Most Popular Books by Richard Adams

Instructions for a variety of projects and experiments demonstrating basic concepts of energy, work, and power, including thermal, electrical, and solar energy, energy of motion and position, and energy conservation.

This book will advance the understanding of leadership beyond the inherited myths and modalities of command and control. Leadership is separated from ideas and institutional seniority and explained as the collaborative power of one with others. Enabling the intelligent co-participation of all people, the constructive effect of this approach to leadership is in the engagement of people. This is significant when task accomplishment depends not on managerial direction, but on the interaction of people with each other, with technical systems, and with complex regulations which are often across jurisdictional boundaries. Examples and case studies are included.

Profusely illustrated text looks at wild horses. Includes the Przewalskis of Asia, Tarpans of Poland, ponies of the British Isles, white horses of the Camargue, Stable Island horses, Australian Brumbies, and American mustangs.

This book argues for reform of the convention that, when politicians decide on a course of action, the general in supreme command obeys without question. The entire spread‐out chain of command is unified in the general, who offers the only connection between the military and politics. Offering the sole connection between the military and politics, only the general can turn political directions into military command and capacitate war. Thus, the general has unique opportunity to resist unconscionable direction to launch an unjust war or to conduct or expand war unjustly. This book argues for reform, so the general has the right in law to refuse direction which is lawful, but awful. The legal capacity to refuse would mean the general would be expected to act responsibly, not merely as the unresisting pawn of politics. Such reform, creating legal opportunity for the supreme command to refuse lawful but unconscionable directives, might avert unjust war. This book will be of much interest to students of the ethics of war, civil‐military relations, and international relations.

Analyses of 1960 to 1980 change in crude birth rates in Asian, Latin American, and all LDCs found a significant impact of social development, but no significant impact of economic development, net of family planning program activity. Social development indicators were narrowed to life expectancy and adult literacy. Implications for policies to reduce birth rates in LDCs are discussed.

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From the author of Watership Down, Richard Adams, comes an enchanting picture book about the adventures of a mischievous homemade dragon. Illustrated by Alex T. Smith, creator of Claude, the bestselling beret-clad canine hero. Whatever you've lost, Egg Box Dragon will find it. He's retrieved missing footballs, glasses and watches aplenty. He's so expert at cracking mysteries that the Queen herself requests his services. Will Egg Box Dragon find the missing diamond from the Queen's crown? Richard Adams was awarded both the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Award for children's fiction. Watership Down has sold over 50 million copies. A new mini series of Watership Down will premiere Christmas 2017 on BBC1 and launch globally on Netflix Spring 2018, featuring the voices of Olivia Colman and Freddie Fox, amongst others.

Un branco di conigli protagonisti di una meravigliosa epopea della libertà. Il saggio Moscardo, l'ingegnoso Mirtillo, il prode Argento e tanti altri sono gli eroi di questo fantastico romanzo epico. Un drappello di piccoli coraggiosi conigli, alla ricerca di un avvenire più sicuro, migra attraverso le ridenti colline del Berkshire e affronta mille nemici in un indimenticabile cammino verso il più prezioso dei beni: la libertà. Con La collina dei conigli la letteratura contemporanea ha ricreato la sua Iliade e la sua Odissea: i piccoli e coraggiosi protagonisti vivono avventure ed emozioni, la quiete di splendidi pascoli e raccontano leggende sul Popolo dei Conigli, i suoi dèi e i suoi eroi.

C'est dans les fourrés de collines verdoyantes et idylliques que se terrent parfois les plus terrifiantes menaces. C'est là aussi que va se dérouler cette vibrante odyssée de courage, de loyauté et de survie. Menés par le valeureux Hazel et le surprenant Fyveer, une poignée de braves choisissent de fuir l'inéluctable destruction de leur foyer. Prémonitions, malices et légendes vont guider ces héros face aux mille ennemis qui les guettent, et leur permettront peut-être de franchir les épreuves qui les séparent de leur terre promise : watership down. Mais l'aventure s'arrêtera-t-elle vraiment là ? Aimé et partagé par des millions de lecteurs à travers le monde l'envoûtant roman de Richard Adams fait partie de ces récits mythiques et hors du temps, une épopée sombre et violente, néanmoins parcourue d'espoir et de poésie. Vous sentirez le sang versé, vous tremblerez face aux dangers, vous craindrez la mort et par-dessus tout vous ressentirez l'irrépressible désir de savoir ce qui va se passer.

Um dos maiores clássicos de fantasia nos países de língua inglesa, Em busca de Watership Down é uma fábula sombria sobre coragem e sobrevivência Quando um coelho vidente prevê a destruição da toca onde vive, ele se une a seus amigos para achar uma nova casa. No caminho rumo à mítica colina de Watership Down, enfrentam rivais e armadilhas. Mas, mesmo depois de chegarem e, teoricamente, encontrarem um lugar seguro para viver, precisarão lutar para salvar a colônia vizinha e repopular a própria comunidade. Em busca de Watership Down fala de dominação e opressão, de fascismo e utopia, de mitologia e delírio coletivo, de sentimento de comunidade e de loucura. No Reino Unido, ocupa o segundo lugar entre os juvenis de fantasia mais vendidos do século XX, atrás apenas da saga Harry Potter. Em 2018, a Netflix lançou uma série de animação baseada no livro.

Gathers tales about the origins of things, the characteristics of animals, and encounters with magic, fear, and enchantment

A fox terrier and a black labrador escape from an animal research station and must run for their lives when it is rumored they are carriers of a plague.

С экспериментальной станции, где проводятся жестокие опыты над животными, бегут два приятеля - дворняга Раф и фокстерьер Шустрик. Но долгожданная свобода таит новые опасности и испытания. По роману известного английского писателя Р.Адамса в 1982 году снят культовый анимационный фильм "Чумные псы".

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