A Field Study of the Society of Rhinopithecus roxellanae [Chinese]

Su Yanjie

Rhinopithecus roxellana, or the golden snub-nosed monkey, is a primate species endemic to China, and its social groups are characterized by social habits, social organization and strong group bonds. Human economic development and ...

Atlas des Mammiferes Sauvages de France, Volume 1: Mammiferes Marins [Atlas of Wild Mammals of France, Volume 1

Audrey Savoure-Soubelet, Stephane Aulagnier, Patrick Haffner and Francois Moutou

This book on marine mammals is the first volume in the series Atlas des Mammifères Sauvages de France. An innovative project due to its geographical influence (mainland and overseas), the atlas is produced in partnership ...

Bats (Chiroptera) as Vectors of Diseases and Parasites

Facts and Myths

Sven Klimpel and Heinz Mehlhorn

Bats (Chiroptera) as Vectors of Diseases and Parasites gathers contributions by 16 international authors on the phenomenon "bats," shedding some light on their morphology, the feeding behaviors (insects, fruits, blood) ...

British Bats

John D Altringham

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British Mammals

L Harrison Matthews

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British Seals

HR Hewer

Complete your New Naturalist collection with Harper Collins's facsimile versions, which are printed on demand. British Seals was first published in 1974. While seals are a perennial favourite among visitors ...

Evolution's Chimera

Bats and the Marvel of Evolutionary Adaptation

David Steve Jacobs

In Greek mythology, the chimera was a hybrid monster. Similarly, bats look like they have the body of a mouse, the face of a gargoyle or fox, and the wings of a pterosaur, giving rise to this book's title.

Fauna of the European North-East of Russia, Volume 2, Part 2: Mammals [Russian]

Volume 2, Part 2 covers Russian mammals.

Hippopotamus

Edgar Williams

They are famously fat – cumbersome, lethargic, and oddly charming for the way they lounge around half-submerged in muddy pools all day. Hippos are gregarious herbivores that don't much like the heat, but as Edgar Williams shows ...

Historia Natural dos Morcegos Brasileiro: Chave de Identificacao de Especies [Natural History of Brazilian Bats:

Nelio Roberto dos Reis, Adriano Lucio Peracchi, Carolina Blefari Batista and Isaac Pass de Lima

The interest of scholars in the ecology of bats has led to the development of this up-to-date identification key with the objective of providing systematic data about bats and encouraging interested parties to be able to identify the species ...

Howler Monkeys, Volume 1

Adaptive Radiation, Systematics and Morphology

Martin M Kowalewski, Bernardo Urbani, Liliana Cortes-Ortiz, Paul A Garber and Dionisio Youlatos

Howler monkeys (genus Alouatta) comprise 12 species of leaf-eating New World monkeys that range from southern Mexico through northern Argentina. This genus is the most widespread of any New World primate and can be found to inhabit ...

Howler Monkeys, Volume 2

Behavior, Ecology and Conservation

Martin M Kowalewski, Paul A Garber, Liliana Cortes-Ortiz, Bernardo Urbani and Dionisio Youlatos

Howler monkeys (genus Alouatta) comprise twelve species of leaf-eating New World monkeys that range from southern Mexico through northern Argentina. This genus is the most widespread of any New World primate taxa, and can be found ...

RSPB Spotlight: Hares

Nancy Jennings

With their wild glare, swift turn of foot and secretive nature, hares are the rabbit's mysterious and untameable cousin. Always a thrilling wildlife spot, the hare has long been a symbol of Britain's sweeping, open countryside.

Squirrels

Monica Shorten

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The Badger

Ernest Neal

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The Gibbon in China: An Essay in Chinese Animal Lore [Chinese]

Gao Luopei

This essay describes the role of the gibbon in the history of Chinese culture, and in Chinese animal lore, as this animal shows up in many places in classical literature.

The Jaguar

Rafael Hoogesteijn and Edgardo Mondolfi

An excellent monograph on the jaguar in Venezuela, but which also includes data for the species in the rest of South America. Chapters cover in good detail physical characteristics, behaviour, ecology, reproduction, subspecies ...

The Mole

Kenneth Mellanby

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The Rabbit

Harry V Thompson and Alistair N Worden

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Waterford's Discovery Guide: Bats

A Folding Pocket Guide to the Status of Familiar Species

James R Kavanagh

This guide helps identify and demystify the world of bats. Readers will learn about bats' position and role in the ecosystem – did you know there are over 1100 species of bats worldwide? This guide describes how bats evolved ...

Wolf Conflicts

A Sociological Study

Ketil Skogen, Olve Krange and Helene Figari

Wolf populations have recently made a comeback in Northern Europe and North America. These large carnivores can cause predictable conflicts by preying on livestock, and competing with hunters for game. But their arrivals often become ...

A Field Guide to the Birds of Qinling Mountains [Chinese]

Li Jingang

This field guide provides a brief introduction to Chinese zoogeographical divisions, ecological bird groups, endemic species composition, and the natural geography and biodiversity characteristics of the Qinling Mountains, a major ...

Alle Europas Fugle [All the Birds of Europe]

Frederic Jiguet, Aurelien Audevard and Laila Flink Thullesen

This guide present all 860 European bird species in one volume, including breeding, wintering, migratory, but also rare species. All species are illustrated, including those seen only once in Europe, or those that will likely be seen in ...

Bird Migration

Ian Newton

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Birds & Men

E Max Nicholson

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Birds of Brisbane

Greg Czechura

The city of Brisbane has more species recorded than for any other Australian capital. In Brisbane, birds are never very far away, whether chattering among the street trees, drinking in city fountains, or nesting high on multi-storey office ...

Birds of Goa

Bikram Grewal and Savio Fonseca

This book covers over 400 species and distinct sub-species and contains over 480 full-colour photographs. Many of the photographs in this magnificent volume appear for the first time and have been carefully selected to show the ...

Birds of the London Area Since 1900

RC Homes

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British Larks, Pipits and Wagtails

Eric Simms

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British Thrushes

Eric Simms and Robert Gillmor

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British Tits

Christopher M Perrins

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British Warblers

Eric Simms, Ian Wallace and Eric Hosking

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Chamberlain's Waders

The Definitive Guide to Southern Africa's Shorebirds

Faansie Peacock

Waders, or shorebirds, represent only a small percentage of the world's birds, but are unparalleled in popularity among birders. Why? Identifying these seemingly anonymous grey birds, through a combination of shape, plumage and behaviour ...

Cuando y Donde Ver Aves en Baleares [When and Where to See Birds in the Balearic Islands]

Maties Rebassa

This practical guide, written by a recognized expert in the Balearic avifauna, brings together a large number of destinations and suggestions for birdwatching activities in the Balearic Islands according to the time of the year, grouped ...

Farmland Birds

Ian Newton

The way that people use the land – whether for food production, recreation, housing and other infrastructure – shapes the habitats of birds and other wildlife. Over time, almost all of the landscapes of developed countries have ...

Finches

Ian Newton

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Fleas, Flukes and Cuckoos

Dame Miriam Rothschild and Theresa Clay

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Grouse: The Natural History of British and Irish Species

Adam Watson and Robert Moss

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Handmade Birdhouses and Feeders

35 Projects to Attract Birds into your Garden

Michele McKee-Orsini and Caroline Arber

Watching birds in the garden is a real treat and providing food, water and safe places to nest will ensure that you have birds visiting your garden all year round. With 35 beautiful projects, Handmade Birdhouses and Feeders shows ...

History of Ornithology

Peter Bircham

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Man & Birds

RK Murton

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Molting in Neotropical Birds

Life History and Forest Fragmentation

Erik I Johnson and Jared D Wolfe

Molting is a growth related process in birds in which certain feathers are shed and replaced during the life cycle. The timing, duration, seasonality, extent and pattern of molting follows certain strategies.

RSPB Spotlight: Owls

Marianne Taylor

Owls are charismatic and exceptionally well-loved characters in British wildlife, and have always held a special place in our folklore and legends. Their nocturnal habits mean few of us have been lucky enough to see them up close.

Report on Scarce Migrant Birds in Britain in 2014

The December 2016 issue of British Birds contains the Report on Scarce Migrant Birds in Britain in 2014. This report presents data on the non-passerine scarce migrants recorded in Britain in 2014. Around 300 Great ...

Sea-Birds

James Fisher and Ronald M Lockley

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The Folklore of Birds

Edward A Armstrong

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The Fulmar

James Fisher

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The Greenshank

Desmond Nethersole-Thompson

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The Hawfinch

Guy Mountfort

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The Heron

Frank A Lowe

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The Herring Gull's World

Niko Tinbergen

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The House Sparrow

JD Summers-Smith

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The Little Book of Birds

Anne Jankeliowitch

When does the peacock spread its feathers? Why does the flamingo stand on one leg? Where do ostrichs come from? Do swallows really announce the beginning of Spring? What does the stork symbolise in Alsace? From what distance can an eagle ...

The Redstart

John Buxton

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The Wood Pigeon

RK Murton

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The Wren

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The Yellow Wagtail

Stuart H Smith

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Virginia Birds

A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Species

James R Kavanagh and Raymond Leung

Virginia is the permanent or temporary home of 425 species of birds, including the state bird – the northern cardinal. This beautifully illustrated guide highlights over 140 familiar and unique species and includes an ecoregion map ...

Waders

William G Hale

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Washington State Birds

A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Species

James R Kavanagh and Raymond Leung

Washington is the permanent or temporary home of 502 species of birds, including the state bird – the American Goldfinch. This beautifully illustrated guide highlights over 140 familiar and unique species and includes an ecoregion ...

West Virginia Birds

A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Species

James R Kavanagh and Raymond Leung

West Virginia is the permanent or temporary home of over 350 species of birds, including the state bird – the conspicuous northern cardinal. This beautifully illustrated guide highlights over 140 familiar and unique species and ...

Wildfowl

David Cabot

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Woodland Birds

Eric Simms

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Amphibians and Reptiles

Trevor JC Beebee and Richard Griffiths

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Ratttlesnakes of Arizona, Volume 2: Conservation, Behavior, Venom, and Evolution

Gordon W Schuett, Martin J Feldner, Charles F Smith, Randall S Reiserer and Tell Hicks

Rattlesnakes of Arizona, Volume 2: Conservation, Behavior, Venom, and Evolution is a collection of 13 highly focused, synthetic chapters by 22 leading experts covering a wide range of topics, from phylogenetics and genomics to ...

The British Amphibians and Reptiles

Malcolm Arthur Smith

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Deep-Sea Cartilaginous Fishes of the Southeastern Atlantic Ocean

David A Ebert

Deep-Sea Cartilaginous Fishes of the Southeastern Atlantic Ocean is a comprehensive, fully illustrated Catalogue of the Sharks, Batoid Fishes, and Chimaeras of the southeastern Atlantic Ocean, encompassing FAO Fishing Area 47 ...

Freshwater Fishes

Peter S Maitland and R Niall Campbell

Complete your New Naturalist collection with Harper Collins's facsimile versions, which are printed on demand. Freshwater Fishes was first published in 1992. An in-depth look at the fish that inhabit the ...

Identification Guide to the Deep-Sea Cartilaginous Fishes of the Southeastern Atlantic Ocean

David A Ebert, Edoardo Mostarda and Emanuela D'Antoni

This fully illustrated guide is designed to assist with the identification of a selection of deep-sea cartilaginous fishes of the Southeastern Atlantic Ocean and that portion of Southwestern Indian Ocean from 18°42'E to ...

Species Diversity and Distribution of Inland Fishes in China [Chinese]

Chun-Guang Zhang and Ya-Hui Zhao

This book contains taxonomic validations and a catalogue of the inland fish of China. It uses several sources of data, including fish collecting information from historical literature (1758-2014), specimens from the major fish collections ...

The Living Marine Resources of the Eastern Central Atlantic, Volume 3: Bony Fishes Part 1 (Elopiformes to Scorpaeniforme

Kent E Carpenter and Nicoletta de Angelis

These multivolume field guides cover species of interest to fisheries in the Eastern Central Atlantic (FAO fishing area 34 and part of 47). The introductory chapter outlines the environmental, ecological, and biogeographical factors influencing ...

The Living Marine Resources of the Eastern Central Atlantic, Volume 4: Bony Fishes Part 2 (Perciformes to Tetradontiform

Kent E Carpenter and Nicoletta de Angelis

These multivolume field guides cover species of interest to fisheries in the Eastern Central Atlantic (FAO fishing area 34 and part of 47). The introductory chapter outlines the environmental, ecological, and biogeographical factors influencing ...

The Salmon

JW Jones

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The Trout

WE Frost and ME Brown

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A Guide to Stag Beetles of Australia

George Hangay, Roger de Keyzer and Paul Zborowski

Most Australian stag beetles live secretive lives, spending the majority of their life cycle inside decaying timber or under logs sunken in the soil. Yet these active recyclers of the forest are admired by beetle-loving people worldwide.

A Naturalist's Guide to the Butterflies of Great Britain & Northern Europe

Ted Benton

This easy-to-use, fully comprehensive identification guide to the 159 butterflies found in Britain, Ireland, Scandinavia, Belgium, Netherlands and the Baltics is perfect for amateur naturalists. High-quality photographs are accompanied ...

A Review of Bopyrids (Crustacea, Isopoda, Bopyridae) Parasitic on Caridean Shrimps (Crustacea, Decapoda, Caridea) from

Jianmei An, Christopher B Boyko and Xinzheng Li

A review of 37 bopyrid isopods known to infest 43 species of caridean shrimps in China is presented, based on literature records and new material. Synonymies are provided for all species, with descriptions and detailed illustrations give ...

An Angler's Entomology

JR Harris and TO Ruttledge

Complete your New Naturalist collection with Harper Collins's facsimile versions, which are printed on demand. An Angler's Entomology was first published in 1952. J. R. Harris is an angler and a scientist ...

Ants

Derek Wragge Morley

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Ants

MV Brian and Gordon Riley

Complete your New Naturalist collection with Harper Collins's facsimile versions, which are printed on demand. Ants was first published in 1977. Ants have always exercised a fascination that extends beyond ...

Ants of Brisbane

Chris Burwell

This pocket companion contains detailed descriptions of all the ants inhabiting Southeast Queensland, over 100 different species. From funnel ants to fire ants, their habitats, behaviours and even the strength of their bites can all be ...

Backyard Insects of Brisbane

Chris Burwell

This pocket companion contains information on ants, roaches, bees and many more insects that you'll find in a Brisbane household. Filled with their appetites, activities and habitats, it's the essential guide for any Brisbanite ...

Britain's Spiders

A Field Guide

Lawrence Bee, Geoff Oxford and Helen Smith

Britain's Spiders is a photographic guide to all 37 of the British families, focussing on spiders that can be identified in the field. Illustrated with a remarkable collection of photographs, it is designed to be accessible ...

Bumblebees

Ted Benton

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Bumblebees

John B Free and Colin G Butler

Complete your New Naturalist collection with Harper Collins's facsimile versions, which are printed on demand. Bumblebees was first published in 1959. This group of relatively large, colourful and familiar ...

Butterflies

EB Ford

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Butterflies [of Victoria]

Identification and Life-history

Ross P Field

Butterflies: Identification and Life-History aims to provide naturalists, bushwalkers and interested others with a detailed account of butterflies found in Victoria and beyond. Illustrates the full life-cycle of the butterfly.

Calosoma, Carabus et Cychrus de France [Calosoma, Carabus and Cychrus of France]

Damien Maguerre

This volume describes all members of the beetle genera Calosoma, Carabus and Cychrus found in France. All species are illustrated by a colour photo.

Cheliceral Morphology in Solifugae Arachnida

Primary Homology, Terminology, and Character Survey

Tharina L Bird, Robert Alan Wharton and Lorenzo Prendini

Arachnids of the order Solifugae (solifuges, false spiders, sun spiders, camel spiders, Walzenspinne, wind spiders) possess the largest jaws for body size among the Chelicerata. The chelicerae provide the most important character systems ...

De Nederlandse Breedvoetvliegen en Basterdbreedvoetvliegen (Platypezidae & Opetiidae) [The Dutch Flat-Footed Flies]

Menno Reemer and Herman de Jong

A key to the species of flat-footed flies of the Netherlands is presented. This includes 36 Dutch species of Platypezidae and one species of Opetiidae, supplemented with 12 species of Platypezidae recorded from surrounding countries.

Dragonflies

Philip S Corbet, Cynthia Longfield and NW Moore

Complete your New Naturalist collection with Harper Collins's facsimile versions, which are printed on demand. Dragonflies was first published in 1960. Dragonflies are an ideal group of insects for the ...

Dragonflies

Philip S Corbet and Steve Brooks

Complete your New Naturalist collection with Harper Collins's facsimile versions, which are printed on demand. Dragonflies was first published in 2008. Dragonflies are among the most ancient of ...

Eat Grub

The Ultimate Insect Cookbook

Shami Radia, Neil Whippey and Sebastian Holmes

Eat Grub features more than 55 exciting recipes using a variety of bugs, from grasshoppers to mealworms. It takes its inspiration from cuisines around the word to present a range of small plates, meals, desserts and even cocktail ...

Evolutionary Morphology of the Primary Male Reproductive System and Spermatozoa of Goblin Spiders (Oonopidae: Araneae)

Elizabeth Lipke and Peter Michalik

Goblin spiders (Oonopidae Simon, 1890) are distributed worldwide and among the most species-rich spider taxa. However, goblin spiders are understudied in many aspects and their phylogenetic relationships are not well resolved. As previous ...

Fauna of the European North-East of Russia, Volume 11, Part 1: Diptera, Tabanidea [Russian]

SV Pestov and MM Dolgin

Volume 11, Part 1, deals with the family Tabanidae, which are the horseflies.

Fauna of the European North-East of Russia, Volume 12: Copepoda [Russian]

EB Fefilova

Volume 12 deals with the copepods from Russia.

Fauna of the European North-East of Russia, Volume 5: Mollusca [Russian]

Volume 5 covers molluscs found in Russia.

Fauna of the European North-East of Russia, Volume 8, Part 3: Leaf Beetles (Chrysomelidae) [Russian]

Volume 8, Part 1 deals with the beetle family Chrysomelidae, the leaf beetles, as found in Russia.

Faune de France, Volume 98: Vespidae Solitaire de France M tropolitaine (Hymenoptera: Eumeninae, Masarinae) [Solitary W

Bruno Gereys

This new volume of the Faune de France deals with solitary wasps of the family Vespidae found in metropolitan France: 29 genera and 122 species of the subfamily Eumeninae (potter wasps) and 2 genera and 4 species of the subfamily ...

Insect Migration

CB Williams

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Insect Natural History

AD Imms

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Insectos de Guatemala: Guia de Identificaci n [Insects of Guatemala: Identification Guide]

Jichiro Yoshimoto, Enio B Cano and Samanta Orellana

Colour illustrated guide to insect species found in Guatemala.

Invasive Stink Bugs and Related Species (Pentatomoidea)

Biology, Higher Systematics, Semiochemistry, and Management

JE McPherson

The Superfamily Pentatomoidea (stink bugs and their relatives) is comprised of 18 families with over 8,000 species, the largest of which is the family Pentatomidae (about 5,000 species). These species primarily are phytophagous, and many ...

Ladybirds

Michael EN Majerus

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Letters to a Beekeeper

Alys Fowler and Steve Benbow

This the story of how, over the course of a year, Alys, the Guardian gardening writer, learns how to keep bees; and Steve, the urban beekeeper, learns how to plant a pollinator-friendly garden. Part beautifully designed coffee-table ...

List of Grassland Insects in Northeast China [Chinese]

Fang Hong

Based on collection and identification of a large number of specimens, the species, habits and distribution of grassland insects in northeast China are systematically summarized, and this list covers a total of 625 species belonging to ...

Moths

Michael EN Majerus

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Moths

EB Ford

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Oysters

CM Yonge

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Plant Pests

David V Alford

Complete your New Naturalist collection with Harper Collins's facsimile versions, which are printed on demand. Plant Pests was first published in 2011. Ever since man first cultivated plants and grew crops ...

Propolis: Healing Powers of the Bee Colony

Klaus Nowottnick

The first English translation of an updated German title first published over 20 years ago and since then there have been both Czech and Slovak editions. It explains the best methods for harvesting propolis – a resinous mixture ...

Sensitive Beekeeping

Practicing Vulnerability and Nonviolence with Your Backyard Beehive

Jack Bresette-Mills

You might have heard that bees are in trouble – but in fact, the trouble is coming our way too and bees are just showing it first. The looming environmental crisis means that, as a result of modern agricultural practices and pesticides ...

Systematic Revision of the North American Syntropine Vaejovid Scorpions with a Subaculear Tubercle, Konetontli Gonzalez

Edmundo Gonzalez-Santillan and Lorenzo Prendini

The Mexican vaejovid scorpion genus Konentontli González-Santillán and Prendini, 2013, was created to accommodate five species united, among other characters, by a subaculear tubercle on the telson. Species of ...

The Butterflies of Pakistan

Vadim V Tshikolovets and Jerome Pages

Pakistan is a unique country with a huge quantity of 7,000 m high mountains in one side, and some of the hottest deserts and semideserts on the other. There are the famous Karakorum mountains, Western parts of the Himalayas, with many ...

The Coleoptera of the Salvage Islands / Die Coleoptera von den Wilden Inseln / Os Coleopteros das Ilhas Selvagens

Peter E Stueben

The Coleoptera of the Salvage Islands illustrates in high resolution all the currently known species of beetles from these tiny islands set between Madeira Archipelago and the Canary Islands. It includes 278 colour photographs and ...

The Living Marine Resources of the Eastern Central Atlantic, Volume 1: Introduction, Crustaceans, Chitons and Cephalopod

Kent E Carpenter and Nicoletta de Angelis

This multivolume field guide covers the species of interest to fisheries of the major marine re source groups exploited in the Eastern Central Atlantic. The area of cover age includes FAO fishing area 34 and part of 47. The marine ...

The Living Marine Resources of the Eastern Central Atlantic, Volume 2: Bivalves, Gastropods, Hagfishes, Sharks, Batoid

Kent E Carpenter and Nicoletta de Angelis

These multivolume field guides cover species of interest to fisheries in the Eastern Central Atlantic (FAO fishing area 34 and part of 47). The introductory chapter outlines the environmental, ecological, and biogeographical factors influencing ...

The World of Spiders

WS Bristowe and Arthur Smith

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The World of the Honeybee

Colin G Butler

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ZooKeys 576: Revision of the Family Chalcididae (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea) from Vietnam, with the Description of 13 New

TC Narendran and Cornelius van Achterberg

Chalcidid wasps (Hymenoptera, Chalcididae) form one of the most interesting and difficult hymenopteran parasitoid families to study taxonomically. They can be recognized by the swollen hind femur, the nearly as long as wide tegulum and ...

Discover Prehistoric Marine Life

Larry Verstraete and Julius Csotonyi

Driving across the North American Heartland, surrounded by prairie, it is almost impossible to imagine that once this was once a huge inland sea. The Western Interior Seaway, which split the entire continent of North America in half ...

10th North American Paleontological Convention, Abstract Book

This book contains the abstracts for the 10th North American Paleontological Convention, held at the Hilton University of Florida Conference Center, Gainesville, Florida, from February 15th-18th, 2014.

Atlas of Benthic Foraminifera from China Seas

The Bohai Sea and the Yellow Sea

Yanli Lei and Tiegang Li

This atlas gives a comprehensive account on the benthic foraminiferal fauna in the China Seas, especially on the Bohai and the Yellow Seas. Details of about 183 species, subjected to 5 orders, 52 families and 92 genera are included.

Ecosystem Paleobiology and Geobiology

Andrew M Bush, Sara B Pruss and Jonathan L Payne

Presented as a Paleontological Society short course at the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America, Denver, Colorado, October 26, 2013.

Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why it Matters

Donald R Prothero

Donald R. Prothero's Evolution is an entertaining and rigorous history of the transitional forms and series found in the the fossil record. Its engaging narrative of scientific discovery and well-grounded analysis has led to ...

Fossils

HH Swinnerton

Complete your New Naturalist collection with Harper Collins's facsimile versions, which are printed on demand. Fossils was first published in 1960. You can find fossils practically everywhere in the British ...

From Evolution to Geobiology

Research Questions Driving Paleontology at the Start of a New Century

Patricia H Kelley and Richard K Bambach

Presented as a Paleontological Society short course at the Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America, Houston, Texas, October 4, 2008.

One Thousand and One Fossils: Discoveries in the Desert at Al Gharbia, United Arab Emirates [English / Arabic]

Faysal Bibi, Andrew Hill and Mark Beech

This lavish volume celebrates the astonishing wealth of fossils uncovered in recent decades in Abu Dhabi's desert. These prehistoric findings, around seven million years in age, record a period when the region was lush, green, and ...

Postcranial Osteology of Azendohsaurus madagaskarensis (Middle to Upper Triassic, Isalo Group, Madagascar) and its Syste

Sterling J Nesbitt, John Joseph Flynn, Adam C Pritchard, J Michael Parrish and L Ranivoharimanana

During the Triassic, archosauromorphs became one of the first groups of diapsid reptiles to diversify in terms of body size and morphological disparity in both terrestrial and marine ecosystems across Pangaea. This seemingly rapid divergence ...

Quantitative Methods in Paleobiology

John Alroy and Gene Hunt

Presented as a Paleontological Society short course at the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America, Denver, Colorado, October 30, 2010.

Reading and Writing of the Fossil Record

Preservational Pathways to Exceptional Fossilization

Marc Laflamme, James D Schiffbauer and Simon AF Darroch

Presented as a Paleontological Society short course at the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America, Vancouver, British Columbia, October 18, 2014.

Reconstructing Earth's Deep-Time Climate

Linda C Ivany and Brian T Huber

Presented as a Paleontological Society short course at the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America, Charlotte, North Carolina, November 3, 2012.

Teaching Paleontology in the 21st Century

Margaret M Yacobucci and Rowan Lockwood

This was presented as an "on the cutting edge" workshop at Cornell University and the Paleontological Research Institution, Ithaca, NY, during July 30-August 3, 2009.

The Catalogue of Cretaceous Corals, Volume 4: Systematic Part

Hannes Loeser

The systematic part is a revision of the Cretaceous corals on the genus level. In contrary to other compilations, this revision will be carried out exclusively on type material or material from the type locality of the type species of the ...

Trepostome Bryozoans of China [Chinese]

Xiao Fengsheng

This is the first systematic summary of Chinese Trepostomata, an extinct order of bryozoans. Systematic classifications are determined, compared and discussed, and the latest international stratigraphic tables have been attached with ...

Corals and Reefs

Crises, Collapse and Change

Jr.,George D Stanley

Coral reefs are likely the most important and enduring marine ecosystem on the planet, with a geologic record stretching back over 540 million years. Today, both corals and reefs are experiencing global degradation. It is the ability of ...

Life in Lakes & Rivers

TT Macan and EB Worthington

Complete your New Naturalist collection with Harper Collins's facsimile versions, which are printed on demand. Life in Lakes & Rivers was first published in 1951. The study of life in British lakes and ...

Peces y Mariscos del Atlantico Canario: Valorizacion y Recomendaciones de Sostenibilidad [Fish and Seafood of the

Jose Antonio Gonzalez Perez and Jose Regidor Garcia

Information sheets from the hand of José Antonio González and the Fisheries Biology team of the ICCM have in recent years been published on numerous occasions in the journals Ruta Archipiélago and ...

Seashore

Peter Joseph Hayward

Complete your New Naturalist collection with Harper Collins's facsimile versions, which are printed on demand. Seashore was first published in 2004. The seashore, with its endlessly changing tides, is one ...

The Open Sea

The World of Plankton

Alistair Hardy

Complete your New Naturalist collection with Harper Collins's facsimile versions, which are printed on demand. The Open Sea was first published in 1956. Professor Alistair Hardy is truly obsessed by animal ...

The Open Sea, Volume 2

Fish and Fisheries

Sir Alister Hardy and Douglas P Wilson

Complete your New Naturalist collection with Harper Collins's facsimile versions, which are printed on demand. The Open Sea, Volume 2 was first published in 1959. This is the sequel to the ...

The Sea Shore

CM Yonge

Complete your New Naturalist collection with Harper Collins's facsimile versions, which are printed on demand. The Sea Shore was first published in 1949. There is a greater variety of plants and animals ...

A Brief History of Creation

Science and the Search for the Origin of Life

Bill Mesler and H James Cleaves II

How did life begin? It is perhaps the most important question science has ever asked. Over the centuries, the search for an answer has been entwined with some of science's most revolutionary advances including ...

A History of World Agriculture

From the Neolithic Age to the Current Crisis

Marcel Mazoyer, Laurence Roudart and James H Membrez

Originally published in French as Histoires des Agricultures du Monde. Only once we understand the long history of human efforts to draw sustenance from the land can we grasp the nature of the crisis that faces humankind ...

A Invencao da Natureza: A Vida e as Descobertas de Alexander Von Humboldt [The Invention of Nature: The Adventures of

Andrea Wulf

Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) is the great lost scientist: more things are named after him than anyone else. There are towns, rivers, mountain ranges, the ocean current that runs along the South American coast, there's a penguin ...

A Natural History of Man in Britain

HJ Fleure

Complete your New Naturalist collection with Harper Collins's facsimile versions, which are printed on demand. A Natural History of Man in Britain was first published in 1951. One of the aims of this series ...

A Wretched and Precarious Situation

In Search of the Last Arctic Frontier

David Welky

In 1906, from atop a snow-swept hill in the ice fields northwest of Greenland, hundreds of miles from another human being, Commander Robert E. Peary spotted a line of mysterious peaks looming in the distance. He called this unexplored ...

Artefacts of Encounter

Cook's Voyages, Colonial Collecting and Museum Histories

Nicholas Thomas

The Pacific artefacts and works of art collected during the three voyages of Captain James Cook are of foundational importance for the study of art and culture in Oceania. These collections are representative not only of technologies ...

C.F. Tunnicliffe Prints

A Catalogue Raisonne

Charles Frederick Tunnicliffe, Robert A Meyrick and Harry Heuser

Charles Frederick Tunnicliffe OBE RA (1901-1979 worked in numerous media, his subject matter of British birds and other fauna was always depicted, unusually for the time, in their natural habitat. Renowned as the illustrator of the 1932 ...

Cultural Histories, Memories and Extreme Weather

A Historical Geography Perspective

Georgina Endfield and Lucy Veale

There is growing concern over the impacts of climate variability and anomalous and unusual weather. While social and economic systems have generally evolved to accommodate some deviations from 'normal' weather conditions, this is ...

Down an English Lane

A Celebration of Rural England Through the Paintings of Richard Thorn

Richard Thorn

We can ask little more of an landscape painter than to provide in paint not only what we have seen with our own eyes, but to capture the very essence of a scene – to feel when we gaze upon a painting the warming sun on our face and ...

Ecogothic

William Hughes and Andrew WM Smith

Ecogothic will provide the first study of how the Gothic engages with ecocritical ideas. Ecocriticism has frequently explored images of environmental catastrophe, the wilderness, the idea of home, constructions of ...

Farming

Sarah Johnson

Comprising essays selected from Environment and History and Environmental Values, these inexpensive paperbacks address important aspects of environmental history through theoretical essays and case studies. The readers ...

Global Crisis

War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century (Abridged Edition)

Geoffrey Parker

First published in 2013, Geoffrey Parker's prize-winning best seller Global Crisis analyzes the unprecedented calamities – revolutions, droughts, famines, invasions, wars, and regicides – that befell the mid-seventeenth ...

Growing the Tree of Science

Homi Bhabha and the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research

Indira Chowdhury

How does a premier institute of science come into being? How does it foster a culture promoting free thinking and original research? What impact do the policies of a newly independent nation have on the way it functions? Exploring such ...

Hidden Landscapes of the South West Coast Path

Walk - Explore - Discover

Ruth Luckhurst

The South West Coast Path is one of the world's most popular long-distance walking routes, taking in 630 miles of breathtaking scenery, from Minehead to Poole via Land's End and the Lizard. This book, along with its ...

Humboldt's Mexico

In the Footsteps of the Illustrious German Scientific Traveller

Myron Echenberg

The incalculable influence of Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) on biology, botany, geology, and meteorology deservedly earned him the reputation as the world's most illustrious scientist before Charles Darwin. Humboldt's ...

Journal of Cryptozoology, Volume 4

Karl PN Shuker

Volume 4 contains the following contributions: Editorial Karl P.N. Shuker

Buckley's Bunyip Paul Michael Donovan pp 9

A Checklist of Historical Hypotheses for the Loch Ness Monster C.G.M. Paxton ...

Landscape Wales

Terry Stevens

A pictorial celebration of the glorious natural treasures and landscapes of Wales. Featuring spectacular mountains, dramatic coastlines, gentle lowlands and idyllic river valleys. Landscape Wales is a reminder that the rich ...

Les Naturalistes: A la Decouverte de la Suisse et du Monde (1800-2015) [The Naturalists: Discovering Switzerland and

Patrick Kupper and Bernhard C Schaer

Switzerland has long been connected to the world. Swiss naturalists, who have discovered the world since the eighteenth century, have contributed greatly by establishing relations with other scientists in Switzerland, Europe and beyond.

Lords & Ladies

Cecil T Prime

The Collins New Naturalist series is the longest-running and arguably the most influential natural history series in the world. While the mainstream New Naturalist volumes were initially intended to deal with broad subjects ...

Making Waves

The Origins and Future of Greenpeace

Jim Bohlen

In 1971, when nuclear tests were being carried out on a small island off the coast of Alaska, a small group of people, believing that a few individuals could make a difference, set sail on an old fishing boat determined to put an end to ...

Man & the Land

L Dudley Stamp

Complete your New Naturalist collection with Harper Collins's facsimile versions, which are printed on demand. Man & the Land was first published in 1955. This remarkable book is the second contribution ...

Mumps, Measles and Mosaics

Kenneth M Smith and Roy Markham

The Collins New Naturalist series is the longest-running and arguably the most influential natural history series in the world. While the mainstream New Naturalist volumes were initially intended to deal with broad subjects ...

Painting Nature in Watercolor with Cathy Johnson

37 Step-by-Step Demonstrations Using Watercolor Pencil and Paint

Cathy Johnson

From crashing waves to sculptured deserts, from grand sunsets to humble wildflowers, from backyard discoveries to exotic getaways, the natural world offers inspiration enough for a lifetime!

Painting the Modern Garden

Monet to Matisse

Monty Don and Ann Dumas

The Impressionists were among the first to portray gardens directly from life, focusing on their colour and form rather than using them as a background for historical, religious and literary themes. Painting the Modern Garden ...

Pathways of a Cell Biologist

Through Yet Another Eye

Shinya Inoue

Pathways of a Cell Biologist is the autobiography of Shinya Inoué, tracing his life from childhood to the present. Though he has made many contributions to science, perhaps the most remarkable one involves the visualization ...

Pedigree: Words from Nature

Stephen Potter and Laurens Sargent

Complete your New Naturalist collection with Harper Collins's facsimile versions, which are printed on demand. Pedigree: Words from Nature was first published in 1973. Pedigree traces the origins ...

Ramble On

The Story of Our Love for Walking Britain

Sinclair McKay

his fascinating ramble through the history of walking delves into our relationship with the British countryside. Ramble On' tells the story of how country walks were transformed from a small and often illegal pastime to the ...

Reading the Rocks

How Victorian Geologists Discovered the Secret of Life

Brenda Maddox

A rich and exuberant group biography of the first geologists, the people who were first to excavate from the layers of the world its buried history. These first geologists were made up primarily, and inevitably, of gentlemen ...

Still in Search of Prehistoric Survivors

The Creatures That Time Forgot?

Karl PN Shuker and William M Rebsamen

It has been 21 years since the original publication back in 1995 of In Search of Prehistoric Survivors, considered by many to be Dr. Karl Shuker's finest cryptozoological volume. Not surprisingly, then, in subsequent years there has been a growing ...

Taiga: Regards sur la Nature Finlandaise [English / French]

Thomas Roger, Olivier Larrey, Eero Kemila, Mervi Laaksonen, Yves Fagniart and Jim Brandenburg

This set contains two books and a short, 32-minute film. The five authors bring their personal vision of the Finnish taiga. From the first pages begins an artistic journey into the heart of the boreal forest, peat bogs and lakes, seen ...

The Art of Science

Nicolas Baudin's Voyagers 1800-1804

Jean Fornasiero, Lindl Lawton and John West-Sooby

It was one of the most lavishly equipped scientific expeditions ever to leave Europe. At the dawn of the nineteenth century, French navigator Nicolas Baudin led two ships carrying 22 scientists and more than 230 officers and crew on a ...

The Basic Environmental History

Mauro Agnoletti and Simone Neri Serneri

The Basic Environmental History is an introductory instrument to the main themes of environmental history, illustrating its development over time, methodological implications, results achieved and those still under discussion.

The Dead Sea and the Jordan River

Barbara Kreiger

For centuries travelers have been drawn to the stunning and mysterious Dead Sea and Jordan River, a region which is unlike any other on earth in its religious and historical significance. In this exceptionally engaging and readable book ...

The Invention of Science

A New History of the Scientific Revolution

David Wootton

We live in a world made by science. How and when did this happen? The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution tells the story of the extraordinary intellectual and cultural revolution that gave birth to ...

The Malay Archipelago

Alfred Russel Wallace

'I slept very comfortably with half a dozen smoke-dried human skulls suspended over my head' The great Victorian scientist's heroic adventures across South-East Asia, from Singapore to the wilds of New Guinea ...

The Myth of the Holy Cow

Dwijendra Narayan Jha

Hugely controversial upon its publication in India, The Myth of the Holy Cow has already been banned by the Hyderabad Civil Court and the author's life has been threatened. Jha agrues against the historical sanctity of the ...

The Natural History of Pollination

Michael CF Proctor, Andrew Lack and Peter F Yeo

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The New Naturalists

Peter Marren

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Unseen City

The Majesty of Pigeons, the Discreet Charm of Snails & Other Wonders of the Urban Wilderness

Nathanael Johnson

It all started with Nathanael Johnson's decision to teach his daughter the name of every tree they passed on their walk to day care in San Francisco. This project turned into a quest to discover the secrets of the neighborhood's ...

Wildlife, Land, and People

A Century of Change in Prairie Canada

Donald G Wetherell

Encounters with wild animals are among the most significant relationships between humans and the natural world. Presenting a history of human interactions with wildlife in Alberta, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan between 1870 and 1960 ...

A Country Parish

AW Boyd

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Algarve Wildlife

The Natural Year

Clive Viney and Ray Tipper

First published in 2009, Algarve Wildlife: The Natural Year has been one of the most successful books about the region. This second edition is fully revised and substantially enlarged. Away from the coastal hotspots is ...

An Introduction to the Wildlife of Cyprus

David J Sparrow and Eddie John

This unique book on the wildlife of Cyprus aims to introduce the reader to the fauna of an island strongly influenced by its position at the juncture of Africa, Asia and Europe. It brings together authors, Cypriot and international ...

Berliner Hohlenkundliche Berichte, Volume 65-66: Atlas of the Great Caves and the Karst of Southeast Asia

Michael Laumanns and Liz Price

A much updated edition of Berliner Höhlenkundliche Berichte, Volume 40-41: Atlas of the Great Caves and the Karst of Southeast Asia, these are the “Yellow Pages” of caving in southeast Asia. Each country is ...

Berliner Hohlenkundliche Berichte, Volume 67: Resources on the Speleology of Meghalaya State, India, Part 7: Khaddum

Herbert Daniel Gebauer

Sixty-one caves are presented in this volume in detail, including Pielkhlieng Pouk which was so far surveyed to a length of 9,660 m and explored to over 12.6 km. Many of these caves are not fully explored yet. Twenty-seven caves not yet ...

Britain's Structure and Scenery

L Dudley Stamp

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British Game

Brian Vesey-Fitzgerald

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Climate and the British Scene

Gordon Manley

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Dartmoor

LA Harvey and D St Leger Gordon

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Dartmoor

Ian Mercer

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Galloway and the Borders

Derek Ratcliffe

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Gower

Jonathan Mullard

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Ireland: A Natural History

David Cabot

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Islands

RJ Berry

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Isles of Amnesia

The History, Geography, and Restoration of America's Forgotten Pacific Isles

Mark J Rauzon

For over a quarter century, biologist Mark J. Rauzon has worked in the field of island restoration, traveling throughout the American Insular Pacific to eradicate invasive plants and animals introduced by humans. The region spans from ...

Jawai: Land of the Leopard

Anjali Singh and Jaisal Singh

Jawai: Land of the Leopard, celebrates the authors' association with the Jawai region of South Western Rajasthan. SUJÁN opened JAWAI, a pioneering luxury tented camp in this area of sprawling wilderness and culture ...

Lakeland

Derek Ratcliffe

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Lime Creek Odyssey

Steven J Meyers

As Steven Meyers writes, an odyssey need not involve a long journey, simply a profound one. First drawn to Lime Creek for its fly fishing, this stream serves as Meyers's muse in seven transcendent essays that explore journeys in the ...

Listening to the Land

Stories from the Cacapon and Lost River Valley

Jamie S Ross, Tom Cogill and Mike Clarke

The Cacapon and Lost Rivers are located in the Appalachian Mountains of West Virginia's eastern panhandle. Well loved by paddlers and anglers, these American Heritage Rivers are surrounded by a lush valley of wildlife and flora that ...

Loch Lomondside

John Mitchell

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Lock, Stock, and Icebergs

A History of Canada's Arctic Maritime Sovereignty

Adam Lajeunesse

In 1988, after years of failed negotiations over the status of the Northwest Passage, Brian Mulroney gave Ronald Reagan a globe, pointed to the Arctic, and said "Ron that's ours. We own it lock, stock, and icebergs". A simple ...

London's Natural History

Richard Sidney Richmond Fitter

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Marches

Andrew Allott

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Natural History in the Highlands and Islands

Frank Fraser Darling

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Northumberland

Angus Lunn

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Once and Future River

Reclaiming the Duwamish

Tom Reese, Eric Wagner and James Rasmussen

Through photographs and words, Once and Future River: Reclaiming the Duwamish explores the complicated relationship between Seattleites and their only river. Central to the indigenous settlement that preceded the city, the Duwamish ...

Routledge Handbook of the Environment in Southeast Asia

Philip Hirsch

The environment is one of the defining issues of our times, and it is closely linked to questions and dilemmas surrounding economic development. Southeast Asia is one of the world's most economically and demographically dynamic region ...

Snowdonia: The National Park of North Wales

FJ North, B Campbell and R Scott

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Southern England

Looking at the Natural Landscapes

Peter Friend

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The Broads

Brian Moss

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The Broads

AE Ellis

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The Common Lands of England & Wales

WG Hoskins and L Dudley Stamp

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The Hebrides

JM Boyd and Ian L Boyd

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The Isles of Scilly

Rosemary E Parslow

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The Kimberley

Endemic Frogs, Reptiles, Birds and Mammals

Craig Ward and Ian Morris

In this book the authors showcase every endemic frog, reptile, bird and mammal found in Australia's Kimberley region bringing up to date the list of unique animals of this region, with a collection of full colour photographs never ...

The Lake District

WH Pearsall and Winifred Pennington

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The Natural History of Orkney

RJ Berry

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The Natural History of Shetland

RJ Berry and J Laughton Johnston

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The Natural History of Wales

William M Condry

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The New Forest

Colin R Tubbs

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The Sea Coast

JA Steers

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The Snowdonia National Park

WM Condry

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The Weald

SW Wooldridge and Frederick Goldring

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Virginia Wildlife

A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Animals

James R Kavanagh and Raymond Leung

The state butterfly – the tiger swallowtail – is one of thousands of species of animals inhabiting the diverse ecosystems found thoughout Virginia This beautifully illustrated guide highlights over 140 familiar and unique species ...

Washington State Wildlife

A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Species

James R Kavanagh and Raymond Leung

The state insect – the blue darner dragonfly – is one of hundreds of species of animals inhabiting the diverse ecosystems found throughout Washington. This beautifully illustrated guide highlights over 140 familiar and unique ...

Wildlife of the Okavango

Common Animals and Plants

Duncan Butchart

A remarkable variety of animals and plants can be found in the wilderness region surrounding the Okavango Delta. This photographic guide covers more than 470 of the area's most conspicuous and interesting mammals, birds, reptiles ...

Yellowstone Drift

Floating the Past in Real Time

John Holt and Doug Peacock

In a time when everything seems to be regulated, controlled, and monitored, Yellowstone Drift is a refreshing and often exhilarating look at the natural wonder of Montana's Yellowstone River. High above sea level ...

A Field Guide to Tasmanian Fungi

Genevieve M Gates and David Ratkowsky

This second edition provides photographs and details for over 650 species found in Tasmania. It contains 50 additional species not covered in the first edition. Although this guide is Tasmanian based, it is relevant for the whole of ...

Advances in Plant Physiology, Volume 15

Physiological and Molecular Strategies for Crop Improvement under Climate Change

A Hemantaranjan

Advances in Plant Physiology, Volume 15 contains contributions from eminent scientists, which suggest research themes regarding agriculture and crop production under a changing climate. Several thought-provoking reviews are included ...

An Illustrated Guide to Japanese Maples for Garden Planting and Patio Pots

Neil Kenney and Catherine Kenney

Answering many of the questions that the authors have been asked during their show season at horticultural shows. This fully illustrated book explains propagation, (grafting, cuttings, seeds) repotting, pruning (branch & root), maintenance ...

Arbres de Catalunya [Trees of Catalonia]

Ramon Pascual

This guide is a simple tool to help identify most of the trees in Catalonia. If it is a common tree, it will be very easy to identify from the pictures and check if your description relates to all its features. If the tree is totally unknown ...

Atlas de la Flore Patrimoniale de l'Aude [Atlas of the Patrimonial Flora of Aude]

Clementine Plassart, Dominique Barreau and Frederic Andrieu

Aude, in South Central France, is one of the richest departments of France in terms of biodiversity with more than 3,000 plants listed to date. This impressive work opens with a detailed presentation of the department of Aude ...

Beeplants of South Africa

Sources of Nectar, Pollen, Honeydew and Propolis for Honeybees

MF Johannsmeier

This book attempts to furnish beekeepers with information on the nectar and pollen value of South African beeplants, whether indigenous or exotic, grown in orchards or plantations, or whether ornamental or weeds. Additionally, flowering ...

British Plant Life

WB Turrill

Complete your New Naturalist collection with Harper Collins's facsimile versions, which are printed on demand. British Plant Life was first published in 1948. There has been a great increase in knowledge ...

Color Atlas of Plants from Guizhou

Rare, Endangered and Endemic Plants (I)

Song Peilang

This colour atlas describes rare, endangered and endemic lycopodia and ferns, angiosperms, and gymnosperms from Guizhou, a province in the southwestern part of China.

Deciphering Chemical Language of Plant Communication

James D Blande and Robert Glinwood

Deciphering Chemical Language of Plant Communication provides an overview of the intricacies of plant communication via volatile chemicals. Plants produce an extraordinarily vast array of chemicals, which provide community members ...

Edible Mushrooms

Chemical Composition and Nutritional Value

Pavel Kalac

Edible Mushrooms provides an advanced overview of the chemical composition and nutritional properties of nearly all species of culinary mushrooms. This unique compendium gathers all current literature, which has been dispersed ...

Fascinated by Fungi

Exploring the Majesty and Mystery, Facts and Fantasy of the Quirkiest Kingdom on Earth

Pat O'Reilly

Bang up-to-date, this new edition incorporates recent taxonomic name changes resulting from recent DNA analysis, together with previously common synonyms and the British Mycological Society's recommended English names of fungi species ..

Ferns

Christopher N Page

Complete your New Naturalist collection with Harper Collins's facsimile versions, which are printed on demand. Ferns was first published in 1988. Ferns, horsetails and clubmosses, or to use their technical ..

Flore d'Afrique Centrale: Spermatophytes, Asparagaceae

Daniel JL Geerinck and Marc SM Sosef

The Asparagaceae family is represented in Central Africa by two indigenous genera and two introduced ones. Together, they comprise 14 species. The family contains amongst others the wild asparagus and Agave.

Flore d'Afrique Centrale: Spermatophytes, Musaceae

SB Janssens and Marc SM Sosef

The Musaceae, or banana family, are economically very important. In Central Africa it is represented by the widely cultivated genus Musa, the true bananas, but also also by three species of the genus Ensete, the wild African ...

Flore d'Afrique Centrale: Spermatophytes, Pandanaceae

Henk J Beentje and Marc SM Sosef

The Pandanaceae, or Screw-pines, are represented in Central Africa by a single genus, Pandanus, with three species. Possibly two more undescribed species occur.

Flore du Cameroun, Volume 42 [English]

Polygalaceae

Jorge Americo Rodrigues Paiva

Volume 42 covers the family Polygalaceae which are annual or perennial herbs, shrublets, shrubs, trees or woody climbers.

Flowers of the Coast

Ian Hepburn

Complete your New Naturalist collection with Harper Collins's facsimile versions, which are printed on demand. Flowers of the Coast was first published in 1993. Few parts of our British islands can compare ...

Forensic Plant Science

Jane H Bock, David O Norris, Tom A Ranker and Haskell M Pitluck

Forensic botany is the application of plant science to the resolution of legal questions. A plant's anatomy and its ecological requirements are in some cases species specific and require taxonomic verification; correct interpretation ...

Fungi

Brian Spooner and Peter Roberts

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Garden Natural History

Stefan Buczacki

Complete your New Naturalist collection with Harper Collins's facsimile versions, which are printed on demand. Garden Natural History was first published in 2007. In a much-anticipated addition to the ...

Garden Pests & Diseases in Canada

The Good, the Bad and the Slimy

Rob Sproule

Your garden is full of creepy-crawlies – some good, some bad, and nearly all ugly. Whether you decide to wage war or peacefully co-exist, Rob Sproule has the expert information and advice on how to identify and manage 50 of the most ...

Gastriklands Flora [Flora of Gastrikland]

Peter Stahl, Jonas Lundin, Alf Linderheim and Barbro Risberg

For the first time, this book provides information about on the landscape, nature, geology and history of the historical province of Gästrikland, on the eastern coast of Sweden, with a focus on wild plant species. The book includes ...

Heirloom Plants

A Complete Compendium of Heritage Vegetables, Fruit, Herbs & Flowers

Lorraine Harrison, Ray Warner and Thomas Etty

Heirloom plants often have a charm lacking in commercially produced varieties. And unless these seeds are grown and saved, they will be not only forgotten, but lost, too. Based on the seed catalogs of Thomas Etty, Heirloom Plants ...

Lichens

Oliver Gilbert

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Lives of the Great Gardeners

Stephen Anderton

Throughout history great gardeners have risen from all walks of life. Some have been aristocratic amateur gardeners, others professional designers with an international practice. Some have come to garden-making from sister arts such as ...

Manual of Freshwater Algae (from Temple Tanks of Kerala)

P Arulmurugan, S Nagaraj and N Anand

The present manual deals with the biodiversity of freshwater algae from temple tanks of Kerala, which is a special type of lentic ecosystem prevalent in several parts of South India. A total number 94 temple tanks were studied and 274 ...

Medicinal Plants - Recent Advances in Research and Development

Hsin-Sheng Tsay, Lie-Fen Shyur, Dinesh Chandra Agrawal, Yang-Chang Wu and Sheng-Yang Wang

Since ancient times, plants have been used as a prime natural source of alternative medicines and have played an important role in our lives. The old tradition of medicinal plant application has turned into a highly profitable business ...

Medicinal Plants Policy and Regulations for India

Within the Framework of Participatory Forest Management

Giridhar A Kinhal and CA Sahana

Medicinal Plants Policy and Regulations for India provides a snapshot but contemporary regulatory mechanism relating to the utilization of non-timber forest products (NTFPs) and medicinal plants and a policy on the same.

Medicinal Plants of Nepal

Nepal Department of Plant Resources

This book provides an overview of medicinal plants from Nepal, and includes bibliographic references and an index.

Medicinal Plants of the Andes and the Amazon

The Magic and Medicinal Flora of Northern Peru

Rainer W Bussmann and Douglas Sharon

Traditional medicine is used globally and has a rapidly growing economic importance. In developing countries, it is often the only accessible and affordable treatment available. Traditional and complementary-alternative medicine are gaining ...

Molecular Mycorrhizal Symbiosis

Francis M Martin

Recent years have seen extensive research in the molecular underpinnings of symbiotic plant-fungal interactions. Molecular Mycorrhizal Symbiosis is a timely collection of work that will bridge the gap between molecular biology ...

Mosses & Liverworts

Ron D Porley and Nick Hodgetts

Complete your New Naturalist collection with Harper Collins's facsimile versions, which are printed on demand. Mosses & Liverworts was first published in 2005. Mosses and liverworts known as bryophytes ...

Mushrooms and Toadstools

John Ramsbottom and Paul de Laszlo

Complete your New Naturalist collection with Harper Collins's facsimile versions, which are printed on demand. Mushrooms and Toadstools was first published in 1953. Puff-balls, more than a foot in diameter ...

Mushrooms: A Natural and Cultural History

Nicholas P Money

Mushrooms hold a peculiar place in our culture: we love them and despise them, fear them and misunderstand them. They can be downright delicious or deadly poisonous, cute as buttons or utterly grotesque. These strange organisms hold great ...

Mutualistic Interaction between Flowering Plants and Animals

Palatty Allesh Sinu and KR Shivanna

Plant-animal interactions, both mutualistic and antagonistic, play a crucial role in the diversification of plants and animals, and are important in functioning of communities in their natural habitats. The mutual interactions between ...

Observations on Modern Gardening

An Eighteenth-Century Study of the English Landscape Garden

Thomas Whately and Michael Symes

Thomas Whately's Observations on Modern Gardening (1770) is the first and most comprehensive study of what has come to be known as the English landscape garden, often claimed to be this country's greatest original contribution ...

Plant Disease

A Natural History

David Ingram and Noel Robertson

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Plant Galls

Margaret Redfern

Complete your New Naturalist collection with Harper Collins's facsimile versions, which are printed on demand. Plant Galls was first published in 2011. A much-needed study on plant galls – growths of ...

Rothmaler - Exkursionsflora von Deutschland, Band 5

Krautige Zier- und Nutzpflanzen

Eckehart J Jager, Friedrich Ebel, Peter Hanelt and Gerd Klaus Muller

The fifth volume of the Rothmaler makes it possible to determine the herbaceous ornamental and useful plants cultivated in Germany, including the rarer species. For the approximately 3500 species one finds in it - correct scientific ...

Seeds of the Economically Important Woody Plants in Taiwan

Ben SP Wang and Ching-Te Chien

This book introduces the methods for tree growth, wood utilization, seed collection, seed germination, seed dormancy, seed storage and nursery operations in Taiwan. It is written in English and is easy to understand. It is used by forest ...

Succulents of Southern Africa

Robin Frandsen

Succulents of Southern Africa is the most extensive photographic publication of general succulent plants of this region yet produced. Nothing else is available currently to the extent, lavish style and user-friendliness of this ...

Supplement to The Wild Plants of Sherkin, Cape Clear and Adjacent Islands of West Cork

Species New to the Islands, Rediscoveries and Significant Extensions of Known Distribution

John R Akeroyd, Leander Wolstenholme and Jenna Poole

Sherkin and the other islands of Roaringwater Bay, S.W. Cork, have emerged as an area extraordinarily rich in wild plants – a significant hotspot of Irish botanical diversity. The Wild Plants of Sherkin, Cape Clear and adjacent ...

The Art of Botanical Illustration

Wilfrid Blunt

Complete your New Naturalist collection with Harper Collins's facsimile versions, which are printed on demand. The Art of Botanical Illustration was first published in 1950. This book explores the history ...

The Diatom Flora of Australia, Volume 1: Diatoms from Stradbroke and Fraser Island, Australia

Taxonomy and Biogeography

Jacob John

The Diatom Flora of Australia, Volume 1 is about the world's largest sand Islands; Stradbroke and Fraser Islands, adjacent to Queensland, the north-eastern state of Australia. The taxonomy and distribution pattern of diatoms ...

The Field Guide to Peppers

Dave DeWitt and Janie Lamson

In this fiery guide, Dave DeWitt and Janie Lamson help you identify hundreds of the most popular chile pepper varieties. The 400 profiles include all the major types of peppers and are packed with information on culinary use, interesting ...

The Genus Commiphora

Preservation through Horticulture, Volume 1

Jason Eslamieh

The species of the genus Commiphora have been known to various cultures for thousands of years and remain an important economic resource. Commiphora gum resin, known as "myrrh", has been used for medicine, incense ...

The Geometrical Beauty of Plants

Johan Gielis

The Geometrical Beauty of Plants focuses on the origin of the Gielis curves, surfaces and transformations in the plant sciences. It is shown how these transformations, as a generalization of the Pythagorean Theorem, play an essential ...

The Illustrated Dictionary of Southern African Plant Names

Hugh Gascoyne Clarke, Michael Charters and Eugene John Moll

The Illustrated Dictionary of Southern African Plant Names is aimed at keen gardeners, plant collectors, amateur and professional botanists, academics, and many other people who wish to have an answer to the question: ...

The Pollination of Flowers

Michael CF Proctor and Peter F Yeo

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Vegetation of Britain and Ireland

Michael CF Proctor

Complete your New Naturalist collection with Harper Collins's facsimile versions, which are printed on demand. Vegetation of Britain and Ireland was first published in 2013. Another volume in the popular ...

Virginia Trees & Wildflowers

A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Plants

James R Kavanagh and Raymond Leung

The state flower and the state tree, the American dogwood, are one of thousands of species of plants growing in the diverse ecosystems found throughout Virginia. This beautifully illustrated guide highlights over 140 familiar and unique ...

Wild Flowers

John Gilmour and Stuart Max Walters

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Wild Flowers of Chalk & Limestone

JE Lousley

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Wild Orchids of Britain

VS Summerhayes

Complete your New Naturalist collection with Harper Collins's facsimile versions, which are printed on demand. Wild Orchids of Britain was first published in 1951. Published in a revised edition in 1951 ...

Bivalvia - Bivalves - Muscheln, Band 4

Uwe Kraeft and Michael Kraeft

The focus of the present volume is again on molecular genetics and on a more detailed description of the Triple Procedure from volume 3, especially in the examination and application of the quadruple procedure as a further example of the ...

Cell Biology

Thomas D Pollard, William C Earnshaw, Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz and Graham T Johnson

The much-anticipated 3rd edition of Cell Biology delivers comprehensive, clearly written, and richly illustrated content to today's students, all in a user-friendly format. Relevant to both research and clinical practice ...

Developmental Biology

Robert A Meyers

This topical volume in the respected Encyclopedia series is the first in many years to bring together all important aspects of developmental biology in one source, from morphogenesis and organogenesis, via epigenetic regulation of gene ...

Inheritance and Natural History

RJ Berry

Complete your New Naturalist collection with Harper Collins's facsimile versions, which are printed on demand. Inheritance and Natural History was first published in 1977. This absorbing book is about gene ...

Polarized Light and Polarization Vision in Animal Sciences

Gabor Horvath

Covers advances made since the 2004 Springer volume Polarized Light in Animal Vision edited by Horvath and Varju, but also provides reviews and synopses of some areas. Part I examines polarization sensitivity across many animal taxa ...

Recent Advances in Animal Nutrition 2007

Philip C Garnsworthy and Julian Wiseman

This book contains the proceedings of the 41st University of Nottingham Feed Conference held in September 2007. Authors of all chapters are international experts in their fields and have provided comprehensive analyses of the issues together ...

Recent Advances in Animal Nutrition 2008

Philip C Garnsworthy and Julian Wiseman

This book contains the proceedings of the 42nd University of Nottingham Feed Conference held in September 2008. Authors of all chapters are international experts in their fields and have provided comprehensive analyses of the issues together ...

Recent Advances in Animal Nutrition 2009

Philip C Garnsworthy and Julian Wiseman

This book contains the proceedings of the 43rd University of Nottingham Feed Conference. The Ruminant section provides tools for reducing the environmental impact of cattle systems by reducing wastage and improving nutritional ...

Recent Advances in Animal Nutrition 2012

Philip C Garnsworthy and Julian Wiseman

The 44th University of Nottingham Feed Conference was held at the School of Biosciences, Sutton Bonington Campus, 27th - 28th June 2012. The Conference was divided into sessions that covered areas of topical interest to the animal feed ...

Recent Advances in Animal Nutrition 2013

Philip C Garnsworthy and Julian Wiseman

This book contains the proceedings of the 45th University of Nottingham Feed Conference. The Ruminant section is concerned with improving efficiency of dairy systems whilst reducing environmental impact. The first chapter reviews ...

The Marine Microbiome

An Untapped Source of Biodiversity and Biotechnological Potential

Lucas J Stal and Mariana Silvia Cretoiu

The Marine Microbiome describes the state-of-the-art concerning the 'marine microbiome' and its uses in biotechnology. The first part discusses the diversity and ecology of marine microorganisms and viruses, including ...

The Rights and Wrongs of Zebrafish

Behavioral Phenotyping of Zebrafish

Allan V Kalueff

Animal models and tests have become increasingly important for biomedical research, enabling a better understanding of pathogenic pathways involved in various human disorders. Over the last decades, zebrafish (Danio rerio) have ...

Assumptions Inhibiting Progress in Comparative Biology

Brian I Crother and Lynne R Parenti

This book is a thought-provoking assessment of assumptions inhibiting progress in comparative biology. The volume is inspired by a list generated years earlier by Donn Rosen, one of the most influential, innovative and productive comparative ...

Charles Darwin

Origins and Arguments

Bill Price

The publication of On the Origin of Species in 1859 was the culmination of more than 20 years of work by Charles Darwin, and the ideas he presented in it would lead to a fundamental change in the way we think about life on earth.

Dance to the Tune of Life

Biological Relativity

Dennis Noble

In this thought-provoking book, Denis Noble formulates the theory of biological relativity, emphasising that living organisms operate at multiple levels of complexity and must therefore be analysed from a multi-scale, relativistic perspective ...

Evolution, Human Behaviour and Morality

The Legacy of Westermarck

Olli Lagerspetz, Jan Antfolk, Ylva Gustafsson and Camilla Kronqvist

Evolution, Human Behaviour and Morality highlights the recent re-emergence of Edward Westermarck's work in modern approaches to morality and altruism, examining his importance as one of the founding fathers of anthropology ...

Evolution: A Very Short Introduction

Brian Charlesworth and Deborah Charlesworth

Less than 450 years ago, all European scholars believed that the Earth was at the centre of a Universe that was at most a few million miles in extent, and that the planets, sun, and stars all rotated around this centre. Less than 250 years ...

Future Humans

Inside the Science of Our Continuing Evolution

Scott Solomon

In this intriguing book, evolutionary biologist Scott Solomon draws on the explosion of discoveries in recent years to examine the future evolution of our species. Combining knowledge of our past with current trends, Solomon offers convincing ...

Loren Eiseley: Collected Essays on Evolution, Nature, the Cosmos (2-Volume Set)

Loren Eiseley and William Cronon

To read Loren Eiseley (1907-1977) is to renew a sense of wonder at the miracles and paradoxes of evolution and the ever-changing diversity of life. At the height of a distinguished career as a bone-hunter and paleontologist, Eiseley turned ...

Testosterone Rex

Unmaking the Myths of Our Gendered Minds

Cordelia Fine

Testosterone Rex is the powerful myth that squashes hopes of sex equality by telling us that men and women have evolved different natures. Fixed in an ancestral past that rewarded competitive men and caring women, these different ...

The Aquatic Ape Hypothesis

Elaine Morgan

Reissued in paperback for the 20th anniversary. Why do humans differ from other primates? What do those differences tell us about human evolution? Elaine Morgan gives a revolutionary hypothesis that explains our anatomic anomalies ...

The Science of Human Evolution

Getting it Right

John H Langdon

The Science of Human Evolution provides a collection of case studies in paleoanthropology demonstrating the method and limitations of science. These cases introduce the reader to various problems and illustrate how they have been ...

Weeds and Aliens

Sir Edward Salisbury

Complete your New Naturalist collection with Harper Collins's facsimile versions, which are printed on demand. Weeds and Aliens was first published in 1961. This book is more than a key volume in the ...

Beyond the Lens of Conservation

Malagasy and Swiss Imaginations of One Another

Eva Keller

The global agenda of Nature conservation has led to the creation of the Masoala National Park in Madagascar and to an exhibit in its support at a Swiss zoo, the centerpiece of which is a mini-rainforest replica. Does such a cooperation ...

Biomas Brasileiros [Brazil's Biomes]

Leopoldo Magno Coutinho

Biomas Brasileiros is based the concepts that define a biome, a controversial subject when comparing different authors, and focuses on climatic zones and biome zones, and describes and characterizes the 16 main biomes of Brazil.

Bush Heritage Australia

Restoring Nature Step by Step

Sarah Martin

With a plan to own or manage one per cent of Australia by 2025, Bush Heritage Australia is an organisation with big ambitions. Started by Bob Brown in 1991, Bush Heritage was born from an urgent mission: to protect pristine land from logging ...

Cochin Forests and the British Techno-Ecological Imperialism in India

Sebastian Joseph

Cochin Forests and the British Techno-Ecological Imperialism in India sifts through a variety of archival material that has hitherto remained unexamined, to trace the making of these forest reforms and their impact on the rich ...

Community Forestry in Canada

Lessons from Policy and Practice

Sara Teitelbaum

In the past three decades, community forestry has taken root across Canada. Locally run initiatives have been lauded as welcome alternatives to large corporate and industrial logging practices, yet little research has been done to document ...

Encyclopedia of Deserts

Michael A Mares

Originally published in 1999, Encyclopedia of Deserts represents a milestone: it is the first comprehensive reference to the first comprehensive reference to deserts and semideserts of the world. Approximately seven hundred entries ...

Farming and Wildlife

Kenneth Mellanby

Complete your New Naturalist collection with Harper Collins's facsimile versions, which are printed on demand. Farming and Wildlife was first published in 1981. Farming and wildlife affect each other in ...

Fields and Streams

Stream Restoration, Neoliberalism, and the Future of Environmental Science

Rebecca Lave

Examining the science of stream restoration, Rebecca Lave argues that the neoliberal emphasis on the privatization and commercialization of knowledge has fundamentally changed the way that science is funded, organized, and viewed in the ...

Forest Mensuration

Jr.,John A Kershaw, Mark J Ducey, Thomas W Beers and Bertram Husch

Forest mensuration – the science of measurement applied to forest vegetation and forest products – holds value for basic ecology as well as sustainable forest management. As demands on the world's forests have grown, scientists ...

Globalization and Marginalization in Mountain Regions

Assets and Challenges in Marginal Regions

Raghubir Chand and Walter Leimgruber

Globalization and Marginalization in Mountain Regions looks at the global importance of mountain systems, emphasizing their ecological and socio-economic role in light of climate change and globalization. With a special focus on ...

Grass and Grassland

Ian Moore

Complete your New Naturalist collection with Harper Collins's facsimile versions, which are printed on demand. Grass and Grassland was first published in 1966. The New Naturalist series has already ...

Heathlands

Nigel R Webb

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Hedges

Ernest Pollard, MD Hooper and Norman W Moore

Complete your New Naturalist collection with Harper Collins's facsimile versions, which are printed on demand. Hedges was first published in 1974. Though man-made, hedges are in effect long thin strips of ...

Phytocoenologia, Volume 46, Issue 3: Special Issue on Palaearctic grasslands

This special Issue on Palaearctic grasslands contains the following papers: Classification of Palaearctic grasslands Janišová, Monika; Dengler, Jürgen; Willner, Wolfgang ...

Soil Erosion in Gujarat

JP Sharma

This technical publication contains an overview of soil erosion in Gujarat, India. It includes a folded colour map (68 × 74 cm, folded into 26 × 20 cm).

Soil and Environmental Chemistry

William F Bleam

Soil and Environmental Chemistry, Second Edition, offers a holistic, practical approach to the application of environmental chemistry to soil science that includes over 100 spreadsheet files that supplement the text as a means ...

The World of Soil

Sir E John Russell

Complete your New Naturalist collection with Harper Collins's facsimile versions, which are printed on demand. The World of Soil was first published in 1957. Too often in the past has the soil been regarded ...

Trees, Woods and Man

HL Edlin

Complete your New Naturalist collection with Harper Collins's facsimile versions, which are printed on demand. Trees, Woods and Man was first published in 1956. Ever since the first New Naturalist ...

Exploring Studbooks for Wildlife Management and Conservation

FPG Princee

Many endangered species of wild animals are managed in captivity through studbooks. In Exploring Studbooks for Wildlife Management and Conservation these data-rich resources are mined in innovative, integrated and statistically ...

Linescapes: Fragmentation and Connection in the Natural World

Hugh Warwick

It is rare to find a landscape untouched by our lines – the hedges, walls, ditches and dykes built to enclose and separate; and the green lanes, roads, canals, railways and power lines, designed to connect. This vast network of ...

Nature Conservation

Peter Marren

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Nature Conservation in Britain

L Dudley Stamp

Complete your New Naturalist collection with Harper Collins's facsimile versions, which are printed on demand. Nature Conservation in Britain was first published in 1969. To promote the conservation of natural ...

Oman Plant Red Data Book

Annette Patzelt

Rich and diverse, the flora and vegetation of Oman are among the most varied in the Arabian Peninsula. In this time of climate change, global threats to biodiversity and accelerating loss of species worldwide, Oman's rich flora represents ...

Rancher, Farmer, Fisherman

Conservation Heroes of the American Heartland

Miriam Horn

Many of the men and women doing today's most consequential environmental work – restoring America's grasslands, wildlife, soil, rivers, wetlands, and oceans – would not call themselves environmentalists; they would be ...

Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Biodiversity

Justin Garson, Anya Plutynski and Sahotra Sarkar

Biological diversity – or 'biodiversity' – is the degree of variation of life within an ecosystem. It is a relatively new topic of study but has grown enormously in recent years. Because of its interdisciplinary nature ...

Sikkim Biodiversity

Significance and Sustainability

Pushpa Tamang, AK Shrivastava and Sonam R Lepcha

The Indian state of Sikkim is rich in biodiversity, with some 42% of the area being part of protected areas or biosphere reserves. This book brings together a number of research papers and articles to create an awareness of the rich flora ...

The Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES)

Meeting the Challenge of Biodiversity Conservation and Governance

Marie Hrabanski and Denis Pesche

Twenty years after the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) entered into force, the founding of the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) in 2012 was the outcome of a long process of setting biodiversity ...

Understanding Conflicts About Wildlife

A Biosocial Approach

Catherine M Hill, Amanda D Webber and Nancy EC Priston

Conflicts about wildlife are usually portrayed and understood as resulting from the negative impacts of wildlife on human livelihoods or property. However, a greater depth of analysis reveals that many instances of human-wildlife conflict ...

Aquatic Pollution

An Introductory Text

Edward A Laws

Since the publication of the third edition of Aquatic Pollution: An Introductory Text in 2000, there have been many major developments within the field in terms of research, regulations, and also large-scale catastrophes that ...

Born Under a Bad Sky

Notes from the Dark Side of the Earth

Jeffrey St. Clair

Hold on tight as you open the pages of Born Under a Bad Sky and follow journalist Jeffrey St. Clair as he leads you through a landscape of horrors and wonders, scenery all the more strange because the setting is our own bruised ...

Climate Change and the Bay of Bengal

Evolving Geographies of Fear and Hope

Sanjay Chaturvedi and Vijay Sakhuja

Climate Change and the Bay of Bengal argues that in the era of climate change radically different understandings of security and sovereignty are at work. It questions the geopolitics of fear and the manner in which metanarrative ...

Climate and Weather

John Kington

Complete your New Naturalist collection with Harper Collins's facsimile versions, which are printed on demand. Climate and Weather was first published in 2010. Reviewing the history and causes of climatic ...

MICRO 2016: Fate and Impact of Microplastics in Marine Ecosystems

From the Coastline to the Open Sea

Juan Baztan, Bethany Jorgensen, Sabine Pahl, Richard C Thompson and Jean-Paul Vanderlinden

MICRO 2016: Fate and Impact of Microplastics in Marine Ecosystems: From the Coastline to the Open Sea brings together highlights from the conference proceedings for "MICRO 2016: Fate and impact of microplastics in marine ...

Microplastic Pollutants

Christopher Blair Crawford and Brian Quinn

Microplastic Pollutants introduces the reader to the growing problem of microplastic pollution in the aquatic environment and is the first ever book dedicated exclusively to the subject of microplastics. Importantly, this timely ...

Oceans: A Very Short Introduction

Dorrik AV Stow

The importance of the oceans to life on Earth cannot be overstated. Liquid water covers more than 70% of our planet's surface and, in past geological time, has spread over 85%. Life on Earth began in the oceans over 3.5 billion years ...

Pesticide Toxicity to Non-Target Organisms

Exposure, Toxicity and Risk Assessment Methodologies

Johnson Stanley and Gnanadhas Preetha

Pesticides should cause an effect on the target pests and be selective enough to spare the non-target beneficial. Pesticide Toxicity to Non-Target Organisms deals with pesticide toxicity to predators, parasitoids and microbes ...

Pesticides and Pollution

Kenneth Mellanby

Complete your New Naturalist collection with Harper Collins's facsimile versions, which are printed on demand. Pesticides and Pollution was first published in 1967. From an objective and scientific standpoint ...

Tides: The Science and Spirit of the Ocean

Jonathan White and Peter Matthiessen

In Tides: The Science and Spirit of the Ocean, writer, sailor, and surfer Jonathan White takes readers across the globe to discover the science and spirit of ocean tides. In the Arctic, White shimmies under the ice with an Inuit ...

Toxic Safety

Flame Retardants, Chemical Controversies, and Environmental Health

Alissa Cordner

Initially marketed as a life-saving advancement, flame retardants are now mired in controversy. Some argue that data show the chemicals are unsafe while others continue to support their use. The tactics of each side have far-reaching ...

Treading on Thin Air

Atmospheric Physics, Forensic Meteorology, and Climate Change: How Weather Shapes Our Everyday Lives

Elizabeth Austin

Weather is an inescapable part of our daily lives, from the nuances of air travel to the breadth of human history. Our past, present, and future is intimately rooted is weather and climate. Weather, water, and climate.

A Survival Guide to the Misinformation Age

Scientific Habits of Mind

David J Helfand

We all swim in a sea of Big Data, dangerously vulnerable to the unscientific thinking that now replaces the critical faculties we used to rely on. We seek simple explanations where complexity is required. But as we endeavor to solve global ...

Bridging the Communication Gap in Science & Technology

Lessons from India

Pallava Bagla and VV Binoy

This first-of-a-kind volume provides a snapshot of existing science communication policy and practice in India across different S&T sectors, and offers solutions to building effective communication. It provides an understanding on how ...

Covered Karsts

Marton Veress

Covered Karsts provides an overview of covered karst types, covered karst features, functioning of covered karst features, the evolution of covered karst features and the development of covered karst reliefs. The introductory ...

Early Cretaceous Volcanism in Central and Eastern Argentina During Gondwana Break-Up

Silvia Leonor Lagorio, Haroldo Vizan and Silvana Evangelina Geuna

This book analyzes the Early Cretaceous volcanic processes in Misiones Province and in Sierra Chica de Cordoba (Argentina). The volcanism in Misiones is tholeiitic and belongs to the Parana Magmatic Province (PMP), which extends throughout ...

Landscapes and Landforms of Brazil

Bianca Carvalho Vieira, Andre Augusto Rodrigues Salgado and Leonardo Jose Cordeiro dos Santos

Landscapes and Landforms of Brazil presents Brazil as a country of continental dimensions. Its territory has a large variety of rock types, geological structures and climates. The country has a large variety of landscapes, such ...

Landscapes and Landforms of Ethiopia

Paolo Billi

Landscapes and Landforms of Ethiopia provides a succinct but comprehensive presentation of key geomorphological locations and topics including information about geomorphological heritage and maps to visit the most important sites ...

Landscapes and Landforms of France

Monique Fort and Marie-Francoise Andre

The Landforms and Landscapes of France provides an informative and attractive overview of the most scenic landscapes of France. The geodiversity of France is emphasized, for example the glacial landscapes of the Mont-Blanc Massif ...

Landscapes and Landforms of Hungary

Denes Loczy

This volume is the first comprehensive description of the most spectacular landforms of Hungary. It is a richly illustrated book which presents a collection of significant sites, capturing the geodiversity of Hungarian landscapes.

Landscapes and Landforms of India

Vishwas S Kale

Landscapes and Landforms of India describes and explains in simple words the geomorphological characteristics and the origin of the above-mentioned landforms and landscapes. The book provides background information about the ...

Landscapes and Landforms of Namibia

Andrew Shaw Goudie and Heather A Viles

The landscapes of Namibia are of world-class quality in beauty, diversity and interest. Landscapes and Landforms of Namibia provides the first ever overview of the most important of these landscapes, explains why they look as ...

Landscapes and Landforms of Portugal

Goncalo Vieira and Jose Luis Zezere

Landscapes and Landforms of Portugal brings together contributions from over 35 Portuguese geomorphologists, presenting a thorough overview of the main highlights of the landscape of Portugal's mainland, Azores and Madeira.

Landscapes and Landforms of South Africa

Stefan W Grab and Jasper Knight

Landscapes and Landforms of South Africa presents a beautifully illustrated overview of the most prominent landscapes of South Africa and the distinctive landforms associated with them. It describes the processes, origins and ...

Landscapes and Landforms of Spain

Francisco Gutierrez and Mateo Gutierrez

The Landscapes and Landforms of Spain provides an informative and inviting overview of the geology and geomorphology of Spain. It incorporates a diverse range of topics, ranging from the fiery landscapes of the Canary Islands ...

Landscapes and Landforms of Western Canada

Olav Slaymaker

This is the only book to focus on the geomorphological landscapes of Canada West. It outlines the little-appreciated diversity of Canada's landscapes, and the nature of the geomorphological landscape, which deserves wider publicity.

Landscapes and Landforms of the Czech Republic

Tomas Panek and Jan Hradecky

Landscapes and Landforms of the Czech Republic aims to present the unique geomorphological landscapes of the Czech Republic. The geomorphic uniqueness of this country benefits from the proximity to two distinct European geological ...

Main Tectonic Events and Metallogeny of the North China Craton

Mingguo Zhai, Yue Zhao and Taiping Zhao

Main Tectonic Events and Metallogeny of the North China Craton focuses on the metallogeny and main tectonic events of the North China Craton from early Precambrian to Phanerozoic. It covers the Archean crustal growth ...

Past Glacial Environments

John Menzies and Jaap JM van der Meer

Past Glacial Environments, Second Edition, presents a revised and updated version of the very successful first edition of Menzies' book, covering a breadth of topics with a focus on the recognition and analysis of former glacial ...

Petrophysics: Theory and Practice of Measuring Reservoir Rock and Fluid Transport Properties

Djebbar Tiab and Erle C Donaldson

Petrophysics: Theory and Practice of Measuring Reservoir Rock and Fluid Transport Properties, Fourth Edition provides users with tactics that will help them understand rock-fluid interaction, a fundamental step that is necessary ...

Sacred Bovines

The Ironies of Misplaced Assumptions in Biology

Douglas Allchin

Sacred Bovines is a collection of short essays, each challenging a commonplace assumption about biology – playfully dubbed Sacred Bovines. The essays aim to be both provocative and entertaining. They highlight ...

Skeptic: Viewing the World with a Rational Eye

Michael Shermer

For fifteen years, bestselling author Michael Shermer has written a column in Scientific American magazine that synthesizes scientific concepts and theory for a general audience. His trademark combination of deep scientific ...

Southeast Treasure Hunter's Gem & Mineral Guide

Where & How to Dig, Pan and Mine Your Own Gems & Minerals

Kathy J Rygle, Stephen F Pedersen and Antoinette Matlins

Updated 6th edition with new sites & museums! Covers the following southeastern US states: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia ...

The 1940 Vrancea Earthquake. Issues, Insights and Lessons Learnt

Proceedings of the Symposium Commemorating 75 Years from November 10, 1940 Vrancea Earthquake

Radu Vacareanu and Constantin Ionescu

These proceedings include most of the available information on this major seismic event and its consequences. With an estimated moment magnitude of 7.7 and a heavy toll in terms of human and economic losses, it ranks as the largest ...

The Burren, Co. Clare

J Nolan and C Randolph

This field guide accompanies the IQUA field meeting on the Burren, Ireland.

The Evolution Underground

Burrows, Bunkers, and the Marvelous Subterranean World Beneath Our Feet

Humans have "gone underground" for survival for thousands of years, from underground cities in Turkey to Cold War-era bunkers. But our burrowing roots go back to the very beginnings of animal life on earth. Without burrowing ...

Tools in Fluvial Geomorphology

G Mathias Kondolf and Herve Piegay

Fluvial Geomorphology studies the biophysical processes acting in rivers, and the sediment patterns and landforms resulting from them. It is a discipline of synthesis, with roots in geology, geography, and river engineering, and with ...

Unseen Extremes

Mapping the World's Greatest Mountains

Stefan Dech, Reinhold Messner and Nils Sparwasser

Mountains have long been viewed as places of beauty and faith, challenge and discovery. Now this unique book presents the earth's extremes in an entirely new way. Using high-resolution satellite data, scientists from the German Aerospace ...

What We Cannot Know

Explorations at the Edge of Knowledge

Marcus du Sautoy

Britain's most famous mathematician takes us to the edge of knowledge to show us what we cannot know. - Is the universe infinite? - Do we know what happened before the Big Bang? - Where is human consciousness located ...

BS EN ISO 14004:2016: Environmental Management Systems

General Guidelines on Implementation

British Standards Institution (BSI)

Organizations today are under constant pressure to improve their impact on the environment. To do this, they need a systematic approach to help them establish and continuously improve their Environmental Management System (EMS).

Biodiversity and Education for Sustainable Development

Paula Castro, Ulisses M Azeiteiro, Paula Bacelar-Nicolau, Walter Leal-Filho and Anabela Mari Azul

Biodiversity and Education for Sustainable Development gathers interdisciplinary reflections from researchers, educators, and other experts on the subject of biodiversity closer to education and learning. The book also highlights ...

Eating the Ocean

Elspeth Probyn

In Eating the Ocean Elspeth Probyn investigates the profound importance of the ocean and the future of fish and human entanglement. On her ethnographic journey around the world's oceans and fisheries, she finds that the oceans ...

Fire and Stone

Where Do We Come from? What are We? Where are We Going?

Priscilla Long

The questions that drive Priscilla Long's Fire and Stone are the questions asked by the painter Paul Gauguin in the title of his 1897 painting: Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? These questions look beyond ...

Geothermal Power Plants

Principles, Applications, Case Studies and Environmental Impact

Ronald DiPippo

Now in its 4th edition, this single resource covers all aspects of the utilization of geothermal energy for power generation using fundamental scientific and engineering principles. Its practical emphasis is enhanced by the use of global ...

Making a Killing

The Political Economy of Animal Rights

Bob Torres

Suggest to the average leftist that animals should be part of broader liberation struggles and – once they stop laughing – you'll find yourself casually dismissed. With a focus on labor, property, and the life of commodities ...

Prosperity Without Growth

Foundations for the Economy of Tomorrow

Tim Jackson

The publication of Prosperity without Growth was a landmark in the sustainability debate. Tim Jackson's piercing challenge to conventional economics openly questioned the most highly prized goal of politicians and economists ...

Science and Religion

An Impossible Dialogue

Yves Gingras

Today we hear renewed calls for a dialogue between science and religion: why has the old question of the relation between science and religion now returned to the pubic domain and what is at stake in this debate? To answer the ...

Social Ecology

Society-Nature Relations Across Time and Space

Helmut Haberl, Marina Fischer-Kowalski, Fridolin Krausmann and Verena Winiwarter

Social Ecology presents the current state of the art in Social Ecology as practiced by the Vienna School of Social Ecology, globally one of the main research groups in this field. As a significant contribution to the growing ...

Sustainability and the Art of Long Term Thinking

Bernd Klauer, Reiner Manstetten, Thomas Petersen, Johannes Schiller and Malte Faber

Dealing with time is intimately linked to sustainability, because sustainability, at its core, involves long-term ethical claims. To live up to them, decision and policy-making has to consider long-term development of society, economy ...

The Green State in Africa

Carl Death

A provocative reassessment of the relationship between states and environmental politics in Africa From climate-related risks such as crop failure and famine to longer-term concerns about sustainable urbanization, environmental justice ...

The Penultimate Curiosity

How Science Swims in the Slipstream of Ultimate Questions

Roger Wagner and Andrew Briggs

When young children first begin to ask 'why?' they embark on a journey with no final destination. The need to make sense of the world as a whole is an ultimate curiosity that lies at the root of all human religions.

Cloud Computing in Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences

Tiffany C Vance, Nazila Merati, Chaowei Phil Yang and May Yuan

Cloud Computing in Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences provides the latest information on this relatively new platform for scientific computing, which has great possibilities and challenges, including pricing and deployments costs ...

Doing Community-Based Research

Perspectives from the Field

Greg Halseth, Sean Markey, Laura Ryser and Don Manson

Community-based research (CBR) offers useful insights into the challenges associated with conducting research and ensuring that it generates both excellent scholarship and positive impacts in the communities where the research takes place ...

Measurement: A Very Short Introduction

David J Hand

Measurement is a fundamental concept that underpins almost every aspect of the modern world. It is central to the sciences, social sciences, medicine, and economics, but it affects everyday life. We measure everything – from the ...

OK, I've Signed Up for Statistics. Now What?

A Student's Guide to Navigation and Success in Statistics

Barry Trunk and Leslie Olsen

OK, I've Signed Up for Statistics. Now What? A Student's Guide to Navigation and Success in Statistics is the book your students have been searching for. Courses in statistics are often approached with emotions ranging ...

Stepping in the Same River Twice

Replication in Biological Research

Ayelet Shavit and Aaron M Ellison

Without replication, the trustworthiness of scientific research remains in doubt. Although replication is increasingly recognized as a central problem in many scientific disciplines, repeating the same scientific observations of experiments ...

Books and Naturalists

David Elliston Allen

Complete your New Naturalist collection with Harper Collins's facsimile versions, which are printed on demand. Books and Naturalists was first published in 2010. Natural history, perhaps more than any other ...

Customer Service in Academic Libraries

Tales from the Front Line

Stephen Mossop

The term 'customer service' is not new to the academic library community. Academic libraries exist to serve the needs of their community, and hence customer service is essential. However, the term can be applied in a variety of ...

How to Write and Publish a Scientific Paper

Barbara Gastel and Robert A Day

An essential guide for succeeding in today's competitive environment, How to Write and Publish a Scientific Paper provides beginning scientists and experienced researchers with practical advice on writing about their work ...

Keeping Their Marbles

How the Treasures of the Past Ended Up in Museums... and Why They Should Stay There

Tiffany Jenkins

The fabulous collections housed in the world's most famous museums are trophies from an imperial age. Yet the huge crowds that each year visit the British Museum in London, the Louvre in Paris, or the Metropolitan in New York have ...

Manual of Museum Planning

Sustainable Space, Facilities, and Operations

Barry Lord, Gail Dexter Lord and Lindsay Martin

As museums have taken on more complex roles in their communities and the number of museum stakeholders has increased to include a greater array of people, effective museum planning is more important than ever. The Manual of Museum Planning ...

Presenting an Effective and Dynamic Technical Paper

A Guidebook for Novice and Experienced Speakers in a Multicultural World

William B Krantz

Presenting an Effective and Dynamic Technical Paper: A Guidebook for Novice and Experienced Speakers in a Multicultural World is intended for inexperienced speakers as well as those aspiring to improve their communication skills ...

The Copyright Librarian

A Practical Handbook

Linda Frederiksen

Within most libraries in the United States today there is an information professional who has become the 'go-to' person for grasping and grappling with copyright questions. While not an attorney, this librarian has developed an ...

The Herpetological Collection of Maximilian, Prince of Wied (1782 ô1867), with Special Reference to Brazilian Materials

Paul E Vanzolini and Charles W Myers

Prince Maximilian of Wied made important collections of reptiles and other vertebrate animals during pioneering expeditions to Brazil and North America. These were purchased for the American Museum in 1869. The present paper emphasizes ...

The Slow Professor

Challenging the Culture of Speed in the Academy

Maggie Berg and Barbara K Seeber

If there is one sector of society that should be cultivating deep thought in itself and others, it is academia. Yet the corporatisation of the contemporary university has sped up the clock, demanding increased speed and efficiency from ...