Natural World category: 7079 books

Cover of Barley
by D. E. Briggs
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012

This book was written to provide an integrated account of barley, induding its cultivation, nature and uses. An attempt has been made to cut across the unjustified and obstructive divisions between pure science, applied science, technology, botany, biochemistry, agronomy, and so on. Limitations of...
Cover of The Lives of Wild Animals Book #1: Educational Version
by Caitlind L. Alexander
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2015

There are many amazing animals in the world. Some are funny and some are strange. This book will tell you about seven interesting, but amazing animals. Each book covers six subjects: What is it, where does it live, what does it eat, who are its enemies, how are babies born and raised, and some fun...
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Bug Camp

Where Every Day's an Adventure

by Tim Forrest, Jen Hamel
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016

Welcome to Bug Camp, where every day's an adventure! Every summer, entomologists around the world offer bug camps to kids, hoping to share the wonders of insects with the next generation of explorers and creative thinkers. Now, biologists Tim Forrest and Jen Hamel bring their decades of bug camp experience...
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Counting Birds

The Idea That Helped Save Our Feathered Friends

by Heidi E.Y. Stemple
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018

Everyday kids learn how they can help protect bird species, near and far, with Counting Birds—the real-life story of bird counting and watching. What can you do to help endangered animals and make a positive change in our environment? Get counting! *Counting Birds *is a beautifully illustrated...
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Home Geography for the Primary Grades

Illustrated with Study Questions

by C. C. Long
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2016

A popular homeschooling resource for many generations now. Geography may be divided into the geography of the home and the geography of the world at large. A knowledge of the home must be obtained by direct observation; of the rest of the world, through the imagination assisted by information. Ideas...
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Torpedoes, Missiles, and Cannons

Physics Goes to War

by Tim Ripley
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017

In 1878 tiny Russian speedboats raced toward a huge enemy warship in the Black Sea. The speedboats carried new weapons called torpedoes. The Russian torpedoes struck the Turkish warship, and it sank. It was the first time small boats had destroyed a warship. Physics, or the science of forces,...
Cover of Where Is Antarctica?
by Sarah Fabiny, Who HQ
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2019

Explore Antarctica--the coldest, driest, and windiest continent on Earth--in this adventure-filled title in the Who HQ series. Antarctica, the earth's southernmost continent, was virtually untouched by humans until the nineteenth century. Many famous explorers journeyed (and often died) there...
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Alien Investigation

Searching for the Truth about UFOs and Aliens

by Kelly Milner Halls
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017

Imagine . . . you're in the woods after dark. Eerie green lights appear in the distance. Then there's a sudden flash and everything is dark again. You decide to take a closer look. You come upon a saucer-shaped craft hovering silently just above the ground. You reach out to touch it, but the object...
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The Bossy Boulder

How Small Is Big and Big Is Small

by Monica Estill
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2013

The Bossy Boulder is on top of the world when Time and Change push him off his high place. His world crumbles and his is broken. Again and again he falls and breaks. He goes through the stages of grief and as he gets smaller he comes to acceptance. Soon he is sand among sand; no bigger no smaller--only then does he realize that he is one with the mountain.
Cover of Powered by Steam
by Kristy Stark
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2018

Believe it or not, water can be used to power boat and train engines. In fact, water in the form of steam changed the manufacturing and transportation industries thanks to steam power pioneers like Denis Papin, Thomas Newcomen, James Watt, and Richard Trevithick. Explore the ways that steam is now...
Cover of Predicting Earthquakes
by Kristy Stark
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2018

Earthquakes can leave people and property in bad shape. At times, they can be deadly. Find out about the science of studying earthquakes and the men and women who track the movements of the ground below us. Created in collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution, this Smithsonian Informational Text...
Cover of Research in Photobiology
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012

Every four years the photobio1ogists of the world get together in an International Congress. They discuss and learn not only re­ search details and findings in their own, often narrow, fields but educate one another broadly in the many biological systems that interact with light. It is this latter...
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Ninja Plants

Survival and Adaptation in the Plant World

by Wiley Blevins
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017

What can communicate but has no mouth, and can attack but has no hands? A plant! You might love the beauty and fragrance of flowers, but plants are far more complex than meets the eye. Some plants have ways of luring insects for pollination. Others mimic the look of the female insects whose male counterparts...
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The Big One

The Cascadia Earthquakes and the Science of Saving Lives

by Elizabeth Rusch
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2020

No one ever thought the Pacific Northwest was due for an earthquake, let alone a catastrophic one. But geologists are transforming our understanding of the grave dangers the population in the region of Cascadia face--will there be a big one? And what can be done to save lives? America's Pacific...
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