Like Flies from Afar
Автор: K. Ferrari
Год издания: 0000
Luis Machi has had enemies for a long time: after all, he's built his success on dirty deals – not to mention his cooperation with the military junta's coup years ago, or his love life, a web of infidelities. What's new is the corpse in the boot of his car. A body with its face blown off, detained by a pair of furry pink handcuffs that Machi knows well . . .
Someone is trying to set him up, but the number of suspects is incalculable. Machi is stuck dredging his guilty past for clues and trying to dispose of the mystery corpse. But time is just another enemy and it's running out fast.
Like Flies from Afar is a wickedly dark and thrilling ride through the corruption and violence of Argentina, embodied by a single degenerate man and one very complicated day.
Butterflies
Автор: Ksana Gilgenberg
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Life usually goes according to a scenario written for you beforehand. You go to school, graduate from college, get a job, get married, etc. Even if some of you have problems with these, you struggle to get what you are meant to have. But what if a ‘system failure’ occurs? What if someone wise and powerful decides to intervene in yourlife? Will such intervention turn out to be a happy blessing, or will it become the test beyond your strength?
As the Crow Flies
Автор: Dodge Walter Phelps
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Butterflies and Moths (British)
Автор: Furneaux William Samuel
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A Resource-Based Habitat View for Conservation. Butterflies in the British Landscape
Автор: Roger L. H. Dennis
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Winner of the Marsh Book of the Year Award 2012 by the British Ecological Society. In A Resource-Based Habitat View for Conservation Roger Dennis introduces a novel approach to the understanding of habitats based on resources and conditions required by organisms and their access to them, a quantum shift from simplistic and ineffectual notions of habitats as vegetation units or biotopes. In drawing attention to what organisms actually use and need in landscapes, it focuses on resource composition, structure and connectedness, all of which describe habitat quality and underpin landscape heterogeneity. This contrasts with the current bipolar view of landscapes made up of habitat patches and empty matrix but illustrates how such a metapopulation approach of isolated patchworks can grow by adopting the new habitat viewpoint. The book explores principles underlying this new definition of habitat, and the impact of habitat components on populations, species’ distributions, geographical ranges and range changes, with a view to conserving resources in landscapes for whole communities. It does this using the example of butterflies – the most alluring of insects, flagship organisms and key indicators of environmental health – in the British Isles, where they have been studied most intensively. The book forms essential reading for students, researchers and practitioners in ecology and conservation, particularly those concerned with managing sites and landscapes for wildlife.