Author: Elizabeth Adkins-Regan
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: behavior, ecology, monographs, hormones, social
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2005-07-18
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 0691092478
ISBN-13: 9780691092478

Research into the lives of animals in their natural environments has revealed a rich tapestry of complex social relationships and previously unsuspected social and mating systems. The evolution of this behavior is increasingly well understood. At the same time, laboratory scientists have made significant discoveries about how steroid and peptide hormones act on the nervous system to shape behavior. An exciting and rapidly progressing hybrid zone has developed in which these two fields are integrated, providing a fuller understanding of social behavior and the adaptive functions of hormones.Thi

Authors:Lesley Adkins, Roy A. Adkins,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: rome, ancient, life, handbook
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 1998-07-16
List price: $24.99
ISBN-10: 0195123328
ISBN-13: 9780195123326

This handy reference provides full access to the 1,200 years of Roman rule from the 8th century B.C. to the 5th century A.D., including information on art, literature, law, and engineering. 150 illustrations.

Authors:Lesley Adkins, Roy Adkins,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: archaeology, manuals, cambridge, illustration, archaeological
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1989-08-25
List price: $88.99
ISBN-10: 0521354781
ISBN-13: 9780521354783

This volume, originally published in 1989, is intended as a practical guide to archaeological illustration, from drawing finds in the field to technical studio drawing for publication. It is also an invaluable reference tool for the interpretation of illustrations and their status as archaeological evidence. The book’s ten chapters start from first principles and guide the illustrator through the historical development of archaeological illustration and basic skills. Each chapter then deals with a different illustrative technique - drawing in the field during survey work and excavation,

Authors:Lesley Adkins, Roy A. Adkins,
Publisher: Facts on File
Keywords: greece, ancient, life, handbook
Number of Pages: 514
Published: 2005-01-30
List price: $70.00
ISBN-10: 0816056595
ISBN-13: 9780816056590

This handy reference provides comprehensive access to over three millennia of ancient Greek history and archaeology, from the beginning of the Minoan civilization to the fall of the Greek states to the Romans by 30 BC. Clear, authoritative, and highly organized, the Handbook to Life in Ancient Greece provides an engaging look at a civilization that once stretched from what is now modern Greece, to Spain, India, and beyond; a civilization that has had an enormous and lasting influence on the development of myriad aspects of Western culture, from philosophy and medicine to democracy and town pl

Author: Jan Adkins
Publisher: DK CHILDREN
Keywords: biography, edison, thomas
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2009-08-03
List price: $5.99
ISBN-10: 0756652073
ISBN-13: 9780756652074

Filled with archival photographs and amazing facts, this groundbreaking series introduces young readers to some of history’s most interesting and influential characters. The series now features a refreshed design, taking the series’ original look in a more modern direction. Thomas Edison tells the story of the famous inventor, from his childhood as an "addled" student, to his reign as the "Wizard of Menlo Park," where he developed the electric light bulb, the phonograph, and many other inventions still in use today.

Author: Jan Adkins
Publisher: Wooden Boat Publications
Keywords: workboats
Number of Pages: 30
Published: 2004-11
List price: $11.95
ISBN-10: 0937822841
ISBN-13: 9780937822845

A tale of the sea without varnish and polished brass. The characters in this miniature narrative are the rough and purpose-built workboats that live with the weather and the hard realities of the water. A boatyard owner’s concern for a lost fisherman reverberates through the working community of watermen, giving us an insider’s glimpse of the vessels and seafolk that work the sea for a living. This is a read-aloud book with a wealth of “I see” details that will call for as much parent-child sharing as reading.

Author: C. J. Adkins
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: thermodynamics, equilibrium
Number of Pages: 300
Published: 1984-01-27
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0521274567
ISBN-13: 9780521274562

Equilibrium Thermodynamics gives a comprehensive but concise course in the fundamentals of classical thermodynamics. Although the subject is essentially classical in nature, illustrative material is drawn widely from modern physics and free use is made of microscopic ideas to illuminate it. The overriding objective in writing the book was to achieve a clear exposition: to give an account of the subject that it both stimulating and easy to learn from. Classical thermodynamics has such wide application that it can be taught in many ways. The terms of reference for Equilibrium Thermodynamics are