Silk & Venom
Author: Kathryn Lasky
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 64
ISBN-13: 0763642223
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFollows the firsthand search of arachnologist Greta Binford for the elusive Loxosceles, the deadly recluse spider.
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Biology of Spiders
Author: Rainer Foelix
Publisher: OUP USA
Published: 2011-05-05
Total Pages: 428
ISBN-13: 0199734828
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne of the only books to treat the whole spider, from its behavior and physiology to its neurobiology and reproductive characteristics, Biology of Spiders is considered a classic in spider literature. First published in German in 1979, the book is now in its third edition, and has established itself as the supreme authority on these fascinating creatures. Containing five hundred new references, this book incorporates the latest research while dispelling many oft-heard myths and misconceptions that surround spiders. Of special interest are chapters on the structure and function of spider webs and silk, as well as those on spider venom. A new subchapter on tarantulas will appeal especially to tarantula keepers and breeders. The highly accessible text is supplemented by exceptional, high-quality photographs, many of them originals, and detailed diagrams. It will be of interest to arachnologists, entomologists, and zoologists, as well as to academics, students of biology, and the general reader curious about spiders.
Amazing Spider-Man & Silk
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Publisher: Marvel
Published: 2016-10-11
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781302902315
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor years they were strangers despite their common origin. Then they were lovers. Now they're not quite friends. But Spider-Man and Silk have no option but to put all that behind them for a timetorn Team-Up, when they are sent back to just before they got their spider-powers! Can they let bygones be bygones, stop a sinister threat to reality as they knew it, and avoid accidentally wiping out the moment that gave them their amazing abilities? Maybe these two anachronistic arachnids could enlist some aid from a local Forest Hills man. His name's Ben Parker, you might know him? Spider and Silk face a date with destiny right back where it all began - the spectacular science fair that started it all! COLLECTING: AMAZING SPIDER-MAN & SILK: THE SPIDER(FLY) EFFECT 1-4
Venom
Author: Jennifer Estep
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2010-09-28
Total Pages: 420
ISBN-13: 1439155453
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat kind of assassin works pro bono? It’s hard to be a badass assassin when a giant is beating the crap out of you. Luckily, I never let pride get in the way of my work. My current mission is personal: annihilate Mab Monroe, the Fire elemental who murdered my family. Which means protecting my identity, even if I have to conceal my powerful Stone and Ice magic when I need it most. To the public, I’m Gin Blanco, owner of Ashland’s best barbecue joint. To my friends, I’m the Spider, retired assassin. I still do favors on the side. Like ridding a vampire friend of her oversized stalker—Mab’s right-hand goon who almost got me dead with his massive fists. At least irresistible Owen Grayson is on my side. The man knows too much about me, but I’ll take my chances. Then there’s Detective Bria Coolidge, one of Ashland’s finest. Until recently, I thought my baby sister was dead. She probably thinks the same about me. Little does she know, I’m a cold-blooded killer . . . who is about to save her life.
Reading, Grade 2
Author: Carson-Dellosa Publishing
Publisher: Carson-Dellosa Publishing
Published: 2015-06-26
Total Pages: 100
ISBN-13: 1483824756
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStandards-Based Connections Reading for grade 2 offers focused skill practice in reading comprehension. A skill assessment will point out students' learning gaps. This allows teachers to choose appropriate student pages for individualized remediation. The student pages emphasize five important reading comprehension skills: summarizing, inferring, story elements, comparing and contrasting, and cause and effect. The book includes high-interest fiction and nonfiction, with texts about moving day, volcanoes, Laura Ingalls Wilder, planets, poetry, and more. --Each 96-page book in the Standards-Based Connections Reading series includes a skill assessment, an assessment analysis, targeted practice pages, and an answer key, making this series an ideal resource for differentiation and remediation. The skill assessments and assessment analyses help teachers determine individualized instructional needs. And, the focused, comprehensive practice pages and self-assessments guide students to reflection and exploration for deeper learning!
Reading, Grade 2
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Publisher: Carson-Dellosa Publishing
Published: 2015-08-01
Total Pages: 100
ISBN-13: 148383087X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStandards-Based Connections Reading for grade 2 offers focused skill practice in reading comprehension. A skill assessment will point out students' learning gaps. This allows teachers to choose appropriate student pages for individualized remediation. The student pages emphasize five important reading comprehension skills: summarizing, inferring, story elements, comparing and contrasting, and cause and effect. The book includes high-interest fiction and nonfiction, with texts about moving day, volcanoes, Laura Ingalls Wilder, planets, poetry, and more. Each 96-page book in the Standards-Based Connections Reading series includes a skill assessment, an assessment analysis, targeted practice pages, and an answer key, making this series an ideal resource for differentiation and remediation. The skill assessments and assessment analyses help teachers determine individualized instructional needs. And, the focused, comprehensive practice pages and self-assessments guide students to reflection and exploration for deeper learning!
Arthropod Diversity and Conservation in the Tropics and Sub-tropics
Author: Akshay Kumar Chakravarthy
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-11-23
Total Pages: 443
ISBN-13: 981101518X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKArthropods are invertebrates that constitute over 90% of the animal kingdom, and their bio-ecology is closely linked with global functioning and survival. Arthropods play an important role in maintaining the health of ecosystems, provide livelihoods and nutrition to human communities, and are important indicators of environmental change. Yet the population trends of several arthropods species show them to be in decline. Arthropods constitute a dominant group with 1.2 million species influencing earth’s biodiversity. Among arthropods, insects are predominant, with ca. 1 million species and having evolved some 350 million years ago. Arthropods are closely associated with living and non-living entities alike, making the ecosystem services they provide crucially important. In order to be effective, plans for the conservation of arthropods and ecosystems should include a mixture of strategies like protecting key habitats and genomic studies to formulate relevant policies for in situ and ex situ conservation. This two-volume book focuses on capturing the essentials of arthropod inventories, biology, and conservation.Further, it seeks to identify the mechanisms by which arthropod populations can be sustained in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, and by means of which certain problematic species be managed without producing harmful environmental side-effects. This edited compilation includes chapters contributed by over 80 biologists on a wide range of topics embracing the diversity, distribution, utility and conservation of arthropods and select groups of insect taxa. More importantly, it describes in detail the mechanisms of sustaining arthropod ecosystems, services and populations. It addresses the contribution of modern biological tools such as molecular and genetic techniques regulating gene expression, as well as conventional, indigenous practices in arthropod conservation. The contributors reiterate the importance of documenting and understanding the biology of arthropods from a holistic perspective before addressing conservation issues at large. This book offers a valuable resource for all zoologists, entomologists, ecologists, conservation biologists, policy makers, teachers and students interested in the conservation of biological resources.
Objective Question Bank GENERAL SCIENCE
Author: Arihant Experts
Publisher: Arihant Publications India limited
Published: 2014-12-01
Total Pages: 496
ISBN-13: 935176897X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe General Science section covering Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Computer Science has taken an important dimension in most of the competitive examinations like SSC, CDS, NDA, Assistant Commandant, CPO, UPSC and State Level PSC Exams and those lacking the basic General Science knowledge lag behind others in the long run. The present book will act as an Objective Question Bank for General Science. The book has been prepared keeping in mind the importance of the subject. This book has been divided into four sections namely Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Computer Science, each divided into number of chapters as per the syllabi of General Science section asked in various competitive exams. The Physics section covers Motion, Force & Laws of Motion, Gravitation, Work, Energy & Power, Simple Harmonic Motion, Wave Motion, Light-Ray Optics, Current Electricity & Its Effects, Nuclear Physics, Semiconductor, Communication, etc whereas the Chemistry section has been divided into Atomic Structure, Chemical Reactions, Chemical Bonding, Solutions & Colloids, Energetics & Kinetics, Electrochemistry, Metallurgy, Metals & Their Compounds, Flame & Fuel, Food Chemistry, etc. The Biology section in the book covers Biology & Its Branches, Cell: Structure & Functions, Cell Cycle & Cell Division, Plant Tissues, Animal Nutrition, Plant System, Reproduction in Organisms, Respiratory System, Excretory System, Reproductive System, Genetics, Biotechnology, Animal Husbandry, etc whereas the Computer Awareness section has been divided into Computer Organisation & Memory, Data Representation, Software, Data Communication Networking and Internet & Computer Security. The chapters in the book contain more than 100 tables which will help in better summarization of the important information. Each chapter in the book contains ample number of objective questions ample number of objective questions including questions asked in previous years’ exams which have been designed on the lines of questions asked in various competitive examinations. With a collection of more than 5000 highly useful questions, the content covered in the book tries to simplify the complexities of some of the topics so that non-science students feel no difficulty while studying general science. Also hints and solutions to the difficult questions have been provided in the book. As the book thoroughly covers the General Science section asked in a number of competitive examinations, it for sure will work as a preparation booster for various competitive examinations like UPSC & State Level PSCs Examinations, SSC, CDS, NDA, CISF and other general competitive & recruitment examinations.
Spider Webs
Author: William Eberhard
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2020-12-22
Total Pages: 679
ISBN-13: 022653474X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this lavishly illustrated, first-ever book on how spider webs are built, function, and evolved, William Eberhard provides a comprehensive overview of spider functional morphology and behavior related to web building, and of the surprising physical agility and mental abilities of orb weavers. For instance, one spider spins more than three precisely spaced, morphologically complex spiral attachments per second for up to fifteen minutes at a time. Spiders even adjust the mechanical properties of their famously strong silken lines to different parts of their webs and different environments, and make dramatic modifications in orb designs to adapt to available spaces. This extensive adaptive flexibility, involving decisions influenced by up to sixteen different cues, is unexpected in such small, supposedly simple animals. As Eberhard reveals, the extraordinary diversity of webs includes ingenious solutions to gain access to prey in esoteric habitats, from blazing hot and shifting sand dunes (to capture ants) to the surfaces of tropical lakes (to capture water striders). Some webs are nets that are cast onto prey, while others form baskets into which the spider flicks prey. Some aerial webs are tramways used by spiders searching for chemical cues from their prey below, while others feature landing sites for flying insects and spiders where the spider then stalks its prey. In some webs, long trip lines are delicately sustained just above the ground by tiny rigid silk poles. Stemming from the author’s more than five decades observing spider webs, this book will be the definitive reference for years to come.
The Biology of Us
Author: Gary C Howard
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2024-11
Total Pages: 329
ISBN-13: 0197664792
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn our modern world, it is easy to overlook the natural world all around us. Only major life events, such as birth, injury, disease, and death, remind us that we are still biological organisms. We "interact" with nature in controlled and safe environments, such as zoos, theme parks, or through different forms of media. Television shows, films, and books are nearly always in exotic locations (e.g., the Kalahari Desert, the deep ocean, or Antarctica), but they inadvertently reinforce our separation from nature. Biology happens somewhere else. Author Gary Howard seeks to change that perception. The Biology of Us describes the common but fascinating examples of biology and nature that are hidden in plain sight in our daily lives. It focuses on human biology, but describes animals and plants all around, on, and in us to put human features into an evolutionary context. Many aspects of ourselves and our normal activities are examples of evolution: breathing, eating, standing up, communicating, telling time, and more. This book illustrates evolutionary strategies used successfully by common organisms for hundreds of millions of years. Howard shows that the organisms in our daily lives are not trivial neighbors or even pests but are just as amazing as those in the Serengeti or the Galápagos Islands.
