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The peppered moth / by Drabble, Margaret,1939-(CARDINAL)141406;
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Subjects: Fiction.; Families; Bawtry family (Fictitious characters);
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The peppered moth / by Drabble, Margaret,1939-(CARDINAL)141406;
The fictional Bessie Bawtry is born in a Yorkshire coal-mining town during the early years of the 20th century. From childhood on, she is determined to escape her dowdy family and dismal surroundings. Although she does go to Cambridge, she returns home to marry a home town boy. She continues to be dissatisfied with her life taking in out on her husband and children. Loosely based on the author's mother..1010L
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Bawtry family (Fictitious characters);
Available copies: 12 / Total copies: 13
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Of moths and men : an evolutionary tale : the untold story of science and the peppered moth / by Hooper, Judith,1949-(CARDINAL)410474;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-353) and index.
Subjects: Natural selection.; Evolution (Biology); Peppered moth.; Fraud in science.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Moth : an evolution story / by Thomas, Isabel,1979-author.(CARDINAL)463558; Egnéus, Daniel,illustrator.(CARDINAL)495812;
Creative nonfiction picture book explains evolution and natural selection. A newly-emerged peppered moth blends in with other speckled-winged moths on lichen-covered branches, but over time the moths with black wings increase as trees are blackened by soot from man-made machines.Accelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Creative nonfiction.; Fiction.; Informational works.; Picture books.; Adaptation (Biology); Moths; Nature; Peppered moth; Peppered moth;
Available copies: 26 / Total copies: 30
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Moth / by Thomas, Isabel,1979-author.(CARDINAL)463558; Egnéus, Daniel,illustrator.(CARDINAL)495812;
A newly-emerged peppered moth blends in with other speckled-winged moths on lichen-covered branches, but over time the moths with black wings increase as trees are blackened by soot from man-made machines.Accelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Fiction.; Adaptation (Biology); Moths; Nature; Peppered moth;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 5
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Magnificent moths / by Rustad, Martha E. H.(Martha Elizabeth Hillman),1975-author.(CARDINAL)702322; Jesse, Laura,consultant.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Moths are magnificent! -- Cecropia moth -- Cinnabar moth -- Comet moth -- Isabella tiger moth -- Jersey tiger moth -- Oleander hawk moth -- Peppered moth -- Polka dot wasp moth -- Polyphemus moth -- Rosy maple moth -- Sunset moth -- Spanish moon moth -- Life cycle of a moth."Discusses various moths from around the world, including those that are unusual--and beautiful"--Ages 4-8.K to grade 3.IG460LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Moths;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The magnificent book of butterflies and moths / by Taylor, Barbara,1954-author.(CARDINAL)267470; Treadwell, Simon,Illustrator.(CARDINAL)868903;
"Take a journey through flower-filled meadows, dusky woodlands, and steamy rainforests to find 36 magnificent butterflies and moths, from the delicate glasswing butterfly to the mighty Hercules moth." -- Amazon.com
Subjects: Illustrated works.; Butterflies; Moths;
Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 8
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Icons of evolution : science or myth? : why much of what we teach about evolution is wrong / by Wells, Jonathan.(CARDINAL)487236;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-331) and index.Miller-Urey experiment -- Darwin's tree of life -- Homology in vertebrate limbs -- Haeckel's embryos -- Archaeopteryx, the missing link -- Peppered moths -- Darwin's finches -- Four-winged fruit flies -- Fossil horses and directed evolution -- From ape to human: the ultimate icon -- Science or myth?
Subjects: Evolution (Biology);
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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The seven sisters / by Drabble, Margaret,1939-(CARDINAL)141406;
From the celebrated author of The Peppered Moth and The Witch of Exmoor, a splendid novel about starting over late in life. Candida Wilton-a woman recently betrayed, rejected, divorced, and alienated from her three grown daughters-moves from a beautiful Georgian house in lovely Suffolk to a two-room walk-up flat in a run-down building in central London. Candida is not exactly destitute. So is the move perversity, she wonders, a survival test, or is she punishing herself? How will she adjust to this shabby, menacing, but curiously appealing city? What can happen, at her age, to change her life? And yet, as she climbs the dingy communal staircase with her suitcases, she feels both nervous and exhilarated. There is a relationship with a computer to which she now confides her past and her present. And friendships of sorts with other women - widows, divorced, never married, women straddled between generations. And then Candida's surprise inheritance ... A beautifully rendered story, this is Margaret Drabble at her novelistic best.920L
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Inheritance and succession; Mothers and daughters; Female friendship; Middle-aged women; Divorced women; Women's friendships.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 4
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Writing the future : progress and evolution / by Rothenberg, David,1962-(CARDINAL)325021; Pryor, Wandee J.(CARDINAL)325020;
Includes bibliographical references (page 274.Where are we going, where have we been? / David Rothenberg and Wandee J. Pryor -- Wallace's dilemma : evolution and transcendence / Theodore Roszak -- Letter from Charles Darwin to his sister, Catherine / Simmons B. Buntin -- Is evolution a social construction? / Michael Ruse -- Science evolving : the case of the peppered moth / Craig Holdrege -- Why do birds and bees do it? / David C. Geary -- The first Mantophasmatodeae / Sharon Carter -- Prismatic progress / Dorion Sagan and Jessica H. Whiteside -- Of caves and humans / Ellen Dissanayake -- Lascaux. Pech Merle. Chauvet. / Andrew Schelling -- Tyger tyger / Andrew Schelling -- Rock is naturalist scripture / Andrew Schelling -- The man who spoke to stones / Stephen Miles Uzzo -- From The cane flute / Kristjana Gunnars -- New England ghazal / John Canaday -- The wings of the wind / Floyd Skloot -- Riders on the earth / Valerie Hurley -- Childhood in the church of Darwin / Leslie Van Gelder -- From Broken island / Eva Salzman -- January / David Petersen -- Dave Brubeck's garden / Ricardo Pau-Llosa -- Progress / Ricardo Pau-Llosa -- Notes from an urban dig / Carolynne Baker -- Quest for a future perfect / Kathleen Creed Page -- Intelligent robots or cyborgs / Kevin Warwick -- De-evolution and transhumanism / Joan Maloof -- Moral progress / Dale Jamieson -- Coevolutionary flashes in the withering beam of progress / Richard B. Norgaard -- The abundance of less : from A different kind of luxury / Andy Couturier -- From How little I know / R. Buckminster Fuller.
Subjects: Literature.; Science; Science.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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