This is what happens when you read a book like Frogs and Toads of the World , by Chris Mattison. book about all the frogs and toads of the world is an ambitious undertaking. This seemingly boundless diversity comes through in every chapter of this book, and is both its strength and its weakness. Reviews books frogs toads MORE >>

started thinking about this because I was pondering the number of books published about hawks and hawk identification.  Wheeler (Houghton Mifflin, 2001), and A Photographic Guide to North American Raptors (Wheeler and Clark, Princeton University Press, 2003), and you have a whole lot of excellent hawk identification books and field guides. MORE >>

The book then looks in detail at the process a community in transition goes through, drawing on the experience of those who have already embarked on this journey. have never “seen” the “Transition Handbook” and thus cannot judge as to how those two books compare not as to in how far the “Transition Companion” is a follow on of the former. MORE >>

The very first comments that I would like to make about this book is that scaremongering does not become and is not really a good idea. This is not the first book that I have ever reviewed that has scaremongering very high on the agenda, I must say, and I ask myself each and every time what an author gets out of a practice such as this. MORE >>

Wood Pallet Projects shows how anyone can upcycle salvaged pallet wood to create truly one-of-a-kind projects and this book gives the reader a number of ideas as to how pallets can become furniture and other products. Well, and, obviously, go and buy the book to get some ideas and the know-how of doing it safely. MORE >>