Living World

Living World

Author: Dorling Kindersley Publishing Staff

Publisher:

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13: 9780756604295

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Discover the secrets of the earth and its extraordinary habitats.


The Life of the Seashore

The Life of the Seashore

Author: William Hopkins Amos

Publisher:

Published: 1966

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 9780070460041

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Describes the varied forms of life that exist on the rocky coasts, sandy beaches, and tidal marshes of the United States shorelines. Stressed are the ecological principles that underlie the existence of these plants and animals.


Our Living World

Our Living World

Author: Edward P. Ortleb

Publisher: Lorenz Educational Press

Published: 1993-09-01

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 1558630597

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Color Overheads Included! This book presents a program of basic studies dealing with living organisms. The characteristics of each living kingdom are presented and the diversity among species within the same kingdom is illustrated. Topics include algae, bacteria, fungi, and various species of plants and animals. Each of the twelve teaching units in this book is introduced by a color transparency, which emphasizes the basic concept of the unit and presents questions for discussion. Reproducible student pages provide reinforcement and follow-up activities. The teaching guide offers descriptions of the basic concepts to be presented, background information, suggestions for enrichment activities, and a complete answer key.


The Life of the Mountains

The Life of the Mountains

Author: Maurice Brooks

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies

Published: 1967

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13:

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Surveys the unique vegetation and animal life of America's spectacular mountain ranges.


The Logos of the Living World

The Logos of the Living World

Author: Louise Westling

Publisher: Fordham Univ Press

Published: 2013-10-01

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 0823255670

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Today we urgently need to reevaluate the human place in the world in relation to other animals. This book puts Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s philosophy into dialogue with literature, evolutionary biology, and animal studies. In a radical departure from most critical animal studies, it argues for evolutionary continuity between human cultural and linguistic behaviors and the semiotic activities of other animals. In his late work, Derrida complained of philosophers who denied that animals possessed such faculties, but he never investigated the wealth of scientific studies of actual animal behavior. Most animal studies theorists still fail to do this. Yet more than fifty years ago, Merleau-Ponty carefully examined the philosophical consequences of scientific animal studies, with profound implications for human language and culture. For him, “animality is the logos of the sensible world: an incorporated meaning.” Human being is inseparable from animality. This book differs from other studies of Merleau-Ponty by emphasizing his lifelong attention to science. It shows how his attention to evolutionary biology and ethology anticipated recent studies of animal cognition, culture, and communication.


The Usborne Living World Encyclopedia

The Usborne Living World Encyclopedia

Author: Leslie Colvin

Publisher: Usborne Books

Published: 2009-06-01

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 9780794527846

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Simple, yet informative text combines with extraordinary photographys, maps, animal facts and classification charts.


So Simple a Beginning

So Simple a Beginning

Author: Raghuveer Parthasarathy

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2022-02-08

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 0691200408

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A biophysicist reveals the hidden unity behind nature’s breathtaking complexity The form and function of a sprinting cheetah are quite unlike those of a rooted tree. A human being is very different from a bacterium or a zebra. The living world is a realm of dazzling variety, yet a shared set of physical principles shapes the forms and behaviors of every creature in it. So Simple a Beginning shows how the emerging new science of biophysics is transforming our understanding of life on Earth and enabling potentially lifesaving but controversial technologies such as gene editing, artificial organ growth, and ecosystem engineering. Raghuveer Parthasarathy explains how four basic principles—self-assembly, regulatory circuits, predictable randomness, and scaling—shape the machinery of life on scales ranging from microscopic molecules to gigantic elephants. He describes how biophysics is helping to unlock the secrets of a host of natural phenomena, such as how your limbs know to form at the proper places, and why humans need lungs but ants do not. Parthasarathy explores how the cutting-edge biotechnologies of tomorrow could enable us to alter living things in ways both subtle and profound. Featuring dozens of original watercolors and drawings by the author, this sweeping tour of biophysics offers astonishing new perspectives on how the wonders of life can arise from so simple a beginning.


Our Living World 1

Our Living World 1

Author: Goldy Malhotra

Publisher: Ratna Sagar

Published:

Total Pages: 76

ISBN-13: 9788183322911

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The series is based on the latest NCERT syllabus. The books will make children sensitive to the environment and the need for its protection. NCF 2005 advocates the learning-from-everyday-life approach which has been adopted for the lessons. Interesting fun facts will stimulate the curious minds of the young learners. Included is a section on safety habits, Time to Do aims to promote learning through interactive activities.


Our Living World 2

Our Living World 2

Author: Our Experts

Publisher: Ratna Sagar

Published:

Total Pages: 84

ISBN-13: 9788183322928

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The series is based on the latest NCERT syllabus. The books will make children sensitive to the environment and the need for its protection. NCF 2005 advocates the learning-from-everyday-life approach which has been adopted for the lessons. Interesting fun facts will stimulate the curious minds of the young learners. Included is a section on safety habits, Time to Do aims to promote learning through interactive activities.