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Learn about the north and south poles and the animals that live there.
Oceans cover nearly 75 percent of the Earths surface. Pollution and overfishing are the two biggest threats faced by marine animals. Readers will be introduced to the oceans endangered animals, including Bluefin tuna and leatherback sea turtles. Readers examine explanations as to why each animal is in trouble, and what is being done to save ocean animals.
This book will take readers deep into the rainforest as they learn what grows and lives there, and its importance to the Earth. Each chapter introduces a new topic through a fun craft activity, and readers will get hands-on as they learn and create. With tribal masks and “Save the Rainforest” t-shirts, kids will have practical keepsakes to go along with all their newly acquired knowledge.
Learn about Asia and the endangered animals that inhabit it.
Fruit bats are also called flying foxes. In some parts of the world, dangerous ticks have harmed these bats, causing them to get sick and even die. The Tolga Bat Hospital in Australia is a place created to help sick and orphaned fruit bats. Readers see for themselves how the workers at this hospital take care of fruit bats, including how they feed them and help them learn to fly. Facts about bats are presented through informative text and eye-catching fact boxes. Readers will be amazed by the full-color photographs of the bats found in this hospital!
Learn about the many endangered animals that live in the rainforests of South America.
An introduction to Australia provides information on the nation's population, religion, education system, transportation, communications, tourism, environment, and wildlife.
Although the desert is a dry biome, it has a variety of animals. Readers explore both hot and cold deserts, and are introduced to endangered species such as the Sahara Deserts slender-horned gazelle. Also explained, are the subjects of climate change, poaching, and human activities that are affecting the worlds deserts. Accessible, informative text illustrates how these threats can be lessened.
The Seneca Falls Convention is typically seen as the beginning of the first women's rights movement in the United States. Revolutionary Backlash argues otherwise. According to Rosemarie Zagarri, the debate over women's rights began not in the decades prior to 1848 but during the American Revolution itself. Integrating the approaches of women's historians and political historians, this book explores changes in women's status that occurred from the time of the American Revolution until the election of Andrew Jackson. Although the period after the Revolution produced no collective movement for women's rights, women built on precedents established during the Revolution and gained an informal foo...
The exploration of the history of Virginia women through the lives of exemplary and remarkable individuals. Seventeen essays written by established and emerging scholars recover the stories and voices of a diverse group of women.