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A Field Guide to Getting Lost is an investigation into loss, losing and being lost. Taking in subjects as eclectic as memory and mapmaking, Hitchcock movies and Renaissance painting, Rebecca Solnit explores the challenges of living with uncertainty. Beautifully written, this book combines memoir, history and philosophy, shedding glittering new light on the way we live now.

A Field Guide to Getting Lost

A Singer's Guide to Getting Work contains essential advice for anyone wanting to launch or maintain their professional singing career. The book focuses on the realities of starting a career and making a living in this field and is aimed at a wide range of singers. Styles of singing covered include Pop, Soul, Country, Folk, Jazz and Classical. From finding the right singing teacher to getting an agent, from performing live to recording, this is a comprehensive book of tips that will inspire and encourage...

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About this book This is a completely revised and 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 and often highly dangerous, you may recognize these inhuman beings in books and 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...

In A Field Guide to the English, Lyall strides her way readably, eloquently and perceptively across the social, political and cultural landscape of contemporary England. In a narrative studded with memorable anecdote and rich in humour, she explores themes as diverse as peers, politics, the media, understatement, the weather, and England's relationship with animals, alcohol and sex. She ponders such matters as the missing link between the famous British reserve and our equally famous predilection...

Comprehensive guide that profiles all 250 of the worlds terrestrial carnivore species. Detailed account for each species describing key identification characteristics, distribution and habitat, behaviour, feeding ecology, social patterns, life history statistics, conservation and the latest classification, including some unexpected discoveries.

This field guide should be useful for veterinary practitioners and veterinary students. Murphy covers all aspects of common animal poisons and provides references for more in-depth research. As a text, the book is designed for teaching applied aspects of veterinary toxicology. Organised for easy reference, "A Field Guide to Common Animal Poisons" is divided into five major sections. The first section, Prevalence, is further divided into common and uncommon poisons and goes into detail about the former...

Complete with beautiful illustrations and exquisite pop-up scenes from celebrated fairy legends, "A Field Guide to Fairies" offers an enchanting pathway to the fairy realm.

Discover the secret hiding places of fairies in this enthralling guide to fairy lore from around the world. Complete with beautiful illustrations and exquisite pop-up scenes, this book offers an enchanting pathway to the fairy realm.

Concise, jargon-free text pinpoints the key characteristics of each species, and provides comprehensive and accessible information

'Sadness is good for you' - The Guardian 25/04/09 A depressive illness or a passing feeling? Mental detachment or a precursor to genius? Melancholy is a critical part of what it is to be human, yet everything from Prozac to self help psychology books seems intent on removing all signs of sadness from contemporary existence. Complex and contradictory, melancholy's presence weaves through the histories of both science and art.The Field Guide to Melancholy surveys this ambivalent concept and takes a...

Description Steven Chase’s innovative On Earth As it Is uses a compelling blend of theological, scriptural, historical, and cultural discussions to reclaim the role of nature in the formation of Christian spiritual and moral identity. His thought-provoking “creation practices” will lead readers into more profound knowledge of themselves and their Creator, guide them to greater compassion for their neighbors, instill in them reverence for and companionship with nature, and awaken in them a greater...

978-0-19-854940-6 | Paperback | 08 June 2000

N.B. Previous owners bookplate to front paste down. Some slight marks to boards. Head and tail of spine slightly bumped. 48 colour plates and over 650 illustrations. 415pp.

"This fully updated edition of the award-winning A Field Guide to the Birds of South-East Asia includes more than 20 new species for the region which are recent discoveries, taxonomic ‘splits’ or have been recorded there for the first time. There are many new artworks and this edition has 16 more colour plates than the original, meaning fewer species per plate and therefore larger images of each species. The text has also been meticulously updated to take in the latest information on each species...

Covers 51 species of rattan, including climbing plants, in Lao PDR and neighbouring areas of Indochina. Information is given on planting, cultivation and the collection and the preservation of herbarium specimens.

This is the first general work on the rich Microlepidoptera fauna of the region, describing and illustrating 650 species (about one tenth of the total known species). It covers southern Burma, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, southern Vietnam, West & East Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, Indonesia and the Philippines.

Pages: 400. Published By: Octopus. Condition: Book - Generally good, although it has some slight discolouration to the top of the material cover. Dust cover - Is OK but has a few small tears £ 4.75

A Field Guide to Wild Flowers, Ferns and Grasses by Bohumil Slavik (Author) Format: Paperback (184 pages) ISBN 10: 1851521291 ISBN 13: 9781851521296 Publisher: Bounty Books Published: 04 Mar 1993 2 in stock Item Condition: Used - Good Price:£2.59List Price: £2.99You Save:£0.40 (13%) Quantity: 1 2 Add to wishlist Or buy from Amazon.co.uk

"FIELD GUIDE TO DYNAMICAL RECURRENT NETWORKS Acquire the tools for understanding new architectures and algorithms of dynamical recurrent networks (DRNs) from this valuable field guide, which documents recent forays into artificial intelligence, control theory, and connectionism.

Beginning with the core problem of service marketing, that is service quality; this guide suggests how to find out what you must improve using examples of what really works. The book offers new perspectives on service marketing.

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About this book This is the first-time flexi-cover edition of this classic field guide, which is the definitive volume on the region's birdlife. This award-winning book, which was first published in 2000, was fully updated in 2009 to include 76 new species for the region that were recent new discoveries for science, taxonomic 'splits' or had been recorded there for the first time. This comprehensive field guide to the birds of South-East Asia covers all of the 1,327 species recorded in the region...

Old Series to Explorer is Chris Higley's comprehensive guide to the history of the Ordnance Survey map and is a must for anyone with an interest in the evolution and development of the famous Ordnance Survey series of maps. The book gives a brief overview of the map series published by the Ordnance Survey in the last 200 years, as well as exploring other subjects closely related to Ordnance Survey.

Finally, a comprehensive book on land conservation financing for community and regional conservation leaders. "A Field Guide to Conservation Finance" provides essential advice on how to tackle the universal obstacle to protecting private land in America: lack of money. Story Clark dispels the myths that conservationists can access only private funds controlled by individuals or that only large conservation organizations have clout with big capital markets. She shows how small land conservation organizations...

Well illustrated guide to North american species, with common names and scientific names given. `The definitive work on medicinal plants...how to identify, collect and even raise them' - The Library of Science.

A Field Guide to the Birds of Borneo is the first comprehensive and accurate guide to the varied avifauna of this island biodiversity hot-spot, which comprises Brunei, the Malaysian states of Sabah and Sarawak, and the Indonesian states of Kalimantan. More than 630 bird species have been recorded in Borneo and, using the most up-to-date taxonomy and nomenclature, the guide includes all recently split species and also gives full coverage to the distinctive Bornean races where they differ from their...

With more than 160 entries detailing everything from the junk buried in desk drawers to that mysterious box blinking away in the coat closet, this practical guide navigates through modern office technology. Each entry includes a functional description of a device (what it is and how it works) as well as particulars on who invented it and how its design has evolved over the years. Devices are grouped according to their habitats— in the conference room, hanging from the ceiling, or connected...

Zombies: A Field Guide to the Walking Dead by Dr Bob Curran (Author) Format: Paperback (220 pages) Edition: 1 ISBN 10: 1601630220 ISBN 13: 9781601630223 Publisher: New Page Books Published: 15 Oct 2008 2 in stock Item Condition: Brand New Price:£9.87List Price: £12.99You Save:£3.12 (24%) Quantity: 1 2 Add to wishlist Or buy from Amazon.co.uk

This title has been produced as an aid to those involved in monitoring nests for research and conservation purposes. Contains a wealth of information for 145 British and Irish species together with introductory sections on nest monitoring techniques, nest identification, legislation, the BTO Nest Record Scheme and nest finding skills, 256pp. 2011

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