This new field guide uses all of the plates from Birds of Western Africa with a concise authoritative text on facing pages to create a conveniently-sized lightweight field reference covering all 1285 species found in the region. The book also has an updated colour distribution map for each species conveniently placed on interleaved pages within the colour plates. A number of new images have been painted for this new field guide & several of the plates have been replaced. This is the first comprehensive field guide to cover the birds of this exciting region & will enable birders to identify any species found in any of the countries covered. Birds of Western Africa (Helm 2001) was the first single-volume guide to cover all species of this region which comprises all countries from Senegal & southern Mauritania east to Chad & the Central African Republic & south to Congo. ...

This field guide covers the avifauna of western North America using detailed artworks maps & text. Lighter than the original North American Bird Guide the book is designed to be suitable for regular field use & has a fully integrated format allowing quick & easy reference."" ...

This guide is unique in its approach to identification. It means that you can first look at the track or sign & then by means of keys to determine the animal group or species responsible for what you see. The keys refer you to detailed descriptions & illustrations. The guide is arranged to enable quick identification. ...

The world has known about global warming since the late 1970s yet little has been done to halt it. The threat if we fail is nothing less than catastrophe
- the flooding of coastal communities the extinction of species & entry into a climate regime of which humans have no experience. Exploring the relationship between what we know & what we refuse to know Elizabeth Kolbert takes us on an urgent journey from the Arctic to Central America interviewing researchers environmentalists & traditional Inuits whose lives have already been dramatically altered by climate change.
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Field Notes From a Hidden City is set against the background of the austere grey & beautiful northeast Scottish city of Aberdeen. In it Esther Woolfson examines the elements
- geographic atmospheric & environmental
- which bring diverse life forms to live in close proximity in cities. Using the circumstances of her own life house garden & city she writes of the animals who live among us: the birds
- gulls starlings pigeons sparrows & others; the rats & squirrels; the spiders & the insects. In beautiful absorbing prose Woolfson describes the seasons the streets & the quiet places of her city over the course of a year which begins with the exceptional cold & snow of 2010. Influenced by her own long experience of corvids she considers prevailing attitudes towards the natural world urban & non-urban wildlife the values we place on the lives of individual species & the ways in which man & creature live together in cities.


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In Glasgow a child goes missing taken from the front garden of his home
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A story of passion & dedication deserved of a place in great travel writing" -Writer Face.com the online social network for writers & literary agents. Susie Tarver has an inquisitive & adventurous mind & a great sense of humour which is how she came to find herself living in an old cottage in an isolated part of France in the first place. One day she noticed an overgrown & obviously ancient pathway alongside her garden. After some research Susie discovered that this track is part of the centuries old Pilgrims' path to Santiago de Compostela in Spain & has been walked by countless seekers & travellers since the Middle Ages. Eventually curiosity getting the better of her she decided to make the journey herself. On her own on foot & all the way to Santiago. Join Susie on her own pilgrimage as she explores the wonders & pitfalls of Mediaeval French & Spanish towns enjoys good food & generous hospitality--but endures more often the privations of life as a pilgrim--sobs into her sodden walking boots fends off the amorous advances of a nonagenarian farmer meets philosophers jokers & mind-numbing bores walks in rain & in sunshine & finds through it all the spirituality & peace inherent in this ancient path arriving six weeks later weary but exhilarated in Santiago to find that her life will never be the same again. Evocatively illustrated throughout by David Dry RIBA."" ...

The ultimate Rome story Julius Caesar has taken his legions north to battle the Gallic tribes. But as his successes mount overwhelming ambition & new alliances begin to threaten his one true friendship. Marcus Brutus was instrumental in the conquest of Gaul & so in restoring Caesar's reputation as a hero of Rome. But after decades standing side by side will they choose to cross the Rubicon together? Are they both willing to take the fight to Rome herself? The third instalment in the bestselling Emperor series. ...

I slept right through to the next day. Missed the funeral & everything. Mam said it was just as well. Would've been too upsetting. I think of him now though. Right at this moment. Here in this kitchen. & I wonder if it could've been different. Dublin 1984: Ireland is a divided country the Parish Priest remains a figure of immense authority & Jim Finnegan is thirteen years old the youngest in a family of five sisters. Life in Jim's world consists of dealing with the helter-skelter intensity of his rumbustious family taking breakneck bike rides with his best friend & quietly coveting the local girls from afar. But after a drunken yet delicate rendition of ' The Fields of Athenry' at the Donohues' raucous annual party Jim captures both the attention of the beautiful Saidhbh Donohue & the unwanted desires of the devious & dangerous Father Luke O' Culigeen. Bounced between his growing love for Saidhbh & his need to avoid the dreaded O' Culigeen Jim's life starts to unravel. He & Saidhbh take a ferry for a clandestine trip to London that has dark & difficult repercussions forcing Jim to look for the solution to all his problems in some very unusual places. The Fields is an unforgettable story of an extraordinary character: Jim's voice leaps off the page & straight into the reader's heart as he grapples with his unfairly interrupted adolescence. Lyrical funny profoundly original & endlessly inventive it is a brilliant debut from a remarkable new voice. ...

Rachel Gardner's family life is far from a happy one. Her father Stanhope is cold & remote & her mother Nellie seems to care for nothing but housework. Then one day Stanhope collapses in the street & dies
- & the facade he had built up carefully for so many years is revealed as a sham. Sad & confused Rachel leaves home & flees to the one place she has known parental kindness: the home of the rector's daughter Angela her school friend. As her feelings for Angela's elder brother David deepen into romance Rachel believes she has everything she ever desired. But after the outbreak of the Second World War David joins the RAF & returns horribly injured refusing to see her. Fate however gives Rachel another chance at love. & just as the pieces of her once-shattered life are falling into place a new disaster threatens everything she holds dear.
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