Matthew Evans
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How can 160,000 deaths in one day constitute a 'medium-sized operation'?
Think beef is killing the world? What about asparagus farms? Or golf?
Going vegan might be all the rage, but the fact is the world has an ever-growing, insatiable appetite for meat - especially cheap meat. Former food critic and chef, now farmer and restaurateur Matthew Evans grapples with the thorny issues around the ways we produce and consume animals. From feedlots and abattoirs,...
2) Soil
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What we do to the soil, we do to ourselves.
Soil is the unlikely story of our most maligned resource as swashbuckling hero. A saga of bombs, ice ages and civilisations falling. Of ancient hunger, modern sicknesses and gastronomic delight. It features poison gas, climate collapse and a mind-blowing explanation of how rain is formed.
For too long, we've not only neglected the land beneath us, we've squandered and debased it, by over-clearing, over-grazing...
3) Rebus: set 1
Pub. Date
[2006]
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2 videodiscs (ca. 139 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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John Rebus is a hard bitten detective who pursures truth on the gritty streets of modern-day Edinburgh. "The falls": After the gruesome murder of a prominent physician, Rebus and Clarke soon find themselves hot on the trail of an apparent serial killer. "Fleshmarket close": When a beautiful young seamstress goes missing, the search takes Rebus and Clarke to the mean, melting streets of Knoxland Estate, the high-rise project that houses Edinburgh's...
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[2008]
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3 videodiscs (ca. 460 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Going wrong: As wild teenagers, Guy Curran and Leonora Chisholm believed that they were soulmates. When they meet again eight years later, Guy aims to reclaim her, no matter who stands in his way.
Harm done: Detective Chief Inspector Wexford faces growing public unrest over the release of a pedophile, an odd series of abductions, and the disappearance of a wealthy couple's daughter from her bedroom.
The fallen curtain: Abducted briefly as a boy,...
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Wolfblood volume 5
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Alric returns with an ultimatum for Jana and Rhydian has a choice to make.
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Wolfblood volume 7
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The feuds within our pack escalate when student elections are held, putting them all at risk.
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Wolfblood volume 13
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The world closes in on the Wolfblood secret. Could this be the end for the pack?
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Wolfblood volume 3
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A forensic scientist is about to uncover the Wolfblood secret after Liam's father ploughs up an old skeleton.
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Wolfblood volume 6
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Maddy, Emma, Daniel, Tom and Shannon are lured to a creepy old house, and Rhydian learns something new about Jana.
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Wolfblood volume 8
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Jana is after Shannon's computer and Maddy must decide where her best interests lie.
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Wolfblood volume 2
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An unexpected arrival puts our Wolfblood's in jeopardy and Maddy must choose sides.
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Wolfblood volume 10
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On an orienteering trip, Liam, Maddy and Rhydian go looking for an old "werewolf" lair…
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Wolfblood volume 11
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Ceri unexpectedly turns up at the caravan with extraordinary news for Jana.
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Wolfblood volume 12
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Alric comes looking for revenge and Liam goes back into the tunnels with Jimi and Sam.
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Wolfblood volume 4
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A lunar eclipse gives our Wolfblood's a chance to experience something new, and Shannon reveals a hidden talent.
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Wolfblood volume 9
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Maddy blames herself for Shannon's depression and hopes to makes things right at Kara's school disco which is on a no moon night.
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Wolfblood volume 1
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Rhydian unexpectedly returns to Stoneybridge, chased by Alric, the wild wolfblood pack leader and two of his beta wolves, Arran and Meinir. Not only does this put Maddy and her family in danger, Rhydian himself seems to have changed and he doesn't want to talk about his experience in the wild.
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Wolfblood volume 6
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Lost without her pack, it's a full moon and Jana's inner wolf has become morwal - a bitter angry wolf with the instinct to attack.
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Wolfblood volume 11
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Jeffries gets a lot more than more than he bargained for when he decides to follow Tom and his friends.
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Wolfblood volume 8
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Rhydian and Jana mysteriously collapse as a comet appears on the dark of the moon – can Shannon save the day?