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Beep : a novel / by Bill Roorbach. - First edition. - New York : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2024. - [8], 230 stron ; 24 cm.

Author

Roorbach Bill. Autor

Form of Work

Książki Proza

Audience Group

Młodzież 14-17 lat

Demographic Group

Literatura amerykańska

Subject

Nastolatki Małpy Przyjaźń Młodość Zmiany klimatyczne Świadomość ekologiczna

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Książka w języku angielskim. An ebullient, funny - and hugely original - novel about the friendship between a brilliant young girl and a perceptive squirrel monkey, the power of youth, and the way forward for a planet in crisis. This immensely enjoyable novel takes a sweet and personable squirrel monkey, Beep, to help us see the world we live in more clearly. While intending only to go deeper and higher into the Costa Rican rain forest to find a mate, he instead meets Inga, a kindly and loving American teenager on vacation with her family. Inadvertently, often hilariously, Beep makes his way back to New York with Inga, and with her courageously devoted help—and a bit of inspiration from a visiting Greta Thunberg, along with a dramatic zoo escape—and with the help of just about every animal on earth, Beep manages to change the destiny of the world. Along the way, he has a great deal to say about humanity and the divisions among us, our alien cities, our strange practices, our false superiority, our vanity, our entitlement, our folly, as well as our beauty, and our promise, unfulfilled.

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Bite : an incisive history of teeth, from hagfish to humans / Bill Schutt ; illustrations by Patricia J. Wynne. - First edition. - Chapel Hill : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2024. - [12], 308 stron : ilustracje ; 24 cm.

Author

Schutt Bill. Autor Wynne Patricia (1945- ). Ilustracje

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Książki Publikacje popularnonaukowe

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Ewolucja Historia biologii Odontoskopia Zwierzęta Zęby

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Biologia Historia

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Książka w języku angielskim. From three-inch fang blennies to thirty-foot prehistoric crocodiles, from gaboon vipers to Neanderthals, Bite is a fascinating journey through the natural, scientific, and cultural history of something right in front of—or in—our faces: teeth. In Bite, zoologist Bill Schutt makes a surprising case: it is teeth that are responsible for the long-term success of vertebrates. The appearance of teeth, roughly half a billion years ago, was an adaptation that allowed animals with backbones, such as fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, dinosaurs and mammals—including us—to chow down in pretty much every conceivable environment. And it’s not just food. Tusks and fangs have played crucial roles as defensive weapons—glimpsing the upper canines of snarling dogs is all it takes to know that teeth are an efficient means of aggression. Vampire bats use their razor-sharp teeth to obtain a widespread but generally untappable resource: blood. Early humans employed their teeth as tools to soften tough fibers and animal hides. Our teeth project information and social status—the ancient Etruscans were the first to wear tooth bling, and it’s doubtful that George Washington would have been elected president without the false teeth he wore.

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Poliglotka (Nowolipki 21)

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