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Supply your library with the best collection of resources on animal issues!

Animals are the Issue: Library Resources on Animal Issues is a guide to books, journals, and Web sites on historic and modern animal treatment. Expert librarians and scholars provide helpful resources showing what ideals and practical solutions exist in animal rights and welfare debates. With this book, students, philosophers, and politicians can find the best of written and electronic resources about the protection and ethical use of animals by humankind.

Animals are the Issue stands alone as a source for locating materials on animal protection and welfare. This valuable guide will help librarians save time and money in locating diverse areas of information regarding animal consumption and exploitation. The authors have noted what they consider to be the most essential resources for library collections.

This book offers references that discuss the utilization of animals by humans:

as companions
in sports and entertainment
in religion
in science and education
in industry
in hunting

Animals Are the Issue explores how animals are seen, viewed, and used by humans. With bibliographies, annotated lists, and short commentaries by the authors on nearly every item, you’ll be able to supply your patrons with a highly effective animal rights/welfare collection. ... Read more

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This book describes the methodology for predicting the genetic merit of animals in the context of genetic improvement in an animal breeding programme. Information on an animal and its relatives, on either the characteristic to be improved or from other traits, can be used to predict the animals genetic merit, taking account of the relationships between measurements and the economic values of traits. The methodology is developed from first principles, without unnecessary detail or complexity, and all the required statistical and mathematical concepts are fully described in the book. The text discusses the methods for combining different sources of information and illustrates their use with examples of breeding programmes in cattle, sheep, pigs and poultry. A series of questions with detailed answers is included in the book, to help reinforce the ideas and provide some practical experience in the prediction of genetic merit. The text is aimed at final year undergraduate and first year postgraduate students of quantitative genetics and animal breeding. ... Read more

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Containing over 900 entries, this comprehensive guide provides students with books and accompanying web sites covering every aspect of animal rights, from vegetarianism to vivisection to feminist perspectives on the topic. Entries, which provide materials with varying viewpoints, are arranged alphabetically in six different chapters that address specific issues, such as fatal uses of animals and animal populations, encompassing the whole of the animal rights debate. This unique and user-friendly organization allows researchers to make a quick determination of which topics are of interest and which chapter has related materials, while annotations for each entry help the user choose the most appropriate of these materials. ... Read more

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Outstanding resource and guide
The volume of information contained in this book is impressive. As a newcomer to the area of animal rights, I cannot think of a better place to start. This book provides both a comprehensive research tool, and an excellent overview of the many aspects of animal rights.
The ability to compare the general content and tone of several books on a particular topic is very useful. Scanning through the entries is informative and thought provoking, in large part due to the author's comments and questions. Without claiming one side or the other, he challenges many traditional ways of thinking about the issues involved, and introduces alternative views. I found myself prompted to look at other aspects of animal rights that I had not considered before. An outstanding resource for anyone interested in any aspect of animal rights. ... Read more

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A guide to every known species of frog, both introduced and indigenous, found in Australia. Each species is illustrated with a colour photograph, a distribution map and detailed information on appearance, habitat and population. ... Read more

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The Baensch Atlases are found in the personal and professsional libraries of aquarium keepers throughout the world. Lavishly illustrated in color with information from leading biologists and aquarium experts, these fact-filled volumes will provide years of inspiration and reference for the diver, reef explorer, and marine aquarist. ... Read more

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a great book
that bookgive me a lof of knowledge on my fish and give me idea what to choose to my aquarium

Great for identification and quick reference.
The Baensch Photo Index 1-5 is one of the most recent additions to the fine series of Baensch aquarium books.

Excellent from a technical perspective (a clean, easty-to-follow layout with stunning photography) the book really excells because of the huge amount of information it packs into a small space. It is ideally suited to the task of fish identification, although the sheer number of species listed may make this a daunting task for the beginning hobbist.

Potential buyers should note however that the amount of written information in this book is not as extensive as other volumes. Rather than a deficiency, this has to be viewed as a necessary evil, as the book's aim is to present as much as it can while remaining portable. Even so, the information listed is nothing to scoff at.

This book has become my most used reference source and I highly recommend it to beginner and advanced aquarists alike.

Review of Baensch Aquarium Atlas Photo Index Vols 1-5
Stunning. I have never seen so may fish photographs in one book, althoughinformation on each species pictured is limited to a few symbolsand words, these are functional and in most cases all that is required.Words however are not this books main purpose easy access to visualinformation is.

For the catfish keeper : 146 catfish pages with usually 6photograph thumbnails per page = approximately 846 pictures. I didn't countthem but I think it's fair to say that's over 500 species all withexcellent photographs.

Many rare and unidentified or described speciesappear alongside aquarium mainstays. This is applicable to all types offreshwater fish which are featured in equal volume.

This book is one bigindex for the other 5 volumes, but what an index! About 1/3 of the wholebook is a common, current and old scientific name index covering all fivesvolumes and the photo index itself. Now that's useful!

I love this book. ... Read more

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This "Guide and Index" accompanies a series of colour assignment cards in 12 thematic packs, each containing two sets of 24 cards and a Teacher's Guide. The series aims to help children of different ages and abilities learn scientific processes, concepts, methods and skills, as embodied in the National Curriculum and Scotland's Curriculum and Assessment Policy. The packs can be used independently or in conjunction with the "Science 5/13" series. The guide contains tables to show which enquiry skills and scientific concepts are covered on each card, and the tables can also be used to match the contents of each card to specific Statements of Attainment in science and technology. ... Read more

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A listing and analysis of 3106 references to the rhinoceros in books and articles. ... Read more

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The fascinating field of reptilian parental behavior is now addressed in this comprehensive survey.More than 1400 references are indexed by specific categories of behavior and nine well-researched tables organize the literature on useful topics for the species covered.This will prove to be an invaluable resource to herpetologists, herpetoculturists, zoologists, and students of animal behavior.It is the author's hope that this will stimulate interest in this field of study, which until now, he feels has been much neglected in these taxa. ... Read more

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Thomas Lyon's splendid anthology offers a powerful synthesis of American ideas on nature, along with a first-rate set of essays of his own on the history of United States naturalism. These essays are alone worth the price of the book; so is Lyon's detailed chronology of events in the natural history of the continent. The anthology proper begins with an excerpt from William Wood's New England's Prospect (1634), a properly awed account of "the kingly lion and the strong-armed bear," moves on to great but little-known naturalist-explorers like William Bartram, John James Audubon, and Thomas Nuttall, and ends with modern giants like Aldo Leopold and Edward Abbey. Lyon's enterprise and unfailing good taste has yielded not only a model of literary selection and commentary, but a book that celebrates the best of the North American continent and what there is to protect. ... Read more

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This Incomperable Book....
One .."need not know how to name all the oaks or the moths, or be able to recognize a synclinal fault, or tell time by the stars, in order to possess Nature. [S]he may have his mind solely on growing larkspurs, or [s]he may love a boat and a sail and a blue-eyed day at sea. [S]he may have a bent for making paths or banding birds, or [s]he may only be an inveterate and curious walker..."from the preface of THIS INCOMPERABLE LAND.

I've been reading Thoreau this morning, and decided to find the hard cover edition of this book, so I'm off to the Z-shops, but before I go, I wanted to write a review because I see no one else has, and I don't want to be the only one who knows about this wonderful book.

I'm a naturalist by avocation, and I like reading the writings of other naturalists--people more accomplished than me or people like me who simply love all things natural. If you're a member of either group, you will love this collection of essays.

The book contains stories by the finest America naturalists including: John James Audubon, Liberty Hyde Bailey, John Burroughs, Rachel Carson, Annie Dillard, and Henry David Thoreau. Essays range in time from the 1600s in New England. "Of the Beasts That Live on the Land" (William Wood), to the 1700s in North Carolina "Travels in North and South Carolina..." (William Bartram), to the ramblings of Audubon in the 1800s in "The Great Pine Swamp."Henry David Thoreau's "Walking" is reproduced from THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY, June 1962, and John Muir's "The Water-Ouzel" from THE MOUNTAINS OF CALIFORNIA in 1894 is included.

Every part of the U.S. and every period since the settlement of the first English colony is covered in almost 500 pages. This is a wonderful book of American nature writing by some of America's finest writers. ... Read more

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Focusing on the North American continent, this book, the first of its kind, identifies and describes major field guides in all scientific subject areas (from plants, animals, and insects to astronomy and weather, geology and fossils, and man-made objects). Organized by topic, it offers complete bibliographic information and descriptions of more than 1,300 field guides. ... Read more

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Features a host of new interactive features; A dynamically updated naturalist'sconsole includes access to DK's Nature Online website. ... Read more

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Colorful broad look at Nature's variety with easy navigation
Easy to install CD-ROM with sophisticated detailed graphics, linked throughout, good sounds, videos, back ground music.Informative with pocket book for the mouse impaired or coffee top.Kids 6 and up. ... Read more

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In the last twenty-five years, progress in information gathering and dissemination has surpassed that of any other period of history. Apiculture and apicultural research have been very much a part of this progression. This volume lists, in a very simple format, just about everything that has been written on bees, bee science, beekeeping, hive products etc for each Commonwealth country in the Tropics.

Some entries contain a note to amplify the title or to give further brief information. Each entry is accompanied by symbols and abbreviations, explained in a key, which indicate the original language, publication date, country of publication, and details of where the full version may be obtained. ... Read more

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This text gives an overview of almost all aspects of barnacle biology covering advances made since Charles Darwin to the present day. ... Read more