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Free Download Derek Crawley, "Atlas of the Mammals of Great Britain and Northern Ireland"
English | ISBN: 1784272043 | 2020 | 204 pages | EPUB, PDF | 153 MB + 38 MB
Based on more than 1.8 million records, this Atlas provides the most up-to-date information on the current distributions of both terrestrial and marine mammals in the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man. Many changes over time, such as the rapid invasion of the grey squirrel, the recovery of the pine marten and the decline of the water vole, are readily apparent from the detailed maps.

Free Download Kathrin Wagner, "Artists and Migration 1400-1850: Britain, Europe and Beyond"
English | ISBN: 1443899747 | 2017 | 220 pages | PDF | 5 MB
This volume offers a thematic exploration of the migrant artists experience in Europe and its colonies from the early modern period through to the Industrial Revolution. The influence of the transient artist, both on their adoptive country as well as their own oeuvre and native culture, is considered through a collection of essays arranged according to geographic location. The contributions here examine the impetuses behind artistic migrations and the status of the foreign artist at home and abroad through the patterns of patronage, contemporary responses to their work and the preservation of their artistic legacy in domestic and foreign settings. Objects and sites from across the visual arts are considered as evidence of the migrant artists experience; talismans of cultural exchange that yielded hybrid artistic styles and disseminated foreign tastes and workshop practices across the globe.

Free Download Dori-Michelle Beeler, "An Ethnographic Account of Reiki Practice in Britain"
English | ISBN: 1443899526 | 2016 | 225 pages | PDF | 991 KB
An Ethnographic Account of Reiki Practice in Britain is the result of 14 months of ethnographic research. This study, while filling a gap in the qualitative literature on Reiki practice, contributes an ethnographic portrayal of a particular groups construction of well-being. Contributing to medical anthropology, the research findings demonstrate culturally situated ideas and practices related to health wherein the intersubjective nature of healing is a constitutive element for well-being. The distinctions of this are specific to culture and environment, broadening how spirituality and well-being are conceptualized anthropologically. In addition, this book offers a framework for the commoditization of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM), a process where products become a simple commodity. For Reiki practice, this results in spirituality being out of place in the healthcare market. The book will be of interest to academics interested in CAM research and Reiki practitioners alike.

Free Download Building Britannia: A History of Britain in 25 Buildings by Steven Parissien
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1801108757 | 512 pages | MOBI | 114 Mb
An ambitious history of Britain told through the stories of twenty-five notable structures, from the Iron Age fortification of Maiden Castle in Dorset to the Gherkin.

Free Download Lee Raye, "The Atlas of Early Modern Wildlife: Britain and Ireland between the Middle Ages and the Industrial Revolution"
English | ISBN: 1784274070 | 2023 | 328 pages | EPUB | 73 MB
What was the state of wildlife in Britain and Ireland before modern records began? The Atlas of Early Modern Wildlife looks at the era before climate change, before the intensification of agriculture, before even the Industrial Revolution. In the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries, beavers still swim in the River Ness. Isolated populations of wolves and lynxes linger in the uplands. Sea eagles are widespread around the coasts. Wildcats and pine martens remain common in the Lake District.

Free Download Neil Middleton, "Social Calls of the Bats of Britain and Ireland"
English | ISBN: 1784273783 | 2022 | 200 pages | EPUB, PDF | 43 MB + 57 MB
The social calls of bats are an area about which relatively little is known, with more research still required to expand our understanding. However, these calls are increasingly recognised as a useful aid to identification: they appear to be species specific and are indicative of behaviour – as in territorial activity of males during the mating season. Because the gathering and interpretation of bat echolocation data are a matter of course during research, conservation and consultancy, it is a logical progression to build momentum behind the consideration of social calls in mainstream bat-related work. A better understanding of this subject could mean that non-intrusive survey methods are developed, ensuring that what is being observed is, as far as possible, purely natural behaviour. In turn this will contribute to better interpretation and more suitable mitigation, compensation and/or enhancement solutions.

Free Download Peter Swallow, "Aristophanes in Britain: Old Comedy in the Nineteenth Century "
English | ISBN: 019286856X | 2023 | 304 pages | EPUB, PDF | 3 MB + 55 MB
In this lively and wide-ranging study, Peter Swallow explores the reception of Aristophanes in Britain throughout the long-nineteenth century, setting it in the broader context of Victorian Classicism and, more specifically, the period’s reception of Greek tragedy. Swallow shows the surprising extent to which Aristophanes was repurposed across an array of mediums in Victorian Britain, and demonstrates that Aristophanic reception in the period was always a process of speaking to contemporary issues-making Old Comedy new.

Free Download The End of the Road: A journey around Britain in search of the dead by Jack Cooke
English | 2020 | ISBN: 0008294704 | 304 Pages | EPUB | 16.8 MB
A wonderfully quixotic, charming and surprisingly uplifting travelogue which sees Jack Cooke, author of the much-lovedThe Treeclimbers Guide, drive around the British Isles in a clapped-out forty-year old hearse in search of famous and not so famous tombs, graves and burial sites.

Free Download Britain’s Secret War against Japan, 1937-1945 by Douglas Ford
English | 2006 | ISBN: 0415358469 | 272 Pages | EPUB | 1.0 MB
A new look at how Britain’s defence establishment learned to engage Japan’s armed forces as the Pacific War progressed.

Free Download Britain’s Secret War against Japan, 1937-1945 by Douglas Ford
English | 2006 | ISBN: 0415358469 | 272 Pages | EPUB | 1.0 MB
A new look at how Britain’s defence establishment learned to engage Japan’s armed forces as the Pacific War progressed.