Paul Rees
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Robert Plant by Paul Rees is the definitive biography of Led Zeppelin's legendary frontman. As lead singer for one of the biggest and most influential rock bands of all time—whose song "Stairway to Heaven" has been played more times on American radio than any other track—Robert Plant defined what it means to be a rock god.
Over the course of his twenty-year career, British music journalist and editor Paul Rees
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An understanding of ecology is an important requirement of a wide range of academic areas, including biology, zoology and environmental science.
This book is a study and revision guide for students following programmes of study in which ecology is an important component. It contains 600 multiple-choice questions (and answers) set at three levels-foundation, intermediate and advanced-and grouped into 10 major topic areas:
The history and foundations...
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An understanding of the work of zoos and aquariums is central to many programmes of study in wildlife conservation and more specialised programmes in zoo and aquarium science and management.
This book is intended as a study and revision guide for students following these programmes. It contains 600 multiple-choice questions (and answers) set at three levels-foundation, intermediate and advanced-and grouped into 10 major topic areas:
1. History of...
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An understanding of animal behaviour and welfare is an important requirement of a wide range of programmes of study including biology, zoology, animal welfare, animal behaviour, psychology and zoo biology.
This book is intended as a study and revision guide for students following programmes of study in which animal behaviour and welfare are an important component. It contains 600 multiple-choice questions (and answers) set at three levels-foundation,...
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2016 marks the 20th anniversary of the 1996 European Cup, hosted in England, when the national football team reached the semi-finals to be knocked out, on penalties, by Germany. It was also the end of a generation—these were the last footballers to be brought up on beer and sweat. In September '96 Arsene Wenger arrived at Arsenal with his 'continental' philosophy of diets and training, and by 1998 Beckham had arrived, changing the face of football...
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An understanding of biodiversity is an important requirement of a wide range of programmes of study including biology, zoology, wildlife conservation and environmental science.
This book is a study and revision guide for students following such programmes in which biodiversity is an important component. It contains 600 multiple-choice questions (and answers) set at three levels-foundation, intermediate and advanced-and grouped into 10 major topic...
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An understanding of applied ecology and conservation is an important requirement of a wide range of programmes of study including applied biology, ecology, environmental science and wildlife conservation.
This book is a study and revision guide for students following such programmes. It contains 600 multiple-choice questions (and answers) set at three levels-foundation, intermediate and advanced-and grouped into 10 major topic areas:
History and...
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Hachette Books
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2020.
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"The definitive, no-holds-barred biography of John Entwistle, The Who's legendary bass guitarist. It is an unequivocal fact that in terms of rock bands, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and the Who represent Year Zero; the beginning of all things, ground-breakers all. To that incontrovertible end, John Entwistle- The Who's beloved bassist- remains an enigmatic yet undeniably influential figure. However, unlike his fellow musicians, Entwistle has yet...
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Frances Lincoln
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2023.
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Indoors or outside, in the smallest spaces or as features in large gardens, succulents and cacti are popular in homes and gardens all across the world, regardless of climate. They're resilient, beautiful and easy to care for as long as you're armed with the right knowledge. Packed with information and inspiration, and with the guiding authority and expertise of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, this book teaches you everything you need to know about...
11) Mellencamp
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Atria Books
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2021.
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English
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"John Mellencamp is not your typical rock star. Not only has he absorbed into his own work the influence of Faulkner, Williams, Steinbeck and other such literary giants, but he himself could have stepped straight from the pages of any of their great American novels. A complex, colorful and larger than life character, Mellencamp, like Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash before him, walks to the beat of his own drum. Or, as he told author and veteran music journalist,...
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It Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
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[2013]
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Robert Plant is a living legend. The front man of Led Zeppelin, one of the biggest and most influential rock bands of all time, Plant defined the very notion of what it means to be a rock god. The sheer scale of Led Zeppelin's success is extraordinary. In the United States alone they have sold seventy million records, a figure surpassed only by the Beatles, while "Stairway to Heaven," the band's most famous song, has been played more times on American...
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The outrageous and often hilarious autobiography of legendary session musician and lead guitarist and singer of Toto. No one explodes one of the longest-held misconceptions of music history better than Steve Lukather and his band Toto. The dominant sound of the late '70s and '80s was not punk, but a slick, polished amalgam of rock and R&B first staked out on Boz Scaggs' Silk Degrees. That album was shaped in large part by the founding members of Toto,...
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Is it too late? The world is overrun by the infectious walking dead seeking living flesh... The Breathing Dead, a zombie tale, follows Karen, Jane, Sam and House fighting for survival in Farmore. In world where being dead no longer means the end, time is running out for the human race...
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BLOOD HUNGER: In the year 1477AD, Baron Wilton Abrahams tracked down the last of the Dracul brothers, Stellan, and on a snow-covered mountain in Romania, drove a stake into him, sending him tumbling over the edge. While Stellan's body lay frozen, the brides of the Dracul were forced to flee their ancient castle and the rest of their kind met their fate at the deadly hands of vampire hunter, Abrahams. Five-hundred years later, explorer Max Lowe and...
17) Burtynsky: oil
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Thames & Hudson [distributor]
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2009
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English
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"Edward Burtynsky's Oil collects a decades' worth of photographing the world's largest oil fields, refineries, freeway interchanges and automobile plants, in an attempt to comprehend the scale of production attending this most politicized of resources. The ideal photographer for this job, Burtynsky locates and documents the sites that urban dwellers never see, and questions human accountability. His imagery is vast in both scale and ambition, revealing...