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Leonardo (Biographic) by Andrew Kirk
Category: Biography | Series: Biographic
Many people know that Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) was an Italian polymath, one of the great creative minds of the Italian Renaissance and the painter of the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper. What, perhaps, they don't know is that his original notebook Codex Leicester, was sold to Bill Gates for $30 milli ...Show more
Secret Commonwealth of Elves and Fairies by Robert Kirk; Andrew Lang (Introduction by); R. B. Cunninghame Graham (Introduction by)
Category: Sci-Fi & Fantasy Fiction
"Kirk is a magnificent dish to set before any student of either folk-lore or folk-psychology."--Times Literary SupplementIn the late seventeenth century, a Scottish minister went looking for supernatural creatures of "a middle nature betwixt man and angel." Robert Kirk roamed the Highlands, talking to h ...Show more
Skeletons: The Extraordinary Form and Function of Bones by Andrew Kirk
Category: Science
Bone is one of the most extraordinary materials in the natural world - flexible and strong, available in a number of types and densities. Yet we only absorb quite how amazing it is when we look at the range of different jobs it can do, from supporting and shaping a huge and heavy mammal like an elephant ...Show more
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