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Attack and Defense: Astonishing Animals, Bizarre Behavior (Animal Planet: Weird and Wonderful)
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Attack and Defense: Astonishing Animals, Bizarre Behavior (Animal Planet: Weird and Wonderful)Attack and Defense: Astonishing Animals, Bizarre Behavior (Animal Planet: Weird and Wonderful)

Age 6-10 years

Come face to face with the record breakers of the animal kingdom in this lavishly illustrated new series. Each title features more than 200 of the world's most extraordinary animals and their sometimes-bizarre behavior. Marvel at the amazing strategies animals deploy to track, catch and kill their prey; how they defend themselves from attack; how they rear their young, survive in extreme temperatures, and adapt to life in the ocean's depths

 

 
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Tags: their, animals, adapt, temperatures, ocean, Wonderful, Planet, Attack
In Siberia
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In SiberiaIn Siberia

Until 1991, foreigners were only allowed along the Trans-Siberian railway. Colin Thubron searches for the `core of Siberia, Russias wild east - and encounters Mongol shamans; the 2,500,000- year-old mummified remains of a princess; sweaty 85 degree temperatures and Akademogorodok, an abandoned city where a lone professor experiments with cosmic consciousness.
 
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Life at the limits - Organisms in Extreme Environments
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Life at the limits - Organisms in Extreme EnvironmentsLife at the limits - Organisms in Extreme Environments

We are fascinated by the seemingly impossible places in which organisms can live. There are frogs that freeze solid, worms that dry out and bacteria that survive temperatures over 100˚C. What seems extreme to us is, however, not extreme to these organisms. In this captivating account, the reader is taken on a tour of extreme environments, and shown the remarkable abilities of organisms to survive a range of extreme conditions, such as high and low temperatures and desiccation.

 
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Climate: Causes and Effects of Climate Change (Our Fragile Planet)
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Climate: Causes and Effects of Climate Change (Our Fragile Planet)Climate: Causes and Effects of Climate Change (Our Fragile Planet)

Though climate change is normal in Earth's history, global warming has raised average temperatures to their highest in two millennia, resulting in melting ice caps, shorter winters, changes in the seasonal behaviors of animals, and more extreme weather. And though greenhouse gases are essential for keeping the planet's temperatures comfortable, fossil fuel burning and other human activities are increasing greenhouse gas levels and causing temperatures to rise.
 
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Tags: temperatures, Climate, greenhouse, comfortable, planets, Climate, temperatures, Fragile, Causes
Extreme Weather (EXPERIENCE)
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Extreme Weather (EXPERIENCE)Describes a wide variety of extreme weather such as tornadoes, droughts, storms and extreme hot and cold temperatures.
 
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Tags: extreme, temperaturesExtreme, Weather, storms, EXPERIENCE, temperatures, Extreme