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  • The Cow and Her Grass

    Rational Grazing - A Manual of Grass Productivity

    Series Book 4 - Living With the Land
    This book by Messrs Voisin and Lecomte comes at the right moment. It is a synthesis of M. Voisin's important study, Grass Productivity. This manual presents the chief ideas of two specialists. Since they are also excellent practitioners, they have applied these ideas before recommending them.Their evocative picture of 'the meeting of cow and grass' poses the true problem of the management of ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • The Wolverine Way

    Glutton, demon of destruction, symbol of slaughter, mightiest of wilderness villains… The wolverine comes marked with a reputation based on myth and fancy. Yet this enigmatic animal is more complex than the legends that surround it. With a shrinking wilderness and global warming, the future of the wolverine is uncertain. The Wolverine Way reveals the natural history of this species and the forces ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Butchering Livestock at Home

    Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletin A-65

    Series Book 65 - Storey Country Wisdom Bulletin
    This introductory guide explains the basics of butchering your meat at home, from preparing your animals and equipment through to storing your meat. Covers rabbits, poultry, sheep, goats, veal calves, beef, and hogs and includes information on how to process and use organ meats, pelts and hides, feathers, bones and horns, and fat. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Joy of Foraging

    Gary Lincolff's Illustrated Guide to Finding, Harvesting, and Enjoying a World of Wild Food

    Discover the edible riches in your backyard, local parks, woods, and even roadside with tips from the author of The Complete Mushroom Hunter.In The Joy of Foraging, Gary Lincoff shows you how to find fiddlehead ferns, rose hips, beach plums, bee balm, and more, whether you are foraging in the urban jungle or the wild, wild woods. You will also learn about fellow foragers—experts, folk healers, ... Read more

    $18.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Action Plan for Australian Mammals 2012

    The Action Plan for Australian Mammals 2012 is the first review to assess the conservation status of all Australian mammals. It complements The Action Plan for Australian Birds 2010 (Garnett et al. 2011, CSIRO Publishing), and although the number of Australian mammal taxa is marginally fewer than for birds, the proportion of endemic, extinct and threatened mammal taxa is far greater. These ... Read more

    $85.99 USD

  • Bats Going Batty

    Childrens Book On Bats Fun Facts & Pictures

    A young child learns a lot about nature when reading up on bats because the book opens many doors to the natural world. Bats are interesting creatures with many evolutionary traits not found in other animals. Also, many kids are familiar with bats through horror films and Halloween decorations. They have little insight into the true wonder of the flying mammal. Upon reading a book about bats, a ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Among the Bone Eaters

    Encounters with Hyenas in Harar

    Series series Animalibus
    Biologists studying large carnivores in wild places usually do so from a distance, using telemetry and noninvasive methods of data collection. So what happens when an anthropologist studies a clan of spotted hyenas, Africa’s second-largest carnivores, up close—and in a city of a hundred thousand inhabitants? In Among the Bone Eaters, Marcus Baynes-Rock takes us to the ancient city of Harar in ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Soil Fertility, Animal Health

    With "The Loss of Soil Organic Matter and Its Restoration

    Series Book 54 - Living With the Land
    Nature works and has been working for a billion and a half years—ever since there were living things on earth. This is important. We talk of controlling nature, but any wise farmer or stockman knows that nature makes the rules for us to learn and follow, if we can. In short, the ecologist is in a position to furnish us, in many ways, models which we can follow in our own operations.Before the ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • RSPB Handbook of Garden Wildlife

    Second Edition

    Series series RSPB
    The updated edition of the popular RSPB Handbook of Garden Wildlife.This friendly handbook is full of practical advice on attracting wildlife to your garden, and encouraging creatures to stick around, as well as expert tips on green gardening, seasonal planting and garden predators.Colour photographs illustrate hundreds of mammals, birds, insects, invertebrates, reptiles and amphibians, flowers, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Feeding Cows on the Dairy Farm - A Collection of Articles on the Methods and Rations of Feeding Cattle for Milk Production

    by Various ...
    This book contains a collection of detailed articles on the methods and rations of feeding cattle for milk production. A compendium that will be of much value to the farmer, this text makes for a worthy addition to collections of cattle farming literature and is not to be missed by those with an interest in the entirety of cattle management. The articles contained herein include: 'Dairy Cattle and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Insect Resistance Management

    Biology, Economics, and Prediction

    Edited by David W. Onstad ...
    Insects, mites, and ticks have a long history of evolving resistance to pesticides, host-plant resistance, crop rotation, pathogens, and parasitoids. Insect resistance management (IRM) is the scientific approach to preventing or delaying pest evolution and its negative impacts on agriculture, public health, and veterinary issues. This book provides entomologists, pest management practitioners, ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Soil and Sense

    Series Book 63 - Living With the Land
    Here is. the crux of the matter, as I see it. The food for men cannot be grown unless the land is also fed. That goes almost without saying. It is also true that the folded sheep are reduced in number and that the great heaps of dung from the bullock yards are not so common as they were. These were the stores of fertility that the country, mainly relied on, but we do not hear that they are to be ... Read more

    $8.99 USD