We sometimes hear the phrase 'Good, gracious me!' Yet the 'me' referred to may be neither good nor gracious. Our God, on the other hand, is both good and gracious. And it is our good and gracious God that we have written this book about. The phrase 'good gracious' is generally used to express surprise - and our good and gracious God is often surprising.

Good Gracious God

Downer, John

Ospina, Sylvia

Religion & Spirituality

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Rational Accidents: Reckoning with Catastrophic Technologies (Inside Technology)

Science & Math

Astronomy & Space Science

The MIT Press

This book, which accompanies a BBC TV series of the same name, is about the interactions between man and animals as seen from the perspective of the animals themselves. It embraces human scavengers on the African plain, vampire bats in South-American caves, pigs in the living room in Papua New Guinea as well as tiny mites on the surface of our skin. The book aims to show how the lives of even the most urbanised city dwellers are inescapably linked to the animal kingdom. The author's previous books include "Supersense".

Lifesense Our Lives Through Animals Eyes

Biological Sciences

BBC Books

Title: Weird Nature: Science is Stranger Than Myth

BBC Worldwide

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Supersense: Perception in the Animal World

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Pets & Animal Care

HOLT.

From back cover: Chart the latest discoveries and tread the thin line between knowledge and the unexplained. In an absorbing look at the remarkable, seemingly supernatural abilities of animals and plants. Bizarre as it may seem, what you'll read about really happens. Sharks perceive human electric auras, click beetles can experience a force of 500 G as they propel themselves into the air, Male emperor penguins may survive as long as 120 days without food, and much more.

Supernature: The Unseen Powers of Animals

Sterling Pub. Co., Inc.

The companion book to the six-part Discovery Channel series, Weird Nature is an astonishing exploration of nature's strangest behavior. The ingenuity of all kinds of animals is celebrated including the flying dragon or draco whose membrane wings resemble early designs for aircraft wings, spiny lobsters in Florida who form a "mass conga line" when moving to deeper waters and the Wallace tree frog whose large webbed hands and feet allow it to glide as far forward as it drops vertically. These animals and many more are featured in this revealing and often amusing look at nature. 
 Chapters include: 
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Fantastic feeding -- the many different ways nature finds food for fuel including worms that eat themselves. Devious defenses -- to avoid being eaten, animals have developed an array of defenses including porcupine fish that inflate into spiny balls and mantis shrimps with a punch that can knock a hole in glass. Marvelous motion -- ingenious ways of moving around including flattened snakes and flying fish. Extraordinary equipment -- tools for enhancing animal lives like the Mallee fowl that has a thermometer in its bill. Strange structures -- the bizarre assortment of animal created buildings like the palm leaf tents made by fruit bats and the Namib spider that builds a Stonehenge circle around its burrow. Weird and weirder -- social interactions including courtship and mating. </ul>

Weird Nature: An Astonishing Exploration of Nature's Strangest Behavior

Firefly Books

A guided tour of the world through the eyes of birds. 
 For his award-winning In-Flight Movie, filmmaker John Downer devised a 61/2-ounce camera that could be carried by a trained buzzard. Eagle followed, for which Downer used a smaller video camera with an onboard transmitter to film a raptor's flight over the Alps. Supernatural continued the pioneering work, using a flock of greylag geese. Flock leader Buff was trained to carry a harness holding an even tinier camera, the "Goosecam," which captured amazing views from inside the flock. 
 EarthFlight, Downer's latest film project, is a six-part series. It uses spycams, microlights, hang-gliders, miniature helicopters and wirecams to give viewers a privileged perspective of birds in flight. Whether soaring 10,000 feet high over the Sahara or skimming yards over the Great Wall of China, EarthFlight the film allows viewers to take part in the miracle of flight. 
 Every page shows us what the birds see--winding shorelines, bustling cities, sunsets and storms, mountains, canyons and roiling seas--and the animals they encounter: pelicans diving for fish, a tiger drinking from a stream, migrating reindeer, dolphins playing, and in the desolation of the desert, a nomadic family. The book closes with a "Making of" chapter. 
 EarthFlight truly is a bird's eye view, a pioneering work of genius and a memorable journey around the world like no other.

EarthFlight: Breathtaking Photographs from a Bird's-Eye View of the World

Nature & Ecology

'Earthflight' uses ground-breaking technology to take you on a journey like no other: into the skies to fly with birds. Filmed using pioneering techniques, this collection of photographs from the landmark BBC series takes you across the world to experience some of the most stunning spectacles on Earth in a new and inspiring way.

Earthflight

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

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