Elizabeth Thomas
Author
Series
Publisher
Cherry Lake Publishing
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"This book takes readers on a journey under the sea to discover the fascinating facts about goblin sharks, including physical features, habitat, life cycle, food, and more. Photos, captions, and keywords supplement the narrative of this informational text, while additional search tools--including a glossary and an index--help students locate and review important information."--Publisher's website.
Author
Series
Publisher
Cherry Lake Publishing
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"This book takes readers on a journey under the sea to discover the fascinating facts about great white sharks, including physical features, habitat, life cycle, food, and more. Photos, captions, and keywords supplement the narrative of this informational text, while additional search tools--including a glossary and an index--help students locate and review important information." -- from publisher's website.
Author
Series
Publisher
Cherry Lake Publishing
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Introduces facts about bottlenose dolphins, including physical features, habitat, life cycle, food, and threats to these ocean creatures. Photos, captions, and keywords supplement the narrative of this informational text"--
4) Clean air
Author
Publisher
The Childs World
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Presents twelve tips for reducing air pollution, including composting, recycling, and planting trees, and explains how each action contributes to cleaner air.
Author
Language
English
Description
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas has spent a lifetime observing the natural world, chronicling the customs of pre-contact hunter-gatherers and the secret lives of deer and dogs. In this book, the capstone of her long career, Thomas, now eighty-eight, turns her keen eye to her own life. The result is an account of growing old that is at once funny and charming and intimate and profound, both a memoir and a life-affirming map all of us may follow to embrace...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
One of our most influential anthropologists reevaluates her long and illustrious career by returning to her roots-and the roots of life as we know it
When Elizabeth Marshall Thomas first arrived in Africa to live among the Kalahari San, or bushmen, it was 1950, she was nineteen years old, and these last surviving hunter-gatherers were living as humans had lived for 15,000 centuries. Thomas wound up writing about their world in a seminal work, The...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
Description
From the majestic Bengal tiger to the domesticated Siamese comes a meditation on cats from the bestselling author of The Hidden Life of Dogs and The Social Lives of Dogs From as far back in time as the disappearance of the dinosaurs, cats have occupied an important place in our evolutionary, social, and cultural history. The family of the cat is as diverse as it is widespread, ranging from the lions, tigers, and pumas of the African and Asian...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
Long before the Dog Whisperer, anthropologist Elizabeth Marshall Thomas revealed to readers the nature of pack dynamics, leading to a completely new understanding of dogs, their personalities, and their desires. Based on thirty years of living with and observing dogs, The Hidden Life of Dogs asks one question: What do dogs want? To find out, we must meet the pack. First there is Misha, a husky Thomas followed on her daily rounds of more than 130 square...
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1990.
Language
English
Description
Set in prehistoric Siberia, a "psychologically acute and soaringly imaginative" novel by a New York Times–bestselling author (Publishers Weekly). In this novel by the author of Reindeer Moon, set in the Paleolithic age, Kori lives among his hunter-gatherer people, guilty with the knowledge that his unborn child is being carried by his shaman father's new wife. Then, Kori impulsively seizes another woman, from a different tribe, after seeing her...
10) Reindeer Moon
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Company
Pub. Date
1987.
Language
English
Description
Yanan, the headstrong heroine living near Woman Lake in Siberia twenty thousand years ago, recounts her life and her spirit journeys where she takes on the form of an animal.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
From the bestselling author of The Hidden Life of Dogs and The Tribe of Tiger comes a groundbreaking work on canine consciousness and how dogs become family Moving from Virginia to New Hampshire is a change not only for Elizabeth Marshall Thomas and her husband, but also for their three elderly dogs. A classically trained anthropologist, Thomas observes the way in which Suessi, Fatima, and Inookshook acclimate to a new house and new adventure....
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
The animal kingdom operates by ancient rules, and the deer in our woods and backyards can teach us many of them-but only if we take the time to notice.
In the fall of 2007 in southern New Hampshire, the acorn crop failed and the animals who depended on it faced starvation. Elizabeth Marshall Thomas began leaving food in small piles around her farmhouse. Soon she had over thirty deer coming to her fields, and her naturalist's eye was riveted. How...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the revered author of the bestselling The Hidden Life of Dogs, a witty, engaging, life-affirming account of the joy, strength, and wisdom that comes with age.
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas has spent a lifetime observing the natural world, chronicling the customs of pre-contact hunter-gatherers and the secret lives of deer and dogs. In this book, the capstone of her long career, Thomas, now eighty-eight, turns her keen eye to
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the majestic Bengal tiger to the domesticated Siamese comes a meditation on cats from the bestselling author of The Hidden Life of Dogs and The Social Lives of Dogs
From as far back in time as the disappearance of the dinosaurs, cats have occupied an important place in our evolutionary, social, and cultural history. The family of the cat is as diverse as it is widespread, ranging from the lions,...
From as far back in time as the disappearance of the dinosaurs, cats have occupied an important place in our evolutionary, social, and cultural history. The family of the cat is as diverse as it is widespread, ranging from the lions,...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
The story begins on a cold upland pasture where coarse grass and scrub cedar grew. The hour was midnight. The day was the first of winter. And the year of our Lord was not 1900 or 1600 or even 100. It was 0. On that night a white goat, Ima, and a huge, gray short-haired sheepdog, Lila, were keeping watch over a small flock of young sheep. Bright and dazzling, a star appears behind the cedars on the eastern skyline. It is big and powerful, and it has...
Author
Series
Animalibus ; 13
Publisher
The Pennsylvania State University Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Provides an overview of the commonality of life on Earth. Inspired by the idea of symbiosis in evolution, the book explores the challenges and behaviors shared by creatures from bacteria to humans and all those in between"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
How is it that an untrained, self-taught observer and writer could see things that professional anthropologists often missed? How is that a pioneering woman, working in male-dominated fields, without sponsors or credentials, could accomplish more than so many more celebrated and professionally educated men could manage? How can we all unlock the wisdom of the world simply by paying close attention? With their intelligence and acute insight into other...