This illustrated children's book inspires children to get active and have fun as they explore life in the animal kingdom. Get up off the sofa and start moving with former Blue Peter presenter Radzi Chinyanganya, in his first children's book. Learn to walk like a crab, swing like…
This book is part of a science series Koleksyon Syans Mwen". The series is divided into six themes: Plants, Animals, Forces, Matter, Earth and Space, and Nature of Science. Each title in the collection is beautifully illustrated and contains critical thinking and comprehension q…
This text contains the proceedings of the 19th Symposium Aristotelicum (Munich 2011), dedicated to Aristotle's De Motu Animalium, which expounds a common causal explanation of animal self-motion. Besides a philosophical introduction by Christof Rapp and essays on the individual …
How can geckoes walk on the ceiling and basilisk lizards run over water? What are the aerodynamic effects that enable small insects to fly? What are the relative merits of squids' jet-propelled swimming and fishes' tail-powered swimming? Why do horses change gait as they increas…
This text provides an up-to-date overview of how animals run, walk, jump, crawl, swim, soar, hover, and fly. It covers all animals that power their movements with muscle, excluding only the tiny creatures that use cilia.
This text provides an up-to-date overview of how animals run, walk, jump, crawl, swim, soar, hover, and fly. It covers all animals that power their movements with muscle, excluding only the tiny creatures that use cilia.