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Welcome to the October 2016 edition of the NHBS Monthly Catalogue. This monthly update contains all of the wildlife, science and environment titles added to nhbs.com in the last month. Editor's Picks - New in Stock this Month

● Ants of Africa and Madagascar: A Guide to the Genera● Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?● Birds of Serbia: Critical List of Species [English / Serbian]● Collins Life-Size Birds: The Only Guide to Show British Birds at Their Actual Size● Dinosaur Tracks: The Next Steps● Field Guide to the Mushrooms of Britain and Ireland● The Great Acceleration: An Environmental History of the Anthropocene Since

1945● Horned Armadillos and Rafting Monkeys: The Fascinating Fossil Mammals of

South America● Insect Microscopy● Ladders to Heaven: How Fig Trees Shaped Our History, Fed Our Imaginations

and Can Enrich Our Future● Lichens of Finland● Long Hops: Making Sense of Bird Migration● The Masters of Nature Photography, Volume Two: Wildlife Photographer of the

Year● Raptors in Focus: A Quest to Find Birds of Prey in Europe and Beyond● Struik Pocket Guide: Butterflies of East Africa● Why Birds Matter: Avian Ecological Function and Ecosystem Services

Stock titles

● Butterflies of Europe and Neighbouring Regions● The Five-Year Butterfly Hunt: Five Summers Photographing Our Native

Butterflies● The Flora of Lanarkshire● Printing Wildlife: Approaches to Wildlife Printmaking● Raptor Medicine, Surgery and Rehabilitation● Venezuela y Sus Tortugas [Venezuela and its Turtles]

New editions

● Birds of Nepal (2nd edition)● The Cornell Lab of Ornithology Handbook of Bird Biology (3rd edition)● The Princeton Field Guide to Dinosaurs (2nd edition)

New in paperback

● Elephant Don: The Politics of a Pachyderm Posse● Hummingbirds: A Life-Size Guide to Every Species● Natural Histories: 25 Extraordinary Species That Have Changed Our World● Tweet of the Day: A Year of Britain's Birds from the Acclaimed Radio 4 Series

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Baleines et Dauphins: Histoire Naturelle et Guide des Especes [Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises: A Natural HistoryAnnalisa BertaThe 90 species of the order Cetacea are some of the most diverse, intelligent, and elusive animals on the planet. Highly migratory, they live beneath remote skies thousands of miles away from land. The huge distances they cover and the ...

288 pages | colour photos, colour & b/w illustrations, colour distribution maps | Hardback | NYP 10/2016 | 9782841388516 | #232419A | £50.99 Add to basket

Bats of Colima, MexicoCornelio Sanchez-Hernandez, Maria De Lourdes Romero-Almaraz, Gary D Schnell and Michael KennedyThe tiny state of Colima on Mexico\s Pacific coast is one of the three most biodiverse hot spots in the world. Straddling temperate and tropical zones, with rugged topography ranging from a volcanic mountaintop to sandy beaches, the state ...

340 pages | 200+ colour photos and colour distribution maps | Paperback | 09/2016 | 9780806152165 | #232454A | £61.50 Add to basket

Bear NecessitiesRescue, Rehabilitation, Sanctuary, and AdvocacyLisa KemmererWhat is it like to rehabilitate sun bears in the rainforests of Malaysia? Why were sloth bears trained to dance? What does Chinese medicine have to do with black bears in North America? Skilled grassroots activists, dedicated ...

248 pages | colour & b/w illustrations | Hardback | 08/2015 | 9789004292901 | #225973A | £94.99 Add to basketPaperback | 06/2016 | 9789004328389 | #232281A | £34.99 Add to basket

Ethnoprimatology: A Practical Guide to Research at the Human-Nonhuman InterfaceKerry M Dore, Erin P Riley and Agustin FuentesEthnoprimatology, the combining of primatological and anthropological practice and the viewing of humans and other primates as living in integrated and shared ecological and social spaces, has become an increasingly popular approach to ...

330 pages | Hardback | NYP 12/2016 | 9781107109964 | #230983A | £54.99 Add to basket

Guide des Chevaux d'Europe [Guide to the Horses of Europe]Elise Rousseau and Yann Le BrisThis comprehensive guide presents all European horse breeds, from the most famous and the rarest and least well known, to those who come from other parts of the globe, but are frequently bred in Europe. For each breed the book provides ...

352 pages | colour illustrations | Hardback | 08/2016 | 9782603024379 | #232551A | £35.99 Add to basket

High Altitude PrimatesNanda B Grow, Sharon Gursky-Doyen and Ali KrztonThe basic goal of High Altitude Primates is to compile the most up to date research on how high altitude affects the behavior, ecology, evolution and conservation status of primates, especially in comparison to lowland population ...

400 pages | 2 colour & 59 b/w illustrations, 46 tables | Hardback | 10/2013 | 9781461481744 | #209445A | £115.50 Add to basketPaperback | 08/2016 | 9781493952830 | #232283A | £115.50 Add to basket

Horse/HumanAn Emotional BondBob Tabor and Katharine MerlinSoulful, enigmatic, graceful, beautiful – so many words come to mind when describing a horse, but no word can capture the true essence of a horse quite like an exquisite photograph. Acclaimed photographer Bob Tabor has ...

184 pages | 104 colour photos | Hardback | 11/2015 | 9780996293082 | #232349A | £59.99 Add to basket

Horses: Portraits by Derry MooreDerry Moore, Sir Richard Stagg, Ian Balding, Sir Humphrey Wakefield and Countess of Euston ClareDerry Moore's photographs celebrate the extraordinary beauty in the trappings and traditions of the equestrian world. Offering a privileged glimpse into the lives of jockeys and cavalrymen, Spanish riding schools, and Midwestern rodeo ...

192 pages | 150 colour & b/w photos | Hardback | 09/2016 | 9780847848843 | #232653A | £44.99 Add to basket

Le Chevreuil [Roe Deer]Philippe Carruette, Pascal Etienne and Marc MaillerThis book introduces the reader to the secret life of the roe deer, a familiar yet mysterious little deer. Its history, morphology, behaviour, relationship to man and imagination are explained in detail and illustrated with 160 colour ...


Le Sanglier [The Boar]Pascal EtienneAlso known as the "black beast", the boar does not fail to impress with its secretive behaviour, its broad shoulders and large tusks. Although rarely seen, it lingers in the minds of the walker who walks the vast forests, as the ...

192 pages | Hardback | 09/2016 | 9782603024751 | #232394A | £26.50 Add to basket

Les Vaches Ont une Histoire: Naissance des Races Bovines [Cows have a History: The Birth of Bovine Breeds]Bernard Denis and ëmile BaudementAnimal breeds have not existed since the dawn of time. They have been shaped by man, often in little time. Until the early twentieth century, peasants did not care to select their cattle, provided that they survived. It is from that time ...

240 pages | b/w photos, b/w illustrations | Hardback | 09/2016 | 9782603024416 | #232600A | £42.99 Add to basket



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Pocket Photo Guide to the Mammals of South-East AsiaCharles M FrancisThis compact, easy-to-use identification guide describes 192 species of mammals found in South-east Asia, covering each major genus. The book features thumbnail silhouettes, a regional distribution map, and up-to-date tips on the best wildlife ...

128 pages | colour photos | Paperback | NYP 03/2017 | 9781472937971 | #232632A | £9.99 Add to basket

The LonghornsJ Frank Dobie and Tom LeoThe Texas Longhorn made more history than any other breed of cattle the world has known. These wiry, intractable beasts were themselves pioneers in a harsh land, moving elementally with drouth, grass, Arctic blizzards, and burning winds.

440 pages | b/w illustrations | Paperback | 06/1980 | 9780292746275 | #232502A | £13.99 Add to basket

The Way of the HareMarianne TaylorThe Brown Hare is an animal we all know but rather rarely see, even though it is quite common, active by day and lives in the wide open spaces of classic lowland countryside. It can make itself almost invisible, lying still in its form ...

272 pages | colour plates, b/w illustrations | Hardback | 06/2017 | 9781472909893 | #232446A | £16.99 Add to basket

Birds

Australian Bird GuidePeter Menkhorst, Danny Rogers and Rohan ClarkeThis is the ultimate field guide to Australian birds, modelled on the hugely successful Collins Bird Guide for European Birds. There are around 3-4 species per plate, with the very finest specially commissioned illustrations and detailed text ...

544 pages | colour illustrations | Paperback | NYP 04/2017 | 9781472912350 | #232637A | £24.99 Add to basket

Birds of Andaman and Nicobar IslandsChandrakasan Sivaperuman, G Gokulakrishnan, J Dinesh and PT RajanTwo hundred and eighty four species of birds were recorded from Andaman and Nicobar Islands, belonging 56 families under 17 orders. Of these, 155 species were residents, 58 were local migrants, 64 were trans-continental migrants, 6 were ...

109 pages | colour photos | Paperback | 03/2016 | 9788181714312 | #232683A | £53.50 Add to basket

Birds of the Pacific NorthwestJohn Shewey and Tim BlountBirds of the Pacific Northwest describes and illustrates more than 400 bird species commonly encountered in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and British Columbia. This comprehensive, full-colour guide is organized to follow the order ...

512 pages | colour photos, colour distribution maps | Paperback | NYP 03/2017 | 9781604696653 | #229886A | £26.50 Add to basket

Field Guide to Birds of the Kruger National ParkWarwick Tarboton and Peter G RyanThe essential guide to bird ID in Kruger National Park, South Africa. - Distribution maps accurately pinpoint recorded sightings - Full-colour photographs of each species - Includes more than 500 species - Vagrants and ...

244 pages | 800 colour photos, colour distribution maps | Paperback | NYP 12/2016 | 9781775844495 | #232296A | £12.99 Add to basket

Instinctive Behaviour in BirdsKaushik Deuti and Mousumi RoyThe authors are of the opinion that birds are nothing but "glorified reptiles" from which they have descended as evidenced from fossils like Archaeopteryx, so most of the basic behaviour in birds is instinctive like that of reptiles ...


Jungle FolkIndian Natural History SketchesDouglas Dewar"You will find no lack of superlatives among our Indian birds" writes Douglas Dewar in this superb and idiosyncratic book about some of the most interesting birds to be found in the country. From the common crow ...


Nightingales in NovemberA Year in the Lives of Twelve British BirdsMike Dilger and Darren WoodheadHave you ever wondered what 'our' birds get up to when they're not pinching our peanuts, pilfering our pyracantha berries or nesting under the eaves of our homes? The One Show's natural history star Mike Dilger ...

368 pages | b/w illustrations | Hardback | 08/2016 | 9781472915351 | #226298A | £16.99 Add to basketPaperback | NYP 05/2017 | 9781472915375 | #232640A | £9.99 Add to basket

No Way But GentlenesseA Memoir of How Kes, My Kestrel, Changed My LifeRichard HinesThe inspiration for an older brother's novel, A Kestrel for a Knave, which became the iconic film Kes. Barry and Richard Hines both grew up in Hoyland Common, a South Yorkshire mining village. But after ...

288 pages | Hardback | 03/2016 | 9781408868010 | #226475A | £16.99 Add to basketPaperback | NYP 03/2017 | 9781408868027 | #232451A | £8.99 Add to basket

Oregon BirdsA Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar SpeciesJames R Kavanagh and Raymond LeungThe Beaver State is the permanent or migratory home of 628 species of birds, including the state bird – the western meadowlark. This beautifully illustrated guide highlights over 140 familiar and unique species and includes an ...

12 pages | colour illustrations | Unbound | 03/2001 | 9781583551288 | #232363A | £6.99 Add to basket



























Pennsylvania BirdsA Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar SpeciesJames R Kavanagh and Raymond LeungPennsylvania is the permanent or migratory home of 426 species of birds, including the state bird – the ruffed grouse. This beautifully illustrated guide highlights over 140 familiar and unique species and includes an ecoregion map ...


Pocket Photo Guide to the Birds of Ecuador and GalapagosClive ByersAlthough it is one of South America's smallest countries, Ecuador is home to nearly 1,600 species of birds. This is thanks to the huge variety of habitats created by the Andes. The country is a birder's paradise and an increasingly popular ...


Pocket Photo Guide to the Birds of ThailandMichael S Webster and Chew Yen FookThailand is one of Asia's leading tourist destinations and a treasure trove for anyone interested in wildlife. This little guide to the birds of Thailand is an excellent introduction for birdwatchers, residents and visitors to the country alike.


RSPB Spotlight: KingfishersDavid ChandlerUsually observed as a flash of blue and orange from a riverbank, most people are aware of Kingfishers, but few of us are familiar with the intricacies of their day-to-day lives. With their long, dagger-like bills, bright blue ...

128 pages | 200 colour photos | Paperback | NYP 03/2017 | 9781472933676 | #232635A | £9.99 Add to basket

Rare Breeding Birds in the UK in 2014Mark Holling and Rare Breeding Birds PanelThis September issue of British Birds contains the 40th report of the Rare Breeding Birds Panel. This report documents the status of 100 rare or scarce species that were recorded breeding, or potentially breeding, in the UK in ...

75 pages | colour photos, colour illustrations, colour tables | 09/2016 | #232409A | £9.00 Add to basket

Roberts Bird GuideA Comprehensive Field Guide to Over 950 Bird Species in Southern AfricaHugh Chittenden, Greg Davies and Ingrid WeiersbyeThe Roberts Bird Guide (2nd Edition) has gone to great trouble to concentrate on, and illustrate, difficult-to-identify species and family groups such as raptors, warblers, cisticolas and waders. Special attention has been given ...

600 pages | 240 plates with colour illustrations; colour distribution maps | Paperback | NYP 02/2017 | 9781920602017 | #232310A | £19.95 Add to basket

South Carolina BirdsA Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar SpeciesJames R Kavanagh and Raymond LeungThe Palmetto State is the permanent or temporary home of 427 species of birds, including the state bird – the Carolina wren. This beautifully illustrated guide highlights over 140 familiar and unique species and includes an ecoregion ...


Stories for Birders and Other ObserversAndrea VojtkoBirders are among the keenest observers and five of the eleven short stories in this collection are inspired by imagination while birding or connecting with nature. Ida Pilcher is inexplicably followed wherever she goes by a dozen turkeys ...


The Birdwatcher's Yearbook 2017Neil GartshoreThe Birdwatcher's Yearbook has been the essential work of reference for British birdwatchers since first published in 1981. Whatever you need to know, you'll find it in The Yearbook. - Special features including items on ...

328 pages | colour & b/w illustrations, b/w maps | Paperback | NYP 10/2016 | 9780993347719 | #232322A | £17.00 Add to basket

The Complete Garden Bird BookHow to Identify and Attract Birds to Your GardenMark Golley, Stephen Moss and David DalyThis bestseller combines full identification and behavioural features of over 70 common garden bird species with detailed information on attracting birds to your garden. The clear illustrations and text are presented in an easy-to-use format ...

176 pages | 500 colour illustrations | Paperback | NYP 01/2017 | 9781472937643 | #232626A | £10.99 Add to basket

The Most Perfect ThingInside (and Outside) a Bird's EggTim Birkhead"I think that, if required on pain of death to name instantly the most perfect thing in the universe, I should risk my fate on a bird's egg" – Thomas Wentworth Higginson, 1862 How are eggs of different ...

296 pages | 8 plates with colour & b/w photos; b/w illustrations | Hardback | 04/2016 | 9781408851258 | #226305A | £16.99 Add to basketPaperback | NYP 03/2017 | 9781408851272 | #232443A | £9.99 Add to basket

























The Second Nebraska Breeding Bird AtlasWayne J MollhoffThe Second Nebraska Breeding Bird Atlas presents range maps and species accounts of 225 species. This project used standardized atlas criteria and methods to re-survey the breeding avifauna of Nebraska. The author used the data ...

320 pages | distribution maps | Paperback | 01/2016 | #232255A | £82.99 Add to basket

The Sensory Ecology of BirdsGraham R MartinThis is the first integrated synthesis of avian sensory ecology, explaining the broad principles and taking the reader into the sensory world of birds from an evolutionary and ecological perspective.

320 pages | Hardback | NYP 02/2017 | 9780199694532 | #232728A | £69.99 Add to basketPaperback | NYP 02/2017 | 9780199694549 | #232729A | £34.99 Add to basket

Where to Watch Birds in Northern & Eastern SpainErnest FJ Garcia and Michael RebaneThis region embraces an impressive range of habitats from the Pyrenees to the sun-drenched Catalan coast. As a consequence the area is rich in birdlife and full of potential for visiting birders. Almost 200 sites are described in this ...

368 pages | 30 b/w illustrations, 125 maps | Paperback | 12/2013 | 9780713683141 | #164007A | £19.99 Add to basketPaperback | NYP 05/2017 | 9781472936752 | #232639A | £19.99 Add to basket

Wintervogel [Winter Birds]Lars JonssonIn Wintervögel Lars Jonsson portrays 58 bird species, which can be observed at home during the cold season. Beautiful watercolours feature well-known visitors on bird feeders, such as blue tits, nuthatches or greenfinches.

344 pages | 1 colour photos, 246 colour & 73 b/w illustrations | Hardback | 09/2016 | 9783440152904 | #232762A | £39.50 Add to basket

Reptiles & Amphibians

Black-Breasted Leaf TurtlesThe Natural History, Captive Care And Breeding of Geoemyda spengleri and Geoemyda japonicaAnthony PierloniTurtle expert, Anthony Pierlioni, takes us into the lives of Leaf Turtles, both in the colourful fallen leaves of their habitats in nature and in creative and inspiring enclosures around the world. These captivating turtles – the ...


Los Anfibios y Reptiles Extinguidos: Herpetofauna Desaparecida Desde el Ano 1500 [Extinct Amphibians and Reptiles:Pedro Galan RegaladoThis book describes for the first time all species of amphibians and reptiles that have gone extinct since the beginning of the Modern Age. A large majority of disappearances have occurred since the early twentieth century, coinciding with ...

509 pages | 35 b/w illustrations | Paperback | 01/2015 | 9788497496292 | #232568A | £46.99 Add to basket

New Zealand LizardsDavid ChappleThis edited volume is a timely and comprehensive summary of the New Zealand lizard fauna. Nestled in the south-west Pacific, New Zealand is a large archipelago that displays the faunal signatures of both its Gondwanan origins, and more ...

391 pages | 31 colour & 17 b/w illustrations, 30 colour tables | Hardback | NYP 10/2016 | 9783319416724 | #232724A | £99.99 Add to basket

RattlesnakesJ Frank DobieHere are observations and speculations, legends and yarns, even gossip about the habits and dispositions of these extraordinary creatures – rattlesnakes – their reported size, deadliness, and power to charm their natural enemies ...


Ryugujo Wa Futatsu Atta: Umigame no Kaiyu Kodo to Seikatsu-Shi no Takei [Life History Polymorphism and MigratoryHideo HataseThis book looks at the life history polymorphism and spawning behaviour of Japanese sea turtles.

248 pages | Paperback | 09/2016 | 9784486021049 | #232497A | £24.99 Add to basket

The Status and Distribution of Reptiles in the Western Ghats, IndiaConservation Assessment and Management PlanChelmala Srinivasulu, Bhargavi Srinivasulu and S MolurThe reptile assessment is a review of the conservation status of the reptiles belonging to Western Ghats and peninsular India. This report summarises results for the Conservation Assessment and Management Plan (CAMP) Workshop for assessing ...

148 pages | colour illustrations, colour maps | Paperback | 01/2014 | 9788188722402 | #232594A | £126.00 Add to basket

Venezuela y Sus Tortugas [Venezuela and its Turtles]Pedro Trebbau and Peter CH PritchardThis book provides an accurate account of the biological characteristics of each species of Venezuelan turtle. This is important to make research and conservation more effective. Pritchard and Trebbau's book will serve as a cornerstone ...

184 pages | colour & b/w photos, colour illustrations, colour distribution maps | Hardback | 01/2016 | 9789804070303 | #232714A | £53.99 Add to basket



























Venomous EncountersSnakes, Vivisection and Scientific Medicine in Colonial AustraliaPeter HobbinsHow do we know which snakes are dangerous? This seemingly simple question caused constant concern for the white settlers who colonised Australia after 1788. Facing a multitude of serpents in the bush, their fields and their homes, colonists ...

216 pages | 30 b/w illustrations | Hardback | NYP 01/2017 | 9781526101440 | #232750A | £69.99 Add to basket

Fishes

Sharks and Other Deadly Ocean Creatures Visual EncyclopediaDerek HarveyDive into Sharks and Other Deadly Ocean Creatures Visual Encyclopedia to discover everything there is to know about the ocean's biggest predators. Brought to life with cutting-edge CGI technology, more than 200 shark ...

208 pages | colour photos, colour illustrations | Hardback | 05/2016 | 9781465450845 | #232290A | £18.99 Add to basket

Victoria's Galaxiid FishesRudie H KuiterGalaxiid fishes are of Gondwana origin and well represented in Victoria. All known members are described and illustrated with multiple images, including many apparently new species. With nearly all natural habitats destroyed and predators ...

104 pages | colour photos, colour distribution maps | Paperback | 09/2016 | #232687A | £52.99 Add to basket

Invertebrates

A Catalogue of the Irish Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae)James P O'Connor, R Nash and MG FittonThe Irish ichneumonid fauna is reviewed and a checklist provided. Data are given for 1137 definite species, of which 222 are documented from Ireland for the first time.

310 pages | 3 plates with colour illustrations; 1 b/w photo, 1 b/w map | Paperback | 09/2007 | 9780955080616 | #232707A | £15.50 Add to basket

A Catalogue of the Irish Platygastroidea and Proctotrupoidea (Hymenoptera)James P O'Connor, R Nash, DG Notton and NDM FergussonVolume 7 offers a catalogue of the Irish hymenopteran superfamilies Platygastroidea and Proctotrupoidea.


A Global Overview of the Conservation of Freshwater Decapod CrustaceansTadashi Kawai and Neil CumberlidgeA Global Overview of the Conservation of Freshwater Decapod Crustaceans introduces updated information on conservation issues, providing an overview of what is needed to advance the global conservation of freshwater decapods ...

447 pages | 74 colour & 21 b/w illustrations | Hardback | NYP 10/2016 | 9783319425252 | #232725A | £159.50 Add to basket

A Guide to Australian Tiger BeetlesMark R GoldingAn excellent photographic guide to Australia's carnivorous tiger beetles written by an expert in the field.

188 pages | colour photos, colour distribution maps | Paperback | 01/2016 | 9780995371705 | #232412A | £72.99 Add to basket

Advanced Top Bar BeekeepingNext Steps for the Thinking BeekeeperChristy HemenwayBee populations are plummeting worldwide. Colony Collapse Disorder poses a serious threat to many plants which rely on bees for pollination, including a significant proportion of our food crops. Top bar hives are based on the concept of ...

208 pages | 100 b/w photos and b/w illustrations | Paperback | 05/2016 | 9780865718098 | #232400A | £19.99 Add to basket

Advances in Taxonomy and Phylogeny of Entomopathogenic Nematodes of the Steinernematidae and HeterorhabditidaeDavid J Hunt, Khuong B Nguyen, Sergei E Spiridonov and Sergei A SubbotinIn Advances in Taxonomy and Phylogeny of Entomopathogenic Nematodes of the Steinernematidae and Heterorhabditidae the numerous species of Steinernema and Heterorhabditis described since the previous volume, published in 2007 ...


Arthropod Diversity and Conservation in the Tropics and Sub-TropicsAkshay Kumar Chakravarthy and Shakunthala SridharaArthropods are invertebrates that constitute over 90% of the animal kingdom, and their bio-ecology is closely linked with global functioning and survival. Arthropods play an important role in maintaining the health of ecosystems ...


Beekeeping for BeginnersAndrew RichardsAll too often, books written for new beekeepers carry far too much information which can be confusing for the reader. Andrew's book is an exception and will help the novice to quickly grasp the basics of beekeeping. How much time will ...

90 pages | 47 colour photos, 14 b/w illustrations | Paperback | 05/2014 | 9781908904409 | #232429A | £12.99 Add to basket



























Butterflies of Bonai, OdishaA Field Guide for BeginnersPratyush P Mohapatra, Vivek Sarkar, Arun Kumar Mishra and Manoj V NairThis book covers 157 species of butterflies, depicted on 158 colour plates. Except for a few butterflies, most of them are distributed in different parts of Odisha, India. The book covers 29 species of Skippers, 12 Swallow-tails ...

210 pages | colour photos, colour & b/w illustrations, colour maps | Paperback | 01/2012 | #232660A | £25.99 Add to basket

Butterflies of Europe and Neighbouring RegionsPatrice LerautThis guide presents exclusively Butterflies of Europe and neighbouring regions (including North Africa). They cover the families Papilionidae, Hesperiidae, Pieridae, Lycaenidae, Riodinidae and Nymphalidae (now incorporating the Satyrinae ...

1113 pages | plates with colour photos; b/w distribution maps | Hardback | 09/2016 | 9782913688261 | #232452A | £97.99 Add to basket

Butterflies of St. Kitts and NevisAnd the Northeastern Leeward Islands, West IndiesPaul M Catling and Brenda KostiukThis guide, based on a survey in 2013 and 2014, covers most of the approx. 70 species of butterflies in the northeastern Leeward Islands. As far as the literature is concerned, the survey added two species to the list for St. Kitts which ...

98 pages | 92 colour photos, colour maps | Paperback | 01/2015 | 9780968201367 | #231123A | £44.99 Add to basket

Catalogue des Coleopteres de France, Supplement 2: Index, Errata, Donnees Nouvelles [Catalogue of Coleoptera of FranceMarc TronquetSecond update to the Catalogue des Coleopteres de France (2014). Includes Index, Errata and New Data.

42 pages | no illustrations | Paperback | 01/2016 | #232776A | £17.50 Add to basket

Die Heuschrecken Deutschlands und Nordtirols: Bestimmen, Beobachten, Schutzen [The Locusts of Germany and North Tyrol:Jurgen Fischer, Daniela Steinlechner, Andreas Zehm, Dominik Poniatowski and Thomas FartmannWith this book it is possible to identify all the grasshopper species in Germany and North Tyrol based on excellent comparative images. It highlights important features using enlarged close-ups, instructional texts and arrows, making it ...

368 pages | 450 colour photos and colour illustrations, distribution maps | Hardback | 09/2016 | 9783494016702 | #232605A | £38.99 Add to basket

Economic and Ecological Significance of Arthropods in Diversified EcosystemsSustaining Regulatory MechanismsAkshay Kumar Chakravarthy and Shakunthala SridharaArthropods are invertebrates that constitute over 90% of the animal kingdom, and their bio-ecology is closely linked with global functioning and survival. Arthropods play an important role in maintaining the health of ecosystems ...


Fauna Iberica, Volume 42: Coleoptera: LatridiidaeJose Carlos Otero Gonzalez and Maria Jose LopezThis monograph of the Fauna Ibérica series is dedicated to the Coleopteran family Latridiidae and represents the first synthesis for the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands. In the general chapters a summary is given ...

282 pages | 109 plates with illustrations | Hardback | 09/2016 | 9788400101060 | #232720A | £29.99 Add to basket

Genetically Modified Insects1st Report of Session 2015-16House of Lords - Science and Technology Committee and John Roundell Palmer SelbourneThe problems caused by infectious disease and agricultural pests are real. Genetically modified (GM) insects have the potential to address both these problems. The UK is a world leader in the development of this technology. The European ...


Guide d'Identification des Papillons de Jour de Suisse [Identification Guide to Butterflies of Switzerland]Vincent Baudraz and Michel BaudrazThis guide allows readers to easily identify the 216 species of butterflies and red Zygaenid moths of Switzerland. An intuitive determination key based on simple visual criteria is used to arrive at an identification without any prior ...

192 pages | colour photos | Paperback | 09/2016 | #232777A | £74.99 Add to basket

Icones Insectorum Europae Centralis: Coleoptera: Brentidae: Nanophyinae [English / Czech]Karel SchonThis issue deals with the species of the beetle subfamily Nanophyinae, family Brentidae. A key to identification of central European species is given.


Icones Insectorum Europae Centralis: Coleoptera: Megalopodidae, Orsodacnidae, Chrysomelidae: Donaciinae, CriocerinaeJan Bezdek and Roman MlejnekThis issue deals with the species of the beetle families Megalopodidae, Orsodacnidae, and the Chrysomelid subfamilies Donaciinae, and Criocerinae. A key to identification of central European species is given.






























Icons of EvolutionPacific Island Tree-Snails of the Family PartulidaeJustin GerlachThe partulid tree-snails of the Pacific Islands are today best known for their tragic recent history. Following the introduction of predatory snails a third of partulid species are now extinct and almost all others threatened with extinction ...

334 pages | 270 colour illustrations | Paperback | 09/2016 | 9780993220340 | #232645A | £54.99 Add to basketHardback | 09/2016 | 9780993220333 | #232646A | £84.99 Add to basket

Insect Research of Central China, Volume 10 [Chinese]Yuan GuohuiInsect Research of Central China, Volume 10 contains a total of 19 research, review and progress papers.


Les Nouveaux Cahiers Magellanes, No. 21 [English / French / German]Carolus Holzschuh, Tania R Dos Santos Silva and P TeocchiVolume 21 contains contributions in several languages on longicorn beetles of Africa, Asia and South America.

140 pages | 28 plates with colour photos | Paperback | 01/2016 | 9782353871216 | #232810A | £48.99 Add to basket

Les Nouveaux Cahiers Magellanes, No. 22 [French]Pierre JuhelVolume 22 contains a taxonomic revision of the beetle genus Cloniophorus.


Oysters: A Celebration in the RawJeremy Sewall, Marion Lear Swaybill and Scott SniderFor centuries, oysters have had the power to sustain and delight, inspiring writers and artists, lowly cooks and four-star chefs, laborers and gourmands, and everyone in between. A feast for the eyes and the palate oysters also are rich ...


Pegs, Pouches, and SpinesSystematics and Comparative Morphology of the New World Litter Bug Genus Chinannus Wygodzinsky, 1948A Knyshov, S Leon, R Hoey-Chamberlain and Christiane WeirauchDipsocoromorpha, the minute litter bugs, are minuscule true bugs with substantial undescribed biodiversity. The authors taxonomically revise the genus Chinannus Wygodzinsky, 1948 (Dipsocoromorpha: Schizopteridae: Ogeriinae) ...


Pennsylvania Butterflies & MothsA Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar SpeciesJames R Kavanagh and Raymond LeungThe tiger swallowtail is one of over 2,000 species of butterflies and moths found in this region. This beautifully illustrated guide highlights over 70 familiar and unique species and includes information on their life cycle and features ...

12 pages | colour illustrations | Paperback | 10/2008 | 9781583554623 | #232470A | £6.99 Add to basket

RSPB Spotlight: BumblebeesRichard F ComontBumblebees are some of our most familiar insects, and are among the few that are almost universally viewed as 'friendly' – their low buzzing is the quintessential sound of our gardens in the summertime.

128 pages | 200 colour photos | Paperback | NYP 03/2017 | 9781472933614 | #232636A | £9.99 Add to basket

Research Materials on Mecoptera in China [English / Chinese]China Scientific Book Services (CSBS)This book compiles the following 27 papers: 1. Structures of the Female reproductive systems in Panorpidae (Mecoptera) with remarks on their Taxonomic Significance 2. Six new species of Mecoptera from China ...

140 pages | Hardback | 12/2014 | #232515A | £86.50 Add to basket

South Carolina Butterflies & MothsA Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar SpeciesJames R Kavanagh and Raymond LeungSouth Carolina's state insect – the eastern tiger swallowtail – is one of over 850 species of butterflies and moths found in this region. This beautifully illustrated guide highlights over 70 familiar and unique species ...


The Parnassiinae of the World, Volume 6: Addendum to Vols. 1 to 5Jean-Claude Weiss and Jacques RigoutVolume 6 is the last volume of the series, containing classification, easy classification, addenda to volumes 1 to 5, and an index for volumes 1 to 6.

116 pages | colour photos, colour distribution maps | Paperback | 09/2016 | 9783937783765 | #232593A | £137.00 Add to basket

Weird Butterflies & MothsRonald Orenstein and Thomas MarentThere are more than 200,000 species of butterflies and moths. Many, in fact, are still uncategorized. This fascinating book reveals a rare and close up look at the odd beauty and behaviour of some of the strangest of these tiny creatures ...

64 pages | 50 colour photos | Paperback | NYP 11/2016 | 9781770858145 | #232647A | £7.95 Add to basketHardback | NYP 11/2016 | 9781770858152 | #232648A | £14.95 Add to basket

Palaeontology



























A Field Guide to the Common Fossils of China [Chinese]Tang YonggangThis book introduces common fossils, and covers what fossils are, how to find them, and provides a chapter on fossils and geological time. The book focuses on the famous Chinese paleontological fossils, invertebrate fossils, the subphylum ...


Acrocanthosaurus Inside and OutKenneth CarpenterHow can palaeontologists know what a living dinosaur was like more than a hundred million years ago, particularly when only partial skeletons remain? Focusing on one large carnivorous dinosaur, Acrocanthosaurus (high-spined lizard) ...

137 pages | 75+ colour colour photos and colour & b/w illustrations | Hardback | 09/2016 | 9780806153933 | #232301A | £39.99 Add to basket

Cambro-Ordovician Studies VIJohn R Laurie, IG Percival, JB Jago, JR Paterson and Glenn A BrockContains the following 18 articles 1. Trilobites and sedimentary facies of the upper Coquena formation (late Tremadocian; 'Notopeltis orthometopa' Zone), Cordillera Oriental, Northwestern Argentina ...

Paperback | 09/2016 | 9780949466471 | #232295A | £206.00 Add to basket

Darriwilian to Sandbian (Ordovician) Graptolites from Northwest ChinaYuandong Zhang, Daniel Goldman, Stig Bergstrom and Stanley FinneyDarriwilian to Sandbian (Ordovician) Graptolites from Northwest China analyzes the significance of these exquisite, mostly pyritic, graptolites of the middle to late Ordovician period from North China and Tarim, China ...


Devonian Paleoenvironments of OhioRituparna Bose and David AT HarperCarbonate depositional systems in the Paleozoic geologic time represent fewer studies in paleoecological interactions than the siliciclastic systems. To evaluate this difference, the paleontology of the Middle Devonian Dundee Formation ...

74 pages | 38 colour & 6 b/w illustrations | Paperback | 12/2012 | 9783642348532 | #232705A | £44.99 Add to basket

Dinosaurus: The Complete Guide to DinosaursSteve ParkerDinosaurus was published in 2003, now 13 years have passed during which there have been dozens of discoveries. Many incredible discoveries made 2015 a banner year. For example: - Yi qi ...

320 pages | colour photos, colour illustrations, colour distribution maps | Paperback | 09/2016 | 9781770857766 | #232300A | £32.99 Add to basket

Dynamic PaleontologyUsing Quantification and Other Tools to Decipher the History of LifeMark AS McMenaminUsing a series of case studies, Dynamic Paleontology demonstrates the power of dynamic analysis as applied to the fossil record. Written in an engaging and informative style, Dynamic Paleontology outlines the best ...

263 pages | 80 colour & 66 b/w illustrations, 55 colour tables | Hardback | 06/2016 | 9783319227764 | #232701A | £112.00 Add to basket

Earth's Climate and Orbital EccentricityThe Marine Isotope Stage 11 QuestionAndre W Droxler, Richard Z Poore and Lloyd H BurckleWeather bureaus around the world have accumulated daily historical records of atmospheric conditions for more than a century to help forecast meteorological conditions three to five days ahead. To gain insight into the impact of possible ...


Extinct BirdsJulian P HumeExtinct Birds was the first comprehensive review of the hundreds of the bird species and subspecies that have become extinct over the last 1,000 years of habitat degradation, over-hunting and rat introduction. It has become the ...

560 pages | 80 b/w illustrations | Hardback | 02/2012 | 9781408157251 | #194350A | £59.99 Add to basketHardback | NYP 06/2017 | 9781472937445 | #232625A | £59.99 Add to basket

Fossilium Catalogus Animalia, Volume 155 [English]Lower Cretaceous Ammonites IX: Turrilitoidea 2 - Baculitidae, Including the Upper Cretaceous RepresentativesJaap KleinThis Fossilium Catalogus volume largely follows the excellent and very complete works about the family Baculitidae of Klinger & Kennedy (1993, 1997 and 2001). All quoted literature in this part has been consulted ...

140 pages | no illustrations | Paperback | 09/2016 | 9783823617235 | #232277A | £94.99 Add to basket

Fossilium Catalogus Animalia, Volume 156 [German]Catalogus Trilobitorum cum Figuris (Trilobites Carbonici et Permici, VIII. Phillipsiinae et Griffithidinae)Gerhard Hahn and Renate HahnThis eighth part of the catalog to deal with the Carboniferous and Permian trilobites treats the subfamilies Phillipsiinae, Phillipps 1836, and Griffithidinae, Hupé 1953. The Phillipsiinae includes 7 genera, 2 subgenera ...

























Fundamentals of Invertebrate PalaeontologyMacrofossilsSreepat JainFundamentals of Invertebrate Palaeontology: Macrofossils provides practical morphological information, together with detailed illustrations and concise texts explaining each entry. The book details the morphological characters ...


Las Hoyas: A Cretaceous WetlandA Multidisciplinary Synthesis after 25 Years of Research on an Exceptional Fossil Lagerstatte from SpainFrancisco Jose Poyato-Ariza and Angela D BuscalioniAt human scale, 25 years seems time enough to relate academic and scientific experiences. The particular experiences presented in Las Hoyas: A Cretaceous Wetland are based, first of all, on the earliest works and research at Las Hoyas ...

262 pages | 41 colour & 1 b/w plates; 64 colour & 101 b/w photos and illustrations, 13 tables | Hardback | 09/2016 | 9783899371536 | #232780A | £77.99 Add to basket

Palaeobiological Catalogue of Rajasthan and GujaratChirananda De and Pralay MukherjeeFrom the introduction: "Preparation of a complete palaeobiological catalogue for a vast region involves detailed considerations of regional as well as local lithostratigraphy and geological maps. A brief review of the work is ...

241 pages | illustrations, maps | Paperback | 01/2015 | #232760A | £29.99 Add to basket

Proceedings of XXIII Indian Colloquium on Micropaleontology and Stratigraphy and International Symposium on GlobalN Malarkodi, Gerta Keller, AN Reddy and BC JaiprakashThe XXIII ICMS was held on December 9-11, 2011, at the Department of Geology, Bangalore University, where ICMS was originally conceived, organized and hosted in 1971. The XXIII ICMS focused on Micropaleontological and Stratigraphical ...

338 pages | colour & b/w illustrations, colour & b/w maps | Paperback | 01/2013 | 9789380998084 | #232418A | £125.00 Add to basket

Structured Deposition of Animal Remains in the Fertile Crescent During the Bronze AgeJose Luis Ramos SoldadoAlthough most of the animal remains recorded throughout the archaeological excavations consist usually of large assemblages of discarded and fragmented bones, it is possible to yield articulated animal skeletons in some cases. Most of the ...

68 pages | colour & b/w illustrations | Paperback | 01/2016 | 9781784912727 | #232697A | £24.99 Add to basket

The Amazing World of DinosaursAn Illustrated Journey Through the Mesozoic EraJames KuetherDinosaurs have filled us with wonder since the first monstrous bones were pulled from the earth thousands of years ago. For centuries, we imagined dinosaurs as giant, clumsy brutes – but science has since revealed them to be so much ...

160 pages | colour illustrations | Paperback | NYP 01/2017 | 9781591936459 | #232455A | £17.50 Add to basket

The Cambrian Fossils of Chengjiang, ChinaThe Flowering of Early Animal LifeXian-Guang Hou, Richard J Aldridge, Peiyun Cong, Sarah Gabbott, Xiaoya Ma and Mark A PurnellThe Chengjiang biota is one of the most remarkable fossil discoveries ever made. The Cambrian Fossils of Chengjiang is the first book in English to provide fossil enthusiasts with an overview of the fauna.

288 pages | colour photos, b/w illustrations | Paperback | 08/2007 | 9781405167192 | #173831A | £51.95 Add to basketHardback | NYP 03/2017 | 9781118896389 | #232319A | £69.95 Add to basket

The Emerald PlanetHow Plants Changed Earth's HistoryDavid BeerlingThe Earth's climate has been dramatically shifting since life evolved. The Emerald Planet reveals the crucial role that plants have played in driving and recording climatic change. Along the way a number of fascinating puzzles ...

288 pages | b/w plates, illustrations | Hardback | 02/2007 | 9780192806024 | #159052A | £30.99 Add to basketPaperback | 09/2008 | 9780199548149 | #174251A | £11.99 Add to basketPaperback | NYP 02/2017 | 9780198798323 | #232682A | £10.99 Add to basket

The Extreme ProterozoicGeology, Geochemistry, and ClimateGregory S Jenkins, Mark AS McMenami, Christopher P McKay and Linda SohlEarth climate is uniquely determined at any time by the varied interactions of its components: lithosphere, biosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere (ocean, lakes and rivers) and cryosphere. Over the past 544 million years (the Phanerozoic Eon) ...

220 pages | illustrations | Hardback | 01/2004 | 9780875904115 | #232258A | £50.95 Add to basket

Marine & Freshwater Biology
























Handbook of the Marine Fauna of North-West EuropePeter Joseph Hayward and John S RylandThis authoritative guide, now thoroughly updated in a new edition, enables accurate identification of the common components of the inshore benthic invertebrates of the British Isles and adjacent European coasts, as well as a substantial ...

880 pages | b/w illustrations, maps | Paperback | 06/1995 | 9780198540557 | #028748A | £54.99 Add to basketHardback | NYP 02/2017 | 9780199549443 | #232726A | £94.99 Add to basketPaperback | NYP 02/2017 | 9780199549450 | #232727A | £49.99 Add to basket

Ningaloo: Reflections on the ReefLeith HoltzmanDiscover the pristine yet little-known World Heritage Ningaloo Reef in the north west coastal region of Western Australia. For ten years the author has led groups of people into the blue waters of Ningaloo to swim with the majestic whales ...


Underwater Guide to the Red SeaThe Best Diving & Snorkelling Sites with ID Guide to Reef Fishes, Invertebrates, Corals and MegafaunaLawson WoodThe Red Sea has over 1,000 species of invertebrate and over 200 species of soft and hard coral, fomting the basis of a marine ecoystem which includes 1,100 species of fish, of which just under 20% are endemic. The high level of endemism ...

160 pages | 400 colour photos, 3 colour maps | Paperback | NYP 10/2016 | 9781909612846 | #232321A | £12.99 Add to basket

General Natural History

1001 Natural Wonders You Must See Before You DieMichael Bright and Koichiro MatsuuraNow revised and updated in collaboration with UNESCO, 1001 Natural Wonders You Must See Before You Die is the definitive guide to awesome nature, celebrating hundreds of millions of years of the Earth's history.

960 pages | 400 colour photos, colour maps | Paperback | 04/2016 | 9781760292881 | #232561A | £34.99 Add to basket

A Week in Yellowstone's ThorofareA Journey Through the Remotest PlaceMichael J YochimThe remotest place in the country, outside of Alaska, is a region in Yellowstone National Park ironically named the Thorofare for its historic role as a route traversed by fur trappers. A Week in Yellowstone's Thorofare is a ...

288 pages | 30 b/w photos, 2 maps | Paperback | 06/2016 | 9780870718564 | #232386A | £19.50 Add to basket

Adelie: Terre & Mer [Land & Sea]Vincent Munier, Laurent Ballesta and Luc JacquetFor the first time, photographers Vincent Munier and Laurent Ballesta have travelled together to discover the natural treasures of Adélie Land, in Antarctica. Vincent Munier has explored the ice field and the bird colony ...


Ancient Earth Journal: The Late JurassicNotes, Drawings, and Observations from PrehistoryJuan Carlos Alonso and Gregory S PaulThrough detailed illustrations and descriptive narrative, readers will experience a thrilling, thoroughly enjoyable ride through the most popular time period of prehistory. What would it be like to see a living, breathing dinosaurs ...

112 pages | 250 colour & b/w illustrations | Hardback | 09/2016 | 9781633221086 | #232286A | £12.99 Add to basket

Animal InternetNature and the Digital RevolutionAlexander Pschera, Elisabeth Lauffer and Martin WikelskiA bestial Brave New World is on the horizon: Some 50,000 creatures around the globe – including whales, leopards, flamingoes, bats and snails – are being equipped with digital tracking devices. The data gathered and studied ...

200 pages | 8 colour photos | Paperback | 04/2016 | 9781939931337 | #232397A | £9.99 Add to basket

Bhitarkanika: The Mesmerizing MangroveAbasar Beuria and Basudeb Pal MajumdarA photographic portfolio to Bhitarkanika. This is the second largest mangrove ecosystem in India, with an area of 672 square kilometres of wildlife sanctuary, of which 175 sq km was declared a national park in 1998. Situated in the district ...

112 pages | colour photos, 1 colour map | Paperback | 01/2015 | 9788192395425 | #232549A | £70.99 Add to basket

Bitter WatersThe Struggles of the Pecos RiverPatrick DearenRising at 11,750 feet in the Sangre de Cristo range and snaking 926 miles through New Mexico and Texas to the Rio Grande, the Pecos River is one of the most storied waterways in the American West. It is also one of the most troubled.
























Botanical Painting with GouacheA Step-by-Step GuideSimon WilliamsA practical guide to using gouache in botanical painting, by a leading botanical painter. Gouache is an opaque water-based medium, often called body colour, that produces crisp and vibrant paintings, and is becoming increasingly popular ...

128 pages | 140 colour illustrations | Hardback | 03/2016 | 9781849942652 | #232460A | £19.99 Add to basket

BugsPegasusExploring the animal world is an adventure and reading about it is fun. This Amazing Animal series will take you to the animal kingdom and let you meet some weird and fascinating creatures from bugs to snakes and from giraffes ...


ButterflyPegasusExploring the animal world is an adventure and reading about it is fun. This Amazing Animal series will take you to the animal kingdom and let you meet some weird and fascinating creatures from bugs to snakes and from giraffes ...


Call of the WildAkshay Lall and Mike PandeyThis book is a selection of pictures clicked by 17 year old Akshay Lall over the last four years. A veteran of 30 expeditions to wildlife sanctuaries in India and Kenya, Akshay has clicked thousands of pictures – this book presents ...

168 pages | colour photos | Hardback | 01/2014 | 9788192496610 | #232576A | £132.00 Add to basket

Creatures Close UpPhilippe Martin and Gillian WattsThis stunning book looks at nature using a revolutionary method of extreme close-up photography. Philippe Martin creates his close-ups by "stacking" images inside his computer. To create one picture, he takes dozens ...

64 pages | colour photos | Paperback | NYP 10/2016 | 9781770857827 | #232655A | £7.95 Add to basketHardback | NYP 10/2016 | 9781770857834 | #232656A | £14.95 Add to basket

Die Fahrt der Beagle: Darwins Illustrierte Reise um die Welt [The Voyage of the Beagle: The Illustrated Edition ofCharles DarwinWhen the HMS Beagle sailed out of Devonport on December 27, 1831, Charles Darwin was only twenty-two and setting off on the voyage of a lifetime. His journal reveals him to be a naturalist making patient observations concerning geology ...

480 pages | 202 colour & 120 b/w photos and illustrations, tables | Hardback | 08/2016 | 9783806233919 | #232440A | £61.99 Add to basket

DinosaursPegasusExploring the animal world is an adventure and reading about it is fun. This Amazing Animal series will take you to the animal kingdom and let you meet some weird and fascinating creatures from bugs to snakes and from giraffes ...


Discovering CadborosaurusPaul H Leblond, III,John Kirk and Jason WaltonDiscovering Cadborosaurus will lay out for the reader the evidence of the possible existence of this serpent-like creature. There have been many eye-witness accounts of an unusual but distinctive large marine animal along the ...


DodosMelissa Higgins and Gail Saunders-SmithDodos were strange, flightless ice age birds that became extinct in the 1700s. Awesome illustrations accompany carefully leveled text about food, habitat, life cycle, and threats, bringing dodos to life like never before.


Enfant et Nature: A Travers Trois Siecles d'Ouvres pour la Jeunesse [Children and Nature: Three Centuries of BooksValerie ChansigaudBased on an iconography both exceptional and unknown, this book is a cultural history of the complex relationship of children with nature through three centuries of works for youth.


Falcons in the CityThe Story of a Peregrine FamilyChris G Earley and Luke MasseyA charming story about a nest of wild birds that alarm, then charm, their city landlords. What happens when a peregrine falcon chooses to lay its eggs high atop a Chicago condominium balcony? Here is the story of a family of ...

48 pages | 50 colour photos | Paperback | NYP 10/2016 | 9781770858039 | #232657A | £7.95 Add to basketHardback | NYP 10/2016 | 9781770858046 | #232658A | £14.95 Add to basket



























FishPegasusExploring the animal world is an adventure and reading about it is fun. This Amazing Animal series will take you to the animal kingdom and let you meet some weird and fascinating creatures from bugs to snakes and from giraffes ...


Fishing and FlyingTerence Horley and Charles F TunnicliffeAs a pilot, the author flies from the remote highlands of Scotland to the quiet creeks of Cornwall, packing into the gun wells of a fighter, or the baggage space of a transport plane, his fishing-rod and a box of flies. In two hundred million ...


Fred the ChaffinchThe History of FarmingJohn Miles and Barry RobsonThis is the sixth book in the series based on a bird which gives its name to the history of farming. The story takes you around the history of the bird from its first remains found in a cave in Derbyshire to the first drawing found on ...


GiraffePegasusExploring the animal world is an adventure and reading about it is fun. This Amazing Animal series will take you to the animal kingdom and let you meet some weird and fascinating creatures from bugs to snakes and from giraffes ...


Going FishingJames Negley Farson and Charles F TunnicliffeJames Negley Farson never failed to take his fishing rod wherever he went. As much an autobiography as it is a book on fishing, Going Fishing describes Farson's vast exepriences river fishing while travelling the world.


International Garden Photographer of the Year, Collection 9Tyrone McGlinchey, Curtis McGlinchey and Andrea JonesThis stunning hardback volume showcases the winners and best entries for the International Garden Photographer of the Year (IGPOTY) competition 9 and accompanies a major exhibition at Kew Gardens in Spring 2016. The exhibition tours the ...


Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions at FiftyReflections on a Science ClassicRobert J Richards and Lorraine DastonThomas S. Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions was a watershed event when it was published in 1962, upending the previous understanding of science as a slow, logical accumulation of facts and introducing, with the ...

208 pages | 20 b/w photos, 2 b/w illustrations | Hardback | 04/2016 | 9780226317038 | #232529A | £52.50 Add to basketPaperback | 04/2016 | 9780226317205 | #232530A | £17.50 Add to basket

Le Bestiaire Enigmatique de la Cryptozoologie [The Enigmatic Bestiary of Cryptozoology]Benoit GrisonWhat if a real giant squid was hiding behind the mythical Kraken? What if the coelacanth, long believed to have disappeared 70 million years ago, was still alive? If the man of Flores, the prehistoric dwarf hominid, had survived until the ...

Paperback | 09/2016 | 9782603024096 | #232288A | £42.99 Add to basket

Losing EdenAn Environmental History of the American WestSara DantLosing Eden traces the environmental history and development of the American West and explains how the land has shaped and been shaped by the people who live there.- Discusses key events and topics from the Beringia migration ...

240 pages | illustrations | Hardback | 06/2016 | 9781118934289 | #232268A | £54.99 Add to basketPaperback | 06/2016 | 9781118934296 | #232269A | £18.99 Add to basket

Lysenko's GhostEpigenetics and RussiaLoren GrahamThe Soviet agronomist Trofim Lysenko became one of the most notorious figures in twentieth-century science after his genetic theories were discredited decades ago. Yet some scientists, even in the West, now claim that discoveries in the ...

200 pages | 28 b/w illustrations | Hardback | 04/2016 | 9780674089051 | #232434A | £18.95 Add to basket

Marahuaka [English]Armando Michelangeli Ayala, Fabian Michelangeli Ayala, Reinaldo Stevie Borges and Walter SmitterFrom the introduction: "This work has been written following and developing the chronicles on the Expeditions to the Marahuaka Massif, Venezuela, organized and directed by the Terramar Foundation, and carried out between ...



























Mavis the SongthrushThe Slug and Snail TerminatorJohn Miles and Barry RobsonThis is yet another urban bird needing the help of the gardeners of our towns and cities to provide food and cover to make this bird successful. The story tells of the relationship with the Black Country and the town’s football team ...


Menagerie of Mysterious BeastsEncounters with Cryptid CreaturesKen GerhardThis compelling compendium presents a wide variety of amazing and bizarre creatures, from the Minnesota Iceman to the Beast of Boggy Creek to the White Bluffs Screamer. Draw back the curtain and marvel at the astounding assemblage of ...

240 pages | colour photos, colour illustrations | Paperback | NYP 10/2016 | 9780738746661 | #232291A | £15.50 Add to basket

Natural InterestsThe Contest Over Environment in Modern FranceCaroline FordChallenging the conventional wisdom that French environmentalism can be dated only to the post-1945 period, Caroline Ford argues that a broadly shared environmental consciousness emerged in France much earlier. Natural Interests ...

270 pages | 18 b/w illustrations, 2 maps, 1 table | Hardback | 03/2016 | 9780674045903 | #232442A | £39.95 Add to basket

New ZealandA Natural World RevealedTui de Roy and Mark JonesAward-winning international wildlife photographer Tui de Roy spent much of her life living on and photographing the Galapagos Islands before setting up her base in New Zealand. From here, she travels the world capturing breathtaking images ...

160 pages | 350+ colour photos | Hardback | 09/2006 | 9781869536343 | #232799A | £67.99 Add to basket

New Zealand's RiversAn Environmental HistoryCatherine Heather KnightNew Zealand's Rivers: An Environmental History explores the relationship between New Zealanders and their rivers, explaining how they have arrived at a crisis point, where fresh water has become their most contested resources ...

324 pages | 85 colour & b/w illustrations, 9 maps | Paperback | NYP 11/2016 | 9781927145760 | #232307A | £43.99 Add to basket

Norman Nicholson's NatureIan O BrodieNorman Cornthwaite Nicholson was born, on 8 January 1914, in Millom. Then an industrial town, it lies on Cumbria's coastal margins between the Duddon estuary and Black Combe, an outlier of the Lakeland Fells. Norman died in 1987 as ...


PenguinsPegasusExploring the animal world is an adventure and reading about it is fun. This Amazing Animal series will take you to the animal kingdom and let you meet some weird and fascinating creatures from bugs to snakes and from giraffes ...


Plastic ReasonAn Anthropology of Brain Science in Embryogenetic TermsTobias ReesThroughout the twentieth century, neuronal researchers knew the adult human brain to be a thoroughly fixed and immutable cellular structure, devoid of any developmental potential. Plastic Reason is a study of the efforts of a ...

352 pages | 23 b/w illustrations | Hardback | 06/2016 | 9780520288126 | #232773A | £51.95 Add to basketPaperback | 06/2016 | 9780520288133 | #232774A | £24.95 Add to basket

Porcupines to Polar BearsAdventures of a Wildlife VeterinarianJerry HaighJerry Haigh shares his adventures as a wildlife veterinarian with the University of Saskatchewan, whether in a clinic at the base of spectacular Mount Kenya in Africa or on the Canadian prairies. Haigh has healed wild animals such as ...


Printing WildlifeApproaches to Wildlife PrintmakingLisa HooperThis book, the second in the Langford Press series on techniques, aims to take you behind the scenes as printmaker Lisa Hooper creates her prints inspired by nature. Sitting alongside the highly acclaimed series of Wildlife Art books ...

135 pages | colour photos, colour illustrations | Paperback | 08/2016 | 9781904078692 | #232666A | £14.99 Add to basketHardback | 08/2016 | 9781904078685 | #232667A | £19.99 Add to basket

Scientific BabelThe Language of Science - From the Fall of Latin to the Rise of EnglishMichael D GordinToday's global scientists are a resolutely monoglot community, using exclusively English – but its dominance was anything but inevitable and only very recent. In a sweeping history, from the Middle Ages to the present ...



























Sea JournalLisa WoollettThis beautiful and unusual book brings together a year's wanderings along Britain's shores with compelling stories of their natural history, geology and evolution – from ancient myth to current science – and the author ...

168 pages | 83 colour photos, 32 b/w illustrations | Paperback | 03/2016 | 9780957490215 | #232382A | £14.99 Add to basket

Sky of Our ManufactureThe London Fog in British Fiction from Dickens to WoolfJesse Oak TaylorThe smoke-laden fog of London is one of the most vivid elements in English literature, richly suggestive and blurring boundaries between nature and society in compelling ways. In The Sky of Our Manufacture, Jesse Oak Taylor uses ...


SnakesPegasusExploring the animal world is an adventure and reading about it is fun. This Amazing Animal series will take you to the animal kingdom and let you meet some weird and fascinating creatures from bugs to snakes and from giraffes ...


The Animal in Ottoman EgyptAlan MikhailSince humans first emerged as a distinct species, they have been locked into relationships with other animals. Humans ate, fought, prayed, and moved with animals. In this original and conceptually rich book, historian Alan Mikhail puts ...

352 pages | Hardback | 01/2014 | 9780199315277 | #212856A | £34.99 Add to basketPaperback | NYP 02/2017 | 9780190655228 | #232663A | £19.99 Add to basket

The Discovery of a Northwest PassageRobert McClure and Anthony DaltonFor centuries, colonial powers searched for a sea passage that would link the Arctic and Pacific Oceans. The route, known as the Northwest Passage, would cut thousands of miles from sea travel and open up commercial trade to and from Asia ...

288 pages | b/w illustrations, maps | Paperback | 05/2013 | 9781771510097 | #232583A | £17.50 Add to basket

The Fat of the LandJohn Seymour, Sally Seymour and Hugh Fearnley-WhittingstallIn the 1970s, John Seymour's book The Complete Book of Self Sufficiency was a huge, international bestseller, inspiring a generation to 'down-shift' to a new way of life. The book has remained in print ever since.

200 pages | b/w illustrations | Paperback | NYP 02/2017 | 9781908213488 | #232595A | £11.99 Add to basket

The Golden ShoreCalifornia's Love Affair with the SeaDavid Helvarg and Ted DansonFrom the first human settlements to the latest marine explorations, The Golden Shore tells the tale of the history, culture, and changing nature of California's coasts and ocean. Helvarg takes the reader on both a geographical ...

336 pages | 12 b/w photos | Hardback | 03/2013 | 9780312664961 | #221408A | £29.99 Add to basketPaperback | NYP 10/2016 | 9781608684403 | #232787A | £16.50 Add to basket

The Greatest Show in the ArcticThe American Exploration of Franz Josef Land, 1898-1905PJ CapelottiIn Gilded Age America, Arctic explorers were fabulous celebrities assured of riches and near-immortality so long as they reached the North Pole first. Of the many attempts to meet that goal, three American expeditions, launched from the ...


The Jungle CallSanjoy Das and Ruskin BondFrom the preface: "My love life with the jungles of India started during my college days, unfortunately, in the company of a few trigger-happy young boys. I remember with remorse the days when I was under the delusion that anything ...


The RiverHelen HumphreysWe tend to look at landscape in relation to what it can do for us. Does it move us with its beauty? Can we make a living from it? But what if we examined a landscape on its own terms, freed from our expectations and assumptions?

216 pages | 96 colour illustrations | Hardback | 06/2016 | 9781770412552 | #232395A | £17.99 Add to basket

The Sacred CombeA Search for Humanity's HeartlandSimon Barnes and Pam Guhrs-CarrWe've all got one. A secret, special place. Hidden. Enclosed. A little greener and more fertile than the world outside. Here the birds are slightly more exotic, slightly more confiding, the grass greener and the fruit sweeter.




























The Tree Climber's GuideAdventures in the Urban CanopyJack CookeA wonderful cocktail of engaging writing, beautiful illustration and heartfelt appreciation for the natural world. An essential oddity for any book collection. In this charming, witty and exquisitely illustrated companion, Jack Cooke ...

304 pages | 100 b/w illustrations | Hardback | 04/2016 | 9780008153915 | #232457A | £14.99 Add to basketPaperback | NYP 04/2017 | 9780008157609 | #232458A | £8.99 Add to basket

The Ultimate Guide to Sea GlassFinding, Collecting, Identifying, and Using the Ocean's Most Beautiful StonesMary Beth Beuke and Lisl ArmstrongAs the owner of one of the world's most elaborate sea glass collections, Mary Beth Beuke gets to talk about these prized ocean gems on a daily basis. Unfortunately, with each passing day, sea glass becomes more and more difficult to ...

288 pages | illustrations | Paperback | 05/2016 | 9781634509374 | #232423A | £11.99 Add to basket

Through Glacier ParkThe Log of a Trip with Howard EatonMary Roberts Rinehart and Rick RinehartWhen Mary Roberts Rinehart's travelogue, Through Glacier Park, was first published in 1916, the already famous mystery writer introduced readers to recently minted national park and to the scenic wonders of Montana and to the adventures ...

80 pages | 1 b/w illustration | Paperback | 02/2016 | 9781493023080 | #232498A | £9.95 Add to basket

Under OhioThe Story of Ohio's Rocks and FossilsCharles Ferguson BarkerThere is much more for children to discover about Ohio than first meets the eye. Under Ohio: The Story of Ohio's Rocks and Fossils, by geologist Charles Ferguson Barker, takes young readers underground to reveal the fascinating ...

56 pages | illustrations | Paperback | 01/2016 | 9780821421956 | #232533A | £14.99 Add to basketHardback | 06/2007 | 9780821417553 | #232534A | £21.99 Add to basket

Understanding CollapseAncient History and Modern MythsGuy D MiddletonUnderstanding Collapse explores the collapse of ancient civilisations, such as the Roman Empire, the Maya, and Easter Island. In this lively survey, Guy D. Middleton critically examines our ideas about collapse – how we ...

300 pages | 28 b/w illustrations, 18 b/w maps, 16 tables | Hardback | NYP 06/2017 | 9781107151499 | #231967A | £69.99 Add to basketPaperback | NYP 06/2017 | 9781316606070 | #231968A | £23.99 Add to basket

Walden: The Writings of Henry D. ThoreauHenry David Thoreau, J Lyndon Shanley and John UpdikeOne of the most influential and compelling books in American literature, Walden is a vivid account of the years that Henry D. Thoreau spent alone in a secluded cabin at Walden Pond. This edition – introduced by noted American ...


Weeds: Simple Lessons for ChildrenRobert Lloyd Praeger, S Rosamund Praeger and RJ WelchOriginally published in 1913, as part of the Cambridge Nature Study Series, Weeds: Simple Lessons for Children was written by the renowned Irish botanist and author Robert Lloyd Praeger (1865-1953). Intended for the young ...


WhalesPegasusExploring the animal world is an adventure and reading about it is fun. This Amazing Animal series will take you to the animal kingdom and let you meet some weird and fascinating creatures from bugs to snakes and from giraffes ...


Where the Wild Thyme BlewGrowing up with Nature in the Fifties and SixtiesPeter MarrenCopies of the original edition (#229678) signed by the author are available while stocks last. Due to the book's overwhelming popularity it will be reprinted in October with small revisions confined to ...

399 pages | b/w photos | Hardback | 04/2016 | #229678A | £14.99 Add to basketHardback | NYP 10/2016 | 9781874357766 | #232259A | £14.99 Add to basket

Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2017 Desk CalendarThe Natural History Museum (London - UK)This calendar features images from Wildlife Photographer of the Year, Portfolio 26. As usual, a wall calendar, pocket diary, and desk diary are also available, see related titles below for more products.


Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2017 Wall CalendarThe Natural History Museum (London - UK)This calendar features images from Wildlife Photographer of the Year, Portfolio 26. As usual, desk calendar, pocket diary, and desk diary are also available, see related titles below for more products.


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A Catalogue and Index of the Publications of The Irish Biogeographical Society (1977-2004)James P O'ConnorThis book compiles a catalogue and index of the publications of The Irish Biogeographical Society (1977-2004).


A Guide to Natural Areas of Southern Indiana119 Unique Places to ExploreSteven Higgs and James Alexander ThomThis is the first comprehensive and fully illustrated guidebook for nature lovers who want to explore the wild and natural areas of southern Indiana by trail, water, or road. Featuring 95 beautiful color photos and 5 maps ...

396 pages | 96 colour illustrations, 6 maps | Paperback | 04/2016 | 9780253020901 | #232539A | £22.99 Add to basket

A Natural History of the HedgerowAnd Ditches, Dykes and Dry Stone WallsJohn WrightEver since the first human settlements 10,000 years ago, hedgerows have been a feature of our landscape and our history. The Romans were keen hedge builders, the Anglo-Saxons gave us the word "hege" and in the nineteenth century ...

376 pages | colour photos, colour & b/w illustrations, colour tables | Hardback | 04/2016 | 9781846685521 | #226193A | £16.99 Add to basketPaperback | NYP 03/2017 | 9781846685538 | #232603A | £9.99 Add to basket

Baffin IslandField Research and High Arctic Adventure, 1961-67Jack D IvesA geographer with extensive research experience in the Canadian North, Jack D. Ives has written a lively and informative account of several expeditions to Baffin Island during the "golden age" of federal research. In the 1960s ...

248 pages | 78 colour & 16 b/w photos | Paperback | 03/2016 | 9781552388297 | #232338A | £26.99 Add to basket

Biodiversity of Nijhum Dweep National ParkMohammed Mostafa Feeroz and Mohammad Zashim UddinNijhum Dweep National Park, which supports the largest wetland bird species community of the country, is one of the best National Parks in Bangladesh. The park is notable because it contains the world's largest population of Indian ...

126 pages | colour illustrations, colour maps | Paperback | 02/2015 | 9789843390011 | #232759A | £58.99 Add to basket

Canyonlands National Park Adventure SetMap & Naturalist GuideNational Geographic, James R Kavanagh and Raymond LeungThe Canyonlands National Park Adventure Set consists of a Pocket Naturalist Guide and National Geographic Map. These lightweight references offer a perfect resource for travelers wanting "hands on" information of what ...

14 pages | 1 colour map, 1 laminated fold-out guide with colour illustrations | 02/2016 | 9781583559642 | #232335A | £14.39 Add to basket

Cave Life of Oklahoma and ArkansasExploration and Conservation of Subterranean BiodiversityGO Graening, Dante B Fenolio and Michael E SlaySpeleobiology, the study of cave life, is a relatively new science. The diversity of species that live in caves, springs, and aquifers is just beginning to be documented, and much of the underground world has yet to be explored.

226 pages | 175+ colour photos, maps, tables | Hardback | 02/2012 | 9780806142234 | #232274A | £79.99 Add to basketPaperback | 08/2013 | 9780806144245 | #232275A | £49.99 Add to basket

Diversity of Higher Animals and its Relation to the Vegetation Pattern in the Coastal Belt of Ganjam District, OdishaGitanjali Mishra, Santosh Kumar Patra and Hemanta Kumar SahuFrom the preface: "India is one of the signatories of the Convention of Biological Diversity and is therefore committed not only to the conservation but also to sustainable and equitable utilization of its genetic resources ...

180 pages | b/w illustrations, b/w maps | Paperback | 01/2016 | 9788193232293 | #232408A | £26.99 Add to basket

Fauna and Flora of Atlantic islandsProceedings of the 5th International Symposium on the Fauna and Flora of the Atlantic Islands, Dublin 24 -27 August 2004TJ Hayden, DA Murray and James P O'ConnorContains the proceedings of the 5th international symposium on the fauna and flora of the Atlantic islands, held in Dublin, from the 24 -27 August 2004.


From Black to GreenMidlands to Mid-Wales (& the World) Through a Countryman's EyesFred SlaterThis book is an account of the work and legacy of Cardiff University's former Field Centre at Llysdinam in Mid-Powys, as seen through the eyes of its Director Dr Fred Slater. Fred is well-known in Wales as a professional ecologist and ...


From a Limestone LedgeSome Essays and Other Ruminations About Country Life in TexasJohn Graves, Bill Wittliff and Glenn WolffNow back in print – the third volume in the acclaimed Brazos Trilogy by John Graves, who is widely acknowledged as Texas's most beloved writer. This is a collection essays and other writing about country life in Texas.




























Good WaterKevin HoldsworthIn essays that combine memoir with biography of place, Kevin Holdsworth creates a public history of the land he calls home: Good Water, Utah. The high desert of south-central Utah is at the heart of the stories he tells here – about ...


Island on FireThe Extraordinary Story of Laki, the Volcano That Turned Eighteenth-Century Europe DarkAlexandra Witze and Jeff KanipeThe eruption of Laki is one of history's great untold natural disasters. The eruption, spewing out a poisionous fog, lasted for eight months, but its effects lingered across Europe for years, causing the death of people as far away as ...

224 pages | b/w photos, b/w illustrations, b/w maps | Hardback | 03/2014 | 9781781250044 | #208994A | £10.99 Add to basketHardback | 02/2015 | 9781605986746 | #220911A | £15.99 Add to basketPaperback | NYP 01/2017 | 9781781252666 | #232609A | £8.99 Add to basket

Kamikochi no Shizen-Shi: Chikei no Henka to Kahan-Rin no Dotai Hozen [Kamikochi Nature: Dynamics and Conservation ofWakamatsu NobuhikoThe Kamikochi Natural History Study Group here summarizes the results of surveys and research conducted for more than 20 years in Kamikochi, a remote mountainous highland valley within the Hida Mountains range, in the western region of ...


Lake Tahoe Adventure SetMap & Naturalist GuideNational Geographic, James R Kavanagh and Raymond LeungThe Lake Tahoe Adventure Set consists of a Pocket Naturalist Guide and National Geographic Map, offering a perfect resource for travelers wanting "hands on" information on what to see and where to go to find some of the ...


Mt. Rainier National Park Adventure SetMap & Naturalist GuideNational Geographic, James R Kavanagh and Raymond LeungThe Mt. Rainier National Park Adventure Set consists of a Pocket Naturalist Guide and National Geographic Map, offering a perfect resource for travelers wanting "hands on" information on what to see and where to go ...


Ohio WildlifeA Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar AnimalsJames R Kavanagh and Raymond LeungThe state mammal – the white-tailed deer – is one of thousands of species of animals inhabiting the diverse ecosystems found throughout the Buckeye State. This beautifully illustrated guide highlights over 140 familiar and ...


Oklahoma WildlifeA Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar AnimalsJames R Kavanagh and Raymond LeungThe Great Plains Trail in Oklahoma is a road-based wildlife viewing trail that covers an incredible 1,777 miles and includes 33 counties. This beautifully illustrated guide highlights over 140 familiar and unique species of mammals, birds ...


Oregon WildlifeA Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar AnimalsJames R Kavanagh and Raymond LeungThe state mammal – the beaver – is one of thousands of species of animals inhabiting the diverse ecosystems found throughout Oregon. This beautifully illustrated guide highlights over 140 familiar and unique species of mammal ...


Pennsylvania WildlifeA Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar AnimalsJames R Kavanagh and Raymond LeungThe state mammal – the white-tailed deer – is one of thousands of species of animals inhabiting the diverse ecosystems found throughout Pennsylvania. This beautifully illustrated guide highlights over 140 familiar and unique ...


Rhode Island WildlifeA Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar AnimalsJames R Kavanagh and Raymond LeungIt may be the smallest state in the nation, but Rhode Island's habitats support thousands of species of animals and invertebrates. Rhode Island Wildlife is the perfect pocket-sized, folding guide for the nature enthusiast exploring ...

12 pages | colour illustrations, 1 colour map | Unbound | 05/2012 | 9781583556979 | #232571A | £6.99 Add to basket
























South Carolina WildlifeA Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar SpeciesJames R Kavanagh and Raymond LeungThe state insect – the praying mantis – is one of thousands of species of animals inhabiting the diverse ecosystems found throughout South Carolina. This beautifully illustrated guide highlights over 140 familiar and unique ...


Springer & Cohutta Mountains Adventure SetMap & Naturalist GuideNational Geographic, James R Kavanagh and Raymond LeungThe Springer & Cohutta Mountains Adventure Set consists of a Pocket Naturalist Guide and National Geographic Map, offering a perfect resource for travelers wanting "hands on" information on what to see and where to ...


The Bedside ArkA Riotous Assembly of Unrespectable Southern African CreaturesDavid MuirheadThis riotous assembly of unrespectable creatures comprises 42 short accounts of southern Africa's vibrant collection of wild animals. From the one-of-its-kind aardvark to the wilfully ignorant ostrich; the Houdini-like ...


The Big MuddyAn Environmental History of the Mississippi and Its Peoples, from Hernando De Soto to Hurricane KatrinaChristopher MorrisIn the first long-term environmental history of the Mississippi, Christopher Morris offers a brilliant tour across five centuries as he illuminates the interaction between people and the landscape, from early hunter-gatherer bands to ...

336 pages | 40 illustrations | Hardback | 09/2012 | 9780195316919 | #195689A | £23.49 Add to basketPaperback | NYP 03/2017 | 9780190610760 | #232673A | £18.99 Add to basket

The North Norfolk CoastA Short IntroductionAnthony CookThe North Norfolk Coast is one of the UK's most beautiful natural coastlines. In The North Norfolk Coast, Anthony Cook provides an introduction to the origin and physical development of the North Norfolk Coast between Hunstanton ...


Under a Flaming SkyThe Great Hinckley Firestorm of 1894Daniel James BrownOn September 1, 1894 two forest fires converged on the town of Hinckley, Minnesota, trapping over two thousand people. Daniel James Brown recounts the events surrounding the fire in Under a Flaming Sky, the most gripping and ...

288 pages | 31 b/w photos | Paperback | 02/2016 | 9781493022007 | #232490A | £17.50 Add to basket

Wild SouthwestThe Landscapes and Wildlife of Southwest EnglandNigel HicksA book about the wildlife and landscapes of southwest England, covering the counties of Devon, Cornwall, Somerset and Dorset, richly illustrated with high quality photography. With an entertaining, yet informative text ...

160 pages | 300 colour photos | Paperback | 09/2016 | 9780992797010 | #232320A | £14.99 Add to basket

Wildlife of Southern AfricaA Field Guide to the Animals and Plants of the RegionVincent C CarruthersA field guide to the wildlife of southern Africa, describing over 2,000 plants and animals, with accurate illustrations in full colour. This book has been a trusted field companion for many years. Comprehensively updated, the fourth edition ...

310 pages | colour illustrations, colour distribution maps | Paperback | 07/2008 | 9781770077041 | #176894A | £24.99 Add to basketPaperback | NYP 05/2017 | 9781775843535 | #232734A | £25.99 Add to basket

Botany & Plant Science

A Botanist's Vocabulary1300 Terms Explained and IllustratedSusan K Pell and Bobbi AngellThe technical terms used to describe plants can be daunting, but they are essential for accurate identification and communication. This comprehensive glossary gives concise definitions of the terms that describe color, shape, texture ...

224 pages | 726 b/w line drawings | Hardback | 06/2016 | 9781604695632 | #232405A | £17.99 Add to basket

A Pictorial Guide to Common Garden PlantsA Reference Manual of 207 Ornamental Plants Grown in IndiaBalkar Singh, Nidhan Singh and Krishan KumarThis book provides the basic information about more than 200 ornamental plant species or varieties being raised in gardens of North Indian plains. The information is compiled in a language easily comprehensible to both laymen and specialists ...
























Ancient Trees in Lijiang [Chinese]Deng Lilan and Zhang CunzhengBased on a detailed investigation of ancient trees in Lijiang, China, 838 individual ancient trees were recorded in Lijiang City, with 38 species belonging to 20 families and 35 genera. Among them a total of 200 gymnosperms; 18 angiosperms ...


And Some Brought FlowersPlants in a New WorldMary Alice Downie, Mary Hamilton and EJ RevellOriginally published in 1980, And Some Brought Flowers partners 70 stunning full-colour watercolours of plants discovered by early travelers to North America with numerous excerpts from the writings of early explorers and settlers ...

210 pages | illustrations | Paperback | NYP 10/2016 | 9781550416169 | #232323A | £9.99 Add to basket

Atlas of 200 Kinds of Well-Chosen Wild Fruit in Zhejiang [Chinese]Li Genyou and Chen ZhenghaiThis book has taken years of hard work by the authors. From a total of 708 kinds of wild fruits, berries and ornamental plants from Zhejiang, China, they selected two sets of 100 primary species to introduce to the reader. Each comes with ...


Atlas of Native Trees in Suzhou [Chinese]Ge Dawei and Cheng HaizhongIn this book, the native tree species in Suzhou, China are mainly classified in the form of maps, and they are introduced in the form of pictures with a few words, which are both intuitive and practical. Since ancient times, the plant ...


Atlas of Wild Woody Plants in Jingangtai Mountains [Chinese]Wang Qirui and Ye XiyangThe Jingangtai mountains are located in the Shangcheng county, Henan Province, Central China. This book describes more than 300 species woody plants from the area.


Belowground Defence Strategies in PlantsChristine Vos and Kemal KazanBelowground Defence Strategies in Plants summarizes our current knowledge on belowground defence strategies in plants by world-class scientists actively working in the area. The volume includes chapters covering belowground defence ...


Billy Showell's Botanical Painting in WatercolourBilly ShowellIn this beautiful book, Billy Showell provides a fascinating and invaluable insight into the materials, methods and techniques she uses to produce stunning botanical paintings in watercolour. Billy Showell is a well-respected ...

192 pages | 500 colour photos and colour illustrations | Hardback | 03/2016 | 9781844484515 | #232459A | £19.99 Add to basket

Bolets Del Port: Maestrat, Matarranya, Terres de l'Ebre [[Mushrooms of Parque Natural dels Ports: Maestrazgo, MatarranyaManolo ArrufatA complete book on mushrooms in the Spanish region of Port, on the border between Catalonia and Aragon. Although it is not a guide in the classic sense of the term, it presents the best aspect of a guide: thorough descriptions, photographs ...

284 pages | colour photos, b/w line drawings | Paperback | 01/2012 | 9788461607495 | #232441A | £69.99 Add to basket

Bolets de Catalunya, Volume 35Societat Catalana de Micologia (SCM)Another 50 sheets in this ongoing series treating the fungi of Catalonia. See below table for a listing of the species treated in this volume.

50 pages | colour photos | Unbound | 09/2016 | #232778A | £43.99 Add to basket

Bolets del Port II: Maestrat, Matarranya, Terres de l'Ebre [Mushrooms of Parque Natural dels Ports II: Maestrazgo, MatarManolo Arrufat and Ferran RoyoA field guide to mushrooms of the Parque Natural dels Ports in the Spanish regions of Maestrazgo, Matarranya, and Terres de l'Ebre. In this book the reader will find a brief introduction which, in simple terms ...

254 pages | colour photos, b/w line drawings | Paperback | 01/2016 | 9788460861461 | #232347A | £68.99 Add to basket

Botanical Excursions in the Canary Islands / Excursiones Botanicas por las Islas CanariasDavid Bramwell and Alex BramwellThis guide to the natural areas of the Canary Islands and its flora tries to highlight the most important and spectacular endemic species. After showing some aerial images of the islands, the book goes on to describe the different environments ...

129 pages | colour photos, maps | Paperback | 10/2014 | 9788472072251 | #232264A | £29.99 Add to basket

Bromeliaceae of VenezuelaNative and CultivatedFrancisco Oliva-Esteva and Julan A SteyermarkA flora to the native and cultivated Bromeliaceae of Venezuela, richly illustrated with colour photos and line drawings.

398 pages | colour photos, b/w line drawings | Hardback | 09/1987 | 9789802160204 | #232715A | £44.99 Add to basket




























Color Illustrations of Common Xylophyta in Zhejiang Province [Chinese]Chen ZhenghaiFor this book, more than 1,400 species of woody plants were screened and 381 common species and 550 other are introduced to the reader here. For each of the common species colour photographs are shown, together with the name, scientific ...


Comanche Marker Trees of TexasSteve Houser, Linda Pelon and Jimmy W ArterberryIn this unprecedented effort to gather and share knowledge of the Native American practice of creating, designating, and making use of marker trees, an arborist, an anthropologist, and a Comanche tribal officer have merged their wisdom ...

288 pages | 133 colour & 4 b/w photos, 12 b/w illustrations, 6 maps | Paperback | NYP 11/2016 | 9781623494483 | #232654A | £33.95 Add to basket

Common Macrofungi in Central Yunnan [Chinese]Zhang YingThis is a photographic field guide to common macrofungi in Central Yunnan, China.

colour photos | Paperback | 10/2014 | #232570A | £49.99 Add to basket

Des Hommes et des Graines: Au Fil de l'Histoire et des Cultures [Of Men and Seeds: On Their History and Culture]Nathalie VidalFor man, seeds are one of the most common food sources on earth. But that's not the only thing. With time and needs, man has learned to extract from them, by crushing, grinding or maceration, an incredible diversity of food and ...


Eden [15th Anniversary Edition]Tim SmitUpdated, with stunning new photographs. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, the impossible was delivered. From the sterile depths of a disused china clay pit in Cornwall rose one of the most remarkable and ambitious ventures ...


Edible Plants of the Rocky MountainsA Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar SpeciesJames R Kavanagh and Jason SchwartzEdible Plants of the Rocky Mountains is a simplified guide to familiar and widespread species of edible berries, nuts, leaves and roots found in North America. This beautifully illustrated guide identifies the most familiar plants ...

12 pages | colour photos, colour illustrations | Unbound | 04/2016 | 9781583559765 | #232406A | £5.99 Add to basket

Emerging Trends in Value Addition to Plants and Plant ProductsK Manikya KumariThis book brings together papers presented at a two day National Conference entitled 'Emerging Trends in Value Addition to Plants and Plant Products' during 24th and 25th July 2014, held at and organized by St. Joseph's College ...


Endemi u Hrvatskoj Flori [Endemic Species of the Croatian Flora]Toni Nikolic, Milenko Milovic, Sandro Bogdanovic and Nenad JaspricaThe endemic flora of Croatia is unique and several times richer than the expected average. This book is rich with original information about the endemic plants in the Croatian territory, and after detailing all species belonging to the ...


Ethnobotany & Taxonomy of AngiospermsAlka ChaturvediThe present compendium is a compilation of papers presented during the XV Annual Conference of IAAT at Nagpur, India during 19-20 October, 2005. The contents of the volume range from traditional classical taxonomic aspects to molecular ...

303 pages | b/w illustrations, b/w maps | Paperback | 12/2008 | #232392A | £60.99 Add to basket

Ethnobotany of the Coos, Lower Umpqua, and Siuslaw IndiansPatricia Whereat-Phillips and Nancy J TurnerMyrtlewood is most often thought of as beautiful wood for woodworking, but to Native people on the southern Oregon coast it was an important source of food. The roasted nuts taste like bitter chocolate, coffee, and burnt popcorn.


Field Guide to Common Plants of Africa [Chinese]Sun GuojunField Guide to Common Plants of Africa introduces plants in taxonomic fashion, covering a total of 85 families, and 303 plant species.


Flora JaponicaMasumi Yamanaka, Hideaki Ohba and Martyn RixJapanese indigenous plants have fascinated botanists and horticulturalists for the past two centuries, and their discoveries still have a strong influence on the plants of today. Botanists such as Kaempfer, Thunberg, von Siebold, and ...

240 pages | 80 colour illustrations | Paperback | 09/2016 | 9781842466124 | #232297A | £24.99 Add to basket

Flora dos Estados de Goias e Tocantins: Colecao Rizzo, Volume 46: Balanophoraceae [Flora of the states of Goias andPiero Giuseppe DelpreteVolume 46 of this Brazilian flora deals with the family Balanophoraceae.

50 pages | illustrations, maps | Paperback | 01/2016 | 9788568359952 | #232393A | £52.99 Add to basket





























Flora dos Estados de Goias e Tocantins: Colecao Rizzo, Volume 47: Verbenaceae [Flora of the states of Goias andFatima Regina Goncalves SalimenaVolume 47 of this Brazilian flora deals with the family Verbenaceae.

157 pages | illustrations, maps | Paperback | 01/2016 | 9788568359969 | #232373A | £52.99 Add to basket

Flora of the Cook IslandsWR SykesFlora of the Cook Islands is a complete account of plants found wild in the Cook Islands and plants common in cultivation. Descriptions and keys are provided for 108 fern species and 567 flowering plant species. Of these, 104 fern ...

973 pages | 26 plates with 185 colour photos; 256 b/w line drawings | Hardback | 08/2016 | 9780915809073 | #232314A | £105.00 Add to basket

Flora of the Myxomycetean Fungi from Western MaharashtraVD Ranade and KR RanadiveIn India very scant information is available about the taxonomy of Myxomycetes. Major contributions on taxonomy of Myxomycetes have been by past authors from North-East India and South-East India. Very meagre research work on taxonomy of ...

142 pages | b/w illustrations, b/w maps | Hardback | 01/2016 | 9788187552840 | #232781A | £31.99 Add to basket

Flora: Une Histoire Illustree des Fleurs de Jardin [Flora: An Illustrated History of the Garden Flower]Brent ElliottTells the story of the evolution of garden flowers, with illustrations from the archive of the Royal Horticultural Society. Many of the illustrations are of historical importance in charting the development of garden flowers and include ...


Forage and Poisonous Plants of Ningxia [Chinese]Li Kechang and Guo SijiaThis book describes forage and poisonous plants from Ningxia, an autonomous region in China, belonging to 69 families 471 species of important forage plants. The book provides Chinese, scientific and English names, and has a scientific ...


Freshwater Benthic Diatoms of Central EuropeCommon Species Used in Ecological AssessmentM Cantonati, MG Kelly and Horst Lange-BertalotThis is an English updated edition of Diatomeen im S•áwasser-Benthos von Mitteleuropa. Diatoms are usually part of any successful quatic monitoring program. They are efficient indicators of water quality, etc. They are used in established ...

Hardback | NYP 10/2016 | 9783874294959 | #232298A | £159.00 Add to basket

Fungi in Ecosystem ProcessesJohn DightonThis new edition of Fungi in Ecosystem Processes continues the unique approach of examining the roles of fungi from the perspective of ecosystem functions. It explores how fungi have adapted to survive within particular constraints ...

408 pages | 5 colour & 105 b/w illustrations, 100 tables | Hardback | 04/2016 | 9781482249057 | #232327A | £76.99 Add to basket

Garden RevolutionHow Our Landscapes Can be a Source of Environmental ChangeLarry Weaner and Thomas ChristopherA successful garden is rewarding, stimulating, and environmentally friendly. Unfortunately, traditional gardening practices don't often deliver on that promise. Not only are these outdated methods resource- and time-consuming, they ...

300 pages | 250 colour photos and b/w illustrations | Hardback | 05/2016 | 9781604696165 | #232398A | £24.99 Add to basket

Gardening for Birds, Butterflies & BeesEverything You Need to Know to Create a Wildlife Habitat in Your BackyardAttracting birds and butterflies has never been simpler with the tips, tricks and plant picks in this handy guide. Plus, you'll help support the dwindling bee population, which is essential to the future of gardening. Whether you're ...

256 pages | 250+ colour photos | Paperback | 02/2016 | 9781621453031 | #232579A | £19.99 Add to basket

Gesneriaceae of South China [English / Chinese]Wei YigangGesneriaceae of South China is the product of a programme of research that began in 1993. It covers more than 85% of the species of southern China and over 65% of the species known from China as a whole. 304 species (including ...


Guia de Bolets per dur Sota el Brac [Mushroom Guide to Carry on the Field]Ramon PascualThis is a classical guide to Catalonian mushrooms for the general public with two distinctive features compared to existing guidelines: firstly, a fun and entertaining introduction in the form of interviews, and the other, a presentation ...


Guide des Lichens de France: Lichens des Roches [Guide to Lichens of France: Lichens on Rocks]Chantal van Haluwyn, Juliette Asta and Michel BertrandA modern guide on lichens on mineral substrates like rocks, walls, etc. 320 species and subspecies treated. Detailed datasheets designed to avoid confusion with similar species. More than 500 photographs illustrating all the important ...

384 pages | 500+ colour photos | Paperback | 09/2016 | 9782701193557 | #232596A | £34.99 Add to basket





























Guide des Lichens de France: Lichens des Sols [Guide to Lichens of France: Soil Lichens]Chantal van Haluwyn, Juliette Asta, Jean-Claude Boissiere, Philippe Clerc and Jean-Pierre GaveriauxAfter the success of the guide on tree lichens, here is a guide to soil lichens. Do you want to identify soil lichens? The collection of Guides des Fous de Nature is for you!


Guide to the Properties and Uses of Southern African WoodStephanie Dyer, Barry James and Danielle JamesGuide to the Properties and Uses of Southern African Wood is a fully illustrated, scientifically accurate guide to the characteristics, properties and uses of wood from 140 Southern African tree species.

336 pages | 700 colour photos, colour distribution maps, colour tables | Hardback | 02/2017 | 9781920217587 | #232309A | £26.95 Add to basket

Handbook of PhotosynthesisMohammad PessarakliSince the publication of the previous editions of the Handbook of Photosynthesis, many new ideas on photosynthesis have emerged in the past decade that have drawn the attention of experts and researchers on the subject as well as ...

846 pages | 289 b/w illustrations, 58 tables | Hardback | 04/2016 | 9781482230734 | #232417A | £146.00 Add to basket

Herbarium OrbisFrederik LisakHerbarium Orbis pays tribute to plants as aesthetic phenomenons. With surprisingly facsimiles of beautiful plant specimens and insightful text the lavishly illustrated volume is an art book and encyclopedia likewise. Divided into ...

250 pages | colour photos | Hardback | NYP 12/2016 | 9783943573268 | #232313A | £34.99 Add to basket

Ladders to HeavenHow Fig Trees Shaped Our History, Fed Our Imaginations and Can Enrich Our FutureMike ShanahanThey are trees of life and trees of knowledge. They are wish-fulfillers… rainforest royalty… more precious than gold. They are the fig trees, and they have affected humanity in profound but little-known ways.

203 pages | b/w illustrations | Hardback | 09/2016 | 9781783522361 | #232339A | £16.99 Add to basket

Lichens of FinlandSoili Stenroos, Saara Velmala, Juha Pykala and Teuvo AhtiIn the introduction topics such as lichen characters, taxonomy, habitats, and threatened taxa are discussed. Also, an overview of lichen research in Finland is provided. The detailed treatment of taxa includes genus and species descriptions ...

896 pages | colour photos, colour distribution maps | Hardback | 09/2016 | 9789515122667 | #232294A | £125.00 Add to basket

Medicinal Flora of Funiushan Mountain, Volume 5, Part 2 [Chinese]Gao ZhimingMedicinal Plants of Funiushan Mountain will be published in seven volumes. Volume 5 is divided into 2 parts. Part 2 records the poisonous plants of Dicotyledoneae. It deals with 220 species poisonous plants belonging to 16 families ...


Medicinal Plants of the Rocky MountainsA Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar SpeciesJames R Kavanagh and Jason SchwartzThis beautifully illustrated guide highlights the most familiar species of medicinally relevant, widespread trees, shrubs and wildflowers. Laminated for durability, this one ounce pocket guide provides simplified, essential information ...

12 pages | colour photos, colour illustrations | Unbound | 04/2016 | 9781583559796 | #232421A | £5.99 Add to basket

NGS Gardens to Visit 2016The National Gardens Scheme (NGS)Published annually in spring and previously known as The Yellow Book, NGS Gardens to Visit 2016 lists nearly 4,000 gardens open for visiting. It is packed with full-colour photographs and informed comment. Fully updated ...


Oklahoma Trees & WildflowersA Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar PlantsJames R Kavanagh and Raymond LeungDid you know that the number of Oklahoma wildflowers species ranks third in the nation, behind California and Texas? The state tree, the redbud, is one of thousands of species of plants growing in the diverse ecosystems found throughout ...


Orchids of the Department of Valle del Cauca (Colombia), Volume 4Orchidaceae, VandoideaeMarta Kolanowska and Dariusz L SzlachetkoThe fourth and final volume in this 4-volume series deals with the orchid subfamily Vandoideae.

572 pages | 100 plates with 193 colour photos; 490 b/w line drawings and b/w distribution maps | Hardback | NYP /NULL | 9783946583028 | #232276A | £186.00 Add to basket

Orchidees de la Martinique [Orchids of Martinique]Pierre CoutinardThis book presents the diversity of orchids of Martinique with photos taken in the wild. You will also find data sheets, scientific and, where they exist, vernacular names, characteristics, lifestyle and geographical distribution.

211 pages | colour photos, colour distribution maps | Hardback | 01/2015 | 9782952223423 | #232315A | £54.99 Add to basket


























Oregon Trees & WildflowersA Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar SpeciesJames R Kavanagh and Raymond LeungEco-regions ranging from coastal dunes and mountain forest provide a host of habitats for Oregon flora. The state tree, the Douglas Fir, is one of thousands of species of plants growing in the diverse ecosystems found throughout the state ...


Pennsylvania Trees & WildflowersA Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar PlantsJames R Kavanagh and Raymond LeungThe Keystone State claims Eastern Hemlock as its state tree, one of thousands of species of plants growing in the diverse ecosystems found throughout the state. This beautifully illustrated guide highlights over 140 familiar and unique ...


Plant Life of the Dolomites: Atlas of FloraErika Pignatti and Sandro PignattiPlant Life of the Dolomites: Atlas of Flora offers distribution maps of over 2200 individual species living in the Dolomite area, presenting detailed records on the local range of every species growing in the area studied, from ...

102 pages | 21 colour illustrations, 2260 colour distribution maps | Hardback | NYP 10/2016 | 9783662530498 | #232722A | £126.50 Add to basket

Plantas Uteis de Minas Gerais e Goias: Na Obra dos Naturalistas [Useful Plants of Minas Gerais and Goias]Maria das Gracas Lins BrandaoThis book includes the study of 90 native species of Minas Gerais and Goiás, Brazil, used for various purposes and mentioned in the works of eight British and French naturalists who visited the country during the nineteenth century ...

110 pages | colour photos, b/w illustrations, colour distribution maps | Spiralbound | 01/2015 | 9788562164064 | #232368A | £74.50 Add to basket

Proceedings National Seminar on Plant Resource Management and Conservation Strategies in N.E. Region, 2011 [India]Guwahati, Assam, India Department of Botany Cotton College and PK BaruahThe national seminar on Plant Resource Management and Conservation Strategies in N.E. Region organised by the Department of Botany, Cotton College, Guwahati-1, was held on the 18th and 19th of February, 2011 at A.C. Dutta Bhavan, Botany ...


Pure Cultures of AlgaeTheir Preparation and MaintenanceEG Pringsheim and FE FritschOriginally published in 1946, Pure Cultures of Algae presents an account of the practical conclusions reached by the author during many years of experimentation with algae, drawing attention to the possibilities opened up by algae ...


RHS How Do Worms Work?A Gardener's Collection of Curious Questions and Astonishing AnswersGuy BarterEver wondered how worms breathe? Or why exactly trees are so big? RHS How Do Worms Work? covers all aspects of gardens and gardening, and will satisfy all your horticultural curiosity. Packed with photographs, vintage engravings ...

224 pages | 200 photos and illustrations | Hardback | NYP 10/2016 | 9781784722289 | #232305A | £14.99 Add to basket

RHS Pruning & TrainingWhat, When, and How to PruneChristopher Brickell and David JoyceCultivate your perfect garden with RHS Pruning & Training's unrivalled guidance for over 800 trees, shrubs, and climbing plants. Fully updated by the RHS experts, RHS Pruning & Training uses clear, step-by-step ...

336 pages | illustrations | Hardback | NYP 03/2017 | 9780241282908 | #232706A | £19.99 Add to basket

RSPB Gardening for WildlifeA Complete Guide to Nature-friendly GardeningAdrian LR ThomasThere is something uplifting about having butterflies in your flowerbeds, frogs in your water feature and birds in your bushes, and knowing they're there because of you. Rich in detail and accessible in style, Gardening for ...

288 pages | 600 colour photos | Hardback | 05/2010 | 9781408122303 | #181775A | £19.99 Add to basketPaperback | NYP 03/2017 | 9781472938572 | #232631A | £24.99 Add to basket

RSPB Handbook of Garden WildlifePeter Holden and Geoffrey AbbottThis popular RSPB field guide is a rich resource of information on our most familiar garden wildlife. For the second edition RSPB Handbook of Garden Wildlife sections have been updated and some expanded to offer ...

256 pages | 450+ colour photos | Paperback | 09/2008 | 9780713688603 | #174626A | £9.99 Add to basketPaperback | NYP 03/2017 | 9781472930842 | #232630A | £12.99 Add to basket

Rhode Island Trees & WildflowersA Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar PlantsJames R Kavanagh and Raymond LeungThe state flower, the blue violet is one of thousands of species of plants growing in the diverse ecosystems found throughout Rhode Island. This beautifully illustrated guide highlights over 140 familiar and unique species of trees, shrubs ...




























Rothmaler - Exkursionsflora von Deutschland, Band 2Gefasspflanzen: GrundbandEckehart J JagerThis flora, which has proven itself for decades already, is constantly updated and its 21st edition continues to help the reader find species names and learn interesting facts about distribution, ecology and sociology of certain vascular ...


Silviculture of South Asian Priority BamboosRatan Lal BanikSilviculture of South Asian Priority Bamboos aims at bringing out a comprehensive collection of information on bamboo varieties in South Asia. The main focus of this book is to address the ecological and economic significance of ...

353 pages | 37 b/w illustrations, 180 colour tables | Hardback | NYP 11/2016 | 9789811005688 | #232399A | £99.99 Add to basket

South Carolina Trees & WildflowersA Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar SpeciesJames R Kavanagh and Raymond LeungSouth Carolina's rich flora includes more than 680 species of wildflowers. This beautifully illustrated guide highlights over 140 familiar and unique species of trees, shrubs and wildflowers and also includes an ecoregion map featuring ...


Taxonomic Outline of Medicinal Plants [Chinese]Yuan XiaofengThis book will allow graduate and undergraduate students to master the method of identifying medicinal plants, based on the author's experience. The book recognizes seven categories: medicinal algae, fungi, plants, lichens, mosses ...


The AlgaeVJ Chapman and DJ ChapmanA print-on-demand reprint of this classic introduction to algae. The first half treats all the major groups of algae, while the second half of the book treats their biology in-depth.

511 pages | b/w line drawings | Paperback | 04/1975 | 9781349279128 | #232422A | £19.99 Add to basket

The Comps of Mexico: A Systematic Account of the Family Asteraceae, Chapter 21Subtribe Zaluzaniinae: Hybridella, Zaluzania - Subtribe Zinniinae: Heliopsis, Philactis, Sanvitalia, Tehuana, TrichocoryBillie L TurnerThe Comps of Mexico is a long-running series of systematic accounts of all the tribes and genera of the family Asteraceae. Chapter 21 in this treatment deals with several subtribes, namely Zaluzaniinae (genera Hybridella ...

114 pages | b/w photos, b/w distribution maps | Paperback | 09/2016 | #232410A | £57.99 Add to basket

The Genus Melastoma in BorneoIncluding 34 New SpeciesKhoon Meng WongIt was thought that only nine species of Melastoma existed on the island of Borneo in 2001. The present account enumerates 41, including 31 new species, providing the taxonomic bases for the significant changes in species recognised ...


The Keys of Shanghai Vascular Plants [Chinese]Ma JinshuangThe Keys of Shanghai Vascular Plants includes plants in 202 families, 1100 genera and 2991 species, all of which are keyed here following the latest data from plants status surveys and historical data collection, conducted in ...


Trees of YapA Field GuideMarjorie V Cushing FalanruwTrees of Yap, first published in 2015 as Forest Service General Technical Report PSW-GTR-249, is an up-to-date field guide for identifying the trees found on the island of Yap, Micronesia (and applicable to much of the southern ...

282 pages | b/w photos, b/w line drawings | Paperback | 02/2016 | 9781530133956 | #232652A | £17.50 Add to basket

Tsvetnoi Atlas Rastenii Kryma, Kniga 1 [Colour Atlas of Crimean Plants, Book 1]LP Vakhrusheva and NV Vorob'evaThe authors give a detailed description of each plant, write of its application, explain the origins of the plant's name, and familiarize the reader with legends and true stories about them. The book consists of five parts, each of ...


Tsvetnoi Atlas Rastenii Kryma, Kniga 2 [Colour Atlas of Crimean Plants, Book 2]LP VakhrushevaThe authors give a detailed description of each plant, write of its application, explain the origins of the plant's name, and familiarize the reader with legends and true stories about them. The book consists of five parts, each of ...



























Vegetation Ecology of Central Europe, Volume 2: Ecology of Central European Non-Forest Vegetation, Coastal to AlpineChristoph Leuschner and Heinz EllenbergThis handbook in two volumes synthesises our knowledge about the ecology of Central Europe's plant cover with its 7000-yr history of human impact, covering Germany, Poland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Austria ...

63 colour & 304 b/w illustrations, 63 colour tables | Hardback | NYP 12/2016 | 9783319430461 | #232743A | £159.50 Add to basket

Wetland Plants for Sustenance of MankindSK Sood and Romita SharmaThis invaluable compendium provides its readers with exhaustive details of 203 underutilized Himalayan wetland plants belonging to 156 genera under 66 families with predominance of polypetalous groups. It is supplemented with updated ...

438 pages | 40 plates with 222 colour photos; 24 illustrations, 82 tables | Paperback | 01/2016 | 9788180942303 | #232788A | £62.50 Add to basket

Yucca: Vorkommen, Bestimmen und Pflegen aller Arten aus Nordamerika [Yuccas: Occurrence, Identification and Care of allRamona Ondrovic and Stefan OndrovicWhen the authors started their investigations of yuccas 10 years ago, there was little to find for the reade on the German literary market. In garden books, the yuccas were only mentioned alongside other plants (palms, cacti, etc.) as an ...


Animal & General Biology

Animal Diversity, Natural History and Conservation, Volume 4Vijai Kumar Gupta and Anil K VermaVolume 4 of the series Animal Diversity, Natural History and Conservation comprises a vast body of research on the subject and has been designed in such a way as to serve biologists, ecologists, environmentalists and conservationists ...


Aspinall's Complete Textbook of Veterinary NursingNicola AckermanThe third edition of Aspinall's Complete Textbook of Veterinary Nursing is the ideal text for both student and qualified veterinary nurses as it covers the entire veterinary nursing syllabus. Now written in the main by veterinary ...

832 pages | colour photos, colour illustrations, colour tables | Paperback | 07/2016 | 9780702066023 | #232621A | £52.99 Add to basket

Atlas de Dermatologie Porcine [Atlas of Porcine Dermatology]J-M Gourreau, R Drolet, G-P Martineau, H Morvan, Paul-Pierre Pastoret, D Pin and W ScottThis Atlas, which has been lavishly illustrated, is the first of its kind and fills a gap in the global veterinary literature. The advantage of this book is that it takes into account all aspects of porcine dermatology (it covers ...


Atlas of Porcine DermatologyJ-M Gourreau, R Drolet, G-P Martineau, H Morvan, Paul-Pierre Pastoret, D Pin and W ScottThis Atlas, which has been lavishly illustrated, is the first of its kind and fills a gap in the global veterinary literature. The advantage of this book is that it takes into account all aspects of porcine dermatology (it covers ...


Bioinsecurities: Disease Interventions, Empire, and the Government of SpeciesDisease Interventions, Empire, and the Government of SpeciesNeel AhujaIn Bioinsecurities Neel Ahuja argues that U.S. imperial expansion has been shaped by the attempts of health and military officials to control the interactions of humans, animals, viruses, and bacteria at the borders of U.S. ...

288 pages | 16 illustrations | Paperback | 04/2016 | 9780822360636 | #232556A | £20.99 Add to basketHardback | 04/2016 | 9780822360483 | #232557A | £73.99 Add to basket

Circadian Rhythms: A Very Short IntroductionRussell Foster and Leon KreitzmanThe earth's daily rotation affects just about every living creature. From dawn through to dusk, there are changes in light, temperature, humidity, and rainfall. However, these changes are regular, rhythmic and, therefore, predictable ...

144 pages | 20 b/w illustrations | Paperback | NYP 03/2017 | 9780198717683 | #226479A | £7.99 Add to basket

Cognitive Neuroscience: A Very Short IntroductionRichard PassinghamUp to the 1960s, psychology was deeply under the influence of behaviourism, which focused on stimuli and responses, and regarded consideration of what may happen in the mind as unapproachable scientifically. This began to change with the ...


Ebola Virus DiseaseFrom Origin to OutbreakAdnan QureshiEbola Virus Disease: From Origin to Outbreak covers Ebola virus disease in its entirety from its origins through major outbreaks in the past to the present day outbreak. It contains information on the West Saharan response to Ebola ...




























Effect of Spaceflight and Spaceflight Analogue Culture on Human and Microbial CellsNovel Insights into Disease MechanismsCheryl A Nickerson, Neal R Pellis, C Mark Ott and Sandra H MagnusMany breakthroughs in biological research and translational healthcare advancements have been achieved by studying the response of biological systems to extreme environments. The spaceflight platform provides a unique environment where ...

301 pages | 45 colour & 21 b/w photos and illustrations, 2 colour tables | Hardback | 05/2016 | 9781493932764 | #232289A | £104.50 Add to basket

High-Pressure MicrobiologyChris Michiels, Douglas H Bartlett and Abram AertsenExplains the variety of effects of and adaptations to high pressure in microorganisms. - Summarizes the major findings in this field, and stimulates a cross-fertilization between the piezophile and the nonpiezophile high-pressure ...

348 pages | b/w photos, b/w illustrations, tables | Hardback | 03/2008 | 9781555814236 | #232285A | £101.00 Add to basket

Introducing EpigeneticsA Graphic GuideCath Ennis and Oliver PughEpigenetics is the most exciting field in biology today, developing our understanding of how and why we inherit certain traits, develop diseases and age, and evolve as a species. This non-fiction comic book introduces us to ...


Learning and MemoryEric R Kandel, Yadin Dudai and Mark R MayfordWe learn and remember information by modifying synaptic connections in the neuronal networks of our brain. Depending on the type of information being stored, these changes occur in different regions and different circuits of the brain.

408 pages | 65 colour & 12 b/w illustrations | Paperback | 12/2015 | 9781621821601 | #232383A | £61.50 Add to basketHardback | 12/2015 | 9781621820918 | #232384A | £105.00 Add to basket

Molecular Biology: A Very Short IntroductionAysha Divan and Janice RoydsMolecular Biology is the story of the molecules of life, their relationships, and how these interactions are controlled. It is an expanding field in life sciences, and its applications are wide and growing. We can now harness the power of ...


Redesigning LifeHow Genome Editing Will Transform the WorldJohn ParringtonSince the birth of civilisation, human beings have manipulated other life-forms. We have selectively bred plants and animals for thousands of years to maximize agricultural production and cater to our tastes in pets. The observation of ...


Social Life of AnimalsSukanya Datta and Babita BiswasThe world of animals is really fascinating. Unlike the human race, animals come in myriads of shapes, colours and show an astounding range of behaviour. They don't speak like humans, but they can communicate among themselves quite ...

139 pages | 28 plates with colour photos; colour & b/w illustrations | Paperback | 01/2012 | 9788123739373 | #232328A | £18.99 Add to basket

Studying Animal Languages Without TranslationAn Insight from AntsZhanna ReznikovaThe author of this new volume on ant communication demonstrates that information theory is a valuable tool for studying the natural communication of animals. To do so, she pursues a fundamentally new approach to studying animal communication ...


The Organic Chemistry of Biological PathwaysJohn E McMurry and Tadhg P BegleyThe Organic Chemistry of Biological Pathways was written for an audience of advanced undergraduates and graduate students who want a deeper understanding of the chemical reactions that take place in living organisms. The authors ...

576 pages | illustrations, tables | Hardback | 04/2016 | 9781936221561 | #232599A | £59.99 Add to basket

The Social Neuroscience of Human-Animal InteractionLisa S Freund, Sandra McCune, Layla Esposito, Nancy R Gee and Peggy McCardleOur relationships with animals, as anyone with a beloved dog or cat knows, can be among the most significant in our lives. But why are we so attached to our pets? What kind of health, developmental, and psychological impacts do animals ...


Vision in the Animal WorldReginald H SmytheA print-on-demand reprint of this introductory book on vision in the animal world, describing the various kinds of eyes in foremost vertebrates, how they function, and how well they are adapted to the needs of their owners. A few chapters ...


























Wilder Sex: Das Liebesleben der Tiere [The Nature of Sex: The Ins and Outs of Mating in the Animal Kingdom]Carin Bondar and Susanne Schmidt-WussowIn Wilder Sex, 'biologist with a twist' Carin Bondar presents the fascinating diversity of the reproductive habits of the animal kingdom, and through approachable explanations and humorous examples succeeds in making an ...


Evolutionary Biology

A Companion to Dental AnthropologyJoel D Irish, G Richard Scott and Clark Spencer LarsenCompanion to Dental Anthropology presents a collection of original readings addressing all aspects and sub-disciplines of the field of dental anthropology – from its origins and evolution through to the latest scientific ...

540 pages | b/w photos, b/w illustrations, tables | Hardback | 12/2015 | 9781118845431 | #232661A | £120.00 Add to basket

Adaptation and Evolution in Marine Environments, Volume 2The Impacts of Global Change on BiodiversityCinzia Verde and Guido di PriscoThe second volume of Adaptation and Evolution in Marine Environments – The Impacts of Global Change on Biodiversity from the series From Pole to Pole integrates the marine biology contribution of the first tome ...

239 pages | colour & b/w photos, colour & b/w illustrations, tables | Hardback | 10/2012 | 9783642273483 | #197253A | £104.50 Add to basketPaperback | 07/2012 | 9783642448881 | #232431A | £104.50 Add to basket

Built on Bones15,000 Years of Urban Life and DeathBrenna HassettImagine you are a hunter-gatherer some 12,000 years ago. You've got a choice – carry on foraging, or plant a few seeds and move to one of those new-fangled settlements down the valley. What you won't know is that urban life ...


Darwin's BridgeUniting the Humanities and SciencesJoseph Carroll, Dan P McAdams, Edward O Wilson, Alice Dreger, David Sloan Wilson and Jo GottschallDarwin's Bridge: Uniting the Humanities and Sciences explores the meaning of consilience and considers the unity of human evolution, human nature, social dynamics, art, and narrative. The term "consilience" in its ...


Evolution and Transitions in ComplexityThe Science of Hierarchical Organization in NatureGerard AJM Jagers op AkkerhuisEvolution and Transitions in Complexity discusses several recent theoretic advancements in interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary integration in the field of evolution. While exploring novel views, the text maintains a close ...


History WithinThe Science, Culture, and Politics of Bones, Organisms, and MoleculesMarianne SommerPersonal genomics services such as 23andMe and Ancestry.com now offer what once was science fiction: the ability to sequence and analyze an individual's entire genetic code – promising, in some cases, facts about that individual's ...

496 pages | 29 b/w photos, 6 b/w illustrations | Hardback | 06/2016 | 9780226347325 | #232531A | £34.99 Add to basket

Human Paleontology and PrehistoryContributions in Honor of Yoel RakAssaf Marom and Erella HoversThe aim of Human Paleontology and Prehistory is to present original and though-provoking essays in human paleontology and prehistory, which are at the forefront of human evolutionary research, in honor of Professor Yoel Rak ...


My European FamilyA Genetic Adventure Across 54,000 YearsKarin BojsKarin Bojs grew up in a small, broken family. At her mother's funeral she felt this more keenly than ever. So as part of the healing process, she decided to use DNA research to learn more about herself, her family and the ...


The Evolution of Senescence in the Tree of LifeRichard P Shefferson, Owen R Jones and Roberto Salguero-GomezThe existing theory on the evolution of senescence assumes that because ageing is inevitable in humans, this must be the case for all organisms. However, recent studies have shown that this is not necessarily true. A better understanding ...

51 b/w illustrations, 16 tables | Hardback | NYP 02/2017 | 9781107078505 | #232453A | £59.99 Add to basket























The Metabolic GhettoAn Evolutionary Perspective on Nutrition, Power Relations and Chronic DiseaseJonathan CK WellsChronic diseases have rapidly become the leading global cause of morbidity and mortality, yet there is poor understanding of this transition, or why particular social and ethnic groups are especially susceptible.


The Postcranial Anatomy of Australopithecus afarensisNew Insights from KSD-VP-1/1Yohannes Haile-Selassie and Denise F SuThe Postcranial Anatomy of Australopithecus afarensis describes a 3.6 million-years-old partial skeleton of Australopithecus afarensis from the Woranso-Mille, central Afar, Ethiopia. This specimen is the first adult ...


Ecology

Applied EcologyMonitoring, Managing, and ConservingAnne E Goodenough and Adam HartWe live in a complex and dynamic world. Understanding how to monitor, manage and conserve species and habitats – the goal of applied ecology – is of ever-increasing importance. Applied Ecology shows students ...

408 pages | Paperback | NYP 01/2017 | 9780198723288 | #232733A | £39.99 Add to basket

Perspectives on EcologyA Critical EssayKoula MellosPerspectives on Ecology is a critical analysis of the principal views on ecology including the neo-Malthusian, the expansionist, those of eco-development and of radical ecology comparing and evaluating their relative contributions ...


Reinvention of Australasian BiogeographyReform, Revolt and RebellionMalte C EbachBiogeography, the study of the distribution of life on Earth, has undergone more conceptual changes, revolutions and turf wars than any other scientific field. Australasian biogeographers are responsible for several of these great upheavals ...


Habitats & Ecosystems

A Thinking Person's Guide to America's National ParksRobert E Manning, Rolf Diamant, Nora J Mitchell and David HarmonThe book delves into issues affecting an array of parks: the iconic western national parks like Yellowstone; the urban parks such as Golden Gate National Recreation Area; historic sites including the Statue of Liberty National Monument ...


Catalogo de Furnas (Cuevas) Marinas: Parque Nacional Maritimo-Terrestre de las Islas Atlanticas de GaliciaJose Higinio DizThe book contains information on over 50 "furnas" (cavities excavated by the force of sea in rock fissures), hidden under the immense masses of granite in the Cies Islands, the Isla Sur o de San Martiño, the Isla Norte ...

151 pages | colour photos, maps | Paperback | 12/2015 | 9788480148795 | #232346A | £31.50 Add to basket

Coastal SystemsSimon K HaslettOceans, land, and atmosphere comprise three dynamic forces that contribute to the physical and ecological evolution of coastlines. Coasts are responsive systems, themselves dynamic with identifiable inputs and outputs of energy and material ...

240 pages | b/w photos, illustrations, maps, tables | Paperback | 09/2008 | 9780415440608 | #175207A | £28.99 Add to basketHardback | 09/2008 | 9780415440615 | #175607A | £89.99 Add to basketPaperback | 07/2016 | 9781783169009 | #232413A | £34.99 Add to basket

Exceptional MountainsA Cultural History of the Pacific Northwest VolcanoesO Alan WeltzienOver the past 150 years, people have flocked to the Pacific Northwest in increasing numbers, in part due to the region's beauty and one of its most exceptional features: volcanoes. This segment of the Pacific Ring of Fire has shaped ...

256 pages | 10 illustrations | Hardback | 08/2016 | 9780803265479 | #232537A | £33.50 Add to basket

Forest Structure, Function and Dynamics in Western AmazoniaRandall W MysterThe Amazon basin contains the largest and most diverse tropical rainforest in the world. Besides the Andes and the Atlantic Ocean, the rainforest is bounded to the north by the Guiana crystalline shield and to the south by the Brazilian ...

























Forest Under StoryCreative Inquiry in an Old-Growth ForestNathaniel Brodie, Charles Goodrich and Frederick J SwansonTwo kinds of long-term research are taking place at the H. J. Andrews Experimental Forest, a renowned research facility in the temperate rain forest of the Oregon Cascades. Here, scientists investigate the ecosystem's trees, wildlife ...

264 pages | 14 b/w illustrations, 2 b/w maps | Hardback | 01/2016 | 9780295995458 | #232541A | £24.99 Add to basket

Gender and ForestsClimate Change, Tenure, Value Chains and Emerging IssuesCarol J Pierce Colfer, Bimbika Sijapati Basnett, Marlene Elias and Lorena AguilarThis enlightening book brings together the work of gender and forestry specialists from various backgrounds and fields of research and action to analyse global gender conditions as related to forests. Using a variety of methods and approaches ...

362 pages | 85 b/w illustrations, 31 tables | Hardback | 04/2016 | 9781138955035 | #232355A | £84.99 Add to basketPaperback | 04/2016 | 9781138955042 | #232356A | £29.99 Add to basket

Lakes of the World with Google EarthUnderstanding Our EnvironmentAnja M Scheffers and Dieter H KelletatFeaturing satellite imagery from Google Earth, Lakes of the World with Google Earth provides a unique, highly visual tour of lakes across the globe, from the simple to the complex, the nearby to the remote. Clear text accompanies ...


Managing Forest Ecosystems: The Challenge of Climate ChangeFelipe Bravo, Valerie LeMay and Robert JandlClimate change shaped the political agenda during the last decade with three issues as hot topics: commonly making the headlines: carbon budgets, impact and mitigation of climate change. Given the significant role that forests ...


National Report on Sustainable Forest ManagementState Forestry AdministrationThe National Report on Sustainable Forest Management, compiled by the State Forestry Administration combines various national forest inventories, results from monitoring, investigation and statistical information, and references ...


Parques Nacionales de Espana [National Parks of Spain]Eduardo Martinez de Pison and Javier SanchezParques Nacionales de España is the first book that brings together the best images of the 15 parks of the Spanish National Parks Network, one of the most prominent and biodiversity rich networks of the European continent ...


Plant, Soil and Microbes, Volume 1Implications in Crop ScienceKhalid Rehman Hakeem, Mohd Sayeed Akhtar and Siti Nor Akmar AbdullahThe interactions between the plant, soil and microbes are complex in nature. Events may be antagonistic, mutualistic or synergistic, depending upon the types of microorganisms and their association with the plant and soil in question.


Plant, Soil and Microbes, Volume 2Mechanisms and Molecular InteractionsKhalid Rehman Hakeem and Mohd Sayeed AkhtarThe interactions between the plant, soil, and microbes are very complex in nature and may be antagonistic, mutualistic, or synergistic, depending upon the types of microorganisms and their association with the plant and soil.


Seashore Ecology of New Zealand and the PacificJohn MortonThis huge book is from one of New Zealand's most respected scientists, Professor John Morton, and is the culmination of a life's work. Professor Morton and Dr Bruce Hayward (scientific editor) have painstakingly documented and ...

504 pages | 300 photos, illustrations | Hardback | 09/2004 | 9781869533991 | #232800A | £147.00 Add to basket

Upwelling Systems of the WorldA Scientific Journey to the Most Productive Marine EcosystemsJochen K ñmpf and Piers ChapmanUpwelling systems are special places in the oceans where nutrient-enriched water is brought into the euphotic zone to fuel phytoplankton blooms that, via marine food-web interactions, create the world's richest fish resources.

448 pages | 200 b/w illustrations, 91 colour tables | Hardback | NYP 09/2016 | 9783319425221 | #232304A | £112.00 Add to basket

Urban ForestryPlanning and Managing Urban GreenspacesRobert W Miller, Richard J Hauer and Les P WernerFully updated and greatly enhanced, the Third Edition of Urban Forestry addresses current issues in planning, establishing, and managing trees, forests, and other elements of nature in urban and community ecosystems. The authors ...

























Urban ForestsA Natural History of Trees and People in the American CityscapeJill JonnesNature's largest and longest-lived creations, trees play an extraordinarily important role in our cityscapes, living landmarks that define space, cool the air, soothe our psyches, and connect us to nature and our past. Today, four ...


Vegetation Ecology of Central Europe, Volume 1: Ecology of Central European ForestsChristoph Leuschner and Heinz EllenbergThis handbook in two volumes synthesises our knowledge about the ecology of Central Europe's plant cover with its 7000-yr history of human impact, covering Germany, Poland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Austria ...


Conservation & Biodiversity

Backcasts: A Global History of Fly Fishing and ConservationSamuel Snyder, Bryon Borgelt, Elizabeth Tobey, Jen Corrinne Brown and Chris Wood"Many of us probably would be better fishermen if we did not spend so much time watching and waiting for the world to become perfect." – Norman Maclean Though Maclean writes of an age-old focus of all ...


Biodiversity for Sustainable DevelopmentKP Laladhas, Preetha Nilayangod and Oommen V OommenDivided into three sections, Biodiversity for Sustainable Development explores the three main pillars of sustainable development, namely economy, environment and society, and their interlinkages at the regional level. The first ...


Biodiversity, Environment and Functional BiologyM SerajuddinFrom the preface: |Biodiversity is considered to be one of the key components of our basic life support systems. It is now widely recognized that the gene, species and ecosystem that are being lost at an increasingly accelerating ...


Bioprospecting: Successes, Potential and ConstraintsRussell Paterson, Nelson Lima and David L HawksworthBioprospecting: Successes, Potential and Constraints considers all aspects of bioprospecting in 14 succinct chapters and a foreword by David Hawksworth. The organisms addressed include plants, insects, fungi, bacteria and phages ...


Citizen ScientistSearching for Heroes and Hope in an Age of ExtinctionMary Ellen HannibalA science writer, mourning the recent loss of her father, finds solace in citizen science, with its promise to slow and reverse another kind of loss she's been deeply grappling with: the unprecedented mass extinction of species ...


Dead ZoneWhere the Wild Things WerePhilip LymberyClimate change and habitat destruction are not the only culprits behind so many animals facing extinction. The impact of consumer demand for cheap meat is equally devastating and it is vital that we confront this problem if we are to ...


Economics of BiodiversityI SundarThe knowledge of economics of biodiversity is very essential to understand the linkages between biodiversity and economics and conflict between economic growth and biodiversity conservation. This book gives an idea about application of ...


Last of the GiantsThe Rise and Fall of Earth's Most Dominant SpeciesJeff CampbellToday, an ancient world is vanishing right before our eyes: the age of giant animals. Over 40,000 years ago, the earth was ruled by megafauna: mammoths and mastodons, saber-toothed tigers and giant sloths. Of course, those creatures no ...


Make It a Green Peace!The Rise of a Countercultural EnvironmentalismFrank ZelkoMake it a Green Peace! explores the complex intellectual and cultural roots of Greenpeace, tracing the development of the organization from its emergence amidst the various protest movements of the 1950s and 1960s to the end of ...

400 pages | 25 illustrations | Hardback | 05/2013 | 9780199947089 | #202136A | £23.49 Add to basketPaperback | NYP 03/2017 | 9780190610777 | #232662A | £18.99 Add to basket

























Returning North with the SpringJohn R HarrisAt winter's end in 1947, driven by the devastating loss of a son killed in World War II, naturalist Edwin Way Teale and his wife Nellie followed the dawning spring season northward in an amazing 17,000 mile odyssey from the Everglades ...

192 pages | 22 b/w photos, 4 maps | Hardback | 03/2016 | 9780813062747 | #232271A | £27.50 Add to basket

Species Diversity of Animals in JapanMasaharu Motokawa and Hiroshi KajiharaSpecies Diversity of Animals in Japan summarizes the status quo of the knowledge about the biodiversity in terrestrial, freshwater, and marine animals that live in Japan. Consisting of some 6,800 islands that are arrayed for ...


The Chicken and the QuetzalIncommensurate Ontologies and Portable Values in Guatemala's Cloud ForestPaul KockelmanIn The Chicken and the Quetzal Paul Kockelman theorizes the creation, measurement, and capture of value by recounting the cultural history of a village in Guatemala's highland cloud forests and its relation to conservation ...

208 pages | Paperback | 01/2016 | 9780822360728 | #232554A | £19.99 Add to basketHardback | 01/2016 | 9780822360568 | #232555A | £69.99 Add to basket

To Save the EarthThe American Environmental MovementJules Archer and Erin PeabodyWith today's climate change, our environmental problems aren't going away any time soon. To Save the Earth looks at the lives of four extraordinary Americans who fought to save our earth. John Muir, a pioneer of conservation ...

200 pages | 20 b/w photos | Hardback | 04/2016 | 9781634501965 | #232427A | £11.99 Add to basket

Wild Things, Wild PlacesAdventurous Tales of Wildlife and Conservation on Planet EarthJane AlexanderA moving, inspiring, personal look at the vastly changing world of wildlife on planet earth as a result of human incursion, and the crucial work of animal and bird preservation across the globe being done by scientists, field biologists ...


Zooming in on Europe's ZoosSheridan's Guide to Europe's Zoos 2010-2015Anthony SheridanAgain Anthony Sheridan gives us an extensive overview over the leading European Zoos, which he is rating in updated versions of his ranking lists concerning visitor factors, education and conservation, management and organisation.


Environmental Science

A Cultural History of Climate ChangeTom Bristow and Thomas H FordCharting innovative directions in the environmental humanities, A Cultural History of Climate Change examines the cultural history of climate change under three broad headings: history, writing and politics. Climate change ...

264 pages | 4 b/w photos, 12 b/w illustrations | Hardback | 05/2016 | 9781138838161 | #232354A | £89.99 Add to basket

An Introduction to Climate Change Economics and PolicyFelix R FitzRoy and Elissaios PapyrakisThe 2nd edition of An Introduction to Climate Change Economics and Policy explains the key scientific, economic and policy issues related to climate change in a completely up-to-date introduction for anyone interested, and students ...

254 pages | no illustrations | Hardback | 04/2016 | 9781138782211 | #232261A | £94.99 Add to basketPaperback | 05/2016 | 9781138782228 | #232262A | £39.99 Add to basket

Atmospheric ChemistryRichard P Wayne and Ann M HollowayThere is a recognition that Man's local activities can have a global impact, possibly irreversible, on the atmosphere with political repercussions that have raised awareness of the importance of the chemistry of Earth's atmosphere ...

280 pages | colour & b/w illustrations | Hardback | 03/2010 | 9781847558077 | #183764A | £25.99 Add to basketHardback | NYP 12/2016 | 9781782625148 | #232495A | £31.99 Add to basket

Blue Carbon Reservoir of the Blue PlanetAbhijit Mitra and Sufia ZamanThe ever increasing emission of carbon dioxide due to rapid industrialization, urbanization, unplanned tourism and alteration of land use pattern is causing unprecedented changes to marine biodiversity. Irrespective of political philosophy ...


Land Degradation, Desertification and Climate ChangeAnticipating, Assessing and Adapting to Future ChangeMark S Reed, Lindsay C Stringer and Christiana FigueresAlthough much is known about the processes and effects of land degradation and climate change, little is understood about the links between them. Less still is known about how these processes are likely to interact in different ...




























Retreat from a Rising SeaHard Choices in an Age of Climate ChangeOrrin H Pilkey, Linda Pilkey-Jarvis and Keith C PilkeyMelting ice sheets and warming oceans are causing the seas to rise. By the end of this century, hundreds of millions of people living at low elevations along coasts will be forced to retreat to higher and safer ground. Because of sea-level ...

240 pages | 32 color illustrations | Hardback | 06/2016 | 9780231168441 | #232782A | £21.95 Add to basket

Setting Up a Weather Station and Understanding the WeatherA Guide for the Amateur MeteorologistRoger BruggeThis fascinating and well-illustrated book, which is packed with valuable information and advice, provides a complete guide to observing, recording and understanding the weather and to setting up an amateur weather station. As the author ...

192 pages | 152 colour illustrations | Paperback | 06/2016 | 9781785001611 | #232374A | £19.95 Add to basket

Solar Variability and Its Effects on ClimateJudit M Pap and Peter FoxSolar Variability and Its Effects on Climate presents a state-of-the-art description of the most recent results on solar variability and its possible influence on the Earth's climate and atmosphere. Our primary goal in doing ...

374 pages | colour & b/w illustrations | Hardback | 01/2004 | 9780875904061 | #232415A | £64.50 Add to basket

Sound Propagation Through the Stochastic OceanJohn A ColosiThe ocean is opaque to electromagnetic radiation and transparent to low frequency sound, so acoustical methodologies are an important tool for sensing the undersea world. Stochastic sound-speed fluctuations in the ocean, such as those ...


Tsunamis in the European-Mediterranean RegionFrom Historical Record to Risk MitigationGerassimos A PapadopoulosTsunamis in the European-Mediterranean Region: From Historical Record to Risk Mitigation provides readers with a much needed, reliable, and up-to-date history of the region, including descriptions and parameters of the main events ...


Physical Sciences

A Geologic Walk around La DefenseDaniel Obert, Michel Steinberg and Jean-Charles DartiguesThe La Défense district sits at the heart of the Paris basin, a vast accumulation of sedimentary rocks, in a series of layers, almost 3 km thick. These rocks were deposited over the last 250 million years in the shallow seas that ...


Accretionary Prisms and Convergent Margin Tectonics in the Northwest Pacific BasinYujiro Ogawa, Ryo Anma and Yildirim DilekAccretionary prisms in convergent margins are natural laboratories for exploring initial orogenic processes and mountain building episodes. They are also an important component of continental growth both vertically and laterally.

300 pages | biography | Hardback | 03/2011 | 9789048188840 | #232693A | £126.50 Add to basketPaperback | 07/2013 | 9789400736146 | #232694A | £126.50 Add to basket

Carbonate Sedimentology and Sequence StratigraphySedimentology and stratigraphy are neighbors yet distinctly separate entities within the earth sciences. Sedimentology searches for the common traits of sedimentary rocks regardless of age as it reconstructs environments and processes of ...


Cenozoic Foraminifera and Calcareous Nannofossil Biostratigraphy of the Niger DeltaOluwafeyisola S Adegoke, Ajibola S Oyebamiji, James J Edet, Peter L Osterloff and Ogbonnaya K UluCenozoic Foraminifera and Calcareous Nannofossil Biostratigraphy of the Niger Delta is available just as exploration and production activities are moving into the little known deep water terrain of the Niger Delta. A thorough ...

592 pages | b/w illustrations | Paperback | NYP 12/2016 | 9780128121610 | #232670A | £94.99 Add to basket

Coastal CliffsMorphology and ManagementEric BirdCoastal Cliffs: Morphology and Management offers an insight into the global occurrence, geomorphology, evolution, weathering and erosion of coastal cliffs and bluffs. Stabilization and preservation of cliffs are treated in detail ...

100 pages | 8 colour & 105 b/w illustrations, 106 colour tables | Paperback | 02/2016 | 9783319290836 | #232265A | £37.99 Add to basket

Colour Atlas of Glacial PhenomenaMichael J Hambrey and Jurg C AleanColour Atlas of Glacial Phenomena provides an illustrated guide to the wide variety of features found on and around the world's glaciers and ice sheets as well as the products of glacial erosion and deposition. It stresses ...



























Dead Sea Transform Fault System: ReviewsZvi Garfunkel, Zvi Ben-Avraham and Elisa KaganThe Dead Sea transform is an active plate boundary connecting the Red Sea seafloor spreading system to the Arabian-Eurasian continental collision zone. Its geology and geophysics provide a natural laboratory for investigation of the surface ...

369 pages | 86 colour & 52 b/w illustrations | Hardback | 07/2014 | 9789401788717 | #232692A | £89.99 Add to basket

Disturbances in GeospaceThe Storm-Substorm RelationshipA Surjalal Sharma, Yohsuke Kamide and Gurbax S LakhinaAdvancing our knowledge of the Sun-Earth connection and our capabilities to predict conditions in near-Earth geospace has captured the attention of geospace, solar and other scientists, prompting initiatives in many countries.


Earth's Low-Latitude Boundary LayerPatrick T Newell and Terry OnsagerFrom the preface: "We imagine the reader of this preface standing at the AGU bookstall wondering if the tome in hand is worth buying. The answer is “no”, except for certain trifling exceptions. Those who wish ...

394 pages | colour & b/w illustrations | Hardback | 01/2003 | 9780875909929 | #232547A | £60.95 Add to basket

Explosive Subaqueous VolcanismJames DL White, John L Smellie and David A ClagueSubaqueous explosive eruptions are common, and in earth's early history were ubiquitous. Although they are unlike eruptions we find on land, they operate with the same fundamental processes. Deep-sea eruptions modify important seafloor ...


Gas Transfer at Water SurfacesMark A Donelan, WM Drennan, ES Saltzman and R WanninkhofThe transfer of gases across the air-water interface has received much attention over the past two decades, particularly in light of increased societal interest in the exchange of greenhouse gases and pollutants between natural water ...


Geographical InvestigationsField Studies Council (FSC) and Open University (OU)Independent investigation is worth 20% of the marks in A level Geography. This new guide is intended to support students through the process of planning, collecting and presenting data, analysis and evaluation.

8 pages | colour illustrations | Unbound | 09/2016 | #232604A | £3.50 Add to basket

Geological StructuresAn Introductory Field GuideChris Pellant and Helen PellantGeological Structures is an easy-to-use, highly informative photographic field guide that introduces the great variety of geological features to be found all around us. The authors' beautiful photography, extended captions ...

192 pages | 200+ colour photos | Paperback | NYP 01/2017 | 9781472927262 | #232450A | £12.99 Add to basket

Geological Walk in the 5th Arrondissement of ParisDaniel Obert, Michel Steinberg and Jean-Charles DartiguesThis book invites to an unprecedented discovery of the 5th arrondissement of Paris, located on a small limestone plateau well protected at the end of a gulf. The reader will learn the astonishing coexistence between the walls of two ...

39 pages | colour photos, colour illustrations | Paperback | 12/2015 | 9782366621693 | #232468A | £7.99 Add to basket

Geology and Paleontology of the Quaternary of UruguayMartin Ubilla and Sergio MartinezGeology and Paleontology of the Quaternary of Uruguay provides an updated review and criticism of the progress of the continental, transitional and marine Quaternary deposits of Uruguay. It is primarily based on an analysis of ...

85 pages | 14 colour & 18 b/w illustrations | Paperback | 03/2016 | 9783319293011 | #232703A | £37.99 Add to basket

Geology of the South Wales Coalfield, Part 3: The Country around CardiffMemoir for sheet E263RA Waters and DJD LawrenceThis memoir describes the district around the City of Cardiff and Barry situated beyond the southern margin of the South Wales Coalfield. The variable geology encompasses gently folded Silurian, Devonian and Carboniferous rocks, now largely ...

114 pages | b/w photos, b/w illustrations, tables | Paperback | 01/1988 | 9780118844024 | #232260A | £37.99 Add to basket

Glaciovolcanism on Earth and MarsProducts, Processes and Palaeoenvironmental SignificanceJohn L Smellie and Benjamin R EdwardsThe study of volcano-ice interactions, or 'glaciovolcanism', is a field experiencing exponential growth. This comprehensive volume presents a discussion of the distinctive processes and characteristics of glaciovolcanic eruptions ...

490 pages | 25 colour & 148 b/w illustrations, 15 maps, 5 tables | Hardback | 06/2016 | 9781107037397 | #232487A | £89.99 Add to basket
























Green ChemistryAn Introductory TextMike LancasterSustainable development, the circular economy and environmental issues are at the forefront of public and Government concern. The field of green chemistry aims to provide environmentally benign products from sustainable resources, using ...

392 pages | 175 b/w illustrations | Hardback | 05/2010 | 9781847558732 | #183770A | £29.95 Add to basketHardback | 08/2016 | 9781782622949 | #232518A | £35.99 Add to basket

Hawaiian VolcanoesDeep Underwater PerspectivesEiichi Takahashi, Peter W Lipman, Michael J Garcia, Jiro Naka and Shigeo AramakiIn the summer of 1963, when a group of Japanese scientists arrived at the aged building of the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory, run by the U.S. Geological Survey, there began a program of cooperation and friendship between American and Japanese ...

426 pages | Illustrations, maps | Hardback | 01/2002 | 9780875909875 | #232598A | £64.50 Add to basket

Holocene Palaeotsunami Landfalls and Neotectonic Dynamics in the Western and Southern Peloponnese (Greece)The Past as a Key to the Present and Predictor of the FutureAndreas Vott and Dieter H KelletatThe eastern Mediterranean has been hit by numerous tsunami landfalls during the past millennia. This Supplementary Issue of Zeitschrift für Geomorphologie features the results of studies, conducted along the coasts of the western ...

317 pages | 128 illustrations, 12 tables | Paperback | 01/2015 | #232430A | £150.00 Add to basket

Inside the Subduction FactoryJohn H EilerSubduction zones helped nucleate and grow the continents, they fertilize and lubricate the earth's interior, they are the site of most subaerial volcanism and many major earthquakes, and they yield a large fraction of the earth's ...


Mineral Resources in the ArcticRognvald Boyd, Terje Bjerkgard, Bobo Nordahl and Henrik SchiellerupAll available information on the most important metal- and diamond deposits in the Arctic has been assembled in a book (accompanied by a map) and in a database. These sources provide information on 28 diamond deposits and 207 large, very ...

484 pages | colour photos, colour & b/w maps | Hardback | 01/2016 | 9788273851604 | #232713A | £175.00 Add to basket

Moon Owners' Workshop ManualFrom 4.5 Billion Years Ago to the PresentDavid M HarlandThere is renewed interest in the Moon in recent years, with the news that a Chinese lunar rover landed on the Moon in January 2014, and NASA announcing that it is looking for private partners to land a robot on the Moon's surface ...

172 pages | 200 colour & b/w photos and colour & b/w illustrations | Hardback | 03/2016 | 9780857338266 | #232676A | £22.99 Add to basket

Mountain Building in the UralidesPangea to the PresentDennis Brown, Christopher Juhlin and Victor PuchkovExtending for more than 2000 kilometers from the islands of Novaya Zemlya in the north to the Aral Sea in the south, the Uralide orogen forms the geographical and geological divide between Europe and Asia. For more than a century the ...

294 pages | colour & b/w illustrations, colour & b/w maps | Hardback | 01/2002 | 9780875909912 | #232572A | £56.50 Add to basket

Mouthfeel: How Texture Makes TasteOle G Mouritsen, Klavs Styrbaek and Mariela JohansenWhy is chocolate melting on the tongue such a decadent sensation? Why do we love crunching on bacon? Why is fizz-less soda such a disappointment to drink, and why is flat beer so unappealing to the palate? Our sense of taste produces ...

400 pages | 148 colour illustrations | Hardback | NYP 03/2017 | 9780231180764 | #231947A | £25.99 Add to basket

Mt. EtnaVolcano LaboratorySonia Calvari, Mauro Coltelli, Ciro del Negro and Susanna FalsaperlaFor thousands of years man has marvelled at the gigantic structure that makes up Mt. Etna, the largest active volcano in Europe, and has lived side by side with the mountain, which despite its intense eruptive activity has always been ...


Natural Gas HydratesOccurrence, Distribution, and DetectionCharles K Paull and William P DillonNatural Gas Hydrates is published at a time when there is a growing interest in gas hydrates and major expansion in international research efforts. The first recognition of natural gas hydrate on land in Arctic conditions was ...

322 pages | colour & b/w illustrations, colour & b/w maps | Hardback | 01/2001 | 9780875909820 | #232805A | £50.50 Add to basket

Naturens Menstre: Hvorfor Naturen Ser Ud, Som Den Ger [Patterns in Nature: Why the Natural World Looks the Way It DoesPhilip Ball and Inger Eleanor Hall WinkelmannThough at first glance the natural world may appear overwhelming in its diversity and complexity, there are regularities running through it, from the hexagons of a honeycomb to the spirals of a seashell and the branching veins of a leaf.



























Northeast Treasure Hunter's Gem & Mineral GuideWhere and How to Dig, Pan and Mine Your Own Gems and MineralsKathy J Rygle, Stephen F Pedersen and Antoinette MatlinsCovers the following norheastern US states: Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Indiana, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, Maryland, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont ...

240 pages | b/w photos, b/w illustrations, b/w maps | Hardback | 04/2016 | 9781683362265 | #232612A | £29.99 Add to basketPaperback | 05/2011 | 9780943763767 | #232613A | £12.99 Add to basket

Northwest Treasure Hunter's Gem & Mineral GuideWhere & How to Dig, Pan and Mine Your Own Gems & MineralsKathy J Rygle, Stephen F Pedersen and Antoinette MatlinsCovers the following northwestern US states: Alaska, Idaho, Iowa, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Washington, and Wyoming. Whether you're digging for the first time or are an experienced ...

200 pages | b/w photos, b/w illustrations, b/w maps | Paperback | 04/2016 | 9780990415282 | #232589A | £14.99 Add to basketHardback | 04/2016 | 9781683362272 | #232590A | £28.99 Add to basket

Outcrops RevitalizedTools, Techniques and ApplicationsOle J Martinsen, Andrew J Pulham, Peter DW Haughton and Morgan D SullivanOutcrops are fundamental to everything we hope to achieve in geological understanding. They are gateways to geological processes, earth history and they help ground-truth remote sensing applications. With increasing resolution of subsurface ...


PetrolipalynologyDexin Jiang, Eleanora I Robbins, Yongdong Wang and Huiqiu YangPetrolipalynology addresses the principles and methods for determining petroleum source rocks based on fossil spores and pollen. Studying petroliferous basins in China, we discovered that there are often as many as three different ...


Platinum-Nickel-Chromium DepositsGeology, Exploration and Reserve BaseSK HaldarPlatinum-Nickel-Chromium Deposits: Geology, Exploration, and Reserve Base is the first reference book to combine information on the discovery of numerous minerals within existing deposits.

322 pages | 150+ colour photos, colour illustrations and colour maps | Paperback | 09/2016 | 9780128020418 | #232672A | £72.99 Add to basket

Project MercuryAmerica in Space SeriesEugen ReichlProject Mercury was America's entry into the manned spaceflight program. When the program began in 1958, the Soviet Union was far ahead of the US in the race for supremacy in space. With immense effort, and in record time, NASA, the ...

144 pages | colour & b/w photos, colour & b/w illustrations | Hardback | 01/2016 | 9780764350696 | #232678A | £17.50 Add to basket

Quantifying LifeA Symbiosis of Computation, Mathematics, and BiologyDmitry A KondrashovSince the time of Isaac Newton, physicists have used mathematics to describe the behavior of matter of all sizes, from subatomic particles to galaxies. In the past three decades, as advances in molecular biology have produced an avalanche ...

296 pages | Hardback | 09/2016 | 9780226371627 | #232527A | £73.50 Add to basketPaperback | 08/2016 | 9780226371764 | #232528A | £24.50 Add to basket

Siliciclastic Sequence StratigraphyConcepts and ApplicationsHenry W Posmentier and George P AllenSequence stratigraphy has experienced a virtual explosion of applications in recent years. During that time, the concepts upon which sequence stratigraphy is based have been evolving to conform to new observations as well as new types of ...


Skeptic: Viewing the World with a Rational EyeMichael ShermerFor fifteen years, bestselling author Michael Shermer has written a column in Scientific American magazine that synthesizes scientific concepts and theory for a general audience. His trademark combination of deep scientific understanding ...

304 pages | 7 illustrations | Hardback | 01/2016 | 9781627791380 | #232337A | £18.99 Add to basket

Southeast Treasure Hunter's Gem & Mineral GuideWhere & How to Dig, Pan and Mine Your Own Gems & MineralsKathy J Rygle, Stephen F Pedersen and Antoinette MatlinsCovers the following southeastern US states: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia. Whether you’re digging ...

224 pages | b/w photos, b/w illustrations, b/w maps | Paperback | 05/2011 | 9780943763774 | #232616A | £12.99 Add to basket

Southwest Treasure Hunter's Gem & Mineral GuideWhere and How to Dig, Pan and Mine Your Own Gems and MineralsKathy J Rygle and Stephen F PedersenCovers the following southwestern US states: Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Kansas, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, and Utah. Whether you're digging for the first time or are an experienced rockhound or ...

224 pages | b/w photos, b/w illustrations, b/w maps | Paperback | 04/2016 | 9780990415299 | #232614A | £14.99 Add to basketHardback | 04/2016 | 9781683363033 | #232615A | £29.99 Add to basket



























Space WeatherPaul Song, Howard J Singer and George L SiscoeSpace Weather provides a comprehensive overview of our current observational knowledge, theoretical understanding, and numerical capability with regard to the phenomena known as space weather. Space weather refers to conditions ...


Stratigraphy & TimescalesMichael MontenariStratigraphy & Timescales covers current research across a wide range of stratigraphic disciplines, providing information on recent developments for the geoscientific research community. This fully commissioned review publicly ...


Telescopes: A Very Short IntroductionGeoff CottrellFrom the first, telescopes have made dramatic revelations about the Universe and our place in it. Galileo's observations of the Moon's cratered surface and discovery of Jupiter's four big satellites profoundly altered the ...


Testing Modern Biostratigraphical MethodsApplication to the Ammonoid Zonation Across the Devonian-Carboniferous BoundaryCarina KleinCarina Klein examines the quality of the existing modern ammonoid zonation based on three methods, being Unitary Associations (UA), Constrained Optimization (CONOP) as well as Ranking and Scaling (RASC). The author sets out which of these ...


The Columbia IcefieldRobert William SandfordThe Columbia Icefield is the largest sub-polar accumulation of glacial ice in North America. Because it is possible to drive to the second largest glacier flowing out of the Columbia Icefield, it is the best-known ice age featuring ...

112 pages | colour & b/w photos, illustrations, maps | Paperback | 06/2016 | 9781771601542 | #232560A | £9.99 Add to basket

The Hagendorf-Pleystein Province: The Center of Pegmatites in an Ensialic OrogenHarald G DillThe Hagendorf-Pleystein Province: The Center of Pegmatites in an Ensialic Orogen will broaden readers' understanding of pegmatites in a special geodynamic setting, dealing with the emplacement of the Hagendorf-Pleystein Pegmatite ...


The Orphan Tsunami of 1700Japanese Clues to a Parent Earthquake in North AmericaBrian F Atwater, Musumi-Rokkaku Satoko, Satake Kenji, Tsuji Yoshinobu, Ueda Kazue and Da YamaguchiA puzzling tsunami entered Japanese history in January 1700. Samurai, merchants, and villagers wrote of minor flooding and damage. Some noted having felt no earthquake; they wondered what had set off the waves but had no way of knowing ...


Timescales of the Paleomagnetic FieldJames ET Channell, Dennis V Kent, William Lowrie and Joseph G MeertTo mark the 70th birthday of Neil D. Opdyke, a Chapman Conference entitled "Timescales ofthe Internal Geomagnetic Field" was held at the University of Florida in Gainesville on March 9-11, 2003. This AGU Chapman Conference was ...

328 pages | colour & b/w illustrations, maps | Hardback | 01/2004 | 9780875904108 | #232326A | £60.95 Add to basket

Volcanism and the Earth's AtmosphereAlan Robock and Clive OppenheimerVolcanic activity can have a profound effect on the Earth's atmosphere and environment across many spatial and temporal scales. From being the source of most gases in the atmosphere over geologic time scales, to producing climate change ...

364 pages | plates with colour illustrations | Hardback | 01/2004 | 9780875909981 | #232471A | £55.50 Add to basket

Volcanoes: Encounters Through the AgesDavid M PyleFor centuries, volcanic eruptions have captured our imaginations. Whether as signposts to an underworld, beacons to ancient mariners, or as an extraordinary manifestation of the natural world, volcanoes have intrigued many people, who ...


Sustainable Development

Battleground AlaskaFighting Federal Power in America's Last WildernessStephen W HaycoxNo American state is more antistatist than Alaska. And no state takes in more federal money per capita, which accounts for a full third of Alaska's economy. This seeming paradox underlies the story Stephen Haycox tells in ...

264 pages | 11 photos, 1 map | Hardback | 03/2016 | 9780700622153 | #232802A | £29.50 Add to basket

























Big Farms Make Big FluDispatches on Influenza, Agribusiness, and the Nature of ScienceRob Wallace and Mike DavisThanks to breakthroughs in production and food science, agribusiness has been able to devise new ways to grow more food and get it more places more quickly. There is no shortage of news items on hundreds of thousands of hybrid poultry ...

400 pages | b/w illustrations | Paperback | 07/2016 | 9781583675892 | #232535A | £18.99 Add to basketHardback | 07/2016 | 9781583675908 | #232536A | £59.99 Add to basket

Biotechnology FundamentalsFirdos Alam KhanA single source reference covering every aspect of biotechnology, Biotechnology Fundamentals, Second Edition breaks down the basic fundamentals of this discipline, and highlights both conventional and modern approaches unique to ...

709 pages | 142 colour illustrations, 15 colour tables | Hardback | 02/2016 | 9781498723428 | #232438A | £83.99 Add to basket

Earth DemocracyJustice, Sustainability and PeaceVandana ShivaEarth Democracy remains one of Vandana Shiva's key works, in which she addresses some of the most pressing issues of our age – the privatization of our natural resources, the looming environmental crisis, and the rising ...

240 pages | no illustrations | Paperback | 05/2016 | 9781783607747 | #232806A | £16.99 Add to basketHardback | 05/2016 | 9781783607792 | #232807A | £69.99 Add to basket

Environmental Law in ScotlandAn Introduction and GuideFrancis McManusThis pathfinding textbook concentrates the regulation of pollution in Scotland, including the common law controls. It includes sections on nuisance (including statutory nuisance), noise, air pollution (including climate change), waste ...


Farmageddon in PicturesThe True Cost of Cheap Meat in Bite-Sized PiecesPhilip LymberyFarmageddon in Pictures is a wake-up call to change our current food production and eating practices – delivered in handy, bite-sized pieces. Clear, direct text, lavishly illustrated with full-colour photography and ...


International Environmental Law and PolicyDavid Hunter, James Salzman and Durwood ZaelkeThe most widely adopted text in the field, this comprehensive, multidisciplinary casebook analyzes all aspects of international environmental law and policy, including the major environmental treaty regimes, customary law principles and ...

1593 pages | no illustrations | Hardback | 06/2015 | 9781609303211 | #232574A | £220.00 Add to basket

Pastoralism and Common Pool ResourcesRangeland Co-Management, Property Rights and Access in MongoliaSandagsuren UndargaaThe grazing of animals on common land and associated property rights were the original basis of the concept of "the tragedy of the commons". Drawing on the classic work of Elinor Ostrom and the readings of political ecology ...

272 pages | 25 b/w photos, 84 b/w illustrations, 19 tables | Hardback | 04/2016 | 9781138847484 | #232359A | £84.99 Add to basket

Pure and Modern MilkAn Environmental History Since 1900Kendra Smith-HowardIn the dairy aisle of the supermarket, one milk carton features cows grazing on a verdant pasture, backed by a forest and undulating hillside. On another, a cow's wide-eyed face beckons the thirsty drinker. To the casual shopper ...

229 pages | b/w photos, b/w illustrations | Hardback | 12/2013 | 9780199899128 | #209916A | £23.99 Add to basketPaperback | NYP 03/2017 | 9780190655785 | #232680A | £16.99 Add to basket

Reduction and Emergence in Science and PhilosophyCarl GillettGrand debates over reduction and emergence are playing out across the sciences, but these debates have reached a stalemate, with both sides declaring victory on empirical grounds.


Science and SensibilityNegotiating an Ecology of PlaceMichael Vincent McGinnisIf humans are to understand and discover ways of addressing complex social and ecological problems, we first need to find intimacy with our particular places and communities. Cultivating a relationship to place often includes a negotiation ...

240 pages | 9 b/w illustrations, 1 map, 2 tables | Hardback | 04/2016 | 9780520285194 | #232352A | £48.95 Add to basketPaperback | 05/2016 | 9780520285200 | #232353A | £22.95 Add to basket

Staying with the TroubleMaking Kin in the ChthuluceneDonna J HarawayIn the midst of spiraling ecological devastation, multispecies feminist theorist Donna J. Haraway offers provocative new ways to reconfigure our relations to the earth and all its inhabitants. She eschews referring to our current epoch ...

312 pages | 2 colour & 29 b/w illustrations | Paperback | 09/2016 | 9780822362241 | #232685A | £21.99 Add to basketHardback | 09/2016 | 9780822362142 | #232686A | £78.99 Add to basket





























The Future of Meat Without AnimalsBrianne Donaldson and Christopher CarterPlant-based and cell-cultured meat, milk, and egg producers aim to replace industrial food production with animal-free fare that tastes better, costs less, and requires a fraction of the energy inputs. These products are no longer relegated ...


The John Nix Farm Management PocketbookJohn NixThe John Nix Farm Management Pocketbook 2017 Edition is packed with new information and more detailed analyses that have not hitherto been available. These include - An easy to read and interpret commentary and analysis of ...

296 pages | tables | Paperback | 09/2016 | #232492A | £39.99 Add to basket

The Modern SavageOur Unthinking Decision to Eat AnimalsJames McWilliamsIn the last four decades, food reformers have revealed the ecological and ethical problems of eating animals raised in industrial settings, turning what was once the boutique concern of radical eco-freaks into a mainstream movement.


Transforming the FisheriesNeoliberalism, Nature, and the CommonsPatrick BresnihanThere is now widespread agreement that fish stocks are severely depleted and fishing activity must be limited. At the same time, the promise of the green economy appears to offer profitable new opportunities for a sustainable seafood industry ...


Understanding Renewable Energy SystemsVolker QuaschningBy mid-century, renewable energy must cover all of our energy supply if we are to phase out nuclear and successfully stop climate change. Now updated and expanded, the 2nd edition of Understanding Renewable Energy Systems ...


Who Really Feeds the World?The Failures of Agribusiness and the Promise of AgroecologyVandana ShivaThe world's food supply is in the grip of a profound crisis. Humanity's ability to feed itself is threatened by a wasteful, globalized agricultural industry, whose relentless pursuit of profit is stretching our planet's ecosystems ...

176 pages | 1 index | Hardback | 08/2016 | 9781783608232 | #232586A | £69.99 Add to basketPaperback | 08/2016 | 9781783608225 | #232587A | £14.99 Add to basket

Data Analysis

Essentials of Probability Theory for StatisticiansMichael A Proschan and Pamela A ShawEssentials of Probability Theory for Statisticians provides graduate students with a rigorous treatment of probability theory, with an emphasis on results central to theoretical statistics. It presents classical probability theory ...


Introduction to Environmental ModelingWilliam Gray and Genetha A GrayIntroduction to Environmental Modeling presents an understanding of how basic physical descriptions can be translated into mathematical analogues that provide an opportunity to investigate environmental processes.


Probabilistic Models of Population EvolutionScaling Limits, Genealogies and InteractionsEtienne PardouxThis expository book presents the mathematical description of evolutionary models of populations subject to interactions (e.g. competition) within the population. The author includes both models of finite populations, and limiting models ...

133 pages | 2 colour & 4 b/w illustrations, 4 colour tables | Paperback | 06/2016 | 9783319303260 | #232585A | £24.99 Add to basket

Species Concepts in BiologyHistorical Development, Theoretical Foundations and Practical RelevanceFrank E ZachosFrank E. Zachos offers a comprehensive review of one of today's most important and contentious issues in biology: the species problem. After setting the stage with key background information on the topic ...


Statistics for People Who (Think They) Hate StatisticsUsing Microsoft Excel 2016Neil J SalkindBased on Neil J. Salkind's bestselling text, Statistics for People Who (Think They) Hate Statistics, this adapted Excel 2016 version presents an often intimidating and difficult subject in a way that is clear, informative ...




























What If There Were No Significance Tests?Lisa L Harlow, Stanley A Mulaik and James H SteigerThe classic edition of What If There Were No Significance Tests? highlights current statistical inference practices. Four areas are featured as essential for making inferences: sound judgment, meaningful research questions ...


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But Can I Start a Sentence withAdvice from the Chicago Style Q&AThe University of Chicago Press Editorial Staff and Carol Fisher SallerQ. Is it "happy medium" or "happy median"? My author writes: "We would all be much better served as stewards of finite public funds if we could find that happy median where trust reigns supreme."


Doing Global ScienceA Guide to Responsible Conduct in the Global Research EnterpriseInterAcademy Partnership (IAP)This concise introductory guide explains the values that should inform the responsible conduct of scientific research in today's global setting. Featuring accessible discussions and ample real-world scenarios ...


Land Resource Atlas of West BengalNational Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use PlanningThis volume presents qualitative and quantitative information on physical and cultural themes from published and unpublished sources that relate to administration, demography, land, climate, water, soil and infrastructure. Providing maps ...

164 pages | colour illustrations, colour maps, tables | Hardback | 01/2013 | 9788189043308 | #232416A | £93.50 Add to basket

Systematic Approaches to a Successful Literature ReviewAndrew Booth, Anthea Sutton and Diana PapaioannouShowing you how to take a structured and organized approach to a wide range of literature review types, Systematic Approaches to a Successful Literature Review helps you to choose which approach is right for your research.


The Chicago Guide to Grammar, Usage, and PunctuationBryan A GarnerFew people can write on the English language with the authority of Bryan A. Garner. The author of The Chicago Manual of Style's popular "Grammar and Usage" chapter, Garner explains the vagaries of English with absolute precision ...


The PhDictionaryA Glossary of Things You Don't Know (but Should) About Doctoral and Faculty LifeHerb ChildressNavigating academia can seem like a voyage through a foreign land: strange cultural rules dictate everyday interactions, new vocabulary awaits at every turn, and the feeling of being an outsider is unshakable. For students considering ...


What Every Science Student Should KnowA Survival Guide for UndergradsJustin L Bauer, Yoo Jung Kim, Andrew H Zureick and Daniel K Lee"I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students [...] We must understand and circumvent this dangerous discouragement. No one can predict ...


Zoological Collections of GermanyThe Animal Kingdom in its Amazing Plenty at Museums and UniversitiesLothar A BeckZoological Collections of Germany is devoted to the knowledge of up to 250 years of collecting, organizing and preserving animals by generations of scientists. Zoological Collections are a huge resource for modern animal research ...

668 pages | 347 colour & 30 b/w illustrations, 55 colour tables | Paperback | NYP 11/2016 | 9783319443195 | #232510A | £159.50 Add to basket























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