Bloomsbury

The County Avifaunas are a growing series of books, each of which gives detailsof the status and range of every species on the county list, with a detailed breakdown of rarityrecords. Each has introductory sections describing the county’s ecology and habitats, climate, ornithological historyand conservation record.This new avifauna covers...

Misty, Ellie, and their fellow mermaids are Sisters of the Sea, going on exciting underwater adventures to help their fellow Merfolk and the sea creatures they meet. When Queen Neptuna sends them to retrieve the magic crystals that give the Merfolk their powers, they find themselves battling the wicked Mantora, who's always making trouble for the...

In the modern world, we are assaulted on all sides by noise; but silence can change your life and this book explains why and how.Silence is a mysterious and unfathomable realm, perhaps the most under-used of all resources, and one our modern culture has all but obliterated by turning up the volume control. Graham Turner explores the power that can...

Anyone alive in the eighteenth century would have known that "e;the longitude problem"e; was the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day-and had been for centuries. Lacking the ability to measure their longitude, sailors throughout the great ages of exploration had been literally lost at sea as soon as they lost sight of land. Thousands of...

More than ten people are murdered every day in Ciudad Juarez, a city about the size of Philadelphia. As Mexico has descended into a feudal narco-state-one where cartels, death squads, the army, and local police all fight over billions of dollars in profits from drug and human trafficking-the border city of Juarez has been hit hardest of all. And...

Fred the Plow Horse is born with a dancing tune in his heart. When he hears music, he just has to dance -even if it means overturning the plow and wreaking havoc! When Fred gets kicked off the farm, he must find a new place for himself - a place where a dancing horse might be just right....