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nhbs monthly cataloguenew and forthcoming titles Issue: 2014/10October 2014 www.nhbs.com [email protected] +44 (0)1803 865913

Welcome to the October 2014 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

● A Vascular Plant Red List for England● A Buzz in the Meadow● British Milkcaps: Lactarius & Lactifluus● Challenge Series: Autumn● In Search of Lost Frogs: The Quest to Find the World's Rarest Amphibians● Reef Fishes of the Indo-Pacific● RSPB Seabirds● Salamanders of the Old World: The Salamanders of Europe, Asia and Northern

Africa● Seashores: An Ecological Guide● Spatial Analysis: A Guide for Ecologists● Ten Million Aliens: A Journey Through the Entire Animal Kingdom

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Mammals

Anes: Les Connaitre, les Choisir, en Prendre SoinMarisa Hafner, Odile Koenig and Valerie GarnaudThinking of acquiring a donkey or simply looking to familiarize yourself with this animal? Here is a practical and ultra complete guide to understanding the lifestyle, needs and behavior of donkeys. Known for their patience and ... ....

288 pages | Hardback | 09/2014 | 9782603019979 | #217406A | £37.99 Add to basket

Bats in Northern IrelandTheir Demography as Recorded in the Historic Literature and in the Data Files of the Northern Ireland Bat GroupPamela Allen, Ian Forsyth, Patricia Hale and Sarah RogersThe Northern Ireland Bat Group (NIBG) was formed in 1985. It holds in its files all the records of bat occurrence within Northern Ireland reported to the Group since that date by its members, by the staff of the Environment and Heritage ... ....

33 pages | colour distribution maps, 4 tables | Paperback | 01/2000 | #218158A | £9.99 Add to basket

Blood and GutsDispatches from the Whale WarsSam Vincent"I pull on my balaclava and step onto the bridge wing. It's loud outside: I can hear the rumbles of nine vessels' engines and the hiss of ten water cannons . . . suddenly the bridge is full of refugees from the upper deck. ....

288 pages | b/w illustrations | Paperback | 08/2014 | 9781863956826 | #218035A | £19.99 Add to basket

Brown Hares in the Derbyshire DalesThe Story of One of the Peak District's Most Enigmatic MammalsChristine Gregory and Derek W YaldenBrown Hares in the Derbyshire Dales is a written and photographic celebration of one of the Peak District's most secretive and enigmatic animals. Meticulously researched and beautifully illustrated with over 100 colour photos ... ....

146 pages | 100+ colour photos | Paperback | 09/2012 | 9781906148560 | #217396A | £16.99 Add to basket

Capybara: Biology, Use and Conservation of an Exceptional Neotropical SpeciesBiology, Use and Conservation of an Exceptional Neotropical SpeciesJose Roberto Moreira, Katia Maria PMB Ferraz, Emilio A Herrera and David W MacdonaldCapybaras are not merely unusual, they are extraordinary. It is widely known that they are the largest living rodent (c. 50kg), but it is less well known that their biology is exceptional in many other regards, as documented in this book ... ....

406 pages | 17 colour & 104 b/w illustrations | Hardback | 07/2012 | 9781461439998 | #198316A | £135.00 Add to basketPaperback | 09/2014 | 9781493900985 | #218398A | £135.00 Add to basket

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Chaser: Unlocking the Genius of the Dog Who Knows a Thousand WordsJr.,John W Pilley and Hilary HinzmannChaser has a way with words. She knows over a thousand of them – more than any other animal of any species except humans. In addition to common nouns like house, ball, and tree, she has memorized the names of more than one thousand ... ....

268 pages | 8 plates with colour photos | Hardback | 10/2013 | 9780544102576 | #209395A | £21.99 Add to basketPaperback | NYP 11/2014 | 9781780747026 | #217544A | £9.99 Add to basket

FoxJim CrumleyRenowned nature writer Jim Crumley gets up close and personal with some of Britain's most iconic and loved animals – here, the fox. With his inimitable passion and vision, Jim describes some of his most memorable encounters with ... ....

64 pages | Hardback | NYP 11/2014 | 9781908643759 | #217522A | £9.99 Add to basket

Geschwaenzte Altweltaffen in AfrikaMeerkatzenartige, Pavianartige und StummelaffenGerhard HoffmannThe diversity of primates in Africa is extraordinary, also amongst the Old World monkey groups of the guenons, baboons and colobus monkeys. But this unique variety is in great danger. By depletion of forests, the habitat of most primates ... ....

190 pages | 8 plates with colour photos; b/w illustrations | Paperback | 04/2014 | 9783930831883 | #217666A | £29.99 Add to basket

Howler Monkeys, Volume 1Adaptive Radiation, Systematics and MorphologyMartin Kowalewski, Bernardo Urbani, Liliana Cortes-Ortiz, Paul A Garber and Dionisios YoulatosHowler monkeys (genus Alouatta) comprise 12 species of leaf-eating New World monkeys that range from southern Mexico through northern Argentina. This genus is the most widespread of any New World primate and can be found to inhabit ... ....

432 pages | 16 colour & 47 b/w illustrations, 36 tables | Hardback | NYP 12/2014 | 9781493919567 | #217471A | £153.00 Add to basket

Howler Monkeys, Volume 2Behavior, Ecology and ConservationMartin Kowalewski, Paul A Garber, Liliana Cortes-Ortiz, Bernardo Urbani and Dionisios YoulatosHowler monkeys (genus Alouatta) comprise twelve species of leaf-eating New World monkeys that range from southern Mexico through northern Argentina. This genus is the most widespread of any New World primate taxa, and can be found ... ....


Killing KeikoThe True Story of Free Willy's Return to the WildMark A SimmonsIn 1978, a young killer whale "Keiko" was collected off the east coast of Iceland and spent the next 18 years in human care. At Reino Aventura Park in Mexico, his home was not conducive to good health, and over time his condition ... ....

408 pages | Paperback | NYP 10/2014 | 9780996077019 | #217301A | £14.99 Add to basketHardback | NYP 10/2014 | 9780996077002 | #217302A | £21.99 Add to basket

Lemuren, Loris, KoboldmakisGerhard HoffmannIn addition to the lemurs of Madagascar, the book deals with the African and Asian Strepsirrhini (wet nose primates). The Tarsier or tarsiers are among the oldest primate ever. They are among the Haplorrhini (dry nose primates) and have ... ....

242 pages | 8 plates with colour photos; b/w illustrations | Paperback | 01/2012 | 9783930831845 | #217667A | £29.99 Add to basket

Like UsEncounters with PrimatesThomas Marent, Fritz Jantschke, Dame Jane Goodall and Dirk SteffensOur nearest relatives are more alike than you think! Through his lens, photographer Thomas Marent has captured more than 130 species of primates, mostly in their natural environments. These beautiful creatures, from Congolese mountain gorillas ... ....


Looking After a DonkeyDorothy Morris and Rob SimsDonkeys make wonderful pets and there is a growing interest in owning them. The first piece of advice most prospective owners receive is to "buy a good book", but books on donkey care have been difficult to come by since the ... ....

160 pages | colour photos, illustrations, tables | Paperback | 09/2014 | 9781873580929 | #217397A | £14.99 Add to basket

Morphological and Geographic Definitions of the Sulawesian Shrew Rats Echiothrix leucura and E. centrosa (Muridae, Murinand Description of a New Species of Sucking Louse (Phthiraptera: Anoplura)Guy G Musser and Lance A DurdenAmong the 15 known genera of murine rodents endemic to the island of Sulawesi, is the shrew rat genus Echiothrix. Physically large (length of head and body = 182-235 mm; weight = 215-310 g) with a bicolored tail typically longer ... ....

87 pages | illustrations | Paperback | 01/2014 | #217713A | £27.50 Add to basket

Speaking of BearsA Tale of Rewilding from Yosemite, Sequoia, and Other National ParksRachel MazurAs majestic as they are dangerous, and as timeless as they are current, bears continue to captivate readers. Speaking of Bears is not your average collection of stories. Rather it is the history, compiled from interviews with ... ....

232 pages | 10 b/w photos | Paperback | NYP 03/2015 | 9781493008223 | #218457A | £11.95 Add to basket


























Stripes in the WildSomesh Goyal and Ravi SinghFrom the foreword: "Stripes in the Wild is more than simply about where tigers are found; it is as much about the space that they occupy – physically, and in the mind. With a portfolio of more than ...

96 pages | colour photos, colour maps | Hardback | 01/2013 | 9788192235813 | #218377A | £44.99 Add to basket

The Arabian Horse of EgyptMarei Nasr, Cynthia Culbertson and HRH Princess Alia Bint al HusseinPrized for their stamina and their acclimation to the harsh conditions of the Arabian deserts, the ancestors of the horses that are now recognized as the Egyptian Arabian purebred horse entered Egypt centuries ago, establishing the valuable ... ....

160 pages | 100 colour illustrations | Hardback | 05/2010 | 9789774163487 | #185112A | £24.95 Add to basketPaperback | NYP 12/2014 | 9789774166655 | #217491A | £18.95 Add to basket

Birds

A Feathered River Across the SkyThe Passenger Pigeon's Flight to ExtinctionJoel GreenbergIn the early nineteenth century 25 to 40 percent of North America's birds were passenger pigeons, traveling in flocks so massive as to block out the sun for hours or even days. The down beats of their wings would chill the air beneath ... ....

306 pages | 16 plates with colour & b/w photos and colour illustrations | Paperback | NYP 11/2014 | 9781620405369 | #218423A | £12.99 Add to basket

A Photographic Guide to the Birds of IndiaIncluding Nepal, Sri Lanka, the Maldives, Pakistan, Bangladesh & BhutanBikram Grewal, Bill Harvey and Otto PfisterCovers 800 species found in the Indian subcontinent, described and illustrated with a photograph and a distribution map. Introductory sections contain general information of use to visiting birders, such as the biogeography of the region ... ....

512 pages | 850 colour photos, 800 colour distribution maps | Paperback | 01/2011 | 9788189497255 | #218204A | £32.99 Add to basket

American DippersSingers in the Mountain StreamsMary F Willson and Katherine M HockerThe American Dipper is no ordinary songbird. Dippers make their living in the cascades and canyons of wild mountain streams of western North America. Weighing only about two ounces, dippers plunge in and out of rapids to find their food. ....

64 pages | colour & b/w illustrations | Paperback | 01/2011 | 9781578334926 | #218180A | £14.99 Add to basket

American KestrelPint-Sized PredatorKate Davis and Rob PalmerColourful, noisy, and brash, the American Kestrel is the most endearing of North America's raptors. With its vivid rufous and blue-gray plumage, peppered with dashes of black and white, this bird of prey is instantly recognizable to ... ....

128 pages | colour photos | Paperback | NYP 10/2014 | 9780878426362 | #217704A | £16.99 Add to basket

An Atlas of the Birds of NSW & the ACT, Volume 1Richard M Cooper, Ian AW McAllan, Brian R Curtis and Richard MajorAn Atlas of the Birds of NSW & the ACT, Volume 1 provides a comprehensive inventory and distributional analysis of the birds of NSW, the ACT and the waters of the western Tasman Sea. the New South Wales Bird Atlassers ... ....

720 pages | colour photos, colour distribution maps | Hardback | 06/2014 | 9780957704732 | #218565A | £99.99 Add to basket

Barn OwlJim CrumleyRenowned nature writer Jim Crumley gets up close and personal with some of Britain's most iconic and loved animals – here, the barn owl. With his inimitable passion and vision, Jim describes some of his most memorable encounter ... ....


Birds of Sirpur IndoreBhalu Mondhe, Abhilash Khandekar and Kaustubh RishiIndore is the largest city of the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, and contains Sirpur Lake. A small group of ardent environment lovers, the founders of TNV (The Nature Volunteers) took it upon themselves to protect and restore this threatened ... ....

176 pages | colour illustrations, colour maps | Paperback | 09/2012 | #218220A | £27.50 Add to basket

Birds of the Pitcairn IslandsLars-Ake GotessonA detailed presentation of all bird species known from isolated Pitcairn Islands in the South-easternmost part of central Polynesia. Migratory shorebirds and rare observations are included and a detailed desciption of each species is ... ....

274 pages | 4 plates with 4 colour photos; 6 b/w maps | Paperback | 01/2013 | 9789174655353 | #217403A | £21.99 Add to basket

Challenge Series: AutumnMartin Garner and Ray ScallyThis is the first in the series focusing on the season of autumn. Most birders go out into the field knowing roughly what might be encountered in a given season and not needing all the information on all species pertaining to the whole ... ....

132 pages | colour photos, colour & b/w illustrations, colour distribution maps | Paperback | 08/2014 | 9780992975708 | #217148A | £14.99 Add to basket

Chouettes et Hiboux du MondeUn Guide PhotographiqueHeimo Mikkola and Christian DronneauThis is a French translation of Owls of the World: A Photographic Guide.

512 pages | 750+ colour photos, colour distribution maps | Paperback | 09/2014 | 9782603019665 | #217660A | £42.50 Add to basket


























Collins Field Guide to the Birds of IndiaNorman ArlottThis comprehensive new field guide is an excellent addition to the world-renowned series – the ultimate reference book for travelling birdwatchers. Every species of bird you might encounter in Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh ... ....

400 pages | plates with colour illustrations, colour distribution maps | Paperback | NYP 01/2015 | 9780007429554 | #152950A | £24.99 Add to basket

Conservacion Colombiana 15: Birds of Colombia 2011 / Aves de Colombia 2011Yojanan Lobo-y-HenriquesJCThis issue contains a revision of status of bird species occurring or reported in Colombia in 2011, several articles detailing recordings of species new to the country, and one article on the rediscovery, after 113 years, of a rat species ... ....

55 pages | b/w photos, b/w illustrations | 10/2011 | #218114A | £11.99 Add to basket

Conservacion Colombiana 17: Birds of Colombia 2012 / Aves de Colombia 2012Alexander Monsalve AponteThis issue contains a revision of status of bird species occurring or reported in Colombia in 2012, several articles detailing recordings of species new to the country, and a corrigendum to issue 15.

62 pages | b/w photos, b/w illustrations, b/w maps | 10/2012 | #218116A | £11.99 Add to basket

Die Voegel des Jahres 1970 - 2013Rueckblick - Status - PerspektivenHelmut OpitzSince 1970 a bird species is named "Bird of the Year" in Germany, originally based on an idea by the Landesverbands Baden-W•rttemberg. This book presents all 44 species that have been declared "Bird of the Year" ...

176 pages | 247 colour photos, maps | Paperback | 08/2014 | 9783891047835 | #217401A | £24.99 Add to basket

Ecology and Conservation of Lesser Prairie-ChickensDavid A Haukos and Clint BoalIn Ecology and Conservation of Lesser Prairie-Chickens expert wildlife biologists, conservation biologists, and ornithologists cover the life history, genetics, ecology, and management strategies for lesser prairie-chickens. ....

300 pages | 80 illustrations | Hardback | NYP 03/2015 | 9781482240221 | #217141A | £81.99 Add to basket

Finding Birds in South-West Turkey - The DVD (Region ALL)Dave GosneyJoin birdwatcher Dave Gosney on a tour of the coastline of South-west Turkey, visiting all the best birding sites en route before venturing into the mountains where the birding becomes even more exciting. Get to know the places and their ... ....

runtime 72 min | DVD | 09/2014 | 9781907316470 | #216107A | £19.14 Add to basket

Golden-Winged Warbler Ecology, Conservation and Habitat ManagementHenry M Streby, David Buehler and David E AndersenThe Golden-winged Warbler is a migratory songbird that breeds in the temperate upper midwestern US (Wisconsin & Minnesota) and Canada (Manitoba) and winters in Central and northern South America. Its small breeding range has been ... ....


Guia de Bolsillo para el Observador de Aves de Espana y de EuropaRob Hume, Peter Hayman and Jose Luis Copete PeraltaThis is Spanish translation of The Birdwatcher's Pocket Guide to Britain and Europe.

320 pages | 3500 colour illustrations | Paperback | 01/2013 | 9788428216043 | #217662A | £36.99 Add to basket

Identifying Common British BirdsDavid Chandler, Russ Malin, Dominic Couzens and Stephen MossThe comprehensive, handy guide to British birds. Discover a wealth of information about the appearance, behaviour and habitats of British birds, as well as practical advice on birdwatching and how to go about it, featuring tips and advice ... ....

256 pages | 120 colour illustrations | Paperback | NYP 03/2015 | 9781783614059 | #217483A | £8.99 Add to basket

Identifying Common North American BirdsRuss Malin, David Chandler, Dominic Couzens and Stephen MossThe comprehensive, handy guide to the most common North American urban, woodland, water and desert birds. Discover a wealth of information about the anatomy, behaviour and appearance of birds, as well as practical advice on birdwatching ... ....


Moult, Ageing and Sexing of Finnish Owls / Suomen Pollojen Sulksadon, Ian ja Sukupuolen MaaritysopasHeimo Mikkola and Jouni LamminmakiIn today's modern world the study of plumage, moult, ageing and sexing is highly important for both professional and 'amateur' birdwatchers and ringers. To be able to recognize the colour and shape of different feather generations ... ....

96 pages | colour photos, b/w illustrations | Paperback | 09/2014 | 9789519826318 | #218042A | £22.99 Add to basket

Rare Breeding Birds in the UK In 2012The September issue of British Birds contains the 39th report of the Rare Breeding Birds Panel and includes details of 88 species or distinctive races that bred (or showed signs of breeding) in the UK in 2012.

colour photos, colour illustrations | 09/2014 | #217204A | £9.00 Add to basket































Tales of Remarkable BirdsDominic CouzensThroughout the bird world, examples of strange and seemingly inexplicable behaviors abound. For example: Why do Male Fairywrens bring flowers to females as a nuptial gift in the pre-dawn darkness? Especially when the gift-givers are not ... ....


Understanding ParrotsCues from NatureRosemary Low and Mandy BeekmansRosemary Low is the world's most published author on parrots. In her new book she provides rare insights into their world, gained from fifty plus years of intense daily observations of more than 200 species and of parrots in their ... ....

196 pages | 56 b/w photos, 20 colour illustrations | Paperback | 10/2014 | #217629A | £27.50 Add to basket

Where Song BeganAustralia's Birds and How They Changed the WorldTim LowRenowned for its unusual mammals, Australia is a land of birds that are just as unusual, a result of the continent's tens of millions of years of isolation. Compared with birds elsewhere, ours are more likely to be intelligent, aggressive ... ....


Reptiles & Amphibians

A Field Guide to the Reptiles of ThailandTanya Chan-Ard, John WK Parr and Jarujin NabhitabhataThailand is home to over 350 species of reptiles, consisting of many kinds of turtles and tortoises, lizards, snakes and crocodiless. With its extensive network of protected areas, Thailand is one of the richest and most ecologically diverse ... ....

352 pages | 344 b/w photos, 15 b/w illustrations | Hardback | NYP 11/2014 | 9780199736492 | #217494A | £80.99 Add to basketPaperback | NYP 11/2014 | 9780199736508 | #217495A | £80.99 Add to basket

A Guide to the Rock Rattlesnakes of MexicoMichael S PriceEvery mountain range in Mexico that Crotalus lepidus lepidus and Crotalus lepidus klauberi are found in is discussed and illustrated. The variation of this species is amazing and this book illustrates it superbly. ....

122 pages | 322 colour photos | Paperback | 01/2014 | #218386A | £34.50 Add to basket

A Monograph of the Sea SnakesMajor F WallA monograph to 35 species of sea snake found in the Indian Ocean.

114 pages | plates with b/w photos; 67 b/w illustrations | Paperback | 01/2013 | 9789382258094 | #218378A | £24.50 Add to basket

Conservation Biology of Amphibians of AsiaStatus of Conservation and Decline of Amphibians: Eastern HemisphereHarold Heatwole and Indraneil DasAmphibians, by virtue of their thin, moist, permeable skins, are poorly protected from harsh environments and are especially susceptible to chemical changes, desiccation and alteration of their habitat. Accordingly, it is not surprising ... ....

396 pages | colour illustrations | Hardback | 09/2014 | 9789838121545 | #217393A | £105.00 Add to basket

Girdled Lizards and their RelativesNatural History, Captive Care and BreedingJens Reissig and Aaron M BauerCovers both the natural history and details on captive care and breeding.

249 pages | 300 colour photos, distribution maps | Hardback | 09/2014 | 9783899734379 | #217451A | £39.80 Add to basket

Les Serpents ont-ils Peur des Crocodiles?120 Cles pour Comprendre les ReptilesLuc Chazel and Muriel ChazelSnakes, turtles, lizards and crocodiles live in a world all their own, and although men has lived side-by-side with them since the dawn of time, many of us fear, or even abhor them. Although their appearance may sometimes remind us of the ... ....

184 pages | Paperback | 09/2014 | 9782759221653 | #217408A | £28.50 Add to basket

Marine Turtles in Irish WatersGabriel L King and Simon D BerrowThis paper draws together all available records of marine turtles in Irish waters to explore patterns of distribution around the Irish coast. These include previously unpublished records from King (1984, 2005, 2006). The records presented ... ....

30 pages | colour & b/w photos, b/w illustrations, colour distribution maps, 5 tables | Paperback | 01/2009 | #218162A | £9.99 Add to basket

New Taxa and Cryptic Species of Neotropical Snakes (Xenodontinae), with Commentary on Hemipenes as Generic and SpecificCharles W Myers and Samuel B McDowellEutrachelophis, new genus is established to accommodate E. bassleri, new species, and E. steinbachi (Boulenger), new combination; a third species close to E. bassleri awaits naming. These taxa are placed ... ....


























Newts & SalamandersKeeping and BreedingFrank Pasmans, Serge Bogaerts, Henry Janssen and Max SparreboomA handbook on keeping and breeding salamanders.

248 pages | colour photos | Hardback | NYP 10/2014 | 9783866592650 | #218278A | £39.80 Add to basket

Phylogeny, Taxonomic Revision, and Character Evolution of the Genera Chiasmocleis and Syncope (Anura, Microhylidae) in APedro LV Peloso, Marcelo Jose Sturaro, Mauricio C Forlani, Philippe Gaucher, Ana Paula Motta and A taxonomic assessment of the microhylid genera Chiasmocleis and Syncope occurring in the Amazon basin and Guiana Shield is presented. Syncope Walker, 1973, is considered a junior synonym of Chiasmocleis ... ....

112 pages | colour photos, distribution maps | Paperback | 01/2014 | #217708A | £27.50 Add to basket

Snakes & Snakebite in Southern AfricaJohan MaraisFeaturing all the region's common harmless snakes and all its dangerous species, this updated, expanded edition of Snakes & Snakebite in Southern Africa is a practical, user-friendly guide to identification and first-aid ... ....

120 pages | 330 colour photos | Paperback | 10/2014 | 9781775840237 | #217478A | £10.50 Add to basket

The Great Survivors220 Million Years of Turtle EvolutionJustin GerlachTurtles, tortoises and terrapins are familiar animals, often kept as pets. Despite this familiarity it has only been in the last few years that their evolutionary origins have started to be revealed. Answers are starting to emerge to ... ....


Threatened Amphibians of IndiaK Venkataraman and Kaushik DeutiThreatened Amphibians of India provides detailed information about 78 species of Indian amphibians which are threatened according to International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) categorization. ....

168 pages | colour photos | Paperback | 01/2014 | 9788181713650 | #217206A | £84.99 Add to basket

Fishes

Biology and Ecology of CarpConstanze Pietsch and Philipp HirschCarp are the backbone of a growing aquaculture industry. Ornamental koi carp fascinate hobby breeders. Carp allow for scientific progress as a model species in laboratories, concern ecosystem managers as an invasive species, and mesmerize ... ....

400 pages | colour & b/w illustrations | Hardback | NYP 03/2015 | 9781482206647 | #216619A | £76.99 Add to basket

Deep-Sea Cartilaginous Fishes of the Indian OceanFood and Agriculture Organization (FAO)Deep-Sea Cartilaginous Fishes of the Indian Ocean is a comprehensive, fully illustrated Catalogue of the Deep-sea Batoids and Chimaeras of the Indian Ocean, encompassing FAO Fishing Areas 51 and 57, and that portion of Area 47 ... ....

132 pages | photos, illustrations, maps | Paperback | NYP 11/2014 | 9789251084526 | #218393A | £50.99 Add to basket

Deep-Sea Cartilaginous Fishes of the Indian Ocean, Volume 1: SharksDeep-Sea Cartilaginous Fishes of the Indian Ocean: Sharks, Volume 1 is a comprehensive, fully illustrated catalogue of the Cartilaginous Fishes of the Indian Ocean, encompassing FAO Fishing Areas 51 and 57, and that portion of ... ....

264 pages | illustrations, maps, tables | Paperback | 02/2014 | 9789251079676 | #218459A | £56.95 Add to basket

Evolutionary Biology of the Atlantic SalmonTomislav Vladic, Eric Petersson and Francisco Ucan-MarinAtlantic salmon (Salmo salar, L.) is an anadromous species contributing to major fishery catches and comprising a significant part of the aquaculturally produced fish for human consumption.

184 pages | colour illustrations | Hardback | NYP 03/2015 | 9781466598485 | #216622A | £63.99 Add to basket

Fishes of the Pitcairn IslandsIncluding Local Names and Fishing MethodsLars-Ake GotessonA detailed presentation all all fish species including offshore pelagics known from the Pitcairn Islands until 2011. Each species is given a detailed description with local and common names. Because of their isolation ...

354 pages | 6 b/w maps, tables | Paperback | 01/2012 | 9789174653588 | #217404A | £23.99 Add to basket

Flatfishes: Biology and ExploitationRobin N Gibson, Richard DM Nash, Audrey J Geffen and Henk W van der VeerFascinating and instantly recognizable, flatfishes are unique in their asymmetric postlarval body form. With over 800 extant species recognized and a distribution stretching across the globe, these fishes are of considerable research ... ....


Native and Exotic Fishes of the Middle and Lower Yangtze River [Chinese]Zhuang PingAn extensive overview of all the native and exotic fishes found in the Middle and Lower Yangtze River.




























Reef and Freshwater Fish of SeychellesA Field GuideOliver Gerlach, Justin Gerlach and Robin GerlachThis is the only field guide to the common and distinctive reef, ocean and freshwater fish of the Seychelles islands. A summary of good diving and snorkelling sites in the islands is followed by brief descriptions of the fish and their ... ....

56 pages | 24 plates with colour illustrations | Paperback | 08/2014 | 9780953378784 | #217447A | £12.99 Add to basket

Invertebrates

A Provisional Atlas of Bees, Wasps and Ants of ShropshireNigel Jones and Ian CheeseboroughBased on approximately 14•000 records, covering over 300 species, this is the first ever published atlas of the bees, wasps and ants in Shropshire. Shropshire is a large inland county containing a great deal of habitat ...

colour photos | Paperback | NYP 10/2014 | #218363A | £11.50 Add to basket

A Provisional Atlas of the Shieldbugs and Allies of ShropshirePete BoardmanShieldbugs have been little studied in Shropshire until very recently. Since 2009, a concerted effort has been made to map their distribution in the county, resulting in over 3000 new records. Along with a number of historical records from ... ....

Paperback | 01/2014 | #213080A | £14.99 Add to basket

A Review of Bracon Species of India with a Key to Indian SpeciesM Sheeba and TC NarendranThis paper gives an overview of Bracon species in India, whose members belong to the family Braconidae, a large family of parasitoid wasps.


Atlas of Mediterranean Seashells / Atlante delle Conchiglie Marine del Mediterraneo, Volume 5HeterobranchiaRiccardo Gianuzzi-Savelli, Francesco Pusateri, Pasquale Micali, Italo Nofroni and Stefa BartoliniThis volume is dedicated to the clade of Heterobranchia that includes the superfamilies Architectonicoidea, Homalogyroidea, Pyramidelloidea, Murchisonelloidea, Rissoelloidea, and the remaining Valvatoidea and Heterobranchia not yet assigned ... ....

210 pages | 41 plates with ~900 colour photos | Hardback | 09/2014 | #049114A | £91.50 Add to basket

Australian Goblin Spiders of the Genus Ischnothyreus (Araneae, Oonopidae)Karen L Edward and Mark S HarveyGoblin spiders of the genus Ischnothyreus are characterized by small, heavily sclerotized male pedipalps, reduced dorsal and ventral scutes, and heavy spination of the first and second legs. Species of this genus may be distinguished ... ....


Bamboo-Feeding Leafhoppers in China [Chinese]Xiang-Sheng Chen, Lin Yang and Zi-Zhong LiIn this book, species diversity, host plant, geographical distribution, occurence, damages and control of bamboo-feeding leafhoppers in China are reported for the first time in details. It consists of the following six sections ... ....


Bienen MitteleuropasGattungen, Lebensweise, BeobachtungFelix Amiet and Albert KrebsWild bees are a diverse and fascinating group of insects. This richly illustrated book provides an introduction to Beekeeping: All 40 Middle European genera and about 170 species are presented in detail in words and pictures.

424 pages | 310+ colour photos, 75 b/w illustrations | Paperback | 07/2014 | 9783258079035 | #218101A | £41.99 Add to basket

British Soldierflies and their AlliesAlan E Stubbs, Martin Drake and David WilsonProvides a guide to the identification and natural history of 11 families of large and attractive flies that have fascinated entomologists for many years. Sequel to British Hoverflies by Alan Stubbs and Steven Falk and employs a ... ....

528 pages | colour plates, b/w illustrations | Hardback | NYP 10/2014 | 9781899935079 | #212408A | £34.99 Add to basket

Bugs Up CloseA Magnified Look at the Incredible World of InsectsLars-Ake Janzon and John HallmenTake a close-up look into a world you've never noticed. Bugs are usually so small that we hardly notice them, let alone think of them as living beings. But call upon the magnifying glass, and a shapeless jumble of legs, wings, and ... ....


California Bees & BloomsA Guide for Gardeners and NaturalistsGordon W Frankie, Robbin Thorp, Rollin Coville and Barbara ErtterCalifornia is home to over sixteen hundred species of undomesticated bees – most of them native – that populate and pollinate our gardens, fields, and urban green spaces. In this absorbing guidebook, some of the state's ... ....

304 pages | colour illustrations | Paperback | NYP 10/2014 | 9781597142946 | #218183A | £23.99 Add to basket

























Catalogue of Arthropod Parasitic Nematodes of IndiaV Venkat Gantait and K Venkataraman From the preface: "Catalogue of Arthropod Parasitic Nematodes of India reports all the nematode species parasitizing different groups of arthropods described and recorded so far from India, including synonyms ...


Cephalopoda in NZC of the Zoological Survey of India, KolkataBasudev Tripathy, Amit Mukhopadhyay, Md. Hafiz and R VenkitesanFrom the introduction: "The malacological collection of the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) is unique, as it is the largest collection in Southeast Asia. The departmental collection of mollusca are the most comprehensive ... ....


Cephalopods of the World, Volume 3: Octopods and Vampire SquidsAn Annotated and Illustrated Catalogue of Cephalopod Species Known to DateFood and Agriculture Organization (FAO)This is the third volume of the entirely rewritten, revised and updated version of the original FAO Catalogue of Cephalopods of the World (1984). The present Volume is a multiauthored compilation that reviews 13 families ... ....

358 pages | colour illustrations | Paperback | 08/2014 | 9789251079881 | #218461A | £63.95 Add to basket

Checklist of Indian Trematode Parasites from Amphibian HostsAnindita Ghosh and Shuvajit ChakrabartiThis volume contains a checklist of Indian trematode parasites found in amphibian hosts.


Chloropholus de MadagascarHelene Perrin and Alain DuhamelThis contribution revises the beetle genus Chloropholus from Madagascar.

76 pages | 9 plates with colour photos | Paperback | 09/2014 | #218171A | £40.99 Add to basket

Classification du Genre Carabus L., 1758Liste Blumenthal 2013-2015Thierry DeuveEach year, the author strives to publish an updated current overview of the nomenclature of valid taxa of the genus Carabus, taking into account the most recent work. As the title suggests, this list is dedicated to the memory of Carl-Ludwig Blumenthal ....

Paperback | 03/2014 | #216913A | £18.99 Add to basket

Concise Guide to the Moths of Great Britain and IrelandMartin Townsend, Paul Waring and Richard LewingtonPlease note that the that the paperback version is a reprint without modifications. Nearly all the resident and migrant British and Irish species of macro-moths have been illustrated and described in this portable guide.


Dragonflies of Nankunshan, China [Chinese]Cui XiaodongNankunshan is located in the southwest of Longmen county, Guangdong Province, This book records 155 species of dragonflies in Nankunshan.

195 pages | colour photos | Hardback | 07/2014 | 9787503875359 | #217780A | £67.50 Add to basket

Endemic Odonates of IndiaR Babu, KA Subramanian and Supriya NandyEndemic species which are restricted within a geographic region are very important in characterization of biogeographic provinces. Areas with high degree of endemism are active places of speciation or refuges of past climatic or habitat ... ....


Fauna dei Carabini di Turchia - IIPierfranco CavazzutiThe second contribution from the hand of Pierfranco Cavazzuti dealing with Turkish beetles of the tribe Carabini, dealing with the genera Sphodristocarabus, Cechenochilus, Apoplesius, Tribax ...

207 pages | 25 plates with colour photos | Paperback | 09/2014 | 9782353871124 | #218170A | £68.99 Add to basket

Fauna of New Zealand, No 71: Fanniidae (Insecta: Diptera)M Cecilia Domínguez and Adrian C PontFanniids are a small family of flies that are known mainly because many of the species are associated with humans and are of medical and forensic importance. Most of the species of Fanniidae have been described from the Holarctic region ... ....

91 pages | colour photos, b/w illustrations, b/w distribution maps | Paperback | 07/2014 | 9780478347456 | #218049A | £38.99 Add to basket

Fauna of New Zealand, No 72: Micropterigidae (Insecta: Lepidoptera)George GibbsThe tiny 'jaw-moths' of the family Micropterigidae hold a special place in our understanding of the evolution of moths and butterflies (Lepidoptera) because of their antiquity and their status as the most primitive type of survivor ... ....


Fibigeriana Supplement, Volume 1Gabor Ronkay, Laszlo Ronkay and Gyula M LaszloThe first volume of the Fibigeriana Supplement includes 10 articles dealing with groups of the families Noctuidae and Nolidae. Six new genera, 63 new species and one new subspecies are illustrated. Most articles cover the fauna ... ....

299 pages | 48 plates with colour photos | Hardback | 01/2013 | #218533A | £112.00 Add to basket



























Fibigeriana, Volume 2The Vartian Collection,. Part II: Lasiocampoidea, Bombycoidea, Drepanoidea, Cossoidea, Zygaenoidea and HepialoideaMartin Lodl, Sabine Gaal-Haszler, Gabor Ronkay, Laszlo Ronkay and Gyula M LaszloThis second volume in this series includes six smaller superfamilies of Macrolepidoptera: Lasiocampoidea, Bombycoidea, Drepanoidea, Cossoidea, Zygaenoidea and Hepialoidea. The first, bilingual section of the book provides a general overview ... ....

117 pages | 72 plates with colour photos | Hardback | 01/2013 | 9786155279027 | #218532A | £82.99 Add to basket

Guia de Campo de las Libelulas de Espana y de EuropaKlaas-Douwe B Dijkstra, Richard Lewington and Manuel PijoanThis is a Spanish translation of Field Guide to the Dragonflies of Britain and Europe.

320 pages | colour photos, colour illustrations, distribution maps | Paperback | 01/2013 | 9788428216029 | #217661A | £59.99 Add to basket

Guidebook to Scale Insects of Imported Agricultural Plants in Taiwan [Chinese]Cheng-Yu Wong, Shu-Pei Chen and Wen Jer WuAn identification guide to hemiptera found on agricultural import in Taiwan.


Guía de Conchas Marinas de HuelvaGabriel Gomez AlvarezA field guide to 148 species of marine mollusc found around the coast of Huelva, a province in southern Spain.


Handbook on Agariciids of Andaman and Nicobar IslandsTamal Mandalam, C Raghunathan and K Venkataraman A study on the family Agariciidae, a family of hard corals, found off the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

128 pages | 24 colour plates, 31 colour illustrations | Paperback | 04/2014 | 9788181713612 | #217954A | £34.99 Add to basket

Icones Insectorum Europae Centralis: Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Lixinae [English / Czech]Robert Stejskal and Filip TrnkaThis volume focuses on Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Lixinae. A key to identification of central European species is given.

17 pages | Paperback | 01/2014 | #217715A | £13.50 Add to basket

Icones Insectorum Europae Centralis: Coleoptera: Rhysodidae, Carabidae: Nebriinae - Broscinae [English / Czech]Jan FarkacThis volume focuses on Coleoptera: Rhysodidae, Carabidae: Nebriinae - Broscinae. A key to identification of central European species is given.


Icones Insectorum Europae Centralis: Coleoptera: Sphindidae, Kateretidae, Nitidulidae [English / Czech]Josef JelínekThis volume focuses on Coleoptera: Sphindidae, Kateretidae, Nitidulidae. A key to identification of central European species is given.


Irish ColeopteraA Revised and Annotated ListR Anderson, R Nash and James P O'ConnorFrom the introduction: "The classic work of Johnson and Halbert (1902) on the beetles of Ireland has been the main authoritative source of information on the Irish fauna for almost a hundred years. There was an early attempt to update ... ....

81 pages | no illustrations | Paperback | 01/1997 | #218160A | £9.99 Add to basket

Lepidoptera Research in Areas With High Biodiversity Potential in ItalyAlberto ZilliLepidoptera Italica, the long awaited series dedicated to the Italian Lepidoptera and lepidopterology, starts with a special volume dedicated to faunas of naturalistically important areas. The main articles in ...

374 pages | 26 plates with 208 colour photos; 40 b/w illustrations, maps | Hardback | 09/2014 | #218048A | £56.99 Add to basket

Longhorned Woodboring Beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae and Disteniidae)Primary Types of the Smithsonian InstitutionSteven W Lingafelter, Eugenio H Nearns, Gerard L Tavakilian, Miguel Angel Monne and Mich BiondiIn terms of quantity and breadth, the Smithsonian Institution's collection of longhorned woodboring beetles is one of the most important in the world. The effort to establish and describe this collection began as early as 1889, when ... ....


Mais que Fait donc ce Gendarme dans Mon Jardin?100 Cles Pour Comprendre les Petites Betes du JardinPatrice LerautWhat are aall those little creatures that run, crawl, burrow and fly in my garden? Are they harmful? Helpful? Where did they come from and do they hatch from our vegetables and our flowers as soon as your back is turned? Should they be destroyed or ... ....































Monograph of the Genus Pustularia (Gastropoda: Cypraeidae)Felix LorenzMonograph of the Genus Pustularia (Gastropoda: Cypraeidae) gives a comprehensive look at a single genus of small cowries that seem to show little morphological variation. It renders a detailed analysis of every aspect that the ... ....

128 pages | 30 plates with colour photos; 37 illustrations, 6 maps | Hardback | 09/2014 | #217274A | £54.99 Add to basket

New Horizons in Insect ScienceTowards Sustainable Integrated Pest ManagementAkshay Kumar ChakravarthyInsect science is fast changing as insects are evolving to a plethora of newer chemical molecules, climate change, management tactics and transformation of the landscapes. Through the International Conference, the editors have attempted ... ....


Nick Baker's Bug BookDiscover the World of the Mini-BeastsNick BakerWe are all fascinated by, and often wary of, the tiny creatures that creep and crawl in our gardens or lurk in the dark corners or our homes, but how much do we really know about insects and their relatives? This book intends to ... ....

176 pages | colour photos, colour illustrations | Paperback | NYP 02/2015 | 9781472913791 | #218419A | £14.99 Add to basket

Pieridae Part 2 (Guide to the Butterflies of the Palearctic Region)Subfamily Coliadinae, Tribe ColiadiniGian Cristoforo Bozano and Josef GrieshuberThe present Guide covers 54 species with their accepted subspecies. A large number of synonyms are cited too, although considering a taxon as subspecies or a synonym can only be subjective, because nature does not work in such strong ... ....

86 pages | colour photos, colour illustrations, b/w line drawings, colour distribution maps | Paperback | 09/2014 | 9788887989151 | #217699A | £26.99 Add to basket

Processionary Moths and Climate ChangeAn UpdateAlain RoquesBecause of its peculiar biology, its negative impacts on forestry, and its urticating larvae affecting human and animal health, pine processionary moth has largely been studied in many European countries during the last century.

322 pages | 115 colour & 52 b/w illustrations, 16 colour tables | Hardback | NYP 11/2014 | 9789401793391 | #217476A | £135.00 Add to basket

Revision of the Genus Pusula (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Triviidae) Allied CowriesContribution to the Knowledge of TriviidaeDirk Fehse and Jozef GregoThe trivvid genus Pusula Jousseaume, 1884 is distinguished from the other genera within the Triviidae and all 19 known recent and fossil taxa are revised and discussed. All recent available information as well as the original ... ....

143 pages | 50 plates with colour photos; 22 b/w distribution map, 18 b/w illustrations | Hardback | 08/2014 | 9788081540820 | #218034A | £49.99 Add to basket

Simlops, a New Genus of Goblin Spiders (Araneae: Oonopidae) from Northern South AmericaAlexandre B Bonaldo, Gustavo RS Ruiz, Antonio D Brescovit, Adalberto J Santos and Ricardo OttA new genus of goblin spiders, Simlops, is proposed for 15 species found in Brazilian and Colombian Amazonia and southern Caribbean (Venezuela and Guyana). The new genus belongs to the Scaphiella complex, a group of ... ....


Snailing Round the South SeasThe Partula StoryJustin GerlachThe story of the tree snails of the Pacific Islands spans 250 years of the history of biology as a science. This runs from Captain Cook's first voyage of exploration, through the start of evolutionary theory and the development of the ... ....

172 pages | colour & b/w photos, colour & b/w illustrations | Paperback | 08/2014 | 9780953378760 | #217498A | £14.99 Add to basket

Some Brachyura and Anomura Fauna from Siaolioucious, Taiwan [Chinese]Chen WenrouThis book describes 101 Brachyura species (true crabs) and 28 Anomura species (hermit crabs and other species) found in Taiwan.


Status Survey of Holothurians (Sea Cucumber) in the Territorial Waters of Andaman and Nicobar IslandsC Raghunathan and K Venkataraman Report of a status survey of sea cucumbers off the coast of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India, undertaken by the Zoological Survey India.


Stratiomyoidea of China [Chinese]Yang DingGives an overview of the Stratiomyoidea, a superfamily of flies, in China.

Paperback | 07/2014 | 9787565509278 | #217919A | £63.50 Add to basket



























Studies on Taxonomy and Diversity of Spiders from Darjeeling Hills with Special Reference to Family Clubioneidae in LighSC Majumder and S TalukdarThis hill areas of the Darjeeling district are located within the lesser and Sub-Himalayn belts of the eastern Himalayas. Its spider fauna has not yet been studied comprehensively, and the published information is lacking compilation and ... ....

120 pages | 24 plates with 114 colour photos, tables | Paperback | 01/2013 | 9788181713339 | #218375A | £27.99 Add to basket

Suomen Paiva- ja Yoperhoset - Maastokasikirja [A Field Guide to the Butterflies and Moths of Finland]Kimmo Silvonen, Morten Top-Jensen and Michael FibigerThis field guide presents all 1074 species of butterflies and moths from Finland. For each species images taken in the natural habitat are included, and sometimes also images of different larval stages and the butterfly at rest.

820 pages | 83 plates with colour photos; 2700+ colour photos, colour distribution maps | Paperback | 05/2014 | 9788799351299 | #215531A | £79.99 Add to basket

Taxonomic Review of the Goblin Spiders of the Genus Dysderoides Fage and Their Himalayan Relatives of the Genera TrilacuCristian J Grismado, Christa Deeleman, Luis N Piacentini, Matías A Izquierdo and Martín RamírezThe study of many museum specimens of goblin spiders from the Himalayan range and neighboring countries allows for the description of new taxa of the family Oonopidae. The genus Dysderoides Fage is taxonomically reviewed.


The Morphology and Phylogeny of Dionychan Spiders (Araneae: Araneomorphae)Martín J RamírezA phylogenetic analysis of the two-clawed spiders grouped in Dionycha is presented, with 166 representative species of 49 araneomorph families, scored for 393 characters documented through standardized imaging protocols.


The Moths and Butterflies of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 5, Part 1Tortricidae: Tortricinae - ChlidanotinaeKeith P Bland, Edward F Hancock and Josef RazowskiIn The Moths and Butterflies of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 5, Keith P. Bland offers a comprehensive account of the British members of the moth family Tortricidae sensu lato. For ease of handling, it is divided into two Volumes ... ....

305 pages | colour photos, b/w line drawings | Hardback | NYP 12/2014 | 9789004252110 | #025808A | £89.99 Add to basket

The Moths and Butterflies of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 5, Part 2Tortricidae: OlethreutinaeKeith P Bland, Edward F Hancock and Josef RazowskiIn The Moths and Butterflies of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 5, Keith P. Bland offers a comprehensive account of the British members of the moth family Tortricidae sensu lato. For ease of handling, it is divided into two Volumes ... ....

467 pages | colour photos, b/w line drawings | Hardback | NYP 12/2014 | 9789004252127 | #218405A | £109.00 Add to basket

The Rare or Uncommon Terebras of PalawanContribution to the knowledge of the Philippines SeashellsUmberto Aubry, Rosa Gargiulo and Rafael PicardalTerebra is a genus of small to large-sized predatory sea snails, marine gastropoda mollusks in the family Terebridae, the auger snails. Palawan is an island province of the Philippines. This book is an iconographic documentation ... ....

142 pages | 53 plates with colour photos; colour photos, colour maps, b/w illustrations | Hardback | 01/2014 | 9788866511595 | #217569A | £83.99 Add to basket

The Sesiidae (Lepidoptera) of PolandMarek BakowskiThe Sesiidae (Lepidoptera) of Poland presents an exhaustive review of clearwing moths (Sesiidae) of Poland. Thirty-two species are examined in detail. Although the number of species hitherto confirmed in Poland is only 31 ... ....

275 pages | 109 plates with colour & b/w photos, 36 b/w illustrations, b/w distribution maps | Paperback | 01/2013 | 9788362564361 | #218166A | £61.99 Add to basket

The Terebridae of Western America, Panamanian ProvinceStudy and RevisionUmberto Aubry and Rosa GargiuloStudy and revision of the the Terebridae, commonly referred to as auger shells or auger snails, a group or family of small to large predatory marine gastropods.

215 pages | 65 plates with colour photos; b/w photos, colour illustrations | Paperback | 01/2014 | 9788866511366 | #217570A | £63.99 Add to basket

The Witt Catalogue Volume 7: A Taxonomic Atlas of the Eurasian and North African NoctuoideaErebidae I: Autophila and ApopestesLaszlo Ronkay, Gabor Ronkay, Peter Gyulai and Zoltan VargaThe 7th volume of A Taxonomic Atlas of the Eurasian and North African Noctuoidea is the first item dealing with the family Erebidae, providing the revised taxonomy of the rather difficult, Trans-Palaearctic, typically ... ....

281 pages | 48 plates with colour photos, 110 plates with b/w illustrations | Hardback | 09/2014 | 9786155279034 | #217863A | £154.00 Add to basket


























Transgenic InsectsTechniques and ApplicationsMark Quentin BenedictInsect transgenesis promises improvements in agriculture, pharmaceuticals and public health. Many important insects can now be routinely transformed with effectors that have useful applications. Agriculture presents the largest market for ... ....


Palaeontology

Atlas of Pollen and Spores of the Polish Neogene, Volume 4Angiosperms (2)L StuchlikAtlas of Pollen and Spores of the Polish Neogene, Volume 4 contains description and photographic documentation of the sulcate and colporate groups of pollen grains. Altogether 212 species belonging to 75 fossil genera, 57 of which ... ....

466 pages | 4 colour & 147 b/w illustrations | Paperback | 01/2014 | 9788362975235 | #217561A | £74.99 Add to basket

Atlas of the Middle Jurassic Ostracods from Western IndiaSC Khosla, SR Jakhar and Manisha KumariFrom the introduction: "In so far as study of ostracods from India is concerned fairly good works have been done on the Mesozoic and Tertiary formations during the past 4 to 5 decades. These are scattered in large numbers ... ....

167 pages | illustrations, maps | Paperback | 01/2009 | #217207A | £97.50 Add to basket

Dinosaurs - The Grand TourEverything Worth Knowing about Dinosaurs from Aardonyx to ZuniceratopsKeiron Pim and Jack HornerWe live in a golden age of paleontological discovery – the perfect time to dig in to the spectacular world of dinosaurs. From Aardonyx, a lumbering beast that formed a link between two- and four-legged dinosaurs, to Zuniceratop ... ....


Discovering DinosaursAn Exciting Guide to Prehistoric Creatures, with 350 Fabulous Detailed Drawings of Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Beasts andDougal DixonThis is an exciting guide to prehistoric creatures, with 350 fabulous detailed drawings of dinosaurs and prehistoric beasts and the places they lived. It is an essential introduction to the age of the dinosaurs featuring a definitive ... ....

96 pages | 350 colour illustrations | Paperback | 11/2011 | 9781843227700 | #218223A | £4.99 Add to basket

Paleobotany and BiogeographyWD Stevens, Olga Martha Montiel and Peter H RavenWe take great pleasure in honoring Alan Graham's substantial contributions to the fields of paleobotany and biogeography on the occasion of his 80th birthday. This Festschrift contains 14 papers prepared by 56 of Alan's friends ... ....

404 pages | illustrations | Hardback | 09/2014 | 9780915279975 | #217947A | £84.99 Add to basket

Postglacial History of Vegetation in the Polish Part of Western Carpathians Based on Isopollen MapsAndrzej Obidowicz, Ewa Madeyska and Charles TurnerPresentation of the postglacial history of the Western Carpathian flora on isopollen maps continues the idea of Professor W?éadys?éaw Szafer (1935), who introduced this method into reconstructions of palaeoenvironmental changes.

175 pages | 24 illustrations | Paperback | 01/2013 | 9788362975204 | #217563A | £55.99 Add to basket

Proceedings of the First Zooarchaeology Conference in PortugalHeld at the Faculty of Letters, University of Lisbon, 8th-9th March 2012Cleia Detry and Rita DiasProceedings of the First Zooarchaeology Conference in Portugal comprises 15 articles – the result of presentations made at the first International Conference on Zooarchaeology which took place in Lisbon in 2012.


Zooarchaeological Study of Animal Remains of Diamabad (Maharashtra)A Chalcolithic Site of DeccanTK Pal, B Talukder and B BaraikFrom the introduction: "The fifties of the twentieth century marked an important period in the archaeological studies in India when a number of Chalcolithic sites were discovered in the Ahmednagar, Nasik and Dhule District ... ....

51 pages | 13 plates with colour photos; illustrations, tables | Paperback | 01/2013 | 9788181713476 | #217503A | £26.50 Add to basket

Marine & Freshwater Biology

Diversity Abundance and Seasonal Fluctuation of Zooplankton from Few Wetlands in and Around KolkataJ ChitraThis paper reports the results from study on abundance and seasonal fluctuation from wetlands in and around Kolkata, India.
























Faunal Diversity of Aquatic Invertebrates of Deepor Beel (a Ramsar Site), Assam, Northeast IndiaSumita Sharma and BK SharmaThis volume gives an overview of the diversity of aquatic invertebtrates found at Deepor Beel (a Ramsar site) in Assam, Northeast India.


Freshwater Plankton and Macrophytes of IndiaArvind KumarThe plankton community is a heterogenous group of tiny plants (phytoplankton) and animais (zooplankton) adapted into live in marine as well as freshwaters. Plankton is the productive base of both freshwater and marine ecosystems, providing ... ....


Gastrotricha: Biology, Ecology and SystematicsFamilies Dasydytidae, Dichaeturidae, Neogosseidae, ProichthydiidaeMaria Balsamo, Paolo Grilli, Loretta Guidi and Jean-Loup d'HondtThe phylum Gastrotricha includes about 800 free-living species of microinvertebrates actively moving on and within sediment and vegetation in marine, brackish and fresh waters. Gastrotricha are part of the meiofaunal community that ... ....

188 pages | illustrations | Paperback | 09/2014 | 9783823616825 | #217336A | £66.99 Add to basket

Pictorial Guide to Aquatic Macrophytes of the Damodar River Basin in Jharkhand and West Bengal, IndiaWith Additional Records of the Gangetic PlainsGopal Sharma and Hasko F NesemannThis book is a reference field guide to provide the first checklist of aquatic macrophytes found in the Damodar River Basin of Jharkhand state in India. These macrophytes provide cover and food for fishes and other aquatic animals and ... ....

208 pages | 191 colour photos | Hardback | 01/2013 | 9789382258063 | #218379A | £47.99 Add to basket

Protected Marine Animals of IndiaC Raghunathan, R Raghuraman, CR Sreeraj, JS Yogesh Kumar, Tamal Mondal and K Venkataraman Protected Marine Animals of India deals with 589 protected marine animals under phylum Porifera to Mammalia supplemented with excellent photographs and a comprehensive note on their distribution in Indian sub-continent.


The Edge of the SeaRachel Louise CarsonThis charming book is a sweet blending of her artistic and scientific regard for the natural world. In this final installation, Carson looks at the environments of the rocky shore, the rim of sand and the coral coast, focusing on life in ... ....

260 pages | Paperback | NYP 01/2015 | 9781910065068 | #218272A | £14.99 Add to basket

General Natural History

A Dictionary of the Economic Products of India (9-Volume Set)George WattA reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. A Scottish doctor and botanist, George Watt (1851-1930) had studied the flora of India for more than a decade before he took on the task of compiling ...

5514 pages | b/w line drawings | Paperback | 01/2014 | 9781108068826 | #217744A | £291.00 Add to basket

A History of EmbryologyJoseph Needham and Arthur HughesFirst published in 1959 as the second edition of a 1934 original, A History of Embryology describes the Western history of embryology from prehistoric concepts of foetal growth through Graeco-Roman antiquity to the close of the ... ....

342 pages | b/w illustrations | Paperback | NYP 01/2015 | 9781107475540 | #218340A | £20.99 Add to basket

A Monograph of the British Fossil CoralsHenri Milne-Edwards and Jules HaimeA reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. In the mid-nineteenth century, two outstanding French zoologists, Henri Milne-Edwards (1800–85) and Jules Haime (1824–56), carried out the ... ....

72 plates with b/w illustrations | Paperback | NYP 10/2014 | 9781108080880 | #218341A | £39.99 Add to basket

A Monograph of the Crag Mollusca (4-Volume Set)Descriptions of Shells from the Middle and Upper Tertiaries of the British IslesSearles Valentine WoodA reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. The Pliocene-Pleistocene Crags of East Anglia are an incredibly rich source of fossil shells, many belonging to extant Boreal and Mediterranean genera ... ....

1098 pages | b/w illustrations, b/w maps | Paperback | NYP 10/2014 | 9781108076968 | #218081A | £92.99 Add to basket

A Monograph of the Crag Mollusca, Volume 1: UnivalvesOr, Descriptions of Shells from the Middle and Upper Tertiaries of the East of EnglandSearles Valentine WoodA reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. The Pliocene-Pleistocene Crags of East Anglia are an incredibly rich source of fossil shells, many belonging to extant Boreal and Mediterranean genera.

268 pages | 21 b/w illustrations | Paperback | NYP 10/2014 | 9781108076883 | #218077A | £22.99 Add to basket

























A Monograph of the Crag Mollusca, Volume 2: BivalvesWith Description of Shells from the Upper Tertiaries of the British IslesSearles Valentine WoodA reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. The Pliocene-Pleistocene Crags of East Anglia are an incredibly rich source of fossil shells, many belonging to extant Boreal and Mediterranean genera ... ....


A Monograph of the Crag Mollusca, Volume 3: Supplement, being Descriptions of Additional Species (Univalves and BivalvesWith Descriptions of Shells from the Upper Tertiaries of the East of EnglandSearles Valentine WoodA reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. The Pliocene-Pleistocene Crags of East Anglia are an incredibly rich source of fossil shells, many belonging to extant Boreal and Mediterranean genera ... ....

296 pages | 16 b/w illustrations, 1 b/w map | Paperback | NYP 10/2014 | 9781108076906 | #218079A | £23.99 Add to basket

A Monograph of the Crag Mollusca, Volume 4: Second and Third Supplements (Univalves and Bivalves)With Descriptions of Shells from the Middle and Upper Tertiaries of the British IslesSearles Valentine WoodA reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. The Pliocene-Pleistocene Crags of East Anglia are an incredibly rich source of fossil shells, many belonging to extant Boreal and Mediterranean genera ... ....


A Monograph of the Eocene Mollusca of England (2-Volume Set)Frederick E Edwards and Searles Valentine WoodA reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. The Eocene sediments of the London and Hampshire basins in southern England are rich in fossil invertebrates, plants and vertebrates; in particular ...


A Monograph of the Eocene Mollusca of England, Volume 1A Monograph of the Eocene Cephalopoda and Univalves of EnglandFrederick E Edwards and Searles Valentine WoodA reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. The Eocene sediments of the London and Hampshire basins in southern England are rich in fossil invertebrates, plants and vertebrates; in particular ...


A Monograph of the Eocene Mollusca of England, Volume 2A Monograph of the Eocene Bivalves of EnglandFrederick E Edwards and Searles Valentine WoodA reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. The Eocene sediments of the London and Hampshire basins in southern England are rich in fossil invertebrates, plants and vertebrates; in particular ...


A Monograph of the Mollusca from the Great Oolite (2-Volume Set)Chiefly from Minchinhampton and the Coast of YorkshireJohn Morris and John LycettA reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. The Bathonian Great Oolite Group is a fossiliferous series of calcareous and argillaceous rocks that are only rarely oolitic in composition.


A Monograph of the Mollusca from the Great Oolite, Volume 1Chiefly from Minchinhampton and the Coast of YorkshireJohn Morris and John LycettA reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. The Bathonian Great Oolite Group is a fossiliferous series of calcareous and argillaceous rocks that are only rarely oolitic in composition.


A Monograph of the Mollusca from the Great Oolite, Volume 2Mollusca from the Stonesfield Slate, Great Oolite, Forest Marble, and Cornbrash - SupplementJohn LycettA reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. The Bathonian Great Oolite Group is a fossiliferous series of calcareous and argillaceous rocks that are only rarely oolitic in composition.


A Most Rare VisionShropshire from the AirMark SissonAn unlikely but firm friendship between a professional wildlife photographer and a retired vicar with a passion for aviation has resulted in this extra-ordinary collaboration which celebrates the diversity of Shropshire, as seen from the ... ....
























A Treatise on Spherical AstronomySir Robert Stawell BallSpherical or positional astronomy is used primarily to map objects on the celestial sphere. In this technical work, first published in 1908 and intended for advanced students, Sir Robert Stawell Ball (1840-1913) breaks down the field into ... ....

524 pages | 122 b/w illustrations | Paperback | 03/2013 | 9781108064354 | #217430A | £29.99 Add to basket

Academic TapestriesFashioning Teachers and Researchers out of Events and ExperiencesAlan GrahamIn Academic Tapestries, Alan Graham recounts the unique – sometimes dark, sometimes humorous – personalizing and professionalizing factors that go into making an educator in the modern social climate. For Graham, the ... ....


Adirondack: Life and Wildlife in the Wild, Wild EastEdward KanzeBorn just north of New York City, Edward Kanze traveled as far as the wilds of Australia and New Zealand, working as a naturalist, park ranger, and nature writer, before finally settling in New York's Adirondacks for the riskiest of ... ....


Albertus Seba's Cabinet of Natural Curiosities [Mini Edition]Irmgard Musch, Jes Rust and Rainer WillmannSpectacular specimens. This is Albertus Seba's unrivaled catalog of animals, insects and plants. Albertus Seba's Cabinet of Natural Curiosities is one of the 18th century's greatest natural history achievements and ... ....


An Unkindness of RavensA Book of Collective NounsChloe RhodesWhy are geese in a gaggle? Are crows really murderous? And what makes lions so proud? Collective nouns are one of the most charming oddities of the English language, often with seemingly bizarre connections to the groups they identify. ....


Ancient TreesPortraits of TimeBeth Moon, Steven Brown and Todd ForrestCaptivating black-and-white photographs of the world's most majestic ancient trees. Beth Moon's fourteen-year quest to photograph ancient trees has taken her across the United States, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. ....

104 pages | b/w photos | Hardback | 09/2014 | 9780789211958 | #217847A | £33.99 Add to basket

Animals into ArtHoward Morphy and PJ UckoOriginally published in 1989. Animals into Art is one of a series of volumes resulting from the World Archaeological Congress, September 1986 which addressed world archaeology in its widest sense, investigating how ...

506 pages | 16 colour illustrations | Hardback | NYP 10/2014 | 9781138816077 | #218320A | £105.00 Add to basket

Ansel Adams in Yosemite ValleyCelebrating the Park at 150Peter Galassi and Ansel AdamsA deluxe, oversized book timed for the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's signing of the Yosemite Grant, an event that laid the groundwork for the National Parks system. Ansel Adams first visited Yosemite in 1916, at the .. ....

224 pages | 25 colour & 125 b/w photos | Hardback | NYP 10/2014 | 9780316323406 | #217846A | £69.99 Add to basket

Attenborough: The Life Collection (Region 2)Sir David AttenboroughWith a career spanning five decades, Sir David Attenborough is one of the world's most respected natural history film makers and this collection features several complete shows from his award-winning Life series.

24 discs, runtime: 72 h 40 min, aspect ratio: 16:9, rating: E | DVD | 08/2014 | #216590A | £74.99 Add to basket

Cicerone Guides: Glyndwr's WayA National Trail Through Mid-WalesPaddy DillonThis guide to backpacking 135 miles along Glyndwr's Way National Trail through the county of Powys in mid-Wales, and back from Welshpool to the start at Knighton in 29 miles along the Offa's Dyke Path, provides all the information ... ....

176 pages | 70 colour photos, 50 colour maps | Paperback | 04/2014 | 9781852847326 | #218324A | £12.95 Add to basket

Cicerone Guides: The Cumbria WayJohn GillhamA guide to the 75-mile Cumbria Way, an easy long-distance walk though the heart of the Lake District National Park, from Ulverston in the south to Carlisle in the north, with good transport links to either end. The route is largely ... ....

144 pages | colour photos, colour maps | Paperback | NYP 02/2015 | 9781852847609 | #217654A | £12.95 Add to basket























Cicerone Guides: The Isle of SkyeGraded Walks and Scrambles throughout the IslandTerry MarshGuidebook with 87 walks and scrambles on the Isle of Skye. Walks visit the most awe-inspiring scenery on Skye, including Sleat and South-East Skye, Strath, Minginish, Duirinish, Waternish, Trotternish and the Cuillin. Walks range from ... ....


Cicerone Guides: The John Muir TrailThrough the Californian Sierra NevadaAlan CastleThe John Muir Trail (JMT) is one of the world's most spectacular treks and is North America's best known mid-distance walking trail. It runs for 216 miles through the high Sierra Nevada mountains of California, from Yosemite Valley ... ....

224 pages | 85 colour photos, 20 colour maps | Paperback | NYP 01/2015 | 9781852847906 | #217647A | £14.95 Add to basket

Cicerone Guides: The Lake District: High Fell Walks30 Best Fell WalksVivienne CrowThis guide describes 30 graded fell walks on the ridges and high peaks of the English Lake District, the UK's most popular national park. Reaching some of England's finest and highest mountain scenery, this guide leads readers to ... ....


Cicerone Guides: The Mountains of NerjaSierras Tejeda, Almijara y AlhamaJim RyanThe little town of Nerja, on Spain’s Costa del Sol, nestles under range of mighty mountains. These are the Sierras de Tejeda, Almijara Y Alhama. Together they encompass 50 mountains over 3•000 ft and offer walkers some stunning ... ....

160 pages | 80 colour photos and 27 colour maps | Paperback | 09/2014 | 9781852847548 | #217645A | £14.95 Add to basket

Cicerone Guides: The Northern CaminosThe Norte, Primitivo and Ingles RoutesDave Whitson and Laura Perazzoli Guidebook to the Camino del Norte (Northern Caminos) pilgrim route through northern Spain to the sacred city of Santiago de Compostela. Includes stage-by-stage descriptions to the Camino del Norte (800 km), Camino Primitivo, Camino Ingles ... ....

320 pages | 100+ colour photos, 120+ colour maps | Paperback | NYP 01/2015 | 9781852847944 | #217648A | £16.95 Add to basket

Cicerone Guides: The South Downs WayNational Trail, Described East-West and West-EastKev ReynoldsGuidebook for walking the South Downs Way National Trail, a glorious 100-mile (160 km) national trail between Winchester and Eastbourne through the South Downs National Park, described in both directions over 12 stages. Easy walking on many ancient ... ....


Cicerone Guides: Walking in Provence - EastAlpes Maritimes, Alpes De Haute-Provence, MercantourJanette NortonProvence's sunshine and Mediterranean charm attract many visitors to its coast, yet the area also has much more to offer the walker. The countryside inland boasts a range of scenery from remote mountaintops to spectacular gorges.


Cicerone Guides: Walking in Provence - WestDrome Provencal, Vaucluse, VarJanette NortonGuidebook to a range of 30 varied, graded day walks in the sunny south-east of France in the Drome Provencale, the Vaucluse and the Var regions of Provence. Provence's lower western regions offer wonderful walking - the vineyards, lavender ... ....

272 pages | 90+ colour photos, 60 colour maps | Paperback | NYP 11/2014 | 9781852846169 | #217642A | £14.95 Add to basket

Cicerone Guides: Walking in Sicily46 Walking Routes Including Mt Etna and the Egadi and Aeolian IslandsGillian PriceA walking book with 46 graded routes in Sicily, including the Madonie and Nebrodi mountains, the Egadi and Aeolian islands and Mount Etna. Most walks take 3-4 hours, plus some short easy strolls as well as long mountain traverses.


Cicerone Guides: Walking in the Chilterns35 Walks Exploring the AONBSteve DavisonWalking in the Chilterns describes 35 varied day walks in the Chilterns Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in southern England. The Chiltern Hills follow a line of chalk from the River Thames at Goring up to the Barton Hills ... ....

224 pages | 120 colour photos, 40 colour maps | Paperback | 06/2014 | 9781852847005 | #218539A | £12.95 Add to basket

Cicerone Guides: Walking in the Southern UplandsThe Best Hill Days in Southern ScotlandRonald TurnbullGuidebook to 44 varied day walks and over 100 summits in the Southern Uplands of Scotland, stretching south-west from Edinburgh to the English border, including the Galloway and Pentland Hills. Something for all seasons and all abilities ... ....
























Cicerone Guides: Walking in the Wye Valley30 WalksMike DunnGuidebook to 30 varied day walks in the valley of the Wye, the most scenic river in England and Wales, from Chepstow in the south to Plynlimon in the north. Landscape ranges from open moorland to wooded gorges and is dotted with the sites .... ....


Cicerone Guides: Walking on Lanzarote and Fuerteventura45 Walks Including 14 Day-Stages on the GR 131 TrailPaddy DillonThis book offers 21 walks on Lanzarote, including walks exploring the volcanic national park, two on Isla La Graciosa (off Lanzarote’s northern coast) and 22 on Fuerteventura, including 14 walks on the GR 131 trail, which crosses ... ....

240 pages | 100+ colour photos, 100+ colour maps | Paperback | NYP 11/2014 | 9781852846039 | #217644A | £14.95 Add to basket

Cicerone Guides: Walking the Wales Coast PathLlwybr Arfordir CymruPaddy DillonA single guidebook to walking the whole Wales Coast Path – 870 miles the length of Wales from Chester to Chepstow, including Anglesey, described in 57 stages grouped into 8 regions. Passes through Snowdonia and Pembrokeshire National ... ....


Cicerone Guides: Walks and Climbs in the PyreneesWalks, Climbs and Multi-Day ToursKev ReynoldsGuidebook describing 170 routes for walks, climbs and multi-day treks on both sides of the Pyrenees, including a circuit of Andorra's Frontier Peaks. The 3000m summits are within reach of any hill walker and offer a variety of terrain. ....


Classification: Focus on: AmphibiansStephen SavageClassification: Focus on: Amphibians shows children how to identify and group amphibians according to their characteristics. It answers questions such as what is an amphibian? Where do amphibians live? What do amphibians eat? ....


Classification: Focus on: BirdsStephen SavageClassification: Focus on: Birds shows children how to identify and group birds according to their characteristics. It answers questions such as what is a bird? Where do birds live? What do birds eat? And how do birds get around? ....


Classification: Focus on: FishStephen SavageClassification: Focus on: Fish shows children how to identify and group fish according to their characteristics. It answers questions such as what is a fish? Where do fish live? What do fish eat? And how do fish move about? ....


Classification: Focus on: MammalsStephen SavageClassification: Focus on: Mammals shows children how to identify and group mammals according to their characteristics. It answers questions such as what is a mammal? Where do mammals live? What do mammals eat? And how do mammals ... ....


Classification: Focus on: ReptilesStephen SavageClassification: Focus on: Reptiles shows children how to identify and group reptiles according to their characteristics. It answers questions such as what is a reptile? Where do reptiles live? What do reptiles eat? And how do reptiles ... ....


Daniel Mcalpine and the Bitter PitDouglas G ParberyDaniel Mcalpine and the Bitter Pit is a biography of a scientist who pioneered the development of plant pathology in Australia in the 19th and early 20th century, and was internationally acclaimed. After 20 years as a plant pathologist ... ....

265 pages | 18 colour & 21 b/w illustrations | Hardback | NYP 11/2014 | 9783319095516 | #217475A | £126.00 Add to basket

Darwin's Wild Around DowneEwa Prokop and Diane CatchpoleDown House, and the surrounding countryside, was the home of scientist Charles Darwin. It is an area he knew well and studied intensively. Ewa Prokop has created some children's stories (for ages 9-11) which are set in real places ... ....


Deadly Pole to Pole DiariesSteve BackshallThis is Steve Backshall's incredible first-hand account of his 14-month voyage from the Arctic to the Antarctic via Alaska, California, Hawaii, Mexico and Brazil and many more amazing locations besides. Go with him every step of the ... ....

208 pages | illustrations | Hardback | NYP 11/2014 | 9781444013764 | #217505A | £12.99 Add to basket

























Deep: Freediving, Renegade Science and What the Ocean Tells Us About OurselvesJames NestorOn a hot and sticky magazine assignment for Outside magazine to cover a diving championship in Greece, James Nestor discovered free diving. He was fascinated by the ease with which the divers descended, without breathing equipment ... ....

304 pages | Paperback | 06/2014 | 9781781250655 | #208993A | £12.99 Add to basketHardback | 06/2014 | 9780547985527 | #214763A | £22.99 Add to basketPaperback | NYP 06/2015 | 9781781250662 | #217776A | £8.99 Add to basket

Diary of a Citizen ScientistChasing Tiger Beetles and Other New Ways of Engaging the WorldSharman Apt RussellIn the exploding world of citizen science, hundreds of thousands of volunteers are monitoring climate change, tracking bird migration, and following their bliss counting stardust for NASA or excavating mastodons. The sheer number of citizen ... ....


Die Invasion der WaschbaerenUnd Andere Expeditionen in die Wilde NaturMichael GrossCurrently more than one million (!) raccoons live in Germany's woods and not just there - they come "visit" us in the cities. It's nothing to do with them, for we are guilty of their spread, as we have disturbed the ecological balance of nature. ....


Dr. H.F.C. Cleghorn: Founder of Forest Conservancy In IndiaS SubbarayaluOn the advent of British rule, there was unprecedented pressure on the forests for commercial exploitation. This led to their denudation, which in turn caused the silting of rivers, resulting in poor flow of water, leading to famine. ....

292 pages | illustrations, maps | Paperback | 03/2014 | 9789383808540 | #217163A | £19.99 Add to basket

Earth is My WitnessThe Photography of Art WolfeWade Davis and Art WolfeEarth is My Witness is the most extensive collection of Art Wolfe photography ever compiled. This lavishly produced work spans the globe, bringing the beauty of the planet's fast-disappearing landscapes, wildlife, and cultures ... ....

396 pages | 500+ colour photos | Hardback | NYP 10/2014 | 9781608873067 | #217419A | £64.99 Add to basket

Een Walvis in de StadDe Collecties van de Leuvense Faculteit WetenschappenNathalie Poot, Geert Vanpaemel, Siska Waelkens and Peter LievensSince its inception in 1817, the scientific collections of the Faculty of Sciences of Leuven University, Belgium, have been the backbone of education and research in multiple disciplines. The genesis, expansion and cataloguing of the ... ....


Everest RevealedThe Private Diaries and Sketches of Edward Norton, 1922-24Christopher NortonE.F. ('Teddy') Norton was a member of the 1922 Everest expedition and the leader of the 1924 expedition. Generally considered to be one of the finest climbers of his generation, in 1924 he reached a height of 28•126ft with ... ....


Evolution in WonderlandThe Scientific Fairy Tales of Victorian BritainMelanie KeeneIn Victorian Britain an array of writers captured the excitement of new scientific discoveries, and enticed young readers and listeners into learning their secrets, by converting introductory explanations into quirky, charming, and imaginative ... ....

256 pages | 8 plates with colour illustrations; ~25 black and white illustrations | Hardback | NYP 03/2015 | 9780199662654 | #216643A | £16.99 Add to basket

First ImpressionsLisa HooperFirst Impressions is a book which works on several levels. It is about the personal journey made by Lisa Hooper from career conservationist to wildlife artist and it is organised around the many different print media she uses. ....

162 pages | colour photos, colour illustrations | Hardback | 10/2014 | 9781904078630 | #218568A | £37.99 Add to basket

Horse NationsThe Worldwide Impact of the Horse on Indigenous Societies Post-1492Peter MitchellThe Native American on a horse is an archetypal Hollywood image, but though such equestrian-focused societies were a relatively short-lived consequence of European expansion overseas, they were not restricted to North America's ... ....

496 pages | 16 colour plates, 97 b/w illustrations | Hardback | NYP 03/2015 | 9780198703839 | #215413A | £29.99 Add to basket

Hurricane PioneerMemoirs of Bob SimpsonRobert H Simpson and Neal M DorstIn 1947, Robert H. Simpson lifted off in a specially equipped plane, flying directly into the path of a storm that would send most people running for cover. For more than four hours he observed Typhoon Martha from its eerily calm eye ... ....

272 pages | 25 b/w photos | Paperback | NYP 10/2014 | 9781935704751 | #217387A | £20.99 Add to basket


























Hyper Nature Edition Special SenatPhilippe MartinThis book revolutionized traditional nature photography. By means of custom-made software, the author creates composite images that shows the reader an almost living nature, that you would expect to jump from the page.


Imperial Botanical ConferenceLondon, July 7-16, 1924FT BrooksOriginally published in 1925, Imperial Botanical Conference contains the proceedings of the Imperial Botanical Conference, held at the Imperial College of Science and Technology in July 1924. The conference decided on a number of ... ....


Irish EntomologyThe First Hundred YearsBryan P Beirne and CE O'RiordanFrom the introduction: "These articles on entomologists in Ireland up to about 1950 do not pretend to be balanced or scholarly studies but are memoirs with background information and personal interpretations.

40 pages | 12 b/w photos | Paperback | 01/1985 | #218161A | £9.99 Add to basket

It Was Snowing ButterfliesCharles Darwin, Damien Hirst and William F Bynum'The vessel drove before her bows two billows of liquid phosphorus.' It is a selection of Darwin's extraordinary adventures during the voyage of the Beagle.


John Muir and the Ice That Started a FireHow A Visionary and the Glaciers of Alaska Changed AmericaKim HeacoxJohn Muir was a fascinating man who was many things: inventor, scientist, revolutionary, druid (a modern day Celtic priest), husband, son, father and friend, and a shining son of the Scottish Enlightenment – both in temperament and ... ....


Landscape Photographer of the Year: Collection 8Charlie WaiteNow in its eighth year, the Landscape Photographer of the Year Award was devised by Charlie Waite, one of Britain's foremost landscape photographers and created in association with AA Publishing.


Life Story (Region 2 & 4)Sir David AttenboroughFrom the moment they are born, every animal on the planet begins the same great and perilous journey – life. Like us, animals have to overcome both the struggle to reach adulthood and the unpredictable challenges thrown ...

2 discs, aspect ratio: 16:9, rating: E | DVD | NYP 12/2014 | #217444A | £18.78 Add to basketNYP 12/2014 | #217445A | £22.87 Add to basket

Life in Color [Mini Edition]National Geographic PhotographsAnnie GriffithsLife in Color is arranged by colour in a rainbow of beauty. Each chapter begins with a short, inspiring essay that explores the qualities, meaning, and symbolism of that colour. Throughout, interesting quotes and surprising ... ....

504 pages | 245 colour photos | Hardback | NYP 12/2014 | 9781426214516 | #217541A | £13.99 Add to basket

Mammalia of India and Ceylon (2-Volume Set)Robert Armitage SterndaleReprint of a book originally published in 1884. From the preface: "This work is designed to meet an existing want, viz.: a popular manual of lndian Mammalia. At present the only work of the kind is one which treats ...

479 pages | b/w illustrations | Hardback | 01/2014 | 9789382156109 | #217759A | £94.99 Add to basket

Naturalists in ParadiseWallace, Bates and Spruce in the AmazonJohn HemmingOne hundred and fifty years ago, the young naturalists Alfred Wallace, Henry Walter Bates, and Richard Spruce were on a journey. Their destination, Amazonia the world's largest tropical forest with the greatest river system and richest ... ....


No Boda Boda!: The Unusual Journeys of Inder Jit SinghInder Jit Singh and John WalshNo Boda Boda comprises IJ Singh's unusual journeys and travel experiences in remote wilderness territories around the world. A pioneer in ecotourism and adventure sporting traveler in lndia since 1979 the author has written ... ....

327 pages | 170 pages of colour photos, colour maps | Hardback | 07/2014 | #217277A | £43.50 Add to basket

Reckoning at Eagle CreekThe Secret Legacy of Coal in the HeartlandJeff BiggersSet in the ruins of his family's strip-mined homestead in the Shawnee National Forest in southern Illinois, award-winning journalist and historian Jeff Biggers delivers a deeply personal portrait of the overlooked human and environmental ... ....



























Reptile to ReefCeramic SculptureJill Mogel and Anthony J LesterThis richly illustrated book displays the art of Jill Moger, a contemporary animal sculptor who specialises in reptile and amphibian sculptures. Her usually life-sized stoneware or porcelain sculptures are each individually ...

120 pages | colour photos | Paperback | / | #198148A | £0.00 Add to basketHardback | 10/2014 | 9781904078647 | #218567A | £37.99 Add to basket

Resources, Empire and LabourCrises, Lessons and AlternativesDavid LeadbeaterThe interconnections of natural resources, empire and labour run through the most central and conflict-ridden crises of our times: war, environmental degradation, impoverishment and plutocracy. Crucial to understanding and to changing the ... ....


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


Scott Kelby's Digital Photography (5-Volume Set)Scott KelbyScott Kelby, the man who changed the "digital darkroom" forever, shows which buttons to push, which settings to use, when to use them, and hundreds of the most closely guarded photographic "tricks of the trade" to get budding photographers ... ....

1296 pages | colour photos, colour illustrations | Paperback | 08/2014 | 9780133988062 | #217374A | £61.99 Add to basket

Stargazers: Galileo, Copernicus, the Telescope and the ChurchAllan ChapmanStargazers presents a comprehensive history of how leading astronomers, such as Galileo and Copernicus, mapped the stars from 1500 AD to around 1700 AD. Building on the work of the Greek and Arabian astrologers before him ... ....

464 pages | colour & b/w photos | Paperback | NYP 10/2014 | 9780745956275 | #217843A | £10.99 Add to basket

The Arctic North-East and West PassageDetectio Freti Hudsoni, or Hessel Gerritsz' Collection of Tracts by Himself, Massa and De Quir on the N.E. and W. PassagHessel Gerritsz, Fred John Millard and Samuel MullerA reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. This short work contains texts and maps relating to early exploration and trade routes. Included here are descriptions of Russia and Siberia by Isaac ...

184 pages | 2 b/w illustrations, 3 maps | Paperback | NYP 10/2014 | 9781108075138 | #218473A | £15.99 Add to basket

The David Attenborough Collection (Kingdom of Plants / Rise of Animals / Micro Monsters / Galapagos / NHM Alive)Sir David AttenboroughThe perfect gift for any fans of David Attenborough. Enjoy five series of the very best natural history programming ever made, brought to you by the world’s greatest natural history presenter. This stunning set contains over 13 hours ... ....

11 discs, runtime: 13 h, aspect ratio: 16:9, rating: E | DVD | NYP 10/2014 | #218036A | £49.99 Add to basket

The Life of Sir Clements R. Markham, K.C.B., F.R.S.Albert Hastings MarkhamA reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. Albert Hastings Markham (1841-1918) was the cousin of the subject of this biography, published in 1917, and greatly admired his older relative, who had ... ....


The Mineralogy of DerbyshireWith a Description of the Most Interesting Mines in the North of England, in Scotland, and in WalesJohn MaweA reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. Born in Derby, John Mawe (1766–1829) established a successful mineral-dealing business in London and became a significant figure in the development ... ....

238 pages | 3 b/w illustrations, 1 map | Paperback | NYP 10/2014 | 9781108076180 | #217418A | £17.99 Add to basket

The Pot-Pourri from a Surrey GardenMaria Theresa Villiers EarleA reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. Mrs C. W. Earle (1836-1925) was born into the minor aristocracy as Maria Theresa Villiers. After training as an artist, she married Captain C. W. Earle ... ....


The Rock MenPioneers of Lakeland GeologyAlan R SmithDetailed accounts of 24 geologists who pioneered the early work on the Lake District: the early pioneers, the early academics, the survey geologists , the physiographers, the amateurs, and the professionals.

200 pages | 56 b/w photos, b/w illustrations, and b/w maps | Paperback | 08/2001 | 9780954110208 | #217411A | £8.99 Add to basket


























This Luminous CoastWalking England's Eastern EdgeJules PrettyOver the course of a year, Jules Pretty walked along the shoreline of East Anglia in southeastern England, eventually exploring four hundred miles on foot (and another hundred miles by boat). It is a coast and a culture that is about to ... ....

272 pages | 63 b/w photos, 14 maps | Paperback | NYP 01/2015 | 9780801456510 | #217385A | £28.99 Add to basket

Typical Flies, Volume 1A Photographic Atlas of DipteraEK PearceFirst published in 1928 as the second edition of a 1915 original, Typical Flies, Volume 1 is the first of a three-part study on Diptera, or two-winged flies. Pearce includes advice on the capture and study of entomological samples ... ....

61 pages | b/w photos | Paperback | NYP 01/2015 | 9781107461512 | #218344A | £12.99 Add to basket

Typical Flies, Volume 2A Photographic Atlas of DipteraEK PearceFirst published in 1921, Typical Flies, Volume 2 is the second of a three-part study on Diptera, or two-winged flies. Pearce includes advice on the capture and study of entomological samples, and the majority of ...


Typical Flies: Volume 3A Photographic Atlas of DipteraEK PearceFirst published in 1928, Typical Flies, Volume 3 is the third and final of a three-part study on Diptera, or two-winged flies. Pearce includes advice on the capture and study of entomological samples, and the majority of ... ....


Vacationland: A Half Century Summering in MaineDavid E MorineDavid Morine's long love affair with Maine began when he was a boy in 1946 and his parents rented their first lakeside cabin in Fryeburg. At first skeptical about the cost and the lack of plumbing or electricity, the Morine's ... ....


Vanishing ActEndangered Animals and Disappearing EnvironmentsArt Wolfe and Barbara SleeperIn this astonishing book, legendary wildlife photographer Art Wolfe turns to one of nature's most fundamental survival techniques: the vanishing act. His portraits show animals and insects disappearing into their surroundings, using ... ....

144 pages | 101 colour photos | Paperback | NYP 10/2014 | 9781937359669 | #217422A | £16.99 Add to basket

Victor Wynd's Cabinet of WondersViktor WyndViktor Wynd's gallery and shop in East London is arranged with the sensibility of a 17th-century Wunderkabinett. It displays and sells an eccentric and seemingly random collection of objects - everything from shrunken heads to narwhal ... ....

200 pages | 160 colour illus | Hardback | 09/2014 | 9783791349060 | #217384A | £29.99 Add to basket

Voyages: Trois Siecles d'Explorations NaturalistesTony RiceThis is a French translation of Voyages of Discovery: Three Centuries of Natural History Exploration.


What Galileo SawImagining the Scientific RevolutionLawrence LipkingThe Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century has often been called a decisive turning point in human history. It represents, for good or ill, the birth of modern science and modern ways of viewing the world.

312 pages | 7 b/w photos | Hardback | NYP 11/2014 | 9780801452970 | #217386A | £21.50 Add to basket

Wildlife Photographer of the Year: Desk Calendar 2015 [Commemorative Edition]Please note that this is not the annual desk calendar published each year September after the winniers of The Wildlife Photographer of the Year Competition have been announced. Because of the 50th anniversary, Quadrille ... ....

24 pages | colour photos | 07/2014 | 9781849494588 | #217683A | £11.99 Add to basket

Zoo'M: Gros Plan et Petites Histoires sur les Animaux du ZooBenoit Quintard and Eric IsseleeWhy does the Philippine spotted deer weep black tears? What is the biggest flying bird? How does Pallas's cat disappear? Did you know that Hedwig, the owl of Harry Potter, is a male? What determines the sex of the baby crocodiles?


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A Naturalist in FloridaA Celebration of EdenArchie Carr, David Carr and Edward O WilsonEssays on Florida nature by famed naturalist Archie Carr, republished with a new preface by his son, David Carr.

264 pages | b/w photos | Paperback | 10/2014 | 9781561647231 | #217786A | £12.99 Add to basket

Cave Creek CanyonRevealing the Heart of Arizona's Chiricahua MountainsThis book contains 45 chapters written by local experts on almost every aspect of the canyon you can imagine: geology, early people, mammals, invertebrates, birds, reptiles and life in the canyon today.

250 pages | 300 colour photos | Paperback | NYP 12/2014 | #218387A | £41.50 Add to basketHardback | NYP 12/2014 | #218388A | £84.99 Add to basket

Chris Packham's Wild Side of TownGetting to Know the Wildlife in Our Towns and CitiesChris PackhamThis new edition is suitable for anybody with an interest in urban wildlife and conservation and is written by the renowned TV presenter Chris Packham. It is an educational and striking guide to the full range of wildlife that can be found ... ....


Days in My GardenErnest BallardErnest Ballard (1870-1952) was a British horticulturalist who was noted as a breeder of Michaelmas daisies. In Days in My Garden, which was first published in 1919, Ballard provides a richly detailed account documenting some of ... ....


Doorstep WildernessA Wilder Side of DublinPaul HughesThis astonishing collection of photographs chronicles the wildlife in Ireland's capital along the River Dodder. Despite the density of houses, office blocks and commuter traffic, the creatures survive in small areas of green.


Exploring Lung Fu ShanA Nature GuideLung LungExtending from the city limits to Victoria Peak, Lung Fu Shan Country Park is Hong Kong's smallest country park. It is also one of the most ecologically diverse, with a variety of plant and animal life, spectacular views, and a network ... ....


Fauna of Kalesar National Park and Wildlife Sanctuary, HaryanaK Venkataraman From the foreword: "Protected Areas play a crucial role in conservation and management of biodiversity. The Indian state of Haryana has a network of ten Protected Areas (PAs) – two national parks ...

224 pages | 11 plates with colour photos, colour illustrations | Hardback | 01/2013 | 9788181713582 | #218167A | £29.99 Add to basket

Fauna of Maharashtra, Part I: VertebratesK Venkataraman This first part of this 2-part fauna of Maharashtra, India, covers all the vertebrate groups.

480 pages | colour & b/w illustrations, colour maps | Paperback | 01/2012 | 9788181713056 | #217212A | £55.50 Add to basket

Fauna of Maharashtra, Part II: InvertebratesK Venkataraman This second part of this 2-part fauna of Maharashtra, India, covers all the invertebrate groups.


Faunal Diversity of Chaurs of North BiharZooplankton, Molluscs, Pisces and AvesK Venkataraman North Bihar, India is rich in floodplain wetlands which are locally called chaurs. The region is known for its rich aquatic biodiversity, e.g. fishes, molluscs, zooplankton, birds, and reptiles. The present study was carried out during ... ....

120 pages | 7 plates with colour photos; colour & b/w illustrations, colour maps | Paperback | 01/2011 | 9788181712974 | #218376A | £21.99 Add to basket

Faunal Diversity of Pangi Valley, Chamba, Himachal PradeshK Venkataraman This volume gives an overview of the faunal diversity of Pangi Valley, located in Himachal Pradesh, India, covering both vertebrates and invertebrates.

126 pages | 6 plates with colour photos; colour & b/w illustrations, colour & b/w maps | Paperback | 01/2013 | 9788181713216 | #218486A | £25.50 Add to basket

Faunal Exploration of Kumbhalgarh Wildlife Sanctuary RajasthanK Venkataraman This volume gives an overview of the fauna of Kumbhalgarh Wildlife Sanctuary, Rajasthan, India.



























Faunistic And Limnological Studies On Wyra Lake, Khammam District, Andhra PradeshZoological Survey of IndiaWyra lake is a medium sized water body, that had been constructed during Nizam's period between 1922-29, between two hills on the Wyra river (which is a tributary of the Krishna river basin). lt is located (17° 15'N ... ....

158 pages | colour & b/w illustrations, colour maps | Hardback | 01/2013 | 9788181713193 | #218488A | £22.99 Add to basket

Field Guide to Oregon RiversTim PalmerDespite Oregon's watery reputation, the state has lacked a field guide for its many celebrated rivers and streams – until now. Pre-eminent river conservationist, photographer, and author Tim Palmer's ....


Florida's Magnificent CoastJames Valentine and D Bruce MeansBreathtaking photos of Florida’s beaches, dunes, coastal strand, and marshes by James Valentine, with scientific explanations by Bruce Means.


Florida's Magnificent LandD Bruce Means and James ValentineBreathtaking photos of Florida’s uplands, forests, and prairies by James Valentine, with scientific explanations by Bruce Means.


Florida's Magnificent WaterJames Valentine and D Bruce MeansBreathtaking photos of Florida’s springs, caves, aquifers, sinkholes, rivers, lakes, bogs, and wet savannas by James Valentine, with scientific explanations by Bruce Means.


Florida's UplandsHigh Pine Grasslands, Flatlands and Prairies, Beaches and Dunes, Hardwood Hammocks, Rocklands, Glades, CavesEllie Whitney and D Bruce MeansTaken from the earlier book Priceless Florida (and modified for a stand-alone book), this volume discusses the well-drained areas of Florida, including high pine grasslands, flatwoods and prairies, interior scrub, hardwood ... ....


Florida's WatersLakes, Ponds, Sinks, Streams, Estuaries and Marine WatersEllie Whitney, D Bruce Means and Anne RudloeTaken from the earlier book Priceless Florida (and modified for a stand-alone book), this volume discusses the fresh- and saltwater systems of Florida, including lakes and ponds; rivers and streams; springs; aquatic caves ... ....


Florida's WetlandsInterior and Coastal Marshes, Swamps and BogsEllie Whitney, D Bruce Means and Anne RudloeTaken from the earlier book Priceless Florida (and modified for a stand-alone book), this volume discusses Florida's wetlands, including interior wetlands, seepage wetlands, marshes, flowing-water swamps, beaches and marine ... ....


Future ArcticField Notes from a World on the EdgeEdward StruzikA veteran journalist explores the changing Arctic and why it should matter to the rest of the world. In one hundred years, or even fifty, the Arctic will look dramatically different than it does today. As polar ice retreats and animals ... ....

256 pages | 15 b/w photos | Hardback | NYP 03/2015 | 9781610914406 | #215407A | £16.99 Add to basket

Garden Bugs and BeastiesRebecca Farley-Brown, Chris Shields and Mike LangmanHead down your garden and peer amongst the flowers, grasses and plant pots, and you will find an amazing range of little creatures. From shieldbugs to slugs and snails, from froghoppers to flower beetles, this new fold-out chart covers ... ....

8 pages | colour illustrations | Unbound | 09/2014 | 9781908819154 | #218372A | £3.99 Add to basket

Glorious HampshireThe Beautiful and Varied Landscapess of a Very English CountyColin RobertsFrom rolling chalk hills to heather-clad moors, the glorious landscapes of Hampshire are varied and beautiful. It is one of England's most wooded counties, a stronghold for wildflowers, and is famed for its open downland.


King of the MountainStories and Memories from BC's BackcountryJack BoudreauThere are some truths that are inescapable, and one such truth is the necessity for harmony and disharmony in our natural world: predator and prey, humans and wildlife, the tranquility and the forces of nature. In Jack Boudreau's ninth ... ....

224 pages | 40 b/w photos | Paperback | 06/2014 | 9781927575420 | #218525A | £16.99 Add to basket


























Major Fauna of Rasik Beel Wetland Complex (West Bengal)Debashis Das, Apurba Sen and Pinaki MitraThis paper gives an overview of the major fauna found in the Rasik Beel Wetland Complex in West Bengal, India.

76 pages | colour illustrations, colour maps | Paperback | 01/2013 | 9788181713551 | #217453A | £23.50 Add to basket

Nick Baker's British WildlifeA Month by Month GuideNick BakerA guide to Britain's wildlife through the seasons. It explains what is happening in nature in each month of the year and provides helpful advice on finding a wide variety of wildlife - often in the most unexpected places.

192 pages | colour photos, colour illustrations, maps | Paperback | NYP 02/2015 | 9781472912053 | #218420A | £14.99 Add to basket

Secrets of the Oak WoodlandsPlants & Animals Among California's OaksKate Marianchild and Ann Meyer MaglinteA Californian may vacation in Yosemite, Big Sur, or Death Valley, but many of us come home to an oak woodland. Yet, while common, oak woodlands are anything but ordinary. In a book rich in illustration and suffused with wonder, author ... ....


Sinai: Landscape and Nature in Egypt's WildernessOmar AttumSinai's allure is legendary. Its spectacular landscapes, thriving flora and fauna, and unique history, the store of centuries, have long held sway in the imagination of millions. The high mountains and wadis of the peninsula's ... ....


Somerset: Exploring the SummerlandJohn BaileyExtending for almost 70 miles from County Gate on the western border with Devon to Farleigh Hungerford in the east, the beautiful county of Somerset is unparalleled anywhere in Britain for its varied landscape. The uplands of Exmoor and ... ....


The GalapagosA Natural HistoryHenry NichollsThis book deals with the extraordinary islands that gave the world Darwin's theory of evolution. The Galápagos were once known to the sailors and pirates who encountered them as Las Encantadas: the enchanted islands, home to ... ....

203 pages | 8 plates with colour photos; b/w illustrations | Hardback | 03/2014 | 9781781250532 | #201302A | £13.99 Add to basketPaperback | NYP 03/2015 | 9781781250549 | #217774A | £9.99 Add to basket

The Natural History of SelborneGilbert WhiteWritten by Gilbert White and first published in 1789, this book is compiled from a mixture of White’s letters to other naturalists – Thomas Pennant and Daines Barrington; a ‘Naturalist’s Calendar’ detailing ... ....


The Smaller Lakes and Tarns of LakelandAlan R SmithThe companion volume to No. 5 in the series (The Big Lakes of Lakeland) covering the smaller lakes and tarns of the district - a study of the nearly 2000 small freshwater features of the Lakeland landscape.

120 pages | 150+ colour photos, illustrations, and maps | Paperback | 08/2014 | 9780954467951 | #217410A | £8.99 Add to basket

The Wildlife Trusts' Handbook of Garden WildlifeNicholas Hammond and Chris PackhamThis authoritative and eminently readable book relates how the alien vertebrate animals now living in the wild in Britain and Ireland were introduced and naturalized, their status and distribution, and their impact on the local environment. ....


Toute la Nature MediterraneennePaul SterryThis is a French translation of Collins Complete Guide to Mediterranean Wildlife.


Vertebrate (Birds and Mammals) Faunal Composition of Hadgarh Wildlife Sanctuary, OrissaAtindra Murmu, PC Mazumdar and S ChaudhuriFrom the introduction: "Hadgarh Wildlife Sanctuary is located in the Keonjhar and Mayurbhanj districts of Orissa, India, and lies between 21°12' to 21°23' N latitude and 86°12'30" ...


Vertebrates and Invertebrates of European CitiesSelected Non-Avian FaunaJohn G KelceyVertebrates and Invertebrates of European Cities: Selected Non-Avian Fauna is the first known account of the vertebrate and invertebrate fauna of several cities in Europe and throughout the rest of the world. It excludes birds ... ....




























Wainwright on the Pennine WayAlfred Wainwright and Derry BrabbsOn 24 April 2015, it will have been exactly fifty years since a ceremony was held at Malham to mark the official opening of the Pennine Way Long Distance Footpath (now designated a National Trail), a trek of some 270 miles from Edale in ... ....

224 pages | 260 colour photos, 40 b/w illustrations | Hardback | NYP 11/2014 | 9780711233713 | #217543A | £24.99 Add to basket

Wild Trail in Madhya PradeshTravel GuideGood EarthThe dense forests of Madhya Pradesh spread across plateaus, river valleys, hills and ravines. This diverse topography has resulted in an eclectic mix of flora and fauna in its many national parks and wildlife sanctuaries.

96 pages | 95+ colour photos, illustrations | Paperback | 01/2013 | 9789380262574 | #217892A | £17.50 Add to basket

Botany & Plant Science

A Checklist of Vascular Plants in Meizhou [Chinese]Liao FulinThis book contains a checklist to all the vascular plants found in Meizhou, a prefecture-level city in eastern Guangdong province, China.


A Color Handbook of Flowering & Medicinal Plants [of India]Yashwant RaiThe botanical name of plants are arranged alphabetically. The common names, family and medicinal uses of the plants are also given in this book. The book contains about 580 color photographs of 335 species of plants from different regions ... ....

224 pages | ~580 colour photos | Paperback | 01/2014 | 9788176223294 | #218219A | £49.99 Add to basket

A Guide to Orchids of Hong KongStephan Gale, Abdelhamid Bizid, Liu Kwok Wai and Kinson ChanSouth China was once home to vast subtropical forests that stretched from the eastern Himalayas to Indochina and beyond, a region of phenomenal biological diversity now undergoing rapid urbanisation and human population growth.


A Guide to the Native Palms of SingaporeAdrian HB LooA handy pocket guide to the native palms of Singapore. Species entries include a colour photograph and notes on habitat and distribution.


A Miscellany for Garden-LoversFacts and Folklore Through the AgesDavid SquireGardening is an age-old craft, steeped in mystique and peppered with handed-down wisdom, often derived from 'sons of the soil' who grew larger cabbages than their neighbours. This fact-drenched and beautifully illustrated insight ... ....

144 pages | 237 black & white illustrations | Hardback | NYP 11/2014 | 9780857842749 | #217490A | £9.95 Add to basket

A Revision of the New Zealand Kunzea Ericoides (Myrtaceae) ComplexPJ de LangeThe widespread New Zealand members of the Kunzea ericoides complex are revised. Ten species, all endemic to New Zealand are now recognised; seven of these are new to science. Two species, Kunzea robusta and ...


A Sketchbook of Philippine Garden OrchidsPatrick Andrew GozonPatrick Andrew Gozon is an artist, architect, and devoted gardener who has sketched orchids, plants and trees that are indigenous to Philippine soil. In A Sketchbook of Philippine Garden Orchids, he gives fifty colorful illustrations ... ....


A Vascular Plant Red List for EnglandPA Stroh, SJ Leach, TA August, KJ Walker, David A Pearman, FJ Rumsey, CA Harrower, Michael F Fay and This vascular plant Red List for England presents for the first time a comprehensive and objective assessment of threat, using globally recognised IUCN categories and criteria, for over 1•800 native and archaeophyte species found ... ....

184 pages | colour photos, colour & b/w illustrations, colour & b/w maps, colour & b/w tables | Paperback | 09/2014 | 9780953971862 | #218371A | £15.99 Add to basket

A la Decouverte du NordDeux Siecles et Semi d'Exploration de la Flore Nordique du Quebec et du LabradorJacques CayouetteThe history of botanical exploration of the peninsula of northern Quebec-Labrador is part of Canada's heritage and there is an urgent need to discover and document it. This area, bounded by James Bay, Hudson Bay, Hudson Strait and the ... ....

372 pages | ~400 photos and illustrations | Paperback | 07/2014 | 9782895444718 | #217161A | £35.99 Add to basket

Advance in Casuarina Research in IndiaProceedings of the 2nd National Seminar on CasuarinasRSC Jayaraj, Rekha R Warrier, A Nicodemus and N Krishna KumarCasuarinas are evergreen shrubs and trees belonging to a genus of 17 species in the family Casuarinaceae, native to Australasia, the Indian Subcontinent, southeast Asia, and islands of the western Pacific Ocean.


























Anatomy and Properties of Lesser Known Timbers of North-Eastern States with Particular Reference to NagalandTR Hemavathi, Mulpuri Sujatha, S Shashikala, J Simon, Sanjay Kumar Sharma, R Vijendra Rao and JoshiFrom the preface: "The research on descriptive anatomy of Indian timbers initiated by H.P. Brown during the 1930’s were continued even after independence by K.A. Chowdhury and others. Many such studies resulted in a ... ....

82 pages | b/w illustrations | Paperback | 01/2010 | #217893A | £22.99 Add to basket

Armitage's Garden PerennialsAllan M ArmitageOriginally published in 2000, Armitage's Garden Perennials quickly became a garden-shelf classic. Now it's back and better than ever in this new revised and updated second edition. Renowned horticulturist Allan M. Armitage once again ... ....


Atlas des Cortinaires, Pars 22Andre Bidaud, Xavier Carteret and Patrick ReumauxVolume 22 treats the sections Bicolores (Telamonia) and Rubricosi (Hydrocybe).

34 plates with colour illustrations | Unbound | NYP 12/2014 | #218417A | £96.99 Add to basket

Atlas of Wetland Common Plants in Guizhou Province [Chinese]Deng LunxiuAn atlas of common wetland plants in the Chinese province of Guizhou. Covers bryophytes, pteridophytes and angiosperms.


Basisgids GrassenArie van den BremerIdeally suited for beginners and field courses, this is a practical guide to learn to identify grasses in the field. - covers 100 common species of grasses, sedges and rushes - clear colour photos, both of whole plants and ...


Beneficial Plant-Microbial InteractionsEcology and ApplicationsM. Belen Rodelas Gonzalez and Jesus Gonzalez-LopezBeneficial Plant-microbial Interactions: Ecology and Applications provides insight into the mechanisms underlying the interactions of plants and microbes, the ecological relevance and roles of these symbioses, the adaptive mechanisms ... ....

468 pages | 4 colour & 22 b/w illustrations | Hardback | 07/2013 | 9781466587175 | #217805A | £81.99 Add to basket

British MilkcapsLactarius & LactifluusGeoffrey KibbyThe Milkcaps, species of Lactarius and Lactifluus are a popular group of fungi distributed throughout the world and with over 70 species in Britain. All are characterized by the latex or milk which is exuded when they ... ....

114 pages | colour photos, b/w line drawings | Spiralbound | 09/2014 | #217493A | £19.99 Add to basket

Camellias of ChinaGuan Kaiyun, Li Jiyuan and Wang ZhonglangCamellias of China includes 801 Chinese Camellia cultivars and species. Among of them, 439 are C. japonia cultivars, 175 are C. reticulata cultivars, 30 are C. sasanqua cultivars, 33 are ... ....


Census of Plants in AJC Bose Indian Botanic GardenA ReportHimadri Sekhar Debnath, HS Mahapatra, SS Hameed, PV Sreekumar and Paramjit SinghFrom the foreword: "The AJC Bose Indian Botanic Garden, Howrah, formerly known as “East India Company Bagan", is the oldest botanic garden in South-East Asia. The unique floral wealth and remarkable landscape ...


Chris Packham's Back Garden Nature ReserveChris Packham and Chris BeardshawMany of Britain's plants and animals have come to rely upon gardens as an essential lifeline as their natural habitats come under increasing pressure from human activity and global warming. This comprehensive book explains the best ... ....

144 pages | 200 colour photos and colour illustrations | Paperback | NYP 02/2015 | 9781472916020 | #218421A | £16.99 Add to basket

Claves Ilustradas para la Flora ValencianaGonzalo Mateo Sanz and Manuel B Crespo VillalbaThis is informative, but rigorous synthetic work, identifies more than 3500 taxa (species and subspecies) known today from the vascular flora of Valencia, Spain. It is aimed particularly at students and professionals in botany ...

503 pages | 2140 b/w line drawings | Paperback | 09/2014 | 9788494199677 | #217754A | £29.99 Add to basket

Colour Atlas of Common Plants from Daxing'Anling Mountain [Chinese]Hu LileColor Atlas of Common Plants from Daxing'Anling Mountain descrbes common plants 416 species belonging to 235 genera, 75 families with more than 1700 photos.

432 pages | 1700+ colour photos | Paperback | 06/2014 | 9787030412461 | #217719A | £53.99 Add to basket


























Conifers of the Pacific SlopeA Field Guide to the Conifers of California, Oregon and WashingtonMichael KauffmannThis groundbreaking book provides in depth information about the 65 conifer species that occur in the three Pacific Coast states and beyond. Educator, plant explorer and author Kauffmann guides readers to the magic of the Pacific Slope ... ....

144 pages | 237 colour & 6 b/w photos, 73 colour distribution maps | Paperback | 01/2013 | 9780939431403 | #218179A | £27.99 Add to basket

Connected: The Sustainable Landscapes of Phillip JohnsonPhillip JohnsonAustralian landscape designer Phillip Johnson became an international household name after winning Best in Show at the Royal Horticultural Society's Chelsea Flower and Garden Show in 2013 – the equivalent of winning a gold medal ... ....


Conservation and Management of Bamboo ResourcesSabhapati Nath, Sanjay Singh, Animesh Sinha, Rameshwar Das and Ravindra KrishnamurtyFrom the foreword: "Versatility, multiplicity of use, wide occurrence with high renewability makes bamboos a potential natural resource for present and future [...] The World market for bamboo products is estimated to be ...

232 pages | b/w illustrations | Paperback | 01/2013 | #218169A | £51.99 Add to basket

Discovering Aboriginal Plant UseThe Journeys of an Australian AnthropologistPhilip A ClarkeThe author argues that we can better understand a people if we know how they see and use plants. In Discovering Aboriginal Plant Use, Clarke dips into his field journals to provide a rich account of journeys, as both anthropologists ... ....

184 pages | 100 colour illustrations | Hardback | 10/2014 | 9781925078220 | #218357A | £21.99 Add to basket

Ecology of LianasStefan A Schnitzer, Frans Bongers, Robyn J Burnham and Francis E PutzA liana is a long-stemmed, woody vine that is rooted in the soil at ground level and uses trees to climb up to the canopy to get access to well-lit areas of the forest. This edited volume on the ecology of lianas comprises ...


Edible CitiesUrban Permaculture for Gardens, Balconies, Rooftops & BeyondJudith Anger, Immo Fiebrig and Martin SchnyderWant to grow food but have nothing larger than a balcony, windowsill or a piece of wall? No problem! This is a gardening book with a difference. It will help you to grow your own fruit, vegetables, herbs and even mushrooms in small spaces ... ....


Encyclopaedia of Floral Biodiversity of Jessore Sanctuary (2-Volume Set)Ankur Patel and Buenos Aires JadejaBiodiversity includes the diversity of plants, animals and microbes and their habitates. Genetic diversity, species diversity and ecosystem diversity together give rise to biodiversity, which sustains life on earth through energy flow and ... ....

451 pages | b/w illustrations, b/w maps | Hardback | 01/2014 | 9789350532997 | #218218A | £55.99 Add to basket

Endemic Possessions of Eastern GhatsRed Sanders (Pterocarpus santalinus Linn.f.)V Soundararajan and SC JoshiFrom the preface: "Pterocarpus santalinus Linn. popularly known as Red sanders is a member of the Fabaceae family. This species is variously known as Erra chandanarn (Telugu), Sivappu Chandanam (Tamil) and ...


Endomycorrhizal Fungi of Silent Valley National ParkPoochipara and Valakkadu SectionPP Rajeshkumar and VB HosagoudarEndomycorrhizal Fungi of Silent Valley National Park comprises an account of endomycorrhizal fungi of the Poochipara and Valakkadu sections of Silent Valley National park, giving first hand information of 70 species of endomycorrhizal ... ....

170 pages | 25 colour & b/w illustrations, colour maps, tables | Hardback | 01/2014 | 9788121108539 | #217896A | £41.99 Add to basket

Ethno Medicinal Plants of Manipur North-East IndiaThoubal DistrictMohd Habibullah Khan and PS YadavaEthno Medicinal Plants of Manipur North-East India is the first of its kind to document the detailed information on the ethno-medicinal uses of 514 plant species used for various ailments in the rural areas from time immemorial ... ....

295 pages | colour & b/w illustrations, map | Hardback | 01/2014 | 9788121108577 | #217895A | £53.50 Add to basket

Ethnobotany of Tuberculosis in LaosBethany Gwen Elkington, Djaja Djendoel Soejarto and Kongmany SydaraEthnobotany of Tuberculosis in Laos highlights the common ground between biomedicine and traditional healing. Because of the destruction of forests, the degradation of old palm leaf manuscripts, and decreasing interest in traditional ... ....

114 pages | 13 colour & 1 b/w illustrations, 7 tables | Paperback | NYP 11/2014 | 9783319106557 | #217468A | £44.99 Add to basket
























Flora de San Juan, Republica Argentina, Volume, IIIBRoberto KieslingVolume 3B covers the Asteraceae.

338 pages | plates with colour illustrations | Paperback | 01/2013 | 9789871794560 | #218364A | £74.99 Add to basket

Flora of Assam (6-Volume Set)UN Kanjilal, PC Kanjilal and A DasThis flora to the Indian state of Assam consists of 5 volumes printed as 6 books. It is a reprint of a flora originally published from 1934 and 1940. Volume 1, part 1 covers Ranunculaceae to Elaeocarpaceae Volume 1, part 2 ...


Flora of Ecuador, Volume 91, Part 22: Myricaceae, Part 23: Juglandaceae, Part 24: Salicaceae, Part 25A: Betulaceae, PartClaes Persson, Bertil Stahl, Simon Laegaard, Henrik Balslev and Jens Christian SchouIn part 22 the Ecuadorian members of Myricaceae are revised. One genus, Morella, with four species are treated. Key, descriptions, and specimen citations are given for all taxa. All species are illustrated. One new combination ... ....


Flora of Lough NeachJohn Harron and Palmer J NewbouldLough Neagh is a freshwater lake in Northern Ireland, and is the largest lake in Northern Ireland. This catalogue is based on the older records from three separate Floras together with recent additions from fieldwork up to 1985.

270 pages | 1 plates with 1 colour illustration; 2 b/w maps, 334 b/w distribution maps | Paperback | 01/1986 | 9780901229823 | #218157A | £12.99 Add to basket

Flora of South KanaraDakshina Kannada and Udupi Districts of KarnatakaK Gopalakrishna BhatThe Flora of South Kanara, a work based on intensive fieldwork and laboratory studies, contains descriptions of 1•888 species of flowering plants belonging to 928 genera and 166 families. The book also has a number of colour ... ....

928 pages | 56 plates with colour photos; colour illustrations, maps | Hardback | 01/2014 | 9789383765126 | #218569A | £99.99 Add to basket

Flora of Sri Venkateswara National Park, Andhra PradeshJH Franklin Benjamin and GVS MurthyThis book contains an assessment of the floristic diversity of Sri Venkateswara National Park, Andhra Pradesh, India.

492 pages | colour & b/w illustrations, colour & b/w maps | Paperback | 01/2013 | 9788181770424 | #217286A | £39.50 Add to basket

Flora of the Maltese Islands, Volume 1Alex CashaFlora of the Maltese Islands, Volume 1 is the first book of a series of four volumes regarding the wild plants of the archipelago of the small Maltese Islands in the central Mediterranean region. This first volume contains information ... ....


Flora of the Maltese Islands, Volume 2Alex CashaFlora of the Maltese Islands, Volume 2 describes a further 190 species of wild plants in full colour, bringing a total of over 350 species illustrated in both volumes 1 and 2. It covers important families such as the Fabaceae and ... ....


Flora of the Maltese Islands, Volume 3Alex CashaFlora of the Maltese Islands, Volume 3 describes over 183 species of wild plants, and so far the 3 volumes together depict more than 530 species. The species covered in these volumes are all dicotyledons. The monocotyledons will ... ....


Flora of the Maltese Islands, Volume 4Alex CashaThis Volume 4 is the last of the series and describes the monocotyledons with 177 species illustrated, including families of Orchidaceae, Amaryllidaceae and Poaceae. Photographs and text are conveniently placed side by side. An addendum ... ....


Flora of the Parasnath Wildlife Sanctuary JharkhandVinay RanjanFlora of the Parasnath Wildlife Sanctuary Jharkhand provides exhaustive information on plant wealth of the interesting topography and geographical position of the Parasnath hills.

275 pages | 12 plates with colour photos; 25 b/w illustrations | Hardback | 01/2014 | 9788121108522 | #217684A | £56.99 Add to basket

Flore d'Afrique Centrale: EricaceaeDaniel GeerinckIn Central Africa, the family Ericaceae is represented by the genera Erica (7 species), Agarista (1 species) and Vaccinium (1 species). This volume includes user-friendly keys to all taxa as well as 5 detailed full-page illustrations. ....

32 pages | Illus | Paperback | 07/2014 | 9789072619945 | #218037A | £13.99 Add to basket

Flore de la France Mediterraneenne ContinentaleJean-Marc Tison, Philippe Jauzein and Henri MichaudThis flora covers the Mediterranean part of France, covering the regions of Languedoc-Roussillon (Aude, Gard, Hérault, Lozère and Pyrenees-Orientales) and includes the Mediterranean part of the Provence-Alpes-Côte ... ....

2080 pages | 128 plates with 200 colour photos; 6000+ b/w line drawings | Hardback | 07/2014 | #218276A | £107.00 Add to basket




























Freshwater AlgaeIdentification and Use as BioindicatorsEdward G Bellinger and David C SigeeFreshwater Algae provides a comprehensive guide to temperate freshwater algae, with additional information on key species in relation to environmental characteristics and implications for aquatic management. Existing books on ... ....


Fungi non Delineati 67-69: Contributo alla Conoscenza della Micoflora EuropeaEnzo MusumeciThe author introduces an initial contribution dedicated to the study of some European regions and their little known micoflora, of which there are 38 species described and documented, 3 of which are new to science.

288 pages | 2 plates with colour illustrations; 146 colour photos, 38 b/w illustrations | Paperback | 01/2014 | #218359A | £38.50 Add to basket

Fungi non Delineati 70: Indice Pars 61-69Dark green (Skivertex) coloured binding, with gold overprint to bind the nine fascicules, index of contributions 51-69. Index of the volumes 6 and 7 in which there are listed 1600 species, variety and forms of fungi, most of them with ... ....

01/2014 | #218360A | £22.20 Add to basket

Fungi non Delineati 71-72: Cortinarius Ibero-insulares (4) [Italian]Grupo Ibero-Insular de Cortinariologos (GIC)As many as 50 species of the genus Cortinarius are described and illustrated with photomicrographs, scanning electron microscope photographs and color photographs. The descriptions as well as the iconographies have been realized ... ....

248 pages | 150 colour photos, b/w photos, b/w illustrations | Paperback | 01/2014 | #218361A | £43.99 Add to basket

Fungi non Delineati 73-74: Inocybe (3) [Italian]Erminio Ferrari, Ditte Bandini and Fabrizio BoccardoThe present work completes the previous contributions (FND-Pars 34-35-36 and FND Pars 54-55) and includes the species found both by the author and by other mycologists, from coasts to the alpine zone. In this volume of 188 pages ... ....

188 pages | 150 colour & 100 b/w photos, b/w line drawings | Paperback | 01/2014 | #218362A | £32.50 Add to basket

Genetics, Genomics and Breeding of MaizeRamakrishna Wusirika, Martin Bohn, Jinsheng Lai and Chittaranjan KoleSequencing of the maize genome has opened up new opportunities in maize breeding, genetics and genomics research. Genetics, Genomics and Breeding of Maize highlights modern trends in development of hybrids, analysis of genetic ... ....


Glosario Ilustrado para Musgos NeotropicalesEliana Calzadilla and Steven P ChurchillTo the uninitiated, tropical mosses may all look alike and exhibit few features that can distinguish them apart. There are 2•500 or more species in the Neotropics, and given that fact, there must obviously be many characters to ... ....

133 pages | 41 plates with illustrations; 254 b/w illustrations | Paperback | 07/2014 | 9789990596177 | #217665A | £24.99 Add to basket

Guia de BriofitasComunes de los Andes de QuitoSusana Leon-Yanez, S Robbert Gradstein, Jorge Castillo and Alejandra Moscoso-EstrellaThe mosses, liverworts and bryophytes are true antoceros-prehistoric beings of the plant kingdom and were the first plants to colonize land. Bryophytes are important in ecosystems because involved in the water cycle, form the substrate ... ....


Guide Delachaux des Arbres de FranceOwen Johnson and David MoreThis book is lavishly illustrated with more than 200 species of trees and shrubs present in France. For each of them the guide describes in detail the characteristics of the different parts of the tree (silhouette, bark, twigs, buds, flowers ... ....


Guide to the Aloes of South AfricaBen-Erik van Wyk and Gideon F SmithGuide to the Aloes of South Africa is a beautifully illustrated full-colour guide that makes it easy for both the layperson and scientist to identify aloes in the field and in gardens. This updated and expanded third edition ... ....

376 pages | 400+ colour photos, colour distribution maps | Hardback | NYP 02/2015 | 9781920217389 | #217816A | £28.99 Add to basket

Handbook of Black MildewsVB HosagoudarThis book is meant for researchers and amateurs who wish to understand the fungi or acquaint themselves with the micro fungi in general and black mildews in particular. This book introduces fungi, deals with their occurrence, explains how ... ....


Highgrove: A Garden CelebratedHRH The Prince Of Wales and Bunny GuinnessHighgrove: A Garden Celebrated is a commemoration of the beautiful, mature gardens planned and planted by The Prince of Wales over thirty years ago. The gardens at Highgrove evoke intense emotion. In January, the dramatic light ... ....




























Illinois Getting Started Garden GuideGrow the Best Flowers, Shrubs, Trees, Vines & GroundcoversShawna CoronadoWith its northeastern edge seated on the shores of Lake Michigan, Illinois offers some of the United States' most fertile farmlands. But as any midwesterner knows, the entire region's weather can turn on a dime, and keeping plants ... ....


In the Company of RedwoodsAn Interactive Guide to Learning 50 Redwood Community Plants through Hand TintingDavid CastersonThis innovative guide is actually a fieldbook – literally a book to use out in the field, or in this case, on any hike in the redwoods. Biologist Casterson presents fifty redwood community plants commonly found in the redwood's ... ....

2 colour & 117 b/w photos, illustrations, tables | Paperback | 01/2014 | 9781495106606 | #218178A | £19.99 Add to basket

Indiana Getting Started Garden GuideGrow the Best Flowers, Shrubs, Trees, Vines & GroundcoversShawna CoronadoIt's no secret that the post-glacial soils of Indiana are some of the most fertile that the midwestern United States has to offer. If you're lucky enough to live there – be it on the shores of Lake Michigan in Gary, nestled ... ....

240 pages | 300 color photos | Paperback | 10/2014 | 9781591866084 | #217849A | £15.99 Add to basket

Integrated Forest GardeningThe Complete Guide to Polycultures and Plant Guilds in Permaculture SystemsWayne Weiseman, Daniel Halsey and Bryce RuddockThe massive degradation of conventional agriculture and the environmental havoc it creates has never been as all pervasive in terms of scale, so it has become a global necessity to further the understanding of a comprehensive design and ... ....


Land of Enchantment WildflowersA Guide to the Plants of New MexicoWilla F Finley and LaShara J NielandNew Mexico is home to about 4•000 species of plants that inhabit the varied ecosystems found at the intersection of the Rocky Mountains, the Great Plains, and the Sonoran and Chihuahuan Deserts.


Lepocinclis euglenophyta Taxonomical ReviewTakaaki YamagishiThe genus Lepocinclis was firstly proposed by Perty 1852 from Germany. Afterward, France 1897 from Hungary, and Lemmermann 1901, 1913 observed some new species from various regions in Europe. Since then more new taxa were found ... ....

141 pages | 54 plates with b/w illustrations; illustrations | Paperback | 01/2013 | 9788121108713 | #217821A | £57.50 Add to basket

Lichens on Indian MonumentsBiodeterioration and BiomonitoringRajesh Bajpai and Dalip K UpretiThe biodeterioration of monuments by lichens is an infrequently discussed topic in India in the field of lichenology. Lichens not only play a role as agents of biodeterioration but also as a valid indicator of environmental quality. ....

224 pages | 27 plates with colour photos; illustrations | Hardback | 01/2014 | 9788121108560 | #217823A | £56.99 Add to basket

Mangrove Fungi of IndiaPunarbasu Chaudhuri and Subhash Chandra SantraMangrove Fungi of India is unique with respect to its content and text. This is the first research databased book on the subject in India. It covers the Mangrove fungal biodiversity of India in a more comprehensive manner. ....

365 pages | colour illustrations, tables | Hardback | 01/2013 | 9788121107693 | #218489A | £65.50 Add to basket

Medicinal Plant Germplasm ConservationSunita Bhatnagar, Pratap Chandra Panda and Ajay Kumar MahapatraFrom the preface: "Since its inception, the Regional Plant Resource Centre, India, has been engaged in gerrnplasm collection and ex situ conservation of medicinal and aromatic plants, besides research on species and genetic ... ....

52 pages | colour illustrations | Paperback | 01/2008 | #218282A | £25.99 Add to basket

Medicinal Plants of Northern Thailand for the Treatment of Cognitive Impairment in the ElderlyLisa OffringaMedicinal Plants of Northern Thailand for the Treatment of Cognitive Impairment in the Elderly provides a description of cognitive impairment in the elderly population through the lens of Thai Traditional Medicine as it is practised ... ....


Medico Botany of Garhwal HimalayasNivedita SrivastavaThe present work deals with the recording of medicinal plants of Garhwal Himalaya, which are collected by different agencies and medicine suppliers active in the in area. Since there was no authentic record of trade data available, the ... ....

323 pages | 19 plates with colour photos; colour & b/w illustrations | Hardback | 01/2014 | 9789380702070 | #217763A | £29.99 Add to basket
























Natural Product ExtractionPrinciples and ApplicationsMauricio A Rostagno and Juliana M PradoNatural products are sought after by the food, pharmaceutical and cosmetics industries, and research continues into their potential for new applications. Extraction of natural products in an economic and environmentally-friendly way is ... ....


Non Timber Forest ProductsConservation Utilization and ManagementKR Dhiman, R Bawa, KK Raina and NP DohrooNon timber forest products (NTFPs) are critical to rural subsistence livelihoods and make up significant local, regional, national and international markets. They provide communities with key subsistance resources and with a valuable ... ....

606 pages | illustrations, tables | Hardback | 01/2013 | 9788121108379 | #217897A | £69.99 Add to basket

Omics in Plant BreedingAluízio Borem and Roberto Fritsche-NetoComputational and high-throughput methods, such as genomics, proteomics, and transcriptomics, known collectively as "-omics," have been used to study plant biology for well over a decade now. As these technologies mature, plant ... ....


Orchidees du Bresil: As Orquídeas da Serra do Castelo (Espírito Santo, Brasil), Volume 4Guy Chiron and RX BolsanelloThere are about 700 species of orchids in the Serra do Castelo (Espirito Santo, Brazil), mostly in the remains of the Mata Atlantica. This book aims to present them all, providing for each a taxonomic note, morphological description, and ... ....

528 pages | 246 colour photos, 190 b/w line drawings | Paperback | 09/2014 | #218040A | £34.99 Add to basket

Orchids in South AfricaA Gardener's GuideHendrik VenterOrchids in South Africa: A Gardener's Guide shows new and existing growers how to care for their orchid plants. Learn how to treat your orchids (and most commercially available orchids are quite easy!), water and feed them ... ....

192 pages | 400 colour photos and colour illustrations | Paperback | NYP 02/2015 | 9781920217457 | #217817A | £21.99 Add to basket

Orchids of Eastern GhatsA Field Guide for IdentificationSarat Mishra, Sitaram Prasad Panda, Prasanna Kumar Nayak and Ajay K MahapatraThis field guide aims to provide a hands-on-tool for the forester, researchers and plant lovers to identify wild orchids by observing some of its basic features. It also explains basic propagation and maintenance modalities to be followed ... ....


Orchids of WayanadMK Ratheesh Narayanan, T Shaju, CN Sunil, AK Abdussalam and V Abdul JaleelFrom the preface: "Orchids, the plant group with awesome flowers, exhibit an incredible range of diversity in size, shape and colour of their flowers. Taxonomically, they represent the advanced family with 600-800 genera ...

106 pages | colour illustrations, colour maps | Paperback | 07/2013 | 9788192612539 | #217955A | £33.99 Add to basket

Pennsylvania Getting Started Garden GuideGrow the Best Flowers, Shrubs, Trees, Vines & GroundcoversGeorge WeigelSplit down the middle by the Appalachian Mountains, Pennsylvania experiences a wide range of extreme weather on each side of the divide, with humid summers in Harrisburg and record-breaking snowfalls in McKean County. But there's one ... ....

240 pages | 300 color photos | Paperback | NYP 10/2014 | 9781591866206 | #217850A | £15.99 Add to basket

Plant Circadian NetworksMethods and ProtocolsDorothee StaigerPlant Circadian Networks: Methods and Protocols provides a collection of protocols to investigate clock-controlled parameters including transcript and small RNA levels, promoter activity using luciferase reporters, protein levels ... ....

372 pages | 47 colour & 30 b/w illustrations, 14 tables | Hardback | 05/2014 | 9781493906994 | #218009A | £98.99 Add to basket

Plant MetabolomicsMethods and ApplicationsXiaoquan Qi, Xiao-Ya Chen and Yulan WangPlant Metabolomics introduces plant metabolomics which is an important part of systems biology. It can be argued that metabolite data is most closely linked to phenotypes. Therefore changes in metabolite content or metabolic ... ....


Plant PropagationConcepts and Laboratory ExercisesCaula A Beyl and Robert N TrigianoThis new edition of Plant Propagation: Concepts and Laboratory Exercises presents a robust view of modern plant propagation practices such as vegetable grafting and micropropagation. Along with foundation knowledge in anatomy and ... ....

520 pages | b/w photos, illustrations, tables, includes DVD-ROM | Paperback | 09/2014 | 9781466503878 | #218127A | £76.99 Add to basket
























Plants of the Pitcairn Islands Including Local Names and UsesLars-Ake GotessonA detailed presentation of all plants known from the Pitcairn Islands until 1996. Lichens, Bryophyta, Algae and ferns are included in the book which contains five maps. The compilation of this work was initiated by the fact that ... ....

394 pages | 5 b/w maps | Paperback | 01/1997 | #217446A | £16.99 Add to basket

Pocket List of Southern African Indigenous Trees / Saklys Van Suider-Afrikaanse Inheemse BomeHartwig von Durckheim, Braam van Wyk, Erika van den Berg, Meg Coates Palgrave and Marie JordaanSince 1966 this concise list of southern African indigenous trees has been an indispensable companion for anybody interested in the diverse tree flora of the region. This fifth edition of the Pocket List of Southern African Indigenous Trees ....

648 pages | b/w illustrations, distribution maps | Paperback | NYP 02/2015 | 9781920217174 | #217818A | £19.95 Add to basket

Q'eqchi' Maya Reproductive EthnomedicineJillian De GezelleThe Q'eqchi' Maya of Belize have an extensive pharmacopoeia of medicinal plants used traditionally for reproductive health and fertility, utilizing more than 60 plant species for these health treatments. Ten species were selected ... ....

201 pages | 37 colour illustrations, 4 tables | Paperback | NYP 11/2014 | 9783319107431 | #217467A | £44.99 Add to basket

RHS The Garden AnthologyCelebrating the Best Garden Writing from the Royal Horticultural SocietyUrsula Buchan and Jenny BowersThis RHS-branded anthology presents the best garden writing from the pages of The Garden, the magazine of the Royal Horticultural Society. The magazine was first published in 1866 as The Journal of the RHS ...


Recent Advances in Bamboo Propagation, Management and UtilizationPankaj K Aggarwal, VP Tewari, PR Triveni and SC JoshiFrom the preface: "After battling out the confusion of classification, bamboos are, today, legally considered as ‘forest produce’. There are about 135 different species of these woody grasses in India and a ...


Shrubs Large and SmallNatives and Ornamentals for Midwest GardensMoya L Andrews and Gillian HarrisThis beautifully illustrated book on landscape gardening addresses shrubs and how to determine which you should plant among your perennials and where. Shrubs provide the foundation for a pleasing, yet low-maintenance garden.

168 pages | 20 colour illustrations, 1 map | Paperback | 03/2013 | 9780253009067 | #217309A | £19.99 Add to basket

The Algal Genus Pediastrum Meyen (Chlorophyta) in PolandJoanna LenarczykThree years of taxonomic and environmental studies (2008–2010) on the green algal genus Pediastrum Meyen confirmed its occurrence at 50 of 71 localities situated in northern, central and southern regions of Poland.


The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants, Volume 12Flowering Plants: Eudicots - Santalales, BalanophoralesJob Kuijt and Bertel HansenIn the present volume taxonomic treatments including descriptions of and keys to the families and genera for the orders Santalales and Balanophorales are offered, the former group here comprising 12 families with 162 genera and about ... ....

219 pages | 82 b/w illustrations | Hardback | NYP 01/2015 | 9783319092959 | #217473A | £135.00 Add to basket

The Genus Epimedium of China in Color [Chinese]He ShunzhiThis book deals with species, taxonomic features, distribution and application of the genus Epimedium in China, a genus of flowering plants in the family Berberidaceae. The Genus Epimedium of China in Color is divided ... ....


The Genus Primula L. in IndiaA Taxonomic RevisionSandip Kumar Basak, Gaurgopal Maiti and Prabhat Kumar HajraThe Genus Primula L. in India: A Taxonomic Revision gives a complete account of the Indian species of Primula. This genus is one of the most beautiful herbaceous temperate alpine plants with a high level of diversity. ....

670 pages | plates with b/w photos; 136 b/w illustrations | Hardback | 01/2014 | 9788121104913 | #217685A | £89.99 Add to basket

The Greenhouse Gardener's ManualRoger MarshallMake the most of your greenhouse space! This comprehensive guide offers a fresh look at how gardeners can make best use of their greenhouses. It shows the reader how to grow ornamentals, edibles and fruit as well as how to propagate plants ... ....

320 pages | 278 colour photos, 29 colour illustrations | Paperback | 08/2014 | 9781604694147 | #218566A | £14.99 Add to basket
























The Herbalist's BibleJohn Parkinson's Lost Classic RediscoveredJulie Bruton-Seal and Matthew SealHerbalist to King Charles I, John Parkinson (1567-1650) was a master apothecary, herbalist and gardener. Famous in his own lifetime for his influential books, his magnus opus was published in 1640, his Theatrum Botanicum, which ... ....

256 pages | colour photos, colour illustrations | Hardback | 09/2014 | 9781906122515 | #217488A | £24.99 Add to basket

The New Sunset Western Garden BookThe Ultimate Gardening GuideKathleen Norris BrenzelAs surely as gardens change with the seasons, gardening is ever changing. New plants, techniques, materials, and lifestyles are constantly broadening the choices you have and reshaping the way you garden in the West. In response to this ... ....

767 pages | 2000+ colour photos, colour illustrations, maps | Paperback | 02/2012 | 9780376039200 | #217553A | £28.99 Add to basket

The Vascular Flora of the National Park of Abruzzo, Lazio and Molise (Central Italy)An Annotated ChecklistFabio Conti and Fabrizio BartolucciThe Vascular Flora of the National Park of Abruzzo, Lazio and Molise (Central Italy) provides an updated list of the vascular flora of the National Park of Abruzzo, Lazio and Molise, incorporating the latest nomenclatural and ... ....


There's a Moose in My GardenDesigning Gardens in Alaska and the Far NorthBrenda C AdamsWhat do you do when a young moose calf wants to dine on your freshly planted Lady's Mantle for lunch? What plants can handle a summer of nearly endless sun? How do you harness the wild beauty of the north for your own backyard? ....


Wild Edible Fruit Plants of Eastern IndiaAjay K Mahapatra and PC PandaFrom the preface: "Wild Edible Fruit Plants of Eastern India gives an account of 150 important wild and naturalised fruit plants occurring in the Eastern part of India prepared on the basis of field work undertaken ... ....


Wild Edible Vegetables of Lesser Himalayas, Volume 1Ethnobotanical and Nutraceutical AspectsArshad Mehmood Abbasi, Munir Hassan Shah and Mir Ajab KhanOur intention with Wild Edible Vegetables of Lesser Himalayas, Volume 1 was to present the reader with the most accurate, significant, and up-to-date background and knowledge in the areas of ethnomedicinal and nutraceutical ... ....

294 pages | 251 colour illustrations, 9 tables | Hardback | NYP 11/2014 | 9783319095424 | #217460A | £126.00 Add to basket

Yorkshire HawkweedsVincent JonesThis account of the Yorkshire hawkweeds is the result of thirty years field work and study; its prime aim is to help hawkweed novices make a start and improvers to see the way forward towards an understanding of this difficult genus. ....

200 pages | colour illustrations | Paperback | NYP 11/2014 | #217884A | £45.99 Add to basket

Animal & General Biology

Adhesion Protein ProtocolsAmanda S CouttsCellular adhesion is a fundamental process that influences numerous biological activities such as morphogenesis, cell motility and division, as well as signalling. In addition, adhesion is a process important not only in normal physiological ... ....


Alcamo's Microbes and SocietyJeffrey C Pommerville and Benjamin S WeeksAn extensive revision of an essential text for a foundational course in the Life Sciences. Each new print copy includes Navigate 2 Advantage Access that unlocks a comprehensive and interactive eBook, student practice activities and assessments ... ....


Animal CannibalismThe Dark Side of EvolutionDavid SoulsbyThis is a study of the phenomenon of cannibalism in those animals known to prey upon and eat their own kind. Animal Cannibalism is structured in accordance with conventional taxonomy and ranges from microbes to mammals.

585 pages | 21 colour & b/w photos and b/w illustrations, 36 tables | Hardback | 10/2013 | 9780955501166 | #217264A | £34.99 Add to basket

Animal EarthThe Amazing Diversity of Living CreaturesRoss PiperThe familiar tigers, elephants, eagles, fish, and insects of the animal kingdom account for only a tiny proportion of known species. The true picture of animal life on our planet is much more diverse.

320 pages | 565 colour photos and illustrations | Hardback | 09/2013 | 9780500516966 | #205607A | £29.95 Add to basketPaperback | NYP 03/2015 | 9780500291658 | #217481A | £19.95 Add to basket

























Bacteries Marines et BiotechnologiesJean GuezennecThe sea and oceans often evoke association with recreation, round the world races, fishing and many other activities. A part of the marine bioresource feeds millions of people daily. But if the sea feeds, it can also treat, cure ... ....


Biocode: The New Age of GenomicsDawn Field and Neil DaviesThe living world runs on genomic software – what Dawn Field and Neil Davies call the 'biocode' – the sum of all DNA on Earth. In Biocode, they tell the story of a new age of scientific discovery: the growing ... ....

256 pages | ~15 b/w illustrations | Hardback | NYP 03/2015 | 9780199687756 | #216642A | £16.99 Add to basket

Biomolecular Feedback SystemsDomitilla Del Vecchio and Richard M MurrayBiomolecular Feedback Systems provides an accessible introduction to the principles and tools for modeling, analyzing, and synthesizing biomolecular systems. It begins with modeling tools such as reaction-rate equations, reduced ... ....

288 pages | 13 b/w photos, 165 b/w illustrations | Hardback | 09/2014 | 9780691161532 | #218325A | £58.99 Add to basket

Biophysics of DNAAlexander VologodskiiSurveying the very latest research, Biophysics of DNA describes the physical properties of DNA in the context of its biological functioning. It is designed to enable both students and researchers of molecular biology, biochemistry ... ....


Campbell Biology: Concepts and ConnectionsJane B Reece, Martha R Taylor, Eric J Simon, Jean L Dickey and Kelly A HoganCampbell Biology: Concepts & Connections continues to introduce pedagogical innovations, which motivate students not only to learn, but also engage with biology. The Eighth Edition of this market-leading book builds on its ... ....

809 pages | colour & b/w photos, colour & b/w illustrations, maps, tables | Hardback | 12/2013 | 9780321885326 | #217942A | £128.99 Add to basket

Caspases, Paracaspases, and MetacaspasesMethods and ProtocolsPeter V Bozhkov and Guy SalvesenCaspases, Paracaspases, and Metacaspases: Methods and Protocols is a collection of laboratory protocols covering current methods that are employed to measure and detect activities of these proteases in diverse biological systems ... ....


Chemical Embryology (3-Volume Set)Joseph NeedhamJoseph Needham (1900-95) was a British biochemist and historian, known for his contributions to scientific research and writings on the history of science in China. First published in 1931, the books in this set form Needham's mammoth ... ....


Climate Change BiologyLee HannahClimate Change Biology, 2nd edition examines the evolving discipline of human-induced climate change and the resulting shifts in the distributions of species and the timing of biological events. The text focuses on understanding ... ....


Emotions of Animals and HumansComparative PerspectivesShigeru Watanabe and Stan KuczajEmotions of Animals and Humans takes a multidisciplinary approach to emotion, with contributions from biologists, psychologists, neuroscientists, robot engineers, and artists. A wide range of emotional phenomena is discussed ... ....

300 pages | 3 tables | Hardback | 08/2012 | 9784431541226 | #218452A | £126.00 Add to basketPaperback | 09/2014 | 9784431547488 | #218453A | £126.00 Add to basket

Environmental MicrobiologyMethods and ProtocolsIan T Paulsen and Andrew J HolmesAn up-to-date view of molecular mechanisms for investigating microbial communities and their biological activities, this new volume of Environmental Microbiology: Methods and Protocols looks at recent advances that are having ... ....


Epidermal CellsMethods and ProtocolsKursad TurksenReflecting over three decades of advances, Epidermal Cells: Methods and Protocols, Third Edition underscores these advances in our understanding of epidermal biology with updated and entirely new protocols that compliment and ... ....


G Protein Signaling in the RetinaKirill Martemyanov and Alapakkam P SampathThe main purpose of G Protein Signaling in the Retina is to provide a focused analysis of the function of the G protein-coupled signaling pathways that operate in the interconnected network of retinal neurons as they detect and .. ....

206 pages | 26 colour & 9 b/w illustrations, 1 table | Hardback | 09/2014 | 9781493912179 | #218395A | £126.00 Add to basket


























Life on the EdgeThe Coming of Age of Quantum BiologyJim Al-Khalili and Johnjoe McFaddenLife is the most extraordinary phenomenon in the known universe; but how does it work? Even in this age of cloning and synthetic biology, the remarkable truth remains: nobody has ever made anything living entirely out of dead material. ....

336 pages | 35+ illustrations | Hardback | NYP 11/2014 | 9780593069318 | #217552A | £19.99 Add to basket

Life's Greatest SecretThe Story of the Race to Crack the Genetic CodeMatthew CobbLife's Greatest Secret is the story of the discovery and cracking of the genetic code. This great scientific breakthrough has had far-reaching consequences for how we understand ourselves and our place in the natural world. ....


Metabolic Flux AnalysisMethods and ProtocolsJens O Kramer, Lars K Nielsen and Lars M BlankMetabolic Flux Analysis: Methods and Protocols opens up the field of metabolic flux analysis to those who want to start a new flux analysis project but are overwhelmed by the complexity of the approach. Metabolic flux analysis ... ....


Microsporidia: Pathogens of OpportunityLouis M Weiss and James J BecnelMicrosporidia: Pathogens of Opportunity provides a systematic overview of the biology of microsporidia. Written by leading experts in the field, the book combines background and basic information on microsporidia with descriptive ... ....


Molecular NeuroscienceA Laboratory ManualRusty LansfordA wide variety of powerful molecular techniques have been applied to biology in recent decades, ranging from recombinant DNA technologies to state-of-the-art imaging methods. But the plethora of techniques available combined with the ... ....

648 pages | 64 colour & 50 b/w illustrations | Paperback | 09/2014 | 9781621820147 | #218000A | £55.99 Add to basketHardback | 09/2014 | 9781621820130 | #218001A | £93.99 Add to basket

Nanomicrobiology: Physiological and Environmental CharacteristicsLarry L Barton, Dennis A Bazylinski and Huifang XuThis book is devoted to nanomicrobiology and the nanosystems of bacteria. The initial chapter discusses some of the controversies in the geochemical and biomedical fields associated with the reports of nanobacteria in the environment. ....


Principles of Cell BiologyGeorge PlopperEach new print copy includes Navigate 2 Advantage Access that unlocks a comprehensive and interactive eBook, student practice activities and assessments, a full suite of instructor resources, and learning analytics reporting tools. ....

576 pages | illustrations | Paperback | NYP 12/2014 | 9781284047608 | #218538A | £45.99 Add to basket

Principles of DevelopmentLewis Wolpert, Cheryll Tickle and Alfonso Martinez AriasHow does a single cell develop into myriad different specialised cell types, control the organization of these different cells into tissues and organs, and ultimately form an unimaginably complex living organism such as a human?

652 pages | colour illustrations | Paperback | NYP 04/2015 | 9780199678143 | #217866A | £43.99 Add to basketHardback | 04/2014 | 9780198709886 | #217867A | £79.99 Add to basket

Tissue MorphogenesisMethods and ProtocolsCeleste M NelsonTissue Morphogenesis: Methods and Protocols highlights major techniques, both experimental and computational, for the study of tissue morphogenesis, divided into several sections, with specific focus on techniques to image ... ....


Wnt Signaling in Development and DiseaseMolecular Mechanisms and Biological FunctionsStefan P Hoppler and Randall T MoonWidely recognized as one of the most important signaling mechanisms in development and disease, Wnt signaling pathways are networks of proteins that play significant roles in embryogenesis or cancer development.


Zoonotic TuberculosisMycobacterium Bovis and Other Pathogenic MycobacteriaCharles O Thoen, James H Steele and John B KaneeneZoonotic Tuberculosis: Mycobacterium bovis and Other Pathogenic Mycobacteria, Third Edition is a comprehensive review of the state of the art in the control and elimination of infections caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex in an ... ....

432 pages | b/w illustrations, b/w maps | Hardback | 04/2014 | 9781118474297 | #217856A | £99.99 Add to basket

Evolutionary Biology

























Eternal EphemeraAdaptation and the Origin of Species from the Nineteenth Century Through Punctuated Equilibria and BeyondNiles EldredgeOne of evolution's fundamental questions is how the skein of life on Earth remains unbroken yet is constantly renewed by new species. What accounts for the scientific paradox that all organisms and species are ephemeral, and yet life ... ....


Evolution of the RodentsAdvances in Phylogeny, Functional Morphology and DevelopmentPhilip G Cox, Lionel Hautier, Jean-Louis Hartenberger and W Patrick LuckettThe widespread use of mouse models in developmental, behavioural and genetic studies has sparked wider interest in rodent biology as a whole. Evolution of the Rodents brings together the latest research on rodents to better ... ....

18 colour & 124 b/w illustrations, 43 tables | Hardback | NYP 04/2015 | #216577A | £74.99 Add to basket

Evolving OurselvesHow Unnatural Selection and Nonrandom Mutation Are Changing Life on EarthJuan Enriquez and Steve GullansWhy are conditions like autism, asthma, obesity, and allergies exploding at unprecedented rates? Why are we living longer, getting smarter, having far fewer kids? If Darwin was alive today, how would he explain this new world?


How Humans EvolvedRobert Boyd and Joan B SilkHow Humans Evolved teaches the processes that shape human evolution with a unique blend of evolutionary theory, population genetics, and behavioral ecology. The new edition continues to offer the most up-to-date research in part ... ....

512 pages | colour photos, b/w illustrations, tables | Paperback | NYP 11/2014 | 9780393936773 | #218118A | £84.99 Add to basket

Human LongevityOmega-3 Fatty Acids, Bioenergetics, Molecular Biology, and EvolutionRaymond C Valentine and David L ValentineMore than 7 billion people inhabit the earth and all of them are subject to aging. This book is aimed at persons interested in a molecular explanation of how our cells age.

242 pages | 16 colour & 41 b/w illustrations, 1 table | Hardback | 09/2014 | 9781466594869 | #217306A | £88.99 Add to basket

Human VariationA Genetic Perspective on Diversity, Race, and MedicineAravind ChakravartiSince the appearance of modern humans in Africa around 200•000 years ago, we have migrated around the globe and accumulated genetic variations that affect various traits, including our appearance, skin color, food tolerance, and ... ....

131 pages | 21 colour & 5 b/w illustrations | Paperback | 09/2014 | 9781936113255 | #217997A | £36.99 Add to basketHardback | 09/2014 | 9781621820901 | #217998A | £46.99 Add to basket

Method and Practice in Biological AnthropologyA Workbook and Laboratory Manual for Introductory CoursesSamantha M HensMethod and Practice in Biological Anthropology: A Workbook and Laboratory Manual for Introductory Courses complements a wide variety of introductory level laboratory courses in biological anthropology. It easily functions with a ... ....

240 pages | Spiralbound | 08/2014 | 9780133825862 | #217388A | £45.99 Add to basket

Population Genetics and Microevolutionary TheoryAlan R TempletonPopulation Genetics and Microevolutionary Theory, Second Edition provides a solid basis in population genetics, with an emphasis on comprehending the biological implications of population genetic theory. Building on the success ... ....


Settlement, Society and Cognition in Human EvolutionLandscapes in the MindFiona Coward, Robert T Hosfield, Matt Pope and Francis F Wenban-SmithSettlement, Society and Cognition in Human Evolution provides a landscape narrative of early hominin evolution, linking conventional material and geographic aspects of the early archaeological record with wider and more elusive ... ....

440 pages | 68 b/w illustrations, 23 maps, 23 tables | Hardback | NYP 02/2015 | 9781107026889 | #215108A | £69.99 Add to basket

Testosterone: Sex, Power, and the Will to WinJoe HerbertWe inherit mechanisms for survival from our primeval past; none so obviously as those involved in reproduction. The hormone testosterone underlies the organization of activation of masculinity: it changes the body and brain to make a ... ....

256 pages | ~20 b/w illustrations | Hardback | NYP 04/2015 | 9780198724971 | #216889A | £16.99 Add to basket

The Invisible History of the Human RaceHow DNA and History Shape Our Identities and Our FuturesChristine KenneallyWe are doomed to repeat history if we fail to learn from it, but how are we affected by the forces that are invisible to us? In The Invisible History of the Human Race Christine Kenneally draws on cutting-edge research to reveal ... ....

























The Vital QuestionWhy is Life the Way it is?Nick LaneWhy is life the way it is? Bacteria evolved into complex life just once in four billion years of life on earth – and all complex life shares many strange properties, from sex to ageing and death. If life evolved on other planets ... ....


We Are AmphibiansJulian and Aldous Huxley on the Future of our SpeciesRS DeeseWe Are Amphibians tells the fascinating story of two brothers who changed the way we think about the future of our species. As a pioneering biologist and conservationist, Julian Huxley helped advance the "modern synthesis" ... ....


Women After AllSex, Evolution, and the End of Male SupremacyMelvin KonnerIn Women After All, anthropologist Melvin Konner traces the arc of evolution to explain the relationships between women and men. Drawing on colorful examples from the natural world – the octopus, the black widow spider ... ....


Ecology

Especes Invasives en BretagnePlantes et Vertebres ContinentauxJacques Haury and Philippe ClergeauThis ninth volume in this series is devoted to the problems of invasive species in Bretagne, especially vascular plants and vertebrates. It is intended for a wide audience and aims to accurately describe the ongoing development ... ....

144 pages | colour photos, colour distribution maps | Paperback | 07/2014 | 9782366621310 | #217405A | £24.99 Add to basket

Essentials of EcologyMichael Begon, Robert W Howarth and Colin R TownsendEssentials of Ecology presents introductory ecology in an accessible, state-of-the-art format designed to cultivate the novice student's understanding of and fascination with the natural world. In a concise, engaging style ... ....

480 pages | colour photos, colour illustrations, maps, tables | Paperback | 10/2014 | 9780470909133 | #217706A | £139.99 Add to basket

Landscape BionomicsBiological-Integrated Landscape EcologyVittorio Ingegnoli"Landscape Bionomics," or "Bio-integrated Landscape Ecology," radically transforms the main principles of traditional Landscape Ecology by recognizing the landscape as a living entity rather than merely the spatial ... ....

453 pages | 198 colour & 52 b/w illustrations, 115 colour tables | Hardback | NYP 11/2014 | 9788847052253 | #218328A | £135.00 Add to basket

Plantes ObsidionalesL'Etonnante Histoire des Especes Propagees par les ArmeesFrancois VernierLooking at the Napoleonic wars and the First and Second World Wars, this book looks at dispersal of plants by armed troops. This work is based on historical writings, but foremost on the field observations of botanists ...

192 pages | 250 colour & b/w photos and illustrations | Paperback | 01/2014 | 9791090826496 | #218351A | £34.99 Add to basket

The New WildWhy Invasive Species Will be Nature's SalvationFred PearceVeteran environmental journalist Fred Pearce used to think of invasive species as evil interlopers spoiling pristine 'natural' ecosystems. Most conservationists would agree. But what if traditional ecology is wrong, and true ... ....


Trophic EcologyBottom-up and Top-down Interactions across Aquatic and Terrestrial SystemsTorrance C Hanley and Kimberly J La PierreAs researchers try to predict the effects of human modification at all trophic levels and mediate the impact of rapid environmental change, it has become clear it is no longer a matter of agreeing that both bottom-up and top-down forces ... ....

400 pages | 52 b/w illustrations, 5 tables | Hardback | NYP 04/2014 | 9781107077324 | #218523A | £59.99 Add to basketPaperback | NYP 04/2015 | 9781107434325 | #218524A | £34.99 Add to basket

Where Do Camels Belong?The Story and Science of Invasive SpeciesKen ThompsonWhere do camels belong? In the Arab world may seem the obvious answer, but they are relative newcomers there. They evolved in North America, retain their greatest diversity in South America, and the only remaining wild dromedaries are ... ....

224 pages | Paperback | 03/2014 | 9781781251744 | #208946A | £10.99 Add to basketPaperback | NYP 03/2015 | 9781781251751 | #217775A | £8.99 Add to basket

Habitats & Ecosystems























Beach RenourishmentEric Bird and Nick LewisBeach renourishment is the restoration of beaches that have been depleted. The text deals with the sources of beach sediment as well as the causes and typical responses to beach erosion, before discussion of beach renourishment.

149 pages | 57 colour & 18 b/w illustrations | Paperback | NYP 12/2014 | 9783319097275 | #217457A | £44.99 Add to basket

Coastal Saline Soil Rehabilitation and Utilization Based on Forestry Approaches in ChinaJianfeng ZhangThe most recent advances in research on coastal saline soil rehabilitation and utilization based on forestry approach are discussed. The forestry approach is emphasized rather than physical or engineering measures to ameliorate saline ... ....


CryopedologyJames G BockheimThis is the first book solely devoted to cryopedology, the study of soils of cold regions. The analysis treats Cryosols as a three-part system (active layer, transition layer, permafrost). Cryopedology considers soil-forming ... ....


Ecological Sustainability for Non-Timber Forest ProductsCharlie M Shackleton, Ashok Pandey and Tamara Ticktin There is growing knowledge about and appreciation of the importance of Non-timber Forest Products (NTFPs) to rural livelihoods in developing countries, and to a lesser extent, developed countries. However, there is also an assumption on ... ....

320 pages | 31 b/w photos, 99 b/w illustrations, 20 tables | Hardback | NYP 03/2015 | 9780415728591 | #217772A | £84.99 Add to basket

Ecologisch Functioneren van SlotenEdwin THM PeetersWhat is the function of ditches in rural areas? This book presents the results of ecological research, provides the necessary background information, and explain their function in the landscape. Both physical and biological processes in ... ....

176 pages | colour photos, colour illustrations | Hardback | NYP 10/2014 | 9789050115094 | #217413A | £23.99 Add to basket

Ecosystem Services and Management Strategy in ChinaYiyu Chen, Beate Jessel, Bojie Fu, Xiubo Yu and Jamie Pittock"Ecosystem Services and Management Strategy in China" is a two-year international cooperation project that culminated from the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development's Task Force on Ecosystems ... ....


Estuarine EcohydrologyEric Wolanski and Mike ElliottEstuarine Ecohydrology, Second Edition, provides an ecohydrology viewpoint of an estuary as an ecosystem by focusing on its principal components: the river, the estuarine waters, the sediment, the nutrients, the wetlands, the ... ....

208 pages | ~105 illustrations | Hardback | NYP 11/2014 | 9780444633989 | #217551A | £61.99 Add to basket

Farming the WoodsAn Integrated Permaculture Approach to Growing Food and Medicinals in Temperate ForestsKen Mudge and Steve GabrielIn the eyes of many people, the practices of forestry and farming are mutually exclusive, because in the modern world, agriculture involves open fields, straight rows, and machinery to grow crops, while forests are primarily reserved for ... ....

400 pages | colour photos, colour illustrations | Paperback | NYP 11/2014 | 9781603585071 | #217303A | £25.99 Add to basket

Forest Conservation Concerns in IndiaS Shyam Sunder and S ParameswarappaShyam Sunder S. and Parameswarappa S. are two foresters, who between them administered, for about 15 years, over four million hectares of forests, including in the Western Ghats of India. In Forest Conservation Concerns in India ... ....


Forest Genetic Resources Management in IndiaK Palanisamy, N Krishna Kumar and R AnandalakshmiFrom the preface: "Forests are the World’s most important and most valuable renewable natural resource, evolved and conserved over millennia in their natural habitats. Forest Genetic Resources (FGRs) has been ...

339 pages | 13 plates with colour photos; colour illustrations, colour & b/w maps | Paperback | 01/2012 | 9788190034654 | #217582A | £35.99 Add to basket

Forest Health ManagementA Balu, RSC Jayaraj, A Raghupathy, V Mohan, Rekha R Warrier, TP Raghunath and N KrishnakumarFrom the preface: "Health of forests is vital to maintaining the economic, and ecological productivity. It is essential to safeguard the health and vitality of forests, forest ecosystems and trees outside forests.

595 pages | 9 plates with colour photos; colour & b/w illustrations | Paperback | 01/2014 | 9788190034678 | #217762A | £57.99 Add to basket

From Geoheritage to GeoparksCase Studies from Africa and BeyondEzzoura Errami, Margaret Brocx and Vic SemeniukFrom Geoheritage to Geoparks is a special issue primarily dedicated to the outcomes of the first International Conference on African and Arabian Geoparks (FICAAG). It will help to promote geoheritage, geoconservation, and geoparks ... ....



























Fynbos: Ecology and ManagementKaren J Esler, Shirley M Pierce and Charl de VilliersThe fynbos region is one of the most spectacularly diverse places on Earth. This is not an idle statement. When one considers the diversity of insects, freshwater and marine species also associated with the Cape, this hotspot is arguably ... ....

272 pages | 250+ colour photos | Paperback | NYP 02/2015 | 9781920217372 | #217263A | £19.95 Add to basket

History of Indian Forestry (2-Volume Set)SS NegiThe History of Indian Forestry is being brought out in two volumes. Volume 1 covers the period up to 1947. It covers the early part of forestry in India and traces its development both in the pre-British and British periods ... ....


Impaired Wetlands in a Damaged LandscapeThe Legacy of Bitumen Exploitation in CanadaKevin P TimoneyImpaired Wetlands in a Damaged Landscape is a scientific monograph that examines the flora and vegetation of natural mineral wetlands in comparison to mineral wetlands affected by bitumen exploitation. The work is of broad relevance ... ....


Low Carbon CitiesTransforming Urban SystemsSteffen LehmannLow Carbon Cities is a book for practitioners, students and scholars in architecture, urban planning and design. It features essays on ecologically sustainable cities by leading exponents of urban sustainability, case studies of ... ....

484 pages | 195 colour illustrations, 31 colour tables | Paperback | 09/2014 | 9780415729833 | #218004A | £41.99 Add to basketHardback | 09/2014 | 9780415729826 | #218005A | £115.00 Add to basket

Manual de Habitats de NavarraJavier Peralta, Idoia Biurrun, Itziar García-Mijangos, Jose Luis Remon, Jose Miguel Olano and LoThe European Directive 92/43 / EEC, also known as the "Habitats Directive", is seen as the most important directive at European level in the field of biodiversity conservation tools.


Manual on Economically Important Forestry Species in South IndiaN Krishna KumarFrom the preface: "Presently, forest resources and tree based economy is flourishing at a rapid scale and there is new interest in raising profitable trees species on available lands in the country. The growing demands for ... ....


Money LoggingOn the Trail of the Asian Timber MafiaLukas StraumannMoney Logging investigates what Gordon Brown has called "probably the biggest environmental crime of our times" – the massive destruction of the Borneo rainforest by Malaysian loggers. Historian and campaigner ... ....


Mountain Ecosystem & ManSanjay Arora, BS Negi, Suraj Bhan, JS Bali and VK BhartiMountain Ecosystem & Man is an interdisciplinary volume consisting of 26 chapters written by well known subject matter experts and is aimed to address various management aspects designed and adopted in restoring and maintaining ... ....

456 pages | illustrations, maps | Paperback | 01/2013 | #217580A | £47.50 Add to basket

Mountain Ecosystems of IndiaSS NegiThis book provides a description of the mountain ecosystems of India, including that of the Himalayan range, Western and Eastern ghats, Aravalli, Vindhyan, Satpura mountains and the hills of north-east India. It covers climate soils ... ....

188 pages | 6 plates with colour photos; colour illustrations | Hardback | 01/2014 | 9788121108546 | #217822A | £39.99 Add to basket

Rediscovering Wood: The Key to a Sustainable FutureProceedings of the Art and Joy of Wood Conference 19-22 October 2011 Bangalore IndiaFood and Agriculture Organization (FAO)The Art and Joy of Wood Conference held on October 2011 in Bangalore, India was one global event to celebrate the International Year of Forests. This was organized to help the participants understand the outlook for wood products and ... ....


Sand MiningEnvironmental Impacts and Selected Case StudiesDamodharan Padmalal and K MayaSand Mining addresses most of the environmental impacts of sand mining from small rivers. The problems and solutions addressed in Sand Mining are applicable to all rivers that drain through densely populated tropical ... ....

























Secrets of the Greatest Snow on EarthWeather, Climate Change, and Finding Deep Powder in Utah's Wasatch Mountains and Around the WorldJim SteenburghUtah has long claimed to have the greatest snow on Earth the state itself has even trademarked the phrase. In Secrets of the Greatest Snow on Earth, Jim Steenburgh investigates Wasatch weather, exposing the myths, explaining the ... ....


Soil Biota and Ecosystem Development in Post Mining SitesJan FrouzThis book focuses on soil development in restoration of post-mining sites. In particular, the authors address the role of biota, including plants, microorganisms, invertebrates, and their various interactions during the process of soil ... ....

316 pages | 83 b/w illustrations | Hardback | 11/2013 | 9781466599314 | #218190A | £63.99 Add to basket

Soils in Natural LandscapesEarl B AlexanderIn any complete investigation of terrestrial ecosystems, rocks and soils must be considered. Soils are essential resources, providing water and nutrients for vascular plants, and mitigating the flow of water from the land. In addition ... ....

319 pages | 76 b/w illustrations, 52 tables | Hardback | 10/2013 | 9781466594357 | #217797A | £63.99 Add to basket

The Nature of CitiesEcological Visions and the American Urban Professions, 1920-1960Jennifer S LightIn the early twentieth century, America was transformed from a predominantly agricultural nation to one whose population resided mostly in cities. Yet rural areas continued to hold favoured status in the country's political life. ....

328 pages | 9 b/w photos, 3 b/w illustrations | Paperback | 05/2014 | 9781421413846 | #217921A | £22.50 Add to basketHardback | 06/2009 | 9780801891366 | #217922A | £33.50 Add to basket

Two Decades of Research in IFGTB (1988-2008)N KrishnakumarFrom the preface: "The Institute of Forest Genetics and Tree Breeding (IFGTB) was established in 1988 under the umbrella of the Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education (ICFRE) with a view to reorganize forestry ...

147 pages | colour illustrations | Hardback | 01/2009 | #217764A | £76.50 Add to basket

Understanding Vineyard SoilsRobert E WhiteAn introduction to viticulture and soil science for both amateur vineyard growers and scientists.

272 pages | colour plates; 121 illustrations | Hardback | NYP 03/2015 | 9780199342068 | #217574A | £25.99 Add to basket

Valuing Ecosystem ServicesMethodological Issues and Case StudiesKN NinanConserving biodiversity and ecosystem services is critical to promoting human welfare and sustainable development. Valuing Ecosystem Services: Methodological Issues And Case Studies presents the latest research on valuing ecosystems ... ....


Conservation & Biodiversity

Biodiversity Conservation in IndiaManagement Practices, Livelihood Concerns and Future OptionsBidhan Kanti Das and Ajit BanerjeeThe present book examines the current laws and management strategies in forest reserves and their effectiveness in conserving dwindling biodiversity resources. Case studies from biosphere regions, marine regions, as well as terrestrial ... ....


Conflicts in ConservationNavigating Towards SolutionsStephen M Redpath, Ralph J Gutierrez, Kevin A Wood, Juliette C Young, Anna Evely and Mark ReedConflicts over the conservation of biodiversity are increasing and are serious obstacles to wildlife conservation efforts worldwide. Changing patterns in land use, over-exploitation, pollution, climate change and the threat posed by invasive ... ....

Hardback | NYP 02/2015 | 9781107017696 | #217201A | £69.99 Add to basketPaperback | NYP 02/2015 | 9781107603462 | #217202A | £34.99 Add to basket

Conservacion Colombiana 12: Conservation Plan for the Cerulean Warbler on its Nonbreeding Range / Plan de ConservacionFundacion ProAves, American Bird Conservancy (ABC), El Grupo Ceruleo and T Bently WigleyFrom the summary: "The Cerulean Warbler is one of the most threatened migratory birds in America. A great part of the ecological knowledge we have of its annual cycle is from late April to July, when the birds establish ...

60 pages | 17 colour & b/w illustrations and colour & b/w maps, 1 table | 08/2010 | #218115A | £11.99 Add to basket

Conservacion Colombiana 7: Plan de Manejo y Conservacion del Loro Coroniazul (Hapalopsittaca fuertesi)Fundacion ProAvesThis issue formulates a conservation action plan for the critically endangered Fuertes's parrot, Hapalopsittaca fuertesi, also known as the indigo-winged parrot. This parrot has a highly restricted range on the west slope of ... ....

52 pages | 12 b/w photos and b/w illustrations | 01/2009 | #218113A | £11.99 Add to basket





























Nature without BordersMahesh a Rangarajan, MD Madhusudan and Ghazala ShahabuddinNature without Borders explores the ways in which conservation of biodiversity can coexist with human actions and interests through a series of eight essays. These are tied together by an analytical introduction by the editors. ....


Osos y LobosComportamiento y Conservacion de los Grandes Carnivoros en la Cordillera CantabricaAlberto Fernandez GilThis book is about the fascinating mating system of the brown bear, how and why they change their eating patterns and how the trophic ecology of wolves affects their sociability and social cohesion within the unit group.

150 pages | colour photos, colour & b/w distribution maps | Paperback | 01/2014 | 9788494095153 | #218109A | £27.99 Add to basket

Ou se Cache la Biodiversite en Ville90 Cles pour Comprendre la Nature en VillePhilippe Clergeau and Nathalie MachonNature is more and more present in the city, not only because we are plants more and more trees, shrubs and flowers, but mostly because the management of green spaces and gardens becomes greener. Plants and animals benefit from these ... ....


Under Kalahari SkiesEcology and Conservation in BotswanaDavid C HartnettBotswana sits in the cradle of southern Africa, with a unique mixture of ecology, politics, economy and tradition, making it a fascinating place to explore the dynamics of contemporary conservation. Take a journey under the wide skies of ... ....

128 pages | 72 colour photos, 1 map | Paperback | NYP 01/2015 | 9780957453081 | #218370A | £16.50 Add to basket

Environmental Science

Carbon ShockA Tale of Risk and Calculus on the Front Lines of a Disrupted Global EconomyMark SchapiroIn Carbon Shock, veteran journalist Mark Schapiro takes readers on a journey into a world where the same chaotic forces reshaping our natural world are also transforming the economy, playing havoc with corporate calculations ... ....


Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples in the United StatesImpacts, Experiences and ActionsJulie Koppel Maldonado, Benedict Colombi and Rajul PandyaWith a long history and deep connection to the Earth's resources, indigenous peoples have an intimate understanding and ability to observe the impacts linked to climate change. Traditional ecological knowledge and tribal experience ... ....


Climate in Asia and the PacificSecurity, Society and SustainabilityMichael Manton, Linda Anne Stevenson, Helen Clarke, Ghassem Asrar and Scott HaugerCommissioned by the Intergovernmental Meeting (IGM) of the Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research (APN), Climate in Asia and the Pacific offers a detailed survey of the current status of climate change and climate variation ... ....


Environmental ScienceDaniel D ChirasEach new print copy includes Navigate 2 Advantage Access that unlocks a comprehensive and interactive eBook, student practice activities and assessments, a full suite of instructor resources, and learning analytics reporting tools. ....

725 pages | illustrations, tables | Hardback | NYP 11/2014 | 9781284057058 | #217389A | £46.99 Add to basket

Fevered: Why a Hotter Planet Will Hurt Our Health - And How We Can Save OurselvesLinda MarsaBeyond images of emaciated polar bears and drought-cracked lakes, there remains a major part of climate change's impact that the media has neglected: how our health will suffer from higher temperatures and extreme weather.


Global Environmental ChangeBill FreedmanThe handbook Global Environmental Change is intended to serve as a reliable and comprehensive resource to attend the needs of researchers, teachers, students, and professionals working in science and policy aspects relevant to ... ....

1000 pages | 101 colour & 34 b/w illustrations | Hardback | 08/2014 | 9789400757837 | #218545A | £386.50 Add to basketPaperback | 08/2014 | #218546A | £485.50 Add to basket

Invitation to OceanographyPaul R PinetThe bestselling Invitation to Oceanography continues to provide a modern, comprehensive, and student-friendly introduction to this fascinating field. Spanning the four major divisions of ocean science-geology, chemistry, physics ... ....


























Microbial Biodegradation and BioremediationSurajit DasMicrobial Biodegradation and Bioremediation brings together experts in relevant fields to describe the successful application of microbes and their derivatives for bioremediation of potentially toxic and relatively novel compounds ... ....

642 pages | b/w illustrations, tables | Hardback | 06/2014 | 9780128000212 | #218322A | £75.99 Add to basket

Progress in Slow Sand and Alternative Biofiltration ProcessesFurther Developments and ApplicationsNobutada Nakamoto, NJD Graham and M Robin CollinProgress in Slow Sand and Alternative Biofiltration Processes: Further Developments and Applications offers technical information and discussion to provide perspective on the biological and physical factors affecting the performance ... ....


Selenium in the Environment and Human HealthGary S Banuelos, Zhi-Qing Lin and Xuebin YinSelenium is arguably the naturally occurring trace element of greatest concern worldwide. In excessive amounts it can lead to toxicosis and teratogenesis in animals, while the impact of selenium deficiency can be even more significant. ....


Sewage Treatment PlantsEconomic Evaluation of Innovative Technologies for Energy EfficiencyKonstantinos P Tsagarakis and Katerina StamatelatouSewage Treatment Plants: Economic Evaluation of Innovative Technologies for Energy Efficiency aims to show how cost saving can be achieved in sewage treatment plants through implementation of novel, energy efficient technologies ... ....


The CatchHow Fishing Companies Reinvented Slavery and Plunder the OceansMichael FieldOn November 9, 2008, near Kiribati in the Pacific, a Korean ship came alongside Tai Ching 21. The Taiwan-flagged fishing boat was eerily silent. Three life rafts were missing, and all 29 of the Taiwanese officers and Chinese, Indonesian ... ....


The Oxford Handbook of International Climate Change LawKevin R Gray, Richard Tarasofsky and Cinnamon Pinon CarlarneClimate change presents one of the greatest challenges of our time, and has become one of the defining issues of the twenty-first century. The radical changes which both developed and developing countries will need to make, in economic ... ....


Tuning Biological Nutrient Removal PlantsKen HartleyTuning Biological Nutrient Removal Plants increases interest in tuning to enhance both performance and capacity, to provide insight into typical plant operating characteristics, and to stimulate operators' interest in studying ... ....

256 pages | Illustrations | Paperback | 05/2013 | 9781780404820 | #217314A | £88.99 Add to basket

Physical Sciences

15 Million DegreesA Journey to the Centre of the SunLucie GreenLight takes 8 minutes to reach Earth from the surface of the Sun. But its journey within the Sun takes hundreds of thousands of years. What is going on in there? What are light and heat? How does the Sun produce them?


Atlas of Great CometsRonald Stoyan and Storm DunlopThroughout the ages, comets, enigmatic and beautiful wandering objects that appear for weeks or months, have alternately fascinated and terrified humankind. The result of five years of careful research, Atlas of Great Comets is ... ....

224 pages | 163 colour & 123 b/w illustrations, 32 maps, 34 tables | Hardback | NYP 01/2015 | 9781107093492 | #216906A | £34.99 Add to basket

Atlas of MeteoritesMonica Grady, Giovanni Pratesi and Vanni Moggi CecchiA complete visual reference for meteorite classification, this atlas combines high resolution optical microscope images with detailed descriptions. It provides a systematic account of meteorites and their most important classification ... ....

350 pages | 800 colour illustrations | Hardback | NYP 10/2014 | 9780521840354 | #198438A | £95.00 Add to basketPaperback | 09/2014 | 9780521549646 | #217800A | £0.00 Add to basket

Chemical Fundamentals of Geology and Environmental GeoscienceRobin GillChemical principles are fundamental to the Earth sciences, and geoscience students increasingly require a firm grasp of basic chemistry to succeed in their studies. The enlarged third edition of this highly regarded textbook introduces ... ....

























Cold Desert Geomorphology in the Trans-Himalayan RegionA Preliminary Analysis of Landforms of the Spiti River ValleyBhupinder Singh Marh and Vikrant Singh RanaIn this book the Spiti Valley, which has the distinction of being an area in which "...an almost unbroken sequence of sedimentary deposits ranging from Cambrian to Cretaceous..." can be seen, has been introduced as a geomorphic ... ....

138 pages | colour & b/w illustrations, b/w maps | Paperback | 01/2014 | 9788179753217 | #218173A | £19.99 Add to basket

Discovering the UniverseThe Story of AstronomyPaul MurdinDiscovering the Universe is the story of man's quest through the ages to unlock the secrets of our universe and understand where we come from and where we are going. Lavishly illustrated throughout with both historic images ... ....


Dune WorldsHow Windblown Sand Shapes Planetary LandscapesRalph Lorenz and James R ZimbelmanDune Worlds describes how sand dunes work, why they are the way they are in different settings, and how they are being studied. Particular attention is paid to their formation and appearance elsewhere in the solar system.


Extraterrestrial SeismologyVincent CH Tong and Rafael A GarcíaSeismology is a highly effective tool for investigating the internal structure of the Earth. Similar techniques have also successfully been used to study other planetary bodies (planetary seismology), the Sun (helioseismology), and other ... ....


Geodesy: Introduction to Geodetic Datum and Geodetic SystemsZhiping Lu, Shubo Qiao and Yunying QuGeodetic datum (including coordinate datum, height datum, depth datum, gravimetry datum) and geodetic systems (including geodetic coordinate system, plane coordinate system, height system, gravimetry system) are the common foundations ... ....


Glazialgeomorphologie: Formung der Landoberflaeche durch Gletscher [Glacial Morphology: Glacial Processes Shaping theRoland Baumhauer and Stefan WinklerThe authors provide an illustrated introduction to the geomorphology of the glacier and thus enable a thorough understanding of the interrelationships of the major sub-disciplines of physical geography (and modern climate research). ....

265 pages | 153 illustrations, 4 tables | Paperback | 01/2014 | 9783443071516 | #218122A | £34.99 Add to basket

Gravity: Cracking the Cosmic CodeFrom Falling Apples to Supermassive Black HolesNicholas MeeGravity: Cracking the Cosmic Code is the follow-up to Nicholas Mee's Higgs Force. It is the story of gravity and the heroic efforts to make sense of this mysterious feature of all our lives. The book takes a historical approach ... ....

295 pages | colour illustrations | Hardback | 08/2014 | 9781901579482 | #218163A | £19.99 Add to basketPaperback | NYP 02/2015 | 9781901579499 | #218165A | £12.99 Add to basket

Les Eaux Souterraines Sont-Elles Eternelles ?90 Cles Pour Comprendre les Eaux SouterrainesJean Margat and Thierry RufInvisible for the most part, groundwater shows itself at ordinary (sources, sinks) and extraordinary (geysers, phreatic explosions, underground lakes ...) sources that allow one to understand how it works. It can be running or still ... ....


Living with ThunderExploring the Geologic Past, Present, and Future of the Pacific NorthwestEllen Morris BishopThe Pacific Northwest is a region defined by its geology as much as its rugged coastline, drippy westside forests, fertile farms, and canyoned eastside grasslands. These landscapes have been forged by volcanoes, crumpled by faults, and ... ....

160 pages | colour photos, maps | Paperback | NYP 11/2014 | 9780870717482 | #217391A | £19.95 Add to basket

Living with the StarsHow the Human Body is Connected to the Life Cycles of the Earth, the Planets, and the StarsKarel Schrijver and Iris SchrijverLiving with the Stars tells the fascinating story of what truly makes the human body. The body that is with us all our lives is always changing. We are quite literally not who we were years, weeks, or even days ago: our cells divide ... ....


Mathematics and the Real WorldThe Remarkable Role of Evolution in the Making of MathematicsZvi ArtsteinIn this accessible and illuminating study of how the science of mathematics developed, a veteran math researcher and educator looks at the ways in which our evolutionary makeup is both a help and a hindrance to the study of math.


























Molecules: The Elements and the Architecture of EverythingTheodore Gray and Nick MannIn Molecules: The Elements and the Architecture of Everything Gray goes beyond the 118 elements in the periodic table to explore, through fascinating stories and stunning photographic imagery, what he considers to be the most ... ....

240 pages | 500 colour photos | Hardback | NYP 11/2014 | 9781579129712 | #217852A | £19.99 Add to basket

Ou le Monde Mineral Choisit-il ses Couleurs?100 Cles pour Comprendre les Roches et les MinerauxMartial CaroffWhat is the relationship between basalt, amber and chalk? Although formed in totally different conditions, all three are rocks. What does quartz have in common with opal? These are both silica minerals, but only the first ...


Patrick Moore's Yearbook of Astronomy 2015John MasonUntil his death in 2012, world-renowned astronomer and broadcaster Sir Patrick Moore edited this indispensable guide for fifty-two consecutive years. With the 2015 Yearbook of Astronomy, his friend and long-time co-editor ... ....


Phase Diagrams for GeoscientistsAn Atlas of the Earth's InteriorTibor GasparikNow incorporating full color phase diagrams, Phase Diagrams for Geoscientists summarizes the results of the experimental studies of phase relations in the chemical systems relevant to Earth, carried out by the author in a time ... ....

462 pages | illustrations, tables | Hardback | 08/2013 | 9781461457756 | #217681A | £117.00 Add to basket

Plate Tectonics: A Very Short IntroductionPeter MolnarThe 1960s revealed a new and revolutionary idea in geological thought: that the continents drift with respect to one another. After having been dismissed for decades as absurd, the concept gradually became part of geology's basic ... ....


Professor Stewart's Incredible NumbersIan StewartProfessor Stewart explores the astonishing properties of numbers from 1-10 to zero and infinity, including every kind of number you can think of – real, imaginary, rational, irrational. positive and negative – along with several ... ....


Question Everything125 Questions & 124 AnswersMick O'HareAll science begins with questions: How does that happen? What am I seeing here? Why do these birds do that? When will we have proof for this? And often the simplest questions can lead to amazing insights into our world, our universe and ... ....


Solved Problems in GeophysicsElisa Buforn, Carmen Pro and Agustín UdíasSolving problems is an indispensable exercise for mastering the theory underlying the various branches of geophysics. Solved Problems in Geophysics is a collection of nearly 200 problems in geophysics, which are solved in detail ... ....

350 pages | 192 b/w illustrations, 14 tables | Paperback | 04/2012 | 9781107602717 | #195236A | £30.39 Add to basketHardback | / | 9781107017023 | #217573A | £30.39 Add to basket

Stone in Historic BuildingsCharacterization and PerformanceJ Cassar, MG Winter, BR Marker, NRG Walton, DC Entwisle, EN Bromhead and JWN SmithThere is considerable academic and practical interest in stone and stone buildings, as exemplified by the wide range of high-quality and innovative work being conducted in the pursuit of the effective preservation and restoration of ... ....

200 pages | colour & b/w illustrations, colour & b/w maps | Hardback | 05/2014 | 9781862393769 | #218016A | £89.99 Add to basket

Stratigraphie von Deutschland XIBuntsandsteinJochen Lepper and Heinz-Gerd RoehlingAt the time of their deposition, buntsandstein sediments covered the greater part of Germany. Today, however, they occur only on less than 10% of the total area of Germany. Together with the Muschelkalk and Keuper, younger deposits ... ....

657 pages | 275 illustrations, 45 tables | Paperback | 01/2014 | 9783510492299 | #217383A | £114.00 Add to basket

Vindhyan Basin, Son Valley Area Central IndiaS Kumar and MP SinghFrom the foreword: "The Vindhyan sediments attracted the attention of geologists for palaeobiological evidence since the beginning of the last century when some carbonaceous markings in shales in the Neemuch district ...

145 pages | colour & b/w illustrations, colour & b/w maps | Paperback | 01/2012 | #217209A | £29.99 Add to basket
























WienerwaldHans Egger and Godfrid WesselyThe geological guide-book Wienerwald now is available in a much better illustrated and revised 3rd edition. The region south of Vienna (Wienerwald) covers an area of almost 1•250 square kilometres. Topics treated in this ... ....

202 pages | 133 illustrations, 1 table | Paperback | 09/2014 | 9783443150983 | #217868A | £35.99 Add to basket

Sustainable Development

A Climate of CrisisAmerica in the Age of EnvironmentalismPatrick AllittFew issues today excite more passion or alarm than the specter of climate change. In A Climate of Crisis, historian Patrick Allitt shows that our present climate of crisis is far from exceptional. Indeed, the environmental debate ... ....

384 pages | b/w illustrations | Hardback | 03/2014 | 9781594204661 | #218125A | £24.99 Add to basketPaperback | NYP 03/2015 | 9780143127017 | #218126A | £16.99 Add to basket

A Line in the Tar SandsStruggles for Environmental JusticeJoshua Kahn Russel, Toban Black, Stephen D'Arcy and Tony WeisThe fight over the tar sands in North America is among the epic environmental and social justice battles of our time, and one of the first that has managed to marry quite explicitly concern for frontline communities and immediate local ... ....


A Philosophy of WalkingFrederic Gros"It is only ideas gained from walking that have any worth." – Nietzsche In A Philosophy of Walking, a bestseller in France, leading thinker Frédéric Gros charts the many different ways we ... ....


Advances in HydrogeologyPhoolendra K Mishra and Kristopher L KuhlmanAdvances in Hydrogeology represents different types of progress in hydrogeology, including conceptualization changes, different approaches to simulating groundwater flow and transport new hydrogeophysical methods. Each chapter ... ....


Agrarian DreamsThe Paradox of Organic Farming in CaliforniaJulie GuthmanIn this ground-breaking study of organic farming, Julie Guthman challenges accepted wisdom about organic food and agriculture in the Golden State. Many continue to believe that small-scale organic farming is the answer to our environmental ... ....

328 pages | maps | Paperback | 07/2014 | 9780520277465 | #217375A | £19.95 Add to basket

Agricultural Policy in the United StatesEvolution and EconomicsJames L Novak, James W Pease and Larry D SandersAgricultural Policy in the United States: Evolution and Economics traces the foundation of U.S. agricultural policy from its colonial roots to the present, using economic concepts to analyze and interpret political and economic ... ....


American Environmental PolicyBeyond GridlockChristopher McGrory Klyza and David J SousaThe "golden era" of American environmental lawmaking in the 1960s and 1970s saw twenty-two pieces of major environmental legislation (including the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, and the Endangered Species Act) passed by ... ....


Animal Nutrition with Transgenic PlantsGerhard FlachowskyTransgenic plants are cultivated on a large scale worldwide, and most of the harvested products are fed to domestic animals. By gathering together more than 150 feeding studies with food-producing animals, and covering both first and second ... ....


Aquananotechnology: Global ProspectsDavid E Reisner and T PradeepNanotechnology is finding numerous uses in the water industry, including high surface area filtration media, membranes for desalination plants, and fundamental new methods for desalination. Aquananotechnology: Global Prospects ... ....


Bacterial Diversity in Sustainable AgricultureDinesh K MaheshwariThe earth's biodiversity is a degree of ecosystem health which is vital to ecology and environmental sustainability. The microbial world is the largest unexplored reservoir. The agro-ecosystem enriched with rhizosphere implicit abundance ... ....


























Beasts of the EarthAnimals, Humans, and DiseaseE Fuller Torrey and Robert H YolkenHumans have lived in close proximity to other animals for thousands of years. Recent scientific studies have even shown that the presence of animals has a positive effect on our physical and mental health. People with pets typically have ... ....

191 pages | no illustrations | Hardback | 03/2005 | 9780813535715 | #154339A | £18.28 Add to basketPaperback | 08/2014 | 9780813571430 | #218390A | £22.50 Add to basket

Bioenergy ResearchAdvances and ApplicationsVijai Kumar Gupta , Christian P Kubicek, Jack Saddler, Feng Xu and Maria G Tuohy Bioenergy Research: Advances and Applications brings biology and engineering together to address the challenges of future energy needs. The book consolidates the most recent research on current technologies, concepts, and commercial ... ....

500 pages | Illustrated | Hardback | 01/2014 | 9780444595614 | #218396A | £110.00 Add to basket

Biomonitoring of Water and Waste WaterAnju Agrawal and Krishna GopalBiomonitoring of water quality is very much essential for assessing the overall health of water bodies and safe supply of drinking water. The chemical nature of toxicant is highly dynamic in environment with time and space whereas ... ....


Biotechnology and BiodiversityMR Ahuja and KG RamawatThe purpose of Biotechnology and Biodiversity is to assess the potential effects of biotechnological approaches particularly genetic modification on biodiversity and the environment. All aspects of biodiversity such as ecological ... ....


Building a Low Impact RoundhouseTony WrenchTony Wrench shares his many years of experience, skills and techniques used to build this unique and affordable low impact home that costs GBP 5,500. The author explains the process of visualising and designing a house through to the ... ....

160 pages | 7 colour & 91 b/w illustrations | Paperback | 06/2014 | 9781856231749 | #218187A | £12.95 Add to basket

Climate Change LitigationRegulatory Pathways to Cleaner Energy?Jacqueline Peel and Hari OsofskyThis examination of the role of litigation in addressing the problem of climate change focuses not only on how the massive and growing number of lawsuits influences regulation directly, but also on how the lawsuits shape corporate behaviour ... ....


Climate Change and Coastal Development Law in AustraliaJustine BellClimate change is anticipated to raise global sea levels, and also impact on the frequency and intensity of storm surge and erosion events. These events pose a serious threat to the Australian population, with many communities located in ... ....


Climate Change and Sustainable CitiesHugo Priemus and Simin DavoudiClimate change has demonstrated, perhaps more than any other environmental concerns, the complexities of the human-nature interrelationship and the need for embedding a far greater environmental consciousness into our social values and ... ....


Climate-Resilient HorticultureAdaptation and Migration StrategiesHarish Chandra Prasad Singh, Nadipynayakanahally Krishnamurthy Srinivasa Rao and SeetharamaiahClimate change, a global phenomenon, has attracted scientists to contribute in anticipatory research to mitigate adverse impacts, which are more important for horticulture, considering that the scenario is in the midst of revolution ... ....


Composting for Sustainable AgricultureDinesh K MaheshwariThe dramatic worldwide increase in agricultural and industrial productivity has created severe environmental problems. Soil and groundwater reservoirs have been polluted with pesticides, xenobiotics and agro-chemicals. The global consensus ... ....


Constructing GreenThe Social Structures of SustainabilityRebecca L Henn, Andrew J Hoffman and Nicole Woolsey BiggartBuildings are the nation's greatest energy consumers. Forty percent of all our energy is used for heating, cooling, lighting, and powering machines and devices in buildings. And despite decades of investment in green construction ... ....

368 pages | 5 b/w photos, 24 illustrations, 1 table | Paperback | 09/2013 | 9780262519625 | #218399A | £18.95 Add to basketHardback | 09/2013 | 9780262019415 | #218400A | £37.95 Add to basket

























Ebola: The Natural and Human HistoryDavid QuammenIn 1976 a deadly virus emerged from the jungles of Sudan. As swiftly as it came, it disappeared, leaving no trace. Over the four decades since, Ebola has emerged sporadically, each time to devastating effect. It can kill up to 90 percent of its ... ....


Energy Management in BuildingsThe Earthscan Expert GuideDavid ThorpeThe role of the energy manager has evolved significantly as the task of cutting greenhouse gas emissions from buildings has become increasingly important. Managers are now technical experts, negotiators, construction project managers ... ....

248 pages | 189 colour illustrations, 30 colour tables | Hardback | 11/2013 | 9780415706469 | #218063A | £39.99 Add to basket

Energy Management in IndustryThe Earthscan Expert GuideDavid ThorpeEnergy demand reduction is fast becoming a business activity for all companies and organisations because it can increase profits regardless of the nature of their core activity. The International Energy Agency believes that industry could ... ....

216 pages | 312 colour illustrations, 22 colour tables | Hardback | 12/2013 | 9780415706476 | #218062A | £39.99 Add to basket

Energy Policy Modeling in the 21st CenturyHassan Qudrat-UllahThe roles and applications of various modeling approaches, aimed at improving the usefulness of energy policy models in public decision making, are covered by Energy Policy Modeling in the 21st Century. The development, validating ... ....


Energy and SecurityStrategies for a World in TransitionJan H Kalicki and David L GoldwynThis is the second, completely updated edition of this widely read and respected guide is the most authoritative survey available on the perennial question of energy security. Energy and Security gathers today's topmost ... ....

664 pages | 49 b/w illustrations | Paperback | 11/2013 | 9781421411866 | #218542A | £22.50 Add to basketHardback | 11/2013 | 9781421411699 | #218543A | £44.99 Add to basket

Enterprising NatureEconomics, Markets and Finance in Global Biodiversity PoliticsJessica DempseyEnterprising Nature explores the rise of economic rationality in global biodiversity law, policy and science. - Examines disciplinary apparatuses, ecological–economic methodologies, computer models, business ...

288 pages | Paperback | NYP 03/2015 | 9781118640555 | #215508A | £19.99 Add to basketHardback | NYP 03/2015 | 9781118640609 | #215509A | £54.99 Add to basket

Environmental Ethics for the Long TermAn IntroductionJohn NoltBroad in scope, this introduction to environmental ethics considers both contemporary issues and the extent of humanity's responsibility for distant future life. John Nolt, a logician and environmental ethicist, interweaves contemporary ... ....


Environmental Law Dimensions of Human RightsCollected Courses of the Academy of European LawBen BoerA high quality environment is coming to be regarding as a necessary prerequisite for the enjoyment of some of the most fundamental human rights-such as the rights to life and health. The precise recognition of a 'right to environmental ... ....


Environmental PoliticsPeter DauvergneThis significant collection surveys 35 pioneering and influential articles in the field of environmental politics. It maps the historical trends and current research directions, revealing the most important debates and findings in this ... ....

972 pages | Illustrations | Hardback | 02/2013 | 9781781009017 | #217928A | £330.00 Add to basket

Environmental SecurityAn IntroductionPeter HoughThis student-friendly textbook offers a survey of the competing conceptions and applications of the increasingly prominent notion of environmental security. Environmental Security is divided into three sections. In the firs ... ....

176 pages | 3 tables | Paperback | 01/2014 | 9780415516488 | #217720A | £27.99 Add to basketHardback | 01/2014 | 9780415516471 | #217721A | £94.99 Add to basket

























Farmers' Crop Varieties and Farmers' RightsChallenges in Taxonomy and LawMichael HalewoodCrop plant varieties developed by local farmers, commonly referred to as 'farmers' varieties', are a problematic subject, because there are no fixed taxonomic or legal definitions of them. As a result, policies to increase the ... ....

288 pages | 10 b/w illustrations | Hardback | NYP 02/2015 | 9781844078905 | #217432A | £89.99 Add to basketPaperback | NYP 02/2015 | 9781844078912 | #217433A | £34.99 Add to basket

Fighting WestwayEnvironmental Law, Citizen Activism, and the Regulatory War that Transformed New York CityWilliam W BuzbeeFrom 1971 to 1985, battles raged over Westway, a multibillion-dollar highway, development, and park project slated for placement in New York City. It would have projected far into the Hudson River, including massive new landfill extending ... ....

312 pages | 13 b/w photos | Paperback | 03/2014 | 9780801479441 | #217312A | £15.50 Add to basketHardback | 03/2014 | 9780801451904 | #217313A | £49.50 Add to basket

Fish and Fisheries of Indian ReservoirsVB SakhareReservoirs are man-made lakes created by impounding river water for the purpose of irrigation, hydro-electric power generation, flood control and industrial water needs. In India a large number of river valley projects have been commissioned ... ....


Fishing for a SolutionCanada's Fisheries Relations with the European Union, 1977-2013Donald Barry, Bob Applebaum and Earl WisemanFishing for a Solution provides a detailed, policy-based account of the development of Canada's fisheries relations with the European Union. It covers over 35 years of this contentious international relationship, from the ... ....


Food WasteHome Consumption, Material Culture and Everyday LifeDavid EvansIn recent years, food waste has risen to the top of the political and public agenda, yet until now there has been no scholarly analysis applied to the topic as a complement and counter-balance to campaigning and activist approaches. ....

136 pages | 2 b/w illustrations | Paperback | NYP 10/2014 | 9780857852335 | #217844A | £17.99 Add to basketHardback | NYP 10/2014 | 9780857852328 | #217845A | £54.99 Add to basket

Forest Hydrology and Catchment ManagementAn Australian PerspectiveLeon BrenFor the last three centuries forests have been recognised as providing the best water catchments and valued for their sustained output of high quality water. In Australia, work which was commenced fifty years ago has come to fruition and ... ....


Global Energy JusticeProblems, Principles, and PracticesBenjamin K Sovacool and Michael H DworkinWe need new ways of thinking about, and approaching, the world's energy problems. Global energy security and access is one of the central justice issues of our time, with profound implications for happiness, welfare, freedom, equity ... ....


Global Maritime Transport and Ballast Water ManagementIssues and SolutionsMatej David and Stephan GollaschBallast water management is a complex subject with many issues and still limited knowledge, however, it is building up on new scientific researches and practical experience. The Ballast Water Management Convention is the global legal ... ....


Green Materials for Energy, Products and DepollutionEric Lichtfouse, Jan Schwarzbauer and Didier RobertUsing renewable fuels and materials, drinking clean water and food, and breathing safe air are major issues for a sustainable world. Green Materials for Energy, Products and Depollution reviews biodiesel production from microalgae ... ....


Greenergized: A Business Fable on Clean EnergyDennis PosadasRenewable energy versus fossil fuels: the debate rages on, worldwide. At stake is nothing less than the protection of our planet from the ravages of climate change. But the costs involved in making the switch to clean energy are daunting ... ....


























Greening the GlobeWorld Society and Environmental ChangeAnn HironakaRecent decades have seen a rapid expansion of environmental activity in the world, including the signing of a growing number of environmental treaties and the formation of international organizations like the United Nations Environment ... ....


Handbook of Sustainable TravelTommy Garling, Dick F Ettema and Margareta FrimanHandbook of Sustainable Travel gathers distinguished researchers on travel behavior from a variety of disciplines, to offer state-of-the-art research and analysis encompassing environmental, traffic and transport psychology ... ....


Ingenierie EcologiqueAction par et/ou pour le Vivant ?Freddy Rey, Frederic Gosselin and Antoine DoreEcological engineering is a booming subject subject to a growing interest both in the world of research and amongst practitioners and managers of terrestrial and aquatic environments. Scientists at the Institut National de ...


International Investment Law and the EnvironmentSaverio Di BenedettoInternational Investment Law and the Environment expands upon research into the protection of foreign investments, which is currently an intensively studied area of international law. At the same time, it also examines environmental ... ....


Introduction to Global Energy IssuesRenaud Gicquel, May Gicquel and Jean-Arnold VinoisFrom the discovery of fire to that of the atom, the development of human societies has largely been based on the conquest of energy. In all countries, energy has gradually become one of the key factors of social and economic development ... ....


Knowledge Lives in the LakeCase Studies in Environmental and Customary Law from Southern AfricaManfred O Hinz, Oliver C Ruppel and Clever MapaurePresents research within the framework of the international Biodiversity Monitoring Transect Analysis in Africa (BIOTA) Project. The BIOTA Project was inspired by the movement to translate the demand for sustainable development into ... ....


Legal Reasoning in Environmental LawA Study of Structure, Form and LanguageDouglas FisherLegal Reasoning in Environmental Law provides a comprehensive review and analysis of the range of legal reasoning processes to support the understanding, interpretation and application of international, regional and national ... ....


Marine Renewable Energy Technology and Environmental InteractionsMark A Shields and Andrew IL PayneIt is now widely recognized that there is a need for long-term secure and suitable sustainable forms of energy. Renewable energy from the marine environment, in particular renewable energy from tidal currents, wave and wind, can help achieve ... ....


Material EcocriticismSerenella Iovino, Serpil Oppermann and Jeffrey Jerome CohenMaterial Ecocriticism offers new ways to analyze language and reality, human and nonhuman life, mind and matter, without falling into well-worn paths of thinking. Bringing ecocriticism closer to the material turn, the contribution ... ....

376 pages | 19 b/w illustrations | Hardback | NYP 10/2014 | 9780253013958 | #218057A | £61.99 Add to basketPaperback | 09/2014 | 9780253013989 | #218111A | £25.99 Add to basket

Motivating ChangeSustainable Design and Behaviour in the Built EnvironmentRobert Crocker, Steffen Lehmann, Michael Braungart and Doug McKenzie-MohrToday's most pressing challenges require behaviour change at many levels, from the city to the individual. Motivating Change focuses on the collective influences that can be seen to shape change. Exploring the underlying ... ....

472 pages | 83 colour illustrations, 19 colour tables | Paperback | 07/2013 | 9780415829786 | #218006A | £41.99 Add to basketHardback | 08/2013 | 9780415829779 | #218007A | £115.00 Add to basket

Principles of Horticultural PhysiologyEdward F DurnerThis is the only horticulture textbook offering in-depth coverage of physiological processes in relation to horticultural practices. Understanding the physiology of plants is fundamental to horticulture theory and practice. This is a major ... ....

440 pages | Illustrations | Hardback | 05/2013 | 9781780643069 | #218548A | £94.99 Add to basketPaperback | 05/2013 | 9781780640259 | #218549A | £44.99 Add to basket


























Promoting Investment in Agriculture for Increased Production and ProductivitySaifullah Syed and Masahiro MiyazakoInvesting in agriculture is one of the most effective ways of reducing hunger and poverty, promoting agricultural productivity and enhancing environmental sustainability. Covering the development of sustainable agriculture, food production ... ....


Public-Private Partnerships in the Water SectorFrom Theory to PracticeRui Cunha Marques and Carlos Oliveira CruzEnsuring quality and affordability in the water services is a fundamental requirement for the social, economic and environmental development of modern societies. Achieving this goal requires dealing with a large diversity of challenges ... ....


Quinoa: Botany, Production and UsesAtul Bhargava and Shilpi SrisastavaQuinoa is an invaluable crop, highlighted by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) as one of the world's main crops for future food security. The first comprehensive review of quinoa ...


Rainbow WarriorsLegendary Stories from Greenpeace ShipsMaite MompoFollowing the lives of the three ships with the name Rainbow Warrior, Rainbow Warriors, written by a long-serving Greenpeace activist, tells the inside stories of life on board and recounts some of the ships' most exciting ... ....


Renewable Energy and Sustainable DesignScott GrinnellPacked with cutting-edge coverage and practical applications, Renewable Energy and Sustainable Design delivers a nontechnical introduction to green building, passive solar design, alternative construction, and common forms of ... ....


Snake OilHow Fracking's False Promise of Plenty Imperils Our FutureRichard HeinbergThe rapid spread of 'fracking' (hydraulic fracturing) has temporarily boosted natural gas and oil production, particularly in the USA, but it has also sparked a massive environmental backlash in local communities. The fossil fuel ... ....


Social Practices, Interventions and SustainabilityBeyond Behaviour ChangeYolande Strengers and Cecily MallerIn an era of dramatic environmental change, social change is desperately needed to curb burgeoning consumption. Many calls to action have focused on individual behaviour or technological innovation, with relative silence from the social ... ....

224 pages | 16 b/w illustrations, 4 tables | Hardback | NYP 11/2014 | 9780415739634 | #217794A | £84.99 Add to basket

Spaceship Earth in the Environmental Age, 1960-1990Sabine Hoehler'Spaceship Earth' was a key metaphor in the late twentieth-century debate over the world's resources and the future of humankind. This idea of the earth as a vessel in space came of age in an era shaped by space travel and the ... ....


Sustainability: Principles and PracticeMargaret RobertsonSustainability: Principles and Practice gives an accessible and comprehensive overview of the interdisciplinary field of sustainability. The focus is on furnishing solutions and equipping the student with both conceptual understanding ... ....

392 pages | 15 b/w illustrations | Hardback | 01/2014 | 9780415840170 | #218256A | £94.99 Add to basketPaperback | 01/2014 | 9780415840187 | #218257A | £29.99 Add to basket

Sustainable Horticultural SystemsIssues, Technology and InnovationDilip NandwaniSustainable horticulture is gaining increasing attention in the field of agriculture as demand for the food production rises to the world community. Sustainable horticultural systems are based on ecological principles to farm, optimizes ... ....


Sustainable Urban Water EnvironmentClimate, Pollution and AdaptationAshantha Goonetilleke, Tan Yigitcanlar, Godwin A Ayoko and Prasanna EgodawattaThis multi-disciplinary book provides practical solutions for safeguarding the sustainability of the urban water environment. Firstly, the importance of the urban water environment is highlighted and the major problems urban water bodies ... ....


























Sustaining Ecosystem Services in Social-Ecological SystemsPrinciples for Building ResilienceReinette (Oonsie) Biggs, Maja Schlueter, Michael Schoon and Carl FolkeAs both the societies and the world in which we live face increasingly rapid and turbulent changes, the concept of resilience has become an active and important research area. Reflecting the very latest research ...

275 pages | 42 b/w illustrations, 5 tables | Hardback | NYP 03/2015 | 9781107082656 | #217703A | £39.99 Add to basket

Synthetic Biology and MoralityArtificial Life and the Bounds of NatureGregory E Kaebnick and Thomas H MurraySynthetic biology, which aims to design and build organisms that serve human needs, has potential applications that range from producing biofuels to programming human behavior. The emergence of this new form of biotechnology, however ... ....

192 pages | 1 table | Paperback | 08/2013 | 9780262519595 | #217428A | £14.95 Add to basket

The Burning QuestionWe Can't Burn Half the World's Oil, Coal, and Gas. So How Do We Quit?Mike Berners-Lee, Duncan Clark and Bill McKibbenThe Burning Question reveals climate change to be the most fascinating scientific, political and social puzzle in history. It shows that carbon emissions are still accelerating upwards, following an exponential curve that goes ... ....

268 pages | b/w illustrations, b/w maps | Paperback | 10/2013 | 9781771640077 | #218064A | £16.99 Add to basket

The Crisis of Global ModernityAsian Traditions and a Sustainable FuturePrasenjit DuaraIn this major new study, Prasenjit Duara expands his influential theoretical framework to present circulatory, transnational histories as an alternative to nationalist history. Duara argues that the present day is defined by the intersection ... ....

300 pages | Hardback | NYP 12/2014 | 9781107082250 | #218521A | £54.99 Add to basketPaperback | NYP 12/2014 | 9781107442856 | #218522A | £19.99 Add to basket

The Ecosystem Approach to Marine Resource ManagementTim O'HigginsProposes a systematic technique which can be used to break down the complexity of environmental management decisions so that social and ecological aspects are considered in tandem. Whatever the particular management objectives, the ... ....


The Future of Scientific Practice'Bio-Techno-Logos'Marta BertolasoFocusing on cell dynamics, molecular medicine and robotics, contributors explore the interplay between biological, technological and theoretical ways of thinking. They argue that the direction of modern science means that these areas can ... ....


The Ideal of NatureDebates about Biotechnology and the EnvironmentGregory E KaebnickGoing back at least to the writings of John Stuart Mill and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, people have argued for and against maintaining a state of nature. Is there an inherent virtue in leaving alone a naturally occurring condition, or does the ... ....


The No-Nonsense Guide to Degrowth and SustainabilityWayne Ellwood and Peter A VictorThe worlds addiction to economic growth continues with barely any recognition that this is a problem. Indeed, in a Western world currently dominated by austerity measures and ducking in and out of recession, growth is seen even by ... ....

192 pages | b/w illustrations, tables | Paperback | 09/2013 | 9781780261232 | #218010A | £7.99 Add to basket

The Patenting of Life, Limiting Liberty, and the Corporate Pursuit of SeedsAli M NizamuddinThroughout world history, what human beings ate was determined by what local producers cultivated, and what they planted was determined by seasonal cycles. After the harvest, farmers reclaimed the seeds so that they could replant them ... ....

230 pages | 3 illustrations, 4 tables | Hardback | NYP 12/2014 | 9780739190807 | #217482A | £51.95 Add to basket

The PotatoBotany, Production and UsesRoy Navarre and Mark J PavekPotatoes are a staple crop around the world. Covering all aspects of botany, production and uses, The Potato presents a comprehensive discussion of the most important topics for potato researchers and professionals. It assesses ... ....


The Price of ThirstGlobal Water Inequality and the Coming ChaosKaren Piper"There's Money in Thirst," reads a headline in the New York Times. The CEO of Nestlé, purveyor of bottled water, heartily agrees. It is important to give water a market value, he says in a promotional video ... ....


























The Smart Grid (R)EvolutionElectric Power StrugglesJennie C Stephens, Elizabeth J Wilson and Tarla Rai PetersonThe term 'smart grid' has become a catch-all phrase to represent the potential benefits of a revamped and more sophisticated electricity system that can fulfil several societal expectations related to enhanced energy efficiency ... ....


Total LiberationThe Power and Promise of Animal Rights and Radical Earth MovementDavid Naguib PellowWhen in 2001 Earth Liberation Front activists drove metal spikes into hundreds of trees in Gifford Pinchot National Forest, they were protesting the sale of a section of the old-growth forest to a timber company. But ELF's communique .... ....

344 pages | Paperback | 09/2014 | 9780816687770 | #218382A | £16.99 Add to basketHardback | 09/2014 | 9780816687763 | #218383A | £51.50 Add to basket

Transparency in Global Environmental GovernanceCritical PerspectivesAarti Gupta and Michael MasonTransparency – openness, secured through greater availability of information – is increasingly seen as part of the solution to a complex array of economic, political, and ethical problems in an interconnected world.

368 pages | 4 illustrations, 11 tables | Paperback | 08/2014 | 9780262526180 | #217673A | £19.95 Add to basketHardback | 08/2014 | 9780262027410 | #217674A | £38.95 Add to basket

Tunas and Their FisheriesSafeguarding Sustainability into the 21st CenturyAlistair Hobday, Richard Brill and Laurent DagornTunas and Their Fisheries brings together top researchers in the field to explore the current and future research necessary for proper pelagic resource management. Tunas and Their Fisheries is divided into four sections ... ....


Want, Waste or War?The Global Resource Nexus and the Struggle for Land, Energy, Food, Water and MineralsPhilip Andrews-Speed, Raimund Bleischwitz, Tim Boersma, Corey Johnson, Geoffrey Kemp and VandeveerIn addition to environmental change, the structure and trends of global politics and the economy are also changing as more countries join the ranks of the world's largest economies with their resource-intensive patterns. The nexus ... ....


Water Resources of KeralaIssues and Case StudiesKN Nair and Srikumar ChattopadhyayFrom the preface: "Water is a prime natural resource, a basic human need, and a precious national asset (National Water Policy, 1987}. The State of Kerala, by virtue of its location, is well endowed with water resources.

125 pages | illustrations, colour maps | Paperback | 01/2005 | 9788186353035 | #217167A | £21.99 Add to basket

Water and HealthPrati Pal Singh and Vinod SharmaWater and Health strengthens the dynamic relationship between human health and water. Water and Health has the potential to ignite our minds about several water-related diseases due to biological and chemical contamination ... ....


Who's Afraid of Academic Freedom?Akeel Bilgrami and Jonathan R ColeIn these seventeen essays, distinguished senior scholars discuss the conceptual issues surrounding the idea of freedom of inquiry and scrutinize a variety of obstacles to such inquiry that they have encountered in their personal and professional ... ....


Zero Waste HomeThe Ultimate Guide to Simplifying Your Life by Reducing Your WasteBea JohnsonZero Waste Home is the ultimate guide to simplified, sustainable living from Bea Johnson, author of the popular blog zerowastehome.blogspot.co.uk Living sustainably should not mean forfeiting either comfort or style.


Data Analysis

A Bioinformatics Guide for Molecular BiologistsSarah J Aerni and Marina SirotaInformatics can vastly assist progress in research and development in cell and molecular biology and biomedicine. However, many investigators are either unaware of the ways in which informatics can improve their research or find it inaccurate ... ....


Biological Sampling in the Deep SeaMalcolm R Clark, Mireille Consalvey and Ashley RowdenCompiled as part of the Global Census of Marine Life, Biological Sampling in the Deep Sea is a comprehensive look at all major sampling techniques for the biggest habitat on earth: the deep sea. This important publication ... ....



























Improving GIS-based Wildlife-Habitat AnalysisJeffrey K Keller and Charles R SmithGeographic Information Systems (GIS) provide a powerful tool for the investigation of species-habitat relationships and the development of wildlife management and conservation programs. However, the relative ease of data manipulation and ... ....


Mapping (4-Volume Set)Martin DodgeThe map is a central element of our visual culture. It has also been a vital representation technology in many scholarly disciplines for hundreds of years, as well as a practical tool for navigation and a means for the government of ... ....


Molecular Plant TaxonomyMethods and ProtocolsPascale BessePlant taxonomy is an ancient discipline facing new challenges with the current availability of a vast array of molecular approaches which allow reliable genealogy-based classifications. Although the primary focus of plant taxonomy is on ... ....


Nature's Longest ThreadsNew Frontiers in the Mathematics and Physics of Information in BiologyJanaki Balakrishnan and BV SreekantanOrganisms endowed with life show a sense of awareness, interacting with and learning from the universe in and around them. Each level of interaction involves transfer of information of various kinds, and at different levels. Each thread ... ....


Remote Sensing and HydrologyChristopher MU Neale and Michael H CoshRemote sensing continues to expand the ability of scientists to study hydrological processes. With each new technological development, more of the hydrological cycle is revealed. This impacts both the scientific understanding of hydrology ... ....

498 pages | 5 colour & 265 b/w photos and illustrations, 48 tables | Paperback | 07/2012 | 9781907161278 | #218407A | £141.00 Add to basket

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Acronyms and Abbreviations in Natural Science and Technology [English-German] / Akronyme und Abbreviata - AbkuerzungenJoachim BohmThe language of modern science and engineering resorts increasingly to abbreviations, socalled acronyms. Most of them are derived from English language expressions. Their use in professional publications expands. Often times, these ... ....

283 pages | 5 tables | Paperback | 01/2014 | 9783510652938 | #217304A | £34.99 Add to basket

Atlas of Changing River Courses in West Bengal (1767-2010)Kalyan Rudra and Sheuli ChatterjeeFrom the preface: "The Sea Explorers’ Institute is a pioneering organisation in the field of maritime exploration, training and research in West Bengal. The Institute opened a cultural window Nadir Sange Dekha ... ....

131 pages | colour maps | Hardback | 01/2012 | 9788192495804 | #218221A | £143.00 Add to basket

Celebration of International Day for Biological Diversity & Centenary of Fischer Herbarium: 22 May, 2011B Nagarajan and K RavichandranFrom the preface: "This Souvenir is released in commemoration of the centenary celebration of the Fischer Herbarium (Acronym: FRC), IFGTB, Coimbatore on 22 May 2011, coinciding with the international Day for Biological ...

165 pages | 12 plates with colour photos; colour & b/w illustrations, maps | Paperback | 01/2011 | #217583A | £19.99 Add to basket

Crap TaxidermyKat SuYou won't know whether to laugh or cry at these spectacularly bad attempts at taxidermy, brought to you courtesy of the hit website crappytaxidermy.com. The site's plethora of bad taxidermy examples – including a squirrel ... ....

96 pages | ~50 colour photos, colour illustrations | Hardback | 08/2014 | 9781844038039 | #217487A | £7.99 Add to basket

Kazakh-Russian-English-Turkish Explanatory Dictionary of EcologyAS BeisenovaA brief, four-way dictionary of ecological terms encountered in information sources and textbooks in English, Turkish, Russian, and Kazakh. The author's basic purpose is to expand the use of international terminology in education ... ....


Oxford Dictionary of GeographySusan MayhewContaining over 3,100 fully revised and updated entries on all aspects of physical and human geography, this dictionary is an essential guide to students at all levels. It has been fully revised and updated, and includes more than 400 new ... ....


























Presenting DataHow to Communicate your Message EffectivelyEd Swires-HennessyThis is a clear easy-to-read guide to presenting your message using statistical data. Poor presentation of data is everywhere; basic principles are forgotten or ignored. As a result, audiences are presented with confusing tables and ... ....

131 pages | colour illustrations, tables | Hardback | 09/2014 | 9781118489598 | #217670A | £19.95 Add to basket



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