Download or read book Hung Like an Argentine Duck written by John Long and published by HarperCollins Australia. This book was released on 2011 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John's broader coverage of the evolution of sexual intimacy in the animal kingdom demonstrates that the gap between human and animal behaviour is not as large as many of you might have thought.
Download or read book The Dawn of the Deed written by John A. Long and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-10-11 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published under the title: Hung like an Argentine Duck: a journey back in time to the origins of sexual intimacy
Download or read book Nasty Brutish and Short written by Pat Senson and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2010-04-13 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Birds do it, and bees do it, so do all animals, some of them in weird and wonderful ways. Quirks & Quarks' latest book explores the more bizarre behaviours of more than 100 creatures, from barnacles to Panda bears. The tiny spider that has to tear off one of its two huge sex organs just to be able to get around; the sea slug that produces a powerful love drug and mates with both males and females; the bedbug that stabs its penis into the female's abdomen — the range of animal sexual practices is mind-boggling. And it's not only reproduction that has them doing very strange things. There's a beetle that shoots a stream of boiling hot, toxic liquid when it's threatened; a lizard that can run on water; a shrimp that explodes its prey. Quirks & Quarks' latest guide is much more than a catalogue of peculiar practices, it's an engrossing look at the astonishing behaviours different animals have evolved in order to survive and reproduce. With an introduction by Bob McDonald, host of Quirks & Quarks.
Download or read book Fowl Play written by Sally Coulthard and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-10-13 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From dinosaur to dinner plate, Sally Coulthard tells the fascinating – and sometimes shocking – story of the domestic chicken. The chicken can fly only a few metres but – somehow – this unlikely evolutionary descendant of Tyrannosaurus Rex has conquered the world. Earth is now home to more than twenty billion chickens, at least ten times more than any other bird. For every human on the planet, there are three chickens. In Fowl Play, Sally Coulthard charts the chicken's fascinating journey from dinosaur to domestication to exploitation, exploring every aspect of the history of Gallus gallus domesticus: its importance to the ancient Egyptians, Greeks and Romans as food source and fighting bird; its symbolic roles in religion and folklore and metaphorical function in the language we use; its homely place as egg-providing companion on farms, smallholdings and in suburban back gardens; and its darker modern-day fate as battery bird raised to satisfy society's unquenchable addiction to wings and nuggets. Of all animals, chickens perhaps best represent the contradictory way we humans treat other species; both beloved pet and cheap commodity, symbol of a sustainable good life and brutalised object of factory farming. The chicken is also a bird we feel deeply familiar with and yet know very little about. As informative as it is entertaining, Fowl Play tells a remarkable tale of evolutionary change, epic global travel and ruthless exploitation – as well as of companionship, ingenuity and the folly of human nature.
Download or read book Fodor s Argentina written by Fodor's and published by Fodors Travel Publications. This book was released on 2010 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides information on travel, accommodations, attractions, shopping, and dining within the nation and its chief provinces and cities.
Download or read book Fodor s Argentina written by Amanda Barnes and published by Fodor's. This book was released on 2012 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides information on travel, accommodations, attractions, shopping, and dining within the nation and its chief provinces and cities.
Download or read book The Dawn of the Deed written by John A. Long and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-10-22 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[A] deliciously written account of the evolution of sex, in all of its bizarre manifestations” by a noted paleontologist—"Read, blush, and enjoy!” (Jared Diamond, author of Guns, Germs, and Steel). We all know about the birds and the bees, but what about the ancient placoderm fishes and the dinosaurs? In 2008, paleontologist John A. Long and a team of researchers announced their discovery of a 380-million-year-old placoderm fish fossil, known as “the mother fish,” which revealed the earliest known example of internal fertilization. As a result, placoderms are now considered to be the first species to have had intimate sexual reproduction, or sex as we know it—sort of. Inspired by this incredible find, Long began a quest to uncover the evolutionary history of copulation and insemination. In The Dawn of the Deed, he takes readers on a lively tour through the sex lives of ancient fish and the unusual mating habits of arthropods, tortoises, and even a well-endowed Argentine Duck. Long discusses these discoveries alongside what we know about reproductive biology and evolutionary theory, using the fossil record to provide a provocative account of prehistoric sex. The Dawn of the Deed also explores fascinating revelations about animal reproduction, from homosexual penguins to monogamous seahorses to the difficulties of dinosaur romance.
Download or read book The Dead Duck Bounced written by John Humphries and published by Grosvenor House Publishing. This book was released on 2022-04-28 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What became of Harold Prettyman, a German agent captured by the British during World War Two? Eighty years later, an investigation by reporter Jack Flynt seems to end at a new dormer bungalow with white pebble-dash walls, not the grey stone terraced house in the Welsh valleys from which, according to a recently declassified MI5 file, Prettyman operated a radio transmitter from the attic alerting German U-Boats to Allied shipping movements. Dead ducks are news stories destined for the News Editor's spike and Flynt suspects he has found one until a letter arrives at the bungalow with the same coded message --Many Happy Returns Harold Prettyman--used by Prettyman and his accomplice in 1940. But there are no Allied food convoys in the North Atlantic and, believing the letter a hoax Flynt's newspaper moves him to another assignment—the disappearance of a Foreign Office diplomat suspected of fleeing to Moscow like his predecessors Burgess and Maclean. But Scotland Yard seems more interested in the Coal Miner, a missing Van Gogh masterpiece looted by the Red Army Trophy Brigade as war reparations, but now the focus of an exhibition at Tate Britain after being returned to its owner by the Commission for the Recovery of Looted Art in Europe. The painting discovered hanging on the kitchen wall of the apartment of a dead Trophy Brigade officer had been taken in lieu of pension. Private homes, art galleries and museums across the Russian Federation continue to hold large quantities of booty from the Second World War, worthless since President Putin banned the repatriation of cultural artifacts, but priceless in the West. So, is the Coal Miner exhibited at the Tate the missing Van Gogh or a forgery made by a copyist at the Hermitage in St Petersburg? A zig-zag trail leads Flynt's search for Harold Prettyman into the world of Diplomatic Bags, fakes, and money laundering.
Download or read book Argentine Archive No1 written by Magomet Timov and published by Aegitas. This book was released on 2022-04-05 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The events described in the novel Archive No1 are based on the actual events of the early 50s of the last century. It was then that the USSR MSS (Ministry of State Security, the future KGB) organized the so-called Bureau No1, a secret department tasked with neutralizing the supporters of Hitler’s fascism outside the Union. The department was organized by the legendary Soviet intelligence operative and saboteur, Pavel Sudoplatov. At the center of the story are two graduates of the Soviet Intelligence School, recent students Andrey Fomenko, yesterday’s attendee of the Moscow Mechanical Institute and future nuclear physicist, and Ivan Sarmatov, almost graduate of the translation faculty at the Moscow State Institute of Foreign Languages (the future Jose Valdez). They and their commander, Major Sergey Kotov, have to find and neutralize a group of fugitive German nuclear physicists in Argentina who, on the instructions of local dictator Juan Perón, are building nuclear weapons at an isolated center in the country’s interior. In Argentina, the interests of several powers clash - the Soviet Union, the United States of America and the United Kingdom. Everyone is pursuing the atomic secrets of the former Third Reich. And it is hardly surprising: with Kurchatov’s gift of the atomic bomb, the world has established a kind of nuclear parity, and anyone who masters the new technologies first will become the world leader in this field. The era of the Cold War is just around the corner, with the recent allies now ready to clutch at each other’s throats. The struggle for intelligence, the personal courage of the protagonists, love and genuine friendship - all this is reflected in the pages of this novel. What ended the fight for the atomic prize, who came out on top in this fight between the cloak and dagger knights? And what the Soviet scouts discovered in the end, in their search for the mysterious Archive No1, will be a pleasant surprise for the inquisitive reader.
Download or read book Outdoor Stupid From Around The World written by Bob Bell and published by Publication Consultants. This book was released on 2021-12-24 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Outdoor Stupid From Around The World is Bob Bell's third book. The first two were about the Alaskan adventures of Bob and his band of I.Q. challenged friends. They are titled Oh no! we're gonna die and Oh no! we're gonna die Too. The first book is mostly Bob's misadventures, and the second is about his friend's attempts to get themselves killed in the Alaska Wilderness. During his travels around the world hunting and fishing, Bob met many guides, outfitters, professional hunter and their clients. They related several stories to him, many of which are included in Outdoor Stupid. These stories show that the love of the outdoors exists everywhere your go. Also, that I.Q. challenged decisions are an international curse. Outdoor Stupid, like his other books, is also humorous, but again, it conveys the apprehension, excitement, and relief involved in life-threatening adventures. Outdoor Stupid takes the reader on adventures throughout the world with a whole new cast of characters who continue the tradition of questionable judgment and bad luck.These stories will give you an insight into the excitement and pitfalls of high-risk outdoor adventures. Several of these tales also involve a lack of intelligence or clear thinking, which definitely adds to the excitement.
Download or read book Annual Report written by Smithsonian Institution and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution written by United States National Museum and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report Upon the Condition and Progress of the U S National Museum During the Year Ending June 30 written by United States National Museum and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report of the Assistant Director and of the Curators of the U S National Museum written by United States National Museum and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution written by Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report on the Progress and Condition of the U S National Museum for the Year Ending June 30 written by United States National Museum and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report on the Progress and Condition of the United States National Museum written by United States National Museum and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
