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Beautifully illustrated first spotter's guides for 4-7 year-olds.

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This third edition has been revised and reset throughout. Therre are 50 new drawings and the expanded plates section has 248 photographs. ...a superb guie which will be invaluable to every birdwatcher. --Habitat

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Provides a guide to those birds that have evolved a trait that would seem to harm their ability to survive - flightlessness. This book covers the loss of flight in birds, both permanently after years of evolution, and temporarily as a result of unusual moulting behaviour, and those species that are in various stages of losing their flight.

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Richard Dawkins explores the miracle of flight. A book for ages 8-80 about flying from the mythical Icarus, to the sadly extinct but magnificent bird Argentavis magnificens, to the British Airways pilots of today.

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Brilliantly imaginative, dark and funny sequel to Magyk

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From one of Japan's most popular and respected storytellers, this collection introduces readers to more than 40 wonderous tales from rural Japanmany that have not previously been seen or heardfrom animal tales and tales of supernatural beings to stories about village characters and priests and their apprentices.

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This book explores the topic of food and foodways within American jails and prisons. It focuses on food as a political item in the service of control when executed by jail and prison personnel, as well as a mechanism of resistance on the part of the prisoners themselves.

This major reference work provides a comprehensive survey of food history. With over 80 high-quality sources, introductory essays and a wealth of contextual material, this will be a major scholarly resource for researchers of food throughout world history.

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A memoir by bestselling fiction author Amanda Brookfield about how owning a dog was the path to taking back true ownership of herself.

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This study examines how the US military forced German civilians to witness Nazi atrocity sites, publicly carry and display the victims dead bodies, and perform ritualized reburials. The author argues that these forced confrontations represented the politicization of dead bodies to indicate the collective guilt of German civilians.

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This book examines the way foreign aid has shaped journalism in the Global South and argues that it played a central role in defining the core values of news reporting in these countries, which in turn had their own ways of communicating news. These attempts were met with resi...

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This volume examines the work of ten sociologists who have been forgotten or neglected within contemporary sociology. Each chapter examines one of these marginalized scholars including a brief biographical sketch, an overview of the selected theorists work and significance, and the relevance of their work to one or more contemporary social issues.

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Assembled by "WoodenBoat" magazine, "Forty Wooden Boats" contains classic and contemporary designs of cruising boats, powerboats, daysailers, performance rowing craft, sailing and pulling boats and canoes and kayaks.

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A collection of plays from one of Europe's most produced and translated playwrights. This is Plays One. One of the many collections which are published by Oberon Books. Includes the plays Someone is Going to Come, The Guitar Man, The Name and The Child

Foucault's philosophical relationship to Heidegger is the subject of academic debate. This book provides an approach to Foucault and Heidegger's relationship, based in an original approach to the problem itself. It also identifies a Heideggerian style of thinking in Foucault's work, which emerges in his early studies of madness and literature.

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This book explores the communication issues and power dynamics in fandoms and fan communities to understand the problems fans experience when they interact with one another. It uses fractured fandoms as the case study to consider how these problems relate to all areas of peoples lives.

A unique, multidisciplinary encyclopedia covering the impacts that French and American politics, foreign policy, and culture have had on shaping each country's identity.