The Flamingo Specialist Group is a voluntary organisation open to all flamingo specialists without charge. Its activities are coordinated by the global and regional chairs who serve without compensation, and whose time is donated by themselves and their respective employers. The funding required for its activities are raised through donations and grants secured by the coordinators from various …
Ryme is found in verbal arts throughout the world. In the appendix tothis introduction, we offer a partial list of languages whose associated verbal arts sometimes have rhyme.Rhyme is most commonly found in texts which are poems, including sung poems (songs). Poems are dened as texts which are divided into lines, where lines are a sectioning imposed on the oral or written …
To better understand why the NGOs walked out of the meeting on that day, it is necessary to understand the nature of the Kimberley Process, an organisation that was established to tackle the issue of conflict diamonds, also known as blood diamonds. Blood diamonds constitute a segment of the rough diamond trade that is linked to egregious …
DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Scotland is your in-depth guide to this unique country. Explore all that Scotland has to offer, from the streets of Edinburgh to the wind-swept highlands and lochs, from golf trips and whiskey tours to impromptu ceilidhs in cozy pubs.
From beautiful palaces such as Seville's Real Alcázar and the magical Alhambra in Granada, splendid religious edifices such as the Mezquita in Córdoba, Seville Cathedral and La Giralda, to the historic coastal cities of Málaga and Cádiz, DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Seville & Andalucía will show you all of the top sights in this especially colorful part of Spain. Learn about Hispano-Moorish…
Voltaire's comment--"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"--is frequently quoted by defenders of free speech. Yet it is rare to find someone prepared to defend all freedom of speech, especially if the views expressed are obnoxious or obviously false. So where do we draw the line? How important is our right to freedom of speech? In this accessible and…
In recent research, there has been growing emphasis on the collaborative, social, and collective nature of musical behaviour and practices. Among the emerging hypotheses in this connection are the idea that listening to music is always listening together and being with the other; that music making is a matter of intercorporeality, mutuality, and emphatic attunement; and that creative agency in …
Some years ago when I started "collecting" angels as a literary diversion, it was certainly with no thought of serving as their archivist, biographer, and finally as their lexicographer. Such an idea did not occur to me-indeed, could not have occurred to me-until I had corralled a sufficient number of the heavenly denizens to make a dictionary of them feasible. At first I thought that angels, n…
Blast off into space to discover the galaxies and beyond with the new edition of this out-of-this-world reference. Send your child on an amazing journey into space. They'll see the Hubble telescope orbiting the Earth, discover the birth of our solar system and follow the search for life on Mars. Packed with practical tips for the amateur astronomer, spectacular images from space, detailed chart…