Kingdom Animalia

Author : Aracelis Girmay
Publisher : BOA Editions, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1934414689
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kingdom Animalia written by Aracelis Girmay and published by BOA Editions, Ltd.. This book was released on 2011-09-20 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poems in this highly anticipated second book are elegiac poems, as concerned with honoring our dead as they are with praising the living. Through Aracelis Girmay's lens, everything is animal: the sea, a jukebox, the desert. In these poems, everything possesses a system of desire, hunger, a set of teeth, and language. These are poems about what is both difficult and beautiful about our time here on earth. Aracelis Girmay's debut collection won the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award. A Cave Canem Fellow, she is on the faculty at Drew University and Hampshire College. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Author : Mikhail A. Fedonkin
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801886799
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rise of Animals written by Mikhail A. Fedonkin and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An essential resource for paleontologists, biologists, geologists, and teachers, The Rise of Animals is the best single reference on one of earth's most significant events.

Author : Peter Holland
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191620491
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Animal Kingdom: A Very Short Introduction written by Peter Holland and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2011-11-24 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The animal world is immensely diverse, and our understanding of it has been greatly enhanced by analysis of DNA and the study of evolution and development ('evo-devo'). In this Very Short Introduction Peter Holland presents a modern tour of the animal kingdom. Beginning with the definition of animals (not obvious in biological terms), he takes the reader through the high-level groupings of animals (phyla) and new views on their evolutionary relationships based on molecular data, together with an overview of the biology of each group of animals. The phylogenetic view is central to zoology today and the volume will be of great value to all students of the life sciences, as well as providing a concise summary for the interested general reader. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Author : Julian Huxley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Individual in the Animal Kingdom written by Julian Huxley and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Samantha Fowler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789888407453
Total Pages : 618 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Concepts of Biology written by Samantha Fowler and published by . This book was released on 2018-01-07 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concepts of Biology is designed for the single-semester introduction to biology course for non-science majors, which for many students is their only college-level science course. As such, this course represents an important opportunity for students to develop the necessary knowledge, tools, and skills to make informed decisions as they continue with their lives. Rather than being mired down with facts and vocabulary, the typical non-science major student needs information presented in a way that is easy to read and understand. Even more importantly, the content should be meaningful. Students do much better when they understand why biology is relevant to their everyday lives. For these reasons, Concepts of Biology is grounded on an evolutionary basis and includes exciting features that highlight careers in the biological sciences and everyday applications of the concepts at hand.We also strive to show the interconnectedness of topics within this extremely broad discipline. In order to meet the needs of today's instructors and students, we maintain the overall organization and coverage found in most syllabi for this course. A strength of Concepts of Biology is that instructors can customize the book, adapting it to the approach that works best in their classroom. Concepts of Biology also includes an innovative art program that incorporates critical thinking and clicker questions to help students understand--and apply--key concepts.

Author : Francis Polkinghorne Pascoe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Zoological Classification written by Francis Polkinghorne Pascoe and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jean-Baptiste Del Amo
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 0802147585
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Animalia written by Jean-Baptiste Del Amo and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “lyrically descriptive [novel] traces the terrible evolution of rural ways of life into cruelty and abuse via the history of one unhappy family.” —Kirkus Reviews 1898: In the small French village of Puy-Larroque, Éléonore is a child living with her father, a pig farmer whose terminal illness leaves him unable to work, and her God-fearing mother, who runs both farm and family with an iron hand. Éléonore passes her childhood with little heat and no running water, sharing a small room with her cousin Marcel, who does most of the physical labor on the farm. When World War I breaks out and the village empties, Éléonore gets a taste of the changes that will transform her world as the twentieth century rolls on. In the second part of the novel, which takes place in the 1980s, the untamed world of Puy-Larroque seems gone forever. Éléonore has aged into the role of matriarch, and the family is running a large industrial pig farm, where thousands of pigs churn daily through cycles of birth, growth, and death. Moments of sublime beauty and powerful emotion mix with the thoughtless brutality waged against animals that makes the old horrors of death and disease seem like simpler times. A dramatic and chilling tale of man and beast that recalls the naturalism of writers like Émile Zola, Animalia traverses the twentieth century as it examines man’s quest to conquer nature, critiques the legacy of modernity and the transmission of violence from one generation to the next, and questions whether we can hold out hope for redemption in this brutal world. From a Goncourt Prize winner, this “lyrical novel depicting a century on a French family farm emphasizes the earthy and the cruel [and] provocatively dissects our conflicted relationship with the rest of the living world”(Booklist). “[Animalia] invites readers to connect the tangled web of violence, against people and animals—and face the brutality in which all of us are complicit.” —Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Author : Kathryn Whyman
Publisher : Raintree
ISBN 13 : 9780817258856
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Animal Kingdom written by Kathryn Whyman and published by Raintree. This book was released on 1999 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the similarities and differences between the five classes of vertebrates, or animals with backbones: fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals.

Author : Gonzalo Giribet
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691197067
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Invertebrate Tree of Life written by Gonzalo Giribet and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most up-to-date book on invertebrates, providing a new framework for understanding their place in the tree of life In The Invertebrate Tree of Life, Gonzalo Giribet and Gregory Edgecombe, leading authorities on invertebrate biology and paleontology, utilize phylogenetics to trace the evolution of animals from their origins in the Proterozoic to today. Phylogenetic relationships between and within the major animal groups are based on the latest molecular analyses, which are increasingly genomic in scale and draw on the soundest methods of tree reconstruction. Giribet and Edgecombe evaluate the evolution of animal organ systems, exploring how current debates about phylogenetic relationships affect the ways in which aspects of invertebrate nervous systems, reproductive biology, and other key features are inferred to have developed. The authors review the systematics, natural history, anatomy, development, and fossil records of all major animal groups, employing seminal historical works and cutting-edge research in evolutionary developmental biology, genomics, and advanced imaging techniques. Overall, they provide a synthetic treatment of all animal phyla and discuss their relationships via an integrative approach to invertebrate systematics, anatomy, paleontology, and genomics. With numerous detailed illustrations and phylogenetic trees, The Invertebrate Tree of Life is a must-have reference for biologists and anyone interested in invertebrates, and will be an ideal text for courses in invertebrate biology. A must-have and up-to-date book on invertebrate biology Ideal as both a textbook and reference Suitable for courses in invertebrate biology Richly illustrated with black-and-white and color images and abundant tree diagrams Written by authorities on invertebrate evolution and phylogeny Factors in the latest understanding of animal genomics and original fossil material

Author : Simon David Eden
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1471118746
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Savage Kingdom written by Simon David Eden and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-07-17 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Thought provoking. Original. Imaginative… The Savage Kingdom is for everyone who cares about the balanced and shared survival of animals and humans, and who loves our beautiful planet.' Virginia McKenna OBE Everyone has the potential to change the world, but some are born to do it When Drue's beloved cat Will-C goes missing, she's unaware that his disappearance is the start of the greatest global conflict the world has ever known. The animal kingdom has declared war on mankind, and now domesticated creatures must choose who to fight for: Man or Beast. Cast into a world full of danger, but determined to rescue Will-C and bring him home, Drue starts out on a quest and makes an astonishing discovery: an ancient tribe of shape-shifters, who have lived in the shadows since the dawn of time, are about to play a key role in shaping the future - but can they save mankind? And what role is Drue herself about to play? An unforgettable tale about courage, hope, loyalty… and the unbreakable bond between a girl and her cat