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List Price: £24.99
Our Price: £18.19
Author:
Terry Stevenson, John Fanshawe
By Christopher Helm Publishers Ltd
 Best in the field, 2008-12-22
Others have already compared this book to the other East African field guides available, and I agree with them. It combines the high standard of illustrations of the old Collins guide (the same artist, Norman Arlott, was involved in both) with an excellent layout. In paperback version at least, it is sufficiently light enough to use in the field. We all seem to have plates that niggle us slightly, for me it is the birds with irridescent plumage, sunbirds and starlings, that don't seem quite right. Having said that, the illustrations are fine for identification which is, after all, the purpose of the book.
If you are heading to East Africa to watch birds, this is the book for you.
List Price: £11.50
Our Price: £5.73
Author:
Mary R. Burch, Bailey, Jon S. PhD.
By John Wiley & Sons
An excellent starter for the would-be dog behaviourist, 2008-09-11
I have read many books which claim to teach you about dogs and their ways of thinking. This is the first such book which actually keeps its promise.
Another reviewer here said it was boring, but with respect I think that is unfair and probably says more about the attention span of the reader than the quality of the book.
Unlike other books in this category it doesn't waffle on about the authors' personal and/or professional lives. It does exactly what it says on the cover. It explains the theory of how dogs learn (much like the rest of us in many ways), what they respond to, their understanding of reward and punishment, and how these concepts can be used in the pursuit of real-world dog training and behaviour objectives. It also gives some (but not so many as to waste space by waffling) real-life examples from the author's own experiences to back-up the theory.
I read it from cover to cover within a few days. There were some points I didn't fully digest the first time, so I then re-read the more involved parts again more slowly. Having done so, I can honestly tell you hand on heart that my personal understanding of my dogs' minds and the effects that what I do has upon them, has dramatically improved. Before I read this book I used to just follow the steps listed in other more practical books without really understanding why I was doing it (and they often didn't work, because real life does not pan out the same as it does in books!).
But now, because I understand more about why the things I do have the effect they do, my training methods have improved significantly from what they used to by 'blind faith', and I have even begun to design my own training scenarios with at least a basic expectation of how different situations will benefit my dogs' training in different ways.
As long as your own mind is in itself capable of learning (and hasn't been dumbed down by today's trash culture), and you want to learn serious facts, rather than just be entertained, I feel sure you will find this a very worthwhile and useful book on this subject.
I can thoroughly recommend this book (and no I don't have any shares in it's sales, I promise!)
List Price: £14.99
Our Price: £7.73
Author:
Chris Gomersall
By David & Charles PLC
Great Book for the Bird Photographer, 2007-04-05
As with the other reviews, I agree that this is a great book for the bird photographer enthusiast. Packed with valuable hints and tips, in-depth discussions of techniques and equipment, and many great photos, with details of how they were taken. I like the fact that different photographers contributed images, it adds to the variety of images and photography styles.
Highly Recommended!
List Price: £5.99
Our Price: £4.79
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.
List Price: £8.99
Our Price: £4.49
Author:
Joy Adamson
By Pan Books
Unforgettable, 2006-09-15
No wildlife lover should be without a copy of this extraordinary (but true!) story. It is split into three parts!
Born Free: Follows the life of Elsa as an orphaned lion cub in Kenya until she grows up and is taught on how to be a wild lion.
Living Free: Follows the life Elsa and her three young cubs.
Forever Free: Elsa tragically dies of an illness and her cubs are taken to the Serengeti in Tanzania to be released into the wild.
All took my breath away as I read about, not just the lives of the lions, but of the people around them.
List Price: £14.99
Our Price: £8.29
Author:
Gail Damerow
By Storey Books
if you love chickens you will love this book, 2005-06-29
bought it for my dad an avid "fancier". he loves it. claims it is the only place that tells it straght about real world diseases etc. has saved the lives of at least 3 birds and he only keeps abot 20 at a time. buy it. is well worth it.p
List Price: £8.99
Our Price: £4.50
Author:
Diane Fossey
By Phoenix
Gorillas in the Mist is the story of Dian Fossey, an occupational therapist from Kentucky who, in 1963 travelled to central Africa in the quixotic hope of seeing a mountain gorilla in its natural habitat. Fossey had read everything she could about the reclusive and much-feared animal, and she returned from her trip convinced that most of the books were wrong. During her seven-week stay in Africa, Fossey had a chance encounter with the famed primatologists Mary and Louis Leakey, who encouraged her to follow her dream of living among the mountain gorillas and learning their ways. In 1967 she did just that, setting up a camp on the slopes of the 14,000-foot Virunga Volcanoes of Rwanda and studying four gorilla families there. Although it took them some time to accept Fossey's presence among them, she was immediately impressed by their peaceful nature and by their generous, guileless behaviour--so unlike the images found in popular culture. But, Fossey discovered, despite their peaceable way of life, the gorillas had many enemies in the form of poachers who hunted them for their hands, skins and heads--ghastly remains sold to the tourist market. Much of Fossey's thoughtf...
just what i expected, 2004-12-12
now if you know about Dian fossey or have atleast heard of the woman you will like this book, it is her life and it is told in a good way.some parts might upset you, what with the poachers and photos inside of slaughtered Mountain Gorillas,but it is the truth about what happened and what is stil happening in regions of Africa. dont get me wrong,its not all about poachers, its her life and everything in it, written in a scientific yet funny and understandable way for every kind of reader so u dont get bogged down in it all! theres even a map and gorilla family trees! some truths about gorillas which i didnt know i discovered in this book and i can tell you, they are not pretty,but none the less i cudnt help smirking over the innocent free mischeivious apes! you must read it!
List Price: £10.99
Our Price: £4.92
Author:
Bruce Fogle
By Michael Joseph
fantastic book, for the committed learner, not a coffee table read., 2008-09-15
This book is fantastic, other reviewers haven't understood the intentions of this book. It isn't intended for the general dog owner, i am doing a behaviourist course, and need to know not only the effects of a behaviour,but how and why that behaviour occurs, and be able to refer to how the dogs brain (and mind) works in relation to this behaviour. If you just want a book that will tell you how to re-train a problem dog this isn't the book for you. BUT if you are TRULY interested in canine behaviour, and why they behave as they do, and are willing to discover the indepth truth (which does touch on the original scientists who discovered most of what we now know about dogs- of course using what we now class as neanderthall techniques). This book is for a committed learner, it is not a coffee table read,or a quick fix book, but a VERY interesting and informative read. A MUST if you are seriously studying canine behaviour!!
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