Creep and Flutter

Creep and Flutter
Author: Jim Arnosky
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Insects
ISBN: 9781402777660

Celebrates the beauty and diversity of hundreds of insects and spiders in an illustrated work that features eight gatefolds depicting butterflies, beetles, spiders, and other insects.

Creep and Flutter O/P

Creep and Flutter O/P
Author: J. Arnosky
Publisher: Sterling Children's Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016-03
Genre: Insects
ISBN: 9781454919100

Celebrates the beauty and diversity of hundreds of insects and spiders in an illustrated work that features eight gatefolds depicting butterflies, beetles, spiders, and other insects.

Forces and Movement

Forces and Movement
Author: Claire Llewellyn
Publisher: Evans Brothers
Total Pages: 26
Release: 2010
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0237541726

SCIENCE. This title encourages children to explore the different ways they can move their bodies and to consider the different ways things move in the world around them - a roundabout goes round and round, a see-saw goes up and down. The concepts of pushing and pulling are explored and children are encouraged to experiment with these forces for themselves. The best selling Start-Up series of books have now been rewritten to emphasise the cross-curricular teaching potential of each title. They will provide notes and activities, spread by spread, highlighting ways in which learning can be extended in various subject areas for KS1. The other key changes on the original series will be revamped end sections featuring extension learning details together with the latest internet and web resource information. Ages 5+.

The Mother of All Booklists

The Mother of All Booklists
Author: William Patrick Martin
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2014-12-24
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1442238623

The Mother of All Booklists: The 500 Most Recommended Nonfiction Reads for Ages 3 to 103 is written for parents, grandparents, and teachers unfamiliar with the bewildering array of award and recommended reading lists. This book is a long overdue composite of all the major booklists. It brings together over 100 of the most influential book awards and reading lists from leading magazines, newspapers, reference books, schools, libraries, parenting organizations, and professional groups from across the country. The Mother of All Booklists is to reading books what the website Rotten Tomatoes is to watching movies—the ultimate, one-stop, synthesizing resource for finding out what is best. Mother is not the opinion of one book critic, but the aggregate opinion of an army of critics. Organized into five age group lists each with one hundred books—preschoolers (ages 3-5), early readers (ages 5-9), middle readers (ages 9-13), young adults (ages 13-17), and adults (ages 18+)—The Mother of All Booklists amalgamates the knowledge of the best English-language booklists in the United States, including a few from Canada and Great Britain. Each of the 500 books is annotated, describing the contents of the book and suggesting why the book is unique and important. Each includes a picture of the book cover.

Mathematical Modeling and Optimization of Complex Structures

Mathematical Modeling and Optimization of Complex Structures
Author: Pekka Neittaanmäki
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2015-10-07
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3319235648

This volume contains selected papers in three closely related areas: mathematical modeling in mechanics, numerical analysis, and optimization methods. The papers are based upon talks presented on the International Conference for Mathematical Modeling and Optimization in Mechanics, held in Jyväskylä, Finland, March 6-7, 2014 dedicated to Prof. N. Banichuk on the occasion of his 70th birthday. The articles are written by well-known scientists working in computational mechanics and in optimization of complicated technical models. Also, the volume contains papers discussing the historical development, the state of the art, new ideas, and open problems arising in modern continuum mechanics and applied optimization problems. Several papers are concerned with mathematical problems in numerical analysis, which are also closely related to important mechanical models. The main topics treated include: * Computer simulation methods in mechanics, physics, and biology; * Variational problems and methods; minimization algorithms; * Optimal control problems with distributed and discrete control; * Shape optimization and shape design problems in science and engineering; * Sensitivity analysis and parameters optimization of complex systems.

Pollinator Friendly Gardening

Pollinator Friendly Gardening
Author: Rhonda Fleming Hayes
Publisher: Voyageur Press
Total Pages: 179
Release: 2016-01-15
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 1627888470

Want to do your part in helping your local pollinators flourish? Pollinator Friendly Gardening makes it easy. Are you interested in growing a naturally healthy garden? How about making sure your local environment helps bees, butterflies, and birds survive and thrive? If you are a beekeeper, are you looking for the ideal plants to keep your colony happy? Pollinators such as monarch butterflies and bees are under threat, and more and more gardeners want to do all they can to create a hospitable space for them. That's where Pollinator Friendly Gardening comes in. It identifies the most visible and beloved pollinators: bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds, as well as some more unlikely candidates such as ants, wasps, and beetles. It then explains the intriguing synergy between plants and pollinators. This vital information makes it a unique sourcebook to share the ways that anyone can make a yard a more friendly place for pollinators. Plant selection, hardscape choices, habitat building (both natural and manmade), and growing practices that give pollinators their best chance in the garden are all covered in detail. Plant lists organized by category, helpful tips, and expert spotlights make it a fun and easy book to read too.