Explore the Desert

Explore the Desert
Title Explore the Desert PDF eBook
Author Kay Jackson
Publisher Capstone
Pages 40
Release 2007
Genre Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN 9780736864046

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A simple look at deserts and their animals and plants.

The Nature of Desert Nature

The Nature of Desert Nature
Title The Nature of Desert Nature PDF eBook
Author Gary Paul Nabhan
Publisher University of Arizona Press
Pages 209
Release 2020-11-10
Genre Nature
ISBN 0816540284

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In this refreshing collection, one of our best writers on desert places, Gary Paul Nabhan, challenges traditional notions of the desert. Beautiful, reflective, and at times humorous, Nabhan’s extended essay also called “The Nature of Desert Nature” reveals the complexity of what a desert is and can be. He passionately writes about what it is like to visit a desert and what living in a desert looks like when viewed through a new frame, turning age-old notions of the desert on their heads. Nabhan invites a prism of voices—friends, colleagues, and advisors from his more than four decades of study of deserts—to bring their own perspectives. Scientists, artists, desert contemplatives, poets, and writers bring the desert into view and investigate why these places compel us to walk through their sands and beneath their cacti and acacia. We observe the spines and spears, stings and songs of the desert anew. Unexpected. Surprising. Enchanting. Like the desert itself, each essay offers renewed vocabulary and thoughtful perceptions. The desert inspires wonder. Attending to history, culture, science, and spirit, The Nature of Desert Nature celebrates the bounty and the significance of desert places. Contributors Thomas M. Antonio Homero Aridjis James Aronson Tessa Bielecki Alberto Búrquez Montijo Francisco Cantú Douglas Christie Paul Dayton Alison Hawthorne Deming Father David Denny Exequiel Ezcurra Thomas Lowe Fleischner Jack Loeffler Ellen McMahon Rubén Martínez Curt Meine Alberto Mellado Moreno Paul Mirocha Gary Paul Nabhan Ray Perotti Larry Stevens Stephen Trimble Octaviana V. Trujillo Benjamin T. Wilder Andy Wilkinson Ofelia Zepeda

Blue Desert

Blue Desert
Title Blue Desert PDF eBook
Author Charles Bowden
Publisher University of Arizona Press
Pages 196
Release 1988-04-01
Genre Literary Collections
ISBN 9780816510818

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Contains essays that depict and decry the rapid growth and disappearing natural landscapes of the Sunbelt

Let's Visit the Desert

Let's Visit the Desert
Title Let's Visit the Desert PDF eBook
Author Buffy Silverman
Publisher Lerner Digital ™
Pages 32
Release 2017-08-01
Genre Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN 1512485276

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Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience! The desert biome can be found all around the world. Land in this biome is dry and often hot. How do animals in deserts find water? And what kinds of plants thrive in deserts? Read this book to find out!

Under Desert Skies

Under Desert Skies
Title Under Desert Skies PDF eBook
Author Melissa L. Sevigny
Publisher University of Arizona Press
Pages 184
Release 2016-02-25
Genre Education
ISBN 1941451047

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"The book tells the story of how an upstart planetary laboratory in Tucson, the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory (LPL), would help create the field of planetary science, breaking free from traditional astronomical techniques to embrace a wide range of disciplines necessary to study planets"--Provided by publisher.

Desert Memories

Desert Memories
Title Desert Memories PDF eBook
Author Ariel Dorfman
Publisher Disney Electronic Content
Pages 281
Release 2011-06-15
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 1426209029

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The Norte Grande of Chile, the world's driest desert, had ''engendered contemporary Chile, everything that was good about it, everything that was dreadful,'' writes Ariel Dorfman in his brilliant exploration of one of the least known and most exotic corners of the globe. For 10,000 years the desert had been mined for silver, iron, and copper, but it was the 19th-century discovery of nitrate that transformed the country into a modern state and forced the desert's colonization. The mines' riches generated mansions and oligarchs in Chile's more temperate region—and terrible inequalities throughout the country. The Norte Grande also gave birth to the first Chilean democratic and socialist movements, nurturing every major political figure of modern Chile from Salvador Allende to Augusto Pinochet. In this richly layered personal memoir, illustrated with the author's own photographs, Dorfman sets out to explore the origins of contemporary Chile—and, along the way, seek out his wife's European ancestors who came years ago to Chile as part of the nitrate rush. And, most poignantly, he looks for traces of his friend and fellow 1960s activist, Freddy Taberna, executed by a firing squad in a remote Pinochet death camp.

The Desert Bones

The Desert Bones
Title The Desert Bones PDF eBook
Author Jamale Ijouiher
Publisher Indiana University Press
Pages 448
Release 2022-11-22
Genre Science
ISBN 0253063337

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An essential introduction to the age of dinosaurs in Africa. Once Africa was referred to as the ''Lost World of the dinosaur era,'' so poorly known were its ancient flora and fauna. Worse still, many priceless fossil specimens from the Sahara Desert were destroyed during the Second World War. Fortunately, in the twentieth-first century, more researchers are now working in north Africa than ever before and making fascinating discoveries such as the dinosaur Spinosaurus. Based on a decade of study, The Desert Bones brings the world of African dinosaurs fully into the light. Jamale Ijouiher skillfully draws on the latest research and knowledge about paleoecology to paint a compelling and comprehensive portrait of the mid-Cretaceous in North Africa.