Books with author Constantine Issighos

This book is VOL. 19. This lively book is a first-hand introduction to the mysterious world of the Giant Tarantulas and Centipedes. It is organized around the author's exploratory trip into the wold habitat of the Upper Amazon Basin of Peru. Young readers will be introduced to Pink-Toe tarantulas, Leaf-Eater ants and Armour-plated centipedes habitat, while others live in people's huts and workshops. These well laid out pages, with real-life close-up colour illustrations, offer facts about the litle known habitat of the giant spider world. This excellent narrative book is highly recommended for the entire family, elementary and middle schools, community libraries and collectors of The Amazon Exploration Series. conservationists,

A rainforest by definition is tropical woodland with lush vegetation and great biological diversity. It is an ecosystem with a delicate balance of life and is home to unique and exotic organisms such as Pink Dolphins, Giant Otters, Giant Turtles and Piranhas. The Amazon River affects the rainforest because the plants need the river! The indigenous people who live in the raiforest also need the river's water to sustain their livelihood. Thanks to the river, the Amazon rainforest is home to many different life forms including human beings. There are many groups of tribal people living in the Amazon rainforest, including the Yanomani and the Ashanikas who live off of what the forest can provide for them. This book is highly recommended for the whole family, for elementary and middle schools, community libraries, naturalists and collectors of the Amazon Exploration Series.

This book is Vol. 5 of the 19th Vol. of The Amazon Exploration Series. It is filled with real life colorful illustrations of the Amazon wild habitat.True enough, the Amazon is a beautiful wild habitat! It is not a zoo, its animals are not someone's pets. It is a place where the indigenous people live a communal lifestyle; they share the meat from their hunt and the food they gathered from the forest.Indigenous tribes that remain in the "state of nature" are culturally intact, and they have roots that date back more than 10,000 years. They are the hunters and gatherers of the Amazon rain forest who have developed a superior balance and harmony with nature. Indigenous communities have no formal leaders but every extended family has a chief who speaks for the interests of all family members. There is also the Shaman--the spiritual leader of the community--that form a delicate social balance between the Shaman and the chiefs to maintain harmony among the villagers. This book is highly recommended for all family members, elementary and middle schools, naturalists, community libraries and collectors of The Amazon Exploration Series.

This book is VOL. 12. No one can be indifferent to seeing the beauty of the exotic flowers and butterflies or to hear the birds squabbling in the rain forest before the evening storm. No one can be indifferent to the unbelievable red, yellow and green winged rainbow of colors, to the web of life sensed everywhere in the tropics, and especially in the Amazon rain forest. The Amazon rain forest is a very special place. It is home to unique biodiversity and natural inter-dependency. This is the place where an unknown number of flowering plants, birds and butterflies reside in the canopy--the leafy roof of the world's rain forest.Filled with real-life beautiful color illustrations, this book is an excellent resource to introduce the whole family to the wide variety of plant, bird and butterfly life in the lush canopy of the Amazon rain forest.This book is highly recommended for elementary and middle level schools, community libraries, and collectors of The Amazon Exploration Series.

This book is Vol. # 1 of the #19 Vol. of The Amazon Exploration Series. It is based on description of riverbank communities, their traditions, values and customs. The entire series is inspired by the author's experience. Full of colorful illustrations and easy to read text, the series are important steps to teach our youngsters to be good to our plane Earth. It is highly recommended for the whole family, community libraries and collectors of The Amazon Exploration Series.

This book is VOL. 20. Excitement surrounding the discover of new medicinal plants from the world's largest rain forest is building within our western healthcare. There is a need to teach our children to become more involved in the effort to preserve our environment and ensure the continuation of benefits from rain forest medicinal remedies. This is perhaps our most immediate task, the preservation of the Amazon rain forest's ethno-botanical gardens. We are discovering the ways and means to benefit from these potential cures for current health problems.Curing serious health issues might justify the exploration of these medicinal plants; we must make sure that we continue to live in a sustainable balance with what nature and indigenous wisdom offers.Description of medicinal plants in this book is for educational purposes; there are not offered as proven medicinal cures. This fully colorful book is highly recommended for the whole family, healthcare workers, holistic, herbalists, elementary and middle level schools, community libraries and collectors of The Amazon Exploration Series.

This book is Vol. 11. Filled with beautiful illustrations--taken by the author--the Amazonian Tribes: a World of Difference is an excellent book to introduce the whole family to the wonders of the amazon indigenous tribes. Organized around the social and cultural life of three distinct tribes: the Ashanikas, the Pirahas and the Ye'kuana, the photos and descriptions engage all the senses. This remarkable book about the indigenous life cycle, spirituality, customs and rituals--inspired by the author's experience--amply fills his mission to provide readers with an unforgettable photo-narrative woven into text and illustration.The Amazonian Tribes: a World of Differences is a welcome and strongly recommended addition to family, schools, and community libraries and another entry in the popular Amazon Exploration Series.

Some say that the Amazon rain forest is a piece of natural perfection. If you are lucky, you can look in the branches above, and enjoy the magical mystical world of the canopy's living species, from insects to birds, from monkeys to butterflies. Exotic freshwater giants inhabit the rivers and tributaries; from the notorious Piranhas to the wonderful Pink and Grey Dolphins. This is the aquatic world of the Amazon's Pacaya-Samiria Reserve. Vines and purple-tongued orchids suspend themselves in the mid-air, their leaves ruffled by the river's slight breeze. Reading this numbered series book, you will be able to virtually transport yourself into this natural heaven.This book is highly recommended for the whole family, elementary and middle schools, naturalists, biologists, community libraries, and collectors of The Amazon Exploration Series.

When the morning sun clears the rain forest canopy of the Upper Amazon basin of Peru and strikes its green carpet, one of the world's most dazzling wildlife spectacles is nearing its riotous peak. One of the great wonders of the Amazon begins at 40 meters (130 feet) above the forest floor. Birds of red, blue, yellow and green, thousands upon thousands of parrots; squabble over their choice of mates, nests and nutritious seeds and flowers, a vital part of their diet. But the mid-morning crush belongs to the giants of the parrot world, the macaws.If you walk under the canopy near the river, perhaps you will be one of the luckiest of the visitors, and see a jaguar lurking on the river-banks or hear the slashing of a frolicking Giant Otter. This is only a small part on the the great wonders of the Amazon. The numbered series Amazon Exploration Series has been created in order to cover as much as possible of the animal, human and the vegetable life of the Amazon basin.This book is highly recommended for the whole family, elementary and middle schools, naturalists, community libraries and collectors of The Amazon Exploration Series.

This book is Vol. 4 of the 19th Vol. of the The Amazon Exploration Series. It is filled with real life beautiful color illustration of the Amazon Rain Forest.The Amazon rain forest is generally regarded as a wild region that contains abundant resources and biodiversity. Amidst strong outside ecological tensions, the interface between biodiversity and indigenous lifestyles in the Amazon is neglected. This undermines the global context of its ecosystem and biodiversity.Indigenous communities in the Peruvian Upper Amazon region, conserve, use, cultivate, manage biodiversity as a fundamental component of their subsistence and cultural lifestyle. The Amazon provides food security, shelter and medicinal plants--natural healthcare--all of which are part of the indigenous cultural domain. It is integral to maintain the strength of the indigenous grassroots social structures, the ecological integrity necessary for their survival. This engaging book about the Amazon rain forest is inspired by the author's first-hand experience. With intricate real life colorful photos of scenery, animal and plant life, this book will delight young readers while they learn about the wide variety of creatures lurking in the lust Amazon rain forest. It is highly recommended for community libraries, alimentary and middle schools and collectors of The Amazon Exploration Series.

This book is Vol. 2 of the # 19 of The Amazon Exploration Series. Filled with real life beautiful illustrations and descriptive text, this book is an important step to teach your children to be good stewards of the Amazon Rain forest. The People of the River can be found throughout the Amazon River and its hundreds of its tributaries. Due to this, the way of survival depends on the region where they live and the specific tribe they belong. Typically, these Upper Amazon tribes live by hunting, fishing and growing plants to use for food and for medicinal purposes. They have little or no outside contact. Although they hunt for various animals in the rain forest, fish in the Amazon River is their main source of food. Most tribal people inhabit the deep jungle and are believed to be having with cultural characteristics that date back more than 8000 years.Beautifully written and illustrated by the author, young readers are introduced to the Amazon River rain forest ecology and eco-systems and learn amazing facts about The People of the River, and the variety of animals and plants that share their habitat. This book is an educational resource, as enjoyable as it is informative. It is highly recommended for families, elementary schools, community libraries and collectors of The Amazon Exploration Series.

Along the riverbanks, the leafy forest canopy forms a giant open-air aviary. Black-collared hawks eye me silently as they scan the river for prey. Elegant coicoi herons glide by on their way to their rookery. A hoatzin bird, whose topknot resembles a Mohawk haircut, sends out an eerie call. Turquoise, bright yellow and green parrots engage in a fierce aerial battle over a seed. High in the leafy canopy, bushy-tailed saki-monkeys perform acrobatics in the tree tops, while tiny squirrel monkeys anxiously skitter along the tree trunks. As the morning sun clears the Amazon tree line, the curtain rises on one of the world's most dazzling wildlife spectacles. In the evening, another beautiful sunset touches the horizontal landscape, and the heavenly colours of the sunset allow a sense of oneness and tranquility. This books is recommended for the whole family, elementary and middle schools, community libraries, naturalists and collectors of the Amazon Exploration Series.