A Visual Celebration of Giant Pandas

Fanny Lai and Bjorn Olesen

This title is a magnificently illustrated celebration of one of the most iconic, beloved, and mysterious animals in the world. The result of five years of meticulous research and stunning photography...

Affe Trifft Wolf

Dominieren statt kooperieren? Die Mensch-Hund-Beziehung

E H Radinger and Guenther Bloch

Human beings are descendents of apes in the same way dogs are of wolves. So why is it then that we have chosen to live with a wolf instead of an ape? What advantages did we gain by further developing alongside the socially- oriented canids? ....

Deer

John Fletcher

The Celts called them ‘fairy cattle’ and the Greeks associated them with hunter goddess Artemis, but for most people today deer are seen as cute like Bambi, or noble like the Monarch of the Glen.

Dolphin

Alan Rauch

Humans love dolphins, and dolphins, it seems, love us: they have been known to encircle swimmers under attack by sharks. Yet although we think we know dolphins well, in fact most people ...

Ecology and Conservation of the Maned Wolf

Multidisciplinary Perspectives

Adriana Gomes Consorte-McCrea and Eliana Ferraz Santos

Wolves are considered controversial figures worldwide: mythical creatures as well as troublemakers, conservation efforts on their behalf are often polarizing. In recent years much effort has focused on the discussion of how to conserve ... ....

Monkey

Desmond Morris

Explores our relationship throughout history with this most playful and familiar of creatures. As humans, we tend to see monkeys as trivial or comic creatures; indeed our dictionaries define `monkeying' as tampering, interfering and playing ... ....

Otter Country

In Search of the Wild Otter

Miriam Darlington

Over the course of a year, Miriam Darlington travelled around Britain in search of wild otters; from her home in Devon to the wilds of Scotland; to Cumbria, Wales, Northumberland, Cornwall, Somerset and the River Lea; to her childhood ... ....

Primate Locomotion

Kristiaan D'Aout, Evie E Vereecke and RH Tuttle

Primate locomotion has typically been studied from two points of view. Laboratory-based researchers have focused on aspects like biomechanics and energetics, whereas field-based researchers have focused on (locomotor) behaviour and ecology ... ....

Proboscis Monkeys of Borneo

Elizabeth L Bennett

When anybody sees a proboscis monkey in the wild for the first time, they are staggered. Not uncommonly, they make a remark such as "I don't believe that animal!". Even seeing them in zoos is not enough to be prepared for ... ....

1001 Secrets Every Bird Watcher Should Know

Tips and Trivia for the Backyard and Beyond

Sharon Stiteler

Bird watching is one of the most popular hobbies in America, and 1001 Secrets Every Bird Watcher Should Know is the first photographic guide and fact book written in a humorous conversational tone that appeals to every age and ... ....

A Field Guide to Birds of the Pacific Northwest

Tony Greenfield and Penny Hall

Do you know a tanager from a towhee? A goatsucker from a grosbeak? Here, after much demand, is a portable 8-fold guide featuring 112 photos of the common birds found in coastal areas of Oregon, Washington, British Columbia and Alaska. ....

A Practical Illustrated Guide to Attracting & Feeding Garden Birds

The Complete Book of Bird Feeders, Bird Tables, Birdbaths, Nest Boxes and Backyard Birdwatching

Jen Green

This is the complete book of bird feeders, bird tables, birdbaths, nest boxes and backyard bird watching. It helps you learn what to feed garden birds, from seeds, grains and peanuts to fruits, suet cakes and fat balls, as well as how to ... ....

Album Ornitho

Tous les Oiseaux d'Europe en 4000 Dessins

Peter J Grant, Lars Svensson, Killian Mullarney and Dan Zetterstrom

This is a French translation of Collins Bird Guide (Large Format).

Alexander Wilson

The Scot Who Founded American Ornithology

Edward H Burtt Jr and William E Davis Jr

Audubon was not the father of American ornithology. That honorific belongs to Alexander Wilson, whose encyclopedic American Ornithology established a distinctive approach that emphasized the observation of live birds.

An Illustrated Guide to the Common Birds of Cape Cod

Peter Trull and Catherine E Clark

An Illustrated Guide to the Common Birds of Cape Cod features over 140 beautifully rendered color illustrations of common Cape Cod birds with species accounts that include locations and months that they may be found by birders. ....

Avian Architecture

How Birds Design, Engineer and Build

Peter Goodfellow

Birds are the most consistently inventive builders, and their nests set the bar for functional design in nature. Avian Architecture describes how birds design, engineer, and build their nests, deconstructing all types of nests ... ....

Birds of Kumaon

Sumit Das

This pictorial book learns more about the birds of Western Himalayas and the environment in which they thrive. All the relevant parameters are meticulously assorted to cater the needs of the serious birders as well as ...

Birds of Liberia

Wulf Gatter

Please note that this is a reprint of the 1998 edition without new information. In geographical terms, Liberia is still regarded as one of the least known areas of Africa. An inventory of its birds was only ...

Birds of Somalia

John Ash, John Miskell and Martin Woodcock

Please note that this is a reprint of the 1998 edition without new information. Somalia, with seven endemic species, is one of the most important bird areas in Africa; it is also one of the least well-known.

Birds of the Heart of England

A Sixty Year Study: 1952-2011

Trevor Easterbrook

Drawing upon a remarkable sixty years of surveys, this fascinating and richly illustrated book provides an in-depth picture of birdlife in the very heart of the United Kingdom, the twelve 10k m squares surrounding Banbury and including ... ....

Grands Echassiers Gallinaces et Rales d'Europe

Paul Geroudet

An exhaustive reference to large fowl, waders and rails of Europe.

Iguazu: Birds

Pocket Guide / Guia de Bolsillo / Guía de Bolso

Marcelo Beccaceci and Gerardo Teo

This trilingual guide includes the great variety of the birds that live in Iguazú National Park. Very useful for tourists and nature lovers. An essential tool for national and international birdwatchers.

New Jersey Birds and Beyond

Susan Puder

Join photographer Susan Puder as she takes an intimate look at the resident and visiting bird species that inhabit the shores, fields, and forests of New Jersey. The state's geographic position along the Atlantic flyway provides the ... ....

Oman Bird List

Jens Eriksen, Dave E Sargeant and Reginald Victor

The sixth edition of Oman Bird List lists all the 482 bird species that are officially accepted by the Oman Bird Records Committee up to 15 October 2003. This is an official list of the birds of the Sultanate of Oman.

Seabird Breeding Atlas of the Lesser Antilles

Katharine Lowrie, David Lowrie and Natalia Collier

The Seabird Breeding Atlas of the Lesser Antilles makes available data and narrative related to Environmental Protection in the Caribbean's (EPIC) census of breeding seabirds in the Lesser Antilles. The book provides information ... ....

Shrikes

A Guide to the Shrikes of the World

Nobert Lefranc and Tim Worfolk

Please note that this is a reprint of the 2000 edition without new information. Shrikes are a charismatic group of birds occurring throughout most of the Old World and North America. The family Laniidae consists ... ....

Skuas and Jaegers

Klaus Malling Olsen and Hans Larsson

Please note that this is a reprint of the 2000 edition without new information. Skuas (and jaegers) are a fascinating and popular group of seabirds that make up a subfamily of just seven species.

Swarm

Lukas Felzmann, Peter Pfrunder, Gordon H Orians, Deborah M Gordon and Wallace Stevens

Swarm is a breathtaking photographic series exploring the flock movements of migrating birds. The photographs offer a unique view of the beauty but also the complexity and diversity of shape variations. A swarm sitting on the ... ....

Texas Waterfowl

William P Johnson and Mark W Lockwood

In this beautifully illustrated guide, two practicing wildlife biologists describe the life histories of forty-five species of ducks, geese, and swans that occur in Texas. For common species and those that breed in the state ...

The Art of Bird Finding

Before You ID Them, You Have to See Them

Pete Dunne

- Filling a gap in the vast literature on birding, Pete Dunne explains in his distinctive style how to find birds – the often-ignored first step in identifying, observing, and listing bird species - The best strategies ... ....

The Birds of Buckinghamshire

David Ferguson

Full status reviews of all the 294 species recorded in the county, including full colour maps comparing the status of each species from the last survey carried out in 1980 to its present status with 255 photographs taken within the county ... ....

The New Stokes Field Guide to Birds: Eastern Region

Donald W Stokes and Lillian Stokes

The culmination of many years of research, observation, and study, The New Stokes Field Guide to Birds: Eastern Region is factually, visually, and organizationally superior to any other photographic field guide available.

The New Stokes Field Guide to Birds: Western Region

Donald W Stokes and Lillian Stokes

The culmination of many years of research, observation, and study, The New Stokes Field Guide to Birds: Western Region is factually, visually, and organizationally superior to any other photographic field guide available.

Von Wegen Spatzenhirn!

Die erstaunlichen Faehigkeiten der Vogel

Immanuel Birmelin

Even though their brains are the size of a nut, the cognitive abilities of birds are comparable to those of chimpanzees or whales: birds are among the smartest animals on our planet. Crows, for example, deliberately trick other crows ... ....

Amphibians and Reptiles of Costa Rica

A Pocket Guide

Federico Munoz Chacon and Richard Dennis Johnston

Costa Rica is a remarkable place for amphibians and reptiles. Known for its biological diversity, conservation priorities, and extensive protected lands, this small country contains 418 herpetological species including the dangerous ... ....

Amphibians and Reptiles of Costa Rica / Anfibios Y Reptiles De Costa Rica

A Pocket Guide / Guía De Bolsillo

Federico Munoz Chacon and Richard Dennis Johnston

Costa Rica is a remarkable place for amphibians and reptiles. Known for its biological diversity, conservation priorities, and extensive protected lands, this small country contains 418 herpetological species including the dangerous ... ....

Atlas des Amphibiens et Reptiles de France

Jean Lescure and Jean-Christophe de Massary

This atlas covers 34 amphibian and 39 reptile species living in France, including Corsican. Next to 73 autochtonous species, the distribution of 8 introduced species (six amphibian and two reptile) is alo given. Each species account ... ....

Crocodile

Dan Wylie

Crocodiles have never been, and never will be, allies of humankind. In innumerable songs, stories, legends and myths, the crocodile is a symbol of pitiless predation and insatiable appetite; the word most often used to describe crocodiles ... ....

Erpetologie Generale ou Histoire Naturelle Complete des Reptiles (6-Volume Set)

Andre Marie Constant Dumeril, Gabriel Bibron, Auguste Henri Andre Dumeril and Roger Bour

A full-size facsimile reprint of the historically important work Erpétologie Générale originally published between 1834 to 1854 in 9 volumes plus an atlas of colour plates.

Frogs of the United States and Canada (2-Volume Set)

C Kenneth Dodd Jr.

With many frog populations declining or disappearing and developmental malformations and disease afflicting others, scientists, conservationists, and concerned citizens need up-to-date, accurate information.

Geckos: The Animal Answer Guide

Aaron M Bauer

Q: How do geckos walk across ceilings? A: Millions of hair-like setae on each foot. Q: Where do geckos come from? A: Throughout the world. Usually where it's warm. Q: How many species of geckos are the ...

Herpetology

An Introductory Biology of Amphibians and Reptiles

Laurie J Vitt and Janalee P Caldwell

Amphibians and reptiles have assumed a central role in research because of the diversity of ecological, physiological, morphological, behavioral, and evolutionary patterns they exhibit. The fourth edition of the textbook ...

Life in a Shell

A Physiologist's View of a Turtle

Donald C Jackson

Trundling along in essentially the same form for some 220 million years, turtles have seen dinosaurs come and go, mammals emerge, and humankind expand its dominion. Is it any wonder the persistent reptile bested the hare? In this engaging ... ....

Python Regius

Atlas der Farbmorphen

Stefan Broghammer

An overview of the ball python and the requirements needed to keep it for breeding projects and as pets. Extensive and unique artwork of ball pythons' avaliable 'morphs' in this compendium.

The Eponym Dictionary of Amphibians

Bo Beolens, Michael Watkins and Michael Grayson

New species of animal and plant are being discovered all the time. When this happens, the new species has to be given a scientific, Latin name in addition to any common, vernacular name. In either case the species may be named after a person ... ....

Endocrine Sex Differentiation in Fish

T. J. Pandian

Of all vertebrates, fish exhibit unparalleled diversity of sexual plasticity and flexibility, ranging from gonochorism to unisexualism, and exceptional patterns of functional hermaphroditism. Fish farming and monosex aquaculture have led ... ....

Field Guide to Fishes of the Chesapeake Bay

Edward O Murdy, John A Musick and Valerie A Kells

The only comprehensive field guide to the Chesapeake's fishes, this book is an indispensable resource for both anglers and students of the Bay. Vivid illustrations by Val Kells complement the expertise of researchers Edward O. Murdy ... ....

Parana: Fish

Pocket Guide / Guia de Bolsillo / Guía de Bolso

Marcelo Beccaceci and Marcelo Gianechini

This trilingual guide highlights some of the most familiar and distinctive fish of the Paraná river. Very useful for fishermen and nature lovers.

Shark: Travels Through a Hidden World

Juliet Eilperin

From the Bahamas and South Africa to Shanghai, sharks are the object of obsession: film stars go big-game fishing for them and shark's fin soup is a coveted status symbol in China. Elsewhere, people and sharks exist alongside each other ... ....

The Biology and Ecology of the Invasive Indo-Pacific Lionfish

James Adiel Morris

The Indo-Pacific lionfishes, Pterois miles and P. volitans, are now established along the Southeast U.S. and Caribbean and are expected to expand into the Gulf of Mexico and South America. Prior to this invasion little ... ....

The Biology of Sharks and Rays

A Peter Klimley and Steven Oerding

The Biology of Sharks and Rays is a comprehensive resource on the biological and physiological characteristics of the cartilaginous fishes: sharks, rays, and chimaeras. In sixteen chapters, organized by theme, A. Peter Klimley ... ....

A Conchological Iconography: The Family Babyloniidae

K Fraussen and D Stratmann

This volume covers the family Babyloniidae.

A Diagnostic Manual of Cowry Species, Subspecies & Forms

EL Heiman and JM Inchaustegui II

Those of you you are already familiar with Ed Heiman's earlier work Diagnosing Cowry Species will find this new work to be a larger and greatly expanded edition of this work. Heiman takes a very interesting approach to the ... ....

A Guide to 1,000 Foraminifera from Southwestern Pacific, New Caledonia

Jean-Pierre Debenay

With about 10,000 species living in salted and brackish waters, foraminifera constitute the most diverse group of shelled microorganisms in modern oceans, and substantially contribute to biodiversity. Abundant and sensitive to environmental ... ....

A Sting in the Tale

Dave Goulson

Dave Goulson has always been obsessed with wildlife, from his childhood menagerie of exotic pets and dabbling in experimental taxidermy to his ground-breaking research into the mysterious ways of the bumblebee and his mission to protect ... ....

Accrescimenti, Volume 4

Stadi di Accrescimento dei Molluschi Marini del Mediterraneo / Stages of Growth of the Marine Molluscs of the Mediterran

Maria Scaperrotta, Stefano Bartolini and Cesare Bogi

This fourth volume of the Accrescimenti series includes illustrations of another 130 species, leading to a total number of over 500 treated species in this series. This number is remarkable considering that the finding and the ... ....

Biography and Biodiversity of Western Atlantic Mollusks

Edward J Petuch

Detailing three marine molluscan faunal provinces (Carolinian, Caribbean, and Brazilian), Biography and Biodiversity of Western Atlantic Mollusks examines the distribution and evolutionary patterns of the marine mollusks of the ... ....

Calanoid Copepods of the Arabian Sea Region

Irena Prusova, Sharon L Smith and Elena Popova

Calanoid Copepods of the Arabian Sea Region is based on 965 mesozooplankton samples collected from 1992 until 1995 in the Northwestern Indian Ocean. This work illustrates 60 species of calanoid copepods found in the Arabian Sea ... ....

Catalogue of the Living Bivalvia of the Continental Coast of the Sea of Japan (East Sea)

KA Lutaenko and RG Noseworthy

This is a catalogue of the Recent bivalve mollusks of the continental coast of the Sea of Japan/East Sea (from Busan in the south to Tatarsky Strait in the north), compiled for the first time, which contains 367 species and subspecies ... ....

Caterpillars

Find - Identify - Raise Your Own

Chris G Earley

An illustrated guide to holding, caring for and identifying caterpillars. Creatures that can turn from a caterpillar into a butterfly or a moth fascinate everyone. But there are many other interesting things to observe in the world of ... ....

Cowries of East Sinai

EL Heiman

This book is intended to acquaint shell collectors and professional malacologists with various cowry populations inhabiting the waters bordering East Sinai in the Gulf of Aqaba. - The presence of 26 cowry species living in ...

Die Seescheiden von Helgoland (Sea Squirts)

Biologie und Bestimmung der Ascidien

Wolfgang Groepler

Sea squirts or ascidians (Ascidiacea) belong to the phylum Chordata and thus are distantly related to vertebrates. The marine organisms are distributed worldwide and inhabit shallow water as well as the deep sea. All ascidians ... ....

Dragonflies

Hunting - Identifying - How and Where They Live

Chris G Earley

An illustrated guide to observing, catching and releasing dragonflies. Dragonflies are as fascinating as they are beautiful. In Dragonflies: Hunting - Identifying - How and Where They Live readers will learn how to observe them ... ....

Dragonflies of Japan

Akira Ozono, Itsura Kawahima and Ryo Futahashi

This is the first fully illustrated guide to all 203 dragonfly (including damselfly) species of Japan. Every species is generously illustrated with fully-colored photographs, color distribution maps, and detailed line drawings to aid ... ....

Dragonflight

In Search of Britain's Dragonflies and Damselflies

Marianne Taylor

Dragonflight: In Search of Britain's Dragonflies and Damselflies is an account of two years spent getting to know Britain's most dazzling and enigmatic insects – the dragonflies and damselflies. The quest to find ... ....

Echinoderms in a Changing World

Proceedings of the 13th International Echinoderm Conference, January 5-9 2009, University of Tasmania, Hobart Tasmania,

Craig Johnson

Echinoderms are an ancient and diverse group of marine animals with a rich fossil record. They occur abundantly in all modern oceans and at all depths, where they contribute importantly to patterns in biodiversity and to the structure and ... ....

European Non-marine Molluscs, a Guide for Species Identification / Bestimmungsbuch fuer Europaeische Land- und

Francisco Welter-Schultes

European Non-marine Molluscs features 2150 species of European non-marine molluscs (land snails, freshwater snails and mussels). For each species a brief description is given, size, habitat, a distribution map, and if known ... ....

Halocyprid Ostracods of the Arabian Sea Region

Inna Drapun and Sharon L Smith

Halocyprid Ostracods of the Arabian Sea Region is a scholarly, updated, yet easy-to-use identification guide for halocyprid ostracods of the Arabian Sea region. It is well written and excellently illustrated. For forty-one species ... ....

Here There Be Monsters

The Legendary Kraken and the Giant Squid

HP Newquist

Weaving scientific discovery with historical accounts – along with the giant squid's appearance in film and literature – Here There Be Monsters explores the mystery of this creature in fascinating detail.

Hong Kong Butterflies

Xu Yongliang

Hong Kong, a bustling built-up international city, may not appear to be a natural haven for butterflies, but the surprising truth is that we have a rich diversity and distribution of butterflies rarely seen elsewhere. In this territory ... ....

Iguazu: Butterflies and Other Insects

Pocket Guide / Guia de Bolsillo / Guía de Bolso

Marcelo Beccaceci and María Fernanda R Amaya

This trilingual guide provides an introduction to the beautiful butterflies and some of the most common insects of Iguazú National Park

Insect Theatre

Tim Edgar and Hugh Raffles

Insect Theatre provides an eye­-opening commentary on the spectacle of the everyday and the insects that we live with. Through macro photography Tim Edgar gives a unique insight into domestic insects, supported by an essay ... ....

Les Nouveaux Cahiers Magellanes, No. 10

E Vives

Five contributions on the longicorn beetles of SE Asia and Costa Rica.

Les Nouveaux Cahiers Magellanes, No. 8

J Bentanachs

Issue devoted to the Cerambycidae beetles of SE Asia, Peru and Brazil.

Les Nouveaux Cahiers Magellanes, No. 9

Karl Adlbauer

Nine contributions on the longicorn beetles of Africa, Asia and South America.

Practical Beekeeping in New Zealand

The Definitive Guide

Andrew Matheson and Murray Reid

For more than 25 years Practical Beekeeping in New Zealand has been the bible for New Zealand beekeepers. The only comprehensive guide to keeping bees in New Zealand, it provides both amateur and professional beekeepers with ... ....

The Fire Ants

Walter R Tschinkel

Walter Tschinkel's passion for fire ants has been stoked by over thirty years of exploring the rhythm and drama of Solenopsis invicta's biology. Since South American fire ants arrived in Mobile, Alabama, in the 1940s, the ... ....

The Spirit of the Hive

The Mechanisms of Social Evolution

Robert E Page and Bert Holldobler

Charles Darwin struggled to explain how forty thousand bees working in the dark, seemingly by instinct alone, could organize themselves to construct something as perfect as a honey comb. How do bees accomplish such incredible tasks? ....

Wanzen, Band 5

Ekkehard Wachmann, Albert Melber and Juergen Deckert

Wanzen, Band 5 is a supplement to volumes 1 to 4.

Wasp and Bee Management

A Common-Sense Approach

Jodie Gangloff-Kaufman

This 88-page full-color book is an in-depth reference based on the principles of integrated pest management (IPM). It includes detailed identification information for wasp, hornet, yellow jacket, and bee species. The risk for stings ... ....

Corridors to Extinction and the Australian Megafauna

Steve Webb

Extinctions have always occurred and always will, so what is so surprising about the megafauna extinctions? They were caused by humans and were the first of many extinctions that eventually led to the extinction of the Moa ...

Encyclopedia of Quaternary Science (5-Volume Set)

Scott A Elias and Cary J Mock

The second revised edition of the Encyclopedia of Quaternary Science, provides both students and professionals with an up-to-date reference work on this important and highly varied area of research. There are lots of new articles ... ....

Frozen Earth

The Once and Future Story of Ice Ages

Doug Macdougall

Please note, the 2013 paperback comes with a new preface. Doug Macdougall explores the causes and effects of ice ages that have gripped our planet throughout its history, from the earliest known glaciation – nearly three ... ....

Paleoclimate

Michael Bender

Earth's climate has undergone dramatic changes over the geologic timescale. At one extreme, Earth has been glaciated to the equator for periods that may have lasted millions of years. At another, temperatures were once so warm that ... ....

Scottish Fossils

Nigel Trewin

Scotland boasts some of the most famous fossil localities in the world, and for a small country, has a remarkable fossil record with almost every period of geological time represented by Scottish localities. These localities provide ... ....

Tyrannosaurid Paleobiology

The opening of an exhibit focused on "Jane," a beautifully preserved tyrannosaur collected by the Burpee Museum of Natural History, was the occasion for an international symposium on tyrannosaur paleobiology.

Coral Reef Science

Strategy for Ecosystem Symbiosis and Coexistence with Humans under Multiple Stresses

Hajime Kayanne

Coral reefs comprise a symbiotic system that coexists among ecosystems, landforms, and humans at various levels. Coral Reef Science aims to illuminate this complex system and to provide a scientific basis to reconstructing the ... ....

RSPB Handbook of the Seashore

Maya Plass

How often have you visited the seashore and wished you knew more about the diverse and alien wildlife found on the UK's coastline? There are incredible stories to discover about our coastal species so if the tantalising glimpses ... ....

Weird Sea Creatures

Erich Hoyt, David Shale, Solvin Zanki and Jeff Rotman

An illustrated look at the weird and wonderful creatures that live in the very deepest parts of the sea. Humans have always wondered, with a mixture of fear and fascination, what lurks beneath the surface in the depths of the ocean. ....

200 Years - Botanic Gardens in Ljubljana

Joze Bavcon, Helena Smolej, Henrik Ciglic, Andrej Martincic and Ciril Mlinar

Deals with the history of the Ljubljana Botanic Garden. It brings to light some newly discovered archive documents. It provides a closer examination and comparison of Paulin's and Voss's assessments of the Garden for the period after F. Hladnik ... ....

A Chimpanzee in the Wine Cellar

Pat Cavendish O'Neill

From the international best-selling author of A Lion in the Bedroom, Pat Cavendish O'Neill, comes another glimpse into her extravagant and adventurous life. In 1968, Pat Cavendish O'Neill reluctantly left her magical years in ... ....

A Love Affair with Birds

The Life of Thomas Sadler Roberts

Sue Leaf

Imagine a Minneapolis so small that, on calm days, the roar of St. Anthony Falls could be heard in town, a time when passenger pigeons roosted in neighborhood oak trees. Now picture a dapper professor conducting his ornithology class ... ....

A-Z of Botanical Flowers in Watercolour

Michael Lakin

In A-Z of Botanical Flowers in Watercolour Michael Lakin illustrates what materials to use, and how to paint twenty six botanically accurate flowers. Sketching is an important part of the process and artists are shown how to develop ... ....

All Ladies

Cows in Europe / Kuhe in Europa

Ursula Bohmer

Ursula Bohmer addresses the mystical nature of the cow in a unique and unusual project. Between 1998 and 2011 she travelled through 25 European countries to portray these strong, yet docile animals. She photographed various breeds, many ... ....

Animals

An Imaginative Zoology

Karl Konig and Richard Aylward

Karl Konig, the founder of the Camphill movement, had great compassion and empathy for people on the margins of society. Equally, he felt the same brotherly feelings towards the animal world. This remarkable book offers a closer understanding ... ....

Art of Flower Photography

Lucian Niemeyer

Art of Flower Photography is for all who have wanted to capture the beauty of flowers in photographs, but felt they lacked the experience to succeed. With 215 vivid colour photos of a wide range of flowers, professional photographer ... ....

Audubon's Birds of America

Roger Tory Peterson and Virginia Marie Peterson

One of Abbeville's most spectacular achievements, representing the highest standards in fine art printing, now available at a more economical price. This marvelous edition of Audubon's Birds of Americas displays all 435 ... ....

Black Wolf of the Glacier

Alaska's Romeo

Deb Vanasse and Nancy Slagle

In 2003, Alaskans fell for a lolloping, dog-friendly wolf they named Romeo. Left without a pack, this lone wolf found a new family among Juneau's domestic dogs and their owners, who became enamored with his striking looks and friendly ... ....

Botanical Illustration

The First Ten Lessons

Valerie C Price

This practical introduction to botanical illustration is formed of ten graded lessons, where each teaches you new skills to build upon the last. From mushrooms to orchids to hawthorn berries and leaves; once you've completed these ... ....

Botany for Artists

Lizabeth Leech

Botany for Artists is an accessible introduction to the world of plant science. It is aimed at anyone who is interested in plants and flowers, especially those who wish to draw or paint them without sacrificing technical accuracy ... ....

CFZ Expedition Report

India 2010

Richard Freeman and Karl PN Shuker

The Centre for Fortean Zoology (CFZ) is the only professional, scientific and full-time organisation in the world dedicated to cryptozoology – the study of unknown animals. Since 1992, the CFZ has carried out an unparalleled programme ... ....

Canyons and Ice

The Wilderness Travels of Dick Griffith

Kaylene Johnson

Solo travel today is anything but solitary, with the familiar glow of technology and nearly sentient gear as common companions. But for decades one especially daring traveler has set off into the wilderness with little more than a sense ... ....

Complete Guide to Drawing Animals

Gottfried Bammes

This fantastic book is all you need if you want to start drawing animals, or if you want to develop your drawing skills. It is both the ultimate reference book and an inspirational guide, providing expert guidance on all aspects of drawing ... ....

Creating a Physical Biology

The Three-man Paper and Early Molecular Biology

Phillip R Sloan and Brandon Fogel

In 1935 geneticist Nikolai Timofeeff-Ressovsky, radiation physicist Karl G. Zimmer, and quantum physicist Max Delbruck published On the Nature of Gene Mutation and Gene Structure, known subsequently as the ...

Darwin's Ghosts

In Search of the First Evolutionists

Rebecca Stott

Soon after publication of On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin received a letter that deeply unsettled him. He had expected outrage and accusations of heresy, but this letter was different: it accused him of ...

Deep Things Out of Darkness

A History of Natural History

Natural history, the deliberate observation of the environment, is arguably the oldest science. From purely practical beginnings as a way of finding food and shelter, natural history evolved into the holistic, systematic study of plants ... ....

Dog Days, Raven Nights

John Marzluff and Colleen Marzluff

Twenty years ago, fresh out of graduate school and recently married, John and Colleen Marzluff left Arizona for a small cabin in the mountains of western Maine. Their mission: to conduct the first-ever extensive study of the winter ecology ... ....

Dog Painting

A History of the Dog in Art

William Secord

William Secord explores the presentation of the dog, from its origins in Greek, Roman and later European art, to the remarkable paintings of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries up to modern times. In this splendid work he traces the ... ....

Douwlina

A Rhino's Story

There are two kinds of stories in the world: those that have sad endings and those that have happy endings. Douwlina's story began with great sadness when she lost her mother to poachers, but it has a happy ending. From the time ... ....

Drawing Masterclass: Animals

Lucy Swinburne

Whether you want to draw a beloved pet cat or a magnificent wolf, Drawing Masterclass: Animals provides a complete course. Lucy Swinburne explains the strengths of various drawing techniques and materials clearly and simply. ....

Drawing and Painting Insects

Andrew Tyzack

Tips and advice on how to capture the essence of the insect.

East Greenland in Winter

On Skis Through Liverpool Land

Rolf Stange

An entertaining personal account of a small group of enthusiasts planning and carrying out a winter tour in an area of East Greenland remote from human habitation. They travelled mainly on skis but with dogs and ...

Encyclopedia of Ancient Natural Scientists

The Greek Tradition and Its Many Heirs

Paul T Keyser and Georgia Irby-Massie

The Encyclopedia of Ancient Natural Scientists is the first comprehensive English language work to provide a survey of all ancient natural science, from its beginnings through the end of Late Antiquity. A team of over 100 of the ... ....

Encyclopedie des Dinosaures

Sylvie Deraime and Veronique Dreyfus

More than 1,500 photos and images of dinosaurs, as well over 500 detailed records. Discover the newest facts about dinosaurs: from newly-discovered species and theories to tracing their evolution to modern-day species. A concise and accessible ... ....

Flame of Miletus

The Birth of Science in Ancient Greece (and How it Changed the World)

John Freely

Miletus: one of the wealthiest and most important towns in ancient Greece. It was here, on the Aegean coast of Asia Minor, in the 6th century BC, that the great traditions of Greek science and philosophy sparked into life, setting in motion ... ....

Four Seasons of Flowers

A Selection of Botanical Illustrations from the Rare Book Collection at Dumbarton Oaks

Linda Lott

Four Seasons of Flowers is an illustrated volume that presents a selection of the manuscripts, herbals, and printed botanical texts from the Rare Book Collection at Dumbarton Oaks. Representing pivotal works in the intellectual ... ....

Franc Hladnik - Founder of the Ljubljana Botanic Garden / Franc Hladnik - Ustanovitelj Botanicnega Vrta v Ljubljani

Joze Bavcon, Franc Hladnik, Helena Smolej and Mojca Savski

This book covers the life and work of Franc Hladnik (1773 – 1844), a Slovene botanist and schoolmaster who founded the Ljubljana Botanic Garden in 1810.

Genentech

The Beginnings of Biotech

Sally Smith Hughes

In the fall of 1980, Genentech, Inc., a little-known California genetic engineering company, became the overnight darling of Wall Street, raising over $38 million in its initial public stock offering. Lacking marketed products or substances ... ....

Halcyon in the Hebrides

Bob Orrell

To celebrate 60 years of sailing Scottish waters, the author single-handedly sailed Halcyon, a 32' wooden yawl, from Fairlie on the Clyde, round the Mull of Kintyre by way of numerous inner islands to Barra in the Outer Hebrides and ... ....

Histoire Naturelle Des Animaux Sans Vertebres (7-Volume Set)

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. Best known for his ideas relating to evolution, French naturalist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744-1829) first built his reputation as a botanist ...

Histories of Scientific Observation

Lorraine Daston and Elizabeth Lunbeck

Observation is the most pervasive and fundamental practice of all the modern sciences, both natural and human. Its instruments include not only the naked senses but also tools such as the telescope and microscope, the questionnaire, the ... ....

Hong Kong Nature Walks: Kowloon, Hong Kong & Outlying Islands

David Diskin

Eighteen descriptive walks, including 7 on Hong Kong Island and 7 on Lantau Island, including detailed accounts of the plants and animals to be found on the walks. A detailed index to the plants and animals mentioned in the text.

Hong Kong Nature Walks: The New Territories

21 Nature Walks in the New Territories, HKSAR

David Diskin

Hong Kong Nature Walks: The New Territories gives detailed descriptions of 21 top nature walks in the New Territories. Included is a comprehensive bibliography and a detailed index to the plants and animals mentioned in the text ... ....

How to Draw Flowers & Trees

in Simple Steps

Denis John-Naylor, Janet Whittle and Penny Brown

Whatever their skill level, artists will love the easy approach to flower and tree drawing in this extremely good value book. It contains a wonderful selection of flowers and trees and each drawing begins with amazingly simple shapes that ... ....

Hyper Nature

Une Revolution de l'Image Naturaliste

Philippe Martin

Nature is shown to be almost alive in Philippe Martin's 'quasi-3d' book of photographs: composite images merged from tens of individual pictures. The author's work magnifies subjects, animals or plants delivering new ... ....

Jan Mayen

Natur und Geschichte des Aussenpostens im Nordatlantik

Rolf Stange

A natural and cultural history of Jan Mayen island, a volcanic island in the Arctic Ocean and part of the Kingdom of Norway, based on the author's journeys there.

LHC: Large Hadron Collider

Peter Ginter, Rolf-Dieter Heuer, Franzobel, Lois Lammerhuber and Barbara Warmbein

The Large Hadron Collider is the largest particle accelerator in the world, a 27-kilometre ring of superconducting magnets in a tunnel 100 m beneath the Franco-Swiss border at the CERN research laboratory. It was built to answer the most ... ....

Lake District Landscape Photographer

Peter Freeman

It is widely accepted that the Lake District has the most beautiful scenery in England, and it is a magnet for the landscape photographer. Drawing on years of experience, Peter Freeman offers a guide to mastering the terrain and the weather ... ....

Looking for the Goshawk

In Search of the Fugitive Raptor

Conor Mark Jameson

Looking for the Goshawk traces Conor Jameson's travels in search of the Goshawk, a magnificent yet rarely seen (in Britain at least) raptor. Each episode of the narrative arises from personal experience, investigation, and ... ....

Made in Britain

The Men and Women Who Shaped the Modern World

Adrian Sykes

From the end of the last Ice Age (10,000 years ago) to the death of Winston Churchill in 1965, Adrian Sykes narrates the history and achievements of these islands, their inhabitants and their origins, through the stories of some 3000+ ... ....

Mishmash

Korney Chukovsky and Francesca Yarbusovais

Mishmash is a narrative poem about a funny mix up that happens amongst a group of animals. These animals refuse to stick to their own conventional sounds and take on the sounds of other animals instead. Here you will find kitten ... ....

My Life with Kangaroos

A Deaf Woman's Remarkable Story

Doris Herrmann and Michael Gaida

After a glimpse of kangaroos at Switzerland's Basel Zoo at the age of three, Doris Herrmann's life trajectory became clear. Despite overwhelming physical disabilities – Herrmann was born deaf and later lost her sight ... ....

New England's Natural Wonders

An Explorer's Guide

John S Burk

New England's landscape offers a remarkable array of natural diversity in a compact geographic area. From the alpine mountains and expansive lakes to hidden old-growth forests, gorges, and bogs, revel in the beauty of it all through ... ....

North Downs Way: Farnham to Dover

National Trail Guides

Colin Saunders

The North Downs Way is the National Trail that follows Natural England's acorn waymarks from Farnham to the coast at Dover. This picturesque Trail takes in chalk ridges, river valleys and sections of the Pilgrims' Way.

Novel Science

Fiction and the Invention of Nineteenth-Century Geology

Adelene Buckland

Novel Science is the first in-depth study of the shocking, groundbreaking, and sometimes beautiful writings of the gentlemen of the "heroic age" of geology and of the contribution these men made to the literary culture ... ....

On Gaia

A Critical Investigation of the Relationship between Life and Earth

Toby Tyrrell

One of the enduring questions about our planet is how it has remained continuously habitable over vast stretches of geological time despite the fact that its atmosphere and climate are potentially unstable. James Lovelock's Gaia hypothesis ... ....

Painting Watercolour Trees the Easy Way

Terry Harrison

Following on from his successful book Watercolour Trees, Terry presents a new edition of this award-winning title, and includes a great selection of clear, detailed step-by-step demonstrations along with extra tips to show how to ... ....

Palaces for Pigs

Animal Architecture and Other Beastly Buildings

Lucinda Lambton

Throughout the centuries there have been castles, great and small, for animals as diverse as goats and guinea pigs, deer and dogs, cows and bees, pigs and horses, as well as bears and even salmon. Thus cone-shaped homes were provided for ... ....

Probing the Sky with Radio Waves

From Wireless Technology to the Development of Atmospheric Science

Chen-Pang Yeang

By the late nineteenth century, engineers and experimental scientists generally knew how radio waves behaved, and by 1901 scientists were able to manipulate them to transmit messages across long distances. What no one could understand ... ....

RSPB Nature Tracker's Handbook

Nick Baker

Every animal leaves some kind of trace as it passes and the art of tracking is very much like learning to read. If you learn to read the signs left by footprints, leftover food, droppings and scrapes in the earth you will soon be able to ... ....

Rainforest Wildlife to Colour

Susan Meredith and Jenny Cooper

This collection of stunning watercolours, each accompanied by a black and white line drawing of the same image, allows you to copy the colours of the original or create your own unique version. Includes lots of fascinating snippets of ... ....

Recent Progress in the Study of Variation, Heredity, and Evolution

Robert Heath Lock

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. In the nineteenth century and beyond, scientists at Cambridge produced some of the most significant developments in the study of biological ...

Saving Eagle Mitch

One Good Deed in a Wicked World

Barbara Chepaitis

In the spring of 2010, as the world's economy faced a potential meltdown and the United States tried to win one war and maneuver its way out of another, one lone Steppe Eagle, shot down on a firing range in Afghanistan, faced problems ... ....

Science and the American Century

Readings from Isis

Sally Gregory Kohlstedt and David Kaiser

The twentieth century was one of astonishing change in science, especially as pursued in the United States. Against a backdrop of dramatic political and economic shifts brought by world wars, intermittent depressions, sporadic and occasional ... ....

Scoresbysund Hot Dogs

Hundeschlittenfahrten auf der Ruckseite von Gronland

Rolf Stange and Sabine Formella

Scoresbysund Hot Dogs tells the author's experiences on the island of Scoresbysund in Greenland, especially of his experiences of travelling by dog sleds. Illustrated with photos and comic drawing ...

Scott's Forgotten Surgeon

Dr. Reginald Koettlitz, Polar Explorer

Aubrey A Jones

As senior surgeon on board Discovery, Dr. Reginald Koettlitz played a vital role in the heroic period of polar exploration when Nansen, Amundsen, Shackleton and Scott dominated the headlines. He was awarded a medal by the Royal Geographical ... ....

South West Coast Path: Padstow to Falmouth

National Trail Guide

John Macadam

The South West Coast Path is the spectacular 630-mile (1008 km) National Trail around the tip of Britain. South West Coast Path: Padstow to Falmouth features the section of the Path from Padstow in north Devon, famous these days ... ....

Spectacular Scotland

James Gracie

Breathtaking photography captures the soul and passion of this spectacular land of bagpipes, heather, thistle, and tartans. This enchanting collection of images celebrates Scotland's world-famous vistas the lofty highlands, placid ... ....

Swiss Wilderness

Max Schmid

Strange stone formations, overgrown primeval forests, arctic ice floes – Max Schmid's photographs bear witness to the fact that Switzerland is not just a land of Alpine idylls and snowy mountains. These pictures show the wild ... ....

The Artist's Guide to Animal Anatomy

Gottfried Bammes

Easy-to-follow guide by a renowned artist and teacher offers a systematic approach to learning proportion, rules of repose and motion, and basic forms. Using the anatomic details of the horse and cow, the student learns how to modify the ... ....

The Call of Everest

The History, Science, and Future of the World's Tallest Mountain

Conrad Anker and Thomas F Hornbein

In 1963, the American Mount Everest Expedition made history – not only as the first American venture to successfully scale the legendary peak, but also as the first successful climb up the hazardous West Ridge (a climb so difficult ... ....

The Magnificent Chicken

Portraits of the Fairest Fowl

Ira Glass and Tamara Staples

Today's love affair with urban farming and backyard poultry coops means Tamara Staples' stunning photographs are more apropos than ever. Featuring glorious photos and informative text about more than forty unique breeds ... ....

The Menagerie of Pieter Boel

Animal Painter in the Age of Louis XIV

Paola Gallerani and Pieter Boel

This large-size book presents 40 paintings and drawings by Pieter Boel, an extraordinary observer of nature. His pieces were particularly lively because he was inspired by the living birds and mammals he was able to observe in the Versailles ... ....

The Natural Navigator Pocket Guide

Tristan Gooley

Starting with a simple question – 'Which way am I looking?' – Tristan Gooley blends natural science, myth, folklore and the history of travel to introduce you to the rare and ancient art of finding your way using natural ... ....

The Nature Magpie

Daniel Allen

A collection of anecdotes, facts, figures, folklore and literature, The Nature Magpie is a veritable treasure trove of humanity's thoughts and feelings about nature. Join naturalists, novelists and poets as they explore the ... ....

The Origins of the Telescope

Aalbert Van Helden and Sven Dupre

The origins of the telescope have been debated since the instrument's appearance in The Hague in 1608. Civic and national pride led local dignitaries, popular writers and scholars to search the archives and to put forward sharply divided ... ....

The Uncarved Block

Hamish Fulton

Hamish Fulton's photographic work focuses on nature and the way people experience nature. He has been hiking all over the world for 30 years, and translates what he experiences and sees into art. In 2009, Hamish Fulton and an expedition ... ....

The Wild Weather Book

Loads of Things to Do Outdoors in Rain, Wind and Snow

Fiona Danks and Jo Scholfield

It's raining outside – let's get out and play! Don't huddle cooped up indoors on a bad weather day: wrap up in warm clothes or waterproofs and get out of doors for some fun. In The Wild Weather Book Jo Schofield ... ....

Tiger: 100 Representations in Classic Japanese Art

Candice Black

Over the course of one thousand years, the image of the tiger spread from Buddhist temple carvings to other artistic forms across China and Korea. The tiger became a favorite subject for Japanese painters at the beginning of the seventeenth ... ....

University Botanic Gardens Ljubljana / Botanicni vrt Univerze v Ljubljan

Joze Bavcon, Helena Smolej, Nada Praprotnik, Franc Batic and Aleksander Siftar

University Botanic Gardens Ljubljana presents an in-depth and richly illustrated history of this botanic garden on this occasion of its 200th anniversary.

Visible Empire

Botanical Expeditions and Visual Culture in the Hispanic Enlightenment

Daniela Bleichmar

Between 1777 and 1816, botanical expeditions crisscrossed the vast Spanish empire in an ambitious project to survey the flora of much of the Americas, the Caribbean, and the Philippines. While these voyages produced written texts and ... ....

Visit Sunny Chernobyl

And Other Adventures in the World's Most Polluted Places

The lifeless moonscape of Canada's oil sand strip mines. A vast vortex of plastic floating endlessly around the Pacific. An eerily abandoned town square in a radioactive Ukrainian wilderness.

Walks, Tracks and Trails of New South Wales

Derrick Stone

For the first time in a single volume, Walks, Tracks and Trails of New South Wales brings together more than 140 of the best walks, tracks or trails in New South Wales, which can be walked by the moderately fit individual. ....

When Cats Reigned Like Kings

On the Trail of the Sacred Cats

Georgie Anne Geyer

In a fascinating exploration of feline history, When Cats Reigned Like Kings explores the connections between the royal and sacred felines of ancient civilizations and the beloved domestic cats of today. Chasing an irresistible ... ....

Wintertour in Ostgronland

Eine Skiwanderung im Liverpool Land

Rolf Stange

An entertaining personal account of a small group of enthusiasts planning and carrying out a winter tour in an area of East Greenland remote from human habitation. They travelled mainly on skis but with dogs and ...

Wonders of Life - DVD (Region 2)

Brian Cox

This beautiful and definitive series reveals how, 3.7 billion years ago, a few fundamental laws gave birth to the most complex, diverse and unique force in the universe – life. Light, gravity, time, matter and energy are ... ....

Worm Work

Recasting Romanticism

Janelle A Schwartz

Worms. Natural history is riddled with them. Literature is crawling with them. From antiquity to today, the ubiquitous and multiform worm provokes an immediate discomfort and unconscious distancing: it remains us against them in ... ....

100 Places That Made Britain

Dave Musgrove

In 100 carefully selected places, BBC History Magazine editor Dave Musgrove takes us on an unforgettable historical tour through British history, from the Roman invasion to 1960s Liverpool. Musgrove has asked foremost British ... ....

79 degrees N

Ny Alesund - Kongsfjorden - Biota

Joe Haschek

Ny Ålesund was once the northern- most mining place in the world. It was from here that the legendary Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen started crossing the North Pole in 1926 with the airship “Norge”.

A Field Guide to Wildlife of the Rocky Mountains

Halle Flygare

Was that a lynx or a bobcat? A nuthatch or a chickadee? A Field Guide to Wildlife of the Rocky Mountains is a must have for any visitor to the Rocky Mountain region of British Columbia, Alberta, Montana and Idaho.

A Good Parcel of English Soil

The Metropolitan Line

Richard Mabey

Richard Mabey, one of Britain's leading nature writers, looks in A Good Parcel of English Soil at the relationship between city and country, and how this brings out the power of nature – part of a series of twelve books ... ....

A Storied Wilderness

Rewilding the Apostle Islands

James W Feldman and William Cronon

The Apostle Islands are a solitary place of natural beauty, with red sandstone cliffs, secluded beaches, and a rich and unique forest surrounded by the cold, blue waters of Lake Superior. But this seemingly pristine wilderness has been ... ....

African Environments and Resources

Laurence A Lewis and L Berry

First published in 1988, African Environments and Resources provides a comprehensive picture of the range of physical environments in Africa, focusing upon those characteristics and issues central to the management of environmental ... ....

Animal Kingdoms

Hunting, the Environment, and Power in the Indian Princely States

Julie E Hughes

One summer evening in 1918, a leopard wandered into the gardens of an Indian palace. Roused by the alarms of servants, the prince's eldest son and his entourage rode elephant-back to find and shoot the intruder. An exciting but insignificant ... ....

Atlas of Florida's Natural Heritage

Biodiversity, Landscapes, Stewardship, and Opportunities

Gary R Knight

From the western panhandle coast and the Apalachicola bluffs and ravines to the central Florida dry prairies and the Florida Keys, the Sunshine State is a land rich in biodiversity. The Florida panther, the manatee, the orange blossom ... ....

Black Swan Lake

Life of a Wetland

Rod Giblett

Black Swan Lake: Life of a Wetland is part of emerging fields in film studies (transnational, ecocriticism). It features a wide range of films from established and emerging filmmakers and industries. It focuses on different ... ....

Bradt Travel Guide: Croatia

Piers Letcher and Rudolf Abraham

Sitting at the cross-roads of Europe, "Croatia" offers an unrivalled mix of culture and nature. It continues to seduce visitors with its beautifully preserved historic towns and cities, magnificent cultural sights, gorgeous ... ....

Bradt Travel Guide: Tajikistan

Sophie Ibbotson and Max Lovell-Hoare

Tajikistan is Central Asia's smallest and least understood country. Epic mountain landscapes, glacial lakes and the mighty Oxus River encircle ancient Buddhist sites, Silk Road trading posts, medieval shrines and planned Soviet cities ... ....

Die Bareninsel

Grenzstein im Grenzenlosen

Bjørnøya (Bear Island) is a small island in Svalbard archipelago which was first visited by humans in 1596. This book covers both the natural history of this island, as was as the travels and adventures of the first German ... ....

Eastern Rhodopes

Nestos, Evros and Dadia: Bulgaria and Greece

Dirk Hilbers, Herman Dierickx and Alex Tabak

This new title in the Crossbill Guides Series is the first nature travel guidebook to cover the stunning region of the Eastern Rhodopes on the border of Bulgaria and Greece. This book covers this wild, rugged mountain range in ... ....

Exploring Hanauma Bay

Susan Scott and David R Schrichte

This revised and expanded edition of the popular Exploring Hanauma Bay is the only guidebook you will need for East O'ahu's spectacular nature preserve, a favorite of residents and visitors alike. Whether you plan to snorkel ... ....

Five Old Men of Yellowstone

The Rise of Interpretation in the First National Park

Stephen O Biddulph

Yellowstone has undergone a number of transitions in the 140 years since its national park designation in 1872. The period from the late 1930s through the early 1970s marked one of the most significant as the Park Service shifted focus ... ....

Forgotten Grasslands of the South

Natural History and Conservation

Edward O Wilson and Reed F Noss

Forgotten Grasslands of the South is the study of one of the biologically richest and most endangered ecosystems in North America. In a seamless blend of science and personal observation, renowned ecologist Reed Noss explains the ... ....

Iceland Imagined

Nature, Culture, and Storytelling in the North Atlantic

Karen Oslund and William Cronon

Iceland, Greenland, Northern Norway, and the Faroe Islands lie on the edges of Western Europe, in an area long portrayed by travelers as remote and exotic – its nature harsh, its people reclusive. Since the middle of the eighteenth ... ....

Lezen in het Duin

Nagenieten van de Gouden Eeuw

Gert Baeyens and Joop Mourik

Lezen in het Duin gives a natural and cultural history of the coastal landscape between the cities of Haarlem and Noordwijk in the Netherlands. It is an area of old and new dunes, of century-old beach ridges, majestic beech forest ... ....

Living with Fire

People, Nature and History in Steels Creek

Christine Hansen and Tom Griffiths

Within the Yarra River catchment area nestles the valley of Steels Creek, a small shallow basin in the lee of Kinglake plateau and the Great Dividing Range. The escarpment walls of the range drop in a series of ridges to the valley and ... ....

London Zoo from Old Photographs 1852-1914

John Edwards

This is the second edition of London Zoo From Old Photographs, first published in 1996. Approximately two hundred images from the first edition have been retained and two hundred fresh ones have been added, making a total of about ... ....

Madagascar

La Foret de Nos Ancetres

Patricia C Wright, Frederic Larrey and Cyril Girard

A journey into the heart of the most exceptional rainforest in the world, where a large diversity of animals and plants emblematic of Madagascar, such as lemurs, chameleons and orchid live. These very species are today among the planet's ... ....

Madagascar

The Forest of Our Ancestors

Patricia C Wright, Frederic Larrey and Cyril Girard

A journey into the heart of the most exceptional rainforest in the world, where a large diversity of animals and plants emblematic of Madagascar, such as lemurs, chameleons and orchid live. These very species are today among the planet's ... ....

Man in Biosphere: A Case Study of Khangchendzonga Biosphere Reserve

Ramesh Chandra, DB Mondal and Arun Kumar Singh

Man in Biosphere: A Case Study of Khangchendzonga Biosphere Reserve aims at understanding, elucidating and analysing the cultural diversity existing in the biosphere reserve in terms of societal perception of resources, livelihoods ... ....

New Zealand Weather

Captured Through the Camera Lenses of New Zealanders

Jim Hickey

This is a book written by New Zealanders, well, by their cameras anyway. Kiwis are passionate and knowledgeable about their weather, its quirks, nuances and powerful seasonal variations. So here we have 200 wonderful, sometimes dramatic ... ....

North-East Poland

Biebrza, Bialowieza and Wigry

Dirk Hilbers and Bouke Ten Cate

This new title in the Crossbill Guides series cover the famous National Parks of Biebrza and Bialowieza, plus the Eastern Masurian Lake district and several less known areas such as Augustow, Wigry NP and Narew NP. Combined they ... ....

Paysages Naturels et Biodiversite de Madagascar

Steven M Goodman

Paysages Naturels et Biodiversité de Madagascar richly illustrates the fauna and flora of Madagascar, covering its plants, invertebrates and vertebrates. It also outlines conversation approaches used to protect wildlife. ....

Polar Essays of the Arctic

Monika Schillat and Ian Stone

Various expert authors contributed within their respective fields of knowledge to this collection of arcticles on a range of different subjects, covering the biology of arctic wildlife, adventure stories and some rather unknown aspects of ... ....

Rough Guide: Croatia

Jonathan Bousfield

Now in full colour, Rough Guide: Croatia is the ultimate travel guide to one of Mediterranean Europe's most beautiful and unspoiled countries. It guides you through the region with reliable and comprehensive coverage of all ... ....

Rough Guide: France

Kate Baillie and Tim Salmon

Rough Guide: France is the ultimate travel guide to this varied and beautiful country. With clear, full-colour maps, stunning photographs and detailed coverage of all the best French attractions, Rough Guide: France is ... ....

Rough Guide: Italy

Martin Dunford, Ros Belford, Tim Jepson and Celia Woolfrey

Rough Guide: Italy is the ultimate handbook to one of Europe's most appealing countries. You'll find all the detailed information you need from vaporetto routes in Venice to hole-in-the-wall pizza joints in Naples or the ... ....

Silt Road

The Story of a Lost River

Charles Rangeley-Wilson

At the foot of a chalk hill a stream rises in a silent copse, and is soon lost under the car parks and streets of the town its waters once gave life to. Captivated by the fate of this forgotten stream Charles Rangeley-Wilson sets out one ... ....

Spitsbergen: Svalbard

A Complete Guide Around the Arctic Archipelago

Rolf Stange

Spitsbergen – Svalbard does not only cover comprehensive information concerning all fields of possible interest, but is at the same time a photo book containing many colour images to illustrate many wildlife and flower species ... ....

Spitzbergen

Cold Beauty / Kalte Schonheit / Koele Schoonheid / Kalt Skjonhett

Rolf Stange

The author has accumulated a large treasure of images through 17 stays in Spitsbergen, mostly over several months, between 1997 and 2010. It has been an idea for a long time to combine a selection to produce a photo book. Now it has finally ... ....

Spitzbergen: Svalbard

Wissenswertes Rund um eine Arktische Inselgruppe

Rolf Stange

Spitsbergen – Svalbard does not only cover comprehensive information concerning all fields of possible interest, but is at the same time a photo book containing many colour images to illustrate many wildlife and flower species ... ....

The Art of Migration

Birds, Insects, and the Changing Seasons in Chicagoland

Peggy Macnamara

Tiny ruby-throated hummingbirds weighing less than a nickel fly from the upper Midwest to Costa Rica every fall, crossing the six-hundred-mile Gulf of Mexico without a single stop. One of the many creatures that commute on the Mississippi ... ....

The Beauty in the Beast

Britain's Favourite Creatures and the People Who Love Them

Hugh Warwick

The Beauty in the Beast is a delightful portrait of some of the UK's best-loved wild animals and birds and the colourful enthusiasts who champion their causes. Meet the water vole-woman from Shropshire, the owl-man from ... ....

The Meaning of Ice

Human-sea Ice Relationships in Three Arctic Communities

Shari Gearheard, Henry Huntington and Lene Kielsen Holm

The Meaning of Ice is about the Inuit relationship with sea ice. Focusing on three communities, the book presents the annual cycle of ice and associated activity, discusses the meaning of sea ice for each location, and compares ... ....

The Pacific Islands

Environment and Society

The Pacific is the last major world region to be discovered by humans. Although small in total land area, its numerous islands and archipelagoes with their startlingly diverse habitats and biotas, extend across a third of the globe. ....

The River Ganga

The Life Line of India

JS Datta Munshi

The river Ganga is closely interwoven with India's culture and civilization, and with the health and well-being of a large population because of its water quality. The book's 21 chapters vividly describe the origin of the Ganga ... ....

The Sainsbury Laboratory

Science, Architecture, Art

Stephen Day, John Parker and Steve Rose

The new Sainsbury Laboratory in Cambridge's Botanic Garden, opened in late 2011, will be the leading international centre for the study of plant science, and enabled by the bequest of the Sainsbury family.

Visions: Earth's Elements in Bird and Nature Photography

Kevin T Karlson, Lloyd Spitalnik and Scott Elowitz

Visions: Earth's Elements in Bird and Nature Photography contains a varied collection of more than 450 bird and nature photographs that reflect the personal visions of the three authors and eight other wildlife photographers ... ....

500 Plants

Great Australian Favourites for Your Garden

Angus Stewart

Out of the thousands of Australian plants worthy of garden space, here are the top 500, as edited and selected by Angus Stewart. These are the tried and tested, the popular cultivars, the ones that won't turn up their heels and die ... ....

99 Spesies Buah di FRIM

N Zawiah and H Othaman

99 Spesies Buah di FRIM showcases the different types of fruits at FRIM. Fruit trees at FRIM can be found growing wild or cultivated as decorative plants or as trees in the fruit tree arboretum as well as in compounds of houses. ....

A Field Guide to Medicinal Wild Plants of Canada

Beverley Gray

Nature heals! This compact field guide introduces readers to 26 common Canadian wild plants with extraordinary healing properties. Use arnica blossoms to heal muscle inflammation, improve digestion with chickweed and soothe a toothache ... ....

A Microscopical Atlas of Some Tropical Lichens from SE-Asia, Volume 1

(Thailand, Cambodia, Philippines, Vietnam)

Felix Schumm and Andre Aptroot

The first half of a 2-volume treatise containing micrographs of tropical lichens from South-East Asia. As opposed to what other websites claim, the author has confirmed that both volumes are written in English.

A Microscopical Atlas of Some Tropical Lichens from SE-Asia, Volume 2

(Thailand, Cambodia, Philippines, Vietnam)

Felix Schumm and Andre Aptroot

The second half of a 2-volume treatise containing micrographs of tropical lichens from South-East Asia. As opposed to what other websites claim, the author has confirmed that both volumes are written in English.

A Monograph of the Subtribe Polystachyinae Schltr. (Orchidaceae)

Joanna Mytnik-Ejsmont

10 genera and 232 species are recognized within the Polystachyinae. Polystachya, with 196 species, is the largest genus of the subtribe and 13 sections are recognized within it. A synopsis of the subtribe is provided.

Alpines

An Essential Guide

Michael Mitchell

Alpines have been a favourite plant for generations of gardeners and are as popular now as ever. Historically they were used in rockeries, but they offer far more potential for today's gardens, which are generally becoming smaller. ....

Auriculas

An Essential Guide

Paul Dorey

Auriculas are spring-flowering alpine beauties and a sensational draw whenever they are seen, at primula and auricula flower shows, on display in auricula theatres, or in the garden. This essential guide tells of their rich history, describes ... ....

Biotechnology of Orchids

Jayaram Reddy

Biotechnology of Orchids attempts to assimilate all the necessary information regarding orchids and plant biotechnology. About 650 research papers and books have been referred and cited in the book and the protocols developed ... ....

Botanical Keys to Florida's Trees, Shrubs, and Woody Vines

Gil Nelson

This handy handbook, which can be used independently or as a companion to The Trees of Florida and The Shrubs and Woody Vines of Florida, makes it possible to easily identify all of Florida's native and naturalized woody plants.

Botany of the Shroud

The Story of Floral Images on the Shroud of Turin

Avinoam Danin

In Botany of the Shroud the author presents the results of 14 years of research on the Shroud of Turin, the piece of cloth that was supposedly wrapped around the dead body of Jesus Christ and retained an imprint of his body. ....

Cactus of Arizona

Field Guide

Nora Bowers, Rick Bowers and Stan Tekiela

Learn about and identify cactus in Arizona. Full-page photos and descriptions make this the best guide to Arizona's cacti. Shape icons help narrow your search, and more photos per cactus than any other field guide makes visual identification ... ....

Cactus of Texas

Field Guide

Nora Bowers, Rick Bowers and Stan Tekiela

Learn about and identify cacti in Texas. Full-page photos and descriptions make this the best guide to Texas's cacti. Shape icons and more photos per cactus than any other field guide helps to make visual identification quick and easy ... ....

Carex D'Auvergne

Robert Portal and Maryse Tort

Carex D'Auvergne covers all 66 species of Carex (a genus of grassy plants in the family Cyperaceae, commonly known as sedges) found in Auvergne, France. Habitat keys and illustrations are included to allow identification.

Cellular Aspects of Wood Formation

Jorg Fromm

With today's ever growing economic and environmental problems, wood as a raw material takes on increasing significance as the most important renewable source of energy and as industrial feedstock for numerous products.

Clematis: An Illustrated Guide to Varieties, Cultivation and Care

With Step-by-step Instructions and Over 150 Beautiful Photographs

Andrew Mikolajski

This is an illustrated guide to varieties, cultivation and care, with step-by-step instructions and over 150 beautiful photographs. It offers everything you need to know at a glance in one handy and wonderfully illustrated practical ... ....

Climbing Roses

Andrew Mikolajski

This is an illustrated guide to varieties, cultivation and care, with step-by-step instructions and over 160 beautiful photographs. It provides everything you need to know at a glance in one handy and richly illustrated practical guide. ....

Common Cyclamen (Cyclamen purpurascens Mill.) and Its Diversity in Slovenia

Joze Bavcon

This monograph describes the common Cyclamen, Cyclamen purpurascens, found in Slovenia and has sections on morphology, ecology, pollination, reproduction, cultivation and conservation.

Common Edible Seaweeds in the Gulf of Alaska

Dolly Garza

Seaweed is fast becoming a new favorite snack, as eaters everywhere are realizing what Alaska Natives have known for millennia: seaweed can be a healthy and tasty treat. Found in abundance along Alaska's shores, it has been believed ... ....

Common Snowdrop (Galanthus nivalis L.) and its Diversity in Slovenia / Navadni Mali Zvoncek (Galanthus nivalis L.)

Joze Bavcon, Franc Batic and Helena Smolej

In Slovenia Galanthus nivalis L. is a widely distributed species, being also the sole representative of the genus. Expansive populations of snowdrops grow on the margins of forests, in forests and non-manured meadows.

Crocus (Crocus L.) in Slovenia / Zafrani (Crocus L.) v Sloveniji

Joze Bavcon

This monograph deals with the genus Crocus as found in Slovenia, and discusses, amongst others, its distribution and taxonomy.

Der Duwock oder Sumpf-Schachtelhalm (Marsh Horsetail)

Carl Albert Weber and Renate Ulrike Vanselow

The marsh horsetail (Equisetum palustre) belongs to an ancient group of plants, which contributed to the formation of coal in the Carboniferous period about 300 million years ago. Today, the marsh horsetail is a severe problem for ... ....

Die Kleine Spitzbergenflora

Portraits Interessanter Pflanzen des Archipels

Elke Lindner and Kay Meister

This small field guide to Spitsbergen covers 27 plant species. Summary in German: Ein kleines, handliches schönes Büchlein, welches dem Leser die Pflanzenwelt Spitzbergens in ihrer ...

Die Vegetation und Flora der Flusshafen Mitteleuropas

Vladimír Jehlik

Based on the author's research of flora and vegetation of 62 river ports in five states of Central Europe from 1968-2008. The flora is analyzed in details (nearly 1000 species of plants), with special attention to synanthropic vegetation ... ....

Discovering Dorset's Wild Flowers

Peter Cramb

Discovering Dorset's Wild Flowers celebrates the richness of Dorset's wild flowers and the men who first recorded them during nearly 500 years of exploration of the county. Many flowers can still be found where they were ... ....

Etlingera of Sulawesi

Axel Dalberg Poulsen

The ginger genus Etlingera Giseke, a genus of Indo-Pacific terrestrial and perennial herbs in the ginger family, is mostly found in evergreen equatorial forests and has Wallace's Line. The westernmost species is probably ... ....

Flora Corsica

Jacques Gamisans and Daniel Jeanmonod

Identification guide to the flora of Corsica. This book is the result of 30 years research, and the first to cover all the vascular flora of this island. Includes a general introduction to the vegetation, climate and geography ... ....

Flora Fungorum Sinicorum, Volume 39

Tilletiales, Urocystidales, Entorrhizales, Doassansiales, Entylomatales, Georgefischeriales

Guo Lin

Volume 39 covers the orders Tilletiales, Urocystidales, Entorrhizales, Doassansiales, Entylomatales, and Georgefischeriales.

Flora Fungorum Sinicorum: Volume 40

Rhytismatales

Lin Ying-Ren

Volume 41 covers the order Rhytismatales.

Flora Fungorum Sinicorum: Volume 41

Uredinales (4)

Zhuang Jianyun

This volume is continuation of the series Vol. 10: Uredinales (1), Vol. 19: Uredinales (2) and Vol. 25: Uredinales (3). It describes 123 species of morphological characteristics, host plants and their distribution.

Flora Fungorum Sinicorum: Volume 42

Corticiaceae s.l. (I)

Dai Yucheng and Xiong Hongxia

This volume deals is the first part to deal with the family Corticiaceae sensu lato.

Flora Fungorum Sinicorum: Volume 43

Paecilomyces, Isaria and Taifangflania

Liang Zongqi

This volume deals with 49 species belonging to Paecilomyces, Isaria and Taifangflania. It provides detailed morphology descriptions and figures as well as foster characteristics.

Flora Graeca Sibthorpiana, Volumes 7 and 8 (Plates 601-800)

Arne Strid and Barbro Strid

This annotated reissue contains plates 601 to 800. A new introduction is included.

Flora de la Republica de Cuba, Series A: Plantas Vasculares, Fasciculo 18

Caesalpiniaceae

Adelaide Barreto Valdes

Fascicle 18 treats the family Caesalpiniaceae, with a total of 16 genera and 88 species. Respectively 12 genera and 67 species are accepted as being indigenous to Cuba. Out of these, 24 species (36%) are considered endemic ...

Flora of the Maltese Islands

An Introduction (3-Volume Set)

Alex Casha

Flora of the Maltese Islands describes over 650 species of wild plants in full and with colour photographs; over 370 species are described briefly. An introduction covers brief notes on the evolution of the Maltese Islands ... ....

Flore du Benin, Volume 1

Catalogue des Plantes du Benin, Biotopes, Localites

Simone de Souza

Flore du Bénin, Volume 1 contains an alphabetically arranged name list of native and introduced bryophytes and vascular plants, and a brief list of references.

Flore du Benin, Volume 2

Plantes du Bord de Mer, Mangrove, Jardins

Simone de Souza

Flore du Bénin, Volume 2 covers coastal plants, mangrove forests and garden plants.

Flore du Benin, Volume 3

Noms de Plantes des Langues Nationales Beninoises

Simone de Souza

Flore du Bénin, Volume 3 contains list of plant names in several national languages of Benin.

Flores y Plantas en la Sabana Santa

Avinoam Danin

In Flores y Plantas en la Sábana Santa the author presents the results of 14 years of research on the Shroud of Turin, the piece of cloth that was supposedly wrapped around the dead body of Jesus Christ and retained an ... ....

Garden Weeds (Revised Edition)

Bruce Morphett

Weeds, like all plants are grouped according to their botanical relationships, such as monocotyledons (eg. grasses, sedges and bulbous plants) and dicotyledons (broadleaf flowering plants). They are also grouped according to their lifecycle ... ....

Gardens for a Beautiful America 1895 - 1935

Photographs by Frances Benjamin Johnston

Sam Watters

Gardens for a Beautiful America, 1895 - 1935, written by Sam Watters and published in collaboration with the Library of Congress, presents for the first time 250 colored photographs of urban and suburban gardens taken by ... ....

Genetics and Genomics of the Brassicaceae

Renate Schmidt and Ian Bancroft

Genetics and Genomics of the Brassicaceae provides a review of this important family (commonly termed the mustard family, or Cruciferae). The family contains several cultivated species, including radish, rocket, watercress ... ....

Gronland: Ein Kleiner Pflanzenfuehrer

Von Kangerlussuaq bis zur Naresstrasse

Elke Lindner, Hagen Held and Ludwig Martins

This flora to Greeland covers the vegetation that appears during the few short summer months. The books contains tips on spotting the most frequently encountered plants species, a chapter on general plant ecology, and the predominant vegetation ... ....

Harrap's Wild Flowers

A Guide to the Wild Flowers of Britain and Ireland

Simon Harrap

Wild flower identification may seem impossibly hard to those not familiar with them, but this brilliant new photographic guide aims to change that forever. With superb photography throughout, including stunning portraits and close-ups of ... ....

Helleborus (Helleborus L.) in Slovenia / Telohi (Helleborus L.) v Sloveniji

Joze Bavcon, Klemen Eler and Andrej Susek

Helleborus (Helleborus L.) in Slovenia deals with the taxonomic classification of Helleborus, commonly known as hellebores, and its diversity and distribution in Slovenia. This genus comprises approximately ... ....

How to Grow Perennial Vegetables

Low-maintenance, Low-impact Vegetable Gardening

Martin Crawford and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall

Perennial vegetables are a joy to grow and require a lot less time and effort than annuals. In How to Grow Perennial Vegetables Martin Crawford gives comprehensive advice on all types of perennial vegetable (edible plants that ... ....

Indigenous: The Making of My Native Garden

Don Burke

This is the story of how Don Burke built his dream, transforming a bush block with virtually no soil – a barren rocky hillside in a dry rainshadow area – into a family retreat with a lush native garden that looks as if ... ....

Kosmos-Blumenfuehrer fuer unterwegs

Heike Dorsch

Discovering nature with open eyes and exploring the world of animals and plants on a leisurely walk – even right by the side of the road there is lots to discover. In order to quickly find your way through the great diversity of species ... ....

Les Dessins de Champignons de Claude Aubriet

Xavier Carteret and Aline Hamonou-Mahieu

The handwritten documents of the Jussieu's, professors of botany at the Jardin du Roy and subsequently at the Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle from 1710 until 1853, were acquired by the Muséum in 1858 after the death of ... ....

Lily

Marcia Reiss

The lily is a flower of contradictions: it represents both life and death, appearing both at weddings and funerals. In their pure white form lilies are a symbol of innocence, chastity and purity of heart, but by ...

Long-Distance Systemic Signaling and Communication in Plants

Franticek Balucka

Our view of plants is changing dramatically. Rather than being only slowly responding organisms, their signaling is often very fast and signals, both of endogenous and exogenous origin, spread throughout plant bodies rapidly. Higher plants ... ....

Medicinal Orchids of Nepal

Bijaya Pant and Bhakta Bahadur Raskoti

Medicinal Orchids of Nepal contains an overview of medicinal orchids in global prospective, orchids in traditional medicine, description of 90 species of medicinal orchids of Nepal each with color photographs.

One and a Half Decades of Medicinal Plants Research at FRIM

MA Rasadah and BK Ong

One and a Half Decades of Medicinal Plants Research at FRIM contains six chapters and provides the history and formation of the Medicinal Plants Division. It also highlights the natural products discovery research programmes and ... ....

Orchidee Spontanee nel Parco Nazionale del Gargano

Guida Fotografica al Riconoscimento

Angela Rossini and Giovanni Quitadamo

Orchidee Spontanee nel Parco Nazionale del Gargano is a field guide covering 77 species of wild orchids growing in Gargano National Park, in the Italian province of Foggia.

Passion, Plants and Patronage

300 Years of the Bute Family Landscapes

Kristina Taylor and Robert Peel

Passion, Plants and Patronage takes readers on a luscious voyage through three centuries of Bute family commissioned gardens. Art, architecture and landscape have come together under the generous patronage of the Butes and, today ... ....

Patios and Gardens of Mexico

Patricia W O' Gorman and Bob Schalkwijk

Mexico's temperate climate, conducive to outdoor living, combined with its Indian and Spanish heritage have resulted in a unique style of design and architecture. Through over 300 magnificent photos and detailed text ...

Pine

Laura Mason

Resilient and tenacious, pine trees deserve our admiration. Despite their dark and gloomy reputation they have been the subjects of artists for centuries, particularly in China and Japan where they symbolize wisdom and longevity ... ....

Plant Mitochondria

Frank Kempken

Mitochondria are the product of a long evolutionary history. It is now a well established fact that mitochondria did evolve from free living bacteria being the common ancestor of both, eukaryotic mitochondria and alpha-proteobacteria. ....

Recent Progress in Medicinal Plants, Volume 35: Phytoconstituents and Biochemical Processes

JN Govil and Lalit Tiwari

The use of plants as medicines goes back to early man. Certainly the great civilisations of the ancient Chinese, Indians, and North Africans provided written evidence of man's ingenuity in utilising plants for the treatment of a wide ... ....

Revision of Poa L. (Poaceae, Pooideae, Poeae, Poinae) in Mexico

New records, re-evaluation of P. ruprechtii, and two new species, P. palmeri and P. wendtii

Paul M. Peterson and Robert J. Soreng

This special issue of PhytoKeys revises Poa L. from Mexico.

The Code Decoded

NJ Turland

The Code Decoded is the users guide to the International Code of Nomenclature for Algae, Fungi and Plants (Melbourne Code). The objective has been to create a text that is reasonably clear and simple, using plain language ...

The Cyclamen of Greece

A Guide to the Species Growing in Greece

Peter Moore and Melvyn Jope

This guide covers all species of Cyclamen growing in Greece.

The Flora of Serbia, Volume 2

Vladimir Stevanovic

Volume 2 covers the orders Ramales, Papaverales, Hamamelidales, Urticales, Betulales, Juglandales, and Caryophyllales.

The Hornwort and Liverwort Atlas of Romania

Sorin Stefanut

The Hornwort and Liverwort Atlas of Romania includes 211 liverwort and 4 hornwort species. Also included is a checklist, distribution, chorology maps, Red List, list of accepted names, list of synonyms, and bibliography of these ... ....

The Quick Guide to Wild Edible Plants

Easy to Pick, Easy to Prepare

Lytton John Musselman and Harold J Wiggins

A recent rise in the popularity of urban farming, farmers' markets, and foraging from nature means more people are looking for information about plants. In The Quick Guide to Wild Edible Plants, botanists Lytton John Musselman ... ....

The Ten-Minute Gardener's Flower-Growing Diary

Val Bourne

What are the key tasks for each month that the time-pressed flower gardener should do to ensure success? Which plants should you grow and which varieties will guarantee colour, interest and fragrance throughout the year? And what are the ... ....

The Ten-Minute Gardener's Fruit-Growing Diary

Val Bourne

What are the key tasks for each month that the time-pressed fruit gardener should do to ensure success? Which fruits should you grow and which varieties will guarantee both quantity and quality? What are the most important things you need ... ....

The Ten-Minute Gardener's Vegetable-Growing Diary

Val Bourne

What are the key tasks for each month that as a time-pressed vegetable gardener you should do to ensure success? Which vegetables should you grow and which varieties will guarantee both quantity and quality? What are the most important ... ....

The Trees of Florida

A Reference and Field Guide

Gil Nelson

The Trees of Florida is the most comprehensive guide to Florida's amazing variety of tree species, both temperate and tropical, both natives and exotics. The first edition was very popular with both professionals and laypeople ... ....

The Tropical Greenhouse in Ljubljana / Tropski Rastlinjak v Ljubljani

Joze Bavcon, Helena Smolej, David Bavcon, Zoran Tomcic and Franc Batic

Covers the history and construction of the tropical greenhouse in the Ljubljana Botanic Garden.

The Wildlife Gardener

Creating a Haven for Birds, Bees and Butterflies

Kate Bradbury

The Wildlife Gardener is a book of two parts. The first half is all about creating wildlife habitats in your garden and is split into sections on shelter, food and water. Kate gives advice on what to grow, do's and don'ts ... ....

Trees, Shrubs and Woody Vines of East Texas

Elray S Nixon and Bruce Lyndon Cunningham

The revised edition of this field manual contains keys and illustrations to over 300 woody plant species and an illustrated glossary of plant structures containing over 200 terms.

Tulips of Kazakhstan

Lina Iskandarqyzy Valdshmit

A special place in flora of Kazakhstan is taken by the tulip – one of the favourite and most esteemed flowers of many people. Scientists recognize 36 species of tulips growing in the territory of modern Kazakhstan, including 18 rare ... ....

Animal Wise

The Thoughts and Emotions of Our Fellow Creatures

Virginia Morell

Did you know that ants teach, earthworms make decisions, rats love to be tickled, and chimps grieve? Did you know that some dogs have thousand-word vocabularies and that birds practise songs in their sleep? That crows improvise tools ... ....

Brenner's Encyclopedia of Genetics (7-Volume Set)

Stanley Maloy and Kelly Hughes

The explosion of the field of genetics over the last decade, with the new technologies that have stimulated research, suggests that a new sort of reference work is needed to keep pace with such a fast-moving and interdisciplinary field. ....

Chitin

Formation and Diagenesis

Neal S Gupta

There are several books on properties of chitin and associated biomolecules and their biochemical significance. However, Chitin: Formation and Diagenesis deals with a wide variety of biogeochemical and organic geochemical aspects ... ....

Concepts of Genetics (International Edition)

Robert J Brooker

Concepts of Genetics is a one semester introductory genetics text that explains genetics concepts in a concise, engaging and up to date manner. Rob Brooker, author of market leading texts in Genetics and Intro Biology for majors ... ....

Encyclopedia of Biological Chemistry (4-Volume Set)

William J Lennarz and M Daniel Lane

The 4-volume Encyclopedia of Biological Chemistry, Second Edition, represents the current state of a dynamic and crucial field of study. The Encyclopedia pulls together over 500 articles that help define and explore contemporary ... ....

Handbook of Biologically Active Peptides

Abba J Kastin

The Handbook of Biologically Active Peptides 2nd edition is the definitive, all-encompassing, indispensable reference for individuals ranging from peptide researchers, to biochemists, cell and molecular biologists, neuroscientists ... ....

How Animals Grieve

Barbara J King

From the time of our earliest childhood encounters with animals, we casually ascribe familiar emotions to them. But scientists have long cautioned against such anthropomorphizing, arguing that it limits our ability to truly comprehend the ... ....

Malaria Parasites

Comparative Genomics, Evolution and Molecular Biology

Jane M Carlton, Susan L Perkins and Kirk W Deitsch

Since the publication of the first two Plasmodium genome sequences in 2002, numerous other parasite genomes have been sequenced. These include the genomes of several more Plasmodium species as well as those of other apicomplexans ... ....

PCR Technology

Current Innovations

Tania Nolan and Stephen A Bustin

A technique used to amplify the number of copies of a specific region of DNA, the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is at the forefront of the dramatic development of biochemistry. PCR Technology: Current Innovations provides the ... ....

People, Parasites, and Plowshares

Learning From Our Body's Most Terrifying Invaders

Dickson D Despommier and William C Campbell

Dickson D. Despommier's vivid, visceral account of the biology, behavior, and history of parasites follows the interplay between these fascinating life forms and human society over thousands of years. He focuses on long-term host-parasite ... ....

Practical Tracking

A to Following Footprints and Finding Animals

Mark Elbroch, Louis Liebenberg and Adriaan Louw

- Techniques from international tracking experts applicable to any quarry and terrain - How to follow and find elk, deer, bears, cougars, lions, elephants, leopards, rhinos, and cape buffalo Finding and identifying tracks ...

Small Animal Toxicology

Michael E Peterson and Patricia A Talcott

This revised and expanded reference is a valuable aid for the practicing veterinary clinician in diagnosing and determining treatment for toxic exposures in small animals, and for veterinary students as a supplement to their classroom in ... ....

The Play Algorithm

How Playful Behaviour Drives Innovation

Patrick Bateson and Paul Martin

What role does playful behaviour and playful thought take in animal and human development? How does play relate to creativity and, in turn, to innovation? Unravelling the different meanings of 'play', The Play Algorithm ... ....

The Prokaryotes, Volume 4

Applied Bacteriology and Biotechnology

Eugene Rosenberg, Edward F DeLong, Stephen Lory, Erko Stackebrandt and Fabiano Thompson

The Prokaryotes is a comprehensive, multi-authored, peer reviewed reference work on Bacteria and Achaea. This fourth edition of The Prokaryotes is organized to cover all taxonomic diversity, using the family level to ... ....

The Prokaryotes, Volume 5

Human Microbiology

Eugene Rosenberg, Edward F DeLong, Stephen Lory, Erko Stackebrandt and Fabiano Thompson

The Prokaryotes is a comprehensive, multi-authored, peer reviewed reference work on Bacteria and Achaea. This fourth edition of The Prokaryotes is organized to cover all taxonomic diversity, using the family level to ... ....

The Smartest Animals on the Planet

Extraordinary Tales of the Natural World's Cleverest Creatures

Sally Boysen and Deborah Custance

We have all heard talk of the intelligence of dolphins, elephants, great apes, or even, in different ways, ants and bees. Written by one of the world's authorities in this field, this riveting book covers the themes of tool use, language ... ....

Tierisch Intelligent

Immanuel Birmelin

Why does female dolphin Olin seek contact with a fisherman on a daily basis? How is Ayuma the chimp able to memorize a sequence of numbers faster than humans? Why is cockatiel Buddy grieving so badly after the death of his partner that ... ....

Charles Darwin: Die Entstehung Der Arten

Kommentierte und Illustrierte Ausgabe

Paul Wrede and Saskia Wrede

Charles Darwin: Die Entstehung Der Arten is an annotated edition of the Origin of Species designed to assist readers using highlighted key passages and technical explanations. An indispensible learning tool for students ... ....

Cooperation and its Evolution

Kim Sterelny, Richard Joyce, Brett Calcott and Ben Fraser

This collection reports on the latest research on an increasingly pivotal issue for evolutionary biology: cooperation. The chapters are written from a variety of disciplinary perspectives and utilize research tools that range from empirical ... ....

Darwin and the Naked Lady

Discursive Essays on Biology and Art

Alex Comfort

Darwin and the Naked Lady was originally published in 1961. The essays in this volume focus on the awareness of science and art, evolution and Freudian psychology. Besides the chapter on Darwin and Freud, the author discusses ... ....

Evolution and Human Sexual Behavior

Peter Gray and Justin R Garcia

Few things come more naturally to us than sex – or so it would seem. Yet to a chimpanzee, the sexual practices and customs we take for granted would appear odd indeed. He or she might wonder why we bother with inconveniences like ... ....

Evolution in a Toxic World

How Life Responds to Chemical Threats

Emily Monosson

With BPA in baby bottles, mercury in fish, and lead in computer monitors, the world has become a toxic place. But as Emily Monosson demonstrates in her groundbreaking new book, it has always been toxic. When oxygen first developed in ... ....

Fatherhood

Evolution and Human Paternal Behavior

Peter Gray and Kermyt Anderson

We've all heard that a father's involvement enriches the lives of children. But how much have we heard about how having a child affects a father's life? As Peter Gray and Kermyt Anderson reveal, fatherhood actually alters a ... ....

Human Evolutionary Genetics

Origins, Peoples and Disease

Mark Jobling, Edward Hollox, Toomas Kivisild, Chris Tyler-Smith and Matthew Hurles

Now in full color, this new edition of Human Evolutionary Genetics has been brought up-to-date with the many advances and discoveries made since the publication of the highly regarded first edition.

Lone Survivors

How We Came to Be the Only Humans on Earth

Chris Stringer

In this groundbreaking and engaging work of science, world-renowned paleoanthropologist Chris Stringer sets out a new theory of humanity's origin, challenging both the multiregionalists (who hold that modern humans developed from ancient ... ....

Reflections on the Musical Mind

An Evolutionary Perspective

Jay Schulkin

What's so special about music? We experience it internally, yet at the same time it is highly social. Music engages our cognitive/affective and sensory systems. We use music to communicate with one another – and even with other ... ....

The Engine of Complexity

Evolution as Computation

John E Mayfield

The concepts of evolution and complexity theory have become part of the intellectual ether permeating the life sciences, the social and behavioral sciences, and more recently, management science and economics. In this new title ... ....

The Evolution of Obesity

Michael L Power and Jay Schulkin

In this sweeping exploration of the relatively recent obesity epidemic, Michael L. Power and Jay Schulkin probe evolutionary biology, history, physiology, and medical science to uncover the causes of our growing girth. The unexpected answer ... ....

The Nature and Nurture of Love

From Imprinting to Attachment in Cold War America

Marga Vicedo

The notion that maternal care and love will determine a child's emotional well-being and future personality has become ubiquitous. In countless stories and movies we find that the problems of the protagonists – anything from the ... ....

The Last Place You'd Look for a Wallaby

My Obsessive Quest to Seek Out Alien Species

Glen Chilton

Glen Chilton returns with yet another quest, this time to seek out species ill-advisedly introduced into foreign environments. Chilton visits Ireland to witness how rhododendrons, an ornamental plant that escaped a private garden, now ... ....

Trash Animals

How We Live with Nature's Filthy, Feral, Invasive, and Unwanted Species

Kelsi Nagy, Phillip David Johnson and Randy Malamud

Why are some species admired or beloved while others are despised? An eagle or hawk circling overhead inspires awe while urban pigeons shuffling underfoot are kicked away in revulsion. Fly fishermen consider carp an unwelcome trash fish ... ....

Urban Ecology

Dianne Smith

This book was first published in 1984. There are many micro-habitats in built up areas, often subject to strong environmental pressures such as atmospheric and water pollution, frequent disturbance, trampling, nutrient or water scarcity ... ....

A Story of Six Rivers

History, Culture and Ecology

Peter Coates

Many of the world's major cities sprang up on the banks of rivers. Used for water, food, irrigation, transportation and power, rivers sustain life and connect places and countries, but most of us think of them simply as waterways that ... ....

Ancient Woodland

History, Industry and Crafts

Ian D Rotherham

Though most of us have enjoyed strolling through local woods, we might not be aware of the ancient – and often complex – origins of our surroundings. From medieval times, woodlands were carefully managed commodities with ... ....

Les Tourbieres de Bretagne

Forum Centre Bretagne Environnement

Les Tourbières de Bretagne focuses on peat bogs in Brittany, France, which are of major ecological interest, yet mostly unknown to the general public. An overview of the richness and complexity of these ecosystems which ... ....

Sabkha Ecosystems, Volume 3

Africa and Southern Europe

Munir Ozturk, Benno Boer, Hans-Jorg Barth, S-W Breckle, M Clusener-Godt and MA Khan

This book is part of the Sabkha Ecosystems series. The series is designed to provide information on sabkha ecosystems of different regions. It will add to the collective knowledge available about saline ecosystems and also focuses ... ....

The Ailing Forests of India

CK Karunakaran

In prehistoric days, the forests extended over the entire country. The original inhabitants mostly lived as denizens of the forest. With the practice of agriculture, came shifting cultivation and gradual destruction of forests for farming ... ....

The Lost Fens

England's Greatest Ecological Disaster

Ian D Rotherham

The Lost Fens is the history of the cultural landscape of the Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire and Yorkshire Fenlands from the Humber and the Vale of York, to Norfolk. The Lost Fens draws together the story of changing ... ....

Tropical Dry Forests in the Americas

Ecology, Conservation, and Management

G Arturo Sanchez-Azofeia and Jennifer S Powers

Tropical dry forests are under threat from natural and human disturbance and Tropical Dry Forests in the Americas provides readers with a comprehensive overview of the most endangered ecosystem in the tropics ...

Bali Marine Rapid Assessment Program 2011

Putu Liza Kusuma Mustika, I Made Jaya Ratha and Saleh Purwanto

Bali Marine Rapid Assessment Program 2011 contains the findings from marine biological assessments of fifty-two sites around the coast of Bali. The purpose of the survey was to collect data on biodiversity and coral reef health ... ....

Botanic Gardens and Biodiversity

Joze Bavcon, David Bavcon and Blanka Ravnjak

Botanic Gardens and Biodiversity contains the proceedings of the 200th Anniversary of University Botanic Gardens Ljubljana and European Botanic Gardens Consortium Meeting, Ljubljana 12-16 May 2010.

CITES and CBNRM

Proceedings of an International Symposium on

Max Abensperg-Traun, Dilys Roe and Colman O'Criodain

This output from a symposium on community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) for the conservation of CITES-listed species aims to provide the necessary knowledge base for broad policy discussions within the European Union on the ... ....

Conservation in a Crowded World

Case Studies from the Asia-Pacific

John Merson, Rosie Cooney and Paul Brown

Traditional conservation approaches have focused on separating people from nature, most obviously through the establishment of formal protected areas such as national parks. But the real challenge is to reconcile conservation and the ... ....

Crown Jewels

Five Great National Parks Around the World and the Challenges They Face

Randolph Delehanty

Since the establishment of Yellowstone National Park in 1872, the national park movement has spread quickly and internationally. There are now over seven thousand national parks in 140 countries, and these numbers continue to grow. ....

Designing Wildlife Habitats

John Beardsley

The vision of a garden shared peacefully by humans and animals is a familiar, but elusive, landscape trope. Whether threatened by habitat destruction or climate change, displaced by urbanization or invasive species, poisoned by industrial ... ....

Die Vielfalt Des Lebens

Wie Hoch, Wie Komplex, Warum?

Erwin Beck

In Die Vielfalt Des Lebens scientists from German research organisations discuss principles and meaning of biodiversity. Summary in German Seit der Konvention der Vereinten Nationen im Jahre 1992 ..

Man in Biosphere: A Case Study of Similipal Biosphere Reserve

Samit Ghosal

Man in Biosphere: A Case Study of Similipal Biosphere Reserve is in line with Anthropological Surveys endeavors to study the human dimension of all the Biosphere Reserves in India under its ongoing national project Man and Environment ... ....

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Nora L Deans

Monterey Bay Aquarium covers the history, exhibits and mission of Monterey Bay Aquarium, California.

My Backyard Jungle

The Adventures of an Urban Wildlife Lover Who Turned His Yard into Habitat and Learned to Live with it

James Barilla

For James Barilla and his family, the dream of transforming their Columbia, South Carolina backyard into a haven for wildlife evoked images of kids catching grasshoppers by day and fireflies at night, of digging up potatoes and picking ... ....

The Global Guide to Animal Protection

Andrew Linzey and Desmond Tutu

Raising awareness of human indifference and cruelty toward animals, The Global Guide to Animal Protection includes more than 180 introductory articles that survey the extent of worldwide human exploitation of animals from a variety ... ....

The Seed Underground

A Growing Revolution to Save Food

Janisse Ray

Of the thousands of seed varieties available at the turn of the 20th century, 94% have been lost – forever. Janisse Ray brings us the inspiring stories of gardeners whose aim is to save time-honoured open-pollinated varieties that ... ....

Transforming the Frontier

Peace Parks and the Politics of Neoliberal Conservation in Southern Africa

Bram Buescher

International peace parks – transnational conservation areas established and managed by two or more countries – have become a popular way of protecting biodiversity while promoting international cooperation and regional development ... ....

Yellowstone's Wildlife in Transition

Edward O Wilson, P J White, Robert Garrott and Glenn Plumb

The world's first national park, Yellowstone is a symbol of nature's enduring majesty and the paradigm of protected areas across the globe. But Yellowstone is constantly changing. How we understand and respond to events that are ... ....

Zooland

The Institution of Captivity

Irus Braverman

Zooland: The Institution of Captivity takes a unique stance on a controversial topic: zoos. Zoos have their ardent supporters and their vocal detractors. And while we all have opinions on what zoos do, few people consider how ... ....

A Vast Machine

Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming

Paul N Edwards

Global warming skeptics often fall back on the argument that the scientific case for global warming is all model predictions, nothing but simulation; they warn us that we need to wait for real data, "sound science." ...

Biogeochemistry: An Analysis of Global Change

William H Schlesinger and Emily S Bernhardt

For the past 4 billion years, the chemistry of the Earth's surface, where all life exists, has changed remarkably. Historically, these changes have occurred slowly enough to allow life to adapt and evolve. In more recent times, the ... ....

British Weather and the Climate of Enlightenment

Jan Golinski

Enlightenment inquiries into weather sought to impose order on a force that had the power to alter human life and social conditions. British Weather and the Climate of Enlightenment reveals how a new sense of the national climate ... ....

Chemical Oceanography

Frank J Millero

Authored by an acknowledged international authority in the field, this fourth edition of a bestseller continues to be the "classic" textbook for students and a valuable reference for researchers in the fields of oceanography ... ....

China's Environment and China's Environment Journalists

A Study

Hugo De Burgh and Zeng Rong

A new specialism has appeared in China in recent years, that of the environment correspondent. This study investigates China's journalists to understand their attitudes towards the environment, their means of operation and their view ... ....

Climate Change and Island and Coastal Vulnerability

J Sundaresan, S Sreekesh, AL Ramanathan, L Sonnenschein and R Boojh

Climate Change and Island and Coastal Vulnerability is the outcome of a selection of peer reviewed edited papers presented at the International Workshop on Climate Change and Island Vulnerability (IWCCI) held at Kadmat Island ... ....

Climate Dynamics

Kerry Harrison Cook

Climate Dynamics is an advanced undergraduate-level textbook that provides an essential foundation in the physical understanding of the earth's climate system. The book assumes no background in atmospheric or ocean sciences ... ....

Climate Vulnerability (5-Volume Set)

Understanding and Addressing Threats to Essential Resources

Roger A Pielke Sr.

Climate change has been the subject of thousands of books and magazines, scientific journals, and newspaper articles daily. It's a subject that can be very political and emotional, often blurring the lines between fact and fiction. ....

Ecosystems and Climate

David Schimel

How does life on our planet respond to – and shape – climate? This question has never been more urgent than it is today, when humans are faced with the daunting task of guiding adaptation to an inexorably changing climate ....

Exploring the Weather

Brian Clegg

We always complain about the weather no matter if it is hot and sunny or wet and cold. But weather can all too easily make the difference between plenty and famine, survival and death. Technically the term 'weather' refers to the ... ....

For Climate's Sake! (English)

A Visual Reader of Climate Change

Rene Schwarzenbach, Christian Rentsch, Klaus Lanz and Lars Muller

For Climate's Sake! sets itself the goal of conveying the knowledge revealed by current climate research in a manner that is both concise and appealing. It differs from other books on climate change principally in the way it ... ....

For Climate's Sake! (German)

A Visual Reader of Climate Change

Rene Schwarzenbach , Christian Rentsch, Klaus Lanz and Lars Muller

For Climate's Sake! sets itself the goal of conveying the knowledge revealed by current climate research in a manner that is both concise and appealing. It differs from other books on climate change principally in the way it ... ....

Harvesting the Biosphere

What We Have Taken from Nature

Vaclav Smil

The biosphere – the Earth's thin layer of life – dates from nearly four billion years ago, when the first simple organisms appeared. Many species have exerted enormous influence on the biosphere's character and ... ....

Hot Spotter's Report

Military Fables of Toxic Waste

Shiloh R Krupar

Many nuclear and other U.S. military facilities from World War II and the Cold War are now being closed and remediated. Some of these sites have even been transformed into nature refuges and hailed as models of environmental stewardship. ....

Indiana's Weather and Climate

John E Oliver

There's more to Indiana weather than what greets us when we go outdoors. Ever wonder why the daily weather report is so erratic? Why the seasons seem to come too early or start too late? Whether there really is such a thing as global ... ....

Invisible in the Storm

The Role of Mathematics in Understanding Weather

Ian Roulstone and John Norbury

Invisible in the Storm is the first book to recount the history, personalities, and ideas behind one of the greatest scientific successes of modern times – the use of mathematics in weather prediction. Although humans have ... ....

Local Climate Change Law

Environmental Regulation in Cities and Other Localities

Benjamin J. Richardson

Local Climate Change Law examines the role of local government, especially within cities, in addressing climate change through legal, policy, planning and other tools. This timely study offers a multi-jurisdictional perspective ... ....

Making a Green Machine

The Infrastructure of Beverage Container Recycling

Finne Arne Jorgensen

Consider an empty bottle or can, one of the hundreds of billions of beverage containers that are discarded worldwide every year. Empty containers have been at the center of intense political controversies, technological innovation process ... ....

Oceanography and Marine Biology: An Annual Review: Volume 50

Robin N Gibson, RJA Atkinson, JDM Gordon and Roger N Hughes

Ever-increasing interest in oceanography and marine biology and their relevance to global environmental issues creates a demand for authoritative reviews summarising the results of recent research.

Oceanography and Marine Biology: An Annual Review: Volume 51

Roger N Hughes, David Hughes and Phillip Smith

Increasing interest in oceanography and marine biology and its relevance to global environmental issues continues to create a demand for authoritative reviews summarizing recent research. Now in its 51st volume ...

Statistical Analysis of Long-Term Air Pollution Data

in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Ani Melkonyan

Developed legislation norms at the end of 1970's, structural changes in economy, implementation of filters in both vehicles and industries improved air quality of North Rhine-Westphalia. Having different magnitude at the industrial ... ....

The Australian Weather Book

Understanding Our Climate and How it Affects Us

Keith Colls and Dick Whitaker

Australia has a unique climate and recent natural disasters and climate change debates have made meterology and the weather heated topics of discussion. This new edition of The Australian Weather Book features: ...

The West Without Water

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

Frances Malamud-Roam and B Lynn Ingram

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

Wastewater Treatment: Advanced Processes and Technologies

D. G. Rao, R Senthikumar, J Anthony Byrne and S Feroz

Emphasizing new technologies that produce clean water and energy from the wastewater treatment process, Wastewater Treatment: Advanced Processes and Technologies presents recent advancements in wastewater treatment by various ... ....

A Historical View of the Hindu Astronomy

From the Earliest Dawn of That Science in India to the Present Time

John Bentley

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. Shrouded in poetry, the earliest accounts of Hindu astronomy can strike modern readers as obscure. They involve the marriage of the moon to two ... ....

A Matter of Wonder

What Biology Reveals About Us, Our World, and Our Dreams

Gottfried Schatz

Where do we come from? Is our destiny determined by the genes we inherit? Do we all see the same blue color when we look at the sky? In A Matter of Wonder Gottfried (Jeff) Schatz, gives lucid – albeit often surprising ... ....

Accretion Processes in Astrophysics

Ignacio Gonzalez Martínez-País, Tariq Shahbaz and Jorge Casares Velazquez

It has been more than fifty years since the first significant paper on accretion flows was written. In recent years, X-ray satellites capable of identifying accretion disks and radiation jets – indications that accretion has taken ... ....

Advanced Amateur Astronomy

This 1997 book is for amateur astronomers and telescope users who want to move beyond elementary stargazing to more challenging projects. Written by an accomplished amateur astronomer, this indispensable guide to more advanced work is ... ....

Are We Being Watched?

The Search for Life in the Cosmos

Paul Murdin

Are We Being Watched? applies the latest scientific discoveries and theories to enquire whether life exists on other planets and, if so, what forms it might take. Could there be, elsewhere, life as advanced as here on Earth, or ... ....

Binary Paths to the Explosions of Type Ia Supernovae

Rosanne Di Stefano and Marina Orio

Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) are bright, distinctive explosions that are effective tools to study the expansion history of the Universe. Given their importance, it is remarkable that we still do not know the exact nature or natures of the ... ....

Biohackers

The Politics of Open Science

Alessandro Delfanti

Biohackers: The Politics of Open Science explores fundamental changes occuring in the circulation and ownership of scientific information. Alessandro Delfanti argues that the combination of the ethos of 20th century science, the ... ....

Cosmic Apprentice

Dispatches from the Edges of Science

Dorion Sagan

In the pursuit of knowledge, Dorion Sagan argues in this dazzlingly eclectic, rigorously crafted, and deliciously witty collection of essays, scientific authoritarianism and philosophical obscurantism are equally formidable obstacles to ... ....

Creation

The Origin of Life / The Future of Life

Adam Rutherford

Recent breakthroughs in the science of life are solving the great mystery of its origin while giving us the power to design its future. Presented here back-to-back, these two gripping narratives reveal the full story of creation.

Die Geologie von Longyearbyen

Karsten Piepjohn, Rolf Stange, Malte Jochmann and Christiane Huebner

In this booklet, the authors take you on an exciting journey through the geological history of the surroundings of Lonyearbyen. Die Geologie von Longyearbyen starts with a short description of the development of Spitsbergen in ... ....

Does Science Need a Global Language?

English and the Future of Research

Scott L Montgomery

In early 2012, the global scientific community erupted with news that the elusive Higgs boson had likely been found, providing potent validation for the Standard Model of how the universe works. Scientists from more than one hundred countries ... ....

Earth Dynamics

Deformations and Oscillations of the Rotating Earth

DE Smylie

The Earth is a dynamic system. Internal processes, together with external gravitational forces of the Sun, Moon and planets, displace the Earth's mass, impacting on its shape, rotation and gravitational field. Doug Smylie provides a ... ....

Fundamentals of Glacier Dynamics

CJ Van Der Veen

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fourth Assessment Report (2007) acknowledged that current ice sheet models do not adequately treat the dynamic response of ice sheets to climate change. This second edition addresses these ... ....

Fundamentals of the Petrophysics of Oil and Gas Reservoirs

Leonid Buryakovsky, George V Chilingar, Herman H Rieke and Sanghee Shin

Written by some of the world's most renowned petroleum and environmental engineers, Fundamentals of the Petrophysics of Oil and Gas Reservoirs is the first book to offer the practicing engineer and engineering student these ... ....

Geology and the Environment (International Edition)

Cengage Learning's Geology and the Environment in partnership with the National Geographic Society brings course concepts to life with interactive learning, study, and exam preparation tools along with market leading text ... ....

In Quest of the Universe

Theo Koupelis

Every new copy of this print textbook In Quest of the Universe, Seventh Edition includes access to the companion website designed for the nonscience major. In Quest of the Universe, Seventh Edition provides a ... ....

International Space Station Manual

An Insight into the History, Development, Collaboration, Production and Role of the Permanently Manned Earth-orbiting Co

David Baker and Heather Kissock

The International Space Station (ISS) is a permanently manned earth-orbiting complex where astronauts carry out research into a wide range of scientific activities. It comprises modules built in the USA, Russia, Europe, Japan and Canada. ....

Knocking on Heaven's Door

How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate the Universe and the Modern World

Lisa Randall

The latest developments in physics have the potential to radically revise our understanding of the universe: its make-up, its evolution and the fundamental forces that determine its operation. Knocking on Heaven's Door is an ... ....

Lunar Rover Manual

An Insight into the Technology, History, Development and Role of NASA's Unique Apollo Lunar Roving Vehicle

David R Scott, Christopher Riley, David Woods and Philip Dolling

This Haynes Manual describes a truly unique vehicle – part car, part spacecraft – from its uncertain gestation in the 1960s through its ultimate engineering design and build challenges, to its extraordinary off-road ... ....

Middle Age

A Natural History

David Bainbridge

David Bainbridge is a vet with a particular interest in evolutionary zoology – and he has just turned forty. As well as the usual concerns about greying hair, failing eyesight and goldfish levels of forgetfulness, he finds himself ... ....

Near-Earth Objects

Finding Them Before They Find Us

Donald K Yeomans

Of all the natural disasters that could befall us, only an Earth impact by a large comet or asteroid has the potential to end civilization in a single blow. Yet these near-Earth objects also offer tantalizing clues to our solar system's ... ....

New Zealand

Its Physical Geography, Geology and Natural History, with Special Reference to... the Provinces of Auckland and Nelson

Ferdinand von Hochstetter and Edward Sauter

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. Inhabited by Polynesians since the thirteenth century and discovered by Europeans in the seventeenth, New Zealand is a geologically diverse ...

Physics in Biology and Medicine

Paul Davidovits

Physics for Biology and Medicine, 4th edition, covers topics in physics as they apply to the life sciences, specifically medicine, physiology, nursing and other applied health fields. This concise introductory paperback surveys ... ....

Rocks and Ice

Landscapes of the North

Rolf Stange

Why are some areas characterized by steep, pointed mountains and others lowlying and table-flat? How does a glacier work, what are typical traces of ice-age glaciation which are evident almost anywhere in the Arctic and Antarctica? ....

Steine und Eis

Landschaften des Nordens

Rolf Stange

Why are some areas characterized by steep, pointed mountains and others lowlying and table-flat? How does a glacier work, what are typical traces of ice-age glaciation which are evident almost anywhere in the Arctic and Antarctica? ....

The Aha! of Science

Richard Monkhouse

The Aha! of Science is an illustrated guided tour of the sciences, from the realm of atoms to the expanse of the universe. It is for all ages, requiring no previous scientific knowledge. It is designed to de-mystify science, and ... ....

The Cosmic Gallery

The Most Beautiful Images of the Universe

Giles Sparrow

The heavens are alive with breathtaking beauty: from the incandescent surface of the Sun to the shimmering tail of a comet; the birth of planets to the death of stars; the dancing shadows of Jupiter's moons to the silhouettes of ... ....

The Geology of Longyearbyen

Karsten Piepjohn, Rolf Stange, Malte Jochmann and Christiane Huebner

In this booklet, the authors take you on an exciting journey through the geological history of the surroundings of Lonyearbyen. The Geology of Longyearbyen starts with a short description of the development of Spitsbergen in ... ....

The Milky Way

An Insider's Guide

William H Waller

The Milky Way: An Insider's Guide offers an intimate guide to the Milky Way, taking readers on a grand tour of our home Galaxy's structure, genesis, and evolution, based on the latest astronomical findings.

The Spark of Life

Electricity in the Human Body

Frances Ashcroft

We are all familiar with the idea that machines are powered by electricity, but perhaps not so aware that this is also true for ourselves. The Spark of Life is a spectacular account of the body electric, showing how, from before ... ....

This is Improbable

Cheese String Theory, Magnetic Chickens, and Other WTF Research

Marc Abrahams

Marc Abrahams, the founder of the Ig Nobel Prizes, offers an addictive, wryly funny expose of the oddest, most imaginative, and just plain improbable research from around the globe. He looks into why books on ethics are more likely to ... ....

Time Travel and Warp Drives

A Scientific Guide to Shortcuts Through Time and Space

Alan Everett and Thomas Roman

Sci-fi makes it look so easy. Receive a distress call from Alpha Centauri? No problem: punch the warp drive and you're there in minutes. Facing a catastrophe that can't be averted? Just pop back in the timestream and stop it before ... ....

Treatise on Geomorphology (14-Volume Set)

John F Shroder

The changing focus and approach of geomorphic research suggests that the time is opportune for a summary of the state of discipline. The number of peer-reviewed papers published in geomorphic journals has grown steadily for ...

Tweeting the Universe

Tiny Explanations of Very Big Ideas

Marcus Chown and Govert Schilling

In 140 pages, two masterly popularisers present 140 explanations of the biggest questions in physics – in the form of 10 or so tweets per page. They set themselves the challenge of boiling down what is essential on each subject ... ....

Aquanomics

Water Markets and the Environment

B. Delworth Gardner and Randy T. Simmons

Water is becoming increasingly scarce. If recent usage trends continue, shortages are inevitable. Aquanomics: Water Markets and the Environment discusses some of the instruments and policies that may be implemented to postpone ... ....

Critical Animal Studies

An Introduction

Having roots as a specialized philosophical movement at Oxford University in the early 1970s, critical animal studies is now taking shape as a wide-open, multidisciplinary endeavor through which scholars across the humanities, sciences ... ....

Cycles, Crises and Innovation

Path to Sustainable Development - a Kaleckian-Schumpeterian Synthesis

Jerry Courvisanos

Cycles, crises and innovation are the major economic forces that shape capitalist economies. Using a critical realist political economy approach, the analysis in this fine work is based on the works of Michal Kalecki and Joseph Schumpeter ... ....

Deep Economy

The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future

Bill McKibben

In this powerful and provocative manifesto, Bill McKibben offers the biggest challenge in a generation to the prevailing view of our economy. Deep Economy makes the compelling case for moving beyond "growth" as the ... ....

Designing Small Gardens

Ian Cooke

Earthmasters

The Dawn of the Age of Climate Engineering

Clive Hamilton

Earthmasters: The Dawn of the Age of Climate Engineering goes to the heart of the unfolding reality of the twenty-first century: international efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions have all failed and before the end of the ... ....

Eco-Business

A Big-Brand Takeover of Sustainability

Peter Dauvergne and Jane Lister

McDonalds promises to use only beef, coffee, fish, chicken, and cooking oil obtained from sustainable sources. Coca-Cola promises to achieve water neutrality. Unilever has set a deadline of 2020 to reach 100 percent sustainable agriculture ... ....

Ecology is Permanent Economy

The Activism and Environmental Philosophy of Sunderlal Bahuguna

George Alfred James

For decades, Sunderlal Bahuguna has been an environmental activist in his native India, well known for his efforts on behalf of the Himalayas and its people. In the 1970s, he was instrumental in the successful Chipko ...

Ecosystems and Human Health

Toxicology and Environmental Hazards

Richard B Philip

The third edition of a bestseller, Ecosystems and Human Health describes how chemical toxins and biological hazards impact the environment and people. Addressing how pollutants can alter the environment by contributing to global ... ....

Empire of Water

An Environmental and Political History of the New York City Water Supply

David Soll

Supplying water to millions is not simply an engineering and logistical challenge. As David Soll shows in his finely observed history of the nation's largest municipal water system, the task of providing water to New Yorkers ... ....

Encyclopedia of Energy, Natural Resource, and Environmental Economics (3-Volume Set)

Jason Shogren

Every decision about energy involves its price and cost. The price of gasoline and the cost of buying from foreign producers; the price of nuclear and hydroelectricity and the costs to our ecosystems; the price of electricity from coal-fired ... ....

Environmental Geotechnics

Robert W. Sarsby

Environmental Geotechnics, 2nd edition provides engineers with an overview of the key aspects of the environmental interface with the construction industry and discusses a variety of geotechnical topics including some basic theory ... ....

Evolutionary Theory and Christian Belief

The Unresolved Conflict

David Lack

Originally published in 1957, Evolutionary Theory and Christian Belief is concerned with the conflict between 'Darwinism' as the Victorians called it, and Christianity, a conflict here re-stated in modern terms because ... ....

Exploring the Scientific Method

Cases and Questions

Steven Gimbel

From their grade school classrooms forward, students of science are encouraged to memorize and adhere to the 'scientific method' – a model of inquiry consisting of five to seven neatly laid-out steps, often in the form of a ... ....

Fighting Light Pollution

Smart Lighting Solutions for Individuals and Communities

International Dark-Sky Association

- The first practical guide to alleviating an increasingly prevalent environmental concern - How smart lighting can save energy costs and improve safety around the home, along the streets, and in public places – all while helping ... ....

Fisheries Development in India

Editorial Appraisals in Fishing Chimes (April 1981 to March 2011)

JVH Dixitulu and Eashwar Dev Anand

Fisheries Development in India looks at development in this industry in the last 30 years, from 1981 to 2011.

Food Justice

Robert Gottlieb and Anupama Joshi

In today's food system, farm workers face difficult and hazardous conditions, low-income neighborhoods lack supermarkets but abound in fast-food restaurants and liquor stores, food products emphasize convenience rather than wholesome ... ....

Genes, Cells and Brains

Bioscience's Promethean Promises

Hilary Rose, Steven Rose and Steven Rose

"Our fates lie in our genes and not in the stars", said James Watson, codiscoverer of the structure of DNA. But Watson could not have predicted the scale of the industry now dedicated to this new frontier. Since the launch of the ... ....

Genetics, Genomics and Breeding of Stone Fruits

Chittaranjan Kole and Albert G Abbott

The stone fruits-including peaches, apricots, almonds, plums, and cherries-have been bred and grown for thousands of years and today are significant agricultural crops in many local economies worldwide.

Green Design

From Theory to Practice

Arthur Spector and Ken Yeang

Green Design: From Theory to Practice is a unique discussion of the issues surrounding sustainability, environmental responsibility and the use of natural resources becoming unavoidable.

Green Roofs

A Guide to Their Design and Installation

Angela Youngman

Environmentally friendly buildings are a must for our future. Among the many new ideas for buildings are green roofs. But what is a green roof? How do they work? Why are individuals and businesses installing them? And how do you install ... ....

Greening Berlin

The Co-Production of Science, Politics, and Urban Nature

Jens Lachmund

Although nature conservation has traditionally focused on the countryside, issues of biodiversity protection also appear on the political agendas of many cities. One of the emblematic examples of this now worldwide trend has been the ... ....

Indra's Net and the Midas Touch

Living Sustainably in a Connected World

Leslie Paul Thiele

We live today in a global web of interdependence, connected technologically, economically, politically, and socially. As a result of these expanding and deepening interdependencies, it has become impossible fully to control – or ... ....

Living Through the End of Nature

The Future of American Environmentalism

Paul Wapner

Living Through the End of Nature probes the meaning of environmentalism in a postnature age. The author argues that the end of nature represents not environmentalism's death knell but an opportunity to build a more effective ... ....

Nature, Science and Religion

Intersections Shaping Society and the Environment

Catherine M Tucker

Nature, Science and Religion is about the complicated and provocative ways nature, science, and religion intersect in real settings where people attempt to live in harmony with the physical environment. Scholars of philosophy ... ....

Phenotypic Characterization of Animal Genetic Resources

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

These guidelines on Phenotypic characterization of animal genetic resources address Strategic Priority Area 1 of the Global Plan of Action – 'Characterization, inventory and monitoring of trends and associated risks';. ....

Planning for Sustainability

Creating Livable, Equitable and Ecological Communities

Stephen M Wheeler

How can human communities sustain a long-term existence on a small planet? This challenge grows ever more urgent as the threat of global warming increases. Planning for Sustainability presents a wide-ranging ...

Reasons of Conscience

The Bioethics Debate in Germany

Stefan Sperling

The implicit questions that inevitably underlie German bioethics are the same ones that have pervaded all of German public life for decades now: How could the Holocaust have happened? And how can Germans make sure that it will never happen ... ....

Renewable Energy Applications for Freshwater Production

Jochen Bundschuh and J Hoinkis

Worldwide, many regions have a great potential to cover part of their pressing water needs by renewable energy powered water treatment processes using either thermal or membrane based technologies. Not only arid and semiarid regions are ... ....

Routledge International Handbook of Social and Environmental Change

Stewart Lockie, David A. Sonnenfeld and Dana R. Fisher

The risks of catastrophic climate change and biodiversity loss throw into focus the impact of humans on ecosystem processes and our dependency, in turn, on the services those processes provide. Adapting our ways of life – our settled ... ....

Saving Global Fisheries

Reducing Fishing Capacity to Promote Sustainability

J Samuel Barkin

The Earth's oceans are overfished, despite more than fifty years of cooperation among the world's fishing nations. There are too many boats chasing too few fish.

Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor

Rob Nixon

The violence wrought by climate change, toxic drift, deforestation, oil spills, and the environmental aftermath of war takes place gradually and often invisibly. Using the innovative concept of "slow violence" to describe these ... ....

Soils and Food Security

Ronald E Hester

Soil is essential to agriculture and a resource that cannot be replaced easily. Nevertheless, its importance to food production and the threats to its sustainability are often overlooked. Soils and Food Security, the 35th volume ... ....

Summa Technologiae

Stanislaw Lem and Joanna Zylinska

The Polish writer Stanislaw Lem is best known to English-speaking readers as the author of the 1961 science fiction novel Solaris, adapted into a meditative film by Andrei Tarkovsky in 1972 and remade in 2002 by Steven Soderberg ... ....

Sustainable Communities, Sustainable Development

Other Paths for Papua New Guinea

Paul James, Yaso Nadarajah, Karen Haive and Victoria Stead

Papua New Guinea is going through a crisis: A concentration on conventional approaches to development, including an unsustainable reliance on mining, forestry, and foreign aid, has contributed to the country's slow decline since independence ... ....

Sustainable Water Ecosystems Management in Europe

Bridging the Knowledge of Citizens, Scientists and Policy Makers

Carlo Sessa

Sustainable Water Ecosystems Management in Europe examines the anthropogenic deterioration of water ecosystems, in particular in coastal areas. It proposes a new approach to enhance connectivity between research and policy-making ... ....

Taking Sustainable Cities Seriously

Economic Development, the Environment, and Quality of Life in American Cities

Kent E Portney

Today most major cities have undertaken some form of sustainability initiative. Yet there have been few systematic comparisons across cities, or theoretically grounded considerations of what works and what does not, and why.

The End of Energy

The Unmaking of America's Environment, Security, and Independence

Michael Graetz

Americans take for granted that when we flip a switch the light will go on, when we turn up the thermostat the room will get warm, and when we pull up to the pump gas will be plentiful and relatively cheap.

The End of the River

Dams, Drought and Deja Vu on the Rio Sao Francisco

Brian Harvey

When biologist Brian Harvey saw a thousand fish blundering into a Brazilian dam, he asked the obvious: What's going to happen to them? The End of the River is the story of his long search for an answer.

The Environmental Advantages of Cities

Countering Commonsense Antiurbanism

William B Meyer

Conventional wisdom about the environmental impact of cities holds that urbanization and environmental quality are necessarily at odds. Cities are seen to be sites of ecological disruption, consuming a disproportionate share of natural ... ....

The Global Casino

An Introduction to Environmental Issues

Nick Middleton

The Global Casino is an introduction to environmental issues which deals both with the workings of the physical environment and the political, economic and social frameworks in which the issues occur. Using examples from all over ... ....

The Natural Building Companion

A Comprehensive Guide to Integrative Design and Construction

Jacob Deva Racusin and Ace McArleton

Natural buildings not only bring satisfaction to their makers and joy to their occupants but also leave the gentlest footprint on the environment. In this complete reference to natural building philosophy, design and technique ...

The Orders of Nature

Lawrence Cahoone

Reviving and modernizing the tradition of post-Darwinian naturalism, The Orders of Nature draws on philosophy and the natural sciences to present a naturalistic theory of reality. Conceiving of nature as systems, processes, and ... ....

The Rediscovery of the Wild

Peter H. Kahn and Patricia H. Hasbach

We often enjoy the benefits of connecting with nearby, domesticated nature – a city park, a backyard garden. But The Rediscovery of the Wild makes the provocative case for the necessity of connecting with wild nature... ....

The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2012

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2012 presents new estimates of undernourishment based on a revised and improved methodology. These show that progress in reducing hunger during the past 20 years has been better than ... ....

The Thou of Nature

Religious Naturalism and Reverence for Sentient Life

Donald A Crosby

Humans share the earth with nonhuman animals who are also capable of conscious experience and awareness. Arguing that we should develop an I-thou, not an I-it, relationship with other sentient beings, Donald A. Crosby adds a new perspective ... ....

The Urban Beekeeper

A Year of Bees in the City

Steve Benbow

At a time when the UK bee population is in decline there's no better way to make a difference than to start up your own beehive. Steve Benbow's enormous success with urban beekeeping show's how easy it is to keep bees, whether ... ....

Vibrant Matter

A Political Ecology of Things

Jane Bennett

In Vibrant Matter the political theorist Jane Bennett, renowned for her work on nature, ethics, and affect, shifts her focus from the human experience of things to things themselves. Bennett argues that political theory needs to ... ....

Why Genes are Not Selfish and People are Nice

A Challenge to the Dangerous Ideas That Dominate Our Lives

Colin Tudge

The modern world is dominated by ideas that are threatening to kill us: that life is one long battle from conception to grave; that all creatures, including human beings, are driven by their selfish DNA; that the universe is just stuff ... ....

Wolf and Stanley on Environmental Law

Susan Wolf and Neil Stanley

Wolf and Stanley on Environmental Law is a lively and accessible account of pollution control law in England and Wales. Written with real clarity and supported by a range of learning features, this text offers an excellent start ... ....

Biostatistics

A Computing Approach

Stewart Anderson, Chris Chatfield, Bradley P Carlin and Martin A Tanner

The emergence of high-speed computing has facilitated the development of many exciting statistical and mathematical methods in the last 25 years, broadening the landscape of available tools in statistical investigations of complex data. ....

Is That a Fact?

A Field Guide for Evaluating and Statistical and Scientific Information

Mark Battersby

Is that a Fact? teaches students how to think critically about scientific and statistical information. The goal of the text is not only to teach readers how to identify misleading use of statistics, but also to give readers the ... ....

Maps and Civilization

Cartography in Culture and Society

Norman J W Thrower

In this concise introduction to the history of cartography, Norman J. W. Thrower charts the intimate links between maps and history from antiquity to the present day. A wealth of illustrations, including the oldest known map and contemporary ... ....

Modeling of Living Systems

From Cell to Ecosystem

Alain Pave

Modeling is now one of the most efficient methodologies in life sciences. From practice to theory, Modeling of Living Systems develops this approach illustrated by many examples; general concepts and the current state of the art ... ....

Molecular Fluorescence

Principles and Applications

Bernard Valeur and Mario Nuno Berberan-Santos

This second edition of the well-established bestseller is completely updated and revised with approximately 30% additional material, including two new chapters on applications, which has seen the most significant developments.

A Life in Museums

Managing Your Museum Career

Greg Stevens and Wendy Luke

From the experienced leader or the mid-career professional hoping for a promotion to a recent grad applying for a first internship, A Life in Museums provides museum professionals, both experts and novices, with information for ... ....

A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations

Chicago Style for Students and Researchers

Kate L Turabian, Wayne C Booth, Gregory G Colomb and Joseph M Williams

A little more than seventy-five years ago, Kate L. Turabian drafted a set of guidelines to help students understand how to write, cite, and formally submit research writing. Seven editions and more than nine million copies later ... ....

Academic Writing

An Introduction

Janet Giltrow, Richard Gooding, Daniel Burgoyne and Marlene Sawatsky

This popular, student-friendly, and comprehensive introduction to academic writing in different disciplines now includes more exercises and a new section on research ethics. Academic Writing: An Introduction is a concise version ... ....

China's Environment and China's Environment Journalists

A Study

Hugo de Burgh and Zeng Rong

A new specialism has appeared in China in recent years, that of the environment correspondent. This study investigates China's journalists to understand their attitudes towards the environment, their means of operation and their views ... ....

Concise Rules of APA Style

American Psychological Association

This easy-to-use pocket guide zeroes in on the rules that writers need. Even if you own the new Publication Manual, you will want to have Concise Rules at your fingertips. It's not only simple to use but it's lightweight and portable ... ....

Critical Thinking

An Introduction to the Basic Skills

William Hughes, Jonathan Lavery and Katheryn Doran

William Hughes's Critical Thinking, recently revised and updated by Jonathan Lavery and Katheryn Doran, is a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the essential skills required to make strong arguments.

Demystifying Dissertation Writing

A Streamlined Process from Choice of Topic to Final Text

Peg Boyle Single

Research shows that five strategies correlate with the successful completion of a dissertation: establishing a consistent writing routine; working with a support group; consulting your advisor; understanding your committee's expectations ... ....

Displaying Your Findings

A Practical Guide for Creating Figures, Posters, and Presentations

Adelheid A M Nicol

Displaying Your Findings: A Practical Guide for Creating Figures, Posters and Presentations, Sixth Edition, offers readers essential guidance on creating figures that effectively present their findings. Figure examples have been ... ....

Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association

American Psychological Association

A style manual for writers, editors, students, and educators in the social and behavioral sciences. It offers guidance on various aspects of writing process, from the ethics of authorship to the word choice that best reduces bias in language ... ....

The Chicago Guide to Writing About Multivariate Analysis

Jane E Miller

The Chicago Guide to Writing About Multivariate Analysis is the book researchers turn to when looking for guidance on how to clearly present statistical results and break through the jargon that often clouds writing about ... ....

Writing Science in Plain English

Anne Greene

Bad writing is bad for science. Incomprehensible journal articles, wordy proposals, and jargon-filled theses make reading a chore for students, informed lay people, and even other scientists. As a result, years of research and hard work ... ....