When Madame Bodot receives a boa constrictor for her birthday, he soon becomes a lovable pet

Product Description: Rufus is a bat who dreams of seeing daytime and all its beautiful colors. Therefore, instead of going to sleep one morning, he decides to venture out to see this world where not everything is black and gray. But, there are many dangers ahead...read more

Discusses the geography of the third largest island in the Caribbean.

An explicit guide to the geometric principles, design, and construction of complex polyhedral figures (view table of contents)

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Product Description: In Vox Latina and Vox Graeca Professor Allen was concerned primarily with the pronunciation of the individual vowels and consonants of classical Latin and Greek. In this major work he analyses in depth and in detail all the prosodic features of these languages: length of vowels and quantity of syllables, accent, pitch, stress and 'rhythm', with special attention to their manifestations in verse...read more

Seventeen-year-old Robbie Benson finds life very difficult despite his new Fiat and wealthy background until he uncovers some interesting facts about the father who deserted him when he was five

This introduction to heterocyclic chemistry emphasizes simple heteroaromatic systems, from whose study a basis can be laid for the analysis and rationalization of the chemistry of more complex heterocycles. The book should be of interest to intermediate and senior undergraduate students of chemistry and biochemistry and graduate students. (view table of contents)

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Product Description: This book presents methods and analytical approaches that may be used in the reconstruction and understanding of how people have fed themselves in the past. The chapters on nutrition and the evidence of nutritional status on the human body or population were prepared by Antionette Brown...read more

While great interest has been shown recently in the nature of utopian thought and its significance in western development, much of the discussion has been marked by imprecision and generality. This book opens with an attempt to give clarity, substance and precision to the definition of utopia by isolating its characteristics in contrast with those of other forms of ideal society. The value of these distinctions is shown in a detailed re-examination of the sixteenth-century European writers who developed the re-emergent form of utopia. As a whole, the book brings the discussion of utopian thought closer to the mainstream concerns of the history of political ideas, and provides a major study for all those working in the fields of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century political and social thought. (view table of contents)

Product Description: The eighteenth-century English game laws have long been synonymous with petty tyranny. By imposing a property qualification on sportsmen, they effectively denied all but country gentlemen the right to take game or even to possess a gun...read more

Product Description: Examines the history of India during the period c. 1200-c. 1750.

Product Description: In this book Edward Reilly provides the essential documents connected with the friendship between the eminent Viennese music-historian Guido Adler and the composer Gustav Mahler. The nature and extent of that friendship has been the source of a number of questions for some years...read more

Eileen Flax finds her life in danger when she becomes involved with a French-Canadian anthropologist, who has discovered a strange evil force lurking among drifters in California