Highlights presents Night on Bat Mountain by John E. Becker. he author describes his trip with two scientists to observe Virginia big-eared bats, a species whose numbers are increasing again thanks to protective measures.

"A fabulous reference book, every image in lovely color . . . with sketches of the birds and maps showing territory. It's fascinating to leaf through." ― Minneapolis Star TribuneThe Book of Eggs introduces readers to eggs from six hundred bird species—some endangered or extinct—from around the world and housed mostly at Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History. Organized by habitat and taxonomy, the entries include newly commissi...

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Stress is a silent killer that many are still unaware of. It has been normalized enough to not be deemed as a threat to one's well-being anymore. Many people do not recognize its dangers until it is too late. In our busy routine, we have conditioned ourselves to accept it and let it become a part of our lives."Live Stress Free Again" is a book that has collected all the relevant information to help understand the causes, effects, and management skills well suited to our modern worl...

This poem was not written to bring fame, nor to waft a fortune; for, fame and fortune are but small incidents when compared with the higher things in life. It was composed more for pleasure—the pleasure of meditating on, and the commemorating of, the splendid people who were among the many fine early settlers of this state; and likewise to impart this joy to the readers who may peruse this little story of pioneer days. Then the old “Spelling Down”—once so common in schools and so brilliant...

Meet some gigantic prehistoric critters!A bug the size of a small crocodile? Or as large as a basketball player? As scary as it seems, supersized, insect-like creatures such as these roamed Earth long before humans. This peek into prehistory introduces seven of these fascinating megabugs — the ancestors of modern-day insects, spiders, crabs and other arthropods — which lived from 480 million to 47 million years ago. It explores when, where and how they each lived, why they grew so ...

Structural Anthropology (1958) not only transformed the discipline of anthropology, it also energized a movement called structuralism that came to dominate the humanities and social sciences for a generation. Linguistic structuralism studies the meaning of language beyond definitions, looking at the relationships of words and sounds to each other. Lévi-Strauss’s insight was to apply this concept of structuralism to anthropology as well. He saw that while some cultures are very different fr...

String theory is one of the most exciting and challenging areas of modern theoretical physics. This book guides the reader from the basics of string theory to recent developments. It introduces the basics of perturbative string theory, world-sheet supersymmetry, space-time supersymmetry, conformal field theory and the heterotic string, before describing modern developments, including D-branes, string dualities and M-theory. It then covers string geometry and flux compactifications, applica...

Christianity and Islam by Carl Heinrich Becker, translated by Henry John Chaytor, is a concise yet insightful exploration of the complex relationship between two of the world's major religions. Originally published in 1907, this book delves into various aspects of how Christianity and Islam have influenced each other throughout history.Becker examines key topics such as the rise of Islam in the context of Christianity, the life of Muhammad and his interactions with contemp...

This collection of essays explores convergences and divergences between process thought and Roman Catholicism with the goal of identifying reasons for why process philosophy and theology has not had the same impact in Roman Catholic circles as in Protestantism, and of constructively navigating avenues of promising engagement between Process thought and Roman Catholicism. In creatively considering the Roman Catholic tradition from the vantage point of Process thought, different theoretical ...

Dr. John E. Becker had a rare site of a Jaguarundi, a wild cat of Central America

Commitment is one of the most researched concepts in organizational behavior. This edited book in the SIOP Organizational Frontiers series, with contributions from many scholars, attempts to summarize current research and suggests new directions for studies on commitment in organizations.Commitment is linked to other concepts ie. satisfaction, involvement, motivation, and identification and is studied across cultural lines. Both the individual and group levels of building ...