growth

Examines the limitations of human memory and mental capacities in the twenty-first-century technology driven society; and discusses how to find a balance between everyday demands and mental limitations of working human memory.

Looks at how trees grow.

An exploration of maple seeds, covering their shape, dispersal, different kinds, and more.

"More than five decades have passed since Jane Jacobs wrote her classic The Death and Life of Great American Cities, and since a front page headline in the New York Times read, "Cars Choking Cities as 'Urban Sprawl' Takes Over." Yet sprawl persists, and not by mistake. It happens for a reason. As an activist and a scholar, Benjamin Ross is uniquely placed to diagnose why this is so. Dead End traces how the ideal of a safe, green, orderly retreat where hardworking members of the middle class could raise their children away from the city mutated into the McMansion and strip mall-ridden suburbs of today. Ross finds that sprawl is much more than bad architecture and sloppy planning. Its roots are historical, sociological, and economic. He uses these insights to lay out a practical strategy for change, honed by his experience leading the largest grass-roots mass transit advocacy organization in the United States. The problems of smart growth, sustainability, transportation, and affordable housing, he argues, are intertwined and must be solved as a whole. The two keys to creating better places to live are expansion of rail transit and a more genuinely democratic oversight of land use. Dead End is, ultimately, about the places where we live our lives. Both an engaging history of suburbia and an invaluable guide for today's urbanists, it will serve as a primer for anyone interested in how Americans actually live"--.

Answers questions by boys and girls about puberty and sex.

Describes the developmental stages of kangaroos, and shows how a kangaroo grows and changes from a baby joey to an adult kangaroo.

Presents a children's book for early readers written in both English and Spanish that explores how apples develop from seeds to flowers and then to fruit.

Contains an introduction to how tulips grow, in simple text with illustrations, describing how tulips begin as bulbs that, when planted, blossom into flowers. Presented in English and Spanish.

The author examines and records the life cycle of the thale cress plant over a period of one year, and explains the hidden fundamentals of how the growth of plants is controlled.

The author chronicles the life of one Douglas-Fir tree and traces its over five hundred-year history from a seed to its final function as a nurse log for ferns, mosses, and hemlocks.