As Stay' Lynn walked slowly around the tree, she ran her hand on the bark. The oak tree wiggled side to side. 'Oh, you must be ticklish, Mr. Oak Tree.' Stay' Lynn giggled. His branches were strong and full to protect the delicate plants just beneath him on rainy days. Stay' Lynn saw an old bird's nest in one of his highest branches. She imagined how safe the birds that once lived there must have felt in such a brawny tree. She imagined little baby birds learning to fly from the nest and resting while their mommy and daddy gathered food for them to eat. She wondered if Mr. Oak Tree felt sad when his bird friends flew away to a new home. She knew how sad she felt to leave her friends.
This extraordinary book details how the Moon could be used as a springboard for Solar System exploration. It presents a realistic plan for placing and servicing telescopes on the Moon, and highlights the use of the Moon as a base for an early warning system from which to combat threats of near-Earth objects. A realistic vision of human development and settlement of the Moon over the next one hundred years is presented, and the author explains how global living standards for the Earth can be enhanced through the use of lunar-based generated solar power. From that beginning, the people of the Earth would evolve into a spacefaring civilisation.
A standard reference on horse breeds, illustrated and updated Celebrating the animal that has been a stalwart servant to humankind for countless generations, Bonnie Hendricks’s International Encyclopedia of Horse Breeds is the most thorough compilation of horse breeds ever attempted. The nearly four hundred entries, arranged alphabetically, include foundation breeds now extinct as well as extant breeds from across the globe. Each entry details the breed’s origin and background, size, appearance, chief use, and status (rare versus common). A list of breed associations and government departments that supplied data and photographs for the encyclopedia has been fully updated for this edition. With its breadth and depth of coverage, as well as 530 black-and-white and 32 color illustrations, the encyclopedia continues to be a standard international reference.
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