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Life Through Time: The 700-Million-Year Story of Life on Earth (DK Panorama)
by John WoodwardTravel back in time and watch the incredible story of life on Earth unfold.Life Through Time explores the origins of species that still exist today in early fish, amphibians, birds, reptiles, and mammals. It takes readers through the years of dinosaurs and megafauna up to the appearance of our first human ancestors around six million years ago, to the evolution of hunter-gathering Homo sapiens in the Ice Age and the first civilizations.Perfect for children and parents to read together and discover the incredible story of life on our planet. Open the book and let the 700-million-year journey begin!
Loons (Nature's Children)
by John WoodwardHow many different kinds of loons are there? What do loons eat? Where do loons live? Find the answers to these questions, and learn much more about the physical characteristics, behavior, habitat, and lives of loons.
Salamanders (Nature's Children)
by John WoodwardExplore the exciting new world of salamanders, the amphibians with the wrongly given name "fire lizard". Find out what they eat, where they live, how they survive, who their enemies are and much more.
Trout (Nature's Children)
by John WoodwardDescribes the physical features, habits and habitat of this remarkable fish who can live in fresh or salt water.
Wildebeest (Nature's Children)
by John WoodwardDescribes the physical characteristics, habits, and natural environment of wildebeests.
The Frozen Wish (Hatchimals)
by Kay WoodwardCrack into this magical chapter-book series based on Hatchimals, the best-selling toy! Ava and Oliver are back in Hatchtopia, where the Hatchimals are excited for a fantastic fireworks display. The problem is, all of Hatchtopia has suddenly become frosty and cold, and the fireworks display can't happen unless it's sunny! And since Wishing Star Waterfall has frozen over, no one can wish away the snow either. Follow along as Ava and Oliver search for a way to melt the waterfall and end their visit with a bang!This book also contains exclusive collector cards featuring four fun CollEGGtibles!
The Giggling Tree (Hatchimals)
by Kay WoodwardCrack into this magical chapter-book series based on Hatchimals, the best-selling toy!When Ava and her younger brother, Oliver, find a pair of giant, brightly speckled eggs in their garden, they immediately try to solve the mystery of what's inside. Soon after, two adorable creatures called Hatchimals hatch from the eggs! One is a Draggle, and the other is a Penguala. But there's trouble in Hatchtopia, the Hatchimals' world, and it's up to Ava, Oliver, and their Hatchimals to journey to this magical land and save the day! This book also contains exclusive collector cards featuring four fun CollEGGtibles!
Mental Wellbeing and Positive Psychology for Veterinary Professionals: A Pre-emptive, Proactive and Solution-based Approach
by Laura WoodwardMental Wellbeing and Positive Psychology for Veterinary Professionals Explore practical strategies for mental wellbeing across the veterinary professions Mental Wellbeing and Positive Psychology for Veterinary Professionals: A Pre-emptive, Proactive and Solution-based Approach delivers a practical, hands-on guide to mental health and resilience for individual members of the veterinary professions and for those managing entire practices. Divided into 6 sections, the text offers valuable tools, including meditation, mindfulness, and positive psychology, to help readers grapple with the mental challenges presented by veterinary practice. The author has also included a series of case studies and anecdotes from her experience in counselling members of the professions, including a new-graduate vet, a specialist surgeon, and a head nurse, as they encounter issues like anxiety, compassion fatigue, fear of failure, imposter syndrome, and grief. By learning in advance about the common hurdles they will face during their careers, the reader will discover how to prepare for these in positive and proactive ways. Readers will also find: A thorough introduction to effective strategies for dealing with the difficulties of the veterinary professions, including mindfulness, empathy, and emotional intelligence Comprehensive explorations of meditation, including body scan meditation, breath meditation, imagery, and mini-meditations Practical discussions of specific challenges faced by veterinary practitioners, including moral injury, client complaints, burnout, imposter syndrome, and a loss of confidence Fulsome case studies, including a veterinary nurse’s journey to mental wellbeing Dr. Laura Woodward is well positioned to write on the topic, as both a working veterinary surgeon and an accredited counsellor and has crafted a text that is perfect for veterinarians, veterinary nurses, and practice managers. Mental Wellbeing and Positive Psychology for Veterinary Professionals will also benefit veterinary students, student veterinary nurses, and teaching staff seeking a comprehensive resource for veterinary mental health.
Indigenous Creatures, Native Knowledges, and the Arts
by Wendy Woodward Susan MchughThis volume illuminates how creative representations remain sites of ongoing struggles to engage with animals in indigenous epistemologies. Traditionally imagined in relation to spiritual realms and the occult, animals have always been more than primitive symbols of human relations. Whether as animist gods, familiars, conduits to ancestors, totems, talismans, or co-creators of multispecies cosmologies, animals act as vital players in the lives of cultures. From early days in colonial contact zones through contemporary expressions in art, film, and literature, the volume's unique emphasis on Southern Africa and North America - historical loci of the greatest ranges of species and linguistic diversity - help to situate how indigenous knowledges of human-animal relations are being adapted to modern conditions of life shared across species lines.
Salmon Nation: People, Fish, and Our Common Home
by Elizabeth Woody Edward Wolf Seth ZuckermanSalmon Nation takes general readers behind the headlines int the company of six knowledgeable guides to a deeper understanding of the most celebrated fish of western North America. Thoughtful essays by Native American writer Elizabeth Woody, fisheries biologist Jim Uchatowich, journalist Richard Manning, former commercial fisherman Freeman House, and writer Seth Zuckerman trace the relationship between people and salmon from the days of abundance that sustained Northwest Coast native cultures to the troubled world of salmon today. Geographer Dorie Brownell's full-color maps offer a powerful big picture perspective that lends new urgency to efforts to heal the breach between people and salmon.
Bad Dogs
by Virginia WoofDogs have always been man’s best friend. But this collection will have you wondering why. Don’t be fooled by their furry faces and wagging tales; these 112 full color photographs showcase the sneaky, dirty, destructive (and hilarious) aspects of the dogs’ life, giving new meaning to the phrase “bad to the bone.”
Milestones in the Evolving Theory of Evolution
by David WoolThe book illustrates how Darwin's theory has evolved, about the development of the biological world before Darwin, and great changes that took place with the incorporation of statistics, and after Darwin's death of genetics and mathematics. The formation of ‘Modern Synthesis’, protein electrophoresis, Discovery of DNA opened new avenues for the study of evolution.
Flush: Biografía de un perro
by Virginia Woolf Iratxe López de MunáinUna de las novelas más originales e inolvidables de la literatura contemporánea Ilustrada por Iratxe López de Munáin «Un verdadero clásico canino.»Justine Hankins, The Guardian «Una obra maestra.»New York Herald Tribune 80 ANIVERSARIO DE VIRGINIA WOOLF Flush es un cocker spaniel del más alto linaje, que además de estar dotado de todas las virtudes que establece el Spaniel Club para un ejemplar de abolengo posee el don de captar las emociones humanas. Con esas cualidades, y no siendo más que un cachorro, es regalado a la primera poetisa de Inglaterra, la brillante, la desventurada, la adorada Elizabeth Barrett, por quien rápidamente sentirá un amor incondicional, cuyo noviazgo con el poeta Robert Browning lo atormentará de celos, a quien seguirá hasta Italia para conocer la ebriedad de la libertad -y del libertinaje- y a cuyo lado envejecerá tras haber vivido la vida más plena que un perro jamás pudo soñar. A partir de la correspondencia de Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Virginia Woolf reconstruyó la biografía de su perro con viveza, rigor y una gran dosis de humor, logrando una de las novelas más encantadoras de la literatura contemporánea. La crítica ha dicho...«Nunca la vida de un perro dio para tan bonitas palabras como las que le dedica Virginia Woolf.»Víctor González, Libros y literatura «Flush no es tanto un libro escrito por una amante de los perros como un libro escrito por alguien que quisiera ser un perro.»Quentin Bell, Virginia Woolf: una biografía «A partir del escasísimo material del que disponía, Woolf produjo unconmovedor retrato del célebre cocker y le confirió una personalidad real y vívida [...]y lo hizo con su estilo más encantador.»Kirkus Reviews«La más victoriosa infiltración de la imaginación humana en la sensibilidad perruna. [...] El resultado es un libro de gracia y encanto irresistibles.»Spectator «Una obra maestra. [...] No es una obra de ficción porque tiene la sustancia de loreal y verdadero. No es una biografía porque posee la libertad y el arte de la ficción.»New York Herald Tribune Books «La historia del spaniel, que se desarrolla en Londres y Florencia, es un ensayo social al tiempo que la biografía de un perro. En resumen, un verdadero clásico canino.»Justine Hankins, The Guardian«Virginia Woolf es dios, nadie ha escrito mejor.»Milena Busquets
Between Light and Storm: How We Live with Other Species
by Esther WoolfsonA landmark examination of the fraught relationship between humans and animals, taking the reader from Genesis to climate change.Beginning with the very origins of life on Earth, Woolfson considers prehistoric human-animal interaction and traces the millennia-long evolution of conceptions of the soul and conscience in relation to the animal kingdom, and the consequences of our belief in human superiority. She explores our representation of animals in art, our consumption of them for food, our experiments on them for science, and our willingness to slaughter them for sport and fashion, as well as examining concepts of love and ownership. Drawing on philosophy and theology, art and history, as well as her own experience of living with animals and coming to know, love, and respect them as individuals, Woolfson examines some of the most complex ethical issues surrounding our treatment of animals and argues passionately and persuasively for a more humble, more humane, relationship with the creatures who share our world.
Animals that Glow: Independent Reading Orange 6 Non-fiction (Reading Champion #1152)
by Katie WoolleyThis book is part of Reading Champion, a series carefully linked to book bands to encourage independent reading skills, developed with UCL Institute of Education (IOE)Animals that Glow is a non-fiction text reporting on animals that glow to attract prey, protect themselves or communicate. The simple sentence structure offers readers the opportunity for an independent reading experience with the support of the illustrations.Reading Champion offers independent reading books for children to practise and reinforce their developing reading skills.This early non-fiction text is accompanied by engaging artwork and a reading activity. Each book has been carefully graded so that it can be matched to a child's reading ability, encouraging reading for pleasure.
Bear Wants Some Honey: Independent Pink 1a (Reading Champion #516)
by Katie WoolleyThis story is part of Reading Champion, a series carefully linked to book bands to encourage independent reading skills, developed with Dr Sue Bodman and Glen Franklin of UCL Institute of Education (IOE)Bear has run out of honey, and he wants some more. When he spots a bee in the garden, he knows just what to do!Reading Champion offers independent reading books for children to practise and reinforce their developing reading skills.Fantastic, original stories are accompanied by engaging artwork and a reading activity. Each book has been carefully graded so that it can be matched to a child's reading ability, encouraging reading for pleasure. Perfect for 4-5 year olds or those reading book band pink 1a.
Bugs: Independent Reading Non-Fiction Pink 1a (Reading Champion #515)
by Katie WoolleyThis book is part of Reading Champion, a series carefully linked to book bands to encourage independent reading skills, developed with UCL Institute of Education (IOE)Bugs is a non-fiction text exploring how different bugs eat leaves. The repeated sentence structure offers readers the opportunity for a very first independent reading experience with the support of the illustrations.Reading Champion offers independent reading books for children to practise and reinforce their developing reading skills.This non-fiction text is accompanied by engaging artwork and a reading activity. Each book has been carefully graded so that it can be matched to a child's reading ability, encouraging reading for pleasure.
Come Here, Robin: Independent Pink 1b (Reading Champion #609)
by Katie WoolleyA young child tries to entice a little robin with different offerings of food - which one will make the robin come? This story is part of Reading Champion, a series carefully linked to book bands to encourage independent reading skills, developed with Dr Sue Bodman and Glen Franklin of UCL Institute of Education (IOE)Reading Champion offers independent reading books for children to practise and reinforce their developing reading skills.Fantastic, original stories are accompanied by engaging artwork and a reading activity. Each book has been carefully graded so that it can be matched to a child's reading ability, encouraging reading for pleasure.
I Live on the Farm: Pink 1B (Reading Champion #349)
by Katie WoolleyThis story is part of Reading Champion, a series carefully linked to book bands to encourage independent reading skills, developed with Dr Sue Bodman and Glen Franklin of UCL Institute of Education (IOE)Meet all the folks who live on the farm. Can you find the cheeky rat on each page?Reading Champion offers independent reading books for children to practise and reinforce their developing reading skills.Fantastic, original stories are accompanied by engaging artwork and a reading activity. Each book has been carefully graded so that it can be matched to a child's reading ability, encouraging reading for pleasure.Independent Reading Pink 1B stories are perfect for children aged 4+ who are reading at book band 1B (Pink) in classroom reading lessons.In this story, we meet some of the animals who live on the farm - including a cheeky rat!
Mouse Hides: Independent Pink 1b (Reading Champion #516)
by Katie WoolleyA little mouse stays hidden as people and animals pass along the street until evening. Then, when it's dark, little mouse thinks its safe to leave its hiding place ... This story is part of Reading Champion, a series carefully linked to book bands to encourage independent reading skills, developed with Dr Sue Bodman and Glen Franklin of UCL Institute of Education (IOE)Reading Champion offers independent reading books for children to practise and reinforce their developing reading skills.Fantastic, original stories are accompanied by engaging artwork and a reading activity. Each book has been carefully graded so that it can be matched to a child's reading ability, encouraging reading for pleasure.
The Penguin Race: Independent Reading Blue 4 (Reading Champion #594)
by Katie WoolleyThis story is part of Reading Champion, a series carefully linked to book bands to encourage independent reading skills, developed with Dr Sue Bodman and Glen Franklin of UCL Institute of Education (IOE)The penguins are having a race! Percy wants to win, but when he sees his friends in trouble, he must decide whether to keep racing, or stop to help ...Reading Champion offers independent reading books for children to practise and reinforce their developing reading skills.Fantastic, original stories are accompanied by engaging artwork and a reading activity. Each book has been carefully graded so that it can be matched to a child's reading ability, encouraging reading for pleasure.Perfect for 5-6 year olds or those reading book band blue 4.
Seaside Animals: Independent Reading Non-Fiction Blue 4 (Reading Champion #1108)
by Katie WoolleyThis book is part of Reading Champion, a series carefully linked to book bands to encourage independent reading skills, developed with UCL Institute of Education (IOE)Seaside Animals is a non-fiction text reporting on animals that live by the seaside. The simple sentence structure offers readers the opportunity for an independent reading experience with the support of the illustrations.Reading Champion offers independent reading books for children to practise and reinforce their developing reading skills.This early non-fiction text is accompanied by engaging artwork and a reading activity. Each book has been carefully graded so that it can be matched to a child's reading ability, encouraging reading for pleasure.
Animal Families
by Marilyn Woolley Keith PigdonMany animals live together in large family groups. They live together for protection. They look after one another. They teach the younger ones how to survive.
Animals That Burrow
by Marilyn Woolley Keith PigdonMany animals shelter and raise their young in burrows. Some spend a great deal of time in their burrows.
Stingers and Fangs: Ways Animals Attack
by Marilyn Woolley Keith PigdonAnimals can be dangerous or even deadly if they carry a poisonous liquid called venom in their bodies.