A Bird Can Fly
Author: Douglas Florian
Publisher:
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781563346842
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Describes activities that a bird, beaver, ant, tortoise, monkey, camel, and a fish can and cannot do.
Author: Douglas Florian
Publisher:
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781563346842
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Describes activities that a bird, beaver, ant, tortoise, monkey, camel, and a fish can and cannot do.
Author: Robin Page
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2005-05-30
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 0547349149
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Wings carry tiny insects, fluttering butterflies, and backyard birds, and they even once propelled some dinosaurs up and through the skies. Find out how, when, and why birds and beasts have taken to the air, and discover how wings work in this informative and brilliantly illustrated book about flight.
Author: Vicki Addesso Dodd
Publisher:
Published: 2016-01-19
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9780990337348
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Flying with the birds is a dream this little Panda fears will never come true. Until one day, he realizes that it is in his dreams where anything is possible! Follow Griffin, the Panda, in this beautifully illustrated book as he searches for answers to his own question, "BIRDS CAN FLY, WHY CAN't I?
Author: Helen Macdonald
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 2020-08-25
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 0802146694
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The New York Times–bestselling author of H is for Hawk explores the human relationship to the natural world in this “dazzling” essay collection (Wall Street Journal). In Vesper Flights, Helen Macdonald brings together a collection of her best loved essays, along with new pieces on topics ranging from nostalgia for a vanishing countryside to the tribulations of farming ostriches to her own private vespers while trying to fall asleep. Meditating on notions of captivity and freedom, immigration and flight, Helen invites us into her most intimate experiences: observing the massive migration of songbirds from the top of the Empire State Building, watching tens of thousands of cranes in Hungary, seeking the last golden orioles in Suffolk’s poplar forests. She writes with heart-tugging clarity about wild boar, swifts, mushroom hunting, migraines, the strangeness of birds’ nests, and the unexpected guidance and comfort we find when watching wildlife.
Author: Baby Professor
Publisher: Speedy Publishing LLC
Published: 2015-12-20
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 1682808300
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Learn about the aerodynamics in birds that once led to the creation of our modern-day aircraft. This picture book will teach you the howÕs and whyÕs of flight. With complex information broken down into bits that are more easily understood, your child will surely ÒsoarÓ to the great heights of knowledge soon. Grab a copy today!
Author: Susan Canizares
Publisher:
Published: 1998
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9780590769686
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Simple text and photographs show how the penguin, ostrich, and other flightless birds can travel by swimming, running, sliding, and other methods of movement.
Author: David Cunliffe
Publisher:
Published: 2020-08-31
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9780997567342
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Pip is a little bird who wants nothing more than to eat the fresh fruit high up in the trees. There's just one problem - The birds on her island don't fly. All the other birds think the idea sounds ridiculous. Afterall, Whoever Heard of a Flying Bird?But that won't stop Pip from trying. Surrounded by others that think she'll never succeed, Pip is determined to overcome adversity and self-doubt and reach the fruit. And if she tries hard enough, she might just succeed?
Author: Pablo Triana
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2009-06-09
Total Pages: 405
ISBN-13: 0470406755
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →LECTURING BIRDS ON FLYING For the past few decades, the financial world has often displayed an unreasonable willingness to believe that "the model is right, the market is wrong," in spite of the fact that these theoretical machinations were largely responsible for the stock market crash of 1987, the LTCM crisis of 1998, the credit crisis of 2008, and many other blow-ups, large and small. Why have both financial insiders (traders, risk managers, executives) and outsiders (academics, journalists, regulators, the public) consistently demonstrated a willingness to treat quantifications as gospel? Nassim Taleb first addressed the conflicts between theoretical and real finance in his technical treatise on options, Dynamic Hedging. Now, in Lecturing Birds on Flying, Pablo Triana offers a powerful indictment on the trustworthiness of financial theory, explaining—in jargon-free plain English—how malfunctions in these quantitative machines have wreaked havoc in our real world. Triana first analyzes the fundamental question of whether financial markets can in principle really be solved mathematically. He shows that the markets indeed cannot be tamed with equations, presenting a long and powerful list of obstacles to prove his point: maverick unlawful human actions rule the markets, unexpected and unimaginable events shape the markets, and historical data is not necessarily a trustworthy guide to the future of the markets. The author then examines the sources of origin of many prevalent theories and mathematical dictums. He details how the field of financial economics evolved from a descriptive discipline to an abstract one dedicated to technically concocting professors' own versions of how such a world should work. He goes on to explain how Wall Street and other financial centers became eager employers of scientists, and how scientists became eager employees of financial firms. Triana concludes with an in-depth discussion of the most significant historical episodes of theory-caused real-life market malaise, with a strong emphasis on the current credit crisis. In the end, Lecturing Birds on Flying calls for the radical substitution of good old-fashioned common sense in place of mathematical decision-making and the restoration to financial power of those who are completely unchained to the iron ball of classroom-obtained qualifications.
Author: Ann Ingalls
Publisher: Dawn Publications (CA)
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9781584696384
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A little bird, a big sky, and the first time out of the nest! A robin's first flight is a gentle reminder about what we can accomplish if we just keep trying. As reviewer Sue Lowell Gallion says, Children (and parents!) experiencing the many firsts of growing up will relate to this lively story of a young robin learning to fly. Playful, rhyming text and winsome water color illustrations give readers a birds' eye view of the baby birds' emotions and adventures on its way to solo flight.