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Science & MathematicsMarch 2022Key Questions in Urban Pest Management
A Study and Revision Guide
by Partho Dhang, Philip Koehler, Roberto Pereira, Daniel D Dye II
Urban pests are common all over the world. These include cockroaches, flies, mosquitoes, bed bugs, ticks, fleas, ants, termites, rodents and others. These pests thrive in human structures, where there is food, warmth and places to hide. Urban pests are one of the leading causes of illnesses in humans due to allergies, bites, food contamination and phobias. They can also cause significant damage to property and structures. Knowledge and training in this field is vital for professional and trainee pest managers. This book is specifically intended to provide an aid to such candidates. The book contains 500 multiple-choice questions (and answers) grouped into the following major topic areas: · The history of urban entomology · Household pests · Cockroaches · Flies · Mosquitoes · Bed bugs · Termites · Sporadic pests · Stored product pests · Vertebrate pests · Pesticides and pesticide formulations · Handling pesticides · Integrated Pest Control Produced in a convenient format that can be used at any time in any place, the book allows the reader to learn and revise the subject and much more. Its structure allows the study of one topic area at a time, progressing through a simple introduction followed by key revision questions, many of which require students to use their practical knowledge. The answers to each of the questions are provided at the end with short explanations wherever appropriate.
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March 2009BONK
Alles über Sex – von der Wissenschaft erforscht
by Roach, Mary / Englisch Gabler, Irmengard
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March 2012Was macht der Astronaut, wenn er mal muss?
Eine etwas andere Geschichte der Raumfahrt
by Roach, Mary / Deutsch Bausum, Christoph; Deutsch Bausum, Karola
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Comic strip fiction / graphic novels (Children's/YA)202140 Rules to Survive the Apocalypse
by Yuri Nikitinsky
What to do if there was an explosion, zombies are wandering around, viruses or aliens are creeping, and the Angry Cockroach is crunching the on the cookies left in the kitchen? First and foremost, you should not panic and be prepared. Of course, the cases are very different - real and fictional - but the advice in this book is always valid and useful for each of them. So if you are seriously prepared, no apocalypse will get you!
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February 2008Sklaven der Einsamkeit
Roman
by Patrick Hamilton, Miriam Mandelkow
Das wohlgeordnete Leben von Enid Roach gerät aus den Fugen. Der Londoner Bombenhagel treibt die 39jährige Verlagsangestellte in die Provinz, wo sie Dinge unternimmt, die sie unter normalen Umständen niemals auch nur in Betracht ziehen würde. Sie verabredet sich in Pubs, hat eine Affäre mit einem amerikanischen Offizier und wohnt in einer Pension mit den unterschiedlichsten Menschen zusammen. Im Tearoom, beim täglichen Abendessen, entwickeln die Pensionsgäste ihr eigenes Schlachtfeld. Hier haben Mr. Twaight und die Deutsche Vicki Kugelmann – erst ihre, dann seine Verbündete – das Sagen. Die beiden liefern Enid, ihrer „Miss Prüde“, einen zermürbenden Stellungskrieg, der diese langsam, aber unerbittlich zur Verzweiflung treibt.
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Children's & YAAugust 2024Picture book "Charlie"
by Meggie Berns
Feodora + Gino present: Charlie What's that? A little brown cockroach has appeared in Mama Manzetti's kitchen! A long hunt for the nimble little animal begins . Then it suddenly turns out to be something completely different. Feodora and Gino have to help the little guy! Educational approach: The background of the story is pre-judgment. Sometimes, people make decisions in their minds before a situation has been objectively examined. However, things are often very different from what they appear to be. The aim is to raise awareness of the need of withholding judgment until all the facts are known.
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Technology, Engineering & AgricultureApril 2018Urban Pest Control
A Practitioner's Guide
by Partho Dhang
This guide brings together the varied and multiple skills and activities required of pest control practitioners, including biology, chemistry, architecture, engineering, sales, logistics, legal and accounting, presented with a primary emphasis on pest organisms at its core. This book provides information and tips on all of these aspects and: explores the business of controlling pests (including trends in the industry, pest control tools, and sustainable pest control); covers biological information on each pest in addition to information on control and management, monitoring and follow-up; focusses particularly on globally significant pests with internationally-applicable use and guidance; and provides practical and hands-on experience, drawing on original case studies This is a key resource for pest control practitioners, as well as in-house staff of companies or buildings involved in household or urban pest control. It is also a valuable reference for researchers, and sanitation and building managers.
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May 2024Fish in Distress
On the careful management of an endangered resource
by Manfred Kriener, Stefan Linzmaier
Consumers stand perplexed at the fish counter. Cod or salmon; mackerel or sea bass? Or perhaps rather carp and trout? How about flounder and dab? Dab what? A terrific flatfish, but sadly hardly anyone has heard of it. And what was it again about organic, aquaculture, wild-caught, and that little blue sustainability certificate? Is catching your own a way out? Before you start thinking it’s time to opt for a chop and fried potatoes instead, read this book. It provides readers with deep blue facts from the world’s waters and analyses the global and local habitat of the finned creature.
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Children's & YALO SCARRAFONE (THE COCKROACH)
by Kornej Cukovskij (Author), M. Di Leo (Adaptation), A. Mosina (Illustrations), M. Caramitti (Translation)
Who could imagine that an insect as bad as a cockroach would become the hero of a book? The animals knew no worries until a "scrounger" appeared among them. It was then that everyone "ran through the woods and through the fields, frightened by a pair of huge insect mustaches ..." But… would the shy elephants and crocodiles expect that a lively little sparrow comes and saves them? The happy return to normality of the animal family has been illustrated by Russian artist Anastasija Mosina. The story is the prose version of a poem by the Russian Kornej Cukovskij.
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Primary & middle schoolsJanuary 2008Learning to become Socially Talented Children
by Karen Palmer-Roach, Rebecca Childs
More than 70 worksheets to make social and emotional learning FUN! This resource uses exciting graphics, games and activities to engage and stimulate children in the learning process. It deals with a wide range of issues that affect children today including: Introducing me I feel good about me Getting to know my body Feelings Anger Ways to help me manage my behaviour Calm & chilled Communication Friendship Concentration Classroom behaviour Mind your manners Sort it out. These worksheets are an excellent tool for generating discussion, promoting positive role modelling, and developing greater insight and understanding. This resource complements and supports the SEAL curriculum. Includes a FREE CD Rom from which whole book can be printed in colour.
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The environmentApril 2000Clearing the Air
Asthma and Indoor Air Exposures
by Committee on the Assessment of Asthma and Indoor Air, Division of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Institute of Medicine
Since about 1980, asthma prevalence and asthma-related hospitalizations and deaths have increased substantially, especially among children. Of particular concern is the high mortality rate among African Americans with asthma. Recent studies have suggested that indoor exposures--to dust mites, cockroaches, mold, pet dander, tobacco smoke, and other biological and chemical pollutants--may influence the disease course of asthma. To ensure an appropriate response, public health and education officials have sought a science-based assessment of asthma and its relationship to indoor air exposures. Clearing the Air meets this need. This book examines how indoor pollutants contribute to asthma-- its causation, prevalence, triggering, and severity. The committee discusses asthma among the general population and in sensitive subpopulations including children, low-income individuals, and urban residents. Based on the most current findings, the book also evaluates the scientific basis for mitigating the effects of indoor air pollutants implicated in asthma. The committee identifies priorities for public health policy, public education outreach, preventive intervention, and further research.
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FictionThe Broken Ones
by Natércia Pontes
A powerful and harsh novel about a family, a messy apartment and the painful discoveries of adolescence. Many things were missing in apartment n. 402, but there was plenty of many others: paper boxes, boards of isopor, knick knacks, cockroaches, termites, dust, dirty glasses. Abigail, Berta and Lúcio are a non conventional triplet: two teenagers that share the apartment with their father, a loving man and a compulsive hoarder. While he hopes for death to arrive soon, he likes giving peculiar advice to his daughters: “Being hungry is cool”.This novel tells a tragic and touching coming-of-age story, though able to make you laugh. Natércia Pontes draws a fascinating picture of three people trying to live with their dreams and fantasies, their fears and manias, in the middle of the piles of waste that inhabit their house.
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August 2013Last District Officer
by John Pitchford
Colonial District Officers were gazetted, warranted as Magistrates and Justices of the Peace, then posted to administer remote districts, sometimes the size of Wales, of which hardly anyone had heard. John Pitchford, possibly the last district officer, has written a historical and philosophical autobiography of rare variety. His gung-ho stories of lobotomised hippos, of cockroaches which ‘crisscross you every night’, of ants which are so beautifully trained that they attack on orders from above, to falling off remote cliffs while starting an Outbound School, keep the reader enthral With an easy reading economy of words Pitchford takes us from war-torn Tumbridge Wells, to a Swiss Lysee, per mare per terram with the Royal Marines and to his home in the Cumbrian mountains. Central Africa formed a large part of his life before he was posted to the Central Pacific and the innumerable atolls and their communities with whom he became familiar. Retirement to southern France and finally to Wales has provided the opportunity to share the exploits in this highly unusual colonial administrator.
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HumourMore Ketchup than Salsa
Confessions of a Tenerife Barman
by Joe Cawley
Childhood sweethearts, Joe and Joy are broke and bored. They’re also tired of smelling of fish.When offered the chance to escape from the dreary market stalls of England to run a bar on a sub-tropical island, they recklessly jump at the opportunity - despite their spectacular lack of experience.In Tenerife, dreams of a better life overseas are soon crushed by mini-mafias, East European prostitutes and biblical-grade cockroach infestations.Joe and Joy's foreign fantasy turns into a nightmare as they find themselves trapped with a failing bar in a foreign land, pandering to a bar full of oddball expats while trying to stop their relationship crashing into the rocks.Can they save their business, their dreams, and their relationship before it's too late..."If you've ever wondered if the grass really is greener on the other side, you need to read this hilarious and heartwarming memoir now!""A book full of humor, laughter and tears.""Loved the story, the humour, the characters - found it hard to put down.""Thank you for hours of true entertainment...""I've read a lot of travel-abroad memoirs and enjoyed many of them. This is my favorite... by a long way."
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Agriculture & farmingAugust 2015Elements of Entomology
by H.Lewin Devasahayam
Acquiring knowledge about different aspects of entomology is of vital importance in adopting appropriate measures for the control of pests and also for utilizing the beneficial insects for the benefits of man. This book deals with the basic concepts of entomology, which include: - Morphology, anatomy, adaptation and classification of insects, especially the parasitic ones, which do harm to plants, livestock and even to man. Economic role of insects with special reference to productive ones such as, honeybee, silk worm and lac insect as well as beneficial ones such as, parasitoids, predators pollinators etc. Pest management that covers usage of various plant protection chemicals, plant protection equipments, toxicology of pesticides, compatibility of pesticides etc. Non-insect pests viz., nematodes and mites, their economic role and control measures. The text is substantiated with many fine, hand-drawn figures and illustrations that will help better understanding of the text. The book, which is primarily intended for the undergraduate students of agriculture, will be of use to the postgraduate students of agriculture, to the officials working in the department of agriculture, especially those involved in plant protection work and also to the elite public who are interested in scientific agriculture.
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Children's & young adult fiction & true storiesThe Garden Dwellers
by Liliana Stafford
The Garden Dwellers is an illustrated story book based around a group of little people in a magical garden. The story is suitable for children age six to ren or any child who loves fairies and magic. This book is the first in a series.
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FictionOctober 2012My Dead Women
by Guillermo Fadanelli
Domingo has decided to fulfill the mission entrusted to him by his older brothers: placing a tombstone on his mother's grave. Time passes and the tombstone remains in the trunk of his car without having this man organizing himself to set out for the cemetery. Drunkenness is a difficult obstacle to overcome. Every morning he promises his absent mother that he will fulfill the mission, but once again breaks his oath. The death of his wife ends up undermining his lucidity and placing him in a state of constant delirium. Time transforms him into a melancholic, sullen and harmless man who quotes passages from Russian novels by heart and talks to his dead women. While this is happening the eyes of a teenage girl do not stop observing his behavior, it is her neighbor, the youngest of all the women with whom Domingo has managed to establish a true friendship. "Is it possible to communicate with people of that age?" He wonders as his confusion grows. My Dead Women is a novel about melancholy and human loneliness faced by a man whose drunkenness made him an expert on the states of the soul. guillermofadanelli.com
