This is a completely revised & expanded edition of the international bestseller. If you met a werewolf in a forest at night would you be able to tell what he really was? Could you resist the dark charms of a vampire or the lure of a fallen angel? Seductive thrilling & often highly dangerous you may recognize these inhuman beings in books & movies
- but if you came across one in real life would you know how to escape their clutches? We have already been sucked in by vampires & eaten up by zombies & this year angels werewolves & demons of all kinds are poised to cast their spells over us. No self-respecting lover the otherworldly can afford to be without this indispensable guide which will help you navigate the shadowy realms of these subversive spirits & tell apart the mysterious from the mischievous; & the virtuous from the vengeful.
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A Field Guide to Getting Lost" is an investigation into loss losing & being lost. Taking in subjects as eclectic as memory & mapmaking Hitchcock movies & Renaissance painting Rebecca Solnit explores the challenges of living with uncertainty. Beautifully written this book combines memoir history & philosophy shedding glittering new light on the way we live now." ...

The ultimate breed resource this volume provides detailed descriptions of more that twenty goat breeds from the popular Nubian Pygmy & Boer to the rare & beautiful Golden Guernsey. Illustrated with 150 colour photographs this convenient easy-to-use field guide

Includes:: exhaustive information about behaviour characteristics breeding history as well as a glossary of caprine terms & a list of breed associations.

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Southern Africa has a wealth of mammal species a total of 337
- all of which are covered in this fully revised comprehensive field
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What is unique about Richard Nortons book is that it is both a field guide to observing meteors & also a field guide to locating preparing & analysing meteorites. In addition to giving the reader information about observing techniques for meteors this book also provides a fully detailed account of the types of meteorites how & where to find them how to prepare & analyse them. The book provides everything the amateur astronomer (or geologist!) needs to know about meteors & meteorites. It is thus the only complete book on the subject available at present. ...

This handy & comprehensive guide is the essential companion to bird-watching for use in the field or at home. The guide features 500 species of birds found in Britain & also

Includes:: Europes resident birds & regular migrants & key vagrants from North America & Asia. Background information on bird structure & topography fieldcraft habitats bird orders & families is provided & each species entry

Includes:: at least one full-colour illustration beautifully presented by leading bird artists & a full yet concise species description plus other details e.g. habitat voice length wingspan & behavioural characteristics. A glossary of technical terms is included & there is an index of English & Latin names. The guide also

Includes:: 10 species comparison spreads to aid identification of harder to spot species & advice on the best times & places to view the more secretive or rarer birds.





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Ghana is one of the safest & most accessible countries in Western Africa & is rapidly becoming a top tourist destination. This dedicated country field guide uses illustrations from the acclaimed Birds of Western Africa which have been recomposed into a new set of plates with new text & maps specific to Ghana. The result is a compact & up-to-date guide to all the birds of Ghana. ...

Following the success of the first edition of A Field Guide To The birds Of Thailand a new edition has been compiled incorporating Thai plate names & index. Thailand continues to attract increasing numbers of birdwatchers on a regular basis who appreciate its vast diversity of bird life. This book with its meticulous colour artworks & maps for almost 1 000 species continues to be an invaluable guide for English & Thai-speaking bird enthusiasts who require details on the identification voice breeding status habitat & distribution of all the distinctive species & subspecies of the region. ...

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."" ...