Exploring Deserts
Title | Exploring Deserts PDF eBook |
Author | Karen Sirvaitis |
Publisher | ABDO Publishing Company |
Pages | 146 |
Release | 2014-01-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 162968046X |
Throughout history, people have always explored new frontiers. Adventure, fame, and scientific discovery have all driven humans to forge into the unknown. This title examines the exploration of deserts. Easy-to-read, engaging text takes readers to the Sahara and beyond, examines the explorers who journeyed to these vast, arid landscapes, and traces the development of the technology and techniques that made this exploration possible. Well-placed sidebars, vivid photos, helpful maps, and a glossary enhance readers' understanding of the topic. Additional features include a table of contents, a selected bibliography, source notes, and an index, plus a timeline and essential facts. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Essential Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
Exploring Deserts
Title | Exploring Deserts PDF eBook |
Author | Anita Ganeri |
Publisher | Capstone |
Pages | 36 |
Release | 2019-05-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1484652312 |
Join intrepid explorers Benjamin Blog and his inquisitive dog Barko Polo as they travel the globe exploring the worldÕs most exciting habitats! This book looks at deserts around the world such as the Sahara, Gobi and Mojave Deserts and more, taking in a multitude of sand dunes, salt lakes, amazing animals and plants along the way.
Explore the Desert
Title | Explore the Desert PDF eBook |
Author | Kay Jackson |
Publisher | Capstone |
Pages | 40 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9780736864046 |
A simple look at deserts and their animals and plants.
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 |
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
Life in a Desert
Title | Life in a Desert PDF eBook |
Author | Maryellen Gregoire |
Publisher | Capstone Classroom |
Pages | 20 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1429691948 |
A digital solution for your classroom with features created with teachers and students in mind: * Perpetual license * 24 hour, 7 days a week access * No limit to the number of students accessing one title at a time * Provides a School to Home connection wherever internet is available * Easy to use * Ability to turn audio on and off * Words highlighted to match audio
Desert Terroir
Title | Desert Terroir PDF eBook |
Author | Gary Paul Nabhan |
Publisher | University of Texas Press |
Pages | 145 |
Release | 2012-03-01 |
Genre | Cooking |
ISBN | 0292725892 |
Examines the unique qualities of the foods of the desert areas of Mexico and the southwestern United States, discussing how the ecology and cultural history of the area shape its food.
Desert Habitats
Title | Desert Habitats PDF eBook |
Author | Arnold Ringstad |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | Desert ecology |
ISBN | 9781623239893 |
An introduction to the locations, characteristics, and inhabitants of the desert.