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Fascinating new insights into the famous Australian marsupial Packed with information that has only been published in scientific journals, if ever at all, this collection of biological facts challenges the misconceptions associated with Australia's most famous marsupial. Far from being a scavenging, ferocious oddity, an image perpetuated by the infamous cartoon character, the Tasmanian Devil is actually a treasured and valuable wildlife species facing extinction. By sharing the surprising, controversial, funny, and tragic history behind the world's largest marsupial carnivore, this new guidebo.
Brings together contributions from 68 leading scientists from 12 countries to provide an up-to-date review on the way we manage our interactions with whales, dolphins, seals and dugongs.
Scott Hardy is a quantum physicist ahead of his time. He theorized that ghosts were manifestations of alternate universes, and he spent most of his life proving those universes are real, and we can travel to them. When he asked the government for funding, they took his project away from him. Twenty years later, the government thought they solved the critical problem of keeping matter from Earth permanent in other universes. An exploratory mission was sent to another universe and is now trapped there. After the exploration team left, the project discovered that matter from Earth will eventually dissolve and be absorbed by other universes. Time is running out for the explorers, so the project turns to Scott Hardy for help to get the people back before they die. Hardy reluctantly agrees to help, but when he arrives at the secret base where the government runs his project, attempts are made on his life. It seems the project isn't exactly secret, and someone wants it to fail. Can Hardy help the project team get their people home before their time runs out?
In this addition to the critically acclaimed Scientist in the Field series, Dorothy Patent follows the scientists trying to put a stop to a gruesome disease before it's too late. Tasmanian devils are dying at an alarming rate from a type of tumor that appears to be contagious. What scientists are learning while researching the Tasmanian devil has potential to affect all animals, and even humans, as they learn more about how to prevent and hopefully eradicate certain genetic diseases. In 1995, a deadly disease began sweeping across the Australian island state of Tasmania, killing every infected Tasmanian devil. The disease moved so fast that some scientists feared the species would be wiped o...
The extraordinary personal stories of five surviving Battle of Britain pilots
Elvis Presley and Karlheinz Stockhausen. The Beatles and Andy Warhol. Terry Riley and Ken Kesey. What all these artists have in common is that loops have played a significant role in their work. The short sequences of sounds or images repeated using recording media have proved to be an astonishingly flexible, versatile and momentous aesthetic method in post-World War II art and music. Today, loops must be counted among the most important creative tools of postmodern art and music. Yet until now they have been largely overlooked as an aesthetic phenomenon. Now, for the first time, this book tells a secret story of the 20th century: how a formerly inconspicuous basic function of all modern media technology gave rise to complete artistic oeuvres, musical styles such as minimal music, hip hop and techno, and, most recently, entire scenes and subcultures that would have been unthinkable without loops.