In this unforgettable book, wolf expert and naturalist Elli Radinger draws on her 25 years of first-hand experience among the wolves of Yellowstone National Park to tell us their remarkable stories. Wolves aren't wolfish. They can die of broken hearts, show tenderness to their young and elderly, and their packs are led by couples, with the key decisions made by females. They play, they pretend and they predate. They are more complex than we ever knew and more like us than we ever imagined. You'll meet Oh-Six, the she-wolf whose bold hunting technique astounded the most experienced biologists, Casanova who succeeded in luring his love away from her pack, and Druid alpha male 21, the magnanimous and compassionate leader. Ultimately, Radinger shows how much we can learn from these beautiful and mysterious creatures, and how much there is to gain from emulating the wisdom of
V naší podkategorii Knihy v kategorii Hobby najdete široký výběr knih, které vám pomohou rozšířit vaše hobby do nových dimenzí. S našimi knihami se dozvíte nejen nové techniky a triky, ale také se seznámíte s historií a teorií za vaším koníčkem. Od knih o malování a kreslení přes knihy o fotografii, ušití oblečení a pletení až po knihy o zahradničení a vaření. Prohlédněte si naší širokou nabídku a vyberte si tu, která vás bude zajímat nejvíce. Buďte kreativní a nechte se inspirovat!
Symbols play an integral role in branding programs. This book explores the visual language of symbols according to their most basic element: form. Over 1,300 symbols from all over the world are here categorized by visual type, divested of all agendas, meanings, and messages that might be associated with them so that the effectiveness of their composition and impact can be assessed without distraction
A 75th-anniversary facsimile edition of one of the most significant photobooks ever publishedMore than any other artist, Walker Evans invented the images of essential America that we have long since accepted as fact, and his work has influenced not only modern photography but also literature, film and visual arts in other mediums. The original edition of American Photographs was a carefully prepared
Nature didn\'t finish your child\'s brain at birth. It\'s up to you to maximize your child\'s mental skills without causing additional stress. Acclaimed neurologist and bestselling author of Grain Brain, David Perlmutter, MD, offers these valuable tools: Simple games to reinforce memory pathways in the brain Information on common household products and children\'s toys that contain brain-damaging neurotoxins
In the rich and varied life stories in Under the Black Umbrella, elderly Koreans recall incidents that illustrate the complexities of Korea during the colonial period. Hildi Kang here reinvigorates a period of Korean history long shrouded in the silence of those who endured under the black umbrella of Japanese colonial rule. Existing descriptions of the colonial period tend to focus on extremes: imperial
The age of the internet and media have brought about a growing interest in Asian culture and its various languages across the region. Due to the unique structures, the Han characters are being utilized as flexible design elements that bring abstract visual concepts to life in breaking the barriers between the East and the West. As a follow-up to the original release in 2015, Hanzi-Kanji-Hanja 2 comprises
My boss. My enemy.I escaped my life.Leaving everything behind wasn\'t easy, but I did it.I turned the page and flew over the ocean.This is my new beginning.My new chapter.My new book.Or so I hoped before I met my new boss.Daniel Sterling.Rich as sin, illegally attractive, and the face of every magazine cover.Oh, and the reason why I escaped in the first place.I made his high school life hell. He won\'t
A groundbreaking prescription for health care reform--from a legendary leader in innovation . . . Our health care system is in critical condition. Each year, fewer Americans can afford it, fewer businesses can provide it, and fewer government programs can promise it for future generations. We need a cure, and we need it now. Harvard Business School\'s Clayton M. Christensen--whose bestselling The Innovator\'s
Working with the image of the Indian shaman as Wild Man, Taussig reveals not the magic of the shaman but that of the politicizing fictions creating the effect of the real. This extraordinary book . . . will encourage ever more critical and creative explorations.--Fernando Coronil, [I]American Journal of Sociology[/I] Taussig has brought a formidable collection of data from arcane literary, journalistic,
James Bond has discovered danger. Now it\'s come looking for him. An Eton boy\'s family disappears at sea. James uncovers a shadowy society operating in a hidden corner of the school. And far from England, in the bandit-infested interior of Sardinia, a sinister Italian count has built himself a mountain fortress. Is there a
Struggling to realize your full procrastination potential? Finally, a primer for procrastinators has arrived. Not Now is an illustrated instruction manual that teaches novice and advanced procrastinators how to dally, dawdle, and lollygag their way to expert-level procrastination. Starting with simple exercises, such as sit and pace, instructions gradually advance in complexity and futility---learn
Knowledge about Vivaldi and his music is still advancing at an incredible rate - many discoveries occurred while the book was in preparation - and every effort has been made to ensure that The Vivaldi Compendium represents the latest in Vivaldi research, drawing on the author\'s close involvement with Vivaldi and Venetian music over four
Successful brands are alive. They are able to activate the very forces of life because they embed our fundamental human motives, the evolutionarily preserved mechanisms that have helped us survive and thrive. Our fundamental human motives shape the language that is shared by everyone. Living Brands decodes this language and helps marketers, consumer insight managers, advertisers, designers, PR professionals,
Published in 1957, Hawk in the Rain was Ted Hughes\'s first collection of poems. When Robin Skelton wrote, \'All looking for the emergence of a major poet must buy it\', he was right to see in it the promise of what many now regard as the most important body of work by any poet of the twentieth
Perry Groves spent over a decade in the footballing spotlight. Sometimes he was at the top, often he was at the bottom and that\'s half the reasons the fans loved him so much - and still do. This is the most truthful and hilarious book about professional football you will ever read. Perry Groves was the first signing by the legendary Arsenal manager George Graham, and that unmistakable figure with
Benjamin Fondane was that rarest of poets: an experimental formalist with a powerful lyric poetic voice; a renegade surrealist who was also a highly original existential philosopher; a self-consciously Jewish poet of diaspora and loss, whose last manuscripts made it out of Drancy in 1944 just before his deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau, where he was murdered, yet whose poetry speaks of an overflowing
God\'s Word can transform the world--through your kids. The world may seem too big, too chaotic, and too confusing for today\'s youth to make a difference, but God has called them to stand up in faith and join a legacy of difference makers. The Make a Difference Youth Bible is filled with life-changing reflections and get-out-of-the-chair activities to help the younger generations walk with Jesus,
A book of exciting pictures and up-to-date facts and stats on the oceans\' most fascinating
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