The conservation of natural genetic variation is important not only for ethical and aesthetic reasons but to ensure that the Earth's living resources may be used even more efficiently and sustainably in agriculture, forestry, food production and other industries. In the past ten years there have been many advances in molecular biology that have provided a suite of powerful tools with enormous potential for the screening and evaluation of biodiversity. Molecular Tools for Screening Biodiversity was compiled in order to provide a comprehensive description and assessment of these tools. The book...

When Eva and Eddie Harper decide to move from their London home in Islington and escape to the country, they get more than they bargained for. Far from being the quiet country idyll they were expecting in the sleepy little village of Marsh Prior, They discover some surprising secrets. The villagers are mostly hostile toward them at first. All except the new village shop owner Karenza Mead, her beautiful spirited daughter Jess and the handsome local vet Mark Dwyer. Eva wants to adopt as many unloved animals as she can to fulfil her long held dream of giving the waifs and strays a loving home....

Jack "Quinny" Quinn was a bad boy born on the wrong side of the tracks. He was every parent's nightmare. Especially if those parent's happened to have a daughter. Macey Martin's parent's had warned her to stay away from Jack Quinn. They knew he was trouble. However, it was too late. Macey was already besotted with Quinny. She longed for the day when he would feel the same way about her. When that day finally came, she thought all her dreams had come true. Nothing, however, could prepare her for the day when her dreams turned into nightmares. Nightmares that she and Quinny seemed unable to...