Explore the Desert
Author: Kay Jackson
Publisher: Capstone
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 40
ISBN-13: 9780736864046
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA simple look at deserts and their animals and plants.
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Exploring Deserts
Author: Karen Sirvaitis
Publisher: ABDO Publishing Company
Published: 2014-01-01
Total Pages: 146
ISBN-13: 162968046X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThroughout history, people have always explored new frontiers. Adventure, fame, and scientific discovery have all driven humans to forge into the unknown. This title examines the exploration of deserts. Easy-to-read, engaging text takes readers to the Sahara and beyond, examines the explorers who journeyed to these vast, arid landscapes, and traces the development of the technology and techniques that made this exploration possible. Well-placed sidebars, vivid photos, helpful maps, and a glossary enhance readers' understanding of the topic. Additional features include a table of contents, a selected bibliography, source notes, and an index, plus a timeline and essential facts. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Essential Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
Exploring Deserts
Author: Anita Ganeri
Publisher: Capstone
Published: 2019-05-01
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 1484652312
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJoin intrepid explorers Benjamin Blog and his inquisitive dog Barko Polo as they travel the globe exploring the worldÕs most exciting habitats! This book looks at deserts around the world such as the Sahara, Gobi and Mojave Deserts and more, taking in a multitude of sand dunes, salt lakes, amazing animals and plants along the way.
The Nature of Desert Nature
Author: Gary Paul Nabhan
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 2020-11-10
Total Pages: 209
ISBN-13: 0816540284
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this refreshing collection, one of our best writers on desert places, Gary Paul Nabhan, challenges traditional notions of the desert. Beautiful, reflective, and at times humorous, Nabhan’s extended essay also called “The Nature of Desert Nature” reveals the complexity of what a desert is and can be. He passionately writes about what it is like to visit a desert and what living in a desert looks like when viewed through a new frame, turning age-old notions of the desert on their heads. Nabhan invites a prism of voices—friends, colleagues, and advisors from his more than four decades of study of deserts—to bring their own perspectives. Scientists, artists, desert contemplatives, poets, and writers bring the desert into view and investigate why these places compel us to walk through their sands and beneath their cacti and acacia. We observe the spines and spears, stings and songs of the desert anew. Unexpected. Surprising. Enchanting. Like the desert itself, each essay offers renewed vocabulary and thoughtful perceptions. The desert inspires wonder. Attending to history, culture, science, and spirit, The Nature of Desert Nature celebrates the bounty and the significance of desert places. Contributors Thomas M. Antonio Homero Aridjis James Aronson Tessa Bielecki Alberto Búrquez Montijo Francisco Cantú Douglas Christie Paul Dayton Alison Hawthorne Deming Father David Denny Exequiel Ezcurra Thomas Lowe Fleischner Jack Loeffler Ellen McMahon Rubén Martínez Curt Meine Alberto Mellado Moreno Paul Mirocha Gary Paul Nabhan Ray Perotti Larry Stevens Stephen Trimble Octaviana V. Trujillo Benjamin T. Wilder Andy Wilkinson Ofelia Zepeda
Desert Terroir
Author: Gary Paul Nabhan
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2012-03-01
Total Pages: 145
ISBN-13: 0292725892
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines the unique qualities of the foods of the desert areas of Mexico and the southwestern United States, discussing how the ecology and cultural history of the area shape its food.
Desert Habitats
Author: Arnold Ringstad
Publisher:
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781623239893
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn introduction to the locations, characteristics, and inhabitants of the desert.
Under Desert Skies
Author: Melissa L. Sevigny
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 2016-02-25
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13: 1941451047
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The book tells the story of how an upstart planetary laboratory in Tucson, the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory (LPL), would help create the field of planetary science, breaking free from traditional astronomical techniques to embrace a wide range of disciplines necessary to study planets"--Provided by publisher.
A Desert Feast
Author: Carolyn Niethammer
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 2020-09-22
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 0816538891
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSouthwest Book of the Year Award Winner Pubwest Book Design Award Winner Drawing on thousands of years of foodways, Tucson cuisine blends the influences of Indigenous, Mexican, mission-era Mediterranean, and ranch-style cowboy food traditions. This book offers a food pilgrimage, where stories and recipes demonstrate why the desert city of Tucson became American’s first UNESCO City of Gastronomy. Both family supper tables and the city’s trendiest restaurants feature native desert plants and innovative dishes incorporating ancient agricultural staples. Award-winning writer Carolyn Niethammer deliciously shows how the Sonoran Desert’s first farmers grew tasty crops that continue to influence Tucson menus and how the arrival of Roman Catholic missionaries, Spanish soldiers, and Chinese farmers influenced what Tucsonans ate. White Sonora wheat, tepary beans, and criollo cattle steaks make Tucson’s cuisine unique. In A Desert Feast, you’ll see pictures of kids learning to grow food at school, and you’ll meet the farmers, small-scale food entrepreneurs, and chefs who are dedicated to growing and using heritage foods. It’s fair to say, “Tucson tastes like nowhere else.”
Exploring Our World (Oxford Read and Discover Level 5)
Author: Jacqueline Martin
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2015-02-05
Total Pages: 56
ISBN-13: 0194139670
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRead and discover all about explorers and exploring. Why is exploring important? Where did the first explorers go? Read and discover more about the world! This series of non-fiction readers provides interesting and educational content, with activities and project work.
What Are Deserts?
Author: Philip Wolny
Publisher: Britannica Educational Publishing
Published: 2018-12-15
Total Pages: 35
ISBN-13: 150810672X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDeserts, among the least appreciated and understood areas on earth, are often mistaken for barren and lifeless places. This book dispels that myth and introduces young readers to these fascinating and dynamic regions of our planet. Drawing on Britannica's thoroughly vetted resources and utilizing vivid photographs, handy vocabulary, and informative sidebars, this book answers that very question, providing students with a great primer on a landscape and environment that covers about one-third of the land surface of our planet.
