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Britain's Butterflies A Field Guide to the Butterflies ofGreat Britainand Ireland. Britain’s Butterflies is a comprehensive and beautifullydesigned photographic field guide to the butterflies ofBritainand Ireland. Containing hundreds ofstunningcolour photographs, the fourtheditionhas beenextensivelyrevised and updated, and provides the latest informationonevery species ever recorded. It covers indetailthe identificationofall59 butterflyspecies that breed regularly, as wellas four former breeders, 10 rare migrants and one species ofunknownstatus. The easy-to-use format willenable butterflywatchers – beginners or experts – to identifyanyspecies theyencounter. Produced inassociationwithButterflyConservation, the fourtheditionfeatures new introductorysections onthe identificationof more difficult groups; revised maps that show the latest distributions recorded bythe UK ButterflyMonitoringScheme; expanded sections onfood plants and onrecordingand monitoring; a new sectiononclimate change; and a revised species order reflectingthe latest taxonomy.
Customer Reviews. Biography. David Newland has beena butterflyenthusiast since boyhood. He is the author ofDiscover Butterflies inBritainand the coauthor ofBritain's DayflyingMoths (bothWILDGuides).
Robert Still, the cofounder ofWILDGuides, is anecologist and graphic artist, and has designed more thanthirtyofits titles. AndySwash, the managingdirector ofWILDGuides, is anecologist and wildlife photographer. Swashand Stillare the coauthors ofa number of books, includingBritain's Habitats , Britain's Dragonflies , Britain's Day-flyingMoths and Britain's Sea Mammals (allWILDGuides).
David Tomlinsonis a freelance writer onwildlife and the countryside, and first became interested inbutterflies as a schoolboyinthe early1960s. Praise for the previous editions: "The large number ofphotographs showingeachspecies fromvarious angles, combined withthe accessible and informative text make [ Britain's Butterflies ] anindispensable guide for beginners and experts alike. WILDGuides are indanger ofbecomingaddictive to anyone withaninterest in the naturalworld."– Peter Smithers, Antenna (RoyalEntomologicalSociety)
"This continues to be myfavourite photographic guide for Britishbutterflies [. ] highlyrecommended."– Peter Eeles, Dispar:The Online Journalof Lepidoptera.
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"The images inthis pocket-sized photo-guide are excellent and include pictures ofeggs, chrysalids and caterpillars ofallbreedingspecies. Comparingverysimilar species canbe difficult, but computer mock-ups helpfullyplace specimeninsitu. Clear text and page designmake the book easyand funto use."– BBC Wildlife magazine.
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The HiddenWonders ofa City, Made Visible. Whenyoupurchase anindependentlyreviewed book throughour site, we earnanaffiliate commission. ByKennethT. Jackson. Published Oct. 6, 2020 Updated Oct. 13, 2020. THE 99% INVISIBLE CITY A Field Guide to the HiddenWorld ofEverydayDesignByRomanMars and Kurt Kohlstedt. Some ofus are more observant thanothers. For example, inmyhalf-centuryinNew York City, I have riddenthe subwayperhaps 15,000 times. Most ofthose trips have disappeared frommymemory. After all, I usuallysee nothingmore thanthe backsides ofthe people standingdirectlyin front ofwhere I’msittingor the gap I’mtryingto mind as I get onor off. I never noticed the MetropolitanTransportationAuthorityArts and Designprogram, whichsince the 1980s has beencommissioningnotable artists to create works that embellishotherwise bland subwaystations. But in2012 I took a tour ofsuchinstallations.
Afterward, myperceptionofthe underground world where I had spent so muchofmylife was transformed. Earlier, I had not reallynoticed even the large RoyLichtensteinmuralinthe Times Square station. Now, I understood more what Sherlock Holmes told Dr. Watsonabout the difference betweenjust seeingand actuallyobserving. The idea is to understand and to go beyond seeinginto the realmofobservation.
This is the focus ofa new book, “The 99% Invisible City:A Field Guide to the HiddenWorld ofEverydayDesign,”byRomanMars and Kurt Kohlstedt, who are the creators ofa podcast about designcalled 99% Invisible. Compiled fromepisodes oftheir show, whichhas gained millions oflisteners over the past 10 years, the book introduces us to mysteries that most ofus have never considered. Whyare manhole covers round? Whydo the Japanese infuse themwithelaborate decorations? What do painted yellow symbols onstreets tellus? Whyare traffic lights red ontop and greenonbottom? What might we notice about the designs and support systems ofbuildings and bridges? Whyhave so-called love locks or love padlocks become a problemaround the world? Whyare some streets straight and others curvilinear?
Mars and Kohlstedt explore the mysteries behind certainbuildings, like the Citicorp Building, whichopened in1977 at 53rd Street and Lexington Avenue. The enormous structure is dramatic because it seems to be balanced without adequate support onthe ground. It had a hiddendesignflaw.
Diane Hartley, anarchitecture student, wrote a termpaper onthe buildingafter it was finished. She determined that the calculations that justified its particular design— withsingle supports carryingthe weight ofthe structure — were wrongand that under certainwind conditions the giant buildingwould fall, possiblykillingthousands ofoccupants. The architects who designed it reluctantlyconfirmed her findings that the structure was a catastrophe waitingto happen. What to do? The response ofthe owners, the bank and the architects is almost as stunningas the originalmistake. Rather thanorder immediate evacuation, the decisionwas to continue to operate as usual, to informas few people as possible and to repair the buildingwithout arousingsuspicions. Mercifully, nature cooperated, the powerfulwind that might have toppled it did not materialize while the structure was beingreinforced and it continues to stand. Meanwhile, youcanonlywonder what might have happened ifa graduate student had not decided to observe rather thanjust to see.
Fake facades are another example ofwhat the authors have inmind whentheydescribe lookingpast the surface ofthings. BrooklynHeights, for example, is renowned for its 19th-centuryrowhouses. At first glance, the home at 58 JoralemonStreet is just another Greek Revivalresidence ina row ofsimilar structures. But the house’s facade masks anemptyinterior. Its purpose is to provide anescape route fromthe subwaybelow incase ofanemergency.
“The 99% Invisible City”is filled withhundreds ofsuchfascinatingtidbits, oftenhard to find inwhat could have beena better-organized book. Consider Theophilus VanKannel, whose designfor the revolvingdoor created anopeninginto buildings that exchanged eight times less air than typicalswingingdoors. This has beenanenormous aid to environmentalefficiency. Unfortunately, revolvingdoors had serious drawbacks, as when the tragic Cocoanut Grove nightclub fire inBostonduringWorld War II took 492 lives, as panicked patrons crowded at bothsides ofa revolving door, preventingit fromopeningand thus trappinghundreds ofterrified people inside the club. Most buildingregulations now require that revolving doors be flanked byregular doors onbothsides.
We learnthat HughDeHavenfigured out how to make cars less dangerous bydesigningcollapsible steeringcolumns that would ultimatelysave thousands oflives. Similarly, concrete Jerseybarriers, uglyas theymaybe, are designed to force automobiles back onto the streets and have saved countless others. And who knew that onSept. 3, 1967, at precisely4:50 a.m., the entire nationofSwedenchanged lanes fromdrivingon the left side ofthe road to drivingonthe right?
A briefreview cannot do justice to sucha diverse and enlighteningbook. The authors have sections onoilderricks, celltowers, the PostalService, water fountains, the transcontinentaltelegraph, cisterns, telephone poles, emergencyexits, cyclinglanes, archaeologicalsites inBritain, national roads, zero markers, the Oklahoma land rush, cemeteries, public lighting, pigeons, raccoons and halfa hundred other eccentric topics. I wishmore attentionhad beenpaid to sewers and water systems, street pavingmaterials, burialregulations, power generation, zoning, or ferries and waterfront services. And theymight have included photographs rather thanline drawings to better illustrate their points.
But “The 99% Invisible City”is altogether freshand imaginative whenit comes to thinkingabout urbanspaces. Ina time whenwe question whether it is perhaps the moment to tear downstatues offlawed historicalfigures, to attachnew plaques to buildings or to change the names of militaryinstallations and college dormitories, the authors are askingus to observe carefullythe monuments and symbols that are everywhere around us. Mars and Kohlstedt would urge that we be more observant as we encounter the hiddencityinthe years to come. As JonathanSwift is supposed to have said, visionis the art ofseeingwhat is invisible to others.
Field Guide To The Water Life OfBritainbyReader's Digest Association. BritishWildlife is the leadingnaturalhistorymagazine inthe UK, providingessentialreadingfor bothenthusiast and professionalnaturalists and wildlife conservationists. Published eight times a year, BritishWildlife bridges the gap betweenpopular writingand scientific literature througha combinationoflong-formarticles, regular columns and reports, book reviews and letters.
ConservationLand Management. ConservationLand Management (CLM) is a quarterlymagazine that is widelyregarded as essentialreadingfor allwho are involved inland management for nature conservation, across the BritishIsles. CLM includes long-formarticles, events listings, publicationreviews, new product informationand updates, reports ofconferences and letters.
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