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"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.
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Beaver (Paperback)
Rachel Poliquin
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R423
R346
Discovery Miles 3 460
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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.
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.
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.
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