Animals category: 23627 books
by Robert C Gilbert
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2018
When smoke is seen and smelt in the bushland, the alarm is sounded, and the animals know to find their way to safety as soon as possible. But Kalola Koala becomes lost just as the fire was getting close. This story tells how she and the other animals narrowly escape the dreaded bushfire.
The...
by Dulcey Lima, Sarah Lima
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
The world of nature is represented by an enormous array of unusual and interesting animals. This beautifully photographed book begins with butterflies and ends with our beloved domestic animals. Animals pictured include insects, birds, reptiles, land and sea mammals. Each animal photograph is accompanied by an interesting, rhyming fact to enhance understanding and learning.
by Paul Beck
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Warning: Extreme danger! They stalk, sting, pounce, and chomp. They're the deadliest creatures on earth, and now you can see why as you explore them all through incredible action photos. Extreme: Dangerous Animals brings you face-to-face with tigers, wolves, great whites, and cobras—and a few animals you might not expect!
Exploding Ants
Amazing Facts About How Animals Adapt
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
A wasp lays its eggs under a caterpillar's skin so that its young can eat the caterpillar's guts as they grow. A young head louse makes its home on a human hair and feasts on human blood. Frogs use their eyeballs to help swallow their food.
From small worms that live in a dog's nose mucus to...
Orange Animals On The Planet
Animal Encyclopedia for Kids
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2015
How many orange animals do you know? I bet not too many! Open the pages of this book to increase your knowledge on these brightly-colored animals. Picture books are excellent study tools that improve your photo memory, focus and love for learning too. DonÕt forget to grab your copy today!
by Elena Passarello
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2017
“It might be the best book on animals I’ve ever read. It's also the only one that's made me laugh out loud.” —Helen Macdonald, The New York Times Book Review
Beginning with Yuka, a 39,000-year-old mummified woolly mammoth recently found in the Siberian permafrost, each of the sixteen...
The Truth About Animals
Stoned Sloths, Lovelorn Hippos, and Other Tales from the Wild Side of Wildlife
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Mary Roach meets Bill Bryson in this "surefire summer winner" (Janet Maslin, New York Times), an uproarious tour of the basest instincts and biggest mysteries of the animal world
Humans have gone to the Moon and discovered the Higgs boson, but when it comes to understanding animals,...
Elephant Company
The Inspiring Story of an Unlikely Hero and the Animals Who Helped Him Save Lives in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
The remarkable story of James Howard “Billy” Williams, whose uncanny rapport with the world’s largest land animals transformed him from a carefree young man into the charismatic war hero known as Elephant Bill**
In 1920,...
Beyond Words
What Animals Think and Feel
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
I wanted to know what they were experiencing, and why to us they feel so compelling, and so-close. This time I allowed myself to ask them the question that for a scientist was forbidden fruit: Who are you?
Weaving decades of field observations with exciting new discoveries about the brain,...
The Bond
Our Kinship with Animals, Our Call to Defend Them
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
“If the animals knew about this book they would, without doubt, confer on Wayne Pacelle, their highest honor.”
—Jane Goodall
“The Bond is the best overall book on animals I have ever read. Brilliant and moving.”
—John Mackey, CEO and Co-founder of Whole Foods Market
“The...
Animals in Translation
Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2009
In this exciting new e edition, Temple Grandin returns to her groundbreaking work, Animals in Translation, to address the last ten years of developments in behavioral research, animal welfare, and farming regulations. Originally published in 2005, Animals in Translation received unanimous critical...
The Emotional Lives of Animals
A Leading Scientist Explores Animal Joy, Sorrow, and Empathy — and Why They Matter
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010
Based on award-winning scientist Marc Bekoff’s years studying social communication in a wide range of species, this important book shows that animals have rich emotional lives. Bekoff skillfully blends extraordinary stories of animal joy, empathy, grief, embarrassment, anger, and love with the latest...
Thinking Animals
Why Animal Studies Now?
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Kari Weil provides a critical introduction to the field of animal studies as well as an appreciation of its thrilling acts of destabilization. Examining real and imagined confrontations between human and nonhuman animals, she charts the presumed lines of difference between human beings and other species...
by Brenda Peterson
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2002
"Peterson writes of nature with an intimacy that tugs at the reader's deep memory."—Orion
This is the story of a life and spirit guided by animals. Brenda Peterson was raised in the High Sierras on a national forest lookout station, and wildlife had a daily, defining influence on...