Short reviews

01 June 1990
Comments Reviews Caring for your Pet Bird. By Dr R. Dean Axelson. (Revised edn. Sterling Publishing, New York; Cassell, London, 1989. 68 pages. Paperback £5.95) An informative guide to diseases of captive birds, which might help in treatment of injured wild birds. TIM...
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Short reviews

01 December 1989
Comments Reviews Birds of Prey of the Middle East. By Bertel Bruun and Assas Serhal. Illustrated by Arthur Singer and Sherif Baha. (Holy Land Conservation Fund & the Society for the Protection of Nature in Lebanon. New York & Beirut, 1988. 96 pages. $10.00) Thi...
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Reviews

01 June 1955
Comments Reviews Silent Spring. By Rachel Carson. H a m i s h Hamilton, London, 1963. x x i i + 3 0 4 p a g e s . 25s. The theme of this book is that the last two decades have seen an ever increasing use of synthetic organic chemicals to control pest organisms, that these...
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