Every fossil tells a story Best-selling paleontology author Donald R Prothero describes twenty-five famous beautifully preserved fossils in a gripping scientific history of life on Earth Recounting the adventures behind the discovery of these objects & fully interpreting their significance within the larger fossil record Prothero creates a riveting history of life on our planet The twenty-five fossils portrayed in this book catch animals in their evolutionary splendor as they transition from one kind of organism to another We witness extinct plants & animals of microscopic & immense size & thrilling diversity We learn about fantastic land & sea creatures that have no match in nature today Along the way we encounter such fascinating fossils as the earliest trilobite Olenellus; the giant shark Carcharocles; the fishibian Tiktaalik; the Frogamander & the Turtle on the Half-Shell; enormous marine reptiles & the biggest dinosaurs known; the first bird Archaeopteryx; the walking whale Ambulocetus; the gigantic hornless rhinoceros Paraceratherium the largest land mammal that ever lived; & the Australopithecus nicknamed Lucy the oldest human skeleton We meet the scientists & adventurers who pioneered paleontology & learn about the larger intellectual & social contexts in which their discoveries were made Finally we find out where to see these splendid fossils in the world's great museums Ideal for all who love prehistoric landscapes & delight in the history of science this book makes a treasured addition to any bookshelf stoking curiosity in the evolution of life on Earth ...

This new extended edition of Story of Life is the perfect gift for those with a love of the natural world Wander the galleries
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Everything you wanted to know
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Looking can be an act of empathy or aggression It can provoke desire or express it & from the blurry edgeless world we inhabit as infants to the landscape of screens we grow into looking can define us In The Story of Looking filmmaker & writer Mark Cousins takes us on a lightning-bright tour
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- through how our looking selves develop over the course of a lifetime & the ways that looking has changed through the centuries From great works of art to tourist photographs from cityscapes to cinema through science & protest propaganda & refusals to look the false mirrors & great visionaries of looking this book illuminates how we construct as well as receive the things we see Brilliant & eclectic The Story of Looking is a photo album & an art gallery a road movie & a visual grammar once you've read it you'll never see things the same way again

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Shortlisted for the 2002 Man Booker Prize'A masterwork I doubt that I have read a book as moving in at least a decade A homage to the redemptive power of love' Independent Summer 1921 Eight-year-old Lucy Gault clings to the glens & woods above Lahardane
- the home her family is being forced to abandon She knows the Gaults are no longer welcome in Ireland & that danger threatens Lucy however is headstrong & decides that somehow she must force her parents into staying But the path she chooses ends in disaster One chance event unwanted & unexpected will blight the lives of the Gaults for years to come & bind each of them in different ways to this one moment in time to this wild stretch of coast ' Flawless Guaranteed to keep you reading
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- to find out what happens Trevor's best novel' New Statesman' Dark elegantly written a book to relish' Independent on Sunday


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This along with The Tale of The Fierce Bad Rabbit was intended for very young children It recounts the tale of a pussy cat Miss Moppet chasing a mouse It turns out to be a bit of a battle of wits & who do you think will win? The Story of Miss Moppet is number 21 in Beatrix Potter's series of 23 little books the titles of which are as follows 1 The Tale of Peter Rabbit 2 The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin 3 The Tailor of Gloucester 4 The Tale of Benjamin Bunny 5 The Tale of Two Bad Mice 6 The Tale of Mrs Tiggy-Winkle 7 The Tale of Mr Jeremy Fisher 8 The Tale of Tom Kitten 9 The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck 10 The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies 11 The Tale of Mrs Tittlemouse 12 The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes 13 The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse 14 The Tale of Mr Tod 15 The Tale of Pigling Bland 16 The Tale of Samuel Whiskers 17 The Tale of The Pie & the Patty-Pan 18 The Tale of Ginger & Pickles 19 The Tale of Little Pig Robinson 20 The Story of a Fierce Bad Rabbit 21 The Story of Miss Moppet 22 Appley Dapply's Nursery Rhymes 23 Cecily Parsley's Nursery Rhymes ...

A funny philosophical book about the universal subject of money by award-winning non-fiction writer Martin Jenkins A funny philosophical look at the universal subject of money by award-winning non-fiction writer Martin Jenkins illustrated by Satoshi Kitamura In the Yap Islands in the South Pacific money can be a stone with a hole in the middle It can be a string of shells a bundle of cloth or a copper slab It's the stuff that makes the world go round & doesn't grow on trees In this fascinating & thought-provoking book Martin Jenkins explores the history of money from its earliest beginnings to the electronic banking of today Along the way we learn about hunter gatherers barter clay tablets goat swapping precious metals hard bargains IOUs interest coins Romans taxes inflation paper money currencies & exchange rates Satoshi Kitamura's quirky satirical drawings perfectly complement the dry humour of the text & in the end we are reminded that money only exists because we believe in it ...

Accompanies BBC2's major new TV series & The Story of Music in 50 Pieces on Radio 3 In his dynamic tour through 40000 years of music from prehistoric instruments to modern-day pop Howard Goodall leads us through the story of music as it happened idea by idea so that each musical innovation
- harmony notation sung theatre the orchestra dance music recording broadcasting
- strikes us with its original force He focuses on what changed when & why picking out the discoveries that revolutionised man-made sound & bringing to life musical visionaries from the little-known Perotin to the colossus of Wagner Along the way he also gives refreshingly clear descriptions of what music is & how it works what scales are all about why some chords sound discordant & what all post-war pop songs have in common

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Gustavo ' Highway' Sanchez is a man with a mission he is planning to replace every last one of his unsightly teeth He has a few skills that might help him on his way he can imitate Janis Joplin after two rums he can interpret Chinese fortune cookies he can stand an egg upright on a table & he can float on his back & of course he is the world's best auction caller
- although other people might not realise this because he is by nature very discreet Studying auctioneering under Grandmaster Oklahoma & the famous country singer Leroy Van Dyke Highway travels the world amassing his collection of ' Collectibles' & perfecting his own specialty the allegoric auction In his quest for a perfect set of pearly whites he finds unusual ways to raise the funds culminating in the sale of the jewels of his collection the teeth of the 'notorious infamous'
- Plato Petrarch Chesterton Virginia Woolf et al Written with elegance wit & exhilarating boldness Valeria Luiselli takes us on an idiosyncratic & hugely enjoyable journey that offers an insightful meditation on value worth & creation & the points at which they overlap

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This Ladybird Book about the story of Napoleon is a gem from the Ladybird vintage archive First published in 1968 this is a classic Ladybird hardback book packed with information about one of the most famous soldiers in history This new edition published alongside the Story of Nelson two hundred years after the Battle of Waterloo is exactly the same as the original with a dust jacket & beautifully reproduced images The story of Napoleon is told dramatically by L du Garde Peach & his adventures are wonderfully illustrated throughout the book ...