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In this comprehensive volume of essays and extraordinary photos, environmental activist Bell and journalist Pinnock (Wild as It Gets) call attention to the threat posed to elephants by poachers. The authors give voice to the people working daily to preserve savanna populations and provide a platform for wildlife photographers to showcase eye-opening images from Africa. The text deals with elephants' value both to the environment and to poachers, emphasizing that pachyderms are "constant gardeners” whose "feeding habits create microhabitats for smaller creatures.” In addition, they are "major tree pruners... composting machines and fertilising agents.” Other sections focus on attempts in recent decades to halt the reckless slaughter of elephants and to significantly curb the trade in ivory, for centuries used variously in "piano keys, artistic carvings, cutlery, daggers and jewellery.” Bell and Pinnock conclude with ways to mitigate the problem, offering a list of NGOs to support and discussing what the reader should and should not do to help. Bolstered with striking, sometimes magnificent images of elephants in their native environs, this collection proves to be marvelously informative and widely appealing. With more than 250 color photos. (Apr.) [www.publishersweekly.com]

Elephants --- Wildlife conservation --- Éléphants --- Conservation --- Conservation des ressources

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Elephants --- Military history, Ancient --- Eléphants --- Histoire militaire ancienne --- Greece --- Grèce --- Civilization --- Civilisation --- Ancient military history --- Elephantidae --- Pachyderms --- Proboscidea (Mammals) --- -Elephants. --- Military history, Ancient. --- -Elephants --- Elephants. --- Eléphants --- Grèce --- Griechenland --- Hellas --- Yaṿan --- Vasileion tēs Hellados --- Hellēnikē Dēmokratia --- République hellénique --- Royaume de Grèce --- Kingdom of Greece --- Hellenic Republic --- Ancient Greece --- Ελλάδα --- Ellada --- Ελλάς --- Ellas --- Ελληνική Δημοκρατία --- Ellēnikē Dēmokratia --- Elliniki Dimokratia --- Grecia --- Grčija --- Hellada --- Greece - Civilization - To 146 BC

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Elephants, Fossil --- Paleontology --- Fossilogy --- Fossilology --- Palaeontology --- Paleontology, Zoological --- Paleozoology --- Historical geology --- Zoology --- Fossils --- Prehistoric animals in motion pictures --- Pleiocene Epoch --- Pliocene Epoch --- Ice Age --- Pleistocene Epoch --- Proboscidea (Mammals), Fossil --- Paléontologie --- Elephants, Fossil - Ethiopia - Awash River Valley. --- Paleontology - Pliocene. --- Paleontology - Pleistocene. --- Paleontology - Ethiopia - Awash River Valley. --- Elephants fossiles --- Ethiopie

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To all those who witnessed his extraordinary conquests, from Albania to India, Alexander the Great appeared invincible. How Alexander himself promoted this appearance-how he abetted the belief that he enjoyed divine favor and commanded even the forces of nature against his enemies-is the subject of Frank L. Holt's absorbing book. Solid evidence for the "supernaturalized" Alexander lies in a rare series of medallions that depict the triumphant young king at war against the elephants, archers, and chariots of Rajah Porus of India at the Battle of the Hydaspes River. Recovered from Afghanistan and Iraq in sensational and sometimes perilous circumstances, these ancient artifacts have long animated the modern historical debate about Alexander. Holt's book, the first devoted to the mystery of these ancient medallions, takes us into the history of their discovery and interpretation, into the knowable facts of their manufacture and meaning, and, ultimately, into the king's own psyche and his frightening theology of war. The result is a valuable analysis of Alexander history and myth, a vivid account of numismatics, and a spellbinding look into the age-old mechanics of megalomania.

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