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Author: Jonathan London
Publisher: National Geographic Children's Books
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 40
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Naturalists London and Van Zyle follow a year in the life of a willow ptarmigan in this colorful picture book, providing young readers an introduction to the animal inhabitants of the far northern wilderness of Alaska and the Arctic. Full-color illustrations.
Author: Frank J. Daniels
Publisher: Ptumbleweed Ptarmigan Press
Published: 2012-10-15
Total Pages: 40
ISBN-13: 9780966293838
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: James Guenther
Publisher: Sasquatch Books
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 1570612374
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this new book from Paws IV, a young girl plays hide and seek through the seasons with a friendly willow ptarmigan, Alaska's state bird. Season by season, the ptarmigan changes its plumage to blend with its surroundings, leaving the girl wondering where it has gone. Written in rhyming verse and filled with fascinating information about the ptarmigan, this charming book is ideal to read aloud to young children.
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Published: 1998
Total Pages: 352
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Created by the National Park Service, this book that explores traditional Eskimo life in the late 20th century. It celebrates the people of the Kobuk River area in northern Alaska as observed in 1974 and 1975. Learn more about their experiences in fishing, trapping, hunting, and the harvest, and how they were able to successfully live off the land.
Author: Wendy Holden
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2007-01-30
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 1440684804
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Neil and Sarah are the ultimate happy couple. Until, that is, Neil’s new job leaves Sarah alone to juggle the baby, domestic drudgery, and her own career. When Neil fails to come home one night, Sarah rushes home to her mother, who has always wished that Sarah had married her childhood sweetheart, the fabulously rich lawyer Colin, who has coincidentally reappeared in her life. The stage is set for divorce, but Neil has other ideas. Distraught at the prospect of losing Sarah and recognizing what an idiot he has been, he enrolls in an experimental “School for Husbands,” a clinic aimed at helping hopeless spouses mend their ways. But will its intensive tuition in everything from emotional self-expression to putting the toilet seat down be enough to get Neil back together with his wife? Not if Colin and Sarah’s mother have anything to do with it.
Author: Joyce Gellhorn
Publisher: Big Earth Publishing
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 150
ISBN-13: 9781555663971
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Celebrating the white-tailed ptarmigan in a month-by-month photographic essay, Joyce Gellhorn reveals the elusive habits of the only bird capable of surviving on the harsh, alpine tundra of the Rocky Mountains throughout the year. Discover an appreciation and awe for the adaptations of a species living on the edge, a species that contends with bitter cold, fierce winter storms, and short breeding seasons. Because they live in a precarious balance with their environment, white-tailed ptarmigan may well serve as a barometer to the health of our planet in terms of global warming. Book jacket.
Author: John Theberge
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Published: 2011-04-05
Total Pages: 418
ISBN-13: 0771085184
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Winner of the 2010 Lane Anderson Award Drawing on breakthrough research in evolution, genetics, and on their extensive work in the field and lab, wildlife biologists John and Mary Theberge explain for non-scientists the real facts of life. Birds that suddenly grow gall bladders, when their species has none. Moose with antlers so big they encumber their movement through the forest. Butterflies that risk extinction by overwintering en masse. These are just a few stories the Theberges tell in their examination of what the mechanisms of evolution are and how they work. With examples from the very latest discoveries in genetics and ones they have made in their own field work, The Ptarmigan's Dilemma is a ground-breaking explanation of evolution for non-scientists. By marrying the separate sciences of ecology and genetics, the Theberges paint a picture far richer than either discipline can alone of how, for almost 4 billion years, life on Earth has evolved into the rich diversity that's under threat today. Along the way, they explain just what "the survival of the fittest" really means, how dramatic evolutionary changes can take place in just one generation, and how our too-little knowledge of or interest in how life on Earth organizes and supports itself is rapidly making us a danger to ourselves.
Author: Waldemar Jochelson
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2016-04-26
Total Pages: 886
ISBN-13: 3942883872
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Since the 18th century, researchers and scientists have traveled the peninsula of Kamchatka in the Russian Far East. Many of them were of German origin and had been commissioned by the Russian government to perform specific tasks. Their exhaustive descriptions and detailed reports are still considered some of the most valuable documents on the ethnography of the indigenous peoples of that part of the world. These works inform us about living conditions and particular ways of natural resource use at various times, and provide us with valuable background information for current assessment. As the first profound anthropological descriptions of that region, the publications of the Jesup North Pacific Expedition, undertaken in the first years of the 20th century, marked the beginning of a new era of research in Russia. They represented a shift of the already existing transnational research networks toward North America. Jochelson’s work The Koryak was an important milestone for Russian and North American anthropology that provides to this day a unique contribution to thoroughly understanding the cultures of the North Pacific rim.
