Horses: Breeds, Cultures, Traditions

Susanna Cottica and Luca Paparelli

Certain to inspire unbridled pleasure in horse lovers and nature photography enthusiasts, this magnificent volume celebrates 50 horse breeds and the leading institutions of equestrian culture around the globe.

My Year with Hares

Martin Hayward Smith and Raymond Mears

My Year with Hares is one man's personal account of the year he spent with a group of hares in North Norfolk. Martin Hayward Smith is a professional wildlife cameraman and photographer; he has travelled extensively ... ....

RSPB Spotlight: Foxes

Mike Unwin

Hero or villain? Few animals divide opinion like the red fox. This most successful of the world's wild canids has lived alongside people from time immemorial. Celebrated by some for its resourcefulness and lush pelt, reviled by others ... ....

The Eurasian Beaver

Roisín Campbell-Palmer, Derek Gow, Robert Needham, Simon Jones and Frank Rosell

The Eurasian beaver was near extinction at the start of the twentieth century, hunted across Europe for its fur, meat and castoreum. But now the beaver is on the brink of a comeback, with wild beaver populations, licensed and unlicensed ... ....

The Maze Book

Theories, Practice and Protocols for Testing Rodent Cognition

Heather A Bimonte-Nelson

This vibrant collection delivers a laboratory roadmap of testing cognition in the rodent. While rodents and mazes are the main center and focus of The Maze Book: Theories, Practice and Protocols for Testing Rodent Cognition ... ....

Wolves on the Hunt

The Behavior of Wolves Hunting Wild Prey

L David Mech, Douglas W Smith and Daniel R MacNulty

The interactions between apex predators and their prey are some of the most awesome and meaningful in nature – displays of strength, endurance, and a deep coevolutionary history. And there is perhaps no apex predator more impressive ... ....

A Photographic Guide to Some Common Birds of Aravallis

Shriyans Bhandari

This book contains more than 200 colour photos of 80 species of birds commonly found in the Aravalli region (Rajasthan, Haryana, and Gujarat). One main picture and a few additional pictures of each bird species, from different angles ... ....

Birds of Hertfordshire

Ken W Smith, Chris W Dee, Jack D Fearnside, Mike Ilett, Tom Gladwin, Graham White and Alan Harris

Birds of Hertfordshire is a full county avifauna covering all the species ever recorded in the county. The species accounts detail the records and patterns of occurrence for all our common garden birds through to the most exotic ... ....

Birds of Peninsular Malaysia - MP3 Sound Collection

Peter Boesman

The bird-rich peninsula of Malaysia has world-famous birding places like Fraser's Hill and Taman Negara. This MP3-DVD brings for the first time an extensive collection of Birdsounds covering the entire Peninsula.

Birds: A Portrait in Pictures and Words

Charlotte Fraser

From the majestic, powerful birds of prey that soar over the countryside to the petite and playful finches and sparrows that we welcome into our gardens, the magnificent swoop and enchanting song of our feathered friends inspires awe in ... ....

Collins BTO Guide to British Birds

Paul Sterry and Paul Stancliffe

In a unique new collaboration, Collins have paired up with the respected British Trust for Ornithology, bringing together the most authoritative and up-to-date information in this new field guide to the common birds of Britain and Ireland ... ....

Cuckoo: Cheating by Nature

Nick Davies

The cuckoo is Nature's most famous cheat, regularly manipulating and deceiving other species into raising their young. Nick Davies exposes these generally plain-looking birds to be some of the most cunning and inventive creatures in ... ....

Gowk the Cuckoo

Call of the Spring

John Miles and Barry Robson

Tells the story of the long migratory journey of the cuckoo and the perils along the way.

Horus the Peregrine Falcon

Catch the Pigeon

John Miles and Barry Robson

Tells the story of a peregrine falcon family rearing their offspring in London.

Native Birds of New Zealand

David Hallett

Native Birds of New Zealand is a photographic book of New Zealand native birds that will appeal to the casual bird-watcher as well as the ornithologist. Many books in the past have been aimed at the serious ornithologist, with ... ....

Naturalist's Guide to the Birds of Britain & Northern Ireland

Peter Goodfellow and Paul Sterry

An entry-level photographic identification guide to the commoner birds of Britain and Northern Europe. It features 280 species that the amateur naturalist might expect to see in the field or garden. It also covers geography, climate ... ....

Naturalist's Guide to the Garden Birds of Britain & Northern Europe

Peter Goodfellow and Paul Sterry

An easy-to-use identification guide to 90 bird species most commonly seen in or over the gardens of Britain, Ireland and other parts of Northern Europe. Authoritative text describes key identification features. Overview of classification ... ....

Peregrine Falcon

Patrick Stirling-Aird

Reaching speeds in excess of 200 miles per hour, the Peregrine Falcon is famous as the world's fastest bird. However, its penchant for choosing inaccessible places to breed, feed and roost mean that few people are well acquainted with ... ....

RSPB Spotlight: Robins

Marianne Taylor

Their melodious voices, bright red breasts and cheeky attitudes have always endeared Robins to the public, but how much do we really know about these familiar garden visitors? The characteristic image of a Robin on a spade handle is actually ... ....

The Barnacle Goose

Jeffrey M Black, Jouke Prop and Kjell Larsson

The Barnacle Goose, a distinctive, handsome black-and-white bird, gets its name from a mediaeval myth that the birds hatched from barnacles – how else to explain their sudden appearance each autumn in northern Britain? We now know ... ....

The Biggest Twitch

Around the World in 4,000 Birds

Alan Davies and Ruth Miller

Most people dream of packing in their humdrum city life, selling up and heading off into the unknown for a life of adventure. For Ruth Miller and Alan Davies this dream became a reality, albeit with a twist; they decided to pack in their ... ....

The British Museum Birds

Mavis Pilbeam

The British Museum's vast collections include wonderful images of birds from all over the world. Some are primarily decorative, whereas Thomas Bewick and the Japanese artist Kitagawa Utamaro chose to show birds in realistic detail ... ....

The Eurasian Hobby

Dietrich Fiuczynski and Paul Sommer

Apart from the lesser spotted eagle, only two predatory birds of our forests brood in midsummer: the honey buzzard (Pernis apivorus), which is a specialized wasps hunter, and the Eurasian hobby (Falco subbuteo). The late breeding season ... ....

The Joy of Birdwatching

For Those Who Love Seeing Birds in the Wild

Alan Davies and Ruth Miller

This pocket-sized miscellany, packed with fascinating facts, handy hints and captivating stories and quotes from the world of birds, is perfect for anyone who knows the incomparable joy of twitching.

Why Did the Chicken Cross the World?

The Epic Saga of the Bird That Powers Civilization

Andrew Lawler

From ancient empires to modern economics, veteran journalist Andrew Lawler delivers a sweeping history of the animal that has been most crucial to the spread of civilization across the globe – the chicken. Queen Victoria ... ....

Handbook of Larval Amphibians of the United States and Canada

Ronald Altig, Roy W McDiarmid and Aaron M Bauer

Generously illustrated, this essential handbook for herpetologists, ecologists, and naturalists features comprehensive keys to eggs, embryos, salamander larvae, and tadpoles; species accounts; a glossary of terms; and an extensive bibliography ... ....

Photographic Guide to Snakes, Other Reptiles and Amphibians of East Africa

Bill Branch

This compact guide to East Africa’s snakes, other reptiles and amphibians has long been a trusted travelling companion on trips to the wildlife areas and nature reserves of the region. Now comprehensively revised, expanded and updated ... ....

The Texas Tortoise

A Natural History

Francis L Rose and Frank W Judd

Remnants of an ancient lineage, tortoises date back to the Eocene. Among the five species remaining in North America, Texas tortoises are the smallest in size and inhabit some of the harshest arid environments known. They are also the most ... ....

Venomous Reptiles and Their Toxins

Evolution, Pathophysiology and Biodiscovery

Bryan Fry

Venom research and technology has advanced greatly, rapidly transforming the area of reptile venom. Research developments-like the development of molecular systematics-provide the framework necessary to reconstruct the evolutionary history ... ....

Extremophile Fishes

Ecology, Evolution, and Physiology of Teleosts in Extreme Environments

Ruediger Riesch, Michael Tobler and Martin Plath

Extremophile Fishes summarizes the key adaptations enabling extremophile fishes to survive under harsh environmental conditions. It reviews the most recent research on acidic, Antarctic, cave, desert, hypersaline, hypoxic ... ....

Fishes of Afghanistan

Brian W Coad

Fishes of Afghanistan provides a guide and general overview to the fish fauna of Afghanistan, comprising 85 species in 10 families. Fishes of Afghanistan has an Introduction covering materials and methods, a description ... ....

Goldfish in Hong Kong

Man Shek-Hay and Ronald Leung Ding-Bong

From the book's preface: "Goldfish are probably the oldest aquarium fish in the world. The fish were developed from their wildtype ancestors more than a thousand years ago by the Chinese. Never has man developed a fish ... ....

The President's Salmon

Restoring the King of Fish and its Home Waters

Catherine Schmitt

Every spring, for thousands of years, the rivers that empty into the North Atlantic Ocean turn silver with migrating fish. Among the crowded schools once swam the King of Fish, the Atlantic salmon. From New York to Labrador, from Russia ... ....

A Field Guide to the Tiger Beetles of the United States and Canada

Identification, Natural History, and Distribution of the Cicindelinae

David L Pearson

An updated handbook of the identification, distribution, natural history, and habitat details of tiger beetles in North America.

A Guide to Spiders of Australia

Volker W Framenau, Barbara C Baehr and Paul Zborowski

This definitive guide to the subject, written by three experts in the field, offers a window into a fascinating world. Notorious species such as the Redback and the Sydney Funnel-web sit alongside less well known but equally intriguing ... ....

Acarorum Catalogus, Volume 3

Parasitiformes: Opilioacarida, Holothyrida, Mesostigmata

Petar Beron

The third volume of the series Acarorum Catalogus is focused on the orders Opilioacarida and Holothyrida and on nine families of Mesostigmata (Parasitiformes) of the world. Herein are listed 422 species, with synonymies and citations ... ....

Backyard Bees

A Guide for the Beginner Beekeeper

Doug Purdie

Just about anyone can keep bees. All you need is a bit of space in your backyard (or on your rooftop) and a little love for the creatures that pollinate the vegie patches of your neighbourhood. Once introduced to the charms of beekeeping ... ....

Bug Bingo

Christine Berrie

This beautifully illustrated bingo game features 64 species of bugs from around the world. Identify all kinds of insects – from the Giant Hawker Dragonfly to the Kissing Bug and the Orchid Bee to the Sacred Scarab – mark them ... ....

Butterflies of the World

Adrian Hoskins

A lavishly illustrated book covering the butterflies of the world with informative text written by an expert author who has spent many years watching and studying Lepidoptera around the world. Opening chapters cover the evolution, anatomy ... ....

Butterflies of the World, Part 40: Nymphalidae XXIV: Charaxes 7. Palla and Euxanthe (Afrotropical Charaxinae)

B Turlin

This volume deals with the genera Palla and Euxanthe in the subfamily Charaxinae.

Butterflies of the World, Part 41: Papilionidae XV: Troides V and Trogonoptera

O Schaeffler, K Rumbucher and T Dufek

This volume deals with the genus Trogonoptera and part of the genus Troides.

Butterflies of the World, Supplement 23 [French]

Charaxes, Afrotropicale 5

B Turlin

This supplement deals with the genus Charaxes.

Butterflies of the World, Supplement 24 [French]

Les Acraeinae Fabricius, 1807: Liste Systematique, Synonymique et Liste des Noms Infrasubspecifiques

J Pierre and D Bernaud

This volumes deals with the subfamily Acraeinae and contains a systematic list,, list of synonyms and a list of subspecies names.

Catalogue of Ants of Europe, the Mediterranean Basin and Adjacent Regions (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

Lech Borowiec

This is a special issue of Genus: International Journal of Invertebrate Taxonomy This is a catalogue of the 1261 species of ants recorded from the region, with country data, list of synonyms and comments.

Dragonflies: Magnificent Creatures of Water, Air and Land

Pieter van Dokkum

Almost without our noticing, dragonflies dart through our world, flying, seeing, hunting, mating. Their lives are as mysterious as their gossamer wings are beautiful. In Dragonflies: Magnificent Creatures of Water, Air and Land ... ....

Marine Bivalve Molluscs

Elizabeth Gosling

Marine Bivalve Molluscs is a comprehensive and thoroughly updated second edition of Bivalve Molluscs, covering all major aspects of this important class of invertebrates. As well as being an important class biologically and ecologically ... ....

Monarchs in a Changing World

Biology and Conservation of an Iconic Butterfly

Karen S Oberhauser, Kelly R Nail and Sonia Altizer

Monarch butterflies are among the most popular insect species in the world and are an icon for conservation groups and environmental education programs. Monarch caterpillars and adults are easily recognizable as welcome visitors to gardens ... ....

Naturalist's Guide to the Insects of Britain & Northern Ireland

Robert Read and Paul Sterry

An easy-to-use identification guide to 280 insect species most commonly seen in Britain, Ireland and other parts of Northern Europe. Authoritative text describes key identification features. Overview of habitats, life-cycles and the ... ....

Parasitology: A Conceptual Approach

Eric S Loker and Bruce Hofkin

Parasitology: A Conceptual Approach focuses on the conceptual basis of parasitology, with the goal of providing students with an enriched view of parasites and their biology. Concentrating on concepts will enable readers to gain ... ....

Physiological Regulation

Ernest S Chang and Martin Thiel

The first comprehensive overview of comparative physiology of crustaceans in two decades, bringing crustacean biology up to the 21st century.

Registry of World Record Size Shells

Over 4000 Changes since the last Edition

Registry of World Record Size Shells

This continuously updated registry lists world record shell sizes (given in mm). The 11th edition contains over 4 000 changes since the last edition. Size continues to be an issue among shell collectors and researchers.

Schmetterlinge: Die Tagfalter Deutschland

Josef Settele, Roland Steiner, Rolf Reinhardt, Reinart Feldmann and Gabriel Hermann

This comprehensive nature guide contains all non-alpine butterfly species native to Germany. Each species is presented in a portrait gallery with two to three brilliant photos showing the most commonly found stages of development.

The Brown Recluse Spider

Richard S Vetter

The brown recluse is a fascinating spider very well adapted to dwelling in houses and other buildings. Because of this very quality and the ghastly reputation associated with the medical consequences of its bite, it has become infamous ... ....

The Butterflies of Thailand, Volume 2

Lycaenidae

Yunosuke Kimura, Toshiski Aoki, Shuhei Yamaguchi, Yoshinobu Uemura and Tamamitsu Saito

The second volume focuses on the Lycaenidae.

The Smaller Moths of Shropshire

Their Status, Distribution and Ecology

Godfrey Blunt

Based on approximately 18 500 records covering over 800 species, this is the first ever published atlas of the smaller moths (Microlepidoptera) of Shropshire. Located in west-central England on the border with Wales ....

The Soul of an Octopus

A Playful Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness

Sy Montgomery

In 2011 Sy Montgomery wrote a feature for Orion magazine entitled 'Deep Intellect' about her friendship with a sensitive, sweet-natured octopus named Athena and the grief she felt at her death. It went viral, indicating ... ....

ZooKeys 455: An Anotated Checklist of the Chrysidid Wasps (Hymenoptera, Chrysididae) from China

Paolo Rosa, Na-Sen Wei and Zai-Fu Xu

The Chrysididae, commonly known as cuckoo wasps or goldwasps, are a cosmo­politan family and have the greatest diversity in the Palaearctic Region. The present paper presents an annotated checklist of the Chinese Chrysididae.

ZooKeys 457: Proceedings of the Summer Meeting of the Crustacean Society and the Latin American Association of Carcinolo

Ingo S Wehrtmann and Raymond T Bauer

This special proceedings volume of ZooKeys contains selected contributions presented during the Summer Meeting of The Crustacean Society and the Latin American Association of Carcinology, which was held during 07–11 July ... ....

ZooKeys 458: Review of Gasteruption Latreille (Hymenoptera, Gasteruptiidae) from Iran and Turkey, with the description o

Cornelius van Achterberg and Ali Asghar Talebi

The family Gasteruptiidae, also known as carrot wasps, is a small cosmopolitan group of wasps with about 500 described species. Gasteruptiidae are traditionally classified in the superfamily Evanioidea, together with the Aulacidae and ... ....

ZooKeys 460: A Survey of Linyphiid Spiders from Xishuangbanna, Yunnan Province, China (Araneae, Linyphiidae)

Qingyuan Zhao and Shuqiang Li

The family Linyphiidae is the second most diverse group of spiders worldwide. It contains about 4 500 described species and 590 genera. Linyphiids are easily diagnosed by their separate paracymbium, complex structure of copulative ... ....

Ammonoid Paleobiology: From Anatomy to Ecology

Christian Klug, Dieter Korn, Kenneth de Baets, Isabelle Kruta and Royal H Mapes

This book is the first part of a two-volume work, and is a testament to the abiding interest and human fascination with ammonites. We offer a new model to explain the morphogenesis of septa and the shell, we explore their habitats by the ... ....

Ammonoid Paleobiology: From Anatomy to Ecology, and from Macroevolution to Paleogeography (2-Volume Set)

Christian Klug, Dieter Korn, Kenneth de Baets, Isabelle Kruta and Royal H Mapes

This two-volume work is a testament to the abiding interest and human fascination with ammonites. We offer a new model to explain the morphogenesis of septa and the shell, we explore their habitats by the content of stable isotopes in the ... ....

Ammonoid Paleobiology: From Macroevolution to Paleogeography

Christian Klug, Dieter Korn, Kenneth de Baets, Isabelle Kruta and Royal H Mapes

This book is the second part of a two-volume work, and is a testament to the abiding interest and human fascination with ammonites. We offer a new model to explain the morphogenesis of septa and the shell, we explore their habitats by the ... ....

Extinct Animals of the British Isles

Justin Gerlach

Altogether 136 animal species have become extinct in the British Isles over the past thousand years. Extinct Animals of the British Isles describes many of these extinctions, from familiar species such as the wolf and the iconic ... ....

Fossiles de la Prehistoire Charentaise

Didier Neraudeau and Romain Vullo

A total of 400 photographs illustrate more than 350 plant and animal fossil species that line the Charentes, France, and its margins (Vendée, Poitou, Limousin, Périgord and Gironde). From plants to vertebrates and invertebrates ... ....

Neogene Micropaleontology and Stratigraphy in Argentina

The Chaco-Paranense Basin and Península de Valdes

Hugo Marengo

The micropalaeontologic composition and some sedimentologic features were studied in 18 boreholes in the Chacoparanense and Salado Basins, and it was evaluated information from about 180 additional boreholes.

Palaeontos 25: Osteologie et Phylogenie des Coccodontidae / Osteologie et Relations Phylogenetiques des Gebrayelich

L Taverne and L Capasso

This volume contains three papers: ...

Palaeontos 26: The Elasmobranch Fauna of the Thalberg Beds, Early Egerian (Chattian, Oligocene), in the Subalpine Molass

Thomas Reinecke, Markus Balsberger, Bernhard Beaury and J??rgen Pollersp? ck

A single bed of conglomeratic, fossil-rich marls intercalated in siliciclastic Lower Egerian deposits (informally denoted as Thalberg Beds, middle to late Chattian, Late Oligocene) yields a diverse elasmobranch fauna.

Palaeopathology in Egypt and Nubia

A Century in Review

Ryan Metcalfe, Jenefer Cockitt and Rosalie David

Sixteen papers explore the subject of palaeopathology in Egypt and Nubia from its beginnings in the early 1900s through to current research themes and the impact of technological development in the field.

Special Papers in Palaeontology, Number 92

Trilobites from the Silurian Reefs in North Greenland

Helen Hughes and Alan T Thomas

Varied and well preserved trilobite fossils are described from Silurian reefs in North Greenland. The faunas comprise 23 new species, and four new genera. The large number of new taxa reflects a previous lack of sampling of Silurian reef ... ....

Wild Things

Recent Advances in Palaeolithic and Mesolithic Research

Frederick WF Foulds, Helen C Drinkall, Angela R Perri, David TG Clinnick and James WP Walker

Recently, Palaeolithic and Mesolithic archaeology has been breaking boundaries worldwide. Finds such as the Mesolithic house at Howick, the sequencing of the Neanderthal genome, and the recently discovered footprints at Happisburgh all ... ....

Beneath Cold Seas

The Underwater Wilderness of the Pacific Northwest

David Hall, Christopher Newbert and Sarika Cullis-Suzuki

In Beneath Cold Seas, author and photographer David Hall takes us into the underwater world of the Pacific Coast from California to Alaska, home to the most diverse and spectacular marine life of any temperate or cold-water ecosystems ... ....

Wildlife Under the Waves

Jurgen Freund and Stella Chiu-Freund

This collection of stunning images is a showcase for the work of the world's greatest underwater wildlife photographers. It includes beautifully composed and rarely seen images illustrating the full diversity of marine life, from ... ....

A Botanical Arrangement of All the Vegetables Naturally Growing in Great Britain (2-Volume Set)

With Descriptions of the Genera and Species, According to the System of the Celebrated Linnaeus

William Withering

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. This two-volume milestone work, published in 1776, was the first major publication of William Withering (1741–99), a physician who had also ...

A Botanical Arrangement of All the Vegetables Naturally Growing in Great Britain, Volume 1

With Descriptions of the Genera and Species, According to the System of the Celebrated Linnaeus

William Withering

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. This two-volume milestone work, published in 1776, was the first major publication of William Withering (1741–99), a physician who had also ...

A Botanical Arrangement of All the Vegetables Naturally Growing in Great Britain, Volume 2

With Descriptions of the Genera and Species, According to the System of the Celebrated Linnaeus

William Withering

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. This two-volume milestone work, published in 1776, was the first major publication of William Withering (1741–99), a physician who had also ...

A Centennial History of the Ecological Society of America

Frank N Egerton

Celebrating its 100th anniversary in 2014, the Ecological Society of America (ESA) is currently the largest professional society devoted to the science of ecology. Divided into seven chapters ...

A Walking Guide to the Cornish Mining World Heritage Site

Robert Westwood

A Walking Guide to the Cornish Mining World Heritage Site suggests ten walks in nine of the Areas that comprise the Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape World Heritage Site, each played a major part in the development of British ... ....

America's Great Hiking Trails

Appalachian, Pacific Crest, Continental Divide, North Country, Ice Age, Potomac Heritage, Florida, Natchez Trace, Arizon

Karen Berger, Bart Smith and Bill McKibben

A hiker's dream bucket list is embodied in this lavishly illustrated celebration of more than 50 000 miles of America's most iconic trails. Celebrating the forty most important trails in America ...

An Agrarian Republic

Farming, Antislavery Politics, and Nature Parks in the Civil War Era

Adam Wesley Dean

The familiar story of the Civil War tells of a predominately agricultural South pitted against a rapidly industrializing North. However, Adam Wesley Dean argues that the Republican Party's political ideology was fundamentally agrarian ... ....

An Environmental History of Medieval Europe

Richard C Hoffman

How did medieval Europeans use and change their environments, think about the natural world, and try to handle the natural forces affecting their lives? This groundbreaking environmental history examines medieval relationships with the ... ....

Anatomy and the Problem of Behaviour

George E Coghill

Originally published in 1929, Anatomy and the Problem of Behaviour contains the text of three lectures by George Coghill on the subject of the anatomical basis for typical behavioural development in animals. Coghill takes salamander ... ....

Animals and Early Modern Identity

Pia F Cuneo

Animals were everywhere in the early modern period and they impacted, at least in some way, the lives of every kind of early modern person, from the humblest peasant to the greatest prince. Artists made careers based on depicting them. ....

Arctic Ambitions

Captain Cook and the Northwest Passage

James K Barnett, David L Nicandri and Robin Inglis

Captain James Cook is justly famous for his explorations of the southern Pacific Ocean, but his contributions to the exploration of the northern Pacific and the Arctic are arguably equally significant. On his third and final great voyage ... ....

Beastly Possessions

Animals in Victorian Consumer Culture

Sarah Amato

In Beastly Possessions, Sarah Amato chronicles the unusual ways in which Victorians of every social class brought animals into their daily lives. Captured, bred, exhibited, collected, and sold, ordinary pets and exotic creatures ... ....

Behold, the Dinosaurs!

Dustin Harbin

Can you name over 100 Dinosaurs off the top of your head? Do you know which of them came first? Which of them went first? Which were the tallest and longest and which were the smallest and shortest? Which of them by travelled by land and ... ....

Cape Cod

An Environmental History of a Fragile Ecosystem

John T Cumbler

To many, Cape Cod represents the classic setting for an American summer vacation. Attracting seasonal tourists with picturesque beaches and abundant seafood, the Cape has held a place in our national imagination for almost two hundred years ... ....

Cats: The British Museum

Delia Pemberton

Cats were first domesticated or, more likely, noticed a warm fireside and chose to domesticate themselves many thousands of years ago. Over the centuries they have performed a useful role as pest controllers, but much more as friends and ... ....

Cicerone Guide: 100 Hut Walks in the Alps

Routes for Day and Multi-Day Walks

Kev Reynolds

This popular guidebook by Alpine expert Kev Reynolds describes 100 routes to suit Alpine walkers of all abilities, with suggestions for some hut-to-hut tours. The routes are grouped, first under the individual country, and covers France ... ....

Ciliary Movement

J Gray

Originally published in 1928 as part of the Cambridge Comparative Physiology series, Ciliary Movement examines the importance of cilia in the lives of many invertebrate animals. Gray demonstrates how cilia, not muscle ... ....

Comparative Physiology of the Heart

AJ Clark

Originally published in 1927 as part of the Cambridge Comparative Physiology series, Comparative Physiology of the Heart examines the composition and function of the heart in a range of animals, both vertebrates and invertebrates ... ....

Cotton, Climate, and Camels in Early Islamic Iran

A Moment in World History

Richard W Bulliet

A boom in the production and export of cotton made Iran the richest region of the Islamic caliphate in the ninth and tenth centuries. Yet in the eleventh century, Iran's impressive agricultural economy entered a steep decline, bringing ... ....

Crown of the Continent

The Wildest Rockies

Steven Gnam and Douglas H Chadwick

Far from the beaten path for many Americans, the northern Rocky Mountains feature two popular national parks, fertile ranch land, and some of the most unspoiled and intact landscapes in North America. This so-called Crown of the Continent ... ....

Darwin's Sciences

Duncan M Porter and Peter Graham

A complete scientific biography of Darwin that takes into account the latest research findings, both published and unpublished, on the life of this remarkable man. Considered the first book to thoroughly emphasize Darwin's research ... ....

Dorset from the Sea

The Jurassic Coast from Lyme Regis to Old Harry Rocks Photographed from its Best Viewpoint ... the Sea

Steve Belasco

Please note that this book is available as a regular edition measuring 25 × 25 cm, and a physically smaller souvenir edition measuring 17 × 17 cm. Many publications highlight the beauty of this area ... ....

Exhibiting Animals in Nineteenth-century Britain

Empathy, Education, Entertainment

Helen Cowie

In an era of overseas exploration and imperial expansion, exotic animals were among the many foreign commodities to appear on British soil. They were a source of fascination to people across the social spectrum and served simultaneously ... ....

Expedition into Empire

Exploratory Journeys and the Making of the Modern World

Martin Thomas

Expeditionary journeys have shaped our world, but the expedition as a cultural form is rarely scrutinized. Expedition into Empire is the first major investigation of the conventions and social practices embedded in team-based ... ....

Experiments and Observations Concerning Agriculture and the Weather

William Marshall

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. William Marshall (1745–1818), from farming stock, became a farmer and then estate manager and land agent after several years conducting business ... ....

Father to Son

Truth, Reason and Decency

James D Watson

At the age of 24, James Watson had a scientific discovery to his credit – the structure of DNA – that would win a Nobel Prize and forever change our understanding of genes and inheritance. Now, after a lifetime of accomplishment ... ....

Flight from Wonder

An Investigation of Scientific Creativity

Albert Rothenberg

Scientific breakthroughs have had far-reaching social and physical effects on modern civilization, yet until recently, there have been relatively few investigations into the nature of scientific creativity itself.

Flora Domestica

Or the Portable Flower-Garden

Elizabeth Kent

Elizabeth Kent (1790–1861) lived in London, but wanted to live in the country. Dismayed at the number of pot-plants given to her which failed to thrive, she published this useful guide to container or 'portable' gardening ... ....

Forests in Revolutionary France

Conservation, Community, and Conflict, 1669-1848

Kieko Matteson

Forests in Revolutionary France investigates the economic, strategic, and political importance of forests in early modern and modern Europe and shows how struggles over this vital natural resource both shaped and reflected the ... ....

Humoral Agents in Nervous Activity

With Special Reference to Chromatophores

GH Parker

Originally published in 1932, Humoral Agents in Nervous Activity examines how hormones and nervous impulses affect the body, with special reference to animals with colour-changing abilities. Parker gives examples from various ... ....

Illustrations of the Viscous Theory of Glacier Motion

And Three Papers on Glaciers by John Tyndall

James D Forbes and John Tyndall

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. Illustrations of the Viscous Theory of Glacier Motion brings together works published between 1846 and 1859 by the Scot James D. Forbes ...

Inorganic Plant Poisons and Stimulants

Winifred E Brenchley

First published in 1927 as the second edition of a 1914 original, Inorganic Plant Poisons and Stimulants examines the effect of various inorganic substances on the growth of plants. Brenchley performs experiments to prove that ... ....

Judy: A Dog in a Million

The Heartwarming Story of WWII's Only Animal Prisoner of War

Damien Lewis

Judy, a beautiful liver and white English pointer, and the only animal POW of WWII, truly was a dog in a million, cherished and adored by the British, Australian, American and other Allied servicemen who fought to survive alongside her. ....

Ladies' Botany (2-Volume Set)

Or, a Familiar Introduction to the Study of the Natural System of Botany

John Lindley

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. The horticulturalist John Lindley (1799–1865) worked for Sir Joseph Banks, and was later instrumental in saving the Royal Horticultural Society ...

Ladies' Botany, Volume 1

Or, a Familiar Introduction to the Study of the Natural System of Botany

John Lindley

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. The horticulturalist John Lindley (1799–1865) worked for Sir Joseph Banks, and was later instrumental in saving the Royal Horticultural Society ...

Ladies' Botany, Volume 2

Or, a Familiar Introduction to the Study of the Natural System of Botany

John Lindley

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. The horticulturalist John Lindley (1799–1865) worked for Sir Joseph Banks, and was later instrumental in saving the Royal Horticultural Society ...

Landscape Photography

The Essential Beginner's Guide

David Taylor

This is an authoritative, self-contained course book on successfully shooting landscapes. It includes structured lessons and projects to help track progress. David Taylor is an award-winning photographer who has authored over 20 titles ... ....

Les Origines de l'Astronomie Chinoise

Leopold De Saussure and Gabriel Ferrand

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. Descended from French Protestants who had emigrated to Geneva, Léopold de Saussure (1866–1925) began his career in the French navy.

Mind the Gap II

New Insights into the Irish Postglacial

D Paddy Sleeman

This volume contains more articles on the Irish postglacial. See table of contents for more details ...

My Garden in the Wilderness

Kathleen L Murray

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. This story of an Indian garden was published in 1915. Its author, Kathleen L. Murray, was living in the remote north-eastern region of Bihar in the ...

No Stone Unturned

A History of Farming, Landscape and Environment in the Scottish Highlands and Islands

Robert A Dodgshon

This is a survey of how Highland society organised its farming communities, exploited its resource base and interacted with its environment from prehistory to 1914. There has long been a view that the farming communities to be found in ... ....

Old Three Toes and Other Tales of Survival and Extinction

John Joseph Mathews

Mathews shows us the world through the animals' eyes and ears and noses. His convincing portrayals of their intelligence recall the fiction of Jack London and Ernest Thompson Seton. Like these literary ancestors, Mathews originally ... ....

On a Wing and a Prayer

One Woman's Journey in Search of Iconic Wildlife

Sarah Woods

When writer and intrepid traveler Sarah Woods set about discovering the jungles of Central and South America, her quest took her into some of the most remote tangles of vine-knotted jungles on the planet. In Panama's rain-soaked ... ....

Pests in the City

Flies, Bedbugs, Cockroaches, and Rats

Dawn Day Biehler and William Cronon

From tenements to alleyways to latrines, twentieth-century American cities created spaces where pests flourished and people struggled for healthy living conditions. In Pests in the City, Dawn Day Biehler argues that the urban ... ....

Planting and Rural Ornament, Volume 1

Being a Second Edition, with Large Additions, of Planting and Ornamental Gardening: A Practical Treatise

William Marshall

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. William Marshall (1745-1818), an experienced farmer and land agent, published this work in 1795, and early in 1796 produced a second edition ...

Planting and Rural Ornament, Volume 2

Being a Second Edition, with Large Additions, of Planting and Ornamental Gardening: A Practical Treatise

William Marshall

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. William Marshall (1745-1818), an experienced farmer and land agent, published this work in 1795, and early in 1796 produced a second edition ...

Pyrite: A Natural History of Fool's Gold

David Rickard

Most people have heard of pyrite, the brassy yellow mineral commonly known as fool's gold. But despite being the most common sulfide on the earth's surface, pyrite's bright crystals have attracted a noteworthy amount of attention ... ....

QI: The Book of Animal Ignorance

John Lloyd and John Mitchinson

Join QI's expedition into the animal kingdom to encounter 100 of its most remarkable subjects. Marvel at the elephants that walk on tiptoe, pigs that shine in the dark, and the woodlouse that drinks through its bottom.

Robert Pocock

The Gravesend Historian, Naturalist, Antiquarian, Botanist and Printer

George Matthews Arnold

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. Without this engaging biography, published in 1883 by George M. Arnold, it is unlikely that the activities of Robert Pocock (1760-1830), naturalist ...

Shackleton: By Endurance We Conquer

Michael Smith

Ernest Shackleton is one of history's great explorers, an extraordinary character who pioneered the path to the South Pole over 100 years ago and became a dominant figure in Antarctic discovery. A charismatic personality, his incredible ... ....

Southern Water, Southern Power

How the Politics of Cheap Energy and Water Scarcity Shaped a Region

Christopher J Manganiello

Why has the American South – a place with abundant rainfall – become embroiled in intrastate wars over water? Why did unpredictable flooding come to characterize southern waterways, and how did a region that seemed so rich in ... ....

The Adrenal Cortex

I Chester Jones

Originally published in 1957, The Adrenal Cortex provides a comprehensive account of the workings of the adrenal cortex in various vertebrate species. Chester Jones also covers the embryological development of the kidneys and .... ....

The Annals of My Village

Being a Calendar of Nature, for Every Month in the Year

Mary Roberts

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. The writer Mary Roberts (1788–1864) developed an interest in natural history while growing up in the Gloucestershire countryside.

The Art and Practice of Landscape Gardening

Henry Ernest Milner

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. In the late nineteenth century, British garden design was dominated by two opposing schools, those of 'landscape' and of 'the formal garden ... ....

The Collapse of the Eastern Mediterranean

Climate Change and the Decline of the East, 950-1072

Ronnie Ellenblum

As a 'Medieval Warm Period' prevailed in Western Europe during the tenth and eleventh centuries, the eastern Mediterranean region, from the Nile to the Oxus, was suffering from a series of climatic disasters which led to the decline ... ....

The Comparative Physiology of Internal Secretion

Lancelot T Hogben

Originally published in 1927 as the third instalment of the Cambridge Comparative Physiology series, The Comparative Physiology of Internal Secretion examines the role of hormones in 'co-ordinating the activities of ... ....

The Comparative Physiology of Muscular Tissue

AD Ritchie

Originally published in 1928 as part of the Cambridge Comparative Physiology series, The Comparative Physiology of Muscular Tissue examines whether all muscular contractions use essentially the same processes regardless ... ....

The Cotswolds

A Treasure Trove of Spectacular Images Showing the Ever-changing Seasons, by Cotswold Photographer Nicholas Reardon

Nicholas Reardon

These glorious hills, rightly described as an area of outstanding natural beauty, contain a treasure trove of spectacular views, along with flowers and wildlife just asking to be photographed. In the following pages I take you through the ... ....

The Elements of Experimental Embryology

Julia S Huxley and GR De Beer

Originally published in 1934 as part of the Cambridge Comparative Physiology series, The Elements of Experimental Embryology discusses the process of tissue differentiation in developing embryos of a variety of species. ....

The Fish Ladder

A Journey Upstream

Katharine Norbury

Katharine Norbury was abandoned as a baby in a Liverpool convent. Raised by loving adoptive parents, she grew into a wanderer, drawn by the landscape of the British countryside. One summer, following the miscarriage of a much-longed-for ... ....

The Formal Garden in England

Reginald Theodore Blomfield

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. First published in 1892, The Formal Garden in England by the architect Reginald Theodore Blomfield (1856-1942), illustrated by ...

The Great Auk, or Garefowl

Its History, Archaeology, and Remains

Symington Grieve

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. The great auk (Pinguinus impennis, formerly Alca impennis), a flightless bird of the north Atlantic, became extinct in the mid-1850s ... ....

The Library at the End of the World

Natural Science and its Illustrators

Anita Hansen and Margaret Davies

Science and Art come together in this lavishly-illustrated (over 200 high-quality pictures) book which explores the natural history art to be found in The Royal Society of Tasmania’s Rare Book Collection. The brief of the numerous ... ....

The Menagerie of Marvels

A Third Compendium of Extraordinary Animals

Karl PN Shuker

Welcome one and all to my Menagerie of Marvels! Where else would you encounter fairy armadillos and go-away birds, roc feathers and a werewolf paw, a park of monsters in Italy and mystery beasts in the Vatican, whale-headed ...

The Mysterious Science of the Sea, 1775-1943

Natascha Adamowsky

The depths of the oceans are the last example of terra incognita on earth. Adamowsky presents a study of the sea, arguing that – contrary to popular belief – post-Enlightenment discourse on the sea was still subject ... ....

The Natural History of the Tea-Tree

With Observations on the Medical Qualities of Tea, and Effects of Tea-Drinking

John Coakley Lettsom

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. This treatise on the tea bush and the consumption of tea was published in 1772 by John Coakley Lettsom (1744–1815), a physician and philanthropist ... ....

The Physiology of Insect Metamorphosis

VB Wrigglesworth

Originally published in 1954, The Physiology of Insect Metamorphosis argues that the metamorphosis of insects is just a 'particularly striking example of the polymorphism which is universal among animals'.

The Rising

Tom Moorhouse and Simon Mendez

'I came here to warn you. Before it's too late.' When their uncle Sylvan pays an unexpected visit, young water voles Kale and Strife know something exciting must be about to happen. Little do they know that soon they'll ... ....

The Story of Science

From the Writings of Aristotle to the Big Bang Theory

Susan Wise Bauer

Far too often, issues based on science are decided by voters and politicians who have received their science secondhand. The Story of Science guides us back to the original texts that have changed the way we think about our world ... ....

The Troubled Empire

China in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties

Timothy Brook

The Mongol takeover in the 1270s changed the course of Chinese history. The Confucian empire – a millennium and a half in the making – was suddenly thrust under foreign occupation. What China had been before its reunification ... ....

Theatre and Evolution from Ibsen to Beckett

Kirsten Shepherd-Barr

As early as the 1840s, playwrights incorporated evolutionary theory into their work, reacting to a scientific advancement that changed the world. Theatre and Evolution from Ibsen to Beckett follows evolutionary theory in mainstream ... ....

Unruly Waters

A Social and Environmental History of the Brazos River

Kenna Lang Archer

Running more than 1 200 miles from headwaters in eastern New Mexico through the middle of Texas to the Gulf of Mexico, the Brazos River has frustrated developers for nearly two centuries. This environmental history of the Brazos ... ....

Untamed: The Wildest Woman in America and the Fight for Cumberland Island

Will Harlan

Carol Ruckdeschel is the wildest woman in America. She eats road kill, wrestles alligators, rides horses bareback, and lives in a ramshackle cabin that she built herself in an island wilderness. She's had three husbands and many lovers ... ....

Walks Along the East Jurassic Coast: Studland to Portland

Robert Westwood

Walks Along the East Jurassic Coast and its companion Walks Along the West Jurassic Coast are the first two books in a series of 11 walking guides spanning the 630 miles of the South West Coast Path National Trail.

Walks Along the South West Coast Path: Barnstaple to Minehead

Ruth Luckhurst

Packed with accessible local and historical information, the route of each walk is overlaid onto a stunning aerial photograph, showing walkers the landscape and features, followed by a description of each walk and information about the ... ....

Walks Along the South West Coast Path: Bude to Barnstaple

Ruth Luckhurst

Packed with accessible local and historical information, the route of each walk is overlaid onto a stunning aerial photograph, showing walkers the landscape and features, followed by a description of each walk and information about the ... ....

Walks Along the South West Coast Path: Falmouth to Penzance

Ruth Luckhurst

Packed with accessible local and historical information, the route of each walk is overlaid onto a stunning aerial photograph, showing walkers the landscape and features, followed by a description of each walk and information about the ... ....

Walks Along the South West Coast Path: Padstow to Bude

Ruth Luckhurst

Packed with accessible local and historical information, the route of each walk is overlaid onto a stunning aerial photograph, showing walkers the landscape and features, followed by a description of each walk and information about the ... ....

Walks Along the South West Coast Path: Penzance to St Ives

Ruth Luckhurst

Packed with accessible local and historical information, the route of each walk is overlaid onto a stunning aerial photograph, showing walkers the landscape and features, followed by a description of each walk and information about the ... ....

Walks Along the South West Coast Path: Plymouth to Falmouth

Ruth Luckhurst

Packed with accessible local and historical information, the route of each walk is overlaid onto a stunning aerial photograph, showing walkers the landscape and features, followed by a description of each walk and information about the ... ....

Walks Along the South West Coast Path: St Ives to Padstow

Ruth Luckhurst

Packed with accessible local and historical information, the route of each walk is overlaid onto a stunning aerial photograph, showing walkers the landscape and features, followed by a description of each walk and information about the ... ....

Walks Along the West Jurassic Coast: Portland to Exmouth

Robert Westwood

Walks Along the East Jurassic Coast and its companion Walks Along the West Jurassic Coast are the first two books in a series of 11 walking guides spanning the 630 miles of the South West Coast Path National Trail.

War Dog

The No-Man's Land Puppy Who Took to the Skies

Damien Lewis

In the winter of 1939 in the cold snow of no-man's-land, two loners met and began an extraordinary journey together, one that would bind them for the rest of their lives. One was an orphaned puppy, abandoned by his owners as they fled ... ....

When Eagles Roar

The Amazing Journey of an African Wildlife Adventurer

James A Currie and Bonnie J Fladung

Follow the daring safari of James Currie as his love of birds, fascination with wildlife and craving for adventure lead him into humorous and life threatening situations. James captures the essence of what it means to be African today ... ....

Above Scotland

The National Collection of Aerial Photography

Dave C Cowley and James Crawford

The landscape of Scotland is full of dramatic contrasts. The high, rugged peaks of the Cairngorms look down on the rounded hills of the southern uplands. Wild moorlands run into fertile flood-plains. The coastline ranges from soft sandy ... ....

Animism in Rainforest and Tundra

Personhood, Animals, Plants and Things in Contemporary Amazonia and Siberia

Marc Brightman, Vanessa Elisa Grotti, Olga Ulturgasheva and Stephen Hugh-Jones

Amazonia and Siberia, classic regions of shamanism, have long challenged "western" understandings of man's place in the world. By exploring the social relations between humans and non-human entities credited with human-like ... ....

Between the Sunset and the Sea

A View of 16 British Mountains

Simon Ingram

"I watched the mirror for a last view, for now, of the frozen mountains of Glen Coe. As the road bent and the outline of Buachaille Etive Mor slid into sight, I did what I always did, and always would. I felt for that flutter of ... ....

Bradt Travel Guide: Suriname

Philip Briggs

The first dedicated English-language guidebook to an emergent and largely unspoiled ecotourist destination otherwise overlooked by the travel publishing industry. Peaceful and politically stable, Suriname is one of the world's five ... ....

California's Channel Islands

A History

Frederic Caire Chiles

Prehistoric foragers, conquistadors, missionaries, adventurers, hunters, and rugged agriculturalists parade across the histories of these little known islands on the horizon of twenty-first century Southern California. This chain of eight ... ....

Coming to Pass

Florida's Coastal Islands in a Gulf of Change

Susan Cerulean

Coming to Pass tells the story of a little-developed necklace of northern Gulf Coast islands. Both a field guide to a beloved and impermanent Florida landscape and a call for its protection, Susan Cerulean's memoir chronicles ... ....

Exploring a Wild Australian Coast

On the South Coast of New South Wales

Klaus Hueneke

A poetic, personal, candid and richly descriptive account of over 40 journeys, on foot, in a kayak and by campervan to different parts of the South Coast of New South Wales over the last twenty years. It includes observations of animals ... ....

Faunal and Floral Endemism in Rajasthan

With Notes on Endemic Biota of Adjoining States

Satish Kumar Sharma

Despite low rainfall and high aridity, Rajasthan, India, is very rich in biodiversity and endemism. A variety of habitats like desert salt flats, perennial and seasonal streams, high hills, narrow valleys, dense forests, extensive grassland ... ....

Gods of the Morning

A Bird's Eye View of a Highland Year

Sir John Lister-Kaye

For more than three decades, John Lister-Kaye has been enraptured by the spectacular seasonal metamorphosis at Aigas, the world-renowned Highlands field centre. Over the years, the glen's wildlife has come to infiltrate his soul ... ....

Hiking Waterfalls in Washington

A Guide to the State's Best Waterfall Hikes

Adam Sawyer and Roddy Scheer

Hiking Waterfalls in Washington includes detailed hike descriptions, maps, and colour photos for the area's most scenic waterfall hikes. Hike descriptions also include history, trivia, and GPS coordinates.

John Gould's Extinct & Endangered Mammals of Australia

Fred Ford

How poignant it is to look at some of Gould's beautiful images of our animals and know that some are no longer with us, and some are fighting for their lives? In this book, author Fred Ford compares Gould's world, and ...

Landmarks

Robert MacFarlane

Landmarks is Robert Macfarlane's joyous meditation on words, landscape and the relationship between the two. Words are grained into our landscapes, and landscapes are grained into our words. Landmarks is about the ... ....

Les Fonds Marins Cotiers de Corse

Cartographie Biomorphosedimentaire

Philippe Clabaut and Claude Augris

The coastal seabed of Corsica has been the subject of several mapping efforts, both geological and biological. In 1994, a general mapping along its coastline was undertaken, designed primarily to establish the distribution of Posidonia meadows. ....

Lonely Planet Travel Guide: Scotland's Highlands & Islands

Neil Wilson and Andy Symington

Lonely Planet Scotland's Highlands & Islands is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Discover hundreds of varieties of whisky, take the ... ....

Marsh Mud and Mummichogs

An Intimate Natural History of Coastal Georgia

Evelyn B Sherr

"This book," writes marine biologist Evelyn B. Sherr, "is meant to give others an understanding of the fascinating life of the region, from the smallest creatures in marsh mud and estuarine water, to the mummichogs and ... ....

NZ Wild Life

Introducing the Weird and Wonderful Character of Natural New Zealand

Steve Trewick

NZ Wild Life is an engrossing and illuminating exploration of the everyday biology of New Zealand. Interweaving the miniature with the majestic, ancient history with modern evidence, biologists Steve Trewick and ...

Naturalist's Guide to the Garden Wildlife of Britain & Europe

Marianne Taylor and Paul Sterry

This is an easy-to-use identification guide to 280 species of wildlife most commonly found in the gardens of Britain, Ireland, and other parts of Northern Europe. A Naturalist's Guide to Garden Wildlife includes sections on ... ....

Reclaiming the Forest

The Ewenki Reindeer Herders of Aoluguya

Ashild Kolas, Yuanyuan Xie and F Georg Heyne

The reindeer herders of Aoluguya, China, are a group of former hunters who today see themselves as "keepers of reindeer" as they engage in ethnic tourism and exchange experiences with their Evenki neighbors in Russian Siberia. ....

Rough Guide: Myanmar (Burma)

Martin Zatko

The Rough Guide to Myanmar (Burma) is the ultimate travel guide to this exciting, largely undiscovered country with clear maps and detailed coverage of all the best Burmese attractions. Discover Myanmar's highlights with ... ....

Southwest Deserts

California & Nevada

Duke Benadom

Based on a lifetime of peregrinations to the southwest deserts of the USA. Southwest Deserts: California & Nevada is specific to CA & NV, covering flora, fauna, and spectacular terrain. The intent of Southwest Deserts ... ....

Temple Stream

A Rural Odyssey

Bill Roorbach

Great blue herons, yellow birches, damselflies, and beavers are among the talismans by which Bill Roorbach uncovers a natural universe along the stream that runs by his house in Farmington, Maine. Populated by an oddball cast of characters ... ....

The Illustrated Cotswold Guide

Discover the Charming and Sometimes Odd Side to This Wonderful Part of England with Cotswold Artist Peter Reardon

Peter Reardon and Nicholas Reardon

An A – Z illustrated guide to what you can see in the Cotswolds, with word and pen the Author describes this wonderful part of England. From the strange sounding Cotswold towns and villages such as Acton Turville and Wyck Rissington ... ....

The Jurassic Coast

Britain's Heritage Coast

Paul Harris

The Jurassic Coast, stretching from Exmouth to Studland on the South Coast, is England's first natural World Heritage Site, putting it on a par with such famous features as the Grand Canyon. This 95-mile stretch of coastline exposes ... ....

The Raritan River

Our Landscape, Our Legacy

Judy Auer Shaw

On the banks of the old Raritan, environmental expert Judy Shaw gives readers a tour of the remarkable river, a major waterway 90 miles long, with 2,000 miles of tributary streams and brooks that twists and turns from its source in ... ....

The Salish Sea

Jewel of the Pacific Northwest

Audrey Delella Benedict and Joe Gaydos

Fashioned by the violent volcanism of the Pacific Rim of Fire, plate tectonics, and the sculptural magic wrought by Ice Age glaciers, the Salish Sea straddles the western border between Canada and the United States and is connected to the ... ....

Wexford's Wild Heritage

Alan McGuire, Don Conroy and Christopher J Wilson

Think of Ireland and what comes to mind. Forty shades of green? This ancient mystic land is much more colourful than that – with a stunning variety of flora and fauna waiting to be enjoyed. And Co. Wexford, located in the southeast ... ....

Wild Fire

The Splendours of India's Animal Kingdom

Valmik Thapar

Conceived and composed over five years, Wild Fire brings the splendour and diversity of Indias animal kingdom to glorious and vivid life and brings together, for the very first time, the finest writing, photography and art on ... ....

100 Edible & Healing Flowers

Cultivating, Cooking, Restoring Health

Margaret Roberts

Margaret Roberts shares her secrets for creating an edible garden that will not only nurture and heal the body with the health-giving plants it produces, but will also be a place of beauty to nurture the soul. Each plant is dealt with in ... ....

A Field Guide to Antitumor Medicinal Fungi in China [Chinese]

Cheng Kangling

This book deals with about 260 species wild antitumor fungus. It describes wild medicinal fungus in details of their shape of fruit body, family, living environment, distribution, component pharmacology, property, flavour and function as ... ....

A Natural History of English Gardening

1650 - 1800

Mark Laird

Inspired by the pioneering naturalist Gilbert White, who viewed natural history as the common study of cultural and natural communities, Mark Laird unearths forgotten historical data to reveal the complex visual cultures of early modern ... ....

A Photographic Guide to Medicinal Plants of China [Chinese]

Zeng Qingqian

This collection contains illustrations of common medicinal plants in southern China and 1?060 kinds of folk medicine. Each medicinal plants is accompanied by colorful portrait photos. The corresponding figure includes Chinese name ... ....

A Site-by-Site Guide to Trees in the Kruger National Park

Marissa Greeff

A Site-by-Site Guide to Trees in the Kruger National Park Offers a unique introduction to trees in this very special conservation area. Although the book is about trees, it has been compiled around placed in the Kruger Park. ....

Atlas of Special Medicinal Resources in Xinjiang, Volume 1 [Chinese]

Jia Xiaoguan and Li Xiaojin

Atlas of Special Medicinal Resources in Xinjiang, Volume 1 collects 112 species medicinal plants with Xinjiang features. It describes their biological characters, drugs name, living environment and distribution, nature and flavor ... ....

Atlas of Wild Medicinal Plants in Tarim Basin, Xinjiang [Chinese]

Li Zhijun

This book describes wild plants found in the Tarim Basin of Xinjiang, China, distributed over 63 families, including 355 species, five subspecies, and six variants.

Beds & Borders

The Mix-&-Match Guide to Beautiful Planting

Simon Maughan and Jane Courtier

Beautiful and varied beds and borders are the backbone of a successful garden and in todays modern plots, theyre no longer rigidly planted and trimmed into neat rows: the twenty-first centurys borders are, instead, planned with an eye to ... ....

Chinese Medicinal Plants, Volume 1 [Chinese]

Ye Huagu

Chinese Medicinal Plants, Volume 1 combines in graphic form and in alphabetical order a total of 203 species of wild and cultivated medicinal plants (including subspecies, varieties and forms) from China, including for each of ... ....

Chinese Medicinal Plants, Volume 2 [Chinese]

Ye Huagu

Chinese Medicinal Plants, Volume 2 combines in graphic form and in alphabetical order a total of 207 species of wild and cultivated medicinal plants (including subspecies, varieties and forms) from China, including for each of ... ....

Chinese Medicinal Plants, Volume 3 [Chinese]

Ye Huagu

Chinese Medicinal Plants, Volume 3 combines in graphic form and in alphabetical order a total of 202 species of wild and cultivated medicinal plants (including subspecies, varieties and forms) from China, including for each of ... ....

Chinese Medicinal Plants, Volume 4 [Chinese]

Ye Huagu

Chinese Medicinal Plants, Volume 4 combines in graphic form and in alphabetical order a total of 198 species of wild and cultivated medicinal plants (including subspecies, varieties and forms) from China, including for each of ... ....

Chinese Medicinal Plants, Volume 5 [Chinese]

Ye Huagu

This book combines, in graphic form, a collection 210 species of wild and cultivated medicinal plants (including subspecies, varieties and forms), mainly from the perspective of plant resource utilization. It describes each plant's ... ....

Classic Illustrations of 600 Kinds of Medicinal Plants and Herbal Pieces [Chinese]

You Zhimian

The book is divided into: woody stems, leaves, flowers, fruit seeds, rhizomes, grasses and so on.

Climate Change Impacts on High-Altitude Ecosystems

Munir Ozturk, Khalid Rehman Hakeem, I Faridah-Hanum and Recep Efe

Climate Change Impacts on High-Altitude Ecosystems covers studies on the systematics of plant taxa and will include general vegetational aspects and ecological characteristics of plant life at altitudes above 1 000 m. from ... ....

Common Snowdrop (Galanthus nivalis L.) In Slovenia / Navadni Malizvoncki Galanthus nivalis L.) v Sloveniji

Joze Bavcon

The common snowdrop (Galanthus nivalis L.) is a widely distributed species in Slovenia, being also the sole representative of the genus Galanthus L.. Expansive populations of snowdrops grow on margins of forests ... ....

Echinocereus [English]

Duke Benadom

The intent of Echinocereus is to provide readers with more than just a glimpse of what occurs in nature of this beautiful and fascinating assemblage of plants. The inclusion of more than 850 photos is intended to provide an ... ....

Endemic Medicinal Plants of Wufeng, China [Chinese]

Li Ping

This book describes 118 genera and 446 species of both wild and cultivated and common and rare medicinal plants.

First Ladies of Gardening

Designers, Dreamers and Divas

Heidi Howcraft and Marianne Majerus

The English Garden is the universal measure of all things related to garden design. It is in the UK that the great garden designers live and work and where a major gardening movement has developed over the last few decades, influencing ... ....

Flora Iberica, Volume 16/1: Compositae

Carlos Aedo Perez

Volume 16/1 is the first of several to deal with member of the family Compositae.

Flore de la Nouvelle-Caledonie, Volume 26: Cunoniaceae

Helen CF Hopkins, Yohan Pillon and Ruurd D Hoogland

This new volume of the Flore de la Nouvelle-Calédonie, published jointly by the Paris National Museum of Natural History and the lnstitut de Recherche pour le Developpement (IRD), is an unprecedented monograph on the ... ....

Garden Centre Management

Ken Crafer

Garden Centre management has professionalised in recent years as garden centres have become more highly developed retail operations. Many students of horticulture are expected to go into retail management and so the topic has increasingly ... ....

Gardens of Cornwall

Eden, Heligan & Other Delights

Katherine Lambert and Alex Ramsay

Cornish gardens have it all: dramatic natural settings in coast or combe, a wet and mild climate yielding exotic and extravagant plant growth, an indefinable quality of foreignness. Antony has a magnificent early eighteenth-century house ... ....

Handbuch Baumdiagnostik

Baum-Korpersprache und -Beurteilung.

Andreas Roloff

The duty of tree control (think: insurance and risk management) requires knowledge of tree diagnostics, tree body language and a basic understanding of the tree. Handbuch Baumdiagnostik is a book that provides the necessary knowledge ... ....

Hawthorn: The Tree That Has Nourished, Healed, and Inspired Through the Ages

Bill Vaughn

One of humankind's oldest companions, the hawthorn tree, is bound up in the memories of every recorded age and the plot lines of cultures all across the Northern Hemisphere. Hawthorn examines the little-recognized political, cultural ... ....

Hidden Histories: Herbs

The Secret Properties of 150 Plants

Kim Hurst

Nurserywoman Kim Hurst explores the history, cultural significance and contribution of 150 of our most popular herbs. Often those most important in cooking or medicine were also attributed with supernatural powers. The author uncovers the ... ....

Hidden Histories: Trees

The Secret Properties of 100 Species

Noel Kingsbury

Hidden Histories: Trees reminds us of the rich heritage that the trees of the world have to offer. Noel Kingsbury's selection includes not only the trees common to the Northern Hemisphere, such as alder, ash and oak but also ... ....

Identification Manual of Endangered Medicinal Plants Common in Trade [Chinese]

This manual contains images featuring typical morphological features and simple text descriptions covering biological characteristics, classification, distribution, protection level, etc. It allows you to quickly identify the relevant ... ....

Identification of Indigenous Cycads of South Africa

Cornia Hugo

South Africa is considered a critical centre of cycad diversity. Of the 37 cycad species occurring in South Arica, 29 species are endemic to the country, i.e. they occur nowhere else in the world. Five of South Africa's cycad species ... ....

Illustrations of Medicinal Fungi in China [Chinese]

Dai Yucheng

This book studies 314 species medical fungi in China, describing their morphology, microstructure and wild ecology with pictures.

Liaoning Common Medicinal Plants Color Illustrations [Chinese]

Feng Jinggang

Liaoning Common Medicinal Plants Color Illustrations records common medicinal plants in Liaoning province, northeast China. The book introduces their Chinese name, Latin name, alias, medical part, morphology, living environment ... ....

Lichen Secondary Metabolites

Bioactive Properties and Pharmaceutical Potential

Branislav Rankovic

The present book discusses in detail the nature and bioactive properties of lichen secondary metabolites. Their therapeutic potential ranges from antibiotic to antioxidant and from anticarcinogenic to antiviral activity. It further discusses ... ....

Medical Fungi of China [Chinese]

Wu Xingliang and Mao Xiaolan

This book deals with 799 species of medical fungi with 653 color photos, among of them, more than 500 species with anti tumor effect. This is a new edition book, illustrated throughout. It provides readers with Chinese name, Latin name ... ....

Medicinal Flora of China, Volume 10 [Chinese]

Angiospermae Dicotyledoneae

Chen Yilin

This series will record more than 12 000 species medicinal plants of China. More than 10 000 figures and 6 000 images are used in the books. Taxonomy, morphological description, distribution and living environment ... ....

Medicinal Flora of China, Volume 12 [Chinese]

Arecaceae to Orchidaceae

Ai Tieming

This series will record more than 12 000 species medicinal plants of China. More than 10 000 figures and 6 000 images are used in the books. Taxonomy, morphological description, distribution and living environment ... ....

Medicinal Plants of South China [Chinese]

Ye Huagu and Lu Feiyan

Medicinal Plants of South China records 3 096 species of wild and cultivated medicinal plants from southern China. They belong to 264 families, 1 350 genera, including their Chinese name, Latin name, alias, living ... ....

Naturalist's Guide to the Mushrooms of Britain and Europe

Josephine Bacon and Paul Sterry

This is an easy-to-use identification guide to 280 species of mushroom and toadstool most commonly found in Britain, Ireland, and other parts of Northern Europe. The user-friendly introduction includes an overview of distribution, habitat ... ....

Naturalist's Guide to the Wild Flowers of Britain & Europe

Andrew Cleave and Paul Sterry

Entry-level photographic identification guide to the commoner wild flowers of Britain and Northern Europe, featuring 280 species that the amateur naturalist might expect to see in the field or garden. The user-friendly introduction covers ... ....

Orchid Seed Diversity

A Scanning Electron Microscopy Survey

Wilhelm Barthlott, Bernadette Grosse-Veldmann and Nadja Korotkova

The orchid family (Orchidaceae), with some 22 000 species, is one of the two largest families of plants. In spite of the vast available literature on orchids, rather little is known about their seeds, which are generally considered ... ....

Orchideen: Die Besten Arten Auswaehlen und Pflegen

Lutz Roellke

Orchids fascinate because of their shapes and colors. Whether you repot orchids, water and care for them, or want to cut orchids, this book shows you how to prolong the enjoyment of this beauty. Where do orchids grow best? How do you care ... ....

Orchids of Desert and Semi-Arid Biogeographic Zones of India

Satish Kumar Sharma

Orchids of Desert and Semi-Arid Biogeographic Zones of India provides a fascinating account of the orchids of Rajasthan, Gujarat, Haryana, Punjab, Delhi and parts of Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh which constitute arid western ... ....

Phosphorous Metabolism in Plants

William Plaxton and Hans Lambers

Development of phosphorus (P)-efficient crop varieties is urgently needed to reduce agriculture's current over-reliance on expensive, environmentally destructive, non-renewable, and inefficient P-containing fertilizers.

Physiological Responses of Plants to Attack

Dale R Walters

This important new book covers the physiological responses of plants to attack by pathogens, nematodes, insects and parasitic plants. Providing an exciting, new and refreshing approach to this subject which is of vital importance to the ... ....

Pictorial Handbook of Anticancer Plants in the Chaoshan Region [Chinese]

Tang Weiping

The Pictorial Handbook of Anticancer Plants in the Chaoshan Region contains an extensive literature review of previous work and illustrates plant morphology, main chemical constituents, and pharmacological effects.

Plant Genes, Genomes and Genetics

Erich Grotewold, Joseph Chappell and Elizabeth Kellogg

Plant Genes, Genomes and Genetics provides comprehensive treatment of all aspects of plant gene expression. Unique in explaining the subject from a plant perspective, it highlights the importance of gene expression in how plants ... ....

Plantes de Poilus

La Fleur et le Fusil en 14-18

Denis Richard

An original look at 1st World War history through plants ... You will be amazed and moved by the human and botanical anecdotes that make this great history. The plants are the major losers in the Great War: nobody thinks of them when ... ....

Quiver Trees, Phantom Orchids & Rock Splitters

The Remarkable Survival Strategies of Plants

Jesse Vernon Trail

Whether it's an arctic heather that can create subtropical conditions within its leaves or a dwarf mistletoe that can shoot its seeds up to 50 feet away, plants demonstrate remarkable strategies in coping with and surviving their ... ....

Recent Advances in Lichenology, Volume 1

Modern Methods and Approaches in Biomonitoring and Bioprospection

Dalip Kumar Upreti, Pradeep K Divakar, Vertika Shukla and Rajesh Bajpai

Recent Advances in Lichenology, Volume 1 discusses in detail molecular, mycobiont culture, biomonitoring and bioprospection of lichens, providing insights into advances in different fields of lichenology by applying modern ... ....

Recent Advances in Lichenology, Volume 2

Modern Methods and Approaches in Lichen Systematics and Culture Techniques

Dalip Kumar Upreti, Pradeep K Divakar, Vertika Shukla and Rajesh Bajpai

Recent Advances in Lichenology, Volume 2 discusses in detail molecular, mycobiont culture, biomonitoring and bioprospection of lichens, providing insights into advances in different fields of lichenology by applying modern ... ....

Superb Succulents

Duke Benadom

The intent of Superb Succulents is to provide readers with a compilation of information and images from years of perambulating and photographing winning specimens as displayed in cactus and succulent shows throughout the western ... ....

Technology and the Garden

Michael G Lee and Kenneth I Helphand

Technology is the practice and activity of making, as well as the tools that enable that making. It is also the realm of ideas behind those endeavors, the expanse of technical knowledge and expertise. At once material, intellectual ... ....

The Cycads, Volume 1: Asia and Australia

Loran M Whitelock and Duke Benadom

There are few plants, with the possible exception of palms, that can rival cycads for variety of foliage, size, and form. In spite of such diversity, however, cycads represent an ancient lineage whose fossil history extends over 200 million years. ....

The Cycads, Volume 2: Africa and the Americas

Loran M Whitelock and Duke Benadom

Loran Whitelock's update to his popular The Cycads is the second of two volumes; this one covering Africa and the Americas.

The Flower of the European Orchid

Form and Function

Jean Claessens, Jacques Kleynen and Richard Bateman

The Flower of the European Orchid: Form and Function provides an elaborate overview of all aspects of the orchid flower. From each genus the following aspects are illustrated: habitat, flower close-ups, macrophotographs of the ... ....

The Herb Bible

The Definitive Guide to Choosing and Growing Herbs

Stefan Buczacki

Discover more than 130 herbs in this authoritative and attractive reference book by horticultural expert Stefan Buczacki. There is at-a-glance information on a wide range of herbs with advice on how to grow them and their best uses ... ....

The Pacific Northwest Garden Tour

The 60 Best Gardens to Visit in Oregon, Washington and British Columbia

Donald Olson

Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia have a wealth of top-notch public gardens. The Pacific Northwest Garden Tour highlights sixty outstanding public gardens and provides all the information the reader needs to make the most ... ....

White-Flowered Varieties In Slovenian Flora / Belo Cvetoce Razlicice v Slovenski Flori

Joze Bavcon

The work deals with the occurrence of white-flowered varieties whose flower colour differs from the usual flower colour of the original species. Šugar (1990) defines albinism as a lack of pigmentation in the organism.

Why Grow Here

Essays on Edmonton's Gardening History

Kathryn Chase Merrett

"A visitor from down south stared at my apple tree and said: 'Those don't grow here you know. It's too cold.' If the apricot tree in Highlands knew it couldn't live here, it might stop scattering white blossoms ... ....

Wild Orchids of Somerset

Chris Gladman

This is a photographic field guide to wild orchids recorded in Somerset, including hybrids and abnormal species. The book includes a special coastline feature, and sections on other British orchids and hybrids.

10% Human

How Your Body's Microbes Hold the Key to Health and Happiness

Alanna Collen

There's more to being human than you think. 10% Human explores the extraordinary world of the powerful microbes that make up 90% of the human body. You are more 'them' than you are 'you'. You are just 10% human ... ....

AP Biology

Deborah E Goldberg

This best selling AP Biology study guide includes: - Two full-length exams that follow the content and style of the new AP Biology exam - All test questions answered and explained - An extensive review covering all AP tests ...

An Introduction to Neuroendocrinology

Michael Wilkinson and Richard E Brown

How does the brain regulate sexual behavior, or control our body weight? How do we cope with stress? Addressing these questions and many more besides, this thoroughly revised new edition reflects the significant advances that have been ... ....

Applications of Proteomics to Cell Signaling

Iyer Srinivas

The field of proteomics has had a tremendous impact on our understanding of biological systems. While proteomics encompasses multiple approaches, the application of mass spectrometry-based techniques has generated large, information-rich ... ....

Becker's World of the Cell (Technology Update)

Jeff Hardin, Gregory Paul Bertoni and Lewis J Kleinsmith

For courses in cell biology. Widely praised for its strong biochemistry coverage, Becker's World of the Cell, Eighth Edition Technology Update provides a clear, up-to-date introduction to cell biology concepts, processes ... ....

Bioprospects of Coastal Eubacteria

Ecosystems of Goa

Sunita Borkar

Bioprospects of Coastal Eubacteria is a collection of scholarly articles presenting the research results of work carried out under the supervision of Prof. Saroj Bhosle, a microbiologist at Goa University, India. The objective of ... ....

Cryopreservation and Freeze-Drying Protocols

Willem F Wolkers and Harriette Oldenhof

Cryopreservation and Freeze-Drying Protocols provides a variety of standard protocols used to cryopreserve or freeze-dry different types of specimens. In addition, it provides chapters focused on the fundamental principles of ... ....

I, Superorganism

Learning to Love Your Inner Ecosystem

Jon Turney

Every human body carries a secret cargo: a huge population of micro-organisms that lives in your mouth and nose, on your skin, in your guts. This is the human microbiome, and it has in the last few years become biologists' most thrilling ... ....

Infectious Disease: A Very Short Introduction

Benjamin Bolker and Marta L Wayne

As doctors and biologists have learned, to their dismay, infectious disease is a moving target: new diseases emerge every year, old diseases evolve into new forms, and ecological and socioeconomic upheavals change the transmission pathway ... ....

Junk DNA

A Journey Through the Dark Matter of the Genome

Nessa Carey

From the author of the acclaimed The Epigenetics Revolution ('A book that would have had Darwin swooning' - Guardian) comes another thrilling exploration of the cutting edge of human science. For decades after the structure of DNA ... ....

Life in Our Phage World

A Centennial Field Guide to the Earth's Most Diverse Inhabitants

Forest Rohwer, Merry Youle, Heather Maughan, Nao Hisakawa, Leah L Pantea and Ben Darby

We share the Earth with more than 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 phages. Everywhere they thrive, from well-fed guts to near-boiling acidic springs, from cryoconite holes to endolithic fissures. They travel from one microbial ... ....

Microbial Biochemistry

Georges N Cohen

Microbial physiology, biochemistry and genetics allowed the formulation of concepts that turned out to be important in the study of higher organisms. In the first section, the principles of bacterial growth are given, as well as the ... ....

Microbial Evolution

Howard Ochman

Bacteria are ancient organisms that represent most life on Earth. They evolve extremely rapidly, often exchanging genetic material through a process termed lateral DNA transfer. Consequently it's often unclear how to define individual ... ....

Modern Solid State Fermentation

Theory and Practice

Hongzhang Chen

Modern Solid State Fermentation: Theory and Practice covers state-of-the-art studies in the field of solid state fermentation (SSF). In terms of different characteristics of microbial metabolites, this book catalogs SSF into two ... ....

Molecular Biology of the Cell - The Problems Book

John Wilson and Tim Hunt

Molecular Biology of the Cell - The Problems Book helps students appreciate the ways in which experiments and simple calculations can lead to an understanding of how cells work by introducing the experimental foundation of cell ... ....

Physical Chemistry for the Biological Sciences

Gordon G Hammes and Sharon Hammes-Schiffer

Physical Chemistry for the Biological Sciences provides an introduction to physical chemistry that is directed toward applications to the biological sciences. Advanced mathematics is not required and can be used for either a one ... ....

Protein Phosphorylation in Parasites

Novel Targets for Antiparasitic Intervention

Christian Doerig, Gerald Spaeth and Martin Wiese

This is the first book to collect and summarize in one publication the efforts to use kinases or phosphatases for drug development against parasite infections. The editors and contributors comprise the Who's Who in the field, and the ... ....

Ranaviruses: Lethal Pathogens of Ectothermic Vertebrates

Matthew J Gray and V Gregory Chinchar

This is the first book on ranaviruses. Ranaviruses are double-stranded DNA viruses that cause hemorrhagic disease in amphibians, reptiles, and fish. They have caused mass die-offs of ectothermic vertebrates in wild and captive population ... ....

The Deeper Genome

Why There is More to the Human Genome Than Meets the Eye

John Parrington

Over a decade ago, as the Human Genome Project completed its mapping of the entire human genome, hopes ran high that we would rapidly be able to use our knowledge of human genes to tackle many inherited diseases, and understand what makes ... ....

A Rough Ride to the Future

The Next Evolution of Gaia

James Lovelock

In A Rough Ride to the Future, James Lovelock – the great scientific visionary of our age – presents a radical vision of humanity's future as the thinking brain of our Earth-system. James Lovelock, who has been ... ....

Domesticated: Evolution in a Man-Made World

Richard C Francis

How did the deadly wolf evolve into the lap-loving Pekingese, the wildcat into the tabby cat, and the awe-inspiring auroch into the meek milk-producing cow? It happened through the process that biologists call domestication. Domesticated ... ....

Evolutionary Syntax

Oxford Studies in the Evolution of Language

Ljiljana Progovac

Ljiljana Progovac proposes a gradualist, adaptationist approach to the evolution of syntax, subject to natural selection. It provides a specific framework for studying the evolution of syntax, combining the fields of evolutionary biology ... ....

Evolutionary Transitions to Multicellular Life

Principles and Mechanisms

Inaki Ruiz-Trillo and Aurora M Nedelcu

Evolutionary Transitions to Multicellular Life integrates our understanding of the factors and processes underlying the evolution of multicellularity by providing several complementary perspectives (both theoretical and experimental) ... ....

Gaining Control

How Human Behavior Evolved

Robert Aunger and Valerie Curtis

Gaining Control tells the story of how human behavioral capacities evolved from those of other animal species. Exploring what is known about the psychological capacities of other groups of animals, the authors reconstruct a ... ....

Missing Link

The Evolution of Metaphor and the Metaphor of Evolution

Jeffery Donaldson

We look for missing links in the sciences and humanities, but the essential missing link – metaphor – is always in front of us. In Missing Link, Jeffery Donaldson unites literary criticism and evolutionary and cognitive ... ....

Technological and Typological Change at the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic Boundary in Lebanon

Dirk Leder

Since 2009 the Collaborative Research Centre (CRC 806) "Our Way to Europe – Culture-Environment Interaction and human Mobility in the Late Quaternary" has investigated the origin and dispersal of early modern humans from ... ....

Alien Plants

Clive Anthony Stace and Michael John Crawley

The word 'aliens' is used in many contexts, conjuring up a range of sentiments including fear, dislike and also fascination. It is used to describe strange beings from Mars, human migrants, and non-native plants and animals ... ....

Ecology of Fishes on Coral Reefs

Camilo Mora and Peter F Sale

The local diversity and global richness of coral reef fishes, along with the diversity manifested in their morphology, behaviour and ecology, provides fascinating and diverse opportunities for study. Reflecting the very latest research ... ....

Ecology of Roads

A Practitioner's Guide to Impacts and Mitigation

Rodney van der Ree, Clara Grilo and Daniel Smith

The scope of Ecology of Roads is wide enough to be relevant for all people involved in the planning, design, construction or maintenance of roads to mitigate their ecological effects. The information is concise and easy to access ... ....

Marine Ecological Processes

I Valiela

Marine Ecological Processes presents a comprehensive analysis of the processes controlling marine ecosystems, communities, and populations. Providing an in-depth dissection of marine ecology, Marine Ecological Processes ... ....

Nonlinear Physics of Ecosystems

Ehud Meron

Providing an integrative treatment of nonlinear physics and applications in ecology, this text introduces the basic concepts, tools, and applications to important problems in ecology. It exposes readers to the new emerging research field ... ....

Aquatic Ecosystems

Biodiversity, Ecology and Conservation

Mamta Rawat, Sumit Dookia and Chandrakasan Sivaperuman

Aquatic Ecosystems brings together the latest information on the rapid advances and developments in the field of aquatic ecology. India is very rich in terms of biological diversity due to its wide range of habitats and climatic ... ....

Bestandspflege im Forst

Von der Pflanzung zum Erntereifen Bestand

Ralf Griesser and Michael Neub

This book is a how-to manual for sapling maintenance in the forest. Here, everything is explained that you need to do in a healthy and productive forest, according to established silviculture practices. The spectrum ranges from the planting ... ....

Climber's Paradise

Making Canada's Mountain Parks, 1906-1974

PearlAnn Reichwein

The Alpine Club of Canada imagined the Rockies and neighbouring ranges to the west and the north as a "climber's paradise." Through a century of adventure and advocacy, the ACC led the way to mountain pursuits in spectacular ... ....

Marine Ecosystems

Human Impacts on Biodiversity, Functioning and Services

Tasman P Crowe and Christopher LJ Frid

Ecosystem services are emerging as a key driver of conservation policy and environmental management. Delivery of ecosystem services depends on the efficient functioning of ecosystems, which in turn depends on biodiversity and environment ... ....

Nutrient Use Efficiency

From Basics to Advances

Amitava Rakshit, Harikesh Bahadur Singh and Avijit Sen

Nutrient Use Efficiency addresses in detail multifaceted approaches to boosting nutrient use efficiency (NUE) that are modified by plant interactions with environmental variables and combine physiological, microbial, biotechnological ... ....

Ocean

Fabien Cousteau

Dive in to this breathtaking read about the world's oceans. Explore the last wilderness left on Earth, with an enhanced and updated edition of this exhaustive guide to the underwater world. From mangrove swamp to ocean floor, molluscs ... ....

On the Forests of Tropical Asia

Lest the Memory Fade

Peter Ashton

This is the first book to describe the forests of the entire tropical Asian region, from Sind to New Guinea. Based on Peter Ashton's working field experience of over 55 years in every country, Burma and Laos excepted. Following a chapter ... ....

Plant-Growth-Promoting Rhizobacteria (PGPR) and Medicinal Plants

Dilfuza Egamberdieva, Smriti Shrivastava and Ajit Varma

Plant-Growth-Promoting Rhizobacteria (PGPR) and Medicinal Plants describes the various applications of microorganisms in improving plant growth, health and the efficiency of phytochemical production. The chapters trace topics ... ....

Social-Ecological Restoration in Paddy-Dominated Landscapes

Nisikawa Usio and Tadashi Miyashita

With a focus on environmentally friendly rice farming, this unique book integrates both ecosystem and human dimensions of ecological restoration to provide strategies to promote sustainable agriculture and rural development. Paddy fields ... ....

Soil Physics with Python

Transport in the Soil-Plant-Atmosphere System

Marco Bittelli

A textbook describing the physical environment of soil, including the movement of heat, water and gases. Transport problems are described mathematically, and methods for solving the problems, using original computer programs written in ... ....

The Battle for Yellowstone

Morality and the Sacred Roots of Environmental Conflict

Justin Farrell

Yellowstone holds a special place in America's heart. As the world's first national park, it is globally recognized as the crown jewel of modern environmental preservation. But the park and its surrounding regions have recently been ... ....

The Native Woodlands of Scotland

Ecology, Conservation and Management

Scott Wilson

The Native Woodlands of Scotland offers topical information on ecology, conservation and management for Scottish native woodlands. This authoritative textbook provides a convenient single source of up-to-date information about ... ....

The Soils of Iceland

Olafur Arnalds

In this new volume in the World Soil series, the various types of Icelandic soils, their different characteristics, their formation, degradation and erosion are reviewed. At the same time, The Soils of Iceland also deals ... ....

The State of the World's Forest Genetic Resources

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

The State of the World’s Forest Genetic Resources addresses the conservation, management and sustainable use of forest tree and other woody plant genetic resources of actual and potential value for human well-being in the ... ....

Vulnerability of Coastal Ecosystems and Adaptation

Andre Monaco and Patrick Prouzet

The vulnerability of socio-ecosystem combines the probability of exposure to natural or anthropogenic pressure, sensitivity and resilience. Vulnerability of Coastal Ecosystems and Adaptation presents a systemic view of the .... ....

Wetlands and Human Health

C Max Finlayson, Pierre Horwitz and Philip Weinstein

Wetlands and Human Health addresses the complex interactions that occur between wetlands and the health and well-being of people. As wetlands provide many valuable ecosystem services and are amongst the most degraded ecosystems ... ....

A Less Green and Pleasant Land

Our Threatened Wildlife

Norman MacLean and Chris Packham

Disentangling the facts from the hype, this 'Domesday book' of the British and Irish countryside offers a definitive and up-to-date survey of the state of our wildlife today. Norman Maclean, editor of the bestselling Silent Summer ... ....

Backcountry Lawman

True Stories from a Florida Game Warden

Bob H Lee

In the underbelly of Florida, hardened poachers operate in the dark, out of sight and away from residents who sleep soundly through the night. But poachers are not the only midnight hunters. In the state's public wilderness tracts ... ....

Biodiversity in a Changing Climate

Linking Science and Management in Conservation

Terry L Root, Kimberley R Hall, Mark Paul Herzog and Christine A Howell

A major consequence of climate change can be abrupt, dramatic changes in regional biodiversity. Even under the most optimistic scenarios for mitigating climate change, the fate of many wild species rests on the shoulders of those engaged ... ....

Conservation Psychology

Understanding and Promoting Human Care for Nature

Susan Clayton and Gene Myers

People are inseparable from natural ecosystems, and understanding how people think about, experience, and interact with nature is crucial for promoting environmental sustainability as well as human well-being. This is the new ...

Silence of the Lambs

Teardrops from the Tribes of Silent Valley, Attappady

G Prabhakaran

This piece of investigative journalism describes the author's experiences witnessing predatory incursions into the Western Ghats, India, during his time as a reporter for several Indian newspapers. Silent Valley National Park, official ... ....

Terrestrial Biodiversity of the Austral Islands, French Polynesia

Jean-Yves Meyer and Elin M Claridge

As part of a larger research program aiming to inventory and evaluate the terrestrial biodiversity of French Polynesia, a series of multidisciplinary scientific expeditions were conducted in 2002, 2003, and 2004 to the five inhabited ... ....

The Tragedy of the Commodity

Oceans, Fisheries and Aquaculture

Stefano B Longo, Rebecca Clausen and Brett Clark

Although humans have long depended on oceans and aquatic ecosystems for sustenance and trade, only recently has human influence on these resources dramatically increased, transforming and undermining oceanic environments throughout the ... ....

AP Environmental Science

Gary Thorpe

This best selling AP Environmental Science study guide includes: - A new diagnostic test to pinpoint the test taker's strengths and weak areas - Two full-length practice exams with all questions answered and ...

Carbon Capture and Storage

Ninth Report of Session 2013-14, Report, Together with Formal Minutes Relating to the Report

House of Commons Energy and Climate Change Committee

The Energy and Climate Change Committee urge the Government to fast-track final funding decisions on two pilot Carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects at Peterhead and Drax by early 2015, after years of delay in the ...

Climate Change & Himalayan Ecosystem-Indicator, Bio & Water Resources

J Sundaresan, Pankaj Gupta, KM Santosh and Ram Boojh

Data and information is the essential requirement for planning and development. Climate change & Himalayan Wcosystem-Indicator, Bio & Water Resources contains basic information and data on glaciers, climate change indicators ... ....

Climate Change & Himalayan Informatics

J Sundaresan, Pankaj Gupta, KM Santosh and Ram Boojh

Geodynamic processes during the rapid growth of the Himalayas have left imprints of climate change in this region. Climate Change & Himalayan Informatics examines the impact of climate change on the ongoing process of rapid ... ....

Climate Change 2014 - Mitigation of Climate Change

Working Group III Contribution to the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

This latest Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will again form the standard reference for all those concerned with climate change and its consequences, including students, researchers and ... ....

Climate Change as Social Drama

Global Warming in the Public Sphere

Philip Smith and Nicholas Howe

Climate change is not just a scientific fact, nor merely a social and political problem. It is also a set of stories and characters that amount to a social drama. This drama, as much as hard scientific or political realities, shapes ... ....

Climate Change: Past, Present, and Future

Marie-Antoinette Melieres and Chloe Marechal

Climate Change: Past, Present, and Future is designed for first- and second-year university students (and their instructors) in earth science, environmental science, and physical geography degree programmes worldwide.

Describing the Behavior and Effects of Pesticides in Urban and Agricultural Settings

Russell L Jones

Studies of the behavior and effects of pesticides in the environment have been conducted for decades and have been the subject of numerous symposia at American Chemical Society meetings.

Global Warming

The Complete Briefing

Sir John T Houghton

How much of global warming is due to human activities? How far will it be possible to adapt to changes of climate? John Houghton's definitive, full colour, guide to climate change answers these questions and more by providing the best ... ....

In-Situ Remediation of Arsenic-Contaminated Sites

Jochen Bundschuh, Hartmut M Hollander and Lena Qiying Ma

Providing an introduction, the scientific background, case studies and future perspectives of in-situ arsenic remediation technologies for soils, soil water and groundwater at geogenic and anthropogenic contaminated sites.

Radar Meteorology

Principles and Practice

Frederic Fabry

This practical textbook introduces the fundamental physics behind radar measurements, to guide students and practitioners in the proper interpretation of radar reflectivity, Doppler velocity and dual-polarization imagery.

Regional Assessment of Climate Change in the Mediterranean (3-Volume Set)

Antonio Navarra and Laurence Tubiana

This three-volume set thoroughly describes, synthesizes and analyzes the results of the four-year Integrated Research Project CIRCE – Climate Change and Impact Research: Mediterranean Environment, funded by the EU 6th Framework ... ....

Regional Assessment of Climate Change in the Mediterranean, Volume 2

Agriculture, Forests and Ecosystem Services and People

Antonio Navarra and Laurence Tubiana

Volume 2 of a three-volume final report thoroughly describes, synthesizes and analyzes the results of the four-year Integrated Research Project CIRCE – Climate Change and Impact Research: Mediterranean Environment, funded by the EU ... ....

Regional Assessment of Climate Change in the Mediterranean, Volume 3

Case Studies

Antonio Navarra and Laurence Tubiana

This is the third volume of a three-volume final report, which thoroughly describes, synthesizes and analyzes the results of the four-year Integrated Research Project CIRCE – Climate Change and Impact Research: Mediterranean Environment ... ....

Sea Ice

Physics, Mechanics and Remote Sensing

Mohammed Shokr and Nirmal K Sinha

An outstanding feature of Sea Ice is the study of sea ice crystalline structure. Ice growth history, as inferred from crystalline structure revealed in ice thin-section photographs will be presented in details. This will explain ... ....

The Changing Arctic Environment

The Arctic Messenger

David P Stone

This accessible and engagingly written book describes how national and international scientific monitoring programmes brought to light our present understanding of Arctic environmental change, and how these research results were successfully ... ....

The Politics of Contaminated Sites Management

Institutional Regime Change and Actors' Mode of Participation in the Environmental Management of the Bonfol Chemical Was

Johann Dupuis and Peter Knoepfel

By the end of the 1970s, contaminated sites had emerged as one of the most complex and urgent environmental issues affecting industrialized countries. The authors show that small and prosperous Switzerland is no exception to the pervasive ... ....

The West Without Water

What Past Floods, Droughts, and Other Climatic Clues Tell Us About Tomorrow

Frances Malamud-Roam and B Lynn Ingram

The West Without Water documents the tumultuous climate of the American West over twenty millennia, with tales of past droughts and deluges and predictions about the impacts of future climate change on water resources.

Treatment Wetlands for Environmental Pollution Control

Hanna Obarska-Pempkowiak, Magdalena Gajewska, Ewa Wojciechowska and Janusz Pempkowiak

The aim of Treatment Wetlands for Environmental Pollution Control is to present an overview of the state of the art with regard to the function, application and design of TWSs in order to better protect surface water from contaminated ... ....

Wastewater Treatment

Occurrence and Fate of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs)

Amy J Forsgren

Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) are a group of semi-volatile organic compounds that are formed during the incomplete burning of gas, coal, oil, wood, garbage, or other organic substances. PAHs are a concern because a number of the ... ....

Windfall: The Booming Business of Global Warming

McKenzie Funk

McKenzie Funk has spent the last six years reporting around the world on how we are preparing for a warmer planet. Funk shows us that the best way to understand the catastrophe of global warming is to see it through the eyes of those who ... ....

Ages, Geochemistry and Metamorphism of Neoarchean Basement in Shandong Province

Implications for the Evolution of the North China Craton

Meiling Wu

Focusing on issues of when and how Archean crust in the craton was formed, this PhD thesis book presents major research outcomes of field based metamorphic, geochemical and geochronological investigations on Meso-Neoarchean basement rocks ... ....

Application of Geochemical Tracers to Fluvial Sediment

Jerry R Miller, Gail Mackin and Suzanne M Orbock Miller

Application of Geochemical Tracers to Fluvial Sediment takes an in-depth look at the theory and methods inherent in the tracing of riverine sediments. Examined tracers include multi-elemental concentration data, fallout ... ....

Atmospheric Boundary Layer

Integrating Air Chemistry and Land Interactions

Jordi Vil? -Guerau de Arellano, Chiel C van Heerwaarden, Bart JH van Stratum and K van den Dries

Based on more than twenty years of research and lecturing, Jordi Vilà-Guerau de Arellano and his team's textbook provides an excellent introduction to the interactions between the atmosphere and the land for advanced undergraduates ... ....

Beyond: Our Future in Space

Chris Impey

Human exploration has been an unceasing engine of technological progress, from the first Homo sapiens to leave our African cradle to a future in which mankind promises to settle another world. Beyond: Our Future in Space ... ....

Black Hole

How an Idea Abandoned by Newtonians, Hated by Einstein, and Gambled on by Hawking Became Loved

Marcia Bartusiak

For more than half a century, physicists and astronomers engaged in heated dispute over the possibility of black holes in the universe. The weirdly alien notion of a space-time abyss from which nothing escapes – not even light ... ....

Elements of Petroleum Geology

Richard Selley and Stephen A Sonnenberg

This Third Edition of Elements of Petroleum Geology is completely updated and revised to reflect the vast changes in the field since publication of the Second Edition. Elements of Petroleum Geology is a useful primer for ... ....

Flow Sensing in Air and Water

Behavioural, Neural and Engineering Principles of Operation

Horst Bleckmann, Joachim Mogdans and Sheryl L Coombs

In Flow Sensing in Air and Water, leading scientists in the fields of sensory biology, neuroscience, physics and engineering explore the basic operational principles and behavioral uses of flow sensing in animals and how they might ... ....

Flow Through Heterogeneous Geological Media

Tian-Chyi J Yeh, Raziuddin Khaleel and Kenneth C Carroll

Flow Through Heterogeneous Geological Media integrates classic principles of flow through porous media with recently developed stochastic analyses to provide new insight on subsurface hydrology. Importantly, each of the authors ... ....

Fluid-Induced Seismicity

Serge Shapiro

The characterisation of fluid transport properties of rocks is one of the most important, yet difficult, challenges of reservoir geophysics, but is essential for optimal development of hydrocarbon and geothermal reservoirs.

Journey to the Centre of the Earth

The Remarkable Voyage of Scientific Discovery into the Heart Our World

David Whitehouse

The journey to the centre of the earth is a voyage like no other we can imagine. Over 6 300 km below the earth's surface an extraordinary inner world the size of mars awaits us. Dive through the molten iron of the outer core ... ....

Layered Intrusions

Bernard Charlier, Olivier Namur, Rais Latypov and Christian Tegner

This edited work contains the most recent advances related to the study of layered intrusions and cumulate rocks formation. The first part of Layered Intrusions presents reviews and new views of processes producing the textural ... ....

Nine Algorithms That Changed the Future

The Ingenious Ideas That Drive Today's Computers

John MacCormick and Chris Bishop

Every day, we use our computers to perform remarkable feats. A simple web search picks out a handful of relevant needles from the world's biggest haystack: the billions of pages on the World Wide Web. Uploading a photo to Facebook ... ....

Rockhounding Montana

A Guide to 100 of Montana's Best Rockhounding Sites

Montana Hodges and Robert Feldman

With this informative, fully updated and revised guide, you can explore the mineral-rich region of Montana. It describes the state's best rockhounding sites and covers popular and commerical sites as well as numerous little-known areas ... ....

SYNER-G: Systemic Seismic Vulnerability and Risk Assessment of Complex Urban, Utility, Lifeline Systems and Critical Fac

Methodology and Applications

Kyriazis Pitilakis, Paolo Franchin, B Khazai and H Wenzel

SYNER-G, a multidisciplinary effort funded by the European Union, allowed the development of an innovative methodological framework for the assessment of physical as well as socio-economic seismic vulnerability and risk at urban and ... ....

Sequence Stratigraphy of the Lower Miocene Moghra Formation in the Qattara Depression, North Western Desert, Egypt

Safiya M Hassan

The Qattara Depression is part of the Northwestern Desert in Egypt and is home to the second lowest point in Africa at 133 meters below sea level. Therefore, before any projects can be carried out in this area, we must first understand ... ....

Subduction Dynamics

Gabriele Morra

For decades, subduction dynamics has been actively studied through seismology, mineral physics, and laboratory and numerical experiments. There have been exciting advances in our understanding of subduction zones brought forth by observations ... ....

The Ancient Great Glacier of North America

A Newly Discovered Document of a Revolution in 19th Century Geological Theory

Jr.,Harold William Borns and Kirk Allen Maasch

John K. DeLaski, M.D. practiced medicine in the Penobscot Bay region of Maine and, in addition, was a naturalist with keen powers of observation. His study of the landscape led to the conclusion that a thick glacier had overtopped the ... ....

The Cassini-Huygens Visit to Saturn

An Historic Mission to the Ringed Planet

Michael Meltzer

Cassini-Huygens was the most ambitious and successful space journey ever launched to the outer Solar System. The Cassini-Huygens Visit to Saturn examines all aspects of the journey: its conception and planning; the lengthy political ... ....

The Collector's Guide to Herkimer Diamonds

Michael R Walter

This is the first published guide to Herkimer diamonds, striking quartz crystals, that includes all important aspects of interest to anyone curious about this unique form of the mineral quartz. Over 210 vivid colour images of important ... ....

Alternative Transportation Fuels

Utilisation in Combustion Engines

MK Gajendra Babu

A continuous rise in the consumption of gasoline, diesel, and other petroleum-based fuels will eventually deplete reserves and deteriorate the environment, Alternative Transportation Fuels: Utilisation in Combustion Engines ... ....

Balsamic Vinegars

Tradition, Technology, Trade

Paolo Giudici, Federico Lemmetti and Stefano Mazza

Balsamic Vinegars: Tradition, Technology, Trade offers a clear description of all the balsamic vinegars and/or similar products produced in the world, their differences in composition, quality and use. This encompasses all the ... ....

Biotechnology Regulation and GMOs

Law, Technology and Public Contestations in Europe

Naveen Thayyil

This thoughtful book explores how EU law treats serious disagreements about the development and use of a radically new technology like genetic modification. This expert examination describes relevant EU laws to identify and analyze the ... ....

Cheap and Clean

How Americans Think About Energy in the Age of Global Warming

Stephen Ansolabehere and David M Konisky

How do Americans think about energy? Is the debate over fossil fuels highly partisan and ideological? Does public opinion about fossil fuels and alternative energies divide along the fault between red states and blue states? And how much ... ....

Cowed: The Hidden Impact of 93 Million Cows on America's Health, Economy, Politics, Culture, and Environment

Denis Hayes and Gail Boyer Hayes

In Cowed, globally recognized environmentalists Denis and Gail Boyer Hayes offer a revealing analysis of how our beneficial, centuries-old relationship with bovines has evolved into one that now endangers us. Long ago, cows provided ... ....

Cultivating the Nile

The Everyday Politics of Water in Egypt

Jessica Barnes

The waters of the Nile are fundamental to life in Egypt. In this compelling ethnography, Jessica Barnes explores the everyday politics of water: a politics anchored in the mundane yet vital acts of blocking, releasing, channeling, and ... ....

Culture, Architecture and Nature

An Ecological Design Retrospective

Sim van der Ryn

Gathering his most compelling essays and addresses from the last fifty years in one accessible volume, Culture, Architecture and Nature looks at the pioneering ideas that underpin Sim Van der Ryn's ecological design philosophy ... ....

Derrida and Our Animal Others

Derrida's Final Seminar, the Beast and the Sovereign

David Farrell Krell

Jacques Derrida's final seminars were devoted to animal life and political sovereignty – the connection being that animals slavishly adhere to the law while kings and gods tower above it and that this relationship reveals much ... ....

Development of Marine Resources

Andre Monaco and Patrick Prouzet

Marine resources and their exploitation, recovery and economic networks they generate are here from the perspective now inevitable growing environmental constraints, policy management and technical innovation. A historical perspective ... ....

Environmental Anthropology Engaging Ecotopia

Bioregionalism, Permaculture, and Ecovillages

Joshua Lockyer and James R Veteto

In order to move global society towards a sustainable "ecotopia," solutions must be engaged in specific places and communities, and the authors here argue for re-orienting environmental anthropology from a problem-oriented ... ....

Environmental Education in China

Gerald A McBeath and Jenifer Huang McBeath

China's environmental problems increasingly attract global attention, yet critics often overlook the sizable efforts of the Chinese people and government to change attitudes and behavior, in order to improve environmental outcomes. ....

Environmental Good Practice on Site Guide

CIRIA

Environmental Good Practice on Site Guide was first published in 1999 and the latest edition reflects changes in legislation, developments in practice and emergence of new topics that the industry needs to consider. These include ... ....

Evolutionary Religion

JL Schellenberg

J. L. Schellenberg articulates and defends a simple but revolutionary idea: we are still at a very early stage in the possible history of intelligent life on our planet, and should frame our religious attitudes accordingly. Humans have ... ....

FAO Yearbook: Fishery and Aquaculture Statistics 2012

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

Ensuring responsible and sustainable fisheries management around the world requires standardized, reliable and up-to-date information for sound decision-making. FAO, as the only repository for global fishery data, regularly collects and ... ....

Fallen Forests

Emotion, Embodiment, and Ethics in American Women's Environmental Writing, 1781-1924

Karen L Kilcup

In 1844, Lydia Sigourney asserted, "Man's warfare on the trees is terrible." Like Sigourney many American women of her day engaged with such issues as sustainability, resource wars, globalization, voluntary simplicity ... ....

Food and Nutrition in Numbers 2014

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

Food and Nutrition in Numbers, a pocket-sized compendium dedicated to the state of nutrition worldwide, offers diverse data and visualizations highlighting trends on such topics as micronutrient deficiencies, overweight ... ....

Foreign Investment and the Environment in International Law

Jorge E Vinuales

Conflicts between foreign investment law and environmental law are becoming increasingly frequent. On the one hand, the rise of environmental regulation poses significant challenges to foreign investors in several industries.

Gap Analysis of National and Regional Fisheries and Aquaculture Priorities and Initiatives in Western and Central Africa

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

African fishers and fish farmers are particularly vulnerable to disasters and climate change impacts. The objective of the study was to identify regional and national gaps and opportunities to reduce the vulnerability of the sector to ... ....

Green Architecture Now, Volume 1

Philip Jodidio

How green is your blueprint? Green Architecture Now! looks at architecture as sustainable technology. The ecological impact of new construction, once a secondary concern, has become a crucial issue. Badly designed buildings guzzle ... ....

Handbook of Renewable Energy (4-Volume Set)

Walter Leal-Filho

Energy security and energy supply are matters of central international concern, and the use of renewable energy is becoming increasingly necessary and attractive. The Handbook of Renewable Energy focuses on the emergent and ... ....

Implementing a US Carbon Tax

Challenges and Debates

Ian Parry, Adele Morris and Roberton C Williams III

Although the future extent and effects of global climate change remain uncertain, the expected damages are not zero, and risks of serious environmental and macroeconomic consequences rise with increasing atmospheric greenhouse gas ... ....

La Part de la Terre

L'Agriculture comme Art

Louise Browaeys and Henri de Pazzis

"Wheat germinates because it obeys the nature of wheat, because it contains potentially all future wheat. The first handful of grains thrown from man's hand signs a collaboration, it does not ensure mastery. If wheat withdraws ... ....

Nanoscale Energy Transport and Harvesting

A Computational Study

Zhang Gang

Nanoscale Energy Transport and Harvesting introduces current computational technology and examines the applications of nano structures in renewable energy, and the associated research topics. It addresses the current commonly ... ....

Peak Oil, Economic Growth, and Wildlife Conservation

J Edward Gates, David L Trauger and Brian Czech

This book focuses on one of the most important issues affecting humankind in this century – Peak Oil or the declining availability of abundant, cheap energy – and its effects on our industrialized economy and wildlife conservation ... ....

Report of the FAO/NEPAD Workshop on Cimate Change, Disasters and Crises in the Fisheries and Aquaculture Sector in South

Maputo, Mozambique 22-24 April 2013

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

The regional Workshop on Climate Change, Disasters and Crises in the Fisheries and Aquaculture Sector in Southern and Eastern Africa recommended disaster risk reduction and adaptation actions at the local, national and regional levels ... ....

Running Dry

Essays on Energy, Water and Environmental Crisis

Toby C Jones

The world's water is under siege. A combination of corporate greed and the elite pursuit of political power is accelerating a broad range of environmental and political crises. Potentially catastrophic climate change, driven primarily ... ....

SYNER-G: Typology Definition and Fragility Functions for Physical Elements at Seismic Risk

Buildings, Lifelines, Transportation Networks and Critical Facilities

Kyriazis Pitilakis, H Crowley and AM Kaynia

Fragility functions constitute an emerging tool for the probabilistic seismic risk assessment of buildings, infrastructures and lifeline systems. The work presented in SYNER-G: Typology Definition and Fragility Functions for Physical ... ....

Schools for Health and Sustainability

Theory, Research and Practice

Venka Simovska and Patricia Mannix McNamara

Schools are unique places. They pay a central role in the formation of young people. The importance of how young people are educated and how they are encouraged to live and learn cannot be underestimated.

Social-Ecological Resilience and Law

Ahjond S Garmestani and Craig R Allen

Environmental law envisions ecological systems as existing in an equilibrium state, reinforcing a rigid legal framework unable to absorb rapid environmental changes and innovations in sustainability. For the past four decades ...

State and Environment

The Comparative Study of Environmental Governance

Andreas Duit

Many recent studies on environmental governance focus on either the micro-level (the local and the individual) or the macro-level (the global) while neglecting governance at the nation-state level. State environmental governance is often ... ....

Sugarcane: Physiology, Biochemistry & Functional Biology

Paul H Moore and Frederik C Botha

Sugarcane: Physiology, Biochemistry & Functional Biology looks at the development of a suite of well-established and developing biofuels derived from sugarcane and cane-based co-products, such as bagasse. Chapters provide ... ....

Sustainable Architecture

The Plan

Sustainable Architecture offers a visual and in-depth journey of the most innovative examples of sustainable architecture worldwide. From the most cutting-edge studios around the world ...

The

Women, Peasants, Indigenous Peoples, and the Remaking of Nature

Ana Isla

Since the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, the concept of sustainable development has become the basis for a vast number of "green industries" from eco-tourism to carbon sequestration.

The Age of Sustainable Development

Jeffrey D Sachs and Ban Ki-moon

Jeffrey D. Sachs has shown himself to be one of the world's most perceptive and original analysts of global development in his groundbreaking books, including The End of Poverty and Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet.

The Climate Resilient Organization

Adaptation and Resilience to Climate Change and Weather Extremes

Martina K Linnenluecke and Andrew Griffiths

Climate change has had a significant impact globally, predominantly for those vulnerable to its influence. The first book of its kind, The Climate Resilient Organization assesses the issues that have mounted for decision-makers ... ....

The Dilemma of the Commoners

Understanding the Use of Common Pool Resources in Long-Term Perspective

Tine de Moor

One of the classic problems in social science is known as 'the dilemma of the commons', in which land, water, and other resources held jointly by social or economic segments tend to be depleted sooner and to a greater extent than ... ....

The Globalization Reader

Frank J Lechner and John Boli

Completely revised and updated, the fifth edition of this well-regarded textbook charts key topics and recent research in globalization along with the latest complexities and controversies in the field. - Includes a new section ... ....

The Greening of Asia

The Business Case for Solving Asia's Environmental Emergency

Mark Clifford

One of Asia's best-respected writers on business and economy, Hong Kong-based author Mark L. Clifford provides a behind-the-scenes look at what companies in China, India, Japan, Korea, the Philippines, South Korea, Singapore, and Thailand ... ....

The Logos of the Living World

Merleau-Ponty, Animals and Language

Louise Westling

Today there is an urgent need to reevaluate the human place in the world in relation to other animals. The Logos of the Living World explores complementary developments in a number of related disciplines, putting Maurice Merleau-Ponty ... ....

The Social Life of Water

John R Wagner

The human relationship to water is fundamentally social in nature (in addition to being biological and ecological), and it is through this that we construct relations among class, gender, ethnicity, and nationality. Changes, therefore ... ....

The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2014

Strengthening the Enabling Environment to Improve Food Security and Nutrition

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2014 presents updated estimates of undernourishment and progress towards the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) and World Food Summit (WFS) hunger targets. A stock-taking of where we stand ... ....

The State of Food and Agriculture 2014

Innovation in Family Farming

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

More than 500 million family farms manage most of the world's agricultural land and produce most of its food. Family farms are very diverse, including many who are poor with low levels of productivity. All of them must become more ... ....

This Changes Everything

Capitalism vs. the Climate

Naomi Klein

With strong first-hand reporting and an original, provocative thesis, Klein returns with a must-read on how the climate crisis must spur transformational political change. We seem to have given up on any serious effort to prevent ... ....

Underground Engineering for Sustainable Urban Development

National Research Council (NRC)

For thousands of years, the underground has provided humans refuge, useful resources, physical support for surface structures, and a place for spiritual or artistic expression. More recently, many urban services have been placed underground ... ....

Value and Economy of Marine Resources

Andre Monaco and Patrick Prouzet

Marine resources and their exploitation, recovery and economic networks they generate are here from the perspective now inevitable growing environmental constraints, policy management and technical innovation.The recent development of ... ....

Water, Peace, and War

Confronting the Global Water Crisis

Brahma Chellaney

This pioneering and authoritative study considers the profound impact of the growing global water crunch on international peace and security as well as possible ways to mitigate the crisis. Although water is essential to sustaining life ... ....

Bayesian Data Analysis

Andrew Gelman, John B Carlin, Hal S Stern, David B Dunson, Aki Vehtari and Donald B Rubin

Now in its third edition, this classic book is widely considered the leading text on Bayesian methods, lauded for its accessible, practical approach to analyzing data and solving research problems.

Chromatography: Basic Principles, Sample Preparations and Related Methods

Elsa Lundanes, Leon Reubsaet and Tyge Greibrokk

Finally a book on chromatography which is easy to grasp for undergraduates and technicians; covers the area in sufficient depth while still being concise. Chromatography: Basic Principles, Sample Preparations and Related Methods ... ....

Classification Phylogenetique du Vivant, Volume 2 [French]

Guillaume Lecointre and Herve Le Guyader

Introduction to phylogenetic classification.

Genome-Scale Algorithm Design

Biological Sequence Analysis in the Era of High-Throughput Sequencing

Veli Makinen, Djamal Belazzougui, Fabio Cunial and Alexandru I Tomescu

High-throughput sequencing has revolutionised the field of biological sequence analysis. Its application has enabled researchers to address important biological questions, often for the first time.

Preparing Plant Tissue for Light Microscopic Study

A Compendium of Simple Techniques

Richard C Keating

Preparing Plant Tissue for Light Microscopic Study's emphasis is the gathering of microscopic data from plant tissues in ways that do not require elaborate and dedicated equipment. The approximately 200 formulas or procedures ... ....

Remote Sensing and GIS for Ecologists

Using Open Source Software

Martin Wegmann, Benjamin Leutner and Stefan Dech

This is a book about how ecologists can integrate remote sensing and GIS in their daily work. It will allow ecologists to get started with the application of remote sensing and to understand its potential and limitations. Using practical ... ....

Statistics: An Introduction Using R

Michael John Crawley

A revised and updated edition of this bestselling introductory textbook to statistical analysis using the leading free software package R. This new edition of a bestselling title offers a concise introduction to a broad array ...

Trapping of Small Organisms Moving Randomly

Principles and Applications to Pest Monitoring and Management

James R Miller, Christopher G Adams, Paul A Weston and Jeffrey H Schenker

This new book is the first to make logical and important connections between trapping and foraging ecology. It develops and describes-both verbally and mathematically – the underlying principles that determine and define ...

Encyclopedia of Planetary Landforms

Henrik Hargitai and Akos Kereszturi

The technique of the mapping of planetary surfaces and the methods used for the identification of various planetary landforms improved much in the last 400 years. Until the 20th century, telescopic observers could interpret planetary ... ....

Oxford Dictionary of Biology

Elizabeth Martin and Robert S Hine

Fully revised and updated for the seventh edition, this market-leading dictionary is the perfect guide for anyone studying biology, either at school or university. With more than 5 500 clear and concise entries, it provides ... ....

Scientific Method in Brief

Jr.,Hugh G Gauch and James R Miller

The fundamental principles of the scientific method are essential for enhancing perspective, increasing productivity, and stimulating innovation. These principles include deductive and inductive logic, probability, parsimony and hypothesis ... ....

Under Glass

A Victorian Obsession

John Whitenight

Come join an in depth exploration of a unique segment of the Victorian decorative arts. In 650 beautiful images and fascinating text, many glass domes and the objects displayed under them are revealed and discussed in detail.

Wild Animal Skins in Victorian Britain

Zoos, Collections, Portraits, and Maps

Ann C Colley

What did the 13th Earl of Derby, his twenty-two-year-old niece, Manchester's Belle Vue Zoo, and even some ordinary laborers all have in common? All were avid collectors and exhibitors of exotic, and frequently unruly, specimens. ....