This beautiful book is a photographic guide to the birds of Madagascar--260 species, including 108 that are endemic to the island. The book details the plumages, vocalizations, habitat and behavior, range, status, and habitat zones of each species. "Where to watch" advice and a gazetteer to birdwatching locations provide invaluable information for visitors planning to see the avifauna of Malagasy.
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Birds of Madagascar: A Photographic Guide

Arts & Photography

Hawkins, Frank

Morris, Peter

Photography & Video

Yale University Press

Is the federal government doing the people's business as they would have you believe? Your gut says, no. But just how bad is it? Mr. F.C. Hawkins, a retired senior executive of a large cabinet-level agency, tells the story of what really goes on behind the government's closed doors. Using a personal case study, the details of which will surprise and shock you, Mr. Hawkins gives a first person account of the ethics-challenged state of the civilian government's management and operations.Despite the obstacles, Mr. Hawkins succeeded in bringing ethics-based principles and change to the Department of Energy, transforming the organization he managed from an inefficient, unresponsive bureaucracy to an efficient principle-driven business. Mr. Hawkins proves that applying ethics-based management to government operations can save taxpayers billions of dollars. In his Three Step Cookbook to fix what ails the civilian government, Mr. Hawkins provides solutions to what the pundits would have you believe are complex, almost insolvable problems.

Marooned: An Inquiry into Government Business and Ethics

Business & Money

Business Culture

iUniverse

This is the eighth and final volume in the authoritative Birds of Africa series. It covers the Malagasy region which comprises Madagascar and the various islands and archipelagos of the Indian Ocean including the Seychelles, the Comoros, Mauritius and Réunion. Every resident and migrant species is covered in full detail, comparable to other volumes in the series, and with a colour map for each species. Vagrants are treated in less detail. All species are illustrated on a beautiful series of 64 colour plates, with original artwork from John Gale and Brian Small. This is a major work of reference on the birds of the region and will remain the standard text for many years to come.

Birds of Africa: Volume VIII (The Birds of Africa)

Science & Math

Safford, Roger

Nature & Ecology

Helm

The church at prayer

Broadman Press

This textbook and the accompanying experiential exercises were written to enhance the knowledge and skill base of human service managers of the various tools used in total quality management (TQM). With a focus upon the application and implementation of TQM tools, topics include building quality in the workplace, TQM and quality tools, planning for continuous quality improvement, team building, group interaction tools and Pareto analysis, problem identification and analysis, work process improvement, financial management, benchmarking, and charting the future. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Making TQM Work: Quality Tools for Human Service Organizations (Springer Series on Social Work)

Politics & Social Sciences

Gunther, John Joseph

Social Sciences

Springer Pub. Co

The Malagasy region contains one of the most extraordinary concentrations of biodiversity in the world. Its recognition as a zoogeographic region in its own right has recently been confirmed, and, all taxa combined, the region was found to hold the second most distinct assemblage of vertebrates in the world after the Australian region, despite being the smallest of them all.
 This new field guide from the Helm Field Guides series covers the whole of the Malagasy region, which comprises the unique island of Madagascar and the various islands and archipelagos of the Indian Ocean, including the Seychelles, Comoros, and Mascarenes (Mauritius, Réunion, and Rodrigues). Every resident and migrant species is covered in full detail with a color distribution map for each species. Vagrants are also treated in detail, and all species are illustrated on a beautiful series of 124 color plates, with artwork from John Gale and Brian Small. Conveniently, the plates have been arranged so that all the key species of the various archipelagos are placed together in sections.
 This is a major work of reference on the birds of the region and will remain the standard text for many years to come.

Field Guide to the Birds of Madagascar and the Indian Ocean Islands (Helm Field Guides)

Skerrett, Adrian

Biological Sciences

The Zurich Printout

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Independently published

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