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"Look At This If You Love Great Photography is a must read for anyone who appreciates the power of the image. Featuring 100 of the best photographs ever captured on camera, Gemma Padley offers concise, insightful summaries on just what it is that makes each one so special. Havin…
Look At This If You Love Great Photography is a must read for anyone who appreciates the power of the image. Featuring 100 of the best photographs ever captured on camera, Gemma Padley offers concise, insightful summaries on just what it is that makes each one so special. Having…
The chicken: a natural history
by Daly, Janet, Rutland, Catrin, Cawthray, Andy, Barber, Dr Joseph, Hauber, Mark
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An overview of the natural history of chickens, discussing domestication, anatomy, behavior, intelligence, breeds, and more.
The chicken: a natural history
by Daly, Janet, Rutland, Catrin, Hauber, Mark E., Cawthray, Andy
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Type: Book
The Chicken is a comprehensive, science-based exploration of the world of the chicken that examines the behaviour, characteristics and unique abilities of this fantastic fowl.
Architecture, having developed hand-in-hand with society's needs, aspirations and desires, forms the very core of human life. The structures we move in and out of on a day-to-day basis in fact structure our own lives. And yet this remains a concept shrouded in mystery for so man…
"Exactly what did Roman architects do for us? Can you identify a voussoir or a vault? What is "architecture of the veil?" Are you able to articulate on Art Nouveau and Art Deco styles? And who was the father of the skyscraper? This set of 50 explanations of the innovations, theo…
Exactly what did Roman architects do for us? Can you identify a voussoir or a vault? What is "architecture of the veil?" Are you able to articulate on Art Nouveau and Art Deco styles? And who was the father of the skyscraper? This set of 50 explanations of the innovations, theor…
We've all heard of pyramids, hieroglyphs and Cleopatra, but how much do you really know about ancient Egypt? Why was the Nile integral to the unification of Egypt? What is the mystery surrounding Queen Hetephere's tomb? What did the Amarna Letters reveal? What did the ancient Eg…
Data science is an entirely new discipline that encompasses a new era of information, from finding criminals to predicting epidemics. But there's more to it than the vast quantities of information gathered by our computers, smartphones, and credit cards. Carefully compiled by ex…
From the Giant Golden Crowned Flying Fox, a megabat with a wingspan of over five feet, to the aptly named Bumblebee Bat, the world's smallest mammal, the number and diversity of bat species is proving to be very rich and vastly underestimated. Nocturnal, fast-flying, and secreti…