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The Birds of Africa: Volume VIII

The Malagasy Region: Madagascar, Seychelles, Comoros, Mascarenes

By: Roger Safford,Frank Hawkins

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The Birds of Africa: Volume VIII

The Malagasy Region: Madagascar, Seychelles, Comoros, Mascarenes

By: Roger Safford,Frank Hawkins

Universally recognised as by far the most authoritative work ever published on the subject, The Birds of Africa is a superb multi-contributor reference work, with encyclopaedic species texts, stunning paintings of all species and numerous subspecies, informative line drawings, detailed range maps, and extensive bibliographies. Each volume contains an Introduction that brings the reader up to date with the latest developments in African ornithology, including the evolution and biogeography of African birds. Diagnoses of the families and genera, often with superspecies maps, are followed by the comprehensive species accounts themselves. These include descriptions of range and status, field characters, voice, general habits, food, and breeding habits. Full bibliographies, acoustic references, and indexes complete this scholarly work of reference. This eighth and final volume covers the Malagasy region which comprises Madagascar and the various islands and archipelagos of the Indian Ocean including the Seychelles, the Comoros, Mauritius and Réunion. Every resident and migrant species is covered in full detail, comparable to other volumes in the series, and with a colour map for each species. Vagrants are treated in less detail. All species are illustrated on a beautiful series of 64 colour plates, with original artwork from John Gale and Brian Small. This is a major work of reference on the birds of the region and will remain the standard text for many years to come.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1472982894

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9781472982896

Mushrooms

By: Roger Phillips

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Mushrooms

By: Roger Phillips

Roger Phillips has written the best mushroom book I know.' - Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, author of River Cottage Veg Every Day! The culmination of over thirty years' work, Roger Phillips's authoritative and superbly illustrated reference work is packed with information and original photographs. The essential illustrated mycological encyclopedia, this book is also clear, user friendly and will appeal to a wide range of readers. Unsurpassed in both illustrative and descriptive detail, Mushrooms contains over 1,250 photographs, often showing the specimens in various stages of growth, and includes all the latest botanical and common names as well as current ecological information on endangered species. Having sold more than 750,000 copies in Europe of his previous title on mushrooms, Roger Phillips's Mushrooms once again sets the benchmark. Quite simply, nobody with an interest in the subject can afford to be without this book.

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390

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Pan Macmillan

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1447264029

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9781447264026

Peterson First Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians

By: Robert C. Stebbins,Roger Conant

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Peterson First Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians

By: Robert C. Stebbins,Roger Conant

The most common snakes, turtles, lizards, frogs and toads, salamanders, and crocodilia of North America.

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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0395971950

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9780395971956

Hambledon Hill, Dorset, England

Excavation and survey of a Neolithic Monument Complex and its Surrounding Landscape

By: Roger Mercer,Frances Healy

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Hambledon Hill, Dorset, England

Excavation and survey of a Neolithic Monument Complex and its Surrounding Landscape

By: Roger Mercer,Frances Healy

A programme of excavation and survey directed by Roger Mercer between 1974 and 1986 demonstrated that Hambledon was the site of an exceptionally large and diverse complex of earlier Neolithic earthworks, including two causewayed enclosures, two long barrows and several outworks, some of them defensive. The abundant cultural material preserved in its ditches and pits provides information about numerous aspects of contemporary society, among them conflict, feasting, the treatment of the human corpse, exchange, stock management and cereal cultivation. The distinct depositional signatures of various parts of the complex reflect their diverse use. The scale and manner of individual episodes of construction hint at the levels of organisation and co-ordination obtaining in contemporary society. Use of the complex and the construction of its various elements were episodic and intermittent, spread over 300-400 hundred years, and did not entail lasting settlement. As well as stone axe heads exchanged from remote sources, more abundant grinding equipment and pottery from adjacent regions may point to the areas from which people came to the hill. If so, it had important links with territories to the west, north-west and south, in other words with land off the Wessex Chalk, at the edge of which the complex lies. Within the smaller compass of the immediate area of the hill, including Cranborne Chase, field walking survey suggests that the hill was the main focus of earlier Neolithic activity. A complementary relationship with the Chase is indicated by a fairly abrupt diminution of activity on the hill in the late fourth millennium, when the massive Dorset cursus and several smaller monuments were built in the Chase. Renewed activity on the hill in the late third millennium and early second millennium was a prelude to occupation on and around the hill in the second millennium in the mid to late second millennium, which was followed by the construction of a hillfort on the northern spur from the early first millennium. Late Iron Age and Romano-British activity may reflect the proximity of Hod Hill. A small pagan Saxon cemetery may relate to settlement in the Iwerne valley which it overlooks.

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English Heritage Publishing

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1848021607

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9781848021600

Peterson Field Guide to Birds of North America

By: Roger Tory Peterson

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Peterson Field Guide to Birds of North America

By: Roger Tory Peterson

Identification of birds of North America.

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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0618966145

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9780618966141

Birds of Madagascar and the Indian Ocean Islands

By: Roger Safford,Adrian Skerrett,Frank Hawkins

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Birds of Madagascar and the Indian Ocean Islands

By: Roger Safford,Adrian Skerrett,Frank Hawkins

The Malagasy region contains one of the most extraordinary concentrations of biodiversity in the world. Its recognition as a zoogeographic region in its own right has recently been confirmed and, all taxa combined, the region was found to hold the second most distinct assemblage of vertebrates in the world after the Australian region, despite being the smallest of them all. This new field guide in the Helm Field Guides series covers the whole of the Malagasy region, which comprises the unique island of Madagascar and the various islands and archipelagos of the Indian Ocean including the Seychelles, Comoros and Mascarenes (Mauritius, Réunion and Rodrigues). Every resident and migrant species is covered in full detail with a colour distibution map for each species. Vagrants are also treated in detail, but without maps. All species are illustrated on a beautiful series of 124 colour plates, with artwork from John Gale and Brian Small. Conveniently, the plates have been arranged so that all the key species of the various archipelagos are placed together in sections. This is a major work of reference on the birds of the region and will remain the standard text for many years to come.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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147292410X

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9781472924100

Waterfowl Carving with J. D. Sprankle

The Fully Illustrated Reference to Carving and Painting 25 Decorative Ducks

By: Roger Schroeder,Roger Schroeder Svd,James D. Sprankle

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Waterfowl Carving with J. D. Sprankle

The Fully Illustrated Reference to Carving and Painting 25 Decorative Ducks

By: Roger Schroeder,Roger Schroeder Svd,James D. Sprankle

Fully illustrated guide to carving and painting decorative ducks. Field and painting notes, including working patterns of 25 species of ducks, hens, and drakes.

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230

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Stackpole Books

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0811730948

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9780811730945

Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2004

By: Roger Ebert

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Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2004

By: Roger Ebert

Featuring every review Ebert wrote from January 2001 to mid-June 2003, this treasury also includes his essays, interviews, film festival reports, and In Memoriams, along with his famous star ratings.

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988

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Andrews McMeel Publishing

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0740738348

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9780740738340

Documents of the Chicano Movement

By: Roger Bruns

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Documents of the Chicano Movement

By: Roger Bruns

This book provides original source documents—from firsthand accounts to media responses to legislation—regarding the Chicano movement of the 1960s through 1970s. Readers will understand the key events, individuals, and developments of La Causa: Chicanos uniting to free themselves from exploitation. The 1960s was a time of the burgeoning black Civil Rights movement, when society and politics were divided over the war in Vietnam and public violence became "normal" in the form of police response to protests and assassinations of leaders. It was also a time that witnessed the beginning of a movement to secure justice and rights on behalf of Mexican-Americans and other Latinos. It was the Chicano movement. Documents of the Chicano Movement: Eyewitness to History presents some 50 primary historical documents, each prefaced by a succinct introductory essay. Because the Chicano movement comprised disparate groups and leaders from across the nation, the book will be divided into several sections that acknowledge these separate but connected efforts, each headed by its own introduction. Through its detailed coverage of approximately two decades, the book highlights key topics that include the fight of farm workers to establish a union; the so-called "Land-Grant Struggle" to reclaim areas of the Southwest ceded in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hildago; the establishment in New Mexico of the Crusade for Justice, an organization that promoted a nationalistic agenda; the growth of the urban Chicano student movement and its drive for educational reform; the Chicano Antiwar Moratorium protests; and the eventual rise of Chicano political power with the birth of the La Raza Unida Party. The breadth of primary documents include materials from archives, manuscript repositories, newspapers, government documents, public speeches and addresses, first-person accounts from individuals who participated directly in the Chicano movement, legal decisions, pamphlets, and essays. The documents not only tell a vivid, engaging story but also provide students and researchers with valuable resources for use in other works.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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ISBN 13

9798216075738

Culture Wars

An Encyclopedia of Issues, Viewpoints, and Voices

By: Roger Chapman

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Culture Wars

An Encyclopedia of Issues, Viewpoints, and Voices

By: Roger Chapman

A collection of letters from a cross-section of Japanese citizens to a leading Japanese newspaper, relating their experiences and thoughts of the Pacific War.

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M.E. Sharpe

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0765622505

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9780765622501

A Field Guide to the Birds of Britain and Europe

By: Roger Tory Peterson,Guy Mountfort,Philip Arthur Dominic Hollom

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A Field Guide to the Birds of Britain and Europe

By: Roger Tory Peterson,Guy Mountfort,Philip Arthur Dominic Hollom

With 364 range maps and 96 color plates portraying 548 species, this is the classic field guide to European birds. Covering 698 species, the descriptive text includes information on geographical races, vagrants, and introduced species. Confusing species such as waders, raptors, and warblers have additional notes on how to distinguish them.

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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0618166750

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9780618166756

The Culture of Interpretation

Christian Faith and the Postmodern World

By: Roger Lundin

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The Culture of Interpretation

Christian Faith and the Postmodern World

By: Roger Lundin

This book offers a broad-ranging account of contemporary American culture, the complex network of symbols, practices, and beliefs at the heart of our society. Lundin explores the historical background of some of our "postmodern" culture's central beliefs and considers their crucial ethical and theological implications.

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Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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0802806368

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9780802806369

A Field Guide to Venomous Animals and Poisonous Plants, North America, North of Mexico

By: Steven Foster,Roger A. Caras

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A Field Guide to Venomous Animals and Poisonous Plants, North America, North of Mexico

By: Steven Foster,Roger A. Caras

Describes dangerous mammals, reptiles, spiders, insects, flowers, shrubs, trees, and mushrooms.

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039593608X

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The Birds of Africa: Volume VIII

The Birds of Africa: Volume VIII

Mushrooms

Mushrooms

Peterson First Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians

Peterson First Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians

Hambledon Hill, Dorset, England

Hambledon Hill, Dorset, England

Peterson Field Guide to Birds of North America

Peterson Field Guide to Birds of North America

Birds of Madagascar and the Indian Ocean Islands

Birds of Madagascar and the Indian Ocean Islands

Waterfowl Carving with J. D. Sprankle

Waterfowl Carving with J. D. Sprankle

Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2004

Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2004

Documents of the Chicano Movement

Documents of the Chicano Movement

Culture Wars

Culture Wars

A Field Guide to the Birds of Britain and Europe

A Field Guide to the Birds of Britain and Europe

The Culture of Interpretation

The Culture of Interpretation

A Field Guide to Venomous Animals and Poisonous Plants, North America, North of Mexico

A Field Guide to Venomous Animals and Poisonous Plants, North America, North of Mexico

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