A pocket reference that allows the non-specialist to identify major insect and arachnid pests found in stored cereal grains, grain products and grain legumes. It describes most storage pests found worldwide and provides concise information on the biology, distribution, damage and economic importance of each species. Each entry contains at least one colour photograph. The notes for each species tell the nature of the pest or beneficial and the commodity affected; temperature and humidity condi...

This book brings together, in sixteen chapters, those elements of the mechanics of plasticity most pertinent to engineers. A textbook style has been adopted in which worked examples and exercises illustrate the application of the theoretical material. The latter is provided with appropriate references to journals and other published sources. An appendix contains worked examples to selected exercises.The presentation of the introductory material, the theoretical developments and the...

Insect infestations in grains and other stored food and fibre products cause annual losses worth many millions of dollars worldwide. This illustrated guide enables specialists and non-specialists to distinguish the major pests of durable stored products found throughout the world. It describes how to identify each pest group or species and summarises the latest information on their biology, ecology, geographical distribution, the damage they cause and their economic importance. Hundreds of co...

ROUTE TO OMEGA is the account of a spiritual, not a religious, journey, realistic rather than pious, a word the writer considers more harmful than helpful. It begins from the honest premise that most of us remain, to some degree, a mystery even to ourselves.There is humour here, with light and shade, alongside a candid reckoning with what it means to come to terms with oneself, however late in life that reckoning arrives. David Rees finds people's demand for happiness disconcerting...

This handbook covers a number of the more recent developments regarding the mechanics of deforming solids. In recent years, much progress has been reported in the wide-ranging mechanical behaviour of solids under stress. Here the term stress in a solid arises from a number of external actions including direct tension, compression, pressure, bending, shear and torsion. Many of the topics covered are yet to find their way into the standard texts, which are often restricted to isotropic elast...

The Milkman's on His Way was first published in 1982 and is one of the first queer young adult novels to appear in the UK. It tells the story of Ewan McCrae, a gay teenager living in Cornwall, struggling to come to terms with his sexuality. To explore his identity, Ewan leaves his claustrophobic home town for London, where he hopes to find people who are just like him. For many gay teenagers of the early 1980s The Milkman's on His Way was a rare chance to read a life-affirming story that p...

He was a persecutor of Christians who became Christianity’s greatest missionary. He was beaten, shipwrecked, imprisoned, and left for dead; yet he never stopped proclaiming the name of Jesus Christ. Who was the Apostle Paul, and what can his extraordinary life teach us about faith, resilience, and the transforming power of the Atonement? After spending more than four decades as a university professor and scholar, David A. Rees, PhD, brings Paul’s world to vivid life, pulling from the book ...

In the remote valleys of Mid Wales, the land remembers.When a small research team arrives to assess an isolated valley for cultural and environmental protection, they find more than mist and standing stones. The place the locals call the Scar is not simply a geological feature. It is watching. It has rules. And it does not forgive those who break them.Jilly, a young researcher still finding her place in the world, quickly senses that something is wrong. Paths shift. Time sl...

Alun looks after things.The old railway. The willow by the black pond. The moss he presses into the joins so the arrangements hold. His mother, in the chair by the telly, who still makes his tea the way he likes it.It is August in Caerphilly. The heat has soaked into the land and will not let go. Four old men have already been found. One has not. Alun does not watch the news for long. He has his routes, and as long as the routes are his, the house will stay as it is.

At 103, Dylan volunteers for the final mapping of his mind.He expects the end of forgetting.Instead, the past tears loose, raw, immediate, and still unfinished. A single metal horse warms in his palm. A single night from 1944 refuses to stay buried.Memory does not return whole. It diffuses. It erodes. It bleeds across decades until the boy he was and the man he is can no longer be separated.Diffusion, paired with its haunting companion story "Rewind...

In the misty valleys of South Wales, a man collapses on Aber's busy streets with a fatal wound, his final moments shrouded in dawn's eerie haze. Enter Inspector Price: a steadfast detective blending unyielding grit with profound compassion, navigating a world where toughness and kindness are the keys to survival.What begins as a suspected mugging near a shadowy cemetery spirals into chilling intrigue. Forensics uncover a premeditated strike, and a faded vintage photo awakens long-b...

In the shadow of Caerphilly's forgotten quarries, where ancient Welsh legends whisper warnings from the deep, Rhodri returns to claim his estranged uncle's crumbling estate. But what begins as a reluctant inheritance unravels into a nightmarish descent into "Weird Wales." A realm where glitches bleed into reality, and the knock-knock of mythical Coblynau miners echoes as a curse.Haunted by ghostly visions of his lost love and fractured family secrets, Rhodri uncovers a forbidden le...