Understanding Animal Behaviour (Putman Rory)(Paperback)

Understanding Animal Behaviour (Putman Rory)(Paperback)

This accessible introduction to animal behaviour provides an authoritative yet reader-friendly guide for the interested naturalist. It presents current knowledge about the way animals behave and will enable the reader to derive more pleasure from their observations of animals by gaining a deeper

Sika Deer (Putman Rory)(Paperback / softback)

Understanding Animal Behaviour: What to Measure and Why (Pellis Sergio)(Paperback)

Providing a clear and defined starting point for any behavioural study, this is the first book to make available a framework for deciding what aspects of an animal's behaviour to measure. The authors draw on numerous examples to demonstrate clearly how the principles can be applied across

Practical Feline Behaviour: Understanding Cat Behaviour and Improving Welfare (Atkinson Trudi)(Paperback)

Practical Feline Behaviour contains all the relevant information that anyone involved with the care of house cats needs to understand to handle feline behavior and improve welfare. This approachable and down-to-earth text describes the internal and external influences on: feline behavior;

Equine Behaviour: Principles and Practice (Mills Daniel S.)(Paperback)

Understanding the flexibility and limits of behaviour is essential to improving both the horse's welfare and its performance. This book tackles the fundamental principles which will enable owners, riders, trainers and students to understand scientific principles and apply them in practice. Subjects

A Dictionary of Animal Behaviour (McFarland David)(Paperback)

This fascinating dictionary covers all aspects of animal behavior. Written by David McFarland, an established expert in this field, the book contains terms from the related fields of ecology, physiology and psychology. Entries of each animal behavior is complimented by examples whereapplicable and

Construction Materials: Their Nature and Behaviour, Fifth Edition (Soutsos Marios)(Paperback)

This established textbook provides an understanding of materials' behaviour through knowledge of their chemical and physical structure. It covers the main classes of construction materials: metals, concrete, other ceramics (including bricks and masonry), polymers, fibre composites, bituminous

Work Psychology - Understanding Human Behaviour in the Workplace, 7th Edition (Arnold John)(Paperback / softback)

Understanding Children's Behaviour - Learning to be with others in the Early Years (Tassoni Penny)(Paperback / softback)

Understanding Social Enterprise: Theory and Practice (Ridley-Duff Rory)(Paperback)

This updated edition of Understanding Social Enterprise comes packed with a wealth of learning features to help students understand the theory and practice within this ever expanding field. Updates to this edition include: New case studies and examples throughout Considerations of new

Changing Human Behaviour to Enhance Animal Welfare (Sommerville Rebecca)(Paperback)

'The book is essential reading for people who are working to improve animal welfare...It is aimed at readers who are working directly with the people who care for the animals.' From the foreword by Temple Grandin Bridging the gap between the science of animal welfare, the animals and their owners,

Health Intervention Research: Understanding Research Design and Methods (Sidani Souraya)(Paperback)

At a time when evidence-based practice is the standard bearer for understanding health behaviour, problems and interventions, ensuring that researchers know the appropriate designs and methods for their research is more paramount than ever. Health Intervention Research will equip those doing

Critical Terms for Animal Studies (Gruen Lori)(Paperback)

Animal Studies is a rapidly growing interdisciplinary field devoted to examining, understanding, and critically evaluating the complex relationships between humans and other animals. Scholarship in Animal Studies draws on a variety of methodologies to explore these multi-faceted relationships in

Understanding Behaviour in Dementia That Challenges, Second Edition: A Guide to Assessment and Treatment (James Ian Andrew)(Paperback)

The innovative Newcastle Challenging Behaviour Model for dementia care has recently been updated, leading to new advances in the field. This revised second edition guide to assessment and treatment of behaviours that challenge associated with dementia includes these latest developments along with

Soil Mechanics (Barnes G. E.)(Paperback)

Soil Mechanics provides students with a clear understanding of the nature of soil and its behaviour, offering an insight into the application of principles to engineering solutions. This new updated edition includes new case studies, integrated video interviews with practising engineers and a new

The Animal Kingdom: A Very Short Introduction (Holland Peter)(Paperback)

The animal world is immensely diverse, and our understanding of it has been greatly enhanced by molecular biology and the study of evolution and development ('evo-devo'). Moreover, groundbreaking research on genes, and especially key families of genes such as the Homeobox genes which control the

What Do Animals Think and Feel? (Brensing Karsten)(Paperback / softback)

A fascinating study of animal behaviour, from an eminent German marine biologist, revealing them to be as sentient and self-aware as we humans

Asking Animals: An Introduction to Animal Behaviour Testing (Nielsen Birte Lindstrom)(Paperback)

Contemporary, thought-provoking yet utterly practical, this book provides an introductory text covering the use and misuse of behavior tests applied to animals. By including illustrative examples from a variety of species, the book inspires the animal scientist to think about what a given

Animal Behaviour: A Very Short Introduction (Wyatt Tristram D.)(Paperback)

How animals behave is crucial to their survival and reproduction. The application of new molecular tools such as DNA fingerprinting and genomics is causing a revolution in the study of animal behavior, while developments in computing and image analysis allow us to investigate behavior in ways never

Wellington, Volume 1: The Path to Victory 1769-1814 (Muir Rory)(Paperback)

A landmark contribution to understanding the real man behind the heroic legend inspired by the triumph at Waterloo The Duke of Wellington was not just Britain's greatest soldier, although his seismic struggles as leader of the Allied forces against Napoleon in the Peninsular War deservedly became

Understanding Drugs and Behaviour (Parrott Andrew)(Paperback)

Why are some drugs highly addictive? What exactly are the effects of different types of psychoactive drugs? How can they produce such dramatic effects on mood, cognition, sensation, awareness, health and well-being? Understanding Drugs and Behaviour describes in detail how the main psychoactive

Olfaction in Animal Behaviour and Welfare (Nielsen Birte Lindstrom)(Paperback)

Evidence-based, yet entirely practical, this important new text builds upon the basics of neuroscience to describe the link between olfaction, animal behavior, and the importance of odors for animal welfare. Focusing on animals managed by humans and taking animal behavior as the starting point, the

An Introduction to Animal Behaviour (Manning Aubrey)(Paperback)

Wolves excitedly greet each other as members of the pack come together; a bumble bee uses its long tongue to reach the nectar at the base of a foxglove flower; a mongoose swiftly and deftly bites its prey to death; young cheetahs rest quietly together, very close to sleep. Now in full color, this

How to tame the political animal: - The missing piece(Paperback / softback)

A journey of discovery of the underlying behaviour patterns that make us politically self-centred, and, effectively, less