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The Crusader Strategy: Defending the Holy Land by Steve Tibble Yale, [pounds sterling]25, pp. 353 One of the strange effects that modernist, progressive society has had on what the French [...]

Sons of Waves: The Common Seaman in the Heroic Age of Sail by Stephen Taylor Yale, [pounds sterling]20, pp. 490 Seafaring and the rule of the waves--as the song would [...]

Animal Languages: The Secret Conversations of the Living World by Eva Meijer John Murray, 14.99 [pounds sterling], pp. 276 The reality of animal communication (or, more precisely, our belief in [...]

The Beauty and the Terror: An Alternative History of the Italian Renaissance by Catherine Fletcher Penguin/Bodley Head, 25 [pounds sterling], pp. 400 The Mediterranean-centred era spanning a century or so [...]

The recent failure of a deal to deliver hydrogen-powered trucks to New Zealand and the removal of a government rebate scheme for green hydrogen users have raised doubts about the country's transition to clean energy. While interest in green hydrogen has grown globally, critical voices have been largely absent from the debate in New Zealand. Some experts argue that battery electric vehicles are superior to hydrogen vehicles for heavy transport, and developments in battery-run and fast-charging electric trucks may make hydrogen fuel cells unnecessary in road transport. A more nuanced perspective is needed to inform government policy and focus resources on applications with the best chance of decarbonization and sustainability. [Extracted from the article]

Seapower States: Maritime Culture, Continental Empires and the Conflict that Made the Modern Worldby Andrew LambertYale, 20[pounds sterling], pp. 399The sea--that wine-dark whale road, to mix Homeric and Anglo-Saxon evocations [...]

Road to Disaster: A New History of America's Descent into Vietnam by Brian VanDeMark Custom House, 25 [pounds sterling], pp. 622 Many wars have outsized and enduring effects on the [...]

A Claxton Diary: Further Field Notes from a Small Planet by Mark Cocker Cape, 16.99 [pounds sterling], pp. 224 Walking home from work one day during the half-year I lived [...]

The Capenhurst Diffusion Plant was built in the early 1950s by the Atomic Energy Division of the Ministry of Supply, at which time it was the largest industrial building in [...]

THE FALL OF ROME AND THE END OF CIVILIZATION by Bryan Ward-Perkins OUP, 14.99 £, pp. 239, ISBN O192805649 [telephone] 12.99 £ (plus 2.25 £ p&p) 0870 800 4848 THE [...]

ON BEAUTY edited by Umberto Eco Seeker, 30 £, pp. 438, ISBN 0436205173 [telephone] 26 £ (plus 2.25 £ p&p) 0870 800 4848 A HISTORY OF HUMAN BEAUTY by Arthur [...]

WORLDS AT WAR: THE 2,500-YEAR STRUGGLE BETWEEN EAST AND WEST by Anthony Pagden OUP, 20 £, pp. 548, ISBN 9780199237432 [telephone] 16 £ (plus 2.45 £ p&p) 0870 429 6655 [...]

THE HUMAN TOUCH : OUR PART IN THE CREATION OF A UNIVERSE by Michael Frayn Faber, £20, pp. 505, ISBN 0571232175 . £16 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 For [...]

The study of hybrid zones advances understanding of the speciation process, and approaches incorporating genomic data are increasingly used to draw significant conclusions about the impact of hybridisation. Despite the progress made, the complex interplay of factors that can lead to substantially variable hybridisation outcomes are still not well understood, and many systems and/or groups remain comparatively poorly studied. Our study aims to broaden the literature on avian hybrid zones, investigating a potentially geographically and temporally complex putative hybrid zone between two native Australian non-sister parrot species, the pale-headed and eastern rosellas (Platycercus adscitusand Platycercus eximius, respectively). We analysed six plumage traits and >1400 RADseq loci and detected hybrid individuals and an unexpectedly complex geographic structure. The hybrid zone is larger than previously described due to either observer bias or its movement over recent decades. It comprises different subregions where genetic and plumage signals of admixture vary markedly in their concordance. Evidence of contemporary hybridisation (later generation and backcrossed individuals) both within and beyond the previously defined zone, when coupled with a lack of F1 hybrids and differential patterns of introgression among potentially diagnostic loci, indicates a lack of post-zygotic barriers to gene flow between species. Despite ongoing gene flow, species boundaries are likely maintained largely by strong pre-mating barriers. These findings are discussed in detail and future avenues for research into this system are proposed, which would be of benefit to the speciation and hybrid zone literature.

The market share of alllow-emission vehicles rose from 20% to 60%, easilysurpassing emissions targets of the clean car standardwhich came into force this year. Policies and funds to decarbonise high-emittingindustries and electrify transport are already deliveringemissions cuts. [Extracted from the article]

NIXON AND KISSINGER: PARTNERS IN POWER by Robert Dallek Allen Lane, 30 £, pp. 740, ISBN 9780713997965 [telephone] 24 £ (plus 2.45 £ p&p) 0870 429 6655 For a man […]

A WAR LIKE NO OTHER: HOW THE ATHENIANS AND SPARTANS FOUGHT THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR by Victor Davis Hanson Methuen, 18.99 £, pp. 397, ISBN 0413775259 [tel] 15.99 £ (plus 2.45 [...]

DISNEYWAR by James B. Stewart Simon & Schuster, 20 £, pp. 572, ISBN 0743263812 [telephone] 18 £ (plus 2.25 £ p&p) 0870 800 4848 According to the business press, the [...]

ENGLAND'S LOST EDEN by Philip Hoare Fourth Estate, 25 £, pp. 548, ISBN 0007159102 23 £ (plus 2.25 £ p&p) 0870 800 4848 While the Victorian age was certainly one [...]

When he was only 22, in around 334BC, Alexander of Macedon (otherwise known as Alexander the Great) began his conquest of the known world. By the age of 25, he [...]

In cinemas this autumn, Sarah Michelle Gellar, the former star of the hit American TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, appears in The Grudge, a remake of the Japanese horror [...]

Harvey Weinstein has reached a moment of choice. He and his brother Bob, co-chairmen of Miramax, have been renegotiating their contract with Walt Disney Company, which expires in September 2005. […]

ZULU: THE HEROISM AND TRAGEDY OF THE ZULU WAR by Saul David Viking, 20 £, pp. 467, ISBN 0670914746 18 £ (plus 2.25 £ p&p) 0870 800 4848 'You will […]

THE ANATOMY OF FASCISM by Robert O. Paxton Allen Lane, 20 £, pp. 321, ISBN 0713997206 After defeating two fascist powers in a world war, the citizens of the democratic […]

A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE HUMAN RACE by Michael Cook Granta, 20 £, pp. 385. ISBN 1862076861 Titles that begin with the phrase A Brief History of ... are no [...]

OPERATION HEARTBREAK AND THE MAN WHO NEVER WAS by Duff Cooper and Ewen Montagu Spellmount, 18.99 £, pp. 200, ISBN 1862271879 In the spring of 1943, Allied armies in North [...]

RIFLES: SIX YEARS WITH WELLINGTON'S LEGENDARY SHARPSHOOTERS by Mark Urban Faber, 20 £, pp. 351, ISBN 0571216803 In the spring of 1990, at the age of 21, I found myself [...]

There are many chemicals used in cleaning buildings, outside and inside, that can present hazards in many ways especially when incompatible compounds are mixed. For example bleach and ammonia are both used as separate cleaning agents in washrooms and toilets but if they are mixed they can produce phosgene gas that could prove fatal if inhaled. Various changes can be made to cleaning procedures such as substitution or elimination of chemicals, isolation, and employment of protective equipment and clothing. Training in all these aspects and others are highly desirable.

Regarding the Calexico article (12/08), I too have been fortunate enough to record at the Wavelab with Craig Schumacher, I wanted to point out a couple things about the way [...]

Hollywood has never been noted for its philosophers. Yet to host this year's Oscar ceremony, the Academy has hired a man who is as comfortable discussing the similarities between the [...]

THE BROKEN STRING: THE LAST WORDS OF AN EXTINCT PEOPLE by Neil Bennun Viking, 17.99 £, pp. 420, ISBN 0670912506 It was probably doomed to end badly. A hunter-gatherer people, […]