This volume replaces the traditional image of George Herbert as meditative recluse with a portrait of the poet as engaged throughout his life with the religion, politics and society of his time. Instead of an isolated genius living in retreat from the world, Herbert appears as a man writing public verse, active within an important social circle, and committed to nationalistic Protestantism.
This fully illustrated book examines the scientific view of dinosaurs as living creatures. Once considered docile and inactive - like their distant cold-blooded reptiles relatives - dinosaurs are now thought to have been active, energetic creatures that used a variety of methods to maintain a constant body temperature. The story of best-known dinosaurs is told in "Time of the Giants". The Middle and Late Jurassic Periods saw the largest land animals ever to walk the Earth - the sauropods. But the giants were not alone; other kinds of dinosaurs were diversifying rapidly as well. Most notably, predatory dinosaurs began their own trend towards gigantism, and the prolific development of plated and armored herbivores filled ecological spaces not tread upon by the long-necked behemoths. By the end of the Jurassic Period, dinosaurs represented extremism in the size of land animals with equally elegant metabolic and thermoregulatory mechanisms to maintain an active lifestyle. At the other end of the size scale, some small meat-eating dinosaurs, such as Archaeopteryx, developed powered flight and gave rise to birds.
Robert Hanna argues for the importance of Kant's theories of the epistemological, metaphysical, and practical foundations of the "exact sciences"--relegated to the dustbin of the history of philosophy for most of the 20th century. In doing so he makes a valuable contribution to one of the most active and fruitful areas in contemporary scholarship on Kant.
Active Grammar develops in young learners an understanding and control of the essential building blocks of English grammar and in so doing provides them with a solid platform for further language development. This series follows a tried-and-tested ‘presentation-explanation-practice’ format. Each unit has been carefully designed to stimulate interest while at the same time shows the lesson’s grammatical focus in context. The profusion of lively colour illustrations and the variety of activities demonstrate that learning of grammar can be interesting and fun.
Active Grammar develops in young learners an understanding and control of the essential building blocks of English grammar and in so doing provides them with a solid platform for further language development. This series follows a tried-and-tested "presentation-explanation-practice" format. Each unit has been carefully designed to stimulate interest while at the same time shows the lesson’s grammatical focus in context. The profusion of lively colour illustrations and the variety of activities demonstrate that learning of grammar can be interesting and fun.
