Product Description: This book completes the study of the life and political thought of Algernon Sidney (1623-1683), which began with Algernon Sidney and the English Republic, 1623-1677 (1988). In the process it offers a reinterpretation of the major political crisis of Charles II's reign, and of its European and seventeenth-century contexts...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: On February 1, 1960, Harry Scott, conscientious objector, psychologist, and mountaineer, was killed while climbing Mt. Cook. Thirty-five years later, his son set out to look for him. Funny, moving, and beautifully written, this is the story of a father's absence, told party through the rich and exciting mix of biography, autobiography, and intellectual and social history, HARRY'S ABSENCE is a passionately argued book about New Zealand, addressing the distinction between nationalism and love of country...read more

Product Description: The Mara-Serengeti is a vast tract of land lying astride the Kenya-Tanzania border in Africa. This book celebrates the diversity of life to be found in the Mara-Serengeti: the great predators, the wonders of the migration, the people...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Seventeenth-century English history is known best for "the English Civil War" and "the English Revolution." This highly original and wide-ranging study analyzes and explains both of these major historical events, and others, by setting them in their wider contexts in relation to political instability across the century; in relation to the history of religions and political ideas; and in relation to contemporary European events...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

An award-winning wildlife photographer examines the family life, hunting patterns, territorial relationships, and other activities of a female leopard and her two cubs which enable them to survive in the wild. Reprint.

Product Description: Easy to read and conducive to discussion, Fundamentals of Leisure Business Success: A Manager’s Guide to Achieving Success in the Leisure and Recreation Industry takes a practical, upbeat look at the world’s largest industry--leisure and recreation--and gives you practical tips and surefire strategies for making your own profit or nonprofit leisure business a blue ribbon success...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Describing the rise and fall of the various prides of lions, and the strength of the family ties that keep the females together and provide security for their cubs, this is a true story of the Maasai Mara National Reserve in Kenya...read more

Product Description: A celebration of the splendors of wild Africa, its greatest game parks, and most spectacular fauna. Drawn from 20 years of safaris in Kenya, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa, it offers the reader a vivid portrait of life in the bush.

Product Description: One of the great landscape and history painters of the seventeenth century, Salvator Rosa was also a talented musician, a notable comic actor, a prolific correspondent, and a successful satirist and poet. This elegantly written biography tells the story of Rosa`s creative life, art, and times; his wayward temperament; his furious insistence on the independence of the artist; and his influence on the art and literature of later centuries...read more

Product Description: A photographic portrayal of a pack of wild dogs on the Serengeti in Tanzania.

Describes the seasonal migration of the herds of wildebeests native to the Serengeti wildlife reserves