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Keeping Pet Chickens

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by: Johannes Paul, William Windham

April 01, 2005
This is a lovely little book full of nice colour pictures. If you are completely brand new to chicken keeping this book is a good starter for you - it was to me! You'll soon find though that you'll be looking for one with a bit more detail and specific information.

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Vegetable and Herb Expert

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by: D.G. Hessayon

April 07, 1997
Too many gardening authors take time out to wax lyrical about seasons and the joys of blackbirds and dew on your runner canes. Their books end up as a decent afternoon's read, but difficult to use when you're trying to work out what's going wrong with your kohlrabi.

This book is different. Veg are listed alphabetically with clear sections on selecting varieties, planting, looking after, harvesting and cooking, with a troubleshooting guide covering disease, pests, storage and the like.

No nonsense, everything you need and easy to find.

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Principles of Horticulture

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by: Adams

August 11, 2008
This new edition of a core text for students of horticulture is welcomed. The addition of colour plates is helpful and the layout has generally improved. I think the book does a difficult job well as the subject is huge and it must be very difficult to decide what to leave out and how much depth to go to. I'm hoping it will help me with the RHS Advanced Cerificate exam.

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The Dog Listener

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by: Jan Fennell

October 07, 2002
This book is evidence that you can fool quite a lot of people quite a lot of the time. There is not a single original idea in it, and Fennel's beliefs arise out of an interpretation of wolf behaviour that is entirely false. If you want the relationship with your dog to be based on oppression and frustration then this is the book for you, otherwise read something else.

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The Biodynamic Sowing and Planting Calendar 2009

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by: Maria Thun, Matthias K. Thun

September 25, 2008
not only will this help you to grow healthier, tastier and stonger fruit, veg and house plants, but once you get the hang of it you can generally predict the weather better than the BBC. Its been spot on for my last 2 holidays in Cornwall and it gets Glastonbury festival right every year.

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Collins Complete Guide to British Trees: A Photographic Guide to Every Common Species (Complete British Guides)

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by: Paul Sterry

April 07, 2008
This book is fascinating for any tree enthusiast.
It is the perfect tool you can use to identify different tree types.
The writing style is concise and in-depth.
A sheer masterpiece.
Picture quality is high definition. Images are portrayed in vivid detail.
This book is fantastic.
If you are even slightly interested in trees or want to expand your knowledge of trees buy this book.

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Keeping Chickens: The Essential Guide to Enjoying and Getting the Best from Chickens

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by: Jeremy Hobson, Celia Lewis

April 27, 2007
Nice book with lots of photos. Unfortunately the much of the information with regard to photos did not mention the breed of birds shown. I would have liked to have more detail in the captions. Some of the specific breeds mentioned had no photo at all. I wasn't interested in the chapter on crafts.
My husband preferred this book to "The Right Way to Keep Chickens" by Virginia Shirt because it was easier to absorb and photo's are much better than drawings. He said it was a good book, I am hard to please!

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Trees (Collins GEM)

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by: Alastair Fitter

August 02, 2004
this book is exactly what you would expect from a little Collin's gem, it has good material through out, and a pretty good selection of the most common trees....but, i would have preferred to see real photographs rather than artists drawings, which, sometimes are not as good a reference as an image of the real thing. Furthermore i would have liked to see bigger images of the type of bark from each tree since half the year the trees have no leaves, and the bark, leafless shape, and habitat is all you have to go on.
this is however a good introduction read for summer time tree hunting, wouldn't recommend it for winter though. if you are up for a better book i recommend:-
Collins Complete Guide to British Trees: A Photographic Guide ... Read More:

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Don't Shoot the Dog!: The New Art of Teaching and Training

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by: Karen Pryor

2002-03
Similar to Dr Breach, I came to this book through Amy Sutherlands book (having read her article "What Shamu taught me... [etc]"), but what I was looking for in Amy's book was not there - it was here in "Don't Shoot the Dog" - and I can't agree more with Dr Bream.

"Don't Shoot the Dog" is in my top 10 books I have read of all time. I have trained and taught all my life, and every page of this book has been an epiphany for me. I have learnt what it is about my teaching/training methods (that others say is my natural ability) that work so well, and I have been able to refine what I do. Rather than specific solutions, this provides the formula through which you can come up with each and every one of your own solutions, tailor-made to that ... Read More:

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The Right Way to Keep Chickens

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by: Virginia Shirt

April 01, 2007
We were thinking of keeping 2 or 3 for the pleasure it would give us and our two children but this book has put us off the idea completely...

At times confusingly written with far too many negative aspects described in detail and not enough positives.

Some might say the writing is 'charming' but, as a beginner, I needed to know detail which either isn't in this book or is made confusing by the writing.