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A unique guide to Britain's best bird walks. In this boxed collection of walking cards you'll find a happy mix of routes around England, Scotland and Wales' loveliest towns and countryside. The 50 walking cards are filled with unique information on how to see local bird-life on foot.

A spellbinding scientific and cultural study of snakes, the fascination and fear they inspire, and how surprising new science is indelibly changing our perception of these stunning and frightening creatures.For millennia, depictions of snakes as alternatively beautiful and menacing creatures have appeared in religious texts, mythology, poetry, and beyond. From the foundational deities of ancient Egypt to the reactions of squeamish schoolchildren today, it is a historically commonplace belief that snakes are devious, dangerous, and even evil. But where there is hatred and fear, there is also fascination and reverence. How is it that creatures so despised and sinister, so foreign of movement and ostensibly devoid of sociality and emotion, have fired the imaginations of poets, prophets, and painters across time and cultures? In SLITHER, science writer Stephen S. Hall presents a naturalistic, cultural, ecological, and scientific meditation on these loathed yet magnetic creatures. In each chapter, he explores a biological aspect of The Snake, such as their cold blooded metabolism and venomous nature, alongside their mythology, artistic depictions, and cultural veneration. In doing so, he explores not only what neurologically triggers our wary fascination with these limbless creatures, but also how the current generation of snake scientists is using cutting-edge technologies to discover new truths about these evolutionarily ancient creatures-truths that may ultimately affect and enhance human health.

Following on from the hugely popular Mesozoic Art, this magnificent new volume showcases 25 amazing artists whose work represents the very best of palaeoart.

Understanding the wolf and rewilding a home: one couple's journey to coexist with nature in Northern Spain.

We learn so much from our canine companions as they shower us with love and share the ups and downs of our lives.

A dead body in Santa's lap is not what Harvey Beckett wanted for Christmas. The streets of St. Marin's are decorated for Christmas, and Harvey Beckett has decided that she'll host Santa Claus at her bookstore, reviving the town's long-standing tradition. But on the first day of the holiday season, a man stumbles into Santa's lap and dies, threatening the holiday spirit . . . and bringing a slew of questions that Harvey can't resist trying to answer. Will Harvey's queries land her, her friends - and their dogs - in a load of trouble?

She has always said if she was running, it's because she was being chased. That's never been more true.  It's Autumn, bookstore owner Harvey Beckett's favorite time of year, and she's most excited about two things - her bookshop's float in the annual Harvest Parade and pumpkin everything. But when her best friend Mart finds the body of her running coach and high school gym teacher behind the bleachers one fall morning, Harvey becomes enthralled in a mystery that uncovers their quaint town's darkest secrets. When Harvey's curiosity gets the best of her, she and her pup Mayhem find that maybe there are just some secrets better left undiscovered.

The things Harvey Beckett doesn't know about her neighbors could get her killed. In the perfect days of early May, bookshop owner Harvey Beckett is looking forward to evenings of walking Mayhem, reading before bed, and maybe even enjoying a snuggle with her favorite mechanic. But a meandering dog walk pushes pause on those plans when she and Mayhem stumble upon the body of the much-detested local bank manager. Harvey and her friends discover that there's a lot going on behind the scenes in quiet St. Marin's, a lot that people are hiding. Can Harvey help, or will her helping only end up creating more trouble for everyone around her?

Mother-daughter bonding time shouldn't involve running from a big tractor. When Harvey Beckett stumbles upon the body of the community's most reviled dairy farmer, she, her friends, and her parents are launched into an investigation that reveals a family secret that wasn't really that secret after all. Soon, Harvey's curiosity lands her and her mother in a heap of danger that may mark the end of her sleuthingCan Harvey help find the murderer and protect the victim's family before the murderer finds her?

Change is hard in a small Southern town, especially when it brings a side of murder. All Harvey Beckett wants to do is help the residents of St. Marin's find the perfect book for that moment, snuggle with her hound dog Mayhem, and be ignored by her cat Aslan. But when the small, waterside town's newest resident discovers the body of the community's persnickety reporter in her bookshop storeroom just before her grand opening, Harvey can't help trying to solve the crime, even when it might cost her business and her life. The more questions Harvey asks, the more secrets she uncovers. Will Harvey and her friends be able to solve the murder of the town reporter without her becoming a victim herself?This book addresses racism in both the plot and the writing style.

Professional botanist Peter Stroh decides to explore within his local parish boundaries for wildlife and flora over a year, but instead of grumbling at what is missing he determines to look at what he actually finds. His writing about his weekly meanders is highly engaging and the results he finds on his doorstep are a surprising delight.

The fourth novel in the No.1 bestselling Canon Clement series

This book identifies increasing concerns with the veterinary profession and confronts them provocatively, aiming to stimulate positive change. With experienced contributors from around the world, each chapter combines personal story with evidence-based reflections. Ideal for use within the veterinary curriculum to stimulate discussion.

This book identifies increasing concerns with the veterinary profession and confronts them provocatively, aiming to stimulate positive change. With experienced contributors from around the world, each chapter combines personal story with evidence-based reflections. Ideal for use within the veterinary curriculum to stimulate discussion.

A hand-painted compendium of common and rare breed chickens by the Sunday Times bestselling gardenerIt is my hope that this book will help you discover, or reconfirm, which chicken breeds are your favourites and encourage you to keep them yourself, or at least to remember them.The gardener and artist Arthur Parkinson has kept happy chickens all his life, and is on a mission to prove that you can too. In Hen Party, he distils everything he has learnt about his feathered friends into one gloriously illustrated bantam-sized guide.Spotlighting more than fifty breeds from the classy Ancona to the lavishly laced Wyandotte, Arthur explores each hen's quirks and qualities alongside gorgeous watercolour paintings of his 'ladies'. Later in the book he shares detailed advice that will equip you with the practical skills to look after chickens in your own garden, whether the most common breeds or the most perilously rare - for as Arthur notes, if we don't celebrate all hens great and small, the lesser-known varieties may well disappear.Joyful and inspiring, Hen Party is for anyone dreaming of the good life.

The perfect gift book on dogs by artist Harriet Lowther.

A lyrical exploration of our complex and intricate relationship with the natural world in all its muddy, messy and beautiful glory.Lucy Lapwing grew up playing out. A woodlouse-collecting, snail-racing, tree-climbing, muddy-footed child, she and her siblings spent more time playing outside than in. Lucy was always intrigued by the natural world, but it wasnt until she was diagnosed with Hodgkin Lymphoma at the age of twenty-three, that she found what she describes as The Nature Thing. Over the months of her chemotherapy treatment, she burrowed even further down the nature wormhole, distracting herself by bumbling around nature reserves and greenspaces, snapping photos of any wildlife she found.In her book, Love Is A Toad, Lucy seeks to explore and celebrate the world around us in all its muddy, messy and beautiful glory. Interwoven with her own story, Lucy takes to the fields, moors and footpaths of the UK with her fellow nature enthusiasts and digs down into the emotions which nature inspires. Through these interactions and Lucys own observations, she examines the connection we have with the natural world - from wild grief and anger through to soaring joy and indefatigable hope.

Make Mynah Double is a humorous and informative book for bird lovers, cocktail lovers, and everyone in between. It will contain 50-75 original, bird-inspired cocktail recipes. Each drink will be accompanied by illustrations and interesting facts about the bird behind it, as well as all the necessary ingredients, instructions, and techniques to create these unique craft cocktails. Do you want to make a Piña Koel-ada? Did you know that the Pitohui is the only poisonous bird? You will after reading Make Mynah Double!

The Costa Rican cloud forest, a mysterious amphibian killer, and the vanished species of the golden toad—Twin documentarians and environmental writers, who have collaborated with Leonardo DiCaprio’s RE:WILD campaign, carry on their father’s mission at the heart of the modern extinction crisis.