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Cesar's Way: The Natural, Everyday Guide to Understanding and Correcting Common Dog Problems
Posted: March 31st, 2010, 11:04pm CEST

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Cesar Millan, Melissa Jo Peltier, "Cesar's Way: The Natural, Everyday Guide to Understanding and Correcting Common Dog Problems"
Harmony Books; 1 edition (September 18, 2007) | English | 0307382052 | 270 pages | PDF | 5.42 MB

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Watching Wildlife
Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press | pages: 320 | 2006 | ISBN: 0816645477 | PDF | 12,2 mb
In Watching Wildlife, Cynthia Chris traces the history of the wildlife genre from its origins in precinematic, colonial visual culture to its contemporary status as flagship programming on global television and explores evolving beliefs about, and attitudes toward, animal subjects. Nature programming and films are consistently presented as real and unmediated reflections of nature. But in Chris's analysis of specific shows (Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom and cable television's Crocodile Hunter) and film and television history (the colonial cinema, the launch of Animal Planet), she points out how—particularly in the genre's preoccupation with mating and the favoritism bestowed on certain species—documentary images of animals are and always have been about prevailing ideologies about human gender, sexuality, and race.

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David Mellor, Emily Patterson-Kane, Kevin J. Stafford, "The Sciences of Animal Welfare"
Wiley-Blackwell | 2009 | ISBN: 140513495X, 144430769X | 224 pages | PDF | 1,6 MB

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"The First Fossil Hunters: Paleontology in Greek and Roman Times" by Adrienne Mayor
Princeton University Press | 384 pages | English | 2000 | ISBN: 0691058636 | PDF | 13,7 MB
Griffins, Centaurs, Cyclopes, and Giants--these fabulous creatures of classical mythology continue to live in the modern imagination through the vivid accounts that have come down to us from the ancient Greeks and Romans. But what if these beings were more than merely fictions? What if monstrous creatures once roamed the earth in the very places where their legends first arose?

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"Understanding Our Environment" by R. Harrison
Royal Society of Chemistry | 444 pages | English | 1999 | ISBN: 0854045848 | PDF | 21,2 MB
This book will be essential reading for students in environmental science and related areas, as well as scientists and engineers in industry, public service and consultancy who require a basic understanding of environmental processes.

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"Zoology" by Stephen A. Miller and John P. Harley
Mcgraw-Hil | English | 2001 | ISBN: 0070294119 | DJVU | 17,5 MB
Zoology is organized into three parts. Part One covers the common life processes, including cell and tissue structure and function, the genetic basis of evolution, and the evolutionary and ecological principles that unify all life. Part Two is the survey of protists and animals, emphasizing evolutionary and ecological relationships, aspects of animal organization that unite major animal phyla, and animal adaptations. Part Three covers animal form and function using a comparative approach. This approach includes descriptions and full-color artwork that depict evolutionary changes in the structure and function of selected organ systems.

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Understanding Your Dog For Dummies
Publisher: For Dummies | ISBN: 0471768731 | edition 2007 | PDF | 288 pages | 11,5 mb
Understanding Your Dog for Dummies gives you everything you need to learn to understand your pooch’s unique dialect of “Doglish”—and shows you how to take on the role as pack leader to give your dog the cues, guidance, and consistency she needs to shape and develop good behaviors.

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John R. Horner, James Gorman, "Digging Dinosaurs: The Search that Unraveled the Mystery of Baby Dinosaurs"
Harper Perennial | 1990 | ISBN: 0060973145 | 208 pages | PDF | 8,2 MB

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Patricia Barnes-Svarney, Thomas Svarney, "The Handy Dinosaur Answer Book"
Visible Ink Press | 2010 | ISBN: 1578592186 | 336 pages | PDF | 12,1 MB

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Clay McShane, Joel Tarr, "The Horse in the City: Living Machines in the Nineteenth Century (Animals, History, Culture)"
The Johns Hopkins University Press (May 31, 2007) | English | 0801886007 | 242 pages | PDF | 3.49 MB

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La vie secrète des bêtes - Dans les jardins et les maisons
Hachette Jeunesse (16 mai 1997) | ISBN: 2010199545 | 53 pages | PDF | 37.68 MB

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A Folk Tale - The Cracow Dragon
Express Publishing | 2005 | PDF+MP3+DVD | 1.82 GB
The King of Krakow concerned about the precarious situation in his country and looking for a man who would kill a bloodthirsty dragon. And of course is a simple shoemaker who solves the problem of the crisis ...

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Stanley Anderson, "Managing Our Wildlife Resources (4th Edition)"
Prentice Hall | English | 2001 | ISBN: 0130195774 | 576 pages | PDF | 33 MB
For freshman/sophomore-level courses in Wildlife Management, Fisheries Conservation and Management, and Wildlife Biology.Addressing the growing responsibilities and multiple concerns facing those in wildlife management today, this informative, well-organized survey offers an enlightening introduction to wildlife management in the United States. It provides a sound historical background and a firm foundation on principles, and reflects current trends of wildlife management and species groups.

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Trevor J. Hawkeswood, "Spiders of Australia: An Introduction to Their Classification, Biology & Distribution (Pensoft Series Faunistica)"
Pensoft Pub (December 2003) | English | 9546421928 | 264 pages | PDF | 33.60 MB

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Animal Domestication and Behaviour
Publisher: CABI | ISBN: 0851995977 | edition 2003 | PDF | 308 pages | 12,7 mb
This book synthesizes existing knowledge of the process of domestication and how domestication has affected the behavior of captive wild and domesticated animals, including both farm, zoo and companion animals. Three broad themes are addressed: Genetic contributions to the process of domestication; experimental contributions to the process of domestication; and the process of feralization (i.e. the adaptation of domesticated animals when returned to their natural habitat). Written by a world authority on the subject, this book makes a highly original contribution to the literature.

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Animal Signals (Oxford Series in Ecology and Evolution)
Publisher: Oxford University Press | 2004 | English | ISBN-10: 0198526857 | 176 Pages | PDF | 127 Mb
Why are animal signals reliable? This is the central problem for evolutionary biologists interested in signals. Of course, not all signals are reliable; but most are, otherwise receivers of signals would ignore them. A number of theoretical answers have been proposed and empirical studies made, but there still remains a considerable amount of confusion. The authors, one a theoretician the other a fieldworker, introduce a sense of order to this chaos. A significant cause of confusion has been the tendency for different researchers to use either the same term with different meanings, or different terms with the same meaning.

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Ken A. Otter, "Ecology and Behavior of Chickadees and Titmice: An Integrated Approach"
Oxford University Press, USA (March 29, 2007) | English | 0198569998 | 344 pages | PDF | 3.80 MB

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The Dogs: A Personal History of Greyhound Racing By Laura Thompson
Publisher: High Stakes 2003 | 256 Pages | ISBN: 1843440164 | PDF | 1 MB

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"Career Ideas for Kids Who Like Animals and Nature " by Diane Lindsey Reeves
Ferguson Publishing Company | English | May 30, 2007 | ISBN: 081606539X | PDF | 8,7 MB
Whether kids enjoy the fresh air and scenery of the great outdoors or have an uncanny way with animals, career opportunities abound for nature and animal lovers everywhere. From animal trainers to land surveyors to veterinarians, this field opens up a world of adventurous job possibilities. What does a career in this exciting field entail? "Career Ideas for Kids Who Like Animals and Nature, Second Edition", newly redesigned and completely updated, offers kids the information they need to make a smart career choice.

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John A. Byers, "Built for Speed: A Year in the Life of Pronghorn"
Harvard University Press | 2003-09-15 | ISBN: 0674011422 | 230 pages | PDF | 362 KB

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Ken Schultz, "Ken Schultz's Essentials of Fishing: The Only Guide You Need to Catch Freshwater and Saltwater Fish"
Wiley | 2009 | ISBN: 0470444312 | 480 pages | PDF | 65,6 MB

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The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain Workbook
Tarcher | 2002 | English | ISBN: 1585421952 | PDF | 160 pages | 103.3MB
Millions of people have learned to draw using the methods of Dr. Betty Edwards. Now, in an essential companion to her bestselling classic, Edwards offers readers the key to mastering this art form: guided practice in their newfound creative abilities.
Here are forty new exercises that cover each of the five basic skills of drawing. Each practice session includes a brief explanation and instructional drawings, suggestions for materials, sample drawings, and blank pages for the reader's own drawings. Also provided in this spiral-bound workbook is a pullout viewfinder, a crucial tool for effective practice. While The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain focused primarily on portrait drawing with pencil, this workbook gives readers experience in various subject matter-still life, landscape, imaginative drawing-using alternative mediums such as pen and ink, charcoal, and conté crayon.

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Don Bluth's Art Of Storyboard
Dark Horse | 2004 | English | ISBN: 1595820078 | PDF | 112 pages | 27.8MB
This gorgeously illustrated book by the animator, artist, and director of The Secret of N.I.M.H. and All Dogs Go to Heaven describes in detail the technical and artistic processes involved in crafting storyboards, the visual blueprints of animated films. Using pages of beautiful storyboard images from his classic films, Don Bluth takes readers from the breakdown of a script to the finished boards. Loaded with technical tips and insights into the creative imagination, Don Bluth's Art of Storyboard will satisfy anyone interested in animation.

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Ideas for the Animated Short: Finding and Building Stories
Focal Press | 2008 | English | ISBN: 0240808606 | PDF | 280 pages | 7.5MB
Build your skills in the development of story ideas that will command an audience for your 2-5 minute animated short.

Packed with illustrated examples of idea generation, character and story development, acting, dialogue and storyboarding practice this is your conceptual toolkit proven to meet the challenges of this unique art form.

The companion DVD includes in-depth interviews with industry insiders, 18 short animations (many with accompanying animatics, character designs and environment designs) and an acting workshop to get your animated short off to a flying start!

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D. M. Armstrong "What is a Law of Nature? (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy)"
Cambridge University Press | English | 1985 | ISBN: 052131481X | 192 pages | PDF | 129 MB
This is a study of a crucial and controversial topic in metaphysics and the philosophy of science: the status of the laws of nature. D. M. Armstrong works out clearly and in comprehensive detail a largely original view that laws are relations between properties or universals.

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Макдональд Д. Млекопитающие. Полная иллюстрированная энциклопедия
Омега | 2007 | ISBN -13: 9785465013451 | 930 pages | DJVU | 109 MB
Эта первое издание на русском языке уникальной, не имеющей аналогов в мире энциклопедии, подготовленной Oxford university press. Энциклопедия представляет собой фундаментальную сводку представлений о биологии, распространении и природоохранном статусе всех групп современных млекопитающих. Ее важнейшей частью является классификатор - первый за последние десятилетия полный список видов с указанием их названий на русском языке. Основной текст дополняет русско-английский толковый словарь научных терминов.
Невероятное богатство красочных фотографий и рисунков зверей делают энциклопедию отличным подарком для старшеклассников, студентов, ученых-биологов и всех, кто любит живую природу.

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Robert L. Peiffer Jr. DVM PhD DACVO, Simon M. Petersen-Jones DVetMed PhD DVOphthal DipECVO MRCVS, "Small Animal Ophthalmology: A Problem-Oriented Approach, 4th Edition"
Saunders Ltd. | 2008 | ISBN: 0702028614 | 344 pages | PDF | 31,9 MB