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This new guide will be of great value to entomologists, both amateur and professional, as well as to students, nature conservation officers, game rangers, gardeners, farmers, tourists and anyone with an interest in natural history. An introductory chapter discusses the insect body, life history, classification and distribution patterns and relatives of southern African insects. It also touches on collecting, displaying and curating insects and explains 'How to use this book'.
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Featuring full-color photography of over 1,200 insect species.......2005-12-05
Featuring full-color photography of over 1,200 insect species, Field Guide To Insects Of South Africa is a comprehensive guide to insect fauna of South Africa, now in an updated 2004 edition. Senior Zoology Lecturer Mike Picker, Associate Zoology Professor Charles Griffiths, and retired entomologist Alan Weaving combine their knowledge and expertise in this guide that offers extensive identification details, maps of regional habitats, and basic biology information allowing for quick and simple field identification of insect species. An index of scientific names, and an introduction to insect hunting and classification round out this easy-to-use guide for amateur nature lovers and professional zoologists alike.
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Butterflies of Southern Africa: A Field Guide
Mark Williams
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Ivor Migdoll's Field Guide to the Butterflies of Southern Africa (Field Guide)
Ivor Migdoll
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Pennington's Butterflies of Southern Africa
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Ken Pennington ,
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Manufacturer: Continental Enterprises Group
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Pennington's is gem for butterfly enthusiasts.......2000-05-06
This book is regarded as the ultimate reference guide on Southern African butterflies, and not without reason. It contains an excess of 800 plates, covering virtually every species and subspecies of the region. Every family, genus and species are discussed in detail. Easy references between plates and descriptions are an added bonus. It was not intended as a taxanomic work though, and mostly discusses localities where specific specimens have been netted or spotted. The reputation of the authors adds authenticity. It is an absolutely brilliant book; indispensible for any serious lepidopterist or mere enthusiast. The hardcover version even makes for a great coffee table item.
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Spiders and Scorpions of Southern Africa (Field Guides)
Tracey Hawthorne
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Southern African Spiders: An Identification Guide
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SASOL Eerste Veldgids Tot Insekte Van Suider Afrika (Sasol First Field Guide)
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Sasol First Field Guide to Dragonflies of Southern Africa
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Spinnekoppe and Skerpioene Van Suider-Afrika (Field Guides)
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LaserInduced Chemical Processes
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Handbook of Computational Methods for Integration
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During the past 20 years, there has been enormous productivity in theoretical as well as computational integration. Some attempts have been made to find an optimal or best numerical method and related computer code to put to rest the problem of numerical integration, but the research is continuously ongoing, as this problem is still very much open-ended. The importance of numerical integration in so many areas of science and technology has made a practical, up-to-date reference on this subject long overdue. The Handbook of Computational Methods for Integration discusses quadrature rules for finite and infinite range integrals and their applications in differential and integral equations, Fourier integrals and transforms, Hartley transforms, fast Fourier and Hartley transforms, Laplace transforms and wavelets. The practical, applied perspective of this book makes it unique among the many theoretical books on numerical integration and quadrature. It will be a welcomed addition to the libraries of applied mathematicians, scientists, and engineers in virtually every discipline.
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Oh, for the passion of life!.......2007-05-09
Make sure you read the short story "Youth," as well as the "Heart of Darkness." Both are super, and youth is worth it for the following lines alone:
"And there was somewhere in me that thought: By jove! This is the deuce of an adventure--something you read about; and it is my first voyage as second mate--and I am only twenty--and here I am lasting it out as well as any of these men, and keeping my chaps up to the mark. I was pleased. I would not have given up the experience for worlds. I had moments of exultation. Whenever the old dismantled craft pitched heavily with her counter high in the air, she seemed to me to throw up, like an appeal, like a defiance, like a cry to the clouds without mercy, the words written on her stern: "Judea, London. Do or Die."
O youth! The strength of it, the faith of it, the imagination of it! To me she was not an old rattle-trap caring about eh world a lot of coal for a freight--to me she was the endeavour, the test, the trail of life. I think of her with pleasures, with affection, with great--as you would think of someone dead you have loved. I shall never forget her...pass the bottle."
"To make you hear, to make you feel- and above all, to make you see" .......2005-10-31
Conrad is the master tale- teller of English Literature. In this volume three stories, from three Ages of Life are included. The first 'Youth'is about a maiden vogage to sea, and the last "The End of the Tether" about an old man in his blindness. The story however which has been most written and thought about, and is considered one of Conrad's masterpieces is " Heart of Darkness".
It begins as a meditative reflection, a telling on the banks of the Thames to his friends by the veteran seaman Marlowe of a tale of exploration and disaster. He tells of a voyage into the heart of Africa in search of an enlightened European adventurer and merchant Kurtz . Kurtz has dealt in the deepest part of the jungle in trading in ivory. But what Marlowe comes to discover and see is someone who has seen into ' the heart of darkness' and dies crying out ,"The Horror, the Horror". Marlowe returns to Europe and civilization and tells Kurtz's fiancee that Kurtz's last words were her name.
But the tale is more than the story or the plot. With Conrad the meaning of the tale is the creation of the atmosphere and the meditation on the voyage throughout .It is in a kind too of bringing us into another whole mode of being in thinking about our lives.
" The heart of darkness" to the uncivilized African reality and it refers to the deepest recesses of the human soul, a soul which crosses through and transcends continents.As Conrad's great Literature does.
Good stuff.......2002-12-24
The only thing missing is "the nigger of the Narcisscus", but you can't have everything. As complex as "the heart of Darkness" is, you may be better served by starting this book with "The end of the Tether", it is great in its apparent simplicity, yet it has its own complexity.
Three of the finest short stories ever written.......2002-11-17
I first read "Youth" in my own youth, over 25 years ago. It has haunted me ever since. That it is difficult to describe why is, I believe, more a testament to Conrad's subtle skills than to my own undoubted incompetance as an expositor. On one level, "Youth" is little more than a tale of a ill-fated sea voyage, but its poignancy is unmatched by any work of short fiction I've ever come across. Good or bad, pleasant or horrific, our youth is what we all miss. The inclusion of this great novella and the magically exotic "End of the Tether" ought to be more than justification enough to buy this book--even if it didn't also include the justly famous, if sometimes obscure, "Heart of Darkness". No one should think he or she is familiar with Joseph Conrad who has not read all of these three wonderful tales. (If you can find a collection that also includes "The Nigger of Narcissus," even better.)
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Youth - Heart Of Darkness - The End Or The Tether
Joseph Conrad
Manufacturer: Hesperides Press
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ASIN: 1406727504 |
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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Hesperides Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
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Youth / Heart of Darkness / The End of the Tether
Joseph Conrad
Manufacturer: Doubleday Doran
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From DJ flap: In this volume are collected three great tales of the sea and the jungle by the master romance-writer of English literature. 'Youth' is the narrative of a sailor's first sea voyage in a doomed ship, of the indomitable courage of strong men and the victory of youth over the mysterious and relentless sea. H. L. Mencken has said: "To read YOUTH is in some sense to live again, and that, I think, is the highest praise that can be laid upon a work of the imagination." If 'Youth' is written in the mood of reminiscent tenderness, 'Heart of Darkness' has the sombre tone of tragedy. Marlow, Conrad's famous adventurer, relates this story of a trip into the African interior where Kurtz, a trading company's agent, is dying in madness, while his sickly dream of power falls away in the heartless jungle. In Kurtz's dying words at the unforgettable climax of the story is epitomized all of human evil in a world of darkness. 'The End of the Tether' is a longer tale in the tradition of Conrad's great sea stories. It is the account of a proud and undefeated seaman who, in spite of blindness and betrayal, stays with his sinking ship to save his sailor's honor and to keep a vow. Widely varied in scene, mood, and artistic purpose, these three great stories contain all the tremendous sweep of Conrad's imaginative power, his magnificent evocation of the mysterious world of the sea and the jungle, and his steadfast assertion of human courage and fidelity.
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Youth: A Narrative Heart of Darkness : The End of the Tether
Joseph Conrad
Manufacturer: J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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