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Books with author Laurence Pringle

  • The Hidden World: Life Under a Rock

    Laurence P. Pringle

    Library Binding (Atheneum, April 1, 1977)
    A guide to the most common plants and animals one may find under rocks, logs, and other objects on land and in water.
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  • An Extraordinary Life: The Story of a Monarch Butterfly

    Laurence Pringle, Bob Marstall

    Paperback (Scholastic, March 15, 2001)
    Introduces the life cycle, feeding habits, migration, predators, and mating of the monarch butterfly through the observation of one particular monarch named Danaus.
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  • Vampire bats

    Laurence P Pringle

    Unbound (Morrow, March 15, 1982)
    Describes the behavior of three species of small blood-eating bats of the leafnose family found in Mexico, Central America, and South America.
  • Vanishing Ozone

    Laurence Pringle

    Library Binding (HarperCollins, May 19, 1995)
    An introduction to ultraviolet radiation and its increased threat due to the shrinking ozone layer examines current controversies that alternately claim that the earth is facing a crisis and the media is overplaying the danger.
  • City and Suburb: Exploring an Ecosystem

    Laurence P. Pringle

    Library Binding (Atheneum, Sept. 1, 1975)
    Introduces the plants, insects, birds, and mammals that make up the ecosystem of a city and its suburbs.
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  • Sight

    Laurence P. Pringle

    Library Binding (Benchmark Books, Oct. 1, 1999)
    Describes the parts of the eye and how they work and discusses such topics as colorblindness, visual perception, eye care, and more.
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  • Dinosaurs and People: Fossils, Facts, and Fantasies

    Laurence P. Pringle

    Hardcover (Harcourt, Dec. 1, 1978)
    Traces the research on dinosaurs since the first discoveries of their fossils and presents some of the startling new ideas now being considered regarding what they were really like.
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  • The Earth Is Flat and Other Great Mistakes

    Laurence P. Pringle

    Hardcover (William Morrow & Co, Oct. 1, 1983)
    Examines a variety of blunders and mistakes throughout history, some funny and some tragic, and causes for these errors.
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  • What Shall We Do With the Land: Choices for America

    Laurence P. Pringle

    Hardcover (Ty Crowell Co, )
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  • Taste

    Laurence P. Pringle

    Library Binding (Benchmark Books, Oct. 1, 1999)
    Describes the parts of the mouth and how they function and discusses why things taste different to different people, the relationship between smell and taste, the sense of taste in animals, and more.
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  • Touch

    Laurence P. Pringle

    Library Binding (Benchmark Books, Oct. 1, 1999)
    Describes the sense of touch, how it works, and why it is important, discussing such related phenomena as goose bumps and phantom limbs, and examining this sense in a variety of animals.
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  • Killer Bees

    Laurence P. Pringle

    Hardcover (William Morrow & Co, Oct. 1, 1990)
    Describes the characteristics and behavior of Africanized bees and discusses how they came to Brazil, how they have now spread northward as far as the United States, and their potentially disruptive influence on the native honeybee population, crop yields, and the honey and beeswax industry.Discusses the bees'advance through Mexico, the various measures used to stop them, the impact they will have on the United States, and safety precautions to take when near them
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