Andrew Henderson: 13 books
The Town Below the Ground
Edinburgh's Legendary Undgerground City
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
Below Scotland's capital, hidden for almost two centuries, is a metropolis whose very existence was all but forgotten.
For almost 250 years, Edinburgh was surrounded by a giant defensive wall. Unable to expand the city's boundaries, the burgeoning population built over every inch of square...
Black Markers
Edinburgh's Dark History Told Through its Cemeteries
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
Edinburgh has a unique history, darker and more unexpected than you might imagine. Fortunately, it also has a set of graveyards to match. Ancient, modern, beautiful, haunted – they are the perfect reflection of the city’s amazing past with astonishing stories of their own. Greyfriars Graveyard...
by Andrew Henderson
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2009
Southern Asia is a vast and ecologically diverse region that extends from the deserts of Afghanistan to the rainforests of Thailand, and is home to a marvelously rich palm flora. Palms of Southern Asia is the only complete field guide to the 43 genera and 352 species of palms and rattans that occur...
by Andrew Henderson
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2002
Columbus, Ohio, "an odd amalgam of the planned and the spontaneous," was founded on the banks of the Scioto River in 1812 as the new seat of this young state's government. Located in the wilderness of central Ohio, nearly equidistant to the "real" cities of Cincinnati, Cleveland, and Toledo, Columbus...
The Ghost That Haunted Itself
The Story of the Mackenzie Poltergeist - The Infamous Ghoul of Greyfriars Graveyard
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2012
Greyfrair's Cemetery in Edinburgh has a centuries old reputation for being haunted. Its gruesome history includes use as a mass prison, headstone removal, witchcraft, bodysnatching, desecration, corpse dumping and live burial.
In 1998, something new and inexplicable began occurring in the graveyard....
The Royal Mile
A Comprehensive Guide
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
There are several books about the Royal Mile, so why buy this particular one? The reason is, it covers everything you need to know – all the little closes, wynds and courts running off the main street, that people often miss, with a handy rating guide to the most interesting ones. It contains the...
by Andrew Henderson, Aravind Prakash
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2015
If you are an Android app developer who wants to experiment with the hardware capabilities of the BeagleBone Black platform, then this book is ideal for you. You are expected to have basic knowledge of developing Android apps but no prior hardware experience is required.
Ghost in the Cogs
Steam-Powered Ghost Stories
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2015
Ghosts. Gaslight. Gears.
Welcome to a wondrous age of steam where pirates, rust, and syphilis aren’t all you need to worry about. Ghosts abound!
In this hissing and clanking steampunk anthology, there are moments that science just can’t explain. All the mechanical geniuses scratch...
Arguing From Evidence in Middle School Science
24 Activities for Productive Talk and Deeper Learning
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Teaching your students to think like scientists starts here!
Use this straightforward, easy-to-follow guide to give your students the scientific practice of critical thinking today's science standards require. Ready-to-implement strategies and activities help you effortlessly engage students...
Beyond New Media
Discourse and Critique in a Polymediated Age
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2014
Beyond New Media: Discourse and Critique in a Polymediated Age examines a host of differing positions on media in order to explore how those positions can inform one another and build a basis for future engagements with media theory, research, and practice. Herbig, Herrmann, and Tyma have brought...
Growing Up Postmodern
Neoliberalism and the War on the Young
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2002
This collection takes its inspiration from Paul Goodman's Growing Up Absurd, a landmark critique of American culture at the end of the 1950s. Goodman called for a revival of social investment in urban planning, public welfare, workplace democracy, free speech, racial harmony, sexual freedom, popular...
by Ann Holbourn, Andrew S. Henderson, Norman Macleod
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
An up-to-date atlas of an important fossil and living group, with the Natural History Museum.
Deep-sea benthic foraminifera have played a central role in biostratigraphic, paleoecological, and paleoceanographical research for over a century. These single–celled marine protists are important...
by Brian Henderson, Mario A. Fares, Andrew C. R. Martin
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2016
The past 25 years has seen the emergence of a wealth of data suggesting that novel biological functions of known proteins play important roles in biology and medicine. This ability of proteins to exhibit more than one unique biological activity is known as protein moonlighting. Moonlighting proteins...