This book features four peer-reviewed reviews on the range of regenerative techniques used to enhance biodiversity.The first chapter reviews the benefits of field margins in enhancing biodiversity in agroecosystems by supporting plant diversity, increasing the abundance and diversity of beneficial insects, providing wildlife corridors and contributing to landscape heterogeneity. It also considers the design and management of field margins and their economic impacts.The seco...

The best in short fiction from around the world, from celebrated anthologist and author John Freeman and award-winning novelist Rabih AlameddineIn The Penguin Book of the International Short Story, writers from different nations, languages and sensibilities come together in a globe-spanning and long overdue tour of modern fiction. In ‘Super-Frog Saves Tokyo’, Haruki Murakami presents a man who believes a giant amphibian is enlisting him to protect his city...

The house is quiet. Other worlds await. It's Saturday morning and you're alone with the TV.You turn it on, inviting all kinds of weirdness into your home. You feel safe.It's all behind the screen, miles away. Nothing can hurt you.Can it?This is SATURDAY MOURNING TELEVISION, where terror comes at you in airwaves. Featuring new fiction & poetry from:Die Booth, Monica Carroll, Adrienne Clark, Tom Coombe, Mia Dalia, Jude Deluca, Buzz Dix...

Calling Out Around the World......Are you ready for some brand new reads?Well Crimeucopia's here with a bundle of new, up-coming and emerging writers, all giving you fresh and different voices to help make this the perfect bookshelf must-have.And while crime fiction is a fairly universal genre, the interpretation, motivation, atmosphere and recounting will always change, depending on the authors.This Crimeucopia anthology contains an engaging carnival of 1...

We all love a good monster.And not just zombies, vampires, and werewolves.There is a deep and abiding love for monsters that we believe, or suspect, or even hope are out there going bump in our collective nights. Creatures that common sense, scientific research, thorough investigation, and statistical analysis suggest do not and, in many cases could not exist. We listen, we read the debunking articles, we see the clarifying memes on social media, but … we ...

The world is full of mysteries, some of which defy explanation. From the inexplicable to the eerie, the paranormal and supernatural have fascinated humanity for centuries, inspiring stories of ghosts, hauntings, and otherworldly encounters.Immortal Tales is an anthology of stories about the supernatural and paranormal.In this collection, you will find a mix of wonderful tales. From hauntings to unexplained human conditions, these stories explore the superna...

Previous to our entering upon the detail of the discoveries and adventures of the English navigators who have surrounded the globe, it may, perhaps, afford some entertainment to the curious reader, to be made acquainted with the first steps that led to so bold an undertaking, and with the characters of those happy geniuses, who not only conceived the plan, but contributed not a little by their example to facilitate the execution. We are told that the shadow seen in the moon in the time of ...

By a coincidence of singular interest in Central Asian affairs the completion of the Orenburg-Tashkent railway occurred simultaneously with the evacuation of Lhassa by the troops of the Tibetan Mission, the two events measuring in a manner the character of the policies pursued by the respective Governments of Great Britain and Russia in Mid-Asia. Moreover, if consideration be given to them and the relation of each to contemporary affairs appreciated, it becomes no longer possible to questi...

Flodden Field, that long slope looking north-ward by the “deep and dark and sullen Till,” where on a September afternoon in 1513 the flower of Scotland fell round James the Fourth, stands darkly marked on the page of history both of the Scottish nation and of Scottish poetry. It was for the North the burial-place of one era and the birth-place of another. The English billmen who on Flodden closed round the last desperate ring of Scottish spears hewed down with their ghastly weapons not onl...

IN MERRY ENGLAND in the time of old, when good King Henry the Second ruled the land, there lived within the green glades of Sherwood Forest, near Nottingham Town, a famous outlaw whose name was Robin Hood. No archer ever lived that could speed a gray goose shaft with such skill and cunning as his, nor were there ever such yeomen as the sevenscore merry men that roamed with him through the greenwood shades. Right merrily they dwelled within the depths of Sherwood Forest, suffering neither c...

Of course travelling in Russia is no longer what it was. During the last half century a vast network of railways has been constructed, and one can now travel in a comfortable first-class carriage from Berlin to St. Petersburg or Moscow, and thence to Odessa, Sebastopol, the Lower Volga, the Caucasus, Central Asia, or Eastern Siberia. Until the outbreak of the war there was a train twice a week, with through carriages, from Moscow to Port Arthur. And it must be admitted that on the main lin...

It was an evening in the first week in February, 1778. Supper was over in the house of Cornelius De Vries, which stood on Green Street, Philadelphia, and in that part of the town known as the Northern Liberties. Agatha De Vries, the elderly and maiden sister of Cornelius, had washed and put away the dishes and had gone around the corner to gossip with a neighbor. The light shed from two copper candlesticks and from the fire made the sitting-room look very snug and cozy. In one corner stood...