Ken Thompson was for twenty years a lecturer in the Department of Animal and Plant Sciences at the University of Sheffield. He writes regularly on gardening for the Daily Telegraph. His previous book, Where Do Camels Belong? (Profile, 2014), was described as “lively and punchy” by the Sunday Times.
12 Ebooks por Ken Thompson
Ken Thompson: The Sceptical Gardener
How are birds linked to house prices? How can a gardener improve the flavour of their vegetables? Do wildflowers really thrive in poor soil? In this collection of articles from The Telegraph, biologi …
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Ken Thompson & Kenneth Thompson: Key Quotations in Sociology
This is an indispensable reference tool for all students and sociology enthusiaists. Quotations are extracted not only from the `Founding Fathers’, but also more recent influential figures. …
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€24.39
Ken Thompson & Kenneth Thompson: Key Quotations in Sociology
Jean Baudrillard on consumption: `It is not defined by the food we eat, the clothes we wear, the car we drive … but in the organization of all this as signifying substance … Consumption, in so fa …
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€21.91
Ken Thompson & Kenneth Thompson: Key Quotations in Sociology
Jean Baudrillard on consumption: `It is not defined by the food we eat, the clothes we wear, the car we drive … but in the organization of all this as signifying substance … Consumption, in so fa …
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€21.90
T. Anthony Marsland & Jonathan Schaeffer: Computers, Chess, and Cognition
Computers, Chess, and Cognition presents an excellent up-to-date description of developments in computer chess, a rapidly advancing area in artificial intelligence research. This book is intended for …
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€152.99
Ken Thompson: Darwin’s Most Wonderful Plants
Most of us think of Darwin at work on The Beagle, taking inspiration for his theory of evolution from his travels in the Galapagos. But Darwin published his Origin of Species nearly thirty years afte …
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Ken Thompson: Where Do Camels Belong?
Where do camels belong? In the Arab world may seem the obvious answer, but they are relative newcomers there. They evolved in North America, retain their greatest diversity in South America, and the …
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€13.99
Ken Thompson: Ear to the Ground
How did plants get to be the way they are? Why do they have pretty flowers? How different would things have been if the wrong kind of pollinators had got the upper hand? Why are Latin names so compli …
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€6.99
Ken Thompson: No Nettles Required
In 2003 a MORI poll for the Royal Horticultural Society revealed that an extraordinary number of us are interested in attracting wildlife into our gardens. It also indicated, however, that many of us …
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€9.49
Ken Thompson: Notes From a Sceptical Gardener
What is the best way to kill weeds in paving? How scared should we really be of Japanese knotweed? And what is a weed anyway? Biologist Ken Thompson set out to write a different kind of gardening col …
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Ken Thompson: Common or Garden
We often imagine that rarity is special – we seek out the most uncommon wild plants to tick off our lists, while overlooking the extraordinary appeal of the species we encounter day-to-day. Yet it’s …
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