Product Description: Bodmin Moor is an upland landscape, heavily protected, farmed extensively and with an increasingly light touch, and enjoyed by many as a retreat from busier modern worlds. But it is also a place of industry and the home of busy agricultural communities...read more

This is an analysis of how conditions in the oceanic environment differ from those in the familiar terrestrial world, describing the techniques and ingenuity required to reveal the populations inhabiting the colossal volume of the deep oceans and how its inhabitants have adapted to survive and flourish within it. Many issues of deep sea marine life are covered including: surface phytoplankton's roles; chemosynthesis at hydrothermal vents and cold seeps; reduction of biomass with depth and energy conservation; mechanoreception; chemoreception; vision; animal life styles, seasonability, sex and size; and the unique variety of life in the deep ocean both on the sea floor at in midwater. (view table of contents)

A comprehensive history of railroad transportation chronicles the evolution of the train from the early nineteenth century to the present day, featuring profiling of the great inventors, engineers, and designers who laid the foundations for today's complex mass transportation network, as well hundreds of captioned illustrations, technical drawings, and photographs.

This guide contains reviews of 350 classical recordings on compact disc, as well as biographical information on the composer and essential data about the orchestra, conductor, and principal musicians or performers

Spans rock's roots with careers, achievements, and recommended recordings of various rock giants, super groups, and individual profiles of diverse rock stars