This is a vintage guide to training and managing a dog for hunting purposes, with chapters on breeding and selection, different methods of breaking, the various breeds of hunting dogs, the requirements of a trainer, and much more. Although old, it contains a wealth of timeless information that will be of considerable utility to modern sportsmen and trainers alike. Contents include: "Some Qualifications of the Dog Breaker", "Patience and Perseverance", "The Possession of a Good Temper", "So...

10 Vampire Classics surveys the vampire's transformation from folkloric revenant to urbane Gothic predator across the nineteenth century and beyond. Its varied forms—novella, sensational romance, penny dreadful, travel-inflected tale, and translation-mediated narrative—demonstrate how vampirism absorbed anxieties about sexuality, empire, medicine, class, and the unstable boundary between life and death. Alongside canonical Gothic encounters, the volume's popular serial fiction and cross-cu...

Creatures of the Dark: 10 Vampire Horror Novels surveys the vampire's evolution from folkloric revenant to modern Gothic predator. Moving among sensational romance, penny-dreadful extravagance, decadent fantasy, travel-inflected tale, and the psychologically charged Gothic novel, the volume places canonical narratives such as Dracula and Carmilla beside less frequently encountered works. Its transnational range also recalls that vampiric figures emerge not only from Victorian anxieties abo...

This book focuses on using faculty mentoring to empower doctoral students to successfully complete their doctoral studies. The book is a collection of mentoring chapters showcasing professors and dissertation advisors from the most prestigious universities in the United States. They provide an extraordinary range of mentoring advice that speaks directly to the doctoral student. Each chapter addresses a professional or personal component of the doctoral process that represents how these exc...

Since the pioneering work of Donald and his first Lancet paper in 1958, the use of ultrasound in obstetrics and gynaecology has evolved rap idly. The introduction of grey scale techniques enhanced our ability to identify different tissues on the basis of their texture. However, it was the introduction of the linear array real-time scanner in the mid seven ties that changed ultrasound from being an "eccentric art form" to a readily available and usable technique. This led to the first repor...

The Book of Monsters: 40 Timeless Horror Novels surveys the monster as a uniquely flexible figure of dread: scientific transgression, revenance, vampiric contagion, colonial encounter, occult mystery, and evolutionary anxiety all assume compelling form here. Moving from Gothic romance and sensation fiction to adventure tale, proto-science fiction, detective narrative, and cosmic horror, the volume situates such landmarks as Frankenstein, Dracula, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde's...

The Beasts of Nightmares: 40 Monster Books surveys the protean figure of the monster across Gothic romance, supernatural terror, scientific fantasy, imperial adventure, detective fiction, and folkloric tale. Its capacious selection places revenants, vampires, uncanny doubles, prehistoric survivals, artificial beings, and exoticized creatures in productive proximity. From claustrophobic castle narratives to expeditionary romances and speculative visions, the volume reveals how monstrousness...

Providing comprehensive coverage on biofuel crop production and the technological, environmental and resource issues associated with a sustainable biofuel industry, this book is ideal for researchers and industry personnel. Beginning with an introduction to biofuels and the challenges they face, the book then includes detailed coverage on crops of current importance or with high future prospects, including sections on algae, sugar crops and grass, oil and forestry species. The chapters foc...

A holistic approach to analyzing distinct grassland habitats that integrates ecological, historical, and archaeological dataToday the southeastern United States is a largely rural, forested, and agricultural landscape interspersed with urban areas of development. However, two centuries ago it contained hundreds of thousands of acres of natural grasslands that stretched from Florida to Texas. Now more than 99 percent of these prairies, glades, and savannas have been...

Focuses on advances in understanding forest ecophysiology which underpin good management, including mechanisms of root and canopy development.Explores the key challenges in ensuring forest management is consistent with forest ecosystem services, particularly managing the transition from monocultures to complex standsHighlights ways of diversifying forest products, including novel uses of timber, biomass, non-timber products and recreational services.

On Easter Monday, between 1,000 and 1,500 Irish Volunteers and members of the Irish Citizen Army seized the General Post Office and other key locations in Dublin. The intention of their leaders, including Patrick Pearse and James Connolly, was to end British rule in Ireland and establish an independent thirty-two county Irish republic. For a week battle raged in the Irish capital until the Rising collapsed. The rebel leaders were executed soon afterwards, though in death t...

The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (1001 ARABIAN NIGHTS) also called The Arabian Nights. Translated by Richard F. Burton. All 16 volumes. One Thousand and One Nights is a collection of stories collected over many centuries by various authors, translators and scholars in various countries across the Arab World. These collections of tales trace their roots back to ancient and medieval Arabic, Indian, Persian, Egyptian and Mesopotamian literature. In particular, many of tales were or...