Savages and Beasts: The Birth of the Modern Zoo, Paperback - Nigel Rothfels

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Reducere. Why have elephants--and our preconceptions about them--been central to so much of human thought? From prehistoric cave drawings in Europe and ancie...

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Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Nigel OselandIllustration(s): 45 Line drawings, black and white; 12 Halftones, black and white; 8 Tables,...

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The world faces an environmental crisis unprecedented in human history. Carbon dioxide levels have reached heights not seen for three million years...

Reducere. The remarkable story of the birth of Our Savior, retold in large type and fully illustrated, is both interesting for children and easy to understand.

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8 lectures, Koberwitz, June 7-20, 1924 (CW 327)The audio book, complete and unabridged (10 CD set), is read by respected actor and speech teacher P...

Reducere. From the Author of Off Color: The Violent History of Detroit's Notorious Purple Gang It was the winter of 1919, and it was the height of a gang war...

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The thrilling story of the Schneider Trophy, a series of glamorous air races that captivated both sides of the Atlantic and became a driver and cel...

Reducere. In The Birth of the Republic, 1763-89, Edmund S. Morgan shows how the challenge of British taxation started Americans on a search for constitutiona...

Reducere. Astrophysicist George Smoot spent decades pursuing the origin of the cosmos, "the holy grail of science, " a relentless hunt that led him from the ...

Reducere. Fran ois Ewald's landmark The Birth of Solidarity--first published in French in 1986, revised in 1996, with the revised edition appearing here in E...

'A wonderful book' - Guardian Truth, murder and the birth of the lie detectorPublisher: HarperCollins PublishersAuthor(s): Amit KatwalaNumber of pa...

Reducere. In this brilliant work, the most influential philosopher since Sartre suggests that such vaunted reforms as the abolition of torture and the emerge...

Reducere. Follow Ernest Hemingway's exploits on the Bahamian island of Bimini from 1935 to 1937, the very moment in time when the International Game Fish Ass...

Reducere. Having banished eastern Native peoples to lands west of the Mississippi, President Andrew Jackson's government by 1833 needed a new type of soldier...

Reducere. America was the place Smith had dreamed of his whole life.There, his character, determination, and ambition had propelled him to the top of society...

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CELEBRATING THE 150th ANNIVERSARY OF THE BIRTH OF MARCEL PROUST "Proust not only brought to the fore the beauty of centuries past but also set the ...

Publisher: Imagine & WonderAuthor(s): Ruth McCartneyNumber of pages: 32Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 222 x 222 x 11Cover type: HardbackIllustra...

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In fact Michelangelo Antonioni's film Blow Up was inspired by Bailey. After Bailey, photography would never be the same again. David Bailey - Birth...

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