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  The Thing with Feathers - The...

  Noah Strycker

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  Birds are highly intelligent animals, yet their intelligence is dramatically different from our own and has been little understood. As we learn more about the secrets of bird life, we are unlocking fascinating insights into memory, relationships, game theory, and the nature of intelligence itself.The Thing with Feathers explores the astonishing homing abilities of pigeons, the good deeds of fairy-wrens, the influential flocking abilities of starlings, the deft artistry of bowerbirds, the extraordinary memories of nutcrackers, the lifelong loves of albatrosses, and other mysteries-revealing why birds do what they do, and offering a glimpse into our own nature.Drawing deep from personal experience, cutting-edge science, and colorful history, Noah Strycker spins captivating stories about the birds in our midst and shares the startlingly intimate coexistence of birds and humans. With humor, style, and grace, he shows how our view of the world is often, and remarkably, through the experience of birds.

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  Chicken Wing Recipes

  J. Steele

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  Chicken Wing Recipes cookbook is full of great recipes that will keep you trying new recipes. It is a good, easy to follow recipe book. Anyone can use this book and feel like a real chef.

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  Wargames Terrain & Buildings -...

  Tony Harwood

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  “Master terrainer Harwood offer[s] advice on 10 projects, from the mosque on the cover to mud-brick buildings to grass huts . . . he knows his stuff.” —Historical Miniatures Gaming SocietyThe Middle East and North Africa have been the backdrop for many conflicts through the centuries, making them a popular setting for miniature wargames. Whether you are fielding your Parthians against invading Roman legions, Crusaders against Saladin’s Saracens, recreating Lawrence’s exploits in Arabia, or trying to halt Rommel at El Alamein, this book will help you set the scene for your games.Expert terrain modeler Tony Harwood takes the reader through a range of projects step by step, from selection of materials to the finished items. Each stage is illustrated with color photographs. The projects have been selected to provide a useful range of features but also to introduce materials and techniques the reader can then apply to further buildings and terrain pieces. Included are a range of traditional mud-brick dwellings/shops, mosque, well, palm trees, rocky outcrop, Bedouin tent, El Alamein railway station, Sudanese huts, colonial river gunboat. They are easily adaptable to different scales. Suited to novice and experienced modelers alike.“Soon your DAK or Desert Rat themed builds will look right at home in their natural setting. No matter your skill level, the information in the book will give you all you need to dive right in and give it a try!” —AMPS “A lavishly illustrated how to book full of full color photographs detail[ing] the construction of 9 buildings and 1 gunboat in a spread of 15mm and 28mm scales . . . full of useful tricks and tips.” —History of War

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  Lost in a Good Game - Why we...

  Pete Etchells

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  'Etchells writes eloquently ... A heartfelt defence of a demonised pastime' The Times
  'Once in an age, a piece of culture comes along that feels like it was specifically created for you, the beats and words and ideas are there because it is your life the creator is describing. Lost In A Good Game is exactly that. It will touch your heart and mind. And even if Bowser, Chun-li or Q-Bert weren't crucial parts of your youth, this is a flawless victory for everyone' Adam Rutherford
  
  When Pete Etchells was 14, his father died from motor neurone disease. In order to cope, he immersed himself in a virtual world - first as an escape, but later to try to understand what had happened. Etchells is now a researcher into the psychological effects of video games, and was co-author on a recent paper explaining why WHO plans to classify 'game addiction' as a danger to public health are based on bad science and (he thinks) are a bad idea.
  
  In this, his first book, he journeys through the history and development of video games - from Turing's chess machine to mass multiplayer online games like World of Warcraft- via scientific study, to investigate the highs and lows of playing and get to the bottom of our relationship with games - why we do it, and what they really mean to us.
  
  At the same time, Lost in a Good Game is a very unusual memoir of a writer coming to terms with his grief via virtual worlds, as he tries to work out what area of popular culture we should classify games (a relatively new technology) under.

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  Pocket Battleships of the...

  Gerhard Koop, Klaus-Peter Schmolke

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  A concise, authoritative, heavily illustrated summary of this class of German WWII-era warships, covering their design histories and careers.   The Deutschland class included three ships of a design so revolutionary that it defied conventional categories. Deutschland (later renamed Lützow), Admiral Scheer, and Admiral Graf Spee were simply termed Panzerschiffe (armored ships) by the Germans, but they were known to their opponents by the far more evocative term Pocket Battleships.   Part of a six-volume series on the German Navy’s WWII-era warships written by Gerhard Koop and illustrated by Klaus-Peter Schmolke, this book contains an account of the development of the Deutschland class, a detailed description of the ships with full technical details, and an outline of their service, heavily illustrated with plans, battle maps, and a substantial collection of photographs.

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  K9 Spirit Guides

  Heather Leigh Strom

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  We’ve always suspected dogs are magical angels from God. In K9 Spirit Guides, author HeatherLeigh Strom gives you proof that our canine companions possess specific divine gifts to facilitateour healing, elevate our awareness, and expand our consciousness as children of God. Man’s bestfriends have their own spirit guides, which is why they appear in our lives just when we needthem most. Strom narrates a story of a girl and her many dogs. These special K9's found their way to her from throughout the world. However, their clandestine purpose and message wasn’t fully understood for decades. This story tells how these special K9angels led their owner strategically through a divine journey of self-actualization.Strom shares how her painful trauma healed instantly with their guidance; how the K9 guides broughther complete understanding of her life, who she was, and where she was going; and how theyoffered healing, peace, and divine spiritual enlightenment decades after her dogs died. K9 spirit guides are angelic support entities that connect with us through our canine friends. Essentially, our dogs have spirit guides much like each of us has our own spirit guides that helps us along our journey. Only the dogs’ spirit guides are not present to support the dog; rather, they are here for us! They watch over us offering their unique wisdom and benevolent healing through man’s best friend. They are not your dog’s individual spirit, and they are not what psychics tap into when they tell you what your dog is thinking. These stealth guardians have never spoken out until now. This book serves as their debut, an unveiling of sorts, to enlighten humanity about their presence, their purpose, and their gifts. It is an invitation for humankind to use these gifts to empower expedited healing and enlightenment. These special guides have specific messages for all of us.

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