Zoologie

Reprint of the original, first published in 1904.

The family had no idea that adopting a prairie dog could result in contracting a life-threatening illness.Schyan Kautzer and her parents want a new pet, so they adopt a prairie dog. But one day Schyan gets a fever, and her body is suddenly covered with sores. The only clue to her illness is a bite from her pet prairie dog. High-interest topics, real stories, engaging design, and astonishing photos are the building blocks of the XBooks, a new series of books designed to engage and motivate reluctant and enthusiastic readers alike. How can a bite from a pet prairie dog cause a life-threatening illness? Where does the guinea worm, a parasite that lives under human skin, come from? How can a virus that attacks the brain be related to birds dropping dead at the zoo? With topics based in science, these action-packed books will help students unlock the power and pleasure of reading... and always ask for more!

Beast And Man In India: A Popular Sketch Of Indian Animals In Their Relations With The PeopleThis book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature.In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards:1. Type-setting & Reformatting: The complete work has been re-designed via professional layout, formatting and type-setting tools to re-create the same edition with rich typography, graphics, high quality images, and table elements, giving our readers the feel of holding a 'fresh and newly' reprinted and/or revised edition, as opposed to other scanned & printed (Optical Character Recognition - OCR) reproductions.2. Correction of imperfections: As the work was re-created from the scratch, therefore, it was vetted to rectify certain conventional norms with regard to typographical mistakes, hyphenations, punctuations, blurred images, missing content/pages, and/or other related subject matters, upon our consideration. Every attempt was made to rectify the imperfections related to omitted constructs in the original edition via other references. However, a few of such imperfections which could not be rectified due to intentional\unintentional omission of content in the original edition, were inherited and preserved from the original work to maintain the authenticity and construct, relevant to the work.We believe that this work holds historical, cultural and/or intellectual importance in the literary works community, therefore despite the oddities, we accounted the work for print as a part of our continuing effort towards preservation of literary work and our contribution towards the development of the society as a whole, driven by our beliefs. We are grateful to our readers for putting their faith in us and accepting our imperfections with regard to preservation of the historical content. HAPPY READING!

Kirjassa "Opintiellä Oulussa" on hajanaisia havaintoja kuusamolaisen nuoren miehen opiskeluajoilta ja varhaisista työvuosista Oulussa vuosina 1974-84. Kirjassa valotetaan biologian ja maantieteen maisterin opintopolkua ja siihen liittyviä asioita Oulun yliopistossa.Kirjaan on tallennettu joitakin muistojen murusia nuoruusvuosilta Oulussa, millaiselta maailma ja Suomi näyttivät nuoren miehen näkövinkkelistä, mitä opiskeluaikoina puuhattiin, iloja ja suruja, miten maailmankuva avartui, kalaretkiä, luontoretkiä ja elämyksiä, työkokemuksia. Eli arkisia tavallisia asioita 1970-80 luvuilla.

This captivating title looks at extinction--from the dinosaurs, 65 million years ago, to the possible extinction of species in our world today.