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List Price: £4.99
Our Price: £1.00
Author:
Michael Chinery
By Collins
 An excellent guide, 2006-08-14
No butterflies or moths but there is a separate guide available to cover those groups. This seems a reasonable decision when publishing in a pocket-sized format as a combined guide would mean that only half the number of species could be covered.
The information in the guide is clear and concise with good quality photographs for every entry. There are also illustrations on many entries that clarify those anatomical differences important for identification of the species or sex.
A fascinating guide that's been invavluable for me in my new found hobby of macro insect photography.
List Price: £14.99
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Author:
Alison Benjamin, Brian McCallum
By David & Charles Publishers
Excellent book for someone considering beekeeping, 2008-06-11
I bought this book knowing virtually nothing about bees (they exist, they live in hives and they make honey was about the sum total of my knowledge).
I have been considering keeping bees for a while and thought that a little reading would help guide me to a decision.
From memory, the book covers: types of bees (not just honey bees), types of hives, the gear required by the beekeeper, where bee hives can be situated, how bees can be purchased, the maintenance of the colony & hive, pests and how to mitigate their impact, the social structure of the bee colony, the way honey is produced by the bees, the 'swarming' of bees, how to harvest honey from the hive and how to store the harvested honey. There's definitely more - my memory just isn't good enough.
The book material is pitched at the level of the layman/novice. In particular areas the book is usefully pratical and in-depth e.g. There are guides to setting up the hive and putting in the colony, checking the colony's health after setting up your apiary, harvesting the honey, controlling swarming and spring-cleaning the hive. There are also little practical tips throughout that will obviously help you avoid common mistakes e.g. Approach your hive from the side, approaching the front entrance will only wind-up your bees!
To sum up. I thought the book was excellent and was written at exactly the right level for someone in my position. It increased my knowledge greatly (admittedly i started with none), it informed me that i have a more-than-reasonable environment for a hive, it convinced me that i'd be capable of performing the duties required to keep the bees happy and healthy, it told me how to go about performing the duties required, it told me what equipment i'd need to keep bees and finally it was a thoroughly pleasant read into the bargain.
List Price: £8.99
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Author:
Richard Dawkins
By OUP Oxford
Still great after all these years, 2008-04-24
Despite being over 30 years old, this book is still a powerful and exciting account of how life, including humans, came to be. The examples and explanations (aphid & ant coexistence, fluke worms in snails) are breathtaking in their descriptions of the natural world, and could easily awaken an interest in zoology in the casual reader.
List Price: £9.99
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Author:
John Fisher
By Cassell Illustrated
Think Dog, 2008-02-04
Whata wonderful title and a wonderful author. I picked the book up and couldn't put the book down until i had read it from cover to cover... What an insight into a dogs mind from a very simple view point of being the dog!!!!! And hearing his thoughts and interpretaions into human behaviour. No wonder so many dogs are so mixed up.
A great book and a must to all dog lovers
List Price: £12.99
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Author:
Alice Roberts
By Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
excellent, 2007-08-18
far more in-depth than i thought it would be - but thats a good ting. tells you what you are and how to keep what you are healthy.
List Price: £12.00
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Author:
Jim Peltier Milo
By ibooks
Excellent resource for learning 'pack leadership', 2008-05-17
For those who want to expand their knowledge and abilities with dog leadership skills this book provides valuable tools for achieving that goal. Every episode from Cesar Millan's first 3 series of 'The Dog Whisperer' is reviewed and analysed. This in depth analysis helps to make very real the method which Cesar uses.
Unlike 'dog training' Cesar and others who follow the 'pack system' focus on creating harmony and balance in our dogs. We use our dog's natural and hard wired instincts to create change which allow them to 'be themselves'. This method helps to meet our dogs needs rather than us just getting our needs met when we get love and affection from our dogs.
This book allows us to get a much deeper understanding of the way Cesar uses the 'power of pack leadership' to help create happy balanced dogs. The book also gives follow ups which help to see that even with Cesar's help some dogs and their owners are unable to make the desired changes.
This book provides a valuable guide that is well written and very concise. Whatever breed of dog you have, whatever age and whatever your dogs problems you will find help in the pages of this book.
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Author:
Philippe De Vosjoli, Robert Mailloux, Susan Donoghue
By Advanced Vivarium Systems Inc.,U.S.
TRES BIEN, 2005-11-27
What a book! I honestly think its the best bearded dragon book ever. It tells you everything you need to know(housing, feeding, handling) to stuff you don't need(species names, types of "morph", and other stuff.....)I highly recommend this book it manage to change my mind from a big ig to a brilliant beardie!
List Price: £28.99
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Author:
Chris Gunn
By Churchill Livingstone
Radiography Students, 2008-04-21
Am absolute must have book for all radiography students, it was my bible for 3 years and still is now i'm qualified.
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Author:
Jan Fennell
By HarperCollins Entertainment
The behavioural problems covered in The Dog Listener will sound all too familiar to anyone who shares their life with a canine companion. During the 25 years that Jan Fennell has been working with dogs, she's been increasingly aware of the ways in which communication between man's best friend and ourselves has broken down. Inspired by Monty Roberts, Fennell embraces similar ideas to those found in The Man Who Listens to Horses. Rather than trying to fit human psychology to animals, the starting point is observing how animals communicate, how they structure their groups in the wild and what they think their role is. Initially Fennell looks at the role that dogs have played historically--primarily a working role, in which human and animal worked side by side to the same goal. Many owners flinch as the idea of a dog "working", with associations of oppression and hierarchy. But dogs naturally form a hierarchical society with the strongest, most intelligent dog leading the pack. Humans might thrive on the concept of democracy but dogs don't automatically feel the same way. When we understand and respect a dog's mindset, effective training can be done with intell...
Thoroughly inspirational, 2008-04-11
I found this book thoroughly inspirational. Jan Fennel has hit on something which simply works. It is purely logical and rational and just from putting things into the dogs perspective allows us to understand how they think and therefore why they sometimes behave the way that they do. I bought the book at the same time as getting a puppy and my 3 month old puppy now walks at heel with no need for a lead (though I still use one) and is a beautifully behaved member of our family.
I cannot recommend this book highly enough!
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Author:
Esther J. J. Verhoef-Verhallen
By Rebo Productions
Superb little book, 2008-08-20
This is a great little book. You get the feeling that the author has either kept the species written about, or has paid attention to other veteran keepers. It's one of those books you look to keep on the coffee table; it's a joy to browse through.
Well worth the money.
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