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Impossible Monsters
How the Discovery of Dinosaurs Changed the WorldOne of the most interesting stories in the world . . . brilliant . . . told with brio and humour, but not without a sense of the pathos of Doubt . . . I relished every word
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Tsodilo Hills
Copper Bracelet of the KalahariTsodilo Hills is a richly illustrated account of one of the world's oldest and most beautiful historical sites.
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Impossible Monsters
Dinosaurs, Darwin, and the Battle Between Science and Religion“Vivid with a Mesozoic bestiary” (Tom Holland), this on-the-ground, page-turning narrative weaves together the chance discovery of dinosaurs and the rise of the secular age.
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Wild and Wonderful
An Ethnography of English NaturalistsVanessa Manceron is a social anthropologist and researcher at the Centre national de recherche scientifique and director of the Laboratoire d’ethnologie et de sociologie comparative in Paris. Michael Taylor has translated not only many book-length essays in art history, including Matisse's correspondence with M.-A. Couturier, but several volumes of poetry, including Victor Segalen's Stèles and Horace's complete odes. He is also the author of books on Rembrandt and Vermeer. Stephen Hugh-Jones is Emeritus Research Associate at the Cambridge University Department of Social Anthropology. His research and publications focus on the culture of the Eastern Tukanoan peoples of Colombian Amazonia.
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Impossible Monsters
Impossible Monsters is the captivating story of the discovery of the dinosaurs and how it upended our understanding of the origins of the world.'An astonishing book about an extraordinary subject' PETER FRANKOPAN'As thrilling as it is sweeping' TOM HOLLAND'This book dazzles in its originality . . . a triumph' SATHNAM SANGHERAIn 1811, a twelve-year-old girl uncovered some strange-looking bones in Britain's southern shoreline. They belonged to no known creature and were buried beneath a hundred feet of rock. Over the next two decades, as several more of these 'impossible monsters' emerged from the soil, the leading scientists of the day were forced to confront a profoundly disturbing possibility: the Bible, as a historical account of the Earth's origins, was wildly wrong.This is the dramatic story of the crisis that engulfed science and religion when we discovered the dinosaurs. It takes us into the lives and minds of the extraordinary men and women who made these heretical discoveries, those who resisted them, as well as the pioneering thinkers, Darwin most famous among them, who took great risks to construct a new account of the earth's and mankind's origins.Impossible Monsters is the riveting story of a group of people who not only thought impossible things but showed them to be true. In the process they overturned the literal reading of the Bible, liberated science from the authority of religion and ushered in the secular age.'Truly marvellous ... an intellectual thriller' RICHARD HOLMES'A stunning work ... of surprises and revelations' STEVE BRUSATTE*An Economist, Times Literary Supplement, Bloomberg and Waterstones Book of the Year 2024*
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Promoting Local Growth
Process, Practice and PolicyThis title was first published in 2001. Focusing on new industries, policies and new forms of governance, the internationally renowned contributors to this volume examine the factors promoting the sub-national economic growth that is paradoxically occurring in an era of globalization.
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Embedded Enterprise and Social Capital
International PerspectivesThis title was first published in 2002. Drawing on a broad range of case studies from the developed and developing world, this volume is the first to examine the complex processes of embedding in an international context. It not only questions the universality of the current model and the policy initiatives it has spawned but also provides a much wider understanding of embeddedness .
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The Networked Firm in a Global World
Small Firms in New Environments'There is much to be recommended in this book, particularly the genersal approach in which empirical insights are drawn upon to advance theoretical debates on the nature of interfirm relationships, agglomeration and innovation...' Progress in Human Geography
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Industrial Organisation and Location
This book attempts to advance locational explanation in industrial geography by more fully exploring relationships between organizations and the environments within which they operate. The volume is in two parts, the first developing a theoretical framework and the second testing this framework with data for firms in the electronics industry in the UK. To produce the theoretical framework, ideas derived from geographers' studies of linkages and information flows are reviewed and amalgamated with ideas embodied in organization theorists' contingency models of organisational structure. These two sets of studies are complementary. The geographical studies are empirically strong but conceptually weak, and are cast in an explicitly spatial framework. The structural contingency models, however, are empirically weak, conceptually strong and almost entirely aspatial. The amalgamation of these two sets of ideas yields an a priori model of organization environment interactions, which is tested in the second half of the volume.
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Vulnerability Analysis for Transportation Networks
Michael Taylor is Professor Emeritus of Transport Planning at the University of South Australia. Author or editor of eight transportation books, Dr. Taylor is a leading pioneer in transportation network vulnerability analysis.
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Eat, Drink and Be Merry, for Tomorrow We Live
Studies in Christianity and DevelopmentA Baptist Minister, Michael Taylor was previously Director of Christian Aid, President of the Jubilee 2000 UK Debt Campaign, and Director of the World Faiths Development Dialogue. He is currently Emeritus Professor of Social Theology in the University of Birmingham.
€ 55,50