Bird Bones and Sludge


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Beaks, Bones and Bird Songs


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“Reveals the strange and wondrous adaptations birds rely on to get by.” —National Audubon Society When we see a bird flying from branch to branch happily chirping, it is easy to imagine they lead a simple life of freedom, flight, and feathers. What we don’t see is the arduous, life-threatening challenges they face at every moment. Beaks, Bones, and Bird Songs guides the reader through the myriad, and often almost miraculous, things that birds do every day to merely stay alive. Like the goldfinch, which manages extreme weather changes by doubling the density of its plumage in winter. Or urban birds, which navigate traffic through a keen understanding of posted speed limits. In engaging and accessible prose, Roger Lederer shares how and why birds use their sensory abilities to see ultraviolet, find food without seeing it, fly thousands of miles without stopping, change their songs in noisy cities, navigate by smell, and much more.




Handbook of Hydraulic Fluid Technology


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This text aims to facilitate a broader understanding of the total hydraulic system, including hardware, fluid properties and testing, and hydraulic lubricants. It provides a comprehensive and rigorous overview of hydraulic fluid technology and evaluates the ecological benefits of water as an important alternative technology. Equations, tables and illustrations are used to clarify and reinforce essential concepts.




Ancient Lives


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Focusing on sites of key significance and the world’s first civilizations, Ancient Lives is an accessible and engaging textbook which introduces complete beginners to the fascinating worlds of archaeology and prehistory. Drawing on their impressive combined experience of the field and the classroom, the authors use a jargon-free narrative style to enliven the major developments of more than three million years of human life. First introducing the basic principles, methods and theoretical approaches of archaeology, the book then provides a summary of world prehistory from a global perspective, exploring human origins and the reality of life in the archaic world. Later chapters describe the development of agriculture and animal domestication and the emergence of cities, states, and pre-industrial civilizations in widely separated parts of the world. With this new edition updated to reflect the latest discoveries and research in the discipline, Ancient Lives continues to be a comprehensive and essential introduction to archaeology.




Quintessence


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In Quintessence Journal Three: Resolution, we swiftly find the Neo-Earth nemeses have gained the upper hand over our intrepid heroes including The Five young men, two time-traveling muses, an adorable telepathic quadrapet, a mighty horse, and two damsels in distress. Our heroes greatest nemesis, the evil Musical Oligarchy Thralldom, has invented a hideous musical weapon powered by the Master Reckoner, a giant thinking machine. This weapon, called the VOICE, will enslave the populace as zombies if the final component, the Diamond Stylus reaches completion. With this menace casting a long, deep shadow over the region, the fate of the entire Neo-Earth hinges on the five young men who remain unsure and untried in their own promised providences as the prophesied Five. With only a glimmer of their own potent musical power realized, the Five take on the Thralldoms hordes of Tagents who search the region to overcome them and murder their beloved mentors one by one. This, the final installment of the Quintessence Trilogy quickly unfolds and maintains a fast-paced and astounding chronicle right to the final, rewardingResolution.




Vickers Industrial Hydraulics Manual


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Design News


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The Demon Queen


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They call me Uniter of Realms, Bringer of Peace, High Queen. But I don't know how to be any of that. Five realms hang in the balance, three races whose lives depend on magic, and one corrupt king hoarding it all for himself. My role? Oh, just fixing it. Easy, right? But a handful of sexy realm leaders insist I'm the human-born with demon blood—each vying for attention, each one's touch drawing something strange and blissful from me. Sweet, attentive Callum, pragmatic and commanding Sorin, dark and intuitive Verrill, and icy, collected Jadzeera. Each one has something to teach me—about magic and about myself. The longer I stay in these hell realms the closer I grow to each realm leader, the more my power grows and the more I realize I cannot simply have one realm leader. I need them all by my side—and in my bed—to bring the realms back together. The Demon Queen is a fast-burn FFMMM Reverse Harem. This fun, sexy ride is packed full of seductive demons, a smart heroine, a wisecracking best friend, and a teleporting cat. EDITORIAL REVIEWS It's EXTREMELY rare for me to give a book 5 stars. I reserve it only for books that move me and make me want to revisit their pages. This book is that and so much more. Being a pansexual/non-monogamous woman has been a journey. Accepting it and being proud to declare such titles has not been sinple, and escaping into the RH world has been a fun way to escape into a fantasized reality, but never have I read a story with characters that so deeply made me feel the vast range of emotions. (How dramatic for a fantasy book about sexy stuff, right? Lol) Beyond the personal rightness this book gave me, tingly belly feels and all, the world building is orgasmic in its own right. The storyline was engaging and magical with just a hint of realism and "it-could-happen" factor. I absolutely loved every moment of this story, and if you are looking for an awesome bisexual main character with a lady lover and four delicious dudes, then you'll absolutely love this book. I definitely did. -JSpringer Original. Groundbreaking! ...Reading RH can feel a bit wearisome at times.... When you read RH the way I do, it is really refreshing to finally find a horde with lady interest. This is the first in well over one hundred reads that went there, and balanced all the parts perfectly. Kudos to the author for breaking out of a mold and reshaping things. Also, I want to say that this author found a way to have the heroine actually figure things out without spending too much time on her baggage. It's there, but Zurie jumps beyond. Love it. -SJennings




The Scrivener's Bones


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#1 New York Times bestselling author of the Mistborn series Brandon Sanderson continues the epic adventure he began in Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians So now you’ve read all about me, Alcatraz Smedry, and how I was swept out of my life in your normal world and into the fight against the Librarians (jerks!). After being all heroic and stuff in that tale, I didn’t expect to charge headlong into enemy territory: the Library of Alexandria, where I—and my grandpa and my grouchy bodyguard Bastille and her even grouchier mother and some weirdly gifted cousins—would face the Curators (ghosts who will gladly help you check out a book as long as you don’t mind giving up your mortal soul) and some new nasty Librarians who hate our guts...and would be happy to rip them out for us. But none of that comes close to the horror we would have to face if we succeeded in finding what we were searching for... MY DAD! (DUN DUN DUNNNNNN!) The Scrivener's Bones is the second book in this action-packed fantasy series for young readers. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.