Owen Parker: Rhino Connection
Owen Parker: Rhino Connection

Author: Chris Bellenot

Publisher: Primedia E-launch LLC

Published: 2013-11-26

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 162890576X

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A percentage of the proceeds from the sales of this book will be donated to wildlife conservation dedicated to save the rhinos. On a warm African night, an adult rhino collapses in the grass and breathes its last. Minutes earlier, poachers had brutally hacked off its horn and fled with their treasure. It is a fact that myths, greed and corruption are behind the illegal trade of rhino horns. Owen Parker, a young conservationist, is sucked into a death-threatening journey crossing the path of this trafficking reckless organization which is ready to break all the rules to reach their precious prize. Owen possesses instinctive survival skills. Will it be sufficient to stay alive in this maze full of violence, dishonesty and appetite for more money…? This sequel describing the adventures of Owen Parker has two main purposes. The obvious aim is to entertain readers with action-driven books of fiction based on facts. Beyond this lies a deeper intention. The beauty and majesty of wildlife and nature are under threat from external pressure from a variety of sources. We strongly believe that each individual can make a difference by acting to reduce this threat and thereby contribute to the preservation of our fragile environment. Through the character of Owen Parker, we aim to promote the conservation of wildlife.

Owen Parker: Savannah Gold Rush
Owen Parker: Savannah Gold Rush

Author: Chris Bellenot

Publisher: Primedia E-launch

Published: 2014-07-01

Total Pages: 245

ISBN-13: 1628905913

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Savannah Gold Rush is the second book in the Epic Adventures of Owen Parker series. A percentage of the proceeds from the sales of this book will be donated to wildlife conservation dedicated to save the rhinos. For Owen Parker, racing down the slopes of Table Mountain at nearly 80 km/h is a risky task. Yet, this is nothing compared to facing dark forces using corruption as the ultimate weapon and ready to slaughter innocent animals in the name of greed and business, supported by tendentious motives. Kalashnikovs are thundering. The savannah has once again become a killing field. It is not rare to witness dozens of elephant bodies, including very young calves, lying in a bloodbath, viciously butchered and savagely mutilated. On his quest to save wildlife, Owen risks his own existence, all the way from the escarpments of the Swiss Alps to the devious meanders of the streets of Dar es Salaam ... This sequel describing the Epic Adventures of Owen Parker has two main purposes. The obvious aim is to entertain readers with action-driven books of fiction based on facts. Beyond this lies a deeper intention. The beauty and majesty of wildlife and nature are under threat from external pressure from a variety of sources. We strongly believe that each individual can make a difference by acting to reduce this threat and thereby contribute to the preservation of our fragile environment. Through the character of Owen Parker, we aim to promote the conservation of wildlife.

Hogarth
Hogarth

Author: Jacqueline Riding

Publisher: Profile Books

Published: 2021-07-01

Total Pages: 496

ISBN-13: 178283611X

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THE SUNDAY TIMES ART BOOK OF THE YEAR A Sunday Times Best Paperback of 2022 Christie's Best Art Books of the Year 'Deft and richly detailed ... rescues the artist from John Bull caricature' - Michael Prodger, Sunday Times 'Marvellous ... a vivid and compelling reconstruction of the settings of Hogarth's life and artistic achievements, and of the nature of the man' - Professor Linda Colley, author of The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen 'Full of richness, originality and considered humour, unafraid to shock with thrilling new insight ... terrific' - Dr Gus Casely-Hayford, Director of V&A Stratford & Sky Arts 'The full technicolour panorama of Georgian life laid out in a huge and passionate book' - Lucy Worsley, Chief Curator at Historic Royal Palaces and author of Courtiers: The Secret History of the Georgian Court On a late spring night in 1732, a boisterous group of friends set out from their local pub. They are beginning a journey, a 'peregrination' that will take them through the gritty streets of Georgian London and along the River Thames as far as the Isle of Sheppey. And among them is an up-and-coming engraver and painter, just beginning to make a name for himself: William Hogarth. Hogarth's vision, to a vast degree, still defines the eighteenth century. In this, the first biography for over twenty years, Jacqueline Riding brings him to vivid life, immersing us in the world he inhabited and from which he drew inspiration. At the same time, she introduces us to an artist who was far bolder and more various than we give him credit for: an ambitious self-made man, a devoted husband, a sensitive portraitist, an unmatched storyteller, philanthropist, technical innovator and author of a seminal work of art theory. Following in his own footsteps from humble beginnings to professional triumph (and occasional disaster), Hogarth illuminates the work and life of a great artist who embraced the highest principles even while charting humanity's lowest vices.

Take a Horse to the Wilderness
Take a Horse to the Wilderness

Author: Nick Steele

Publisher:

Published: 2004-01-01

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13: 9781590481349

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Part history book, part adventure story, part equestrian travel textbook and all round great read, "Take a Horse to the Wilderness" is a timeless classic written by the foremost equestrian expert of his time, famed mounted game ranger Nick Steele.

Megaherbivores
Megaherbivores

Author: R. Norman Owen-Smith

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 9780521426374

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An account of the limitations and advantages conferred by large body size.

The Missing Lynx
The Missing Lynx

Author: Ross Barnett

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2019-07-11

Total Pages: 361

ISBN-13: 1472957334

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Britain's lynx are missing, and they have been for more than a thousand years. Why have they gone? And might they come back? Britain was a very different place 15,000 years ago – home to lions, lynx, bears, wolves, bison and many more megafauna. But as its climate changed and human populations expanded, most of early Britain's largest mammals disappeared. Will advances in science and technology mean that we can one day bring these mammals back? And should we? In The Missing Lynx, palaeontologist Ross Barnett uses case studies, new fossil discoveries and biomolecular evidence to paint a picture of these lost species and to explore the ecological significance of their disappearance. He discusses how the Britons these animals shared their lives with might have viewed them and investigates why some species survived while others vanished. Barnett also looks in detail at the realistic potential of reintroductions, rewilding and even of resurrection in Britain and overseas, from the successful return of beavers in Argyll to the revolutionary Pleistocene Park in Siberia, which has already seen progress in the revival of 'mammoth steppe' grassland. As widespread habitat destruction, climate change and an ever-growing human population lead us inexorably towards the sixth extinction, this timely book explores the spaces that extinction has left unfilled. And by helping us to understand why some of our most charismatic animals are gone, Ross Barnett encourages us to look to a brighter future, one that might see these missing beasts returned to the land on which they once lived and died.

A New Kind of Bleak: Journeys Through Urban Britain
A New Kind of Bleak: Journeys Through Urban Britain

Author: Owen Hatherley

Publisher: Verso Books

Published: 2012-07-31

Total Pages: 435

ISBN-13: 1844678571

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An anatomy of failed-state Britain, by the author of A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain. In A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain, Owen Hatherley skewered New Labour’s architectural legacy in all its witless swagger. Now, in the year of the Diamond Jubilee and the London Olympics, he sets out to describe what the Coalition’s altogether different approach to economic mismanagement and civic irresponsibility is doing to the places where the British live. In a journey that begins and ends in the capital, Hatherley takes us from Plymouth and Brighton to Belfast and Aberdeen, by way of the eerie urbanism of the Welsh valleys and the much-mocked splendour of modernist Coventry. Everywhere outside the unreal Southeast, the building has stopped in towns and cities, which languish as they wait for the next bout of self-defeating austerity. Hatherley writes with unrivalled aggression about the disarray of modern Britain, and yet this remains a book about possibilities remembered, about unlikely successes in the midst of seemingly inexorable failure. For as well as trash, ancient and modern, Hatherley finds signs of the hopeful country Britain once was and hints of what it might become.

War Surgery
War Surgery

Author: Christos Giannou

Publisher:

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13:

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Accompanying CD-ROM contains graphic footage of various war wound surgeries.

Zoo Animal Welfare
Zoo Animal Welfare

Author: Terry Maple

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-03-22

Total Pages: 223

ISBN-13: 3642359558

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Zoo Animal Welfare thoroughly reviews the scientific literature on the welfare of zoo and aquarium animals. Maple and Perdue draw from the senior author’s 24 years of experience as a zoo executive and international leader in the field of zoo biology. The authors’ academic training in the interdisciplinary field of psychobiology provides a unique perspective for evaluating the ethics, practices, and standards of modern zoos and aquariums. The book offers a blueprint for the implementation of welfare measures and an objective rationale for their widespread use. Recognizing the great potential of zoos, the authors have written an inspirational book to guide the strategic vision of superior, welfare-oriented institutions. The authors speak directly to caretakers working on the front lines of zoo management, and to the decision-makers responsible for elevating the priority of animal welfare in their respective zoo. In great detail, Maple and Perdue demonstrate how zoos and aquariums can be designed to achieve optimal standards of welfare and wellness.