New Releases by Ian Douglas

"The honey is ours," say the bees. "The honey is MINE," says the bear. Who will win the argument? Suggested level: junior.

Ian Smith, former president of Rhodesia, spares few of his opponents as heives a forthright account of one of Africa''s most controversial politicalareers.;Smith details his boyhood in Southern Rhodesia, his enlistment intohe Royal Air Force and his active service during World War II. After the war,e joined the United Federal Party and initiated moves with various Britishovernments under Macmillian and Douglas-Home. This resulted in thenilateral Declaration of Independence, and then Britain led the world indopting sanctions against Rhodesia.;He also tells how the Britishovernment''s poor handling of the Rhodesian situation led to unrest in therea which Henry Kissinger tried unsuccessfully to quell. Eventually theirst majority elections were held, the results of which Margaret Thatcherefused to recognise, leading to the Marxist-orientated rule of Presidentugabe.;This autobiography deals with many political events that have beenonveniently glossed over. It presents a fascinating portrait of one of the0th century''s most distinguished political figures.

This collection of papers is from a meeting of decision support system modellers working in the field of forest management planning. Topics of the papers include: an overview of the development of forest wildlife decision support systems; software for simulating forest management and assessing effects on biodiversity; an object oriented decision support system for deer; wildlife modelling; a decision support tool for forest birds; forest habitat management; and a decision support system for marten.

The focus of the congress whose proceedings are included in this document was on wildlife biology and management in forested environments. Papers presented are arranged under the following broad topics: wildlife and forest management; biodiversity; wildlife genetics; socio-economic considerations in forestry and wildlife management; carnivores; bears; geographical information systems; toxicology; parasites; birds; remote sensing; game ranching; and ungulates.

Landforms created by running water dominate the land surface of earth. However, although the role of water is seen everywhere, it is seen at its best in those regions where the climates are wet enough to support a forest vegetation with a continuous canopy. The seasonal fluctuations in the character of precipitation with snow in winter and rain in summer which characterize cool temperate forest climates and the legacies of recent past cold periods in high latitudes means that the landforms of the humid tropics should be regarded as the "normal" or "type" features due to erosion by running water.This discussion of humid landforms, together with J. A. Mabbutt''s volume "Desert Landforms" completes a series of seven volumes on systematic geomorphology. It attempts to break with traditional approaches and to discuss humid landforms from the standpoint of the humid tropics. In addition, it seeks to demonstrate that the processes creating and destroying landforms are also those that regulate biotic activity at the earth''s surface. The approach followed in this book is to describe the processes affecting the evolution of landforms in terms of the circulations of energy, water and materials before introducing the complication of legacies of different ages from the past. Theories of landform evolution are briefly reviewed in the final chapter.