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This book emphasizes resource use and efficiency in the
agricultural sector and offers facts and analytical concepts of
interest to welfare economists, sociologists, and agricultural
policy makers. Originally published in 1972
This book has three primary themes: identification, natural
history, and conservation. This is the first guide yet produced to
the amphibians and reptiles of New York State, a large and heavily
populated state that hosts a surprisingly diverse and interesting
community of amphibians and reptiles. The book presents the results
of the New York State Amphibian and Reptile Atlas for the first
time (a compilation of ~60,000 distributional records collected
1990-1999); thus, the volume is a repository for detailed
distributional data on the 69 species native to the state. The book
presents in-depth species accounts based on the six authors'
decades of collective experience as teachers, researchers and
conservationists. Supporting chapters focus on the biology of
amphibians and reptiles, New York's environment, finding and
studying these creatures, and the rich folklore of New York State
as it pertains to amphibians and reptiles, particularly
rattlesnakes. A heavy emphasis on conservation biology of
amphibians and reptiles sets the book apart from any comparable
volume yet produced in the United States. To this end, chapters on
threats, legal protections, habitat conservation guidelines, and
conservation case studies are presented. An expanded color insert
presents striking photographs contributed by over 30 photographers.
The book is intended for use by natural history buffs generally
interested in the vertebrate animals of New York and adjoining
regions (Pennsylvania, Connecticut, New Jersey, Massachusetts,
Vermont, Quebec and Ontario), students in the many herpetology,
vertebrate biology, and natural history courses offered at colleges
and field stations in the northeast, public and college libraries,
and natural resource professionals interested in learning more
about approaches to conserving reptiles and amphibians.
Ashton town is in danger of a gruesome group of hooligans causing
devastating anti social behaviour and in need of help to turn
things around it is a bedlam of violence. The football club has a
notorious amount of hooligan culture that prides itself on being
the best in the business and wants to be top of the league of
trouble table. But David Royle chairman of Ashton Villa has other
plans. He has seen an alarming amount of cash wasted on police
presence with no end result. The club is going bankrupt and
suddenly gets the news he doesn't want. it is to be suspended from
all domesic league and cup competitions for the unforeseeable
future. With no revenue from the sponsors, or turnstiles, or
television and radio the future is bleak. So David Royle decides on
a scheme for the "real" fans to fight back in a make or break
initiative and form a Special Vigilante Task Force and an Ordinary
Vigilante Task Force to combat the scourge of the battling violent
fanatical groups of hooligans, street scum and trim and dare it
gang, field filth and Captain Clout. The special vigilante task
force are trained to be the smartest, fittest, sharpest, clinical
army of vigilantes in history and armed with tanks, rifles,
shields, armoured cars and plastic bullets. They bring peace back
to the streets, roads, shopping centres and terraces of Ashton
Villa FC, as well as the stadium to make the place safer for
everyone. And with these extreme measures make the Football League
sit up and take notice and rethink and hopefully reverse their
decision to suspend the club from all competitions.
Vikki Dermott is a young, beautiful woman and with an aspiring
career as a model developing nicely, but she has been befriended by
an old crooked mate, Lee Ryder who has broken out of jail after
being imprisoned for attempted Crown Jewel theft. What will happen
to Vikki and Lee? Have they got a future together?
A NOVEL ABOUT AN EMERGENCY FIRECREW FROM THE ROYAL AIR FORCE, IN
THE 1977 FIREMAN'S STRIKE IN THE UK. ONLY A DAY'S TRAINING, NO
EQUIPMENT AND AN AGEING 1940 FIRE ENGINE... KNOWN AS THE GREEN
GODDESS. BASED ON A TRUE STORY.
Kingtree is set in 1949 and a story of a rural English close-knit
community that has certain gossiping folk living there, watching
each other's business like a hawk. Family squabbles, friends
falling out, lies, jealousy, it's all part of life for the
residents of Kingtree. The village is inundated with strife, scams,
treachery, crime and hi-jinx, but also with a sprinkling of pathos,
romance, love, celebration and joy
A deadly army of Clones of a beautiful blonde woman are created to
avenge the turmoil and chastised life that Joshua Grant has
suffered for many years. One Clone, Beattie goes berserk and is on
a mission with a silicone chip missing. She is a loose cannon and
anything goes with her
Eight amazing aliens crawl through the keyhole of Mr and Mrs
Jarratt's door to rummage around their house, picking up useful
bits of information so they can develop their own planet, and one
of the aliens has something in common with a member of the
Jarratt's family, which was diabetes.
In 1783, a slave ship named Kindi sets sail from Africa, on a
voyage to Barbados. Its cargo was human freight, consisting of 500
men, packed like sardines and shackled like cattle. They were
frightened, alienated and unsure what the future had in store for
them. Two brothers were among the quivering masses, Elijah and
Mathias Mtumba, and this is their story as they battled bravely to
survive the horrors of the slave trade. Sold for a pittance, they
enter the world of slavery as field hands on a sugar plantation,
and meet the overseer from hell Then William Wilberforce an MP in
Hull England finds out about the horrors of slavery and with the
help of the church and parliament, vows to abolish slavery for
good.
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