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Welcome to the May 2011 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. Our new Botany Catalogue is now online. It contains over 2000 specially selected items, including classic works as well as this summer's best new titles. Editor's Picks - New in Stock this Month

● Conservation of Caribbean Island Herpetofaunas● Natural History of Hoverflies● Seaweeds● Hawks at a Distance● State of the World's Forests 2011● Forest Entomology● Natural Capital● Introduction to Zoo Biology and Management● Conservation of Tropical Birds● Plant-Animal Communication● True Shrikes (Laniidae) of the World● Gorillas: Living on the Edge● Historical Biogeography of Neotropical Freshwater Fishes● The Exultant Ark

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Zoology: Mammals Birds Reptiles & Amphibians Fishes Invertebrates Palaeontology Marine & Freshwater Biology General Natural History Regional & Travel Botany & Plant Science Animal & General Biology Evolutionary Biology Ecology Habitats & Ecosystems Conservation & Biodiversity Environmental Science Physical Sciences Sustainable Development Data Analysis Reference

Mammals Go to subject web page

A Field Guide to the Carnivores of the World Luke Hunter and Priscilla BarrettRanging from the largest terrestrial carnivore, the Polar Bear, and hyper-predatory wild cats, to the tiny Least Weasel that can squeeze through a wedding ring, the true ....

240 pages | 86 col plates, 400 b/w illus | New HollandHbk | NYP 10/2011 | 1847733468 | #191181A | £24.99 Add to basket

Die Fledermäuse Europas Eine umfassendes Handbuch zur Biologie, Verbreitung und Bestimmung Franz Krapp and Jochen NiethammerThis handbook provides detailed information on bat species occurring in Europe. After a determination key, which leads to the families and genera, all species are portrayed in ....

1202 pages | Col illus | Aula| 3891047517 | #191311A | £119.00 Add to basket

Gorillas Living on the Edge Andy RouseThis book is a celebration of their life through his personal journeys into their world, set on the misty slopes of their last stronghold, the magnificent Virunga Volcanoes. ....

96 pages | Col photos | Electric Squirrel PublishingHbk | 2011 | 0956457517 | #190233A | £24.99 Add to basket

Handbook of the Mammals of the World, Volume 2: Hoofed Mammals Edited by Don E Wilson and Russell A MittermeierHoofed mammals include many families of large, well-known animals. In the second volume of HMW they are revealed in all their fascinating detail, in riveting accounts written ....

53 colour plates, more than 500 photos, 432 distribution maps | LynxHbk | NYP 2011 | 8496553779 | #174994A | Normally £139.99NHBS OFFER PRICE: £109.99

Handbook of the Mammals of the World, Volumes 1 & 2 Don E Wilson and Russell A MittermeierThis is a set of the first two volumes in the Handbook of the Mammals of the World Series. If you order this set at the special offer price, both books will be sent ....

Colour plates, colour photos, distribution maps | LynxHbk | NYP 07/2011 | #190737A | Normally £275.00NHBS OFFER PRICE: £225.00

Mammals in Qinling Mountains Zheng Shengwu and Song Shiying

454 pages | CSBSHbk | 2010 | 7503854553 | #191249A | £68.00 Add to basket

Pocket Guide Mammals of Southern Africa Chris Stuart and Mathilde StuartThis easy-to-use, compact book is the perfect pocket ID guide to mammals of the region. It covers - in surprising detail - some 120 mammals, from the smallest (bats, sengis and ....

160 pages | 210 photographs | StruikPbk | 2011 | 1770078614 | #191101A | £7.99 Add to basket

Whales and Dolphins Cognition, Culture, Conservation and Human Perceptions Edited by Philippa Brakes and Mark SimmondsWhales and dolphins are icons for the conservation movement. They are the most conspicuous ambassadors for entire marine ecosystems and possibly even for the biosphere ....

240 pages | Line drawings, photographs, index | EarthscanHbk | 2011 | 1849712247 | #191065A | £85.00 Add to basketPbk | 2011 | 1849712255 | #191066A | £24.99 Add to basket

Whales' Bones of The Netherlands and Belgium Nicholas RedmanPart of a project that aims single-handedly to record all the practical and decorative uses to which the huge skulls, jawbones, shoulder blades, vertebrae and ribs of the ....

161 pages | 253 illus, 13 maps | Redman PublishingHbk | 2010 | #190973A | £60.00 Add to basket

Birds Go to subject web page

Advanced Bird ID Handbook The Western Palearctic Nils Van DuivendijkThis book is intended as a reference companion for the original Advanced Bird ID Guide, the ground-breaking title by the same author that relies on characteristic lists to ....

416 pages | line drawings, map | New HollandPbk | NYP 08/2011 | 1780090226 | #191190A | £24.99 Add to basket

Attracting Birds to Your Garden Stephen Moss and David CottridgeA well illustrated volume, which is packed full of excellent, practical advice on feeding birds and creating pools and nest sites. The reader is taken through the steps ....

160 pages | 250 col photos, illus | New HollandPbk | 1999 | 1859740057 | #098783A | £12.99 Add to basketPbk | NYP 10/2011 | 1847739822 | #191183A | £12.99 Add to basket

Aves Rapaces de Uruguay, Argentina, Brasil y Paraguay Fernando Perez PiedrabuenaContains species descriptions and distribution maps of the raptors of Uruguay and neighbouring countries. The varying plumages of the adults of the various subspecies are ....

64 pages | 145 col photos | GuyunusaPbk | 2011 | #190916A | £36.50 Add to basket

Beautiful Bird Songs of Britain The Music of Nature The British LibraryThis compilation brings together some of the most beautiful bird songs that can be heard around the British Isles. The Blackbird, Skylark, Nightingale and Mistle Thrush are just ....

British LibraryCD | 2011 | 0712351124 | #191007A | £12.24 Add to basket

The Birdman Abroad Stuart WinterStuart Winter's "Tales of a Tabloid Twitcher" earned many plaudits in 2010, as the birder journalist who brought the subjects of birdwatching and conservation to millions ....

224 pages | 20 | New HollandPbk | NYP 08/2011 | 1847736920 | #191188A | £7.99 Add to basket

Birds of Seychelles Adrian Skerrett and Tony DisleyThis compact field guide, based on Birds of Seychelles by Adrian Skerrett, Ian Bullock and Tony Disley (Helm 2000), is the only field guide to cover every species recorded in ....

192 pages | 65 col plates | Christopher HelmPbk | 2001 | 0713639733 | #116115A | £29.95 Add to basketPbk | NYP 08/2011 | 1408151510 | #191294A | £24.99 Add to basket

A Birdwatcher's Guide to Norway Where, When and How to find the Birds of Norway including Svalbard Bjorn Olav TveitFor the first time ever, here is a guide to the birdwatching sites of Norway, including the arctic archipelago of Svalbard (Spitsbergen). More than 350 sites are covered with ....

490 pages | Col illus | Orn ForlagPbk | 2011 | 8299806240 | #191143A | £52.50 Add to basket

A Checklist on the Distribution of the Birds in Xinjiang Ma Ming

244 pages | CSBSPbk | 2011 | 7030300467 | #191250A | £45.00 Add to basket

Common Birds of Coastal Georgia Jim Wilson

240 pages | Georgia UPPbk | 2011 | 0820338281 | #191099A | £14.95 Add to basket

Common Birds of Greater Atlanta Jim Wilson and Anselm Atkins

160 pages | Georgia UPPbk | 2011 | 0820338257 | #191100A | £12.95 Add to basket

The Fearsome Flute Players Australian Magpies in our Lives Philip Roetman and Christopher DanielsSeen a magpie today? Or have you heard their tuneful song? If you live in Australia it's virtually impossible for you to go a day without encountering these amazing birds. We ....

144 pages | Crawford House PublishingPbk | 2011 | 1863333339 | #190924A | £43.00 Add to basket

A Field Guide to the Birds of South-East Asia Craig RobsonThis fully updated edition of the award-winning A Field Guide to the Birds of South-East Asia includes more than 20 new species for the region which are recent discoveries, ....

544 pages | 120 col plates | New HollandHbk | 2009 | 1847733417 | #179047A | £34.99 Add to basketPbk | NYP 08/2011 | 1780090498 | #191184A | £24.99 Add to basket

The Garden Bird Handbook Stephen MossPublished in association with the Wildlife Trusts, this book contains practical advice and key information, ranging from planning and maintaining a bird-friendly garden, ....

160 pages | 130 col photos, 250 col illus | New HollandPbk | 2006 | 184537598X | #160781A | £12.99 Add to basketPbk | NYP 09/2011 | 1780090072 | #191182A | £12.99 Add to basket

Hummingbirds and Butterflies Bill Thompson and Connie ToopsHummingbirds and butterflies are some of the most beautiful visitors to a backyard, but they can also be some of the most elusive. This second collaboration between the ....

288 pages | Col photos, maps | Houghton MifflinPbk | 2011 | 061890445X | #190918A | £15.99 Add to basket

The Puffin MP HarrisWith its colourful beak and fast, whirring flight, the Atlantic Puffin is the most recognisable and popular of all North Atlantic seabirds. Puffins spend most of the year ....

248 pages | B/w photos,maps,illus | PoyserHbk | NYP 09/2011 | 1408108674 | #188229A | £39.99 Add to basket

SASOL Birds of Southern Africa Ian Sinclair, Phil Hockey and Warwick TarbotonThis book remains the region's most comprehensively illustrated and trusted field guide. The fourth edition has been improved by the addition of group introductions, calendar ....

447 pages | Col plates, maps | New HollandPbk | 2002 | 1868727211 | #128203A | £19.99 Add to basketPbk | NYP 10/2011 | 1770079254 | #191193A | £19.99 Add to basket

The True Shrikes (Laniidae) of the World Ecology, Behavior and Evolution EN PanovThis book is the first monograph in English on the 34 shrike species distributed across Africa, Eurasia and North America. These birds have attracted the attention of ....

910 pages | Col plates, col & b/w figs, maps, tabs | PensoftHbk | 2011 | 9546425761 | #190917A | £125.00 Add to basket

The Urban Birder David LindoAnyone can become an Urban Birder. You can do it anywhere and any time, whether you've got the day to spare, on your way to work, during your lunch break or just looking out ....

224 pages | b/w photos | New HollandPbk | NYP 08/2011 | 1847739504 | #191189A | £9.99 Add to basket

Reptiles & Amphibians Go to subject web page

Colored Illustrations of Amphibians and Reptiles of Taiwan Xiang Gaoshi and Li PengxiangThis book includes details of 61 snake, 11 lizard and 37 ambhibian species found in Taiwan. ....

336 pages | photos | CSBS2009 | 9866651959 | #191251A | £112.00 Add to basket

The Lizard Man Speaks ER PiankaAlone on the endless red-sand desert in the Australian outback, tracking Varanus giganteus, the perentie lizard that grows to be more than six feet long ...for desert ....

224 pages | 16 col & 32 b/w photos, 4 figs, 4 maps | Texas UPPbk | 2011 | 0292735677 | #191026A | £13.99 Add to basket

Tracks in the Sand Sea Turtles and their Protectors Frank Gromling and Mike CavaliereA profile of Florida's rich coastal heritage, this account showcases the many animals and plants found here. Combining photography mined from decades of volunteer work with ....

160 pages | Col photos, b/w illus | Ocean PublishingPbk | 2010 | 0982694008 | #191292A | £12.50 Add to basket

Fishes Go to subject web page

The Devil's Teeth The True Story of Great White Sharks Susan CaseyGreat white sharks are enigmas. They ruled the oceans long before dinosaurs inhabited the earth. Yet we know nothing about them. Scientists speculate they can live for 60 ....

291 pages | Col plates | VintagePbk | 2010 | 0099555247 | #190899A | £8.99 Add to basket

Fish Cognition and Behavior Edited by Culum Brown, Kevin Laland and Jens KrauseAn international team of experts have been brought together to explore all major areas of fish learning, including: ....

328 pages | 35 illus | BlackwellHbk | 2006 | 1405134291 | #158212A | £130.00 Add to basketHbk | NYP 07/2011 | 144433221X | #191257A | £120.00 Add to basket

Fish Karyotypes A Check List Ryoichi AraiAs the largest group of extant vertebrates, fish offer an almost limitless number of striking examples of evolutionary adaptation to environmental and biotic selection ....

348 pages | tabs | SpringerHbk | NYP 07/2011 | 4431538763 | #191070A | £135.00 Add to basket

Invertebrates Go to subject web page

Bird-Dropping Tortrix Moths of the British Isles A Field Guide to the Bird-dropping Mimics Jon Clifton and Jim WheelerMany species of moth have evolved black and white markings which give them the appearance of bird droppings and provide camouflage. This guide shows classic examples ....

70 pages | Col photos, dist maps | ALSPbk | 2011 | 0956835201 | #190882A | £19.99 Add to basket

Cetoniimania, Volume 1 Legrand et alContains seven articles on world Cetoniinae. ....

MagellanesPbk | 2010 | 2353870767 | #190936A | £38.00 Add to basket

Cetoniimania, Volume 2 Legrand et alContains four articles on Cetoniinae of Africa and Pakistan. ....

66 pages | MagellanesPbk | 2011 | 235387083X | #190937A | £44.00 Add to basket

Chinese Insects Illustrated Zhang Weiwei and Li Yuansheng

692 pages | Col photos | CSBSHbk | 2011 | 7562459223 | #190939A | £179.00 Add to basket

Description d'une Nouvelle Espèce de la Tribu des Callichromatini Originaire du Kenya: Promeces Masai sp. nov. Pierre Juhel and Joan Bentanachs

4 pages | 1 col plate | MagellanesPbk | | 2353870422 | #190976A | £6.50 Add to basket

Diverse Neuropterida in Cretaceous Amber, with particular reference to the Paleofauna of Myanmar Engel and Grimaldi

86 pages | Col photos | Goecke & Evers Antiq.Pbk | 2008 | 3937783377 | #190980A | £48.50 Add to basket

Faune de France, Volume 93: Hémiptères Pentatomoidea Euro-Mediterraneens (volume 3): Podopinae et Asopinae Jean Pericart

290 pages | 229 figures | Faune de FrancePbk | 2010 | #190938A | £88.00 Add to basket

Guia dos Sphingidae da Serra dos Orgaos, Sudeste do Brasil A Guide to the Hawkmoths of the Serra dos Orgaos, South-eastern Brazil Alan Martin, Alexandre Soares and Jorge BizarroThe Mata Atlantica or Atlantic Rainforest of Brazil is one of the most threatened biomes in the world with less than 7% of the original forest remaining, and most of this highly ....

144 pages | Col plates | REGUAPbk | 2011 | 0956829104 | #190881A | £24.99 Add to basket

An Illustrated Guide to Cockroaches Ekaterina SmirnovaAn enlighteningly grotesque illustrated introduction to the omnipresent cockroach. The worlds city dwellers, especially in places like Manhattan, grow accustomed to having ....

96 pages | Colour throughout | Mark BattyHbk | 2011 | 1935613189 | #191008A | £10.95 Add to basket

Indian Haemaphysalis Ticks G Geeverghese and A C MishraTicks are obligate blood-sucking arthropods found in almost every region of the world. They are very important vectors of human and animal diseases. Tick-borne protozoan ....

369 pages | ElsevierHbk | NYP 07/2011 | 012387811X | #191231A | £85.00 Add to basket

Insects from Leigongshan Landscape Li Zizhong Yang and Maofa Jin DaochaoThis book describes 1861 species of insects from the Leigongshan Nature Reserve, Guizhou Province, China. ....

759 pages | plates | CSBSHbk | 2007 | 7806625267 | #191245A | £123.00 Add to basket

Kraken The Curious, Exciting, and Slightly Disturbing Science of Squid Wendy WilliamsThe oceans are perhaps the last remaining source of profound mystery and discovery on Earth, and are as such of perennial fascination. Kraken introduces one of the most ....

224 pages | 30 b/w illus | AbramsHbk | 2011 | 0810984652 | #190914A | £12.99 Add to basket

Ladybirds M Majerus and P KearnsThis book enables enthusiasts to pursue their studies of British ladybird natural history further. It provides details of their biology and keys for identification, and ....

116 pages | 4 col plates, 42 figs, line drawings | Pelagic PublishingPbk | NYP 08/2011 | 1907807071 | #190913A | £19.99 Add to basket

The Natural History of Hoverflies Graham E Rotheray and Francis GilbertHoverflies are valuable insects and particularly over the last two decades, they have started to impact on a wider range of people than just specialists. Hoverflies are known ....

333 pages | 35 col plates, 45 line figs | Forrest TextPbk | 2011 | 0956469213 | #190935A | £32.50 Add to basket

Non-Native and Invasive Ticks Threats to Human and Animal Health in the United States Michael J BurridgeAt least 100 non-native tick species have been introduced into the continental United States during the past century. These introductions of invasive ticks have increased ....

448 pages | 51 b/w photos, 114 tabs, 7 maps | Florida University PressesHbk | NYP 05/2011 | 0813035376 | #189885A | £110.00 Add to basket

Pests A Guide to the World's Most Maligned Yet Misunderstood Creatures Ross PiperFrom mosquitoes to nematodes to mice, there are a multitude of organisms and animals that pose major health risks, cause economic burdens, and even threaten famine ....

300 pages | Greenwood PressHbk | 2011 | 0313384266 | #191003A | £37.95 Add to basket

Psyllidomorpha of China (Insecta: Hemiptera) Li FashengThe Psyllidomorpha is one of the infraorders in Hemiptera. More than 3850 species and 305 genera are known in the world. Most of them feed on Dicoryledonae of Spermatorphyta, ....

1976 pages | 19 plates | CSBSHbk | 2010 | 7030213262 | #190940A | £208.00 Add to basket

Pyraloidea of Central Europe / Pyraloidea Mitteleuropas Identification, Distribution, Habitat, Biology Frantisek SlamkaThis atlas comprises the description and photographs of 403 species of the Superfamily Pyraloidea known or recorded from Central Europe (Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Poland, ....

174 pages | 12 col plates, 53 tabs | Frantisek SlamkaHbk | 2010 | #191021A | £114.00 Add to basket

Shells of the Hawaiian Islands, Volume 1: The Sea Shells The verifiable species and their described variants Mike SevernsThe Hawaiian archipelago is the most isolated archipelago on Earth. Stretching 2,500 km across the Central Pacific it is 3,500 ....

562 pages | Col illus with numerous text-figures and 2,828 images on 225 plates | ConchBooksHbk | 2011 | 3939767352 | #190929A | £181.00 Add to basket

Shells of the Hawaiian Islands, Volume 2: The Land Shells The endemic land and freshwater species and their described variants Mike SevernsThe Hawaiian archipelago is the most isolated archipelago on Earth. Stretching 2,500 km across the Central Pacific it is 3,500 ....

459 pages | Col illus with figs and 3,117 images and 363 maps on 186 plates | ConchBooksHbk | 2011 | 3939767344 | #190930A | £143.00 Add to basket

Shells of the Hawaiian Islands, Vols 1 & 2 Mike SevernsThe Hawaiian archipelago is the most isolated archipelago on Earth. Stretching 2,500 km across the Central Pacific it is 3,500 ....

1021 pages | 2 volumes in slip-case | ConchBooksHbk | 2011 | 3939767336 | #190944A | £263.00 Add to basket

Taiwan Nudibranchs 312 pages | CSBSHbk | 2009 | 9860193304 | #191252A | £57.50 Add to basket

Woodland Management for Butterflies and Moths A Best Practice Guide Susan A Clarke, David G Green, Nigel A Bourn and Daniel J HoareButterflies and moths are disappearing from our countryside at an alarming rate, but nowhere more dramatically than in woodlands. Many species that were common only a few ....

64 pages | colour photos, distribution maps, diagrams | Butterfly ConservationPbk | 2011 | 0956221688 | #190996A | £14.99 Add to basket

ZooKeys 74 Zoogeography, Taxonomy, and Conservation of West Virginia's Ohio River Floodplain Crayfishes (Decapoda, Cambaridae) Thomas P Simon and Zachary J LoughmanThe crayfish fauna of West Virginia consists of 23 species and several undescribed taxa. Most survey efforts documenting this fauna have been conducted in lotic waterways ....

78 pages | col photos, figs, tabs | PensoftPbk | 2011 | 9546425702 | #191019A | £30.50 Add to basket

ZooKeys 80 Revision of the Malagasy genus Trichoteleia Kieffer (Hymenoptera, Platygastroidea, Platygastridae) EJ Talamas, L Masner and NF JohnsonConducted as part of the Platygastroidea Planetary Biodiversity Inventory (PBI), the revision of Trichoteleia reveals an astounding diversity of species within the Malagasy ....

126 pages | col photos, figs, tabs, maps | PensoftPbk | 2011 | 954642580X | #191020A | £48.00 Add to basket

ZooKeys 88 Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta) Patrice Bouchard et alIn recent years, zoologists have been reviewing the family-group names in several major orders of animals. One of the goals of these works is to provide a foundation of valid, ....

972 pages | figs, tabs | PensoftPbk | 2011 | 9546425834 | #191018A | £170.00 Add to basket

Palaeontology Go to subject web page

Back to the Future in the Caves of Kaua'i A Scientist's Adventures in the Dark David A BurneyFor two decades, paleoecologist David Burney and his wife, Lida Pigott Burney, have led an excavation of Makauwahi Cave on the island of Kaua'i, uncovering the fascinating ....

198 pages | col & b/w illus | Yale UPHbk | 2010 | 0300150946 | #183631A | £24.99 Add to basketPbk | NYP 05/2011 | 0300172095 | #191291A | £14.99 Add to basket

The Lost Woodlands of Ancient Nasca A Case-study in Ecological and Cultural Collapse David Beresford-JonesThis book presents an archaeological case of prehistoric human environmental impact: a study of ecological and cultural change from the arid south coast of Peru, beginning ....

208 pages | OUPHbk | 2011 | 019726476X | #190933A | £50.00 Add to basket

Marine & Freshwater Biology Go to subject web page

Handbook of Marine Natural Products Edited by Ernesto Fattorusso, William H Gerwick and Orazio Taglialatela-ScafatiMarine natural products concerns the chemistry, chemical ecology, chemical biology, ecology and allied fields of study of small-molecules produced by marine invertebrates ....

700 pages | SpringerHbk | NYP 09/2011 | 9048138337 | #191224A | £230.00 Add to basket

New Holland Concise Seashore Wildlife Guide The seashore is unlike any terrestial habitat, and the plants and animals that occur on it are usually very different in form from their land-based relatives. This illustrated ....

192 pages | 200 col illus | New HollandPbk | NYP 08/2011 | 1847737862 | #191186A | £4.99 Add to basket

Reef Fishes of South-East Asia Including Corals and Marine Invertebrates Elizabeth Wood and Michael AwThis concise, easy-to-follow field guide to 270 species of fish, corals and marine invertebrates is an essential companion for anyone interested in this fascinating ....

144 pages | 300 col photos | New HollandPbk | NYP 08/2011 | 1847739830 | #191187A | £10.99 Add to basket

Sea Fishes and Invertebrates of the Mediterranean Sea Lawson WoodCovers 265 species and includes full-colour photographs and identification details, including diet, habits and habitats of a spectacular array of underwater life. Attention ....

128 pages | 300 col photos, 60 b/w line illus, 1 map | New HollandPbk | NYP 08/2011 | 1780090501 | #191179A | £10.99 Add to basket

General Natural History Go to subject web page

Albertus Seba, Cabinet of Natural Curiosities Albertus Seba, Irmgard Musch, Jes Rust and Rainer WillmannThis title presents Albertus Seba's curious creatures. This is a most unusual collection of natural specimens. Albertus Seba's "Cabinet of Natural Curiosities" is one of the ....

416 pages | Illustrations (chiefly col.), col. port. | TaschenHbk | 2011 | 3836515830 | #191234A | £27.99 Add to basket

Cicerone Guides: Walking in Abruzzo Stuart HainesThis guide to walking in Abruzzo, in the Apennine mountains, is centred on Sulmona and between L'Aquila and Castel de Sangro, one of Italy's wildest regions with 3 national ....

224 pages | col photos, col maps | CiceronePbk | NYP 07/2011 | 1852845767 | #191253A | £14.95 Add to basket

Close Up and Macro Photography Tracy HallettEssential guide to a fascinating technique, beginning with an explanation of the difference between close-up and macro work. Aimed at the novice or ....

192 pages | Col illus | GMCPPbk | NYP 08/2011 | 1907708006 | #190946A | £14.99 Add to basket

Eyewitness Guide: Pond and River Steve ParkerThis book is an exciting and informative guide to the fascinating natural world of ponds and rivers. Stunning real-life photographs of fish, water beetles, frogs, underwater ....

72 pages | Col illus throughout | Dorling KindersleyPbk | 2011 | 140534539X | #190993A | £6.99 Add to basket

The Indian and Pacific Correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks, 1768-1820, Volume 2 Edited by Neil ChambersFollowing his participation in James Cook's circumnavigation in HMS Endeavour (1768-71), Joseph Banks developed an extensive global network of scientists and explorers. His ....

480 pages | Pickering & ChattoHbk | 2009 | 1851968369 | #190957A | £117.00 Add to basket

The Indian and Pacific Correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks, 1768-1820, Volume 3 Edited by Neil ChambersFollowing his participation in James Cook's circumnavigation in HMS Endeavour (1768-71), Joseph Banks developed an extensive global network of scientists and explorers. His ....

528 pages | Pickering & ChattoHbk | 2010 | 1851968377 | #190958A | £117.00 Add to basket

The Indian and Pacific Correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks, 1768-1820, Volume 4 Edited by Neil ChambersFollowing his participation in James Cook's circumnavigation in HMS Endeavour (1768-71), Joseph Banks developed an extensive global network of scientists and explorers. His ....

400 pages | Pickering & ChattoHbk | NYP 07/2011 | 1851968385 | #190959A | £117.00 Add to basket

Jungles Frans LantingThis title shows where the wild things are, from South America to Africa, up close with rainforest flora and fauna. Jungles is a personal exploration of nature in the tropics ....

256 pages | Col illus | TaschenHbk | 2011 | 3836509016 | #191235A | £12.99 Add to basket

My Natural History The Animal Kingdom and How It Shaped Me Simon Barnes"The animal kingdom came to my rescue. It always has done. I suspect it always will. It rescued me at Sunnyhill Primary School, it rescued me in my adolescence, it has rescued ....

249 pages | - | Short BooksHbk | 2010 | 1906021775 | #185159A | £12.99 Add to basketPbk | 2011 | 1907595791 | #191027A | £7.99 Add to basket

A Passion for Nature The Life of John Muir Donald Worster"I am hopelessly and forever a mountaineer," John Muir wrote. "Civilization and fever and all the morbidness that has been hooted at me has not dimmed my glacial eye, ....

535 pages | b/w photos | OUPHbk | 2008 | 0195166825 | #177340A | £22.99 Add to basketPbk | NYP 07/2011 | 0199782245 | #191041A | £14.99 Add to basket

The Scientific Revolution A Very Short Introduction Lawrence M PrincipeThe sixteenth and seventeenth centuries witnessed such fervent investigations of the natural world that the period has been called the 'Scientific Revolution.' New ideas and ....

168 pages | b/w illus | OUPPbk | 2011 | 0199567417 | #191048A | £7.99 Add to basket

There and Back A Celebration of Bird Migration Edited by Andy Brown and Michael WarrenThis book is a celebration of the phenomenon of migration, through the words and pictures of those seeped in its appreciation-of artists, regular migration-observers, ....

352 pages | Illus throughout, colour & b/w | Langford PressHbk | 2011 | 1904078370 | #190992A | £50.00 Add to basket

Walking in Ireland Christopher SomervilleWalking has never been a more popular pastime and nowhere is more beautiful for walkers to explore than Ireland. In this beautifully written and superbly researched guide, ....

272 pages | Illustrations, maps | Ebury PressHbk | 2011 | 0091938376 | #190904A | £12.99 Add to basket

The Wild Rover A Blistering Journey Along Britain's Footpaths Mike ParkerMike Parker, bestselling author of Map Addict, is back with a brilliant, intelligent and witty exploration of a glorious and passionate British subject - footpaths and our ....

330 pages | 2 b/w photos | Harper CollinsHbk | 2011 | 0007372663 | #189847A | £12.99 Add to basket

Regional & Travel Go to subject web page

The Baltic Sea Basin Edited by Jan Harff, Svante Bjorck and Peer HothThis book reports about the results of a Special Symposium "The Baltic Sea Basin", held on August 11, 2008, within the frame of the 33rd IGC at Oslo, Norway in order to foster ....

451 pages | Col & b/w figs, tabs | SpringerHbk | 2011 | 3642172199 | #191079A | £117.00 Add to basket

The Biological Diversity of Mihintale with Special Reference to its Herpetofauna Edited by Anselm de SilvaThis special edition of Lyriocephalus (Journal of the Amphibia and Reptile Research Organization of Sri Lanka) consists of two parts. Mihintale is noteworthy as the world's ....

229 pages | Col illus | ARROSPbk | 2010 | #187417A | £52.00 Add to basket

Canal Walks Julia BradburyAccompanying a BBC series, this book describes four of the best walks: Llangollen Canal, Caledonian Canal, Worcester and Birmingham Canal and Kennet and Avon Canal. ....

112 pages | Col photos | Frances LincolnPbk | 2011 | 0711232490 | #190629A | £9.99 Add to basket

The Changing Nature of Scotland Edited by Susan J Marrs, Simon Foster, Catriona Henrie, EC Mackey and DBA ThompsonThe environmental challenges ahead have never been more acute. Pitted against a backdrop of rapidly changing land-use, climate change and economic challenges, we need the best ....

528 pages | Col illus | SNHHbk | NYP 05/2011 | 0114973598 | #190897A | £27.50 Add to basket

Coast - Our Island Story A Journey of Discovery Around Britain's Coastline Nick CraneThis is the first book to be written by a "Coast" presenter in a narrative format and it will become the definitive guide to our coastline. Nick Crane brings his geographer's ....

320 pages | 2 x f/c plate sections | BBC BooksHbk | 2010 | 1849900361 | #188360A | £18.99 Add to basket

Colorado's Spanish Peaks Region An Exploration Guide to History, Natural History, Trails, and Drives Richard C KeatingColorado's Spanish Peaks are landmarks of unique beauty. The peaks and surrounding landscape possess a fascinating geologic history, as well as equally diverse human and ....

350 pages | 95 b/w illus | Missouri BGPbk | 2011 | 1930723857 | #191208A | £22.99 Add to basket

Environmental History of Early India A Reader Nandini Sinha KapurThis reader provides a multilayered analysis of different aspects of history, politics, economy and its interface with environment and ecology in early India. One of the first ....

344 pages | OUPHbk | 2011 | 0198070004 | #190931A | £34.99 Add to basket

Field Guide to Urban Wildlife Julie FeinsteinThis title helps to identify and understand the wildlife most commonly found living near humans - and how they have adapted to thrive in cities and suburbs. This is the first ....

464 pages | 270 colour photos | StackpolePbk | 2011 | 0811705854 | #191097A | £29.50 Add to basket

The Future History of the Arctic How Climate, Resources and Geopolitics are Reshaping the North, and Why it Matters to the World Charles EmmersonPreviously always at the margins of global affairs, the Arctic has now found its way to the centre of the issues which will challenge and define our world in the twenty-first ....

432 pages | Illustrations, maps, ports. | VintagePbk | 2011 | 0099523531 | #190949A | £9.99 Add to basket

Imam Cimiucia: Our Changing Sea Anne Salomon, Henry Huntington and Nick TanapeThrough the lens of Western science and traditional Native knowledge, art, and photography, the authors uncover some of the ecological, social, and economic causes of ....

123 pages | Illus | Alaska UPHbk | NYP 08/2011 | 1566121590 | #191211A | £33.50 Add to basket

Latin America and the Caribbean Atlas of Our Changing Environment Latin America and the Caribbean is the richest region of the planet in terms of its biological diversity. Within the dazzling array of the region's ecosystems lie roughly a ....

316 pages | UNEPHbk | 2011 | 9280730576 | #191209A | £92.00 Add to basket

The Magnetic North Travels in the Arctic Sara WheelerSmashing through the Arctic Ocean with the crew of a Russian icebreaker, herding reindeer across the tundra with Lapps and shadowing the Trans-Alaskan pipeline with ....

368 pages | VintagePbk | 2010 | 0099516888 | #190909A | £8.99 Add to basket

Monserrat A Guide to the Centre Hills Steve H HollidayA guide to the Centre Hills area of Montserrat (Caribbean), providing an insight to the unique flora and fauna that can be found on the island, including the endemic Montserrat ....

140 pages | Col illus | Saltmarsh PartnershipPbk | 2009 | 9768212454 | #190945A | £13.99 Add to basket

The Natural History of Ulster Robert Thompson and John FaulknerThe first comprehensive book on natural history in the nine-county province of Ulster - a subject that has been remarkably overlooked in such ....

616 pages | 600 colour photographs | Blackstaff PressHbk | 2011 | 0900761490 | #190941A | £24.99 Add to basket

Nature and Empire in Ottoman Egypt An Environmental History Alan MikhailIn one of the first environmental histories of the Ottoman Empire, Alan Mikhail examines relations between the empire and its most lucrative province of Egypt. Based on both the ....

378 pages | 7 b/w illus. 9 maps 7 tables | CUPHbk | 2011 | 110700876X | #191034A | £55.00 Add to basket

No Boat Required Exploring Tidal Islands Peter CatonWhen is an island not an island? Peter Caton takes us to all four corners of England, Scotland and Wales to find out. Sharing our nation's fascination ....

400 pages | TroubadorPbk | NYP 09/2011 | 1848767013 | #191290A | £12.99 Add to basket

Norvège, Finlande, Suède 30 destinations naturalistes Pascal Etienne

400 pages | col photos, col maps | BIOTOPE ParthenopePbk | 2011 | 2914817649 | #191025A | £50.50 Add to basket

Pathways David StewartFrom the processional routes of ancient Britain to Victorian promenades along the sea-front, Britain's pathways are inextricably woven into our landscape and history. In ....

320 pages | Guardian BooksHbk | NYP 07/2011 | 0852652267 | #190906A | £19.99 Add to basket

Sierra de Guadarrama Fauna y Flora Juan Antonio Rodríguez LlanoThe guide covers the animal and plant species found in this region of Central Spain. ....

242 pages | 500 illus | Rueda| 8472071812 | #190999A | £40.00 Add to basket

Terra Incognita Travels in Antarctica Sara WheelerAfter writing two highly praised travel books, Sara Wheeler was accepted by the American government to be the first foreigner on their National Science Foundation's Antarctic ....

320 pages | VintagePbk | 2010 | 0099731819 | #190910A | £9.99 Add to basket

Walking the Amazon 860 Days. The Impossible Task. The Incredible Journey Ed StaffordOn 2 April 2008, Ed Stafford began his attempt to become the first man ever to walk the entire length of the Amazon river. He has crossed the whole of South America from the ....

352 pages | Col illus | Virgin BooksHbk | NYP 06/2011 | 1905264569 | #190905A | £16.99 Add to basket

Wild Hares and Hummingbirds The Natural History of an English Village Stephen MossNaturalist and author Stephen Moss lives in the longest village in England - Mark, on the Somerset Levels. This watery wonderland is steeped in history: it is the land of ....

256 pages | Random HouseHbk | NYP 09/2011 | 0224086723 | #190903A | £14.99 Add to basket

Wild North Carolina Discovering the Wonders of Our State's Natural Communities David Blevins and Michael P Schafale

176 pages | North Carolina UPHbk | 2011 | 080783467X | #191001A | £26.50 Add to basket

Will of the Land Peter DettlingPeter Dettling first visited Canada's internationally renowned Rocky Mountains national parks as a Swiss tourist in 1993. Immediately, he fell in love with the untouched ....

176 pages | illustrations | Heritage HouseHbk | 2010 | 1926855000 | #191293A | £33.50 Add to basket

Botany & Plant Science Go to subject web page

The Aloe Names Book O M Grace, RR Klopper, E Figueiredo and GF SmithThis book brings together, for the first time, information on the current taxonomy of each species, the plethora of common names by which aloes are known globally, derivative ....

240 pages | 313 col photos | Kew RBGHbk | NYP 10/2011 | 1842464191 | #190997A | £39.99 Add to basket

The Applied Mycology of Fusarium Symposium of the British Mycological Society Held at Queen Mary College London, September 1982 Edited by Maurice O Moss and John E SmithThis book resulted from a symposium held by the British Mycological Society to bring together the many diverse areas of study of the genus Fusarium. Among the contributors ....

274 pages | CUPPbk | NYP 06/2011 | 0521279240 | #190977A | £20.99 Add to basket

The British Arboretum Trees, Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century Paul A Elliott, Charles Watkins and Stephen DanielsThis study explores the science and culture of nineteenth-century British arboretums, or tree collections. The development of arboretums was fostered by a variety of factors, ....

320 pages | Pickering & ChattoHbk | 2011 | 1848930976 | #190955A | £70.00 Add to basket

A Checklist of Benthic Marine Algae of the Tropical and Subtropical Western Atlantic | Third revision Edited by Michael WynneThis "third revision" of M.J. Wynne's "Checklist" is a rigorously prepared and updated compilation of the taxa of benthic marine algae, or seaweeds, currently recognized as ....

166 pages | Gebr•der BorntraegerPbk | 2011 | 3443510620 | #190920A | £81.00 Add to basket

Chinese Cymbidium Guan Wenchang

309 pages | 1500 illus | CSBSPbk | 2011 | 7503854790 | #191247A | £48.00 Add to basket

Clematis An Essential Guide Ruth GoochClematis are loved for the abundance and colour of their blooms but are not so well known for their versatility. Although they are typically and successfully used as ....

240 pages | 440 colour photographs | Crowood PressHbk | 2011 | 1847972519 | #191095A | £24.99 Add to basket

Color Atlas of Rare and Endangered Plant in the Three Gorges Reservoir Area Wu Jinqing and Zhao Zien

254 pages | 413 col plates | CSBSHbk | 2009 | 750844230X | #191246A | £68.00 Add to basket

Des Graines et des Hommes Romain DufayardDescribes 330 species of seed and their uses around the world. ....

Col illus | Sang de la TerrePbk | 2010 | 286985238X | #190919A | £35.00 Add to basket

Encyclopedia of Flora and Fauna of Bangladesh, Algae: Chlorophyta Zia Uddin Ahmed

812 pages | Illus, 146 col plates | Asiatic Society BangladeshHbk | 2008 | #177997A | £115.00 Add to basket

Ferns of Southern Africa A Comprehensive Guide Neil R Crouch, Ronell R Klopper, John Burrows and Sandra M BurrowsThis comprehensive guide, covering South Africa, Swaziland, Lesotho, Botswana and Namibia, enables quick and sure identification of all 315 ferns known to occur in the ....

760 pages | 1750 photos, 100 illus, 350 maps | StruikPbk | NYP 08/2011 | 1770079106 | #191192A | £24.99 Add to basket

Field Guide to the Common Trees and Shrubs of East Africa Najma DharaniField guide to the more common trees and shrubs, indigenous, naturalized and exotic, that are found in East Africa. In addition to full-colour photographs and illustrations ....

384 pages | 1200 col photos, 100 illus | StruikPbk | 2002 | 1868726401 | #129738A | £12.99 Add to basketPbk | NYP 08/2011 | 1770078886 | #191191A | £16.99 Add to basket

A Field Guide to the Ferns and Lycophytes of Louisiana Including East Texas, Southern Arkansas, and Mississippi Ray Neyland

89 pages | illustrations | Louisiana State UPPbk | 2011 | 0807137855 | #191103A | £22.99 Add to basket

Flora de San Juan, Republica Argentina, Volumen IV Edited by Roberto KieslingDeals with Lemnaceae, Zannichelliaceae, Potamogetonaceae, Ruppiaceae, Juncaginaceae, Typhaceae, Gramineae (Poaceae), Cyperaceae, Asparagaceae, Bromeliaceae, Commelinaceae, ....

435 pages | Col plates | Missouri BGPbk | 2010 | 9879126599 | #185711A | £54.50 Add to basket

Flora del Bajio y de Regiones Adyacentes, Volume 168: Hydrocharitaceae

Instituto de Ecologia| #190156A | £14.50 Add to basket

Flora del Bajio y de Regiones Adyacentes, Volume 169: Dipentodontaceae

illus, map | Instituto de Ecologia2011 | #191022A | £14.50 Add to basket

Flora del Bajio y de Regiones Adyacentes, Volume 170: Viscaceae Instituto de Ecologia2011 | #191023A | £18.50 Add to basket

Flora of County Waterford Paul GreenWith detailed introductory chapters outlining the history of botanical recording in the county, the fieldwork involved, including some of Paul's favourite botanical walks, and ....

401 pages | Maps | National Botanic GardensPbk | 2008 | 0755776070 | #185822A | £57.00 Add to basket

Die Flora von Deutschland und der angrenzenden Länder Schmeil-Fitschen Siegmund SeyboldThe most popular flora of Germany and Austria, now in its 95th edition. Also includes Liechtenstein, Switzerland and South Tirol. ....

928 pages | Line illus | Quelle & Meyer VerlagHbk | 2011 | 3494014981 | #191005A | £49.99 Add to basket

Fungi Biology and Applications Edited by Kevin KavanaghFungi: Biology and Applications , Second Edition provides a comprehensive treatment of fungi, covering biochemistry, genetics and the medical and economic significance of ....

267 pages | Col plates, figs, tabs | WileyHbk | 2005 | 0470867019 | #159918A | £125.00 Add to basketPbk | 2005 | 0470867027 | #159919A | £47.50 Add to basketPbk | NYP 09/2011 | 0470977094 | #191242A | £34.95 Add to basket

Genetic Diversity in Establishing Plant Populations Founder Number and Geometry Edited by Steven H Rogstad and Stephan PelikanThe new research described in this book demonstrates that the interplay of a host of founding conditions can frequently produce profound differences in population expansion ....

330 pages | 125 illus | Taylor & FrancisHbk | NYP 08/2011 | 157808721X | #191135A | £89.00 Add to basket

Guide to the Vascular Plants of Florida Edited by Richard P/Hansen, Bruce F WunderlinIn this 2nd edition of the only comprehensive identification manual and definitive guide to the flora of Florida, over 100 additional species have been added, nomenclature ....

787 pages | - | Florida University PressesHbk | 2003 | 0813026326 | #142506A | £34.95 Add to basketHbk | NYP 06/2011 | 0813035430 | #189884A | £38.95 Add to basket

Liverworts, Mosses and Hornworts of Southwest Asia (Marchantiophyta, Bryophyta, Anthocerotophyta) Edited by Harald Kürschner and Wolfgang FreyThis bryophyte flora of Southwest Asia is the first comprehensive, structured synthesis of the current knowledge available on the liverworts, mosses and hornworts of this ....

240 pages | Figs, tab | Gebr•der BorntraegerPbk | 2011 | 3443510612 | #190925A | £128.00 Add to basket

The Lotus Quest In Search of the Sacred Flower Mark GriffithsThe Lotus is the world's most iconic flower. Galvanized by receiving seeds from a three-thousand-year-old lotus, which flowered without difficulty in an English summer, ....

338 pages | Col & b/w plates | Chatto & WindusHbk | 2009 | 0701181222 | #184911A | £19.99 Add to basketPbk | 2010 | 184595100X | #190902A | £8.99 Add to basket

Machiavelli's Lawn Mark Crick12 great authors offer their top tips on gardening, from Sylvia Plath's struggles with autumn bulbs, to JD Salinger's helpful hints on growing from seed. In Cormac McCarthy's ....

144 pages | Col illus | GrantaHbk | 2011 | 1847081347 | #190948A | £10.99 Add to basket

Mineral Nutrition of Higher Plants H MarschnerRespected and known worldwide in the field for his research in plant nutrition, Dr. Horst Marschner authored two editions of "Mineral Nutrition of Higher Plants". His ....

890 pages | Figs, tabs | Academic PressHbk | NYP 09/2011 | 0123849055 | #191230A | £75.99 Add to basket

Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest Steve Trudell and Joe AmmiratiThe Pacific Northwest is one of the best places to find mushrooms - they are both abundant and spectacularly diverse. Yet until now, there has been no mushroom guide that ....

352 pages | 530 color photos, 22 line drawings | Timber PressPbk | 2009 | 0881929352 | #190978A | £17.50 Add to basket

Nature Displaced, Nature Displayed Order and Beauty in Botanical Gardens Nuala JohnsonFrom their origins in the Renaissance to their apogee in the nineteenth century, botanical gardens brought together in a single space the great diversity of the earth's ....

320 pages | 28 bw integrated illustrations | TaurisHbk | NYP 06/2011 | 1848857128 | #187628A | £59.50 Add to basket

New Holland Concise Mushroom Guide This illustrated mini field guide is packed with information on 200 species of fungi found in Britain and the near Continent. The range covered demonstrates the incredible ....

192 pages | 200 col illus | New HollandPbk | NYP 08/2011 | 1847737854 | #191185A | £4.99 Add to basket

The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu (2 volumes) Jeffrey J Wood et alThis two-volume work provides a detailed account of the orchid flora of Mount Kinabalu which, at 4095 m, is the highest peak between the Himalayas and New Guinea. Kinabalu ....

1183 pages | 845 col photos, 446 line illus, 14 watercolours, 4 maps | Natural History PublicationsHbk | 2011 | #189548A | £243.00 Add to basket

Les Orchidées de Madagascar Jean Bosser and Marcel LecouflePresents more than 400 species. ....

496 pages | 500 photos | BIOTOPE ParthenopePbk | 2011 | 2914817568 | #189743A | £86.00 Add to basket

A Photographic Guide to Mushrooms of China Xiao Bo and Fan Yuguang

199 pages | photos | CSBSHbk | 2010 | 7562453314 | #191248A | £31.50 Add to basket

Plants, Biotechnology and Agriculture D MurphyThis book offers a comprehensive yet concise overview of plants as both biological organisms and useful resources for people to exploit. The first half of the book gives a ....

312 pages | CABIPbk | NYP 10/2011 | 1845936884 | #191152A | £39.95 Add to basket

RHS How to Garden A Practical Introduction to Gardening Whether you're a complete novice or looking to improve your existing gardening skills, this is the complete guide on how to garden from the experts at the RHS, now with a ....

352 pages | Col photos | Dorling KindersleyPbk | 2011 | 1405366400 | #191094A | £14.99 Add to basket

A la Rencontre des Orchidées Sauvages de Rhône-Alpes Dominique Bonardi and Gil Scappaticci

300 pages | BIOTOPE ParthenopePbk | 2011 | 2914817576 | #191024A | £44.50 Add to basket

Rothmaler - Exkursionsflora von Deutschland: Band 2 Gefässpflanzen: Grundband Edited by Eckehart J JägerField guide to the German flora, now in its 20th edition. First part covering the vascular plants. ....

900 pages | 1000 illus | SpektrumHbk | NYP 07/2011 | 382741606X | #191210A | £33.99 Add to basket

Seaweeds A Colour Guide to Common Benthic Green, Brown and Red Algae of the World's Oceans Wolfram Braune and Michael D GuiryTranslation of the German edition (2008). This guide will help in the identification of marine algae (macroalgae, seaweeds) without requiring special knowledge of the subject ....

601 pages | 1020 figs on 362 col plates | KoeltzHbk | 2011 | 3906166902 | #190232A | £53.00 Add to basket

Vascular Plants of Texas A Comprehensive Checklist including Synonymy, Bibliography, and Index Stanley D Jones, Joseph K Wipff and Paul M Montgomery`The key to the value of this new checklist is the synonymy. Anybody who does taxonomic work will be overjoyed to have a list of synonyms available for the Texas ....

404 pages | Tabs | Texas UPPbk | 2011 | 0292729626 | #191061A | £36.99 Add to basket

Wild Flower Wonders of the World Bob GibbonsFrom the Mojave Desert in the USA to the Italian Dolomites, and from South Africa's Cape National Park to the Stirling Ranges of Australia, this book showcases the most ....

192 pages | 200 colour images | New HollandHbk | NYP 10/2011 | 1847738265 | #191180A | £19.99 Add to basket

Wild Plants in the Dry Valleys around Quito, Ecuador An Illustrated Guide Catalina Quintana MThis guide brings together little-known information abut the plants that we commonly find along roadsides or remnants of native vegetation in the inter-Andean valleys of ....

265 pages | Herbario QCAPbk | 2010 | 9942031731 | #190942A | £23.99 Add to basket

Wildflowers and Ferns of Indiana Forests A Field Guide Michael A HomoyaThis illustrated guide identifies nearly 300 common plants in Indiana's most prominent ecosystem - the Eastern Deciduous Forest. For ease of identification, the plants are ....

504 pages | 520 col & 40 b/w illus, 2 maps | Indiana UPPbk | NYP 09/2011 | 0253223253 | #189725A | £15.99 Add to basket

Your Herb Garden Month-by-Month Barbara Segall"The Herb Garden" covers everything the gardener needs to know in order to cultivate, harvest and use a vast array of different herbs. There is a wealth of practical ....

144 pages | 200 colour illustrations | David & CharlesPbk | 2011 | 0715338293 | #191096A | £12.99 Add to basket

Animal & General Biology Go to subject web page

Advances in Genetics Edited by Theodore Friedman and Stephen F GoodwinGenes interact with environment, experience, and the biology of the brain to shape an animal's behavior. This latest volume in "Advances in Genetics", organized according to ....

278 pages | Academic PressHbk | 2011 | 012380860X | #191057A | £99.00 Add to basket

Animal Welfare Edited by Michael C Appleby and Barry O HughesThe welfare of animals continues to increase in recognition and concern throughout the world, with more and more research in the field offering new insights into the optimal ....

376 pages | Figs | CABIPbk | NYP 06/2011 | 1845936590 | #191139A | £37.50 Add to basket

Aquatic Animal Health Code OIEThe aim of this book is to assure the sanitary safety of international trade in aquatic animals (fish, molluscs and crustaceans) and their products. This is achieved through ....

170 pages | - | OIEPbk | 2010 | 929044777X | #187398A | £56.50 Add to basketPbk | NYP 08/2011 | 9290448334 | #191142A | £65.00 Add to basket

Chirality in Biological Nanospaces Reactions in Active Sites Nilashis NandiVital life processes occur within the active sites of large biological macromolecules such as proteins, nucleic acids, and lipids. These nanodimensional structures greatly ....

234 pages | 95 b/w & col illus | CRC Press UKHbk | NYP 07/2011 | 1439840024 | #191106A | £76.99 Add to basket

Developmental Biology A Very Short Introduction Lewis WolpertFrom a single cell - a fertilized egg - comes an elephant, a fly, or a human. How does this astonishing feat happen? How does the egg 'know' what to become? How does it divide ....

144 pages | 30 b/w illus | OUPPbk | NYP 08/2011 | 0199601194 | #191047A | £7.99 Add to basket

Environmental Microbiology of Aquatic and Waste Systems Nduka OkaforThis book places the main actors in environmental microbiology, namely the microorganisms, on center stage. Using the modern approach of 16S ribosomal RNA, the ....

303 pages | 123 b/w & col illus | SpringerHbk | NYP 07/2011 | 9400714599 | #191064A | £53.99 Add to basket

Essentials of Biochemistry Herbert J Fromm and Mark HargroveThis textbook incorporates the lectures of the authors given to students with a strong chemistry background. An emphasis is placed on metabolism and reaction mechanisms and ....

300 pages | 390 b/w & col illus | SpringerHbk | NYP 07/2011 | 3642196233 | #191080A | £44.99 Add to basket

Inside Nature's Giants Inside Nature's Giants Team and Richard DawkinsBased on the BAFTA award-winning Channel 4 TV series, Inside Nature's Giants gets under the skin of the largest animals on the planet. See them as you've never seen them before ....

256 pages | 200 col photos | Harper CollinsHbk | NYP 09/2011 | 000743880X | #191124A | £19.99 Add to basket

Introduction to Marine Genomics Edited by J Mark Cock, Kristin Tessmar-Raible, Catherine Boyen and Frederique ViardMarine biology has always played an important role in biological research, being at the origin of many key advances. To a certain extent, the influence of marine biology on the ....

384 pages | SpringerHbk | 2010 | 9048186161 | #191076A | £117.00 Add to basket

Micro and Nano Techniques for the Handling of Biological Samples Jaime Castillo, Winnie Edith Svendsen and Maria DimakiThe techniques and tools used to understand many biological problems must be able to handle biological material without damaging or altering its natural state. This book ....

248 pages | illus, tabs | CRC PressHbk | NYP 08/2011 | 1439827435 | #191112A | £82.00 Add to basket

Polar and Sub-Polar Microbiology Robert V Miller and Lyle WhiteThis edited volume on Arctic, Antarctic and sub-polar microbiology is designed to introduce this fascinating field to a wide range of microbiologists and environmental ....

416 pages | Wiley-BlackwellHbk | NYP 10/2011 | 1555816045 | #191241A | £120.00 Add to basket

Principles of Animal Communication Jack W Bradbury and Sandra L VehrencampThe second edition of this text contains over 90% new citations and the topics have been condensed and integrated into 16 chapters. The book emphasises the general principles ....

600 pages | illus | SinauerHbk | NYP 09/2011 | 0878930450 | #191263A | £49.99 Add to basket

Second Nature The Inner Lives of Animals Jonathan BalcombeWho knew that chickens and humans find the same faces beautiful? Or that fish choose reliable partners for dangerous predator inspection missions? Referencing such ....

242 pages | B/w illus | PalgraveHbk | 2010 | 0230613624 | #183621A | £20.99 Add to basketPbk | 2011 | 0230107818 | #191063A | £10.99 Add to basket

Structural Biology of DNA Damage and Repair Edited by Michael StoneThe human genome is continuously exposed to many classes of genotoxins. Of these, three that will be discussed herein include 5,6-dihydroxy-5,6- dihydrothymine (thymine glycol; ....

138 pages | 35 b&w illus | OUPHbk | 2011 | 0841225745 | #190934A | £95.00 Add to basket

Terrestrial Animal Health Code The aim of the Terrestrial Animal Health Code is to assure the sanitary safety of international trade in terrestrial animals and their products. This is achieved through ....

800 pages | 2 volumes | OIEPbk | NYP 07/2011 | 9290448245 | #191141A | £86.00 Add to basket

Viruses A Very Short Introduction Dorothy H CrawfordViruses are big news. From pandemics such as HIV, swine flu, and SARS, we are constantly being bombarded with information about new lethal infections. In this guide, Dorothy ....

176 pages | b/w illus | OUPPbk | NYP 07/2011 | 0199574855 | #191049A | £7.99 Add to basket

Evolutionary Biology Go to subject web page

Adaptive Diversification Michael DoebeliUnderstanding the mechanisms driving biological diversity remains a central problem in ecology and evolutionary biology. Traditional explanations assume that differences in ....

392 pages | B/w illus | Princeton UPHbk | NYP 09/2011 | 0691128936 | #189856A | £75.00 Add to basketPbk | NYP 09/2011 | 0691128944 | #189855A | £34.95 Add to basket

Environmental Anthropology Today Cross-Disciplinary Investigations Edited by Helen Kopnina and Eleanor Shoreman-OuimetAs the role of humans in environmental degradation becomes increasingly clear, the field of environmental anthropology has expanded considerably. This collection offers a wide ....

344 pages | 8 tabs | RoutledgeHbk | NYP 08/2011 | 0415781558 | #191131A | £75.00 Add to basketPbk | NYP 08/2011 | 0415781566 | #191132A | £24.99 Add to basket

Evolution: The Basics Sherrie L LyonsThis book is an engaging introduction to the history, development and science of the theory of evolution. Beginning pre-Darwin and concluding with the latest research and ....

256 pages | illus, tabs | RoutledgeHbk | NYP 07/2011 | 0415592259 | #191127A | £55.00 Add to basketPbk | NYP 07/2011 | 0415592267 | #191128A | £11.99 Add to basket

Principles of Evolution Edited by Hildegard Meyer-Ortmanns and Stefan ThurnerWith contributions from a team of leading experts, this volume provides a comprehensive survey of recent achievements in our scientific understanding of evolution. The ....

416 pages | 220 black & white illustrations, 50 colour illustrations | SpringerHbk | 2011 | 3642181368 | #191055A | £53.99 Add to basket

Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Human Evolution Edited by Bernard WoodThis comprehensive A to Z encyclopedia provides extensive coverage of important scientific terms related to improving our understanding of how we evolved. Specifically, ....

1264 pages | Wiley-BlackwellHbk | NYP 05/2011 | 1405155108 | #191310A | £350.00 Add to basket

Ecology Go to subject web page

A Handbook of Global Freshwater Invasive Species Edited by Robert A FrancisInvasive non-native species are a major threat to global biodiversity. Often introduced accidentally through international travel or trade, they invade and colonize new ....

480 pages | Line drawings, figures, index | EarthscanHbk | NYP 08/2011 | 184971228X | #191278A | £95.00 Add to basket

Habitats & Ecosystems Go to subject web page

Authenticity in Nature Making Choices About the Naturalness of Ecosystems Nigel DudleyThis book examines the concept of naturalness in ecosystems, discusses its values and considers choices about the level of naturalness in conservation efforts. The author ....

256 pages | photos, index | EarthscanHbk | NYP 08/2011 | 1844078353 | #191276A | £75.00 Add to basketPbk | NYP 08/2011 | 1844078361 | #191277A | £19.99 Add to basket

Central European Stream Ecosystems The Long Term Study of the Breitenbach Edited by Rudiger Wagner, Jurgen Marxsen, Peter Zwick and Eileen J CoxProbably the best-studied stream on earth. The result of unmatched long-term data taken by the Max-Planck outstation in Schlitz from the nearby Breitenbach stream since 1949, ....

776 pages | Wiley-BlackwellHbk | NYP 08/2011 | 3527329528 | #191254A | £155.00 Add to basket

Encyclopedia of Modern Coral Reefs Structure, Form and Process Edited by David HopleyCoral reefs are the largest landforms built by plants and animals. Their study therefore incorporates a wide range of disciplines. This encyclopedia approaches coral reefs from ....

1205 pages | 400 b/w illus, 412 col illus | SpringerHbk | 2010 | 904812638X | #190883A | £359.50 Add to basket

Forest Analytics with R Andrew P Robinson and Jeff D HamannForest Analytics with R combines practical, down-to-earth forestry data analysis and solutions to real forest management challenges with state-of-the-art statistical and ....

356 pages | black & white illustrations | SpringerPbk | 2010 | 1441977619 | #190927A | £49.99 Add to basket

Forestry Economics A Managerial Approach John E WagnerThis book introduces students and practitioners to all aspects of the management and economics of forestry. It adopts the approach of managerial economics textbooks and ....

320 pages | 124 illus, 81 tabs | RoutledgeHbk | NYP 07/2011 | 0415774403 | #191125A | £100.00 Add to basketPbk | NYP 07/2011 | 0415774764 | #191126A | £33.99 Add to basket

Forests and People Property, Governance, and Human Rights Thomas Sikor, Thomas Sikor and Johannes StahlA human rights-based agenda has received significant attention in writings on general development policy, but less so in forestry. "Forests and People" ....

288 pages | Line drawings, figures, tables | EarthscanHbk | NYP 07/2011 | 1849712808 | #191280A | £65.00 Add to basket

The Future of the World's Forests Ideas vs Ideologies Jim Douglas and Markku SimulaAt the landmark 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (Earth Summit), solemn resolutions were made both to protect the world's biodiversity and to ....

211 pages | - | SpringerHbk | 2010 | 9048195810 | #191010A | £126.00 Add to basket

Grassland Productivity and Ecosystem Services Edited by Gilles Lemaire, John Hodgson and Abad ChabbiGrassland ecosystems are deeply affected by human activities and need appropriate management to optimise trade-offs between ecosystem functions and services. Until now ....

296 pages | CABIHbk | NYP 10/2011 | 1845938097 | #191172A | £85.00 Add to basket

Modelling Forest Growth and Yield Applications to Mixed Tropical Forests J VanclayCompletely updated and expanded new edition of this widely cited book, Modelling Forest Growth and Yield, 2nd Edition synthesizes current scientific literature, provides ....

280 pages | Figs | Wiley-BlackwellHbk | NYP 08/2011 | 0470665009 | #191256A | £90.00 Add to basket

New Perspectives on People and Forests Edited by Eva Ritter and Dainis DaukstraThe aim of this book is to elucidate the role of forests as part of a landscape in the life of people. Most landscapes today are cultural landscapes that are influenced by ....

264 pages | 28 col illus | SpringerHbk | 2011 | 9400711492 | #191011A | £126.00 Add to basket

Soil Carbon in Sensitive European Ecosystems From Science to Land Management Robert Jandl, Mirco Rodeghiero and Mats OlssonSoil Carbon and Greenhouse Gas Dynamics in European Ecosystems is a comprehensive overview of the latest research in this field drawn together by a network of scientists, ....

280 pages | Wiley-BlackwellHbk | NYP 09/2011 | 1119970016 | #191240A | £75.00 Add to basket

Soil Hydrology, Land Use and Agriculture Measurement and Modelling Edited by Manoj K ShuklaAgriculture is strongly affected by changes in soil hydrology as well as changes in land use and management practices and the complex interactions between them. This book aims ....

416 pages | 151 illustrations | CABIHbk | 2011 | 184593797X | #191071A | £95.00 Add to basket

Sustainable Forests, 4-Volume Set Edited by Jeffrey Sayer, Neil Byron and Gillian PetrokofskyThis four-volume set is edited by leading experts on the evolving role of forests in providing raw materials and environmental services to meet society's ....

1800 pages | EarthscanHbk | NYP 09/2011 | 1844078523 | #191289A | Normally £650.00NHBS OFFER PRICE: £595.00

Sustaining Soil Productivity in Response to Global Climate Change SauerSustaning Soil Productivity in Response to Global Climate Change is a two-part text bringing together the latest research in soil science and climatology and the ethical, ....

264 pages | Wiley-BlackwellHbk | 2010 | 047095857X | #191255A | £120.00 Add to basket

Urban Pest Management an Environmental Perspective Edited by Partho DhangUrban pest management has recently faced dramatic change: advances in research and formulation technology now shape the products available and how they are applied. ....

256 pages | CABIHbk | NYP 10/2011 | 1845938038 | #191173A | £85.00 Add to basket

Valuing Ecosystem Services The Case of Multi-functional Wetlands R Kerry Turner, Stavros Georgiou and Brendan FisherEcosystem services can be broadly defined as the aspects of ecosystems that provide benefits to people. This book explains the valuation of ecosystem services, using the ....

229 pages | Figs, tabs | EarthscanHbk | 2008 | 1844076156 | #175521A | £49.95 Add to basketPbk | 2011 | 1849713545 | #190989A | £24.99 Add to basket

Conservation & Biodiversity Go to subject web page

Biodiversity Conservation Ethics in Major Religions HSA YahyaCovering three broader issues - biodiversity conservation, religious doctrine and environment - this book attempts to initiate scientific discourse through the fabric of ....

272 pages | b/w illus | AuthorHousePbk | 2010 | 1452061238 | #190987A | £23.99 Add to basket

Confronting Biopiracy Challenges, Cases and International Debates Daniel RobinsonBiopiracy refers either to the unauthorised extraction of biological resources, such as plants with medicinal properties, and associated traditional knowledge from indigenous ....

190 pages | Figs | EarthscanHbk | 2010 | 1844077225 | #183175A | £60.00 Add to basketPbk | NYP 06/2011 | 1849714320 | #191279A | £24.99 Add to basket

Forbidden Creatures Inside the World of Animal Smuggling and Exotic Pets Peter LauferWhat is being smuggled, from where and how and why do so many people keep illicit, dangerous pets? On the heels of his acclaimed The Dangerous World of Butterflies, ....

250 pages | - | Lyons PressHbk | 2010 | 1599219263 | #190893A | £12.99 Add to basket

Rambunctious Garden Saving Nature in a Post-Wild World Emma MarrisFor decades people have unquestioningly accepted the idea that our goal is to preserve nature in its pristine, pre-human state. But many scientists have come to see this as an ....

288 pages | Bloomsbury PublishingHbk | NYP 07/2011 | 1608190323 | #187626A | £26.50 Add to basket

Realizing Nature's Potential Proceedings of the William L. Brown Symposium Honoring Dr. Gordon Cragg Edited by Bruce E Ponman and James S MillerA two-day event was held at the Missouri Botanical Garden in the fall of 2006 in honor of Dr. Gordon Cragg. Dr. Cragg, former chief of the Natural Products Branch of the ....

196 pages | Missouri BGPbk | 2011 | 1930723962 | #190915A | £36.50 Add to basket

Saving the World's Wildlife The WWF's First 50 Years Alexis SchwarzenbachThe WWF was established in 1961 spurred by the efforts of Max Nicholson, head of Britain's Nature Conservancy Council, naturalist Peter Scott, and a series of articles ....

416 pages | illustrations | Profile BooksPbk | 2011 | 1846685303 | #191086A | £24.99 Add to basket

Sponsoring Nature Environmental Philanthropy for Conservation Maano Ramutsindela, Marja Spierenburg and Harry WellsSaving the world's flora and fauna, especially high-profile examples such as chimpanzees, whales and the tropical rain forests, is big business. Individuals and ....

224 pages | EarthscanHbk | NYP 05/2011 | 184407904X | #191281A | £60.00 Add to basket

Environmental Science Go to subject web page

Air Pollution Modeling and Its Application XXI Edited by Douw G Steyn and Silvia Trini CastelliRecent developments in air pollution modeling and its application are explored here in contributions by researchers at the forefront of their field. ....

700 pages | 254 b/w & 1 col illus | SpringerPbk | NYP 07/2011 | 9400713614 | #191069A | £90.00 Add to basket

The Aral Sea Environment Edited by Andrey Kostianoy and Aleksey N KosarevThe environmental problems in the Aral Sea region continue to worsen. This volume presents the information gathered to date on various aspects of the Aral Sea ....

346 pages | Illustrations, maps | SpringerHbk | 2009 | 3540882766 | #191213A | £224.00 Add to basket

Atmospheric Circulation Dynamics and General Circulation Models M SatohThis book describes the methods used to construct general circulation models of the atmosphere, and how such models perform in applications relating to the real climate and ....

644 pages | SpringerHbk | 2003 | 3540426388 | #141631A | £188.00 Add to basketHbk | NYP 09/2011 | 3642135730 | #190128A | £180.00 Add to basket

Brominated Flame Retardants Edited by Ethel Eljarrat and Damia BarceloBrominated flame retardants are one of the last classes of halogenated compounds that are still being produced worldwide and used in large quantities in many applications. ....

296 pages | SpringerHbk | 2011 | 3642192688 | #191218A | £206.50 Add to basket

The Carbon Connection Climate Change Solutions for Our Energy, Economic and Geopolitical Challenges Michael GrubbThe oil shock, the credit crunch and the near-collapse of global climate negotiations demand a radical rethink of current policies. Michael Grubb and his co-authors present a ....

304 pages | Figures, index | EarthscanHbk | NYP 07/2011 | 1849712840 | #191265A | £29.99 Add to basket

The Changing Climate Selected Papers H H LambFirst published in 1966 these collected papers, written by the distinguished and visionary climatologist Hubert H. Lamb, describe how climates come about and give a ....

236 pages | RoutledgeHbk | NYP 09/2011 | 0415676061 | #190704A | £75.00 Add to basket

Chemicals, Environment, Health A Global Management Perspective Edited by Philip Wexler, Jan van der Kolk, Asish Mohapatra and Ravi AgarwalThis book reviews and analyzes the global multi-lateral efforts established to address the danger of chemicals on the world stage. It refers to a number of environmental ....

816 pages | 27 illus, 4 tabs | CRC Press UKHbk | NYP 08/2011 | 1420084690 | #191105A | £89.00 Add to basket

China's Responsibility for Climate Change Ethics, Fairness and Environmental Policy Edited by Paul G HarrisDrawing on practices and theories of environmental justice, "China's responsibility for climate change" describes China's contribution to global warming and analyzes its policy ....

224 pages | Policy PressHbk | 2011 | 1847428134 | #191090A | £82.00 Add to basket

Cities and Climate Change Global Report on Human Settlements 2011 United Nations Human Settlements Program"Cities and Climate Change" examines the links between urbanization and climate change, the potentially devastating effects of climate change on urban populations and the ....

300 pages | Figs | EarthscanHbk | 2011 | 1849713707 | #191266A | £90.00 Add to basketPbk | 2011 | 1849713715 | #191268A | £34.99 Add to basket

Climate Stabilization Targets Emissions, Concentrations, and Impacts Over Decades to Millennia Committee on Stabilization Targets for Atmospheric Greenhouse GasEmissions of carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels have ushered in a new epoch where human activities will largely determine the evolution of Earth s climate. Carbon ....

298 pages | illustrations | National Academies PressPbk | 2010 | 0309151767 | #191140A | £31.99 Add to basket

Climate: Present, Past and Future Volume 2: Climatic History and the Future H H LambFirst published in 1977, the second volume of Climate: Past, Present and Future covers parts III and IV of Professor Hubert Lamb's seminal and pioneering study of climatology. ....

836 pages | RoutledgeHbk | NYP 09/2011 | 0415679516 | #191119A | £150.00 Add to basket

Climate: Present, Past and Future Volume 1: Fundamentals and Climate Now H H LambFirst published in 1972, this first volume of Professor Lamb's study of our changing climate deals with the fundamentals of climate and climatology, as well as providing ....

614 pages | RoutledgeHbk | NYP 09/2011 | 0415679508 | #191118A | £110.00 Add to basket

The Copenhagen Diagnosis Updating the World on the Latest Climate Science Matthew England"The Copenhagen Diagnosis" is a summary of the global warming peer reviewed science since 2007. Produced by a team of 26 scientists led by the University of New South Wales ....

114 pages | ElsevierPbk | NYP 06/2011 | 0123869994 | #191227A | £30.99 Add to basket

Coping with Global Environmental Change, Disasters and Security Threats, Challenges, Vulnerabilities and Risks Edited by Hans Gunter Brauch et alCoping with Global Environmental Change, Disasters and Security - Threats, Challenges, Vulnerabilities and Risks reviews conceptual debates and case studies focusing on ....

1866 pages | Illustrations, maps. | SpringerHbk | 2011 | 3642177751 | #191219A | £269.50 Add to basket

Crops and Carbon Paying Farmers to Combat Climate Change Michael Alwyn RobbinsRich countries are paying poor countries to fight climate change on their behalf - and one way they are doing it is through carbon sinks. These are reservoirs of organic ....

288 pages | Line diagrams, graphs, tables, index | EarthscanHbk | NYP 07/2011 | 1849713758 | #191269A | £49.99 Add to basket

The Ebro River Basin Edited by Damia Barcelo and Mira PetrovicThe Ebro is a typical Mediterranean river characterized by seasonal low flows and extreme flush effects, with important agricultural and industrial activity that has ....

445 pages | Illustrations (some col.), maps (some col.) | SpringerHbk | 2011 | 3642180310 | #191215A | £269.50 Add to basket

Economic Choices in a Warming World Christian de PerthuisSince the publication of the Stern Review, economists have started to ask more normative questions about climate change. Should we act now or tomorrow? What is the best ....

260 pages | 1 b/w illus. 1 table | CUPHbk | 2011 | 1107002567 | #190953A | £44.99 Add to basketPbk | 2011 | 0521175682 | #190954A | £16.99 Add to basket

Effect-Directed Analysis of Complex Environmental Contamination Edited by Werner BrackToday more than 5 million chemicals are known and roughly 100,000 of them are frequently used, with both numbers rising. Many of these chemicals are ....

340 pages | SpringerHbk | 2011 | 3642183832 | #191217A | £224.50 Add to basket

The Ethics of Global Climate Change Edited by Denis ArnoldGlobal climate change is one of the most daunting ethical and political challenges confronting humanity in the twenty-first century. The intergenerational and ....

352 pages | 15 b/w illus. 3 tables | CUPHbk | 2011 | 1107000696 | #190950A | £55.00 Add to basket

Global Contamination Trends of Persistent Organic Chemicals Edited by Bommanna G Loganathan and Paul Kwan-Sing LamComposed by a diverse group of experts, this reference covers the history, present status, and projected future trends of environmental contamination from highly toxic ....

626 pages | figs, tabs | CRC PressHbk | NYP 08/2011 | 1439838305 | #191110A | £99.00 Add to basket

Global Environmental Change Julia ColeThe author writes: ....

320 pages | Wiley-BlackwellPbk | 2011 | 1405162589 | #191082A | £27.99 Add to basket

The Green Zone The Environmental Cost of Militarism Mike Davis and Barry SandersArgues that the American military at war is one of the greatest sources of pollution and environmental devastation in the world. ....

160 pages | Illustrations | AK PressPbk | 2009 | 1904859941 | #190966A | £17.50 Add to basket

Handbook of Climate Change Mitigation Edited by Wei-Yin Chen, John Seiner, Toshio Suzuki and Maximilian LacknerThere is a mounting consensus that human behavior is changing the global climate and its consequence could be catastrophic. Reducing the 24 billion metric ....

4000 pages | 2 volumes | SpringerHbk | NYP 08/2011 | 1441979905 | #191212A | £453.00 Add to basket

Handbook of Hazards and Disaster Risk Reduction Edited by Ben Wisner, JC Gaillard and Ilan KelmanThis handbook provides a comprehensive statement and reference point for hazard and disaster research, policy making, and practice in an international and ....

776 pages | illus, photos, tabs | RoutledgeHbk | NYP 09/2011 | 0415590655 | #191122A | £150.00 Add to basket

A History of Climate Changes - 4 Volume Set Selected Works of H. H. Lamb H H LambFirst published between 1966 and 1988, the four volumes in this collection demonstrate the immense breadth and depth of work on climate change by the pioneering English ....

2050 pages | RoutledgeHbk | NYP 09/2011 | 0415679591 | #191121A | £375.00 Add to basket

The Hurricane Roger A PielkeFirst published in 1990, this book describes the nature of the hurricane, one of the world's most dangerous weather hazards. It examines the formation, development, ....

226 pages | Illus | RoutledgeHbk | 2011 | 0415615534 | #191117A | £70.00 Add to basket

Is a Little Pollution Good for You? Incorporating Societal Values in Environmental Research Kevin ElliottCould low-level exposure to polluting chemicals be analogous to exercise-a beneficial source of stress that strengthens the body? Some scientists studying the phenomenon of ....

272 pages | OUPHbk | 2011 | 0199755620 | #190932A | £39.99 Add to basket

Living in Denial Climate Change, Emotions, and Everyday Life Kari Marie NorgaardGlobal warming is the most significant environmental issue of our time, yet public response in Western nations has been meager. Why have so few taken any ....

288 pages | MIT PressHbk | 2011 | 0262015447 | #191092A | £37.95 Add to basketPbk | 2011 | 0262515857 | #191093A | £18.95 Add to basket

Microwave Propagation and Remote Sensing Atmospheric Influences with Models and Applications Pranab Kumar KarmakarThis book deals with both microwave propagation and remote sensing in various atmospheric and tropospheric conditions. After discussing the derived parameters of ....

254 pages | 113 illus, 18 tabs | CRC PressHbk | NYP 07/2011 | 1439848998 | #191113A | £82.00 Add to basket

Ocean Acidification Edited by Jean-Pierre Gattuso and Lina HanssonThe ocean helps moderate climate change thanks to its considerable capacity to store CO2, through the combined actions of ocean physics, chemistry, and biology. This storage ....

408 pages | 75 illustrations | OUPHbk | NYP 09/2011 | 0199591083 | #191308A | £75.00 Add to basketPbk | NYP 09/2011 | 0199591091 | #191309A | £37.50 Add to basket

The Oxford Handbook of Climate Change and Society Edited by John S Dryzek, Richard B Norgaard and David SchlosbergClimate change presents perhaps the most profound challenge ever confronted by human society. This volume is a definitive analysis drawing on the best thinking on questions ....

864 pages | OUPHbk | NYP 06/2011 | 0199566607 | #191054A | £95.00 Add to basket

Polymers - Opportunities and Risks II Edited by Peter Eyerer, Martin Weller and Christof HubnerSince their first industrial use, polymers have gained a tremendous success. The two volumes of "Polymers - Opportunities and Risks" elaborate on both their potentials and ....

310 pages | illustrations | SpringerHbk | 2010 | 3642027962 | #191214A | £206.50 Add to basket

Remediation and Management of Contaminated Sites Steven WuerzThis book presents a complete demonstration of what needs to be done for contaminated sites, from analyzing a site's potential economic value and the site's contamination ....

450 pages | 150 b/w illus | CRC PressHbk | NYP 09/2011 | 1439826013 | #190564A | £76.99 Add to basket

Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, Volume 212 Edited by David M Whitacre

156 pages | illus | SpringerHbk | 2011 | 1441984526 | #191068A | £90.00 Add to basket

Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, Volume 213 Edited by David M Whitacre

177 pages | illus | SpringerHbk | NYP 06/2011 | 1441998594 | #191067A | £90.00 Add to basket

Rip Currents Beach Safety, Physical Oceanography, and Wave Modeling Edited by Stephen Leatherman and John FletemeyerThis volume is the culmination of research from over 100 coastal scientists, engineers, forecast meteorologists, lifeguard chiefs, and other practitioners from around the world ....

293 pages | 152 illus, 24 tabs | CRC PressHbk | 2011 | 1439838968 | #191199A | £76.99 Add to basket

The Sea A Photographic Celebration of the First Wonder of the World The sea is the first wonder of the world. Source of all life, key to our survival and home to innumerable and astonishing life forms, the sea has fascinated humanity from its ....

160 pages | Full colour throughout | Adlard Coles NauticalHbk | NYP 09/2011 | 1408146657 | #191295A | £29.99 Add to basket

Sittig's Handbook of Toxic and Hazardous Chemicals and Carcinogens Richard P PohanishFor more than a quarter century, "Sittig's Handbook of Toxic and Hazardous Chemicals and Carcinogens" has proven to be among the most reliable, easy-to-use and essential ....

2300 pages | Two Volume Set | William Andrew PublishingHbk | NYP 09/2011 | 1437778690 | #191229A | £365.00 Add to basket

Waste Water Treatment and Reuse in the Mediterranean Region Edited by Damia Barcelo and Mira PetrovicWater scarcity and the need for ecological sustainability have led to the introduction of treated waste water as an additional water resource in the national water resource ....

314 pages | Illustrations (some col.), maps (some col.) | SpringerHbk | 2011 | 3642182801 | #191216A | £224.50 Add to basket

Waste and Environmental Policy Edited by Massimiliano Mazzanti and Anna MontiniThis research deals with the increasingly complex issues of waste generation, waste management and waste disposal that in less developed industrialised ....

240 pages | Figs, tabs | RoutledgePbk | 2011 | 0415619785 | #190951A | £23.50 Add to basket

Physical Sciences Go to subject web page

Advances in Rock Dynamics and Applications Edited by Yingxin Zhou and Jian ZhaoThe study of rock dynamics is important because many rock mechanics and rock engineering problems involve dynamic loading ranging from earthquakes to vibrations and explosions. ....

500 pages | CRC Press UKHbk | NYP 06/2011 | 0415613515 | #191104A | £95.00 Add to basket

The Beautiful Invisible Creativity, Imagination, and Theoretical Physics Giovanni VignaleThe realm of theoretical physics is teeming with abstract and beautiful concepts. And the task of imagining them is one that demands profound creativity. ....

320 pages | b/w photos, illus | OUPHbk | 2011 | 0199574847 | #191040A | £16.99 Add to basket

Collins Stars and Planets Guide Ian Ridpath and Wil TirionPreviously entitled 'Collins Pocket Guide Stars and Planets', this classic guide to the night sky enters its fourth edition as part of the authoritative 'Collins Guide' series. ....

400 pages | Col photos, figs | Harper CollinsPbk | 2011 | 0007424426 | #191009A | £17.99 Add to basket

The Colours of Infinity Edited by Nigel Lesmoir-GordonThe groundbreaking documentary (accompanying this book), introduced by Arthur C. Clarke, has been shown in over 50 countries around the world. Twenty five years ago it brought ....

185 pages | 28 black & white illustrations, 155 colour illustrations | SpringerHbk | 2010 | 1849964858 | #191138A | £29.95 Add to basket

Earth as an Evolving Planetary System Kent Condie"Earth as an Evolving Planetary System" explores key topics and questions relating to the evolution of the Earth's crust and mantle over the last four billion years. This ....

614 pages | ElsevierPbk | 2005 | 0120883929 | #151410A | £46.99 Add to basketPbk | NYP 08/2011 | 0123852277 | #191226A | £45.99 Add to basket

Economic Geology Principles and Practice Walter L PohlHumanity's ever-increasing hunger for mineral raw materials, caused by a growing global population and ever increasing standards of living, has resulted in economic geology ....

680 pages | Wiley-BlackwellHbk | 2011 | 1444336622 | #191072A | £95.00 Add to basketPbk | 2011 | 1444336630 | #191073A | £39.99 Add to basket

Green Organic Chemistry in Lecture and Laboratory Edited by Andrew DicksThe last decade has seen a huge interest in green organic chemistry, particularly as chemical educators look to "green" their undergraduate curricula. Detailing published ....

303 pages | illus, tabs | CRC PressHbk | NYP 08/2011 | 1439840768 | #191111A | £95.00 Add to basket

Hertfordshire Geology and Landscape John Catt

384 pages | Col photos, 200 maps | HNHSHbk | 2010 | 0952168596 | #190974A | £39.50 Add to basket

Introduction to Cosmology Matts RoosThe Third Edition of the hugely successful Introduction to Cosmology provides a concise, authoritative study of cosmology at an introductory level. Starting from elementary ....

294 pages | Wiley-Blackwell2011 | 0470014032 | #191043A | £126.00 Add to basket

Modeling Uncertainty in the Earth Sciences Jef CaersModeling Uncertainty in the Earth Sciences highlights the various issues, techniques and practical modeling tools available for modeling the uncertainty of complex Earth systems ....

248 pages | Wiley-BlackwellPbk | NYP 06/2011 | 1119992621 | #191239A | £39.95 Add to basket

A Photographic Guide to Rocks and Minerals of New Zealand Nick Mortimer, Hamish Campbell and Margaret LowThe twelfth book in the popular New Holland series examines New Zealand's fascinating geology. Almost every kind of rock found on Earth can be seen in New Zealand, and most ....

144 pages | col photos, figs | New Holland NZPbk | NYP 09/2011 | 1869662830 | #190387A | £9.99 Add to basket

Tectonic Geomorphology D Burbank and R AndersonTectonic geomorphology is the study of the interplay between tectonic and surface processes that shape the landscape in regions of active deformation and at time scales ....

274 pages | 120 illus, figs, maps | Blackwell SciencePbk | 2000 | 0632043865 | #111267A | £47.50 Add to basketPbk | NYP 09/2011 | 1444338870 | #191238A | £34.95 Add to basket

Los Volcanes de las Islas Canarias IV / Canarian Volcanoes IV La Palma, La Gomera, El Hierro JC Carracedo

216 pages | 300 col illus | RuedaPbk | | 8472071901 | #191000A | £28.50 Add to basket

Sustainable Development Go to subject web page

African Seed Enterprises Sowing the Seeds of Food Security Edited by P Van Mele, Jeffrey W Bently and Robert G GueiIn most developing countries, good quality seed is hard to obtain and farmers struggle to save seed from one year to the next. In many areas, farmers have come to rely on seed ....

280 pages | 26 illus | CABIHbk | NYP 06/2011 | 1845938437 | #191144A | £85.00 Add to basket

Aid and Development Emma Mawdsley"Aid for Development" not only explains the architecture of aid for developing countries, but engages centrally with so-called new 'emerging', 'non-traditional' ....

192 pages | Zed Books2011 | 1848135777 | #191030A | £65.00 Add to basket

Bacteria in Agrobiology Crop Ecosystems Edited by Dinesh K MaheshwariThe future of agriculture strongly depends on our ability to enhance productivity without sacrificing long-term production potential. An ecologically and economically ....

350 pages | SpringerHbk | 2011 | 3642183565 | #191059A | £135.00 Add to basket

Best Practice Guidelines for Great Ape Tourism FAOGreat ape tourism, if well implemented, can serve to conserve the species but it can also have considerable negative impacts if it is not based on sound conservation ....

78 pages | IUCNPbk | 2011 | 2831711568 | #191303A | £11.50 Add to basket

Beyond Resource Wars Scarcity, Environmental Degradation, and International Cooperation Edited by Shlomi DinarCommon wisdom holds that the earth's dwindling natural resources and increasing environmental degradation will inevitably lead to inter-state conflict, and possibly ....

320 pages | MIT PressHbk | 2011 | 0262014971 | #191087A | £37.95 Add to basketPbk | 2011 | 026251558X | #191088A | £18.95 Add to basket

Biology and Breeding of Food Legumes Edited by A Pratap and J KumarFood legumes are important constituents of the human diet and animal feed where they are crucial to a balanced diet, supplying high quality proteins. These crops also play an ....

336 pages | 26 illus | CABIHbk | NYP 09/2011 | 184593766X | #191149A | £115.00 Add to basket

Blueberries James F Hancock and Jorge B RetamalesThis book covers the major topics of interest to blueberry breeders and researchers including botany, physiology, nutrition, growth regulation, photosynthesis, environment, ....

256 pages | CABIPbk | NYP 10/2011 | 1845938267 | #191159A | £34.99 Add to basket

Citizen Participation in Global Environmental Governance Edited by Mikko Rask, Richard Worthington and Minna LammiOn one day in 2009, in 38 countries around the world, 4,000 ordinary citizens gathered to discuss the future of climate policy. This project, 'WWViews', was the first-ever ....

304 pages | Photographs, figures | EarthscanHbk | NYP 08/2011 | 1849713782 | #191285A | £85.00 Add to basketPbk | NYP 08/2011 | 1849713790 | #191286A | £29.99 Add to basket

Climate Change Liability Edited by Michael Faure and Marjan PeetersThis book sheds new light on the growing issue of using liability as a tool for both preventing and compensating for the damage caused by climate change. Michael Faure and ....

304 pages | Edward ElgarHbk | 2011 | 1849802866 | #190984A | £75.00 Add to basket

Compliance and Enforcement in Environmental Law Toward More Effective Implementation Edited by Lee Paddock, Du Qun and Louis J KotzeCompliance and enforcement are critical elements of assuring that international environmental treaties and domestic environmental laws actually produce desired ....

768 pages | Edward ElgarHbk | 2011 | 1848448317 | #190888A | £120.00 Add to basket

Crop Genetic Resources as a Global Commons Challenges in International Law and Governance Edited by Michael Halewood and Noriega Isabel LopezThe Earth's plant genetic resources are a common inheritance of all humankind, which should be held in shared trust for a common future. A key component of the global ....

352 pages | Figures, boxes, index | EarthscanHbk | NYP 09/2011 | 1844078922 | #191272A | £95.00 Add to basketPbk | NYP 09/2011 | 1844078930 | #191273A | £39.99 Add to basket

Drinking Water Treatment Focusing on Appropriate Technology and Sustainability Edited by Chittaranjan Ray and Ravi JainSustainable technologies for water supply are urgently needed if water has to be supplied to billions of less fortunate people with inadequate access to water. These ....

300 pages | 89 black & white illustrations | SpringerHbk | NYP 05/2011 | 9400711034 | #191220A | £90.00 Add to basket

Ecological Imaginations in the World Religions An Ethnographic Analysis Tony WatlingThe field of religion and ecology is an emerging and growing movement that is becoming relevant and influential in the world. It seeks to analyse, encourage, inspire, use, ....

256 pages | Continuum PublishingHbk | 2009 | 1847064280 | #191014A | £65.00 Add to basket

Economic Incentives for Stormwater Control Edited by Hale W ThurstonAddressing a huge knowledge gap from a policy perspective, this book focuses on the economic tools available for stormwater runoff control. It provides case studies ....

256 pages | 43 illus, 34 tabs | CRC PressHbk | NYP 08/2011 | 1439845603 | #191107A | £63.99 Add to basket

Economics and Ecology United for a Sustainable World Russ Beaton and Chris MaserThis reference discusses the problems of ecological and economic crises and explains how they are the product of the overextension of resources. The book summarizes the standard ....

184 pages | 1 illus | CRC PressHbk | NYP 07/2011 | 1439852952 | #191108A | £49.99 Add to basket

The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity in National and International Policy Making UNEPThe Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) study is a major international initiative drawing attention to local, national and global economic benefits of ....

494 pages | UNEPHbk | 2011 | 1849712050 | #191305A | £62.00 Add to basket

Encyclopedia of Agrophysics Edited by Jan Glinski and Jozef HorabikThis encyclopedia provides up-to-date information on the physical properties and processes affecting the quality of the environment and plant production and features a ....

900 pages | 450 col & b/w illus | SpringerHbk | NYP 09/2011 | 9048135842 | #184719A | £359.00 Add to basket

Encyclopedia of Environmental Health, 5-Volume Set Edited by Jerome O NriaguKnowledge in the field of environmental health is growing rapidly. Within the context of external factors that define its boundaries, environmental health has evolved over time ....

5016 pages | Illustrations (some col.), col. maps | ElsevierHbk | 2011 | 0444522735 | #191232A | £1095.00 Add to basket

Energy Economics Co2 Emissions in China Edited by Yiming Wei, Lancui Liu, Gang Wu and Lele Zou"Energy Economics: CO2 Emissions in China" presents a collection of the researches on China's CO2 emissions as studied by the Center for Energy & Environmental Policy ....

322 pages | Figs, tabs | SpringerHbk | 2010 | 3642138462 | #190884A | £117.00 Add to basket

Environmental Audit in Nepal Rabindra Roy

56 pages | B/w photos, figs, tabs | LAPPbk | 2011 | 3844315802 | #190885A | £57.50 Add to basket

Environmental Governance in Europe and Asia A Comparative Study of Institutional and Legislative Frameworks Jona RazzaqueBoth developed and developing countries in Asia, in the name of economic development, are following, to a large extent, the same potentially environmentally destructive path ....

256 pages | RoutledgeHbk | NYP 09/2011 | 0415496543 | #190890A | £75.00 Add to basket

Environmental Health and Safety Audit LB Cahill and RW Kane

686 pages | Government InstitutesHbk | 2011 | 1605907081 | #190886A | £94.00 Add to basket

Environmental Management Accounting and Supply Chain Management Edited by R Burritt, S Schaltegger, M Bennett, T Pohjola and Csutora. MThis volume's focus on the environmental accounting of supply chain processes is of particular relevance because these processes supply data about the environmental impact ....

349 pages | 42 b/w & col illus | SpringerHbk | NYP 06/2011 | 9400713894 | #191060A | £135.00 Add to basket

Environmental Management in Organisations The IEMA Handbook Edited by John BradyEnvironmental issues can present some daunting operational concerns for all types of organization, whether in the private, public and voluntary sectors. Managing them ....

288 pages | Figs, tabs | EarthscanHbk | 2011 | 1849710627 | #191037A | £60.00 Add to basket

Exploring Hard Rocks for Groundwater Edited by Shivendra Nath Rai and Jiri KrasnyThis volume contains papers resulting from the 37th IAH Congress held in Hyderabad, India from 6-12 September 2009. ....

300 pages | CRC PressHbk | NYP 08/2011 | 041559586X | #191197A | £82.00 Add to basket

Fear of Farming Caroline Wickham-JonesThe environmental crisis is one of the most pressing concerns to face the population of the world today. The debate centres on the way in which our current problems are of ....

176 pages | 3 illus | Windgather PressPbk | 2010 | 1905119321 | #190983A | £16.95 Add to basket

Field Hydrogeology A Guide for Site Investigations and Report Productions John E MooreRevised and updated, this second edition presents new coverage of aquifers, springs, US federal regulations, groundwater withdrawal, and land subsidence and includes new ....

296 pages | CRC PressHbk | 2002 | 1566705878 | #128349A | £85.00 Add to basketHbk | NYP 07/2011 | 1439841241 | #191109A | £76.99 Add to basket

Fish Elizabeth R DeSombre and Jeffrey BarkinFishing has played a vital role in human history and culture. But today this key resource faces a serious crisis as most species are being overfished or ....

296 pages | Wiley-BlackwellHbk | 2011 | 0745650198 | #191039A | £39.99 Add to basket

Florida's Water A Fragile Resource in a Vulnerable State Tom Swihart"Florida's Water" poses fundamental questions about water sustainability in the United States' fourth largest state. Florida has long-standing water quality problems. Global ....

256 pages | Figures, tables | RFFHbk | NYP 05/2011 | 1617260932 | #191283A | £49.99 Add to basket

Fodder Crops and Amenity Grasses Edited by Beat Boller, Ulrich K Posselt and Fabio VeronesiThe main role of grasses, clovers and alfalfa in temperate agriculture is still to provide forage for ruminant animals but, in the last decades, the importance of amenity ....

534 pages | 37 black & white tables | SpringerHbk | 2009 | 1441907599 | #191221A | £135.00 Add to basket

Food Security in Africa and Asia Strategies for Small-scale Agricultural Development H BakkerAuthored by an experienced agriculturalist with substantial field experience in developing countries, this book adds to the literature on food security by proposing ....

256 pages | CABIHbk | NYP 06/2011 | 1845938410 | #191145A | £75.00 Add to basket

Food, Globalization and Sustainability Peter Oosterveer and David SonnenfeldFood is increasingly traded internationally, thereby transforming the organisation of food production and consumption globally and influencing most ....

288 pages | Diagrams, graphs, index | EarthscanHbk | NYP 08/2011 | 1849712603 | #191270A | £85.00 Add to basketPbk | NYP 08/2011 | 1849712611 | #191271A | £29.99 Add to basket

From Red to Green? How the Financial Credit Crunch Could Bankrupt the Environment Paul Donovan and Julie HudsonWritten by an economist and an investment professional, this book addresses the twin crises that the world is facing in the form of a simultaneous ....

240 pages | Figures, graphs | EarthscanHbk | NYP 09/2011 | 1849714142 | #191264A | £24.99 Add to basket

Frontiers in Nature-based Tourism Lessons from Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden Edited by Peter Fredman and Liisa TyrvainenNature has been a key attraction factor for tourism in the Nordic countries for decades. The demand for nature-based tourism has steadily grown and is one of the most rapidly ....

234 pages | 20 tabs | RoutledgeHbk | NYP 07/2011 | 041566974X | #191123A | £80.00 Add to basket

Fruit Breeding Edited by Marisa Luisa Badenes and David ByrneThis book comprises temperate fruit species, nuts and other fruit crops as kiwi and grapes. A chapter on citrus breeding is included, since the crop is largely established ....

450 pages | SpringerHbk | 2010 | 1441907629 | #191223A | £126.00 Add to basket

Good Food for Everyone Forever A People's Takeover of the World's Food Supply Colin TudgeEveryone who is ever likely to be born on to this planet could be fed to the highest standards of nutrition and gastronomy-and this could be done without cruelty, or ....

176 pages | PariPbk | 2011 | 889560413X | #190947A | £9.99 Add to basket

Green Hills, Blue Cities An Ecosystems Approach to Water Resources UNEPAfrica is currently the least urbanised region in the world, but this is changing fast. Of the billion people living on the African continent, about 40 per cent lives in urban ....

68 pages | UNEPPbk | 2011 | 9280731548 | #191304A | £18.99 Add to basket

Greening Household Behaviour The Role of Public Policy OECD Publishing

194 pages | black & white illustrations | OECDPbk | 2011 | 9264063625 | #190952A | £26.99 Add to basket

Groundwater Hydrology Engineering, Planning, and Management Mohammad Karamouz, Azadeh Ahmadi and Masih AkhbariThis textbook examines the interface between groundwater engineering and management with tools such as data collection, simulation modeling, and economic analysis. The chapters ....

676 pages | 313 illus, 106 tabs | CRC PressHbk | 2011 | 1439837562 | #191205A | £63.99 Add to basket

Groundwater Management Practices Edited by Angelos N Findikakis and Kuniaki SatoThe monograph presents and compares practices followed in different countries for the development, protection and management of groundwater resources. It includes overviews ....

390 pages | CRC PressHbk | NYP 05/2011 | 0415619874 | #191198A | £99.00 Add to basket

Human Rights and Climate Change A Review of the International Legal Dimensions Siobhan McInerney-Lankford, Mac Darrow and Lavanya Rajamani

136 pages | World BankPbk | 2011 | 0821387200 | #190985A | £14.95 Add to basket

Integrated Watershed Management in Rainfed Agriculture SP Wani, Johan Rockstrom and Kanwar Lal SahrawatThe incentive of watershed programs is to increase the return on investment with over 20% for 65% of the projects that are currently underperforming. This book provides a ....

500 pages | CRC PressHbk | NYP 09/2011 | 041588277X | #191194A | £76.99 Add to basket

Integrating Agriculture, Conservation and Ecotourism Examples from the Field Edited by Bruce Campbell and Silvia Lopez Ortiz

451 pages | 51 b/w & col illus | SpringerHbk | NYP 06/2011 | 9400713088 | #191074A | £135.00 Add to basket

International Environmental Law Ulrich Beyerlin and Thilo Marauhn"International Environmental Law" is a new textbook written for students, practitioners, and anyone interested in the subject. The overall aim of the book is to provide a fresh ....

460 pages | Hart PublishingPbk | NYP 06/2011 | 1841139246 | #190981A | £29.99 Add to basket

Irrigation Systems Design, Planning and Construction Adrian LaycockOf all the confrontations man has engineered with nature, irrigation systems have had the most widespread and far-reaching impact on the natural environment. Over a quarter ....

290 pages | CABIHbk | 2007 | 1845932633 | #166619A | £65.00 Add to basketPbk | 2011 | 1845938747 | #190998A | £39.95 Add to basket

Knowing Nature Conversations at the Intersection of Political Ecology and Science Studies Edited by Mara J Goldman, Paul Nadasdy and Matthew D TurnerPolitical ecology and science studies have found fertile meeting ground in environmental studies. While the two distinct areas of inquiry approach the environment from different ....

376 pages | 22 halftones, 8 line drawings, 6 tables | Chicago UPHbk | 2011 | 0226301400 | #191083A | £64.50 Add to basketPbk | 2011 | 0226301419 | #191084A | £24.99 Add to basket

Legislative and Regulatory Options for Animal Welfare FAOAnimal welfare is inextricably linked to animal health, human health and ethical concerns. Burgeoning international trade is triggering more interest in animal welfare, ....

102 pages | FAOPbk | 2011 | 9251067112 | #191301A | £12.50 Add to basket

Managing Biosecurity Across Borders Edited by Ian Falk, Ruth A Wallace and Marthen L NdoenThis book works towards a strategy for managing plant biosecurity in complex contexts. Managing the risks that pests and diseases pose to plants of all kinds is a highly ....

200 pages | 40 col illus | SpringerHbk | NYP 06/2011 | 9400714114 | #191078A | £126.00 Add to basket

One Illness Away Why People Become Poor and How They Escape Poverty Anirudh KrishnaWhy does poverty persist? A critical, but so far ignored, part of the answer lies in the fact that poverty is regularly created. Large numbers of people are escaping poverty, ....

256 pages | 4 figs, 17 tabs | OUPPbk | NYP 07/2011 | 0199693196 | #191056A | £14.99 Add to basket

Organic Farming An International History Edited by William LockeretzBeginning as a small protest to the industrialization of agriculture in the 1920s, organic farming has become a significant force in agricultural policy, marketing, and ....

282 pages | Figs | CABIHbk | 2007 | 085199833X | #168747A | £75.00 Add to basketPbk | 2011 | 1845938763 | #191147A | £34.99 Add to basket

The Oxford Handbook of the Economics of Food Consumption and Policy Edited by Jayson L Lusk, Jutta Roosen and Jason ShogrenHistorically, the challenge for humans has been to secure a sufficient supply of food to stave off hunger and starvation. As a result, much of the research on food and ....

768 pages | 56 figs, 63 tabs | OUPHbk | NYP 08/2011 | 0199569444 | #191058A | £95.00 Add to basket

Prosperity without Growth Economics for a Finite Planet Tim Jackson"Prosperity without Growth" challenges the assumption of continued economic expansion in rich countries, providing a radical re-think of embedded, unquestioned assumptions and ....

264 pages | Figs, tabs | EarthscanHbk | 2009 | 1844078949 | #180870A | £14.99 Add to basketPbk | 2011 | 1849713235 | #191262A | £9.99 Add to basket

Quantitative Genetics in Maize Breeding Arnel R Hallauer, Marcelo J Carena and JB Miranda FilhoMaize is used in an endless list of products that are directly or indirectly related to human nutrition and food security. Maize is grown in producer ....

515 pages | SpringerHbk | 2010 | 1441907653 | #191222A | £139.50 Add to basket

Revolutionizing Development Reflections on the Work of Robert Chambers Edited by Ian Scoones and Andrea CornwallThis book tells the story of development studies in practice over the last 50 years through the work of one remarkable individual - Robert Chambers. His work has taken him ....

256 pages | Figures | EarthscanHbk | 2011 | 1849713294 | #191031A | £80.00 Add to basketPbk | 2011 | 1849713308 | #191032A | £24.99 Add to basket

Seasonality, Rural Livelihoods and Development Edited by Rachel Sabates-Wheeler, Richard Longhurst and Stephen DevereuxSeasonality is a severe constraint to sustainable rural livelihoods, and a driver of poverty and hunger, particularly in the tropics. Many poor people in developing ....

320 pages | Figures | EarthscanHbk | NYP 06/2011 | 1849713243 | #191287A | £85.00 Add to basketPbk | NYP 06/2011 | 1849713251 | #191288A | £29.99 Add to basket

State of Food and Agriculture 2010-11 Women in Agriculture: Closing the Gender Gap for Development FAOWomen make significant contributions to the rural economy in all developing country regions. Their roles differ across regions, yet they consistently have less access than ....

158 pages | FAOPbk | 2011 | 9251067686 | #190842A | £46.50 Add to basket

The State of the World's Land and Water Resources Olivier Dubois"The State of Land and Water Resources" ("SOLAW") is FAO's first flagship publication on the global status of land and water resources. It is an 'advocacy' report, to be ....

192 pages | col. Illustrations | EarthscanHbk | NYP 07/2011 | 184971326X | #191274A | £85.00 Add to basketPbk | NYP 07/2011 | 1849713278 | #191275A | £29.99 Add to basket

Statutory Recognition of Customary Land Rights in Africa An investigation into best practices for lawmaking and implementation FAOGiven the recent trend of granting vast areas of African land to foreign investors, the urgency of placing real ownership in the hands of the people living and making their ....

320 pages | FAOPbk | 2011 | 9251067287 | #191302A | £24.99 Add to basket

Strategic Management in Tourism Edited by Luiz MouthinhoFully updated with new chapters linking strategic thinking and action in the management of tourism, this comprehensive textbook provides an analytical evaluation of the most ....

328 pages | CABIPbk | 2011 | 1845935888 | #191178A | £39.95 Add to basket

Top 100 Exotic Food Plants Ernest SmallThis book provides extensive information on food plants including their description, history, and economic as well as social importance. It includes a culinary portrait of ....

726 pages | 202 illus, 7 tabs | CRC PressHbk | NYP 08/2011 | 1439856869 | #191116A | £57.99 Add to basket

Toxic Loopholes Failures and Future Prospects for Environmental Law Craig CollinsThe EPA was established to enforce the environmental laws Congress enacted during the 1970s. Yet today lethal toxins still permeate our environment, causing widespread ....

281 pages | Tabs | CUPHbk | 2010 | 0521760852 | #190895A | £55.00 Add to basket

Turkey's Water Policy National Frameworks and International Cooperation Edited by Annika Kramer, Aysegul Kibaroglu and Waltina ScheumannWater is a strategic natural resource of vital importance to all nations. As such it has been the cause of several international disputes. For Turkey especially, water is ....

320 pages | 40 b/w & col illus | SpringerHbk | NYP 07/2011 | 3642196357 | #191062A | £117.00 Add to basket

Urban Watersheds Geology, Contamination, and Sustainable Development Martin M Kaufman, Daniel T Rogers and Kent S MurrayWith the continuing increase in population, more people are sharing the finite resources of the urban watershed, resulting in new and increasingly complex interactions between ....

583 pages | b/w & col illus | CRC PressHbk | 2011 | 143985274X | #191196A | £89.00 Add to basket

Vegetable Production and Marketing in Africa Socio-economic Research Edited by D Mithöfer and Hermann WaibelVegetables are a significant component of agricultural farming systems in Africa and have recently moved into the focus of research organizations, development partners and ....

288 pages | CABIHbk | NYP 06/2011 | 1845936493 | #191148A | £85.00 Add to basket

Water Policy in Australia The Impact of Change and Uncertainty Edited by Lin CraseIn the last twenty years, policy makers in Australia have been forced to acknowledge that it is not possible to perpetually supply more water at a low cost. Consequently, ....

300 pages | 50 figs | RFFHbk | 2008 | 1933115580 | #183567A | £65.00 Add to basketPbk | 2011 | 193311598X | #191284A | £29.99 Add to basket

Water Security The Water-food-energy-climate Nexus World Economic ForumThe world is on the brink of the greatest crisis it has ever faced: a spiralling lack of fresh water. Groundwater is drying up, even as water demands for food production, for ....

300 pages | figures, notes | Island PressPbk | 2011 | 159726735X | #190995A | £42.99 Add to basket

Water in the Middle East Edited by Waltina Scheumann and Manuel SchifflerThe book deals with the potential conflicts over shared rivers in the Middle East, and with approaches towards cooperation regarding the Euphrates and Tigris, the Jordan and ....

205 pages | 6 black & white illustrations, 8 black & white tables | SpringerPbk | 2011 | 3642083765 | #190988A | £90.00 Add to basket

When a Billion Chinese Jump Voices from the Frontline of Climate Change Jonathan WattsWith foul air, filthy water, rising temperatures and encroaching deserts, China is already suffering an environmental disaster. Now it faces a stark choice: either accept ....

496 pages | maps | Faber & FaberPbk | 2011 | 057123982X | #191089A | £9.99 Add to basket

Wildlife Law and the Empowerment of the Poor Wildlife law can contribute to the legal empowerment of the poor to varying extents by granting local and indigenous communities clear and secure rights to conserve and use ....

342 pages | FAOPbk | 2011 | 9251067104 | #191300A | £24.99 Add to basket

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Advanced Simulation and Modelling for Urban Groundwater Management - UGROW Edited by Dubravka Pokrajac and Ken WF HowardThis title presents the theory and software on URban GRoundWater (UGROW) modelling with one of the most advanced tools available to date that fully integrates all urban water ....

252 pages | Taylor & FrancisHbk | 2010 | 0415453542 | #191206A | £63.99 Add to basketPbk | 2010 | 0415453550 | #191207A | £31.99 Add to basket

Asking Questions in Biology A Guide to Hypothesis Testing, Experimental Design and Presentation in Practice Francis Gilbert, Peter McGregor and Chris BarnardAsking and answering questions is the cornerstone of science yet formal training in understanding this key process is often overlooked. Asking Questions in Biology unpacks ....

190 pages | Illus, figs, tabs | Benjamin-CummingsPbk | 2011 | 0273734687 | #191044A | £26.99 Add to basket

Chemometrics with R Ron Wehrens"Chemometrics with R" offers readers an accessible introduction to the world of multivariate statistics in the life sciences, providing a complete description of the ....

300 pages | black & white illustrations | SpringerPbk | 2011 | 3642178405 | #190926A | £44.99 Add to basket

EMBOSS Administrator's Guide Bioinformatics Software Management Alan J Bleasby, Jon C Ison and Peter M RiceThe European Molecular Biology Open Software Suite (EMBOSS) is a high quality package of open source software tools for molecular biology. It includes over 200 applications ....

184 pages | 5 tabs | CUPPbk | NYP 06/2011 | 0521188156 | #191260A | £44.99 Add to basket

EMBOSS Developer's Guide Bioinformatics Programming Jon C Ison, Peter M Rice and Alan J BleasbyThis book is the official and definitive guide to developing software under EMBOSS (European Molecular Biology Open Software Suite). It includes comprehensive reference ....

664 pages | illus | CUPPbk | NYP 06/2011 | 0521607248 | #191259A | £44.99 Add to basket

EMBOSS User's Guide Practical Bioinformatics Peter M Rice, Alan J Bleasby and Jon C IsonThe European Molecular Biology Open Software Suite (EMBOSS) is a well established, high quality package of open source software tools for molecular biology. It includes over ....

408 pages | 9 b/w illus, 50 tabs | CUPPbk | NYP 06/2011 | 0521607256 | #191258A | £29.99 Add to basket

Environmental Modelling Finding Simplicity in Complexity Edited by Mark Mulligan and John WainwrightSimulation models are increasingly used to investigate processes and solve practical problems in a wide variety of disciplines. Central to the concept of this book is the ....

448 pages | Wiley-BlackwellHbk | 2011 | 0470749113 | #191081A | £50.00 Add to basket

Fisher, Neyman, and the Creation of Classical Statistics Erich L Lehmann and Juliet ShafferClassical statistical theory--hypothesis testing, estimation, and the design of experiments and sample surveys--is mainly the creation of two men: Ronald ....

154 pages | 8 black & white illustrations | SpringerPbk | NYP 07/2011 | 1441994998 | #191137A | £23.99 Add to basket

GIS Applications in Agriculture Volume 3: Invasive Species Edited by Sharon A ClayWhile many "alien" plant and animal species are purposefully introduced into new areas as ornamentals, livestock, crops, and even pets, these species can escape into other ....

448 pages | 162 b/w illus, 27 tabs | CRC PressHbk | 2011 | 1420078801 | #191203A | £82.00 Add to basket

GIS Applications in Agriculture Volume 2: Nutrient Management for Energy Efficiency Edited by David E Clay and John F ShanahanUsing mathematics, technology, and creativity, this volume examines the development of nutrient management practices that help producers improve their profitability and energy ....

472 pages | 228 b/w illus, 72 tabs | CRC PressHbk | 2011 | 1420092707 | #191202A | £89.00 Add to basket

Introduction to Remote Sensing James B Campbell and Randolph H WynneA leading text for undergraduate- and graduate-level courses, this book introduces widely used forms of remote sensing imagery and their applications in plant sciences, ....

640 pages | 400 figs, 29 col plates | Taylor & FrancisPbk | 2007 | 0415416884 | #167399A | £37.00 Add to basketHbk | NYP 07/2011 | 160918176X | #191133A | £64.00 Add to basket

Model-based Methods for Sample Survey Design and Estimation Ray Chambers and Robert ClarkThis text brings together important ideas on the model-based approach to sample survey which has been developed over the last twenty years. The content moves from basic ideas ....

350 pages | OUPHbk | 2011 | 019856662X | #191042A | £39.99 Add to basket

Numerical Ecology with R Daniel Borcard, Francois Gillet and Pierre LegendreNumerical Ecology with R provides a long-awaited bridge between a textbook in Numerical Ecology and the implementation of this discipline in the R ....

306 pages | Figs | SpringerPbk | 2011 | 1441979751 | #190928A | £49.99 Add to basket

Practical Field Ecology A Project Guide Charles Philip Wheater, Penny A Cook and James BellThis book introduces experimental design and data analysis / interpretation as well as field monitoring skills for both plants and animals. Clearly structured throughout and ....

392 pages | Wiley-BlackwellHbk | 2011 | 0470694289 | #191052A | £75.00 Add to basketPbk | 2011 | 0470694297 | #191053A | £27.50 Add to basket

Remote Sensing of Land Use and Land Cover Principles and Applications Chandra P GiriThis book discusses the fundamentals of land use/land cover characterization and mapping using remote sensing technology. It covers basic concepts of land use/land cover ....

250 pages | 40 b/w illus | CRC PressHbk | NYP 10/2011 | 1420070746 | #191204A | £82.00 Add to basket

Statistical Methods in the Atmospheric Sciences Daniel S WilksFundamentally, statistics is concerned with managing data and making inferences and forecasts in the face of uncertainty. It should not be surprising, therefore, that ....

592 pages | Figs, tabs | Academic PressHbk | NYP 07/2011 | 0123850223 | #191228A | £60.99 Add to basket

Statistics and Scientific Method An Introduction for Students and Researchers Peter J Diggle and Amanda ChetwyndAn antidote to technique-oriented service courses, this book studiously avoids the recipe-book style and keeps algebraic details of specific statistical methods to the ....

208 pages | 82 illus, 11 b/ halftones, 4 col plates | OUPHbk | NYP 08/2011 | 0199543186 | #191051A | £50.00 Add to basketPbk | NYP 08/2011 | 0199543194 | #191050A | £19.95 Add to basket

Reference Go to subject web page

The Atlas of New Librarianship R David LankesLibraries have existed for millennia, but today the library field is searching for solid footing in an increasingly fragmented (and increasingly digital) ....

408 pages | Illustrations, 1 map | MIT PressHbk | 2011 | 0262015099 | #191028A | £40.95 Add to basket

The Concise Oxford Dictionary The Classic First Edition HW Fowler, FG Fowler and David CrystalThe Concise Oxford English Dictionary, today a world-famous bestseller, has always been a ground-breaking dictionary. In its first edition, it was adapted by Henry Watson ....

1072 pages | OUPHbk | NYP 08/2011 | 0199696128 | #191045A | £19.99 Add to basket

Concise Oxford English Dictionary 100 years after its first publication, the twelfth edition of this world-famous bestseller gives the most up-to-date picture of the English language today. It includes ....

1728 pages | - | OUPHbk | 2008 | 0199548412 | #175234A | £24.99 Add to basketHbk | NYP 08/2011 | 0199601089 | #191046A | £24.99 Add to basket

Do Museums Still Need Objects? Steven ConnBy closely observing the cultural, intellectual, and political roles that museums play in contemporary society, while also delving deeply into their institutional histories, ....

272 pages | 34 illus | Pennsylvania UPPbk | 2010 | 0812221559 | #191261A | £16.50 Add to basket

English for Writing Research Papers Adrian WallworkPublishing your research in an international journal is key to your success in academia. This guide is based on a study of referees' reports and letters from journal editors on ....

347 pages | black & white illustrations | SpringerPbk | 2011 | 1441979212 | #191134A | £22.99 Add to basket

Europa World Year Book 2011 Globally renowned for its accuracy, consistency and reliability, the Europa World Year Book provides detailed country surveys containing the latest analytical, ....

5064 pages | RoutledgeHbk | NYP 06/2011 | 1857435893 | #191201A | £840.00 Add to basket

Mastering Your PhD Survival and Success in the Doctoral Years and Beyond Patricia A Gosling and Bart D Noordam"Mastering Your PhD: Survival and Success in the Doctoral Years and Beyond" helps guide PhD students through their graduate student years. Filled with practical advice on ....

156 pages | 8 illus | SpringerPbk | 2010 | 3642158463 | #191136A | £26.99 Add to basket

Museum Educator's Handbook Graeme K TalboysDescribed by GEM (Group for Education in Musuems) as 'a very informative and practical book...worth having on any museum shelf', the "Museum Educator's Handbook" is a thorough ....

224 pages | includes c. 4 line drawings | AshgateHbk | 2011 | 1409401529 | #191029A | £55.00 Add to basket

Scientific Research as a Career Finlay MacRitchieThis book provides guidance to those who are contemplating a career in scientific research and those who are already engaged in the profession. Aiming to provoke ....

96 pages | 20 b/w illus | CRC PressPbk | NYP 05/2011 | 1439869650 | #191114A | £19.99 Add to basket

Technical Writing A Practical Guide for Engineers and Scientists Phillip A LaplanteWritten by an engineer with diverse experience in all aspects of technical publishing, including as a specifications writer, editor, book reviewer, and blogger, this volume ....

272 pages | illus, tabs | CRC PressPbk | NYP 08/2011 | 1439820856 | #191115A | £25.99 Add to basket