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The sea surface microlayer (SML) occupies the uppermost tens to hundreds of micrometers of the ocean surface. Consequently, it is in direct contact with the atmosphere and covers around 70% [...]

THE MYSTERY OF THE PARSEE LAWYER Arthur Conan Doyle, George Edalji and the case of the foreigner in the English village SHRABANIBASU 320pp. Bloomsbury. 20 [pounds sterling]. STAFFORDSHIRE, 1903. The [...]

Five community wildlife conservation and utilization initiatives, or conservancies, on communal land in Namibia were appraised to determine economic and financial worth. Conservancies are economically efficient and able to contribute positively to national income and the development process. They also provide a channel for the capture of international donor grants (wildlife non-use values) as income, and generate attractive financial returns for communities. Donor grants are very important catalysts in promoting land use change in conservancies. Ability to generate income from tourism is important. Flexibility and adaptability in design are key factors, ensuring effective rural development and conservation. Key words--Africa, Namibia, community, wildlife, economics, incentives

JOKER Various cinemas Right from the start, the Joker has been a figure of antic disruption. In his earliest appearance, a comic book by his creators Bill Finger and Bob [...]

Richard Pine MINOR MYTHOLOGIES AS POPULAR LITERATURE A student's guide to texts and films 460 pp. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Paperback, 39.99 [pounds sterling]. 978 1 5275 1396 9 In his [...]

Joseph O'Connor SHADOWPLAY 320pp. Harvill Seeker. 14.99 [pounds sterling]. 978 1 78730 085 9 How did Dracula come to be written? The novel is, in its own way, a masterpiece, [...]

Philip French NOTES FROM THE DREAM HOUSE Selected film reviews 1963-2013 Edited by Kersti French, Karl French, Patrick French and Sean French 320pp. Carcanet. Paperback, 17.99[pounds sterling]. 978 1 78410 [...]

Sean O'Brien QUARTIER PERDU 240pp. Comma. Paperback, 9.99 [pounds sterling]. 978 1 905583 70 6 Sean O'Brien's new collection of short stories carries an unexpected but welcome hint of the [...]

Simon Brown SCREENING STEPHEN KING Adaptation and the horror genre in film and television 240pp. University of Texas Press. Paperback, $29.95. 978 1 4773 1491 3 When it comes to [...]

Mark Forsyth A CHRISTMAS CORNUCOPIA The hidden stories behind our Yuletide traditions 192pp. Viking. 9.99 [pounds sterling]. 978 0 241 26773 8 Martin Johnes CHRISTMAS AND THE BRITISH A modern [...]

Hugh Walpole ALL SOULS' NIGHT 238pp. Valancourt. Paperback, $16.99. 978 1 943910 35 9 In The Prose Factory, his dexterous survey of English literary life since the end of the [...]

Fiona Peters and Rebecca Stewart, editors ANTIHERO 220pp. Intellect. Paperback, 25 [pounds sterling]. 978 1 78320 519 6 Many of the protagonists of antiquity--Gilgamesh, say, or Achilles--can strike the modern [...]

Jason Wood and Ian Haydn Smith, editors NEW BRITISH CINEMA From 'Submarine' to '12 Years a Slave' 304pp. Faber. 17.99 [pounds sterling]. 978 0 571 31516 1 It is meant [...]

Jonathan Holloway JEKYLL AND HYDE Southwark Playhouse, until October 19 There is some strange connection between the great nineteenth-century novels of terror and bad dreams. In 1816, the young Mary [...]

H. P. Lovecraft THE SHADOW OUT OF TIME Adapted and illustrated by I. N. J. Culbard 120pp. SelfMadeHero. Paperback, 14.99 [pounds sterling]. 978 1 906838 68 3 In June 1936, [...]

James O'Brien THE SCIENTIFIC SHERLOCK HOLMES Cracking the case with science and forensics 256pp. Oxford University Press. 18.99 [pounds sterling] (US $29.95). 978 0 1 9979496 6 How did Sherlock [...]

James Chapman and Nicholas J. Cull PROJECTING TOMORROW Science fiction and popular cinema 272pp. I. B. Tauris. Paperback, 14.99 [pounds sterling]. 978 1 78076 410 8 James Chapman and Nicholas [...]

J. F. Roberts THE TRUE HISTORY OF THE BLACK ADDER The unadulterated tale of the creation of a comedy legend 464pp. Preface. 18.99 [pounds sterling]. 978 1 84809 346 1 [...]

Peter Moore DAMN HIS BLOOD 363pp. Chatto and Windus. 16.99 [pounds sterling]. 978 0 701 18644 9 Even before the 'wild and merciless crime' that would make it infamous, the [...]

Martin Amis LIONEL ASBO 288pp. Cape. 18.99 [pounds sterling]. 978 0 224 09620 1 In 1985, Martin Amis judged a competition to find the best short story by a writer [...]

Lisa Morton GHOSTS A haunted history 208pp. Reaktion. 16 [pounds sterling] (US $25). 978 1 78023 517 2 Roger Luckhurst ZOMBIES A cultural history 224pp. Reaktion. 16 [pounds sterling] (US [...]

Antony Edmonds OSCAR WILDE'S SCANDALOUS SUMMER The 1894 Worthing holiday and the aftermath 224pp. Amberley. 20 [pounds sterling] (US $34.95). 978 1 4456 3618 4 The summer of 1894 was [...]

Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, editor THE ASHGATE ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF LITERARY AND CINEMATIC MONSTERS 640pp. Ashgate. 90 [pound sterling]. 978 1 4094 2562 5 The human imagination seems limitless in its capacity [...]

SHERLOCK HOLMES The man who never lived and will never die Museum of London, until April 12, 2015 In the last days of the Scottish Independence Referendum, I often found [...]

Rudyard Kipling ON THE ORIENT 140pp. Hesperus Press. Paperback, 7.99 [pounds sterling]. 978 1 84391 624 6 For all that the works of Rudyard Kipling can strike twenty-first-century readers as [...]