Describes ways different birds have adapted to changing conditions of climate, food supply, and problems caused by increasing human population.

Product Description: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work...read more

Product Description: This is a concise yet wide ranging survey of collectable antique furniture. The new collector will use it as an accessible reference tool enabling him to be confident in identifying key features of a wide variety of items. The book is structured chronologically by century and within each period by country...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

The volume contains ten new essays on Russian literature and thought of the classical age (roughly 1820-1880). The essays are based on papers delivered at the Fourth World Congress for Soviet and East European Studies held at Harrogate in July 1990. It strikes a balance between fresh work on major authors (Pushkin, Lermontov, Turgenev and Dostoevsky), important work on hitherto neglected minor authors (Marlinsky, Pisemsky and Boborykin), and studies that relate to thinkers of the period (Chaadaev, Herzen and Bakunin).

Product Description: REDISCOVER AMERICA'S BACKBONE Amid the upheavals of a new century, how can we live out our deepest values in caring communities on a human scale? Maybe we should start with the home truths that built a little mountain town called Backbone...read more

Product Description: Book by Andrews, John

Product Description: Birds of House and Garden: Concise Illustrated Books

Product Description: Seems like a good day to start a book, - raining, cold. But this is not the day I started this book - that was almost 5 years ago. Grief, anger, over-working, exhaustion, the quest for peace, these things have put this book on hold.

A classic guide to the valuation of antique furniture that explains what to look for when assessing the value of individual pieces. This third edition includes both Sterling and US dollar prices and features colour photographs, which have been added in order to illustrate the financial importance of patination and colour. The author sets out to provide an understanding of the rules and prejudices which apply, while training the reader's eye to become aware of gradations of quality. This is a reference for the practising collector and dealer from which the memory may be refreshed and points checked. Each item is clearly referenced, enabling the annual price revision list to be compiled with a ready cross-reference. The list is available in January/February each year on a private subscription basis and details are contained within the book.

Product Description: The best-selling guide to British antique furniture for over forty years, now in its sixth edition.

Product Description: This readable compendium of facts and figures provides a unique and compact overview of Asia, home to two thirds of the world''s population by the end of this century.'

Product Description: Father weaves a tapestry of the Church’s teaching on the unity of the members of Christ’s Mystical Body using profound and picturesque meditations on the seven sorrows of the Blessed Mother: • The Prophecy of Simeon, • The Flight Into Egypt, • The Loss of the Young Christ, • Mary Meets Jesus on the Road to Calvary, • The Crucifixion, • The Pieta, and • The Burial of Jesus...read more

This manual deals with the creation and management of habitats for wildlife after extraction of sand and gravel deposits. Its purpose is to show the potential that exists and how this can be achieved at acceptable cost.