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Sometimes it's pretty hard to tell them apart...My family and the animals, that is. I don't know why my brothers and sisters complain so much. With snakes in the bath and scorpions on the lunch table, our house, on the island of Corfu, is a bit like a circus. So they should feel right at home...... More

In the midst of WW II, James is training for the Royal Air Force, while going home to Yorkshire whenever possible to see his very pregnant wife, Helen. Musing on past adventures through the dales, visiting with old friends, and introducing scores of new and amusing characters--animal and human alike... More

James Herriot's stories about his life as a vet in Yorkshire have charmed and delighted millions of readers in the twenty years since his first book If Only They Could Talk was published in 1972. All James Herriot's books, including two other omnibus editions, All Creatures Great and Small and All ... More

The international bestseller, finally in paperback. Every Living Thing is famed veterinarian James Herriot's first new volume of memoirs in over a decade, and from its opening pages, the reader's every expectation is fulfilled. Excerpted in McCall's and Good Housekeeping. Reader's Digest Condensed B... More

This is the worst storm in history seen from the wheelhouse of a doomed fishing trawler; a mesmerisingly vivid account of a natural hell from a perspective that offers no escape. The 'perfect storm' is a once-in-a-hundred-years combination: a high pressure system from the Great Lakes, running into s... More

The Philosopher’s Dog is a book of stories about animals and humans as well as a book of philosophy. It looks deeply into the relationships between animals and humans to come to some basic conclusions.... More

The shocking events in the royal palace in Kathmandu on 1 June 2001 left an entire nation bewildered and angry. Neelesh Misra, who covered the tragedy for The Associated Press, offers for the first time the true story behind the massacre. Portrayed in the book is the developing family drama, whic... More

"What would you like to be remembered for? You have to evolve yourself and shape your life. You should write it on a page. That should write it on a page. That page maybe a very important page in the book of human history. And you will be remembered for creating that one page in the history of the n... More

Editorial Review This book is an attempt to reinterpret world history and it presents a diversity of stories concerning the relationship between the forest and human beings from the viewpoint of environmental archaeology. Leading scholars have conducted a fundamental enquiry into our global environ... More

With its easy-to-grasp explanations of the science behind every aspect of our most urgent environmental policy decisions, "Out of Gas" is a handbook for the future of civilization.With its easy-to-grasp explanations of the science behind every aspect of our most urgent environmental policy decisions... More

Ecological Footprinting is rapidly being adopted as the most effective and practical way to measure our impact on the environment - in both large and small scale planning and development. Government agencies, NGOs, local authorities, planners and managers are all turning to it, since without a way o... More

The present era of staggering scientific and technological innovations, with major changes in agriculture, manufacturing, commerce, and communications, seems to document unparalleled human achievement. Yet when we examine the long-term implications, it becomes clear that an ever-growing number of hu... More

The world is losing species and biodiversity at a rate unprecedented in history. The causes go deep, and the losses are driven by a complex array of social, economic, political and biological factors at different levels. Immediate causes, such as overharvesting, pollution and habitat change, have be... More

The Way of the Tiger was first published in the UK and US as a coffee-table book on tigers. This special South Asia edition carries Dr Karanth’s excellently written text, without the pictures. This book tells you everything you want to know about tigers. It is an outstanding primer on tigers and v... More

This collection of essays aims at providing a comparative and historical perspective on education in modern India. The essays have been organised in thematic clusters. Such as, the role of the nationalist paradigm and its variants in the educational discourse of the late nineteenth and early twentie... More

This book deals with system dynamics which blends the art of traditional manage-ment with the science of feedback control to conceptualize a problem, map it into easily understandable diagrams, and develop mathematical models using friendly algebra.... More

This book exposes how water flow links nature and society through water's many parallel functions as the 'blood stream' of both the biosphere and the imbedded anthroposphere, and the resulting conflicts that arise. The authors argue that a sustainable future depends fundamentally on our ability to m... More