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All You Need to Know About Spiders

By: Wolfgang Nentwig,Jutta Ansorg,Angelo Bolzern,Holger Frick,Anne-Sarah Ganske,Ambros Hänggi,Christian Kropf,Anna Stäubli

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All You Need to Know About Spiders

By: Wolfgang Nentwig,Jutta Ansorg,Angelo Bolzern,Holger Frick,Anne-Sarah Ganske,Ambros Hänggi,Christian Kropf,Anna Stäubli

All You Need to Know About Spiders Spiders are super predators and devour everything they can overpower. To do this, they have developed incredibly good catching techniques and, with spider silk, a tool that makes material technology green with envy. The males are usually smaller than the females and, in order to have sex, they have to come up with a lot to avoid being misunderstood as easy prey: Dancing, drumming, and gifts almost always help. Spiders use their venom in very precise doses, and since humans are not on their menu, they are harmless to us. Many people's (unnecessary) fear of spiders finds cultural roots as early as the Middle Ages. Nevertheless, spider fear is easily treatable. There is no habitat or building without spiders. And that's a good thing, because spiders have fascinating properties and their world is full of surprises. Everything you need to know about them is explained in this book in understandable language by experts for laymen. In addition, some of the most common spider species in the house and garden are briefly presented with tips for observation. The authorsThis book is authored by eight scientists, all of them members of the Association for the Promotion of Spider Research: Wolfgang Nentwig, Jutta Ansorg, Angelo Bolzern, Holger Frick, Anne-Sarah Ganske, Ambros Hänggi, Christin Kropf und Anna Stäubli

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Springer Nature

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303090881X

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9783030908812

Understanding Body Shapes of Animals

Shapes as mechanical constructions and Systems moving on minimal energy level

By: Holger Preuschoft

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Understanding Body Shapes of Animals

Shapes as mechanical constructions and Systems moving on minimal energy level

By: Holger Preuschoft

This book discusses how and why animals evolved into particular shapes. The book identifies the physical laws which decide over the evolutionary (selective) value of body shape and morphological characters. Comparing the mechanical necessities with morphological details, the author attempts to understand how evolution works, and which sorts of limitations are set by selection. The book explains morphological traits in more biomechanical detail without getting lost in physics, or in methods. Most emphasis is placed on the proximate question, namely the identification of the mechanical stresses which must be sustained by the respective body parts, when they move the body or its parts against resistance. In the first part of the book the focus is on ‘primitive’ animals and later on the emphasis shifts to highly specialized mammals. Readers will learn more about living and fossil animals. A section of the book is dedicated to human evolution but not to produce another evolutionary tree, nor to refine a former one, but to contribute to answering the question: “WHY early humans have developed their particular body shape".

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3030276686

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9783030276683

Impossible Mission I & II - The Official Guide

By: Holger Weßling

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Impossible Mission I & II - The Official Guide

By: Holger Weßling

The iconic Impossible Mission games by Epyx Inc. enthralled a generation, pitting the player's wits against the diabolic genius of the mad scientist Elvin Atombender in a race against time to save the world! Now in this official guide to Impossible Mission I and II we get the chance to hear from some of the people who both created and brought the games to market such as: Dennis Casswell, Chris Crigg, Peter Filiberti, Mihaly Kenczler and many more. This definitive work contains dozens of chapters, from the history of Epyx the company, the various versions and ports over the years, the in-game music, the ground-breaking synthesized speech, to extensive hints, tips and walkthroughs. Written by established retro computer writer Holger Weßling, and with a foreword by Darren Melbourne who has been associated with many of the games' incarnations.

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Andrews UK Limited

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1789824575

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9781789824575

Comparative Risk Assessment

Concepts, Problems and Applications

By: Holger Schütz,Peter M. Wiedemann,Wilfried Hennings,Johannes Mertens,Martin Clauberg

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Comparative Risk Assessment

Concepts, Problems and Applications

By: Holger Schütz,Peter M. Wiedemann,Wilfried Hennings,Johannes Mertens,Martin Clauberg

Providing a catalogue of suggested solutions for different categories of issues, this book offers a balanced overview and methodological examples for the practical implementation of the CRA. It considers CRA in the USA, Europe and Germany, using case studies to analyze and exemplify the decision-making processes and challenges involved. The authors then go on to look at the practical lessons learned from these case studies, together with an in-depth discussion of the underlying scientific hypotheses. Sound scientific knowledge for everyone who makes decisions, whether government ministers, regulators, or company directors.

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John Wiley & Sons

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3527608559

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9783527608553

Scars of Independence

America's Violent Birth

By: Holger Hoock

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Scars of Independence

America's Violent Birth

By: Holger Hoock

A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE A magisterial new work that rewrites the story of America's founding The American Revolution is often portrayed as an orderly, restrained rebellion, with brave patriots defending their noble ideals against an oppressive empire. It’s a stirring narrative, and one the founders did their best to encourage after the war. But as historian Holger Hoock shows in this deeply researched and elegantly written account of America’s founding, the Revolution was not only a high-minded battle over principles, but also a profoundly violent civil war—one that shaped the nation, and the British Empire, in ways we have only begun to understand. In Scars of Independence, Hoock writes the violence back into the story of the Revolution. American Patriots persecuted and tortured Loyalists. British troops massacred enemy soldiers and raped colonial women. Prisoners were starved on disease-ridden ships and in subterranean cells. African-Americans fighting for or against independence suffered disproportionately, and Washington’s army waged a genocidal campaign against the Iroquois. In vivid, authoritative prose, Hoock’s new reckoning also examines the moral dilemmas posed by this all-pervasive violence, as the British found themselves torn between unlimited war and restraint toward fellow subjects, while the Patriots documented war crimes in an ingenious effort to unify the fledgling nation. For two centuries we have whitewashed this history of the Revolution. Scars of Independence forces a more honest appraisal, revealing the inherent tensions between moral purpose and violent tendencies in America’s past. In so doing, it offers a new origins story that is both relevant and necessary—an important reminder that forging a nation is rarely bloodless.

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Crown

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0804137307

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9780804137300

All You Need to Know About Spiders

By: Wolfgang Nentwig,Jutta Ansorg,Angelo Bolzern,Holger Frick,Anne-Sarah Ganske,Ambros Hänggi,Christian Kropf,Anna Stäubli

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All You Need to Know About Spiders

By: Wolfgang Nentwig,Jutta Ansorg,Angelo Bolzern,Holger Frick,Anne-Sarah Ganske,Ambros Hänggi,Christian Kropf,Anna Stäubli

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3030908801

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The Charterhouse of Bruges

Jan Van Eyck, Petrus Christus, and Jan Vos

By: Maryan W. Ainsworth,Emma Capron

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The Charterhouse of Bruges

Jan Van Eyck, Petrus Christus, and Jan Vos

By: Maryan W. Ainsworth,Emma Capron

This catalogue is published in conjunction with the exhibition The Charterhouse of Bruges: Jan Van Eyck, Petrus Christus, and Jan Vos on view at The Frick Collection from September 18, 2018, to January 13, 2019.

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Giles

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1911282190

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9781911282198

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All You Need to Know About Spiders

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Understanding Body Shapes of Animals

Understanding Body Shapes of Animals

Impossible Mission I & II - The Official Guide

Impossible Mission I & II - The Official Guide

Comparative Risk Assessment

Comparative Risk Assessment

Scars of Independence

Scars of Independence

All You Need to Know About Spiders

All You Need to Know About Spiders

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