New natural history of madagascar

New Natural History of Madagascar

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Inside Out of Flies

New in paperback, an engrossing guide to the anatomy of flies and the science behind their unique adaptations from the award-winning author of the acc

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Birds of America

The Birds of America is one of the best known natural history books ever produced and also the most valuable - a complete set sold at auction in December 2010 for GBP7.3 million, which is a world record for a book. First published in double elephant size (approximately a metre tall) in the first half of the nineteenth century, it is famous for its stunning life-size il...

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Birds

The complete story of the development of bird art in a new miniature format, with an outstanding selection of images from the MuseumÂ’s world-famous a

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Natural History of Negation

This book offers a unique synthesis of past and current work on the structure, meaning, and use of negation and negative expressions, a topic that has engaged thinkers from Aristotle and the Buddha to Freud and Chomsky. Horn's masterful study melds a review of scholarship in philosophy, psychology, and linguistics with original research, providing a full picture of negati...

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Natural History of Edward Lear, New Edition

Edward Lear, known as an author of nonsense verse, was also an artist and natural history illustrator.

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Brief History of the Earth's Climate

A Brief History of the Earth's Climate is an accessible, illustrated, myth-busting guide to the natural evolution of the Earth's climate over 4.6 bill

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Ecology and Natural History

Ecology is the science of ecosystems, of habitats, of our world and its future. In the latest New Naturalist, ecologist David M. Wilkinson explains ke

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Ecology and Natural History

Ecology is the science of ecosystems, of habitats, of our world and its future. In the latest New Naturalist, ecologist David M. Wilkinson explains ke

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Poo: A Natural History of the Unmentionable

Learn everything you ever wanted to know about poo in this exciting new edition of a bestselling book.

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A Natural History of Negation - Horn Laurence R.

Anotace: This book offers a unique synthesis of past and current work on the structure, meaning, and use of negation and negative expressions, a topic that has engaged thinkers from Aristotle and the Buddha to Freud and Chomsky. Horn`s masterful study melds a review of scholarship in philosophy, psychology, and linguistics with original research, providing a full picture...

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Linnaeus, natural history and the circulation of knowledge

The name of Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778) is inscribed in almost every flora and fauna published from the mid-eighteenth century onwards; in this respect he is virtually immortal. In this book a group of specialists argue for the need to re-centre Linnaean science and de-centre Linnaeus the man by exploring the ideas, practices and people connected to his taxonomic innovation...

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New Science of Geology

Rudwick (emeritus, history of science, U. of Cambridge, UK) collects 14 of his published articles on the history of the natural sciences. The central concerns that has animated his work since he moved from the field of geology to the field of history has been how the field developed from methodologi

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New Cambridge History of Islam: Volume 4, Islamic Cultures and Societies to the End of the Eighteenth Century

Covering various themes such as religion and law, conversion, Islam's relationship with the natural world, governance and politics, caliphs and kings,

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The Right Side of History : How Reason and Moral Purpose Made the West Great - Shapiro Ben

Anotace: Human beings have never had it better than we have it now in the West. So why are we on the verge of throwing it all away?In 2016, New York Times bestselling author Ben Shapiro spoke at the University of California-Berkeley. Hundreds of police officers were required to protect his speech. What was so frightening about Shapiro? He came to argue that Western civil...

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The Earth Transformed: An Untold History - Frankopan Peter

Anotace: THE TIMES BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2023A BOOK OF THE YEAR PICK FOR THE TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES, BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE, GUARDIAN, INDEPENDENT AND FINANCIAL TIMESA BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK | AN INSTANT #2 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER`Humanity has transformed the Earth: Frankopan transforms our understanding of history` Financial Times`Vast, learned and timely work` Sunday T...

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The Earth Transformed: An Untold History, 1. vydání - Peter Frankopan

<p>THE TIMES BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2023 A BOOK OF THE YEAR PICK FOR THE TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES, BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE, GUARDIAN, INDEPENDENT AND FINANCIAL TIMES A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK | AN INSTANT #2 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Humanity has transformed the Earth: Frankopan transforms our understanding of history' Financial Times 'Vast, learned and timely work' Sunda...

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Principles of Geology, Volume 1

As important to modern world views as any work of Darwin, Marx, or Freud, Principles of Geology is a landmark in the history of science. In this first of three volumes, Charles Lyell (1797-1875) sets forth his powerful uniformitarian argument: processes now visibly acting in the natural world are essentially the same as those that have acted throughout the history of the ...

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Macmillan Natural and Social Science Level 4 Teacher's Book English

Macmillan Natural and Social Science is a new six-level course for children studying science in English. The course develops children's knowledge of science, history and geography and provides a systematic development of English language skills. The activities are varied in their approach to provide a motivating stimulus to children's learning.

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Macmillan Natural and Social Science 4 Activity Book Pack

Macmillan Natural and Social Science is a new six-level course for children studying science in English. The course develops children's knowledge of science, history and geography and provides a systematic development of English language skills. The activities are varied in their approach to provide a motivating stimulus to children's learning.

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Illustrated Encyclopedia of Trees of Britain and Europe

[See isbn 9780754834755 for the new updated edition 2020.] A superbly illustrated natural history guide to trees, showing winter and summer profiles a

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Animals, The World Encyclopedia of

Updated new edition 2020. A beautifully illustrated reference guide to animals across the globe, with a natural history introduction and extensive vis

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Journeys to the Other Side of the World : further adventures of a young naturalist - Attenborough David

Anotace: `Abundantly good` TLS `With charm, erudition, humour and passion, the world`s favourite natural history broadcaster documents some of his expeditions from the late 1950s onwards` Sunday Express `A wondrous reminder of Attenborough`s pioneering role . . . full of delightful tales` Daily Express `An adventure that sparked a lifetime`s commitment to the planet` The...

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Tuba - New York City

Osm modelů známých symbolů nejlidnatějšího města USA představuje sada New York City. Uvnitř tuby najdete vagón metra auto taxi služby Sochu Svobody obří jablko znázorňující lidové označení města v angličtině Big Apple Guggenheimovo muzeum Rockefellerovo centrum Empire State Building a Chrysler Building. Jednotlivé makety zaujmou svým pečlivým provedením a věrohodností se ...

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Ruins of Modernity

Images of ruins may represent the raw realities created by bombs, natural disasters, or factory closings, but the way we see and understand ruins is not raw or unmediated. Rather, looking at ruins, writing about them, and representing them, are acts framed by a long tradition. This unique interdisciplinary collection traces discourses about and representations of ruins fr...

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Butterflies a Moths, The World Encyclopedia of

A comprehensive reference to butterflies, moths and skippers, with a natural history introduction and over 750 images, in a sumptuous new edition.

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The Vedute of Prague

„Book „The Vedute of Prague“ describes the development of Prague cityscape in the period of last 5 centuries and emphasizes future possible scenarios how the city composition could be continuously developed in the 21st century,“ comments the content of the book Roman Koucký, the co-author of the book and the chief of the Metropolitan plan office, that prepares new urban p...

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Listri. Cabinet of Curiosities - Antonio Paolucci

<p>Cabinets of curiosities fascinated people of the 16th and 17th centuries. From crocodiles, minerals, and corals to paintings, ivory trophies, measuring instruments, and incredible automata, it was a glimpse into a world full of natural wonders and treasures that aimed to reflect the order of the universe. This magnificent volume takes us through the world’s most ...

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The Museum of Scent: Exploring the Curious and Wondrous World of Fragrance - Aftel Mandy

Anotace: "Now Aftel has created this beautiful book, illustrated with treasures from her museum`s collection, so that readers at home can immerse themselves in the world of scent." - 7 x 7 "Aftel, ... explores the natural and cultural history of scent in her newest book, The Museum of Scent."- Veranda"A beautiful book about beautiful things, with a fascinating narrative ...

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The Museum of Scent: Exploring the Curious and Wondrous World of Fragrance - Mandy Aftel

<p>"Now Aftel has created this beautiful book, illustrated with treasures from her museum's collection, so that readers at home can immerse themselves in the world of scent." - 7 x 7 "Aftel, ... explores the natural and cultural history of scent in her newest book, The Museum of Scent."- Veranda "A beautiful book about beautiful things, wit...

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The Vedute of Prague - Roman Koucký

<p>"Book "The Vedute of Prague" describes the development of Prague cityscape in the period of last 5 centuries and emphasizes future possible scenarios how the city composition could be continuously developed in the 21st century," comments the content of the book Roman Koucký, the co-author of the book and the chief of the Metropolitan plan offi...

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A Traveller at the Gates of Wisdom - John Boyne

<p>The story of all of us, stretching across two millennia. Imaginative, unique, heart-breaking, this is John Boyne at his most creative and compelling. Some stories are universal. They play out across human history. And time is the river which will flow through them. It starts with a family, a family which will mutate. For now, it is a father, mother and two sons...

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Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines and the Health of Nations - Schama Simon

Anotace: A new and vibrant cultural history, investigating the tangled and complex history of pandemics and vaccines, by bestselling author and historian Simon Schama. With the devastating effects of Covid-19 still rattling the foundations of our global civilization, we live in unprecedented times - or so we might think. But pandemics have been a constant presence thro...

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Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World´s Greatest Nuclear Disaster - Adam Higginbotham

<p>THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Superb, enthralling and necessarily terrifying . . . every step feels spring-loaded with tension... extraordinary.' The New York TimesThe story of Chernobyl is more complex, more human, and more terrifying than the Soviet myth. Adam Higginbotham has written a harrowing and compelling narrative which brings the 1986 disaster ...

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Kingfisher

A new cultural and natural history of the flashing, iridescent kingfisher.

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Lark Ascending

A radical new history of Britain's natural landscapes and the musical movements they have inspired.

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Pliny the Elder's World

This new translation of the Natural History's opening books lets readers immerse themselves in the natural world and universe as seen by Romans and ab

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Hieronymus Bosch

A new and exciting interpretation of BoschÂ’s masterpiece, repositioning the triptych as a history of humanity and the natural world

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Understanding Nature

This is a new kind of ecology textbook: a straight-forward resource that teaches natural history and ecological content, and a way to instruct student

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Turning Darkness into Light

A brand-new adventure set in the hugely popular A Natural History of Dragons universe - a delightful Victorian-esque fantasy.

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Seychelles - turistický průvodce Bradt

This new sixth edition of Bradt’s Seychelles has been fully updated and remains the most comprehensive English-language guide to the country, with information on the biodiversity of the islands and updates on the conservation efforts (over 40% of the Seychelles’ land is under environmental protection), presented in an easy-to-read format. New for this edition are expanded...

Night at the Museum

Extensive reading improves fluency and there is a real need in the ELT classroom for motivating, graded material that will instantly appeal to students. Night at the Museum is based on the family movie starring Ben Stiller, set in the Museum of Natural History in New York.

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Marvel Comics Animated Series Mini-Socha Storm 15 cm

Ororo Munroe, aka Storm, is one of the most powerful mutants in history. She is a trusted and wise team-member of the X-Men, with the mutant ability to control weather patterns. Storm was raised as an orphan on the streets of Cairo where she learned survival skills as well as becoming a master thief. Storm had a long road from orphaned childhood pick-pocket to X-Man to ev...

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Inheritance

The ancient inheritance that made us who we are. The ancient inheritance that is now driving us to ruin.Each of us is endowed with an inheritance. A set of ancient biases, forged through countless millennia of natural and cultural selection, which shape every facet of our behaviour.For generations, this inheritance has taken us to ever greater heights, driving the rise of...

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Sri Lankan Wildlife - turistický průvodce

This new edition of Bradt’s Sri Lankan Wildlife has been fully updated to reflect all the most recent developments relevant to visitors to this beguiling island who come to watch wildlife. Whale watching, now a major part of Sri Lanka’s wildlife experience, is covered, and so too is the improved visitor access to some of the national parks. With a general increase in visi...

Bring Up the Bodies: A Novel (Wolf Hall Series Book 2) - Hilary Mantelová

Anotace: Winner of the 2012 Man Booker Prize Winner of the 2012 Costa Book of the Year Award The sequel to Hilary Mantel's 2009 Man Booker Prize winner and New York Times bestseller, Wolf Hall delves into the heart of Tudor history with the downfall of Anne Boleyn Though he battled for seven years to marry her, Henry is disenchanted with Anne Boleyn. She has faile...

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The Chemistry Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained - Dorling Kindersley

<p>Discover and understand the key ideas that underpin the core science of chemistry and learn about the great minds who uncovered them Written in plain English, The Chemistry Book is packed with short, pithy explanations of some of the most historic moments in science, from the birth of atomic theory to the discovery of polyethylene and the development of new vacci...

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The Chemistry Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained - Dorling Kindersley

Anotace: Discover and understand the key ideas that underpin the core science of chemistry and learn about the great minds who uncovered them Written in plain English, The Chemistry Book is packed with short, pithy explanations of some of the most historic moments in science, from the birth of atomic theory to the discovery of polyethylene and the development of new vacc...

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Lijepa naša Hrvatska, engleski jezik

The new, fourth edition of the book Lijepa Naša Hrvatska has just been published in 10, 000 copies in the Croatian, English and German languages. It is a revised and updated edition of the book that was first published in 1972, after the "Croatian spring". So far, 108,000 copies of all editions have been distributed and sold in the Republic of Croatia and all over the wor...

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Aztec Myths & Tales: Epic Tales - Aveni Anthony

Anotace: This fascinating collection explores the history, culture, gods, calendar, myths and tales of the Aztec people, the Incas, the Mayans and other Mesoamerican and Central American peoples, from migration legends to the origin myth of the Five Suns. Though the Olmecs (1250-200 BCE) were the first civilization in Mexico, the Aztecs (1325-1521) were Mesoamerica`s las...

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Aztec Myths &amp; Tales: Epic Tales - Anthony Francis Aveni

<p>This fascinating collection explores the history, culture, gods, calendar, myths and tales of the Aztec people, the Incas, the Mayans and other Mesoamerican and Central American peoples, from migration legends to the origin myth of the Five Suns. Though the Olmecs (1250-200 BCE) were the first civilization in Mexico, the Aztecs (1325-1521) were Mesoamerica's last...

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Sapiens

New York Times BestsellerA Summer Reading Pick for President Barack Obama, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg From a renowned historian comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity's creation and evolution--a #1 international bestseller--that explores the ways in which biology and history have defined us and enhanced our understanding of what it means to be "human."...

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All The Light We Cannot See - Doerr Anthony

Anotace: WINNER OF THE 2015 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR FICTION A beautiful, stunningly ambitious novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II `Open your eyes and see what you can with the...

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All the Light We Cannot See, 1. vydání - Anthony Doerr

<p>WINNER OF THE 2015 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR FICTION A beautiful, stunningly ambitious novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II 'Open your eyes and see what you can with them...

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Total War: Pharaoh

In Total War: PHARAOH, the newest entry in the award-winning grand strategy series, immerse yourself in ancient Egypt at the zenith of its power and experience the dramatic events that threaten its destruction. With dynamic real-time battles and incredible turn-based empire management, can you rise above your adversaries to become Egypt’s last great Pharaoh and stan...

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Total War: Pharaoh (PC)

In Total War: PHARAOH, the newest entry in the award-winning grand strategy series, immerse yourself in ancient Egypt at the zenith of its power and experience the dramatic events that threaten its destruction. With dynamic real-time battles and incredible turn-based empire management, can you rise above your adversaries to become Egypt&rsquo;s last great Pharaoh and ...

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Newton: Kosmos, Bios, Logos - Irena Štěpánová

Anotace: Irena Štěpánová in this book explores Isaac Newton's engagement with ancient wisdom, the Hexameral tradition, Hermeticism, theology, alchemy as well as natural philosophy. In so doing, she brings together the established historiography with her own new insights. Štěpánová's study is more than a study of Newton's thought, for it contains a good dea...

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Irena Štěpánová - Newton

Irena Štěpánová in this book explores Isaac Newton’s engagement with ancient wisdom, the Hexameral tradition, Hermeticism, theology, alchemy as well as natural philosophy. In so doing, she brings together the established historiography with her own new insights. Štěpánová’s study is more than a study of Newton’s thought, for it contains a good deal of background on ancien...

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Newton: Kosmos, Bios, Logos - Irena Štěpánová

<p>Irena Štěpánová in this book explores Isaac Newton's engagement with ancient wisdom, the Hexameral tradition, Hermeticism, theology, alchemy as well as natural philosophy. In so doing, she brings together the established historiography with her own new insights. Štěpánová's study is more than a study of Newton's thought, for it contains a good deal of background ...

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Southern African Wildlife - turistický průvodce

This new, thoroughly revised edition of Bradt’s Southern Africa Wildlife guide provides an overview of all southern African wildlife – not only ‘big game’ and other large mammals, but also birds, reptiles, amphibians and invertebrates. Excellent for independent travellers, it is reliable as a standalone guide combining both wildlife and visitor information, and is also a ...