Spiderwatch

Author: Bert Brunet
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781876334499
Category : SPIDERS - AUSTRALIA - IDENTIFICATION.
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
New Edition. A comprehensive guide for those who wish to find, identify and understand Australian spiders.Illustrated with an identification guide, colour drawings and photographs, Spiderwatch is an easy-to-use and practical field manual. It contains advice on where to find spiders and how to draw, photograph and take notes on them as well as on anatomy and evolution. More than 100 of the most frequently encountered Australian spiders are depicted. Most of these are described in detail, with information on toxicity, habitat and prey capture. As well, Spiderwatch includes facts on Australia's dangerous spiders and advice on first aid.

Spider-Geddon

Author: Priest
Publisher: Marvel Entertainment
ISBN: 1302508857
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 145

Book Description
Collecting Spider-Force #1-3 and Spider-Girls #1-3. Many are the missions in SPIDER-GEDDON and two very different squads of web-slingers undertake some of the deadliest! Kaine, Jessica Spider-Woman Drew, Ashley Barton from the OLD MAN LOGAN universe and brand-new characters Astro-Spider and Spider-Kid are the Spider-Force but their first assignment may well be their last! Are they prepared to sacrifice everything to save the Multiverse? Elsewhere, original Spider-Girl May Mayday Parker teams up with her Prime Universe namesake Anya Corazon and Annie May Parker, A.K.A. Spiderling of the RENEW YOUR VOWS world! Mayday will do anything to protect her little brother from the Inheritors, and Anyas knowledge of the mystical Spider-Totems could save the day but how does Annie fit in with this trio of Spider-Girls?

Spider Stories

Author: Hildegunn Hodne
Publisher: Australian Scholarly Publishing
ISBN: 1922669393
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 137

Book Description
This is a book about spiders and arachnophobia. With a touch of humour, deep curiosity and an artist’s eye the author examines her phobia and the object of her fear. What is a spider? What makes these eight-legged creatures so scary? To understand her own reactions to spiders better she describes her past and present encounters with them. The story takes her back to her childhood in Norway and the USA, to holidays in Spain and Portugal, to travels around Australia, and to her relocation in Tasmania. She focuses on Australian spiders while including fine examples of these astonishing creatures from elsewhere. Hildegunn Hodne, originally from Norway, now calls Tasmania home. She works as a freelance illustrator, writer and portrait artist with studio space in the small village of Chudleigh, Northern Tasmania. To ensure she continues to encounter spiders and local wildlife she also works as a gardener. Spider Stories: My Journey from Phobia to Fascination is her first book. She’s currently working on a new book project, focusing on birds and travels. For more examples of Hildegunn’s artwork please visit her website: hildegunnhodne.com

Java Spider

Author: Geoffrey Archer
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1448151619
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 452

Book Description
A British minister is a pawn in a deadly game played out in one of the world's most explosive countries - Indonesia. His kidnapping does not fall under British jurisdiction and the authorities in Jakarta claim that he has been seized by a guerrilla movement. But their investigation makes no progress as horrific satellite pictures of him are released on national television. The government sends one man to rescue him - Nick Randall has served in the Far East before. He knows that nothing is as it seems in the land of masks. Greater forces are in play than even he suspects. Together with a lone woman TV reporter he penetrates a remote island, where a powder keg of armed local rebellion is threatening to explode under the repressive regime.

Curse of the Spider King

Author: Wayne Thomas Batson
Publisher: Tommy Nelson
ISBN: 1418579211
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 385

Book Description
Fantasy. Mystery. Action. Humor. Parents, teachers, and librarians will no longer have to push kids to read—The Berinfell Prophesies will engage intermediate readers and leave them clamoring for more. The Seven succeeding Elven Lords of Allyra were dead, lost in the Siege of Berinfell as babes. At least that’s what everyone thought until tremors from a distant world known as Earth, revealed strange signs that Elven blood lived among its peoples. With a glimmer of hope in their hearts, sentinels are sent to see if the signs are true. But theirs is not a lone errand. The ruling warlord of Allyra, the Spider King, has sent his own scouts to hunt down the Seven and finish the job they failed to complete many ages ago. Now 13-year-olds on the brink of the Age of Reckoning when their Elven gifts will be manifest, discover the unthinkable truth that their adoptive families are not their only kin. With mysterious Sentinels revealing breathtaking secrets of the past, and dark strangers haunting their every move, will the young Elf Lords find the way back to the home of their birth? Worlds and races collide as the forces of good and evil battle. Will anyone escape the Curse of the Spider King? Learn more about The Berinfell Prophecies at www.heedtheprophecies.wordpress.com. Create your own tribe. Connect with fans through the forum. Win pre-release chapters and the opportunity to have Wayne and Christopher at your very own book party!

SPIDERS

Author: Georgina Kucherik
Publisher: Rainbow Horizons Publishing
ISBN: 1553196511
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 64

Book Description
Introduce your students to the fascinating world of Spiders! Information cards are included to make spider booklets for beginner readers. 1. Fisher Spider; 2. Tarantula; 3. Trapdoor Spider; 4. Crab Spider; 5. Wolf Spider; 6. Jumping Spider; 7. Spiderlings. Learn all about spiders: the special features of a spider’s body, egg sacs, their different homes and locations, what spiders eat, how they eat and catch their prey, and also learn what animals eat spiders. Survey your class to determine their individual feelings about spiders. Record the results on class graphs. On completion of the unit, see if their feelings and attitudes have changed. Fun-to-do activities are included to promote skills in: visual discrimination, mathematics, reading, research, and creativity. Incorporate a spider centre into your Halloween theme.

Everyland

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 216

Book Description

Keepers of the Animals

Author: Michael J. Caduto
Publisher: Fulcrum Publishing
ISBN: 9781555913861
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 290

Book Description
Using stories to show the importance of wildlife in Native American traditions, this book gives parents and teachers an exciting way to teach children about animals.

Stake That!

Author: Marianne Mancusi
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780425212103
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292

Book Description
Still reeling from having lost her chance to become a vampire, sixteen-year-old Rayne learns that she is destined to be the new Vampire Slayer and must go undercover to stop a maniacal member of the undead who seeks vengeance and power by spreading a fatal blood disease.

Where's that Spider?

Author: Bernice Chardiet
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780590128186
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36

Book Description
Presents information about different kinds of spiders. The reader is invited to find spiders hidden in the illustrations.