Approaching wine through grapes is in tune with the way consumers now think & learn about wine. This is the definitive, up to date guide to the world`s greatest grapes & the wines they make
- the history, the places, the people, the wine styles & the flavours. Highly acclaimed winner of the Lanson Wine Book of the Year award, ` Grapes & Wines` has been updated to make it once again a helpful, thorough & very readable guide to the world`s most interesting wines & grapes.
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Five hundred of the most iconic graphic designs of all time, from the beginnings of mechanical reproduction to the present The process of visual communication & problem-solving through the use of typography, space, image, & colour informs the way we connect across languages & cultures. Derived from the acclaimed Phaidon Archive of Graphic Design, this fascinating compendium celebrates the long, rich history of graphic design, from the first sample of movable type & the Nuremberg Chronicle of the fifteenth century to the cutting-edge magazines, posters, & ephemera of today. Compiled & written by a global team of experts, this book is international in its scope & appeal. ...

It is the perceived wisdom that the Gallipoli Campaign against the Turks in 1915 was deeply flawed & that inadequate planning & bad maps contributed to much unnecessary slaughter. Yet these two experts on terrain & mapping in the Great War contend that the consequences of this have been overplayed. ...

Grasses of the Kruger National Park is designed to provide a handy, easy-to-use- guidebooks for tour guides, tourists & students. The guide is arranged in three sections
- Introduction, Identification of the Grasses & Pasture Management. The first section explains the terms used in the guide, the seond chapter is the grass identification section & a last chapter provides a short summary of the most important pasture management strategies, pasture pests & a short summary of grazing animals. Two photographs are included of every grass covered in the guide, one of the inflorescence & one of the complete grass with a ruler for size. in addition, there is a line drawing of each grass, to show details that are difficult to show in the photograph. The accompanying text provides an overview of the grass, with information on growth form, ecological status, successional status, nutritive status, palatability, habitat, preferred soil type & its value as an indicator species. Distribution maps for the southern African sub-region accompanies each grass; most grasses discussed in the book occur throughout southern Africa. Tne guide is colou-coded for quick reference & the colour codes are indicated in the contents for cross-referencing purpose.
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The latest volume in the highly acclaimed New Naturalist series, this is a detailed & up-to-date account of the behavior & ecology of grasshoppers & crickets. Renowned expert in the field Ted Benton offers a comprehensive account of the appearance, variations, behavior, habitat, life-cycles, & distribution of all the native British species of bush-crickets, crickets, groundhoppers, & grasshoppers. Many details from direct field observation are included, which are published here for the first time. With up-to-date information on newly arrived & recently established species, as well as long-established non-native species—such as the house cricket & greenhouse camel cricket— Benton pays special attention to a key area of evolutionary thought that has stimulated an international research focus on grasshoppers & crickets. Recent approaches to mating & reproduction emphasise differences & even conflicts of interest between males & females. The sexually selected adaptations & counter-adaptations to such conflicts of reproductive interest are used to explain the astonishing diversity of reproductive behavior exhibited by grasshoppers & crickets: male territorial behavior, coercive mating, complex songs, elaborate courtship performances, the donation of edible ”nuptial gifts, ” the reversal of sex-roles, mate-guarding, keeping of ”harems” &, in a few species, parental care of the offspring. These chapters provide an introduction to the theoretical issues & an overview of many case studies drawn from research on orthopterans from across the world (but including British species where relevant). A unique DVD features many aspects of the behavior of nearly all British species, including song, conflict, courtship behavior, sex-role reversal, & egg laying. The book is lavishly illustrated with color photographs & line drawings, covering all the British species (including immature stages in most cases), key habitats, & many aspects of behavior. ...

This highly illustrated guide helps you to spot Britain's varied selection of wild flowers. Each entry features a log section where you can record your own findings, there is key information on each species, what to look for & where to find them, plus high quality photographs & illustrations, with close-up images to aid identification. ...

Grasslands National Park: East Block in Saskatchewan at 1:50, 000 in a series of GPS compatible recreational maps at various scales from Go Trekkers highlighting recreational possibilities including trekking and/or snowshoe trails, canoeing & kayaking routes, campgrounds, warden stations, etc. Cartography of each title varies according to the terrain of the national park, but the maps are contoured & have spot heights plus, as appropriate, graphics to show wetlands, relief shading in mountainous areas, etc. All the titles are GPS compatible with either a UTM or latitude/longitude grid. Presentation of trails, recreational facilities such as campgrounds, access to the park by road or air, etc, also varies according to what each park has to offer & where it is situated. Each map also

Includes:: notes about the park.

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Grasslands National Park: West Block in Saskatchewan at 1:50, 000 in a series of GPS compatible recreational maps at various scales from Go Trekkers highlighting recreational possibilities including trekking and/or snowshoe trails, canoeing & kayaking routes, campgrounds, warden stations, etc. Cartography of each title varies according to the terrain of the national park, but the maps are contoured & have spot heights plus, as appropriate, graphics to show wetlands, relief shading in mountainous areas, etc. All the titles are GPS compatible with either a UTM or latitude/longitude grid. Presentation of trails, recreational facilities such as campgrounds, access to the park by road or air, etc, also varies according to what each park has to offer & where it is situated. Each map also

Includes:: notes about the park.

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Swiss canton of Graubüden on a contoured & GPS compatible map at 1:120, 000 from Kümmerly + Frey, useful for planning walking holidays by indicating access to hiking trails by public transport. Coverage

Includes:: both the Upper (Oberengadine) & the Lower (Unterengadine) Valleys & many popular holiday resorts: Davos, Klosters, St. Moritz, etc. Maps in Kümmerly + Frey‘s Holiday Series have contours at 100-metre intervals, enhanced by shading & graphic relief to provide a vivid presentation of the terrain. An overprint highlighting walking trails distinguishes between hiking paths, more strenuous mountain routes & alpine sections. Symbols indicate locations of mountain huts, Friends of Nature houses, youth hostels, campsites & selected isolated inns, interesting natural curiosities, etc. Picturesque towns or villages are prominently highlighted & the maps also show roads with public transport facilities plus, of course, railways & all forms of mountain transport (cable cars, chair lifts, etc). The maps have Swiss national grid lines at 5km intervals. Map legend

Includes:: English. To see the list of titles in this series please click on the series list.



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Beautiful panorama drawing of the Graubünden canton, looking southwards from Schwyz, Glarus & Vaduz in Liechtenstein towards the Italian lakes & the Po plain. Each valley & mountain is clearly visible. Names are given for many valleys as well as for local towns & villages. Numerous peak are named & annotated with their altitude. The map also shows the railway network. Excellent map for planning or retracing journeys across this wonderful landscape. ...