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| Author | : Thomas Alan Wiewandt |
| Publisher | : Knopf Books for Young Readers |
| Total Pages | : 40 |
| Release | : 1990 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 9780517573556 |
Photographs and text give a guided tour of animals plants, and ecology of the desert in America's Southwest.
| Author | : Thomas Alan Wiewandt |
| Publisher | : co-published by Wild Horizons Publishing, Inc. (dba Wild Horizons Productions) and Mountain Press Publishing Co. |
| Total Pages | : 122 |
| Release | : 2022-09-22 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 0878427139 |
HIDDEN LIFE OF THE DESERT: And Our Future in the Drying Southwest is a greatly expanded, 120-page 2022/Third Edition, co-published by Wild Horizons and Mountain Press. Part 2 offers an up-to-date, well-researched, thought-provoking, non-technical synthesis of ideas for a future based on “desert thinking for desert living.” In the context of explosive population growth and climate change, consider outdated laws that govern land and water use in the Southwest, how water and energy are connected, pros and cons of desalination, crops suitable for arid lands, agri-solar studies, solar canals, rainwater harvesting, ASU’s exciting new project with “mechanical trees” that collect CO2 from the atmosphere, and more. This book is packed with useful information for students, teachers, and parents. As in his 2nd Edition (2010) of HIDDEN LIFE, Author-Photographer Thomas Wiewandt brightens every page of Part 1 with stunning color photographs of plants and animals that thrive in seemingly barren landscapes of the Sonoran Desert. This book has also served as an educational companion to his award-winning film DESERT DREAMS: Celebrating Five Seasons in the Sonoran Desert, a popular film with no narration that has aired as a pledge drive program on national Public Television since 2015. TAGS: Hidden Life of the Desert; New Edition; 3rd Edition; 2022; book; non-fiction; illustrated book; educational; science; ecology; desert; Sonoran Desert; arid lands; American Southwest; life in; animals; plants; human impact; climate change; population growth; overpopulation; future; sustainable living; water; Colorado River; Lake Powell; Lake Mead; green technology; energy; renewable energy; fossil fuels; agriculture; crops; CAP; Central Arizona Project; desalination; solar canals; agri-solar; agrivoltaic; rainwater harvesting; copper mining; Mechanical Trees; biofuel; invasive species; buffelgrass; desert architecture; maps; photographs; teaching resources; glossary
| Author | : Thomas Alan Wiewandt |
| Publisher | : Mountain Press |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2010 |
| Genre | : Desert ecology |
| ISBN | : 9780878425556 |
Takes a photographic tour of the life cycles of the desert, where all creatures must adapt to extremes of heat and cold and the coming and going of the rains.
| Author | : Lawrence R. Walker |
| Publisher | : University of Arizona Press |
| Total Pages | : 343 |
| Release | : 2018-03-27 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 0816532621 |
Invites readers to explore the smallest and most unique southwestern desert, the beautiful Mojave--Provided by publisher.
| Author | : Robin Kobaly |
| Publisher | : Summertree Institute |
| Total Pages | : 52 |
| Release | : 2019-09-12 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 9781733238700 |
The Desert Underground is a graphic, virtual tour of the hidden but magnificent world under the surface of desert soils, a realm that silently works under our feet every day. Readers are led along an illustrated tour through our desert soils, delving deeper and deeper into the underground. This tour reveals the amazing partnerships that connect every plant underground across the landscape, and illustrates the interlocking biological and geological systems that work together to create a surprising carbon sponge that helps combat climate change wherever desert soils remain intact.
| Author | : Elizabeth Marshall Thomas |
| Publisher | : Penn State Press |
| Total Pages | : 163 |
| Release | : 2018-03-24 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 0271081945 |
An iconoclast and best-selling author of both nonfiction and fiction, Elizabeth Marshall Thomas has spent a lifetime observing, thinking, and writing about the cultures of animals such as lions, wolves, dogs, deer, and humans. In this compulsively readable book, she provides a plainspoken, big-picture look at the commonality of life on our planet, from the littlest microbes to the largest lizards. Inspired by the idea of symbiosis in evolution—that all living things evolve in a series of cooperative relationships—Thomas takes readers on a journey through the progression of life. Along the way she shares the universal likenesses, experiences, and environments of “Gaia’s creatures,” from amoebas in plant soil to the pets we love, from proud primates to Homo sapiens hunter-gatherers on the African savanna. Fervently rejecting “anthropodenial,” the notion that nonhuman life does not share characteristics with humans, Thomas instead shows that paramecia can learn, plants can communicate, humans aren’t really as special as we think we are—and that it doesn’t take a scientist to marvel at the smallest inhabitants of the natural world and their connections to all living things. A unique voice on anthropology and animal behavior, Thomas challenges scientific convention and the jargon that prevents us all from understanding all living things better. This joyfully written book is a fascinating look at the challenges and behaviors shared by creatures from bacteria to larvae to parasitic fungi, a potted hyacinth to the author herself, and all those in between.
| Author | : Anthony D. Fredericks |
| Publisher | : Rio Chico |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2011 |
| Genre | : Desert animals |
| ISBN | : 9781933855707 |
A picture book with fun and lively illustrations, written in verse about desert animals. The author explores differences between the critters that sleep during the day and those that sleep during the night. Informative text following the verses provides children with additional facts about a variety of desert creatures.
| Author | : Craig Childs |
| Publisher | : Back Bay Books |
| Total Pages | : 250 |
| Release | : 2008-12-14 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 0316055301 |
Naturalist Craig Childs's "utterly memorable and fantastic" study of the desert's dangerous beauty is based on years of adventures in the deserts of the American West (Washington Post). Like the highest mountain peaks, deserts are environments that can be inhospitable even to the most seasoned explorers. Craig Childs, who has spent years in the deserts of the American West as an adventurer, a river guide, and a field instructor in natural history, has developed a keen appreciation for these forbidding landscapes: their beauty, their wonder, and especially their paradoxes. His extraordinary treks through arid lands in search of water are an astonishing revelation of the natural world at its most extreme. "Utterly memorable and fantastic...Certainly no reader will ever see the desert in the same way again." —Suzannah Lessard, Washington Post
| Author | : Eugenie Clark |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 17 |
| Release | : 1983 |
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| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Mark Oshiro |
| Publisher | : Tor Teen |
| Total Pages | : 332 |
| Release | : 2020-09-15 |
| Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1250169208 |
From award-winning author Mark Oshiro comes a powerful coming-of-age fantasy novel about finding home and falling in love amidst the dangers of a desert where stories come to life Xochitl is destined to wander the desert alone, speaking her troubled village's stories into its arid winds. Her only companions are the blessed stars above and enigmatic lines of poetry magically strewn across dusty dunes. Her one desire: to share her heart with a kindred spirit. One night, Xo's wish is granted—in the form of Emilia, the cold and beautiful daughter of the town's murderous conqueror. But when the two set out on a magical journey across the desert, they find their hearts could be a match... if only they can survive the nightmare-like terrors that arise when the sun goes down. Fresh off of Anger Is a Gift's smashing success, Oshiro branches out into a fantastical direction with their new YA novel, Each of Us a Desert. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
