Nature Cross-sections

Nature Cross-sections

Animal habitats are shown in this book through the use of cross-sectioning. The illustrations cut across, up, down and through, showing the reader every hidden detail. The animals are there too, shown following their daily routine. The reader is taken to the tops of trees, into the rainforest, through deserts, rock pools and oceans. Each element is thoroughly labelled, enabling a child to identify every part of the animal's habitat and understand the environment that surrounds it. The text provides detailed information about how the animals live and explains why the environment of many animals is under threat. Additional captions include entertaining facts about little-known aspects of the everyday lives of wild animals worldwide.









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Fractals: The Patterns of Chaos: Discovering a New Aesthetic of Art, Science, and Nature (A Touchstone Book)

Fractals are unique patterns left behind by the unpredictable movements -- the chaos -- of the world at work. The branching patterns of trees, the veins in a hand, water twisting out of a running tap -- all of these are fractals. Learn to recognize them and you will never again see things in quite the same way.

Fractals permeate our lives, appearing in places as tiny as the surface of a virus and as majestic as the Grand Canyon. From ancient tribal peoples to modern painters to the animators of Star Wars, artists have been captivated by fractals and have utilized them in their work. Computer buffs are wild about fractals as well, for they can be generated on ordinary home computers.

In Fractals: The Patterns of Chaos, science writer John Briggs uses over 170 illustrations to clearly explain the significance -- and more importantly, the beauty -- of fractals. He describes how fractals were discovered, how they are formed, and the unique properties different fractals share. Fractals is a breathtaking guided tour of a brand new aesthetic of art, science, and nature. It will revolutionize the way you see the world and your place within it.

* Contains a special bibliography listing fractal generating software for desktop computers









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