This antiquarian book contains a practical guide to keeping and caring for finches, being a handy collection of tips and helpful hints for the breeding, feeding, and training of these beautiful birds. This volume contains a wealth of information on all types of common finch, and is highly recommended for readers with a practical interest in these animals. The chapters of this book include: “Finches”, “Bullfinch”, “The Goldfinch”, “Chaffinch”, “The Mountain Finch or Brambling”, “The Linnet”...

This vintage book contains an comprehensive and informative treatise on the crow family of birds, with information on the raven, the carrion crow, and the rook. Included in this volume are historical notes, anecdotal evidence, and a wealth of other interesting and useful information on the subject. It is highly recommended for those with an interest in ornithology, and would make for a great addition to collections of related literature. Although old, the information contained herein is ti...

Preorder Katherine Dyson's hilarious new vampire romantic comedy!Vampire Elias has been keeping secrets for centuries. His brooding good looks and tortured artistry have made him a legend – but nobody needs to know that's because he actually is one.So when a publisher offers him a six-figure deal to write his memoir, there's just one small problem. How do you tell your life story when it spans hundreds of years?Mina has had a crush on Elias...

On Earth, a teenager struggles to come to terms with a whole new family experience. While, on the dying desert planet URF*, a banished alien child crash-lands on a beach where a mum with memory issues has gone walk about.Fortunately, with the help of some odd new friends, a lot of peculiar imagination, and a weird bunch of bits-n-bobs-beings, they all are soon "Making It Home".This madcap txt-comic adventure is made up of an inverted kaleidoscope of cartoons, books, music, fi...

Engineers plan transport systems, people use them. But the ways in which an engineer measures success – speed, journey time, efficiency – are often not the way that passengers think about a good trip. We are not cargo. We choose how and when to travel, influenced not only by speed and time but by habit, status, comfort, variety – and many other factors that engineering equations don’t capture at all. As we near the practical, physical limits of speed, capacity and punctuality, the greatest...

Dyson has become a byword for high-performing products, technology, design, and invention. Now, James Dyson, the inventor and entrepreneur who made it all happen, tells his remarkable and inspirational story in Invention: A Life, “one of the year’s most relevant and revelatory business books” (The Wall Street Journal)****.Famously, over a four-year period, James Dyson made 5,127 prototypes of the cyclonic vacuum cleaner that would transform the wa...

Funny, romantic and a little bit wicked, this is Mhairi McFarlane… with vampires!I mean hey, what’s the worst that could happen? Ok fine, the worst that could happen is that I didn’t imagine those fangs after all…Squeaky clean good girl Lucy Partridge is a sucker for heartwarming tales and happy endings. So a weekend reporting on the Whitby Goth Weekend is well outside her comfort zone. As is sharing her tiny annexe accommodation with all six feet ...

A short story, complimentary to The Devil & The Deep Blue Sea, based on actual events, set two years later.Jude and Su have got embroiled in violent civil conflict that threatens to tear New Zealand-Aotearoa apart. Of course NZ being NZ it could only be about Rugby! ('Union' please! Not that boring stop-start nonsense they love across the Ditch in Aussie.) But as the nation's pride and joy Rugby is also the symbol of the nation's mind and heart. So when right wing Prime Minister 'Pi...

Dyson has become a byword for high-performing products, technology, design, and invention. Now, James Dyson, the inventor and entrepreneur who made it all happen, tells his remarkable and inspirational story in Invention: A Life, “one of the year’s most relevant and revelatory business books” (The Wall Street Journal)****.Famously, over a four-year period, James Dyson made 5,127 prototypes of the cyclonic vacuum cleaner that would transform the wa...

In love we trust…She may have found the twin sister she never knew she had…but Charlotte Harrington also lost her mother. And now she's lost her artistic inspiration, too. Escaping to a lush tropical resort is her best shot at getting something of her own back again. She just needs to focus and somehow not let Sam Briton's guarded smile distract her.Managing a hotel and single fatherhood puts plenty on Sam's plate, Charlotte gets that. And the susp...

'Full of historical anecdotes . . . but this is much more than a history book. [George Dyson] weaves his threads together for a purpose. Using voices of the past and present, he describes a fresh and sometimes startling viewpoint of the emerging relationship between nature and machines. From vignettes about Olaf Stapledon, George Boole, John von Neumann, and Samuel Butler, a larger story develops in which the twin processes of intelligence and evolution are inseparably intertwined' Danny H...

In love we trust…She may have found the twin sister she never knew she had…but Charlotte Harrington also lost her mother. And now she's lost her artistic inspiration, too. Escaping to a lush tropical resort is her best shot at getting something of her own back again. She just needs to focus and somehow not let Sam Briton's guarded smile distract her.Managing a hotel and single fatherhood puts plenty on Sam's plate, Charlotte gets that. And the suspic...