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Cuckoo: Cheating by Nature

Cuckoo: Cheating by Nature

Nick Davies

How do they get away with it? In this enormously engaging book, naturalist and scientist Nick Davies reveals how cuckoos trick their hosts.
Cuckoos, Cowbirds and Other Cheats

Cuckoos, Cowbirds and Other Cheats

Nick Davies

Nick Davies describes the natural histories of all the brood parasites and examines the questions they raise about the evolution of cheating and the arms race between parasites and their hosts.
Hack Attack: How the truth caught up with Rupert Murdoch

Hack Attack: How the truth caught up with Rupert Murdoch

Nick Davies

But Nick Davies felt sure there was a lot more going on. And he was right. Hack Attack is the definitive inside story of one of the major scandals of our age, told by the man who exposed it.
How Nick Davies Hired Me to Spy on My Former Collleagues at ...

How Nick Davies Hired Me to Spy on My Former Collleagues at ...

Christine Joanna Hart

The Guardian's Nick Davies employs ex News of The World reporter C J Hart to spy on her news editor and ex lover.
Dunnock behaviour and social evolution

Dunnock behaviour and social evolution

Nicholas B. Davies

In this book Nick Davies gives a full account of the mating systems of the dunnock or hedge sparrow, Prunella modularis, which include pairs, a male with twofemales, two males with one female, and several males with several females.
Top 10 for Men: over 200 more manly lists!

Top 10 for Men: over 200 more manly lists!

Nick Harper

Nick Harper assertsthe moral right tobe identified as the author of this work eISBN 9780600630098 A CIP cataloguerecord forthisbook is available fromtheBritish Library Editorial Director: Trevor Davies Project Editor: Clare Churly Art Director: ...
The School Report: Why Britain's Schools are Failing

The School Report: Why Britain's Schools are Failing

Nick Davies

A collection of revealing articles on the state of British schools.
How Our Bodies Work

How Our Bodies Work

Nick Davies

Your body is a very complex piece of machinery. It has lots of different parts which work together to keep you alive. In this book, you can find out how it functions and how to look after it. After all, it's the only one you'll get!
Murder, Magic, Madness: The Victorian Trials of Dove and the ...

Murder, Magic, Madness: The Victorian Trials of Dove and the ...

Davies Owen

3 For a thorough account of cunning-folk in this period see Owen Davies, Cunning-Folk: Popular Magic in English History (London, 2003); Owen Davies, Witchcraft, magic and culture 1736–1951 (Manchester, 1999), pp. 214–29; Owen Davies, ...
Freud And Psychoanalysis: Everything You Need To Know About ...

Freud And Psychoanalysis: Everything You Need To Know About ...

Nick Rennison

Everything You Need To Know About Id, Ego, Super-Ego and More Nick Rennison. NICK. RENNISON. Nick Rennison is a writer, editor and bookseller with a particular interest in the Victorian era and in crime fiction. He has written several ...
A Celtic Temperament: Robertson Davies as Diarist

A Celtic Temperament: Robertson Davies as Diarist

Robertson Davies

We would like to thank our readers, Miranda Davies, Rosamond Bailey, James Neufeld, Judith Skelton Grant and John Grant, and to acknowledge the support and enthusiasm from our publisher, Doug Pepper, and our editor, Jenny Bradshaw, ...
Globalization in the Asian Region: Impacts and Consequences

Globalization in the Asian Region: Impacts and Consequences

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Impacts and Consequences Gloria Davies, Chris Nyland. Contributors. John Rallingall: New Zealand Institute of Economic ... Gloria Davies: School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics, Faculty of Arts, Monash University gloria. davies ...
Recollections of the Rev. Griffith Davies Owen, of ...

Recollections of the Rev. Griffith Davies Owen, of ...

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CHAPTER I. MR. OWEN'S EARLY HISTORY. THE REv. GRIFFITH DAVIES Owen was the second surviving son of the late Thomas and Benedicta Davies Owen, and born on Sunday the 24th day of January, 1790, at Llanrwst, in Denbighshire.
A Bibliography of Robertson Davies

A Bibliography of Robertson Davies

Carl Spadoni

Using Davies' archives and the archives of other authors, organizations, and publishers, Carl Spadoni and Judith Skelton Grant present A Bibliography of Robertson Davies to serve the research demands of Canadian literature and book history ...
Ray Davies: Not Like Everybody Else

Ray Davies: Not Like Everybody Else

Thomas M. Kitts

Based on interviews with his closest associates, as well as studies of the recordings themselves, this book creates the most thorough picture of Davies’ work to date.
The Cambridge History of Magic and Witchcraft in the West: ...

The Cambridge History of Magic and Witchcraft in the West: ...

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Davies, Owen. A People Bewitched: Witchcraft and Magic in NineteenthCentury Somerset. Bruton, 1999. Davies,Owen. Witchcraft, Magicand Culture, 1736–1951 . Manchester: ManchesterUniversity Press, 1999. Davies, Owen. CunningFolk: ...
Flat Earth News: An Award-winning Reporter Exposes ...

Flat Earth News: An Award-winning Reporter Exposes ...

Nick Davies

An award-winning reporter exposes falsehood, distortion and propaganda in the global media.
Dark Heart: The Shocking Truth about Hidden Britain

Dark Heart: The Shocking Truth about Hidden Britain

Nick Davies

He unravels threads of Britain`s social fabric as he travels deeper and deeper into the country of poverty, towards the dark heart of British society.
Eroticism and Death in Theatre and Performance

Eroticism and Death in Theatre and Performance

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13 Saint Nick: a parallax view of Nick Cave David Pattie I don't know what you're all about, but I like the way you handle yourself on stage.1 Cave and his shadows On stage in Paris in 2001, Nick Cave, appropriately, is bathed in red light: ...
Conversations with Robertson Davies

Conversations with Robertson Davies

Robertson Davies

Ed. Judith Skelton Grant. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1979. The Rebel Angels. Toronto: Macmillan, 1981. Brothers in the Black Art. Vancouver: Alcuin Society, 1981. Robertson Davies: The Well-Tempered Critic. Ed. Judith Skelton Grant.
Americana: The Kinks, the Road and the Perfect Riff

Americana: The Kinks, the Road and the Perfect Riff

Ray Davies

The book is interspersed with lyrics and also includes photographs from Davies's own collection and the Kinks’ archive.
De koekoek: vals spel van de natuur

De koekoek: vals spel van de natuur

Nick Davies

De koekoek wordt bezongen in het werk van Shakespeare, Milton en Wordsworth. Maar voor veel vogels is de koekoek het ultieme kwaad, want het is de grootste bedrieger in het vogelrijk.
Teenage Revolution

Teenage Revolution

Alan Davies

When Alan Davies was growing up he seemed to drive his family mad.
The Battle for Welfare Rights: Politics and Poverty in ...

The Battle for Welfare Rights: Politics and Poverty in ...

Felicia Ann Kornbluh

Burson, Joyce, by Nick Kotz and Mary Lynn Kotz Day, Edwin, by Nick Kotz and Mary Lynn Kotz Duncan, Ruby, by Nick Kotz and Mary Lynn Kotz Edelman, Peter and Marian Wright Edelman, by Nick Kotz and Mary Lynn Kotz Espada, Frank, ...
The Short Stack Cookbook: Ingredients That Speak Volumes

The Short Stack Cookbook: Ingredients That Speak Volumes

Nick Fauchald

Contributors include: Virginia Willis (author of Bon Appétit, Y’all) Sara Jenkins (chef, restaurateur, and cookbook author) Ian Knauer (IACP nominee and editor at Food & Wine) Soa Davies (producer of Eric Ripert’s cookbook On the Line ...
Nick Hern Books: theatre books, plays, screenplays : 2006-2007

Nick Hern Books: theatre books, plays, screenplays : 2006-2007

Nick Hern Books (London).

Among his books are one on the Wooster Group, Breaking the Rules, and an earlier collection of interviews, In Their Own Words, both available from Nick Hem Books. INVITATION TO THE PARTY DONNA WALKER-KUHNE A handbook on ...
Carver's Quest

Carver's Quest

Nick Rennison

Nick Rennison, Nick Rennsion. Published in trade paperback in Great Britain in 2013 by Corvus, an imprint of Atlantic Books Ltd. Copyright © Nicholas Rennison 2013 The moral right of Nicholas Rennison to be identified as the author of this ...
Morkan's Quarry: A Novel

Morkan's Quarry: A Novel

Steve Yates

Kreft insisted this was enemy territory, very much the haunt of Sam Davies, the man they were after. A pack of fool targets around a fire was what made filth like Davies trouble for the Union. “These very houses right here belonged to families  ...
Robertson Davies: man of myth

Robertson Davies: man of myth

Judith Skelton Grant

Drawing on interviews with the Canadian novelist himself and an unprecedented access to his notebooks and family papers, a detailed biography traces the evolution of Davies's work and the relationship between his life and his fiction.
Camden Market

Camden Market

Caitlin Davies

Struggling stallholders have built up fashion empires. Caitlin Davies tells all these stories and more in an illustrated history full of personal memories and previously unpublished archive images.

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