Books with author George Walton Williams

The famous Panchatantra and Jataka consist of interesting tales of animals and human beings which the kids will love to read. The Panchatantra stories were written by Vishnu Sharma. The great Jataka tales are about the previous births of Gautama Buddha. These stories are to teach children valuable lessons of life. The stories in this book are very useful also for the parents to help them guide their kids towards the values of human life. The stories have been narrated in easy to understand and simple language.

The famous Panchatantra and Jataka consists of interesting tales of animals and human beings which the kids will love to read. The Panchatantra stories were written by Vishnu Sharma. The great Jataka tales are about the previous births of Gautama Buddha. These stories are to teach children valuable lessons of life. The stories in this book are very useful also for the parents to help them guide their kids towards the values of human life. The stories have been narrated in easy to understand and simple language.

We may regard ourselves as the most advanced species on the planet, but have we really reached our optimum design? Isn't there always room for improvements? Before you answer, let noted evolutionary biologist George C. Williams remind you of both the exquisite adaptations and absurd maladaptations nature has bestowed upon us, the self-proclaimed ”pinnacle of evolution.”Picking up where Darwin left off, Williams combines philosophical perspective and scientific method to provide a foundation for the answers to some fascinating questions. He explains why our bodies have to deteriorate so disastrously with old age. He gives us logical reasons to explain why we crave foods like sugar and fat that have been proven time and again to be detrimental to our health. And Williams single-handedly deflates our Homo sapiens sapiens ego with such insights as: Our eyesight—it may seem superior, but not when compared to that of the invertebrate squid, whose eye has developed over time to prove more efficient than ours. And wouldn't it make more sense to have a third eye, located on the back of the head? We could have stereoscopic vision in front and rear-vision warning us of danger sneaking up behind. Rear-view mirrors would become a thing of the past. And why stop at three eyes?This fascinating new book is markedly different from all previous work on evolutionary biology. Using the pony fish and its luminescent abdomen as the perfect evolutionary mystery, Williams explores the intricacies of nature's designs. Rather than telling us how or why the pony fish got its light, Williams explains the functional reasons why the pony fish keeps its light. He also explains why our species keeps arbitrary or malfunctioned features like the reproductive and excretory systems' sharing of parts.George C. Williams, one of today's most qualified evolutionary biologists, has written an important, entertaining, and thought-provoking addition to a science that has captivated the world for almost 150 years.

A delightfully illustrated book that depicts the true story of "The Best Friend", the first steam locomotive built in America for service on a railroad. The merchants of Charleston, South Carolina in the 1820's had a problem: cotton planters were shipping their crops to Savannah, Georgia, and business in town was bad. The businessmen seized upon a bold plan to bring commerce their way when they decided to build a 140 mile railroad track from Augusta to Charleston: a plan made more daring by the fact that no steam locomotive had ever traveled so great a distance. They ordered a steam locomotive from New York and named it "The Best Friend." Their new friend only brought new found trade and prosperity, but ushered in the era of the railroad age

"A day in the life of a box turtle is rendered carefully in words and lifelike illustrations with a text that respects its subject....Superior."--School Library Journal. "Will delight the young viewer. An excellent introduction to pond ecology, and a strikingly beautiful book."--Kirkus Reviews.It is dawn at Long Pond. Box Turtle's red eyes look out from his shelter within a crumbling tree, and his day begins ...In Beaver at Long Pond, the Georges introduced the pond and its resident. In this lyrical, magnificently painted companion book, they insure its place as a favorite spot on every child's itinerary.

Are you fond of adventure? Do you like to read about forest and animal hunting stories? If yes, then surely this is the book for you. The stories are set in the forest of the Sundarbans National Park of India. Natural scenery and daily life of the common poor people are depicted in this book. The stories will definitely content your desire and passion for the wildlife. The book comes with vivid description of the serene wilderness of the forest. The bright and lively pictures of this book will surely entertain you. I hope, you will enjoy and remember these stories for ever.

Children love stories. Why not teach them the teachings of the Bible from this entertaining book. Jesus Calling : Bible Stories for Kids is for children as well as parents. It is a book to bring you and your family closer to the Lord through the great and popular stories of the Bible. The stories are written in simple language that will surely entertain everyone.

A massive asteroid hit our earth millions of years ago. The impact was so devastating that the entire Dinosaur species were wiped out.But in this story, Dino, a young dinosaur somehow escaped this catastrophe and struggled to survive.How will Dino survive? What will ultimately happen to him?This is an intriguing story that will engage you for hours. The simple narrative will surely entertain your kid.

The day she turns fifteen Zoë ditches high school in Chandler, Arizona, and is picked up by an elderly man driving a step van turned into a laboratory. He promises to teach her all he knows if she trusts him to take her where she is fated to go. Their travels take them to Topeka’s Zoomorphological Wonders of the World, an abandoned movie theater outside Chicago, and the garden courtyard of Marquis de Sade’s castle in Provence for an auction of sex slaves abducted from around the world.At turns absurd, poignant, and comic, Zoë is a quicksilver phantasmagoria and enchanted road trip unlike any other, where travel is spectral and the traveling com- panions, if not real, are temporary visitors from imaginary worlds sent to show a girl lost in the moronic inferno of 21st century America the best way to her brightest possible future.