Tactics And Tails

The study of alternative reproductive tactics (the behavioural strategies used by individuals to increase their reproductive success) is an evolutionary puzzle, and one of great interest to researchers. For instance, why do some males guard both nest and eggs, while others sneak into nests while pairs are spawning and fertilise those eggs? The field offers a special opportunity to study the evolution and functional causes of phenotypic variation, which is a general problem in the field of evolutionary biology. By integrating both mechanistic (psychological) and evolutionary (behavioural ecology) perspectives and by covering a great diversity of species, Alternative Reproductive Tactics addresses this integrated topic of longstanding interest, bringing together a multitude of otherwise scattered information in an accessible form that is ideal for graduate students and researchers.

Whitetail Techniques & Tactics contains informative and entertaining deer hunting articles from some of North America's top big-buck hunters. See the Table of Contents and notice the wide range of topics you can learn about. No matter where or when you pursue whitetails, this book will teach you guide-tested methods for finding and harvesting mature bucks. Included are tips for decoying, conducting deer drives, stillhunting, stand hunting, and glassing & stalking. You'll even learn special techniques designed especially for opening day. In addition to the expert hunting advice and stunning color photographs (over 100 in all), there's even a special bonus section at the end of the book that teaches you how to field-dress your deer.

This book deals with flying the conventional gear airplane in a safe and pleasurable manner. It covers every aspect of taildragger operation from aerodynamics maintenance and preflight, to normal operations, to operations in unusual or adverse conditions. Many photos and drawings show a pilots perspective from the cockpit of various maneuvers. As the author's experience is in back country and mountain flying, this is an excellent book for those whose taildragger operations will likely include bush type flying.

A status quo explosion puts Aubrey in charge of her shifter military team. She’s both capable and ready to tame the chaos. Until her team goes rogue. At the very worst moment, a tall, dark, and meowza-level hottie steps in. Oliver isn't just there to watch her fail. He’s there to steal her brand spanking new job. He’s closed off and skeptical. He’s as infuriating as he is domineering, and he’s totally strip-worthy. And he wants to get naked. It’s all in a day’s work. It’ll be fine, as long as Aubrey doesn’t look at him. As long as she doesn’t touch him. As long as they don’t get shot. Survive the mission, and everything will go back to normal. Survive a gaze into Oliver's disarming gray eyes, and she’ll deserve a promotion. Survive a taste of his lips…nope, there’s no turning back. Quick Bites are stand alone stories you can devour in a flash. Expect short, steamy shifter romance, edge-of-your-seat action, scorching love scenes, and a happily ever after. Additional Keywords: shifter, shapeshifter, paranormal romance, pnr, alpha, suspense romance

From the creator of the popular blog The Monsters Know What They’re Doing comes a compilation of villainous battle plans for Dungeon Masters. In the course of a Dungeons & Dragons game, a Dungeon Master has to make one decision after another in response to player behavior—and the better the players, the more unpredictable their behavior! It’s easy for even an experienced DM to get bogged down in on-the-spot decision-making or to let combat devolve into a boring slugfest, with enemies running directly at the player characters and biting, bashing, and slashing away. In The Monsters Know What They’re Doing, Keith Ammann lightens the DM’s burden by helping you understand your monsters’ abilities and develop battle plans before your fifth edition D&D game session begins. Just as soldiers don’t whip out their field manuals for the first time when they’re already under fire, a DM shouldn’t wait until the PCs have just encountered a dozen bullywugs to figure out how they advance, fight, and retreat. Easy to read and apply, The Monsters Know What They're Doing is essential reading for every DM.

A tactical and technical history of the development of British, American, and Japanese naval air defense from the 1920s to the 1980s. This is an account of the evolution of naval fighters for fleet air defense and the parallel evolution of the ships operating and controlling them, concentrating on the three main exponents of carrier warfare: the British Royal Navy, the U.S. Navy, and the Imperial Japanese Navy. It describes the earliest efforts from the 1920s, but it was not until radar allowed the direction of fighters that organized air defense became possible. Thus, major naval-air battles of the Second World War like Midway, the Pedestal convoy, the Philippine Sea, and Okinawa are portrayed as tests of the new technology. This was ultimately found wanting by the Kamikaze campaigns, leading to postwar moves towards computer control and new kinds of fighters. After 1945 the threats of nuclear weapons and standoff missiles compounded the difficulties of naval air defense. The second half of the book covers R.N. and U.S.N. attempts to solve these problems, looking at the American experience in Vietnam and British operations in the Falklands War. It concludes with the ultimate U.S. development of techniques and technology to fight the Outer Air Battle in the 1980s, which in turn point to the current state of carrier fighters and the supporting technology. Based largely on documentary sources, some previously unused, this book will appeal to both the naval and aviation communities. “Fighters Over the Fleet provides more information about fleet air defense than any other work currently available. It is recommended for specialist as well aviation-minded readers.” —Naval Historical Foundation

Word Frequencies in Written and Spoken English is a landmark volume in the development of vocabulary frequency studies. Whereas previous books have in general given frequency information about the written language only, this book provides information on both speech and writing. It not only gives information about the language as a whole, but also about the differences between spoken and written English, and between different spoken and written varieties of the language. The frequencies are derived from a wide ranging and up-to-date corpus of English: the British National Corpus, which was compiled from over 4,000 written texts and spoken transcriptions representing the present day language in the UK. The book is based on a new version of the corpus (available from 2001) providing more accurate grammatical information, which is essential (for example) for distinguishing words like leaves (noun) and leaves (verb) with different meanings. The book begins with a general introduction, explaining why such information is important and highlighting interesting linguistic findings that emerge from the statistical analysis of the British National Corpus vocabulary. It also contains twenty four 'interest boxes' which highlight and comment on different aspects of frequency - for example, the most common colour words in English in order of frequency, and a comparison of male words (e.g. man) and female words (e.g. woman) in terms of their frequency.

As trout rivers become more crowded and tackle developed to handle larger flies (and larger fish) warmwater fly fishing is becoming more popular and is the new frontier in fly fishing. When the boat launches on the famous trout streams look like a mall parking lot, you can still find solitude on warm water rivers and lakes nearby that offer stellar fishing. Part of a new series of fly-fishing tactics books that cover key areas in detail, with clear, straightforward writing, Tactics for Bass and Other Warmwater Species covers techniques, rigs, and fly patterns for largemouth and smallmouth bass, panfish, pike, and other species common in lakes around the country.