Worlds within worlds: A journey into the unknown

Science & Math

MAY, John

Marten, Michael

Chesterman, John

Trux, John

Nature & Ecology

HOLT. RINEHART AND WINSTON

Divided into more than three hundred categories, the hundreds of entries presented here relate odd facts an unusual information, revealing such little-known facts as that fish don't dream and that the safety pin was invented in 1849

Curious Facts

Reference

Henry Holt Co.

Describes the geography, climate, and wildlife of Antarctica, discusses ice sheets, ice shelves and glaciers, and looks at research being conducted on the continent

The Greenpeace Book of Antarctica: A New View of the Seventh Continent

DOUBLEDAY

The hidden history and the human cost of the nuclear age.

GREENPEACE BK NUCL AGE

Earth Sciences

Pantheon

Victoria remembered: A royal history, 1817-1861, entirely illustrated with commemoratives

Heinemann

Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1972. Nearly 250 plates illustrated B&W and a few color photographs; 10 x 7-3/4"; 180 pages. (LL)

Commemorative pottery, 1780-1900: A guide for collectors,

Divided into more than three hundred categories, the hundreds of entries presented here relate odd facts an unusual information, revealing such little-known facts as that fish don't dream and that the safety pin was invented in 1849

Curious Facts: Bk. 2

Literature & Fiction

Secker Warburg

?Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary?? ?from ?The Raven?, by Edgar Allan Poe In 1845, Edgar Allen Poe published ?The Raven,? was embraced by the New York literati, founded his own magazine, and allegedly began an affair with Frances ?Fanny? Sargent Osgood. By the end of the year, Poe would leave New York City a ruined man, deeply in debt, and a virtual outcast spurned by a circle that included Horace Greeley, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. In Poe &amp; Fanny, John May envisions the love affair using their own flirtatious poetry as inspiration 
 A richly imagined debut novel, Poe &amp; Fanny, brings New York?s giddy pre-Civil War social scene into brilliant focus as it explores the tragic life and loves of one of America?s great literary figures.

Poe and Fanny

United States

Plume

Vernacular architecture, by its very nature, is built from local materials that are readily to hand and is thus defined by the geology and ecology of the region and by local climatic conditions. Constructed by the community using traditional tools, these structures are highly practical, energy-efficient, and blend with the landscape. They carry many of the attributes that we are now seeking in green architecture as we struggle to adapt our built environment to the demands and concerns of the climate-change era. "Handmade Houses and Other Buildings" looks at everyday structures all over the world, from whatever wood, grass, earth or stone that was to hand, in ways that offered practical solutions to the challenges of climate or terrain. Based on immemorial principles, but highly relevant to our newly found environmental concerns, these buildings show the simple and satisfying ways in which humans have worked out how to live and live well, in harmony with their surroundings.

Handmade Houses and Other Buildings /anglais

Thames&Hudson

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