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From "a graceful writer who’s written some of the best natural history books of the past decade” (The New York Times Book Review) comes an urgent,...
Ever since Plato created the legend of the lost island of Atlantis, it has maintained a uniquely strong grip on the human imagination. For two and a h...
Nearly every species that has lived on earth is extinct. The last of thedinosaurs was wiped out after a Mount Everest-sized meteorite slammedinto the ...
A Biography of the Ocean Gladiator
Provides a comprehensive history of the swordfish, from prehistoric fossils to its present-day endangerment, and describes its adaptability and its re...
In The Empty Ocean, acclaimed author and artist Richard Ellis tells the story of our continued plunder of life in the sea and weighs the chances for i...
Shares the latest findings on the great white shark's size, ancestry, relatives, breeding, and feeding habits....
"An authoritative look at the biology and mythology of the world's most elusive sea creature".--Jacket....
Few creatures have captured the imaginations of so many for so long as have monsters of the deep. Their history has been surprisingly consistent, the ...
Blood Transfusion is a compendium of papers that deals on development made in blood transfusion and serology. One author reviews the history of blood ...
This work challenges the thesis first formulated by de Tocqueville and later systematically developed by Louis Hartz, that American political culture ...
Life, Death, and Exploration in the Abyss
From the author of Monsters of the Sea and The Book of Whales comes an exhilarating armchair expedition to the last frontier on earth--the bottom of t...
A Natural History of the Ocean's Most Magnificent and Mysterious Creature
Over the past several decades, Richard Ellis has produced a remarkable body of work that has been called "magnificent" (Washington Post Book World), "...
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Candide is about a man who believes in the philosophy, "What happens, happens for the best in the end", taught to him by his personal philosopher Dr. ...
A Visual History
“The sharks, ancient or modern, real or imaginary, have always been with us, and will probably remain with us forever. They appear not only in movie...
The Initiative Process in America
It is becoming common in many states: the opportunity to reclaim government from politicians by simply signing a petition to put an initiative on the ...
A full understanding of the institution of the American presidency requires us to examine how it developed from the founding to the present. This deve...
The Biology and Mythology of the World's Most Elusive Sea Creature
The most mysterious and elusive of all sea creatures, the giant squid--at least sixty feet long and weighing nearly a ton--is also one of the largest....
Predators of the Prehistoric Oceans
In the days when dinosaurs dominated the earth, their marine counterparts—every bit as big and ferocious—reigned supreme in prehistoric seas. In t...
Covers all aspects of donkey driving, from buying a donkey to suitable vehicles, harness and their maintenance....
Love, Death, and Mercury
Famed marine researcher and illustrator Richard Ellis brings us a work of scientific achievement that will forever change the way we think about fish,...
Taking their cue from the pioneering work of anthropologist Mary Douglas, the authors of "Cultural Theory" have created a typology of five ways of lif...
Richard Ellis is a consultant in communications and the successful author of 'Communication for Engineers'. In each chapter he highlights key points a...
Saas-Fee Advanced Course 36. Swiss Society for Astrophysics and Astronomy
The exploration of the first billion years of the history of the Universe represents one of the great challenges of contemporary astrophysics. During ...
The History, Natural History, and Mythodology of the Oceans' Most Fantastic Creatures
Plato’s Symposium, composed in the early fourth century BC, demonstrates how powerful the skills of reasoning and evaluation can be. Known to philos...
A Complete Guide to Their Biology and Conservation
The only book dedicated to the mysterious beaked whale, this beautiful volume combines full-color illustrations with fascinating facts. Beaked whales ...
Incorporating Applications and Innovations in Intelligent Systems XVII
The most common document formalisation for text classi?cation is the vector space model founded on the bag of words/phrases representation. The main a...
In the days when dinosaurs dominated the earth, their marine counterparts - every bit as big and ferocious - reigned supreme in prehistoric seas. In t...
The Destruction of Wildlife for Traditional Chinese Medicine
In parts of Korea and China, moon bears, black but for the crescent-shaped patch of white on their chests, are captured in the wild and brought to "be...
Dolphins and Porpoises captures the exuberance, the intelligence, the sheer charisma, of forty-three species of small cetacean -- from the immensely p...
Stepladders to Success for the Professional
Targeted at career professionals, this guide to improved communication skills is specifically designed to improve the ambitious individual's prospects...
The Journey from George Washington to George W. Bush
In office less than half a year, President George Washington undertook an arduous month-long tour of New England to promote his new government and to ...
This new set of original case studies is designed to offer an empirical counterpart to Cultural Theory (Westview, 1990 ), the landmark statement of po...
A Love Story
From the reviews: "... Besides the fact that the author's treatment of large deviations is a nice contribution to the literature on the subject, his b...
Plato's Symposium, composed in the early fourth century BC, demonstrates how powerful the skills of reasoning and evaluation can be. Known to philosop...
Captain Romulus Buckle and his zeppelin crew plan to rescue their kidnapped leader from the City of the Founders, but first they must survive the war ...
Illiberal Egalitarianism in America
Political correctness, idealizing the oppressed, and an affinity for authoritarian and charismatic leaders are all parts of what Ellis calls "the dark...