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Human Evolution

A Very Short Introduction

By: Bernard A. Wood

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Human Evolution

A Very Short Introduction

By: Bernard A. Wood

The study of human evolution is advancing rapidly. New fossil evidence is adding ever more pieces to the puzzle of our past; the new science of ancient DNA is completely reshaping theories of early human populations and migrations. Bernard Wood traces the field of palaeoanthropology from its beginnings in the eighteenth century to the present.

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0198831749

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9780198831747

Victorian Popularizers of Science

Designing Nature for New Audiences

By: Bernard Lightman

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Victorian Popularizers of Science

Designing Nature for New Audiences

By: Bernard Lightman

The ideas of Charles Darwin and his fellow Victorian scientists have had an abiding effect on the modern world. But at the time The Origin of Species was published in 1859, the British public looked not to practicing scientists but to a growing group of professional writers and journalists to interpret the larger meaning of scientific theories in terms they could understand and in ways they could appreciate. Victorian Popularizers of Science focuses on this important group of men and women who wrote about science for a general audience in the second half of the nineteenth century. Bernard Lightman examines more than thirty of the most prolific, influential, and interesting popularizers of the day, investigating the dramatic lecturing techniques, vivid illustrations, and accessible literary styles they used to communicate with their audience. By focusing on a forgotten coterie of science writers, their publishers, and their public, Lightman offers new insights into the role of women in scientific inquiry, the market for scientific knowledge, tensions between religion and science, and the complexities of scientific authority in nineteenth-century Britain.

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565

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University of Chicago Press

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0226481174

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9780226481173

Conservation of Historic Buildings

By: Bernard Feilden

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Conservation of Historic Buildings

By: Bernard Feilden

Since its publication in 1982 Sir Bernard Feilden's Conservation of Historic Buildings has become the standard text for architects and others involved in the conservation of historic structures. Leading practitioners around the world have praised the book as being the most significant single volume on the subject to be published. This third edition revises and updates a classic book, including completely new sections on conservation of Modern Movement buildings and non-destructive investigation. The result of the lifetime's experience of one of the world's leading architectural conservators, the book comprehensively surveys the fundamental principles of conservation in their application to historic buildings, and provides the basic information needed by architects, engineers and surveyors for the solution of problems of architectural conservation in almost every climatic region of the world. This edition is organized into three complementary parts: in the first the structure of buildings is dealt with in detail; the second focuses attention on the causes of decay and the materials they affect; and the third considers the practical role of the architect involved in conservation and rehabilitation. As well as being essential reading for architects and others concerned with conservation, many lay people with various kinds of responsibility for historic buildings will find this clearly written, jargon-free work a fruitful source of guidance and information.

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Routledge

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1136415297

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9781136415296

Victorian Science and Literature, Part II vol 5

By: Gowan Dawson,Bernard Lightman,Claire Brock,Marwa Elshakry,Sujit Sivasundaram,Ralph O'Connor,Roger Luckhurst,Justin Sausman

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Victorian Science and Literature, Part II vol 5

By: Gowan Dawson,Bernard Lightman,Claire Brock,Marwa Elshakry,Sujit Sivasundaram,Ralph O'Connor,Roger Luckhurst,Justin Sausman

This eight-volume, reset edition in two parts collects rare primary sources on Victorian science, literature and culture. The sources cover both scientific writing that has an aesthetic component – what might be called 'the literature of science' – and more overtly literary texts that deal with scientific matters.

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396

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Taylor & Francis

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1040251277

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9781040251270

Boy's Book of Camping and Wood Crafts

By: Bernard S. Mason

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Boy's Book of Camping and Wood Crafts

By: Bernard S. Mason

Details the ingenious methods of Native Americans and old time woodsmen in keeping dry and warm, making tools, and making camp furniture.

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198

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1586670727

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9781586670726

Halloween

Youth Cinema and the Horrors of Growing Up

By: Mark Bernard

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Halloween

Youth Cinema and the Horrors of Growing Up

By: Mark Bernard

This book argues that Halloween need not be the first nor the most influential youth slasher film for it to hold a special place in the history of youth cinema. John Carpenter’s 1978 horror hit was once considered the be-all, end-all of teen slasher cinema and was regarded as the first, the best, and the most influential American slasher film. Recent revisions in film history, however, have challenged Halloween’s comfortable place in the canon of youth horror cinema. However, this book argues that the film, like no other, draws from the themes, imagery, and obsessions that fueled youth horror cinema since the 1950s—Gothic atmosphere, atomic dread, twisted psychology, and alienated teenage monsters—and ties them together in the deceptively simple story of a masked killer on Halloween night. Along the way, the film delivers a savage critique of social institutions and their failure to protect young people. Halloween also depicts a cadre of compelling and complicated youth characters: teenage babysitters watching over preadolescents as a killer, who is viciously avoiding the responsibilities of young adulthood, stalks them through the shadows. This book explores all these aspects of Halloween, including the franchise it spawned, providing an invaluable insight into this iconic film for students and researchers alike.

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164

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Routledge

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1351734156

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9781351734158

The Practical Woodworker - A Complete Guide to the Art and Practice of Woodworking - Volume I

By: Bernard E. Jones

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The Practical Woodworker - A Complete Guide to the Art and Practice of Woodworking - Volume I

By: Bernard E. Jones

A fabulous introduction for the amateur carpenter to the world of woodworking, including chapters on, types of timber, arranging a workshop and tools and how to use them. Including an introductory essay on woodwork.

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Read Books Ltd

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1528765842

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9781528765848

Boomerangs

How to Make and Throw Them

By: Bernard Sterling Mason

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Boomerangs

How to Make and Throw Them

By: Bernard Sterling Mason

It only takes minutes to make a good, guaranteed-to-return boomerang. By following a few more simple steps you will learn how to throw it so it will always return to you. Soon you will be in possession of a new hobby, experimenting with many types of boomerangs, flying them in new tricks and stunts, achieving a degree of accuracy and excitement that will give you pleasure whether you are young or old, whether it is your first boomerang or your fiftieth. This is the outstanding book on boomerangs. While a certain amount of the information is drawn from native methods, most is composed of new designs by Bernard Mason that are easy to make, easy to throw, safe, and full of possibilities. There are the standards — cross-stick boomerangs ranging in size from fourteen inches to three feet. There are pin-wheel boomerangs, undoubtedly the best flyers. There are boomabirds, boomerangs in bird shapes, airplane shapes, and other ornamentals with a wealth of strange flight patterns. There are tumblesticks, boomerangs that look like nothing but simple straight sticks — until you throw them. There are boomerangs you can make from cardboard. And there are the curved stick boomerangs from Australia. In each section there are examples of the best flyers, plus others — largest, smallest, jumpers, fast flyers, smooth flyers, and many more. Since, as the author says, each boomerang possesses its own unique character, there is always the feeling of magic each time a new one is made and thrown. With this book you can learn to make nearly every type of known boomerang, learn to fly them, and add a new area of skill and recreation to your life.

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Courier Corporation

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0486230287

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9780486230283

Atomic and Molecular Beams

Production and Collimation

By: Cyril Bernard Lucas

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Atomic and Molecular Beams

Production and Collimation

By: Cyril Bernard Lucas

Atomic and molecular beams are employed in physics and chemistry experiments and, to a lesser extent, in the biological sciences. These beams enable atoms to be studied under collision-free conditions and allow the study of their interaction with other atoms, charged particles, radiation, and surfaces. Atomic and Molecular Beams: Production and Col

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CRC Press

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1466561068

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9781466561069

Evolutionary Naturalism in Victorian Britain

The 'Darwinians' and their Critics

By: Bernard Lightman

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Evolutionary Naturalism in Victorian Britain

The 'Darwinians' and their Critics

By: Bernard Lightman

Scholars have tended to portray T.H. Huxley, John Tyndall, and their allies as the dominant cultural authority in the second half of the 19th century. Defenders of Darwin and his theory of evolution, these men of science are often seen as a potent force for the secularization of British intellectual and social life. In this collection of essays Bernard Lightman argues that historians have exaggerated the power of scientific naturalism to undermine the role of religion in middle and late-Victorian Britain. The essays deal with the evolutionary naturalists, especially the biologist Thomas Henry Huxley, the physicist John Tyndall, and the philosopher of evolution, Herbert Spencer. But they look also at those who criticized this influential group of elite intellectuals, including aristocratic spokesman A. J Balfour, the novelist Samuel Butler, and the popularizer of science Frank Buckland. Focusing on the theme of the limitations of the cultural power of evolutionary naturalism, the volume points to the enduring strength of religion in Britain in the latter half of the 19th century.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000941574

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9781000941579

Drums, Tomtoms and Rattles

Primitive Percussion Instruments for Modern Use

By: Bernard Sterling Mason

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Drums, Tomtoms and Rattles

Primitive Percussion Instruments for Modern Use

By: Bernard Sterling Mason

An authority on American Indian traditions provides complete, thorough directions for creating dance drums, tomtoms, water drums, and much more. Materials include such everyday items as wooden kegs, flower pots, coffee cans, buckets, and old inner tubes. Also includes instructions for making drumsticks and rattles. 121 figures.

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0486218899

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9780486218892

Bass & Stogdill's Handbook of Leadership

Theory, Research, and Managerial Applications

By: Bernard M. Bass,Ralph Melvin Stogdill

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Bass & Stogdill's Handbook of Leadership

Theory, Research, and Managerial Applications

By: Bernard M. Bass,Ralph Melvin Stogdill

For 15 years and through two editions, this handbook has been indispensable for serious students of leadership. Now, in this third edition, Bass introduces a decade of new findings on the newest theories and models of leadership. With over 1,200 pages of essential information, Bass & Stogdill's Handbook of Leadership will continue to be the definitive resource for managers for years to come.

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Simon and Schuster

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0029015006

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9780029015001

That Was Entertainment

The Golden Age of the MGM Musical

By: Bernard F. Dick

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That Was Entertainment

The Golden Age of the MGM Musical

By: Bernard F. Dick

That Was Entertainment: The Golden Age of the MGM Musical traces the development of the MGM musical from The Broadway Melody (1929) through its heyday in the 1940s and 1950s and its decline in the 1960s, culminating in the notorious 1970 MGM auction when Judy Garland's ruby slippers from The Wizard of Oz, Charlton Heston's chariot from Ben-Hur, and Fred Astaire's trousers and dress shirt from Royal Wedding vanished to the highest bidders. That Was Entertainment uniquely reconstructs the life of Arthur Freed, whose unit at MGM became the gold standard against which the musicals of other studios were measured. Without Freed, Judy Garland, Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire, Ann Miller, Betty Garrett, Cyd Charisse, Arlene Dahl, Vera-Ellen, Lucille Bremer, Gloria DeHaven, Howard Keel, and June Allyson would never have had the signature films that established them as movie legends. MGM's past is its present. No other studio produced such a range of musicals that are still shown today on television and all of which are covered in this volume, from integrated musicals in which song and dance were seamlessly embedded in the plot (Meet Me in St. Louis and Seven Brides for Seven Brothers) to revues (The Hollywood Revue of 1929 and Ziegfeld Follies); original musicals (Singin' in the Rain, Easter Parade, and It's Always Fair Weather); adaptations of Broadway shows (Girl Crazy, On the Town, Show Boat, Kiss Me Kate, Brigadoon, Kismet, and Bells Are Ringing); musical versions of novels and plays (Gigi, The Pirate, and Summer Holiday); operettas (the films of Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy); mythico-historical biographies of composers (Johann Strauss Jr. in The Great Waltz and Sigmund Romberg in Deep in My Heart); and musicals featuring songwriting teams (Rodgers and Hart in Words and Music and Kalmar and Ruby in Three Little Words), opera stars (Enrico Caruso in The Great Caruso and Marjorie Lawrence in Interrupted Melody), and pop singers (Ruth Etting in Love Me or Leave Me). Also covered is the water ballet musical--in a class by itself--with Esther Williams starring as MGM's resident mermaid. This is a book for longtime lovers of the movie musical and those discovering the genre for the first time.

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Univ. Press of Mississippi

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1496817362

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Book's by Bernard Wood

Human Evolution

Human Evolution

Victorian Popularizers of Science

Victorian Popularizers of Science

Conservation of Historic Buildings

Conservation of Historic Buildings

Victorian Science and Literature, Part II vol 5

Victorian Science and Literature, Part II vol 5

Boy's Book of Camping and Wood Crafts

Boy's Book of Camping and Wood Crafts

Halloween

Halloween

The Practical Woodworker - A Complete Guide to the Art and Practice of Woodworking - Volume I

The Practical Woodworker - A Complete Guide to the Art and Practice of Woodworking - Volume I

Boomerangs

Boomerangs

Atomic and Molecular Beams

Atomic and Molecular Beams

Evolutionary Naturalism in Victorian Britain

Evolutionary Naturalism in Victorian Britain

Drums, Tomtoms and Rattles

Drums, Tomtoms and Rattles

Bass & Stogdill's Handbook of Leadership

Bass & Stogdill's Handbook of Leadership

That Was Entertainment

That Was Entertainment

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