The Man Who Ate the Zoo

Author: Richard Girling
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1473522943
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 389

Book Description
Frank Buckland was an extraordinary man – surgeon, natural historian, popular lecturer, bestselling writer, museum curator, and a conservationist before the concept even existed. Eccentric, revolutionary, prolific, he was one of the nineteenth century’s most improbable geniuses. His lifelong passion was to discover new ways to feed the hungry. Rhinoceros, crocodile, puppy-dog, giraffe, kangaroo, bear and panther all had their chance to impress, but what finally - and, eventually, fatally - obsessed him was fish. Forgotten now, he was one of the most original, far-sighted and influential natural scientists of his time, held as high in public esteem as his great philosophical enemy, Charles Darwin.

My Heart Is Like a Zoo

Author: Michael Hall
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061915106
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 38

Book Description
A heart can be hopeful, or silly, or happy. A heart can be rugged, or snappy, or lonely. A heart holds every different feeling, and debut author-artist Michael Hall captures each one with a delicate touch. For each feeling, the bold, graphic artwork creates an animal out of heart shapes, from "eager as a beaver" to "angry as a bear" to "thoughtful as an owl." An accessible and beautiful debut, My Heart Is Like a Zoo is everything a classic picture book should be: honest, sincere, and speaking directly to even the very youngest child. Ages: 0 - 5

Zoo Time

Author: Howard Jacobson
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408837447
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 482

Book Description
The new novel from the author of "The Finkler Question," winner of the Man Booker Prize 2010

Zoo 2

Author: James Patterson
Publisher: BookShots
ISBN: 0316360570
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 134

Book Description
Zoo was just the beginning. Now, the last humans on Earth are fighting for their lives in a dystopia where humans are prey. The planet is still under violent siege by ferocious animals. Except some humans are evolving, mutating into a savage species that could save civilization . . . or end it. BookShots Lightning-fast stories by James Patterson Novels you can devour in a few hours Impossible to stop reading All original content from James Patterson

The Zoo Story and Other Plays

Author: Edward Albee
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780140251135
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 125

Book Description
This volume of plays contains Edward Albee's four most famous one-act works. They are Death of Bessie Smith, Zoo Story, American Dream, and Sand Box.

The Elephant's Girl

Author: Celesta Rimington
Publisher: Yearling
ISBN: 0593121252
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 353

Book Description
A magical adventure for fans of Katherine Applegate and Jennifer Holm about a girl with a mysterious connection to the elephant who saved her life. An elephant never forgets, but Lexington Willow can't remember her past. Swept away by a tornado as a toddler, she was dropped in a nearby Nebraska zoo, where an elephant named Nyah protected her from the storm. With no trace of her family, Lex grew up at the zoo with her foster father, Roger; her best friend, Fisher; and the wind whispering in her ear. Years later, Nyah sends Lex a telepathic image of the woods outside the zoo. Soon, Lex is wrapped up in an adventure involving ghosts, lost treasure, and a puzzle that might be the key to finding her family. Can Lex summon the courage to discover who she really is--and why the tornado brought her here all those years ago?

The Great Zoo of China

Author: Matthew Reilly
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476749574
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 464

Book Description
"The all-new thriller from #1 internationally bestselling author Matthew Reilly! It is a secret the Chinese government has been keeping for forty years. They have found a species of animal no one believed even existed. It will amaze the world. Now the Chinese are ready to unveil their astonishing discovery within the greatest zoo ever constructed. A small group of VIPs and journalists has been brought to the zoo deep within China to see its fabulous creatures for the first time. Among them is Dr. Cassandra Jane "CJ" Cameron, a writer for National Geographic and an expert on reptiles. The visitors are assured by their Chinese hosts that they will be struck with wonder at these beasts, that they are perfectly safe, and that nothing can go wrong. Of course it can't... GET READY FOR ACTION ON A GIGANTIC SCALE"--

Curiosities of Natural History

Author: Francis Trevelyan Buckland
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fishing
Languages : en
Pages : 442

Book Description

Sandplay and Storytelling

Author: Barbara A. Turner
Publisher: Temenos Press
ISBN: 0972851755
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 179

Book Description
Combining the fields of child psychology and child education, this groundbreaking work explores how engaging children in Jungian sandplay therapy and imaginative storytelling can improve classroom performance and to increase intelligence scores. Written by child specialists, it makes a solid argument for the necessary consideration of the unconscious and the inner world of the individual child in learning and advocates that curriculum design for children must include both imaginative therapeutic play and active attention to children's emotional needs. Educators, psychotherapists, and concerned parents alike will find this book informative and useful.

Eat the Rich

Author: P. J. O'Rourke
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN: 1555847102
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 348

Book Description
A New York Times bestseller: “The funniest writer in America” takes on the global economy (The Wall Street Journal). In this book, renowned political humorist P. J. O’Rourke, author of Parliament of Whores and How the Hell Did This Happen? leads us on a hysterical whirlwind world tour from the “good capitalism” of Wall Street to the “bad socialism” of Cuba in search of the answer to an age-old question: “Why do some places prosper and thrive, while others just suck?” With stops in Albania, Sweden, Hong Kong, Moscow, and Tanzania, O’Rourke takes a look at the complexities of economics with a big dose of the incomparable wit that has made him one of today’s most refreshing commentators. “O’Rourke has done the unthinkable: he’s made money funny.” —Forbes FYI “[O’Rourke is] witty, smart and—though he hides it under a tough coat of cynicism—a fine reporter . . . Delightful.” —The New York Times Book Review