This text examines the flora and fauna of the African continent by viewing it as a complex mosaic of landlocked islands; islands which vary from isolated forests in oceans of grassland to lakes in seas of land. Each of these islands represents a snapshot of millions of years of evolution. The author highlights representative species, and as the reader is led around continental Africa, a pattern emerges which provides a deeper understanding of the complexity of the biology of Africa. The author was born in Tanzania and now teachers at Oxford University. He has also published a 7-volume work called "East African Mammals".

Island Africa: The Evolution of Africa's Animals and Plants

Science & Math

Kingdon, Jonathan

Biological Sciences

Princeton Univ Pr

"The Letters of Samuel Johnson" contains 52 previously unknown letters or parts of letters which have come to light since R.W. Chapman's work on the subject, published in 1952. For the first time, substantive deletions are recorded, yielding intimate knowledge of Johnson's stylistic procedures, mental habits and chains of association. Furthermore, detailed ownership credits document the current disposition of the manuscripts, hundreds of which have changed hands during the last four decades. Finally, the annotation of the letters incorporates the many significant discoveries of post-war Johnsonian scholarship, as well as decoding references that had resisted explanation before.

The Letters of Samuel Johnson: Volume II: 1773-1776 (Letters of Samuel Johnson)

Literature & Fiction

bruce-redford

British & Irish

Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age

War cannot be controlled in future without an understanding of its past. These essays analyse war, its strategic characteristics and its political and social functions, over the past five centuries. Makers of Modern Strategy , first pub lished in 1943, deserved and demanded updating. The 28 essays in the new vol ume7 more t

Engineering & Transportation

Paret Peter [Editor]

Engineering

1st ed. Octavo. Cloth. xiv, 501 pp, illustration. Near Fine in Good d/j, owner name.

The Shaping of the Elizabethan Regime

Biographies & Memoirs

MacCaffrey, Wallace

Leaders & Notable People

First edition. Ex-library copy of the definitive Hemingway bibliography. xi, 568 pages. cloth.. 8vo..

Ernest Hemingway: A Comprehensive Bibliography/With Supplement/2 Books

Hanneman, Audre

Reference

Coomaraswamy: Selected Papers : Metaphysics Vol 1 & 2

Politics & Social Sciences

Lipsey, Rodger

Philosophy

Light from the Ancient Past

Classics

Examining Athenian democracy as an object lesson for democracy in general, and invoking Freud as his guide in this task, Eli Sagan explores the startling contradictions in the society of Athens: its delicious honey and its deadly hemlock.

The Honey and the Hemlock

History

Sagan, Eli

Ancient Civilizations

The description for this book, Re-Ordering the Universe: Picasso and Anarchism, 1897-1914, will be forthcoming.

Re-Ordering the Universe: Picasso and Anarchism, 1897-1914

Leighten, Patricia Dee

Arts & Photography

Mondith/Shibbolith: The Modern Jew in Culture and Post Modernism

New, E.

World

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