This is a fun gift book to astound and surprise. You'll see, but won't believe! This amazing collection of 500 optical illusions brims with the best eye tricks and visual oddities. Try to figure out how many legs the happy hippo has; what's weird about a very unusual building; why a page with wiggly[...]
The iconic life and career of the famed guitarist of the Rolling Stones is detailed in this compilation of interviews that spans the last 50 years. Featuring articles from GQ , Melody Maker , and Rolling Stone , as well as interviews that have never previously appeared in print, it charts Keith R[...]
Offering a modern translation of "The Legends of the Eighty-four Mahasiddhas," a 12th-century Tibetan text, translator Keith Dowman shares stories of the spiritual adventurers, rebellious saints, and enlightened tantric masters of ancient India known as "siddhas." He shows how the mahasiddhas arose [...]
The iconic life and career of the famed guitarist of the Rolling Stones is detailed in this compilation of interviews that spans the last 50 years.[...]
Concentrating solar power (CSP) technology is poised to take its place as one of the major contributors to the future clean energy mix. Using straightforward manufacturing processes, CSP technology capitalises on conventional power generation cycles, whilst cost effectively matching supply and deman[...]
Throughout the 17th century large parts of Europe were depopulated during the wide-ranging and savage wars of religion and dynasty, involving all of the major powers. This was therefore a key period in the development of 'modern' infantry tactics, such as the use of pole-arms and muskets together - [...]
This volume provides an introduction for flood risk management practitioners, up-to-date methods for analysis of uncertainty and its use in risk-based decision making. It addresses decision making for both short term (real-time forecasting) and long term (flood risk planning under change) situations[...]
This important new book tells the harrowing story of the Eighth Frontier War against the Xhosa people of the Eastern Cape, often from the viewpoint of those actually doing the fighting. It was the longest of those wars and it was to be followed by the Ninth, and last, in 1877-1878. By that time ther[...]
Fully updated and revised, this third edition features new, simplified keys based on leaf characteristics and incorporates updated names, reclassifications and new species. All known indigenous trees and many naturalized aliens ocurring south of the Zambezi-Cunene rivers are included. Accompanying t[...]
The Offa's Dyke Path is a magnificent National Trail that runs from the North Wales coast to the Severn Estuary following the line of Offa's Dyke, an impressive 8th century earthwork along the English/Welsh border. The ever-changing landscape - the Wye Valley, the Black Mountains, the Shropshire Hi[...]
John Meredith (1920-2001) was, for decades, the leading warrior in the fight to collect, preserve, and celebrate Australia's unique folk music heritage. Between 1953 and 1994, he recorded, from ordinary Australians, thousands of songs, tunes, recitations, folk medicines, superstitions, sayings, and [...]
Conspiracy expert Keith's final book on UFOs exposes the secret, sinister cabal that manufactures UFOs and uses them for their own purposes: human control and manipulation.[...]
Ka D'argo lives on - only in this pulse-pounding "Farscape" mini-series set in continuity during season 3 between episodes "Revenging Angel" and "Fractures". Follow the adventures of John Crichton's best friend D'argo as he's forced to not only save the day and end planetary war, he's got to do it a[...]
Designed to enable progression and encourage enjoyment of maths, the Pupil Books offer completely differentiated material matched to the new specification and packed full of functional maths questions and spreads. Year 7 Pupil Book 1 will help students working at levels 3-4 to make a smooth transit[...]
Designed to enable progression and encourage enjoyment of maths, the Pupil Books offer completely differentiated material matched to the new specification and packed full of functional maths questions and spreads. Year 7 Pupil Book 2 is fully-levelled with built-in progression helping students to p[...]
Designed to enable progression and encourage enjoyment of maths, the Pupil Books offer completely differentiated material matched to the new specification and packed full of functional maths questions and spreads. Year 7 Pupil Book 3 is fully-levelled with built-in progression helping students to p[...]
Designed to enable progression and encourage enjoyment of maths, the Pupil Books offer completely differentiated material matched to the new specification and packed full of functional maths questions and spreads. Year 8 Pupil Book 1 is fully-levelled with built-in progression helping students to m[...]
Designed to enable progression and encourage enjoyment of maths, the Pupil Books offer completely differentiated material matched to the new specification and packed full of functional maths questions and spreads. Year 8 Pupil Book 2 is fully-levelled with built-in progression helping students to m[...]
Designed to enable progression and encourage enjoyment of maths, the Pupil Books offer completely differentiated material matched to the new specification and packed full of functional maths questions and spreads. Year 9 Pupil Book 1 is designed to help students working at levels 4-5 to succeed in [...]