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Author: Emma Nathan
Publisher: Blackbirch Press, Incorporated
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781567113617
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProvides the special names for such baby insects and arachnids as the grub, maggot, and spiderling, describing their physical characteristics and behavior.
Author: Nancy Farmer
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2013-08-01
Total Pages: 414
ISBN-13: 1471120384
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNewberry Honour Award Winner & National Book Award Winner. Matt is six years old when he discovers that he is different from other children and other people. To most, Matt isn't considered a boy at all, but a beast, dirty and disgusting. But to El Patron, lord of a country called Opium, Matt is the guarantee of eternal life. El Patron loves Matt as he loves himself - for Matt is himself. They share the exact same DNA. As Matt struggles to understand his existence and what that existence truly means, he is threatened by a host of sinister and manipulating characters, from El Patron's power-hungry family to the brain-deadened eejits and mindless slaves that toil Opium's poppy fields. Surrounded by a dangerous army of bodyguards, escape is the only chance Matt has to survive. But even escape is no guarantee of freedom . . . because Matt is marked by his difference in ways that he doesn't even suspect. Praise for The House of Scorpions: 'It's a pleasure to read science fiction that's full of warm, strong characters... that doesn't rely on violence as the solution to complex problems of right and wrong. It's a pleasure to read.' Ursula K. LeGuin 'Fabulous' Diana Wynne Jones Also by Nancy Farmer: The Sea of Trolls Land of the Silver Apples The Islands of the Blessed The Lord of Opium
Author: Emma Nathan
Publisher: Blackbirch Press, Incorporated
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 28
ISBN-13: 9781567113624
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProvides the special names for such baby birds as the cygnet, eaglet, and gosling, describing their physical characteristics, behavior, and treatment by their parents.
Author: Daria Harper
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 12
ISBN-13: 9781797202297
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This astrology-focused board book explores one of twelve zodiac signs, offering an accessible, sweet introduction to a baby's first horoscope"--
Author: Scott Richard Shaw
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2014-09-11
Total Pages: 263
ISBN-13: 022616361X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChronicles the evolution of insects and explains how evolutionary innovations have enabled them to disperse widely, occupy narrow niches, and survive global catastrophes. --Publisher's description.
Author: Emma Nathan
Publisher: Blackbirch Press, Incorporated
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 28
ISBN-13: 9781567113655
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProvides the special names for such baby ocean animals as the fry, shark pup, and spat, describing their physical characteristics and behavior.
Author: Andrew Kaplan
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2014-10-07
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 1497677971
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis supercharged thriller from master storyteller Andrew Kaplan introduces the Scorpion, the CIA’s top agent in the Middle East, and launches the bestselling espionage series Kelly Ormont sprints down the narrow streets of Paris. When a car pulls up and a man points a gun at her, life as she knows it is over. Within days, this beautiful congressman’s daughter will be in the Middle East, where some of the wealthiest men in the world will bid to make her their slave. Only the Scorpion can save her now. An American raised among the Bedouin, the Scorpion is the CIA’s top agent in the Arabian peninsula. To save Kelly, he slips into the sinister underworld of human trafficking, where the kidnapped girl’s trail leads him to a Saudi prince with fanatical global ambitions. When the Scorpion discovers a link between the prince and the Russians, Kelly will not be the only person who needs a savior.
Author: Peter Weygoldt
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-10-25
Total Pages: 163
ISBN-13: 900447353X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhip spiders (Amblypygi) can be large and terrifying animals with strong, raptorial pedipalps and long antenniform first legs that can produce a span of as much as 60 cm. Others are small and scarcely span 5 cm. They all lead a secretive nocturnal life and are extremely dangerous to other arthropods and small vertebrates. In contrast to spiders and scorpions, they are of no commercial, economic or medical importance and they are difficult to study in the field because of their nocturnal habits, possible reasons why they have been greatly neglected until recently, by scientists and naturalists. Whip spiders represent an old group that dates back to the Carboniferous period. Their partly primitive and partly derived morphological characters and habits make the study of these animals interesting, while observation of their behaviour greatly increases our knowledge and understanding of arachnids in general. In this book the author describes their morphology and systematics, their life history, their fascinating sensory biology, their complex mating dances and reproductive biology, and their ecology and distribution. Thus he has made a significant contibution to a better understanding of the morphology and biology of the Arachnida as a whole. Whip Spiders is an outstanding contribution to science and it will be of interest for anyone with an interest in Arachnida and for those keeping and breeding spiders.
Author: Erin Bow
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2015-09-22
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 1481442716
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe teenage princess of a future-world Canadian superpower, where royal children are held hostage to keep their countries from waging war, falls in love with an American prince who rebels against the brutal rules governing their existences.
Author: Jillian Cowles
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2018-06-12
Total Pages: 329
ISBN-13: 1400890187
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA richly illustrated and up-close look at the secret lives of spiders and other arachnids The American Southwest is home to an extraordinary diversity of arachnids, from spitting spiders that squirt silk over their prey to scorpions that court one another with kissing and dancing. Amazing Arachnids presents these enigmatic creatures as you have never seen them before. Featuring a wealth of color photos of more than 300 different kinds of arachnids from eleven taxonomic orders--both rare and common species—this stunningly illustrated book reveals the secret lives of arachnids in breathtaking detail, including never-before-seen images of their underground behavior. Amazing Arachnids covers all aspects of arachnid biology, such as anatomy, sociality, mimicry, camouflage, and venoms. You will meet bolas spiders that lure their victims with fake moth pheromones, fishing spiders that woo their mates with silk-wrapped gifts, chivalrous cellar spiders, tiny mites, and massive tarantulas, as well as many others. Along the way, you will learn why arachnids are living fossils in some respects and nimble opportunists in others, and how natural selection has perfected their sensory structures, defense mechanisms, reproductive strategies, and hunting methods. Covers more than 300 different kinds of arachnids, including ones new to science Features more than 750 stunning color photos Describes every aspect of arachnid biology, from physiology to biogeography Illustrates courtship and mating, birth, maternal care, hunting, and defense Includes first-ever photos of the underground lives of schizomids and vinegaroons Provides the first organized guide to macroscopic mites, including photos of living mites for easy reference
