The Silken Thread. Five Insects and Their Impacts on Human History, Hardback - ***

Insects are seldom mentioned when we discuss human history, yet they significantly shaped today's societies. In this book, entomologists Robert N. ...

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The fourth in a collection of heliophysics texts, this book takes an interdisciplinary and comparative approach to explore what makes the condition...

In this Element, we examine the psychological impacts of climate change, especially focused on how it will lead to increases in aggressive behavior...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Angela E. DouglasIllustration(s): 70 b/w illus. 13 tables.Number of pages: 352Publication date: 202...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn God, Reza Aslan sheds new light on mankind's relationship with the divine and challenges our perspective on faith a...

A wide-ranging, beautifully illustrated history of mermaids and merman.

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A broad introduction to the role of insects as human food.Publisher: Reaktion BooksAuthor(s): Gina Louise HunterIllustration(s): 60 illustrations, ...

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Step inside the studios of today's modern fabric design stars from around the world. From the bold florals of Kaffe Fassett to the subtle patternin...

Interesting Insects presents striking and surprisingly photogenic insect portraits, each specially selected from the oldest and most important ento...

Roland Ennos' The Wood Age is a love-letter to the world's most vital and yet most threatened material. It is the story of how wood has shaped our ...

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Reducere. DescriptionThe American Civil War began with a laying down of arms by Union troops at Fort Sumter, and it ended with a series of surrenders, most f...

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A lighthearted history series that tackles the questions that children really ask.

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Peter BellwoodIllustration(s): 25 b/w illus. 6 tables. 21 maps.Number of pages: 384Publication date...

Thread painting is a form of embroidery that creates a realistic, lifelike effect using just one stitch. In this step-by-step guide, embroidery art...

Reducere. This "superbly researched and engaging" (The Wall Street Journal) true story about five boys who were kidnapped in the North and smuggled into slav...

DescriptionA ghostly message from 1835 and dreams of the Sloane sisters of Buffalo, New York in 1880 send modern day novelist Maude Travers across ...

The true story of the fierce band of women who battled Washington - and Hanoi - to bring their husbands home from the jungles of Vietnam.

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is ...

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Throughout the 1930s and early 1940s, before closing its borders to Jewish refugees, the United States granted asylum to approximately ninety thous...

He fought back from the brink of death, and created a new and profoundly meaningful life from the wreckage of his experience. Meet Jamie Hull, form...

This beautifully illustrated book provides an overview of the world of insects. Beginning with a look at the evolution of the insect family the int...

Never surpassed since its original publication, this is the essential companion to Scottish surnames, featuring over 8, 000 families.Publisher: Bir...

A material culture book that celebrates the way the Tudors experienced the world through their five senses, the first book of its kindPublisher: Th...