For thirty-six years James Patterson has written unputdownable pulse-racing novels. Now he has written a book that surpasses all of them. Zoo" is the thriller he was born to write. All over the world brutal attacks are crippling entire cities. Jackson Oz a young biologist watches the escalating events with an increasing sense of dread. When he witnesses a coordinated lion ambush in Africa the enormity of the impending violence becomes terrifyingly clear. With the help of ecologist Chloe Tousignant Oz races to warn world leaders before its too late. The attacks are growing in ferocity cunning & planning & soon there will be no place left for humans to hide. With wildly inventive imagination & white-knuckle suspense that rivals Stephen King at his very best James Pattersons " Zoo" is an epic non-stop thrill-ride." ...

This is a new title in the delightful extension of the best-selling That's not my..." series that gives children the opportunity to complete their own pictures using stickers. It offers specially-designed stickers suitable for little hands & fingers. You can add wheels to a tractor the ears mane & nose to a horse decorate a cow with spots & a beak & hat & nose to a scarecrow plus lots more. Children can complete the simple sentence " That's my
- " at the bottom of the page helping them to learning their first letters."
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All over the world brutal animal attacks are crippling entire cities. Jackson Oz a young biologist watches the escalating events with an increasing sense of dread. When he witnesses a coordinated lion ambush in Africa the enormity of the impending violence becomes terrifyingly clear. With the help of ecologist Chloe Tousignant Oz races to warn world leaders before its too late. The attacks are growing in ferocity cunning & planning & soon there will be no place left for humans to hide. ...

This is a new title in the delightful extension of the best-selling Thats not my..." series that gives children the opportunity to complete their own pictures using stickers. It offers specially-designed stickers suitable for little hands & fingers. You can add wheels to a tractor the ears mane & nose to a horse decorate a cow with spots & a beak & hat & nose to a scarecrow plus lots more. Children can complete the simple sentence " Thats my
- " at the bottom of the page helping them to learning their first letters."
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The keeping of zoo animals has become a central tool in the conservation of some of the worlds most fascinating yet threatened species. But how do zoos operate on a day-to-day basis? What are the key problems zoos face in trying to feed breed & keep healthy the animals in their care? How do they play their part in conserving biodiversity? Zoo Animals: Behaviour Management & Welfare addresses the key questions surrounding the keeping of zoo animals & reveals how we can apply our ever-growing understanding of animal behaviour to ensure zoo animals are managed as effectively as possible. Drawing on their extensive experience of zoo research practice & teaching the authors blend together theory with a broad range of both mammalian & non-mammalian examples to give a highly-readable overview of this burgeoning field. Zoo Animals: Behaviour Management & Welfare is the ideal resource for anyone needing a thorough grounding in this subject whether as a student or as a zoo professional. Online Resource Centre The Online Resource Centre

Features: For lecturers:
- Figures from the book in electronic format for use in lecture slides For students:
- Tasks & associated datasets for use with Zootrition and/or related software
- Annotated web link library
- Legislation information: summary information & related web links regarding zoo-related legislation in countries other than the UK
- Latest news: summaries of latest developments in the field with links to relevant literature






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Second collection from the poet of powerful emotions & vivid imagery The Zoo Father underlines the authors reputation as a questing poet capable of outstanding imagistic flourishes & surprising associations. This extraordinary & powerful volume is comprised of two sections the first about with the poets relationship with her father the second with her mother. Section One is heavily imbued with imagery of the poets travels in South America & her researches in the cultures & ecology of the Venezuelan. Pain anger bewilderment are refracted through a rich often sensual imagery of fauna hallucinatory drugs & tribal beliefs. This gives the poems their originality & prevents subject matter of childhood abandonment & abuse becoming too harrowing. The imagery adapted from shamanistic beliefs is especially memorable. Section Two is set in southern France in an almost equally exotic location of vineyards & dinosaur plateaux. It concerns the poets family holidays in the vineyard" & her rediscovery & subsequent repossession of that place. Once again the poems delineate a primary relationship (with the poets mother) with the lushness of the imagery putting into surprising context the development of that relationship." ...

Introduce preschool children to the animals & day-to-day life in a big zoo with Ladybird's Zoo Hullaballoo!" This informative big noisy book has eight different realistic sounds that really bring the noises of a zoo to life. Follow Zookeeper Annabel as she goes about her rounds of all the different animal enclosures & zoo areas over the course of a day. From checking on the big cats & hosing down the elephant to feeding the penguins looking after the reptiles & cleaning out the monkeys there's a different part of the zoo to explore with additional labels that pick out interesting features or animals to talk about together & a ladybird to spot on every page. Children will love pressing the colourful sound buttons to join in with the story & making the noises of the zoo buggy roaring lion cheeky monkey trumpeting elephant splashing penguin & more! " Ladybird's Zoo Hullaballoo!" is a fun & educational sound book for all young children interested in wild animals." ...

' For many years I had wanted to start a zoo.. .any reasonable person smitten with an ambition of this sort would have secured the zoo first & obtained the animals afterwards. but throughout my life I have rarely if ever achieved what I wanted by tackling it in a logical fashion'. A Zoo in My Luggage" is Gerald Durrell's account of his attempt to set up his own zoo after years spent gathering animals for other zoos. Journeying to Cameroon he & his wife collected numerous mammals birds & reptiles including Cholmondely the chimpanzee & Bug-eye the bush-baby. But their problems really began when they attempted to return with their exotic menagerie. Not only had they to get them safely home to Britain but they also had to find somewhere able &
- most of all
- willing to house them. Told with wit & a zest for all things furry & feathered Gerald Durrell's "A Zoo in My Luggage" is a brilliant account of how a pioneer of wildlife preservation came to found a new type of zoo."

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Novelist Guy Ableman is in thrall to his vivacious wife Vanessa a strikingly beautiful red-head contrary highly strung & blazingly angry. The trouble is he is no less in thrall to her alluring mother Poppy. More like sisters than mother & daughter they come as a pair a blistering presence that destroys Guys peace of mind suggesting the wildest stories but making it impossible for him to concentrate long enough to write any of them. Not that anyone reads Guy anyway. Not that anyone is reading anything. Reading Guy fears is finished. His publisher fearing the same has committed suicide. His agent like all agents is in hiding. Vanessa in the meantime is writing a novel of her own. Guy doesnt expect her to finish it or even start it but he dreads the consequences if she does. In flight from personal disappointment & universal despair Guy wonders if its time to take his love for Poppy to another level. Fiction might be dead but desire isnt. & out of that desire he imagines squeezing one more great book. By turns angry elegiac & rude Zoo Time is a novel about love
- love of women love of literature love of laughter. It shows our funniest writer at his brilliant best.
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This title features a new environment on every colourful artistic page. Zoo-ology" is filled with beautifully crafted species from the Aardvark to the Zebra connected in thought provoking & unusual groupings of creatures of all shapes & sizes. Take hold of these pages & throw yourself into the natural world. Lose yourself amidst the habitats that these animals share. A teeming wildlife sanctuary where over 300 animals leap off the page this book allows the reader to imagine a zoo without bars where animals gather in chaotic but innovative herds prides & rookeries." ...