Product Description: Throughout history, animals have shaped the world as we know it. But rarely have they received the recognition they deserve. Until now.This inside look at history’s most famous animals features wacky verse, cool facts, historical stats, and zany cartoon art...read more

Product Description: Gorgeous Beasts takes a fresh look at the place of animals in history and art. Refusing the traditional subordination of animals to humans, the essays gathered here examine a rich variety of ways animals contribute to culture: as living things, as scientific specimens, as food, weapons, tropes, and occasions for thought and creativity...read more

Product Description: This book provides plastics engineers with an up-to-date source of both basic and advanced engineering principles involved in thermoforming. It also shows how to apply these concepts in modern thermoforming practice. The author develops the technology of thermoforming by first considering the interaction of the plastic sheet with heating and cooling sources and stretching forces...read more