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and lively text to inform and entertainFeatures dozens of representative species profilesCovers topics ranging from evolution and diversity to habitats and reproductionExamines how snakes coexist with humansDiscusses threats to the world’s snake populations and their conservationA must for snake lovers everywhere

award-winning financial historian Sebastian Mallaby tells the story of this strange tribe of financiers who have funded the world's most successful companies

The Lives of Others fiction 25 With her imaginative use ofJames Carroll's photographs, taken on the streets of the United States over the course of more than forty years, form a unique compilation of historical Americana. Driven by a need to preserve memories of his own and others' experiences, and by what curator and author Sean Corcoran describes as 'his longing to see, to know and to understand', Carroll explores the transience of human life and relationships. A quiet and keen observer, Carroll knows how