Most Popular Books by David Hancock

This exciting new series of family-friendly walk and cycle ride books offers routes all over Britain. Written and researched by experts in their field, the guides are designed to be practical and easy to use for a perfectly planned day out for the whole family. Each guide includes 25 walks and 15 cycle rides with colour photographs throughout showing sites, views and pubs along the route. A full colour map accompanies each walk and cycle and there is practical information such as distance, minimum time and level of difficulty to make sure you make the most of your family day out.

Discover the highlights of Hampshire with the help of this slim-line pocket-sized walking guide. The guide offers over 50 walks, including the Winchester Meadows, Silchester, Titchfield Haven, and the ancient manors of the Isle of Wight. A lively introduction to the county sets the scene.

From renowned YouTube photography educator David Hancock, this short and comprehensive guide details the Minolta X-700 35mm film SLR''s operation. This 10,000-word tutorial will help you understand why the camera works as it does and teach you to use it to obtain the best photos from it. This book describes how to use the camera and, more importantly, explains why the different functions benefit and improve your photography. This book also describes known problems with the Minolta X-700, how to identify them, and options to correct issues. In this 60-minute read, Mr. Hancock covers the basic operating points such as changing batteries, loading film, mounting lenses, and using a flash. He also explains the reasons that each process works and provides tips and tricks for each task to help ensure that the photographer understands why each function is important. Whether you''re a new film photographer, a student, a returning hobbyist, or even if you''ve never held a film camera before, this manual will provide you the details and information that you need to know to effectively use the Minolta X-700.

From renowned YouTube photography educator David Hancock, this short and comprehensive guide details the Pentax MX 35mm film SLR''s operation. This 10,000-word tutorial will help you understand why the camera works as it does and teach you to use it to obtain the best photos from it. This book describes how to use the camera and, more importantly, explains why the different functions benefit and improve your photography. This book also describes known problems with the Pentax MX, how to identify them, and options to correct issues. This book also covers the Minolta X-300 and Seagull DF-300, which are identical cameras. In this 60-minute read, Mr. Hancock covers the basic operating points such as changing batteries, loading film, mounting lenses, and using a flash. He also explains the reasons that each process works and provides tips and tricks for each task to help ensure that the photographer understands why each function is important. Whether you''re a new film photographer, a student, a returning hobbyist, or even if you''ve never held a film camera before, this manual will provide you the details and information that you need to know to effectively use the Pentax MX.

This exciting new series of family-friendly walk and cycle ride books offers routes all over Britain. Written and researched by experts in their field, the guides are designed to be practical and easy to use for a perfectly planned day out for the whole family. Each guide includes 25 walks and 15 cycle rides with colour photographs throughout showing sites, views and pubs along the route. A full colour map accompanies each walk and cycle and there is practical information such as distance, minimum time and level of difficulty to make sure you make the most of your family day out.

This guide contains 28 circular, graded walks all tried and tested by seasoned walkers. The routes range from extended strolls to exhilarating hikes, so there is something for everyone.

"This is the first published comprehensive account of Zambia''s butterfly fauna, following over one hundred years of collecting activity" INTRO.

Contains ingredients for a harebrained and a funny read.

Kuwarddewardde: a forbidding, mysterious and ancient land.The Arnhem Land plateau (known locally as the Stone Country) covers an area of 32,000 sq kms and generates much of the fertility of the Top End of Australia. The region is stunningly beautiful and unique - both physically and culturally.The traditional home to more than 50 clans of the Bininj (Aboriginal) people of western Arnhem Land, the Stone Country has long been a refuge for them, and rare fauna and flora.People have lived in the Stone Country for tens of thousands of years - their presence attested to on the walls and ceilings of rock shelters, from drawings of small dynamic images of hunters and their quarry that date back over 30,000 years, to ¿contact¿ art that depicts the arrival of Europeans in northern Australia less than 200 years ago. The rock art of the Stone Country (which includes parts of modern-day Kakadu and Nitmiluk national parks) is prolific and extensive, representing the longest continual record of human settlement and endeavor of any place on Earth.To European newcomers, the Stone Country was an unwelcoming, hot environment with rugged cliffs, bare, layered sandstone boulders and difficult-to-navigate terrain. For Bininj, who crisscrossed the plateau for centuries, food and shelter was plentiful and routes between the coast and inland regions were easy to travel.Each year, water runs off the highly weathered sandstone of the Stone Country during the tropical wet season, filling some of the largest rivers in northern Australia that bisect tropical woodlands and floodplains before reaching the coast .

Food insecurity affects 16 percent of the population in northern Ghana, making food security a major focus for many of the development programs in the country. A major initiative to overcome food insecurity may involve the development of effective storage systems to help farmers control the flow of their production to markets and, thus, have higher control over the price they receive. While the poor storage infrastructure in the region is known, there is lack of knowledge about the factors motivating farmers to utilize storage in spite of these conditions. The purpose of this paper is to increase understanding about storage behavior of smallholder maize farmers in northern Ghana. A review of the literature indicates credit plays a large role in storage behavior. The purpose of this thesis is to bridge the gap between literature on storage as a bank, and on storage as a way to ensure food security. Specific objectives include: i) estimating formal and informal credit''s effects on storage behavior of smallholder maize growers, and ii) examining the effect of credit at various levels of storage. This analysis is based on data collected on 527 farmers in Ghana''s four northernmost regions obtained from an agricultural production survey conducted in 2013 and 2014 by USAID-METSS - a project funded by the Economic Growth Office of the USAID mission in Ghana. Ordinary Least Squares modeling was employed to determine the marginal effects of formal and informal credit on storage. Additionally, quantile regression modeling estimated the marginal effects at different levels of storage, including the median. The results indicate that formal credit and on-farm storage had statistically significant negative effects on maize storage at both the mean and median, but only farm output proved to be statistically significant at different levels across the storage distribution. On-farm storage had a statistically significant negative effect on storage when compared to storing off-farm at facilities like local store rooms. Carryover storage from the previous year tested to have statistically significant negative effects on storage. Under the conceptual framework utilized for this study, the results suggest that using formal credit increases a household''s food security.

"From the beginning, this has been a project of superlatives : the world''s longest sing-track line, the harshest environment and Australia''s largest infrastructure project. The wonderful photographs in this book are more than a record of how we delivered a project that had been discusses for over a century. They pay tribute to the hundreds of Australians from all walks of life who invested their time, skill, money or labour - and always their hope - in fulfilling the vision." Malcolm Kinnaird, Chairman, Asia Pacific Transport.

Lettilgængelig fagbilledbog om verdens store civilisationer, i Kina, Egypten, Sydamerika og Europa

Pourquoi fait-il noir la nuit ? Qu''est-ce que la neige ? Quelle est la cause des tremblements de terre ? Qu''y a-t-il sous la mer ? Les réponses à ces questions et à des centaines d''autres concernant le monde qui nous entoure se trouvent dans ce livre captivant. Le jeune lecteur se familiarisera avec les concepts de base de la géographie grâce au texte simple et facile à lire et aux illustrations détaillées et vivantes.