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Learn all you need to know (and more) about these stunningly slithery reptilesEver wondered how to charm a cobra? Everything You Need to Know About Snakes contains amazing facts and staggering statistics that will tell you all you could hope to know about the slithery snake. Find out how far a cobra can spit, meet some seriously slippery characters in the most camouflaged stakes, have a look at a gallery of fangs and read all about a whopping 15m long prehistoric snake.Perfect for school projects, Everything You Need to Know About Snakes also contains facts about lizards, crocodiles, tortoises and turtles. It's everything you need to know and everything you want to find out.
Follow Oscar McShaggytail, Barnabas Grump and their young team as they begin their exciting adventure to find the Mystical Waters of Utopia. They need the waters to fuel KITTI, their recently invented time machine. Oscar is an idealist and wants to use the time machine to visit great minds from both past and present. He hopes to seek their knowledge and advice, and potentially overcome many of today's big social and environmental issues. Basically, he wants to save the planet.His brilliant young team includes the talented and beautiful Lucy de Pussy, the nervous Jack Snapper and the minder of the team, Billy (Bud) McClaw. Add to that, Felix Fawkes, their enigmatic and sophisticated guide, and later Midge Munroe, you have a collection of interesting characters with diverse personalities. The story follows Oscar and his team to the ancient castle of Elantfia where the Waters are supposedly hidden. Unknown to Oscar, he is pursued by a gang of villains who want the Waters of Utopia for a much more sinister purpose. The villains are led by the evil Red Rod Rodentsky and the sinister Doctor Slimella DeHissifit. All the action takes place in Elantfia Castle, and apart from the villains causing havoc, there is also a couple of spooky ghostly characters thrown in for good measure.Can Oscar and the gang escape with the Mystical Waters or will Red Rod and his cronies spoil the day and steal the waters from their very grasp?The story is light and upbeat with a fair wallop of humour and adventure. There is also added emotion and sentiment which helps make it a much more rounded, poignant tale. The author hopes you enjoy it.
To the naturalist John Woodward (c.1665-1728), fossils were 'much neglected, and left wholly to the Care and Treatment of Miners and meer Mechanicks'. He had built up a large personal collection of these samples of the Earth's petrified remains and spent much of his life developing a system for their classification, the results of which were published in this important illustrated work of 1728. A distinguished physician and a fellow of the Royal Society, Woodward wrote extensively on scientific topics, and had developed a theory that fossils were creatures destroyed in the flood described in the Bible. These ideas attracted critics and supporters in equal measure, but his contribution to techniques of fossil collection and classification were influential. In the present work, he devotes the early chapters to questions of description and classification, while the later sections contain some of his letters to his scientific contemporaries, including Isaac Newton.
'Introduction to Geotechnical Processes' covers the elements of ground treatment and improvement, from the control of groundwater, drilling and grouting, to ground anchors and electro-chemical hardening.
¿A massive and minutely researched history of European Heraldry ranging from orders of nobility dating from early times, to those created in the 19th century by Napoleon and others. The book is illustrated throughout with full colour portraits of the coats of arms and crests of the families described and discussed. The authors display enormous knowledge and authority on their subject, describing the meaning and origin of the animal, plants and symbols used in heraldic devices, the origins or the symbols used. For serious students of medieval arms and armaments, this long out of print two-volume work (now bound into one mammoth volume) is indispensable.
Originally published in 1695 and here reissued in its 1723 third edition, this work by the physician and natural historian John Woodward (c.1665-1728) attempts to link fossils to the biblical flood to support his theories about the Earth's physical history. This immediately prompted a heated debate among scientific contemporaries.
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