Some Porcupines Wrestle
Author: Barbara Seuling
Publisher: Capstone
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 25
ISBN-13: 1404841148
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents unusual facts about animals, including their activities, mating habits, and survival tactics.
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You Blink Twelve Times a Minute
Author: Barbara Seuling
Publisher: Capstone
Published: 2008-11-27
Total Pages: 24
ISBN-13: 1404841164
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSince your brain cells are the only cells in your body that are not replaced, you better keep them healthy. From strange ailments, hiccups, and snoring to medical marvels, this book puts a body of facts at your fingertips. It's time to put your feet up and exercise your brain!
Gotcha Again for Guys!
Author: Kathleen A. Baxter
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2010-10-19
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 159884377X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHere's help in selecting current, nonfiction books that will get boys excited about reading. Enticing boys to read is still a hot topic. With chapters like "Disasters and Mysteries," "Gross and Disgusting," "Machines and the Military," and "Prehistoric Creatures," Gotcha Again for Guys!: More Nonfiction Books to Get Boys Excited about Reading is a treasure trove of recent nonfiction books that will interest boys in grades 3-8. This sixth entry in Baxter and Kochel's Gotcha series covers books published between 2007 and 2009, with a few oldies-but-goodies also included. The book is organized into 12 thematic chapters, each of which offers booktalks for a select number of titles, followed by a list of other high-interest, well-reviewed titles that correspond with the chapter's topic. Features new to this volume include numerous booklists to be copied and saved, as well as profiles of new and innovative nonfiction authors writing for this age group. In addition, the book features interviews with seven male authors of nonfiction books for boys.
The North American Porcupine
Author: Uldis Roze
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9780801446467
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Long and sympathetic watching, radio tracking, chemical analysis are all part of this naturalist's ingenious and peaceable arsenal of inquiry into the lives of porcupines."--Scientific American
Porcupines
Author: Uldis Roze
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2012-12-01
Total Pages: 237
ISBN-13: 1421407590
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPorcupines are prickly and often misunderstood creatures—get the facts. Could a porcupine make a good pet? Do they ever stick themselves or other porcupines with their quills? In this latest addition to the Animal Answer Guide series, we learn about these mysterious animals' "pincushion defense," along with the following facts: • Porcupines survive on a diet of leaves, bark, and fruit • Quills are actually modified hairs • There are 26 species of porcupines (and counting) • Old World and New World porcupines have a common ancestor but evolved independently • New World males will gather to fight ferociously over a single female Porcupines: The Animal Answer Guide presents solid, current science in the field of porcupine biology. Uldis Roze compares and contrasts porcupines in terms of body plan, behavior, ecology, reproduction, and evolutionary relationships. He examines the diversity of porcupines from around the world—from North and South America to Africa and Asia. This guide explores the interactions between humans and porcupines, including hunting, use of quills by aboriginal societies, efforts to poison porcupines, and human and pet injuries (and deaths) caused by porcupines. Roze also highlights the conservation issues that surround some porcupine species, such as the thin-spine porcupine of Brazil, which is so rare that it was thought to be extinct until its rediscovery in the 1980s.
Porcupines
Author: Peter Murray
Publisher:
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 9781567660197
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescribes the physical characteristics, behavior, and life cycle of the porcupines.
There Are Millions of Millionaires
Author: Barbara Seuling
Publisher: Capstone
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 24
ISBN-13: 1404841156
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents a collection of trivia about finance, organized into such categories as millionaires, banks, collectibles, and bills.
Tall, Tanned & Texan
Author: Kimberly Raye
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2010-01-01
Total Pages: 190
ISBN-13: 1426853165
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMen have never given tomboy Deanie Codge a second look. But that's about to change. She's signing up for two weeks at Camp E.D.E.N., a notorious island retreat, to discover her inner sex kitten. And then there'll be no stopping her! When he offered to keep an eye on Deanie for her brother, cowboy Rance McGraw never dreamed that he wouldn't be able to take his eyes off her. His childhood nemesis has turned into a gorgeous woman--one he doesn't want fooling around with anyone but him! So he does everything he can to sabotage her--from directing her to the wrong island...to kissing her on the beach...to taking her for a roll in the sand.... And discovers that a tough Texas cowboy is no match for a sex kitten unleashed...
It Never Rains in Antarctica
Author: Barbara Seuling
Publisher: Capstone
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 24
ISBN-13: 1404841172
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis wacky book provides a variety of unusual and fascinating facts about geography. Little-known facts about deserts, mountains, climate, nature, how Earth has changed, and more will send you on an adventure around the world. Come rain, sleet, snow, or hail, this is one adventure you won't want to miss.
Fox Tossing, Octopus Wrestling and Other Forgotten Sports
Author: Edward Brooke-Hitching
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2015-06-04
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 1471149005
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'An entertaining new book… which looks back at the most bizarre sporting activities ever devised by mankind' Daily Mail 'Perfect book for the Christmas stockings of adults and curious children' Wall Street Journal For those who enjoyed the quirkiness of Schott's Miscellany, the erudition of The Etymologicon or the extremes of The Dangerous Book for Boys, this is the ideal read. From Flagpole Sitting to Hot Cockles, Edward Brooke-Hitching has researched through piles of dusty tomes to bring vividly back to life some of the most curious, dangerous and downright bizarre sports and pastimes ever devised, before we thought better of it and erased them from the memory. After all, who would ever want to bring back Fox Tossing, a popular sport for men and women in 17th-century Germany? The sport involved dozens of couples pairing up and standing 20-25 feet apart in an enclosed field, each holding one end of a net, and then they would pull hard at both ends as the fox ran past, sending it flying high into the air. There are many other sports revealed within these pages that are unlikely ever to make an appearance on our TV screens, such as Firework Boxing, which is just as dangerous as it sounds. Meanwhile, Ski Ballet may not have been so risky, but Suzy 'Chapstick' Chaffee's signature move - the Suzy Split (a complete forward split while balanced on the tips of her skis) - was probably not one to try at home. An intriguing, entertaining and occasionally shocking insight into the vivid imaginations of humanity across the years, Fox Tossing, Octopus Wrestling and Other Forgotten Sports is an unforgettable read and a perfect gift.
