Habitat Fragmentation, its Effect on Biodiversity
When native vegetation is cleared for agriculture, habitats which were once continuous become divided into separate fragments. After intensive clearing, the separate fragments tend to be very small islands isolated from each other by crop land ... [... more]
Australian Museum |
Dante Design
Ceramic artist Katrina Kenny's new range of sculptured, decorative giftware was inspired by ancient European and South American ruins. The three-dimensional artworks are available in four different themes: Classic Fragments - Roman face tiles, ... [... more]
Burke's Backyard |
Guy Davenport
Translated by Burton Raffel, Introduction by Guy Davenport Seven Centuries of Greek Poems and Fragments "For there is indeed something we can call the spirit of ancient Greece-a carefully tuned voice that speaks out of the grave with astonishing ... [... more]
Random House |
William R. Maples
The Strange and Fascinating Cases of a Forensic Anthropologist From a skeleton, a skull, a mere fragment of burnt thighbone, Dr. William Maples can deduce the age, gender, and ethnicity of a murder victim, the manner in which the person was ... [... more]
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Stefan Maechler
Stefan Maechler studied history and German literature at the University of Zurich. He lives in Zurich. This is the definitive report on Fragments, Binjamin Wilkomirski's invented "memoir" of a childhood spent in concentration camps, which [... more]
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Michael Browning
The Strange and Fascinating Cases of a Forensic Anthropologist From a skeleton, a skull, a mere fragment of burnt thighbone, Dr. William Maples can deduce the age, gender, and ethnicity of a murder victim, the manner in which the person was ... [... more]
Random House |
If Not, Winter
Of the nine books of lyrics the ancient Greek poet Sappho is said to have composed, only one poem has survived complete. The rest are fragments. In this miraculous new translation, acclaimed poet and classicist Anne Carson presents all of ... [... more]
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Russ Schneider
On January 21, 1942, more than five thousand exhausted German soldiers- fragments of retreating units-found themselves surrounded in the arctic northern Russian town of Cholm. Trapped in an area barely two kilometers wide, the freezing, starving ... [... more]
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