Bøger af John Allan

Creepy Crawlies maybe small for the most part but they make up for it when it comes to being interesting. Here we feature the aptly named Rhinoceros Beetle with multiple horns, clever Spider Hunting Wasps who paralyse their prey and the highly maternal Earwig, who make the best mums, plus lots more super creepy crawlies here!

Plants are not always what they seem and can be full of surprises. The Rafflesia is a giant with a terrible smell, that attracts flies when its ready to be pollenated. Whilst the carnivorous Pitcher Plant has a genius way to trap insects to feed on. Plants can be pretty amazing and there are lots to keep the pages turning in this book!

Reptiles and Amphibians has a magnificent array of thick skinned, scaly and slippery creatures on show. From the deer hunting Komodo Dragon, the world's largest reptile to the baby Axolotl, an amphibian that sometimes eat each other! This book has lots of interesting facts that kids will love to read.

Birds can be really cool characters and here we feature some pretty special ones that kids will want to read about. A Hornbill that can eat snakes, a Tailorbird that actually stitches leaves together to make a nest, Penguins who we all have a soft spot for and lots more...

Trucks and Tractors Get onboard with the Mighty Mechanics who will take you on a fascinating tour of big tankers that carry fuel, big trucks built to race over bumpy terrain, trash eating garbage trucks that collect our rubbish and lots more....

Emergency Vehicles: Join our Mighty Mechanics who will take you on a tour where you will discover, what a snow blower does, what happens on a fireboat, how speedy police cars can be, and much more...

Firefighters to the Rescue... solve the maths needed to be a firefighter. There is much to do and learn, you will need all your maths skills to train to be the best; look after your equipment; rescue an animal from a building and more...

Journey to Mars... solve the maths needed to complete the mission and learn along the way some fascinating facts that any buddingastronaut would need to know. From flight training through to lift-off and beyond maths just got so much more fun!

Essays on the development of the post-medieval house, its contents and decoration.During the last forty years, South-West England has been the focus of some of the most significant work on the early modern house and household in Britain. Its remarkable wealth of vernacular buildings has been the object of muchattention, while the area has also seen productive excavations of early modern household goods, shedding new light on domestic history. This collection of papers, written by many of the leading specialists in these fields, presents a number of essays summarizing the overall understanding of particular themes and places, alongside case studies which publish some of the most remarkable discoveries. They include the extraordinary survival of wall-hangings in a South Devon farm, the discovery of painted rooms in an Elizabethan town house, and a study of a table-setting mirrored on its ceiling. Also considered are forms of decoration which seem specific to particular areas of the West Country houses. Taken together, the papers offer a holistic view of the household in the early modern period. John Allan is Consultant Archaeologist to the Dean & Chapter of Exeter Cathedral; Nat Alcock is EmeritusReader in the Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick; David Dawson is an independent archaeologist and museum and heritage consultant. Contributors: Ann Adams, Nat Alcock, John Allan, James Ayres, Stuart Blaylock, Peter Brears, Tania Manuel Casimiro, Cynthia Cramp, Christopher Green, Oliver Kent, Kate Osborne, Richard Parker, Isabel Richardson, John Schofield, Eddie Sinclair, John R.L. Thorp, Hugh Wilmott,

Covers embryonic development, with a unique focus on adult anatomy. Its goal is to impart to students a comprehensive overview of how the human embryo forms. Extensively illustrated with labelled line drawings, this concise manual will meet the needs of both undergraduate and postgraduate students in the Human Sciences.