A Practitioner's Guide to Freshwater Biodiversity Conservation brings together knowledge and experience from conservation practitioners and experts around the world to help readers understand the global challenge of conserving biodiversity in freshwater ecosystems. More importantly, it offers specific strategies and suggestions for managers to use in establishing new conservation initiatives or improving the effectiveness of existing initiatives.
The book: offers an understanding of fundamental issues by explaining how ecosystems are structured and how they support biodiversity; provides...

Explores the emergence of a British culture by examining the experiences of English readers between 1707 and 1830 as they grappled with the effusion of Scottish authorship. This book features examples including David Hume, Adam Smith, William Robertson, Ro

Danny Anders has a secret. Contrasted with his loveable image on the outside is a profound hatred harbouring within. Obsessed with a warped sense of power and control, he struggles to come to terms with his love-hate relationship with the women in his life. As the frustration and anger is nurtured inside him, a violent streak arises. Unsure on how to control and regulate his feelings, Danny yields to his 'evil' half; a half that yearns to kill. He embarks on a voyage of self-discovery and battles with his immoral inner self. But is he really in control? Can Danny stop himself from killing?...

This pioneering exploration of Georgian men and women's experiences as readers explores their use of commonplace books for recording favourite passages and reflecting upon what they had read, revealing forgotten aspects of their complicated relationship with the printed word. It shows how indebted English readers often remained to techniques for handling, absorbing and thinking about texts that were rooted in classical antiquity, in Renaissance humanism and in a substantially oral culture. It also reveals how a series of related assumptions about the nature and purpose of reading influenced...

A glimpse into one man's life of the vast paranormal experiences that began for him and his family at or around the age of three or four in a small village in Ohio. From spirits to Ouija Boards, to crystal balls and past life regression to Voodoo and levitation only to name a few, these true stories will leave you with goosebumps and often times fear. These stories takes the reader on a paranormal adventure with many of them being eerie and scary, and will make one question all reality as they know it. Twenty-seven true stories about paranormal/spiritual encounters that began in the early...