For the first time, the complete collection of the Collins Field Guides' incredibly detailed, accurate and beautiful bird paintings has been brought together in one comprehensive volume. This all-encompassing new guide is an extraordinary addition to the world-renowned series - …
"Illustrates every species of the world's birds--all 10,711 species in 301 amazing colour plates, with detailed text explaining key identification features, perferred habitat, voice, and geographical distributution"--Jacket.
Inhaltsverzeichnis: Intro -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Prologue: The Road to Nowhere -- Part 1: Wood and Human Evolution -- Chapter 1: Our Arboreal Inheritance -- Chapter 2: Coming Down from the Trees -- Chapter 3: Losing Our Hair -- Chapter 4: Tooling Up -- Part 2: Building C…
How did the descendants of small arboreal primates manage to stand on our own two feet, become top predators and take over the world? In The Wood Age, Roland Ennos shows that the key to humanity's success has been our relationship with wood. He takes u s on a sweepting ten-milli…
Presents visual depictions revealing trends, facts, and statistics of the modern world. Displays, with minimal text, a wide variety of information such as the most edited Wikipedia pages, the annual earnings of the most wealthy nations, and the scientific evidence for natural me…
A visual guide to how the world really works, through stunning infographics and data visualisations, thoroughly revised, recalculated and reimagined for this new edition.
The story of how Vladimir Putin and his entourage of KGB men seized power in Russia and built a new league of oligarchs. Through exclusive interviews with key inside players, Belton tells how Putin's people conducted their relentless seizure of private companies, took over the e…