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Field guide to the snakes of zimbabwe
This field guide describes all 84 of the recorded snake species found in Zimbabwe. All species are beautifully presented with detailed descriptions, 84 accurate distribution maps and more than 300 photographs.
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Managing data using excel
A comprehensive and user-friendly study of how to manage, explore and share data, giving scientists at all levels the skills they need to maximize the usefulness of their data. An essential book for all scientists and students who use data and are seeking to manage data more effectively.
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Animals under logs and stones
Logs, stones and the like provide an interesting interface between the damp depths of the soil and the drier open ground surface, offering refuges for a fascinating array of animals. This book is the ideal tool to unlock that hidden world.
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Wildlife and wind farms - conflicts and solutions
Wind farms are an essential component of global renewable energy policy and the action to limit the effects of climate change. There is, however, considerable concern over the impacts of wind farms on wildlife, leading to a wide range of research and monitoring studies. This multi-volume set prov...
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Human, nature
What does it mean to be a part of—rather than apart from—nature? This book is about how we interact with wildlife and the ways in which this can make our lives richer and more fulfilling. But it also explores the conflicts and contradictions inevitable in a world that is now so completely dominat...
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Solitary bees
In Britain and Ireland there are about ten times more species of solitary bee than bumblebee and honeybee combined. They are a fascinating, attractive and diverse group that can be found easily in a wide range of habitats, both urban and rural, and they are important as pollinators.
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A wildlife guide to georgia
The first guidebook of its kind for the Caucasus, not only giving information on where to go birding, but also covering mammals, dragonflies, flora and much more.
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Aphid predators
Aphids and their colonies are excellent arenas in which to observe predators in action. A range of insects come to eat or parasitise the aphids or to drink their honeydew.
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Harbour ecology
With Poole Harbour as its case study, this book examines the question of sustainable development in the coastal estuarine/marine context. Key themes include historical background, ecology, fisheries, water quality, and environmental regulation and legislation. Is it possible to get a balance betw...
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Where to watch birds in france
The ultimate birding site guide to France – the 312 sites covered by the authors enable the reader to see the widest possible species diversity and largest range of local specialities in a reasonable time.
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Insect flight
Flight is a miracle of biological engineering, the pinnacle of evolutionary development. This book presents a unique portrait of insects in flight, using innovative high-speed photographic techniques. Featuring 60 stunning photographs, readers are given ringside seat to watch the action as it unf...
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No island too far
No Island Too Far takes the reader across all the world’s oceans to a matchless array of islands, often crowded with wildlife, sometimes uninhabited and always scenically breathtaking. It represents a personal account of the ups and downs of undertaking seabird research in remote locations.
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Wild alps
Wild Alps explores the stunning biodiversity of the Alps, telling the story of its remarkable flora and fauna, the ecosystems they form and the conservation efforts to protect them. This unique guide to Alpine ecology will fascinate nature lovers and mountain professionals alike.
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Wildlife photography fieldcraft
An approachable step-by-step guide on how to find UK wildlife and use natural history understanding to aid successful photography. Inspiring images and comprehensive detail make this book an essential tool for the amateur wildlife photographer or naturalist who wishes to document their finds.
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The physics of birds and birding
In this book, a physicist losing his eyesight shows birders what they haven’t been seeing all along. Focusing on the underlying tapestry of nature, The Physics of Birds and Birding explores the science behind the colors, sounds, and behaviors of birds, the tools we use to enjoy them, and the deep...
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The natural history of blenheim’s high park
This book gives a detailed, lavishly illustrated and comprehensively researched description of the biodiversity and natural history of what is by several measures the most important site for ancient oaks in Europe. It draws together the expertise of more 60 specialists, about a third of whom are ...
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Amphibian biology, volume 11, part 5
This volume is devoted to the causes of amphibian decline and to conservation measures in Northern Europe. Experts from each country describe the ecological background and the conservation status of affected species, with an emphasis on native species.
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Thermal imaging for wildlife applications
Thermal Imaging for Wildlife Applications opens up a world of possibilities for wildlife research, ecology and management. Combines academic research, applied field protocols and the author’s wealth of experience, the book presents the use of thermal imaging technology for a broad range of species.
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A birdwatcher’s guide to norway
A Birdwatcher's Guide to Norway helps you find all the birds of Norway and Svalbard, and guides you in detail to more than 350 of the best birdwatching sites in this beautiful and wild but still highly developed and civilised country.
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The glow-worm
We follow a glow-worm through its life, looking at how it hunts, feeds, develops, attracts a mate and breeds, before examining how it defends itself, its habitat, how it evolved and how it is likely to fare as its world changes.
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Community ecology
Covers many of the mainstays of community analysis including: diversity, similarity and cluster analysis, ordination and multivariate analyses. Aimed at undergraduate and postgraduate students and researchers seeking a step-by-step methodology for analysing plant and animal communities using R an...
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Marine conservation
Bob Earll explores what marine conservation involves in practice by providing a synthesis of the main developments from the viewpoints of 19 leading practitioners who have shape its progress and successes. Case studies describe a wide range of European and international projects.
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Social calls of the bats of britain and ireland
The social calls of bats are increasingly being recognised as a useful aid to identification. Accompanied by an extensive downloadable library of sound files, this expanded and updated new edition summarises what is understood so far about social calls of the bat species occurring in Britain and ...
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The eurasian beaver
This book presents a case for our future coexistence with beavers by providing factual information on this species that has now passed from national memory, covering the biology, behaviour and ecology of the Eurasian beaver in a British context, from their early history in archaeology and folklor...
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Fighting for birds
A personal, philosophical and political history of 25 years of bird conservation, this book provides an instructive and amusing read for all those who would like a glimpse into the birds and wildlife conservation world.
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Animals of the surface film
This handbook deals with the smaller invertebrate animals of this surface community. Among these are springtails, pondskaters, water boatmen, water beetles and water spiders, as well as protozoa, rotifers and tiny crustaceans.
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The nature of pandemics
Examines the deep connections between human activities, emerging infectious diseases and biodiversity. Drawing on cutting-edge research, it explores how environmental destruction, climate change and globalisation drive pandemics – and how restoring ecosystems can help prevent future outbreaks.
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The game of species
Why is life so diverse? Why are there so many kinds of species? This book explores the origin of biodiversity, its evolution and continuance, and the impact that humans are causing on this natural heritage.
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The otter field survey and monitoring handbook
The book is a one-stop shop for ecologists undertaking site surveys for otters. It presents a natural progression of survey types and describes how to carry out initial field-sign surveys, selection of sites for camera-trapping, camera-trap deployment and interpretation of data.
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The ascent of birds
When and where did the ancestors of modern birds evolve? How did these early birds spread across the globe and give rise to the 10,600-plus species we recognise today? Based on the latest scientific discoveries, The Ascent of Birds sets out to answer these fundamental questions.
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Wolf land
Separating fiction from fact, Wolf Land delves into the history of wolves in Britain and Ireland, tracing their spoors through the mountains, fens, and forests of these islands, as well as the cultural landscapes across which they have left their indelible, inky pawprints.
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The data management workbook
The Data Management Workbook helps researchers design useful data-management plans through a step-by-step series of structured exercises, worksheets and checklists.
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Marine mammal observer and passive acoustic monitoring handbook
The ultimate guide to marine mammal mitigation during industrial activities. This comprehensive manual covers training and entering the field, mitigation measures, legislation, equipment and technology, sources of anthropogenic noise and the physics of sound propagation.
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Bat calls of britain and europe
A comprehensive guide to the calls of 44 species of bat occurring in Europe. Following on from the British Bat Calls by Jon Russ, this new book substantially updates all sections and expands the book to inform sound analysis and species identification of all bats in Europe.
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British bat calls
Includes the properties of sound, how bats use sound, bat detectors and recording devices, call analysis. For each species in the British Isles, information is given on distribution, emergence times, flight and foraging behaviour, habitat, echolocation calls and social calls.
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Ladybirds
This revised and updated edition of Ladybirds provides a succinct but comprehensive and accessible overview of the biology of ladybirds and their parasites, focusing on ecology in an evolutionary context.
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An illustrated history of primatology
An illustrated history of primatology in all its aspects. This comprehensive treatment covers the human relationship with other primates throughout history.
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Amphibian conservation
This book brings together scientific evidence and experience relevant to the practical conservation of amphibians. Approximately 32% of species are threatened with extinction and at least 43% of species are declining. Work is now being carried out to conserve many species, but it is often not ade...
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101 curious tales of east african birds
East Africa’s birds are extraordinary in their evolution, diversity and behaviour, often proving to be the unexpected highlight of a safari. Lavishly illustrated with beautiful photographs of each species, this book tells the fascinating, surprising, amusing stories of 100 regularly encountered b...
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The ascent of mammals
The Ascent of Mammals recounts the remarkable journey of over 6,400 living species, tracing their evolution from a nocturnal, shrew-like ancestor that lived 200 million years ago. This groundbreaking book shows how genetics research has rewritten the story of mammalian evolution, from the platypu...
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Statistics for ecologists using r and excel
This is a book about the scientific process and how it is applied to data in ecology. We will learn how to plan for data collection, how to assemble data, how to analyse data and finally how to present the results. The book uses Microsoft Excel and the powerful Open Source R program.
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Perspectives on wildlife sound recording
This book provides an overview of current approaches to species-based sound capture. Via a diverse series of interviews with leading practitioners from around the world, the book teases apart the methods and fieldcraft techniques underpinning wildlife sound recording, weaving text, sound and image.
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A natural history of insects in 100 limericks
The book is light in style but heavy in fact. A limerick teases the intellect, but this is backed up but scientific information in easily readable, bite-sized portions. The book is illustrated by simple but striking pictures by the author’s son, who was only 13 at the time.
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The pied woodpeckers
All aspects of the life of these five woodpecker species are covered in detail. Information on taxonomy, appearance, moult, calls, drumming, distribution, conservation status, habitats, movements, breeding, diet and relationships are presented comprehensively and illustrated with many superb colo...
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Challenges in estuarine and coastal science
Estuarine and coastal waters are acknowledged points of anthropogenic impact. For practitioners, academics and students in the field of coastal science and policy, this book examines and exemplifies current and future challenges: from upper estuaries to open coasts and adjacent seas; from tropica...
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The vanishing mew gull
A rich and detailed consideration of the names and naming of the birds of the Western Palaearctic.
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A miscellany of bats
Long the focus of fascination, and sometimes fear, bats account for 20% of all mammal species worldwide. This book offers an entertaining and personal vision of bats’ central place in the universe, covering all aspects of their biodiversity, ecology and natural history – from flight and echolocat...
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Atlas of the mammals of great britain and northern ireland
Fully illustrated with photographs, detailed high-resolution distribution maps are provided for 89 species, together with descriptions of their ecology and identification, and graphs showing the seasonal distribution of records. In addition, information is presented for 10 vagrant and 2 feral spe...
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An introduction to spatial data analysis
Readers will learn the essentials of spatial data handling using the open source software QGIS and be guided through the first steps in using the R programming language. The book includes the fundamentals of spatial data handling and analysis, working with real data from field to analysis.
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Bee conservation
This book brings together scientific evidence and experience relevant to the practical conservation of wild bees. The authors worked with an international group of bee experts and conservationists to develop a global list of interventions that could benefit wild bees.
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Big bat year
During his itinerary covering just shy of 30 countries, Nils Bouillard was lucky enough to encounter no fewer than 400 species of bats. But beyond the impressive list, The Big Bat Year is a passionate tale about the people who are protecting bats all over the world.
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The biological recording handbook
Comprehensive information for anyone making wildlife records, whether amateur recorder, ecological consultant or conservation biology academic. Covers every aspect of recording, from how to make a robust record, to planning – including relevant legislation and monitoring – the wider context, anal...
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Field guide to the snakes of eswatini
This field guide is the first book to describe all 63 of the recorded snake species found in Eswatini. All are beautifully presented with detailed descriptions, accurate distribution maps and over 350 photographs. Includes advice on snake-bite.
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Camera trapping for wildlife research
Camera trapping is a powerful and now widely used tool in scientific research on wildlife ecology and management. This book provides a much-needed guide to the sound use of camera trapping for the most common ecological applications.
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The call of carnivores
Hans Kruuk is a leading authority on animal behaviour and the author of classic studies of hyaenas, otters and badgers. In this book he describes his lifelong fascination with natural history, the many species he has studied and the wild settings across the world that formed the background to his...
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Moss safari
This book takes readers on an inspiring journey into the hidden world of moss, revealing the fascinating lives of the Microscopic Big Five, while exploring their vital role within moss, the global ecosystem and in science.
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Worlds within worlds
This friendly book offers step-by-step guidance to exploring the endlessly captivating miniature world of microscopes.
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The hair scale identification guide to terrestrial mammalian carnivores of canada
This highly illustrated, comprehensive guide features hair scale impressions and characteristics for all terrestrial carnivorous mammals found in Canada. An ideal reference and monitoring resource, including range maps and key identification characteristics, as well as superb images.
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The wryneck
A comprehensive study on the natural history and cultural symbolism of an unusual woodpecker. Detailed information is presented on the species' origins, taxonomy, anatomy, appearance, calls, distribution, conservation status, habitats, movements, breeding, diet and relationships. With a chapter o...
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Birds and flowers
The first book that deals with bird pollination in all of its diversity. Looks beyond the iconic hummingbirds, sunbirds and honeyeaters, to assess the real breadth and significance of avian involvement with flowers.
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Purposeful birdwatching
This book explains how to make your birdwatching more enjoyable, fulfilling and worthwhile. Illustrated throughout with the author’s sketches and fieldnotes, this is a call to appreciate birds for themselves.
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Tarka revisited
One hundred years after Tarka, one hundred years of change, change for Otters, their rivers and us. How have Otters fared in those ten decades? How are they doing today? This book takes us on a journey through those one hundred years, a rollercoaster century for the Otter.
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Amphibians and reptiles
A comprehensive guide to the native and non-native species of amphibian and reptile found in the British Isles. It covers the biology, ecology, conservation and identification of the British herpetofauna, and provides keys to adults and young.
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Lapwings, loons and lousy jacks
Lapwings, Loons and Lousy Jacks uncovers the stories behind the incredible diversity of bird names, explains what many scientific names actually mean and takes a look at the history of the system by which we name birds and the natural history and folklore behind bird names.
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Shrewdunnit
Brings together the best of the author's newpaper and magazine dispatches, alongside unpublished essays, in a poetic and evocative journal that inspires and delights. Jameson’s prose is fresh and in places irreverent, with a hint of mischief and a dash of wit.
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Call of nature
Journey through the digestive systems of humans, farm and wild animals, and meet some of nature’s ultimate recyclers as they eat, breed in and compete for dung. The fall of bodily waste onto the ground is the start of a race against the clock as a multitude of dung-feeders and scavengers consume ...
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Leaf beetles
A detailed and accessible overview of leaf beetles covering the natural history, ecology and biology of the Chrysomelidae and its close relatives the Megalopodidae and Orsodacnidae in Britain, including a comprehensive guide to identification, study techniques and materials.
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Invisible friends
Cutting-edge microbiome research is changing our understanding of reality. It is increasingly evident that microbes are the very glue that holds ecosystems together. This topical and original book counters the prevailing narrative of microbes as the bane of society, along the way providing much-n...
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The painted stork
Covering all aspects of Painted Stork ecology, behaviour, conservation and their relationship with humans, this accessible and lavishly illustrated monograph contains a wealth of insights.
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Japanese knotweed
Japanese Knotweed is one of the world’s highest-profile invasive plants. This book traces its global history, distribution and reproductive biology, while delivering a comprehensive overview of the ecological and economic threats it poses and how these have influenced government policy.
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Britain’s game fishes
This book explores the importance of fishes of the salmon family for the wellbeing of society. Important as they are for food and recreation, this book shows their importance as ‘ambassadors of the wild’ – as iconic indicators of the health of the environment.
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Sharks: an eponym dictionary
This fascinating reference book delves into the origins of the vernacular and scientific names of sharks, rays, skates and chimeras. Each entry offers a concise biography, revealing the hidden stories and facts behind each species’ name.
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Treated like animals
Society’s arbitrary and inconsistent grouping of animals according to their ‘use’ means that we tolerate institutionalised inhumane exploitation for some while striving to protect others. The author advocates an approach to animal exploitation based on science and a universal ethics.
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Barn owl conservation handbook
A comprehensive handbook covering all aspects of the conservation of Barn Owls. Written by the Barn Owl Trust, this book includes in-depth information on Barn Owl survey techniques, relevant ecology, Barn Owls and the law, mortality, habitat management, use of nest boxes and barn Owl rehabilitation.
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Living with lynx
This book investigates whether we could and should learn to live with species like lynx, wolves and bears again in Britain and Ireland. We travel back in time, across the world and into the future to explore this contested topic.
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Crossbills and conifers
Crossbills & Conifers explores their intimate connection to reveal why crossbills have become an exemplar of diversification and coevolution. Craig Benkman takes readers on a journey of discovery, providing context and understanding of a series of unique and interrelated insights into crossbi...
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Social calls of the bats of britain and ireland
This book brings together the current state of knowledge of social calls relating to the bat species occurring within Britain and Ireland, with some additional examples from species represented elsewhere in Europe. It includes access to a downloadable library of calls to be used in conjunction wi...
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Traffication
The trillions of miles we drive each year are just as destructive to our natural environment as any of the better known threats, such as habitat loss or intensive farming. Traffication does for road traffic what Silent Spring did for agrochemicals: awakening us from our collective road-blindness ...
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Qgis for ecologists
If you don’t know where to start or how to use QGIS, this is the practical guide for you. Simple, step-by-step instructions and practical exercises make it easy and fun.
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Behind more binoculars
Following on from the success of their 2015 book Behind the Binoculars, Keith and Mark are back again, taking you behind the scenes, and behind the binoculars, of a diverse range of birding and wildlife personalities.
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Clinging to the edge
Tells the story, in diary form, of one season in a Little Tern breeding colony on the Yorkshire coast. It shows how practical effort to monitor and protect one of our most threatened seabirds relates to wider questions about humans’ relationship with the natural world.
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Bird conservation
This book brings together scientific evidence and experience relevant to the practical conservation of wild birds. The authors worked with an international group of bird experts and conservationists to develop a global list of interventions that could benefit wild birds.
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The eurasian beaver handbook
This book presents a detailed overview of the ecology and behaviour of the Eurasian beaver. It shows how to recognise the presence and activities of beavers. It provides tried and tested methods for mitigating adverse impacts of beaver behaviour and demonstrates how to apply management techniques...
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Snails on rocky sea shores
The snails found living on rocky sea shores are among the most rewarding invertebrate animals to study. Species such as dog-whelks, topshells and winkles are easy to find, capture, identify, measure and mark. This book provides a key to common species, background ecology, an overview of rocky sho...
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The social lives of bats
Bats live in highly complex social groups. From attracting a mate to maintaining life-saving friendships, they exhibit a huge variety of fascinating social behaviour. This ground-breaking book reveals the intimate secrets of bat society and relationships.
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Plymouth blitz
Plymouth Blitz recounts the deadliest civilian incident in Plymouth during World War II when a German bomb struck the Portland Square Air Raid Shelter in April 1941. Through eyewitness accounts and archival research, this book captures the courage, fear, and resilience of ordinary people living u...
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In the national interest?
This book analyses the forces that have sculpted Britain’s engagement with the world—from the Middle Ages to the age of AI. Moving beyond the cloistered calm of traditional diplomatic history, Black argues that foreign policy is not an abstract, rational science conducted in whispers by elites, b...
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Heart wisdom
The early years of parenthood, alongside joy and excitement, are often accompanied by exhaustion, frustration, and a sense of being pushed to the breaking point. Faced with such emotional extremes, parents seek advice on how to escape crisis situations. But this is rarely what they need. What the...
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The possibilities of machine morality
This book argues that morality is broader and more diverse than its human manifestation. Through detailed analyses of core moral concepts like agency and responsibility, it uses the hypothetical perspective of machine morality to reveal the contingent limits of human moral thinking, offering orig...
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Framing the clue-puzzle
In Framing the Clue-Puzzle Zi-Ling Yan investigates the semiotization of fictive paratexts in interwar Anglo-American detective fiction, and the means by which they subtly frame ideological positions within major mystery fiction themes, such as justice and normative notions of criminality.
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Fundamental skills for modern lawyers
Written for lawyers at every stage of their career, Fundamental Skills for Modern Lawyers bridges the gap between legal expertise and human insight – helping practitioners become not just good lawyers, but trusted advisers and effective leaders.
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Hayek’s law, legislation and liberty: a guide
This is Dr Eamonn Butler’s guide for non-specialists to a key text of classical liberalism: Law, Legislation and Liberty by F. A. Hayek. Hayek argues that the social structures on which civilisation is built are not the product of state plans or activist dreams, but instead emerge from a Darwinia...
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Organised militarism in interwar britain
This book is the first full-length study of militarism and militaristic associational culture in interwar Britain. Focusing on the ideas, aims, and activities of the Navy League and the Air League of the British Empire – two extra-parliamentary organisations established to promote naval and aeria...
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Writing belonging at the millennium
Writing Belonging at the Millennium brings together two pressing and interrelated matters: the global environmental impacts of post-industrial economies and the politics of place in settler-colonial societies.
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Human theatre and energetic alchemy
A poetic and practical guide to embodied performance, Human Theatre and Energetic Alchemy explores energy, presence, and transformation through breath, movement, and vulnerability. Ideal for performers, educators, and researchers seeking deeper connection on stage and beyond. 150 b&w illus.
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