The objects are fantastic, but the folding techniques use simple triangles and squares, pyramids and cubes. Master spiral designs, multi-pointed stars, 9-sided gift boxes, and 12-sided gyroscopic whirligigs. More elaborate designs are 8-sided flying saucers, whimsical crows in the grass, gorgeous nested boxes and sculptured gift containers.
Эта богато иллюстрированная книга познакомит любопытных с ключевыми вопросами науки о поведении животных. Вопросы для обсуждения, предложенные в конце каждой главы, можно использовать для полировки своего словарного запаса.
"Essential Animal Behavior" provides a comprehensive introduction to all areas of the subject: from the genetic and neurobiological control of behavior to the learning, development, and function of behavior in an evolutionary context. Social behaviour is also covered throughout the text.
Written in a concise and engaging style and carefully designed to meet the needs of students coming to the subject for the first time, the book includes the following features:
- key concept boxes
- focus on boxes
- chapter summaries
- guided reading to aid revision and further study
- case studies and boxed examples that reinforce essential points,
- questions for discussion.
This book is essential reading for degree-level students following modular programs in biology, zoology, and psychology.
What a Life Beginning What A Life! is an exciting introduction to some of history's most amazing people. Did you know that... William Shakespeare earned almost no money from his writing?... Leonard da Vinci wrote backwards in his notebooks so that nobody could read them?... Eva Peron's body was missing for 16 years?... Pablo Picasso never threw anything away, not even empty cereal boxes?... Agatha Christie wrote a book that actually saved someone's life? These and other fascinating biographical facts can be found in What A Life.
What a Life Beginning
