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. ...

Small map from Harvey highlighting 8 walks in the Grassington area of the Yorkshire Dales, at 1:25, 000. Cartography shows the eight routes with bold colours overprinted on the mapping & detailed descriptions for each walk including along the map edge. Points of interest & local facilities such as tea shops, accommodation, toilets, bus stops & parking are prominently indicated. Topography is displayed through contour lines at 75m intervals, with other terrain details marked such as cliffs & sink holes. The map also has some information on travelling by bus in the region, as well as historical information for the area. ...

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

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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

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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. ...

Topographic coverage of mainland Spain at 1:50, 000 in the MTN50 (Mapa Topográfico Nacional) series from the Centro Nacional de Información Geografica, the country’s civilian survey organization. The maps have contours at 20m intervals, enhanced by relief shading, plus colouring and/or graphics to show different types of terrain, vegetation or land use. Boundaries of national parks & other protected areas are marked. In addition to all the usual information featured on topographic mapping at this scale, detailed presentation of the road & rail networks, rural tracks & paths, etc, the maps also show campsites & mountain refuges. On more recent editions some GRs, the official long-distance hiking routes, are also marked (although not as clearly as on hiking maps from other publishers). Each map covers 29.5x 18.5 km (with adjustments in the border or coastal areas). The maps have a 1-km UTM grid, plus margin ticks for latitude & longitude at 1` intervals. Map legend is in Spanish only.HOW TO CHOOSE THE RIGHT 50K MAP: all the titles in CNIG’s 200K Provincial Road Maps series at 1:200, 000 are overprinted with the grid for the 1:50, 000 maps & can be used to see the area covered by each 50K title. TO SEE THE LIST OF TITLES IN THIS SERIES PLEASE CLICK ON THE SERIES LINK.PLEASE NOTE
- MAP TITLES: the grids shown on our website serve both the civilian & the military 1:50, 000 topographic series. Although the areas covered by maps in both series are identical (apart from some border or coastal sheets), occasionally map titles differ – only one title is shown on the grid, usually the military one. In Galicia, the Basque country & in the Catalan speaking areas the tendency now is to use local place names rather than the often better known Castilian ones. Where possible, both versions are included in our titles. Map titles listed on our website are based on information received by us at the time of publication, but sometimes maps arrive showing a completely different title! As long as the map number is as ordered, the correct map has been supplied.
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Since the crash, since Eliza died, Samuel can`t find a way to go on. His need to see his love again is overwhelming, & so he ventures into the strange, terrifying world of Hoodoo. Samuel is about to make a pact with powers he cannot comprehend, let alone control...A chilling tale of love that reaches beyond the grave. ...

” You see! This is how you die.”
- Coco Chanel; ” Shoot straight, you bastards! Don`t make a mess of it!”
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Moving from revolutionary Zanzibar in the 1960s to restless London in the 1990s, Gravel Heart is a powerful story of exile, migration & betrayal, from the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Paradise Salim has always believed that his father does not want him. Living with his parents & his adored Uncle Amir in a house full of secrets, he is a bookish child, a dreamer haunted by night terrors. It is the 1970s & Zanzibar is changing. Tourists arrive, the island`s white sands obscuring the memory of recent conflict: longed-for independence from British colonialism swiftly followed by bloody revolution. When his father moves out, retreating into dishevelled introspection, Salim is confused & ashamed. His mother explains neither this nor her absences with a strange man; silence is layered on silence. When glamorous Uncle Amir, now a senior diplomat, offers Salim an escape, the lonely teenager travels to London for college. But nothing has prepared him for the biting cold & seething crowds of this hostile city. Struggling to find a foothold, & to understand the darkness at the heart of his family, Salim must face devastating truths about himself & those closest to him
- & about love, sex & power. Evoking the immigrant experience with unsentimental precision & profound insight, Gravel Heart is a powerfully affecting story of isolation, identity, belonging & betrayal, & is Abulrazak Gurnah`s most dazzling achievement.
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