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The Museum of Odd Body Leftovers - A Tour of Your Useless Parts, Flaws, and Other Weird Bits (Hardcover): Rachel Poliquin The Museum of Odd Body Leftovers - A Tour of Your Useless Parts, Flaws, and Other Weird Bits (Hardcover)
Rachel Poliquin; Illustrated by Clayton Hanmer
R481 R401 Discovery Miles 4 010 Save R80 (17%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

"Kids and adult alike will love poring over the different sections of this book and will delight in informing their friends and family members of the facts they've learned."-School Library Journal A perfect book for engaging kids in STEM: This illustrated tour of our "leftover" body parts (like the appendix, or even goosebumps) introduces readers age 7-11 to the bizarre and fascinating science of evolution. Welcome to the weirdest museum you'll ever explore-the one inside your body. Did you know your amazing, incredible body is a walking, talking museum of evolution? In The Museum of Odd Body Leftovers, tour guides Wisdom Tooth and Disappearing Kidney lead readers through a wacky museum dedicated to vestigial structures: body parts that were essential to our ancestors but are no longer useful to us-even though they're still hanging around. From goosebumps and hiccups to exploding organs and monkey muscles, each room in the museum shows us that these parts have stories to tell us about our past. By the time we make it to the gift shop, we'll understand that evolution is not only messy and imperfect, but also ongoing. Our bodies are constantly changing along with the environment we live in-and there's so much that is still unknown, just waiting to be discovered. Engaging, hilarious, and a visual treat, The Museum of Odd Body Leftovers is a place you'll want to visit again and again.

The Strangest Thing In The Sea - And Other Curious Creatures of the Deep (Hardcover): Rachel Poliquin The Strangest Thing In The Sea - And Other Curious Creatures of the Deep (Hardcover)
Rachel Poliquin; Illustrated by Byron Eggenschwiler
R586 R525 Discovery Miles 5 250 Save R61 (10%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days
How To High Tea With A Hyena (and Not Get Eaten) - A Polite Predators Book (Paperback): Rachel Poliquin, Kathryn Durst How To High Tea With A Hyena (and Not Get Eaten) - A Polite Predators Book (Paperback)
Rachel Poliquin, Kathryn Durst
R279 R255 Discovery Miles 2 550 Save R24 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days
How To High Tea With A Hyena (and Not Get Eaten) - A Polite Predators Book (Hardcover): Rachel Poliquin, Kathryn Durst How To High Tea With A Hyena (and Not Get Eaten) - A Polite Predators Book (Hardcover)
Rachel Poliquin, Kathryn Durst
R377 R346 Discovery Miles 3 460 Save R31 (8%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days
How To Promenade With A Python (and Not Get Eaten) (Paperback): Rachel Poliquin, Kathryn Durst How To Promenade With A Python (and Not Get Eaten) (Paperback)
Rachel Poliquin, Kathryn Durst
R279 R255 Discovery Miles 2 550 Save R24 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days
Beaver (Paperback): Rachel Poliquin Beaver (Paperback)
Rachel Poliquin
R431 R394 Discovery Miles 3 940 Save R37 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Despite their humble appearance, beavers have a remarkable history. Ancient Greeks regarded beavers as models of chastity and prudence. Beaver fur drove the exploration of North America, and beavers are heralded as heroes, able to survive climate change by creating wetland habitats. This book explores our long infatuation with the beaver from North American mythology and Aesop's Fables to contemporary environmental politics. It also examines the facts and fictions of beaver democracies, beaver architecture and even, surprisingly, beaver-flavoured ice-cream. Beaver is a beautifully illustrated book, which will appeal to anyone interested in animal lore and in discovering extraordinary insights into animal biology.

How To Promenade With A Python (and Not Get Eaten) (Hardcover): Rachel Poliquin, Kathryn Durst How To Promenade With A Python (and Not Get Eaten) (Hardcover)
Rachel Poliquin, Kathryn Durst
R414 Discovery Miles 4 140 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Breathless Zoo - Taxidermy and the Cultures of Longing (Paperback, New): Rachel Poliquin The Breathless Zoo - Taxidermy and the Cultures of Longing (Paperback, New)
Rachel Poliquin
R920 Discovery Miles 9 200 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

From sixteenth-century cabinets of wonders to contemporary animal art, The Breathless Zoo: Taxidermy and the Cultures of Longing examines the cultural and poetic history of preserving animals in lively postures. But why would anyone want to preserve an animal, and what is this animal-thing now? Rachel Poliquin suggests that taxidermy is entwined with the enduring human longing to find meaning with and within the natural world. Her study draws out the longings at the heart of taxidermy--the longing for wonder, beauty, spectacle, order, narrative, allegory, and remembrance. In so doing, The Breathless Zoo explores the animal spectacles desired by particular communities, human assumptions of superiority, the yearnings for hidden truths within animal form, and the loneliness and longing that haunt our strange human existence, being both within and apart from nature.

Animal Metropolis - Histories of Human-Animal Relations in Urban Canada (Paperback): Sherry Olson, Rachel Poliquin Animal Metropolis - Histories of Human-Animal Relations in Urban Canada (Paperback)
Sherry Olson, Rachel Poliquin; Edited by Joanna Dean, Darcy Ingram, Christabelle Sethna; Contributions by …
R1,050 Discovery Miles 10 500 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Animal Metropolis brings a Canadian perspective to the growing field of animal history, ranging across species and cities, from the beavers who engineered Stanley Park to the carthorses who shaped the city of Montreal. Some essays consider animals as spectacle: orca captivity in Vancouver, polar bear tourism in Churchill, Manitoba, fish on display in the Dominion Fisheries Museum, and the racialized memory of Jumbo the elephant in St. Thomas, Ontario. Others examine the bodily intimacies of shared urban spaces: the regulation of rabid dogs in Banff, the maternal politics of pure milk in Hamilton and the circulation of tetanus bacilli from horse to human in Toronto. Another considers the marginalization of women in Canada's animal welfare movement. The authors collectively push forward from a historiography that features nonhuman animals as objects within human-centered inquiries to a historiography that considers the eclectic contacts, exchanges, and cohabitation of human and nonhuman animals.

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