A Guide to the Mammals of China (Pocket Edition)

Andrew T Smith, Yan Xie and Federico Gemma

China's breathtaking diversity of natural habitats – from mountains and deserts to grasslands and lush tropical forests – is home to more than 10 per cent of the world's mammal species.

Aggression in Humans and Other Primates

Biology, Psychology, Sociology

Hans-Henning Kortum and Jurgen Heinze

In Aggression in Humans and Other Primates aggression and conflict in man and other primates are interpreted in the light of evolutionary biology and game theory models. Unitl now interdisciplinary collaboration between the human ... ....

Baleines et Autres Rorquals

Jean-Pierre Sylvestre

A monograph on whales, covering aspects of evolution, and ethology.

Beautiful Whale

Sylvia Earle and Bryant Austin

Photographer and conservationist Bryant Austin had long searched for an impactful way to inspire change in whaling nations. For many years, he searched for a way to photograph whales in the wild that would capture their awe inspiring ... ....

Caracals in India

The Forgotten Cats

Shekhar Srinivas Kolipaka, Babette de Jong and Anton Buijen

Caracals in India: The Forgotten Cats is a book to familiarize the reader with the caracal. Caracals in India: The Forgotten Cats contains numerous photographs and chapters on caracal distribution in India, behavioural ... ....

Chevaux Sauvages du Monde

Moira C Harris

French translation of Wild Horses of the World.

Encyclopedie des Chauves-Souris d'Europe et d'Afrique du Nord

Biologie, Caracteristiques, Protection

Christian Dietz, Dietmar Nill and Otto von Helversen

This is a French translation of Bats of Britain, Europe and Northwest Africa.

Endangered Otters in Coringa Wildlife Sanctuary, Andhra Pradesh, India

Madireddi V Subba Rao

This book looks at the endangered otter population in Coringa Wildlife Sanctuary, India.

Graumulle - Cryptomys und Fukomys (Mole Rats)

Unterirdisch Sozial Lebende Stachelschweinverwandte

Hynek Burda and Sabine Begall

Mole rats are African and related to porcupines. They are rodents that live underground in families. Unlike monogamous mammals, most offspring remain with their parents for life, do not propagate themselves, work for the good of the family ... ....

Guide des Carnivores du Monde

Luke Hunter and Priscilla Barrett

This is a French translation of A Field Guide to the Carnivores of the World.

Guide to Marine Mammals of Alaska

Kate Wynne and Pieter Folkens

The authoritative book on Alaska marine life, Guide to Marine Mammals of Alaska is a clear and concise look at all twenty-nine of Alaska's mammal species, including whales, dolphins, seals, walrus, and polar bears.

Guide to Marine Mammals of Alaska

Kate Wynne and Pieter Folkens

The authoritative book on Alaska marine life, Guide to Marine Mammals of Alaska is a clear and concise look at all twenty-nine of Alaska's mammal species, including whales, dolphins, seals, walrus, and polar bears.

Guide to the UK Cetaceans and Seals

Mark Simmonds and Lucy Molleson

Many large sea mammals, including whales, dolphins, porpoises and seals, can be seen around the UK's coast. Both their behaviour at sea and their body features, such as the shape of the tail and dorsal fin as they break the water surface ... ....

Indian Mammals

Checklist with Comments on Type Locality, Distribution, Conservation Status and Taxonomy

M. S. Pradhan and S. S. Talmale

Mammal Species of the World by Wilson & Reeder (2005) has become the current standard for mammalian taxonomy. However the additional information since 2005 coupled with the vast increase in taxonomic literature, has resulted in the need for ... ....

Lynx: Le Grand Retour?

Actes du Symposium International, Orleans, 17-19 October 2008

Rene Rosoux, Marie-des-Neiges de Bellefroid, Jacques Baillon and Annie Moreau

Lynx: Le Grand Retour? contains the proceedings of a conference held in Orléans, France, from 17-19 October 2008.

Narwhals

Arctic Whales in a Melting World

Todd McLeish

Among all the large whales on Earth, the most unusual and least studied is the narwhal, the northernmost whale on the planet and the one most threatened by global warming. Narwhals thrive in the fjords and inlets of northern Canada and ... ....

Reproduction in Wild Mammals

AS Abeyratne

The world has 1.324 million living species of vertebrate and invertebrate animals. Of these 1.212 million (96%) are invertebrates. The number of vertebrates therefore amount only 52,000. which is only 4% of the total animal population. ....

Savci Ceske Republiky (Mammals of the Czech Republic)

Popis, Rozsireni, Ekologie, Ochrana

Milos Andara and Jiri Gaisler

Provides a comprehensive overview of the Mammalian Fauna of the Czech Republic, including details on ...

The Age of Empathy

Nature's Lessons for a Kinder Society

Frans De Waal

Are we our brothers' keepers? Do we have an instinct for compassion? Or are we, as is often assumed, only on earth to serve our own survival and interests? In this thought-provoking book, the acclaimed author of "Our Inner Ape" ... ....

The Asian Elephants and Associated Human-Elephant Conflict in South-Eastern Bangladesh

Istiak Sobhan, Abdul Aziz and Niaz Ahmed Khan

The significance of the Asian elephants is now unequivocally established. The elephant is often popularly dubbed as a 'keystone; 'flagship; and 'umbrella' species as well as an important symbol of the planet's heritage ... ....

The Bonobo and the Atheist

In Search of Humanism Among the Primates

Frans de Waal

In this thoroughly engaging book, leading primatologist and thinker Frans de Waal offers a heartening, illuminating new perspective on human nature. Bringing together his pioneering research on primate behavior, the latest findings in ... ....

The Hidden Life of Wolves

Jim Dutcher, Jamie Dutcher and Robert Redford

Of all the animals caught in the crosshairs of environmental dilemmas, the wolf is the most challenging. Many people have strong feelings, in part because of the kinship of wolves with dogs, clearly visible in the array of photographs in ... ....

Tigers in the Mangroves

Research and Conservation of the Tiger in the Sundarbans of Bangladesh

M. Monirul H. Khan

Tigers of the Sundarbans are the only tigers that live in mangroves, yet they have the highest probability of persistence in the long-term if we can ensure their scientific management. This magnificent creature is the icon of the natural ... ....

Bird Conservation

Global Evidence for the Effects of Interventions

David R Williams, Robert G Pople, David A Showler, Lynn V Dicks, Matthew F Child and zu Ermgassen

Bird Conservation: Evidence for the Effects of Interventions brings together scientific evidence and experience relevant to the practical conservation of wild birds. The authors worked with an international group of ...

Bird Watching and Other Nature Observations

A Journal

Joy M Kiser

Extraordinary Victorian ornithological lithographs from the Smithsonian collection decorate this nature lover's journal. Light prompts invite readers to record impressions and sightings; snippets of birding lore are scattered through ... ....

Birds in Town and Village (Audiobook)

William Henry Hudson and Neville Jason

William Henry Hudson was a founding member of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB). Though born in Argentina, Hudson came to England in 1874, where he remained until his death in 1922. Absorbed by nature, and in particular ... ....

Birds of New Zealand Checklist

Brian O'Flaherty

New Zealand's unique birdlife, from the kiwi, kea, kaka and kokako of bush and hill to the many petrels, penguins and albatrosses of the coastal regions, is of immense interest to ornithologists worldwide, and this handy pocket-size ... ....

Birds of Norfolk (Region 2)

Rob Wilson, Jill Wilson and Kevan Brighting

Birds of Norfolk is one of the most beautiful films available from one of the world's most diverse natural habitats. Norfolk has an amazing array of wildlife and in this wonderful film, nature photographers, Rob and Jill ... ....

Birds of the Sierra Nevada

Their Natural History, Status, and Distribution

Edward C Beedy, Edward R Pandolfino and Keith Hansen

This beautifully illustrated and user-friendly book presents the most up-to-date information available about the natural histories of birds of the Sierra Nevada, the origins of their names, the habitats they prefer, how they communicate ... ....

Birdsong, Speech, and Language

Exploring the Evolution of Mind and Brain

Johan J Bolhuis, Martin Everaert, Robert C Berwick and Noam Chomsky

Scholars have long been captivated by the parallels between birdsong and human speech and language. In Birdsong, Speech, and Language, leading scholars draw on the latest research to explore what birdsong can tell us about the ... ....

Changes in the Structure of British Woodland Bird Communities Between the 1980s and 2003-04

An Analysis of Repeat Woodland Bird Survey Data

CM Hewson, RJ Fuller, A Amar and K Smith

This report summarises results obtained from repeat surveys on woodland birds in British woods between the 1980s and 2003/2004.

Cyprus Bird Report 2011

Colin Richardson, Stavros Christodoulides and Nigel Cottle

This report summarises the approximately 53,000 sightings recorded in the database of Birdlife Cyprus in 2011, collected by some 150 observers. These data were used to create graphs, tables, and charts to illustrate the status of the ... ....

Das Huhn

Geschichte, Biologie, Rassen

Joseph Barber

This is a German translation of The Chicken: A Natural History.

Der Schreiadler im Sturzflug

Erkenntnisse und Handlungsansatze im Schreiadlerschutz

A. Kinser and H. Muenchhausen

Proceedings of a Conference on the lesser spotted eagle Aquila pomarina, 29 September 2011 at the University of Potsdam.

Der Waldrapp - Geronticus eremita (Northern Bald Ibis)

Ein Glatzkopf in Turbulenzen

Christiane Bohm and Karin Pegoraro

This species, also known as the hermit ibis, is now confined to Morocco and Syria, and is on the verge of extinction. Der Waldrapp - Geronticus eremita deals with its biology, ecology and social structure, as well as its precarious ... ....

Developing Methods for the Field Survey and Monitoring of Breeding Short-eared Owls (Asio flammeus) in the UK

An Interim Report from Pilot Fieldwork in 2006 and 2007

John Calladine, Graeme Garner and Chris Wernham

The short-eared owl is listed on Annex 1 of the EU Wild Birds Directive and is a qualifying species for six classified Special Protection Areas in the UK. There is a need to determine the appropriate methodology for national surveys of ... ....

Field Guide to New Guinea Birds of the Hewa Territory

William Thomas, Tama Alulu and Randall FitzGerald

Field Guide to New Guinea Birds of the Hewa Territory aims to establish a common understanding of birds between the Hewa and western naturalists. It covers 184 species of birds found in this region and contains illustrations and ... ....

Guide Des Oiseaux De l'Afrique De l'Ouest

Nik Borrow and Ron Demey

This is a French translation of Birds of Western Africa.

Guide Peterson des Oiseaux de France et d'Europe

Roger Tony Peterson, Guy Mountfort, PAD Hollom and Paul Geroudet

New edition that directly replaces Guide des Oiseaux d'Europe.

Handmade Birdhouses and Feeders

35 Projects to Attract Birds into your Garden

Michele McKee-Orsini

This wonderful collection of handmade birdhouses and feeders will add decoration to any outdoor space, as well as attract garden birds. Watching birds in the garden is a real treat and providing food, water and safe places to nest will ... ....

Las Aves de la Laguna de Fuente de Piedra

Francisco Javier Molina Jimenez, Jose Maria Gonzalez Cachinero and Agustin Garcia Martinez

The lagoon of Fuente de Piedra is, with 1219 ha, the largest in Andalusia and the second in Spain after the Gallocanta (Zaragoza). It is located in the province of Málaga, 73 km north of the capital and close to the southeast of ... ....

Manual de Conservacion y Manejo del Habitat del Urogallo Pirenaico

Jordi Canut, Diego Garcia-Ferre and Ivan Alfonso Jordana

Manual de Conservación y Manejo del Hábitat del Urogallo Pirenaico, published by the Spanish national park authority MARM deals with the biology and conservation of the western capercaillie, Tetrao urogallus ... ....

Northern England Raptor Forum Annual Review 2011

Northern England Raptor Forum (NERF)

The Northern England Raptor Forum Annual Review 2011 provides a species by species account of the fortunes of 16 species of birds of prey, six species of owl and the common raven. This is the third such review published by NERF ... ....

Ornitologia Italiana Atlante Fotografico

Una Panoramica delle Piu Belle Immagini dei Fotografi Italiani

Pierandrea Brichetti

A photographic compendium to the series Ornitologia Italiana with over 600 unpublished colour photos of birds in their natural environment ...

Penguins

Natural History and Conservation

Pablo Garcia Borboroglu and P Dee Boersma

Penguins, among the most delightful creatures in the world, are also among the most vulnerable. The fragile status of most penguin populations today mirrors the troubled condition of the southern oceans, as well as larger marine conservation ... ....

Photographic Guide - Birds of the Pantanal / Guia Fotografico - Aves do Pantanal

Maria Antonietta Castro Pivatto, Giuliano Bernardon, Edson Endrigo, Betty Petersen and W Petersen

Photographic Guide - Birds of the Pantanal / Guia Fotográfico - Aves do Pantanal contains photographs of 455 species of birds present in the Pantanal region. The high quality of the images and the clear, informative texts ... ....

RSPB Birdwatching for Beginners

Rob Hume

A practical guide to observing, identifying and understanding birds. If you want to know what birds are likely to turn up in your garden or where to go to see spectacular bird-life, RSPB Birdwatching for Beginners is the best place ... ....

Rekorde der Vogelwelt

130 Extreme

Dominic Couzens

This is a German translation of Extreme Birds.

Sierra de las Nieves: Guia del Observador de Aves

Marta Onate Gutierrez and Juan Onate Garcia

This site guide contains a list of all 167 bird species that can be seen in the region Sierra de las Nieves in Málaga, Spain. Also included are itineraries for 14 routes specifically selected for birdwatching purposes.

Stokes Field Guide to Bird Songs: Eastern Region (4CD)

Donald W Stokes, Lillian Stokes, Lang Elliot and Kevin Colver

The Stokes Field Guide to Bird Songs: Eastern Region offers you the very best sound recordings available for the birds of eastern North America. It includes 372 species, that is more time per species, and more sounds per species ... ....

Stokes Field Guide to Bird Songs: Eastern and Western Box Set (9CD)

Donald W Stokes, Lillian Stokes, Lang Elliot and Kevin Colver

The vocal displays of over 648 birds are presented in this box set. All sounds are crisp audio files that will enrich birding experiences and give a lifetime of discovery and exploration of the language of birds.

Stokes Field Guide to Bird Songs: Western Region (5CD)

Donald W Stokes, Lillian Stokes, Lang Elliot and Kevin Colver

4 CDs and one MP3-CD. 551 species. Comprehensive and informative, each entry starts with the name of the bird, followed by its respective song and call. Reissued and repackaged, including a brand-new additional PDF and MP3 CD ...

Terns

David Cabot and Ian Nisbet

New Naturalist Terns provides a much-anticipated overview of these fascinating birds. Terns are small seabirds that are commonly seen along coastlines and estuaries in the summer months – their graceful ...

The Avian Migrant

The Biology of Bird Migration

John H Rappole

The purpose of migration, regardless of the distance involved, is to exploit two or more environments suitable for survival or reproduction over time, usually on a seasonal basis. Yet individual organisms can practice the phenomenon ... ....

The Birds of Africa (8-Volume Set)

C Hilary Fry, Emil K Urban, Stuart Keith, Roger Safford, Frank Hawkins, Martin Woodcock and Willis

The Birds of Africa contains the seven reprinted volumes of this magnificent series (please note that these do not contain new material) which were originally published between 1986-2004, plus the newly published volume 8, which ... ....

The Birds of Africa, Volume 6

Picathartes to Oxpeckers

C Hilary Fry, Stuart Keith, Emil K Urban, Martin Woodcock and Ian Willis

Christopher Helm has announced it will be reprinting The Birds of Africa, Volume 6: Picathartes to Oxpeckers, which was originally published in 2000.

The Birds of Africa, Volume 8

The Birds of The Malagasy Region

Roger Safford, Frank Hawkins, John Gale and Brian Small

This is the eighth and final volume in the authoritative Birds of Africa series. It covers the Malagasy region which comprises Madagascar and the various islands and archipelagos of the Indian Ocean including the Seychelles, the ... ....

The Common Birds of Simla

AE Jones and Somesh Goyal

Originally published in 1920 by Liddell's Printing Press, Simla. The Common Birds of Simla now carries 124 pictures, a new introduction and two bird lists compiled in 2011. It makes a very interesting read for enthusiastic ... ....

The Crossley ID Guide: Raptors

Richard Crossley, Jerry Liguori and Brian Sullivan

Part of the revolutionary Crossley ID Guide series, this is the first raptor guide with lifelike scenes composed from multiple photographs – scenes that allow you to identify raptors just as the experts do. Experienced birders use ... ....

The Warbler Guide

Tom Stephenson, Scott Whittle and Catherine Hamilton

Warblers are among the most challenging birds to identify. They exhibit an array of seasonal plumages and have distinctive yet oft-confused calls and songs. The Warbler Guide enables you to quickly identify any of the ...

Vogelarten Deutschlands, Oesterreichs und der Schweiz (2-Volume Set)

Carl'Antonio Balzari, Roland Graf, Thomas Griesohn-Pflieger, Andreas Gygax and Robert Lucke

A field guide to the birds of Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

Vogelarten Deutschlands, Oesterreichs und der Schweiz: Nicht-Singvogel

Carl'Antonio Balzari, Thomas Griesohn-Pflieger, Andreas Gygax, Robert Lucke and Roland Graf

A field guide to the non-passerines of Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

Vogelarten Deutschlands, Oesterreichs und der Schweiz: Singvogel

Carl'Antonio Balzari, Roland Graf, Thomas Griesohn-Pflieger, Andreas Gygax and Robert Lucke

A field guide to the passerines of Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

Vogelhochzeit

Von der Balz bis zum Nestbau

James Parry and Susanne Schmidt-Wussow

This is a German translation of The Mating Lives of Birds.

Waterbirds Breeding Bird Survey: Progress 1998-2009 and Long-term Population Trends

JH Marchant, MF Hulme and DG Noble

This report presents the latest long-term population trends in breeding waterbirds in Britain, incorporating data from 1998 to 2009.

Blue-Tongued Skinks

David C Wareham

Blue-Tongued Skinks is an essential reference work not only for anyone who might be considering keeping a blue tongued skink but for all those who already have this species in their collection. Written, wherever possible, in a ... ....

Der Amphibienhelfer

Amphibienschutz im Alltag

Michael Kempkes

Hardly any other group of animals suffers from the effects of human activities as amphibians. Habitat destruction, water contamination, traffic, environmentally damaging consumption patterns and climate change threaten their existence. ....

Die Geburtshelferkrote

Brutpflege ist Mannlich

Heiko Uthleb

Monograph on the Midwife Toad, notable for the male's exercise of parental care. Die Geburtshelferkröte describes in detail reproduction, and deals with the individual development from egg to mature animal, introduces a ... ....

Die Gelbbauchunke

Von der Suhle zur Radspur

Birgit Gollmann and Gunter Gollmann

The toad in Central Europe has become through the loss of their natural habitats, particularly the small and very small water bodies, an endangered species. They are found today primarily in man-made secondary habitats such as gravel and ... ....

Guidelines for the Management of Snake-bites

David A. Warrell

Snake-bites are well-known medical emergencies in many parts of the world, especially in rural areas. Agricultural workers and children are the most affected. The incidence of snake-bite mortality is particularly high in South-East Asia. ....

Reptiles and Amphibians of the Pacific Islands

A Comprehensive Guide

George R Zug

The Pacific is not only the world's largest body of water, but its vast expanse also includes an extraordinary number and diversity of oceanic islands, from Palau and the Marianas east of the Philippines to Cocos Island and the Galapagos ... ....

Serpentine

Mark Laita and William Vollmann

Photographer Mark Laita unveils a pantheon of surreal, twisted and beautiful snakes in this electrifying collection. Inciting both allure and alarm, rearing king cobras, shining pastel pythons and vibrant green vipers slither across the ... ....

Biology of Butterfly Fishes

Butterflyfishes (family Chaetodontidae) are a highly conspicuous component of fish fauna on coral reefs throughout the world. In light of their strong dependence on coral, they are often regarded as the epitome of coral reef fishes. ....

Britain's Freshwater Fishes

Mark Everard

Britain hosts a diversity of freshwater environments, from torrential hill streams and lowland rivers to lakes and reservoirs, ponds and canals, and ditches and estuaries. Britain's Freshwater Fishes covers more than ... ....

Der Flussbarsch - Perca fluviatilis

Biologie, Oekologie und fischereiliche Nutzung

Rainer Eckman and Diana Schleuter-Hofmann

The perch is in its entire range, which extends from Eurasia into eastern Siberia, is a prized food fish. The authors build on many years of study on perch and integrate current research in prestigious scientific institutions at home and ... ....

Ecology of North American Freshwater Fishes

Stephen T Ross

The North American freshwater fish fauna is the most diverse and thoroughly researched temperate fish fauna in the world. Ecology of North American Freshwater Fishes is the only textbook to provide advanced undergraduate and graduate ... ....

Fish Antifreeze Proteins

Kathryn Vanya Ewart

Antifreeze proteins enable organisms to avoid freezing under extreme conditions. The greatest diversity of known antifreeze proteins is in teleost fish and much work has gone into the understanding of these proteins and their application ... ....

A Swift Guide to the Butterflies of North America

Jeffrey Glassberg

This Swift Guide illustrates, with 3500 gorgeous full color photographs, all of the butterflies found in North America, including strays. For most species, both topsides and undersides, males and females, and variants are shown. ....

Bemisia

Bionomics and Management of a Global Pest

Philip A Stansly and Steven E Naranjo

Bemisia tabaci (Gennedius) has distinguished itself from the more than 1000 whitefly species in the world by its adaptability, persistence and potential to damage a wide range of agricultural and horticultural crops in all six ... ....

Butterflies of Indiana

A Field Guide

Jeffrey E Belth

This field guide to Indiana's rich butterfly fauna covers all 149 species of butterflies and their close relatives, the skippers. Over 500 colour photographs illustrate the undersides and uppersides of most species and highlight the ... ....

Butterflies of Thailand

Pisuth Ek-Amnuay and David Lohman

This is the completely revised and expanded edition of the original edition that sold out quickly. Butterflies of Thailand is well-organized and contains a wealth of information. Many of the butterflies described and illustrated ... ....

Cetoniimania, Volume 3

P Antoine, A Laforgue, JP Legrand and S Rojkoff

Ten papers on the cetonia beetles of Europe, Africa, Madagascar, China, Ecuador, Sumatra and Pakistan.

Cetoniimania, Volume 4

S Jakl, G Flutsch, JP Legrand and J Devecis

Four papers on the cetonia beetles of Asia and Madagascar.

Common Seashells of Britain and Ireland

Chris Shields

This laminated fold-out identification covers common seashells found around the British and Irish coast.

Crustacean Fauna of Taiwan

Brachyuran Crabs, Volume 1 - Carcinology in Taiwan and Dromiacea, Raninoida, Cyclodorippoida

Tin-Yam Chan, Peter KL Ng and Shane T Ahyong

This is the first volume of the Taiwan brachyuran crab catalog series and contains two parts. Part I gives an overview of the crab studies in Taiwan and the updated classification scheme for brachyuran crabs, with key to all the superfamilies ... ....

Crustacean Fauna of Taiwan

Crab-like Anomurans (Hippoidea, Lithodoidea and Porcellanidae)

Masayuki Osawa, Christopher B Boyko, Tin-Yam Chan, Shane T Ahyong and Enrique Macph

Crustacean Fauna of Taiwan: Crab-like Anomurans (Hippoidea, Lithodoidea and Porcellanidae) is divided into three chapters according to the different groups and by different authors. In total, 12 species in four genera of hippoid ... ....

Esperiana, Volume 16

Michael Fibiger 1945 - 2011

Barry Goater

Volume 16 contains 17 contributions to butterfly taxonomy. See table of contents for more details.

Esperiana, Volume 17

Revision of the tribe Nolini of Africa and the Western Palaearctic Region (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea, Noctuidae, Nolinae)

Hermann H Hacker, Hans-Peter Schreier and Barry Goater

The Nolini (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae sensu lato, Nolinae, Nolini) of Africa, Madagascar and the Western Palaearctic Region are reviewed and described. Their status and relationships are discussed in diagnoses of each genus, subgenus or species. ....

Grabwespen

Illustrierter Katalog der Einheimischen Arten

Manfred Bloesch

Grave wasps (Sphecoidea) have complex reproductive behavior, various building techniques, different hunting methods and forms of prey transport, nest closing, and defense against parasitoids. This illustrated catalog describes all 246 species ... ....

Guide des Araignees de France et d'Europe

Michael Roberts

This is an French translation of Collins Field Guide to the Spiders of Britain and Northern Europe.

Guide des Chenilles d'Europe

David Carter and Brian Hargreaves

This is a French translation of Collins Field Guide to Caterpillars of Britain and Europe.

Guide des Papillons d'Europe et d'Afrique du Nord

Tom Tolman, Richard Lewington and Patrice Leraut

This is a French translation of Collins Butterfly Guide.

Handbuch der Zoologie, Band 4/40: Coleoptera, Beetles, Volume 3

Morphology and Systematics (Phytophaga)

Richard AB Leschen and Rolf G Beutels

This book is the third volume in the Handbook of Zoology series which treats the systematics and biology of Coleoptera. With approximately 350,000 described species, Coleoptera are by far the most species-rich order of insects ... ....

Handbuch der Zoologie, Band 4: Nannomecoptera and Neomecoptera

Rolf G Beutel

Nannochoristidae (= Nannomecoptera) and Boreidae (= Neomecoptera) are traditionally assigned to the holometabolan order Mecoptera. Both are presently in the focus of insect systematists. They differ strikingly from the "typical" ... ....

Handbuch der Zoologie: Gastrotricha, Cycloneuralia and Gnathifera, Volume 1

Nematomorpha, Priapulida, Kinorhyncha, Loricifera

Andreas Schmidt-Rhaesa

This section of the Handbook of Zoology is intended as a comprehensive and exhaustive account of the biology of the taxa Gastrotricha, Nematoda, Nematomorpha, Priapulida, Kinorhyncha, Loricifera, Gnathostomulida, Micrognathozoa ... ....

Il Regno dei Nudibranchi

Guida ai molluschi opistobranchi della Riviera del Conero [Adriatic]

F. Betti

Il Regno dei Nudibranchi depicts and describes 58 species of opisthobranch mollusc.

New Records of Molluscs from Vietnam

Nguyen Ngoc Thach

New Records of Molluscs from Vietnam contains 427 pages presenting 903 marine gastropods, 228 marine bivalves, 157 land snails, 15 freshwater shells, 7 tusk shells, 3 cephalopods, 1 chiton. It furthermore contains photos of 48 ... ....

Odonata, Hemiptera, Hymenoptera and Other Insects of the Seychelles Islands

Justin Gerlach

The Seychelles islands are biogeographically interesting, with ancient affinities to Africa and Asia, recent colonizing species from the Indo-Pacific and modern introductions. Until recently, relatively little was known about the biodiversity ... ....

RES Handbook, Volume 5, Part 17d: True Weevils (Part III): Coleoptera: Curculioninae, Baridinae, Orobitidinae

MG Morris, RWJ Read and James Turner

This Handbook is the third, and final, part covering the 'true weevils'. Illustrated keys are provided for the identification of the genera and species of the Curculioninae (excluding Ellescini-Dorytomina, Cionini, Smicronychini ... ....

Rekorde der Insektenwelt

130 Extreme

Richard Jones

This is a German translation of Extreme Insects.

Research Materials of Butterflies in China

Contains 42 papers published in Chinese journals in recent years. See table of contents for more details.

Research Materials of Moths in China

Contains 60 papers published in Chinese journals in recent years. See table of contents for more details.

Rotifera XII

New Aspects in Rotifer Evolution, Genetics, Reproduction, Ecology and Biogeography

Norbert Walz, Rita Adrian, John J Gilbert, Michael T Monaghan, Guntram Weithoff and Zimmermann-Tim

Rotifera are a very common group of invertebrates and, therefore, play a considerable role in the food webs of plankton and benthos of lakes and rivers worldwide. Their ecological success is based on their distinct pattern of reproduction ... ....

Seashells of the Florida Panhandle

Linda Brunner, Jim Brunner and HG Lee

Since the founding of the Gulf Coast Shell Club in 1980 two of its primary goals have been the detailed cataloguing of the marine molluscs of the Florida Panhandle and educating the general public on the beauty and diversity of these shells ... ....

Shells of Antarctica

Winfried Engl

Since a long time this is the first comprehensive book on Antarctic Mollusca. The molluscan diversity in Antarctic waters is particularly large. Bivalvia are represented by 24 different families, comprising 40 genera and over 87 species. ....

Studies on Eumalacostraca

A Homage to Masatsune Takeda

H Komatsu, J Okuno and K Fukuoka

Studies on Eumalacostraca: A Homage to Masatsune Takeda honours an outstanding Japanese carcinologist, Masatsune Takeda (National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo, Japan), on the occasion of his 70th birthday.

Systematics of the Caligidae, Copepods Parasitic on Marine Fishes

M Dojiri and J-S Ho

Systematics of the Caligidae, Copepods Parasitic on Marine Fishes is a generic revision of the entire caligid family, which has not been reviewed and revised since its establishment in 1834 by Burmeister. It includes detailed ... ....

The Butterflies of Caucasus and Transcaucasia

Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Russian Federation

Vadim V Tshikolovets and Yuri Nekrutenko

The Butterflies of Caucasus and Transcaucasia consists of two parts. The first part is written by Vadim Tshikolovets and dedicated to the memory of Yuri Nekrutenko. The second part: "Geography" and "History: ... ....

The Crustacea, Complementary to the Volumes of the Traite de Zoologie, Volume 3

J Forest, JC von Vaupel Klein, FR Scrham and M Charmantier-Daures

This third volume of The Crustacea, revised and updated from the Traité de Zoologie contains chapters on: Neuroanatomy; Neurohormones; Embryology; and, Relative Growth and Allometry. The volume concludes with a ... ....

The Dragonflies of Hong Kong

Fisheries and Conservation Department Agriculture

Although Hong Kong is famous for its skyscrapers, this city has a rich and unique diversity of dragonflies. Since the first local dragonfly species, including two endemic species, has been recorded in Hong Kong. The dragonflies of Hong Kong ... ....

The Gregarines: The Early Branching Apicomplexa, Part 1

Isabelle Desportes and Joseph Schrevel

The phylum Apicomplexa is characterized by the unique cell organisation of the zoites, the infective stages of unicellular parasites previously designated as Sporozoa. Apicomplexa includes Coccidian and Hematozoa well known for human and ... ....

The Gregarines: The Early Branching Apicomplexa, Part 2

Isabelle Desportes and Joseph Schrevel

The phylum Apicomplexa is characterized by the unique cell organisation of the zoites, the infective stages of unicellular parasites previously designated as Sporozoa. Apicomplexa includes Coccidian and Hematozoa well known for human and ... ....

The Natural History of Insects

A Guide to the World of Arthropods, Covering Many Insect Orders, Including Beetles, Flies, Stick Insects, Dragonflies, A

Martin Walters

The Natural History of Insects offers a guide to the world of arthropods, covering many insect orders, including beetles, flies, stick insects, dragonflies, ants and wasps, as well as microscopic creatures. It provides a fascinating ... ....

The Search for the Giant Squid

Richard Ellis

The most mysterious and elusive of all sea creatures, the giant squid – at least sixty feet long and weighing nearly a ton – is also one of the largest. Yet for all its magnificent size and threatening undersea presence ... ....

ZooKeys 230: Revision, cladistic analysis and biogeography of Typhochlaena C. L. Koch, 1850,

Pachistopelma Pocock, 1901 and Iridopelma Pocock, 1901 (Araneae, Theraphosidae, Aviculariinae)

Rogerio Bertani

Three aviculariine genera endemic to Brazil are revised. Typhochlaena C. L. Koch, 1850 is resurrected, including five species; Pachistopelma Pocock, 1901 includes two species; and Iridopelma Pocock, 1901, six species ... ....

ZooKeys 240

New Australian stiletto flies: revision of Manestella Metz and description of Medomega gen. n. (Diptera, Therevidae, Aga

Shaun Winterton and Christine Lambkin

Australia has a rich and diverse fauna of endemic stiletto flies, with many species still awaiting discovery and description. Herein 14 new species in the genus Manestella Metz are described, along with another six species described ... ....

Zoology in the Middle East - Supplementum 4: Advances in Earthworm Taxonomy V (Annelida: Oligochaeta)

Proceedings of the 5th International Oligochaeta Taxonomy Meeting Beatenberg, Switzerland, 11-15 April, 2011.

Tomas Pavlicek, Patricia Cardet, Csaba Csuzdi, Renee-Claire Le Bayon and Jean-Michel Gobat

These proceedings contain 22 papers, see table of contents for more details.

Zoology in the Middle East, Volume 58

Chloropidae from the Arabian Peninsula (Diptera: Cyclorrhapha)

John C Deeming and Hathal M Al-Dhafer

A total of 119 named species, belonging to 48 genera are recorded from the Arabian Peninsula. Of these 21 species are described as new to science, being Scoliophthalmus cryptonevriformis, Elachiptera acanthellata ... ....

A Field Guide to Mesozoic Birds and Other Winged Dinosaurs

Matthew P Martyniuk

A Field Guide to Mesozoic Birds and Other Winged Dinosaurs, a new book written and illustrated by paleoartist Matthew P. Martyniuk, is a comprehensive guide to the diverse fossil species spanning the evolutionary transition from ... ....

Compendium of Florida Fossil Seashells, Volume 1

Middle Miocene to Late Pleistocene Marine Gastropods: Families Strombidae, Cypraeidae, Ovulidae, Eocypraeidae, Triviidae

Edward J Petuch and Mardie Drolshagen

The new compendium is designed as a six volume set, illustrating the Neogene molluscs of southern Florida and the Everglades region, from Tampa south to Florida Bay. Altogether, the six volumes illustrate over 2000 species of gastropods ... ....

Compendium of Florida Fossil Seashells, Volume 1 (Book + DVD-ROM)

Middle Miocene to Late Pleistocene Marine Gastropods: Families Strombidae, Cypraeidae, Ovulidae, Eocypraeidae, Triviidae

Edward J Petuch and Mardie Drolshagen

The new compendium is designed as a six volume set, illustrating the Neogene molluscs of southern Florida and the Everglades region, from Tampa south to Florida Bay. Altogether, the six volumes illustrate over 2000 species of gastropods ... ....

Echinoidea from Portugal Mainland

P Pereira

The Portuguese Neogene echinoid fauna is reviewed in order to establish a taxonomically standardised echinoid database. 41 taxa, including one new genus and new species, from the Burdigalian and Middle Miocene of the Lower Tagus Basin and ... ....

Fossil Fruits and Seeds of the Middle Eocene Messel Biota, Germany

Margaret E Collinson, Steven R Manchester and Volker Wilde

The oil shale of the Middle Eocene Messel Formation as exposed in the Messel Pit near Darmstadt, Hessen, Germany, is a famous and widely known source for extremely well preserved fossils documenting a wealth of terrestrial biota.

Fossil Mammals of Asia

Neogene Biostratigraphy and Chronology

Xiaoming Wang, Lawrence J Flynn and Mikael Fortelius

The first textbook devoted to the late Cenozoic (Neogene) mammalian biostratigraphy and geochronology of Asia, Fossil Mammals of Asia: Neogene Biostratigraphy and Chronology deploys cutting edge biostratigraphical and geochemical ... ....

Fossils

A Photographic Field Guide

Chris Pellant and Helen Pellant

A new, reformatted and updated edition of this popular title which is suitable for experts and armchair enthusiasts alike. Fossils: A Photographic Field Guide will appeal to anyone interested in uncovering the many mysteries of ... ....

Humans and the Environment

New Archaeological Perspectives for the Twenty-First Century

Matthew IJ Davies and Freda Nkirote M'Mbogori

The environment has always been a central concept for archaeologists and, although it has been conceived in many ways, its role in archaeological explanation has fluctuated from a mere backdrop to human action, to a primary factor in the ... ....

Neogene Paleontology of the Northern Dominican Republic. 24

Propeamussiidae and Pectinidae (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Pectinoidea) of the Cibao Valley

Thomas R Waller

Based on approximately 25,000 specimens from the Miocene and Pliocene of the Cibao Valley, northern Dominican Republic, the bivalve family Propeamussiidae is represented by two genera and four species, including two new species.

Paleontological Fossils of Gansu Province

Han Bowen

Paleontological Fossils of Gansu Province provides an overview of fossils from different eras in the Gansu Province in the northwest of China.

Petit Atlas des Dinosaures et Autres Animaux Prehistoriques

50 Especes Remarquables

Vincent Albouy

A pocket guide to 50 remarkable dinosaurs and other prehistoric animal species.

Pterosaurs

Natural History, Evolution, Anatomy

Mark P Witton

For 150 million years, the skies didn't belong to birds – they belonged to the pterosaurs. These flying reptiles, which include the pterodactyls, shared the world with the nonavian dinosaurs until their extinction 65 million years ... ....

The Lost World of Fossil Lake

Snapshots from Deep Time

Lance Grande and John Weinstein

The landscape of southwestern Wyoming around the ghost town of Fossil is beautiful but harsh; a dry, high mountain desert with cool nights and long, cold winters inhabited by a sparse mountain desert community. But during the early Eocene ... ....

Guide des Fonds Marins de Mediterranee

Henry Augier

A field guide to the life forms found on the Mediterranean seabed, covering more than 300 algae species and more than 600 animal species.

Stung!

On Jellyfish Blooms and the Future of the Ocean

Lisa-ann Gershwin

Our oceans are becoming increasingly inhospitable to life – growing toxicity and rising temperatures coupled with overfishing have led many marine species to the brink of collapse. And yet there is one creature that is thriving ... ....

The Biology of Reefs and Reef Organisms

Reefs provide a wealth of opportunity for learning about biological and ecosystem processes, and reef biology courses are among the most popular in marine biology and zoology departments the world over. Walter M. Goldberg has taught one ... ....

An Illustrated Guide to the Animals of America

A Visual Encyclopedia of Amphibians, Reptiles and Mammals in the United States, Canada and South America

Tom Jackson

This is a visual encyclopedia of amphibians, reptiles and mammals in the United States, Canada and South America, with over 350 illustrations. It is a fascinating encyclopedia for all the family about the astonishing animal kingdom of ... ....

An Inordinate Fondness for Beetles

Campfire Conversations with Alfred Russell Wallace on People and Nature Based on Common Travel in the Malay Archipelago

Paul Spencer Sochaczewski

Campfire conversations with Alfred Russel Wallace on people and nature based on his travel in the Malay archipelago: the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise. Part travelogue, part biography, An Inordinate Fondness for Beetles ... ....

Before Galileo

The Birth of Modern Science in Medieval Europe

John Freely

Histories of modern science often begin with the heroic battle between Galileo and the Catholic Church, which sparked the Scientific Revolution and led to the world-changing discoveries of Isaac Newton. In reality, more than a millennium ... ....

Brazilian Adventure

A Quest into the Heart of the Amazon

Peter Fleming and Giles Foden

In the summer of 1925 Colonel Fawcett – soldier, spy and legendary explorer – embarked on a journey into the dark and uncharted heart of Brazil in search of the lost 'City of Z'. He was never seen again.

Freeze Frame

A Wildlife Cameraman's Adventures on Ice

Doug Allan and David Attenborough

Have you ever been watching one of the BBC’s groundbreaking wildlife documentaries and thought “How did he get that shot?!” – well now you can find out the incredible stories behind the images in ...

From Taxonomy to Phylogenetics

Life and Work of Willi Hennig

Michael Schmitt

Biological Systematics has changed dramatically during the past 60 years from a handicraft or art to an accepted branch of science proper, due to the work of Willi Hennig, who was born in 1913. The scientific method of reconstructing ... ....

Giant Squid

Searching for a Sea Monster

Though yet to be observed in its natural environment, the giant squid (and its heavier Antarctic cousin, the colossal squid) is slowly giving up its secrets thanks to Clyde Roper, one of the world's leading teuthologists.

Great Adventures

Experience the World at its Breathtaking Best

Lonely Planet Publications

Contains the world's most thrilling adventures in 9 themed chapters; Hike, Dive, Bike, Above & Below, Climb, Ice & Snow, Animals, Water and Drive. The British experiences which feature in Great Adventures ...

Handbook of Plant Forms for Botanical Artists

Ernest E Clark and Margaret Stevens

A classic text from the turn of the 20th century, by Ernest E. Clark, has been heavily revised and expanded by the former president of the Society of Botanical Artists to produce a stunning handbook of a range of plants.

John Latham

Surgeon, Ornithologist and Antiquary - Romsey's First Historian

Mary Thornton Howard

John Latham published a listing of all the known birds of the world in his General Synopsis of Birds – the first such undertaking in Britain for many years – and later added to it an Index Ornithologicus ... ....

Letters to a Young Scientist

Edward O Wilson

Inspired by Rainer Maria Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet, Edward O. Wilson has distilled sixty years of teaching into a book for students, young and old. Wilson threads these twenty-one letters, each richly illustrated, with ... ....

Life in the Wild

The Children's Encyclopedia of Animals

Michael Chinery

Life in the Wild: The Children's Encyclopedia of Animals helps you discover the amazing world of big cats, birds of prey, crocodiles, elephants, insects, spiders, snakes, wild dogs, and many others. You can explore animal ... ....

Mariposa Road

The First Butterfly Big Year

Robert Michael Pyle

With a love for adventure as great as his lifelong fascination with butterflies, America's best-known lepidopterist set himself an irresistible challenge: how many of the 800 species of butterflies known in the U.S. could he track ... ....

National Trail Guide: Cotswold Way

Anthony Burton

Following the limestone escarpment on the Western edge of the Cotswolds, the 102 miles of the Cotswold Way take the walker through a quintessentially English landscape as varied as it is beautiful. Starting and finishing among the golden ... ....

National Trail Guide: Hadrian's Wall Path

Follow the Roman Wall from Coast to Coast

Anthony Burton

Since it opened in 2003 Hadrian's Wall Path has become one of Britain's most popular long-distance paths. Its 84 miles are a convenient week's walking, shadowing for the most part the historic line of Hadrian's Wall in ... ....

National Trail Guide: Peddar's Way and Norfolk Coast Path

90 Miles from Breckland to Salt Marsh and Sea Cliffs

Bruce Robinson and Mike Robinson

Running 93 miles from the heathland and forest on the Norfolk-Suffolk border, via stunning sandy beaches, picturesque villages and wild, empty salt marsh to the traditional seaside resort of Cromer on the north Norfolk coast, the Peddars ... ....

National Trail Guide: Pennine Way

Damian Hall

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

Northern Exposures

An Adventuring Career in Stories and Images

Jonathan Waterman

North of the sixtieth parallel, the sun shines for less than six hours in the winter, and towering mountains are the only skyscrapers. Pristine waters serve caribou, moose, and bears in an unbroken landscape. At any given moment in this ... ....

RSPB The Great British Wildlife Hunt

Anne Harrap

A first sighting of an unexpected bird or an elusive mammal is a real thrill and can encourage a lifetime's interest in nature. This new RSPB book is perfect for anyone who enjoys a walk in the woods or a coastal stroll.

Raffles

And the Golden Opportunity

Victoria Glendinning

Thomas Stamford Raffles (1781-1826) was the charismatic and persuasive founder of Singapore and Governor of Java. An English adventurer, disobedient employee of the East India Company, utopian imperialist, linguist, zoologist and civil ... ....

The Best of Getaway Gallery

Ewart Smith Cameron

The Best of Getaway gallery is a celebration of the photographers who constantly brave hot and cold, rain and shine, early mornings and late nights to capture the unbelievable pictures that are submitted to Getaway magazine ... ....

The Breathless Zoo

Taxidermy and the Cultures of Longing

Rachel Poliquin

From sixteenth-century cabinets of wonders to contemporary animal art, The Breathless Zoo: Taxidermy and the Culture of Longing examines the cultural and poetic history of preserving animals in lively postures.

The Flower of Empire

The Amazon's Largest Water Lily, the Quest to Make it Bloom, and the World it Helped Create

Tatiana Holway

In 1837, a German naturalist named Robert Schomburgk was charting the South American terrirtory of Guiana on behalf of the Royal Geographical Society. Guiana, only recently joined to the British Empire, was almost uncharted, and knowledge ... ....

The Last Rhinos

The Powerful Story of One Man's Battle to Save a Species

Anthony Lawrence and Graham Spence

Lawrence Anthony's South African game reserve is home to many animals he has saved, from a remarkable herd of elephants to a badly behaved bushbaby called George. Described as 'the Indiana Jones of conservation', when one of ... ....

The Long, Wild Shore

Bird and Seal Seasons on Blakeney Point

James McCallum

James McCallum's latest book The Long, Wild Shore explores the seasons on the North Norfolk coast. It uses the famous landmark of Blakeney Point as its focus – a place steeped in history and renowned for its colonies ... ....

The Plant Hunters

True Stories of Their Daring Adventures to the Far Corners of the Earth

Anita Silvey

Driven by an all-consuming passion, the plant hunters traveled around the world, facing challenges at every turn: tropical illnesses, extreme terrain, and dangerous animals. They battled piranhas, tigers, and vampire bats.

The Scramble for the Amazon and the Lost Paradise of Euclides Da Cunha

Susanna B Hecht

The fortunes of the late nineteenth century's imperial and industrial powers depended on a single raw material – rubber – with only one source: the Amazon basin. And so began the scramble for the Amazon, a decades-long ... ....

Tiger Warrior

Fateh Singh Rathore of Ranthambhore

Fateh Singh Rathore devoted the better part of his life to making Ranthambhore National Park a safe haven for the tiger population to live and grow in. He was intolerant of red tape and led a tireless crusade against poachers.

Traces d'Animaux

100 Vertebres dans Votre Poche

Jacques Morel

A field guide to tracks of European vertebrates (7 amphibians, 1 reptile, 45 birds and 47 mammals) Summary in French:
Traces d'Animaux présente les traces de 100 espèces de vertébré ... ....

Trout of the World

James Prosek

First released in 2003, Trout of the World features original watercolours from around the world, ranging from the Oxus trout of eastern Afghanistan to the small golden brown trout of British chalk streams. James Prosek has dedicated ... ....

Westcott's Plant Disease Handbook

R Kenneth Horst

Westcott's Plant Disease Handbook is a reference book on diseases which attack plants. Diseases of plants are found on most all plants including trees, shrubs, grasses, forage, fruits, vegetables, garden and greenhouse .. ....

101 Best Australian Beaches

Andrew D Short and Brad Farmer

Which Australian beach is made entirely of shells, millions of them, several metres deep? Which beach has the biggest waves? Where is the world's biggest sand dune? Where do loggerhead turtles come to lay their eggs?

A Field Guide to the Tracks & Signs of Southern, Central & East African Wildlife

Chris Stuart and Mathilde Stuart

Originally published in 1994, A Field Guide to the Tracks & Signs of Southern and East African Wildlife quickly became the standard reference to the subject in the region, reprinting many times.

Absolutely Barking

Adventures in Dog Ownership

Michele Hanson

The world of dog ownership in Britain has always attracted a good number of enthusiasts – some would say eccentrics – who are passionate about their pets. Whereas in previous decades owners had only dog obedience classes and ... ....

Africa: Eye to Eye with the Unknown (Region 2 & 4)

David Attenborough

This is the world’s wildest continent as you’ve never seen it before – an intense sensory adventure from the Atlas Mountains, through the Savannah lands to the Cape of Good Hope and from the Roof of Africa and the Kalahari ... ....

Aiguamolls de l'Emporda

Naturschutze an der Costa Brava

Ingo Seehafer

The Parc Natural dels Aiguamolls de l'Empordà is a natural park in Catalonia, Spain. It forms part of the Bay of Rosesand, like the Ebro Delta, was a malarial swampland. The marshland lies between the Rivers Fluvià and ... ....

An American River

Mary Bruno

New Jersey's Passaic River rises in a pristine wetland and ends in a federal Superfund site. In An American River, author and New Jersey native Mary Bruno kayaks its length in an effort to discover what happened to her ... ....

Biodiversity Documentation for Kerala (12-Volume Set)

PS Easa

Contains 12 volumes: pt. 1. Algae, pt. 2. Microorganisms (fungi), pt. 3. Lichens, pt. 4. Bryophytes, pt. 5. Pteridrophytes, pt. 6. Flowering plants, pt. 7. Insects, pt. 8. Freshwater Fishes, pt. 9. Amphibians, pt. 10. Reptiles, pt. 11. ... ....

Bradt Travel Guide: Sudan

Sophie Ibbotson and Max Lovell-Hoare

This third edition is the only stand-alone guide to Sudan with practical information on getting around a country where the travelling is rugged but the rewards immense. As the largest country in Africa, Sudan is vast, often described by ... ....

Collins Where to See Wildlife in Britain and Ireland

Over 800 Best Wildlife Sites in the British Isles

Christopher Somerville

Have you ever wondered where the best places to go are to see leaping salmon, rutting deer, diving gannets, breaching whales or bluebell woods in full bloom? The British Isles are home to some of the richest and most varied wildlife to ... ....

Field Notes From a Hidden City

An Urban Nature Diary

Esther Woolfson

Field Notes From a Hidden City is set against the background of the austere, grey and beautiful northeast Scottish city of Aberdeen. In it, Esther Woolfson examines the elements – geographic, atmospheric and environmental ... ....

Getaway Guide to the Kruger National Park

Cameron Ewart-Smith

Whether you are an old Kruger salt, or a first-time visitor, this is an invaluable companion. Regular visitors will benefit from the detailed route descriptions and the most up-to-date information about this changing trans-frontier park ... ....

Helgoland

Europas Galapagos

Ingo Seehafer

Heligoland with its two small islands lies 60 kilometers from the German mainland and has a similarly large variety of species varieties as the Galapagos Islands. The insularity and lack of natural enemies on Helgoland has contributed to ... ....

I Vertebrati della Collezione A Venchieruttu - Museoi Naturalistico F Mina Palumbo di Caselbuono

A. Catalisano and F. Lo Valvo

Describes a collection (mainly birds) donated to Museo Min… Palumbo, Castelbuono, Italy.

Ireland's Coast

Carsten Krieger

In Ireland you are never far away from the border between land and sea and the coast is an integral part of the country. It is a place of natural beauty and vibrant history. Carsten Krieger takes the reader, chapter by chapter, through a ... ....

Le Guide de la Foret pour Tous

Le Milieu, la Faune, la Flore, 500 Especes des Forets d'Europe

Eva Dreyer and Wolfgang Dreyer

A guide to some 500 species of flora and fauna found in European forests.

Lonely Planet Travel Guide: Bali and Lombok

Ryan ver Berkmoes

Welcome to Bali & Lombok, a Place Like No Other. The mere mention of ‘Bali’ evokes thoughts of a paradise. It’s more than a place: it’s a mood, an aspiration, a tropical state of mind.

Lonely Planet Travel Guide: Belgium & Luxembourg

Mark Elliott

When it comes to the good things in life, Belgium and Luxembourg don't hold back. Seek out the perfect mussels and twice-crisped frites, explore a gallery of surrealist art, cycle and hike in the Ardennes and undertake a systematic ... ....

Lonely Planet Travel Guide: Bolivia

Greg Benchwick

Bolivia is a Lonely Planet specialty! Lose yourself among blinding-white salt flats, creep through the jungle seeking wildlife, shop in a bustling indigenous market and explore exquisite colonial cities. Adventure awaits - let us take you ... ....

Lonely Planet Travel Guide: Borneo

Daniel Robinson

Wild orangutans swing through jungle canopies, Irrawaddy dolphins play in the shimmering waters of the South China Sea and saltwater crocs watch boats gliding down the river in search of Dayak longhouses.

Lonely Planet Travel Guide: Botswana & Namibia

Alan Murphy

This is the only guidebook to comprehensively cover both Botswana and Namibia. The expert author has lived with Bushman and given a Harvard University dissertation on these tribal communities. It contains special sections to get to know ... ....

Lonely Planet Travel Guide: Central Australia - Adelaide to Darwin

Meg Worby and Charles Rawlings-Way

Lonely Planet Travel Guide: China

Damian Harper

This new edition of the most comprehensive guide to China available, features brand new chapters on visiting the Great Wall and travelling around by train, extensively updated post-earthquake coverage of Sichuan and a colour ... ....

Lonely Planet Travel Guide: Croatia

Anja Mutic

Croatia’s rare blend of glamour and old-fashioned authenticity make this Europe’s ‘it’ destination, where beaches and sunshine vie for attention with cultural treasures, ancient architecture and timetested folk tradition ... ....

Lonely Planet Travel Guide: England

David Else

Tower Bridge, Buckingham Palace, Manchester United, The Beatles. England does icons like no other place on earth, and travel here is a fascinating mix of famous names and hidden gems.

Lonely Planet Travel Guide: Ethiopia, Djibouti & Somaliland

Jean-Bernard Carillet

Please note: previous editions were known as Lonely Planet Travel Guides: Ethiopia & Eritrea - The only guidebook to include the entire region: Ethiopia, as well as Djibouti and Somaliland ...

Lonely Planet Travel Guide: Great Britain

David Else

Edinburgh Castle, Buckingham Palace, Stonehenge, Snowdon, Manchester United, The Beatles - Great Britain does icons like no other place on earth, and travel here is a fascinating mix of famous names and hidden gems.

Lonely Planet Travel Guide: Hungary

Steve Fallon

In addition to essential travel information for a range of budgets, including guidance to Hungary's modern cities, this guide provides details on outdoor activities, such as cycling, hiking and horse-riding.

Lonely Planet Travel Guide: Iceland

Brandon Presser

Iceland is a magical destination. Discover the otherworldly beauty of the Snaefellsnes Peninsula, chat with locals while bathing in Mývatn's geothermal pool, walk over lava fields and past glaciers on the Landmannalaugar to ... ....

Lonely Planet Travel Guide: Indonesia

Ryan ver Berkmoes

This is the only complete guide to Indonesia on the market. With a Lonely Planet guidebook you'll get the best out of your Indonesian trip. Our 10th edition of Indonesia will take you to the best beaches and bars in Bali, through ... ....

Lonely Planet Travel Guide: Malaysia, Singapore & Brunei

Simon Richmond

Lonely Planet has been the guidebook of choice for Malaysia, Singapore & Brunei for 28 years. We know where to find the most authentic longhouses in Sarawak, the most idyllic beaches in Langkawi, the best places for a shopping spree ... ....

Lonely Planet Travel Guide: Perth and West Coast Australia

Brett Atkinson

- The best-selling guidebook to this region
- Featuring expanded coverage of the Kimberley and Gibb River Road
- Full colour sheet map of Perth ...

Lonely Planet Travel Guide: Peru

Carolyn McCarthy

- The world's best-selling guidebook to this high-growth tourist destination
- 3D illustration of Machu Picchu and a planning chapter on hiking the Inca Trail
- Includes coverage of the Chachapoyas area ...

Lonely Planet Travel Guide: Romania & Bulgaria

Mark Baker

- The only guide on the market to combine Romania and Bulgaria in one book
- Themed features on the Dracula Myth, Bulgarian Wine and more
- Full colour planning sections to maximise your trip ...

Lonely Planet Travel Guide: Scotland

Neil Wilson

- 3D illustrations of Stirling Castle, the Royal Mile and Rosslyn Chapel
- Essential practical information on enjoying outdoor Scotland
- Full colour throughout with puil-out map of Edinburgh

Lonely Planet Travel Guide: Slovenia

Mark Baker

- Colour feature on outdoor activities and spas – both major attractions for this ever-growing tourist destination
- New colour planning section
- Practical information to help plan the ascent of Mt Triglav

Lonely Planet Travel Guide: Southern Africa

Alan Murphy

- The only guidebook to cover the entire region; includes Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland. Zambia and Zimbabwe
- Invaluable tips on safari planning and a dedicated chapter on Victoria Falls

Lonely Planet Travel Guide: Spain

Anthony Ham

- 3D illustrations of Museo del Prado, La Sagrada Familia, Seville Cathedral, The Alhambra and more
- Expanded Travel with Children feature
- Full colour throughout with pull-out map of Barcelona

Lonely Planet Travel Guide: The Netherlands

Ryan ver Berkmoes

- Features an in-depth planning section to this ever-popular European destination
- includes a colour section on cycling in the Netherlands
- Full colour, pull-out map of Amsterdam

Lonely Planet Travel Guide: Turkey

James Bainbridge

- World's best-selling guide to Turkey
- 3D illustrations of Aya Sofya, Topkapi Palace and Ephesus, and colour features on the best ancient ruins and beaches
- • Full colour pull-out map of Istanbul

Lonely Planet Travel Guide: Zambia, Mozambique & Malawi

Mary Fitzpatrick

- Comprehensive planning tools cover the practicalities of travelling in Africa
- includes Mozambique and the idyllic Indian Ocean coastline
- A dedicaticated chapter on Victoria Falls

Namibia

A Visual Tour Through Its Regions

Thomas Dressler

Namibia: A Visual Tour Through Its Regions offers an inspirational meander through a country of remarkable contrasts, a land of towering red dunes, a rugged and wild coast, and an extraordinarily diverse wildlife, many of which ... ....

Natural History of Rangitoto Island

Mike D Wilcox and Ewen Cameron

Rangitoto is the fourth largest island in the Hauraki Gulf, which contains some 425 reefs, islets and islands. Many special characters set Rangitoto apart: plants growing directly on the rough lava and the vegetation being very little ... ....

Never Look a Polar Bear in the Eye

A Family Field Trip to the Arctic's Edge in Search of Adventure, Truth, and Mini-Marshmallows

Zac Unger

Unlike some small towns that gradually peter out into the wilderness, this one just ends. On the west edge of town sits the Iceberg Tavern; behind it there's a steel-mesh garbage cage, rusted by the salt air and battered by encounters ... ....

Nuvuk, the Northernmost

Altered Land, Altered Lives in Barrow, Alaska

Daniel James Inulak Lum

For years, tour guide Daniel James Inulak Lum has brought visitors as well as his children out to the remote corners of Barrow, Alaska, one of the northernmost cities in the world, to witness polar bears and walrus on the dark, sandy ... ....

Precious and Rare Wildlife in the Qinghai Tibet Plateau

Zhao Liangye

The book covers  40 mammal species, 157 bird species, 34 reptile species, 32 amphibian species and 43 fish species and gives accounts of their ecological and feeding habits, breeding ecology, conservation status, geographic distribution ... ....

River of Contrasts

The Texas Colorado

Margie Crisp

Writer and artist Margie Crisp has traveled the length of Texas' Colorado River, which rises in Dawson County, south of Lubbock, and flows 860 miles southeast across the state to its mouth on the Gulf of Mexico at Matagorda Bay. ....

Springwatch Unsprung

All your wildlife questions answered

Jo Stevens and The Springwatch Team

Which birds have the most air miles? Are adders born venomous? Springwatch Unsprung brings together all the most-asked questions from the surprise hit BBC 2 TV spin-off of the same name.

Suffolk's Wildlife Coast

A Guide to the RSPB Nature Reserves in Suffolk

Malcolm Key, John Grant, Jenny James, Mike Clarke and Paul Forecast

There are many reasons why people choose to live in or visit Suffolk but the wildlife may well be one of them. This is found in abundance in the RSPB's chain of coastal nature reserves, running from Dingle Marshes in the north, to ... ....

The Big Lakes of Lakeland

Alan R Smith

A simple, easy-to-read guide to the 17 big lakes of the English Lake District: Windermere, Ullswater, Derwent Water, Bassenthwaite Lake, Haweswater, Thirlmere, Ennerdale Water, West Water, Crummock Water, Esthwaite Water, Buttermere ... ....

The Natural Heritage of Jammu-Kashmir-Ladakh

Wildlife, Forests, Flora, Rivers, Lakes

Parvez Dewan

If anyone has the best knowledge of this region, it is Parvez Dewan, who has spent years in india's northernmost state, administering and adventuring his way around its valleys, peaks and rivers.

The Republic of Nature

An Environmental History of the United States

Mark Fiege

In the dramatic narratives that comprise The Republic of Nature, Mark Fiege reframes the canonical account of American history based on the simple but radical premise that nothing in the nation's past can be considered apart ... ....

Uttarakhand Nature Handbook

A Guide for Naturalists, Eco-tourists and Students

Sanjay Sondhi

Uttarakhand Nature Handbook contains simple descriptions along with sketches and coloured photographs of nearly 325 species of wild animals and trees found in Uttarakhand. This includes 53 mammal species, 106 bird species ... ....

What the River Carries

Encounters with the Mississippi, Missouri, and Platte

Lisa Knopp

In this informed and lyrical collection of interwoven essays, Lisa Knopp explores the physical and cultural geography of the Mississippi, Missouri, and Platte, rivers she has come to understand and cherish. At the same time, she contemplates ... ....

Wildlife of Australia

Iain Campbell and Sam Woods

Ideal for the nature-loving traveler, Wildlife of Australia is a handy photographic pocket guide to the most widely seen birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, and habitats of Australia.

Yellowstone Wildlife

The Ecology and Natural History of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem

Paul A Johnsgard and Thomas D Mangelsen

Yellowstone Wildlife is a natural history of the wildlife species that call Yellowstone National Park and the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem their home. Illustrated with stunning images by renowned wildlife photographer ... ....

A Photographic Field Guide to Trees of Britain and Europe

Bob Press and David Hosking

A new and updated edition of this classic New Holland title. It is a comprehensive and lavishly illustrated field guide which helps the reader to identify more than 450 species of trees, both native and naturalized, including nearly all ... ....

A Photographic Field Guide to Wild Flowers of Britain and Europe

Bob Press and Bob Gibbons

A new and updated edition of this classic New Holland title. It is a comprehensive and lavishly illustrated field guide which helps the reader to identify more than 1200 species of wild flowers which can be found in Britain and the rest ... ....

A Rich Spot of Earth

Thomas Jefferson's Revolutionary Garden at Monticello

Peter J. Hatch and Alice Waters

Were Thomas Jefferson to walk the grounds of Monticello today, he would no doubt feel fully at home in the 1000-foot terraced vegetable garden where the very vegetables and herbs he favoured are thriving. Extensively and painstakingly ... ....

Algal Diversity in the River Ecosystems of the Eastern Mediterranean

Sophia Barinova

Rivers in the Eastern Mediterranean, Israel in particular, are small and located mostly in the coastal plane. In the first step of ecosystem assessment, 671 species of algae and cyanobacteria belonging to nine taxonomic divisions were ... ....

Aller aux Champignons

Christine Schneider

Vous souhaitez vous lancer afin de déguster votre propre cueillette de champignons ? Ce petit guide illustré vous initie pas à pas à cette pratique. Il vous apprend à identifier, sans risques ...

An Account of the Sempervivum Group

R Lloyd Praeger

A reprint of Praeger's classic 1932 work, which provides a systematic description of the Sempervivum-group (Crassulaceae) in order to resolve the confused state of Sempervivum in our gardens and horticultural books. ....

Arbres

Une Encyclopedie

Hugh Johnson

This is a French translation of Trees: A Lifetime's Journey through Forests, Woods and Gardens.

Blutter und ihre Baume

600 Portraets

Allen J Coombes, Coralie Wink, Ute Doering and Claudia Buchholtz

This is a German translation of The Book of Leaves: A Leaf-by-Leaf Guide to Six Hundred of the World's Great Trees.

Care-Free Plants

Hundreds of Trouble-Free Winners for a Beautiful Garden

Reader's Digest

Dip into Care-Free Plants at any point and you will find hundreds of care-free solutions for any garden, which will save you time, money and effort. Packed with practical tips and expert advice, this beautifully – and ... ....

Cashew: A Monograph

M Abdul Salam and KV Peter

Cashew nut is one of the most nutritious and delicious tree nuts of the world and more than 27 countries are engaged in cashew nut production, processing and export. Cashew cultivation in the world is concentrated to the tropical portion ... ....

Checklist of Macao Bryophytes

Checklist of Macao Bryophytes documents 103 species of bryophytes occurred in Macao, of which liverworts contain 27 species in 22 genera and 14 families; hornworts 4 species in 3 genera and 2 families; and mosses 72 species in ... ....

Citrus Bergamia

Bergamot and its Derivatives

Giovanni Dugo and Ivana Bonaccorsi

This book presents the most current research on all aspects of bergamot and its derivatives, including the history, botany, agro-culture, taxonomy, analytical chemistry, possible contamination, biological properties, and uses.

Common Mosses of the Northeast and Appalachians

Karl B McKnight, Joseph R Rohrer, Kirsten McKnight Ward and Warren J Perdrizet

This is the first book to help general readers recognize 200 common mosses of the Northeast and the Appalachian Mountains. With just this field guide, a hand lens, and a spray bottle – no microscopes necessary – readers will ... ....

Diatom Monographs, Volume 15

Diatoms as Indicators of Environmental Change in Ancient Lake Ohrid during the Last Glacial-Interglacial Cycle (ca. 140

Aleksandra Cvetkoska

Lake Ohrid (Macedonia/Albania) is probably the oldest lake in Europe, with an estimated age of 2-10 Ma. It is widely recognized that the palaeolimnological records preserved in the sediments of ancient lakes such as Ohrid are important ... ....

Diatomeen im Susswasser-Benthos von Mitteleuropa

Bestimmungsflora Kieselalgen fur die Oekologische Praxis

Gabriele Hofmann, Marcus Werum and Horst Lange-Bertalot

The second corrected edition will become available early 2013. The main aim of Diatomeen im Süsswasser - Benthos von Mitteleuropa is to provide assistance for identification of taxa in applied hydrobiology, in particular ... ....

Diversity and Distribution of Vascular Plants in Nigeria

Abiodun E Ayodele and Yong Yang

Nigeria harbors rich diversity of vascular plants having 285 families (42 ferns and fern allies, 5 gymnosperms, and 238 angiosperms), 1541 genera, and 5029 species (including 183 infraspecific taxa consisting of 45 subspecies, 133 varieties ... ....

Early Events in Monocot Evolution

Paul Wilkin and Simon J Mayo

Tracing the evolution of one of the most ancient major branches of flowering plants, this is a wide-ranging survey of state-of-the-art research on the early clades of the monocot phylogenetic tree. It explores a series of broad but linked ... ....

England's Rare Mosses and Liverworts

Their History, Ecology, and Conservation

Ron D Porley

This is the first book to cover England's rare and threatened mosses and liverworts, collectively known as bryophytes. As a group, they are the most ancient land plants and occupy a unique position in the colonization of the Earth by ... ....

Flora Exotica of Jammu and Kashmir

B. L. Bhellum, Rani Magotra and Vir Jee

The State of Jammu and Kashmir, being typified by a wide array of fascinating diversity, is aptly described as "Mini India". To analyse and enjoy the grandeur of its diversity, people from all walks of life have thronged this ... ....

Flora Liquenologica Iberica, Volume 10: Collema

Palmira Carvalho

Volume 10 covers the lichen genus Collema, also known as jelly lichen.

Flora Liquenologica Iberica, Volume 6: Pannariaceae

Regina Carballal, Graciela Paz-Bermudez, Eugenia Lopez de Silanes and Carlos Perez Valcarcel

Volume 6 covers the family Pannariaceae. Species from this family have a widespread distribution, but are especially prevalent in southern temperate regions.

Flora Liquenologica Iberica, Volume 7: Calicioides

Diana Muniz and Nestor Hladun

Volume 7 covers the family Calicioides.

Flora Liquenologica Iberica, Volume 8: Peltigerales

Massalongiaceae y Placynthiaceae

Ana Rosa Burgaz

Volume 8 covers two more families in the order Peltigerales: Massalongiaceae and Placynthiaceae.

Flora Liquenologica Iberica, Volume 9: Basidiomycota Liquenizados y Liquenicolas

Agaricales: Hygrophoraceae. Cantharellales: Clavulinaceae e Hydnaceae

Victor J Rico and Jose M Barrasa

Volume 9 covers lichenized and lichenicolous basidiomycota, specifically the family Hygrophoraceae in the order Agaricales, and the families Clavulinaceae and Hydnaceae in the order Cantharellales.

Flora Vascular de la Republica Argentina, Volume 8

Brassicaceae

FO Zuloaga, ZE Rugolo and AM Anton

Flora Vascular de la Républica Argentina, Volume 8 Brassicaceae is the third volume to be published in a new Spanish flora that follows up on the Flora Fanerogamica Argentina that was published in 106 fascicles ... ....

Forest Research Institute Malaysia

A Sanctuary for Threatened Trees

WSY Yong, LSL Chua, M Suhaida and B Aslina

Forest Research Institute Malaysia: A Sanctuary for Threatened Trees presents a pictorial reference to the 73 threatened-tree species established at the institute. A brief description of the geographical distribution and the ... ....

Forest Tree Breeding in Europe

Current State-of-the-Art and Perspectives

Luc E Paques

Forest tree breeding has been ongoing for more than 70 years across Europe. It has has successfully generated improved varieties for the major economical forest tree species. They are part of the present European forestry landscape and ... ....

Fungi Of The Sarnia Skala Massif In The Tatra Mountains (Poland)

Anna Ronikier

This study is a detailed assessment of the diversity of agaricoid, boletoid, cyphelloid and cantharelloid fungi on the Sarnia Skala massif (Tatra National Park, S Poland), a small calcareous mountain harboring lower montane beech forest ... ....

Fungi of Northwestern China

Wen-Ying Zhuang

Some 3887 named species belonging to 759 genera of fungi (slime molds, plasmodiophoromycetes, chytrid, oomycetes, zygomycetes, lichens, non-lichenized ascomycetes, anamorphic fungi, rusts, smuts, and the basidiomycetous macrofungi) ... ....

Ginkgo

The Tree That Time Forgot

Peter Crane and Peter Raven

Perhaps the world's most distinctive tree, ginkgo has remained stubbornly unchanged for more than two hundred million years. A living link to the age of dinosaurs, it survived the great ice ages as a relic in China, but it earned its ... ....

Grow Fruit Naturally

A Hands-on Guide to Growing Over 300 Varieties

Lee Reich

This accessible and comprehensive book contains all you need to know to grow delicious and nutritious fruit at home. Covering all topics from planning and planting to pruning, natural pest-control and harvesting, expert gardener Lee Reich ... ....

Growing Garden Bulbs

Richard Wilford

A popular new gardening book in the Kew Growing series (which includes Growing Windowsill Orchids and...

Guide des Ecorces des Arbres d'Europe

Reconnaitre et Comparer les Especes

Jean-Denis Godet

A field guide to recognising and comparing bark of European trees. Summary in French:
S’il est assez aisé de reconnaître un arbre à ses fleurs, ses bourgeons, ses feuilles ou ses aiguille ...

Guide des Orchidees de France, de Suisse et du Benelux

Pierre Delforge

A field guide to over 160 species of wild orchid found in France, Switzerland and the Benelux. Includes determination keys and distribution maps.

Guide des Plantes Tropicales

J.G. Rohwer

This is a French translation of Tropical Plants of the World.

Handbook of Microalgal Culture

Amos Richmond and Qiang Hu

The second edition of Handbook of Microalgal Culture will contain 36 chapters. Nineteen of these will be written by new authors. In all there will be 11 totally new chapters covering important new aspects including novel ... ....

Herbal Materia Medica of Maharashtra, India

M. V. Patil and D. A. Patil

Herbal Materia Medica of Maharashtra, India covers ethnobotanical knowledge from Maharashtra, India.

Higher Fungi of Tropical China

Wen-Ying Zhuang

Some 5056 named species belonging to 1192 genera of higher fungi hitherto known from tropical China are listed. Useful references, detailed tropical distribution, and hosts or substrates are provided for each species.

Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXXII: Lepanthes of Colombia (Orchidaceae)

Carlyle A Luer and Lisa Thoerle

Volume 32 focuses on the orchid genus Lepanthes from Colombia.

Ireland's Wild Orchids

A Field Guide

Brendan Sayers and Susan Sex

An illustrated field guide to the wild orchids of Ireland.

Khawa Karpo

Tibetan Traditional Knowledge and Biodiversity Conservation

Jan Salick and Robert K Moseley

Renowned for its biological and cultural diversity as well as its beauty, the Tibetan sacred mountain Khawa Karpo supports one of the most exceptional areas of plant and animal diversity in the world. Lying within the Menri ... ....

Landscape, Process and Power

Re-evaluating Traditional Environmental Knowledge

Serena Heckler and Roy Ellen

In recent years, the field of study variously called local, indigenous or traditional environmental knowledge (TEK) has experienced a crisis brought about by the questioning of some of its basic assumptions. This has included reassessing ... ....

Les Plantes en 300 Questions Reponses

Vincent Albouy and Claire Felloni

Answers to 300 common questions about plants. Summary in French:
300 questions-réponses pour tout savoir sur les plantes, de la racine à la fleur. Comment fonctionne l’usine végétale ?

Lichen Flora of Sundarbans Biosphere Reserve, West Bengal

TAM Jagadeesh Ram, GP Sinha and KP Singh

Lichen Flora of Sundarbans Biosphere Reserve, West Bengal accepts 167 species under 55 genera and 25 families from Sundarbans Biosphere Reserve. Pertusaria sundarbanensis Jagadeesh & G.P. Sinha described as new species ... ....

Monograph of Moranopteris (Polypodiaceae)

Regina Y Hirai and Jefferson Prado

The genus Moranopteris (honoring NYBG Fern Curator, Robbin C. Moran), widespread in the Neotropics, was recently segregated from among the Grammitid ferns (Polypodiaceae). Monograph of Moranopteris (Polypodiaceae) treats ... ....

Ophiocordyceps sinensis in China

Ministry of Agriculture Grassland Monitoring and Management Center

Ophiocordyceps sinensis is a precious wild species of fungus with distinct tonic and pharmaceutical functions, only found at the Tibetan Plateau. In China, it is mainly grown in five provinces, namely Tibet, Qinghai, Sichuan ... ....

Plant Roots

The Hidden Half

Amram Eshel and Tom Beeckman

Great progress has been made in the plant sciences since the last edition of Plant Roots: The Hidden Half was published. Advancements brought about by the sequencing of whole genomes of model organisms and the development of ... ....

Plant Taxonomy

Past, Present, and Future

Rajni Gupta

Each contribution has been written based on thorough research, and includes recent developments such as molecular taxonomy and barcoding. Interesting aspects of naming plants, speciation, molecular aspects of plant identification, and ... ....

Plants and Microclimate

A Quantitative Approach to Plant Physiology

Hamlyn G Jones

This rigorous yet accessible text introduces the key physical and biochemical processes involved in plant interactions with the aerial environment. It is designed to make the more numerical aspects of the subject accessible to plant and ... ....

Pocket Guide to Trees

Bob Gibbons

A handy and easy-to-use field guide covering about 80 species of trees and large shrubs which are common in Britain and the rest of Europe. Each is illustrated using the author's remarkable photography, while the accompanying text ... ....

Pocket Guide to Wild Flowers

Bob Gibbons

A handy and easy-to-use field guide covering about 120 wild flower species which are common in Britain and the rest of Europe. Each is illustrated using the author's remarkable photography, while the accompanying text covers information ... ....

Prehled Hub Stredni Evropy (Fungi of Central Europe)

Jan Holec, Antonin Bielich and Miroslav Beran

Treats over 2000 fungus species found in Central Europe. Of these, 1207 are illustrated with original paintings by Antonína Bielicha.

RSPB What's That Flower?

The Simplest ID Guide Ever

Dorling Kindersley (DK)

This is the perfect pocket guide to identifying flowers. RSPB What's That Flower? is ideal if you struggle to tell the difference between a geranium and a pansy. It's the perfect pocket guide for beginners but also a handy ... ....

RSPB What's That Tree?

The Simplest ID Guide Ever

Dorling Kindersley (DK)

This is the perfect guide to identifying common trees. RSPB What's That Tree? is ideal if you struggle to tell the difference between a Serbian spruce and a Silver birch. It's the perfect pocket guide for beginners but ... ....

Reconnaitre Facilement les Champs

Decouvrir, Reperer, Identifier, Connaitre

Dominique Poulain and Jean Barloy

A field guide to 60 species of cultivated plant found in the fields and meadows of France.

Seaweeds

Edible, Available, and Sustainable

Ole G Mouritsen, Mariela Johansen and Jonas Drotner Mouritsen

Until recently, seaweed for most Americans was nothing but a nuisance, clinging to us as we swim in the ocean and stinking up the beach as it rots in the sun. With the ever-growing popularity of sushi restaurants across the country ... ....

Setas Comestibles y Toxicas del Parque Natural Sierras De Tejeda, Almijara y Alhama

Manuel Becerra Parra and Estrella Robles Dominguez

The land straddling the provinces of Granada and Málaga is a popular area for collecting wild mushrooms in Andalusia. This book identifies both the edible and toxic mushrooms found in this region.

Small is Bountiful

Getting More from Less in Your Small Space

Liz Dobbs

Small is Bountiful covers everything you need to start growing your own food, however small the space available to you. Whether you have never grown anything before or are a seasoned gardener looking for new ideas, you'll find ... ....

The Aloe of Madagascar / Les Aloe de Madagascar

Jean-Bernard Castillon and Jean-Phillipe Castillon

The first complete summary since 1966 of all Malagasy Aloe (including the former genus Lomatophyllum) described to date, with: - The 144 taxa (specific and infra-specific levels) accepted nowadays, with comments, related ... ....

The Biology and Technology of Lentinula Mushroom

Xin Changluo

A in-depth look at the taxonomy, physiology, biochemistry, molecular biology, history and production of the edible mushroom Lentinula edodes, also known as the shiitake mushroom.

The Drunken Botanist

The Plants that Create the World's Great Drinks

Amy Stewart

Every great drink starts with a plant. Sake began with a grain of rice. Scotch emerged from barley. Gin was born from a conifer shrub when medieval physicians boiled juniper berries with wine to treat stomach pain.

The Genus Tricholoma in Britain

Geoffrey Kibby

Species of the genus Tricholoma are a common component of our autumn woodlands, with around 50 species known from Britain. The genus comprises both edible and toxic species, many with subtle and beautiful colours.

The Genus Tulipa

Tulips of the World

Diana Everett

New to Kew's Botanical Magazine Monograph series, The Genus Tulipa is the most complete survey of tulip species to date. Each species is illustrated by a botanical painting by artist and author Diana Everett, with a ... ....

The Kingdom of Fungi

Jens H Petersen

The fungi realm has been called the "hidden kingdom," a mysterious world populated by microscopic spores, gigantic mushrooms and toadstools, and a host of other multicellular organisms ranging widely in color, size, and shape. ....

The Role of Plant Roots in Crop Production

Nand Kumar Fageria

The Role of Plant Roots in Crop Production presents the state of knowledge on environmental factors in root growth and development and their effect on the improvement of the yield of annual crops.

The Trees of Northern Bengal

Including Shrubs, Woody Climbers, Bamboos, Palms and Tree Ferns

AM Cowan and JM Cowan

The Trees of Northern Bengal is  a revision of the list of the trees, shrubs and large climbers found in the Darjeeling District, Bengal by J.S. Gamble.

The Yellow Book 2013

NGS Gardens Open for Charity

The National Gardens Scheme (NGS)

Published annually in February by The National Gardens Scheme (NGS), The Yellow Book has detailed listings of thousands of gardens open for visiting, and is packed with photographs of gardens and informed comment.

Tuscan Olive Tree / Olivi di Toscana

Paolo Nanni

The generous, long-lived olive tree is one of the characteristic features of the Tuscan countryside. It has inspired countless works of art and become a universal religious symbol of peace and goodwill. And it has left deep marks in our ... ....

Uncommon Climbers for Every Garden

A Hand-picked Selection of Climbing Plants for Containers, Conservatories and the Open Garden

Allan M Armitage

Climbing plants constitute a huge, and largely untapped, resource for today's gardeners. Because their habit of growth is primarily vertical, they can be used for utilitarian as well as ornamental purposes: providing privacy, screening ... ....

Vegetation Dynamics on the Mountains and Plateaus of the American Southwest

John Vankat

Vegetation Dynamics on the Mountains and Plateaus of the American Southwest provides information essential for anyone interested in the ecology of the American Southwest, including land managers, environmental planners, conservationists ... ....

Wild Flowers

Nature's Own to Garden Grown

Carol Klein and Jonathan Buckley

Wild flowers are a great passion for Carol, and this year she's travelling the length and breadth of the country to find the most exquisite flora occurring naturally in the woodlands, hedgerows, meadows and moors, and then she sets out ... ....

Wildblumen

50 Spektakulare Blutenlandschaften der Welt

Bob Gibbons

This is a German translation of Wildflower: Wonders Of The World.

Animal Contests

Ian CW Hardy and Mark Briffa

Contests are an important aspect of the lives of diverse animals, from sea anemones competing for space on a rocky shore to fallow deer stags contending for access to females. Why do animals fight? What determines when fights stop and ... ....

Animal Rights

All That Matters

Mark Rowlands

Animal Rights is a big deal. From animal testing to vegetarianism, and hunting to preservation of fish stocks, it's a topic that's always in the news. Mark Rowlands, author of The Philosopher and the Wolf, is the ... ....

Comparative Biomechanics

Life's Physical World

Steven Vogel

Why do you switch from walking to running at a specific speed? Why do tall trees rarely blow over in high winds? And why does a spore ejected into air at seventy miles per hour travel only a fraction of an inch?

Equine Medicine Surgery and Reproduction

Tim Mair, Sandy Love, Jim Schumacher, Roger Smith and Grant Frazer

The new edition of this introductory-level textbook continues to offer a concise and approachable bridge between student lecture notes and more detailed clinical reference works. All aspects of equine medicine, surgery and reproduction ... ....

Evolution and Rationality

Decisions, Co-operation and Strategic Behaviour

Samir Okasha and Ken Binmore

Evolution and Rationality explores from multiple perspectives the subtle and interesting relationship between the theory of rational choice and Darwinian evolution. In rational choice theory, agents are assumed to make choices ... ....

Evolutionary Dynamics of Mammalian Karyotypes

Roscoe Stanyon and Alexander Graphodatsky

Reprint of Cytogenetic and Genome Research 2012, Vol. 137, No. 2-4 Evolutionary Dynamics of Mammalian Karyotypes both reviews and synthesizes the cytogenetic data pertinent to mammalian genome evolution including ... ....

Fatal Flaws

How a Misfolded Protein Baffled Scientists and Changed the Way We Look at the Brain

Jay Ingram

Discovered and identified as the cause of mad cow disease only three decades ago, the prion is a protein molecule that, when misshapen in the brain, becomes fatal. Novel and controversial, prions have provoked a scientific revolution. ....

Handbook of Systems Biology

Concepts and Insights

Marian Walhout

Handbook of Systems Biology provides an entry point into Systems Biology for researchers in genetics, molecular biology, cell biology, microbiology and biomedical science to understand the key concepts to expanding their work. ....

Illustrated Guide to Home Biology Experiments

Robert Bruce Thompson and Barbara Fritchman Thompson

Experience the magic of biology in your own home lab. This hands-on introduction includes more than 30 educational (and fun) experiments that help you explore this fascinating field on your own. Perfect for middle- and high-school students ... ....

Juvenile Hormones and Juvenoids

Modeling Biological Effects and Environmental Fate

James Devillers

Juvenile hormones play a key role in the control of larval development and metamorphosis of insects as well as the various aspects of the reproduction of adults. Juvenile Hormones and Juvenoids presents modeling approaches that ... ....

Lehninger Principles of Biochemistry (International Edition)

David L Nelson and Michael M Cox

The new sixth edition of this best-selling introduction to biochemistry maintains the clarity and coherence that so appeals to students whilst incorporating the very latest advances in the field, new worked examples and end of chapter ... ....

Lewin's Genes XI

Jocelyn E Krebs, Stephen T Kilpatrick and Elliott S Goldstein

Molecular Biology is a rapidly advancing field with a constant flow of new information and cutting-edge developements that impact our lives. Lewin's Genes XI has long been the essential resource for providing the teaching ... ....

Life

The Science of Biology

David Sadava, David M Hillis, H Craig Heller and May R Berenbaum

The new tenth edition of Life maintains the balanced experimental coverage of previous editions and has been updated with the latest scientific research, a new contemporary design and cutting-edge teaching and learning support ... ....

Odd Couples

Extraordinary Differences Between the Sexes in the Animal Kingdom

Daphne J Fairbairn

While we joke that men are from Mars and women are from Venus, our gender differences can't compare to those of other animals. For instance: the male garden spider spontaneously dies after mating with a female more than fifty times ... ....

Pocket Guide to Tracks and Signs

Gerard Gorman

A sign-by-sign guide which is essential for anyone hoping to detect hidden wildlife in Britain and the rest of Europe. There are chapters on feeding signs, homes, droppings, pellets, tracks, and so on of creatures including mammals, birds ... ....

Principles of Animal Behavior

Lee Alan Dugatkin

Principles of Animal Behavior has long been considered the most current and engaging introduction to animal behavior. The Third Edition is now also the most comprehensive and balanced in its approach to the theoretical framework ... ....

Student Solutions Manual for Molecular Cell Biology

Steve Amato, Stephanie Bingham, Elizabeth Good, Tom Huxford, Greg Kelly, Brian Sato and Gl Gillaspy

This manual contains all the solutions to the end of chapter problems found in Molecular Cell Biology, 7th edition, International Edition.

The Cell

A Molecular Approach

Geoffrey M Cooper and Robert E Hausman

Designed for use in shorter introductory cellular biology courses, The Cell: A Molecular Approach presents current comprehensive science in a readable and cohesive text. The sixth edition retains the overall organization, themes ... ....

The Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology

John M. Lackie

An expanded, up-to-date resource for students and researchers, The Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology provides clear and concise definitions needed for laboratory study. With over 12,000 entries and a breadth of terms across ... ....

Veterinary Nursing of Exotic Pets

Simon J Girling

Veterinary Nursing of Exotic Pets is the definitive reference book on the principles and practice of nursing exotic species. From rabbits and chinchillas to budgies and iguanas, it not only covers husbandry, nutrition and handling ... ....

Veterinary Treatment of Sheep and Goats

Graham R Duncanson

Sheep and goats are farmed worldwide for meat, milk, skins and wool. This diverse range of uses means that many people rely on these animals as a source of income, food and warm clothing, though they can also be kept as pets.

Weird Life

The Search for Life That Is Very, Very Different from Our Own

David Toomey

Recently, scientists at the frontiers of biology have hypothesised the existence of life-forms that can only be called "weird": organisms that live off acid rather than water, microbes that thrive at temperatures and pressure ... ....

Zoology in the Middle East, Volume 57

Volume 57 contains 17 papers and 4 short communications. See the table of contents for more details.

A Cooperative Species

Human Reciprocity and Its Evolution

Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis

Why do humans, uniquely among animals, cooperate in large numbers to advance projects for the common good? Contrary to the conventional wisdom in biology and economics, this generous and civic-minded behavior is widespread and cannot be ... ....

Animal Teeth and Human Tools

A Taphonomic Odyssey in Ice Age Siberia

Christy G Turner III, Nicolai Ovodov and Olga Pavlova

The culmination of more than a decade of fieldwork and related study, this unique book uses analyses of perimortem taphonomy in Ice Age Siberia to propose a new hypothesis for the peopling of the New World. The authors present evidence ... ....

Design in Nature

How the Constructal Law Governs Evolution in Biology, Physics, Technology, and Social Organizations

Adrian Bejan and J. Peder Zane

In this groundbreaking book, Adrian Bejan takes the recurring patterns in nature – trees, tributaries, air passages, neural networks, and lightning bolts – and reveals how a single principle of physics, the constructal law ... ....

Human Heredity

Principles and Issues (International Edition)

Michael R Cummings

Human Heredity: Principles And Issues presents the concepts of human genetics in clear, concise language and provides relevant examples that you can apply to yourself, your family, and your work environment.

Mutation-Driven Evolution

Masatoshi Nei

The purpose of Mutation-Driven Evolution is to present a new mechanistic theory of mutation-driven evolution based on recent advances in genomics and evolutionary developmental biology. The theory asserts, perhaps somewhat ... ....

Randomness in Evolution

John Tyler Bonner

John Tyler Bonner, one of our most distinguished and insightful biologists, here challenges a central tenet of evolutionary biology. In this concise, elegantly written book, he makes the bold and provocative claim that some biological ... ....

Relentless Evolution

John N Thompson

At a glance, most species seem adapted to the environment in which they live. Yet species relentlessly evolve, and populations within species evolve in different ways. Evolution, as it turns out, is much more dynamic than biologists ... ....

Sex, Genes and Rock 'n' Roll

How Evolution Has Shaped the Modern World

Rob Brooks

Evolutionary scientist Rob Brooks argues that the origins of twenty-first century problems such as obesity, consumerism and environmental devastation can be found where the ancient forces of evolution collide with modern culture and economics ... ....

Social Zooarchaeology

Humans and Animals in Prehistory

Nerissa Russell

This is the first book to provide a systematic overview of social zooarchaeology, which takes a holistic view of human-animal relations in the past. Until recently, archaeological analysis of faunal evidence has primarily focused on the ... ....

The Social Conquest of Earth

Edward O Wilson

In asking where we came from, what we are and where we are going, Edward O. Wilson directly addresses three fundamental questions of religion, philosophy and science. Refashioning the story of human evolution, he draws on his remarkable ... ....

The Storytelling Animal

How Stories Make Us Human

Jonathan Gottschall

Humans live in landscapes of make-believe. We spin fantasies. We devour novels, films, and plays. Even sporting events and criminal trials unfold as narratives. Yet the world of story has long remained an undiscovered and unmapped country ... ....

The Unpredictable Species

What Makes Humans Unique

Philip Lieberman

The Unpredictable Species argues that the human brain evolved in a way that enhances our cognitive flexibility and capacity for innovation and imitation. In doing so, The Unpredictable Species challenges the central ... ....

Degenerate Diffusion Operators Arising in Population Biology

Charles L Epstein and Rafe Mazzeo

Degenerate Diffusion Operators Arising in Population Biology provides the mathematical foundations for the analysis of a class of degenerate elliptic operators defined on manifolds with corners, which arise in a variety of applications ... ....

Distribution Ecology

From Individual Habitat Use to Species Biogeographical Range

Marcelo Hernan Cassini

Distribution Ecology brings together a set of approaches to the study of individual-species ecology based on the analysis of spatial variations of abundance. Distribution ecology assumes that ecological phenomena can be understood ... ....

Ecology of Aquatic Management

Chris L Frid and Mike Dobson

Marine and freshwater systems are being placed under pressure like never before. A bigger and more demanding human population has meant increased utilisation of aquatic systems and, as such, the need for sustainable solutions to allow the ... ....

Insects and Sustainability of Ecosystem Services

Timothy D Schowalter

Although some effects of various insects will continue to be viewed as undesirable, there is the idea that insects should, or can, be "managed". Insects and Sustainability of Ecosystem Services explores reasons that ... ....

Invasion Ecology

Julie Lockwood, Martha Hoopes and Michael Marchetti

This new edition of Invasion Ecology provides a comprehensive and updated introduction to all aspects of biological invasion by non-native species. Highlighting important research findings associated with each stage of invasion ... ....

Multiple Stable States in Natural Ecosystems

Peter Petraitis

One of the most interesting and vexing problems in ecology is how distinctly different communities of plants and animals can occur in the same ecosystem. The theory of these systems, known as multiple stable states, is well understood ... ....

Arcadian America

The Death and Life of an Environmental Tradition

Aaron Sachs

Perhaps America's best environmental idea was not the national park but the garden cemetery, a use of space that quickly gained popularity in the mid-nineteenth century. Such spaces of repose brought key elements of the countryside ... ....

Auckland's Remarkable Urban Forest

Mike D Wilcox

Auckland’s Remarkable Urban Forest provides a comprehensive account of the trees and forests of Auckland. It covers:
- trees to be found in the parks, reserves, campuses, school grounds, cemeteries and historic ... ....

Coral Reefs of Sri Lanka

Nishan Perera

A pictorial guide to the coral reefs of Sri Lanka.

Ecossistemas Amazonicos

Dinamicas, Impactos e Valorizacao dos Recursos Naturais

Amilcar Carvalho Mendes

Ecossistemas Amazônicos contains twenty contributions on different analytical methods of ecosystems, involving, amongst others, geological, archaeological, sociological, and biological approaches, ranging from the evolution ... ....

Flora y Vegetacion del las Islas Cies (Parque Nacional Maritimo-Terrestre de las Islas Atlanticas de Galicia)

Organismo Autonomo de Parques Nacionales

This study presents an inventory of the flora and found on the The Cíes Islands, an archipelago off the coast of Pontevedra in Galicia (Spain).

Forest Trees of the Western Ghats

Includes Eastern Ghats and Deccan Plateau

S. G. Neginhal

Forest Trees of the Western Ghats gives an overview of all the tree species found in the, which is a mountain range along the western side of India and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Green Cities of Europe

Global Lessons on Green Urbanism

Timothy Beatley

Green Cities of Europe draws on the world's best examples of sustainability to show how other cities can become greener and more livable. Timothy Beatley has brought together leading experts from Paris, Freiburg, Copenhagen ... ....

Indian Wildlife Sanctuaries and National Parks (2-Volume Set)

An Exploratory Survey

Contents: Volume 1: India: biodiversity and wildlife sanctuaries, Volume 2: Insights into Indian national parks.

Longleaf, Far as the Eye Can See

A New Vision of North America's Richest Forest

Bill Finch, Beth Maynor Young, Rhett Johnson, John C Hall and Edward O Wilson

Longleaf forests once covered 92 million acres from Texas to Maryland to Florida. These grand old-growth pines were the "alpha tree" of the largest forest ecosystem in North America and have come to define the southern forest. ....

Managing Forest Carbon in a Changing Climate

Mark S Ashton, Mark L Tyrrell, Deborah Spalding and Bradord Gentry

The goal of Managing Forest Carbon in a Changing Climate is to provide guidance for advanced students, land managers and policymakers seeking to understand the complex science and policy of forest carbon as it relates to tangible ... ....

Marine Protected Areas

Country Case Studies on Policy, Governance and Institutional Issues

J. S. Sanders, D. Greboval and A. Hjort

Marine Protected Areas: Country Case Studies on Policy, Governance and Institutional Issues presents case studies of the policy, governance and institutional issues of marine protected areas (MPAs) in Brazil, India, Palau and ... ....

North Pacific Temperate Rainforests

Ecology and Conservation

Gordon Orians and John Schoen

The North Pacific temperate rainforest, stretching from southern Alaska to northern California, is the largest temperate rainforest on earth. North Pacific Temperate Rainforests: Ecology and Conservation provides a multidisciplinary ... ....

Shola Forests of Kerala

Environment and Biodiversity

KKN Nair, SK Khanduri and K Balasubramanyan

Shola forests of Kerala belong to the broad category of tropical montana forests represented in the continents of Asia, Africa and America, During the last about one decade, a number of research studies on the Shola ecosystem have been ... ....

The Draining of the Fens

HC Darby

First published in 1956, as the second edition of a 1940 original, The Draining of the Fens forms the companion volume to ...

The Mangroves

Biology and Biogeography

AB Das and Prasanna Mohanty

The Mangroves: Biology and Biogeography gives an up-to-date overview of the biology of mangrove systems around the world with special references to the Indian sub-continent covering morphology, taxonomy, cell physiology, cytology ... ....

The Medieval Fenland

HC Darby

Originally published in 1940, The Medieval Fenland, together with its companion volume The Draining of the Fens, constitutes an attempt to outline the changing conditions of a fascinating region.

The Soils of Bangladesh

SM Imamul Huq and Jalal Uddin Md Shoaib

The Soils of Bangladesh will present a thorough account of the soils of Bangladesh. It will discuss different agro-climatic regions, the effects of human induced soil degradation and climatic change on its soils, geology and ... ....

The Soils of Chile

Manuel Casanova, Osvaldo Salazar, Oscar Seguel and Walter Luzio

The Soils of Chile offers an overview of the important features of Chilean soils, including geology and geomorphology, climate, land use and vegetation. Describes and classifies the most important soil types, including volcanic ... ....

The Soils of Croatia

Ferdo Basic

The Soils of Croatia is a six-chapter book detailing all aspects of Croatian soils. The Soils of Croatia presents, in a reader friendly way, the lively history of pedology in Croatia. It explains soils as natural resources ... ....

The Soils of Italy

Edoardo AC Costantini and Carmelo Dazzi

The Soils of Italy is the first comprehensive book on Italian pedology in seventy years. Taking advantage of the large experience of the authors, and of the most updated information and technology, main soil types of Italy ... ....

The Soils of Mexico

Pavel Krasilnikov, Maria del Carmen Gutierrez Castorena, Robert J Ahrens and Ca Cruz-Gaistardo

Mexico is an extensive country with extremely complex mosaic of landscapes. The soils of Mexico have still not been completely studied, and there are few publications available on this subject. The Soils of Mexico provides a ... ....

Wetland Landscape Characterization

Practical Tools, Methods, and Approaches for Landscape Ecology

Ricardo D Lopez, John G Lyon, Lynn K Lyon and Debra K Lopez

This second edition of a bestseller assists scientists, engineers, technicians, and other resource managers in the evaluation of wetland boundaries and characteristics. It takes a stepwise, integrated approach to presenting components of ... ....

A History of the Nature Conservancy of Canada

Bill Freedman

The Nature Conservancy of Canada is the leading non-governmental land conservation organization that works on a national scale in Canada. The story of how this group started with a few volunteers in 1962 to become a charity that now manages ... ....

A Rapid Biological Assessment of the Mont Panie Range and Roches De La Quaieme, North Province, New Caledonia

Francois Tron, Jean-Jerome Cassan, Trond Halvor Larsen and Romain Franquet

A Rapid Biological Assessment of the Mont Panie Range and Roches De La Quaieme, North Province, New Caledonia contains the findings from rapid biological assessments around Mont Panie, the tallest mountain in New Caledonia ... ....

A Rapid Biological Assessment of the Tepuis in the Upper Nangaritza River Basin, Cordillera Del Condor, Ecuador

Juan M Guayasamin and Elisa Bonaccorso

This report contains the findings from a rapid biological assessment of the Tepuis in the Upper Nangaritza River Basin in Cordillera del Condor, Ecuador. The purpose of the survey was to provide data to support increased protection for ... ....

After the Future

Australia's New Extinction Crisis

Tim Flannery

When it comes to the natural world, Australia is home to a disproportionately large share of the world's riches. That means Australians are caretakers of a unique natural heritage in a land which tolerates few mistakes.

After the Grizzly

Endangered Species and the Politics of Place in California

Peter S Alagona

Thoroughly researched and finely crafted, After the Grizzly traces the history of endangered species and habitat in California, from the time of the Gold Rush to the present. Peter S. Alagona shows how scientists and conservationists ... ....

Bear Sanctuary

Victor Watkins

A wonderfully illustrated book telling the story of how and why an oak forest in the heart of Romania became transformed into a retirement home for rescued bears. Bear Sanctuary, written by Victor Watkins, explains what a bear ... ....

Biodiversity Extinction and Deforestation

Azharul Haque and Tanmoy Rudra

The human species came into being at the time of greatest biological diversity in the history of the earth. Today as human populations expand and alter the natural environment, they are reducing biological diversity to its lowest level ... ....

Conservation of an Endangered King Cobra in Salur Wildlife Sanctuary, Andhra Pradesh, India

Madireddi V Subba Rao

This book looks at conservation efforts to rescue king cobras in Salur Wildlife Sanctuary, India.

Eco Barons

The New Heroes of Environmental Activism

Edward Humes

From Pulitzer Prize winner Edward Humes comes Eco Barons, the story of the remarkable visionaries who have quietly dedicated their lives and their fortunes to saving the planet from ecological destruction.

Endangered Species of the Gulf of Mannar

C Veerabahu and D Radhika

This guide gives an overview of endangered species in the Gulf of Mannar, a large shallow bay forming part of the Laccadive Sea in the Indian Ocean.

Feral

Rewilding the Land, Sea, and Human Life

George Monbiot

The author of Captive State, Heat, The Age of Consent and Amazon Watershed, George Monbiot is one of the world's most celebrated radical thinkers. In Feral: Rewilding the Land, Sea, and Human Life, he follows his own hunger for ... ....

Ignoring Nature No More

The Case for Compassionate Conservation

For far too long humans have been ignoring nature. As the most dominant, overproducing, overconsuming, big-brained, big-footed, arrogant, and invasive species ever known, we are wrecking the planet at an unprecedented rate.

Make It a Green Peace!

The Rise of a Countercultural Environmentalism

Frank Zelko

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

People, Fish and Whales

The Vancouver Aquarium Story

Murray A Newman and John Nightingale

When it opened in 1956, the Vancouver Aquarium Marine Science Centre was the first public aquarium to be built in Canada. When the first curator ordered some small clownfish and blue damselfish from an aquarium hobby store in Oakland ... ....

Plant and Animal Endemism in California

Susan P Harrison

California is globally renowned for its biological diversity, including its wealth of unique, or endemic, species. Many reasons have been cited to explain this abundance: the complex geology and topography of its landscape, the special ... ....

Protection of the Three Poles

Falk Huettmann

The Arctic, the Antarctic, and the Hindu Kush-Himalayas form a trio of terrains sometimes called "the three poles". Mainly composed of rock, snow, and ice, these precious regions, which are home to many unique species such as ... ....

Silent Spring Revisited

Conor Mark Jameson

Rachel Carson is said to have sparked the modern day environmental movement with the publication of Silent Spring in 1962. She made vivid the gloomy prospect of life without birdsong. But have her warnings been heeded?

The Human Footprint

Challenges for Wilderness and Biodiversity

Eric W Sanderson, Patricia Robles Gil, Cristina G Mittermeier, Vance G Martin, Cyril F Kormos and

Using some of the best available science, state-of-the-art GIS mapping, and satellite technology, as well as the most compelling images created by some of the world's best photographers, the authors illustrate the mark of humans on ... ....

The John A. Livingston Reader

Including

John A Livingston

John A. Livingston is Canada’s Rachel Carson. His cogent, brilliant writing on the effects of man on nature has defined an entire generation of environmentalists and is required reading for anyone who wants to understand the ... ....

The Science of Saving Tigers

K Ullas Karanth

The Science of Saving Tigers puts together twenty significant articles on topics ranging from tiger ecology to critiques of government policy from a selection of over seventy that have appeared in various national and international ... ....

Wildlife in Trust

A Hundred Years of Nature Conservation

Tim Sands

In May 1912, banker and naturalist, Charles Rothschild, laid the foundations for nature conservation as we know it today. His new organisation, the Society for the Promotion of Nature Reserves had one main objective – to save Britain's ... ....

Zoo Animal Welfare

Terry L Maple and Bonnie M Perdue

Zoo Animal Welfare thoroughly reviews the scientific literature on the welfare of zoo and aquarium animals. Maple and Perdue draw from the senior author's 24 years of experience as a zoo executive and international leader ... ....

A Companion to Global Environmental History

JR McNeill and Erin Stewart Mauldin

A Companion to Global Environmental History offers multiple points of entry into the history and historiography of this dynamic and fast-growing field, to provide an essential road map to past developments, current controversies ... ....

Aerobic Wastewater Treatment Processes

History and Development

David F. Tilley

Aerobic Wastewater Treatment Processes: History and Development discusses the widely differing influences on the development of aerobic treatment such as water supply, toxic trade effluents, microscopy and population growth in ... ....

Beyond the Red Meranti

Fresh Perspectives on Malaysia's Pasoh Forest Reserve and Climate Change

Christine Fletcher, Marc Abrams, Shamsudin Ibrahim, Samsudin Musa and Abdul Rahman Kassim

Historical information gathered over 30 years at the Pasoh Forest Reserve is used to help understand climate change, a current and pertinent global issue that is affecting us. Beyond the Red Meranti focuses on how Malaysia's ... ....

Biodiversity and Climate Change

Reports and Guidance Developed Under the Bern Convention, Volume 2

Brian Huntley and Council of Europe

The effects of climate change on ecosystems are complex. The impact on the species and habitats protected by the Bern Convention may differ widely, depending on the species, their habitats and location.

Biological Phosphorus Removal Activated Sludge Process in Warm Climates

Cao Ye Shi

Biological Phosphorus Removal Activated Sludge Process in Warm Climates presents the results of detailed research on the Enhanced Biological Phosphorus Removal (EBPR) activated sludge process under warm climate conditions ... ....

Climate

A Very Short Introduction

Mark Maslin

In this wide-ranging Very Short Introduction to climate, Mark Maslin considers all aspects of the global climate system, exploring and explaining the different components that control climate on Earth. He considers the processes ... ....

Climate Change and its Ecological Implication for the Western Himalaya

V. L. Chopra

In its thirteen chapters, Climate Change and its Ecological Implication for the Western Himalaya deals with biophysical, biological, hydrological, meteorological and socio-economic aspects of western Himalayan region of India. ....

Climate Change in the Himalayas

Preserving the Third Pole for Cooling the Earth

Vir Singh, Nanda Nautiyal, Suman Kalyani Apparasu and MSS Rawat

The Himalayas are the highest, the loftiest and the most fragile ecosystem on the Earth. As they accumulate the largest mass of snow and ice outside the North and South Poles, it is often referred to as the Third Pole. The Third Pole ... ....

Eaarth

Making a Life on a Tough New Planet

Bill McKibben

Twenty years ago, with The End of Nature, Bill McKibben offered one of the earliest warnings about global warming. Those warnings went mostly unheeded; now, he insists, we need to acknowledge that ...

Ecology of Climate Change

The Importance of Biotic Interactions

Eric S Post

Rising temperatures are affecting organisms in all of Earth's biomes, but the complexity of ecological responses to climate change has hampered the development of a conceptually unified treatment of them. In a remarkably comprehensive ... ....

Environmental Science

Foundations and Applications

Andrew Friedland, Rick Relyea and David Courard-Hauri

Environmental Science: Foundations and Applications, takes a non-biased approach to teaching students how to evaluate arguments and make sense of the headlines. Students learn to draw their own conclusions by analyzing facts and ... ....

Handbook of Biological Wastewater Treatment

Design and Optimisation of Activated Sludge Systems

Adrianus van Haandel and Jeroen van der Lubbe

The scope of this comprehensive new edition of Handbook of Biological Wastewater Treatment ranges from the design of the activated sludge system, final settlers, auxiliary units (sludge thickeners and digesters) to pre-treatment ... ....

Introduction to Air Pollution Science

A Public Health Perspective

Robert F Phalen and Robert N Phalen

This unique textbook examines the basic health and environmental issues associated with air pollution including the relevant toxicology and epidemiology. It provides a foundation for the sampling and analysis of air pollutants as well as ... ....

Nitrification

Bess B. Ward, Daniel J. Arp and Martin G. Klotz

Over the past 15 years, the use of modern molecular biological approaches has radically advanced our understanding of nitrification processes. With chapters contributed by leading experts in the field, Nitrification fully reviewed ... ....

Physics and Dynamics of Clouds and Precipitation

Pao K Wang

This key new textbook provides a state-of-the-art view of the physics of cloud and precipitation formation, covering the most important topics in the field: the microphysics, thermodynamics and cloud-scale dynamics.

Principles of Environmental Science (International Edition)

Inquiry and Applications

William Cunningham and Mary Ann Cunningham

Rather than the 25 to 30 chapters found in most environmental science textbooks, the authors have limited Principles of Environmental Science: Inquiry and Applications to 16 chapters – perfect for the one-semester, non-major ... ....

Taking Sides

Clashing Views on Global Issues

James E Harf and Mark Lombardi

Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Global Issues presents current controversial issues in a debate-style format designed to stimulate student interest and develop critical thinking skills. Each issue is thoughtfully framed with an ... ....

The Devouring Dragon

How China's Rise Threatens Our Natural World

Craig Simons

China is transforming our natural world at an alarming rate. It is the world's largest market for endangered wildlife, poached from India and Africa. It is the top importer of tropical timber, harvested illegally in Indonesia.

The Global Warming Reader

A Century of Writing about Climate Change

Bill McKibben

With the rise of extreme weather events worldwide – witness the devastation wrought by Hurricanes Sandy, Irene, and Katrina, and the sustained drought across the American West – global warming has become increasingly difficult ... ....

Wastewater Sludge

A Global Overview of the Current Status and Future Prospects

Ludovico Spinosa

Following a successful first edition published in 2007, the follow-up 2011 edition of Wastewater Sludge: A Global Overview of the Current Status and Future Prospects ...

With Speed and Violence

Why Scientists Fear Tipping Points in Climate Change

Fred Pearce

Fred Pearce has been writing about climate change for eighteen years, and the more he learns, the worse things look. Where once scientists were concerned about gradual climate change, now more and more of them fear we will soon be dealing ... ....

A Guide to Caves and Karst of Indiana

Samuel S Frushour, Julian J Lewis and Salisa L Lewis

Whether you are planning a visit to one of Indiana's tourist caves, looking to explore some of the state's wild caves, or just curious about Indiana underground, this compact and comprehensive field guide is the place to start. ....

A Petroleum Geologist's Guide to Seismic Reflection

William Ashcroft

A Geologist's Guide to Seismic Reflection is written for advanced earth science students, geologists, petroleum engineers and others who want to get quickly 'up to speed' on the interpretation of reflection seismic ... ....

Arid and Semi-Arid Geomorphology

Andrew Goudie

Based on four decades of research by Professor Andrew Goudie, Arid and Semi-Arid Geomorphology provides a state-of-the-art synthesis of our understanding of desert geomorphology. It presents a truly international perspective, with ... ....

Chemistry3

Introducing Inorganic, Organic and Physical Chemistry

Andrew Burrows, John Holman, Andrew Parsons, Gwen Pilling and Gareth Price

Chemistry is widely considered to be the central science: it encompasses concepts on which all other branches of science are developed. Yet, for many students entering university, gaining a firm grounding in chemistry is a real challenge ... ....

Die Deutsche Ostseekueste

Ralf-Otto Niedermeyer, Reinhard Lampe, Wolfgang Janke, Klaus Schwarzer, Klaus Duphorn and H Kliewe

Geological guide to the Baltic Sea coast of Germany, containing an introduction to the geological, geomorphological and oceanographic features. Considers current issues (climatic change and protection, geotourism and protection of geotopes). ....

Digitized

The Science of Computers and How it Shapes Our World

Peter J Bentley

There's a hidden science that affects every part of your life. You are fluent in its terminology of email, WiFi, social networking, and encryption. You use its results when you make a telephone call, access the Internet, use any fact ... ....

Geoheritage in Europe and its Conservation

WAP Wimbledon and S Smith-Meyer

For the first time a comprehensive overview of geo-conservation in Europe has been presented in a book. Geoheritage in Europe and its Conservation includes specific contributions from 37 countries focussing on legislation and ... ....

Geology of Ireland

A Field Guide

Pat Meere, Ivor MacCarthy, John Reavy, Alastair Allen and Ken Higgs

A field guide to the geology of Ireland.

Harz, Oestlicher Teil mit Kyffhauser Kristallin

Hans-Joachim Franzke and Max Schwab

Geological guide to the eastern Harz Mountains and the Kyffh„user Crystalline complex (Germany). A general part provides an introduction to the geology, sedimentology, structure and mineralizations of the Harz Mountains.

Kreta (Crete)

Ulrich Kull

Geological guidebook. Introduction to geology, history, archaeology, vegetation, flora. Second part describes 30 beautiful outcrops (stratigraphy, tectonics, botany, sights away from the tourist attractions). Numerous colour photos ... ....

Mainzer Becken (The Mainz Basin)

Stratigraphie, Palaeontologie, Exkursionen

Peter Schaefer

Geological guidebook. Introduction to the formation of the Mainz Basin during the Tertiary and the Ice Age. Modern stratigraphic classification of the sequence of layers. 20 plates showing fossils. Second part describes more than 100 ... ....

Mapa Geologico del Complejo Precambrico Sur del Paraguay: Texto explicativo / Geologia de la Region Central del Paraguay

Klaus-Dieter Meinhold, Narciso Cubas, Alfredo Garcete and Lothar Lahner

This volume of Geologisches Jahrbuch contains two works. Geological Map The Tebicuary Complex of southern Paraguay consists of highly metamorphosed and intensely folded rocks of the Suite ...

Megacatastrophes!

Nine Strange Ways the World Could End

David Darling and Dirk Schulze-Makuch

Which will get us first? The asteroid hurtling towards us from outer space? The Black Plague: Round Two? Swiss black holes gobbling up the solar system? Or – who knows – alien invasion? Armed with lavish illustrations and the ... ....

Neurogastronomy

How the Brain Creates Flavor and Why it Matters

Gordon M Shepherd

Leading neuroscientist Gordon M. Shepherd embarks on a paradigm-shifting trip through the "human brain flavor system," laying the foundations for a new scientific field: neurogastronomy. Challenging the belief that the sense of ... ....

Oregon Geology

Elizaabeth L. Orr and William N. Orr

Because Oregon sits on the leading edge of a moving crustal plate, a striking diversity of geologic events have molded its topography. Over a century of study, a deeper understanding of the region's tectonic overprint has emerged. ....

Principles of Fluid Flow and Surface Waves in Rivers, Estuaries, Seas and Oceans

Leo C van Rijn

Principles of Fluid Flow and Surface Waves in Rivers, Estuaries, Seas and Oceans consists of 900 pages and figures and contains all details of fluid mechanics in rivers, estuaries, seas and oceans.

Principles of Sedimentation and Erosion Engineering in Rivers, Estuaries and Coastal Seas

Leo C van Rijn

Principles of Sedimentation and Erosion Engineering in Rivers, Estuaries and Coastal Seas (including modelling package on CD-ROM) focusses on the solution of engineering problems related to sedimentation and erosion in river ... ....

Scatter, Adapt, and Remember

How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction

Annalee Newitz

Annalee Newitz's brilliantly speculative and hopeful work of popular science focuses our attention on humanity's long history of dodging the bullet of extinction – and suggests practical ways to keep doing it. From bacteria ... ....

Solutions Manual to Accompany Organic Chemistry

Jonathan Clayden and Stuart Warren

The solutions manual to accompany Organic Chemistry provides fully-explained solutions to all the problems that feature in the second edition of Organic Chemistry.

Spessart

Geologische Entwicklung und Struktur, Gesteine und Minerale

Martin Okrusch, Gerd Geyer and Joachim Lorenz

Geological guidebook. Introduction to geology, rocks, structure and paleogeography of the Spessart region. Information on deposits, mines, digging, discovery of minerals as well as historical background information.

Strange New Worlds

The Search for Alien Planets and Life Beyond Our Solar System

Ray Jayawardhana

In Strange New Worlds, renowned astronomer Ray Jayawardhana brings news from the front lines of the epic quest to find planets – and alien life – beyond our solar system. Only in the past two decades, after millennia ... ....

Stratigraphie von Deutschland IX

Tertiar, Teil 1: Oberrheingraben und benachbarte Tertiargebiete

Kirsten I. Grimm

Stratigraphie von Deutschland IX provides a detailed description of the tertiary structure, stratigraphic units and rocks of the Upper Rhine Graben and the adjacent tertiary regions. Also described are isolated tertiary deposits ... ....

Stratotype Hettangien

Micheline Hanzo

Hettange-Grande is a commune in the Moselle department. The town gave its name to the Hettangian, the earliest age of the Jurassic period of the geologic timescale.

Stratotype Stampien

Pierre Lozouet

A stratotype is an actual rock succession, chosen at a particular locality to act as the standard comparison for all other chronostratigraphic or lithostratigraphic units of its ilk. In this case the locality is ...

Ten Million Aliens

A Journey Through Our Strange Planet

Simon Barnes

Life on planet earth is not weirder than we imagine. It's weirder than we are capable of imagining. And we're all in it together: humans, blue whales, rats, birds of paradise, ridiculous numbers of beetles, molluscs the size of a ... ....

The Cosmic Tourist

The 100 Most Awe-inspiring Destinations in the Universe

Brian May, Patrick Moore and Chris Lintott

Take your seats for the greatest tour ever – one that encompasses no less than the whole of the Universe. En route, we stop off to gaze at 100 amazing sights – from asteroids to zodiacal dust and from orbit around the Earth ... ....

The Geology of the Indoburman Ranges in Myanmar

Dietrich Bannert, Albert Sang Lyen and Than Htay

The Indoburman Ranges are the westernmost morphological unit in Myanmar and represent the accretion wedge formed by Late Mesozoic through Paleogene-Neogene geosynclinal sediments with regional transitions into shallow- water sediments ... ....

The Hudson Valley in the Ice Age

A Geological History and Tour

Robert Titus and Johanna Titus

With The Hudson Valley in the Ice Age: A Geological History & Tour, join Professors Robert and Johanna Titus on a tour of the Hudson River Valley and see this familiar region with new eyes the eyes of geologists who see a ... ....

The Jewels on the Mountaintop

The European Southern Observatory through Fifty Years

Claus Madsen

Authored by ESO senior advisor Claus Madsen, the present book comprises 576 action-packed pages of ESO history and dramatic stories about the people behind the organisation. This is the ultimate historical account about ESO and its telescope ... ....

The Universe Within

A Scientific Adventure

Neil Shubin

In The Universe Within, Neil Shubin, one of the world's leading experts, reveals to us the extraordinary cosmic and evolutionary adventure of our own bodies. During the past 13.7 billion years (or so) since the Big Bang, our ... ....

The Viral Storm

The Dawn of a New Pandemic Age

Nathan Wolfe

In The Viral Storm award-winning biologist Nathan Wolfe – known as 'the Indiana Jones of virus hunters' for his work in jungles and rain forests across the world – shows the threat of a global pandemic is ... ....

The World Until Yesterday

What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?

Jared Diamond

The World Until Yesterday is a visionary new account of humanity's past from Jared Diamond, author of the international bestsellers ...

Trier und Umgebung

Geologie der Sud- und Westeifel, des Sudwest-Hunsruck, der unteren Saar sowie der Maarvulkanismus und die junge Umwel

Wolfgang H Wagner, Friederike Kremb-Wagner, Martin Koziol and Jurg FW Negendank

A guide to the geology of Trier and surroundings in Germany.

Algal Biofuels

Where We've Been, Where We're Going

Alish M. Doyle and Jayden A. Bell

Algal Biofuels includes book & DVD-ROM. The Department of Energy revived its investment in algal biofuels in response to the increased urgency of lowering greenhouse gas emissions and producing affordable, reliable energy ... ....

Arming Mother Nature

The Birth of Catastrophic Environmentalism

Jacob Darwin Hamblin

Famines. Diseases. Natural catastrophes. In 1945, scientists imagined these as the future faces of war. The United States and its allies prepared for a global struggle against the Soviet Union by using science to extend "total war" ... ....

Beekeeping

A Novice's Guide

David Wootton

A beautifully illustrated book with over 150 photographs which takes the new beekeeper through their first 2 years of keeping bees.

Benefits of Investing in Water and Sanitation

An OECD Perspective

OECD: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

The provision of water supply, sanitation and wastewater services generates substantial benefits for public health, the economy and the environment. Benefits from the provision of basic water supply and sanitation services ...

Best Practice Guide on Sampling and Monitoring of Metals in Drinking Water

Adam Postawa

There is increasing concern regarding the presence of metals, particularly heavy metals in drinking water. In addition to the well-known toxic effects of lead, which are discussed at length in the Best Practice Guide on the Control of ... ....

Beyond Nature and Culture

Philippe Descola and Lloyd Janet

Successor to Claude Lévi-Strauss at the Collège de France, Philippe Descola has become one of the most important anthropologists working today, and Beyond Nature and Culture has been a major influence in European ... ....

Billion-dollar Fish

The Untold Story of Alaska Pollock

Kevin M Bailey

Alaska pollock is everywhere. If you're eating fish but you don't know what kind it is, it's almost certainly pollock. Prized for its generic fish taste, pollock masquerades as crab meat in California rolls and seafood salads ... ....

Building Stakeholder Relations and CSR

A Sensemaking Perspective

Barbara Fryzel

Corporate attempts to provide interpretations of business and to build effective communication with stakeholders are embedded in the proper understanding of local communities and their particular ways of looking at businesses, which is ... ....

Cold, Hungry and in the Dark

Exploding the Natural Gas Supply Myth

Bill Powers and Art Berman

Conventional wisdom has North America entering a new era of energy abundance thanks to shale gas. But has industry been honest? Cold, Hungry and in the Dark argues that declining productivity combined with increasing demand will ... ....

Ecosystem Services and Global Trade of Natural Resources

Ecology, Economics and policies

Thomas Koellner

The utilization of natural resources to satisfy worldwide growing consumption of goods and services has severe ecological consequences. Aside from the projected doubling of food consumption in the next fifty years, the growing trade of ... ....

Enough is Enough

Building a Sustainable Economy in a World of Finite Resources

Rob Dietz, Dan O'Neill and Herman Daly

We're overusing the earth's finite resources, and yet excessive consumption is failing to improve our lives. In Enough is Enough, Rob Dietz and Dan O'Neill lay out a visionary but realistic alternative to the perpetual ... ....

Environmental Law

Stuart Bell, Donald McGillivray and Ole Pedersen

Trusted by generations of students and academics alike, Donald McGillivray and Ole Pedersen provide a welcome update of this leading environmental law textbook. The 8th edition continues to provide broad and comprehensive coverage of the ... ....

Essbar

Wildpflanzen, Pilze, Muscheln fur die Naturkuche

Richard Mabey

This is a German translation of Collins Food for Free.

FAO in the 21st Century

Ensuring Food Security in a Changing World

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

Details our current knowledge of complex and interrelated challenges that are compounding efforts to achieve global food security. It discusses likely implications for the food and agriculture sector and for hunger and poverty reduction ... ....

From Me to We

The Five Transformational Commitments Required to Rescue the Planet, Your Organization, and Your Life

Bob Doppelt

In From Me to We, systems change expert Bob Doppelt reveals that most people today live a dream world, controlled by false perceptions and beliefs. The most deeply held illusion is that all organisms on Earth, including each of ... ....

Green Economy and Good Governance for Sustainable Development

Opportunities, Promises and Concerns

Jose Antonio Puppim de Oliveira

Much of the debate on green growth and environmental governance tends to be general in nature and is often conceptual or limited to single disciplines. Even though recent discussions on these topics have benefited from the accumulation ... ....

Green Materials for Sustainable Water Remediation and Treatment

Anuradha Mishra and James H. Clark

One of the most pervasive problems afflicting people throughout the world is inadequate access to clean water. Addressing these problems calls out for a tremendous amount of research to be conducted to identify robust new methods of ... ....

Handbook of Sustainable Engineering

Beyond Conventional Thinking and Current Practice

Kun-Mo Lee and Joanne Kauffman

As global society confronts the challenges of diminishing resources, ecological degradation, and climate change, engineers play a crucial role designing and building technologies and products that fulfil our needs for utility and ... ....

Hydrogeology of Arid Environments

Randolf Rausch, Christoph Schuth and Thomas Himmelsbach

In arid and semi-arid regions groundwater is often the only natural resource for water supply. Therefore, stakeholders face great challenges in managing this resource in a responsible way. The problem is further amplified by population ... ....

International Handbook of Research on Environmental Education

Robert Stevenson, Michael Brody, Justin Dillon and Arjen Wals

The environment and contested notions of sustainability are increasingly topics of public interest, political debate, and legislation across the world. Environmental education journals now publish research from a wide variety of methodologies ... ....

International Standard Units for Water and Wastewater Processes

WEF, AWWA and IWA

Published jointly by WEF, AWWA, and IWA, the updated 4th edition of WEF Manual of Practice no. 6 continues its goal to establish units of expression that are universally understandable and readily comparable for all design, operation ... ....

LASHIPA

History of Large Scale Resource Exploitation in Polar Areas

Louwrens Hacquebord

LASHIPA: History of Large Scale Resource Exploitation in Polar Areas contains most of the papers presented at the final LASHIPA workshop in St Petersburg, Russia 2-4 November 2009. The workshop was organized to finalize the bilateral ... ....

Landscape Facets

Reflections and Proposals for the Implementation of the European Landscape Convention

Council of Europe (CoE)

The European Landscape Convention was adopted under the auspices of the Council of Europe with the aim of promoting the protection, management and planning of European landscape and organising European co-operation in this area.

Living with Oil

Promises, Peaks, and Declines on Mexico's Gulf Coast

Lisa Breglia

For decades, Mexico has been one of the world's top non-OPEC oil exporters, but since the 2004 peak and subsequent decline of the massive offshore oilfield – Cantarell – the prospects for the country have worsened.

Looking Ahead in World Food and Agriculture

Perspectives to 2050

Piero Conforti

Are the natural resources available sufficient to feed a growing population? What are the priority areas where investment and research should be directed? How may the use of agricultural products in biofuel production affect markets? ....

Natural Resources and Conflict in Africa

The Tragedy of Endowment

Abiodun Alao

Conflict over natural resources has made Africa the focus of international attention, particularly during the last decade. From oil in Nigeria and diamonds in the Democratic Republic of Congo, to land in Zimbabwe and water in the Horn of Africa ... ....

Nutzung und Nachhaltigkeit Naturlicher Ressourcen

(Use and Sustainability of Natural Resources)

Horst Quade

Scarcity and continuous demand for raw materials require the use of modern technologies in domestic exploration and production. The contributions to Nutzung und Nachhaltigkeit Natürlicher Ressourcen highlight the ...

Plant Genetic Resources and Food Security

Stakeholder Perspectives on the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture

Christine Frison, Francisco Lopez and Jose T Esquinas-Alcazar

"The International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA) is a pivotal piece of recent legislation, providing a route map for the use of such resources for sustainable agriculture and food security. ....

Plant-Thinking

A Philosophy of Vegetal Life

Michael P Marder, Gianni Vattimo and Santiago Zabala

The margins of philosophy are populated by non-human, non-animal living beings, including plants. While contemporary philosophers tend to refrain from raising ontological and ethical concerns with vegetal life, Michael Marder puts this ... ....

Post-harvest Fish Loss Assessment in Small-scale Fisheries

A Guide for the Extension Officer

Yvette Diei-Ouadi and Yahya I Mgawe

The purpose of these guidelines is to update and expand the original guidelines on protected areas legislation published in 1980 and to reflect new developments and emerging issues. These developments include significant advances in ... ....

Reckless

The Political Assault on the American Environment

Bob Deans and Robert Redford

Republicans regained control of the U.S. House of Representatives in 2010 at a time of unprecedented global challenge and change. Instead of devoting the next year to embracing opportunity amid turmoil, though, the lawmakers waged the ... ....

Renewable Energy in the Countryside

Peter Prag

Climate change has become a major international issue and the British Government is committed to meeting ambitious targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions within the present decade and beyond. Much of this will rely on an increasing ... ....

Success with Chickens

The What, Where and Why of Trouble-free Chicken Keeping

J. C. Jeremy Hobson

Who would have thought that keeping chickens would ever become a lifestyle objective rather than as was the case a few years ago, a pastime generally indulged in at the bottom of the garden by a few middle-aged men?

Sustainable Materials - with Both Eyes Open

Future Buildings, Vehicles, Products and Equipment - Made Efficiently and Made with Less New Material

Julian Allwood and Jonathan M. Cullen

The world target is to reduce industry's carbon emissions by 50% by 2050. However, projections are that world demand for materials will DOUBLE by 2050, so to meet our emissions target, we have to achieve a 4-fold reduction in emissions ... ....

The Derrick Jensen Reader

Writings on Environment Revolution

Derick Jensen and Lierre Keith

Derrick Jensen has spent years on the front lines resisting environmental devastation with one acclaimed work after another. Now, newcomers and die-hard fans alike find can find his most electrifying writings in this single volume that ... ....

The One-Straw Revolution

Masonobu Fukuoka, Frances Moore Lappe, Wendell Berry and Larry Korn

Masanobu Fukuoka's book about growing food has been changing the lives of readers since it was first published in 1978. It is a call to arms, a manifesto, and a radical rethinking of the global systems we rely on to feed us all. ....

The Quest for Sustainable Business

An Epic Journey in Search of Corporate Responsibility

Wayne Visser

In January 2010, author, academic and social entrepreneur Dr Wayne Visser set off on a nine-month, 20-country "quest" to talk to entrepreneurs, business leaders and innovators and learn about how companies in all parts of the ... ....

Unlearn, Rewild

Earth Skills, Ideas & Inspiration for the Future Primitive

Miles Olson

Picture a world where humans exist, like all other living things, in balance. Where there is no separation between "human" and "wild". Unlearn, Rewild boldly envisions such a world, probing deeply into the ... ....

Urban Hydroinformatics

Data, Models and Decision Support for Integrated Urban Water Management

Roland Price and Zoran Vojinovic

Urban Hydroinformatics is an introduction to hydroinformatics applied to urban water management. It shows how to make the best use of information and communication technologies for manipulating information to manage water in the ... ....

Utility Benchmarking and Regulation in Developing Countries

Practical Application of Performance Monitoring and Incentives

Silver Mugisha

Utility performance, especially in developing countries is still working toward the standard necessary to deliver best practice. Utility Benchmarking and Regulation in Developing Countries examines performance monitoring and ... ....

Valuing Water, Valuing Livelihoods

Guidance on Social Cost-benefit Analysis of Drinking-water Interventions, with Special Reference to Small Community Wate

J Cameron, P Hunter, P Jagals and K Pond

The aim of Valuing Water, Valuing Livelihoods is to give decision-makers, health professionals and analysts a comprehensive view of the arguments and challenges associated with establishing the value of drinking-water intervention ... ....

Virtualism, Governance and Practice

Vision and Execution in Environmental Conservation

James G Carrier and Paige West

Many people investigating the operation of large-scale environmentalist organizations see signs of power, knowledge and governance in their policies and projects. Virtualism, Governance and Practice indicates that such an analysis ... ....

Water Footprint and Corporate Water Accounting for Resource Efficiency

Water and Energy

Threats and Opportunities

Gustaf Olsson

Water and Energy: Threats and Opportunities creates an awareness of the important couplings between water and energy. It shows how energy is used in all the various water cycle operations and demonstrates how water is used ... ....

Handbook of Meta-analysis in Ecology and Evolution

Julia Koricheva, Jessica Gurevitch and Kerrie L Mengersen

Meta-analysis is a powerful statistical methodology for synthesizing research evidence across independent studies. This is the first comprehensive handbook of meta-analysis written specifically for ecologists and evolutionary biologists ... ....

Inquiry Biology

A Laboratory Manual, Volume 2

This introductory biology laboratory manual is inquiry-based – instructing in the process of science by allowing students to ask their own questions, gather background information, formulate hypotheses, design and carry out experiments ... ....

Principles of Geographical Information Systems

Peter A Burrough, Rachael A McDonnell and Christopher D Lloyd

Geographical data are used in so many aspects of our lives today, ranging from disaster relief operations through to finding directions on our mobile phones. We can all be data collectors, adding locational information as we capture digital ... ....

Sequential Analysis and Observational Methods for the Behavioral Sciences

Roger Bakeman and Vicenc Quera

Behavioral scientists – including those in psychology, infant and child development, education, animal behavior, marketing and usability studies – use many methods to measure behavior. Systematic observation is used to study ... ....

An English-Japanese-Chinese Dictionary of Edible Fungi

Xu Chongjing

A trilingual dictionary to edible fungi.

Designing Science Presentations

A Visual Guide to Figures, Papers, Slides, Posters, and More

Matt Carter

Clear, polished, and stimulating presentations are as important to the scientific profession as they are to business, yet most scientists never receive formal training in the creation, delivery, and evaluation of such material.

Library and Information Science in Developing Countries

Contemporary Issues

A. Tella and A. O. Issa

Explores the relationship between global technology development and the impact of new technologies on library practice, library education, and information science. Book chapters and case studies in Library and Information Science in ... ....

Scientific Integrity

Francis L Macrina

Scientific Integrity, 4th Edition, presents an important revision of a best-selling text in the expanding field of responsible conduct of research training. Retaining the format and user-friendly design of previous editions ... ....