The Life Of A Leaf

Author : Steven Vogel
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226859398
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life of a Leaf written by Steven Vogel and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-10-17 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its essence, science is a way of looking at and thinking about the world. In The Life of a Leaf, Steven Vogel illuminates this approach, using the humble leaf as a model. Whether plant or person, every organism must contend with its immediate physical environment, a world that both limits what organisms can do and offers innumerable opportunities for evolving fascinating ways of challenging those limits. Here, Vogel explains these interactions, examining through the example of the leaf the extraordinary designs that enable life to adapt to its physical world. In Vogel’s account, the leaf serves as a biological everyman, an ordinary and ubiquitous living thing that nonetheless speaks volumes about our environment as well as its own. Thus in exploring the leaf’s world, Vogel simultaneously explores our own. A companion website with demonstrations and teaching tools can be found here: http://www.press.uchicago.edu/sites/vogel/index.html

Author : Elizabeth A. Johnson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781930465114
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life in the Leaf Litter written by Elizabeth A. Johnson and published by . This book was released on 2002-06-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to the invertebrate animals in urban park woodlands.

Author : Allen Anderson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0762790091
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dog Named Leaf written by Allen Anderson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2012-11-06 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times bestselling book! Allen and Linda Anderson adopted a traumatized one-year-old cocker spaniel who had been abandoned. Soon, the troubled dog they named “Leaf” turned their home into a war zone. Although Leaf and Allen were forging a friendship with visits to dog parks and bonding time, Leaf’s emotional issues overwhelmed the couple. Shortly after Leaf’s arrival, Allen, who had spent eight years as a big city police officer and survived so many close calls that Linda called him “Miracle Man,” received a diagnosis from his doctor that made him think his luck had finally run out. Allen had an unruptured brain aneurysm that could be fatal, and the surgery to repair it might leave him debilitated. Having seen his father live for years with the effects of a massive stroke, he dreaded that the worst fate might not be death. What Allen didn’t know is that he and Leaf, like comrades facing the ultimate battle, would be there for each other with the miracle of this man and this dog coming together at exactly the right time.

Author : Lois Ehlert
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780152053048
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Leaf Man written by Lois Ehlert and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2005 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fall has come, the wind is gusting, and Leaf Man is on the move. Is he drifting east, over the marsh and ducks and geese? Or is he heading west, above the orchards, prairie meadows, and spotted cows? No one's quite sure, but this much is certain: A Leaf Man's got to go where the wind blows. With illustrations made from actual fall leaves and die-cut pages on every spread that reveal gorgeous landscape vistas, here is a playful, whimsical, and evocative book that celebrates the natural world and the rich imaginative life of children. Includes an author's note and leaf-identifying labels.

Author : Jean Marzollo
Publisher : Turtleback Books
ISBN 13 : 9780606175449
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I Am a Leaf written by Jean Marzollo and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 1999-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A simple introduction to the life cycle and functions of a leaf.

Author : Allen J. Coombes
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022617686X
Total Pages : 2007 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Book of Leaves written by Allen J. Coombes and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-12-10 with total page 2007 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of all our childhood memories, few are quite as thrilling, or as tactile, as those of climbing trees. Scampering up the rough trunk, spying on the world from the cool green shelter of the canopy, lying on a limb and looking up through the leaves at the summer sun almost made it seem as if we were made for trees, and trees for us.Even in adulthood, trees retain their power, from the refreshing way their waves of green break the monotony of a cityscape to the way their autumn transformations take our breath away. In this lavishly illustrated volume, the trees that have enriched our lives finally get their full due, through a focus on the humble leaves that serve, in a sense, as their public face. The Book of Leaves offers a visually stunning and scientifically engaging guide to six hundred of the most impressive and beautiful leaves from around the world. Each leaf is reproduced here at its actual size, in full color, and is accompanied by an explanation of the range, distribution, abundance, and habitat of the tree on which it’s found. Brief scientific and historical accounts of each tree and related species include fun-filled facts and anecdotes that broaden its portrait. The Henry’s Maple, for instance, found in China and named for an Irish doctor who collected leaves there, bears little initial resemblance to the statuesque maples of North America, from its diminutive stature to its unusual trifoliolate leaves. Or the Mediterranean Olive, which has been known to live for more than 1,500 years and whose short, narrow leaves only fall after two or three years, pushed out in stages by the emergence of younger leaves. From the familiar friends of our backyards to the giants of deep woods, The Book of Leaves brings the forest to life—and to our living rooms—as never before.

Author : David Walker
Publisher : Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
ISBN 13 : 9781855780972
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Leaf in Time written by David Walker and published by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering energy, plants and people, this book explains how almost all of our energy comes from the sun. It describes the process by which humans turn fuels and food into carbon dioxide to release energy, yet green leaves do exactly the opposite. The process of photosynthesis is explained in an easy-to-understand way, and children learn how plants turn light into electrical energy and use it to convert carbon dioxide and water into food.

Author : Summer Edward
Publisher : Collins
ISBN 13 : 9780008413880
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wonder of the World Leaf: Band 10/White (Collins Big Cat) written by Summer Edward and published by Collins. This book was released on 2021-03 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collins Big Cat supports every primary child on their reading journey from phonics to fluency. Top authors and illustrators have created fiction and non-fiction books that children love to read. Book banded for guided and independent reading, there are reading notes in the back, comprehensive teaching and assessment support and ebooks available. "I'm Wygenia. On my island, we speak a language that's all our own, so you might not be familiar with it. I'm going to tell you about the time my grannie got sick and how my mooma and I helped her get better. I'll tell you exactly how it happened, using the exact words Mooma and Grannie used." When her beloved Grannie falls ill, ten-year-old Wygenia feels lonely and helpless. Then she learns about a healing plant so powerful it's called 'Wonder of the World.' But will it really work? Set in the Caribbean island of Trinidad, this realistic fiction tale tells the story of Wygenia's quest to restore her Grannie to the high-spirited companion she used to know. Teachers, parents and caregivers looking for familial, multicultural stories for children ages 7 and upwill appreciate this story that evokes Caribbean traditions and customs in a non-stereotypical way. White/Band 10 books have more complex sentences and figurative language. Ideas for reading in the back of the book provide practical support and stimulating activities.

Author : Leo F. Buscaglia
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780805071955
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fall of Freddie the Leaf written by Leo F. Buscaglia and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dedicated to all children who have ever suffered a permanent loss, and to the grownups who could not find a way to explain it.

Author : John T Price
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1609388364
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book All Is Leaf written by John T Price and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2022-06-08 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing inspiration and urgency from the storied Goethe Oak tree at Buchenwald concentration camp—and from the leaf as symbol of all change, growth, and renewal—award-winning essayist John Price explores a multitude of dramatic transformations, in his life and in the fragile world beyond: “the how of the organism—that keeps your humanity alive.” He employs an array of forms and voices, whether penning a break-up letter to America or a literary rock-n-roll road song dedicated to prairie scientists, or giving pregame pep talks to his son’s losing football team. Here, too, are moving portrayals of his father’s last effort as a small-town lawyer to defend the rights of abused women, and his own efforts as a writing teacher to honor the personal stories of his students. From his Iowa backyard to the edge of the Arctic Circle, from the forgotten recesses of the body to the far reaches of the solar system, this book demonstrates the ways imagination and informed compassion can, as Price describes it, expand thousandfold the boundaries of what we might “have naïvely considered an individual self.”