The information is presented in a fun, colourful way. Illustrations show the gruesome side of dinosaurs, including their eating habits. Visual keys show the main information about the dinosaurs in a clear, concise way. Fun, short facts are presented clearly in bright boxes.
In
today's information-laden and time-constrained world we are required to
digest an increasing amount of written and printed material. Most
people, in their capacity as student, job seeker, employee or leisure
reader, want to be able to deal with their daily reading faster and
also recall it effectively. This book gives you the means to do just
that by: finding the techniques for improvement that work best for you;
providing methods for increasing retention and recall; promoting
flexibility - the key to reading efficiently; offering techniques for
developing skim-reading; and, highlighting problem areas and suggesting
ways of addressing them. The book contains exercises to facilitate your
development and assesses your results throughout, ensuring that you
come away reading faster and recalling more.
Return to Diversity: A Political History of East Central Europe since World War II An opinionated,
well-written and clear political history of Poland, Czechoslovakia,
Hungary, Yugoslavia, Romania, Bulgaria and Albania since WWII,
completely revised for this third edition to reflect post-Soviet
realities.
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TTC - Between the Rivers: The History of Ancient Mesopotamia
What
pieces of a distant past drift before our mind's eye when ancient
Mesopotamia is mentioned?
Do we see the temples known as ziggurats, thrust toward the sky by
stepped platforms that would bring worshippers closer to the gods they
honored? Entire populations paralyzed by fear before a dreaded invader,
their dreams haunted by images of their own severed heads held aloft?
Priests making sacrifices to the gods who ruled over and protected
their city? Or the fabled Hanging Gardens of Babylon, their terraces as
shadowed by mystery as they are set alight by color?
Any of these, of course, may come to mind. Perhaps all of them. And
with the exception of Babylon's fabled gardens, whose existence has
never actually been confirmed, they are all true—each
a part of the legacy of a region from which our own culture has drawn
so many essential aspects, including writing, the first code of law,
the idea of cities, and even the first epic poem. All cultures lie in
the shadow of Mesopotamia.
Macmillan Illustrated Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Animals: A Visual Who's Who of Prehistoric Life
These are happy hunting days for lovers of dinosaur paraphernalia. As
such, the Macmillan encyclopedia has something for everyone: colored
reconstructions of the animals matched with a text whose style is
accessible to most enthusiasts but whose content is extensive enough
for more serious students. Both newly discovered and classic fossil
animals are included, and there is background information to put each
animal in time, place, and taxonomic perspective. The book's strongest
feature is its inclusion of vertebrate animals other than dinosaurs.
The variety of fossil fish and mammals should convince the skeptical
that dinosaurs had no monopoly on bizarre structure.
TTC - Between the Rivers: The History of Ancient Mesopotamia
