Nature in the Neighborhood - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nature in the Neighborhood write by Gordon Morrison. This book was released on 2008-03-18. Nature in the Neighborhood available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Various plants and animals are presented in a simple nature book that captures the diversity of life in a typical neighborhood throughout the seasons of the year. Reprint.
Fylling's Illustrated Guide to Nature in Your Neighborhood
Fylling's Illustrated Guide to Nature in Your Neighborhood - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fylling's Illustrated Guide to Nature in Your Neighborhood write by Marni Fylling. This book was released on 2020-08-11. Fylling's Illustrated Guide to Nature in Your Neighborhood available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The acclaimed author and science illustrator presents an engaging and enlightening guide to the bizarre and surprising wildlife all around us. In the same lighthearted yet scientifically accurate style of Fylling’s Illustrated Guide to Pacific Coast Tide Pools, this compact guidebook reveals the splendidly strange animals and plants just outside your door. Marni Fylling’s full-color illustrations make species identification a snap, and concise descriptions include fascinating (and sometimes grotesque) factoids about frequently encountered plants, insects, arachnids, birds, and mammals. With Fylling’s guidance, the everyday becomes extraordinary: Pigeons share nest-building and egg-sitting duties, and mate for life—with occasional dalliances; squirrel teeth grow about six inches per year; spiders owe their characteristic creep to their “hydraulic” legs; poison oak and poison ivy’s itch-inducing oil is also found in pistachios, cashews, and mangoes; and much, much more.
Neighborhood Hawks
Neighborhood Hawks - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Neighborhood Hawks write by John Lane. This book was released on 2019-04-01. Neighborhood Hawks available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. After reading J. A. Baker’s fifty-year-old British nature classic The Peregrine, John Lane found himself an ocean away, stalking resident red-shouldered hawks in his neighborhood in Spartanburg, South Carolina. What he observed was very different from what Baker deduced from a decade of chronicling the lives of those brooding migratory raptors. Baker imagined a species on the brink of extinction because of the use of agricultural chemicals on European farms. A half century later in America, Lane found the red-shouldered hawks to be a stable Anthropocene species adapted to life along the waterways of a suburban nation. Lane watched the hawks for a full year and along the way made a pledge to himself: Anytime he heard or saw the noisy, nonmigratory hawks in his neighborhood, he would drop whatever he was doing and follow them on foot, on bike, or in his truck. The almanac that results from this discipline considers many questions any practiced amateur naturalist would ask, such as where and when will the hawks nest, what do they eat, what are their greatest threats, and what exactly are they communicating through those constant multinoted cries? Lane’s year following the hawks also led him to try to answer what would become the most complex question of all: why his heart, like Baker’s, goes out so fully to wild things.
Fylling's Illustrated Guide to Pacific Coast Tide Pools
Fylling's Illustrated Guide to Pacific Coast Tide Pools - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fylling's Illustrated Guide to Pacific Coast Tide Pools write by Marni Fylling. This book was released on 2015. Fylling's Illustrated Guide to Pacific Coast Tide Pools available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Hundreds of thousands of people visit Califorina's coasts each year and most explore the tide pools and the delightful, accurate illustrations lend distinctive character to this compact guide
Last Child in the Woods
Last Child in the Woods - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Last Child in the Woods write by Richard Louv. This book was released on 2008-04-22. Last Child in the Woods available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Book That Launched an International Movement Fans of The Anxious Generation will adore Last Child in the Woods, Richard Louv's groundbreaking New York Times bestseller. “An absolute must-read for parents.” —The Boston Globe “It rivals Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring.” —The Cincinnati Enquirer “I like to play indoors better ’cause that’s where all the electrical outlets are,” reports a fourth grader. But it’s not only computers, television, and video games that are keeping kids inside. It’s also their parents’ fears of traffic, strangers, Lyme disease, and West Nile virus; their schools’ emphasis on more and more homework; their structured schedules; and their lack of access to natural areas. Local governments, neighborhood associations, and even organizations devoted to the outdoors are placing legal and regulatory constraints on many wild spaces, sometimes making natural play a crime. As children’s connections to nature diminish and the social, psychological, and spiritual implications become apparent, new research shows that nature can offer powerful therapy for such maladies as depression, obesity, and attention deficit disorder. Environment-based education dramatically improves standardized test scores and grade-point averages and develops skills in problem solving, critical thinking, and decision making. Anecdotal evidence strongly suggests that childhood experiences in nature stimulate creativity. In Last Child in the Woods, Louv talks with parents, children, teachers, scientists, religious leaders, child-development researchers, and environmentalists who recognize the threat and offer solutions. Louv shows us an alternative future, one in which parents help their kids experience the natural world more deeply—and find the joy of family connectedness in the process. Included in this edition: A Field Guide with 100 Practical Actions We Can Take Discussion Points for Book Groups, Classrooms, and Communities Additional Notes by the Author New and Updated Research from the U.S. and Abroad
