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Publication Date
c2011
Physical Desc
108 p. : col. ill. ; 21 cm.
Description
Presents an introduction to whales, describing legends about them, the history of whale hunting, the latest research on their brain and methods of communication, and the current efforts of conservationists to protect them from extinction.
2) Fossils
Author
Publication Date
c2011
Physical Desc
32 p. : col. ill. ; 25 cm.
Description
Learn about fossils, what they are and how they are formed.
Author
Publication Date
2010
Physical Desc
56 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 24 x 29 cm.
Description
"Project Seahorse follows the work of two dedicated scientists as they explore the life cycle of the tiger tail seahorse and forge partnerships with the people of Handumon in the Philippines to save its habitat."--Amazon.com.
Author
Publication Date
2007
Physical Desc
63 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 24 x 29 cm.
Description
With their numbers diminishing, scientists are trying to solve the mystery of whale strandings. Why would the world's largest mammal do something that would most likely cause it to die? Around the world, scientists are trying to find the answer.
Author
Publication Date
c2010
Physical Desc
73 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 24 x 29 cm.
Description
On remote Codfish Island off the southern coast of New Zealand live the last 91 kakapo parrots on earth. Originally this bird numbered in the millions before humans brought predators to the islands. Now on the isolated island refuge, a team of scientists is trying to restore the kakapo population.
Author
Publication Date
2009
Physical Desc
80 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 24 x 29 cm.
Description
John Craighead George is an Arctic whale scientist studying bowhead whales in Barrow, Alaska. He conducts his research in harmony with the cultural traditions of the Iñupiaq Eskimos, natives to the area, who have been hunting these whales for more than two thousand years.
Author
Publication Date
2009
Physical Desc
63, [17] p. : col. ill., col. map ; 24 x 29 cm.
Description
Extreme scientists battle some of the Earth's most intense conditions, from hurricanes to caves to the crowns of towering redwoods, in order to save lives, preserve species, and help us to better understand the way our planet works.
Author
Publication Date
2012
Physical Desc
80 p. : col. ill. ; 25 x 30 cm.
Description
"In the world there are probably fewer than 30 people who spend all or most of their effort working with polar bears. A veteran polar bear biologist, and the man in charge of Alaskan polar bear research for the past thirty years, Dr. Steven Amstrup has worked full time on polar bears since he joined the Polar Bear Project in 1980. The Polar Bear Project conducts ongoing research on polar bear populations and habitats in the Southern Beaufort Sea in...
19) Isaac Newton
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Series
Giants of science (Viking) volume 2
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Description
Isaac Newton was not only briiliant, but secretive, vindictive and obsessive. Here is a portrait of the man, contradictions and all, than places him against the backdrop of seventeenth-century England, a time of plague, the Great Fire of London, and two revolutions.
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