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California Dreaming Reforming Mathematics Education
ISBN: PB: 9780300183085, Yale University Press, November 2011
320 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.
This compelling book tells the history of the past two decades of efforts to reform mathematics education in California. That history is a contentious one, full of such fervor and heat that participants and observers often refer to the "math wars". S...
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£22,50
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Quaker Experiences in International Conciliation
ISBN: PB: 9780300183115, Yale University Press, November 2011
338 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.
As far back as the early 1900s, the Quakers have been engaged in a program of quiet private diplomacy that won them a Nobel Peace Prize in 1947. During the turbulent 1960s, hey acted as unofficial conciliators in several tense situations. This compre...
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£25,00
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Moon A Brief History
ISBN: PB: 9780300177695, Yale University Press, October 2011
304 pp., 21x14 cm, 93 black&white illus.
Werewolves and Wernher von Braun, Stonehenge and the sex lives of sea corals, aboriginal myths, and an Anglican bishop: in his new book, "Moon", Bernd Brunner weaves variegated information into an enchanting glimpse of Earth's closest celestial neigh...
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£28,00
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Dazzled and Deceived Mimicry and Camouflage
ISBN: PB: 9780300178968, Yale University Press, September 2011
304 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 16 illus.
Nature has perfected the art of deception. Thousands of creatures all over the world – including butterflies, moths, fish, birds, insects and snakes – have honed and practised camouflage over hundreds of millions of years. Imitating other animals or...
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£10,99
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First in Line Tracing Our Ape Ancestry
ISBN: PB: 9780300180176, Yale University Press, July 2011
220 pp., 21x14.8 cm, black&white illus.
Despite Darwin's bold contention in 1871 that the likely ancestor for Homo sapiens was an African ape, the scientific community hesitated for decades before accepting small-brained but bipedal walking "apes" from southern Africa as direct human ances...
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£16,00
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Entirely Synthetic Fish How Rainbow Trout Beguiled America and Overran the World
ISBN: PB: 9780300140880, Yale University Press, July 2011
288 pp., 25x15 cm, 20 black&white illus.
Anders Halverson provides an exhaustively researched and grippingly rendered account of the rainbow trout and why it has become the most commonly stocked and controversial freshwater fish in the United States. Discovered in the remote waters of north...
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£16,99
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Ambonese Herbal Volume 1
ISBN: HB: 9780300153705, Yale University Press, May 2011
544 pp., 28.8x20 cm, 124 black&white illus., 3 colour illus.
Over the course of five decades, the seventeenth-century naturalist Georgius Everhardus Rumphius assiduously gathered information on the native plants of Ambon Island and its archipelago. By presenting descriptions of the plants and their multiple us...
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£76,00
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Ambonese Herbal Volume 4
ISBN: HB: 9780300153736, Yale University Press, May 2011
624 pp., 28.8x20 cm, 136 black&white illus., 2 colour illus.
Over the course of five decades, the seventeenth-century naturalist Georgius Everhardus Rumphius assiduously gathered information on the native plants of Ambon Island and its archipelago. By presenting descriptions of the plants and their multiple us...
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£76,00
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Ambonese Herbal Volume 6
ISBN: HB: 9780300153750, Yale University Press, May 2011
128 pp., 28.8x20 cm
Over the course of five decades, the seventeenth-century naturalist Georgius Everhardus Rumphius assiduously gathered information on the native plants of Ambon Island and its archipelago. By presenting descriptions of the plants and their multiple us...
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£76,00
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Ambonese Herbal Volume 5
ISBN: HB: 9780300153743, Yale University Press, May 2011
640 pp., 28.8x20 cm, 138 black&white illus., 2 colour illus.
Over the course of five decades, the seventeenth-century naturalist Georgius Everhardus Rumphius assiduously gathered information on the native plants of Ambon Island and its archipelago. By presenting descriptions of the plants and their multiple us...
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£75,00
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