The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volume 8


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The Gibbons


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It is a great honor to be asked to introduce this exciting new volume, having been heavily involved in the first comprehensive synthesis in the early 1980s. Gibbons are the most enthralling of primates. On the one hand, they are the most appealing animals, with their upright posture and body shape, facial markings, dramatic arm-swinging locomotion and suspensory postures, and devastating duets; on the other hand, the small apes are the most diverse, hence biologically valuable and informative, of our closest relatives. It is hard for me to believe that it is 40 years to the month since I first set foot on the Malay Peninsula to start my doctoral study of the siamang. I am very proud to have followed in the footsteps of the great pioneer of primate field study, Clarence Ray Carpenter (CR or Ray, who I was fortunate to meet twice, in Pennsylvania and in Zurich), first in Central America (in 1967) and then in Southeast Asia. It is 75 years since he studied howler monkeys on Barro Colorado Island in the Panama Canal Zone. It is 70 years since he studied the white-handed gibbon in Thailand.




Gibbon Finds a Friend


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SWOOP! After people had stolen Gibbon out of a Vietnam rain forest, he finds himself hundreds of miles away from home. His unique friendship with an Orangutan teaches him the secrets within the Asian rain forest. But how can she help him get back home without getting recaptured by the people. Find out in this exciting new adventure. Gibbon Finds A Friend, is a delightful story with detailed illustrations capturing the unique behavior of primates. Children will be fascinated by the characters adventures while they learn about the challenges animals face in the rain forest of Asia. Gibbon Finds A Friend, is the third book in the Wild Animal Survival Series




The Cambridge Companion to Edward Gibbon


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Provides an accessible overview of the achievement of Edward Gibbon (1737-94), one of the world's greatest historians.




History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol 6


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Gibbon offers an explanation for why the Roman Empire fell, a task made difficult by a lack of comprehensive written sources, though he was not the only historian to tackle the subject. Most of his ideas are directly taken from what few relevant records were available: those of the Roman moralists of the 4th and 5th centuries.




Edward Gibbon


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Papa Is a Poet


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Papa Is a Poet: is a picture book about the famous American poet Robert Frost, imagined through the eyes of his daughter Lesley. When Robert Frost was a child, his family thought he would grow up to be a baseball player. Instead, he became a poet. His life on a farm in New Hampshire inspired him to write "poetry that talked," and today he is famous for his vivid descriptions of the rural life he loved so much. There was a time, though, when Frost had to struggle to get his poetry published. Told from the point of view of Lesley, Robert Frost's oldest daughter, this is the story of how a lover of language found his voice.




I Am A Sensible Gibbon


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A very sensible story with ABSOLUTELY NO SILLINESS! From the author of I Can Only Draw Worms! Gibbon would like to make it very clear that this is a sensible book for sensible people. Anything that looks like it might be FUN or SILLY is absolutely forbidden. A hilarious, rhyming animal party, with colourful illustrations by Claudia Boldt.




Memoirs of My Life and Writings


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Memoirs of My Life and Writings is an account of the historian Edward Gibbon's life, compiled after his death by his friend Lord Sheffield from six fragmentary autobiographical works Gibbon wrote during his last years.




Gibbon’s Solitude


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A Stanford University Press classic.