Nature

Do you know. . . whether penguins feel the cold?. which animal "sees" with its nose?. why the Arctic fox changes colour with the seasons?. where you would find a grasshopper’s ears?. All the questions you could ever think to ask about the animal kingdom. are answered here. Stuffed with eye-popping pictures and far-out facts. about the natural world, Amazing Animals takes you on. a weird and wonderful walk on the wild side!. The Structure. Amazing Animals is divided into five fascinating chapters –. Senses, Fight or Flight, Camouflage and Colour, Extreme Living, and On the Move –. and features a diverse range of mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles, insects, and fish. From bugs that build homes from mud to lizards that run on water, and from spiders with. eight eyes to mammals that play dead, the book is crammed with fascinating facts about the. animal kingdom. more...

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A hunt for the American buffalo—an adventurous, fascinating examination of an animal that has haunted the American imagination.   In 2005, Steven Rinella won a lottery permit to hunt for a wild buffalo, or American bison, in the Alaskan wilderness. more...

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''An excellent study of U.S. policy on creating and maintaining a state of energy security.''--Hafeez Malik, Villanova University The United States is the world's largest oil consumer and importer. Here Gawdat Bahgat examines the nation's growing dependence on fossil fuels--particularly oil--and the main challenges it faces in securing supplies from two energy-rich regions, the Persian Gulf and the Caspian Sea. more...

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Ch. 1. American Wilderness--An Introduction, Michael Lewis. Ch. 2. American Wilderness and First Contact, Melanie Perreault. Ch. 3. Religion "Irradiates" the Wilderness, Mark Stoll. Ch. 4. Farm Against Forest, Steven Stoll. Ch. 5. Natural History, Romanticism, and Thoreau, Bradley P. Dean. Ch. 6. The Fate of Wilderness in American Landscape Art: The Dilemmas of "Nature's Nation", Angela Miller. Ch. 7. Wilderness Parks and Their Discontents, Benjamin Johnson. Ch. 8. A Sylvan Prospect: John Muir, Gifford Pinchot, and Early Twentieth-Century Conservatism, Char Miller. Ch. 9. Gender and Wilderness Conservation, Kimberly A. Jarvis. Ch. 10. Putting Wilderness in Context: The Interwar Origins of the Modern Wilderness Idea, Paul Sutter. Ch. 11. Loving the Wild in Postwar America, Mark Harvey. Ch. 12. Wilderness and Conservation Science, Michael Lewis. Ch. 13. Creating Wild Places from Domesticated Landscapes: The Internationalization of the American Wilderness Concept, Christopher Conte. Ch. 14. The Politics of Modern Wilderness, James Morton Turner. Epilogue: Nature, Liberty, and Equality, Donald Worster. Recommended Readings more...

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Amniote Origins integrates modern systematic methods with studies of functional and physiological processes, and illustrates how studies of paleobiology can be illuminated by studies of neonatology. For this reason, comparative anatomists and physiologists, functional morphologists, zoologists, and paleontologists will all find this unique volume very useful. Inspired by the prospect of integrating fields that have long been isolated from one another, Amniote Origins provides a thorough and interdisciplinary synthesis of one of the classic transitions of evolutionary history. more...

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