, solar canals, rainwater harvesting, ASU’s exciting new project with “mechanical trees” that collect CO2 from the atmosphere, and more. This book is packed with useful information for students, teachers, and parents. As in his 2nd Edition (2010) of HIDDEN LIFE, Author-Photographer Thomas Wiewandt brightens every page of Part 1 with stunning color photographs of plants and animals that thrive in seemingly barren landscapes of the Sonoran Desert. This book has also served as an educational companion to his award-winning film DESERT DREAMS: Celebrating Five Seasons in the Sonoran Desert, a popular film with no narration that has aired as a pledge drive program on national Public Television since 2015. TAGS: Hidden Life of the Desert; New Edition; 3rd Edition; 2022; book; non-fiction; illustrated book; educational; science; ecology; desert; Sonoran Desert; arid lands; American Southwest; life in; animals; plants; human impact; climate change; population growth; overpopulation; future; sustainable living; water; Colorado River; Lake Powell; Lake Mead; green technology; energy; renewable energy; fossil fuels; agriculture; crops; CAP; Central Arizona Project; desalination; solar canals; agri-solar; agrivoltaic; rainwater harvesting; copper mining; Mechanical Trees; biofuel; invasive species; buffelgrass; desert architecture; maps; photographs; teaching resources; glossary

Author : Thomas Alan Wiewandt
Publisher : Mountain Press
ISBN 13 : 9780878425556
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hidden Life of the Desert written by Thomas Alan Wiewandt and published by Mountain Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Takes a photographic tour of the life cycles of the desert, where all creatures must adapt to extremes of heat and cold and the coming and going of the rains.

Author : Thomas Alan Wiewandt
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 9780517573556
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hidden Life of the Desert written by Thomas Alan Wiewandt and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1990 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photographs and text give a guided tour of animals plants, and ecology of the desert in America's Southwest.

Author : Lawrence R. Walker
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816532621
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Natural History of the Mojave Desert written by Lawrence R. Walker and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2018-03-27 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Invites readers to explore the smallest and most unique southwestern desert, the beautiful Mojave--Provided by publisher.

Author : Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271081945
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hidden Life of Life written by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2018-03-24 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An iconoclast and best-selling author of both nonfiction and fiction, Elizabeth Marshall Thomas has spent a lifetime observing, thinking, and writing about the cultures of animals such as lions, wolves, dogs, deer, and humans. In this compulsively readable book, she provides a plainspoken, big-picture look at the commonality of life on our planet, from the littlest microbes to the largest lizards. Inspired by the idea of symbiosis in evolution—that all living things evolve in a series of cooperative relationships—Thomas takes readers on a journey through the progression of life. Along the way she shares the universal likenesses, experiences, and environments of “Gaia’s creatures,” from amoebas in plant soil to the pets we love, from proud primates to Homo sapiens hunter-gatherers on the African savanna. Fervently rejecting “anthropodenial,” the notion that nonhuman life does not share characteristics with humans, Thomas instead shows that paramecia can learn, plants can communicate, humans aren’t really as special as we think we are—and that it doesn’t take a scientist to marvel at the smallest inhabitants of the natural world and their connections to all living things. A unique voice on anthropology and animal behavior, Thomas challenges scientific convention and the jargon that prevents us all from understanding all living things better. This joyfully written book is a fascinating look at the challenges and behaviors shared by creatures from bacteria to larvae to parasitic fungi, a potted hyacinth to the author herself, and all those in between.

Author : Ilene L. Follman
Publisher : Lorenz Educational Press
ISBN 13 : 0787783056
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life in the Desert (eBook) written by Ilene L. Follman and published by Lorenz Educational Press. This book was released on 1995-09-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides background information, reproducible pages and integrated activities which involve observing, classifying, measuring, recording, predicting, writing, constructing, comparing, contrasting, describing, organizing, and sharing. Topics include : deserts of the world, desert plants, desert animals. For grades K-3.

Author : Bruce Berger
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374718180
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Desert Harvest written by Bruce Berger and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2019-03-12 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A career-spanning collection of Bruce Berger’s beautiful, subtle, and spiky essays on the American desert Occupying a space between traditional nature writing, memoir, journalism, and prose poetry, Bruce Berger’s essays are beautiful, subtle, and haunting meditations on the landscape and culture of the American Southwest. Combining new, unpublished essays with selections from his acclaimed trilogy of “desert books”—The Telling Distance, There Was a River, and Almost an Island—A Desert Harvest is a career-spanning selection of the best work by this unique and undervalued voice. Wasteland architecture, mountaintop astronomy, Bach in the wilderness, the mind of the wood rat, the canals of Phoenix, and the numerous eccentric personalities who call the desert their home all come to life in these fascinating portraits of America’s seemingly desolate terrains.

Author : Deborah Hodge
Publisher : Kids Can Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1894786785
Total Pages : 27 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Who Lives Here? Desert Animals written by Deborah Hodge and published by Kids Can Press Ltd. This book was released on 2008-08-01 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to some of the animals that inhabit the Earth's driest places.

Author : Mark Oshiro
Publisher : Tor Teen
ISBN 13 : 1250169208
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Each of Us a Desert written by Mark Oshiro and published by Tor Teen. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From award-winning author Mark Oshiro comes a powerful coming-of-age fantasy novel about finding home and falling in love amidst the dangers of a desert where stories come to life Xochitl is destined to wander the desert alone, speaking her troubled village's stories into its arid winds. Her only companions are the blessed stars above and enigmatic lines of poetry magically strewn across dusty dunes. Her one desire: to share her heart with a kindred spirit. One night, Xo's wish is granted—in the form of Emilia, the cold and beautiful daughter of the town's murderous conqueror. But when the two set out on a magical journey across the desert, they find their hearts could be a match... if only they can survive the nightmare-like terrors that arise when the sun goes down. Fresh off of Anger Is a Gift's smashing success, Oshiro branches out into a fantastical direction with their new YA novel, Each of Us a Desert. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Craig Leland Childs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780316149815
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Secret Knowledge of Water written by Craig Leland Childs and published by . This book was released on 2014-05-21 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of "Crossing Paths" takes on the defining subject of the arid west: water. His odyssey of risk and adventure follows the search for the secretive water of the desert where flows are hidden, ephemeral, sudden, and violent. Line drawings throughout.