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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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?

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