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

● The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Life● Birds of Western Ecuador: A Photographic Guide● Candid Creatures: How Camera Traps Reveal the Mystery of Nature● Cetacean Paleobiology● Conservation Behavior: Applying Behavioral Ecology to Wildlife Conservation

and Management● Fingers in the Sparkle Jar: Lessons in Life and Death● Foxes Unearthed: A Story of Love and Loathing in Modern Britain● Jellyfish: A Natural History● Mammal Societies● Peterson Reference Guide to Woodpeckers of North America● Quantitative Ecology and Evolutionary Biology: Integrating Models with Data● Reptile Ecology and Conservation: A Handbook of Techniques● Restless Creatures: The Story of Life in Ten Movements● Seabirds of the World: Secret Realm of the Oceans' Wanderers● Seahorses: A Life-Size Guide to Every Species● Serendipity: An Ecologist's Quest to Understand Nature● Silent Sparks: The Wondrous World of Fireflies● Water Bugs of Singapore and Peninsular Malaysia● Wildlife of Southeast Asia● Wild Equids: Ecology, Management, and Conservation● What is a Dog?● Why Ecology Matters

Stock titles

● Beetles of Britain and Ireland, Volume 4: Cerambycidae to Curculionidae● Being a Bird in North America, North of Mexico, Volume 1: Waterfowl to

Shorebirds● Butterflies of the West Midlands: Birmingham & the Black Country,

Herefordshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire and Worcestershire● Discover Shetland's Birds: A Photographic Guide to Shetland's Breeding,

Wintering and Migrant Birds● Dragonflies & Damselflies of Gloucestershire: Their Distribution and Status● The Feathered Tribes of Van Diemen's Land● Finding Birds in Eastern Poland● The Florilegium: The Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney● Flowers and Herbs in Pelion: With 12 Hiking Descriptions / Blumen under

Krauter im Pilion: Mit 12 Wanderbeschreibungen● Knowing Your Place: Wildlife in Shingle Street● The Larger Moths of Northamptonshire and the Soke of Peterborough● Marine Fishes of Portugal / Peixes Marinhos de Portugal● Pocket Guide to Wildflower Families● The Sharks of Sri Lanka● Turning Turtles in Tortuguero: Stories From the Origin of Sea Turtle

Conservation● Whales' Bones of Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands

New editions

● A Field Guide to the Birds of Korea (2nd edition)● Fishes of the World (5th edition)● RSPB Handbook of Scottish Birds (2nd edition)

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● The New Wild: Why Invasive Species Will Be Nature's Salvation

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Mammals

Din Lumea Mamiferelor, Volume 6: Mamifere Acvatice [The World of Mammals, Volume 6: Marine Mammals]Dumitru MurariuThis Romanian series, which started off in 1989, can be seen as a popular science precursor of the Handbook the Mammals of the World, with an aim of bringing together disparate information on mammals orders.

Paperback | 01/2012 | 9789732721094 | #229702A | £71.99 Add to basket

Fauna Romaniei: Mammalia, Volume XVI, Fascicle 1: Insectivora [English]Dumitru MurariuThis fascicle in the Fauna Romaniei covers insectivorous mammals.

164 pages | Paperback | 01/2000 | #229613A | £73.99 Add to basket

Fragile BalanceThe Extraordinary Story of Australian MarsupialsChristopher R Dickman, Rosemary Woodford Ganf and Timothy FlanneryThis book distinguishes the diverse marsupial group from other mammals and places it in its geographic context. It covers all species in Australia and draws together many unique biological traits that characterise these marsupials.

246 pages | colour photos, colour illustrations, maps | Hardback | 04/2016 | 9781742457857 | #229548A | £44.99 Add to basket

Pit BullThe Battle Over an American IconBronwen DickeyThe hugely illuminating story of how a popular breed of dog became the most demonized and supposedly the most dangerous of dogs – and what role humans have played in the transformation. When Bronwen Dickey brought her ...

288 pages | 50 photos, 13 illustrations | Hardback | 05/2016 | 9780307961761 | #229513A | £18.99 Add to basket

Snow LeopardsTom McCarthy, David Mallon and Philip NyhusSnow Leopards is the only comprehensive work on the biology, behavior, and conservation status of the snow leopard, a species that has long been one of the least studied, and hence poorly understood, of the large cats.

644 pages | Hardback | NYP 08/2016 | 9780128022139 | #229791A | £60.99 Add to basket

Sri Lanka's Tame ElephantsJayantha JayewardenThis book gives an overview of the relationship between elephants and men in Sri Lanka, which goes back to prehistoric times.

155 pages | colour & b/w illustrations, colour maps | Paperback | 01/2013 | 9789559567745 | #229444A | £84.99 Add to basket

The Eurasian Beaver HandbookEcology and Management of Castor fiberRoisin Campbell-PalmerBeavers are widely recognised as a keystone species which play a pivotal role in riparian ecology. Their tree felling and dam building behaviours coupled with a suite of other activities create a wealth of living opportunities that are ...

208 pages | colour illustrations | Paperback | NYP 07/2016 | 9781784271138 | #229565A | £29.99 Add to basketHardback | NYP 07/2016 | 9781784271145 | #229566A | £59.99 Add to basket

The HorseA Biography of Our Noble CompanionWendy WilliamsThrough the life of the horse, natural and human history meet. They have been our companions in work and leisure for thousands of years; as a species we have profited immeasurably from their resilience, strength and intelligence.

312 pages | 8 plates with colour photos and colour illustrations; 30 b/w photos, b/w maps | Hardback | 10/2015 | 9781780747934 | #226124A | £19.99 Add to basketPaperback | NYP 07/2016 | 9781780749358 | #229277A | £9.99 Add to basket

Birds

A Natural History of Australian ParrotsA Tribute to William T. Cooper (1934-2015)Joseph M Forshaw and William T CooperThis book is the final collaboration of Joseph M. Forshaw and William T. Cooper and combines the finest Cooper artwork with an updated, authoritative Forshaw text. Presented as a deluxe edition ...

344 pages | 300+ colour & b/w illustrations | Hardback | NYP 10/2016 | #229058A | £275.00 Add to basket


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A Pictorial Field Guide to Birds of India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka and BangladeshBikram Grewal, Sumit Sen, Sarwandeep Singh, Nikhil Devasar, Garima Bhatia, Tim Inskipp and InskippThis book covers over 1,300 species and distinct sub-species of birds found in the Indian subcontinent. It contains over 4,000 colour photographs including depictions of flight, plumage, hunting style and much more. Many of the photographs ...

792 pages | 4000 colour photos, distribution maps, 3 maps | Paperback | 01/2016 | 9789380070223 | #229424A | £39.99 Add to basket

An Illustrated Field Guide to the Fauna of Sri Lanka, Volume 9: BirdsRajika GamageFrom the preface: "An Illustrated Field Guide to the Fauna of Sri Lanki, Volume 9: Birds is the second of a series of field guides, which focuses on the amazing wild life of Sri Lanka. The stimulus for this volume ...

colour illustrations | Hardback | 01/2014 | #229453A | £105.00 Add to basket

An Illustrated Guide to the Birds of Sri LankaSarath Kotagama and Gamini RatnaviraBased on the expertise and experience of professor Sarath Kotagama as President of the Field Ornithology Group Sri Lanka, this book is in-depth and richly illustrated guide to the birds of Sri Lanka.

356 pages | colour illustrations | Hardback | 01/2010 | 9789558576267 | #229457A | £98.99 Add to basket

Atlante degli Uccelli Nidificanti in Provincia di Bergamo [Atlas of Nesting Birds in the Province of Bergamo]Enrico Bassi, Enrico Cairo, Roberto Facoetti and Roberto RotaThis volume represents a "snapshot" of the current avifauna in Bergamo, a province in the Lombardy region of Northern Italy, which is the results of 6 years of work by 136 ornithologists and enthusiasts who have made ...

600 pages | illustrations, maps | Paperback | 11/2015 | 9788889504482 | #229267A | £44.99 Add to basket

Aves de Espana [Birds of Spain]Eduardo de Juana and Juan M Varela SimoThird edition, revised and updated, of the most popular field guide to the identification of the birds of Spain, with more than 40,000 copies of previous editions sold. Recommended by SEO/Birdlife. Contains updated information on all birds ...

267 pages | ~1000 colour illustrations, colour distribution maps | Hardback | 04/2016 | 9788494189289 | #229281A | £19.99 Add to basket

Bird Photographer of the YearChris PackhamIn a unique collaboration between the British Trust for Ornithology, Nature Photographers Ltd and William Collins, this beautiful book accompanies a new photographic competition celebrating some of the best bird photography of the year.

256 pages | 150+ colour photos | Hardback | NYP 08/2016 | 9780008175238 | #229631A | £24.99 Add to basket

Birding Across the BorderWhere to Watch Birds in Varanger and the Murmansk RegionBjorn Frantzen, Morten Gunther, Eugene Potorochin and Yuliya SolntsevaVisitors from many countries come to the Norwegian-Russian border area to experience the variety of landscapes: mountains, fjords, valleys, bird cliffs, virgin forests, salmon rivers and endless wilderness. Birders are attracted by the ...

240 pages | 350 colour photos, 55 colour maps | Paperback | 04/2016 | 9788217016076 | #229605A | £24.99 Add to basket

Birdlife of the Indian SubcontinentBiswajit Roy ChowdhuryBirdlife of the Indian Subcontinent is a photographic guide that provides a wide variety of information on birds of the Indian subcontinent. The superb photographs and accompanying text make identification of a particular bird ...

296 pages | colour photos | Paperback | 01/2011 | 9788129113375 | #229212A | £19.99 Add to basket

Birds of the Algarve and Southern Alentejo: An Annotated Checklist [Portuguese]Goncalo EliasBirds of the Algarve and Southern Alentejo: An Annotated Checklist focuses on the territory of southern Portugal, namely Algarve (Faro district) and southern Alentejo (Beja district) as well as on the adjacent marine areas, which ...

100 pages | b/w illustrations | Paperback | 03/2016 | 9781517497811 | #229628A | £12.99 Add to basket

Delaware BirdsA Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar SpeciesJames R Kavanagh and Raymond LeungThe First State is the permanent or migratory home of 415 species of birds. This beautifully illustrated guide highlights over 140 familiar and unique species and includes a map featuring prominent bird-viewing areas. Laminated for durability ...

12 pages | colour illustrations | Unbound | 02/2003 | 9781583552223 | #229591A | £6.99 Add to basket

Extinct Birds of Hawai'iMichael Walther and Julian P HumeExtinct Birds of Hawaii captures the vanishing world of unique bird species that has slipped away in the Islands mostly due to human frivolity and unconcern. Richly illustrated, including paintings by Julian P. Hume (many painted specifically ...

256 pages | colour illustrations | Hardback | 05/2016 | 9781939487612 | #229841A | £29.99 Add to basket


























Fastest Things on WingsRescuing Hummingbirds in HollywoodTerry MasearBefore he collided with a limousine, Gabriel, an Anna's hummingbird with a head and throat cloaked in iridescent magenta feathers, could spiral 130 feet in the air, dive 60 miles per hour in a courtship display, hover, and fly backwards ...

320 pages | Hardback | 06/2015 | 9780544416031 | #224312A | £22.50 Add to basketPaperback | 05/2016 | 9780544705371 | #229556A | £17.50 Add to basket

Feather BrainedMy Bumbling Quest to Become a Birder and Find a Rare Bird on My OwnBob TarteFor much of his life, the closest Bob Tarte got to a nature walk was the stroll from parking lot to picnic table on family outings. But then a chance sighting of a dazzling rose-breasted grosbeak in wife-to-be Linda's backyard prompted ...

216 pages | 15 b/w photos | Hardback | 03/2016 | 9780472119868 | #229624A | £21.95 Add to basket

Finding Birds in Eastern PolandDave GosneyThis book gives precise details on how to find the most exciting birds in Poland Dave Gosney writes: ‘‘If you want to see Aquatic Warbler in Europe, then, realistically, Poland is now your only hope, since ...

40 pages | 20 b/w maps | Paperback | 05/2016 | 9781907316517 | #229751A | £7.50 Add to basket

Finding Birds in Eastern Poland - the DVD (All Regions)Dave GosneyTravel with Dave Gosney to the fabulous Biebrza marshes, the forests of BiaÅ‚owieÅ¼a and the impressive Tatra mountains in search of eagles, owls, woodpeckers, flycatchers and warblers including the fast-disappearing Aquatic Warbler ...

runtime: 77 mins | DVD | 05/2016 | 9781907316524 | #229752A | £19.14 Add to basket

Finding Birds in San Diego CountyHenry DetwilerA guide to the most productive locations to watch birds in San Diego County, California. With a seasonal birding calendar, maps, directions, target bird lists, and extensive notes. San Diego is a birder's paradise, with a county list ...

146 pages | maps | Paperback | 05/2015 | 9781329947009 | #229638A | £21.99 Add to basket

Handbook of Bird BiologyIrby J Lovette and John W FitzpatrickPremier textbook from the world-famous Cornell Lab of Ornithology - Full colour throughout with more than 800 illustrations - Suitable for academic studies as well as recreational birdwatchers - Nontechnical discussion of ...

705 pages | 800+ colour illustrations | Hardback | NYP 08/2016 | 9781118291054 | #227756A | £89.99 Add to basket

Identification Guide of European Non-PasserinesA BTO Field GuideJK BakerThis major guide improves on the original by now comprehensively covering 119 species, with descriptions of ageing and sexing methods, moult, biometrics and racial differences. It complements Lars Svensson's ...

Paperback | NYP 09/2016 | 9781908581679 | #226882A | £14.99 Add to basket

Identification Guide to Birds in the HandLaurent Demongin, Herve Lelievre and George CandelinThis English version of Guide d'Identification des Oiseaux en Main, updated with 51 extra species, gives all ornithologists who handle birds the essential information regarding accurate identification of species and subspecies, measurements ...

392 pages | b/w photos, b/w illustrations, tables | Paperback | NYP 06/2016 | 9782955501900 | #229501A | £39.99 Add to basket

Ornitologia Italiana, Volume 9: Emberizidae - Icteridae: Aggiornamenti e Check-list [Updates and Checklist]Pierandrea Brichetti and Giancarlo FracassoThis volume covers the Emberizidae to Icteridae. The authors, as in previous volumes, present all the information representing the current knowledge of birds. This final volume also includes updates and corrections for previous volumes ...

397 pages | colour photos, colour & b/w illustrations, colour distribution maps | Hardback | 09/2015 | 9788889504468 | #229243A | £59.99 Add to basket

Peterson Field Guide to Birds of Northern Central AmericaJesse Fagan, Oliver Komar, Robert Dean and Peter BurkeA field guide to the birds of Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras, abundantly illustrated and with comprehensive coverage of both endemic and migrant birds Birding is one of the fastest-growing sectors of the tourism ...

432 pages | colour illustrations | Paperback | NYP 11/2016 | 9780544373266 | #229816A | £23.99 Add to basket

Pictorial Pocket Guide to the Common Birds of Sri LankaSarath KotagamaFrom the preface: "Since the publication of the Pictorial Pocket Guide to the Common Birds of Sri Lanka (2000), the follow-up Pocket Guide 01: Common, Endemic & Threatened Birds (2006), and the ...

121 pages | colour illustrations | Paperback | 01/2012 | 9789558576304 | #229452A | £34.99 Add to basket

Raptors in FocusDick ForsmanJoin Dick Forsman, widely acclaimed as the world expert on the birds of prey of the Western Palearctic and beyond, in his quest to find and photograph all the raptors of Europe during dozens of trips to all corners of the continent and ...

176 pages | 150 colour photos | Hardback | NYP 10/2016 | 9781921517686 | #228997A | £19.99 Add to basket



























Rote Liste der in Niedersachsen und Bremen Gefahrdeten Brutvogel [Red List of Endangered Breeding Birds in Lower SaxonyThorsten Kruger and Markus NipkowThis publication presents the red list of threatened breeding birds of Lower Saxony and Bremen. For classification, the criteria proposed by the IUCN and approved both by the Bundesamt für Naturschutz (BfN, Federal Agency for Nature ...

76 pages | illustrations | Paperback | 01/2015 | #229300A | £7.99 Add to basket

Scarlet ExperimentBirds and Humans in AmericaJeff KarnickyEmily Dickinson's poem "Split the Lark" refers to the "scarlet experiment" by which scientists destroy a bird in order to learn more about it. Indeed, humans have killed hundreds of millions of birds – for ...


Terrestrial Gamebirds & Snipes of AfricaGuineafowls, Francolins, Spurfowls, Quails, Sandgrouse & SnipesRob LittleThis definitive, full-colour monograph on the gamebirds and snipes of Africa includes everything needed to better understand the 74 species that fall into six groups: guineafowls and Congo peafowl, francolins and partridges, spurfowls ...

280 pages | colour photos | Paperback | NYP 10/2016 | 9781431424146 | #229245A | £18.95 Add to basket

The Peregrines of Norwich CathedralRobin ChittendenA beautiful book with stunning photography by well-known wildlife photographer, Robin Chittenden. The Peregrines of Norwich Cathedral has breath-taking photography from one man’s love for these incredible birds of prey.


The Role of Collections in OrnithologyThe Extended SpecimenMichael S WebsterThe Role of Collections in Ornithology highlights the research potential for ornithological specimens, and stimulates ornithologists poised to initiate a renaissance in collections-based ornithological research. Contributors illustrate ...

352 pages | 50 b/w illustrations | Hardback | NYP 11/2016 | 9781498729154 | #228209A | £114.00 Add to basket

True PheasantsA Noble QuarryJulie MurrayThe family Phasianidae includes some of nature's most striking avian gems. Not only are they among the grandest, most sought after in aviculture, they are as diverse and breathtaking as the landscapes they inhabit.

248 pages | 266 photos, 50 illustrations | Hardback | 01/2012 | 9780888397027 | #229674A | £43.50 Add to basket

World's Best Bird SongThe Songs and Calls of 80 Iconic SpeciesHannu JannesThis beautifully illustrated and very useful book and audio CD combination brings together 80 of the most remarkable species from around the world.

160 pages | colour photos, includes audio CD | Hardback | NYP 10/2016 | 9781921517877 | #228999A | £16.99 Add to basket

Reptiles & Amphibians

Amphibians and Reptiles of Land Between the LakesEdmund J Zimmerer, David H Snyder, A Floyd Scott and David F FrymireKnown for its natural beauty, Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area is the largest inland peninsula in the United States. Consisting of 170,000 acres of forested and protected public land between Kentucky Lake (Tennessee River) ...

160 pages | 92 colour & 6 b/w photos, 1 map, 5 tables | Paperback | NYP 10/2016 | 9780813167671 | #229653A | £23.95 Add to basket

Identifier les Reptiles de France Metropolitaine [Identifying Reptiles of Metropolitan France]Jean Muratet- A collection of reference images for further work - A scientific popularisation of developments in taxonomy updated with the latest knowledge - A rich iconography of more than 2500 images, some unpublished - The criteria ...

530 pages | 2500+ colour photos and colour illustrations, colour distribution maps | Paperback | 06/2015 | 9782953115116 | #229562A | £51.99 Add to basket

Les Reptiles des Pyrenees [The Reptiles of the Pyrenees]Gilles Pottier and Juan Pablo Martinez RicaThis herpetological fauna of the Pyrenees is the result of a naturalistic work, combined with a literature survey and photographic report. It offers a wide summary of data from multiple disciplines (systematics, taxonomy, biology, ecology ...

370 pages | 540 colour photos and colour distribution maps, 2 tables | Hardback | 05/2016 | 9782856537862 | #228868A | £33.99 Add to basket

Reptilien Bestimmen: Eier, Jungtiere, Adulte, Hautungen, Totfunde [Identifying Reptiles: Eggs, Juveniles, Adults, MoltsBurkhard Thiesmeier, Michael Franzen, Norbert Schneeweiss and Ulrich SchulteIn this rugged and fieldwork-suitable identification guide all thirteen species of native German reptiles and various escaped species are presented in more than 300 photos, including distribution maps. All species are illustrated in their ...

48 pages | 300+ colour photos, colour distribution maps | Spiralbound | 04/2016 | 9783933066565 | #229551A | £37.99 Add to basket


























Turning Turtles in TortugueroStories from the Origins of Sea Turtle ConservationAnne Ake, Larry Ogren and Archie CarrIn Turning Turtles in Tortuguero readers will learn about the world's longest running sea turtle research station established in 1955 in Tortuguero, Costa Rica by Dr. Archie Carr. They will meet the biologists who came to ...

144 pages | b/w photos | Paperback | 12/2013 | 9780991125302 | #229623A | £19.99 Add to basket

Fishes

Bacterial Fish PathogensDisease of Farmed and Wild FishBrian Austin and Dawn A AustinBacterial Fish Pathogens puts emphasis on the isolation, taxonomy, diagnosis (phenotypic, serology and molecular biology), epizootiology, pathogenicity mechanisms, and methods of disease control (by vaccination, immunostimulation ...

677 pages | 48 colour illustrations, 47 colour tables | Hardback | 03/2007 | 9781402060687 | #166304A | £260.50 Add to basketHardback | 09/2012 | 9789400748835 | #199370A | £197.50 Add to basketHardback | NYP 07/2016 | 9783319326733 | #229699A | £159.50 Add to basket

Common Reef Fishes of North Sulawesi, IndonesiaJianguo Du and Wenjia HuCommon Reef Fishes of North Sulawesi, Indonesia is a cooperative achivement by the Third Institute of Oceanography, State Ocean Administration and the Indonesia Ocean Research Center. This program investigated 325 species of reef ...

204 pages | colour photos | Hardback | 04/2016 | 9787030474452 | #229546A | £84.99 Add to basket

Fauna Sinica: Osteichthyes: Perciformes IV [Chinese]Liu JingThis volume is the fourth part of Perciformes, which includes 184 species of fishes from Chinese coastal waters belonging to 72 genera, 17 families and 4 suborders: Zoarcoidei, Trachinoidei, Blennoidei, and Callionymoidei. This book gives ...

311 pages | Hardback | 03/2016 | 9787030473165 | #229557A | £82.50 Add to basket

Field Guide to Reef Fishes of Sri Lanka (2-Volume Set)Arjan Rajasuriya and Shantha JayaweeraUsing his marine experience of nearly four decades, the author has provided accurate descriptions of selected reef fishes, with precise illustrations by Shantha Jayaweera. These two books fill a gap, as country-specific field guides for ...

205 pages | colour illustrations | Paperback | 01/2014 | #229585A | £58.50 Add to basket

Les Poissons de Mer [Marine Fish]Jean-Claude Quero and Pierre PorcheA richly illustrated field guide to common marine fish.


Marine Fishes of Portugal / Peixes Marinhos de PortugalNuno Vasco RodriguesThe main goal of Marine Fishes of Portugal is to present the most common fish species of the Portuguese coast. More than 200 species are presented through photos, most of them never published before, taken in the natural habitat ...


Pesci dei Mari Italiani [Marine Fish of Italian Waters]Paolo ManzoniA complete and accurate guide, rigorous in content and full of information, to know and recognize all of the marine fish from Italian waters. More than 350 species are described, and more than 500 colour photos highlight the anatomical ...

176 pages | 500+ colour photos | Hardback | 04/2015 | 9788851127329 | #229622A | £26.99 Add to basket

Sri Lankan Freshwater FishesMadura de Silva, Nadika Hapuarachchi, Thilak Jayaratne, Dominic Robeson and Lasith SiriwardanaThis photograph-driven book lists 92 species of freshwater fish in Sri Lanka, of which 50 are endemic. In addition, 23 estuarine fish and 27 exotic fish are also present in all their bright hued glory. To photograph these fish, the author ...

391 pages | colour illustrations, colour distribution maps | Hardback | 01/2015 | 9789550954018 | #229581A | £245.00 Add to basket

What a Fish KnowsThe Inner Lives of Our Underwater CousinsJonathan BalcombeDo fishes think? Do they really have three-second memories? And can they recognize the humans who peer back at them from above the surface of the water? In What a Fish Knows the myth-busting ethologist Jonathan Balcombe addresses ...


Invertebrates

A Field Guide to Butterflies of the Greater Yellowstone EcosystemDiane M Debinski, James A Pritchard and Lynn ThorensenYellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks, while mostly noted for grizzly bears, elk, moose, and other large mammals, also host a high species diversity of butterflies, owing to the ecosystem's vast area of pristine habitat.


























Ants of Sri LankaRK Sriyani DiasThe book describes all the ant species recorded in Sri Lanka up to date, with over 125 species, both terrestrial and fossorial. The book also highlight major ant species in Sri Lanka with microscopic and line drawings. It covers many aspects ...

273 pages | colour & b/w illustrations | Paperback | 01/2014 | 9789550033737 | #229582A | £64.99 Add to basket

At the Size Limit - Effects of Miniaturization in InsectsAlexey A PolilovAt the Size Limit – Effects of Miniaturization in Insects addresses microinsects, their structure and their differences from larger relatives. Moreover, it discusses structural changes that accompany extreme diminution in ...

70 colour & 110 b/w illustrations | Hardback | NYP 10/2016 | 9783319394978 | #229257A | £126.00 Add to basket

Butterflies In and Around Phobjikha ValleyBhutan Royal Society for Protection of NatureButterflies In and Around Phobjikha Valley is a guide on butterflies mostly found in Phobjikha Valley, Wangduephodrang, Bhutan. Some Butterflies listed in this book are from lower elevation covering the area (along the highway) ...


Diving Beetles of the WorldSystematics and Biology of the DytiscidaeKelly B Miller and Johannes BergstenAmong the hundreds of thousands of species of beetles, there is one family, containing some 4,300 species, that stands out as one of the most diverse and important groups of aquatic predatory insects. This is the Dytiscidae, whose species ...

336 pages | 305 colour & 556 b/w illustrations | Hardback | NYP 10/2016 | 9781421420547 | #229156A | £96.99 Add to basket

Fauna Romaniei: Insecta, Volume X , Fascicle 7: Coleoptera: Buprestidae [Romanian]Sergiu Panin, Nicolae Savulescu and Adrian RuicanescuVolume 10, fascicle 7 deals with the beetle family Buprestidae.

388 pages | illustrations | Paperback | 01/2015 | #229609A | £54.99 Add to basket

Fauna Sinica: Insecta, Volume 65: Diptera: Rhagionidae: Athericidae [Chinese]Yang DingThis volume records 140 species belonging to 12 genera with 122 figures and 6 plates. The general account deals with research history, morphylogical characteristics, taxonomy, distrbution, biology and economic importance.

472 pages | 6 plates with colour photos; 122 b/w line drawings | Hardback | 03/2016 | 9787030473172 | #229251A | £102.00 Add to basket

Fauna Sinica: Invertebrata, Volume 45: Ciliophora, Oligohymenophorea, Peritrichida [Chinese]Shen Yunfen and Gu ManruA total of 5 genera, 73 species of Mobilina and 33 genera, 434 species of Sessilina are dealt with in this volume. A detailed account of morphological features, habitats and geographical distribution of families, genera and species are ...

500 pages | 2 plates with colour illustrations, 164 plates with b/w illustrations, 507 b/w line drawin | Hardback | 03/2016 | 9787030473141 | #229552A | £125.00 Add to basket

Field Guide for Swallowtails of BhutanUgyen Wangchuck Institute for Conservation and Environment (UWICE)Swallowtail butterflies are large, colourful, fork-tailed butterflies that compose the family Papilionidae. Globally there are over 550 species, and though the majority of them are distributed in tropical regions, species of the family ...

77 pages | colour & b/w illustrations | Paperback | 01/2012 | #229572A | £43.50 Add to basket

Field Guide to Hesperiidae (Skippers) of BhutanUgyen Wangchuck Institute for Conservation and Environment (UWICE)This is an illustrated field guide to 93 species of Hesperiid butterfly recorded in Bhutan.


Field Guide to the Moths of Great Britain and IrelandPaul Waring, Martin Townsend and Richard LewingtonThe third edition of the Field Guide to the Moths of Great Britain and Ireland has been fully revised, updated and restructured, bringing it in line with the latest thinking in taxonomy. Moths are illustrated in their natural ...

480 pages | 80+ photos, 1700+ colour illustrations | Paperback | 12/2009 | 9780953139989 | #180152A | £29.99 Add to basketHardback | NYP 02/2017 | 9781472930293 | #229629A | £44.99 Add to basketPaperback | NYP 02/2017 | 9781472930309 | #229630A | £29.99 Add to basket

I Coleotteri delle Riserve Naturali Gestite dall'U.T.B. di Belluno [The Beetles of the Natural Reserves Managed by UTB BEnzo Gatti, Marialuisa Dal Cortivo and Monica SommacalThe product of over 35 years of studies and research conducted by the National Forest Service on its Bellunesi nature reserves, this volume of more than 900 pages and more than a thousand photos for the first time documents the extraordinary ...

918 pages | colour photos, colour distribution maps | Paperback | 01/2016 | 9788899369293 | #229234A | £84.99 Add to basket





























Identification and Geographical Distribution of the Mosquitoes of North America, North of MexicoJr.,Richard F Darsie, Ronald A Ward, Chien C Chang and Taina LitwakMore than ten years after its initial publication, Identification and Geographical Distribution of the Mosquitoes of North America, North of Mexico is now available in paperback. This book updates the successful guide to North American ...

383 pages | 1045 b/w illustrations, 168 distribution maps | Hardback | 01/2005 | 9780813027845 | #150686A | £82.95 Add to basketPaperback | NYP 09/2016 | 9780813062334 | #229523A | £43.95 Add to basket

Land Snails on the Solomon Islands, Volume 3Trochomorphidae and Systematical Review of all Other FamiliesAndre GJ DelsaerdtThis is the final volume of Land Snails on the Solomon Islands, revising the Trochomorphidae and all the other, smaller families of land shells not yet treated (Helicinidae, Cyclophoridae, Diplommatinidae, Pupinidae, Assimineidae ...

160 pages | 10 plates with colour photos; colour & b/w photos, colour & b/w illustrations, and colour | Hardback | 01/2016 | 9788886070324 | #229285A | £125.00 Add to basket

Moths of Victoria, Part 7: Bark Moths and Allies - Geometridae (D)Marilyn Hewish, Peter Marriott, Ted Edwards, Axel Kallies, Stephen Williams and Catherine ByrnePart seven in a series of ten to twelve which will cover the 2,000 species of Victorian moths. This part is the final of the geometrids covering the bark moths and others.

36 pages | colour photos, includes CD-ROM | Paperback | 01/2016 | 9780980580273 | #229795A | £21.99 Add to basket

Naturgeschichte der Seeigel [The Natural History of Sea Urchins]Jacob Theodor Klein, Thomas Heinzeller, Bernhard Ruthensteiner and Armin Geus"A real treasure has been recovered". Firstly, this refers to the the sea urchins that were recovered from the collection of Jacob Theodor Klein, on the other hand it refers to his book Naturgeschichte der Seeigel that ...

310 pages | 3 colour illustrations, b/w illustrations | Hardback | 12/2014 | 9783941365032 | #229240A | £59.99 Add to basket

Nautilus: Beautiful Survivor500 Million Years of Evolutionary HistoryWolfgang GrulkeThe chambered nautilus is one of the oldest living things on our planet. Since the dawn of civilisation its form has inspired artists, designers and architects. The nautilus has survived whatever the world has thrown at it for more than ...

224 pages | colour & b/w photos, colour & b/w illustrations | Hardback | NYP 09/2016 | 9780992974022 | #229685A | £37.99 Add to basketHardback | NYP 09/2016 | 9780992974039 | #229686A | £120.00 Add to basket

Nymphalids: Brush-Footed Butterflies of BhutanUgyen Wangchuck Institute for Conservation and Environment (UWICE)Found across the world and with almost 6000 species described, the Nymphalidae family has the highest diversity of butterflies. Groups such as admirals, emperors, fritillaries, browns, sergeants, sailers, and tortoiseshells fall within ...


Rainbow DustThree Centuries of Delight in British ButterfliesPeter MarrenMuch more than just another field guide or a natural history of butterflies. Rainbow Dust explores the ways in which butterflies delight and inspire us all, naturalists and non-naturalists alike. In this uniquely eloquent and ...

308 pages | b/w illustrations | Hardback | 07/2015 | 9780224098656 | #208331A | £14.99 Add to basketPaperback | NYP 07/2016 | 9781784703189 | #229276A | £9.99 Add to basket

South Indian ButterfliesField GuideK Gunathilagaraj, TNA Perumal, KC Jayaram and M Ganesh KumarThis field guide to the butterflies of south India in particular, and the Indian subcontinent in general, covers close to 300 species. The intricate details of each species are carefully described.


The Honey Bee IllustratedMargaret Cowley and Dave HallThe Honey Bee Illustrated is an absolute "must" for anyone taking the BBKA Module 5 examination. First published as separate articles in Bee Craft magazine between 2011 and 2014 and re-printed now as a complete ...

48 pages | colour photos, b/w illustrations | Paperback | 01/2015 | 9780900147258 | #229233A | £12.50 Add to basket

Tiger SpidersRanil P NanayakkaraPoecilotheria is a genus of the spider family Theraphosidae currently containing some 16 species of arboreal tarantula, commonly known as tiger spiders, native to Sri Lanka and India. The author was part of island-wide research ...

167 pages | colour illustrations, colour maps | Paperback | 01/2014 | 9789550033584 | #229583A | £58.50 Add to basket

ZooKeys 583: Litteratura Coleopterologica (1758-1900)A Guide to Selected Books Related to the Taxonomy of Coleoptera with Publication Dates and NotesYves BousquetThe Coleoptera are possibly the most studied group of insects. This is not surprising since they are tremendously numerous, extremely diversified in shape, color and size, and relatively easy to collect and mount. In addition they are ...

776 pages | no illustrations | Paperback | 04/2016 | 9789546428172 | #229265A | £129.00 Add to basketHardback | 04/2016 | 9789546428189 | #229266A | £159.00 Add to basket




























ZooKeys 588: Synopsis of Central Andean Orthalicoid Land Snails (Gastropoda, Stylommatophora), Excluding BulimulidaeAbraham SH Breure and Valentin Mogollon AvilaThe land snail fauna of several South American countries is very incompletely known despite quite extensive literature. For Bolivia there is only an incomplete and outdated list from 1953, Peru is covered by a name list only (2003), and ...

200 pages | colour photos, colour distribution maps | Paperback | 05/2016 | 9789546428219 | #229643A | £48.50 Add to basket

Palaeontology

Avian EvolutionThe Fossil Record of Birds and Its Paleobiological SignificanceGerald MayrKnowledge of the evolutionary history of birds has much improved in recent decades. Fossils from critical time periods are being described at unprecedented rates and modern phylogenetic analyses have provided a framework for the ...

312 pages | colour illustrations | Hardback | NYP 11/2016 | 9781119020769 | #229508A | £64.99 Add to basket

Chicxulub: The Impact and TsunamiThe Story of the Largest Known Asteroid to Hit the EarthDavid Shonting and Cathy EzrailsonThis book tells the story of the catastrophic impact of the giant 10 km asteroid Chicxulub into the ancient Gulf of Mexico 65.5 million years ago. Chicxulub: The Impact and Tsunami begins with a discussion of the nature of asteroids ...


Dinosaurs: How They Lived and EvolvedDarren Naish and Paul M BarrettFrom the Victorian golden age of dinosaur discovery to the cutting edge of twenty-first century fossil forensics Dinosaurs: How They Lived and Evolved unravels the mysteries of the most spectacular group of animals our planet ...

224 pages | colour photos, colour illustrations | Hardback | NYP 09/2016 | 9780565093112 | #229292A | £17.99 Add to basket

Mesozoic Biotas of Scandinavia and its Arctic TerritoriesBP Kear, J Lindgren, JH Hurum, J Milán and V VajdaScandinavia and its Arctic territories of Svalbard and Greenland represent geographical regions with a long history of Mesozoic palaeontology. However the last few decades have witnessed a surge of new discoveries, especially from the ...

Hardback | NYP 07/2016 | 9781862397484 | #228526A | £141.00 Add to basket

Paleobiology of Ammonoids and Their RelativesAlistair McGowanThe first text to provide in-depth coverage of all the major cephalopod taxa from a paleobiological view, both extant and extinct, Paleobiology of Ammonoids and Their Relatives summarizes the state of knowledge of paleobiology ...

320 pages | illustrations | Paperback | NYP 11/2016 | 9780470657492 | #229514A | £34.95 Add to basketHardback | NYP 11/2016 | 9780470657508 | #229515A | £74.99 Add to basket

Pyramid Valley and BeyondDiscovering the Prehistoric Birdlife of North Canterbury, New ZealandRichard N Holdaway and Rod MorrisDescribes the original avifauna of North Canterbury as revealed by the fossil evidence in the Pyramid Valley site and other sites in the area, gives the history of the Pyramid Valley site and its environment, and relates the past environment ...


The Princeton Field Guide to DinosaursGregory S PaulThe best-selling Princeton Field Guide to Dinosaurs remains the must-have book for anyone who loves dinosaurs, from amateur enthusiasts to professional paleontologists. Now extensively revised and expanded, this dazzlingly illustrated ...

360 pages | ~700 colour & b/w illustrations, 8 colour maps | Hardback | NYP 11/2016 | 9780691167664 | #229797A | £29.95 Add to basket

The Princeton Field Guide to Prehistoric MammalsDonald R Prothero and Mary Persis WilliamsAfter the mass extinction of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, mammals became the dominant terrestrial life form on our planet. Roaming the earth were spectacular beasts such as saber-toothed cats, giant mastodonts, immense ground sloths ...

272 pages | 303 colour photos and colour & b/w illustrations | Hardback | NYP 11/2016 | 9780691156828 | #229157A | £24.95 Add to basket

Marine & Freshwater Biology

Faune et Flore de la Mer Mediterranee: Guide Visuel [Marine Wildlife of the Mediterranean]Enric Ballesteros and Toni LlobetFaune et Flore de la Mer Méditerranée will be your constant companion on your coastal explorations and marine adventures. It will help you identify species you encounter while snorkeling or SCUBA diving, and will ...

144 pages | colour photos, 1000+ colour illustrations | Paperback | 04/2016 | 9782366621723 | #229302A | £21.99 Add to basket

Rotifers (Rotifera) - Freshwater Fauna of PolandStanislaw Mikolaj Radwan, Irena Bielanska-Grajner and Jolanta Ejsmont-KarabinRotifers (Rotifera) are animals which occur in every type of aquatic environment, both marine and freshwater. They owe their wide distribution to rapid reproduction. Due to their abundance, they play an important role in freshwater ecosystems ...

450 pages | ccolour & b/w illustrations | Paperback | NYP 07/2016 | 9788323340867 | #229520A | £40.99 Add to basket


























General Natural History

Allan Cunningham: Letters of a Botanist Explorer 1791-1839AE Orchard and TA OrchardAllan Cunningham is rightly celebrated as the leading botanist in Australia in the first half of the 19th century. He was also an accomplished explorer, and a pioneer physical geographer, plant geographer and ecologist at a time when ...


Aquaria: In Kunst, Literatur und Wissenschaft [Aquaria: In Art, Literature and Science]Ursula Harter and Monika WagnerMade curious by the way the symbolist painter Odilon Redon referred to his images of the underwater world as "aquariums", Ursula Harter set off in search of answers to the questions: When were the first "aquarium buildings ...

256 pages | 201 colour & b/w photos and illustrations | Hardback | 07/2014 | 9783868284843 | #229268A | £44.99 Add to basket

Autumn: An Anthology for the Changing SeasonsMelissa HarrisonA beautiful collection that captures the unfolding of autumn.

160 pages | Paperback | NYP 08/2016 | 9781783962488 | #229333A | £12.99 Add to basket

Birds in NorfolkA National and International PerspectiveAndy Brown and James McCallumBirds in Norfolk is a celebration of Norfolk's birdlife. It is written by Andy Brown and includes 115 watercolour paintings and numerous watercolour sketches by James McCallum. Norfolk is famed as the best county ...

277 pages | colour illustrations, tables | Hardback | 05/2016 | 9781904078319 | #229809A | £49.99 Add to basket

Camping by the WatersideThe Best Campsites by Water in Britain and IrelandStephen Neale and Martin DoreyThis stylish and inspiring book contains all the information campers need to make the most of the wonderful waterside locations throughout the UK and Ireland. Covering all kinds of camping (caravan, campsite and wild) ...


ChlorisIoannis K Schinezos, Roberta Pagano and Alessandro MinelliA beautiful book of stunning black and white pictures, mainly close-up shots of the green universe. The brief text, written by Prof. Alessandro Minelli, join curious informations and scientific accuracy. Dr. Filippo Prosser ...

96 pages | 62 b/w photos | Paperback | 04/2016 | 9788890788215 | #229749A | £19.99 Add to basket

Cicerone Guides: St Oswald's Way and St Cuthbert's WayWith the Northumberland Coast PathRudolf AbrahamThis guide describes two long-distance trails through the unspoilt scenery of Northumberland and the Borders. St Oswald's Way begins at Heavenfield and its 97 miles take in rolling farmland and the Simonside Hills before reaching the ...

192 pages | colour photos, 50 colour maps | Paperback | NYP 07/2016 | 9781852848392 | #229422A | £12.95 Add to basket

Darwin, Darwinism and Conservation in the Galapagos IslandsThe Legacy of Darwin and its New ApplicationsDiego Quiroga and Ana Maria SevillaDarwin, Darwinism and Conservation in the Galapagos Islands explores how Darwin's legendary and mythologized visit to the Galapagos affected the socioecosystems of the Islands, as well as the cultural and intellectual traditions ...

5 colour & 2 b/w illustrations, 4 tables | Hardback | NYP 09/2016 | 9783319340500 | #229260A | £86.50 Add to basket

Darwin, Literature and Victorian RespectabilityGowan DawsonThe success of Charles Darwin's evolutionary theories in mid-nineteenth-century Britain has long been attributed, in part, to his own adherence to strict standards of Victorian respectability, especially in regard to sex. Gowan Dawson ...

300 pages | 8 b/w illustrations | Paperback | 02/2010 | 9780521128858 | #229563A | £22.99 Add to basketHardback | 04/2007 | 9780521872492 | #229564A | £69.99 Add to basket

Endeavouring BanksExploring the Collections from the Endeavour Voyage 1768 - 1771Neil Chambers, Sir David Attenborough, Anna Agnarsdottir, Jeremy Coote, Philip J Hatfield and GasWhen English naturalist Joseph Banks (1743–1820) accompanied Captain James Cook (1728–1779) on his historic mission into the Pacific, the Endeavour voyage of 1768–1771, he took with him a team of collectors and illustrators ...

304 pages | 150 colour photos and colour & b/w illustrations | Hardback | 05/2016 | 9781907372902 | #229543A | £39.99 Add to basket

Explorers' Botanical NotebookIn the Footsteps of Theophrastus, Marco Polo, Linnaeus, Flinders, Darwin, Speke and HookerFlorence Thinard, Yannick Fourie and Barb Collishaw"The greatest pleasure of naturalists (understated by certain utilitarians) is to discover new species, to point to new islands on the map of nature, and to populate continents that seem to be deserts" ...

176 pages | 150 colour photos and colour & b/w illustrations, 80 maps | Hardback | NYP 10/2016 | 9781770857636 | #229659A | £24.99 Add to basket

























Fingers in the Sparkle JarLessons in Life and DeathChris Packham"Every minute was magical, every single thing it did was fascinating and everything it didn't do was equally wondrous, and to be sat there, with a Kestrel, a real live Kestrel, my own real live Kestrel on my wrist! I felt like ...

282 pages | b/w photos | Hardback | 05/2016 | 9781785033483 | #228312A | £19.99 Add to basket

Global PopulationHistory, Geopolitics, and Life on EarthAlison BashfordConcern about the size of the world's population did not begin with the "population bomb" in 1968. It arose in the aftermath of World War I and was understood as an issue with far-reaching ecological, agricultural, economic ...

480 pages | 16 b/w illustrations | Hardback | 01/2014 | 9780231147668 | #211968A | £47.99 Add to basketPaperback | NYP 09/2016 | 9780231147675 | #229637A | £20.99 Add to basket

Heat: Extreme Adventures at the Highest Temperatures on EarthSir Ranulph FiennesRanulph Fiennes, the world's greatest living explorer, has travelled to some of the remotest most dangerous parts of the globe. Well-known for his experiences at the poles and climbing Everest, he has also endured some of the hottest ...

430 pages | 24 plates with colour & b/w photos; b/w maps | Hardback | 10/2015 | 9781471137952 | #221600A | £19.99 Add to basketPaperback | 05/2016 | 9781471137976 | #229484A | £7.99 Add to basket

House of Lost WorldsDinosaurs, Dynasties, and the Story of Life on EarthRichard ConniffThis fascinating book tells the story of how one museum changed ideas about dinosaurs, dynasties, and even the story of life on earth. The Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, now celebrating its 150th anniversary, has remade the way ...

352 pages | 97 colour illustrations | Hardback | NYP 06/2016 | 9780300211634 | #229516A | £24.99 Add to basket

Hybrid Knowledge in the Early East India Company WorldAnna WinterbottomHybrid Knowledge in the Early East India Company World presents a new reading of the English East India Company 1660-1720. It shows how innovative works – covering natural history, ethnography, theology, linguistics, medicine ...

324 pages | b/w photos, b/w illustrations | Hardback | 12/2015 | 9781137380197 | #229250A | £62.99 Add to basket

In The FieldThe Art of Field RecordingCathy Lane and Angus CarlyleThis is unique and important collection of interviews with contemporary sound artists who use field recording in their work. From its early origins in wildlife sound and in ethnographic research, field recording has expanded over the last ...

240 pages | b/w photos | Paperback | 02/2013 | 9780956855961 | #229455A | £11.99 Add to basket

Innocents in Dry ValleysAn Account of the Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition, 1958-59Colin Bull, Eddie Robertson and Peter BarrettIn the summer of 1958, physicist Colin Bull, along with a biologist and two undergraduate geology students from Victoria University of Wellington, launched an exploration of the Dry Valleys of Victoria Land, Antarctica – the first ...

267 pages | 81 colour plates, 1 b/w photo, 3 b/w illustrations, 4 b/w maps | Paperback | 03/2010 | 9781602230712 | #229754A | £17.50 Add to basket

Japan: An Environmental HistoryConrad TotmanFrom the outset, society in Japan has been shaped by its environmental context. The lush green mountainous archipelago of today supports a population of over 127 million people and one of the most advanced economies in the world. How has ...


King's Collectors for KewJames Bowie and Allan Cunningham, Brazil 1814-1816AE Orchard and TA OrchardIn 1814, with the close of the Napoleonic Wars, Sir Joseph Banks persuaded the Prince Regent (later King George IV) to send two collectors to the colonies of New South Wales and the Cape of Good Hope to gather propagating material to ...

477 pages | 66 ccolour & b/w illustrations | Paperback | 01/2014 | 9780994150516 | #229367A | £74.99 Add to basket

Landskipping: Painters, Ploughmen and PlacesAnna PavordLandskipping is a meditation on the iridescent British landscape that will reshape the way we think about our country In the late eighteenth century, landscape began to emerge as a cultural phenomenon in Britain.

320 pages | 18 B&W chapter opening illustrations | Hardback | 02/2016 | 9781408868911 | #226474A | £19.99 Add to basketPaperback | NYP 02/2017 | 9781408868935 | #229675A | £9.99 Add to basket

Lines from NatureJohn BusbyJohn Busby's drawings and paintings live and breathe the magic of their subject. His gannets soar and hang, stall and drift again, riding the currents of air as lightly as the pencil glides. How beautifully his young foxes leap ...

191 pages | colour & b/w illustrations | Hardback | 05/2016 | 9781904078616 | #198148A | £37.99 Add to basket



























Living in the Sound of the WindA Personal Quest for W.H. Hudson, Naturalist and Writer from the River PlateJason WilsonW. H. Hudson was brought up on the pampas, where he learnt from gauchos about frontier life. After moving to London in 1874, Hudson lived in extreme poverty. Like his friend Joseph Conrad, Hudson was an exile, adapting to England. He never ...

374 pages | b/w photos, b/w illustrations | Paperback | 05/2016 | 9781472122056 | #229544A | £9.99 Add to basket

Love, Madness, FishingA MemoirDexter Petley grew up in the 1960s and 70s, on the borders of Kent and Sussex. It was a time of eeking out a living mending cars, exterminating pests or hop picking. Boys were taught to fish by their fathers during the weekends, cast ...


Mechanism of the HeavensPierre Simon Laplace and Mary SomervilleA reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. Published in 1831, this work forms part of a collection of introductory volumes suggested by Henry, Lord Brougham and Vaux, the Lord Chancellor, for ...


On TrailsFrom Anthills to the Alps, How Trails Make Sense of a Chaotic WorldRobert MoorA strikingly original debut from a tremendous new talent, Robert Moor explores how trails help us understand the world, from the biological phenomenon of how ant trails are formed to hiking paths that span continents and oceans, from ...


Photographing North WalesA Photo-Location GuidebookSimon Kitchin, Don Williams, Iolo Williams, Stuart Holmes and Mick RyanPhotographing North Wales is a comprehensive photo-location guidebook to North Wales including: Snowdonia National Park, the Isle of Anglesey, the North Wales Coast, Llyn Peninsula, Llangollen and the North East. The book guides ...

288 pages | 300 colour photos, colour maps, tables | Paperback | 08/2015 | 9780992905118 | #229764A | £23.95 Add to basket

Plows, Plagues, and PetroleumHow Humans Took Control of ClimateWilliam F RuddimanThe impact on climate from 200 years of industrial development is an everyday fact of life, but did humankind's active involvement in climate change really begin with the industrial revolution, as commonly believed? William Ruddiman ...

202 pages | 16 b/w photos, 14 b/w illustrations, 7 maps, 4 tables | Paperback | 04/2010 | 9780691146348 | #183804A | £14.95 Add to basketPaperback | NYP 10/2016 | 9780691173214 | #229801A | £13.95 Add to basket

Prehistoric PredatorsBrian Switek and Julius CsotonyiDiscover the most dangerous carnivores that ever roamed the Earth in this exciting and action-packed exploration of prehistoric predators, featuring a unique cover that feels like dinosaur-skin! The biggest baddies of the prehistoric ...

96 pages | colour & b/w illustrations | Hardback | 06/2015 | 9781604335521 | #229614A | £12.99 Add to basket

Rivers RunAn Angler's Journey from Source to SeaKevin ParrRivers Run is a love letter to Britain's rivers and waterways by well-known angler and naturalist Kevin Parr. On a journey around his favourite watery hideaways – such as the River Stour in Dorset, the Exe in Devon, the ...

216 pages | no illustrations | Hardback | 05/2016 | 9781846044915 | #229539A | £9.99 Add to basket

Show Me the BoneReconstructing Prehistoric Monsters in Nineteenth-Century Britain and AmericaGowan DawsonNineteenth-century paleontologists boasted that, shown a single bone, they could identify or even reconstruct the extinct creature it came from with infallible certainty – "Show me the bone, and I will describe the animal!"

476 pages | 42 b/w illustrations | Hardback | 05/2016 | 9780226332734 | #229542A | £34.99 Add to basket

Sociable KnowledgeNatural History and the Nation in Early Modern BritainElizabeth YaleWorking with the technologies of pen and paper, scissors and glue, naturalists in early modern England, Scotland, and Wales wrote, revised, and recombined their words, sometimes over a period of many years, before fixing them in printed ...

346 pages | 9 illustrations | Hardback | 01/2016 | 9780812247817 | #229249A | £45.50 Add to basket

Spring: An Anthology for the Changing SeasonsMelissa HarrisonIt is a time of awakening. In our -fields, hedgerows and woodlands, our beaches, cities and parks, an almost imperceptible shift soon becomes a riot of sound and colour: winter ends, and life surges forth once more. Whether in town or country ...

208 pages | Paperback | 02/2016 | 9781783962235 | #229332A | £12.99 Add to basket
























The Big Cat ManAn AutobiographyJonathan ScottThis new autobiography by wildlife celebrity Jonathan Scott celebrates the extraordinary life of one of the world's most popular wildlife presenters and photographers. From his childhood on a Berkshire farm in the UK to his rise to ...


The Botanist and the JudgeAllan Cunningham in Tasmania 1818-1819AE Orchard and TA OrchardOn Christmas Day, 1818, the tiny Naval Cutter Mermaid, under the command of Lieut. Phillip Parker King, sailed through Sydney Heads en route to Tasmania, where King intended to survey the newly discovered harbours of Port Davey and ...


The Dales WayPeter StottThe Dales Way runs for 79 miles (127 km) from Ilkley in the Yorkshire Dales to Bowness in the Lake District. The route heads north through Wharfedale, crisscrossing the river, and rises over high moorland to pick up River Dee through ...

64 pages | 60+ colour photos, colour maps | Spiralbound | 02/2011 | 9781898481423 | #229595A | £10.99 Add to basket

The Dingle WaySandra Bardwell and Jacquetta MegarryThe Dingle Way runs 111 miles (179 km) around the beautiful Dingle Peninsula. It starts and finishes in Tralee, accessible by train or bus from Dublin and from Kerry Airport. The complete walk takes eight days, but it can easily be shortened ...

64 pages | 70 colour photos, colour maps | Spiralbound | 05/2009 | 9781898481331 | #229698A | £11.99 Add to basket

The FlorilegiumThe Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney: Celebrating 200 YearsColleen Morris, Louisa Murray, Brett Summerell, Shirley Sherwood and Beverly AllenA major collection of contemporary botanical illustration. Forty-one Australian and twenty-three overseas artists have contributed by invitation one or more works of significant plants in the three Sydney botanic gardens. This collection ...

224 pages | colour illustrations | Hardback | 04/2016 | 9780994477903 | #229309A | £62.50 Add to basketPaperback | 04/2016 | 9780994477910 | #229310A | £49.99 Add to basket

The KeartonsInventing Nature PhotographyJohn BevisIn 1892, brothers Richard and Cherry Kearton took the first ever photograph of a bird's nest with eggs. Realising the camera's potential to reveal secrets of the natural world, they resolved to make the best possible records of ...

192 pages | 92 b/w photos | Paperback | 05/2016 | 9781910010099 | #229454A | £13.99 Add to basket

The Masters of Nature Photography, Volume TwoWildlife Photographer of the YearRosamund Kidman-CoxThe master photographers making up The Masters of Nature Photography, Volume Two are Tim Laman (Lexington, MA), Brian Skerry (Uxbridge, MA), Steve Winter (Hoboken, NJ) Art Wolfe (Seattle), Hannu Hautala (Finland), Klaus Nigge ...

224 pages | colour & b/w photos | Hardback | NYP 09/2016 | 9780565093938 | #229289A | £29.99 Add to basket

The Natural History of Edward Lear (1812-1888)Robert McCracken Peck and Sir David AttenboroughBefore he became celebrated as the writer and illustrator of nonsense poetry, Edward Lear was a prolific painter of natural history subjects who earned near-universal praise for the accuracy, originality and elegant style of his animated ...


The TreeJohn Fowles and William FiennesJohn Fowles' writing life was dominated by trees. From the orchards of his childhood in suburban Essex, to the woodlands of wartime Devon, to his later life on the Dorset coast, trees filled his imagination and enriched his many acclaimed ...

82 pages | b/w illustrations | Hardback | NYP 09/2016 | 9781908213471 | #229842A | £11.99 Add to basket

Theodore Roosevelt in the FieldMichael R CanfieldNever has there been a president less content to sit still behind a desk than Theodore Roosevelt. When we picture him, he's on horseback or standing at a cliff's edge or dressed for safari. And Roosevelt was more than just an ...

476 pages | 108 colour & b/w photos, 1 b/w illustration | Hardback | 11/2015 | 9780226298375 | #229703A | £24.50 Add to basket

Where the Wild Thyme BlewGrowing up with Nature in the Fifties and SixtiesPeter MarrenWhere the Wild Thyme Blew is the story of a boy growing up in the lost England of sixty years ago. And turning, most reluctantly, into a man. It is also about the circumstances that turn a child into a naturalist and how nature ...

412 pages | Paperback | 04/2016 | #229678A | £14.99 Add to basket
























Wildlife Photographer of the Year Desk Diary 2017The Natural History Museum (London - UK)The Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition is the international showcase for the very best photography featuring natural subjects. The Museum's 2017 week-to-view diaries feature stunning photographs of the natural world from ...

112 pages | colour photos | Hardback | NYP 07/2016 | 9780565093853 | #229378A | £10.83 Add to basket

Wildlife Photographer of the Year Pocket Diary 2017The Natural History Museum (London - UK)The Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition is the international showcase for the very best photography featuring natural subjects. The Natural History Museum's 2017 week-to-view diaries feature stunning photographs of the natural ...


Wildlife Photographer of the Year, Portfolio 26Rosamund Kidman-CoxFor more than 50 years, the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition has championed honest and ethical wildlife photography, while pushing the boundaries of artistic freedom, technical skill, and narrative excellence. This powerful ...

160 pages | colour & b/w photos | Hardback | NYP 10/2016 | 9780565093952 | #229376A | £24.99 Add to basket

Winter: An Anthology for the Changing SeasonsMelissa HarrisonA beautiful collection of natural history writing that captures the unfolding of winter.


Regional & Travel

A Visual Celebration of Borneo's WildlifeFanny Lai and Bjorn OlesenThis Borneo wildlife pictorial offers nature lovers, visitors to Borneo and armchair explorers an unparalleled introduction to this mysterious treasure island. Illustrated with more than 350 images, taken by Bjorn Olesen and ...

468 pages | 350+ colour photos | Hardback | NYP 09/2016 | 9780794607876 | #229512A | £29.99 Add to basket

Bhutan's Natural HeritageA Legacy of the MonarchsBhutan Royal Society of Protection of Nature and Lam DorjiFrom the preface: "This book has been brought out to put on record the natural heritage that Bhutan possesses at the time of transition to a parliamentary democracy. While it is not comprehensive and exhaustive, it serves ...


Cave Fauna of BulgariaPetar BeronThis collates all the current knowledge from the Bulgarian and foreign literature about the fauna of the caves in this country. The brief introduction of the book reviews the history of studies on karst and caves in Bulgaria. The caves ...

442 pages | 8 plates with colour photos and b/w line drawings | Hardback | 01/2015 | 9786191527120 | #229550A | £74.99 Add to basket

Everglades: An Ecosystem Facing Choices and ChallengesAnne AkeAn engaging look at the "Everglades", its history, its plants and animals, and the challenges scientists trying to save the River of Grass face today.

110 pages | colour illustrations, maps | Hardback | 04/2008 | 9781561644100 | #229792A | £19.99 Add to basket

Fauna of Uttar Pradesh, Part 1: VertebratesKolkata The Director of the Zoological Survey of India and Kailash ChandraThis 22nd state fauna produced by the Zoological Survey India reports on extensive surveys conducted in Uttar Pradesh. The first part reports 699 vertebrate species.

130 pages | colour illustrations, colour maps | Paperback | 01/2015 | 9788181714244 | #229569A | £35.99 Add to basket

Fauna of Uttar Pradesh, Part 2: InvertebratesKolkata The Director of the Zoological Survey of IndiaThis 22nd state fauna produced by the Zoological Survey India reports on extensive surveys conducted in Uttar Pradesh. The second part reports 2,174 invertebrate species.

796 pages | 54 plates with colour photos; colour illustrations, colour maps | Paperback | 01/2015 | 9788181714251 | #229570A | £108.00 Add to basket

Historic Glacier National ParkThe Stories Behind One of America's Great TreasuresRandi MinetorHistoric Glacier National Park captures the most interesting moments in the park's history, the slices of life in northwestern Montana that provide an idea of what life was like for those who chose to explore this gloriously ...


Natural History of TenerifePhilip Ashmole and Myrtle AshmoleTenerife is a remarkable island, dominated by Mount Teide, an active volcano higher than any mountain in mainland Spain. The island has extraordinary volcanic landscapes, and thousands of species of plants and animals that are found only ...

416 pages | colour photos | Paperback | NYP 09/2016 | 9781849952255 | #229509A | £29.99 Add to basket

























Naturewatch: How to Spot and Track British WildlifeSimon KingNaturewatch is the ultimate guide to watching British wildlife, from renowned naturalist and TV presenter Simon King. More and more people are discovering the joys of being out and about in the British countryside. Yet surprisingly ...


River of GoldNarratives and Exploration of the Great LimpopoMike Gardner, Peter Norton and Clive WalkerIn this most exquisitely designed book, rich with photographs and story, the authors explore the Limpopo River's history, its ancient past, wildlife, landscapes, early kingdoms and their people, warfare, trade, slaves, 19th-century ...


Summer: An Anthology of the Changing SeasonsMelissa HarrisonSummer is a season of richness: gold against blue; sun dazzle on water; sweet fragrance, and the sound of insects, filling the air. We feel the sand between our toes, or the grass beneath our feet. In these long, warm days, languid and ...


The Greater World of Little ThingsRoss GardnerLook and look again! This is the advice from the author to us as we attempt to understand the complexities of the natural world, with wildlife unfolding unceasingly through the seasons, and with us − of course − an integral ...


The Long MyndIts History and WildlifeBarrie RaynorThe Long Mynd is a heath and moorland plateau that forms part of the Shropshire Hills in Shropshire, England. This book describes its history and wildlife, covering topics such as geology, history, landscape, heather, woods, sheep, ponies ...

224 pages | 400+ colour photos and colour illustrations | Hardback | 07/2013 | 9780956801814 | #229496A | £17.99 Add to basket

The MaraAnup ShahThis is the visual story of life in Maasai Mara, Kenya, wild home of African big game and one of the world's most famous wildlife reserves. Anup Shah's distinctive style of photography propels the reader into the middle of this ...

160 pages | b/w photos | Hardback | NYP 09/2016 | 9780565093945 | #229287A | £24.99 Add to basket

The Prince Edward IslandsLand-Sea Interactions in a Changing EcosystemSteven L Chown and Pierre W FronemanThis book provides a modern, synthetic overview of what is known about the structure, functioning and interactions of marine and terrestrial systems at the Prince Edward Islands. Building on more than 50 years of biological, geological ...

Hardback | 01/2008 | 9781920109851 | #229753A | £26.99 Add to basket

Botany & Plant Science

A Field Guide to Mushrooms of Britain and EuropeAlison LintonThere is huge and growing interest in the fascinating world of fungi. This field guide is aimed specifically towards the many beginners to the subject of mushrooms, although it is also suitable for those with a little more knowledge.

colour illustrations | Paperback | NYP 10/2016 | 9781921517730 | #229000A | £14.99 Add to basket

A New Atlas of the Seaweeds of KentThe Flora Past and Present with Summaries for Essex, London, Sussex and Pas de CalaisIan TittleyA New Atlas of the Seaweeds of Kent introduces the reader to the study of seaweeds, their history in the county, and describes the Kent coast, its habitats and the seaweed communities present. The current status of the flora is ...

distribution maps | Paperback | 04/2016 | #229511A | £29.99 Add to basket

A Pictorial Book of the Ornamental Plants and Orchids of Royal Botanical Garden, Serbithang, Volume 1Ministry of Agriculture and Forests, Bhutan National Biodiversity CentreThis book is a collection of photographs of plants found at the Royal Botanical Garden, Serbithang. It is divided into two parts and for ease of identification, the photographs are arranged according to the dominant colours of the flowers ...


A Pictorial Guide to the Wild Flowers of BhutanA Pictorial Guide book with wonderful pictures photographed by the author himself, covering about 200 species, and with reference to species distribution ranges. Will be useful for researches, foresters, students, horticulturists, and ...

























A Survey of the Bryophytes Known from the Aegean IslandsRuprecht DollThis is the first illustrated bryophyte flora of Greece. It will promote the knowledge and exploration of bryophytes in this area and all the Mediterranean. Take a lens and you will discover a new wonderful, till now unknown world and ...

185 pages | 240 colour photos | Hardback | 07/2014 | 9783936055696 | #229303A | £35.99 Add to basket

Actualizacion del Catalogo de la Flora Vascular Silvestre de La Rioja: Estado de Conocimiento en el Invierno-PrimaveraJuan Antonio Alejandre Saenz, Jose Antonio Arizaleta Urarte, Javier Benito Ayuso and Mateo SanThis work provides an updated and annotated list of all species of vascular flora present in La Rioja, a province in northern Spain, in spring 2016. It is a starting point for development of a future atlas of the vascular ...


Algae-Based BiopharmaceuticalsSergio Rosales-MendozaAlgae-Based Biopharmaceuticals constitutes a key reference on the use of algae in the biopharmaceuticals production field; providing an updated outlook on the achievements accomplished thus far and transmitting a prospective ...

162 pages | 22 colour & 25 b/w illustrations, 23 colour tables | Hardback | NYP 06/2016 | 9783319322308 | #229284A | £99.99 Add to basket

Atlas Flora Danica [Danish] (3-Volume Set)Per HartvigIn 1992 one of the most ambitious projects in botany in recent times was started: the Atlas Flora Danica. Members of the Dansk Botanisk Forening, the Danish Botanical Society, divided the country into 1,300 squares, each measuring ...

1565 pages | colour photos, colour & b/w illustrations, 2125 colour distribution maps | Hardback | 12/2015 | 9788702152999 | #229269A | £89.99 Add to basket

Blue Orchid and Big TreePlant Hunters William and Thomas Lobb and the Victorian Mania for the ExoticSue Shephard and Toby MusgraveThis is the story of two of England’s most prolific plant hunters who travelled and collected during the heyday of the Victorian mania for acquiring exotic new trees and plants from around the world. The Cornish-born brothers were ...


CarnationTwigs WayFrom wedding bouquets to funeral wreaths, carnations can be seen everywhere in human culture. Their colorful but delicately folded petals have made them one of the foremost decorative flowers, from the gardens of the Ottoman Empire to ...

224 pages | 70 colour & 30 b/w photos and illustrations | Hardback | NYP 11/2016 | 9781780236346 | #229100A | £15.99 Add to basket

Carnivorous Plants of Britain and IrelandA Field Guide to the Native and Non-Native Carnivorous Plants of Britain and IrelandTim Bailey and Stewart McPhersonCarnivorous plants include some of the most extraordinary organisms in the vegetable kingdom. Though rare amongst plants as a whole, there are more than 700 species of plant that trap and kill animals for their own nourishment worldwide.

200 pages | colour photos, b/w line drawings, colour distribution maps | Paperback | NYP 08/2016 | 9781908787231 | #229742A | £12.99 Add to basket

China's BambooCulture, Resources, Cultivation and UtilizationYang YumingThis is a book about the culture, resources, cultivation and utilization of China's bamboo. First it gives an introduction to historical and cultural situations of bamboo research and production in China as well as other countries.

227 pages | illustrations | Hardback | 01/2001 | 9789889783075 | #229610A | £94.99 Add to basket

Conoscere i Funghi Velenosi e i Loro Sosia Commestibili [Knowing Poisonous Mushrooms and the Edible Ones They Resemble]Italo MilanesiThis book provides vital information on poisonous mushrooms in a simple and complete fashion, and should be of interest to mushroom hunters to prevent poisoning by fungi. - 192 richly illustrated pages with over 180 colour photos in ...

192 pages | 180+ colour photos | Paperback | 01/2015 | #229599A | £62.50 Add to basket

Conservation of Wild Orchids of Kodagu in the Western GhatsT Ananda Rao and Samar SinghFrom the preface:"This publication is an important output of the Biodiversity Hotspots Conservation Programme undertaken by WWF-India since 1992, with the support of the MacArthur Foundation in USA. The Western Ghats and the ...

242 pages | 31 plates with colour photos; illustrations, maps | Paperback | 01/1998 | #229579A | £42.99 Add to basket

Delaware Trees & WildflowersA Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar SpeciesJames R Kavanagh and Raymond LeungThe state tree, the American Holly, is one of thousands of species of plants growing in the diverse ecosystems found throughout Delaware. This beautifully illustrated guide highlights over 140 familiar and unique species of trees, shrubs ...

12 pages | colour illustrations | Unbound | 04/2010 | 9781583555088 | #229697A | £6.99 Add to basket

























Discover Avenue Trees [of Bangalore]Karthikeyan SFrom the introduction: "In many cities, planners have often brought in trees from various parts of the world that bloom at various times of the year and provide shade. Residents of the city, who had space, also planted in ...

110 pages | 10 plates with colour photos; colour illustrations | Paperback | 01/2014 | #229580A | £18.99 Add to basket

Ethno Medicinal Plants of Raigad District, MaharashtraRajendra D Shinde and Kalpit Ganesh MhatreEthno Medicinal Plants of Raigad District, Maharashtra is intended to be a popular guide on medicinal plants – their identification, classification, nomenclature, and their uses. Designed primarily for Indian scholars ...

284 pages | 38 plates with colour photos | Paperback | 01/2016 | 9788171921232 | #229314A | £49.99 Add to basket

Fascicles of Flora of India, Fascicle 27Cyperaceae: Mapanioideae; Cyperaceae: Cyperoideae; Tribe: Schoeneae and SclerieaeP Singh and Sangita DeyVolume 27 deals with Cyperaceae subfamilies Mapanioideae and Cyperoideae and the tribes Schoeneae and Sclerieae.

118 pages | 10 plates with colour photos; 39 b/w line drawings | Paperback | 01/2015 | 9788181770707 | #229559A | £27.99 Add to basket

Fascinating Lichens of Sri LankaGothamie Weerakoon and H Thorsten LumbschThis book provides an introduction to the fascinating and diverse lichens of Sri Lanka. The book does not contain extensive descriptions typical of lichen field guides, as the author wanted to make this book accessible for anyone who wishes ...

184 pages | colour photos, b/w illustrations | Paperback | 01/2015 | 9789550081158 | #229307A | £37.99 Add to basket

Fitogeografia do Brasil: Uma Atualizacao de Bases e Conceitos [Phytogeography of Brazil: An Update of Basics and ConceOrlando GraeffOne of the goals of this work is to characterize the dynamics and interrelationships of the natural processes in the field of plant science allied to geology, geography and biology. The author Orlando Graeff has undertaken ...


Flora Neotropica, Volume 115: QuiinaceaeJulio V Schneider and Georg ZizkaA taxonomic monograph of the Quiinaceae is presented and covers aspects of taxonomic history, morphology, anatomy, phylogeny, biogeography, and ecology. The Quiinaceae comprise four genera (Froesia, Lacunaria ...

162 pages | 67 b/w line drawings and b/w distribution maps | Hardback | 04/2016 | 9780893275303 | #229271A | £115.00 Add to basket

Flora Neotropica, Volume 116: Prionolejeunea: Lejeuneaceae, JungermanniopsidaAnna Luiza Ilkiu-BorgesBased on the examination of types and additional specimens, currently 21 species and 3 newly described taxa of Prionolejeunea are recognized; 26 names are proposed as new synonyms. Prinololejeunea is characterized by the ...

126 pages | 63 b/w line drawings and b/w distribution maps, 7 tables | Hardback | 04/2016 | 9780893275310 | #229272A | £69.99 Add to basket

Flora of Peninsular Malaysia, Series II: Seed Plants, Volume 5Ruth Kiew, RCK Chung, LG Saw and E SoepadmoThe Flora of Peninsular Malaysia, Series ll provides revisions for seed plant families that occur in Peninsular Malaysia. Volume 5 includes revisions of 28 genera and 123 species in 8 families, namely Aristolochiaceae, Buxaceae ...

319 pages | plates with colour photos; b/w line drawings, b/w distribution maps, 1 colour map | Hardback | 01/2015 | 9789670622392 | #229621A | £95.99 Add to basket

Flora of the Pan-Himalaya, Volume 30: BrassicaceaeIhsan Ali Al-ShehbazVolume 30 of the Flora of the Pan-Himalaya is one of the first of the 50 volumes in the series, which will be published in approximately 80 parts. It is devoted to mustard family (Brassicaceae or Cruciferae). The Brassicaceae is ...

595 pages | b/w line drawings | Hardback | NYP 06/2016 | 9781107158986 | #229090A | £124.99 Add to basket

Flora of the Pan-Himalaya, Volume 47: Aquifoliaceae, Helwingaceae, Campanulaceae, Lobeliaceae, MenyanthaceaeDe-Yuan Hong, Hang Sun, Mark F Watson, Jun Wen and Xian-Chun ZhangVolume 47 of the Flora of the Pan-Himalaya is one of the first of the 50 volumes in the series, which will be published in approximately 80 parts. It includes five families (Aquifolaceae, Helwingiaceae, Campanulaceae ...

292 pages | b/w line drawings | Hardback | NYP 06/2016 | 9781107158979 | #227779A | £124.99 Add to basket

Flora: An Artistic Voyage Through the World of PlantsSandra KnappFlora: An Artistic Voyage Through the World of Plants contains 20 essays on the history of key plant families, including cacti, daffodils, iris, magnolia, poppies, roses, tulips and waterlilies. It explains how plants have adopted ...

224 pages | colour illustrations, includes 36 frameable prints | Hardback | NYP 09/2016 | 9780565093983 | #229291A | £29.99 Add to basket


























Floral MimicrySteven D Johnson and Florian P SchiestlThis is the first definitive book on floral mimicry, providing a wider treatise on floral adaptation and plant evolution. It reviews the latest advances in the chemical ecology of mimicry systems, written by the world's leading researchers ...


Flowers and Herbs in Pelion: With 12 Hiking Descriptions / Blumen under Krauter im Pilion: Mit 12 WanderbeschreibungenGiorgos Giannakaros and Rainer ScheppelmannIn 174 images, this plant guide describes 25 trees and 80 flowers and herbs found in Pelion, a mountain at the southeastern part of Thessaly in central Greece. There is also a short introduction to Pelion's fauna, and an appendix with ...

161 pages | 174 colour photos, colour illustrations, colour maps | Paperback | 05/2016 | 9783000519659 | #229567A | £13.50 Add to basket

Funghi Ipogei: Catalogo Illustrato delle Specie della Brianza, dei Territori Lariani e delle Zone Limitrofe [Hypogeous FMario Sarasini, Angelo Bincoletto and Antonio de VitoFunghi Ipogei: Catalogo Illustrato delle Specie della Brianza, dei Territori Lariani e delle Zone Limitrofe is the second volume in the series Monografie di Pagine di Micologia. The text presents the new and updated ...

120 pages | 140+ colour photos | Paperback | 01/2015 | #229600A | £62.50 Add to basket

Fungi Europaei, Volume 14: Hebeloma (Fr.) P. Kumm. [English]HJ Beker, U Eberhardt and Jan VesterholtFungi Europei is the most exhaustive and authoritative series of illustrated monographs on fungi published to date. Volume 14 covers the genus Hebeloma and provides full descriptions of gross morphology and microanatomy ...

1232 pages | 2654 colour & 200 b/w photos | Hardback | 05/2016 | 9788896059425 | #196799A | £118.00 Add to basket

Fungi: Applications and Management StrategiesSunil Kumar Deshmukh, JK Misra, Jalpa P Tewari and Tam ís PappFungi: Applications and Management Strategies deals with the application of fungi and the strategic management of some plant pathogens. It covers fungal bioactive metabolites, with emphasis on those secondary metabolites that ...

496 pages | 22 colour & 72 b/w illustrations | Hardback | 04/2016 | 9781498724913 | #229586A | £127.00 Add to basket

Guide des Plantes Mediterraneennes: Littoral de la France Continentale et de la Corse [Guide to Mediterranean Plants:Guilhan Paradis and Herve GomilaThe Mediterranean coast of mainland France and Corsica presents a rich panorama of plants. This lavishly illustrated guide describes more than 330 plants from the Mediterranean coasts. Each species is presented accurately: morphological ...


Guia de Flores Silvestres del Valle de San Millan de la Cogolla [Wildflower Guide to Valle de San Millan de la CogollaEmiliano Navas Sanchez and Valle CamachoThis guide, with more than 300 photographs taken in the wild, and 90 illustrations, introduces the reader in a simple way to the nearby yet unknown world of wildflowers. And therein lies its value: to teach, educate, and invite the reader ...

246 pages | 300+ colour photos, 90 b/w line drawings | Paperback | 02/2016 | 9788494062698 | #229253A | £34.99 Add to basket

Indian Flowering PlantsDG ShimpThe flowering plants of India are one Of the richest flora of the world due to a wide range of climate, topology and environments in the country. It is thought there are over 15,000 species of flowering plants in India, which account for ...

604 pages | b/w illustrations | Hardback | 01/2015 | 9789382733324 | #229793A | £79.99 Add to basket

Malaysian Herbal Monograph, Volume 3Malaysian Herbal Monograph Committee, Abdul Latif Mohmood and Rasadah Mat AliVolume 3 is a compilation of 20 monographs of medicinal plants that are widely used in Malaysia. This information forms the basis of quality control and scientific reference for herbal materials in the Malaysian herbal industry.

148 pages | colour photos, b/w line drawings, colour tables | Paperback | 01/2013 | 9789675221934 | #224574A | £160.00 Add to basket

Marine BiomedicineFrom Beach to BedsideBill J BakerMarine Biomedicine: From Beach to Bedside assesses current efforts in marine biomedicine and evaluates the implications of recent advances on the future of the field. Richly illustrated in full color to enhance reader ...

612 pages | 92 colour & 184 b/w illustrations, 11 tables | Hardback | 01/2016 | 9781466582125 | #229602A | £88.99 Add to basket

Microalgae: Current Research and ApplicationsMaria-Nefeli TsaloglouMicroalgae, also known as phytoplankton, are abundant microorganisms, which are found in freshwater and marine environments. Phytoplankton are critical to global biogeochemistry since they produce the bulk of oxygen on Earth through photographs ...





























Monographie des Leguminosae de France, Tome 4: Tribu des Fabeae, des Cicereae et des Genisteae [Monograph on the LeguminPierre Coulot, Philippe Rabaute, Nigel Maxted and Daniel PifkoAfter the publication in late 2013 of the third volume of the Monographie des Légumineuses de France, this is the fourth volume, devoted to two major tribes of the flora of France, the Fabeae and Genisteae. This publication ...

500 pages | colour photos, colour distribution maps | Hardback | NYP 06/2016 | #229789A | £130.00 Add to basket

Most Common Freshwater Algae Images of Zhejiang Province (Drinking Water Sources) [Chinese]Chen QianThe Zhejiang Environmental Monitoring Center in China has been undertaking a major biological monitoring of drinking water sources since 2006, and gradually uncovered the algal community structure and its variation in order to develop ...

137 pages | 80 plates with colour photos; tables | Hardback | 01/2010 | 9787511104069 | #229750A | £49.99 Add to basket

Mushrooms of Ontario and Eastern CanadaGeorge BarronPhotographic field guide to over 600 mushrooms and fungi of Ontario, Québec, Atlantic Canada, and the north-eastern United States. Includes stunning photographs and detailed species information. Also includes notes on edibility.

336 pages | 875 colour photos | Paperback | 03/2016 | 9781772130010 | #227554A | £23.50 Add to basket

Orchids of JamaicaAncile Gloudon and Cicely TobischOrchids of Jamaica catalogs over 100 species of orchids that are found in Jamaica. The book includes descriptions of the plant, flower, growth habits as well as photographs or line drawings. It also lists the latest reclassification ...


Orquidies del Ripolles [Orchids of Ripolles]J CanalsThis is an identification Guide and distribution atlas to the of orchids of Ripollès, a county in Catalonia, Spain. Illustrated with many high-quality photos and elaborate texts, it contains lots of details to identify each species ...


Papaya: Biology, Cultivation, Production and UsesParmeshwar Lal Saran, Ishwar Singh Solanki and Ravish ChoudharyWith coverage that ranges from basic information to advanced research, Papaya: Biology, Cultivation, Production and Uses pulls together the vast literature scattered over various sources into one practical resource.

286 pages | 16 plates with colour photos; 83 b/w illustrations, 21 tables | Hardback | 09/2015 | 9781498735605 | #229603A | £81.99 Add to basket

Plant Identification for Phase 1 Habitat Survey: Grassland and MarshHilary Wallace, Mark Duffell and Lizzie HarperThis guide is designed to help you identify the indicator species needed to carry out a Phase 1 habitat survey of grassland and marsh habitats, following the guidelines set out in the ...

8 pages | colour photos, colour illustrations | Unbound | 05/2016 | 9781908819260 | #229278A | £3.50 Add to basket

Plants of Arogyashram & Their Healing PowersTrees, Shrubs and HerbsBV Venkatesha MurthyThis book profiles 214 plant species grown in the herbal garden surrounding the Arogyashram, in the state of Karnataka, India. This Ayurvedic nursing home has been operative for over 50 years and this book is a collection of writings on ...

338 pages | colour photos | Paperback | 01/2012 | #229241A | £37.50 Add to basket

Plants on Plants - The Biology of Vascular EpiphytesGerhard ZotzVascular Epiphytes critically reviews advances in our understanding of the biology of vascular epiphytes since Andreas Schimper's 1888 seminal work. It addresses all aspects of their biology, from anatomy and physiology to ...


Plants: Healers and KillersMichael Radcliffe LeePlants have been known for their medicinal properties for many centuries. In mythology and tales of ancient times lie clues to their usage and often the embellished claims of legend hold a grain of scientific truth.

160 pages | 168 colour & b/w photos and colour & b/w illustrations | Paperback | 05/2015 | 9781906129965 | #229297A | £17.99 Add to basket

PoppyAndrew LackFew weeds have been more successful throughout history than the poppy. Hated by farmers for its stubbornness, the poppy has been a favorite of artists and poets, due to its distinct and brilliant color, and it has functioned symbolically ...

224 pages | 70 colour & 30 b/w photos and illustrations | Hardback | NYP 11/2016 | 9781780236537 | #229101A | £15.99 Add to basket

Roots and Root System of Trees / Koreny a Korani StromuJan Jenik, Miloslav Studnicka and Jan CermakThe chapters incorporated in this volume contain introductory data and problems referring to a botanical and silvological branch called rhizology. Roots of plants – unlike the aboveground organs – fulfill their ...

331 pages | b/w photos, b/w illustrations | Paperback | 01/2014 | 9788026058274 | #229669A | £9.99 Add to basket



























Rothmaler - Exkursionsflora von Deutschland: Band 4Gefasspflanzen: Kritischer BandFrank Muller, Christiane M Ritz, Erik Welk and Karsten WescheThis newly designed "Kritische" volume complements the "Grund" and "Atlas" volumes of Rothmaler Exkursionsflora and allows the determination of about 900 families from hard-to-identify genera of the ...

982 pages | b/w line drawings | Paperback | 04/2016 | 9783827431318 | #229280A | £27.99 Add to basket

Terrestrial OrchidsNaresh SwamiTerrestrial Orchids is part of a research program to study and photograph orchid species from the Eastern Himalayas, covering the regions of Eastern Nepal, Sikkim, Darjeeling district, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam and Nagaland.

228 pages | 232 colour photos | Paperback | 01/2016 | 9789352583775 | #229597A | £148.00 Add to basket

The Diatom Flora and Cyanobacteria from Caves on Kauai, HawaiiTaxonomy, Distribution, New SpeciesLaura H Miscoe, Jeffrey R Johansen, John Patrick Kociolek, Rex L Lowe, Melissa A Vaccarino and PieThis book provides two thoroughly illustrated floras of cave algae of Kauai, the oldest of the large inhabited islands in the Hawaiian Archipelago. These caves are a hot spot of algal diversity. The first flora describes and illustrates ...

152 pages | 448 illustrations, 2 tables | Paperback | 05/2016 | 9783443600471 | #229607A | £89.99 Add to basket

The Flora of LanarkshirePeter MacphersonThe Flora of Lanarkshire by the late Peter Macpherson is the first comprehensive flora of this Scottish county. Past President of the BSBI, the author was official plant recorder for Lanarkshire vice county (VC) 77 for over 35 years.

400 pages | colour photos, colour distribution maps | Paperback | NYP 09/2016 | #229507A | £38.50 Add to basket

The Genus Aquilegia L. (Ranunculaceae) in Italy / Il Genere Aquilegia L. (Ranunculaceae) in ItaliaNardi EnioThe genus Aquilegia L. (Ranunculaceae) includes numerous species of plants are easily recognizable because of characteristic flowers with long petals in a croissant shape. This work, which has a strictly experimental approach the ...

686 pages | 43 b/w illustrations and b/w maps, 20 tables | Paperback | 01/2015 | 9788859615187 | #229301A | £63.99 Add to basket

The Long, Long Life of TreesFiona StaffordSince the beginnings of history trees have served humankind in countless useful ways, but our relationship with trees has many dimensions beyond mere practicality. Trees are so entwined with human experience that diverse species have ...


The SaprolegniaceaeWith Notes on Other Water MoldsWilliam Chambers CokerA reprint of a classical work in the UNC Press Enduring Edition series. Originally published in 1923. The Saprolegniaceae: With Notes on Other Water Molds contains descriptions of direct observations on, and ...

444 pages | illustrations | Paperback | 03/2013 | 9781469609324 | #229521A | £42.95 Add to basket

Trees: A Complete Guide to Their Biology and StructureRoland EnnosTrees, the largest of all living things, are vital components of the landscape and have been exploited by humans since the beginnings of our history. They cover huge areas of the globe, from the rainforests of the central tropics to the ...

128 pages | 120 colour photos and colour illustrations | Paperback | NYP 10/2016 | 9780565094096 | #229286A | £14.99 Add to basket

True Truffle (Tuber Spp.) in the WorldSoil Ecology, Systematics and BiochemistryAlessandra Zambonelli, Mirco Iotti and Claude MuratTrue Truffle (Tuber Spp.) in the World focuses on the taxonomic diversity of the genus Tuber as economically important truffles. In contributions by internationally respected scientists, it examines truffle systematics ...

400 pages | 28 colour & 42 b/w illustrations, 71 colour tables | Hardback | NYP 06/2016 | 9783319314341 | #229296A | £117.00 Add to basket

Type Specimens in China National Herbarium (PE), Volume 4: Angiospermae(1) [English / Chinese]Lin QiVolume 4 of Type Specimens in China National Herbarium (PE) includes 489 type specimens from Sparganiaceae to Liliaceae (1) (Angiospermae, Monocotyledoneae), comprising 267 holotypes, 185 isotypes, 9 lectotypes, 1 syntype ...

526 pages | colour photos | Hardback | 01/2016 | 9787534975028 | #229589A | £220.00 Add to basket

Welcher Pilz ist Das? [Which Mushroom is That?]Markus FluckThis comprehensive mycological guide allows quick identification of fungal groups through the practical determination key. Large-format colour photographs and drawings with all essential features of more than 270 species of fungi in ...

416 pages | 458 colour photos, 180 colour & 1 b/w illustrations | Paperback | NYP 06/2016 | 9783440149836 | #226951A | £20.99 Add to basket

























Welcher Pilz ist das?: 170 Pilze Einfach Bestimmen [Which Mushroom is That?: Easily Identifying 170 Mushrooms]Markus FluckWelcher Pilz ist das? is the practical mycological guide in your pocket. Use the Kosmos colour code to determine species easily.

128 pages | 172 colour photos, 14 colour illustrations | Paperback | NYP 06/2016 | 9783440149843 | #229443A | £7.99 Add to basket

Animal & General Biology

Animal PhysiologyRichard W Hill, Gordon A Wyse and Margaret AndersonAnimal Physiology, Fourth Edition presents all the branches of modern animal physiology with a strong emphasis on integration of physiological knowledge, ecology, and evolutionary biology. Integration extends from genes to organs ...

828 pages | 675 colour photos and colour illustrations, colour tables | Hardback | NYP 06/2016 | 9781605354712 | #229533A | £57.99 Add to basket

Avian MedicineJaime SamourCombining the in-depth coverage of a text with the practicality of a clinical manual and the visual detail of an atlas, Avian Medicine, 3rd Edition is the complete, all-in-one guide to every aspect of avian care. Written by some ...

712 pages | 900+ colour illustrations | Hardback | 01/2016 | 9780723438328 | #229700A | £104.00 Add to basket

Biochemistry: The Molecular Basis of LifeTrudy McKeeBiochemistry: The Molecular Basis of Life, International Sixth Edition, offers deeper coverage of the chemistry of reactions while emphasizing the relationship between biochemistry and human biology.

768 pages | colour illustrations | Paperback | 12/2012 | 9780199920464 | #216778A | £48.99 Add to basketPaperback | NYP 07/2016 | 9780190209957 | #229660A | £29.99 Add to basket

Campbell BiologyLisa A Urry, Michael L Cain, Steven A Wasserman, Peter V Minorsky and Jane B ReeceNote: Thisi s a standalone product; MyLab™ & Mastering™ does not come packaged with this content. The Eleventh Edition of the best-selling text Campbell Biology sets you on the path to success in biology ...

1393 pages | illustrations | Hardback | NYP 10/2016 | 9780134093413 | #229519A | £143.99 Add to basket

Colour and VisionThrough the Eyes of NatureSteve ParkerColour and Vision examines the evolution, variation and impact of eyes and colours in the natural world. Starting from a time before image forming eyes had developed, Steve Parker traces how the evolution of colour and vision ...

128 pages | colour photos, colour illustrations | Paperback | NYP 07/2016 | 9780565093891 | #229290A | £12.99 Add to basket

Developmental BiologyScott F Gilbert and Michael JF BarresiA classic gets a new coauthor and a new approach: Developmental Biology, Eleventh Edition keeps the excellent writing, accuracy, and enthusiasm of the Gilbert Developmental Biology book, streamlines it, adds innovative ...

500 pages | colour photos, colour illustrations | Hardback | 07/2013 | 9781605351735 | #204176A | £52.99 Add to basketHardback | NYP 06/2016 | 9781605354705 | #229529A | £59.99 Add to basket

Ecological and Environmental Physiology of MammalsPhilip C Withers, Francisco Bozinovic, Christine Cooper, Ariovaldo Cruz Neto and Shane MaloneyThis book summarizes our current knowledge of the complex and sophisticated physiological models that mammals provide for survival in a wide variety of ecological and environmental contexts: terrestrial, aerial, and aquatic.


Herding Hemingway's CatsUnderstanding How Genes WorkKat ArneyThe language of genes has become common parlance. We know they make your eyes blue, your hair curly or your nose straight. The media tells us that our genes control the risk of cancer, heart disease, alcoholism or Alzheimer's.

288 pages | Hardback | 01/2016 | 9781472910042 | #219003A | £16.99 Add to basketPaperback | /NULL | 9781472910059 | #219004A | £12.99 Add to basketPaperback | NYP 02/2017 | 9781472910073 | #219005A | £9.99 Add to basket

Philosophy of BiologyPeter Godfrey-SmithPhilosophy of Biology is a concise, comprehensive, and accessible introduction to the philosophy of biology written by a leading authority on the subject. Geared to philosophers, biologists, and students of both ...





























Welcome to the MicrobiomeGetting to Know the Trillions of Bacteria and Other Microbes in, on, and Around YouRob DeSalle and Susan L PerkinsSuddenly, research findings require a paradigm shift in our view of the microbial world. The Human Microbiome Project at the National Institutes of Health is well under way, and unprecedented scientific technology now allows the censusing ...


Evolutionary Biology

Aux Origines de la Vie: Une Nouvelle Histoire de l'Evolution [On the Origins of Life: A New History of Evolution]Abderrazak El Albani, Roberto Macchiarelli and Alain R MeunierThis book tells the story of a group geologists who, when travelling to Gabon to do a simple sampling of ancient sediments, made a startling discovery: fossils of complex structures older than 2 billion years. These fossils represent the ...

256 pages | illustrations | Paperback | 03/2016 | 9782100737918 | #229616A | £32.99 Add to basket

Charles Darwin: The Shaping of Evolutionary ThinkingLance WorkmanThere are few aspects of the modern world that remain untouched by Charles Darwin's legacy. His ideas have affected everything from science to religion, and have influenced debates about ethics, animal welfare and nature versus nurture ...


Eco-Evolutionary DynamicsAndrew P HendryIn recent years, scientists have realized that evolution can occur on timescales much shorter than the "long lapse of ages" emphasized by Darwin – in fact, evolutionary change is occurring all around us all the time.

416 pages | 101 b/w illustrations, 2 tables | Hardback | NYP 11/2016 | 9780691145433 | #229172A | £48.95 Add to basket

Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Biology (4-Volume Set)Richard KlimanEncyclopedia of Evolutionary Biology is the definitive go-to reference in the field of evolutionary biology. It provides a fully comprehensive review of the field in an easy to search structure. Under the collective leadership of ...

2132 pages | illustrations | Hardback | NYP 06/2016 | 9780128000496 | #229537A | £825.00 Add to basket

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

376 pages | 18 b/w photos and illustrations, tables | Hardback | 03/2015 | 9780231153164 | #214809A | £25.99 Add to basketPaperback | NYP 11/2016 | 9780231153171 | #229635A | £20.99 Add to basket

Evolution by Natural SelectionConfidence, Evidence and the GapMichaelis MichaelA persistent argument among evolutionary biologists and philosophers revolves around the nature of natural selection. Evolution by Natural Selection: Confidence, Evidence and the Gap explores this argument by using a theory of ...

175 pages | 6 b/w illustrations | Hardback | 01/2016 | 9781498700870 | #229601A | £57.99 Add to basket

How the Zebra Got its StripesAnd Other Darwinian Just So StoriesLeo Grasset and Barbara MellorWhy do giraffes have such long necks? Why are zebras striped? Why are buffalo herds broadly democratic while elephants prefer dictatorships? What explains the architectural brilliance of the termite mound or the complications of the hyena's ...

192 pages | colour plates, b/w photos, b/w illustrations | Hardback | NYP 10/2016 | 9781781256282 | #229517A | £9.99 Add to basket

In the Blink of an EyeHow Vision Kick-Started the Big Bang of EvolutionAndrew ParkerThe Cambrian explosion is the 'big bang' of evolution – a period of less than five million years during which life on Earth rapidly developed both armaments and defences. Animals suddenly became both hunters and the hunted ...


Kurze Geschichte der Evolutionstheorien: Von den Anf ñngen ber Darwin bis zur Frankfurter Theorie [A Brief History ofManfred GrasshoffThe Kurze Geschichte der Evolutionstheorien provides a historical analysis of the origin of evolutionary biology and evolutionary research. It was not an illuminating inspiration or even just Charles Darwin, which introduced the ...


























Processes in Human EvolutionThe Journey from Early Hominins to Neandertals and Modern HumansFrancisco Jose Ayala and Camilo J Cela-CondeThe discoveries of the last decade have brought about a completely revised understanding of human evolution, due to the recent advances in genetics, palaeontology, ecology, archaeology, geography, and climate science. Written by two leading ...

560 pages | b/w photos, b/w illustrations | Paperback | 09/2007 | 9780198567806 | #165640A | £46.99 Add to basketPaperback | NYP 08/2016 | 9780198739913 | #229822A | £39.99 Add to basketHardback | NYP 08/2016 | 9780198739906 | #229823A | £79.99 Add to basket

Seven Deadly ColoursThe Genius of Nature's PaletteAndrew ParkerIn clear and accessible style Parker shows how colour plays a vital role in the struggle for life, and that nature's palette is far more miraculous than had been previously imagined – so miraculous that it fools and misleads ...

312 pages | colour illustrations | Paperback | NYP 06/2016 | 9780565093990 | #229423A | £7.99 Add to basket

Ecology

Detecting and Responding to Alien Plant IncursionsJohn R Wilson, F Dane Panetta and Cory LindgrenEcologists, land managers and policymakers continue to search for the most effective ways to manage biological invasions. An emerging lesson is that proactive management can limit negative impacts, reduce risks and save money.

70 b/w illustrations, 14 tables | Hardback | NYP 08/2016 | 9781107095601 | #229247A | £64.99 Add to basketPaperback | NYP 08/2016 | 9781107479487 | #229248A | £34.99 Add to basket

Ecology of Urban EnvironmentsKirsten M ParrisStudies the distribution, abundance and behaviour of organisms, their interactions with each other and with their urban environment - Case studies with questions to improve retention and understanding - Uses existing ecological ...


Natural SystemsThe Organisation of LifeMarkus P EichhornOrganised into four sections, this text discusses the organisation of the living world. - Links ecology, biodiversity and biogeography - Bridges modern and conventional ecology - Builds sequentially from the concept and ...


Non-Native Species and Their Role in the EnvironmentThe Need for a Broader PerspectiveRadu Cornel Guia uThe young field of invasion biology – initially a branch of ecology and conservation biology – has greatly expanded, particularly in the last two and a half decades or so. As a result, the potential negative effects of introducing ...


The New EcologyRethinking a Science for the AnthropoceneOswald J SchmitzOur species has transitioned from being one among millions on Earth to the species that is single-handedly transforming the entire planet to suit its own needs. In order to meet the daunting challenges of environmental sustainability ...


The Theory of Ecological CommunitiesMark VellendA plethora of different theories, models, and concepts make up the field of community ecology. Amid this vast body of work, is it possible to build one general theory of ecological communities? What other scientific areas might serve as ...

248 pages | 2 b/w photos, 56 b/w illustrations, 9 tables | Hardback | NYP 09/2016 | 9780691164847 | #229799A | £37.95 Add to basket

Habitats & Ecosystems

Managing Your Woodland for WildlifeDavid Blakesley, Peter Buckley, Tharada Blakesley and Margaret HantonFor this second edition all chapters have been thoroughly revised, and the book is now published in A4 format. Most woodland management has been highly beneficial for wildlife over the centuries, creating habitats which have ...

88 pages | b/w illustrations, tables | Paperback | 05/2016 | 9781874357759 | #229746A | £12.99 Add to basket

Soil CarbonScience, Management and Policy for Multiple BenefitsSteven A Banwart, Elke Noellemeyer and Eleanor MilneCovers the broad science and policy background, and includes describing land management options that improve the soil carbon status and hence increasing the benefits that humans derive worldwide from the environment. The different chapters ...

391 pages | b/w illustrations, tables | Hardback | 12/2014 | 9781780645322 | #229387A | £94.99 Add to basket


























Soils and Human HealthEric C Brevik and Lynn C BurgessDespite the connections between soils and human health, there has not been a great amount of attention focused on this area when compared to many other fields of scientific and medical study. Soils and Human Health brings together ...

391 pages | 143 b/w photos and b/w illustrations, 49 tables, includes DVD-ROM | Hardback | 12/2012 | 9781439844540 | #229391A | £84.99 Add to basket

Soils in the NexusA Crucial Resource for Water, Energy and Food SecurityJes Weigelt, Alexander Muller, Charlotte Beckh and Klaus TopferSoils are crucial if we are to ensure water, energy and food security for nine billion people by 2050. Soils sustain biodiversity and – if managed wisely – contribute to the mitigation of climate change. At the same time, the ...

160 pages | colour & b/w illustrations, tables | Paperback | 04/2016 | 9783865814319 | #229390A | £25.99 Add to basket

The Nature and Properties of SoilsRaymond R Weil and Nyle C BradyDeveloped for Introduction to Soils or Soil Science courses, The Nature and Properties of Soils, Fifteenth Edition, can be used in courses such as Soil Fertility, Land Resources, Earth Science and Soil Geography. Help readers ...

912 pages | illustrations | Paperback | 07/2013 | 9781292020792 | #219551A | £59.99 Add to basketHardback | NYP 10/2016 | 9780133254488 | #229384A | £99.99 Add to basket

The Soils of the USALarry T West, Michael J Singer and Alfred E HarteminkThe Soils of the USA provides an overview of the distribution, properties, and function of soils in the U.S., including Alaska, Hawaii, and its Caribbean territories. It discusses the history of soil surveys and pedological ...


Conservation & Biodiversity

An Introduction to Conservation BiologyRichard B Primack and Anna A SherFor this new undergraduate conservation biology textbook, coauthor Anna Sher joins longtime Sinauer author Richard Primack in creating a book that combines the readability of Primack’s ...

476 pages | 202 illustrations | Paperback | 05/2016 | 9781605354736 | #229510A | £54.99 Add to basket

Biodiversity in Agricultural Landscapes of Southeastern BrazilCarla Gheler-Costa, Maria Carolina Lyra-Jorge and Luciano Martins VerdadeThe state of São Paulo, Brazil, is one of the most densely populated and developed areas in South America. Such development is evident both in terms of industrialization and urbanization, as well as in agriculture, which is heavily ...

366 pages | 26 illustrations, 36 tables | Hardback | 04/2016 | 9783110480832 | #229843A | £165.00 Add to basket

Cat WarsThe Devastating Consequences of a Cuddly KillerPeter P Marra and Chris SantellaIn 1894, a lighthouse keeper named David Lyall arrived on Stephens Island off New Zealand with a cat named Tibbles. In just over a year, the Stephens Island Wren, a rare bird endemic to the island, was rendered extinct. Mounting scientific ...

216 pages | 24 colour photos | Hardback | NYP 10/2016 | 9780691167411 | #229796A | £18.95 Add to basket

Extinction: A Radical HistoryAshley DawsonSome thousands of years ago, the world was home to an immense variety of large mammals. From wooly mammoths and saber-toothed tigers to giant ground sloths and armadillos the size of automobiles, these spectacular creatures roamed freely ...


Flight WaysLife and Loss at the Edge of ExtinctionThom van DoorenA leading figure in the emerging field of extinction studies, Thom van Dooren puts philosophy into conversation with the natural sciences and his own ethnographic encounters to vivify the cultural and ethical significance of modern-day ...

193 pages | b/w photos, 1 b/w map | Hardback | 06/2014 | 9780231166188 | #210461A | £25.99 Add to basketPaperback | NYP 09/2016 | 9780231166195 | #229636A | £17.99 Add to basket

Integrating Biological Control into Conservation PracticeR van Driesche, Daniel Simberloff, Bernd Blossey, Charlotte Causton, Mark Hoddle and Christi MarksInvasive species have a critical and growing effect upon natural areas. They can modify, degrade, or destroy wildland ecosystem structure and function, and reduce native biodiversity. Landscape-level solutions are needed to address these ...


National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plan, Bhutan 2014Royal Government of Bhutan Ministry of Agriculture and ForestsThis document outlines the national biodiversity strategies and action plan that Bhutan has formulated. According to the country's developmental philosophy dubbed Gross National Happiness, environmental conservation is one of the ...

173 pages | colour illustrations, colour maps | Paperback | 01/2014 | #229575A | £42.99 Add to basket

























Plant BiodiversityMonitoring, Assessment and ConservationAbid A Ansari and Sarvajeet Singh GillPlants are important components to the ecosystem. They are the base of the food chain and play a significant role in energy flow and biogeochemical cycling of nutrients between terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. They must constantly ...


The National Red List 2012 of Sri LankaConservation Status of the Fauna and FloraMinistry of Environment, Sri Lanka Biodiversity Secretariat and National Herbarium. DepartmenSri Lanka is regarded as a biodiversity hotspot. The National Red List 2012 of Sri Lanka evaluates all flowering plants, ferns, mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and major groups of invertebrates, including various insect ...

451 pages | colour illustrations, includes a CD-ROM | Hardback | 01/2012 | 9789550033553 | #229584A | £73.99 Add to basket

World Heritage ConservationThe World Heritage Convention, Linking Culture and Nature for Sustainable DevelopmentClaire Cave and Elene NegussieThe UNESCO World Heritage Convention has become one of the most successful UN instruments for promoting cultural diplomacy and dialogue on conservation of cultural and natural heritage. World Heritage Conservation provides an ...

288 pages | 20 b/w photos, 60 b/w illustrations | Paperback | NYP 10/2016 | 9780415728553 | #228985A | £31.99 Add to basketHardback | NYP 10/2016 | 9780415728546 | #228986A | £89.99 Add to basket

Environmental Science

The Madhouse EffectHow Climate Change Denial is Threatening Our Planet, Destroying Our Politics, and Driving Us CrazyMichael E Mann and Tom TolesThe award winning climate scientist Michael E. Mann and the Pulitzer Prize–winning political cartoonist Tom Toles have fought at the frontlines of climate denialism for most of their careers. They have witnessed the manipulation of ...

208 pages | 53 illustrations | Hardback | NYP 10/2016 | 9780231177863 | #229625A | £18.95 Add to basket

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

406 pages | 21 b/w illustrations, 4 tables | Hardback | 05/2015 | 9780262029186 | #224707A | £19.95 Add to basketPaperback | NYP 08/2016 | 9780262529983 | #229804A | £14.95 Add to basket

Physical Sciences

A Building Stones Guide to Central ManchesterFour Walks Through the City CentreMorven Simpson, Fred Broadhurst, Peter del Strother and Jennifer RhodesThis book features four self-guided walks through the city centre of Manchester, showing the geological origins of the building stones used around the city.

67 pages | colour photos, b/w maps | Spiralbound | 01/2014 | 9780992871314 | #229293A | £14.50 Add to basket

Berliner Hohlenkundliche Berichte, Volume 63: The Unknown North of Laos, Part 6: 2014-2015Karst and Caves of the Provinces Luang Prabang, Houaphan, Oudomxay and Xieng KhouangMichael LaumannsThis volume presents the results of the 2014 and 2015 international expeditions to Northern Laos and describes a total of 23 km of passages from 70 caves. Includes the Tham Houay Ngot-Pang Ngoy System (3620 m long) and Tham Lo (2103 m) ...

115 pages | colour photos, b/w illustrations | Paperback | 05/2016 | #229687A | £11.99 Add to basket

Field Guide to the Carboniferous Sediments of the Shannon Basin, Western IrelandJames L Best and Paul B WignallThe Carboniferous Shannon Basin of Western Ireland has become one of the most visited field areas in the world. It provides an ideal opportunity for examining a wide range of ancient sedimentary environments, including carbonate shelf ...

368 pages | illustrations | Paperback | NYP 06/2016 | 9781119257127 | #229502A | £39.95 Add to basket

Geobrittanica: Geological Landscapes and the British PeoplesMike Leeder and Joy LawlorGeobrittanica: Geological Landscapes and the British Peoples concerns the geological legacy of Britain, an inheritance bequeathed by its bedrock to the peoples who have lived on the island for the eleven millennia since the ...


Origin and Evolution of the Cape Mountains and Karoo BasinBastien Linol and Maarten J de WitIt has been 25 years since the last major conference and excursion across the Cape-Karoo was held, the results of which were subsequently published in a small book. This new book emerged from a recent follow up Imbizo (= South African ...


























The Big PictureOn the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe ItselfSean B CarrollAlready internationally acclaimed for his elegant, lucid writing on the most challenging notions in modern physics, Sean Carroll is emerging as one of the greatest humanist thinkers of his generation as he brings his extraordinary intelligence ...


The Physics of LifeThe Evolution of EverythingAdrian BejanThe Physics of Life explores the roots of the big question by examining the deepest urges and properties of living things, both animate and inanimate: how to live longer, with food, warmth, power, movement and free access to other ...


The Quaternary of SkyeColin K Ballantyne and J John LoweProduced to accompany the QRA Annual Field Meeting based in Portree, Isle of Skye, 20-23 May, 2016.

208 pages | colour photos, colour & b/w illustrations, colour & b/w maps, tables | Paperback | 05/2016 | 9780907780205 | #229786A | £35.99 Add to basket

The Surface Cartography of the Sun and the StarsJean-Pierre Rozelot and Coralie NeinerThe mapping of the surface of stars requires diverse skills, analysis techniques and advanced modeling, i.e. the collaboration of scientists in various specialties. The Surface Cartography of the Sun and the Stars gives insights ...

206 pages | 48 colour & 30 b/w illustrations, 20 colour tables | Paperback | 03/2016 | 9783319241494 | #229730A | £40.99 Add to basket

Sustainable Development

Collision CourseEndless Growth on a Finite PlanetKerryn HiggsThe notion of ever-expanding economic growth has been promoted so relentlessly that "growth" is now entrenched as the natural objective of collective human effort. The public has been convinced that growth is the natural solution ...

408 pages | 6 illustrations, 2 tables | Hardback | 09/2014 | 9780262027731 | #215350A | £22.95 Add to basketPaperback | NYP 09/2016 | 9780262529693 | #229819A | £14.95 Add to basket

Community Action for ConservationMexican ExperiencesLuciana Porter-Bolland, Isabel Ruiz-Mallen, Claudia Camacho-Benavides and Susannah R McCandlessThis book provides an in-depth analysis on community conservation in Mexico. The volume explores vivid examples and case studies that illustrate some of the critical issues at stake, including the participation of local communities in ...

250 pages | 12 colour & 9 b/w illustrations, 13 tables | Hardback | 11/2013 | 9781461479550 | #206628A | £126.00 Add to basketPaperback | 04/2016 | 9781489989314 | #229596A | £126.00 Add to basket

End GameTipping Point for Planet Earth?Anthony D Barnosky and Elizabeth A HadlyOverconsumption, population growth, dwindling resources, climate change, disease, contamination, storms, thirst, war... will the struggle to simply stay alive become humanity's future rather than its past? What happens when vast populations ...

264 pages | no illustrations | Hardback | 07/2015 | 9780007548156 | #223938A | £19.99 Add to basketPaperback | 07/2015 | 9780007575664 | #223939A | £14.99 Add to basketPaperback | NYP 07/2016 | 9780007548170 | #229821A | £9.99 Add to basket

Environmentalism of the RichPeter DauvergneOver the last fifty years, environmentalism has emerged as a clear counterforce to the environmental destruction caused by industrialization, colonialism, and globalization. Activists and policymakers have fought hard to make the earth ...


The God Delusion (10th Anniversary Edition)Richard Dawkins and Daniel C DennettThe God Delusion caused a sensation when it was published in 2006. Within weeks it became the most hotly debated topic, with Dawkins himself branded as either saint or sinner for presenting his hard-hitting, impassioned rebuttal ...


Thinking Like a MallEnvironmental Philosophy After the End of NatureSteven VogelEnvironmentalism, in theory and practice, is concerned with protecting nature. But if we have now reached "the end of nature," as Bill McKibben and other environmental thinkers have declared, what is there left to protect?

296 pages | 3 illustrations | Hardback | 06/2015 | 9780262029100 | #225710A | £21.95 Add to basketPaperback | NYP 09/2016 | 9780262529716 | #229820A | £17.95 Add to basket

What's So Controversial About Genetically Modified Food?John T LangThe rampant use of genetically modified food incites public debate among activists, ethicists, scientists, regulators, and industry representatives. While proponents portray genetic modification as scientific progress, opponents reframe ...





























Who's Afraid of Academic Freedom?Akeel Bilgrami and Jonathan R ColeIn these seventeen essays, distinguished senior scholars discuss the conceptual issues surrounding the idea of freedom of inquiry and scrutinize a variety of obstacles to such inquiry that they have encountered in their personal and professional ...

448 pages | Hardback | 03/2015 | 9780231168809 | #215352A | £25.99 Add to basketPaperback | NYP 09/2016 | 9780231168816 | #229634A | £19.99 Add to basket

Zoonoses: Animal Exposure and Human DiseaseDaniel S ShapiroGlobally, there are numerous infectious diseases, normally found in vertebrates other than humans, that have been documented to be transmitted to humans and cause human infections. These "zoonotic infections" are the topic of ...


Data Analysis

Discrete Data Analysis with RVisualization and Modeling Techniques for Categorical and Count DataMichael Friendly and David MeyerDiscrete Data Analysis with R: Visualization and Modeling Techniques for Categorical and Count Data presents an applied treatment of modern methods for the analysis of categorical data, both discrete response data and frequency ...

562 pages | 257 colour illustrations, 51 tables | Hardback | 02/2016 | 9781498725835 | #229604A | £63.99 Add to basket

Dynamical Biostatistical ModelsDaniel Commenges and Helene Jacqmin-GaddaDynamical Biostatistical Models presents statistical models and methods for the analysis of longitudinal data. The book focuses on models for analyzing repeated measures of quantitative and qualitative variables and events history ...

408 pages | 46 b/w illustrations, 34 tables | Hardback | 11/2015 | 9781498729673 | #229587A | £57.99 Add to basket

Linear Mixed-Effects Models Using RA Step-by-Step ApproachAndrzej Galecki and Tomasz BurzykowskiLinear mixed-effects models (LMMs) are an important class of statistical models that can be used to analyze correlated data. Such data are encountered in a variety of fields including biostatistics, public health, psychometrics, education ...

542 pages | 64 b/w illustrations, 47 tables | Paperback | 03/2015 | 9781489996671 | #229261A | £44.99 Add to basketHardback | 02/2013 | 9781461438991 | #229262A | £44.99 Add to basket

Spatial Point PatternsMethodology and Applications with RAdrian Baddeley, Ege Rubak and Rolf TurnerSpatial Point Patterns: Methodology and Applications with R shows scientific researchers and applied statisticians from a wide range of fields how to analyze their spatial point pattern data. Making the techniques accessible to ...

828 pages | 408 b/w illustrations, 63 tables | Hardback | 12/2015 | 9781482210200 | #229608A | £63.99 Add to basket

Reference

Better PresentationsA Guide for Scholars, Researchers, and WonksJonathan SchwabishWhether you are a university professor, researcher at a think tank, graduate student, or analyst at a private firm, chances are that at some point you have presented your work in front of an audience. Most of us approach this task by ...

272 pages | colour illustrations | Paperback | NYP 11/2016 | 9780231175210 | #229632A | £18.95 Add to basketHardback | NYP 11/2016 | 9780231175203 | #229633A | £55.99 Add to basket

Digital CurationA How-to-Do-it ManualGillian Oliver and Ross HarveyThis second edition of Digital Curation outlines the essential concepts and techniques that are crucial to preserving the longevity of digital resources. The first edition of Digital Curation provided in-depth ...


Libraries: A Design ManualNolan Lushington, Wolfgang Rudorf and Liliane WongLibraries as a building type have been subjected to substantial changes in particular in the past ten years. Milestones such as Rem Koolhaas' Seattle Central Library from 2004 reinvented the typology completely and reflected a developing ...

263 pages | colour & b/w photos and illustrations | Hardback | 11/2014 | 9783034608275 | #229294A | £105.00 Add to basket

The Death of ExpertiseTom NicholsIn recent years, a cult of anti-expertise has engulfed America. While the United States has long been prone to bouts of anti-intellectualism, because of far-reaching technological and social transformations the current variant is of a ...


The Scientist's Guide to WritingHow to Write More Easily and Effectively Throughout Your Scientific CareerStephen B HeardThe ability to write clearly is critical to any scientific career. The Scientist's Guide to Writing provides practical advice to help scientists become more effective writers so that their ideas have the greatest possible ...

320 pages | 17 tables | Paperback | 04/2016 | 9780691170220 | #229298A | £16.95 Add to basketPaperback | 05/2016 | 9780691170213 | #229299A | £44.95 Add to basket



























The Slow ProfessorChallenging the Culture of Speed in the AcademyMaggie Berg and Barbara K SeeberIf there is one sector of society that should be cultivating deep thought in itself and others, it is academia. Yet the corporatisation of the contemporary university has sped up the clock, demanding increased speed and efficiency from ...

115 pages | no illustrations | Hardback | 04/2016 | 9781442645561 | #229252A | £15.99 Add to basket



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