The Authentic Animal: Inside the Odd and Obsessive World of Taxidermy [1st ed] 9780312643713, 9781429987622

The authentic animal: inside the odd and obsessive world of taxidermy [1st ed] 9780312643713, 9781429987622

Explores the reasons that people preserve the bodies of animals, tracing the life story of taxidermy pioneer Carl Akeley

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Forbidden Creatures: Inside The World Of Animal Smuggling And Exotic Pets 0762771801

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Walter Potter's Curious World of Taxidermy

Walter Potter (1835-1918), a country taxidermist of no great expertise, became famous as an icon of Victorian whimsy. Hi

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Odd Couples: Extraordinary Differences between the Sexes in the Animal Kingdom [Course Book ed.] 9781400847600

While we joke that men are from Mars and women are from Venus, our gender differences can't compare to those of man

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The Animal Inside : Essays at the Intersection of Philosophical Anthropology and Animal Studies [1 ed.] 9781783488223, 9781783488216

Much has been written about animals in applied ethics, environmental ethics, and animal rights. This book takes a new tu

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Pet Projects: Animal Fiction and Taxidermy in the Nineteenth-Century Archive 9780271085111

In Pet Projects, Elizabeth Young joins an analysis of the representation of animals in nineteenth-century fiction, taxid

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Speculative Taxidermy: Natural History, Animal Surfaces, and Art in the Anthropocene 9780231543217

Giovanni Aloi maps the discourses and practices that have enabled the emergence of taxidermy in contemporary art. Specul

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Into the Odd

Into the Odd contains everything you need to create a character and explore an industrial world of cosmic meddlers and h

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World of Metals Through Fun, Odd and Interesting Facts

Состоит из десяти разделов, каждый из которых посвящен определенной тематике и содержит по два текста, носящих характер

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Inside the World of Microbes [1 ed.] 9781499470512, 9781499470499

Microbes are everywhere! They live on and under the ground. They live in all kinds of water on Earth, even around the ho

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