1552 results for '"Palmer, Nigel F.'

Triggered by the atrocities of World War II, the last few decades have seen an increasing international awareness of the persistence of such practices as torture, abduction and arbitrary, summary,...

Where to watch birds in Asia is the third guide in a series covering the best birdwatching sites in the great continents. It describes over 250 sites in detail and many more in passing, from Turkey...

The Ranters - like the Levellers and the Diggers - were a group of religious libertarians who flourished during the English Civil War (1642–1651), a period of social and religious turmoil which saw,...

Celebrate the Queen of Flowers. A story of love at first sight, Frances Palmer became obsessed with dahlias the moment she spotted one in a gardening book. Today, growing dahlias is her passion, and...

In 1726, in the town of Godalming, England, a woman confounded the nation’s medical community by giving birth to seventeen rabbits. This astonishing true story is the basis for Dexter Palmer’s...

“Liza Palmer's voice is fresh, exciting, and necessary. She's a must-read author.” ―Taylor Jenkins Reid, author of Daisy Jones & the SixCharmingly candid, hilarious, and deeply moving, The Nobodies...

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Progress in Pathology reviews many aspects of pathology, describing issues of everyday diagnostic relevance and the mechanisms underlying some of these processes. Each volume in the series reviews a...

This book presents a general explanation of how states develop their foreign policy. The theory stands in contrast to most approaches--which assume that states want to maximize security--by assuming...

From the winner of the 2017 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, Ada Palmer's 2017 Compton Crook Award-winning political science fiction, Too Like the Lightning, ventures into a human future...

Where to Watch Birds in Central America, Mexico, and the Caribbean is the sixth and latest in a series that will ultimately cover the whole world. Including many of the most alluring and rewarding...

The process of translating works of literature to the silver screen is a rich field of study for both students and scholars of literature and cinema. The fourteen essays collected in this 2007 volume...

An invaluable collection of scale, chord, arpeggio and cadence studies in all major and minor keys. Each key is presented in a unique two page format: the left hand page presents the scale in...

An examination of popular songs and the social comment they make. On subjects as diverse as crime, pastimes, war and industry, the song has always been a vehicle for the expression of popular feeling...

Although Rebecca Wright has pieced her life back together after a major tragedy, she can’t shake a sense that the world around her feels off-kilter. Meanwhile, her husband’s dedication to his...

A classic, comic easy reader about getting a pet!In this beloved Beginner Book, a young boy hilariously learns the consequences of not following instructions when he feeds too much to his...