Best Selling Books by Alastair Smith

This kit comes with working weather instruments. Just follow the easy instructions and learn to calculate wind speed in MPH and perform many other meteorological activities, so you can become an amateur meteorologist. Kit includes Weather Spotter''s Guide book, anemometer for measuring wind speed, wind vane, rain gauge, snow gauge, thermometer on card for hanging on nail or by string, 60 second sand timer for use with anemometer, compass for directional settings for wind vane and information regarding how to use these instruments to gather data.

La contemplación del cielo y la observación de los astros han cautivado a la humanidad desde sus orígenes. Este interés también es característico de los niños, quienes con su inteligencia y curiosidad se formulan interesantes preguntas acerca del cosmos. En este libro magníficamente ilustrado y escrito con un lenguaje claro, ellos encontrarán las repuestas que buscan acerca de una gran variedad de temas tales como el sistema solar, las estrellas y los planetas. Además, la obra incluye una breve reseña histórica sobre la evolución de la astronomía y sus principales hallazgos. De igual forma se presenta una sección con biografías de grandes astrónomos, cosmólogos y astrofísicos de todas las épocas, desde el astrónomo egipcio Ptolomeo hasta el célebre científico británico Stephen Hawking. Un capítulo especial con preguntas y respuestas ayudará a los niños a los niños a reforzar el aprendizaje de manera entretenida.

If you want to use a bike in your daily life - to get to work, play, school and the shops - this is the book you have been waiting for, an informative, comprehensive and inspiring guide that helps beginners get started and experienced cyclists ride more confidently, safely and enjoyably. Discover how to: select the right bike - or improve the bike you have choose accessories for safety, visibility and efficiency learn safe, effective cycling skills manoeuvre through traffic and complex road layouts carry loads safely and well handle challenging terrain and weather deal with mechanical problems such as flat tyres safely introduce your children to cycling

Provides instructions for making a variety of craft projects in different media, cooking, and doing simple scientific experiments, and suggests other amusements.

Introduces the chemistry of many different materials and the elements from which they are made, covering such topics as atomic structure; molecules; solids, liquids and gases, and the elements and their properties. Includes experiments. The companion web site provides links to the extensive number of recommended web sites described in the book.

This books is a comprehensive and inspiring guide to drawing and painting subjects ranging from people and animals to dinosaurs and buildings.

This thesis provides an account of the way in which meaning associated with the term ''fair trade'' is negotiated within a number of discrete, yet interrelated communities, in a way which influences stakeholder understanding of the concept - and as a result, structures the way in which public procurement strategies integrate fair trade governance into their operation. Building from the identification of ''fair trade'' governance as a means to embed the intra-generational social justice concerns of sustainable development within the public procurement system, the thesis investigates how the ambiguous meaning of fair trade is reconciled in discourse and practice. Specifically focusing on the case study of Scotland - where Local Authorities are involved in a complex network of state and private governance initiatives - investigation reveals that despite various influences to the contrary, fair trade is strongly conflated with certification administered by the dominant global fair trade certifying body, Fairtrade International (FLO). However, exceptions are argued to demonstrate an active negotiation of this domination over meaning. In particular, one Authority has purchased ''fairly traded'' Kilombero rice - produced by members of the National Smallholder Farmers Association of Malawi (NASFAM) - as part of its fair trade strategy, by accepting claims of fairness not on the basis of external certification, but on trust from a socially orientated import organisation. Extending the study along the supply chain, investigation reveals that while the producer organisation sees fair trade as beneficial to their overall objectives, they identify significant limitations with the FLO approach. For this reason they have pursued World Fair Trade Organisation (WFTO) accreditation in order to back their claims to fair trade operation. As such, the dominance of FLO certification is seen to be actively contested as part of a wider dynamic in which different approaches vie to influence the understanding, and therefore the praxis of stakeholders.

-- Ready-to-play games or ones to make for yourself with the help of clear and simple instructions -- Almost a hundred tricky puzzles to test wits and power of observation

This is a practical introduction to single molecule fluorescence experiments, the analysis of the data, and applications of the techniques to the study of biological structure and function.

Découvre à quoi ressemblent les planètes de près ! Vois les étoiles exploser, les trous noirs se former et sillonne le système solaire avec les comètes et les astéroïdes. Repère-toi dans le ciel nocturne à l''aide de nos cartes claires et détaillées. Cet ouvrage présente l''Univers en s''appuyant sur des informations étonnantes recueillies auprès d''astronomes du monde entier ou transmises par les sondes spatiales qui étudient la galaxie. Ce livre contient aussi des descriptions de sites Web permettant d''explorer plus avant l''astronomie.

Theories that link domestic politics, domestic institutional structures, and leader incentives to foreign affairs have flowered in the past 25 years or so. By unpacking institutional variation across states and by drawing attention to agency issues between leaders, key backers, and citizens, models and empirical studies of linkage help explain even such fundamental phenomena between states as war and peace. In addition, theories of linkage politics explain phenomena not envisioned under earlier unitary-actor state models. We address how the linkage literature explains war and peace decisions, the democratic peace, nation building, foreign aid, and economic sanctions by tying international politics and foreign policy to domestic political considerations.

Ouvrage d''introduction à l''astronomie amateure abondamment illustré couvrant l''histoire de l''Univers, le système solaire et ses planètes, la voie lactée, les constellations (cartes), la Lune (carte), les étoiles (nom, éclat, distance de la Terre, type d''étoile, classe, étoiles variables et amas d''étoiles) et les objets de l''espace (nébuleuses, galaxies, météores, éclipses) conclu par une chronologie des événements importants de cette discipline. Des ressources électroniques reliées sont accessibles via le site de l''éditeur. [SDM].