Afia Visits The Bronx Zoo
Afia Visits The Bronx Zoo

Author: Yaa Asare

Publisher: Yaa Asare

Published: 2021-10-30

Total Pages: 28

ISBN-13: 9781736558904

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Afia Visits the Bronx Zoo is a cute story about a happy little girl who enjoys visiting the Bronx Zoo with her parents.

Cactus and Succulent Plants
Cactus and Succulent Plants

Author: Sara Oldfield

Publisher: World Conservation Union

Published: 1997-01

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 9782831703909

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Found in a variety of forms, cacti and other succulents have elicited widespread interest and tremendous popularity worldwide. Although the subject of a certain amount of debate, about 10,000 species are recognized as belonging to the succulent group. Of these, an estimated 2,000 are threatened with global extinction in the wild and many more are regionally or nationally threatened mainly due to habitat destruction and collection for international trade.This Action Plan brings together from around the world current information on population status, threats and conservation of this particularly important group of plants. Prepared with conservationists, scientists, governments, protected area managers and grant-awarding bodies in mind, it suggests priorities for action and encourages collaboration among interested parties at all levels.

Cubs in the Tub
Cubs in the Tub

Author: Candace Fleming

Publisher: Holiday House

Published: 2020-08-04

Total Pages: 50

ISBN-13: 0823443183

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Fred and Helen Martini longed for a baby, and they ended up with dozens of lion and tiger cubs! Snuggle up to this purr-fect read aloud about the Bronx Zoo's first female zoo-keeper. When Bronx Zoo-keeper Fred brought home a lion cub, Helen Martini instantly embraced it. The cub's mother lost the instinct to care for him. "Just do for him what you would do with a human baby," Fred suggested...and she did. Helen named him MacArthur, and fed him milk from a bottle and cooed him to sleep in a crib. Soon enough, MacArthur was not the only cub bathed in the tub! The couple continues to raise lion and tiger cubs as their own, until they are old enough to return them to zoos. Helen becomes the first female zookeeper at the Bronx zoo, the keeper of the nursery. This is a terrific non-fiction book to read aloud while snuggling up with your cubs! Filled with adorable baby cats, this is a story about love, dedication, and a new kind of family. Gorgeously patterned illustrations by Julie Downing detail the in-home nursery and a warm pallet creates a cozy pairing with Candace Fleming's lovely language. Backmatter includes a short biography of Helen Martini and a selected bibliography. A Junior Library Guild Selection A Bank Street Best Children's Book of the Year Named to the Texas Topaz Reading List

The Lion King
The Lion King

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Publisher: Ladybird Books

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 24

ISBN-13: 9781844220397

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Life is full of fun and games on the African plains for Simba, a young lion cub. But when Simba's father is killed, and his uncle, Scar takes over, he makes Simba leave the Pride. With the help of his comical friends, Pumbaa the warthog and Timon the meerkat, Simba can finally claim his throne. But first he must stand up to his villainous uncle, Scar.

The Bronx Zoo
The Bronx Zoo

Author: Sparky Lyle

Publisher: Triumph Books (IL)

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13:

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The former "New York Times" bestseller is now available in trade paperback a quarter century after Golenbock's detailed examination of the 1979 New York Yankees World Series championship became hailed as one of the best baseball books written.

WWII & NYC
WWII & NYC

Author: Kenneth T. Jackson

Publisher: Scala Arts Publishers Incorporated

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781857598087

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Published in conjunction with the ground breaking exhibition WWII & NYC at the New-York Historical Society, this fascinating book captures the little-told but epic story of New York in the years 1939-1945, the war's impact on the metropolis, and the challenges New Yorkers faced in a city mobilised for war.

The Great Civilized Conversation
The Great Civilized Conversation

Author: Wm. Theodore De Bary

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2013-06-25

Total Pages: 433

ISBN-13: 0231535104

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Having spent decades teaching and researching the humanities, Wm. Theodore de Bary is well positioned to speak on its merits and reform. Believing a classical liberal education is more necessary than ever, he outlines in these essays a plan to update existing core curricula by incorporating classics from both Eastern and Western traditions, thereby bringing the philosophy and moral values of Asian civilizations to American students and vice versa. The author establishes a concrete link between teaching the classics of world civilizations and furthering global humanism. Selecting texts that share many of the same values and educational purposes, he joins Islamic, Indian, Chinese, Japanese, and Western sources into a revised curriculum that privileges humanity and civility. He also explores the tradition of education in China and its reflection of Confucian and Neo-Confucian beliefs. He reflects on history's great scholar-teachers and what their methods can teach us today, and he dedicates three essays to the power of The Analects of Confucius, The Tale of Genji, and The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon in the classroom.