Amazing Photos And Interesting Facts Reveal Environmental Issues Vultures Face As They Hunt For Food And Raise Their Young. Here VULTURE combines a fascinating, authoritative text with dramatic color photos to examine the myth and reality of this unique creature . The book focuses most of its attention on the vulture species itself, describing the history of its maligned reputation, its evolution as a species, and its adaptation in the wake of habitat destruction.
Hand Art is about everything you can make with hand tracings: dragons, frogs, dogs, aliens, ducks, cats, monsters, skunks, peacocks, people and, yes, turkeys. Since every creature needs essential details, we included essential-detail makers: googly eyes, glue, pompoms and crayons. The book itself is crammed with handfuls of inspiration and handy ideas developed by our staff of art experts, kindergarteners all.
With the help of writers, historians, musicologists, film buffs and Alan Bennett, Ian Hislop sets out to analyse six images of Henry VIII which turn out to be rather better portraits of the periods in which they were created than they are historical insights into the King himself. However, given that his most famous portrait, by Hans Holbein, is itself an artfully drawn propaganda tool we shouldn't be all that surprised.
Major changes have shaken Marxism over recent decades. This collection of essays, by two American authors of international repute, documents what has become the most original formulation of Marxist theory today. Resnick and Wolff ’s work is shaping Marxism’s new directions and new departures as it repositions itself for the twenty first century. Their new non-determinist and class-focused Marxist
The second title in the new four volume Brief History of Britain series - a new look at the Tudors and Stuarts by one of Britain's leading historians.
From the death of Richard III on Bosworth Field in 1485 to the execution of Charles I, after the Civil Wars of 1642-48, England was transformed by two Dynasties. Firstly the Tudors, who won the crown on the battlefield and changed both the nature of kingship but also the nation itself. England became a Protestant nation and began to establishment itself as a trading power; facing down impossible odds it defeated its enemies on land and sea. Yet after a century Elizabeth I died with no heir and the crown was passed to the Stuarts.
