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The natural history of Hoverflies
Hoverflies are valuable insects and particularly over the last two decades, they have started to impact on a wider range of people than just specialists. Hoverflies are known and recognised not just for their striking colours, remarkable hovering behaviour and flower visiting habits but also because of their roles in...Rotheray, Graham E ; Gilbert, Francis
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Shunga: Erotic Art in Japan
This intriguing introduction to Japanese erotic art, known as shunga, is full of humour and human interest. A large quantity of paintings, handscrolls, prints and illustrated books of erotica was produced in Japan between 1600 and 1900. As urban culture expanded rapidly during the seventeenth century, erotic woodblock prints were...Buckland, Rosina
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Lewis Chessmen Unmasked
The humorous and intricately designed hoard of Lewis Chessmen is one of the most significant archaeological discoveries ever made in Scotland. The Lewis Chessmen were found hidden on the Isle of Lewis in Scotland, in the early nineteenth century. It of seated consisted kings and queens, mitred bishops, knights on...Caldwell, David H ; Hall, Mark A ; Wilkinson, Caroline M
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Embroidered Stories: Scottish Samplers
Samplers were embroidered pictures made by girls, and occasionally boys, as part of their education. Scottish samplers are unique with regard to the amount of information that can be gathered from them. They often include the initials of extended family members as well as details of buildings, places and events,...Wyld, Helen
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Terrestrial Conservation Lagerstätten: Windows into the Evolution of Life on Land
Evolutionary biologists have long been concerned by the incompleteness of the fossil record. Although our knowledge of the diversity of life in ‘deep time’ has improved, many lineages of extant animals and plants still have only sparse fossil documentation. Even groups with ‘hard parts’ that render them suitable for fossilization... -
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Scotland’s Early Silver: transforming Roman pay-offs to Pictish treasures
Based on the exhibition Scotland's Early Silver, opening at the National Museum of Scotland, 13 October - 25 February 18. In Scotland, silver, not gold, was the most important and powerful precious metal for a thousand years, from the arrival of the Roman army until the dawn of the Viking...Blackwell, Alice ; Goldberg, D Martin ; Hunter, Fraser
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Age of Oil: artwork by Sue Jane Taylor
The book accompanies the multi-media exhibition on show at the National Museum of Scotland 21 July - 5 November 2017, featuring the artwork of Sue Jane Taylor. The artist is no stranger to extreme working environments, having worked for over thirty years recording the lives of workers in the North...