Has your child got what it takes to become a bird expert? Then check out this action-packed kit and help them discover some of the most amazing creatures on earth. Open up this cool slipcased kit to explore the clip art CD packed with 100s of fantastic bird images to download and read the Eyewitness book jammed with exciting facts. There's a giant wallchart perfect for decorating bedroom walls and a map showing some of nature's most incredible migration routes, a model barn owl to build as well as pull-out profiles of 48 of the most awe inspiring birds on the planet.
Nearly all puzzle books published today grossly underestimate the intelligence of their public. The reader can no longer be entertained with the simple match-trick or coin puzzles, neither does he want to see problems purely mathematical in nature, such as can be found in any textbook. We have tried to produce a book of those puzzles which lie between the two extremes.
This book brings together new essays on a major focus of debate in contemporary metaphysics: does time really pass, or is our ordinary experience of time as consisting of past, present, and future an illusion? The international contributors broaden this debate by demonstrating the importance of questions about the nature of time for philosophical issues in ethics, aesthetics, psychology, science, religion, and language.
In this book, William Caferro asks if the Renaissance was really a period of progress, reason, the emergence of the individual, and the beginning of modernity. * An influential investigation into the nature of the European Renaissance * Summarizes scholarly debates about the nature of the Renaissance
