Отлично оформленное лондонское издание по доисторическим вымершим ящерам - динозаврам. Совершить путешествие во времени и вернуться на 245 миллионов лет назад, когда на Земле появились первые динозавры, предлагает эта книга. Что же все-таки стало причиной исчезновения этих загадочных животных, царствовавших на планете в течение 180 миллионов лет?

The crocodilian is an ancient animal whose ancestors have roamed the earth since the time of the dinosaurs. While continents drifted, ice ages thawed and once-prolific species became extinct, the crocodilian survived it all. Today, the Australian saltie, Chinese alligator, Indian gharial and black caiman are just some of the twenty-three species of descendants found across the world.

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The British Army's Challenger Main Battle Tank proved itself triumphantly in combat in Operation Desert Sabre - the '100-hour war' to liberate Kuwait in 1991. Presented here are 100 striking color photographs of Challenger tanks on maneuvers and in active service, including external and internal detail close-ups, accompanied by a fact-packed text.

Unleash Leopard with 200+ tips and tricks
When it comes to uncovering your Mac's hidden powers, there's no better resource than MacOSXHints.com, a collaborative Web site that lets Mac users share their favorite tips and tricks.
In fact, over the past eight years, the site has collected more than 10,000 hints covering every version of Mac OS X. For this book, the site's creator, Rob Griffiths - in collaboration with the editors of Macworld, has pulled together the most useful hints for OS X 10.5. Whether you're a power user looking to take control of your system or a relative newcomer searching for ways to be more productive, this handpicked collection will help you get the most from Leopard.

Python is an Internet and systems programming language that is soaring in popularity in today's fast-paced software development environment, and no wonder: it's simple (yet robust), object-oriented (yet can be used as a procedural language), extensible, scalable and features an easy to learn syntax that is clear and concise. Python combines the power of a compiled object language like Java and C++ with the ease of use and rapid development time of a scripting language. In fact, it's syntax is so easy to understand that you are more likely to pick it up faster than any of the other popular scripting languages in use today!

In the campaigns of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, the deserved reputation of the British infantry has tended to overshadow the contribution of the cavalry, but in fact they did form an integral part of the army, carrying out duties crucial to the success of other arms. British Cavalryman 1792-1815 recounts what these duties were and examines the men who performed them. The different regiments of the cavalry are listed and some of the arm's more exotic or professional corps, such as the King's German Legion, examined.

Discrimination is practiced against innumerable types of people and comes in many forms. Though it is often associated with racial and ethnic prejudice, discrimination often goes far beyond this common form of the practice. People can be discriminated against because of their age—employers have been sued because of their reluctance to hire people who are older, believing they are out of touch with industry innovations. People can also be discriminated against, both in the workplace and in society, if they have a disability. Gender, religion, and national origin are other qualifiers that have provoked unjust discrimination throughout the ages. While sexual orientation has long been a cause of discrimination, emerging debates over same-sex marriage—whether two people of the same sex should be allowed to legally marry one another—have taken center stage in national discussions about discrimination and civil rights. In fact, many claim that same-sex marriage is the new face of the civil rights struggle. Same-sex marriage was first legalized by the state of Massachusetts in 2004 and next by California in 2008.