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Grooming to win : How to groom, trim, braid and prepare your horse for show.
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ISBN: 9780470047453 Year: 2008 Publisher: Hoboken Wiley Publishing

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Horses --- Grooming --- Showing


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Dress and the Roman woman : self-presentation and society
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ISBN: 9780415414753 041541475X 9780415414760 0415414768 9780203927625 0203927621 1283547856 9786613860309 1134121210 9781134121212 9781134121168 1134121164 9781134121205 1134121202 9781283547857 6613860301 Year: 2008 Publisher: London Routledge

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In ancient Rome, the subtlest details in dress helped to distinguish between levels of social and moral hierarchy. Clothes were a key part of the sign systems of Roman civilization - a central aspect of its visual language, for women as well as men.This engaging book collects and examines artistic evidence and literary references to female clothing, cosmetics and ornament in Roman antiquity, deciphering their meaning and revealing what it meant to be an adorned woman in Roman society. Cosmetics, ornaments and fashion were often considered frivolous, wasteful or deceptive, whic


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Analyzing animal societies
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ISBN: 9786611966799 1281966797 0226895246 9780226895246 661196679X 9780226895215 0226895211 9780226895239 0226895238 9781281966797 Year: 2008 Publisher: Chicago University of Chicago Press

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Animals lead rich social lives. They care for one another, compete for resources, and mate. Within a society, social relationships may be simple or complex and usually vary considerably, both between different groups of individuals and over time. These social systems are fundamental to biological organization, and animal societies are central to studies of behavioral and evolutionary biology. But how do we study animal societies? How do we take observations of animals fighting, grooming, or forming groups and produce a realistic description or model of their societies? Analyzing AnimalSocieties presents a conceptual framework for analyzing social behavior and demonstrates how to put this framework into practice by collecting suitable data on the interactions and associations of individuals so that relationships can be described, and, from these, models can be derived. In addition to presenting the tools, Hal Whitehead illustrates their applicability using a wide range of real data on a variety of animal species-from bats and chimps to dolphins and birds. The techniques that Whitehead describes will be profitably adopted by scientists working with primates, cetaceans, birds, and ungulates, but the tools can be used to study societies of invertebrates, amphibians, and even humans. Analyzing AnimalSocieties will become a standard reference for those studying vertebrate social behavior and will give to these studies the kind of quality standard already in use in other areas of the life sciences.

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