Aalwyne word algemeen gebruik in tuine dwarsoor die land, en is gewilde 'argitektoniese plante', daar is ook 'n groeiende belangstelling in hulle medisinale en kommersiële gebruike. Daar ...
Hierdie nuwe boek, oorspronklik uitgegee in 1993, bevat een van die beste versamelings kleur fotografie van voëls. Die boek is ten volle hersien en bevat die nuwe name van spesies, kaarte is ...
Hierdie veldgids stel die leser bekend aan die wêreld van die kleurvolle naaldekokers in Suid-Afrika. Die inleiding kyk na naaldekoker eienskappe en biologie, en verskaf handige raad ...
Reading like a suspense novel, the riveting true account of the greatest bank robbery in American history examines how criminal mastermind George Leonidas Leslie planned and executed a heist at the Manhattan Savings ...
Explores the world of ants in a Costa Rican nature reserve in a study that is told from the ant's perspective, and profiles such ants as the leafcutter scout and swarm-raider male
"Jeremy Neely recounts the exploits of John Brown, William Quantrill, and other notorious guerrillas, as well as the stories of everyday people who lived through the conflict that marked the terrible first act of the ...
Enhanced by photographs, reproductions, and sidebars, a survey of the role of women in American history covers such areas as health, work, education, amusements, the arts, work, and beauty.
A high-energy chronicle of the early sixteenth-century creation of the Waldseemüller map offers insight into how monks, classicists, merchants, and other contributors from earlier periods shaped the map's creation ...
This title explores the process of decolonization of France's largest colony, French West Africa. The author challenges the traditional dichotomy between "imperial" and "colonial" history, and asks was successful ...
The American Civil War was the world's first full-blown 'railroad war'. This work presents the thrilling chases and pitched battles that made the railroad so dangerous and resulted in a high casualty rate. It describes ...
Examines the events that led up to the 1848 rising in Ireland and examines the reasons for its failure. This book places the rising in the context of political changes outside Ireland, especially the links between ...
Explores the role of drama in healing, from shrines of Asklepios in Ancient Greece to hospitals today. This book argues that a pageant which showed the enactment of the god healing prompted the dream therapy the patient ...
Follows the life of the Polish aristocrat who believed in freedom, fought in the American Revolution, and was appointed chief of the Engineering Corps of the Northern army.
Examines the human history of California's earliest oil and hydroelectricity developments. This covers such controversial sources as nuclear reactors and liquefied natural gas. This guide provides a discussion of oil, ...