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Oxford Wood Machine Guide by David Wright , Terry Bloar
This book will be useful for a variety of courses, Wood Machines, L 1 and 2, Bench Joinery, Site Joinery and Carpentry L. 3, Woodmachining and many smaller NVQs as well as BTEC courses of similar subject. The book is designed for each student to have his own book and includes: full colour photographs to illustrate complex machines, step-by-step directions on how to use the 5 main large wood cutting machinery (NVQ 2 and 3), and assessment questions - material for lecturers to monitor students progress. 1) Introduction1. 50 years of Animal Behaviour.2) The history of behavioural research2. A textbook history of animal behaviour.3. Behavioural Ecology: natural history as science4. The transformation of behaviour field studies.5. Too much natural history, or too little?6. A history of Animal Behaviour by a partial, ignorant and prejudiced ethologist..3) Proximate mechanisms7. Genes and social behaviour.8. Control of behavioural strategies for capricious environments.9. Costing reproduction. 4) Development10. The promise of behavioural biology.11. Making a decision by integrating socially and individually acquired information.12. Behavioural processes affecting development: Tinbergen's fourth question comes of age.13. The case for developmental ecology.5) Adaptation14. Beyond extra-pair paternity: individual constraints, fitness components, and social mating systems15. Interplay between theory and empiricism in sexual selection.16. Indirect selection and individual selection in sociobiology: my personal views on theories of social behaviour.17. Honesty and deception in animal signals.18. Fifty years of bird song research: a case study in animal behaviour.19. Avian navigation: from historical to modern concepts.6) Animal Welfare20. Behaviour and animal welfare.