Vanuatu Wink Travel Guide

Download Vanuatu Wink Travel Guide full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online Vanuatu Wink Travel Guide ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!

The Dawn of the Deed

Author : John A. Long
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022600211X
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Dawn of the Deed by : John A. Long

Download or read book The Dawn of the Deed written by John A. Long and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-10-22 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[A] deliciously written account of the evolution of sex, in all of its bizarre manifestations” by a noted paleontologist—"Read, blush, and enjoy!” (Jared Diamond, author of Guns, Germs, and Steel). We all know about the birds and the bees, but what about the ancient placoderm fishes and the dinosaurs? In 2008, paleontologist John A. Long and a team of researchers announced their discovery of a 380-million-year-old placoderm fish fossil, known as “the mother fish,” which revealed the earliest known example of internal fertilization. As a result, placoderms are now considered to be the first species to have had intimate sexual reproduction, or sex as we know it—sort of. Inspired by this incredible find, Long began a quest to uncover the evolutionary history of copulation and insemination. In The Dawn of the Deed, he takes readers on a lively tour through the sex lives of ancient fish and the unusual mating habits of arthropods, tortoises, and even a well-endowed Argentine Duck. Long discusses these discoveries alongside what we know about reproductive biology and evolutionary theory, using the fossil record to provide a provocative account of prehistoric sex. The Dawn of the Deed also explores fascinating revelations about animal reproduction, from homosexual penguins to monogamous seahorses to the difficulties of dinosaur romance.

Daddy's Girl

Author : Lisa Scottoline
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061797766
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (617 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Daddy's Girl by : Lisa Scottoline

Download or read book Daddy's Girl written by Lisa Scottoline and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author of Dirty Blonde comes a fast-paced thriller in which a young law professor must unravel a conspiracy to see justice done Law professor Natalie Greco’s life is going according to plan, with a boyfriend handpicked by her father and tenure status only a review board away. Then, during a visit to a prison with her colleague Angus, a riot explodes. Rushing to the aid of a fatally wounded prison guard, Nat is privy to his last words—words that, unknown to Nat, can unlock the key to a dangerous conspiracy. Suddenly Nat, A Girl Who Always Plays By The Rules, finds threats around every curve: ruthless killers desperate to keep her from exposing their secret; police who are convinced she is responsible for a cold-blooded murder; and sexy Angus, whose mere presence makes her question her dedication to her long-term boyfriend. With her life on the line, her career in the balance, and her boyfriend on hold, Nat has to go into hiding to buy enough time to figure out the hidden secrets behind one man’s last words.

Ecological Biochemistry

Author : Gerd-Joachim Krauss
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 3527316507
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (273 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Ecological Biochemistry by : Gerd-Joachim Krauss

Download or read book Ecological Biochemistry written by Gerd-Joachim Krauss and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-01-12 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first stand-alone textbook for at least ten years on this increasingly hot topic in times of global climate change and sustainability in ecosystems. Ecological biochemistry refers to the interaction of organisms with their abiotic environment and other organisms by chemical means. Biotic and abiotic factors determine the biochemical flexibility of organisms, which otherwise easily adapt to environmental changes by altering their metabolism. Sessile plants, in particular, have evolved intricate biochemical response mechanisms to fit into a changing environment. This book covers the chemistry behind these interactions, bottom up from the atomic to the system's level. An introductory part explains the physico-chemical basis and biochemical roots of living cells, leading to secondary metabolites as crucial bridges between organisms and the respective ecosystem. The focus then shifts to the biochemical interactions of plants, fungi and bacteria within terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems with the aim of linking biochemical insights to ecological research, also in human-influenced habitats. A section is devoted to methodology, which allows network-based analyses of molecular processes underlying systems phenomena. A companion website offering an extended version of the introductory chapter on Basic Biochemical Roots is available at http://www.wiley.com/go/Krauss/Nies/EcologicalBiochemistry

American Taboo

Author : Philip Weiss
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061969923
Total Pages : 619 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (619 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis American Taboo by : Philip Weiss

Download or read book American Taboo written by Philip Weiss and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-03-17 with total page 619 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1975, a new group of Peace Corps volunteers landed on the island nation of Tonga. Among them was Deborah Gardner -- a beautiful twenty-three-year-old who, in the following year, would be stabbed twenty-two times and left for dead inside her hut. Another volunteer turned himself in to the Tongan police, and many of the other Americans were sure he had committed the crime. But with the aid of the State Department, he returned home a free man. Although the story was kept quiet in the United States, Deb Gardner's death and the outlandish aftermath took on legendary proportions in Tonga. Now journalist Philip Weiss "shines daylight on the facts of this ugly case with the fervor of an avenging angel" (Chicago Tribune), exposing a gripping tale of love, violence, and clashing ideals. With bravura reporting and vivid, novelistic prose, Weiss transforms a Polynesian legend into a singular artifact of American history and a profoundly moving human story.

The Publishers Weekly

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1382 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Publishers Weekly by :

Download or read book The Publishers Weekly written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 1382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Lantern House

Author : Erin Napier
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0316463833
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (164 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Lantern House by : Erin Napier

Download or read book The Lantern House written by Erin Napier and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2022-05-24 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the nationally beloved co-host of the #1 hit show Home Town comes the quintessential celebration of home. Imagine a house's early days as a home: A young family builds a picket fence and plants flowers in its yard, children climb the magnolia tree and play the piano in the living room, and there is music inside the house for many happy years. But what will happen when its windows grow dark, its paint starts to crumble, and its boards creak in the winter wind? The house dreams of a family who will love it again...and one day, a new story will emerge from within its walls. In this modern classic, Erin Napier’s lyrical prose and Adam Trest’s warm and comforting paintings deeply evoke the soul of a house cherishing the seasons of life and discovering the joy of rebirth.

Travel

Author : Peter Whitfield
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781851243389
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (433 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Travel by : Peter Whitfield

Download or read book Travel written by Peter Whitfield and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No previous generation has ever travelled so energetically or so obsessively as ours, nor has travel writing ever been so much in fashion as it is now. But behind the self-conscious literary artistry of today's narratives there lies a rich and fascinating history of travel writing, stretching back over several thousand years.Travel writing has emerged from migration, war, exploration, trade, conquest, pilgrimage, science, and poetic longing. But when they recorded their travels, the military commanders of Greece and Rome, the navigators of the Age of Discovery, the diplomats and missionaries of the seventeenth century, the dilettantes who set out on the Grand Tour, the romantic travellers and the scientists of the nineteenth century all had one thing in common: they were re-imagining the world, re-interpreting it in their own minds and for their readers.This is the first general survey of the entire history of travel literature, with illustrations reproduced from manuscripts and books in the Bodleian Library's collections. Writers covered include Marco Polo, Sir John Mandeville, Thomas Coryate, Captain Cook, T.E. Lawrence, and Christopher Columbus as well as Boswell and Johnson, Byron, Ruskin, Defoe, Conrad, and James. This book highlights over a hundred texts, showing how one motive for travelling has been succeeded by another, and how travel writing has often inhabited a strange borderland between truth and imagination, fact and fiction. It demonstrates how travel writers have slowly outgrown their traditional stance of superiority to all things 'foreign', and have moved towards a deeper sensitivity to other lands and other cultures.

Cultural Anthropology: 101

Author : Jack David Eller
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317550730
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Cultural Anthropology: 101 by : Jack David Eller

Download or read book Cultural Anthropology: 101 written by Jack David Eller and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-02-11 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This concise and accessible introduction establishes the relevance of cultural anthropology for the modern world through an integrated, ethnographically informed approach. The book develops readers’ understanding and engagement by addressing key issues such as: What it means to be human The key characteristics of culture as a concept Relocation and dislocation of peoples The conflict between political, social and ethnic boundaries The concept of economic anthropology Cultural Anthropology: 101 includes case studies from both classic and contemporary ethnography, as well as a comprehensive bibliography and index. It is an essential guide for students approaching this fascinating field for the first time.

The Geography, Nature and History of the Tropical Pacific and its Islands

Author : Walter M. Goldberg
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319695320
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (196 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Geography, Nature and History of the Tropical Pacific and its Islands by : Walter M. Goldberg

Download or read book The Geography, Nature and History of the Tropical Pacific and its Islands written by Walter M. Goldberg and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-12-08 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides an accessible scientific introduction to the historical geography of Tropical Pacific Islands, assessing the environmental and cultural changes they have undergone and how they are affected currently by these shifts and alterations. The book emphasizes the roles of plants, animals, people, and the environment in shaping the tropical Pacific through a cross-disciplinary approach involving history, geography, biology, environmental science, and anthropology. With these diverse scientific perspectives, the eight chapters of the book provide a comprehensive overview of Tropical Pacific Islands from their initial colonization by native peoples to their occupation by colonial powers, and the contemporary changes that have affected the natural history and social fabric of these islands. The Tropical Pacific Islands are introduced by a description of their geological formation, development, and geography. From there, the book details the origins of the island's original peoples and the dawn of the political economy of these islands, including the domestication and trade of plants, animals, and other natural resources. Next, readers will learn about the impact of missionaries on Pacific Islands, and the affects of Wold War II and nuclear testing on natural resources and the health of its people. The final chapter discusses the islands in the context of natural resource extraction, population increases, and global climate change. Working together these factors are shown to affect rainfall and limited water resources, as well as the ability to sustain traditional crops, and the capacity of the islands to accomodate its residents.

Promised Land

Author : Elizabeth Musser
Publisher : Bethany House Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780764237850
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (378 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Promised Land by : Elizabeth Musser

Download or read book Promised Land written by Elizabeth Musser and published by Bethany House Publishers. This book was released on 2020 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Desperate to mend her marriage and herself, Abbie Bartholomew joins her son in walking the famed Camino pilgrimage. During their journey, they encounter an Iranian working in secret to help refugees and a journalist searching for answers from her broken past-and everyone is called into a deep soul-searching that threatens all their best laid plans"--

The Kite Runner

Author : Khaled Hosseini
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 140882485X
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Kite Runner by : Khaled Hosseini

Download or read book The Kite Runner written by Khaled Hosseini and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-09-05 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Afghanistan, 1975: Twelve-year-old Amir is desperate to win the local kite-fighting tournament and his loyal friend Hassan promises to help him. But neither of the boys can foresee what will happen to Hassan that afternoon, an event that is to shatter their lives. After the Russians invade and the family is forced to flee to America, Amir realises that one day he must return to Afghanistan under Taliban rule to find the one thing that his new world cannot grant him: redemption.

The Kanak Apple Season

Author : Déwé Gorode
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Kanak Apple Season by : Déwé Gorode

Download or read book The Kanak Apple Season written by Déwé Gorode and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first volume in a new series presenting for the first time Francophone writers of the Pacific in English translation. This volume presents the collected short fiction of Dewe Gorode, the leading Kanak writer of New Caledonia.

100 Atmospheres

Author : The Meco Network
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781785420634
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (26 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis 100 Atmospheres by : The Meco Network

Download or read book 100 Atmospheres written by The Meco Network and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-17 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 100 Atmospheres is an invitation to think differently. Through speculative, poetic, and provocative texts, thirteen writers and artists have come together to reflect on human relationships with other species and the planet.

The Storyteller's Thesaurus

Author : Troll Lord Games
Publisher : Troll Lord Games
ISBN 13 : 9781936822355
Total Pages : 551 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Storyteller's Thesaurus by : Troll Lord Games

Download or read book The Storyteller's Thesaurus written by Troll Lord Games and published by Troll Lord Games. This book was released on 2015-04-30 with total page 551 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writers, game designers, teachers, and students ~this is the book youve been waiting for! Written by storytellers for storytellers, this volume offers an entirely new approach to word finding. Browse the pages within to see what makes this book different:

ABC Air Travel Atlas

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis ABC Air Travel Atlas by :

Download or read book ABC Air Travel Atlas written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Trees of Stanford and Environs

Author : Ronald Newbold Bracewell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Trees of Stanford and Environs by : Ronald Newbold Bracewell

Download or read book Trees of Stanford and Environs written by Ronald Newbold Bracewell and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Threatened Birds of Uttarakhand

Author : Asad R. Rahmani
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780199451340
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (513 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Threatened Birds of Uttarakhand by : Asad R. Rahmani

Download or read book Threatened Birds of Uttarakhand written by Asad R. Rahmani and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014-06-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Identification, protection, and monitoring of Important Bird Areas (IBAs) is a major global conservation programme initiated by BirdLife International, and recognized and appreciated by many governments, NGOs, and conservationists. This book is an extension of the BNHS's IBA programme to identify the threatened and near threatened bird species in Uttarakhand and to recommend measures for their long-term protection. Covering Critically Endangered (like Himalayan quail or mountain quail, White-backed or Oriental White-rumped Vulture, etc.), Endangered (Egyptian Vulture and Black-bellied Tern), malayan Quail or mountain Quail, pink-headed duck, white-bellied Heron, etc., Endangered Vulnerable (Western Tragopan, Marbled Duck, Sarus Crane, etc.), and Near Threatened (Ferruginous Duck, Painted Stork, Great Hornbill, etc.) species, this volume will help in expanding the scope of conservation in India beyond tiger conservation to make it more inclusive.