Face To Face With Elephants

Author : Beverly Joubert
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 9781426303258
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Face to Face with Elephants written by Beverly Joubert and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Close-up photographs and personal stories of encounters with elephants.

Author : Katharine Payne
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elephants Calling written by Katharine Payne and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1992 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author describes her discovery that elephants communicate with low-frequency "songs" that are inaudible to humans.

Author : Chris Johns
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 9781426303234
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Face to Face with Cheetahs written by Chris Johns and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Close-up photographs highlight the story of young African cheetahs.

Author : Norbert Rosing
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1426305486
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Face to Face with Polar Bears written by Norbert Rosing and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet the polar bear in its various guises, including cuddly cub, powerful predator, and lord of the Arctic.

Author : Mark Moffett
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1426306261
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Face to Face with Frogs written by Mark Moffett and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You’re two inches away from a poison dart frog. You’re lying on the rain forest floor as she hops toward you, utterly fearless. This deadly terribilis frog has nothing to fear; your fear is that any accidental contact with your skin could mean death! Let Mark Moffett give you the expert view on our amphibian friends, from metamorphosis to diet, from habitat to distinctive features; and learn why we urgently need to foster a healthier planet for these sensitive creatures.

Author : Kaitlyn Duling
Publisher : Bellwether Media
ISBN 13 : 1618915959
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African Elephants written by Kaitlyn Duling and published by Bellwether Media. This book was released on 2019-08-01 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Water can be hard to find on African savannas. Luckily, African elephants have unique ways to stay cool and hydrated with their wrinkly skin and throat pouches! In this title, simple text helps young readers explore all the ways these elephants have adapted to their dry biome. Special features showing range, conservation status, and diet visually support the text to aid in learning and comprehension.

Author : Rajiv Surendra
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1682450511
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Elephants in My Backyard written by Rajiv Surendra and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-11-08 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rajiv Surendra was filming Mean Girls, playing the beloved rapping mathlete Kevin Gnapoor, when a cameraman insisted he read Yann Martel's Life of Pi. So begins his "lovely and human" (Jenny Lawson, author of Furiously Happy) tale of obsessively pursuing a dream, overcoming failure, and finding meaning in life. “This was a once-in-a-lifetime chance. I found myself standing dangerously close to the edge of a cliff. Far below me was an incredible abyss with no end in sight. I could turn back and safely return to where I had come from, or I could throw caution to the wind, lift my arms up into the air . . . and jump.” —From The Elephants in My Backyard What happens when you spend ten years obsessively pursuing a dream, and then, in the blink of an eye, you learn that you have failed, that the dream will not come true? In 2003, Rajiv Surendra was filming Mean Girls, playing the beloved rapping mathlete Kevin Gnapoor, when a cameraman insisted he read Yann Martel’s Life of Pi. Mesmerized by all the similarities between Pi and himself—both are five-foot-five with coffee-colored complexions, both share a South Indian culture, both lived by a zoo—when Rajiv learns that Life of Pi will be made into a major motion picture he is convinced that playing the title role is his destiny. In a great leap of faith Rajiv embarks on a quest to embody the sixteen-year-old Tamil schoolboy. He quits university and buys a one-way ticket from Toronto to South India. He visits the sacred stone temples of Pondicherry, he travels to the frigid waters off the coast of rural Maine, and explores the cobbled streets of Munich. He befriends Yann Martel, a priest, a castaway, an eccentric old woman, and a pack of Tamil schoolboys. He learns how to swim, to spin wool, to keep bees, and to look a tiger in the eye. All the while he is really learning how to dream big, to fail, to survive, to love, and to become who he truly is. Rajiv Surendra captures the uncertainty, heartache, and joy of finding ones place in the world with sly humor and refreshing honesty. The Elephants in My Backyard is not a journey of goals and victories, but a story of process and determination. It is a spellbinding and profound book for anyone who has ever failed at something and had to find a new path through life.

Author : Kevin Simler
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190495995
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Elephant in the Brain written by Kevin Simler and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human beings are primates, and primates are political animals. Our brains, therefore, are designed not just to hunt and gather, but also to help us get ahead socially, often via deception and self-deception. But while we may be self-interested schemers, we benefit by pretending otherwise. The less we know about our own ugly motives, the better - and thus we don't like to talk or even think about the extent of our selfishness. This is the elephant in the brain. Such an introspective taboo makes it hard for us to think clearly about our nature and the explanations for our behavior. The aim of this book, then, is to confront our hidden motives directly - to track down the darker, unexamined corners of our psyches and blast them with floodlights. Then, once everything is clearly visible, we can work to better understand ourselves: Why do we laugh? Why are artists sexy? Why do we brag about travel? Why do we prefer to speak rather than listen? Our unconscious motives drive more than just our private behavior; they also infect our venerated social institutions such as Art, School, Charity, Medicine, Politics, and Religion. In fact, these institutions are in many ways designed to accommodate our hidden motives, to serve covert agendas alongside their official ones. The existence of big hidden motives can upend the usual political debates, leading one to question the legitimacy of these social institutions, and of standard policies designed to favor or discourage them. You won't see yourself - or the world - the same after confronting the elephant in the brain.

Author : Alexander McCall Smith
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1599900319
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Akimbo and the Elephants written by Alexander McCall Smith and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2007-01-23 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the African game preserve where his father works, Akimbo devises a dangerous plan to capture a ring of elephant poachers.

Author : Joel Sartore
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 9781426304743
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Face to Face with Grizzlies written by Joel Sartore and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn about the natural habitat, life cycle, diet, and behavior of grizzlies.