The Nature of Carnivores: Life and Travels with a Field Biologist (Kruuk Hans)(Paperback)

The Nature of Carnivores: Life and Travels with a Field Biologist (Kruuk Hans)(Paperback)

Hans Kruuk is a leading authority on animal behaviour and the author of classic studies of hyaenas, otters and badgers. In this book he describes his lifelong fascination with natural history, the many species he has studied and the wild settings across the world that formed the background to his

Field Guide to Carnivores of the World, 2nd edition (Hunter Luke)(Paperback / softback)

Gulliver's Travels: And Verses on Gulliver's Travels (Swift Jonathan)(Paperback)

'Gulliver's Travels' describes the shipwrecked Gulliver's encounters with the inhabitants of four extraordinary places: Lilliput, Brobdingnag, Laputa, and the country of the

Snow Leopard (Matthiessen Peter)(Paperback / softback)

One September, the author set out with a field biologist to journey 250 miles through the Himalayas to the Crystal Mountain on the Tibetan plateau. They wanted to study the wild blue sheep, the bharal, but also hoped to see the snow leopard, a creature so rarely spotted as to be nearly mythical

Mongooses of the World (Jennings Andrew)(Paperback)

Mongooses are a remarkable and fascinating group of small carnivores, with 25 species occurring in Africa and nine in Asia. They live within a wide variety of habitats, from open savannah to dense rainforest, and display an amazing diversity in social behaviour, with both solitary and group-living

Collecting the World - The Life and Curiosity of Hans Sloane (Delbourgo James)(Paperback / softback)

Divided Soul: The Life of Marvin Gaye (Ritz David)(Paperback)

A biography as dramatic as any to come out of the pop field . . . told with sympathy and unflinching candor.--San Francisco Chronicle In this intimate biography of the Prince of Soul, David Ritz provides a candid look at a star and a friend. Ritz had been collaborating with Gaye on his story for

The Power of Vibrational Medicine: Healing with the Bioacoustics of Nature (Snell Gretchen Weger)(Paperback)

Groundbreaking research in the field of medicine demonstrates that regulation and communication within living organisms can no longer be adequately explained through strictly chemical mechanical means. This innovative work examines health from the viewpoint that illness is initiated by imbalances

Hans Hofmann: The Nature of Abstraction (Barnes Lucinda)(Pevná vazba)

Hans Hofmann: The Nature of Abstraction offers a fresh and revealing assessment of the artist's prolific and innovative painterly career. The comprehensive exhibition and accompanying catalogue will feature approximately seventy paintings and works on paper by Hofmann from 1930 through the end of

This Boy's Life (Wolff Tobias)(Paperback / softback)

A memoir of a young boy's unusual travels with his mother. The author recreates his boyhood experiences, relating how he and his mother travelled throughout the United States, and tracing his experiences and changes from young boy to manhood against the background of a violent and wildly optimistic

Communication and Sport: Surveying the Field (Billings Andrew C.)(Paperback)

Communication and Sport: Surveying the Field provides students with an understanding of sports media, rhetoric, culture, and organizations through an examination of a wide range of topics. Authors Andrew C. Billings and Michael L. Butterworth address everything from youth to amateur to professional

Writing Culture and the Life of Anthropology (Starn Orin)(Paperback)

Using the influential and field-changing Writing Culture as a point of departure, the thirteen essays in Writing Culture and the Life of Anthropology address anthropology's past, present, and future. The contributors, all leading figures in anthropology today, reflect back on the 'writing culture'

Life And Times Of The Thunderbolt Kid - Travels Through my Childhood (Bryson Bill)(Paperback / softback)

From one of our most beloved and bestselling authors, a vivid, nostalgic, and utterly hilarious memoir of growing up in the 1950s.Born in 1951 in the middle of the United States, Des Moines, Iowa, Bill Bryson is perfectly positioned to mine his memories of a totally all-American childhood for 24

The Motel Life (Vlautin Willy)(Paperback)

With 'echoes of Of Mice and Men'(The Bookseller, UK), The Motel Life explores the frustrations and failed dreams of two Nevada brothers--on the run after a hit-and-run accident--who, forgotten by society, and short on luck and hope, desperately cling to the edge of modern

Adventures Among Ants: A Global Safari with a Cast of Trillions (Moffett Mark W.)(Paperback)

Intrepid international explorer, biologist, and photographer Mark W. Moffett, 'the Indiana Jones of entomology,' takes us around the globe on a strange and colorful journey in search of the hidden world of ants. In tales from Nigeria, Indonesia, the Amazon, Australia, California, and elsewhere,

The Socratic Method of Psychotherapy (Overholser James)(Paperback)

As the field of psychotherapy focuses more on treatment manuals and the regimented nature of clinical research, the practice risks losing the subtle nuances that guide the interactive fluidity of therapy sessions. Can clinicians combat this loss by incorporating ideals from ancient philosophy into

The Music of Life (Revised) (Khan Inayat)(Paperback)

A transcendent exploration of the nature and effects of sound by the Sufi master. The Music of Life is the definitive collection of Hazrat Inayat Khan's teachings on sound, presenting the Sufi master's vision of the harmony that underlies and infuses every aspect of our lives. Inayat Khan explores

Travels in the South of France (Stendhal)(Paperback)

Both an addition to the Stendhalian canon and a pioneering work of the travel-writing genre, Travels in the South of France provides an illuminating perspective on this popular region and the phenomenon of tourism in

Wildside: The Enchanted Life of Hunters and Gatherers (Gestalten)(Pevná vazba)

The woods are alive with possibilities: Retreat into nature, meet mushroom pickers, collectors, and explorers. Build cabins and scenic trails, create crafts, or start inspired projects. This is the way to the forest. Step into the woods?refuge and escape and home. Some go there to hike or fish. The

Gulliver's Travels (Swift Jonathan)(Paperback)

A wickedly clever satire uses comic inversions to offer telling insights into the nature of man and society. Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read Gulliver's Travels describes the four voyages of Lemuel Gulliver, a ship's surgeon. In Lilliput he discovers

Travels with Charley - In Search of America (Steinbeck Mr John)(Paperback / softback)

Moving through the woods and deserts, dirt tracks and highways to large cities and glorious wildernesses, the author observed America, and the Americans who inhabited it. What he saw was a lonely, generous nation too packed with individuals for single judgements; what he saw made him proud, angry,

The Dialectical Biologist (Levins Richard)(Paperback)

Scientists act within a social context and from a philosophical perspective that is inherently political. Whether they realize it or not, scientists always choose sides. The Dialectical Biologist explores this political nature of scientific inquiry, advancing its argument within the framework of

Man Who Invented History - Travels with Herodotus (Marozzi Justin)(Paperback / softback)

A sensational blend of travel and history in the spirit of the man who invented

Classics of Organization Theory (Shafritz Jay M.)(Paperback)

Grasp the important themes, perspectives, and theories of the field with CLASSICS OF ORGANIZATION THEORY, 8e. This collection of the most enduring works in organization theory, written by distinguished theorists, describes what organization theory is, how it has developed, and how its development