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nhbs monthly cataloguenew and forthcoming titles Issue: 2015/08August 2015 www.nhbs.com [email protected] +44 (0)1803 865913

Welcome to the August 2015 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

● HMW Volume 5: Monotremes and Marsupials● Acoustic Ecology of European Bats: Species Identification, Study of their

Habitats and Foraging Behaviour● The Bats of Somalia and Neighbouring Areas● Biodiversity in a Changing Climate: Linking Science and Management in

Conservation● The Biology and Ecology of Giant Kelp Forests● Collins Field Guide to the Birds of South America: Passerines: From Sapayoa to

Finches● Field Guide to Birds of Machu Picchu and the Cusco Region, Peru● The Field Guide to the Birds of New Zealand● Inglorious: Conflict in the Uplands● Plant Sensing and Communication● Rainbow Dust: Three Centuries of Delight in British Butterflies● Venomous Terrestrial Snakes of the Middle East● Why Are we Waiting: The Logic, Urgency, and Promise of Tackling Climate

Change

Stock titles

● Behind the Binoculars: Interviews with Acclaimed Birdwatchers● British Polacanthid Dinosaurs: Observations on the History and Palaeontology of

the UK Polacanthid Armoured Dinosaurs and their Relatives● A Dendrologist's Handbook● The Greenland Entomofauna: An Identification Manual of Insects, Spiders and

their Allies● A Guide to the Dragonflies and Damselflies of the Serra dos Orgaos● Homo Sapiens: An Appraisal of Modern Humans● Solving the Mystery of the First Animals on Land: The Fossils of Blackberry Hill● Die Steuerfedern der Vogel Mitteleuropas / The Tail Feathers of the Birds of

Central Europe

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Mammals

A Population Estimate of Amur Tigers Using Camera TrapsSvetlana Viktorovna Sutyrina, Meghan D Riley, John M Goodrich, Ivan V Seryodkin and Dale MiquelleSince 2006 monitoring of a local tiger group in the Sikhote-Alin Biosphere Reserve, in Primorsky Krai in the Russian Far East, by means of camera traps has been carried out. In the southern and central parts of the reserve 44 different ...

155 pages | colour photos, colour maps | Paperback | 01/2013 | 9785804414185 | #225115A | £49.99 Add to basket

Beavers of Popple's PondSketches from the Life of an Honorary RodentPatti SmithTucked away in a remote stream valley in Vermont, a dynasty of beavers has nearly completed the restoration of the meadows and ponds that adorned this stream in the days before the beavers of a continent were turned into top hats.

284 pages | Paperback | 05/2014 | 9780989310444 | #225147A | £13.50 Add to basket

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Chauves-Souris d'Europe [Bats of Europe]Connaitre, Identifier, ProtegerChristian Dietz, Andreas Kiefer and Marie-Jo Dubourg-SavageThey fly without being heard, and see with their ears, capture their prey in flight and, more than any other animal, bats give wings to our imagination. This field guide provides an update on the latest knowledge in the field of chiroptera ...

400 pages | 700 colour photos, 52 b/w line drawings, 44 distribution maps | Hardback | 05/2015 | 9782603021583 | #224576A | £38.99 Add to basket

Costa Rica: Mammals and Tracks [English / Spanish]Mark WainwrightThis laminated fold-out guide shows 90 of the 216 mammal species recorded for Costa Rica, including pictures of their tracks for most of them. Almost all the species not included here are bats and small rodents, which generally cannot be ...

14 pages | colour illustrations, 1 colour map | Unbound | 01/2005 | 9781888538977 | #224854A | £6.75 Add to basket

Ecologie Acoustique des Chiropteres d'Europe [Acoustic Ecology of European Bats]Michel BarataudThis book on the acoustic ecology of bats of Europe takes stock of the knowledge acquired by the author in more than twenty years of working in the field of ultrasonic detection. As a nocturnal animal, bats have developed a spatial tracking ...

344 pages | colour photos, colour & b/w illustrations, includes DVD-ROM | Hardback | 07/2015 | 9782856537695 | #224996A | £43.99 Add to basket

FSC Wildlife Pack 7: MammalsRebecca Farley-Brown, Simone Bullion, Kate Jones, Allyson Walsh, Carol Roberts and Rob StrachanYou don't have to go far to find wildlife in Britain. Track the animals that come into your garden. Featuring three of the FSC's popular fold-out charts ...

28 pages | colour photos, colour & b/w illustrations | 01/2015 | #225003A | £13.19 Add to basket

Field Guide to the Mammals of the Middle East [English / Arabic]Assad Adel Serhal, Saeed Abdulla Alkhuzai, Jonathan Kingdon, Juan M Varela, Karim Farah and BarretThis guide covers all 200 terrestrial and marine mammals found in the Middle East, particularly in Arab-speaking countries, where land is surrounded by many bodies of water including the Mediterranean Sea, the Red Sea, the Arabian Sea ...

310 pages | 500+ colour & b/w illustrations | Paperback | 01/2015 | 9789953032191 | #225127A | £34.99 Add to basket

Labrador: The Story of the World's Favourite DogThe World's Favourite DogBen FogleNative to Newfoundland, where they worked side-by-side with fishermen, then brought to England in the 1800s by English ships, Labradors are not only popular as a family companion but also excel in hunting, tracking, retrieving, guiding ...

364 pages | 8 plates with colour photos | Hardback | NYP 10/2015 | 9780007549016 | #224798A | £19.99 Add to basketPaperback | NYP 10/2015 | 9780008127657 | #224799A | £12.99 Add to basket

Nursery Rearing of Nonhuman Primates in the 21st CenturyGene P Sackett, Gerald C Ruppenthal and Kate EliasNursery Rearing of Nonhuman Primates in the 21st Century describes how and why nursery rearing of primates can produce adaptable juveniles and adults for research, conservation, and display-educational purposes.

602 pages | photos, illustrations | Hardback | 12/2006 | 9780387256320 | #153561A | £246.50 Add to basketPaperback | 12/2014 | 9781489992062 | #224831A | £246.50 Add to basket

Schweinswale: Die Kleinen Vettern der Delfine [Porpoises: The Little Cousins of Dolphins]Claudia HangenThis book teaches children, teens and adults about porpoises: Where do they live? How smart are they? What can they do? With stunning photographs and practical tips on how and where to watch porpoises in Germany, and how you can get involved ...

200 pages | 60 colour illustrations | Paperback | NYP 08/2015 | 9783894321390 | #225037A | £32.99 Add to basket

The RabbitJill Mason and David MasonThe rabbit has fed and clothed the nation, has altered our landscape, has kept thousands of us in paid employment, has kept starvation at bay during two world wars and now provides all sorts of possibilities for the future.

192 pages | colour photos | Hardback | NYP 09/2015 | 9781906122980 | #224906A | £19.99 Add to basket

Trichotaxonomy of Species of LagomorphaArchana BahugunaThe results of a taxonomic study based on hair samples for a selected number of Indian Lagomorpha species.

72 pages | 32 colour plates, 203 illustrations | Paperback | 01/2015 | 9788181714015 | #224980A | £34.99 Add to basket

Wild Mammals of Wyoming and Yellowstone National ParkSteven W BuskirkWild Mammals of Wyoming and Yellowstone National Park provides the scholar, conservationist, and interested lay reader with information on the the state's 117 wild mammalian species from grizzly bears to pygmy shrews.

486 pages | 146 colour photos, 11 b/w illustrations, 222 colour maps | Hardback | NYP 01/2016 | 9780520286894 | #223830A | £58.99 Add to basket




























Wilds of the WolfSteve BackshallDeadly TV presenter Steve Backshall joins Anthony Horowitz and Charlie Higson writing the best adventure fiction with his third adventure in the gripping Falcon Chronicles, filled with intrigue, adventure, exotic wildlife ...

224 pages | Hardback | 07/2014 | 9781444004403 | #214876A | £10.99 Add to basketPaperback | NYP 10/2015 | 9781444010886 | #225073A | £6.99 Add to basket

Birds

A Message from MarthaThe Extinction of the Passenger Pigeon and Why it Still MattersMark AverySeptember 1st, 2014 is the centenary of one of the best-documented extinctions in history – the demise of the Passenger Pigeon. From being the commonest bird on the planet 50 years earlier, the species became extinct with the death ...

304 pages | no illustrations | Hardback | 07/2014 | 9781472906250 | #211277A | £11.89 Add to basketPaperback | NYP 09/2015 | 9781472906274 | #224905A | £9.99 Add to basket

American Birding Association Field Guide to Birds of New YorkCorey Finger and Brian E SmallA comprehensive guide to New York birdwatching from the American Birding Association. The Empire State is one of the best places for birding in North America – from the Adirondack Mountains in the north; the Finger Lakes ...

352 pages | colour photos | Paperback | NYP 09/2015 | 9781935622512 | #224652A | £20.99 Add to basket

American Birding Association Field Guide to Birds of TexasMark W Lockwood and Brian E SmallA complete guide to the many birds of the Lone Star State. Texas is one of the best places for birding in North America as the diversity of habitats and shear breadth of the state means that birdwatchers can see birds of the western desert ...


Aves da Cristalino Lodge: An Amazonian Sanctuary / Santuario AmazonicoEdson Endrigo and Bradley DavisAves da Cristalino Lodge offers the public excellent bird photographs by renowned photographer Edson Endrigo, and other photographers and resident guides who contributed to Aves da Cristalino Lodge. The text is by ...

256 pages | colour photos | Hardback | 05/2015 | 9788598153162 | #225105A | £109.00 Add to basket

Backyard Bird SongsFred van GesselWe can hear birdsongs anywhere, whether we live in the city or in the country. Without the musical backdrop provided by our feathered friends, our gardens, parks, woods and fields would be relatively silent – and much the poorer for ...

64 pages | colour photos, includes audio CD | Hardback | NYP 08/2015 | 9781921517457 | #223785A | £12.99 Add to basket

Birds in Mid Deeside 1970-2012David JenkinsBirds in Mid Deeside 1970-2012 lists birds which have been seen in Mid Deeside, North East Scotland, and when and where they have been recorded. Rarities apart, this gives a good idea of when and at what times of year people may ...

80 pages | colour photos, colour illustrations, colour maps | Paperback | 01/2015 | #224706A | £11.99 Add to basket

Birds of Peru / Aves del Peru / Oiseaux du PerouRobert DeanPeru's diverse habitats is home to more than 1,800 bird species. This laminated fold-out guide shows 242 of the more commonly seen birds that live in Peru.

14 pages | colour illustrations | Unbound | 01/2014 | 9781888538472 | #224856A | £6.75 Add to basket

Birds of TennesseeA New Annotated ChecklistScott G Somershoe and Christopher A SloanBirds of Tennessee: A New Annotated Checklist provides comprehensive information on the status, distribution, and abundance of all 415 species of birds that have been reported in the state of Tennessee. The information is broken ...


FSC Wildlife Pack 5: BirdsEdward Jackson, Andy Simms, Leanne Thomas, Simon Norman, Hawk and Owl Trust, Chris Shields and LangYou don't have to go far to find wildlife in Britain. Featuring three of the FSC's popular fold-out charts ...


Guide to the Birds of HondurasRobert J Gallardo, John Sill, Michael DiGiorgio and Ian GriffithsThe first dedicated field guide to Honduras, featuring 1,000 illustrations on 73 color plates. Guide to the Birds of Honduras also illustrates the majority of the migratory species. Along with the standard species accounts ...

625 pages | 73 plates with 1000 colour illustrations | Paperback | NYP 08/2015 | 9789992649961 | #219850A | £29.99 Add to basketHardback | NYP 08/2015 | 9789992649978 | #224863A | £44.99 Add to basket




























Identificar las Aves por el Color [Birds by Colour]Marc Duquet and Francois DesbordesBird identification can be very confusing for the beginner, and because many species are multicoloured, birds are not the most obvious group of animals for an identification guide by colour. This brand new guide takes a bold, fresh approach ...

215 pages | colour illustrations | Paperback | 01/2015 | 9788428216296 | #225131A | £36.99 Add to basket

Living on the Edge of Extinction in Europe: Proceedings of the First European Whinchat SymposiumHans-Valentin Bestian and Juergen Feulner60 years ago the Whinchat was a common sight throughout Europe. Today the species has become a rarity in many countries. Even in various core breeding areas in Eastern Europe there has been a drastic decline recently. On May 28th/29th ...

illustrations | Paperback | 06/2015 | 9783000495052 | #225017A | £29.99 Add to basket

Oiseaux et Changement Global: Menace ou Aubaine? [Bird and Global Change: Threat of Windfall?]Jacques Blondel, Jonathan Lhoir and Gilles BoeufIt is now a well-established fact that the times we live in are marked by profound changes in all areas. But do we know that watching birds could teach us a lot? Beyond the beauty of their plumage, their song and often spectacular performance ...

144 pages | colour photos | Paperback | 07/2015 | 9782759223619 | #224993A | £28.99 Add to basket

Rare Breeding Birds in the UK in 2013This July issue of British Birds contains the 40th report of the Rare Breeding Birds Panel documents the status of 90 rare or scarce species that were recorded breeding, or potentially breeding, in the UK in 2013. The spring of ...

colour photos, colour illustrations | 07/2015 | #224735A | £9.00 Add to basket

The Armchair Birder Goes CoastalThe Secret Lives of Birds of the Southeastern ShoreJohn YowWith his distinctively witty, anecdotal, and disarming voice, John Yow now journeys to the shore and shares his encounters with some of the most familiar and beloved coastal birds. Out of his travels - from North Carolina's Outer Banks, down the ...

256 pages | illustrations | Hardback | 03/2012 | 9780807835616 | #200218A | £23.95 Add to basketPaperback | 02/2015 | 9781469621890 | #224692A | £18.50 Add to basket

The Handbook of Bird FamiliesJonathan ElphickWhat’s the difference between a crow and a jay? How many species of sparrow are there? What song do cuckoos really sing? Discover all the key facts about the world’s orders and families of birds with ...


The Robertson and Woolfenden Florida Bird SpeciesAn Annotated ListJon S Green-law, Bill Pranty and Reed Bow-manStatus, occurrence, distribution, frequency, habitat, life-history context, and recent changes. This volume is an updated and expanded second edition of a landmark contribution to Florida ornithology authored by two of the state's ...

435 pages | Paperback | NYP 07/2015 | #225044A | £37.50 Add to basket

Tikhookeanskii Orlan Haliaeetus pelagicus: Ekologiia, Evoliutsiia, Okhrana [The Steller's Sea Eagle Haliaeetus pelagicusVladimir Borisovich Masterov and Michael S RomanovThe book is the result of many years of research of the biology and ecology of the Steller’s sea eagle. It is based on the original data collected mostly in Sakhalin, in the southwestern areas of the Sea of Okhotsk, and in the ...

384 pages | colour photos, colour & b/w illustrations, tables | Hardback | 01/2014 | 9785873179596 | #225116A | £77.99 Add to basket

Understanding the Bird of PreyNick FoxPrincipally a falconer's manual, but containing a wealth of information on their structure and breeding.

375 pages | 40 plates with 146 colour photos; 119 b/w photos, 265 b/w illustrations | Paperback | 12/2014 | 9780888397324 | #224809A | £54.50 Add to basket

Vogels Kijken in de Extremadura [Watching Birds in Extremadura]Luc HoogensteinExtremadura is beautiful, wild natural area in southwestern Spain. You will find vast grasslands, dense mountainous forests, flower-filled stream valleys, and dramatic rock faces. This area is a paradise for walkers and birdwatchers.

160 pages | colour photos, colour maps | Paperback | NYP 11/2015 | 9789050115568 | #225019A | £15.99 Add to basket

Wild Birds in Ulanqab [Chinese]Yang GuishengUlanqab or Wulánchábù, a region administered as a prefecture-level city in south-central Inner Mongolia, People's Republic of China, is a vast territory and varied natural landscape, with mountains, wetlands ...


Winged Wonders: Malaysian HeritageHum Kim ChoyWinged Wonders: Malaysian Heritage is the sequel to Winged Wonders in Malaysia. It represents the culmination of the last decade of bird watching and bird photography. All of the colour photographs and the over-90 bird species featured in ...

196 pages | 290+ colour photos | Hardback | 07/2015 | 9789671325001 | #224656A | £89.99 Add to basket






























Reptiles & Amphibians

A Guide to the Snakes of the NSW Mid North CoastStuart JohnsonDetails over 20 species of snake found in the mid north coast region of New South Wales, Australia, and what to do if they are encountered.

52 pages | cp | Paperback | 01/2015 | 9780646928081 | #225118A | £26.99 Add to basket

Herpetofauna no Nordeste Brasileiro: Guia De Campo [The Herpetofauna of Northeast Brazil: Field Guide]Marco Antonio de FreitasThere are 1026 known species of amphibians and 760 species of reptiles in Brazil. For the Northeast region, this guide presents 17 families and 226 species of amphibians, and 33 families and 343 species of reptiles, totaling 569 species ...


Lizards of West BengalKaushik DeutiThis book covers 27 species of lizards known from all the biogeographic zones of the State of West Bengal illustrated through 35 colour photographs. This is the first pictorial guide exclusively on lizards in India.

72 pages | 16 plates with 35 colour photos | Paperback | 06/2013 | 9789381493175 | #224713A | £12.99 Add to basket

Reptilien und Amphibien Europas [Reptiles and Amphibians of Europe]250 Arten mit VerbreitungskartenAxel KwetCamouflage and deception, adaptation to high and low temperatures, life at sea and on land – reptiles and amphibians are uniquely fascinating. Whether amphibians, snakes, turtles and lizards – this book offers the nature ...

352 pages | 325 colour photos, 6 colour & 100 b/w illustrations, distribution maps | Paperback | 07/2015 | 9783440146194 | #224994A | £27.99 Add to basket

Fishes

Fish Reproductive Cycles [Japanese]Abe HidekiBased on more than 20 years of observations by the author, this book showcases courtship and spawning behavior of marine organisms using beautiful pictures. Covering both fish and crustaceans, this book will be of value to both divers ...


Fishes of the Great BasinA Natural HistoryWilliam F Sigler, John W Sigler, Sophie Sheppard and Jim MorganNaturalists and recreational anglers will welcome the paperback edition of this comprehensive volume, first published in 1986, which describes every species in the lakes and streams of the Great Basin. Fishes of the Great Basin ...


Kansas FishesKansas Fishes Committee and Joseph R TomelleriA guide and a first-rate reference for the angler, scientist, and amateur naturalist alike, this comprehensive volume Kansas Fishes profiles each of the 144 fish species inhabiting the waterways of Kansas as well as 27 others ...

518 pages | colour & b/w photos, 184 colour & b/w illustrations, 121 distribution maps | Hardback | 08/2014 | 9780700619610 | #224689A | £36.50 Add to basket

Return of the GarMark SpitzerThe alligator gar belongs to a family of fish that has remained fundamentally unchanged since the Cretaceous, over 100 million years ago. Its intimidating size and plethora of teeth have made it demonized throughout its range in North America ...

256 pages | 61 b/w illustrations | Hardback | 03/2015 | 9781574415995 | #224685A | £22.95 Add to basket

Shark ManOne Kiwi Man's Mission to Save Our Most Feared and Misunderstood PredatorRiley ElliottRiley Elliott is a surfer, spear-fisherman and shark scientist from the Waikato, currently writing a PhD at Auckland University. He's also on a mission to share his fascination with sharks, raise the profile of their dwindling numbers ...


The Alewives' TaleThe Life History and Ecology of River Herring in the NortheastBarbara BrennesselWhile on vacation in 1980, biologist Barbara Brennessel and her family came across an amazing sight: hundreds of small silver fish migrating from the Atlantic Ocean, across a channel connecting two ponds in the town of Wellfleet on Cape ...

192 pages | b/w illustrations | Paperback | 09/2014 | 9781625341051 | #224686A | £22.95 Add to basket

Invertebrates

450 InsectesHeiko BellmannThis is a French translation of Welches Insekt ist das?: 450 Arten, 670 Farbfotos. 450 insects of temperate Europe described and illustrated.

256 pages | 1500 colour photos | Paperback | 03/2015 | 9782603021552 | #224716A | £19.99 Add to basket
























A Guide to the Dragonflies and Damselflies of the Serra dos Orgaos, South-Eastern Brazil / Guia dos Anisoptera e ZygopteTom KompierFirst comprehensive field guide to the Odonata of the Reserva Ecologica de Guapiacu and the Serra dos Órgãos in south-eastern Brazil. With over 560 stunning colour photos and 125 additional illustrations of all 204 known ...

379 pages | 685+ colour photos | Paperback | 05/2015 | 9780956829115 | #224710A | £38.99 Add to basket

A Systematic Inventory of Scelioninae and Teleasinae (Hymenoptera: Platygastridae) in the Rice Ecosystems of North-CentrK RajmohanaThe present study assessed the diversity of the exclusive egg parasitoid subfamilies under Platygastridae, associated with rice ecosystems, in north-central Kerala, India. The study results reflected an extremely rich and diverse parasitoid ...

72 pages | 24 plates with colour photos; ccolour & b/w illustrations, colour maps | Paperback | 01/2014 | #225164A | £29.99 Add to basket

Arkansas Butterflies and MothsLori A Spencer, Don R Simons and Robert Michael PyleArkansas Butterflies and Moths continues the nature series created by Carl Hunter for the Ozark Society Foundation with his popular field guides Wildflowers of Arkansas and Trees, Shrubs, and Vines of Arkansas.


Atlas de los Coleopteros Acuaticos de Espana Peninsular [Atlas of Aquatic Coleoptera of Mainland Spain]Andres Millan, David Sanchez-Fernandez, Pedro Abellan, Felix Picazo and Jose Antonio CarbonellThe Atlases and Red Books that have been published since the late 1990s by the Spanish Ministerio de Agricultura, Alimentación y Medio Ambiente (MAGRAMA), provide comprehensive information on the distribution and conservation status ...

819 pages | colour photos, colour illustrations, colour distribution maps, tables | Paperback | 01/2014 | 9788449114182 | #224722A | £33.99 Add to basket

Bibliographie des Lepidopteres de France (1593-2010) [Bibliography of the Lepidoptera of France] (3-Volume Set)Sylvain DelmasWith this work, Sylvain Delmas offers you bibliography dedicated to the Lepidoptera of France. This study analyzes approximately 18,200 bibliographic references related to the Lepidoptera of France, from 1593 to 2010. This work, unique in ...

1328 pages | Paperback | 03/2015 | #224648A | £61.99 Add to basket

Distribution Atlas of European Butterflies and SkippersOtakar Kudrna, Josef Pennerstorfer and Kristian LuxTwenty years have passed since the announcement of the September 2015 project Mapping European Butterflies (MEB) in 1995. Seven years have passed since the first phase (MEB-1) could be completed using innovative projects-pecific methods.

650 pages | colour photos, illustrations, ~450 colour distribution maps | Hardback | NYP 09/2015 | 9783938249710 | #225032A | £79.99 Add to basket

Escargots et Limaces d'Europe [Snails and Slugs of Europe]Michael P Kerney and Robert Andrew Duncan CameronThis is a French translation of Collins Field Guide to the Land Snails of Britain and North-West Europe.

370 pages | 28 plates with colour illustrations; 691 b/w line drawings, 276 distribution maps | Paperback | 03/2015 | 9782603021521 | #224715A | £38.99 Add to basket

FSC Wildlife Pack 4: Flying ThingsRichard Lewington, John Bebbington, Buglife, Chris O'Toole, Steve Brooks, Chris Shields and R AskewYou don't have to go far to find wildlife in Britain. Find out the names of those insects that buzz, drift or zoom around your garden. Featuring five of the FSC's popular fold-out charts ...


Fauna Iberica, Volume 40: Coleoptera: CoccinellidaeSantos EizaguirreThis monograph in the Fauna Ibérica series is dedicated to the beetle family Coccinellidae. This is the first synthesis of existing knowledge of this group of Coleoptera for the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands ...

514 pages | 14 plates with colour illustrations; 77 b/w line drawings | Hardback | 07/2015 | 9788400099480 | #224649A | £53.99 Add to basket

Fauna Sinica: Invertebrata, Volume 50: Tardigrada [Chinese]Yang TongThere are a total of 2 classes, 3 orders, 5 families, 22 genera and 118 species and subspecies of Tardigrada recorded in this book. A entire list of the systematics including a series of taxonomic keys of all taxa and some notes of ...

277 pages | b/w line drawings | Hardback | 07/2015 | 9787030447487 | #225041A | £55.99 Add to basket

Faune de France, Volume 97: Criquets de France, Volume 1, fascicule A et B (Orthoptera: Caelifera) (2-Volume Set)Bernard Defaut and Morichon DavidThe Orthoptera are an especially interesting group of insects: because of their abundance, especially in open areas, but also because they do not go unnoticed because of their relatively large size, jumping ability and, obviously, their ...

740 pages | 20 plates with colour photos; 144 b/w line drawings, 62 distribution maps | Paperback | 06/2015 | 9782903052362 | #224651A | £69.99 Add to basket





























Field Guide to the Bees of Great Britain and IrelandSteven J Falk and Richard LewingtonThis is a brand new field guide to Britain's bees that for the first time makes this fascinating and important group of insects accessible to the general naturalist. The guide covers over 270 species, and is fully illustrated with ...

336 pages | colour photos, colour illustrations | Hardback | NYP 11/2015 | 9781910389027 | #225042A | £49.99 Add to basketPaperback | NYP 11/2015 | 9781910389034 | #225043A | £34.99 Add to basket

Flatworms Illustrated [Japanese]Ono AtsushiThe Polycladida represents a highly diverse clade of free-living marine turbellarian flatworms. This is the pictorial book to identify Polycladida in and around Japan. Covering more than 200 species of polycladida, this book features ...

223 pages | colour photos, colour illustrations | Paperback | 07/2015 | 9784416715239 | #224888A | £38.99 Add to basket

Guida Pratica di Apicoltura [Practical Guide to Apiculture]Giovanni BoscaKeeping bees is an activity which, besides being exciting and profitable, is also useful: you must be aware that bees, in addition to producing honey, pollen, propolis, royal jelly and wax, are much more important for the work of pollination ...


Guide Delachaux des Papillons de France [Guide to the Butteflies of France]Tom Tolman and Richard LewingtonThis guide presents the 250 most common and most remarkable butterfly species in France. A fact sheet indicates, for each species, its distribution, description, its variations, its flight periods, habitat, biology, behavior and its ...

224 pages | 1000+ colour illustrations | Hardback | 05/2015 | 9782603021378 | #224647A | £26.99 Add to basket

Guide des Libellules De France et d'Europe [Field Guide to the Dragonflies of Britain and Europe]Klaas-Douwe B Dijkstra and Richard LewingtonGuide des Libellules De France et d'Europe is an identification guide to all resident and migrant dragonflies and damselflies in Europe, from the Arctic to the Sahara, including western Turkey, Cyprus, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia ...

320 pages | 1000+ colour photos and colour illustrations, distribution maps | Paperback | 03/2015 | 9782603021538 | #224702A | £36.99 Add to basket

Histoires Remarquables: Les InsectesVincent Albouy and Francois Desbordes- Who is the ecological animal that turns toxic waste into high-value luxury goods? - Why are honeybees outstanding dancers? - Who is the ideal passenger for interplanetary travel? - What is the insect that invented the jet ...

288 pages | illustrations | Paperback | 04/2015 | 9782603021415 | #224814A | £22.99 Add to basket

HoverfliesFrancis S Gilbert and Steven J FalkThis Naturalists’ Handbook book covers the natural history, biology and identification of the hoverfly. It will enable anyone to identify the most common hoverflies of the British Isles, providing practical guidance for ...

71 pages | 4 plates with colour illustrations; 68 b/w line drawings | Hardback | 12/1993 | 9780855462567 | #000209A | £19.99 Add to basketPaperback | 07/2015 | 9781907807596 | #224655A | £19.99 Add to basket

Icones Insectorum Europae Centralis: Nemonychidae, Attelabidae [English / Czech]Robert Stejskal and Filip TrnkaThis monograph deals with the species of the families Nemonychidae and Attelabidae.

16 pages | Paperback | 07/2015 | #224795A | £10.99 Add to basket

Moths of Victoria, Part 1: Silk Moths and Allies - BombycoideaPeter MarriottThis is the first part in a series of ten to twelve which will cover the 2,000 species of Victorian moths. This handy sized booklet figures the 85 species of Silk moths found in Victoria, Australia. Species are set to display front and ...

32 pages | colour photos, includes CD-ROM | Paperback | 01/2008 | 9780980580204 | #224739A | £21.50 Add to basket

Moths of Victoria, Part 2: Tiger Moths and Allies - Noctuoidea (A)Peter MarriottPart two in a series of ten to twelve which will cover the 2,000 species of Victorian moths. This handy sized booklet features 150 species of Tiger moths in six families found in Victoria, Australia. Species are set to display front and ...


Moths of Victoria, Part 3: Waves and Carpets and Allies - Geometroidea (C)Peter MarriottPart three in a series of ten to twelve which will cover the 2,000 species of Victorian moths. This part covers the Looper caterpillars which are a familiar sight on plants everywhere. Most belong to the geometrid family of moths, of which ...






























Moths of Victoria, Part 4: Emeralds and Allies - Geometridae (B)Peter MarriottPart four in a series of ten to twelve which will cover the 2,000 species of Victorian moths. This part covers the Emeralds and allies. A CD-ROM provides over 130 additional pages which contain biology and distributions for each species ...


Moths of Victoria, Part 5: Satin Moths and Allies - Geometroidea (A)Marilyn Hewish, Peter Marriott, Ted Edwards, Axel Kallies and Stephen WilliamsPart five in a series of ten to twelve which will cover the 2,000 species of Victorian moths. This part covers the Satin moths and allies. A CD-ROM provides over 130 additional pages which contain biology and distributions for each species ...

36 pages | colour photos, includes CD-ROM | Paperback | 01/2014 | #224743A | £21.50 Add to basket

Parasitization Ecology, Mass Production, and Applications of Trichogramma [Chinese]Huang ShoushanParasitization Ecology, Mass Production, and Applications of Trichogramma covers theories about Trichogramma blooms and their applications, and a systematic exposition of Trichogramma parasitic ecological problems. Includes the ...


Pictorial Handbook on Dipteran Fauna of Chamba District Himachal PradeshP Parui, G Srinivasan and Dhriti BanerjeeA systematic account of the dipteran fauna of the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh.


Solitary WaspsPeter F Yeo, Sarah A Corbet and Anthony J HopkinsThis Naturalists' Handbook aims to attract more people to the study of solitary wasps by describing the ecology, distribution and natural history of these insects, including all relevant research in one convenient volume.

68 pages | 4 plates with colour illustration, 4 plates with b/w illustrations; b/w line drawings | Paperback | 07/2015 | 9781784270339 | #224654A | £19.99 Add to basket

Spugne del Mediterraneo [Sponges of the Mediterranean]Rossella Baldacconi and Egidio TrainitoA guide to discover that even simple and little considered organisms can show spectacular forms forms and surprising colors. This guide features over 300 photographs of over 120 different species of Mediterranean sponges. The texts are ...


The Butterflies of North AmericaTitian Peale's Lost ManuscriptAmerican Museum of Natural History (AMNH), Titian Peale and Kenneth HaltmanThe American artist and naturalist Titian Ramsay Peale II (1799-1885) had a passion for butterflies and throughout his long life he wrote and illustrated The Butterflies of North America: Whence They Come, Where They Go, and What They Do ...

256 pages | 220 colour illustrations | Hardback | NYP 09/2015 | 9781419717840 | #224902A | £24.99 Add to basket

The Classification Outline of Scolytidae from China [Chinese]Huang FushengThe Classification Outline of Scolytidae from China is based on a book published in 1984, and covers four Asian bark beetle families, 42 genera, 204 species and subspecies. It has important practical value for the identification ...


The Tears of ReBeekeeping in Ancient EgyptGene KritskyAccording to Egyptian mythology, when the god Re cried, his tears turned into bees upon touching the ground. Beyond the realm of myth, the honey bee is a surprisingly common and significant motif in Egyptian history, playing a role in the ...

144 pages | 103 illustrations | Hardback | NYP 12/2015 | 9780199361380 | #224724A | £19.99 Add to basket

Trinidad and Tobago ButterfliesPauline A Geerah and Mike G RutherfordTrinidad & Tobago are home to about 765 species of butterflies. This laminated fold-out guide features 100 of the most commonly encountered and beautiful species found throughout the sister isles. Each photo is labelled with the standard ...

14 pages | colour photos | Unbound | 01/2015 | 9781888538144 | #224855A | £6.75 Add to basket

Palaeontology

Biological Mystery Series, Volume 1: Ediacaran & Cambrian Creatures [Japanese]Ken TsuchiyaThis series gives an unprecedented insight into the fascinating world of ancient creatures, and tickles and awakens the reader's intellectual curiosity. This first volume deals with the creatures of the Ediacaran ...

192 pages | colour photos, colour illustrations | Hardback | 11/2013 | 9784774160849 | #224887A | £33.99 Add to basket


























Biological Mystery Series, Volume 2: Ordovician & Silurian Creatures [Japanese]Ken TsuchiyaThis series gives an unprecedented insight into the fascinating world of ancient creatures, and tickles and awakens the reader's intellectual curiosity. This second volume deals with the creatures of the Ordovician ...


Biological Mystery Series, Volume 3: Devonian Creatures [Japanese]Ken TsuchiyaThis series gives an unprecedented insight into the fascinating world of ancient creatures, and tickles and awakens the reader's intellectual curiosity. This third installment in this series deals with the creatures of the ...


Biological Mystery Series, Volume 4: Carboniferous & Permian Creatures [Japanese]Ken TsuchiyaThis series gives an unprecedented insight into the fascinating world of ancient creatures, and tickles and awakens the reader's intellectual curiosity. The fourth installment deals with organisms from the Carboniferous ...


Biological Mystery Series, Volume 5: Triassic Creatures [Japanese]Ken TsuchiyaThis series gives an unprecedented insight into the fascinating world of ancient creatures, and tickles and awakens the reader's intellectual curiosity. Volume 5 in this series on newly discovered extinct creatures deals with ...


Biological Mystery Series, Volume 6: Jurassic Creatures [Japanese]Ken TsuchiyaThis series gives an unprecedented insight into the fascinating world of ancient creatures, and tickles and awakens the reader's intellectual curiosity. Volume 6 focuses on the Jurassic fauna (from approximately 200 to ...


Biological Mystery Series, Volume 7: Cretaceous Creatures [Japanese]Ken TsuchiyaSo far in this series, the author has treated one or even two geological periods in one volume. But for the cretaceous there is so much information available that is has been spread over two volumes. This volume generally covers the first ...

176 pages | colour photos, colour illustrations | Hardback | NYP 08/2015 | 9784774175409 | #225094A | £35.99 Add to basket

Biological Mystery Series, Volume 8: Cretaceous Creatures [Japanese]Ken TsuchiyaSo far in this series, the author has treated one or even two geological periods in one volume. But for the cretaceous there is so much information available that is has been spread over two volumes, this volume focusing on the second ...

176 pages | colour photos, colour illustrations | Hardback | NYP 08/2015 | 9784774175416 | #225095A | £35.99 Add to basket

Computational PaleontologyAshraf MT ElewaComputational paleontology is simply a term applied to using computers and its facilities in the field of paleontology. However, we should be exactly precise in describing the term through explaining the main themes of this motivating ...

229 pages | b/w photos, b/w illustrations | Hardback | 03/2011 | 9783642162701 | #189416A | £117.00 Add to basketPaperback | 10/2014 | 9783642446634 | #224954A | £117.00 Add to basket

Early Life on EarthA Practical GuideDavid Wacey and Martin BrasierWhen did life first appear on Earth and what form did it take? The answer to this intriguing and fundamentally important question lies somewhere within the early Archean rock record. The young Earth was, however, a very different place ...

274 pages | colour and b&w illustrations | Hardback | 02/2009 | 9781402093883 | #178928A | £80.99 Add to basketPaperback | 11/2014 | 9789400789333 | #224833A | £80.99 Add to basket

Geobiology: Microbial Mats in Sandy Deposits from the Archean Era to TodayNora NoffkeGeobiology: Microbial Mats in Sandy Deposits from the Archean Era to Today describes microbially induced sedimentary structures as new group in the Classification of Primary Sedimentary Structures. Those structures rise from the ...

194 pages | 42 colour illustrations | Hardback | 06/2010 | 9783642127717 | #187434A | £117.00 Add to basketPaperback | 12/2014 | 9783642437274 | #224832A | £117.00 Add to basket

La Terre avant les Dinosaures [Earth Before the Dinosaurs]Sebastien Steyer and Alain BeneteauThis beautiful volume introduces the incredible animals that populated the planet before the Age of the Dinosaurs. Readers voyage to a time, beginning about 370 million years ago, when the first four-footed vertebrates appeared, and ending ...

208 pages | colour & b/w photos, colour & b/w illustrations | Paperback | 02/2009 | 9782701142067 | #224875A | £33.99 Add to basket





























Mesozoic Spiders and Other Fossil ArachnidsJoerg WunderlichMesozoic Spiders and Other Fossil Arachnids contains numerous new descriptions of taxa mainly in Cretaceous Burmese amber, including a new extinct family of spiders, a new extinct suborder of the arachnid order Ricinulei, the ...

512 pages | 212 colour photos, 450 b/w line drawings | Hardback | 01/2015 | 9783931473150 | #224865A | £69.99 Add to basket

Solving the Mystery of the First Animals on LandThe Fossils of Blackberry HillKenneth GassSolving the Mystery of the First Animals on Land: The Fossils of Blackberry Hill is the first book to cover the unique group of rock outcrops in central Wisconsin that appears to have put an end to a 150 year-old mystery of ...

96 pages | 81 colour photos and colour illustrations | Paperback | 07/2015 | 9780992997953 | #224708A | £17.50 Add to basket

When Life Nearly DiedThe Greatest Mass Extinction of All TimeMichael J BentonIn this revised and expanded edition of a classic account, Michael J. Benton assesses the competing claims for a meteorite impact or a volcanic eruption in Siberia and brings the story thoroughly up to date. Hundreds of geological ...

352 pages | 48 b/w illustrations | Paperback | 07/2015 | 9780500291931 | #224720A | £14.95 Add to basket

Marine & Freshwater Biology

Alghe e Fanerogame del Mediterraneo [Algae and Phanerogams of the Mediterranean]Conxi Rodríguez-Prieto, Enric Ballesteros, Fernando Boisset, Julio Alfonso-Carrillo and TrainitoAlghe e Fanerogame del Mediterraneo introduces the reader to the fascinating group of macroalgae and seagrass, that thrive in the western Mediterranean. The guide contains a comprehensive introduction to the biology and ecology ...


Benthic Foraminifera of the Gulf of MexicoDistribution, Ecology, PaleoecologyC Wylie PoagIn 1981, Woods Hole researcher C. Wylie Poag published the book Ecological Atlas of the Benthic Foraminifera of the Gulf of Mexico. In this new volume Benthic Foraminifera of the Gulf of Mexico, Poag has revised and updated ...

256 pages | 68 plates with b/w photos; 64 colour illustrations, 1 colour fold-out map | Hardback | 04/2015 | 9781623491956 | #224687A | £67.95 Add to basket

Caddo: Visions of a Southern Cypress LakeThad Sitton and Carolyn BrownIn a stunning tribute to one of Texas' most enigmatic waterways, a veteran East Texas historian and a professional photographer have together created an homage to a lake like no other – half Texas, half Louisiana, a swampy labyrinth ...


Coral Reefs in the AnthropoceneCharles BirkelandCoral Reefs in the Anthropocene investigates the effects of human activities on coral reefs, which provide important life-supporting systems to surrounding natural and human communities. It examines the self-reinforcing ecological ...

490 pages | 60 colour & 52 b/w illustrations | Hardback | NYP 10/2015 | 9789401772488 | #224728A | £135.00 Add to basket

FSC Wildlife Pack 6: What is in your Pond?Peter Roberts, Froglife, Richard Orton, Anne LD Bebbington, John Bebbington and Denys W OvendenGot a garden pond? Find out the names of the insects, plants, amphibians and repiles that you see. Featuring three of the FSC's popular fold-out charts ...

28 pages | colour & b/w illustrations, colour distribution maps | 01/2015 | #225002A | £13.19 Add to basket

Reef FishesTreasures of the Great Barrier ReefMichelle BrayshawReef Fishes is full of the most beautiful fish on the Great Barrier Reef. It reveals, with illustrated photographs and information, these breathtaking creatures, which not only bring movement and beauty to the reef, but are protected ...


The Marine WorldA Natural History of Ocean LifeFrances DipperThe Marine World is an immense, three-dimensional living space inhabited by marine life that varies from the mundane to the bizarre. Its salty influence extends up river estuaries, over seashores and inland with brine-laden spray.

544 pages | 1500+ colour photos, b/w line drawings, colour tables | Hardback | NYP 09/2015 | 9780957394629 | #224645A | £39.99 Add to basket

The Pollution Biology of Aquatic OligochaetesPilar Rodriguez and Trefor B ReynoldsonIn aquatic ecosystems, the oligochaetes are often a major component of the community. Their relevance in sediment quality assessment is largely related to their benthic and detritivorous life habit.

265 pages | 44 b/w photos and illustrations, tables | Hardback | 08/2011 | 9789400717176 | #191733A | £103.50 Add to basketPaperback | 10/2014 | 9789400797802 | #224958A | £103.50 Add to basket

General Natural History


























A Monograph of British BelemnitidaeJohn DP PhilipsA reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. The nephew of William Smith, John Phillips (1800-1874) was also an influential geologist. Professor of Geology at Oxford, and in part founder of the ...


A Monograph of British Graptolites (2-Volume Set)Gertrude L Elles, Ethel MR Wood and Charles LapworthA reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. Prepared by Gertrude Elles (1872-1960) and Ethel Wood (1871-1946), A Monograph of British Graptolites was originally issued in ten instalments ...

882 pages | 411 b/w illustrations, 2 tables | Paperback | 05/2015 | 9781108084444 | #224837A | £56.99 Add to basket

A Monograph of British Graptolites, Volume 1TextGertrude L Elles, Ethel MR Wood and Charles LapworthA reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. Prepared by Gertrude Elles (1872-1960) and Ethel Wood (1871-1946), A Monograph of British Graptolites was originally issued in ten instalments ...


A Monograph of British Graptolites, Volume 2Historical Introduction and PlatesGertrude L Elles, Ethel MR Wood and Charles LapworthA reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. Prepared by Gertrude Elles (1872-1960) and Ethel Wood (1871-1946), A Monograph of British Graptolites was originally issued in ten instalments ...


A Monograph of the Ammonites of the Inferior Oolite (2-Volume Set)Parts 1-6, and 7-14Sydney Savory BuckmanA reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. Originally issued between 1887 and 1907, this monograph by Sydney Savory Buckman (1860-1929) remains the most comprehensive record of British ...


A Monograph of the Ammonites of the Inferior Oolite Series, Volume 1Parts 1-6Sydney Savory BuckmanA reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. Originally issued between 1887 and 1907, this monograph by Sydney Savory Buckman (1860-1929) remains the most comprehensive record of British Aalenian ...


A Monograph of the Ammonites of the Inferior Oolite Series, Volume 2Parts 7-14Sydney Savory BuckmanA reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. Originally issued between 1887 and 1907, this monograph by Sydney Savory Buckman (1860-1929) remains the most comprehensive record of British Aalenian ...

582 pages | 340 b/w illustrations 6 tables | Paperback | 04/2015 | 9781108084321 | #224839A | £39.99 Add to basket

A Monograph of the Fauna of the CornbrashJohn Frederick BlakeA reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. The thin but widespread Cornbrash Formation is a marine sedimentary deposit of particular interest and importance to stratigraphers because, as ...

138 pages | 14 b/w illustrations, 1 table | Paperback | 04/2015 | 9781108084345 | #224960A | £17.99 Add to basket

Animal HospitalRescuing Urban WildlifeJulia Corey and Nathalie KarvonenAnimal Hospital is a book for kids on how to treat, handle and report injured, orphaned and neglected wildlife. Our cities are already filled with a huge variety of wildlife. As urban areas expand, they impinge on the natural ...


Apostles of the AlpsMountaineering and Nation Building in Germany and Austria, 1860-1939Tait KellerThough the Alps may appear to be a peaceful place, the famed mountains once provided the backdrop for a political, environmental, and cultural battle as Germany and Austria struggled to modernize. Tait Keller examines the mountains' ...

288 pages | 22 b/w photos, 2 illustrations, 2 maps | Paperback | NYP 10/2015 | 9781469625034 | #225146A | £25.95 Add to basket

Australische Vogels door John Gould & Jacques Gregoire [Australian Birds by John Gould and Jacques Gregoire]John Gould, Jacques Gregoire, Jip Binsbergen, Achsa Vissel and Redmond O'HanlonIn the first half of the 19th century the British artist and ornithologist John Gould travelled to Australia with his family, with the aim to collected as many birds as possible for his book series The Birds of Australia.

160 pages | colour illustrations | Hardback | NYP 10/2015 | 9789050115537 | #225109A | £21.99 Add to basket
























Beautiful Birds Colouring BookEmmanuelle Walker and Jean RoussenIn this stunningly illustrated introduction to the world’s most beautiful birds, Jean Roussen and Emmanuelle Walker pay homage to an alphabet of birds in all their feathery fancies. From Warblers to Blue-tits and Kakapos to Owls ...

96 pages | b/w illustrations | Paperback | NYP 10/2015 | 9781909263819 | #224821A | £9.99 Add to basket

Biology, Computing, and the History of Molecular SequencingFrom Proteins to DNA, 1945-2000Miguel Garcia-SanchoWhen we talk about DNA sequencing, it is the relatively recent Human Genome Project and the so-called 'genomics revolution' which immediately come to mind. However, sequencing has a longer and more complex history which penetrated ...

260 pages | 46 b/w illustrations, 1 table | Paperback | NYP 08/2015 | 9781137543325 | #225148A | £19.99 Add to basketHardback | 05/2012 | 9780230250321 | #225149A | £62.99 Add to basket

Botanische Meesterwerken [Botanical Masterpieces]Eddy Weeda, Joop HJ Schaminee and Nils van RooijenIn Botanische Meesterwerken prominent Dutch botanists present highlights from beautifully illustrated 16th century herbals, local floras, and travelogues. Each of the chapters – covering topics such as distant ...


Brief Candle in the DarkMy Life in ScienceRichard DawkinsIn Brief Candle in the Dark Dawkins continues his autobiography, following the threads that have run through the second half of his life so far and homing in on the key individuals, institutions and ideas that inspired and motivated him.

464 pages | 24 plates with colour photos; b/w illustrations | Hardback | NYP 09/2015 | 9780593072554 | #224899A | £19.99 Add to basket

Britain's Treasure IslandsA Journey to the UK Overseas TerritoriesStewart McPherson, Colin Clubbe and Martin HamiltonThe UK Overseas Territories are a secret side of the United Kingdom that few know exists. Scattered across all the Seven Seas, the territories comprise an area 7 times the size of the British Isles and are home to 350,000 British subjects ...

670 pages | 1000+ colour photos, 17 gatefold maps on parchment paper | Hardback | NYP 01/2016 | 9781908787217 | #224642A | £29.99 Add to basket

Britain's Treasure IslandsA Journey to the UK Overseas Territories [Collector's Edition]Stewart McPherson, Colin Clubbe and Martin HamiltonThe UK Overseas Territories are a secret side of the United Kingdom that few know exists. Scattered across all the Seven Seas, the territories comprise an area 7 times the size of the British Isles and are home to 350,000 British subjects ...

670 pages | 1000+ colour photos, 17 gatefold maps on parchment paper | Hardback | NYP 01/2016 | 9781908787224 | #224643A | £149.99 Add to basket

British BirdsClare CollinsonFrom familiar garden songbirds to powerful birds of prey, there are a whole host of fascinating birds to discover in Britain. Learn all about the remarkable range of British birds inside this book. Find out where to look for different ...


British Insects and Other MinibeastsClare CollinsonThere are more insects and other minibeasts in British neighbourhoods than any other kind of animal. Whether you are at home, walking down the street, in a meadow or by a river, there's plenty of minibeasts to discover! In this book ...


British MammalsClare CollinsonWherever you live in Britain, you will be amazed at how much mammal life there is right on your doorstep. Even in the busiest cities, there are small rodents, such as this squirrel, and larger predators, such as foxes. In this book find ...


British Trees and FlowersClare CollinsonFrom magnificent oaks to delicate bluebells, there are a whole host of trees and flowers to discover in Britain. Learn all about the extraordinary range of trees and wild flowers that grow in British neighbourhoods. Find out where to look ...

32 pages | colour illustrations | Hardback | 04/2015 | 9781445136417 | #224823A | £12.99 Add to basket

British Wildlife Photography Awards, Collection 6Mark CarwardineThis superb collection of imagery showcases the very best of the British Wildlife Photography Awards, an annual competition celebrating the breathtaking diversity of the natural history of the British Isles. The photographs within the book ...

























By Steppe, Desert, and OceanThe Birth of EurasiaSir Barry CunliffeBy Steppe, Desert, and Ocean is nothing less than the story of how humans first started building the globalized world we know today. Set on a huge continental stage, from Europe to China, it is a tale covering over 10,000 years ...

512 pages | 130 colour photos, 28 illustrations, 150 maps | Hardback | NYP 09/2015 | 9780199689170 | #224723A | £29.99 Add to basket

Chasing ParadiseBirds and Flowers of BangladeshIhtisham KabirFor this photographic book the author has selected photos of 39 birds of Bangladesh. This includes common species such as the house sparrow, magpie robin, black-hooded oriole, and the chestnut-tailed starling, but also rare and ...

158 pages | colour photos, colour maps | Paperback | 01/2013 | 9789849073802 | #225133A | £55.99 Add to basket

Cicerone Guides: Trekking The GR1: Spain's Sendero HistoricoAcross Northern Spain from Leon to CataloniaJohn HayesTrekking The GR1: Spain's Sendero Historico is for trekkers tackling all or part of the GR1 (Sendero Historico) – 1250 km of waymarked route across northern Spain through the Pyrenean foothills from Puerto to Tarna ...

304 pages | 90 colour photos, 60 colour maps | Paperback | NYP 10/2015 | 9781852845698 | #224829A | £17.95 Add to basket

Cicerone Guides: Trekking The Way of St FrancisFrom Florence to Assisi and RomeSanford BrownThis book to the Way of St Francis describes a 550 km month-long pilgrim trail through the green heart of Italy. The route begins at Florence and goes through Assisi before its climax in Rome, exploring the mountains of Umbria, Tuscany ...


Cicerone Guides: Trekking in the ApenninesThe Grande Escursione AppenninicaGillian PriceGuidebook to the Grand Apennines Trek, or Grande Escursione Appenninica (GEA). Through Tuscany and Emilia-Romagna and two National Parks, this 400 km, 23 day trail explores the mountains, forests and hills of central Italy. Suitable for ...


Cicerone Guides: Walking on the Costa Blanca50 Mountain Walks and ScramblesTerry FletcherWalking on the Costa Blanca describes 50 circular walks and scrambles exploring the Costa Blanca mountains, around the resorts of Alicante, Benidorm and Calp. These walks range from gentle strolls to demanding days with steep ...


Cicerone Guides: Walking the Italian LakesLakes Garda, Maggiore, Como and d'Iseo in Northern ItalyGillian PriceWalking the Italian Lakes describes 50 day walks in the picturesque Lakes region of Northern Italy. Routes around Lakes Como, Iseo, Garda and Maggiore are included on little-known but well waymarked paths. The routes range from ...


Description of the Fossil Remains of Mollusca Found in the Chalk of EnglandCephalopodaDaniel SharpeA reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. The geologist Daniel Sharpe (1806-56) is best remembered for his pioneering work on cleavage and the effects of tectonics on fossils.


Dessiner et Photographier les Fleurs [Drawing and Photographing Flowers]Le Guide Pratique du Parfait BotanisteAline Raynal-Roques and Albert RoguenantDo you love nature, or gardens? Would you like to draw flowers, but you have not dared to start? Have you wondered about the best way to photograph a whole plant or some details that interest you? If so, read this book, it will give you ...


Dinosaur Sticker Activity BookSimon AbbottSimon takes a step back in time to discover the land of the dinosaurs. From terrifying T-rex tricks to silly stegosaurus stickers, this bumper Dinosaur Sticker Activity Book is packed with 64 pages of activities plus 500 fantastic ...

64 pages | includes 500 stickers | Paperback | 04/2015 | 9781783252206 | #224952A | £5.99 Add to basket























Een Waterpaard op de Botermarkt: Exotische Dieren in Historisch Amsterdam voor 1830 [A Kelpie at the Botermarkt: ExoticRia WintersIn the 17th and 18th century Amsterdam was the beating heart of the trade in exotic animals. Tigers, vultures, snakes, giraffes; they could all be seen at the menagerie Blauw Jan on the Kloveniersburgwal, with private ...

128 pages | illustrations | Hardback | 11/2015 | 9789050115575 | #225111A | £17.99 Add to basket

Elephant OrphansClare HibbertElephant Orphans follows the ups and downs of the lives of these special animals as they are cared for at the Nairobi Elephant Nursary in Africa and focuses on both individual animals and the incredible people who look after the ...


Empire of TimberLabor Unions and the Pacific Northwest ForestsErik LoomisThe battles to protect ancient forests and spotted owls in the Northwest splashed across the evening news in the 1980s and early 1990s. Empire of Timber re-examines this history to demonstrate that workers used their unions to ...

256 pages | Hardback | NYP 12/2015 | 9781107125490 | #224757A | £64.99 Add to basket

Encyclopedia of CryptozoologyA Global Guide to Hidden Animals and their PursuersMichael NewtonPresenting a "flesh and blood" view of cryptozoology, Encyclopedia of Cryptozoology excludes discussion of mysterious zoological phenomena. 2,744 entries are listed, the majority of which describe one specific creature ...

576 pages | photos, illustrations | Paperback | 11/2014 | 9780786497560 | #224695A | £31.95 Add to basket

Following Burke and Wills Across AustraliaA Touring GuideDave PhoenixEvery Australian has heard of Burke and Wills but few have travelled in their footsteps. In 2008, historian Dave Phoenix decided to walk across Australia from Melbourne to the Gulf of Carpentaria, following the track taken by the ill-fated ...

416 pages | colour photos, maps | Paperback | 06/2015 | 9781486301584 | #224766A | £34.95 Add to basket

Hiroshi Sugimoto: DioramasHiroshi SugimotoHiroshi Sugimoto began to photograph his Dioramas series, a body of work that spans almost four decades, when he moved to New York City from Japan in 1974. While looking at the galleries in the American Museum of Natural History ...

120 pages | 90 b/w photos | Hardback | 09/2014 | 9788862083270 | #225093A | £39.99 Add to basket

Historic AnimalsThe Dogs, Cats, Horses, Snakes, Goats, Rats, Dragons, Bears, Elephants, Rabbits and Other Creatures That Changed the WorJulie Moberg and Jeff MobergThroughout history, animals have shaped the world as we know it. But rarely have they received the recognition they deserve. Until now. This inside look at history's most famous animals features wacky verse, cool facts ...


Hunters and HuntedCharles HopeLearn all about animal hunters and the hunted: how predators catch their prey, and how the prey try and avoid becoming dinner.


Joy: A Celebration of the Animal KingdomAlex CearnsAnimals bring us joy. When we look into their eyes, see the connections they forge or simply experience the joy they have in their play, it lifts our spirits immeasurably. Expert animal photographer Alex Cearns – author of ...


La Photo Sous-Marine en Numerique [The Handbook to Underwater Photography]Les Techniques, la Pratique et les SujetsPascal KobehThe advent of digital has made the underwater world more accessible to photography, more convenient and more fun. Today, each diver can bring back stunning visual memories. This book is as much to guide the first steps of a ...


Le Parc Zoologique de Paris [The Zoological Park of Paris]Des Origines a la RenovationMaryvonne Leclerc-Cassan, Dominique Pinon and Isabelle WarmoesGenerations of visitors who have visited the zoo of Paris will be fascinated by this lively and detailed history that traces more than eighty years of life of the zoo. It takes into account all of its stakeholders: designers, architects ...

296 pages | 320 colour & b/w photos and colour & b/w illustrations | Paperback | 03/2014 | 9782856537480 | #224709A | £47.99 Add to basket

























Le Secret de l'ArcheobelodonDeux Siecles d'Enquete sur une Star FossileAlexandre Mille, Jean-Guy Michard and Pascal TassyParis, 1804. In National Museum of Natural History, Paris, one man is happy: in his hands, he has a molar, a big molar. This man is Georges Cuvier, a monumental researcher in natural history in France, and one of the first who was able ...


Learn to Draw Calligraphy Animals30 Unique CreationsAndrew FoxWith just a few strokes of a calligraphy pen, London-based designer and illustrator Andrew Fox can help you to create a fun series of minimalistic animals. From cats, dinosaurs, crabs, horses, and birds, the animals in this kit are simple ...

76 pages | illustrations | Hardback | NYP 07/2015 | 9781631060830 | #224970A | £8.33 Add to basket

Mawson's Last SurvivorThe Story of Dr Alf HowardAnna BemroseAlf Howard sailed with legends of the heroic era of Antarctic exploration and became a legend in his own lifetime. He was the last surviving member of Sir Douglas Mawson's 1929-1931 British, Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research ...

250 pages | Illustrations | Paperback | 12/2011 | 9781921920189 | #225009A | £38.99 Add to basket

Menagerie: The History of Exotic Animals in EnglandCaroline Grigson and Juliet Clutton-BrockMenagerie: The History of Exotic Animals in England is the story of the panoply of exotic animals that were brought into Britain from time immemorial until the foundation of the London Zoo – a tale replete with the extravagant ...

400 pages | 8 plates with colour illustrations; 27 b/w photos | Hardback | NYP 01/2016 | 9780198714705 | #224557A | £24.99 Add to basket

Migration NationAnimals on the Go from Coast to CoastJoanne O'SullivanFrom whales to manatees, pronghorn antelopes to monarch butterflies, travel along with North American animals as they make the trip of a lifetime. In Migration Nation follow the paths of nine very different types of ...


Millie Marotta's Tropical WonderlandA Colouring Book AdventureMillie MarottaMillie Marotta is a hugely popular illustrator and her idiosyncratic drawings of the botanical world are stunning. Millie Marotta's Tropical World invites you to lose yourself in a riot of colouring in and drawing.


Minibeast MagicHow to Catch Invertebrates with Tricks and TreatsRoma Oxford and Anna SuttonIn Minibeast Magic you will meet the invertebrates found in gardens, nature parks and school grounds. These areas are home to a multitude of minibeasts, from wriggling worms and sluggish snails to iridescent insects.

colour illustrations | Paperback | 01/2015 | #224989A | £14.99 Add to basket

Monster of GodThe Man-Eating Predator in the Jungles of History and the MindDavid QuammenExplores our psychological and cultural relationship with the 'alpha predators' – animals which not only kill humans but eat them. First we were in awe of them, then we fought back; only recently have we considered protecting ...

515 pages | no illustrations | Paperback | 10/2004 | 9780393326093 | #224737A | £18.99 Add to basket

My First Book of Funny AnimalsNational Wildlife FederationFeaturing spectacular images straight from the vaults of the National Wildlife Federation, these should be the very first books to introduce children to animals from around the world. Every photo shows these creatures in their natural ...


National Trail Guides: Pennine WayDamian HallTo replace its previous two-volume guide to the Pennine Way, Aurum now publishes an entirely new one-volume guide for the 21st-century walker. The Pennine Way is Britain's toughest long-distance path, running 268 miles from Derbyshire ...

192 pages | colour maps | Paperback | 07/2015 | 9781781315026 | #224977A | £14.99 Add to basket

Natural HistoriesBrett Westwood and Stephen MossAccompanying Radio 4's landmark six-month-long series presented by Brett Westwood, Natural Histories explores 25 unexpected species that have changed the way we see the world. From cockroaches to coral, and from ...

336 pages | Paperback | 06/2005 | #144014A | £0.00 Add to basketHardback | NYP 10/2015 | 9781473617018 | #222189A | £19.99 Add to basket
























Nature's LineGeorge Goyder - Surveyor, Environmentalist, VisionaryJanis M SheldrickGeorge Goyder was the first European explorer to see great salt lakes in the inland in flood and to witness the amazing transformation that follows the breaking of drought. His experience put him decades ahead of his contemporaries in ...

457 pages | colour & b/w photos, illustrations, maps | Hardback | 11/2013 | #224736A | £42.99 Add to basket

Night Photography and Light PaintingFinding Your Way in the DarkLance KeimigLance Keimig, one of the premier experts on night photography, has put together a comprehensive reference that will show you ways to capture images you never thought possible. This new edition of Night Photography presents the practical ...

268 pages | 158 colour illustrations, 6 colour tables | Paperback | 07/2015 | 9780415718981 | #224975A | £21.99 Add to basket

Norwegian WoodChopping, Stacking and Drying Wood the Scandinavian WayLars Mytting and Robert FergusonFor a time when we are most conscious of our energy security, a practical-lyrical , beautifully illustrated guide to its most ancient source – wood. Bestselling novelist Lars Mytting shares a Scandinavian passion for wood harvesting ...


Observations on the Structure of Fossil Plants Found in the Carboniferous StrataEdward William BinneyA reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. Edward William Binney (1812-81) was a leading authority on the geology and fossil plants of the Lancashire and Cheshire coalfields. His work ...


Operation RhinoLauren St. JohnJoin Martine in her fifth African adventure in Lauren St John's bestselling The White Giraffe series. When Sawubona's two precious white rhino are killed by poachers, Martine and her best friend Ben are distraught.


Orang-Utan OrphansClare HibbertOrang-utan Orphans follows the ups and downs of the lives of these special animals as they are cared for at specialist rescue centres in Borneo and Sumatra in southeast Asia and focuses on both individual animals and the incredible ...


Our Big Blue BackyardNew Zealand's Oceans and Marine ReservesJanet HuntThis important book, written by award-winning natural history writer Janet Hunt, examines New Zealand's 38 marine reserves, and the need to protect and preserve our seas and foreshores in their natural state. Each chapter ...


Penguin RescueClare HibbertPenguin Rescue follows the ups and downs of the lives of these special animals as they are cared for at a specialist rescue centre and focuses on both individual animals and the incredible people who look after them. Packed with ...


Photographier les Oiseaux en Numerique [The Handbook of Bird Photography]Les Techniques, la Pratique et les SujetsMarkus Varesvuo, Jari Peltomaki and Bence MateThis is a French translation of the The Handbook of Bird Photography.


Professor PenguinDiscovery and Adventure with PenguinsLloyd Spencer DavisPart memoir, partly the research of a field biologist, Professor Penguin could be called 'How Penguins Shaped My Life'. Based on journals kept during Davis's years of working with penguins in the wild, the story takes ...


Ravaged BeautyAn Environmental History of the ManawatuCatherine KnightWhile Ravaged Beauty is about the environmental history of one North Island region, the impact of human settlement and accompanying development for improving human settlement conditions is typical of many New Zealand regions.

226 pages | colour & b/w photos, colour & b/w maps | Paperback | 06/2014 | 9781927212134 | #225119A | £35.99 Add to basket

























Redoute - Selection of the Most Beautiful Flowers: The Complete Plates [English / French / German]Pierre-Joseph Redoute, Werner Dressendorfer and H Walter LackHe was known as the 'Raphael of flowers' and rightly so: Pierre-Joseph Redouté (1759-1840) devoted himself exclusively to the task of capturing the diversity of the flowering plants in naturalistic watercolor paintings.


Science and Civilisation in China, Volume 3: Mathematics and the Sciences of the Heavens and the EarthJoseph NeedhamAfter two volumes mainly introductory, Dr Needham now embarks upon his systematic study of the development of the natural sciences in China. Mathematics and the Sciences of the Heavens and the Earth follow: geography and cartography ...


Science and Civilisation in China, Volume 6: Biology and Biological Technology, Part 3: Agro-Industries and ForestryChristian Daniels, Nicholas K Menzies and Joseph NeedhamVolume 6, Part 3 of the Science and Civiliisation in China series contains two separate works. The first, by Christian Daniels, is a comprehensive history of Chinese sugar cane technology from ancient times to the early ...

770 pages | 6 maps | Hardback | 06/1996 | 9780521419994 | #224777A | £194.99 Add to basket

Selected Genetic Papers of J.B.S. HaldaneJohn Burdon Sanderson Haldane, Krishna R Dronamraju and James F CrowFirst published in 1990, Selected Genetic Papers of J.B.S. Haldane is a compilation of several important papers that have contributed to the foundation of population genetics, evolutionary biology and human genetics.

566 pages | Hardback | 05/2014 | 9781138783379 | #225087A | £99.99 Add to basketPaperback | NYP 10/2015 | 9781138783430 | #225088A | £34.95 Add to basket

Shark WarsCreatures of the Deep Go Head to HeadJohn WoodwardWould a giant squid stand a chance against a whopping whale? Which is the deadliest shark in the world? In Shark Wars take a dive into the depths of the sea and uncovers the terrifying wars taking place beneath the surface ...


South African CoastsA Celebration of Our Seas and ShoresSouth African Coasts showcases the very best of the photography as judged in the Sustainable Seas Trust 2013/14 competition. The extraordinary, prize-winning photographs are accompanied by illuminating essays from leading scientists ...


Still LifeInside the Antarctic Huts of Scott and ShackletonNigel Watson and Jane UssherStill Life is a unique and hauntingly beautiful photographic study of the Antarctic huts that served as expedition bases for explorations led by Captain Robert Falcon Scott and Sir Ernest Shackleton. At the turn of the twentieth ...

224 pages | colour & b/w illustrations | Hardback | 10/2010 | 9781741967395 | #225010A | £39.99 Add to basket

The BushTravels in the Heart of AustraliaDonald WatsonMost Australians live in cities and cling to the coastal fringe, yet our sense of what an Australian is – or should be – is drawn from the vast and varied inland called the bush. But what do we mean by 'the bush', and ...

448 pages | Hardback | 09/2014 | 9781926428215 | #225144A | £19.99 Add to basket

The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Volume 23: 1875Charles Darwin, Frederick Burkhardt and James A SecordThe Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Volume 23: 1875 is part of the definitive edition of letters written by and to Charles Darwin, the most celebrated naturalist of the nineteenth century. Notes and appendixes put these fascinating ...

b/w illustrations | Hardback | NYP 09/2015 | 9781107134362 | #224048A | £94.99 Add to basket

The Essential Guide to Beachcombing and the StrandlineSteve Trewhella and Julie HatcherFrom time immemorial people have been drawn to the beach to collect practical resources as well as mysterious objects that have fuelled myth and folklore – it is our inherent hunter-gatherer instinct. Whether you are a seasoned ...

320 pages | colour photos, b/w illustrations | Paperback | NYP 09/2015 | 9780957394674 | #224646A | £14.99 Add to basket

The Great SmokiesFrom Natural Habitat to National ParkDaniel S PierceSeeking a taste of unspoiled wilderness, more than nine million people visit the Great Smoky Mountains National Park each year. Yet few probably realize what makes the park unusual: it was the result of efforts to reclaim wilderness rather ...




























The Lost Art of Finding Our WayJohn Edward HuthLong before GPS, Google Earth, and global transit, humans traveled vast distances using only environmental clues and simple instruments. John Huth asks what is lost when modern technology substitutes for our innate capacity to find our ...

528 pages | 171 b/w photos, 54 b/w illustrations, 3 tables | Hardback | 04/2013 | 9780674072824 | #206129A | £24.99 Add to basketPaperback | NYP 11/2015 | 9780674088078 | #224992A | £15.95 Add to basket

The Wild in YouVoices from the Forest and the SeaLorna Crozier and Ian McallisterA testament to the miraculous beings that share our planet and the places that they live, The Wild in You is a deeply-felt creative collaboration between one of our time's best nature photographers and a very talented and ...


Venom DocThe Edgiest, Darkest and Strangest Natural History Memoir EverBryan Grieg FryWelcome to the strange and dangerous world of the Venom Doc. Imagine a three-week-long first date in Siberia catching venomous water shrews, and later a wedding attended by Eastern European prime ministers and their bodyguards ...

352 pages | Paperback | NYP 08/2015 | 9780733634222 | #224849A | £19.99 Add to basket

Whale YearsGregory O'BrienBetween 2011 and 2014, poet and artist Gregory O'Brien found himself following the migratory routes of whales and seabirds across vast tracts of the South Pacific Ocean, resulting in a work of poetry that O'Brien describes as ...


When the Earth ShakesEarthquakes, Volcanoes, and TsunamisSimon WinchesterEarthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis: headline-making natural disasters with devastating consequences for millions of people. But what do we actually know about these literally earth-shaking events? In this exciting launch title for Penguin ...


Wildlife Photographer of the Year, Portfolio 25Rosamund Kidman CoxFor 50 years, the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition has championed honest and ethical wildlife photography, while pushing the boundaries of artistic freedom, technical skill and narrative excellence. This powerful collection ...

160 pages | 100+ colour & b/w photos | Hardback | NYP 10/2015 | 9780565093778 | #224864A | £24.99 Add to basket

Regional & Travel

Coastlines: The Story of Our ShorePatrick BarkhamTold through a series of walks beside the sea, this is a story of the most beautiful 742 miles of coastline in England, Wales and Northern Ireland: their rocks, plants and animals, their views, walks and history, and the people who have ...

355 pages | b/w illustrations, b/w maps | Hardback | 04/2015 | 9781847088970 | #221345A | £17.99 Add to basketPaperback | NYP 10/2015 | 9781847088994 | #225036A | £9.99 Add to basket

Conjonctures Congolaises 2014Politiques, Territoires et Ressources Naturelles: Changements et ContinuitesStefaan Marysse and Jean Omasombo TshondaThe question of depth – or lack thereof – in the changes seen in the Democratic Republic of the Congo over the past ten years or so serves as the backdrop for Conjonctures Congolaises 2014. Certain breaks with the ...


FSC Wildlife Pack 1: Garden SafariJohn Bebbington, Michael Majerus, Helen E Roy, Peter Brown, Remy L Poland and Rebecca Farley-BrownYou don't have to go far to find wildlife in Britain. Find out the names of insects and other small animals in your garden with this new FSC Wildlife Pack. Featuring five of our most popular fold-out charts ...


FSC Wildlife Pack 2: The SeashoreMark Ward, Andy Simms, Clare Cremona, Rebecca Farley-Brown, Sally Edmondson and Mark Pete SimmondsExplore the wildlife on our coastline with 5 of the FSC's popular fold-out charts


FSC Wildlife Pack 3: Woodland WalksRebecca Farley-Brown, Gill Crane, Jonathan Oldham, Mavis Gulliver, Richard Gulliver and BebbingtonYou don't have to go far to find wildlife in Britain. Find out the names of plants and animals in the woods with five of the FSC's fold-out charts ...





























Florida Animals for Everyday NaturalistsLarry AllanDid you know fawns have no scent, an evolutionary defense against predators? And that the eastern grey squirrel is a formidable swimmer, which makes them quite suited for the Sunshine State? And that, unlike other avians, Florida scrub jays ...


Golf Course Wildlife: Southern California Desert RegionAn Introduction to Familiar SpeciesKurt LeuschnerFor many, golf courses are sanctuaries where one can enjoy a few hours of relaxation away from the demands of day-to-day life. Courses in the southern California desert region are also sanctuaries for wildlife. This beautifully illustrated ...

12 pages | colour illustrations, maps | Unbound | 02/2014 | 9781583554920 | #224671A | £4.99 Add to basket

Gulf Stream ChroniclesA Naturalist Explores Life in an Ocean RiverDavid S Lee and J Christopher HarveyOff the shore of Hatteras Island, where the inner edge of the Gulf Stream flows northward over the outer continental shelf, the marine life is unlike that of any other area in the Atlantic. Here the powerful ocean river helps foster an ...

280 pages | 12 b/w photos, 22 illustrations | Hardback | NYP 09/2015 | 9781469623931 | #225145A | £24.50 Add to basket

Highland JourneyA Sketching Tour of ScotlandMairi HedderwickIn Highland Journey, Mairi Hedderwick retraces the steps of an obscure Victorian artist, John T. Reid, who made a sketching tour around Scotland in 1876. Hedderwick, a witty and immensely readable author of children's books ...


Kaufman Field Guide to Nature of the MidwestKenn Kaufman, Jeff Sayre and Kimberly KaufmanThe only field guide to bring along to identify the birds, mammals, trees, wildflowers, insects, reptiles, amphibians, fish, spiders, mushrooms, ferns, rocks, and sky of the Midwest Even if we focus on certain things in the ...


La Nature Mediterraneenne en France [Mediterranean Nature in France]Philippe Martin and Les Ecologistes de l'EuziereThis book covers the entire Mediterranean. The author reveals mysteries of a kind rarely described in full and provides scientific information of an unparalleled quality and precision. Very popular with readers since its release ...

272 pages | 78 plates with 1000+ colour illustrations | Hardback | 05/2015 | 9782603021361 | #224657A | £37.99 Add to basket

Le Guide de la Nature en Ville [The Guide to Nature in the City]Guillaume EyssartierIn town, nature is everywhere. Let this this surprise you! The sidewalks, walls, roofs, parks and gardens of our cities are home to fauna and flora much richer than we imagine. No need to go to the countryside to see biodiversity, as it ...


Les Animaux en Bord de Chemin [Animals on the Wayside]Marc GiraudThe first "behavioural field guide" to all the animals you might see around you in France. It shows animals with a never before seen vitality: this book reveals their secret life, and we learn to decode their behaviour.


Southern SanctuaryA Naturalist's Walk Through the SeasonsMarian Moore LewisIn Southern Sanctuary, retired NASA research scientist and writer Marian Moore Lewis takes readers on a journey of discovery through the Goldsmith-Schiffman Wildlife Sanctuary, a 400-acre preserve in Madison County, Alabama.


Spirit of the SouthAndris ApseThe South Island of New Zealand is unlike any other place on earth, celebrated for its majestic landscapes, picturesque lakes and rivers, and epic mountain ranges. Spirit of the South, a stunning tribute to the mainland ...


The Atlantic Forest: A History That Looks to the Future / Mata Atlantica: Uma Historia do FuturoFabio Rubio Scarano, Bruce Rodger and Ricky GoodwinAbout 60% of the Brazilian population, or roughly 100 million people, live in the Atlantic Forest (Mata Atlântica in Portugese). This terrestrial biome and region extends along the Atlantic coast of Brazil, encompassing over 17 Brazilian ...

272 pages | ~150 colour photos | Hardback | 01/2014 | 9788567854403 | #225045A | £81.99 Add to basket

The Waterfalls of YosemiteSteven P MedleyThis practical, fold-up guide to Yosemite's spectacular waterfalls is divided into two sections. The first section of The Waterfalls of Yosemite offers in-depth coverage of eleven waterfalls in Yosemite Valley.

2 pages | colour photos, colour maps | Unbound | 05/2015 | 9781930238596 | #225158A | £6.50 Add to basket


























Botany & Plant Science

1000 Ceskych a Slovenskych Hub [1000 Czech and Slovak Mushrooms]Michal Miksik1000 Ceských a Slovenských for the first time brings together in its entirety the amazing diversity of fungi found in the Czech and Slovak Republics. You will find more than 1000 species of fungi from all groups.

800 pages | colour photos, colour illustrations | Paperback | NYP 07/2015 | 9788025611906 | #224900A | £43.99 Add to basket

A Dendrologist's HandbookMerelene M DavisThe quarterly publication The Dendrologist (ISSN 0966-9124) ceased publication in 2013 after having been published by volunteers over 30 years. Over the years, The Dendologist had published a number of practical booklets ...

74 pages | b/w photos, b/w line drawings | Paperback | 01/2014 | #225126A | £10.50 Add to basket

A Garden of Medicinal PlantsHenry F Oakeley, Jane Knowles, Michael de Swiet and Tony DayanThe Royal College of Physicians (RCP) celebrates its 500th anniversary in 2018, and to observe this landmark is publishing this series of ten books. Each of the books focuses on fifty themed elements that have contributed to making the ...

128 pages | ~100 colour photos | Paperback | 06/2015 | 9781408706244 | #225091A | £11.99 Add to basket

A World of GardensJohn Dixon HuntA Japanese garden is immediately distinct to the eye from the traditional gardens of an English manor house, just as the manicured topiaries of Versailles contrast with the sharp cacti of the American Southwest. Though gardening is beloved ...

368 pages | 148 colour & 110 b/w illustrations | Paperback | 07/2015 | 9781780235066 | #225140A | £17.99 Add to basketHardback | 03/2012 | 9781861898807 | #225141A | £28.99 Add to basket

A Worldwide Monograph of Swertia and Its AlliesHo Ting-Nong and Liu Shang-wuThe tribe Gentianae circumscribed by Struwes and Albert (2002) comprises 17 genera in two subtribes. A Worldwide Monograph of Swertia and Its Allies presents a monograph of the rotate group comprising Swertia ...

476 pages | b/w photos | Hardback | 06/2015 | 9787030421487 | #224714A | £74.99 Add to basket

Algae of India, Volume 3A Checklist of Indian Marine Algae: Excluding Diatoms and DinoflagellatesPSN Rao and RK GuptaBiodiversity and its conservation strategies are the apex concern of scientists in recent decades. Thus, the Botanical Survey of India has initiated to prepare the inventory of Indian algae at a national level. Volumes 1 and 2 in this series ...

96 pages | 11 plates with colour photos | Paperback | 01/2015 | 9788181770677 | #225160A | £27.99 Add to basket

An Illustrated Catalogue of Tasmanian Mosses, Part 1RD Seppelt, SJ Jarman, LH Cave and PJ DaltonIn Part 1 of An Illustrated Catalogue of Tasmanian Mosses, 37 of Tasmania’s mosses are meticulously illustrated with pen-and-ink drawings of shoots, organs and cells, mostly as viewed with a microscope or hand lens.

98 pages | colour illustrations, maps | Spiralbound | 01/2013 | 9856886493716 | #224965A | £29.99 Add to basket

Apocynaceae of NamibiaPV BruynsThe Flora of Namibia is dominated by the families Poaceae, Asteraceae and Fabaceae. Here, an account of the Apocynaceae, the seventh largest family in Namibia, is presented. A total of 153 species belonging to 46 genera are recorded as ...

164 pages | b/w line drawings, distribution maps | Paperback | 07/2015 | 9781919976983 | #225106A | £24.99 Add to basket

Atlas des Cortinaires, Pars 23Section Saturnini (Hydrocybe).Andre Bidaud, J-M Bellanger, Xavier Carteret and Patrick ReumauxVolume 23 treats the section Saturnini (Hydrocybe) and is the penultimate volume in the series.

45 plates with colour illustrations; b/w line drawings | Unbound | NYP 12/2015 | #225096A | £120.00 Add to basket

Atlas des Orchidees de NormandieCollectif de la Societe Francaise (SFO) d'Orchidophilie de Normandie and Lorenzo DottiThis atlas is the result of a long work of inventorying wild orchids found in Normandy. It is based on nearly 30,000 data points going back to the nineteenth century for the oldest, and collected until the end of the 2013 season for the ...

128 pages | colour photos, colour illustrations, colour distribution maps | Paperback | 06/2015 | 9782815102667 | #224806A | £23.99 Add to basket

Atlas of Invertebrate-Pathogenic Fungi of Thailand: Volume 4Janet Jennifer Luangsa-ard, Kanoksri Tasanathai, Suchada Mongkolsamrit and Nigel Hywel-JonesThis is the fourth volume in a continuing series which will illustrate ca.30 taxa a year of invertebrate-pathogenic fungi from Thailand, studied by the BIOTEC research team. As with the first volume, this is not an authoritative taxonomic ...


AusGrass: Grasses of AustraliaD Sharp and BK SimonAusGrass is the largest and most comprehensive identification guide to a plant group ever published. This product has been updated to use the Lucid software version 3.5. Using either interactive or dichotomous keys, AusGrass ...

USB Flash Drive of 4,000 photographs and 1,400 maps | 03/2014 | 9781486301980 | #224679A | £132.00 Add to basket


























Blumen Einst und Jetzt [Flowers Then and Now]Klosterbibliothek Heiligenkreuz - Biosphaerenpark Wienerwald [Heiligenkreuz Abbey Library - Vienna Woods BiosphereGerhard WasshuberWorking tirelessly for ten years, the pharmacist Johannes–Wilhelm Weinmann (born 1683 in Regensburg) collected the entire botanical knowledge of the Baroque age, to create an impressive four-volume compendium illustrated with 1,025 ...

208 pages | 200 colour photos, 200 colour illustrations | Paperback | 05/2015 | 9783702507787 | #208044A | £29.95 Add to basket

Bourgeons et Rameaux [Buds and Branches]Bernd SchulzThis is a French translation of the German Taschenatlas Knospen und Zweige.

192 pages | 460 colour illustrations, 180 b/w line drawings | Hardback | 02/2015 | 9782603020401 | #224697A | £23.50 Add to basket

Date Palm BiotechnologyShri Mohan Jain, Jameel M Al-Khayri and Dennis V JohnsonThis important reference book Date Palm Biotechnology is the first comprehensive resource worldwide that reflects research achievements in date palm biotechnology, documenting research events during the last four decades, current ...

666 pages | illustrations, tables | Hardback | 07/2011 | 9789400713178 | #191775A | £180.00 Add to basketPaperback | 11/2014 | 9789401780599 | #224662A | £180.00 Add to basket

Echinacea: Herbal Medicine with a Wild HistoryKelly Kindscher, Steven Foster and Kelly KindscherEchinacea: Herbal Medicine with a Wild History provides an in-depth analysis of one the of most popular medicinal plants-Echinacea a species that is native to only the US and Canada. There are nine Echinacea species and several ...

175 pages | 9 colour & 4 b/w illustrations, 16 tables | Hardback | NYP 01/2016 | 9783319181554 | #224847A | £127.00 Add to basket

Euclid: Eucalypts of AustraliaCentre For Plant Biodiversity ResearchEUCLID is the definitive electronic identification and information system for Australian eucalypts, which has now been expanded to include northern Australia. Covering the morphology - habit, bark, leaves, flowers, fruits, buds, seeds and ...

USB Flash Drive with 9,000 colour photos and colour illustrations | 03/2014 | 9781486301973 | #224682A | £156.00 Add to basket

Everglades WildflowersA Field Guide to Wildflowers of the Historic Everglades, Including Big Cypress, Corkscrew, and Fakahatchee SwampsRoger L HammerThe Everglades region is a mosaic of interconnected ecosystems where a slight elevation change can lead you from dry, rocky pinelands and shady hardwood hammocks to flooded grassy prairies and deep, mysterious swamps. Fascinating wildflowers ...


FSC Wildlife Pack 20: LichensPat A Wolseley, Peter James, Diccon Alexander and Frank S DobsonThese colourful and widespread organisms can be seen all year round. Featuring six of the FSC's popular fold-out charts ...

48 pages | colour photos, b/w illustrations | 01/2015 | #225005A | £23.99 Add to basket

FSC Wildlife Pack 8: What's that Flower?Rebecca Farley-Brown, Mavis Gulliver, Richard Gulliver and Carol RobertsLike wild flowers, but don't know where to start? Featuring three of the FSC's popular fold-out charts ...

28 pages | colour & b/w illustrations | 01/2015 | #225004A | £13.19 Add to basket

Families of Flowering Plants of AustraliaAn Interactive Identification GuideKR Thiele and LG AdamsFamilies of Flowering Plants of Australia: An Interactive Identification Guide (Revised Edition) is an identification and information package for all of the plant families, native and naturalised, in Australia. It enables the ...

USB Flash Drive with 1,500 colour photos and b/w line drawings | 03/2014 | 9781486301997 | #224680A | £87.00 Add to basket

Flora Iranica, Volume 180: Scrophulariaceae II, AntirrhineaeD Podlech and M IranshahrVolume 180 is the second contribution to the family Scrophulariaceae and deals with the tribe Antirrhineae.

82 pages | 43 plates with b/w photos | Paperback | 07/2015 | #224939A | £44.99 Add to basket

Flora Iranica, Volume 181: SimaroubaceaeSiegmar-W Breckle and Ernst VitekVolume 181 deals with the family Simaroubaceae.

12 pages | 3 plates with b/w photos | Paperback | 07/2015 | #224940A | £19.99 Add to basket

Flore d'Afrique Centrale: Spermatophytes, AnthericaceaeP MeertsThe family Anthericaceae is represented in Central Africa by one genus, Chlorophytum, with 52 species, of which four are endemic to this region, and many others are rare.

119 pages | 23 colour photos, 23 b/w line drawings | Paperback | 07/2015 | #225102A | £21.99 Add to basket

Flore d'Afrique Centrale: Spermatophytes, BromeliaceaeMiguel E LealThe Bromeliaceae family is represented in Central Africa by just one cultivated, and sometimes escaped species, the pineapple (Ananas comosus).

9 pages | 1 b/w line drawing | Paperback | 07/2015 | #225103A | £11.99 Add to basket






























Flore d'Afrique Centrale: Spermatophytes, SmilacaceaeDaniel GeerinckThe usually dioecious family Smilacaceae includes herbs and lianas and is represented in Central Africa by two species from the genus Smilax.

11 pages | 2 b/w line drawings | Paperback | 07/2015 | #225104A | £11.99 Add to basket

Fundamentals of Plant PathologyNG RavichandraFundamentals of Plant Pathology is based on the syllabus prescribed by the Indian Council of Agricultural Research, New Delhi, for the first and second year undergraduate students of plant pathology in State Agricultural and ...


Garden AloesGrowing and Breeding Cultivars and HybridsGideon F Smith and Estrela FigueiredoAuthored by two leading international experts on aloes and their kin, Gideon F. Smith and Estrela Figueiredo, both of the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in South Africa and the University of Coimbra in Portugal. Books have been written ...


Grand Guide des Plantes Potageres [The Big Book to Vegetable Plants]Histoire, Origine, Varietes, Culture, NutritionValerie Garnaud and Odile KoenigDid you know that the artichoke was already served at the table of the Romans? Or that celery was found in the tomb of Tutankhamen? Do you know the medicinal properties of cumin or hyssop? Or the Chinese origin of Japanese artichokes?


Guide des Fleurs du Jardin [Guide to Garden Flowers]Gerard GuillotA guide to take into the field with you: all plants are featured in thumbnail vignettes and classified according to their preference in the garden, so you can locate all 800 described species at a glance. Easy identification ...


Kansas Wildflowers and WeedsMichael John Haddock, Craig C Freeman and Janet E BareIn the 35 years since the publication of Janét E. Bare's popular Wildflowers and Weeds of Kansas, our understanding of flowering plants has undergone dramatic changes. This transformation is reflected in the pages of ...

520 pages | 742 colour photos | Hardback | 05/2015 | 9780700620814 | #224677A | £36.50 Add to basket

Le Jardin Spontane [The Spontaneous Garden]Reconnaitre et Accueillir les Plantes Vagabondes et Semis NaturelsNoemie Vialard and Patrick BlancThe spontaneous garden is a new way of understanding the garden, which gives space to nature, with respect for native species and biodiversity. It is based to a large extent on natural seedlings of plants (wild or cultivated) that the ...


Medicinal Plants of Barbados for the Treatment of Communicable and Non-Communicable DiseasesDamian H CohallBarbados has a strong base in the practice of folklore botanical medicines. Consistent with the rest of the Caribbean region, the practice is criticized due to the lack of efficacy and safety testing of the plants. This book identifies ...


Nature's PharmacopeiaA World of Medicinal PlantsDan ChoffnesThis beautifully illustrated, elegantly written textbook pairs the best research on the biochemical properties and physiological effects of medicinal plants with a fascinating history of their use throughout human civilization, revealing ...

432 pages | 187 colour illustrations | Hardback | NYP 01/2016 | 9780231166607 | #223467A | £103.50 Add to basketPaperback | NYP 01/2016 | 9780231166614 | #223468A | £51.99 Add to basket

Northeast FernsA Field Guide to the Ferns and Fern Relatives of the Northeastern United StatesSteve W ChaddeNortheast Ferns is the first modern, comprehensive field guide to the true ferns and fern relatives of New England and the northeastern United States, including the states of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire ...

427 pages | b/w photos, b/w line drawings, b/w distribution maps | Paperback | 08/2013 | 9781492177289 | #224871A | £26.99 Add to basket

Photographic Guide to Native Plants of the Australian Capital TerritoryMeredith CosgroveThis easy to use guide covers 327 plant species native to the ACT region. Illustrated by over 1300 full colour photographs depicting the whole plant, flower and fruit for each species. Key identification features are described including ...

360 pages | 1300+ colour photos, colour distribution maps | Paperback | 01/2014 | 9780994183408 | #225117A | £49.99 Add to basket

























Photosynthesis: A New Approach to the Molecular, Cellular, and Organismic LevelsSuleyman I AllakhverdievPhotosynthesis is one of the most important processes that affects all life on Earth, and, even now in the twenty-first century, it is still being studied and tested by scientists, chemists, and botanists. Regardless of politics or opinion ...


Plant Developmental Biology - Biotechnological Perspectives, Volume 2Eng-Chong Pua and Michael R DaveyPlant Developmental Biology - Biotechnological Perspectives, Volume 2 focuses on development-related areas, including tissue culture (somatic embryogenesis, microspore embryogenesis, somaclonal variation), plant processes ...

380 pages | 52 colour & b/w illustrations | Hardback | 03/2010 | 9783642046698 | #184066A | £180.00 Add to basketPaperback | 11/2014 | 9783642424274 | #224659A | £180.00 Add to basket

Plant Life of Western AustraliaJS Beard, Alex S George and N GibsonFirst published in 1990, Plant Life of Western Australia grew out of a project between Department of Geography at the University of Western Australia and the author, the Foundation Director of the Botanic Garden at Kings Park ...

328 pages | 550 colour photos | Hardback | NYP 11/2015 | 9781925078787 | #224482A | £34.99 Add to basket

Plant Protection in Tropical Root and Tuber CropsP Parvatha ReddyPlant Protection in Tropical Root and Tuber Crops is a compilation of information on insect/mite/vertebrate pests and fungal/bacterial/viral/mycoplasma/nematode diseases of tropical root and tuber crops such as cassava, sweet potato ...

336 pages | 198 colour & 59 b/w illustrations, 75 tables | Hardback | 06/2015 | 9788132223887 | #224848A | £126.00 Add to basket

Plants of the Klein KarooJan Vlok and Anne Lise Schutte-VlokPlants of the Klein Karoo discusses more than 1,500 plant species from the area, all of them illustrated with magnificent photos taken by the authors.

colour photos | Paperback | NYP 08/2015 | 9781919766492 | #224699A | £39.99 Add to basket

Revision of the Old World Species of Setaria (Poaceae: Panicoideae: Paniceae)Osvaldo Morrone, Sandra S Aliscioni, Jan Frits Veldkamp, Jose F Pensiero and Fernando Om ZuloagaSetaria (Poaceae: Panicoideae: Paniceae) in the Old World is revised, providing identification tools for a group that includes many important forage grasses and several widespread weeds. Setaria includes annual and perennial ...

161 pages | b/w line drawings | Paperback | 08/2014 | 9780912861968 | #225114A | £34.50 Add to basket

Richtersveld: The Enchanted WildernessGraham Williamson and Sir David AttenboroughRichtersveld is situated in the north-western corner of South Africa’s Northern Cape province. In this book Graham Williamson reveals the secrets of this hauntingly beautiful area. More than 500 plant species are discussed and ...

600+ colour photos | Paperback | 01/2010 | 9781919766478 | #224700A | £45.50 Add to basket

SOS Jardin Potager [Help with the Vegetable Garden]Identifier et Lutter contre 160 Maladies et NuisiblesThomas Lohrer- Identify and eliminate risks! With over 300 precise photographs to aid diagnosis, this practical guide presents the 160 main pests and diseases that threaten crops from the garden. - Data sheets detail the biological and chemical ...


SOS Jardin d'Ornement [Help with the Ornamental Garden]Identifier et Lutter contre 160 Maladies et NuisiblesThomas Lohrer- Identify and eliminate risks! With over 300 precise photographs to aid diagnosis, this practical guide presents the 160 main pests and diseases that threaten plants from the garden. - Data sheets detail the biological and chemical ...


Science and Civilisation in China, Volume 6: Biology and Biological Technology, Part 1: BotanyJoseph NeedhamThe sixth volume of Dr Needham's immense undertaking Science and Civilisation in China, like the fourth and fifth, is subdivided into parts for ease of presentation and assimilation, each part bound and published separately.

756 pages | 41 b/w illustrations, 14 maps, 22 tables | Hardback | 02/1986 | 9780521087315 | #224778A | £194.99 Add to basket

Science and Civilisation in China, Volume 6: Biology and Biological Technology, Part 5: Fermentations and Food ScienceHT Huang and Joseph NeedhamToday Chinese cuisine is enjoyed in many parts of the world, yet little is known in the West about the technologies involved in making its characteristic ingredients. H. T. Huang's book ...

769 pages | 61 tables | Hardback | 11/2000 | 9780521652704 | #224776A | £199.99 Add to basket




























Science and Civilsation in China, Volume 6: Biology and Biological Technology, Part 4: Traditional Botany: An EthnobotanGeorges Metailie and Joseph NeedhamScience and Civilsation in China, Volume 6: Biology and Biological Technology, Part 4: Traditional Botany: An Ethnobotanical Approach offers a comprehensive and authoritative account of botanical knowledge in China from ancient ...

820 pages | 332 b/w illustrations, 18 tables | Hardback | NYP 09/2015 | 9781107109872 | #224775A | £150.00 Add to basket

Systematics and Biology of Lapeirousia, Codonorhiza, Psilosiphon and Schizorhiza in Southern AfricaPeter Goldblatt and John C ManningPlastid and nuclear DNA sequence analyses show that the sub-Saharan African genus Lapeirousia Pourr. is paraphyletic as presently circumscribed. Species of Lapeirousia are retrieved as a clade in which are nested the ...


The Guernsey Lily (2-Volume Set)James Douglas and Helen BrockA Most Unusual Edition This edition began life in the early 1990s nearly a quarter of a century ago. Dr. Helen Brock having completed a paper on the Guernsey Lily, submitted it to her publisher, whose editor suggests ...

illustrations | Hardback | 01/2012 | #224882A | £535.00 Add to basket

The Olmsted Parks of LouisvilleA Botanical Field GuidePatricia Dalton HaraganFrederick Law Olmsted, popularly known as the "Father of American Landscape Architecture," is famous for designing New York City's Central Park, the U.S. Capitol grounds, and the campuses of institutions such as Stanford University ...

439 pages | colour illustrations, maps | Paperback | 03/2014 | 9780813144542 | #224678A | £45.50 Add to basket

The Redwoods of the Otway RangesRoger B SmithThe height and stature of Sequoia sempervirens, or Coast Redwood, are such that the tree is often called the most dramatic expression of life that has ever existed on Earth. The Redwoods of the Otway Ranges ...


The Triumph of SeedsHow Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses, & Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human HistoryThor HansonWe live in a world of seeds. From our morning toast to the cotton in our clothes, they are quite literally the stuff and staff of life, supporting diets, economies, and civilizations around the globe. Just as the search for nutmeg and ...

277 pages | b/w photos, b/w illustrations | Hardback | 05/2014 | 9780465055999 | #222323A | £13.99 Add to basketPaperback | NYP 03/2016 | 9780465097401 | #224990A | £10.99 Add to basket

Therapeutic Medicinal PlantsFrom Lab to the MarketMarta CT Duarte and Mahendra RaiMedicinal plants have been used in the prevention, diagnosis, and elimination of diseases based on the practical experience of thousands of years. There is a pressing need to initiate and transform laboratory research into fruitful formulas ...

400 pages | 20 b/w illustrations | Hardback | NYP 01/2016 | 9781482254037 | #223206A | £88.99 Add to basket

Thorne Moors: A Botanical SurveyPaul BucklandThe first ever checklist of the botanical interest of Thorne Moors, including some superb photographs of the flora (including the bryophytes) and habitats found on Thorne Moors NNR. Thorne and Hatfield Moors form the largest area of lowland ...

256 pages | Col photos | Paperback | 01/2014 | #225130A | £23.50 Add to basket

Vegetation Field Atlas of Continental South Africa, Lesotho and SwazilandLadislav Mucina, Michael C Rutherford, Leslie W Powrie, Adriaan van Niekerk and Joh van der MerweThe publication of The Vegetation of South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland marked a milestone on a long journey laid down by South African vegetation science and plant ecology. The classification of South Africa's terrestrial ecosystems ...

40 pages | colour maps | Spiralbound | 01/2014 | #225124A | £21.99 Add to basket

Wattle: Acacias of AustraliaBruce R MaslinWith the aid of Wattle, you will be able to identify any species of acacia in Australia. This powerful electronic key enables species to be quickly and accurately named, irrespective of whether specimens are in flower or fruit.

USB Flash Drive, includes full-colour photographs of 1,200 species of acacia | 03/2014 | 9781486302000 | #224681A | £132.00 Add to basket

Animal & General Biology

























Animal VigilanceMonitoring Predators and CompetitorsGuy BeauchampAnimal Vigilance builds on the author's previous publication with Academic Press (Social Predation: How Group Living Benefits Predators and Prey) by developing several other themes including the development and mechanisms ...


Comparative Anatomy of VertebratesRK Saxena and Sumitra SaxenaComparative Anatomy of Vertebrates, Second Edition has been written taking into consideration that the study of the anatomy of vertebrates has changed drastically in recent years. Previously it was customary to make a classical ...

680 pages | Illustrations | Paperback | 04/2015 | 9788130930008 | #224694A | £41.99 Add to basket

Fish KaryotypesA Check ListRyoichi AraiAs the largest group of extant vertebrates, fish offer an almost limitless number of striking examples of evolutionary adaptation to environmental and biotic selection pressure. The most diverse of all vertebrate groups, the higher taxa ...

348 pages | tables | Hardback | 07/2011 | 9784431538769 | #191070A | £180.00 Add to basketPaperback | 12/2014 | 9784431547495 | #224789A | £180.00 Add to basket

Functional Surfaces in Biology, Volume 1Little Structures with Big EffectsStanislav N GorbFunctional Surfaces in Biology, Volume 1 is devoted to the rapidly growing area of science dealing with structure and properties of biological surfaces in their relation to particular functions.

408 pages | Hardback | 10/2009 | 9781402066962 | #182609A | £180.00 Add to basketPaperback | 11/2014 | 9789400791220 | #224660A | £180.00 Add to basket

Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body's Most Underrated OrganGiulia Enders, Jill Enders and David ShawFor too long, the gut has been the body's most ignored and least appreciated organ, but it turns out that it's responsible for more than just dirty work: our gut is at the core of who we are. Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body ...


How Life WorksThe Inside Word from a BiochemistWilliam ElliottComplete with colour illustrations and written in a conversational style, biochemist William Elliott unravels the mystery of life while revealing its majesty. How do chemical reactions occur? How do genes hold information? Why do our bodies age?

165 pages | 176 | Paperback | NYP 09/2015 | 9781486300471 | #225143A | £20.95 Add to basket

Jak Letají [How to Fly]Rudolf DvorakThe age-old human desire to fly has, over a century, led to incredible progress in the field of aviation. While inventors originally sought inspiration in bird flight, today this interest has shifted to the realm of insects, due to the ...


Molecular BiologyPrinciples and PracticeMichael M Cox, Jennifer A Doudna and Michael O'DonnellWritten and illustrated with unsurpassed clarity, Molecular Biology: Principles and Practice introduces fundamental concepts while exposing students to how science is done. The authors convey the sense of joy and excitement that ...

750 pages | 1300 illustrations | Hardback | 05/2015 | 9781464126147 | #225150A | £53.99 Add to basket

Quantitative Viral EcologyDynamics of Viruses and Their Microbial HostsJoshua S WeitzWhen we think about viruses we tend to consider ones that afflict humans – such as those that cause influenza, HIV, and Ebola. Yet, vastly more viruses infect single-celled microbes. Diverse and abundant, microbes and the viruses ...

344 pages | 4 b/w photos, 73 b/w illustrations | Hardback | NYP 01/2016 | 9780691161549 | #224425A | £48.95 Add to basket

Social PredationHow Group Living Benefits Predators and PreyGuy BeauchampThe classic literature on predation dealt almost exclusively with solitary predators and their prey. Going back to Lotka-Volterra and optimal foraging theory, the theory about predation, including predator-prey population dynamics, was ...


The Behavioural Biology of ChickensChristine J NicolChickens are by far the world's most widely farmed animal, kept for both meat and egg production. They are at the centre of many debates regarding housing and production systems, causing significant interest in what lies behind chicken ...

200 pages | colour illustrations | Hardback | 05/2015 | 9781780642499 | #225153A | £74.99 Add to basketPaperback | 05/2015 | 9781780642505 | #225161A | £37.50 Add to basket


























Wild SexThe Inns and Outs of Mating in the Animal KingdomCarin BondarIn Wild 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

Evolution: The Whole StorySteve Parker and Alice RobertsEvolution: The Whole Story contains everything you need to know about the development and survival of life on Earth. Each chapter of this accessible and lavishly illustrated book takes a major living group and presents thematic ...

576 pages | 1000 colour photos and colour illustrations | Paperback | NYP 09/2015 | 9780500291733 | #224903A | £19.95 Add to basket

Los Primeros Homininos: Paleontología Humana [The First Hominids: Human Palaeontology]Antonio Rosas GonzalezHuman evolution, far from being a linear and simple process, is a complex web of emergence of multiple genera, species and forms, in response to their environment. After more than a century of field and laboratory work, today we have a ...


Lost SexThe Evolutionary Biology of ParthenogenesisIsa Schoen, Koen Martens and Peter van DijkSex is the queen of problems in evolutionary biology. Generations of researchers have investigated one of the last remaining evolutionary paradoxes: why sex exists at all. Given that sexual reproduction is costly from an evolutionary ...

615 pages | 107 colour illustrations & b/w illustrations, tables | Hardback | 10/2009 | 9789048127696 | #182624A | £197.50 Add to basketPaperback | 11/2014 | 9789400779969 | #224703A | £197.50 Add to basket

The Biology of DesireWhy Addiction is Not a DiseaseMarc LewisThrough the vivid, true stories of five people who journeyed into and out of addiction, a renowned neuroscientist explains why the "disease model" of addiction is wrong and illuminates the path to recovery. The psychiatric ...


The Evolution of the EyeGeorg Glaeser and Hannes F PaulusWith fascinating, spectacularly beautiful images, The Evolution of the Eye piques readers' curiosity about the diversity of visual organs. The Evolution of the Eye is the result of a dual approach – scientific ...

214 pages | 300 colour illustrations | Hardback | NYP 01/2016 | 9783319174754 | #224846A | £31.99 Add to basket

Ecology

Advances in Ecological Research, Volume 52Trait-Based Ecology - From Structure to FunctionSamraat Pawaar, Guy Woodward and Anthony I DellThe theme of this volume is Trait-Based Ecology - From Structure to Function. Advances in Ecological Research is one of the most successful series in the highly competitive field of ecology. Each volume publishes topical and ...


Approaches to Plant Evolutionary EcologyGregory P CheplickPlant evolutionary ecology is a rapidly growing discipline which emphasizes that populations adapt and evolve not in isolation, but in relation to other species and abiotic environmental features such as climate. Although it departs from ...


Sustainability and Diversity of Forest EcosystemsAn Interdisciplinary ApproachTorhu NakashizukaReprinted from Ecological Research, Volume 22(3), 2007. Biodiversity is decreasing at the fastest rate in the history of the earth, largely as a result of human activity. The sustainable use of ecosystems allowing ...


Habitats & Ecosystems

Asian-Pacific Coasts and their Management: States of EnvironmentStates of EnvironmentNobuo MimuraCoastal zones form a huge variety of natural environments, providing rich resources to humans. They are the place where active interaction occurs between land-based activities and ocean environments. They have attracted human populations ...

250 pages | 80 colour illustrations | Hardback | 01/2008 | 9781402036262 | #156636A | £153.00 Add to basketPaperback | 11/2014 | 9789400789111 | #225079A | £153.00 Add to basket

























Ecological Forest Management HandbookGuy R LarocqueForests are valued not only for their economic potential, but also for the biodiversity they contain, the ecological services they provide, and the recreational, cultural, and spiritual opportunities they provide. Ecological forest management ...


Eutrophication and Oligotrophication in Japanese EstuariesThe Present Status and Future TasksTetsuo YanagiEutrophication and Oligotrophication in Japanese Estuaries presents lessons learnt from Japan's past, in relation to coastal waters, industrial pollutants and concentrated urban populations. It examines ecosystem damage and ...

97 pages | 140 colour & 17 b/w illustrations | Hardback | NYP 07/2015 | 9789401799140 | #224845A | £71.99 Add to basket

Le Sol, un Monde Vivant: Formation, Faune, Flore [Soil, a Living World: Formation, Fauna Flora]Patricia TouyreThis book reveals the secrets of the formation and inner workings of soil, from bedrock to the moist soil from which plants draw their nutrients. It reveals the extraordinary interactions between plant roots and soil, and the teeming life ...


Lifting the Bonnet on Wheatbelt WoodlandsA Guide to the Connection between Landscape and Vegetation in Southwest AustraliaNathan McQuoidThis important and comprehensive guide introduces a new way of caring for the woodlands of Southwest Australia. It aims to help woodland owners, managers and everyone with an interest in conservation to understand our woodlands better ...


Living Rivers, Dying RiversA Quest Through IndiaRamaswamy R IyerRivers have always been worshipped in India, and yet they are in a deplorable state today. The Ganga, regarded as holy and formally declared as the national river, and the Yamuna, the river of India's capital, are mortally sick.

500 pages | 9 maps | Hardback | NYP 08/2015 | 9780199456222 | #225135A | £34.99 Add to basket

Meadows: A History and Natural HistoryJohn FeltwellIn ancient times, and until comparatively recently, meadows could be seen throughout this country; indeed, they formed part of the rich pattern of the English countryside, and influenced not only its landscape, but its history and customs ...

192 pages | 130 colour & b/w illustrations | Paperback | NYP 09/2015 | 9781781554821 | #224904A | £18.99 Add to basket

Mountain AshFire, Logging and the Future of Victoria's Giant ForestsDavid B Lindenmayer, David Blair, Lachlan McBurney and Sam BanksMountain Ash draws together exciting new findings on the effects of fire and on post-fire ecological dynamics following the 2009 wildfires in the Mountain Ash forests of the Central Highlands of Victoria.


Plantations and Protected AreasA Global History of Forest ManagementBrett BennettToday, the world's forests are threatened by global warming, growing demand for wood products, and increasing pressure to clear tropical forests for agricultural use. Economic globalization has enabled Western corporations to export ...


Texas State Parks and the CCCThe Legacy of the Civilian Conservation CorpsCynthia Brandimarte, Angela Reed and Carter P SmithFrom Palo Duro Canyon in the Panhandle to Lake Corpus Christi on the coast, from Balmorhea in far West Texas to Caddo Lake near the Louisiana border, the state parks of Texas are home not only to breathtaking natural beauty, but also to ...

188 pages | 113 colour & 110 b/w photos | Paperback | NYP 07/2015 | 9781623492960 | #225089A | £21.95 Add to basket

Water and Nutrient Management in Natural and Constructed WetlandsJan VymazalWetlands provide a wide variety of ecosystem services within the landscape and their importance is commonly accepted. Among the most important are regulating services, i.e., benefits obtained from the regulation of ecosystem processes.


Conservation & Biodiversity

Indicators and Surrogates of Biodiversity and Environmental ChangeDavid B Lindenmayer, Philip Barton and Jennifer PiersonEcological indicators and surrogates are used widely by resource managers to monitor and understand complex biota and ecosystem processes. Their potential to guide complex resource management has meant they have been proposed for use in ...

224 pages | illustrations | Paperback | NYP 11/2015 | 9781486304097 | #225108A | £72.68 Add to basket

























Krasnaia Kniga Respubliki Belarus': Zhivotnye: Redkie i Nakhodiashchiesia pod Ugrozoi Ischeznoveniia Vidy Dikikh ZhivotnIM KachanovskiiThe Red Book of the Republic of Belarus is an annotated and illustrated list of rare and endangered species alive in Belarus in the wild, and the wild plants to be protected. In the 4th edition of the Animals volume of the ...


Orangutan RescueSaving Borneo's OrangutansSean Whyte and Alan KnightOrangutan Rescue gives readers a unique insight into the highs and lows of rescuing and rehabilitating this species against all the odds in a remote part of Borneo. With the aid of 150 superb photographs, all generously donated ...

144 pages | 150 colour photos | Hardback | NYP 09/2015 | 9781782815358 | #224719A | £24.99 Add to basket

Satellites in the High CountrySearching for the Wild in the Age of ManJason MarkIn New Mexico's Gila Wilderness, 106 Mexican gray wolves may be some of the most monitored wildlife on the planet. Collared, microchipped, and transported by helicopter, the wolves are protected and confined in an attempt to appease ...


Wildlife and Wind Farms, Volume 1: OnshoreConflicts and solutionsMartin PerrowWind farms are an essential component of global renewable energy policy and the action to limit the effects of climate change. There is, however, considerable concern over the impacts of wind farms on wildlife, leading to a wide range of ...

432 pages | Paperback | NYP 01/2016 | 9781784270599 | #222741A | £39.99 Add to basketHardback | NYP 01/2016 | 9781784270605 | #222742A | £59.99 Add to basket

Environmental Science

Environmental Science for a Changing WorldScientific AmericanSusan Karr, Jeneen Interlandi and Anne HoutmanFollowing real people and real science, Environmental Science for a Changing World provides a unique context for showing students how science works and how to think critically about environmental issues. Chapters don't merely ...


Introduction to Phytoremediation of Contaminated GroundwaterHistorical Foundation, Hydrologic Control, and Contaminant RemediationJames E LandmeyerIntroduction to Phytoremediation of Contaminated Groundwater provides the reader with the comprehensive view necessary to understand and critically evaluate the design, implementation, and monitoring of phytoremediation at ...

431 pages | 29 colour & 143 b/w illustrations | Hardback | 09/2011 | 9789400719569 | #192676A | £135.00 Add to basketPaperback | 11/2014 | 9789400794016 | #224661A | £135.00 Add to basket

Natural Decadal Climate VariabilitySocietal Impacts and PredictabilityVikram M MehtaThere is a multi-century history of research on natural decadal climate variability (DCV) and attempts to predict it, and there is a substantial amount of evidence of DCV impacts on society, largely associated with decadal droughts.

224 pages | 32 b/w illustrations | Hardback | NYP 01/2016 | 9781466554528 | #224067A | £81.99 Add to basket

Rise and Fall of the Carbon CivilisationResolving Global Environmental and Resource ProblemsPatrick Moriarty and Damon HonneryA vast amount has been written on climate change and what should be our response. Rise and Fall of the Carbon Civilisation suggests that most of this literature takes a far too optimistic position regarding the potential for ...

232 pages | 23 b/w illustrations, 12 tables | Hardback | 10/2010 | 9781849964821 | #188345A | £117.00 Add to basketPaperback | 10/2014 | 9781447157113 | #224956A | £117.00 Add to basket

The Color of the Atmosphere with the Ocean BelowA History of NASA's Ocean Color MissionsJames G AckerThe Color of the Atmosphere with the Ocean Below is a comprehensive history of NASA's "ocean color" missions. Written by James Acker with funding from the NASA Science and History Divisions ...


Why Are We Waiting?The Logic, Urgency, and Promise of Tackling Climate ChangeLord Nicholas Herbert Stern and Richard LayardThe risks of climate change are potentially immense. The benefits of taking action are also clear: we can see that economic development, reduced emissions, and creative adaptation go hand in hand. A committed and strong low-carbon ...

406 pages | 21 b/w illustrations, 4 tables | Hardback | 05/2015 | 9780262029186 | #224707A | £19.95 Add to basket

Physical Sciences

























Annals of the Deep Sky - A Survey of Galactic and Extragalactic Objects, Volume 1Andromeda, Antlia, Apus, AquariusJeff Kanipe, Dennis Webb and Richard BerfyAnnals of the Deep Sky – A Survey of Galactic and Extragalactic Objects is by far the most up-to-date and comprehensive observing guide available today, featuring in-depth astrophysical profiles of the major stars and ...

338 pages | 158 b/w photos and b/w illustrations | Paperback | 06/2015 | 9781942675006 | #224857A | £50.99 Add to basket

Annals of the Deep Sky - A Survey of Galactic and Extragalactic Objects, Volume 2Aquila, Ara, Aries, Auriga, Bootes, CaelumJeff Kanipe and Dennis WebbAnnals of the Deep Sky – A Survey of Galactic and Extragalactic Objects is by far the most up-to-date and comprehensive observing guide available today, featuring in-depth astrophysical profiles of the major stars and ...

334 pages | 244 b/w photos and b/w illustrations | Paperback | 06/2015 | 9781942675013 | #224858A | £50.99 Add to basket

Anthropogenic GeomorphologyA Guide to Man-Made LandformsJozsef Szabo, Lorant David and Denes LeczyToday, society's impact on the geographical environment, and especially on the Earth's surface, is obvious. Yet up until the last century, the forces of nature held sway, with mankind vulnerable and exposed to its vagaries.

298 pages | colour & b/w photos, colour & b/w illustrations, tables | Hardback | 02/2010 | 9789048130573 | #206997A | £117.00 Add to basketPaperback | 11/2014 | 9789400791787 | #224834A | £117.00 Add to basket

Armchair GeologyJohn PriestleyWhat is the real role of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere? Why is the climate no warmer now that it was a thousand years ago, when the level of carbon dioxide has nearly doubled? Why do we have deserts? Why are they sometimes there, alone ...


Building Stones of West SussexRoger Birch and Roger CordinerStone building was introduced into West Sussex first by the Romans, and later on a grand scale by the Normans. From the 11th to the mid 19th century, before the advent of easy transport by railway some 30 different types of vernacular ...

349 pages | colour photos, colour illustrations, colour maps | Hardback | 12/2014 | 9780955125911 | #224853A | £34.99 Add to basket

Coloring the UniverseAn Insider's Look at Making Spectacular Images of SpaceTravis Rector, Kimberley K Arcand and Megan WatzkeWith a fleet of telescopes in space and giant observatories on the ground, professional astronomers produce hundreds of spectacular images of space every year. These colorful pictures have become infused into popular culture and can found ...


FSC Wildlife Pack 30: Rocks & FossilsChris Pellant and Helen PellantFeaturing three of the FSC's popular fold-out charts ...

36 pages | colour photos, colour illustrations | Paperback | 01/2015 | #225006A | £11.99 Add to basket

Geology of India (2-Volume Set)M Ramakrishnan and R VaidyanadhanThe present two volumes provide an exhaustive and commendable synthesis of Indian geology, covering major recent advances. The editors have thereby generated, perhaps, the most up-to-date and authentic publication on the subject now available ...

1550 pages | 232 b/w Plates; 60 colour & 350 b/w illustrations, maps, tables | Hardback | 12/2010 | 9788185867984 | #224889A | £82.99 Add to basket

Living Physical GeographyBruce GervaisBruce Gervais' new text offers a fresh approach to the study of physical geography, combining print and digital media to create a scientifically substantive work that is written for students. Living Physical Geography focuses ...


Logging the ChalkRory N MortimoreChalk has proved to be one of the more difficult rocks to core-log as it breaks up readily during the drilling process leading to core-loss and destructuring, particularly where flints, nodular chalks and/or fractures are present.

357 pages | colour & b/w photos, colour & b/w illustrations, tables | Hardback | 08/2014 | 9781849950985 | #224758A | £135.00 Add to basket

Promenade Geologique a Grenoble [A Geological Walk around Grenoble]Jacques Bouffette, Jerome Nomade and Emmanuel RobertWalking along the streets of the city center of Grenoble, southeastern France, let this booklet be your guide and offer you a unique discovery, combining human and geological history. At the foot of the Vercors, Chartreuse and Belle ...


Promenade Geologique a Nanterre [A Geological Walk around Nanterre]Francois BaudinOn the occasion of a walk in the western Parisian suburb of Nanterre, or in the neighborhood of the prefecture, we invite you to watch the houses, buildings and monuments. With a watchful eye and helped by this guide, you will discover a ...





























Promenade Geologique sur l'Ile d'Aix [A Geological Walk around Ile-d'Aix]Christian MoreauLocated 3.5 km east of the island of Oléron and 4.5 km off the west coast of France, Île-d'Aix emerges in the middle of the hole of Antioch, just off the mouth of the Charente river. This guide will help you make a historical ...

32 pages | colour photos, colour illustrations | Paperback | 05/2015 | 9782366621471 | #224890A | £9.99 Add to basket

Set in StoneThe Geology and Landscapes of ScotlandAlan McKirdyThe land that was to become Scotland has travelled across the globe over the last 3000 million years – from close to the South Pole to its current position. During these travels, there were many continental collisions, creating ...


Tectonics of the South China BlockInterpreting the Rock RecordZheng-Xiang Li, Han-Lin Chen, XIan-Hua Li and Feng-Qi ZhangSouth China experienced an unusually complex tectonic history, and features a series of globally significant, and well well-preserved geological records. These include records of the assembly and breakup of the Neoproterozoic supercontinent ...


The Cosmic WebMysterious Architecture of the UniverseJ Richard GottJ. Richard Gott was among the first cosmologists to propose that the structure of our universe is like a sponge made up of clusters of galaxies intricately connected by filaments of galaxies – a magnificent structure now called the ...

296 pages | 4 b/w photos, 16 colour & 40 b/w illustrations | Hardback | NYP 02/2016 | 9780691157269 | #225048A | £19.95 Add to basket

The History of Chemistry: A Very Short IntroductionWilliam H BrockFrom man's first exploration of natural materials and their transformations to today's materials science, chemistry has always been the central discipline that underpins both the physical and biological sciences, as well as technical ...

148 pages | 17 b/w photos and b/w illustrations | Paperback | NYP 01/2016 | 9780198716488 | #225085A | £7.99 Add to basket

The Practical Encyclopedia of Rocks and MineralsHow to Find, Identify, Collect and Preserve the World's Best Specimens, with Over 1000 Photographs and ArtworksJohn FarndonThe Practical Encyclopedia of Rocks and Minerals is the ultimate photographic guide to the world of rocks and minerals, and how to build your own collection. A comprehensive introduction explains the formation and ...

256 pages | 405 colour photos, 405 illustrations | Hardback | 06/2015 | 9781844776702 | #224971A | £14.99 Add to basket

The South China SeaPaleoceanography and SedimentologyPinxian Wang and Qianyu LiThe South China Sea is the first synthesis of sedimentary geology and paleoceanography of the South China Sea on the basis of extensive industrial explorations and scientific expeditions culminated with the ODP Leg 184. It provides ...

506 pages | illustrations | Hardback | 03/2009 | 9781402097447 | #183915A | £103.50 Add to basketPaperback | 11/2014 | 9789400796591 | #224792A | £103.50 Add to basket

Tourmaline: Fascinating Crystals with Fantastic Inner Worlds / Turmalin: Faszinierende Kristalle mit Phantastischen InnePaul RustemeyerTourmaline crystals are not only much sought after gemstones but also are highly interesting as study objects, because on them the formative forces in the mineral kingdom create an impressive richness of shapes and colors. Especially the ...

272 pages | 650 colour photos | Hardback | 01/2015 | 9783899371949 | #224732A | £56.99 Add to basket

Umami: Unlocking the Secrets of the Fifth TasteOle G Mouritsen, Klavs Styrbaek and Mariela JohansenIn the West, we have identified only four basic tastes – sour, sweet, salty, and bitter – that, through skillful combination and technique, create delicious foods. Yet in many parts of East Asia over the past century, an ...

280 pages | 84 colour illustrations | Hardback | 06/2014 | 9780231168908 | #224786A | £23.95 Add to basketPaperback | NYP 11/2015 | 9780231168915 | #224787A | £18.95 Add to basket

Sustainable Development

An Introduction to the Green EconomyScience, Systems and SustainabilityAdrian C Newton and Elena CantarelloThe green economy is widely seen as a potential solution to current global economic and environmental crises, and a potential mechanism by which sustainable development might be achieved in practice. Considerable investments are now being ...

382 pages | 169 b/w illustrations, 21 tables | Paperback | 08/2014 | 9780415711616 | #224803A | £32.99 Add to basketHardback | 08/2014 | 9780415711609 | #224804A | £94.99 Add to basket


























Beyond BiofatalismHuman Nature for an Evolving WorldGillian BarkerBeyond Biofatalism is a spirited response to the pessimism of mainstream evolutionary psychology, which argues that human beings are incapable of building a more inclusive, cooperative, and egalitarian society. Considering the ...


Conservation Agriculture in Subsistence FarmingCase Studies from South Asia and BeyondCatherine Chan and Jean Fantle-LepczykConservation agriculture systems have long-term impacts on livelihoods, agricultural production, gender equity, and regional economic development of tribal societies in South Asia. Conservation Agriculture in Subsistence Farming ...


Debriefing ElsipogtogThe Anatomy of a StruggleMiles HoweIn 2009, the New Brunswick provincial government leased over a million hectares of land to Texas-based Southwestern Energy for the purposes of natural gas extraction. For years, tens of thousands of New Brunswickers signed petitions ...


Ecocultures: Blueprints for Sustainable CommunitiesSteffen Boehm, Zareen Pervez Bharucha and Jules N PrettyThe world faces a 'perfect storm' of social and ecological stresses, including climate change, habitat loss, resource degradation and social, economic and cultural change. In order to cope with these, communities are struggling to ...

312 pages | 20 b/w photos, 45 b/w illustrations, 5 tables | Paperback | 12/2014 | 9780415812856 | #224801A | £34.99 Add to basketHardback | 12/2014 | 9780415812825 | #224802A | £94.99 Add to basket

Ecological Economics for the AnthropoceneAn Emerging ParadigmPeter G Brown, Peter Timmerman and Jon D EricksonEcological Economics for the Anthropocene provides an urgently needed alternative to the long-dominant neoclassical economic paradigm of the free market, which has focused myopically – even fatally – on the boundless ...

408 pages | 1 b/w illustration | Paperback | NYP 09/2015 | 9780231173438 | #224784A | £34.50 Add to basketHardback | NYP 09/2015 | 9780231173421 | #224785A | £103.50 Add to basket

Governing Access to Essential ResourcesKatharina Pistor and Olivier de SchutterEssential resources do more than satisfy people's needs. They ensure a dignified existence. Since the competition for essential resources, particularly fresh water and arable land, is increasing, and standard legal institutions, such ...

416 pages | 14 illustrations, tables | Hardback | NYP 01/2016 | 9780231172783 | #224762A | £41.50 Add to basket

Green CapitalA New Perspective on GrowthChristian de Perthuis, Pierre-Andre Jouvet and Michael WestlakeChallenging the certainty that ecological preservation is incompatible with economic growth, Green Capital shifts the focus from the scarcity of raw materials to the deterioration of the great natural regulatory functions ...


Green ModernEco-Conscious Contemporary New Zealand HomesClaire McCallGreen Modern showcases design-conscious New Zealand houses that embrace a more sustainable way of living. Ranging from inner-city homes to remote retreats, each house demonstrates how thoughtful design and environmentally-responsive ...


Groundwater in the Arab Middle EastWolfgang WagnerGroundwater in the Arab Middle East gives an outline of prevailing hydrogeologic conditions in the Arab Middle East together with the geologic background. Emphasis is given to relationships between the main features influencing ...

443 pages | b/w illustrations, b/w maps | Hardback | 05/2011 | 9783642193507 | #191510A | £135.00 Add to basketPaperback | 10/2014 | 9783642440151 | #224955A | £135.00 Add to basket

Handbook of Sustainable Development PlanningStudies in Modelling and Decision SupportMA Quaddus and MAB SiddiqueThe thoroughly revised second edition of this authoritative Handbook, complete with new chapters, comprehensively examines the current status and future directions of model-based systems in decision support and their application to sustainable ...


Heads Above WaterThe Inside Story of the Edwards Aquifer Recovery Implementation ProgramRobert L Gulley and Andrew SansomSince the 1950s, competing interests for use of Edwards Aquifer resources – the primary source of water for more than two million people in south central Texas – were at war. They had tried many times to resolve their differences ...




























Integrated Assessment of Water Resources and Global ChangeA North-South AnalysisEric Craswell, Mike Bonnell, Deborah Bossio, Siegfried Demuth and Nick van de GiesenReprinted from Water Resources Management 21/1 (2007). How can the Earth's finite water resources be managed sustainably to meet the growing needs of humans and of nature in ways that avert the looming crisis?


Introduction to Water in CaliforniaDavid CarleThis thoroughly engaging, concise book – Introduction to Water in California – tells the story of California's most precious resource, tracing the journey of water in the state from the atmosphere to the snowpack ...

344 pages | 110 colour & 8 b/w illustrations, 29 maps, 3 tables | Hardback | NYP 01/2016 | 9780520287891 | #224531A | £44.95 Add to basketPaperback | NYP 01/2016 | 9780520287907 | #224532A | £19.95 Add to basket

Modeling Solar Radiation at the Earth's SurfaceRecent AdvancesViorel BadescuSolar radiation data is important for a wide range of applications, e.g. in engineering, agriculture, health sector, and in many fields of the natural sciences. A few examples showing the diversity of applications may include: architecture ...

351 pages | 330 illustrations | Hardback | 02/2008 | 9783540774549 | #173918A | £135.00 Add to basketPaperback | 11/2014 | 9783642420788 | #225076A | £135.00 Add to basket

Natural Resources, Sustainability and HumanityA Comprehensive ViewAngela Mendonca, Ana Cunha and Ranjan ChakrabartiShortly, Natural Resources, Sustainability and Humanity is the written upgraded version of the topics discussed during the Small Meeting of the 2nd International School Congress: Natural Resources, Sustainability and Humanity ...

290 pages | 35 b/w illustrations | Hardback | 08/2011 | 9789400713208 | #191740A | £103.50 Add to basketPaperback | 11/2014 | 9789400796027 | #224790A | £103.50 Add to basket

Offshore Wind EnergyResearch on Environmental AspectsJulia Koeller, Johann Koeppel and Wolfgang PetersThe accompanying ecological research for using wind energy in the German North and Baltic Seas is part of a series of research projects in the German Government's Investment Programme for the Future. Offshore Wind Energy has ...

371 pages | 106 colour & 29 b/w illustrations | Hardback | 12/2006 | 9783540346760 | #163506A | £135.00 Add to basketPaperback | 12/2014 | 9783642421143 | #225075A | £135.00 Add to basket

One ChildDo We Have a Right to More?Sarah ConlySarah Conly argues that we do not have the right to have more than one child. If recent increases in global population continue, we will reduce the welfare of future generations to unacceptable levels. We do not have a right to impose on ...


Pig TalesAn Omnivore's Quest for Sustainable MeatBarry EstabrookBarry Estabrook, author of the New York Times bestseller Tomatoland and a writer of "great skill and compassion" (Eric Schlosser), now explores the dark side of the American pork industry. Drawing on his personal experiences raising pigs as well as ...


Restoring the Soul of the WorldOur Living Bond with Nature's IntelligenceDavid R FidelerFor millennia the world was seen as a creative, interconnected web of life, constantly growing, developing, and restoring itself. But with the arrival of the Scientific Revolution in the 16th and 17th centuries, the world was viewed as a ...


Science and Civilisation in China, Volume 6: Biology and Biological Technology, Part 2: AgricultureFrancesca Bray and Joseph NeedhamThis second part of the sixth volume of Joseph Needham's great enterprise is the first to be written by a collaborator. Francesca Bray, working closely with Dr Needham, has produced the most comprehensive study of Chinese agriculture ...

768 pages | illustrations, maps | Hardback | 04/1984 | 9780521250764 | #224779A | £209.99 Add to basket

Step into NatureNurturing Imagination and Spirit in Everyday LifePatrice VecchioneThe natural world has inspired artists, seekers, and thinkers for millennia, but in recent times, as the pace of life has sped up, its demands have moved us indoors. Yet nature's capacity to lead us to important truths, to invigorate ...




























Sustainable Agricultural DevelopmentRecent Approaches in Resources Management and Environmentally-Balanced Production EnhancementMohamed Behnassi, Shabbir A Shahid and Joyce D'SilvaDue to many challenges (i.e. climate change, energy, water and land shortage, high demands on food, land grabbing, etc.), agriculture production potential is expected to be seriously affected; thus, increasing food insecurity and hunger ...

318 pages | 20 colour illustrations, 23 tables | Hardback | 02/2011 | 9789400705180 | #190365A | £117.00 Add to basketPaperback | 11/2014 | 9789400790377 | #225077A | £117.00 Add to basket

Sustainable Development in Mountain RegionsSoutheastern EuropeGeorgi ZhelezovThe mountain regions in Southeastern Europe are unique natural regions of great beauty and ecological value, and home of the head waters of major rivers. They constitute a major ecological, economic, cultural, recreational and living ...

270 pages | 50 colour & b/w illustrations | Hardback | 01/2011 | 9789400701304 | #189192A | £117.00 Add to basketPaperback | 09/2014 | 9789400789944 | #224793A | £117.00 Add to basket

The AnthropoceneThe Human Era and How it Shapes Our PlanetChristian SchwaegerlIn The Anthropocene, environmental journalist Christian Schwägerl investigates our current ecological circumstances, and discovers something hopeful: that we already possess the scientific, philosophical, spiritual and ...


Water QualityAn IntroductionClaude E BoydThe revised second edition updates and expands the discussion, and incorporates additional figures and illustrative problems. Improvements include a new chapter on basic chemistry, a more comprehensive chapter on hydrology, and an updated ...

illustrations | Hardback | 08/2015 | 9783319174457 | #224769A | £62.99 Add to basket

With Dogs at the Edge of LifeColin DayanIn this original and provocative book, Colin Dayan tackles head-on the inexhaustible world, at once tender and fierce, of dogs and humans. We follow the tracks of dogs in the bayous of Louisiana, the streets of Istanbul, and the humane ...

224 pages | 38 b/w photos | Hardback | NYP 01/2016 | 9780231167123 | #224007A | £19.99 Add to basket

Zwijgzame Natuur [Taciturn Nature]Joop HJ Schaminee and Esther SchamineeZwijgzame Natuur is the title of this nature essay. Nature is a collective property, but cannot defend itself. Like the environment, security and education, its fate is entirely in the hands of the government who looks after its ...


Data Analysis

An Introduction to Practical Laboratory OpticsJF JamesAimed at students taking laboratory courses in experimental optics, this book introduces readers to optical instruments and their uses. An Introduction to Practical Laboratory Optics explains the basic operation of lenses ...


Bioinformatics of Genome Regulation and Structure IINikolay Kolchanov, Ralf Hofrstaedt and Luciano MilanesiBioinformatics of Genome Regulation and Structure II is a follow-up of the International Conference on Bioinformatics of Genome Regulation and Structure (BGRS-2004), held in Novosibirsk, Russia, in July 2004. It comprises the ...

580 pages | illustrations, 150 tables | Hardback | 12/2005 | 9780387294506 | #156661A | £133.00 Add to basketPaperback | 12/2014 | 9781461497707 | #224957A | £133.00 Add to basket

GIS Applications in Agriculture, Volume 4Conservation PlanningTom Mueller and Gretchen F SassenrathConservation planning involves targeted management practices and land use decision-making based on careful analysis of landscape limitations in order to protect soil and water resources. Developing solutions to conservation planning is ...

276 pages | 8 plates with 17 colour photos and colour illustrations; 80 b/w photos and b/w illustratio | Hardback | 03/2015 | 9781439867228 | #225113A | £81.99 Add to basket

The Naming of the ShrewA Curious History of Latin NamesJohn WrightLatin names – frequently unpronounceable, all too often wrong and always a tiny puzzle to unravel – have been annoying the layman since they first became formalised as scientific terms in the eighteenth century.

304 pages | b/w illustrations | Hardback | 11/2014 | 9781408816981 | #216818A | £10.49 Add to basketPaperback | NYP 10/2015 | 9781408865552 | #225035A | £9.99 Add to basket

Truth or TruthinessSeparating Fact from Fiction by Learning to Think Like a Data ScientistHoward WainerTeacher tenure is a problem. Teacher tenure is a solution. Fracking is safe. Fracking causes earthquakes. Our kids are over-tested. Our kids are not tested enough. We read claims like these in the newspaper, often with no justification ...


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Of Whales and DinosaursThe Story of Singapore's Natural History MuseumKevin YL TanOfficially established in 1878, the natural history collection originally housed at the Raffles Museum now has more than 560,000 specimens in its care, one of the largest collections of Southeast Asian plants and animals. Dedicated to ...

286 pages | 108 illustrations | Paperback | / | 9789971698553 | #224794A | £35.95 Add to basket

Oxford Dictionary of PhysicsRichard Rennie and Jonathan LawThis is the most popular dictionary of physics available, and contains almost 4,000 entries covering all commonly encountered physics terms and concepts. It also defines many terms from the related fields of astronomy, astrophysics, and ...

666 pages | b/w illustrations, tables | Paperback | 05/2015 | 9780198714743 | #225039A | £12.99 Add to basket

Research in Medical and Biological SciencesFrom Planning and Preparation to Grant Application and PublicationPetter Laake, Haakon Breien Benestad and Bjorn Reino OlsenResearch in Medical and Biological Sciences covers the wide range of topics that a researcher must be familiar with in order to become a successful biomedical scientist. Perfect for aspiring as well as practicing professionals ...








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