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Mammals
 

22 Fantastical Facts about Dolphins

Justin Gregg

Did you know that dolphins don't drink water, don't chew their food, and don't sleep? Despite being one of the world's best loved and most studied animals, dolphins continue to surprise us with their impressive skill ...

118 pages | b/w illustrations |

Paperback | 11/2015 | 9780994924001 | #227641A | £6.99 Add to basket

 

Atlas de Repartition des Mammiferes d'Alsace [Distribution Atlas of the Mammals of Alsace]

Antoine Andre, Christelle Brand, Fabrice Capber and Francois Moutou

The French region of Alsace lies in the east of the country and borders Germany and Switzerland. Since 2006, the Office des Données Naturalistes d'Alsace (ODONAT) has been coordinating a project to realize the publication of ...

739 pages | colour photos, colour illustrations, colour distribution maps, tables, includes transparen |

Hardback | 01/2014 | 9782363290410 | #227349A | £37.99 Add to basket

 

Bovids of the World

Antelopes, Gazelles, Cattle, Goats, Sheep, and Relatives

Jose R Castello, Brent Huffman and Colin P Groves

Bovids are a diverse group of ruminant mammals that have hooves and unbranched hollow horns. Bovids of the World is the first comprehensive field guide to cover all 279 bovid species, including antelopes, gazelles, cattle, buffalo ...

664 pages | 337 colour illustrations, 313 colour distribution maps |

Paperback | NYP 04/2016 | 9780691167176 | #227303A | £17.99 Add to basket

 

Der Goldhamster [Golden Hamster]

Mesocricetus auratus

Rolf Gattermann, Peter Fritzsche and Karsten Neumann

Almost 100 years had to pass after its scientific description in 1839, before the Golden Hamster was rediscovered in 1930 in the desert of northern Syria. After having succeed in starting a breeding population from three male and a female ...

500 pages | 60 colour & 180 b/w illustrations, tables |

Paperback | NYP 06/2016 | 9783894321604 | #226352A | £59.99 Add to basket

 

Dolphin Diaries

My 25 Years with Spotted Dolphins in the Bahamas

Denise L Herzing

Dr. Denise Herzing began her research with a pod of spotted dolphins in the 1980s. Now, almost three decades later, she has forged strong ties with many of these individuals, has witnessed and recorded them feeding, playing, fighting ...

322 pages | 8 plates with colour photos (hardback) / b/w photos (paperback) |

Paperback | 08/2012 | 9781250006912 | #227335A | £20.99 Add to basket

 

Elephant Don

The Politics of a Pachyderm Posse

Caitlin O'Connell

Greg and his entourage are bull elephants in Etosha National Park, Namibia, where, for the last twenty-three years, Caitlin O'Connell has been a keen observer of their complicated friendships.

261 pages | 44 b/w photos |

Hardback | 05/2015 | 9780226106113 | #221524A | £17.99 Add to basket

Paperback | NYP 04/2016 | 9780226380056 | #227693A | £10.99 Add to basket

 

Foxes Unearthed

A Story of Love and Loathing in Modern Britain

Lucy Jones

The British people have a unique relationship with the fox; no other animal attracts such controversy, has provoked more column inches or been so deeply woven into our culture over the centuries. But as well as being the most ubiquitous ...

256 pages |

Hardback | NYP 06/2016 | 9781783961498 | #226342A | £14.99 Add to basket

 

Guide Photo des Grands Mammiferes d'Afrique [Field Guide to the Larger Mammals of Africa]

Chris Stuart and Mathilde Stuart

Omits the smaller, seldom-seen mammals of the continent in favour of devoting more space to the larger species. Each species is covered in detail, its physical appearance, food and habitat preferences, reproduction and general behaviour ...

320 pages | 400+ colour photos, colour illustrations, colour distribution maps |

Hardback | NYP 01/2016 | 9782603021903 | #227716A | £34.99 Add to basket

 

Les Ratapinyades de les Balears [Bats of the Balearics]

Jordi Serra-Cobo, Marc Lopez-Roig and Xavier Bayer i González

This book tells of one of the most interesting evolutionary histories that can be found in the animal world: the bats. Discover the different adaptations that have allowed them to fly, features that are present in no other group of mammals ...

108 pages | colour photos |

Paperback | 08/2015 | 9788416163434 | #227578A | £13.50 Add to basket

 

Mamiferos de Espana: Peninsula, Baleares y Canarias [Mammals of Spain: The Iberian Peninsula, Balearics and Canary Is

Francisco J Purroy and Juan M Varela Simo

New edition of the field guide to identifying the mammals of Spain. Includes the most detailed and up-dated information available on all of the species found on the Iberian Peninsula, the Balearic and the Canary Islands.

165 pages | colour & b/w illustrations, colour distribution maps |

Hardback | NYP 05/2016 | 9788494189258 | #227675A | £18.99 Add to basket

 

Monkeys of Peru

Pocket Identification Guide

Rolando Aquino Y, Fanny M Cornejo, Liliana Cortes-Ortiz, Filomeno Encarnacion C and Eck Heymann

This laminated fold-out guide has 66 illustrations to identify all monkey species in Peru, with illustrations of both sexes for some species, and includes individual distribution maps. In addition, you can use the checklist to note the ...

22 pages | 66 colour illustrations, colour distribution maps |

Unbound | 11/2015 | 9781934151648 | #227292A | £6.99 Add to basket

 

Otters in Shetland

The Tale of the 'Draatsi'

Richard Shucksmith and Brydon Thomason

A stunning collection of photographs, history and ecology of one of the most charismatic of British mammals, this is a must have for any visitor to Shetland, or anybody who loves the great outdoors! Written with a deep understanding for ...

276 pages | colour photos |

Hardback | 12/2015 | 9781910997000 | #227329A | £36.50 Add to basket

 

Platypus: World's Strangest Animal

Elizabeth Parer-Cook and David Parer

The platypus is a remarkable semi-aquatic mammal found only in Australia. Along with the echidna, it lays eggs like a bird, walks like a reptile and has existed for millions of years. One of the world's strangest looking animals ...

72 pages | colour photos |

Hardback | 10/2015 | 9780987328915 | #227733A | £48.50 Add to basket

 

Pocket Photo Guide to the Mammals of North Africa and the Middle East

Chris Stuart and Tilde Stuart

This handy guide provides an introduction to more than 120 species of mammals found in North Africa and the Middle East. The authoritative text includes key facts about identification, habitat, behaviour, distribution and status, and each species ...

128 pages | colour photos |

Paperback | NYP 03/2016 | 9781472932396 | #227535A | £9.99 Add to basket

 

Pocket Photo Guide to the Mammals of Sri Lanka

Gehan de Silva Wijeyeratne

A compact, easy-to-use mammal identification guide for any nature watcher on a visit to Sri Lanka. More than 40 species are described here in detail, from the Grey Slender Loris to the Giant Squirrel and the Fishing Cat. All of these animals are ...

128 pages | 130+ colour photos, 1 colour map |

Paperback | NYP 07/2016 | 9781472932907 | #227545A | £9.99 Add to basket

 

Primates de Peru: Guia de Identificacion de Bolsillo [Monkeys of Peru: Pocket Identification Guide]

Rolando Aquino Y, Fanny M Cornejo, Liliana Cortes-Ortiz, Filomeno Encarnacion C and Eck Heymann

This laminated fold-out guide has 66 illustrations to identify all monkey species in Peru, with illustrations of both sexes for some species, and includes individual distribution maps. In addition, you can use the checklist to note the ...

22 pages | 66 colour illustrations, colour distribution maps |

Unbound | 11/2015 | 9781934151914 | #227293A | £6.99 Add to basket

 

Primates in Peril: The World's 25 Most Endangered Primates 2012-2014

Christoph Schwitzer, Russell A Mittermeier, Anthony B Rylands, Lucy A Taylor and Federica Chiozza

This report was released at the International Primatological Society (IPS) meeting in August 2014, Hanoi, Vietnam. Here the IUCN reports on the seventh iteration of the biennial listing of a consensus of the 25 primate species ...

89 pages | colour photos, colour illustrations, colour distribution maps, tables |

Paperback | 08/2014 | 9781934151693 | #227339A | £9.99 Add to basket

 

Primates in Peril: The World's 25 Most Endangered Primates 2014-2016

Christoph Schwitzer, Russell A Mittermeier, Anthony B Rylands, Federica Chiozza and El Williamson

This report was first presented at the Asian Red-Listing meeting the IUCN had in Singapore in November 2015. Here the IUCN reports on the eighth iteration of the biennial listing of a consensus of the 25 primate species considered ...

93 pages | colour photos, colour illustrations, colour distribution maps, tables |

Paperback | NYP 01/2016 | 9781934151952 | #227340A | £9.99 Add to basket

 

RSPB Spotlight: Badgers

James Lowen

Badgers are elusive wanderers of the night and few mammals are as mysterious. Their nocturnal lifestyle means not many of us have ever glimpsed their monochrome form as they sniff and bustle their way through woodland or across pasture ...

128 pages | 300 colour photos |

Paperback | NYP 06/2016 | 9781472921819 | #226295A | £9.99 Add to basket

 

Red Squirrels

Ecology, Conservation & Management in Europe

Craig M Shuttleworth, Peter WW Lurz, Matthew W Hayward and Iolo Williams

This is the first book of its kind in 20 years on red squirrel management and conservation in the UK and across Europe. Red Squirrels: Ecology, Conservation & Management in Europe ties together subjects covering habitat, ecology ...

330 pages |

Paperback | 07/2015 | 9780954757618 | #227358A | £33.50 Add to basket

 

Scottish Red Deer and Their Conservation

V Patrick W Lowe

Scottish Red Deer and Their Conservation is the account of the author's time as Scientific Officer for the Nature Conservancy working on the Deer Survey of Scotland and setting up a research programme on the Island of Rum.

267 pages | 3 plates with b/w photos; 44 colour photos and colour illustrations, 11 b/w illustrations, |

Hardback | 04/2014 | 9781904524939 | #227557A | £29.99 Add to basket

 

Spirit of Dartmoor Ponies

Dartmoor Pony Society

With over sixty fascinating and heart-warming images, Spirit of Dartmoor Ponies by the Dartmoor Pony Society captures the essence of these beautiful creatures, the living heart of the Dartmoor landscape.

64 pages | 60 colour photos |

Hardback | 06/2009 | 9781906887230 | #227459A | £4.99 Add to basket

 

Status Survey of Some Mammals in Gujarat with Special Reference to Chinkara and Desert Cat

PL Kankane, Gaurav Sharma and Krishnamoorthy Venkataraman

The Indian state of Gujarat features distinctive geomorphological features, including the convergence of four mountain ranges, four major river systems, and the longest sea coast in India with two sheltered gulfs. This has given rise to ...

326 pages | colour illustrations, colour maps |

Paperback | 10/2014 | 9788181713919 | #227268A | £54.50 Add to basket

 

Surveying for Bats in Trees And Woodland: Guide (BS 8596:2015)

British Standards Institution (BSI)

All UK bats and their roosts are protected by the law – If you manage trees or woodland you must meet the legal requirements to follow best practice in avoiding killing, injuring or disturbing bats or damaging or destroying their ...

66 pages |

Paperback | 10/2015 | 9780580809507 | #227321A | £212.00 Add to basket

 

Tempo da Lupi [Time for Wolves]

Bruno D'Amicis and Jim Brandenburg

Tempo da Lupi is the result of six years of work and of hundreds of days spent in the mountains of Central Italy. It features 130 ground-breaking and evocative pictures that document the life of wolves up-close. These blend with ...

208 pages | 130 colour photos |

Hardback | 10/2015 | 9788867101429 | #227400A | £49.99 Add to basket

 

The Mammals of Luzon Island

Biogeography and Natural History of a Philippine Fauna

Lawrence R Heaney, Danilo S Balete and Eric A Rickart

Revealing the astounding mammalian diversity found on the largest Philippine island, The Mammals of Luzon Island is a unique book that functions both as a field guide and study of tropical fauna. The book features 120 fully illustrated ...

304 pages | 36 colour photos, 158 colour illustrations, 110 maps |

Hardback | NYP 03/2016 | 9781421418377 | #227706A | £48.50 Add to basket

 

The Mystery of the Pink Dolphin / Le Mystere du Dauphin Rose (All Regions)

Eric Ellena

Hiding in a narrow branch of a river, deep within the Amazon rainforest, is a strange animal that one wouldn't expect to find here, thousands of kilometres away from the ocean: the "pink river dolphin", one of the most mysterious ...

1 disc, runtime: 53 min, aspect ratio: 16:9, PAL |

Paperback | NYP 01/2016 | 9782336310701 | #227752A | £13.33 Add to basket

 

Time for Wolves

Bruno D'Amicis and Jim Brandenburg

Time for Wolves is the result of six years of work and of hundreds of days spent in the mountains of Central Italy. It features 130 ground-breaking and evocative pictures that document the life of wolves up-close. These blend with ...

208 pages | 130 colour photos |

Hardback | 10/2015 | 9788867101436 | #227399A | £49.99 Add to basket

 

Wattana: An Orangutan in Paris

Chris Herzfeld, Oliver Y Martin and Robert D Martin

She likes tea, sews, draws on papers and is a self-taught master of tying and untying knots. But she is not a crafty woman of the DIY set: she is Wattana, an orangutan who lives in the Jardin des Plantes Zoo in Paris. And it is in Paris ...

192 pages | 22 b/w photos |

Hardback | NYP 04/2016 | 9780226168593 | #227703A | £17.99 Add to basket

 

What Is a Dog?

Raymond Coppinger, Lorna Coppinger and Alan M Beck

Of the world's dogs, less than two hundred million are pets, living with humans who provide food, shelter, squeaky toys, and fashionable sweaters. But roaming the planet are five times as many dogs who are their own masters ...

240 pages | 17 colour plates, 13 b/w photos, 4 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 04/2016 | 9780226127941 | #227687A | £20.99 Add to basket

 
Birds
 

40 Years from the Brink of Extinction

John D Chaney

Bald eagles are the subject of 40 Years from the Brink of Extinction, a handsome new photography book by John D. Chaney that collects 40 years of his work documenting America's favorite bird. This large-format hardcover features ...

80 pages | 63 colour photos |

Hardback | 01/2016 | 9781591521617 | #227727A | £35.99 Add to basket

 

50 Jahre Schutz von Fels und Falken 1965-2015 [50 Years of Protection of Cliffs and Hawks 1965-2015]

F Rau, R Luehl and J Becht

With this anniversary publication the German "Arbeitsgemeinschaft Wanderfalkenschutz (AGW) [Working Group for Peregrine Protection]" in Baden-Württemberg celebrated the 50th anniversary of its founding. For this anniversary ...

264 pages | colour photos, colour & b/w illustrations, colour tables |

Paperback | 11/2015 | #227587A | £32.50 Add to basket

 

A Bird Observatory is Born

The Edited Diaries of the Bardsey Bird and Field Observatory

Joan James, Emma Stansfield and Steve Stansfield

Bardsey is a small island off the coast of North Wales. The Bardsey Bird and Field Observatory was founded in 1953 by a group of distinguished Naturalists which included Ronald Lockley and William Condry. The activities of the early year ...

96 pages | colour & b/w photos, illustrations |

Paperback | 06/2015 | 9781943278213 | #227645A | £13.99 Add to basket

 

A Field Guide to the Birds of Taiwan [Chinese]

Mu-Chi Hsiao and Cheng-Lin Li

Years in the making, this Chinese field guide has comprehensive coverage of the main island of Taiwan and offshore islands (Matsu, Lanyu, Kinmen etc). As well as the painted plates, non-Chinese readers can make use of highlighted key ...

439 pages | 190 plates with colour illustrations; colour distribution maps |

Paperback | 10/2014 | 9789860425550 | #219422A | £49.99 Add to basket

Paperback | 03/2015 | 9789860444537 | #227497A | £49.99 Add to basket

 

A Field Guide to the Birds of Thailand

Craig Robson

Thailand is probably the most popular destination for tourists in Asia, and birders have long travelled there to observe its wealth of wildlife. This comprehensive guide to the birds of Thailand is an indispensable field reference for birdwatchers ...

272 pages | 128 plates with colour illustrations; 1000 colour distribution maps |

Paperback | 02/2016 | 9781472935823 | #227529A | £29.99 Add to basket

 

A Pocket Guide to Birds in India

Akhilesh K Sahay

A small (103 × 138 mm, W × H) guide that will fit in virtually every pocket containing colour photos of birds commonly seen in India. Each photo gives the English vernacular name. Species are ordered taxonomically.

120 pages | colour photos |

Paperback | 12/2015 | #227659A | £10.50 Add to basket

 

American Birding Association Field Guide to Birds of Arizona

Rick Wright and Brian E Small

Southeastern Arizona is a mecca for birders, famous among enthusiasts worldwide for its sky island mountains and its desert vistas – and for the rare birds that inhabit them. What is less well known is that the rest of our vast ...

400 pages | colour photos |

Paperback | NYP 05/2016 | 9781935622604 | #227475A | £20.99 Add to basket

 

American Birding Association Field Guide to Birds of Minnesota

Laura Erickson and Brian E Small

Minnesota lies at the crossroads of four major landscapes – prairie grasslands, deciduous woods, coniferous forest and aspen parkland. Each area has distinct habitats for plants and animals and offers unique opportunities for viewing ...

400 pages | colour photos |

Paperback | NYP 05/2016 | 9781935622598 | #227476A | £20.99 Add to basket

 

An Amateur's Guide to Birds of Assam

Jayaditya Purkayastha

An Amateur's Guide to Birds of Assam contains photos along with distribution maps and short descriptions for 200 species of birds. To make it handy for field use, symbols are used. The book also contains information on basic biology ...

129 pages | colour photos, colour maps |

Paperback | 01/2015 | 9789383252695 | #227322A | £41.50 Add to basket

 

At Sea with the Marine Birds of the Raincoast

Caroline Fox

At Sea with the Marine Birds of the Raincoast combines the natural and human histories of Pacific Northwest marine birds with Caroline Fox's personal story of her life as a conservation scientist. Accompanied by vivid images ...

304 pages | colour & b/w photos |

Paperback | NYP 05/2016 | 9781771601627 | #227773A | £16.99 Add to basket

 

Bird Droppings

Writings about Watching Birds & Bird Watchers

Pete Dunne and David Gothard

Pete Dunne, one of the foremost birding writers in the country, shares 33 funny, poignant, whimsical, and informative tales about birders and birding in his first collection of birding essays in more than ten years. Dunne is an expert ...

128 pages | illustrations |

Paperback | 01/2016 | 9780811717250 | #227306A | £17.50 Add to basket

 

Bird Wildlife of Aruba

Gregory Peterson

Bird Wildlife of Aruba contains full page photographs of over two hundred species of birds taken in Aruba's wildlife. A checklist, for scientific and educational purposes, is at the end of Bird Wildlife of Aruba ...

432 pages | 400 colour photos |

Hardback | NYP 04/2016 | 9789460223730 | #227688A | £41.99 Add to basket

 

Birds in Bihar (2-Volume Set)

Bihar Department of Environment and Forest

From the preface: "Bihar is home to a large number of birds. Endowed with vast stretches of wetlands the state attracts large numbers of migratory birds, mostly between the months of October and February. Apart from migratory birds ...

353 pages | colour photos, colour maps |

Paperback | 01/2015 | #227731A | £36.99 Add to basket

 

Birds in Trouble

Lynn E Barber

As oil was washing up on the shores of Louisiana, covering shorebirds and their nests and eggs after the Deepwater Horizon disaster, Lynn Barber decided to write Birds in Trouble to heighten awareness, not only of the plight of ...

224 pages | 55 colour & 36 b/w illustrations |

Paperback | NYP 04/2016 | 9781623493592 | #227477A | £27.95 Add to basket

 

Birds of Kruger National Park

Keith Barnes and Ken Behrens

South Africa's Kruger National Park is one of the largest and most iconic conservation areas in Africa. Habitats range from wide-open savannah and rugged thornveld to broadleaved mopani woodland. This microhabitat variation gives Kruger ...

224 pages | 400+ colour photos |

Paperback | NYP 05/2016 | 9780691161266 | #227282A | £19.95 Add to basket

 

Birds of New Guinea

Distribution, Taxonomy, and Systematics

Bruce M Beehler and Thane K Pratt

New Guinea, the largest tropical island, supports a spectacular bird fauna characterized by cassowaries, megapodes, pigeons, parrots, kingfishers, and owlet-nightjars, as well as the iconic birds of paradise and bowerbirds. Of the nearly ...

672 pages | 14 colour illustrations, 2 maps |

Hardback | NYP 03/2016 | 9780691164243 | #227466A | £37.99 Add to basket

 

Birds of Western Ecuador

A Photographic Guide

Nick Athanas, Paul J Greenfield, Iain Campbell, Pablo Cervantes Daza and Sam Woods

Western Ecuador is famed for its astonishingly diverse birdlife, from colorful hummingbirds and outrageous toucans to more difficult groups like raptors, flycatchers, and ovenbirds. Here is the ultimate photographic guide to the spectacular ...

464 pages | 1500 colour photos, 946 colour distribution maps |

Paperback | NYP 06/2016 | 9780691157801 | #227302A | £19.99 Add to basket

 

Birds of the Canary Islands

Eduardo Garcia-del-Rey

The Birds of the Canary Islands is a Macaronesian archipelago avifauna that fills an important gap in the ornithological literature. Full colour throughout it begins with authoritative introductory chapters covering subjects as ...

924 pages | 431 colour photos, colour distribution maps |

Paperback | 01/2015 | 9788460695288 | #227450A | £160.00 Add to basket

 

Birdsong, Speech, and Language

Exploring the Evolution of Mind and Brain

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

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

542 pages | 93 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 05/2013 | 9780262018609 | #203591A | £22.50 Add to basket

Paperback | NYP 03/2016 | 9780262528849 | #227470A | £23.95 Add to basket

 

Britain's Birds

An Identification Guide to the Birds of Britain and Ireland

Rob Hume, Robert Still, Andy Swash, Hugh Harrop and David Tipling

Britain's Birds will be enjoyed and valued by everyone, from beginner to experienced birder. One of the most comprehensive, up-to-date and practical bird books of modern times, it features an unrivalled selection of photographs ...

528 pages | 2700+ colour photos, distribution maps |

Paperback | NYP 07/2016 | 9780691158891 | #227304A | £13.99 Add to basket

 

Die Vogelwelt von Rheinland-Pfalz, Band 1: Allgemeiner Teil [The Avifauna of Rhineland-Palatinate, Volume 1: General

Christian Dietzen

This is the first volume of what is planned to be a four-volume opus – the most comprehensive work on the bird life in this German state that has ever been published. It is also a milestone regional avifauna in Germany.

864 pages | colour photos, colour illustrations, colour distribution maps, tables |

Hardback | 01/2015 | 9783980766999 | #227407A | £65.99 Add to basket

 

Die Vogelwelt von Rheinland-Pfalz, Band 2: Entenvoegel bis Storchenvoegel (Anseriformes-Ciconiiformes) [The Avifauna

Christian Dietzen

This is the first volume of what is planned to be a four-volume opus – the most comprehensive work on the bird life in this German state that has ever been published. It is also a milestone regional avifauna in Germany.

642 pages | 225 colour photos, 391 colour illustrations and colour distribution maps, 26 colour tables |

Hardback | 07/2015 | 9783946121008 | #227408A | £55.99 Add to basket

 

Finding Birds in Hungary - The DVD (All Regions)

Dave Gosney

This DVD introduces you to the best birding sites in Hungary and shows you many of the country's most exciting birds. British birder Dave Gosney takes you to areas of plains such as The Hortobágy, several of Hungary's ...

runtime: 73 min |

DVD | 12/2015 | 9781907316548 | #227395A | £19.14 Add to basket

 

Habitat, Population Dynamics, and Metal Levels in Colonial Waterbirds

A Food Chain Approach

Joanna Burger and Michael Gochfeld

Based on longitudinal studies-some into their fifth decade-of colonial waterbirds, this book provides a clear picture of the corrosive effects of heavy metals in the aquatic environment today. Colonial-nesting birds can serve as excellent ...

544 pages | 9 colour & 332 b/w illustrations, 82 tables |

Hardback | NYP 06/2016 | 9781482251128 | #223659A | £88.99 Add to basket

 

Handboek Vogels van Nederland en Belgie [Handbook to the Birds of the Netherlands and Belgium]

Luc Hoogenstein and Ger Meesters

Handboek Vogels van Nederland en België is the most complete avifauna of the Netherlands and Belgium. Covering some 300 species, all breeding birds, summering and wintering guests, and vagrants are covered, as well as some rare, but ...

320 pages | ~2000 colour photos and colour illustrations, colour distribution maps |

Hardback | NYP 06/2016 | 9789050115803 | #227671A | £22.99 Add to basket

 

Holy Moli

Albatross and Other Ancestors

Hob Osterlund

Hob Osterlund moved to Hawai'i after being visited in a dream by an ancestor, Martha Beckwith, author of the monumental classic, Hawaiian Mythology. It was there, on the island of Kaua'i, where she happened upon a few ...

208 pages |

Paperback | NYP 05/2016 | 9780870718489 | #227666A | £19.99 Add to basket

 

Hummingbirds of North America

Paul A Johnsgard

First published in hardback in 1997, this second edition of Hummingbirds of North America is now available in paperback. The first edition was published in 1983, and this well illustrated and acclaimed volume was been ...

256 pages | 24 colour plates, 27 b/w illustrations, 40 maps |

Paperback | NYP 02/2016 | 9781935623885 | #227421A | £29.99 Add to basket

 

Identifying Birds of Prey

Quick Reference Guide for Eastern North America

Laura Erickson

An engaging quick-reference guide to the basics of identifying hawks, eagles, falcons, vultures, and kites in flight. Includes color photos and simplified outlines showing key features of each species, as well as range maps and comparison ...

64 pages | colour photos, illustrations, distribution maps |

Paperback | NYP 03/2016 | 9780811716185 | #227299A | £12.50 Add to basket

 

Lost Among the Birds

Accidentally Finding Myself in One Very Big Year

Neil Hayward

Early in 2013 Neil Hayward was at a crossroads. He didn't want to open a bakery or whatever else executives do when they quit a lucrative but unfulfilling job. He didn't want to think about his failed relationship with ...

288 pages |

Hardback | NYP 06/2016 | 9781632865793 | #227478A | £16.99 Add to basket

 

Magical Birds of Bolivia / Aves Magicas de Bolivia

Daniel Alarcon Arias

With 1,430 species of which 17 are endemic, Bolivia is the country with the sixth highest number of bird species in the world. Magical Birds of Bolivia / Aves Mágicas de Bolivia contains photographs, maps and general information ...

220 pages | colour photos, colour distribution maps |

Hardback | 10/2015 | 9789997447951 | #227314A | £41.50 Add to basket

 

Minigids Vogels van Nederland en Belgie [Mini Guide to the Birds of the Netherlands and Belgium]

Jip Louwe Kooijmans and Elwin van der Kolk

This laminated fold-out guide shows you all 200 Dutch bird species at a glance. Birds are arranged by habitat (urban areas, gardens, parks, forests, coasts etc.) and group (ducks, birds of prey, owls etc.). Details about the period of ...

14 pages | colour illustrations |

Unbound | 12/2014 | 9789050115339 | #227672A | £4.50 Add to basket

 

Orkney Bird Report 2012

Orkney Bird Report Committee

The 2012 edition of the Orkney Bird Report includes full colour photographs and a vast array of information on species, sightings, nesting habitats and locations. 2012 was full of the variety that is expected from Orkney's birds.

colour photos |

Paperback | 01/2014 | #227312A | £17.50 Add to basket

 

Orkney Bird Report 2013

Orkney Bird Report Committee

The 2013 edition of the bird report, with full colour photographs. Includes a wealth of information on rarities and ringing, along with the usual records of sightings. Reported, again, is the poor breeding season for the seabirds and waders ...

colour photos |

Paperback | 11/2014 | #227313A | £17.99 Add to basket

 

Orkney Bird Report 2014

Orkney Bird Report Committee

The 2014 edition of The Orkney Bird Report, with full colour photographs, includes information on species, sightings, nesting habitats and locations. A very exciting year with 254 species recorded and for the first time in 15 years a ...

colour photos |

Paperback | 11/2015 | #227311A | £17.99 Add to basket

 

Pocket Photo Guide to the Birds of Borneo

GWH Davison and Chew Yen Fook

The island of Borneo is one of the world's biodiversity hotspots and a birdwatcher's paradise. Around 600 species of bird have been recorded here, and some 430 are known to breed. Many of these are rainforest specialists, but such a large island ...

144 pages | colour photos |

Paperback | NYP 07/2016 | 9781472932877 | #227540A | £9.99 Add to basket

 

Pocket Photo Guide to the Birds of China and Hong Kong

John MacKinnon and Nigel Hicks

A compact, easy-to-use bird identification guide for any nature watcher on a visit to China, one of the world's top destinations for watching birds. A total of 252 species is described here in detail, from the magestic Black-crowned Night Heron ...

144 pages | ~300 colour photos, colour distribution maps |

Paperback | NYP 07/2016 | 9781472932136 | #227541A | £9.99 Add to basket

 

Pocket Photo Guide to the Birds of Costa Rica

Susan CL Fogden, Michael Fogden and Patricia Fogden

Ideal for the travelling nature watcher, this useful guide provides a comprehensive overview of the variety of bird-life to be found in Costa Rica. Over 250 native species are included in Pocket Photo Guide to the Birds of Costa Rica ...

144 pages | colour photos, 1 colour map |

Paperback | NYP 03/2016 | 9781472932099 | #227530A | £9.99 Add to basket

 

Pocket Photo Guide to the Birds of Peru

Clive Byers

A country of huge scenic diversity, Peru is a birdwatcher's paradise and a popular tourist destination. It is home to about 1,800 different types of birds from the mighty Andean Condor to a dazzling variety of jewel-like hummingbirds.

144 pages | colour photos, 1 colour map |

Paperback | NYP 03/2016 | 9781472932167 | #227534A | £9.99 Add to basket

 

Pocket Photo Guide to the Birds of Sri Lanka

Gehan de Silva Wijeyeratne, Deepal Warakagoda and TSU de Zylva

A compact, easy-to-use bird identification guide for any nature watcher on a visit to Sri Lanka, a rich and satisfying destination for watching birds with more than 430 species identified on the island. A total of 252 species is described here ...

144 pages | ~300 colour photos |

Paperback | NYP 07/2016 | 9781472932938 | #227544A | £9.99 Add to basket

 

Pocket Photo Guide to the Birds of Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos

Peter Davidson

Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia are becoming increasingly popular with all kinds of visitors, not least birdwatchers who can visit many national parks and reserves harbouring a bounty of amazing species. The three countries are home to about ...

144 pages | colour photos |

Paperback | NYP 07/2016 | 9781472932846 | #227542A | £9.99 Add to basket

 

RSPB Spotlight: Eagles

Mike Unwin

Eagles are among the most impressive hunters of the animal world. Their predatory prowess and flying skills have imbued them with a romance and mystique that runs deep in our culture and has elevated them to emblems of freedom and power ...

128 pages | 200 colour photos |

Paperback | NYP 06/2016 | 9781472921833 | #226294A | £9.99 Add to basket

 

Reintroduction of Griffon Vulture Gyps fulvus in Kresna Gorge, Southwest Bulgaria 2010-2015 [English / Bulgarian]

Hristo Peshev, Emilian Stoynov, Atanas Grozdanov and Nadya Vangelova

This book describes details about the reintroduction of the Griffon Vulture Gyps fulvus in Kresna Gorge, Southwestern Bulgaria in the period 2010-2015. Data about releases, breeding attempts, seasonal dynamics, dispersal, mortality ...

112 pages | colour photos, colour illustrations, colour maps, colour tables |

Paperback | 01/2015 | 9789549150537 | #227398A | £14.99 Add to basket

 

Report on Scarce Migrant Birds in Britain in 2013

The January 2016 issue of British Birds contains the Report on Scarce Migrant Birds in Britain in 2013. This report presents data on the non-passerine scarce migrants recorded in Britain during 2013. It was a record year ...

68 pages | colour photos |

01/2016 | #227669A | £9.00 Add to basket

 

Snowbird: Integrative Biology and Evolutionary Diversity in the Junco

Ellen D Ketterson and Jonathan W Atwell

At birdfeeders and in backyards across North America, the dark-eyed junco, or snowbird, can be found foraging for its next meal. With an estimated population of at least 630 million, juncos inhabit forests, parks, and even suburban habitats ...

416 pages | 8 colour plates, 20 b/w photos, 14 b/w illustrations, 6 tables |

Hardback | NYP 03/2016 | 9780226330778 | #227699A | £41.99 Add to basket

 

Steltlopers van Europa [Waders of Europe]

Lars van Gejl

Steltlopers van Europa is an in-depth and richly illustrated book covering all 83 wader species breeding in Europe, including rare species and vagrants. Includes bird sounds with QR codes and detailed photos show unique features ...

378 pages | colour photos |

Paperback | NYP 05/2015 | 9789050115711 | #227713A | £34.50 Add to basket

 

The Genius of Birds

Jennifer Ackerman

Birds are astonishingly intelligent creatures. In fact, according to revolutionary new research, some birds rival primates and even humans in their remarkable forms of intelligence. Like humans, many birds have enormous brains relative ...

416 pages |

Hardback | NYP 04/2016 | 9781472114358 | #227305A | £14.99 Add to basket

 

The Messengers

What Birds Tell Us about Threats from Climate Change and Solutions for Nature and People

Stuart Butchart, Ali North, Edward Perry, Pepe Clarke, Tris Allinson, Gary Langham and Patri Zurita

Over time and across cultures, birds have sent us signals about the health of our environment. The canary in the coal mine offered that most precious resource, time – a small window in which humans could escape toxic gases.

74 pages | colour photos, colour illustrations, colour maps |

Paperback | 11/2015 | 9780946888979 | #227588A | £8.99 Add to basket

 

Veldgids Vogelzang van Europa [Field Guide to Bird Song of Europe]

Dick de Vos

The Veldgids Vogelzang van Europa describes 200 different bird songs of species in- and outside of the Netherlands. The species have been selected on rarity and likelihood of encountering them. Simple keys make it easy to find ...

320 pages | colour photos, colour illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 06/2016 | 9789050115728 | #227714A | £26.99 Add to basket

 

Vogelwelt Schleswig-Holsteins, Band 8: Geschichte der Feldornithologie in Schleswig-Holstein und Hamburg [Avifauna of Sc

Rolf K Berndt

The eighth volume in the series Vogelwelt Schleswig-Holsteins covers the development of ornithological fieldwork in Schleswig-Holstein and Hamburg from its beginnings in 1500 until 1969. Rolf K. Berndt puts the gradual improvement ...

424 pages | colour & b/w photos, colour & b/w illustrations |

Paperback | 12/2015 | 9783529073083 | #227589A | £63.50 Add to basket

 

Vyurkovye Ptitsy Mira [The True Finches of the World]

Vladimir Aleksandrovich Payevsky

This monograph summarizes the results of world-wide research into the systematics and life history of true finches (family Fringillidae). The phylogeny and classification, size and mass of the body, some features of morphology, moult ...

302 pages | 32 plates with colour photos; 26 b/w photos, b/w illustrations and b/w maps, 10 tables |

Hardback | 12/2015 | 9785990689596 | #227685A | £57.99 Add to basket

 

Wildlife Conservation Society Birds of Brazil, Volume 2: The Atlantic Forest of Southeast Brazil, including Sao Paulo

Robert S Ridgely, John A Gwynne, Guy Tudor and Martha Argel

The second volume in this series covers the avifauna of The Atlantic Forest of Southeast Brazil, including São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, and covers some 927 species.

424 pages | colour photos, ~ 1300 colour illustrations, colour distribution maps |

Paperback | NYP 06/2016 | 9781501704536 | #227168A | £23.50 Add to basket

 

Zakgids Vogels van Nederland en Belgie [Pocket Guide to the Birds of the Netherlands and Belgium]

Luc Hoogenstein, Ger Meesters and Jip Louwe Kooijmans

Zakgids Vogels van Nederland en België is the ideal birding guide for walks and birding excursions, and will fit in every pocket. It assists in easily recognising the more common species of breeding, and summering and wintering ...

324 pages | colour photos, colour distribution maps |

Paperback | NYP 06/2016 | 9789050115810 | #227670A | £11.50 Add to basket

 
Reptiles & Amphibians
 

A Field Guide to the Lizards and Amphibians of Western Maharashtra [English / Marathi]

Vivek Gour Broome and Sanjay Sondhi

This field guide has been designed for quick and easy field identification of some of the common species of lizards and amphibians in Western Maharashtra.The pictorial layout, specially designed symbols, and bilingual text are meant for ...

131 pages | colour photos |

Paperback | 01/2015 | 9788187945628 | #227401A | £30.99 Add to basket

 

America's Snake

The Rise and Fall of the Timber Rattlesnake

Ted Levin

There's no sound quite like it, or as viscerally terrifying: the ominous rattle of the timber rattlesnake. It's a chilling shorthand for imminent danger, and a reminder of the countless ways that nature can suddenly snuff us out.

520 pages | 37 b/w photos |

Hardback | NYP 05/2016 | 9780226040646 | #227701A | £24.50 Add to basket

 

Amphibian and Reptile Adaptations to the Environment

Interplay Between Physiology and Behavior

Denis Otavio Vieira de Andrade, Catherine R Bevier and Jose Eduardo de Carvalho

Despite their diversity, amphibians and reptiles share many physiological traits of pivotal importance to their ability to cope with the physical environment, such as their dependence on external heat sources. Species distributed along ...

272 pages | 10 colour & 14 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 07/2016 | 9781482222043 | #227595A | £88.99 Add to basket

 

California Amphibian and Reptile Species of Special Concern

Robert C Thomson, Amber N Wright and H Bradley Shaffer

One of the most important hotspots of herpetological biodiversity in the United States, California is home to many endemic amphibians and reptiles found nowhere else on earth. Many of these taxa have unique ecological and morphological ...

400 pages | 100 colour photos and colour illustrations |

Paperback | NYP 06/2016 | 9780520290907 | #227481A | £16.95 Add to basket

 

Encyclopaedia of Amphibia [of India] (2-Volume Set)

Sitakant Dayal

Amphibians are vertebrates of the taxonomic class Amphibia including animals such as frogs and toads (order Anura), salamanders, and caecilians. Thought of as cold-blooded, amphibians are ectotherms, meaning they are unable to regulate ...

492 pages | b/w illustrations |

Paperback | 01/2016 | 9788180304477 | #227728A | £51.99 Add to basket

 

Encyclopaedia of Reptiles [of India] (2-Volume Set)

Sitakant Dayal

Reptiles form a large and very fascinating group of animals. All reptiles are vertebrates. Reptiles living at the present time are classified in four orders – Crocodilia (crocodíles and alligators), Squamata (lizards and snakes) ...

805 pages | b/w illustrations |

Paperback | 01/2015 | 9788180304316 | #227729A | £64.99 Add to basket

 

Mountain Dragons

In Search of Chameleons in the Highlands of Kenya

Jan Stipala

Mountain Dragons is a photographic account of a project to investigate chameleon species diversity across the central and western highlands of Kenya. The mountains of East Africa are fascinating places, beautiful landscapes covered ...

124 pages | 350 colour photos, colour illustrations, colour distribution maps |

Hardback | 06/2014 | 9780992817602 | #227593A | £25.99 Add to basket

 

Natural History of the Green Anaconda

With Emphasis on Its Reproductive Biology

Jesus A Rivas

This book is a fascimile of Jesús Rivas's Ph.D dissertation and contains authoritative information on the biology of the world's largest snake A Venezuelan native, Jesús Rivas is the world's authority ...

206 pages | colour illustrations |

Paperback | 12/2015 | 9781519547941 | #227655A | £39.99 Add to basket

 

Rautenpythons: Morelia bredli, Morelia carinata und der Morelia spilota-Komplex [Carpet Pythons: Morelia bredli, Morelia

Marc Mense and Mark O'Shea

Carpet pythons not only rank amongst the most attractive pythons in general, but they also present the reptile lover with a natural variety of appearances that is second to none. Marc Mense has been keeping and breeding various carpet ...

216 pages | colour photos, colour distribution maps |

Hardback | 12/2015 | 9783866592346 | #227734A | £44.99 Add to basket

 

Scientific and Standard English Names of Amphibians and Reptiles of North America North of Mexico

Brian I Crother

The seventh edition of the scientific and standard English names list for North American amphibians and reptiles north of Mexico is also a special publication for the seventh World Congress of Herpetology. The seventh edition is an updated ...

92 pages | no illustrations |

Paperback | 08/2012 | 9780916984854 | #227661A | £16.50 Add to basket

 

Struik Pocket Guide: Snakes and Reptiles of Southern Africa

Bill Branch

Southern Africa is home to a diverse reptile fauna of more than 600 species. Of these, nearly 70% are endemic to the region, being found nowhere else. This compact guide features 276 of the more colorful and conspicuous species, as well ...

160 pages | 300 colour photos, 275 colour distribution maps |

Paperback | NYP 02/2016 | 9781775841647 | #227512A | £7.99 Add to basket

 

The Origin of Snakes

Insights from Morphology and the Fossil Record

Michael Wayne Caldwell

The Origin of Snakes presents perspectives on the past and present state of the understanding of snake origins. It reviews and critiques data and ideas from paleontology and neontology (herpetology), as well as ideas from morphology ...

250 pages | 16 colour & 40 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 06/2016 | 9781482251340 | #223655A | £49.99 Add to basket

 
Fishes
 

A Field Guide to Coastal Fishes: From Alaska to California

Valerie A Kells, Luiz A Rocha and Larry G Allen

From the Arctic waters of Alaska to the southern tip of California, this fully illustrated guide captures the stunning diversity of fishes along the western coastlines of the United States and Canada. The combined work of renowned marine ...

376 pages | 996 colour illustrations |

Paperback | NYP 03/2016 | 9781421418322 | #227712A | £15.99 Add to basket

 

A Field Guide to the Freshwater Fishes of Western Australia's Pilbara Province

David L Morgan, Mark G Allen, Stephen J Beatty, Brendan C Ebner and James J Keleher

Western Australia's Pllbara region is world renowned for its rugged natural beauty and spectacular landscapes. Perhaps less well known is the region's inland fish fauna which features an array of species that display unique adaptations ...

colour photos |

Paperback | 01/2014 | 9781921877131 | #227613A | £4.99 Add to basket

 

Back to Nature Guide to L-Catfishes

Ingo Seidel

The armoured catfish family (Loricariidae), with more than 700 described species, is one of the largest and most varied groups of fishes known to Man. Until a few years ago these catfishes played only an insignificant role in our aquaria ...

208 pages | 640+ colour photos |

Hardback | 01/2008 | 9789189258112 | #227493A | £39.99 Add to basket

 

Back to Nature guide to Tanganyika Cichlids

Ad Konings

Tanganyika cichlids are the most interesting aquarium fishes known today. More than any other group of aquarium fishes, they have evoked great passion among hobbyists. They provide aquarists with a combination of attractive fishes ...

192 pages | 600 colour photos |

Hardback | 11/2005 | 9781932892031 | #227495A | £39.99 Add to basket

 

Ecology of Salmonids in Estuaries Around the World

Adaptations, Habitats, and Conservation

Colin D Levings

For centuries, biologists have marvelled at how anadromous salmonids – fish that pass from rivers into oceans and back again – survive as they migrate between these two very different environments. Yet, relatively little is ...

302 pages |

Hardback | NYP 05/2016 | 9780774831734 | #227553A | £58.99 Add to basket

 

Poissons d'Eau Douce de Guyane: Plongee dans les Eaux de l'Amazonie Francaise [Freshwater Fish of French Guiana

Frederic Melki

Poissons d'Eau Douce de Guyane presents an unprecedented dive in the waters of the French Amazon. This book by Frédéric Melki, consisting of sumptuous images and clear and vivid text, opens our eyes to the ...

348 pages |

Hardback | NYP 02/2016 | 9782366621631 | #227715A | £49.99 Add to basket

 

Tanganyika Cichlids in their Natural Habitat

Ad Konings

The 400+ pages of this long-awaited revision of the definitive work on the cichlids of Lake Tanganyika contain a wealth of new information, with more than 1200 photos, most taken in the lake, showing all the currently known species.

400 pages | 1200+ colour photos |

Hardback | 03/2015 | #227397A | £62.99 Add to basket

 

The Cichlids of Lake Malawi National Park

Ad Konings

The Cichlids of Lake Malawi National Park gives detailed profiles for the 220 cichlid species that occur in Lake Malawi National Park. Each species is further represented by photographs of both male and female fish for easy recognition ...

288 pages | 675+ colour photos |

Paperback | 09/2015 | #227492A | £39.99 Add to basket

 

The Imperiled Cutthroat

Tracing the Fate of Yellowstone's Wild Trout

Greg French

Yellowstone, the world's first national park and one of America's truly great trout fisheries, has been a crucible for ideas on how to look after wild places. Renowned Australian fishing writer Greg French gives a sparkling first ...

256 pages | colour illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 06/2016 | 9781938340574 | #227745A | £16.99 Add to basket

 

The Sharks of Sri Lanka

Rex Ian de Silva, Jayantha Jinasena and Marie Levine

Sri Lanka boasts 61 species of sharks in its seas. The Sharks of Sri Lanka is the first publication to deal comprehensively with this group of fascinating and amazing creatures. This book is written by Rex I. De Silva, a diver ...

216 pages | colour photos, colour & b/w illustrations, 1 table |

Hardback | 01/2015 | 9789558576359 | #227418A | £34.99 Add to basket

 

Tropheus In Their Natural Habitat

Ad Konings

Cichlids of the genus Tropheus have fascinated aquarists since they were first exported from Lake Tanganyika in the late 1950s. It may have been their "unconventional" shape, or the fact that females brood their offspring ...

160 pages | 300 colour photos |

Hardback | 04/2013 | 9781932892123 | #227494A | £39.99 Add to basket

 
Invertebrates
 

500 Butterflies

Butterflies from Around the World

Ken Preston-Mafham

This handsome, well-illustrated guide features 514 butterflies from all continents, most of them photographed in their natural environment, sometimes with their caterpillars. The butterflies are organized by genus, species and ...

528 pages | 514 colour photos |

Paperback | NYP 02/2016 | 9781770857124 | #227677A | £24.50 Add to basket

Hardback | 10/2007 | 9781554072958 | #227678A | £29.99 Add to basket

 

A Catalogue and Atlas of the Caddisflies of Ireland

James P O'Connor

The work is divided into two parts: a catalogue and an atlas. In the catalogue, the Irish caddisfly (Trichoptera) fauna is reviewed. A checklist of the 149 valid species is presented. Detailed information is provided on the Irish and European ...

646 pages | 519 colour & b/w photos and b/w line drawings, distribution maps |

Paperback | 12/2015 | 9780955080685 | #227763A | £27.50 Add to basket

 

A Guide to Camponotus Ants of Australia

Archie McArthur

This guide presents an authoritative, marvellously illustrated and easily digestible account of more than 130 Camponotus ant species across Australia.

185 pages | colour photos, maps |

Paperback | 01/2014 | 9781864767919 | #227520A | £31.50 Add to basket

 

Acarorum Catalogus, Volume 4

Acariformes: Trombidiformes, Prostigmata [Pensoft Series Faunistica, Volume 115]

Petar Beron

The fourth volume of this series Acarorum Catalogus is devoted to the superfamilies Myobioidea (fam. Myobiidae) and Pterygosomatoidea (fam. Pterygosomatidae). About 693 sp. are listed therein, with synonymies and citations in ...

251 pages | no illustrations |

Hardback | 12/2015 | 9789546427960 | #227447A | £99.99 Add to basket

 

Acarorum Catalogus, Volume 5

Acariformes: Sarcoptiformes, Astigmata [Pensoft Series Faunistica Volume 116]

Petar Beron

The fifth volume of this series Acarorum Catalogus is devoted to the families Sarcoptoidea – Lemurnyssidae, Lobalgidae, Psoroptidae, Listropsoralgidae, Rhyncoptidae (incl. Audycoptidae), Sarcoptidae, Pneumocoptidae ...

380 pages | no illustrations |

Hardback | 12/2015 | 9789546427977 | #227446A | £88.99 Add to basket

 

Accrescimenti, Volume 7 [English / Italian]

Stages of Growth of the Marine Molluscs of the Mediterranean Sea / Stadi di Accrescimento dei Molluschi Marini del Medit

Maria Scaperrotta, Stefano Bartolini and Cesare Bogi

With 121 species represented in this volume this series now treats a total of 877 species. With the next volume the authors hope to reach 1000 species. Although it gets more and more difficult to gather new material, they intend to continue ...

192 pages | colour photos |

Hardback | 01/2015 | #227579A | £77.99 Add to basket

 

Advances in Insect Physiology, Volume 50

Pine Bark Beetles

Claus Tittiger and Gary J Blomquist

Pine Bark Beetles, the latest release in the Advances in Insect Physiology series provides readers with the latest interdisciplinary reviews on the topic. It is an essential reference source for invertebrate physiologists ...

310 pages |

Hardback | NYP 06/2016 | 9780128027233 | #227623A | £152.00 Add to basket

 

An Illustrated Guide to the Freshwater Mollusca of Sri Lanka

Amritha Peiris, Fred Naggs, Richard C Preece, Harold Taylor and Tom S White

Several studies on Sri Lankan snails have been made over the years, but there is currently nothing that could be described as an identification guide. This guide provides images of shells, which provide the most straightforward method of ...

8 pages | colour photos |

Unbound | 12/2015 | #227549A | £1.99 Add to basket

 

Ascidians of Coastal Waters

A Comprehensive Inventory of Ascidian Fauna of Southern Indian Coasts

H Abdul Jaffar Ali and M Tamilselvi

Ascidians of Coastal Waters addresses the needs of professional and amateur taxonomists on the subject of ascidians in Asia. This is the first book of its kind and features color illustrations done by the authors in Asia.

152 pages |

Paperback | NYP 03/2016 | 9783319291178 | #227601A | £39.99 Add to basket

 

Biology and Ecology of Crayfish

Matt Longshaw and Paul Stebbing

Written by world experts in astacology, Biology and Ecology of Crayfish covers a range of aspects of the biology and ecology of freshwater crayfish. With a strong focus on wild crayfish, Biology and Ecology of Crayfish ...

375 pages | 6 colour & 52 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 05/2016 | 9781498767323 | #227600A | £127.00 Add to basket

 

Catalogue of Indian Insects (5-Volume Set)

Thomas Bainbrigge Fletcher

Originally published in 1921. The insects are the largest class in the animal world, outnumbering other animals. They are distributed throughout the world from the Polar Regions to the tropics and are found on land in fresh and salt water ...

1694 pages |

Paperback | 01/2016 | 9789351247227 | #227491A | £190.00 Add to basket

 

Danmarks Netvinger [The Danish Neuroptera]

Ole Fogh Nielsen

The book deals with all 65 species of Neuroptera known from Denmark. It is illustrated throughout with more than 250 colour photos. Introductionary chapters on: Systematic & nomenclature, Development history, Appearance, Life cycle ...

195 pages | 250+ colour photos, colour distribution maps |

Hardback | 12/2015 | 9788792832054 | #227710A | £49.99 Add to basket

 

Evolution and Phylogeny of Bees

Review and Cladistic Analysis in Light of Morphological Evidence ( Hymenoptera, Apoidea)

John D Plant and Hannes F Paulus

Volume 161 of Zoologica reviews and analyses the evolution and phylogeny of bees. It is subdivided into two parts. Part One: A Preamble to the Evolution and Phylogeny of Bees provides a complete and critical ...

364 pages | 232 illustrations, 49 tables |

Hardback | 01/2016 | 9783510550487 | #227594A | £165.00 Add to basket

 

Fauna Iberica, Volume 41: Annelida: Polychaeta IV

Julio Parapar

Fauna Ibérica, Volume 41: Annelida: Polychaeta IV advances knowledge of the polychaete annelids of the coast of the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands. This volume includes a detailed study of families Glyceridae ...

413 pages | plates with b/w line drawings |

Hardback | 12/2015 | 9788400100063 | #227423A | £59.99 Add to basket

 

Field Guide to the Dragonflies of New Guinea / Buku Panduan Lapangan Capung Jarum untuk Wilayah New Guinea

Albert G Orr, Vincent J Kalkman and Stephen Richards

This book is a companion to the Field Guide to the Damselflies of New Guinea published in 2013 by the same authors and covers the 'true' dragonflies, or Anisoptera. With it the reader can identify the approximately 175 species presently ...

155 pages | 17 plates with 36 colour photos, 42 plates with ~250 colour illustrations and 300+ b/w ill |

Paperback | 12/2015 | #227464A | £17.99 Add to basket

 

Gorgonians (Octocorallia) of Andaman and Nicobar Islands

JS Yogesh Kumar, C Raghunathan, R Raghuraman and Krishnamoorthy Venkataraman

Gorgonians are marine coelenterates of the class Anthozoa, which include sea fan, sea whips, corals, sea anemones and other related species. Based on structural differences in their symmetry, the Anthozoans are divided into three subclasses ...

118 pages | colour illustrations, b/w maps |

Paperback | 05/2014 | 9788181713728 | #227267A | £36.50 Add to basket

 

Handbook of Zoology, Volume 4/38: Coleoptera, Beetles, Volume 1

Morphology and Systematics (Archostemata, Adephaga, Myxophaga, Polyphaga partim)

Rolf G Beutel and Richard AB Leschen

This book is a revised edition of the first of three volumes in the Handbook of Zoology series which treats the systematics and biology of Coleoptera. With over 380,000 described species, Coleoptera are by far the most species-rich ...

567 pages | figures and tables |

Hardback | 12/2005 | 9783110171303 | #160749A | £328.00 Add to basket

Hardback | NYP 03/2016 | 9783110249064 | #227453A | £276.00 Add to basket

 

Handbook on Major Hemipteran Predators of India

Animesh Bal and B Biswas

Predatory nature is found in some of the insect orders, as it is seen in the Hemipteran bugs. Among Hemiptera some species which belong to different farnilies are predators, such as Assassin-bugs (Reduviidae), Pirate-bugs (Anthocoidae) ...

43 pages | colour & b/w illustrations |

Paperback | 11/2013 | 9788181713599 | #227266A | £23.50 Add to basket

 

Iconography of the Haliotis Species and Subspecies of Australia and New Zealand

Including Notes on Current Largest Recorded Specimens

Buzz Owen and Robert Kershaw

This supplement to Festivus contains an iconography of the members of the abalones found in Australia and New Zealand, a group of marine snails in the family Haliotidae which contains only one genus, Haliotis.

81 pages | 35 plates with colour photos and colour maps |

Spiralbound | 01/2014 | #227632A | £65.50 Add to basket

 

Identification Guide to Ireland's Butterflies

Eugenie C Regan and Liam Lysaght

Screw bound and printed full colour on both sides, this pocket-sized (85 × 125 mm, W × H) photographic guide will help identify 32 of Ireland’s resident and regular migrant butterfly species. For identification purposes ...

36 pages | colour photos |

01/2011 | #227506A | £8.39 Add to basket

 

Identification Guide to Ireland's Dragonflies and Damselflies

Eugenie C Regan and Brian Nelson

Screw bound and printed full colour on both sides, this pocket-sized guide (85 × 125 mm, W × H) is an aid to identifying the 11 damselflies and 13 dragonflies that are resident in Ireland and includes colour photographs ...

30 pages | colour photos, colour distribution maps |

01/2013 | #227503A | £8.39 Add to basket

 

Identification Guide to Ireland's Ladybirds

Colette O'Flynn, Bryan J Pinchen, Una Fitzpatrick and Chris Shields

Screw bound and printed full colour on both sides, this is a pocket-sized (85 × 125 mm, W × H), beautifully illustrated guide providing information on the identification of 19 Irish ladybird species.

27 pages | colour illustrations |

01/2015 | #227502A | £8.39 Add to basket

 

Identification Guide to Ireland's Shieldbugs

Don Cotton, Brian Nelson and Una Fitzpatrick

Screw bound and printed full colour on both sides, this is a pocket-sized (85 × 125 mm, W × H), colour guide to aid identification of the 16 Irish species of shieldbug and related insects.

20 pages | colour photos |

01/2012 | #227505A | £8.39 Add to basket

 

Identification Guide to Ireland's Bumblebees

Una Fitzpatrick, Andrew Byrne and Bryan J Pinchen

Screw bound and printed full colour on both sides, this pocked-sized (85 × 125 mm, W × H) swatch should provide enough information to allow you to identify 18 of the Irish species of bumblebee that have been recorded from Ireland ...

24 pages | colour photos, b/w illustrations |

01/2010 | #227504A | £8.39 Add to basket

 

Insect Hearing

Gerard Pollack, Andrew Mason, Arthur N Popper and Richard R Fay

Insect Hearing provides a broadly based view of the functions, mechanisms, and evolution of hearing in insects. With a single exception, the chapters focus on problems of hearing and their solutions, rather than being focused on ...

241 pages | 21 colour & 32 b/w illustrations, 24 colour tables |

Hardback | NYP 04/2016 | 9783319288888 | #227603A | £81.99 Add to basket

 

Insects and Other Arthropods of Tropical America

Paul E Hanson and Kenji Nishida

Visitors to tropical forests generally come to see the birds, mammals, and plants. Aside from butterflies, however, insects usually do not make it on the list of things to see. This is a shame. Insects are everywhere, they are often as ...

384 pages | colour photos |

Paperback | NYP 05/2016 | 9780801456947 | #227720A | £31.50 Add to basket

 

Insects of South-Eastern Australia

An Ecological and Behavioural Guide

Roger Farrow

A walk in the bush reveals insects visiting flowers, patrolling the air, burrowing under bark and even biting your skin. Every insect has characteristic feeding preferences and behaviours. Insects of South-Eastern Australia is a ...

304 pages | colour photos |

Paperback | NYP 05/2016 | 9781486304745 | #227708A | £40.91 Add to basket

 

Les Pachybrachis de France (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cryptocephalinae) [The Pachybrachis of France]

Marc Debreuil, Pierre Cantot, Jacques Coulon and Pierre Jolivet

Identification key, with species descriptions and distributions. This leaf beetle genus is characterised by high intraspecific variability within the same populations. This variability requires the examination of male and female genitalia ...

50 pages | 16 plates with colour photos and b/w line drawings |

Paperback | 01/2015 | #227634A | £19.99 Add to basket

 

Libelulas y Caballitos de Agua de La Rioja (Odonata) [Dragonflies and Damselflies of La Rioja]

Carlos Zaldivar Ezquerro, Tomas Latasa Asso and Pablo C Rodriguez Saldana

The dragonflies and damselflies (Odonata) are an ancient group, whose morphology has changed little over time for more than 200 million years. In addition, they form a group of around 6,000 species worldwide. A tiny group when compared with ...

362 pages | colour photos, colour & b/w illustrations, colour distribution maps |

Paperback | 12/2014 | 9788499600765 | #227547A | £20.99 Add to basket

 

Living Terebras of Western Atlantic (In Addition Fossil Terebras of Caribbean Area) (2-Volume Set)

Umberto Aubry, Rosa Gargiulo and Salvatore Russo

Study and revision of the Terebridae, commonly referred to as auger shells or auger snails, a group or family of small to large predatory marine gastropods. This book deals with living Terebridae of the Western Atlantic and includes fossils ...

349 pages | 64 plates with colour & b/w photos; colour photos, b/w illustrations, colour distribution |

Paperback | 11/2015 | 9788866511946 | #227350A | £115.00 Add to basket

 

Lycaenidae Part 4 (Guide to the Butterflies of the Palearctic Region)

Subfamily Polyommatinae, Tribe Polyommatini, Genus Polyommatus, Subgenus Agrodiaetus

Gian Cristoforo Bozano and Wolfgang Eckweiler

The fourth part to deal with members of the Lycaenidae. This part focuses on butterflies of the subgenus Agrodiaetus, genus Polyommatus.

136 pages | colour photos, colour illustrations, b/w line drawings, colour distribution maps |

Paperback | 01/2016 | #227317A | £27.99 Add to basket

 

Non-Marine Molluscs of Martinique, Lesser Antilles / Mollusques Continentaux de la Martinique

Regis Delannoye, Laurent Charles, Jean-Pierre Pointier, David Massemin and Patrice David

This beautifully illustrated book deals with a fascinating, yet largely unknown, group of animals from Martinique island (French West Indies): continental (terrestrial and freshwater) molluscs. After a presentation of the island’s ...

328 pages | colour photos, colour distribution maps |

Paperback | 12/2015 | #227569A | £34.99 Add to basket

 

On the Fauna of Pteromalidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) of South Western Ghats

PM Sureshan

Parasitic Hymenoptera play a vital role in terrestrial ecosystems in the control of insect pests attacking crops. The family Pteromalidae is one of the largest and taxonomically difficult families of the super family Chalcidoidea ...

63 pages | 8 plates with colour photos; tables |

Paperback | 11/2015 | 9788181714213 | #227286A | £29.99 Add to basket

 

Physiology of Molluscs: A Collection of Selected Reviews (2-Volume Set)

Saber Saleuddin and Spencer Mukai

Physiology of Molluscs: A Collection of Selected Reviews is an informative two-volume set that brings together some of the most important recent and unique developments in molluscan physiology. Volume One focuses on shell structure ...

1025 pages | 34 colour & 79 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 06/2016 | 9781771884082 | #227596A | £254.00 Add to basket

 

Scorpion

Louise M Pryke

From the dawn of civilization scorpions have captured the human imagination. Yet the scorpion is a misunderstood animal with a bad reputation that overshadows its many exceptional qualities. Older than dinosaurs, these small arthropods ...

208 pages | 70 colour photos and illustrations & 30 b/w photos and b/w illustrations |

Paperback | NYP 06/2016 | 9781780235929 | #226662A | £9.99 Add to basket

 

Sperm Competition in Butterflies

Mamoru Watanabe

Sperm Competition in Butterflies describes about 30 years of theoretical, empirical, and experimental work on butterfly sperm competition. It considers the reproductive morphology and sperm utilization interests of males and females ...

140 pages | 33 colour & 52 b/w illustrations, 31 colour tables |

Hardback | NYP 03/2016 | 9784431559436 | #227356A | £74.50 Add to basket

 

The Larger Moths of Northamptonshire and the Soke of Peterborough

John Ward and Brenda Ward

The first published county moth list for Northamptonshire since that published by Eustace Wallis (1908-1912). Species accounts of the 648 species of larger moths recorded in the county, 90% of them illustrated. 30 habitats reviewed in ...

189 pages | illustrations |

Paperback | 01/2015 | #227762A | £22.50 Add to basket

 

The Sting of the Wild

Justin O Schmidt

Entomologist Justin O. Schmidt is on a mission. Some say it's a brave exploration, others shake their heads in disbelief. His goal? To compare the impacts of stinging insects on humans, mainly using himself as the gauge.

280 pages | 13 plates with colour illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 04/2016 | 9781421419282 | #227522A | £15.99 Add to basket

 

The Stonefly (Plecoptera) of Ireland

Hugh B Feeley, Jan-Robert Baars and Mary Kelly-Quinn

This publication brings together the most up to date knowledge on the Irish stoneflies. It combines detailed descriptions of their ecology with comprehensive distribution maps and is complimented with images and illustrations for each species ...

88 pages | colour photos, illustrations, colour distribution maps |

Paperback | NYP 01/2016 | 9781911172017 | #227514A | £18.50 Add to basket

 

The Witt Catalogue Volume 8: A Taxonomic Atlas of the Eurasian and North African Noctuoidea

Noctuinae II

Zoltan Varga, Gabor Ronkay, Laszlo Ronkay and Peter Gyulai

The 8th volume of the Taxonomic Atlas series is the second publication on the subfamily Noctuinae, focusing on the revised taxonomy of specifically the Palaearctic genus Eugnorisma along with additional 18 related genera of the ...

362 pages | 59 plates with colour photos, 130 plates with b/w line drawings |

Hardback | 12/2015 | 9786155279058 | #227528A | £159.00 Add to basket

 

ZooKeys 535: Annotated Check List of the Pyraloidea (Lepidoptera) of America North of Mexico

Brian G Scholtens and MA Solis

This is the first complete update to the check list of Pyraloidea in America north of Mexico in over thirty years. The authors list 861 species of Crambidae and 681 species of Pyralidae for a total of 1542 species, an increase of 10% since ...

136 pages | b/w illustrations, tables |

Paperback | 11/2015 | 9789546427915 | #227144A | £36.99 Add to basket

 

ZooKeys 548: An Illustrated Key to the Cuckoo Wasps (Hymenoptera, Chrysididae) of the Nordic and Baltic Countries

Juho Paukkunen, Alexander Berg, Villu Soon, Frode Odegaard and Paolo Rosa

The Chrysididae are a group of cleptoparasitic and parasitoid aculeate wasps with a large number of rare and endangered species. The taxonomy of this group has long been confusing due to the similarity of species and extensive intraspecific ...

116 pages | colour photos, b/w maps, tables |

Paperback | 12/2015 | 9789546428059 | #227629A | £41.99 Add to basket

 
Palaeontology
 

A Bouquet of Archaeozoological Studies

Essays in Honour of Wietske Prummel

DCM Raemaekers, E Esser, Roel CGM Lauwerier and JT Zeiler

A Bouquet of Archaeozoological Studies comprises papers presented to Wietske Prummel on the occasion of her retirement from the Groningen Institute of Archaeology (University of Groningen) in 2012. The contributions cover a wide ...

212 pages | colour & b/w photos, colour & b/w illustrations, colour & b/w maps, tables |

Paperback | 12/2012 | 9789491431159 | #227651A | £23.99 Add to basket

 

A Pannon-Medence Osfoldrajza es Kornyezeti Viszonyai a Keso Miocenben [The Paleogeographic and Environmental Conditions

Magyar Imre

This book is an improved version of the author's PhD thesis. His research is based on paleontological and seismic stratigraphic knowledge of the Pannonian Basin. The paper's conclusions are based mainly on the synthesis of these ...

140 pages | illustrations |

Hardback | 01/2010 | 9789633060742 | #227586A | £42.99 Add to basket

 

Beastly Questions

Animal Answers to Archaeological Issues

Naomi Sykes

Zooarchaeology, or the study of ancient animals, is a frequently side-lined subject in archaeology. This is bizarre given that the archaeological record is composed largely of debris from human–animal relationships (be they in the ...

240 pages | 34 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 08/2014 | 9781472506757 | #227648A | £69.99 Add to basket

Paperback | 09/2015 | 9781474260695 | #227649A | £22.99 Add to basket

 

Dinosaurs: The Textbook

The Textbook

Spencer G Lucas

The perfect textbook for nonscience majors, this plainspoken volume methodically plots the biological and geological concepts of dinosaur science. It clarifies the evolution, phylogeny, and classification of the various species while ...

384 pages | 311 b/w illustrations |

Paperback | NYP 06/2016 | 9780231173117 | #226854A | £58.50 Add to basket

Hardback | NYP 06/2016 | 9780231173100 | #226857A | £110.50 Add to basket

 

Dinoszauruszok Magyarorszagon [Dinosaurs of Hungary]

Osi Attila

This book in the GeoLitera series is a real treat for dinosaur fans. For the first time the scientific community and public can learn in detail about the wildlife on the Western Tethys archipelago during the Cretaceous.

190 pages | colour illustrations |

Hardback | 01/2012 | 9789633061299 | #227584A | £36.99 Add to basket

 

Elefantenreich: Eine Fossilwelt in Europa [Elephant Kingdom: A Fossil World in Europe]

Harald Meller

The treasure that archaeologists have been saving for many years in the lignite mines of Neumark-Nord in the Geisel Valley, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, is around 200,000 years old. The site is one of the most important sources of information ...

652 pages | colour photos, colour illustrations |

Hardback | 05/2010 | 9783939414483 | #227748A | £33.99 Add to basket

 

Elefantenreich: Eine Fossilwelt in Europa [Elephant Kingdom: A Fossil World in Europe]

Arnold Muhl and Dieta Ambros

This booklet accompanies the exhibition "Elefantenreich: Eine Fossilwelt in Europa" in the German Landesmuseum für Vorgeschichte in Halle in the southern part of the German state Saxony-Anhalt. It introduces mammoths, the ....

104 pages | colour illustrations |

Paperback | 05/2012 | 9783939414773 | #227747A | £18.99 Add to basket

 

Insect Traces in Soils and Paleosols

Jorge Ferando Genise

Insect Traces in Soils and Paleosols is devoted to the ichnology of insects, and associated trace fossils, in soils and paleosols. The traces described here, mostly nests and pupation chambers, include one of the most complex ...

299 colour & 99 b/w illustrations, 4 tables |

Hardback | NYP 04/2016 | 9783319282084 | #227604A | £96.99 Add to basket

 

Integrating Zooarchaeology and Paleoethnobotany

A Consideration of Issues, Methods, and Cases

Amber M VanDerwarker and Tanya M Peres

In recent years, scholars have emphasized the need for more holistic subsistence analyses, and collaborative publications towards this endeavor have become more numerous in the literature. However, there are relatively few attempts to ...

335 pages | b/w photos, b/w illustrations, tables |

Hardback | 01/2010 | 9781441909343 | #184084A | £81.00 Add to basket

Paperback | 12/2014 | 9781489984753 | #227325A | £80.99 Add to basket

 

Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous Fauna, Biostratigraphy, Facies and Deformation History of the Carbonate Formations

Istvan Fozy

This monograph summarizes our current knowledge on the richly fossiliferous Upper Jurassic–Lower Cretaceous carbonate formations of the Gerecse and Pilis Mountains, through the work of eleven authors from five countries. Studies of ...

422 pages | 63 plates with illustrations |

Hardback | 01/2013 | #227583A | £53.99 Add to basket

 

Packrat Middens

The Last 40,000 Years of Biotic Change

Julio L Betancourt, Thomas R Van Devender and Paul S Martin

Originally published in 1990. From the '60s to the '90s, late Quaternary environments in the arid interior of western North America have been revealed by a unique source of fossils: well-preserved fragments of plants ...

478 pages | 200+ b/w photos, b/w illustrations and b/w maps |

Paperback | NYP 01/2016 | 9780816532841 | #227620A | £41.95 Add to basket

 

Phanerozoic Paleoclimate

An Atlas of Lithologic Indicators of Climate

Arthur James Boucot, Chen Xu and Christopher R Scotese

Phanerozoic Paleoclimate combines the interpretations of two major sets of data. One if the geophysical data that is used to interpret the position of the tectonic plates through geologic time. The other is based on a long time ...

478 pages |

Hardback | 03/2013 | 9781565762817 | #227750A | £179.00 Add to basket

Unbound | 03/2013 | 9781565762824 | #227788A | £69.99 Add to basket

 

Planet Earth - In Deep Time: Devonian & Carboniferous

Thomas J Suttner, Erika Kido, Peter Koenigshof, Johnny A Waters, Laura Davis and Fritz Messner

Devonian and Carboniferous deposits are found in many places around the world. The record of climate change preserved in them is the best (and only) resource of information on the Earth's climate system then, at a time, when current ...

261 pages | 201 colour illustrations |

Hardback | 01/2016 | 9783510653355 | #227644A | £53.50 Add to basket

 

Prehistoric Mammals of Nepal

Ramesh Shrestha

In Nepal some 26 different types of prehistoric mammals are known to have existed, as evidenced by the discovery of fossilized body parts in different parts of the country by various palaeontologists. The area of present-day Nepal used ...

114 pages | colour & b/w illustrations |

Paperback | 01/2015 | 9789937296724 | #227451A | £28.99 Add to basket

 

Seabed Prehistory

Investigating the Palaeogeography and Early Middle Palaeolithic Archaeology in the Southern North Sea

Louise Tizzard, Andrew Bicket, Dimitri De Loecker, Kitty Foster and Karen Nichols

Archaeological investigation of Early Middle Palaeolithic flint tools, including hand axes, and faunal remains in the North Sea. Seabed Prehistory also examines submerged and buried landscapes. The methods used to recover artefacts ...

138 pages | 24 colour photos, 45 colour & b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 05/2015 | 9781874350804 | #227652A | £32.99 Add to basket

 

So You Want to Be a Palaeontologist?

Practical Advice for Fossil Enthusiasts of All Ages

David Penney

Palaeontology is a rather unique career choice, in that at one point or another most children (and some adults) want to be a palaeontologist, but very few of them are ever able to realize their dream. However, there are more avenues into ...

64 pages | 43 colour photos and colour illustrations |

Paperback | NYP 03/2016 | 9780992997960 | #227631A | £9.99 Add to basket

 

The Bare Bones

An Unconventional Evolutionary History of the Skeleton

Matthew F Bonnan

What can we learn about the evolution of jaws from a pair of scissors? How does the flight of a tennis ball help explain how fish overcome drag? What do a spacesuit and a chicken egg have in common? Highlighting the fascinating twists and ...

528 pages | 26 colour & 223 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 02/2016 | 9780253018328 | #227689A | £53.99 Add to basket

 

The Great Hall of Dinosaurs

An Artist's Exploration Into the Jurassic World

William O'Connor

The Great Hall of Dinosaurs is an illustrated guide to studying and drawing dinosaurs from the best-selling author of the Dracopedia series. Astounding dioramas of the world's biggest, fiercest and fastest creatures ...

160 pages | illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 01/2016 | 9781440340727 | #227628A | £17.99 Add to basket

 

Osmaradvanyok: A Karpat-Pannon Terseg Kovuletei [Fossils of the Carpathian-Pannonian Region]

Istvan Fozy and Istvan Szente

This book presents the most significant fossil groups found in the Carpathian Basins, though it is not an exhaustive inventory. Since the first edition of this book in 2007 a multitude of fossils have been found, some of world-wide importance ...

584 pages | illustrations |

Hardback | 01/2012 | 9789633061473 | #227585A | £56.99 Add to basket

 
Marine & Freshwater Biology
 

A Sea of Glass

Searching for the Blaschkas' Fragile Legacy in an Ocean at Risk

Drew Harvell and Harry W Greene

It started with a glass octopus. Dusty, broken, and all but forgotten, it caught Drew Harvell's eye. Fashioned in intricate detail by the father-son glassmaking team of Leopold and Rudolph Blaschka, the octopus belonged to a menagerie ...

232 pages | 50 colour illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 05/2016 | 9780520285682 | #227656A | £19.95 Add to basket

 

Guia de la Fauna Marina de Canarias: Peces, Ballenas, Delfines y Tortugas [Guide to the Marine Fauna of the Canary Isla

Armando del Rosario and Francisco del Rosario

Based on more than thirty years of marine research in the waters of the Canary Islands, the authors have developed this very complete guide with 312 full colour pages, with more than 500 photographs of great beauty and very containing ...

312 pages | 500+ colour photos |

Paperback | 01/2014 | 9788461676231 | #227725A | £45.99 Add to basket

 

Iconographia Diatomologica, Volume 26: Lake Baikal: Hotspot of Endemic Diatoms II

Maxim S Kulikovskiy, Horst Lange-Bertalot and Irina V Kuznetsova

A provisional inventory of achnanthoid, fragilariod, canal-raphe diatoms and the genus Diploneis in Lake Baikal. This volume includes revisions of ditoms from the following genera: Cymatopleura, Nitzschia ...

656 pages | 249 plates with b/w photos; 1 b/w map |

Hardback | 12/2015 | 9783874294904 | #227425A | £185.00 Add to basket

 

The Underwater in Okinawa [Japanese]

Ito Katsutoshi

This book includes a wide variety of colour photos of marine fauna seen around the Ryukyu Islands (also known as the Nansei Islands), Japan. The photos are roughly equally divided between fish and invertebrates. Japanese and scientific ...

457 pages | colour photos |

Paperback | 09/2015 | 9784781702100 | #227681A | £41.99 Add to basket

 

Thorp and Covich's Freshwater Invertebrates, Volume 2

Keys to Nearctic Fauna

James H Thorp and D Christopher Rogers

Thorp and Covich's Freshwater Invertebrates, Volume 2: Keys to Nearctic Fauna, Fourth Edition presents a comprehensive revision and expansion of this trusted professional reference manual and educational textbook ...

762 pages | ~288 colour illustrations |

Hardback | 01/2016 | 9780123850287 | #227711A | £84.99 Add to basket

 
General Natural History
 

A Brief History of Creation

Science and the Search for the Origin of Life

Bill Mesler and H James Cleaves II

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

336 pages | 15 illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 12/2015 | 9780393083552 | #227285A | £18.99 Add to basket

 

A Wild Life

My Adventures Around the World Filming Wildlife

Martin Hughes-Games

The frozen wastes of the Southern Ocean; the tropical rainforests of South America, the scorching grasslands of Africa, the dizzy heights of the snow-capped peaks of the Himalayas: Martin Hughes-Games has been to every continent on earth ...

272 pages |

Paperback | NYP 03/2016 | 9781472114440 | #227519A | £8.99 Add to basket

 

Beyond the Bear

How I Learned to Live and Love Again After Being Blinded by a Bear

Dan Bigley and Deborah McKinney

A 25-year-old backcountry wanderer, a man happiest exploring wild places with his dog, Dan Bigley woke up one midsummer morning to a day full of promise. Before it was over, after a stellar day of salmon fishing along Alaska's ...

224 pages | 16 b/w photos |

Hardback | 04/2013 | 9780762784554 | #206109A | £21.99 Add to basket

Paperback | NYP 01/2016 | 9781493016426 | #227456A | £17.99 Add to basket

 

Birders of Africa

History of a Network

Nancy J Jacobs

In this unique and unprecedented study of birding in Africa, historian Nancy Jacobs reconstructs the collaborations between well-known ornithologists and the largely forgotten guides, hunters, and taxidermists who assisted them.

360 pages | 16 colour & 49 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 06/2016 | 9780300209617 | #226994A | £54.99 Add to basket

 

Birdman: The Art of William T. Cooper (All Regions, PAL)

Sarah Scragg

A 28 minute documentary following the development of Bill Cooper as an artist. The DVD includes 9 additional video clips including tips on techniques and time-lapses of his paintings evolving. This intimate documentary follows ...

1 disc, runtime: 28 min, PAL, rating: E |

DVD | 01/2014 | #227347A | £28.86 Add to basket

 

Candid Creatures

How Camera Traps Reveal the Mysteries of Nature

Roland Kays

In Candid Creatures, the first major book to reveal the secret lives of animals through motion-sensitive game cameras, biologist Roland Kays has assembled over 600 remarkable photographs. Drawing from archives of millions of ...

272 pages | 604 colour photos, 34 illustrations, 72 maps |

Hardback | NYP 04/2016 | 9781421418889 | #227707A | £25.99 Add to basket

 

Castles in the Mist

The Victorian Transformation of the Highlands

Robin Noble

The magnificent Highlands of Scotland represent, in so many ways, ancient Britain. But much of this apparently wild environment is, in fact, far more recent in origin – it has been shaped by the Victorians.

Paperback | NYP 04/2016 | 9781910192344 | #227775A | £12.99 Add to basket

 

Coal: A Human History

Barbara Freese

In this remarkable book, Barbara Freese takes us on a rich historical journey that begins hundreds of millions of years ago and spans the globe. Prized as the best stone in Britain by Roman invaders who carved jewelry out of it, coal has ...

384 pages | no illustrations |

Paperback | 01/2006 | 9780099478843 | #157646A | £9.99 Add to basket

Paperback | NYP 02/2016 | 9780465057931 | #227760A | £15.50 Add to basket

 

Common Ground

Rob Cowen

"One of the UK's most exciting nature writers." (Guardian). 'Once upon a time the edges were the places we knew best. They were our common ground.' After moving from London to a new home in Yorkshire ...

336 pages |

Hardback | 04/2015 | 9780091954550 | #222417A | £16.99 Add to basket

Paperback | NYP 03/2016 | 9780099592037 | #227405A | £8.99 Add to basket

 

D'une Foret l'Autre [English / French]

Bae Bien-U, Yannick Mercoyrol, Jean d'Haussonville, Lorand Hegyi and Robert Fleck

Bae Bien-U is undoubtedly the greatest living photographer in Korea today. For over forty years he has been a tireless photographer of landscapes, particularly forests, in which the human form never figures. His images are spectacularly ...

104 pages | 67 b/w photos |

Hardback | 09/2015 | 9782757210130 | #226430A | £19.50 Add to basket

 

Das Letzte Mammut: Haben diese Giganten der Urzeit bis Heute Uberlebt? [The Last Mammoth: Have these Giants Survived to

Michael Schneider

The cryptozoology author Michael Schneider delves into the question of what lies behind the various sightings of mammoths to the present day. It is possible that a relict population of the mammoth has survived down to our modern times?

60 pages | colour & b/w photos, b/w illustrations, 1 colour map |

Paperback | 09/2010 | 9783941122642 | #227558A | £8.99 Add to basket

 

John Chapman Frye, University of Kansas

Geologist, Researcher, Teacher, Administrator

Daniel F Merriam and James D Merriam

John Chapman Frye arrived in Kansas in 1938, leaving in 1954. In the 16 years at the University of Kansas he essentially founded the basics for geology of the Plio-Pleistocene deposits in the state. He published two books on the subject ...

59 pages | 27 colour & b/w photos and b/w illustrations |

Paperback | 02/2014 | 9780983359968 | #213150A | £26.99 Add to basket

 

Life in the Dark

Illuminating Biodiversity in the Shadowy Haunts of Planet Earth

Dante Fenolio

Deep inside caves, at the bottoms of oceans and lakes, beneath the ground: these concealed habitats are absent of sunlight. This strange and fascinating world of complete darkness is not a solitary place – it is inhabited by millions ...

312 pages | 222 colour photos |

Hardback | NYP 05/2016 | 9781421418636 | #227420A | £25.99 Add to basket

 

Natural Histories

25 Extraordinary Species That Have Changed Our World

Brett Westwood and Stephen Moss

Accompanying Radio 4's landmark six-month-long series presented by Brett Westwood, Natural Histories explores 25 unexpected species that have changed the way we see the world. From cockroaches to coral, and from ...

444 pages | 16 plates with colour photos and colour illustrations; b/w photos, b/w illustrations |

Paperback | 06/2005 | #144014A | £0.00 Add to basket

Hardback | 10/2015 | 9781473617018 | #222189A | £24.99 Add to basket

Paperback | NYP 09/2016 | 9781473617032 | #227599A | £9.99 Add to basket

 

Ptitsy, Dorogi, Liudi: (Vospominaniia Ornitologa), Chast 2 [Birds, Roads, People: (Memoirs of an Ornithologist), Part 2]

On the Roads to the Restoration of Capitalism (1992-2014)

AF Kovshar

Memoirs of a well-known Kazakhstan ornithologist comprise more than 70 years and represent a mixture of memoirs and documentary: based on the diaries of the author. They contain many specific dates of the events, detailed descriptions of ...

556 pages | illustrations |

Hardback | 01/2014 | 9786017287139 | #227754A | £166.00 Add to basket

 

Rethinking Ancient Woodland

The Archaeology and History of Woods in Norfolk

Gerry Barnes, Tom Williamson and Jane Whittle

'Ancient woodland' is a term widely used in England for long-established semi-natural woods, shaped by centuries of traditional management. As an official designation, it describes woods which have existed since the early seventeenth ...

276 pages | 73 b/w photos and b/w maps |

Hardback | 10/2015 | 9781909291577 | #227320A | £34.99 Add to basket

Paperback | NYP 04/2016 | 9781909291584 | #227683A | £18.99 Add to basket

 

Steve Backshall's Wildlife Adventurer's Guide

A Guide to Exploring Wildlife in Britain

Steve Backshall

A naturalist's equivalent to the Dangerous Book for Boys, Steve Backshall's Wildlife Adventurer's Guide includes tips on everything from beachcombing, snorkelling and building your own hedgehog hotel ...

160 pages | 106 colour photos, 66 colour illustrations |

Paperback | NYP 05/2016 | 9781472930552 | #227538A | £14.99 Add to basket

 

The Burren & the Aran Islands

A Walking Guide

Tony Kirby

The Burren and the Aran Islands, with their unique combination of flora, fauna and landscape, are explored by large numbers of walkers annually. This revised guide to the best walking routes in the region has clear descriptions and ...

122 pages | colour photos, b/w illustrations, colour maps |

Paperback | 08/2014 | 9781848892002 | #227275A | £12.99 Add to basket

 

The Dancing Bees

Karl Von Frisch and the Discovery of the Honeybee Language

Tania Munz

We think of bees as being among the busiest workers in the garden, admiring them for their productivity. But amid their buzzing, they are also great communicators – and unusual dancers. As Karl von Frisch (1886–1982) discovered ...

296 pages | 26 b/w photos, 7 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 05/2016 | 9780226020860 | #227702A | £20.99 Add to basket

 

The Extraordinary Beauty of Birds

Designs, Patterns and Details

Deborah Samuel

In this magnificent display of ornithological beauty, readers are given the chance to marvel at the textures and colors of birds in stunning detail – and are rewarded with a new appreciation of art in nature.

288 pages | 135 colour photos |

Hardback | NYP 04/2016 | 9783791382036 | #227719A | £29.99 Add to basket

 

The Laws Guide to Nature Drawing and Journaling

John Muir Laws

A potent combination of art, science, and boundless enthusiasm, the latest art instruction book from John Muir Laws (The Laws Guide to Drawing Birds) is a how-to guide for becoming a better artist and a more attentive naturalist.

96 pages | colour illustrations |

Paperback | NYP 04/2016 | 9781597143158 | #227664A | £31.99 Add to basket

 

The Laws Sketchbook for Nature Journaling

John Muir Laws

Created with the beginning nature journalist in mind, The Laws Sketchbook for Nature Journaling hardcover blank journal is the perfect starting point for anyone interested in the practice and joy of getting out, observing, and ...

312 pages |

Hardback | NYP 04/2016 | 9781597143455 | #227665A | £19.99 Add to basket

 

The Man in the Monkeynut Coat

William Astbury and the Forgotten Road to the Double-Helix

Kersten T Hall

Sir Isaac Newton once declared that his momentous discoveries were only made thanks to having 'stood on the shoulders of giants'. The same might also be said of the scientists James Watson and Francis Crick. Their discovery of the ...

242 pages | 24 b/w photos and b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 06/2014 | 9780198704591 | #210074A | £18.99 Add to basket

Paperback | NYP 03/2016 | 9780198766964 | #227619A | £9.99 Add to basket

 

The Story of the World in 100 Species

Christopher Lloyd

In the retitled paperback edition of his book What on Earth Evolved?, Christopher Lloyd leads us on an extraordinary journey, from the birth of life to the present day, as he explains, in a jargon-free way, the phenomenon we call 'life on Earth'.

416 pages | colour photos, colour illustrations |

Paperback | 02/2016 | 9781408876381 | #227511A | £14.99 Add to basket

 

Truly, Madly, Deeply

Underwater Photography

Ali bin Thalith

To capture an image of the crystal octopus, one of the ocean's rarest and most elusive creatures, became the ultimate goal in Ali bin Thalith's obsession with underwater marine photography. Over ten years of searching has produced a cornucopia ...

180 pages | ~110 colour photos |

Hardback | 02/2016 | 9781908337290 | #227737A | £59.99 Add to basket

 

Virtuoso by Nature

The Scientific Worlds of Francis Willughby FRS (1635-1672)

Tim Birkhead and Michael Willoughby

Francis Willughby, together with John Ray revolutionized the study of natural history. Together they were motivated by the new philosophy of the mid 1600s and transformed natural history in to a rigorous area of study. Because Ray lived ...

445 pages |

Hardback | NYP 03/2016 | 9789004285316 | #227458A | £128.00 Add to basket

 

Wild Soundscapes

Discovering the Voice of the Natural World

Bernie Krause

Through his organization Wild Sanctuary, Bernie Krause has traveled the globe to hear and record the sounds of diverse natural habitats. Wild Soundscapes, first published in 2002, inspires readers to follow in Krause's footsteps.

224 pages | 15 b/w illustrations |

Paperback | NYP 07/2016 | 9780300218190 | #226856A | £12.99 Add to basket

 

Witmer Stone

The Fascination of Nature

Scott McConnell

Witmer Stone (1866-1939) was one of the preeminent ornithologists of his day, and has been called one of the last of the "great naturalists". In addition to his involvement in the American Ornithologists' Union (AOU), including ...

411 pages | b/w photos |

Paperback | 10/2014 | 9780692229385 | #227392A | £21.50 Add to basket

 
Regional & Travel
 

A Naturalist's Guide to the Hidden World of Pacific Northwest Dunes

Jr.,George Poinar

From Northern California to British Columbia, coastal dunes and beaches provide a unique habitat for plants, animals, and insects. With A Naturalist's Guide to the Hidden World of Pacific Northwest Dunes, hikers and beach ...

296 pages | 652 colour photos |

Paperback | NYP 06/2016 | 9780870718540 | #227667A | £24.50 Add to basket

 

Animals of Kruger National Park

Keith Barnes

This compact and stunningly illustrated field guide is an essential companion for any safari in South Africa's Kruger National Park – one of the largest, most iconic, and most visited conservation areas in Africa. Featuring a ...

176 pages | 200+ colour photos |

Paperback | NYP 05/2016 | 9780691161785 | #227281A | £19.95 Add to basket

 

Australian Wildlife After Dark

Martyn Robinson and Bruce Thomson

Australia is a land of many unique animals, some of which are active only during the cooler evening and night-time and so are rarely seen. These are the after dark animals so widespread yet so little noticed by humans, whether in our back ...

160 pages | colour photos |

Paperback | NYP 04/2016 | 9781486300723 | #227452A | £31.82 Add to basket

 

Beyond the Fell Wall

Richard Skelton and Michael Kirkman

Richard Skelton has spent nearly half a decade living in a small valley, high in the Furness hills of Cumbria, in northern England. When not writing or composing music, most of his days are spent beating the valley's bounds, exploring ...

96 pages | b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 11/2015 | 9781908213297 | #227288A | £11.99 Add to basket

 

Cape Verde - The Natural History of the Desertas Islands: Santa Luzia, Branco and Raso

Raquel Vasconcelos, Rui Freitas, Cornelis J Hazevoet and Moises Borges

The Natural History of the Desertas Islands represents the culmination of a project by the Cape Verdean Zoological Society entitled "Scientific Compilation (bulletin) on the Biological Diversity of the Desertas Islands ...

307 pages | colour photos, colour illustrations, colour maps; includes CD-ROM |

Hardback | 01/2015 | 9788460657934 | #227564A | £31.50 Add to basket

 

Collins Traveller's Guide - Wildlife of the Galapagos

Julian Fitter, Daniel Fitter, David Hosking, Martin B Withers and Sarah Darwin

Since its first publication more than a decade ago, Wildlife of the Galápagos has become the definitive, classic field guide to the natural splendors of this amazing part of the world. Now fully updated, this essential ...

288 pages | 650+ colour photos, colour illustrations and colour maps |

Paperback | 01/2016 | 9780008156732 | #227300A | £16.99 Add to basket

 

Flora y Fauna de Chile: Guia de Identificacion [A Wildlife Guide to Chile]

Sharon Chester

Spanish version of A Wildlife Guide to Chile and its territories - Chilean Antarctica, Easter Island, San Felix y San Ambrosio, and the Juan Fernandez Archipelago. The colour plates depict species in their natural environments with unmatched ...

390 pages | 120 plates with colour illustrations; colour maps |

Paperback | 01/2016 | 9788494189241 | #227230A | £34.99 Add to basket

 

Galapagos: Preserving Darwin's Legacy

Tui de Roy

This sumptuous large-format book was first produced in 2009 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the foundation of the Charles Darwin Foundation on Galápagos. Galapagos: Preserving Darwin's Legacy comprises a series of ...

240 pages | 200+ colour photos |

Hardback | 09/2009 | 9781408108666 | #178053A | £29.99 Add to basket

Hardback | NYP 07/2016 | 9781472928597 | #227319A | £34.99 Add to basket

 

Gods of the Morning

A Bird's Eye View of a Highland Year

Sir John Lister-Kaye

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

294 pages | no illustrations |

Hardback | 03/2015 | 9781782114154 | #220742A | £14.99 Add to basket

Paperback | NYP 03/2016 | 9781782114178 | #227409A | £9.99 Add to basket

 

In Pursuit of Spring

Edward Thomas and Alexandra Harris

In March 1913, as the storm clouds of the Great War gathered, Edward Thomas took a bicycle ride from Clapham to the Quantock Hills in Somerset. The great poet recorded his journey with photographs and in notebooks, later publishing ...

200 pages | 50+ b/w photos |

Paperback | NYP 03/2016 | 9781908213433 | #227289A | £11.99 Add to basket

 

Loe Bar and the Sandhill Rustic Moth

The Biogeography, Ecology and History of a Coastal Shingle Bar

Adrian Spalding and Jeremy A Thomas

In Loe Bar and the Sandhill Rustic Moth, Adrian Spalding examines the survival of plants and animals on Loe Bar, a shingle beach on the coast of Cornwall, in the context of its history, geomorphology and exposure to the Atlantic ...

346 pages | 47 colour & b/w photos and colour & b/w illustrations, tables |

Hardback | 08/2015 | 9789004270299 | #222846A | £62.50 Add to basket

 

National Biodiversity Data Centre Identification Swatches Value Pack (6-Volume Set)

Colette O'Flynn, Bryan J Pinchen, Una Fitzpatrick, Lynda Weekes, Oisin Duffy and Don Cotton

Screw bound and printed full colour on both sides, these pocket-sizes (85 × 125 mm, W × H) identification swatches are the perfect field companions to help you identify Ireland's biodiversity. This value pack bundles ...

177 pages | colour photos, colour illustrations, colour distribution maps |

01/2015 | #227562A | £41.99 Add to basket

 

Northumberland Coast Path

Official Guidebook

Iain Robson

This guidebook offer itineraries for the Northumberland Coast Path in the UK.

64 pages | colour photos, maps |

Paperback | 08/2015 | 9781873402399 | #227653A | £7.95 Add to basket

 

Rhayader by Nature

The Wildlife of a Small Welsh Town and its Surrounding Countryside

Bob Dennison, Steve Jones, Richard Knight, Sorcha Lewis, Phil Ward, Ray Woods and Jennifer Holland

Rhayader is a market town and community in Powys, Wales, in the county of Radnorshire. Rhayader by Nature tells you all you need to know about the wildlife, geology and landscape of Rhayader and the surrounding area. The authors ...

252 pages | 275 colour photos, colour maps, 4 tables |

Paperback | 11/2015 | 9780993423314 | #227415A | £19.99 Add to basket

 

Southwest USA and Four Corners

Jason Sargerson

This book is an introduction to the South West United States (Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah). It covers key places of interest in the Four Corners region including National Parks and National Monuments along with other attractions ...

36 pages | colour photos |

Paperback | 11/2015 | 9780957504844 | #227348A | £11.99 Add to basket

 

Suizokukan Pia Zenkoku-Ban [Pia's Nationwide Aquaria]

MOOK

This is the most recent version of Pia's aquarium guide for Japan, with information from the last two years. From Hokkaido to Okinawa, it lists the 115 aquaria across the country. This is a thorough guide with behind-the-scenes information ...

130 pages | colour photos, colour maps |

Paperback | 03/2015 | 9784835624563 | #227334A | £21.99 Add to basket

 

The Shepherd's Life

A Tale of the Lake District

James Rebanks

This is the Sunday Times Number One Bestseller. Some people's lives are entirely their own creations. James Rebanks' isn't. The first son of a shepherd, who was the first son of a shepherd himself, he and his family ...

320 pages |

Paperback | NYP 03/2016 | 9780141979366 | #227518A | £8.99 Add to basket

 

The Sonoran Desert

A Literary Field Guide

Eric Magrane, Christopher Cokinos and Paul Mirocha

A land of austerity and bounty, the Sonoran Desert is a place that captures imaginations and hearts. It is a place where barbs snag, thorns prick, and claws scratch. A place where lizards scramble and pause, hawks hunt like wolves, and ...

216 pages |

Paperback | NYP 03/2016 | 9780816531233 | #227605A | £18.50 Add to basket

 

Wildlife of Bihar

A Field Guide

Arvinder Singh

The Wildlife of Bihar: A Field Guide gives an account of the wildlife and information on the protected areas of Bihar. It also provides vital information on each of the faunal species found in Bihar which is useful for easy identification ...

212 pages | colour photos, colour distribution maps |

Paperback | 01/2014 | #227732A | £19.99 Add to basket

 

Wildlife of Madagascar

Ken Behrens and Keith Barnes

The Indian Ocean island of Madagascar is one of the world's great natural treasures and ecotourism destinations. Like Galápagos, it is a laboratory of evolution, but on a much larger scale, since it is home to nearly an entire ...

272 pages | 500+ colour photos |

Paperback | NYP 05/2016 | 9780691161716 | #227283A | £19.95 Add to basket

 

Wildlife of Southeast Asia

Susan Myers

This handy photographic guide offers a stunning look at the wildlife of Southeast Asia, which includes Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam. Accessible text and more than 500 color photographs help readers to learn about ...

256 pages | 520 colour photos, 2 maps |

Paperback | NYP 06/2016 | 9780691154855 | #227467A | £11.99 Add to basket

 
Botany & Plant Science
 

Amorphophallus et sa Famille: Les Fleurs les Plus Fantastiques du Monde [Amorphophallus and its Family: The Most Fantast

Paul-Alain Magnollay

Amorphophallus is a genus of plants that includes nearly 200 tropical and subtropical species. It includes one giant species, Amorphophallus titanum, which has the record for the largest inflorescence. Unpredictable and ...

96 pages | colour illustrations |

Paperback | 07/2015 | 9782828914066 | #227738A | £19.99 Add to basket

 

Aracees de Guyane Francaise [Araceae of French Guiana]

Dennis Barabe and Marc Gibernau

The family Araceae includes 118 genera and 3800 species of tropical plants. It is the 13th richest family in the world and 3rd among the Monocotyledons after Orchidaceae and Poaceae. This book is dedicated to the Araceae of French Guiana ...

349 pages | b/w line drawings |

Paperback | 12/2015 | #227570A | £40.99 Add to basket

 

Botanische Revolutie: De Plantenleer van Charles Darwin [Botanical Revolution: The Botany of Charles Darwin]

Norbert Peeters

Darwin's botanical work was of great influence on our views on plants, but has largely been forgotten. When hearing the name Charles Darwin, most people think of On the Origin of Species, the book detailing his theory of evolution ...

320 pages | illustrations |

Paperback | NYP 03/2016 | 9789050115780 | #227735A | £18.99 Add to basket

 

Britain's Green Allies

Medicinal Plants in Wartime

Peter G Ayres

In 1914, and again in 1939, Britain's supply of vital drugs and antiseptics needed by both its armies and its civilian population was cut off because German pharmaceutical companies dominated world markets. The drugs most difficult ...

144 pages |

Paperback | 07/2015 | 9781784623364 | #227382A | £12.50 Add to basket

 

Champion Trees of Washington State

Robert Van Pelt

Documents the largest known examples of trees in the state, 1,350 in all, belonging to 869 species or cultivated varieties. Of these, 45 are the biggest in the nation.

120 pages | 90 b/w photos, 11 b/w illustrations, maps |

Hardback | 08/2015 | 9780295997452 | #227366A | £60.99 Add to basket

 

De Setas por Madrid y la Zona Centro Peninsular: Guia par Encontrar y Conocer las Mejores Setas Comestibles [Mushrooms

Vicente Sevilla

This book is the most comprehensive and informative guide to edible mushrooms of Madrid. It includes detailed information and photographs of the 60 most prized fungi species, all classified by their natural habitat – deciduous ...

207 pages | colour photos |

Paperback | 10/2015 | 9788460823568 | #227742A | £34.99 Add to basket

 

Diatom Monographs, Volume 18: Diatoms from Ship Ballast Sediments (With Consideration of a Few Additional Species

Maria Celia Villac, Irena Kaczmarska and Fames Ehrman

When ships need to take in water from the environment to serve as ballast, organisms and suspended inorganic materials are also picked up. During the voyage, some of the living and non-living particulate matter tends to settle to the bottom ...

234 plates with b/w photos |

Hardback | NYP 12/2015 | 9783874294911 | #227196A | £76.99 Add to basket

 

Essential Guide to Rocky Mountain Mushrooms by Habitat

Cathy L Cripps, Vera Stucky Evenson and Michael Kuo

From grassland fairy circles to alpine nano-shrooms, the Rocky Mountain region invites mushroom hunters to range through a mycological nirvana. The Essential Guide to Rocky Mountain Mushrooms by Habitat is the definitive ...

352 pages | 372 colour photos, 2 b/w illustrations, 2 maps |

Hardback | NYP 03/2016 | 9780252039966 | #227690A | £67.99 Add to basket

Paperback | NYP 03/2016 | 9780252081460 | #227691A | £20.99 Add to basket

 

Flora de la Republica de Cuba, Series A: Plantas Vasculares, Fasciculo 21 (2-Volume Set)

Poaceae II: Pharoideae a Chloridoideae

Luis Catasus Guerra, Werner Greuter and Rosa Rankin Rodriguez

This volume completes the treatment of Poaceae within the Flora de la República de Cuba series. It covers Pharoiodeae, Bambusoideae, Oryzoideae, Pooideae, Arundinoideae, Micrairoideae, Aristoideae, Chloridoideae.

484 pages | 122 b/w distribution maps, 133 plates with colour photos |

Hardback | 12/2015 | 9783874294867 | #227424A | £165.00 Add to basket

 

Flora of Glamorgan

Arthur E Wade, Quentin ON Kay and R Gwynn Ellis

Glamorgan has a rich and diverse flora with over 80% of the vascular plant flora of Wales being recorded in the county. This is the first account for 86 years of the flora of the old county of Glamorgan and the first to treat fully its ...

492 pages | b/w illustrations |

Paperback | 01/2016 | 9781784270797 | #227410A | £64.99 Add to basket

 

Flore Nordique du Quebec et du Labrador, Volume 2 [Nordic Flora of Quebec and Labrador, Volume 2]

Serge Payette

This book is the second of four volumes on the flora of vascular plants of northern Quebec and Labrador, from the 54th parallel north to Hudson Strait, from James Bay and Hudson Bay in the west, to Labrador Sea in the east. Here is a book ...

711 pages | colour photos, b/w line drawings, distribution maps |

Hardback | 08/2015 | 9782763722771 | #227276A | £87.99 Add to basket

 

Flore d'Afrique Centrale: Spermatophytes, Asphodelaceae

Daniel JL Geerinck

The Asphodelaceae family is represented in Central Africa by four genera with 28 species, plus 5 exotic ones escaping from cultivation. The family comprises amongst others the showy cultivated species from the genera Aloe and ...

43 pages | 8 b/w line drawings, 1 b/w map |

Paperback | 12/2015 | #227428A | £15.99 Add to basket

 

Flore d'Afrique Centrale: Spermatophytes, Hydrocharitaceae

JJ Symoens and Marc SM Sosef

The Hydrocharitaceae form a small family of water plants and is represented in Central Africa by 6 genera with 15 species.

47 pages | 14 b/w line drawings, 1 b/w map |

Paperback | 12/2015 | #227429A | £15.99 Add to basket

 

Flore d'Afrique Centrale: Spermatophytes, Hydroleaceae

E Fischer

The small herbaceous family Hydroleaceae is represented in Central Africa by a single species: Hydrolea palustris.

10 pages | 1 b/w line drawing, 1 b/w map |

Paperback | 12/2015 | #227430A | £11.99 Add to basket

 

Flore d'Afrique Centrale: Spermatophytes, Ixonanthaceae

James W Byng

The small tropical family Ixonanthaceae comprises shrubs and trees and is represented in Central Africa by a single genus with 3 species.

14 pages | 1 b/w line drawing, 1 b/w map |

Paperback | 12/2015 | #227431A | £12.99 Add to basket

 

Flore d'Afrique Centrale: Spermatophytes, Picrodendraceae

James W Byng

The small tropical family Picrodendraceae comprises dioecious shrubs and trees and is represented in Central Africa by a single genus with 2 species.

11 pages | 1 b/w line drawing, 1 b/w map |

Paperback | 12/2015 | #227432A | £11.99 Add to basket

 

Flore d'Afrique Centrale: Spermatophytes, Plumbaginaceae

S Ntore

The family Plumbaginaceae is represented in Central Africa by 2 genera and 5 species, 2 of which are planted in gardens from where they occasionally escape.

14 pages | 3 b/w line drawings, 1 b/w map |

Paperback | 12/2015 | #227433A | £12.99 Add to basket

 

Gaachh Guchch: A Bouquet of Bihar Trees

Vivek Kumar Singh

This book is a photographic tribute to the fascinating flora of the Indian state of Bihar, focusing foremost on trees, which have special religious and cultural significance in India.

colour illustrations |

Paperback | 01/2015 | #227730A | £59.99 Add to basket

 

Geraniums

Margaret Stone and Joy Jones

Not to be confused with the tender bedding plants often called geraniums, but which are botanically Pelargonium, this booklet is concerned with the true Geranium or Cranesbill which are hardy perennials. The booklet describes ...

60 pages | colour photos |

Paperback | 05/2015 | 9780901687296 | #227383A | £12.99 Add to basket

 

Green Guide to Wild Flowers of Britain and Europe

David A Sutton and Colin Emberson

Aimed at both the general reader and the amateur naturalist, Green Guide to Trees of Britain and Europe presents 150 of the best known species of wild flowers common to Britain and Europe. Each species is described in detail and is illustrated ...

112 pages | colour illustrations |

Paperback | NYP 03/2016 | 9781472927200 | #226332A | £6.99 Add to basket

 

Guide to the Vascular Flora of Howell Woods, Johnston County, North Carolina, U.S.A.

Kelly M Hines, Alexander Krings and Jon M Stucky

Howell Woods Environmental Learning Center (Johnston County, North Carolina; "Howell Woods") is "the most significant terrestrial natural area in the county" as designated by the NC Natural Heritage Program. Comprising ...

268 pages | colour & b/w photos, 540 b/w line drawings, colour maps |

Paperback | 11/2015 | 9781889878478 | #227474A | £71.99 Add to basket

 

Guia de Arboles de la Sierra De Guadarrama [Guide to the Trees of the Sierra de Guadarrama]

The Sierra de Guadarrama, is in a privileged position due to its proximity to the center of the Iberian Peninsula, and brings together trees of many disparate temperaments in its forests which are describes in this field guide. Oak, juniper ...

128 pages | colour illustrations |

Paperback | 01/2015 | 9788498732917 | #227743A | £19.50 Add to basket

 

Identification Guide to Ireland's Grasses

Una Fitzpatrick, Lynda Weekes and Mark Wright

A guide to help beginners and intermediates tackle grasses. This attractive field-friendly 164 page guide simplifies grass identification. It is rich in photographs and diagrams and contains both a floristic guide and a vegetative key.

163 pages | colour photos, b/w line drawings |

Spiralbound | 01/2014 | #227501A | £12.50 Add to basket

 

Ireland's Biodiversity: Trees & Shrubs

Lynda Weekes, Oisin Duffy and Una Fitzpatrick

Screw bound and printed full colour on both sides, this is a pocket-sized (85 × 125 mm, W × H) photographic guide to the 35 native and 8 of the more common introduced trees and shrubs in Ireland divided into winter and summer ...

40 pages | colour photos |

01/2015 | 9781911172000 | #227507A | £8.39 Add to basket

 

Kiwifruit: The Genus Actinidia

Hongwen Huang

Kiwifruit: The Genus Actinidia includes extensive and full coverage of scientific and applied information ranging from basic taxonomy, population genetics, and natural resources/distribution to domestication history and breeding ...

308 pages | illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 03/2016 | 9780128030660 | #227280A | £125.00 Add to basket

 

Next-Generation Sequencing in Plant Systematics

Elvira Horandl and Marc S Appelhans

The rapid development of technologies targeting at the analysis of genomic resources (next-generation sequencing) has revolutionized biological sciences. For biological systematics and biodiversity research, the application of molecular ...

294 pages | 9 plates with colour illustrations |

Hardback | 02/2016 | 9783874294928 | #227427A | £67.99 Add to basket

 

Opredelitel' Sosudistykh Rastenii Karachaevo-Cherkesskoi Respubliki [A Guide to the Vascular Plants of Karachaevo-Cherke

AS Zernov, IU E Alekseev and VG Onipchenko

This is the identification guide to the vascular flora of Republic of Karachay-Cherkessia, located in the North Caucasus area of southern European Russia. It is based on the results of long-term field research, a critical study of ...

459 pages | colour photos |

Hardback | 12/2015 | 9785990689527 | #227686A | £120.00 Add to basket

 

Orchids of Brazil / Orquideas do Brasil, Volume 1: Oncidiinae 1

Dalton Holland Baptista, Patricia A Harding and Americo Docha Neto

This is the first volume of a series intended to encompass every Brazilian orchid species. In this volume, the authors describe all known species of contained 16 genera, most of which were once known as Oncidium and are closely ...

224 pages | colour photos |

Hardback | 01/2011 | 9780983674702 | #227287A | £63.99 Add to basket

 

Pacific Seaweeds

A Guide to Common Seaweeds of the West Coast

Bridgette Clarkston and Louis Druehl

This updated and expanded guide thoroughly documents every aspect of seaweed life, from species identification and seaweed biology to the essential – and often surprising – roles seaweed plays in the marine ecosystem and our ...

256 pages | colour photos, b/w illustrations |

Paperback | 12/2001 | 9781550172409 | #127702A | £20.99 Add to basket

Paperback | NYP 06/2016 | 9781550177374 | #227676A | £24.50 Add to basket

 

Perth Plants

A Field Guide to the Bushland and Coastal Flora of Kings Park and Bold Park

Russell L Barrett and Eng Pin Tay

The city of Perth is well known and treasured for its areas of protected bushland in the heart of the city. Kings Park and Bold Park represent a significant part of the natural heritage of the Swan Coastal Plain and are an important part ...

440 pages | colour photos, maps |

Paperback | NYP 04/2016 | 9781486306022 | #227718A | £45.41 Add to basket

 

Pilbara Seed Atlas and Field Guide

Plant Restoration in Australia's Arid Northwest

Todd E Erickson, Russell Barrett, David J Merritt and Kingsley W Dixon

The Pilbara region in Australia's arid northwest is rich in flora that is suited to extreme temperatures and boom and bust cycles of moisture availability. It is also a region important for its natural resources. In places where ...

312 pages |

Paperback | NYP 04/2016 | 9781486305520 | #227521A | £72.68 Add to basket

 

Plantes Utiles du Bas-Congo, Republique Democratique du Congo [Useful Plants of Bas-Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo

Paul Latham and Augustin Konda ku Mbuta

Plantes Utiles du Bas-Congo, Republique Democratique du Congo is designed to encourage the planting and conservation of useful plants. It is translated from the original English edition and rich in illustrations. Each species ...

407 pages | colour photos |

Paperback | 01/2014 | 9780992898601 | #227419A | £48.99 Add to basket

 

Plants and People

Origin and Development of Human-Plant Science Relationships

Christopher Cumo

An exploration of the relationship between plants and people from early agriculture to modern-day applications of biotechnology in crop production, Plants and People: Origin and Development of Human–Plant Science Relationships ...

227 pages | 50 b/w photos and b/w illustrations |

Paperback | 10/2015 | 9781498707084 | #227294A | £49.99 Add to basket

 

Plants and the Plague

The Herbal Frontline

Marcus Harrison

Plague has gone down in history as one of the terrors of humanity, and if there was perhaps but one word that conjured fear in the minds of people centuries ago it would have been that of 'plague'. Without any understanding of ...

233 pages | b/w line drawings |

Paperback | 01/2015 | 9780954415891 | #227381A | £9.99 Add to basket

 

Plants of Central Queensland

Identification and Uses of Native and Introduced Species

Eric Anderson

Conservation and sustainable productivity are vital issues for Australia. In order to manage vegetation well from an agricultural, recreational or conservation point of view, an understanding of individual plant species is important.

600 pages | colour photos, colour distribution maps |

Paperback | NYP 04/2016 | 9781486302253 | #227449A | £145.45 Add to basket

 

Remarkable Plants of Vanuatu / Plantes Remarquables du Vanuatu

Laurence Ramon, Chanel Sam and Hanington Tate

This guide on the flora of Vanuatu is intended for the general public, and is a co-publication between New York Botanical Garden Press and Biotope. The 236 plants described in the guide have been included for their remarkable ...

256 pages | colour photos, colour illustrations, 1 colour map |

Paperback | 12/2015 | 9782366621570 | #227422A | £32.99 Add to basket

 

Struik Pocket Guide: Wild Flowers of South Africa

Braam van Wyk

Wild Flowers of South Africa covers some 260 flowers representing all of the region’s major vegetation types: - Accounts are conveniently organised by flower colour. - Key ID features are supplied for each flower ...

152 pages | 260 colour photos, colour distribution maps |

Paperback | 10/2015 | 9781775841661 | #227517A | £7.99 Add to basket

 

Systematics and Biogeography of Amicia (Leguminosae, Papilionoideae)

Tiina E Sarkinen and Colin E Hughes

The genus Amicia comprises seven species distributed disjunctly at mid-elevations across the neotropics with one species in Mexico and six endemic to restricted ranges in the Central Andes of South America. Phylogenetic analyses ...

72 pages |

Paperback | 12/2015 | 9780912861982 | #227612A | £18.99 Add to basket

 

Systematics of Liabum Adanson (Asteraceae, Liabeae)

Diego G Gutierrez and Liliana Katinas

Liabum (Asteraceae), one of the most important genera of the tribe Liabeae in terms of number of species and extent of overall distribution, was the subject of a revisionary study. The genus consists of perennial herbs, subshrubs ...

121 pages |

Paperback | 12/2015 | 9780912861975 | #227611A | £27.99 Add to basket

 

Taschenlexikon der Pflanzen Deutschlands und Angrenzender Lander: Die Haufigsten Mitteleuropaischen Arten im Portrait

Ruprecht Duell and Herfried Kutzelnigg

The 8th edition of this proven standard work has been thoroughly revised and expanded. It includes the 1,400 most common plants of the entire Central European region. Knowledge of systematics, names, occurrences, flowers and fruits are ...

924 pages | 830 colour photos, 44 illustrations |

Hardback | 11/2015 | 9783494016160 | #227717A | £39.99 Add to basket

 

The Algae World

Dinabandhu Sahoo and Joseph Seckbach

The Algae World has been carefully written and edited with an interdisciplinary appeal and aims to bring all aspects of Algae together in one volume. The 22 chapters are divided into two different parts which have been authored ...

598 pages | 149 colour & 105 b/w photos and illustrations, tables |

Hardback | 10/2015 | 9789401773201 | #227279A | £135.00 Add to basket

 

The Flowers of Swaledale

A Yorkshire Guide

Jocelyn Campbell

The Flowers of Swaledale is designed to help people who visit, or live in Swaledale and Arkengarthdale, to identify some of the diverse wild flowers which grow in the mixed habitats of the Dales. Thanks to the efforts of farmers ...

156 pages | 151 colour illustrations |

Paperback | 11/2014 | 9781910237038 | #227642A | £15.99 Add to basket

 

The Fungi

Sarah Watkinson, Lynne Boddy and Nicholas P Money

The Fungi, Third Edition, offers a comprehensive and thoroughly integrated treatment of the biology of the fungi. This modern synthesis highlights the scientific foundations that continue to inform mycologists today, as well as ...

466 pages | b/w plates, illustrations, tables |

Paperback | 12/2000 | 9780127384467 | #115925A | £30.99 Add to basket

Paperback | 12/2015 | 9780123820341 | #227639A | £55.99 Add to basket

 

The Kew Plant Glossary

An Illustrated Dictionary of Plant Identification Terms

Henk J Beentje

This plant glossary includes all descriptive terms used in floras, plant field guides and monographs. This is an essential companion for anyone working with plant descriptions, plant identification keys, floras, monographs and field guides ...

200 pages | illustrations |

Paperback | NYP 02/2016 | 9781842466049 | #227709A | £17.99 Add to basket

 

The Lichens of Jersey

Simon Davey, Amanda Davey and Michael Freeman

This is a study of the lichen flora of the island of Jersey with copious photographs. It deals in particular with the significant history of a Jersey lichenologist, Charles du Bois Larbalestier, and his role in discovering many type species ...

195 pages | colour illustrations, colour maps |

Paperback | 08/2015 | 9780901897589 | #227610A | £27.50 Add to basket

 

The Mycota, Volume 3: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Dirk Hoffmeister

This new edition provides a comprehensive look at the molecular genetics and biochemical basis of fungal biology, covering important model organisms such as Aspergilli while also integrating advances made with zygomycetes and basidiomycetes ...

414 pages | 21 colour & 29 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 12/2004 | 9783540426301 | #124419A | £278.50 Add to basket

Hardback | NYP 02/2016 | 9783319277882 | #227352A | £180.00 Add to basket

 

Vegetation of Australian Riverine Landscapes

Biology, Ecology and Management

Samantha Capon, Cassandra James and Michael Reid

Vegetation communities in Australia's riverine landscapes are ecologically, economically and culturally significant. They are also among the most threatened ecosystems on the continent and have been dramatically altered as a result of ...

440 pages | photos, illustrations |

Paperback | NYP 04/2016 | 9780643096318 | #227598A | £127.27 Add to basket

 

Wildflowers of Mainland Greece

Recommended Botanical Excursions in Mainland Greece Including Peloponnese

Johannes Flohe

This book is the result of numerous field trips the author has undertaken to the Greek mainland to photograph flowers. The text describes the typical wild flowers seen in various areas the author has visited. The author notes though that ...

356 pages | 782 colour photos |

Paperback | 01/2015 | 9783000496882 | #227674A | £22.99 Add to basket

 
Animal & General Biology
 

Animal Creativity and Innovation

Allison B Kaufman and James C Kaufman

Animal Creativity and Innovation explores theories and research on animal innovation and creativity, comparing and contrasting it with theory and research on human creativity and innovation. In doing so, it encompasses findings ...

538 pages |

Hardback | 07/2015 | 9780128006481 | #227509A | £42.99 Add to basket

 

Avian Medicine and Surgery in Practice

Companion and Aviary Birds

Bob Doneley

The new edition of this highly respected, beautifully illustrated book has been thoroughly updated with new chapters, new sections, updated diseases, new and expanded clinical techniques, numerous full-color illustrations, Hint/Tip boxes ...

488 pages | 419 colour illustrations, 25 colour tables |

Hardback | 10/2010 | 9781840761122 | #181031A | £77.99 Add to basket

Hardback | NYP 05/2016 | 9781482260205 | #227597A | £76.99 Add to basket

 

Biocode: The New Age of Genomics

Dawn Field and Neil Davies

The living world runs on genomic software – what Dawn Field and Neil Davies call the 'biocode' – the sum of all DNA on Earth. In Biocode, they tell the story of a new age of scientific discovery: the growing ...

196 pages | 9 b/w photos and b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 03/2015 | 9780199687756 | #216642A | £16.99 Add to basket

Paperback | NYP 08/2016 | 9780199687763 | #227333A | £9.99 Add to basket

 

Chicken Nutrition

A Guide for Nutritionists and Poultry Professionals

Rick Kleyn

This is the most up to date, complete and practical guide to chicken nutrition that you can buy. It covers the underlying theory of poultry nutrition making it easier to recognise problems in the field. As the most important aspects of ...

347 pages | colour photos, colour illustrations, colour tables |

Paperback | 01/2013 | 9781899043422 | #227353A | £76.99 Add to basket

 

Diseases of Coral

Cheryl M Woodley, Craig A Downs, Andrew W Bruckner, James W Porter and Sylvia B Galloway

Coral disease is quickly becoming a crisis to the health and management of the world's coral reefs. There is a great interest from many in preserving coral reefs. Unfortunately, the field of epizootiology is disorganized and lacks a ...

600 pages | 40 illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 12/2015 | 9780813824116 | #227345A | £117.00 Add to basket

 

El Intestino Feliz: Como Controlar el Peso, el Estado de Animo y la Salud a Largo Plazo [The Good Gut: Taking Control

Justin Sonnenburg, Erica Sonnenburg and Andrew Weil

World-leading scientists, Justin and Erica Sonnenburg explain the most up-to-date science behind why what happens in our gut is responsible for everything from our weight to how we age, our allergies and our diseases. Living in our gut ...

368 pages |

Hardback | NYP 02/2016 | 9788403015012 | #227673A | £31.99 Add to basket

 

Evolutionary Developmental Biology of Invertebrates (6-Volume Set)

Andreas Wanninger

This multi-author, six-volume work summarizes our current knowledge on the developmental biology of all major invertebrate animal phyla. The main aspects of cleavage, embryogenesis, organogenesis and gene expression are discussed in an ...

1363 pages | colour & b/w photos, colour & b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 11/2015 | 9783709118979 | #227354A | £252.50 Add to basket

 

Le Grand Sommeil Hivernal chez les Animaux: L'Hibernation et ses Applications Pratiques [The Big Winter Sleep in Animals

Jean-Pierre Jost

In order to cope with extreme weather conditions and the resulting lack of food and water, animals have developed various survival strategies. If hibernation is well known to the public, less well-known is its summer counterpart ...

200 pages | colour illustrations |

Paperback | 02/2014 | 9782828913946 | #227739A | £27.99 Add to basket

 

Molecular Cell Biology

Harvey Lodish, Arnold Berk, Chris A Kaiser, Monty Krieger, Anthony Bretscher and Hidde Ploegh

With its acclaimed author team, cutting-edge content, emphasis on medical relevance, and coverage based on key experiments, Molecular Cell Biology has justly earned an impeccable reputation as an exciting and authoritative text.

1300 pages | colour & b/w photos, colour illustrations, tables |

Hardback | 08/2012 | 9781464109812 | #198206A | £63.99 Add to basket

Hardback | NYP 03/2016 | 9781464183393 | #227486A | £69.99 Add to basket

 

Not So Different

Finding Human Nature in Animals

Nathan H Lents

Animals fall in love, establish rules for fair play, exchange valued goods and services, hold "funerals" for fallen comrades, deploy sex as a weapon, and communicate with one another using rich vocabularies. Animals also get ...

352 pages |

Hardback | NYP 06/2016 | 9780231178327 | #227284A | £23.99 Add to basket

 

Sociality: The Behaviour of Group-Living Animals

Ashley Ward and Mike Webster

The last decade has seen a surge of interest among biologists in a range of social animal phenomena, including collective behaviour and social networks. In 'Animal Social Behaviour', authors Ashley Ward and Michael Webster integrate ...

306 pages | 19 colour & 28 b/w illustrations, tables |

Hardback | NYP 04/2016 | 9783319285832 | #227621A | £126.00 Add to basket

 

The Good Gut

Taking Control of Your Weight, Your Mood, and Your Long Term Health

Justin Sonnenburg, Erica Sonnenburg and Andrew Weil

World-leading scientists, Justin and Erica Sonnenburg explain the most up-to-date science behind why what happens in our gut is responsible for everything from our weight to how we age, our allergies and our diseases. Living in our gut ...

320 pages |

Hardback | 04/2015 | 9780593074299 | #227606A | £14.99 Add to basket

Paperback | NYP 01/2017 | 9780552171168 | #227607A | £9.99 Add to basket

 

Vertebrate Sound Production and Acoustic Communication

Roderick A Suthers, W Tecumseh Fitch, Richard R Fay and Arthur N Popper

Although the fundamental principles of vocal production are well-understood, and are being increasingly applied by specialists to specific animal taxa, they stem originally from engineering research on the human voice. These origins ...

1349 pages | 36 colour & 24 b/w illustrations, 29 colour tables |

Hardback | NYP 03/2016 | 9783319277196 | #227771A | £81.99 Add to basket

 

What is Life?

How Chemistry Becomes Biology

Addy Pross

Seventy years ago, Erwin Schrödinger posed a profound question: 'What is life, and how did it emerge from non-life?' This problem has puzzled biologists and physical scientists ever since. Living things are hugely ...

224 pages | 10 b/w illustrations |

Paperback | NYP 04/2016 | 9780198784791 | #227626A | £9.99 Add to basket

 
Evolutionary Biology
 

Evolving Insight

How We Can Think About Why Things Happen

Richard W Byrne

'Insight' is not a very popular word in psychology or biology. Popular terms – like "intelligence", "planning", "complexity" or "cognitive" – have a habit of sprawling out ...

208 pages |

Paperback | NYP 03/2016 | 9780198757078 | #227722A | £24.99 Add to basket

 

Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth

James Lovelock

In this classic work that continues to inspire many readers, Jim Lovelock puts forward his idea that the Earth functions as a single organism. Written for non-scientists, Gaia is a journey through time and space in search of evidence ...

176 pages | 8 b/w illustrations |

Paperback | NYP 04/2016 | 9780198784883 | #227362A | £8.99 Add to basket

 

Home: How Habitat Made Us Human

John S Allen

As the adage goes, home is where the heart is. This may seem self-explanatory, but none of our close primate cousins have anything like homes. Whether we live in an igloo or in Buckingham Palace, the fact that Homo sapiens creates ...

304 pages |

Hardback | NYP 03/2016 | 9780465038992 | #227640A | £19.99 Add to basket

 

Multicellularity: Origins and Evolution

Karl J Niklas, Stuart A Newman and John Tyler Bonner

The evolution of multicellularity raises questions regarding genomic and developmental commonalities and discordances, selective advantages and disadvantages, physical determinants of development, and the origins of morphological novelties ...

328 pages | 54 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 03/2016 | 9780262034159 | #227662A | £37.95 Add to basket

 

One Plus One Equals One

Symbiosis and the Evolution of Complex Life

John Archibald

We are in the midst of a revolution. It is a scientific revolution built upon the tools of molecular biology, with which we probe and prod the living world in ways unimaginable a few decades ago. Need to track a bacterium at the root of ...

205 pages | 11 b/w photos and b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 06/2014 | 9780199660599 | #208833A | £16.99 Add to basket

Paperback | NYP 09/2016 | 9780198758129 | #227550A | £9.99 Add to basket

 

Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies

Nick Bostrom

The human brain has some capabilities that the brains of other animals lack. It is to these distinctive capabilities that our species owes its dominant position. Other animals have stronger muscles or sharper claws, but we have cleverer ...

328 pages | b/w illustrations, tables |

Hardback | 07/2014 | 9780199678112 | #209905A | £18.99 Add to basket

Paperback | NYP 04/2016 | 9780198739838 | #227277A | £9.99 Add to basket

 

The Ancient Origins of Consciousness

How the Brain Created Experience

Todd E Feinberg and Jon M Mallatt

How is consciousness created? When did it first appear on Earth, and how did it evolve? What constitutes consciousness, and which animals can be said to be sentient? In The Ancient Origins of Consciousness, Todd Feinberg and ...

392 pages | 55 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 04/2016 | 9780262034333 | #227660A | £24.95 Add to basket

 

The Bioarchaeology of Individuals

Ann LW Stodder, Ann M Palkovich and Clark Spencer Larsen

From Bronze Age Thailand to Viking Iceland, from an Egyptian oasis to a family farm in Canada, The Bioarchaeology of Individuals invites readers to unearth the daily lives of people throughout history. Covering a span of more than ...

287 pages | b/w photos, b/w illustrations, b/w maps, tables |

Paperback | 05/2014 | 9780813060279 | #227646A | £24.95 Add to basket

Hardback | 05/2012 | 9780813038070 | #227647A | £69.50 Add to basket

 

Violence and Warfare Among Hunter-Gatherers

Mark W Allen and Terry L Jones

How did warfare originate? Was it human genetics? Social competition? The rise of complexity? Intensive study of the long-term hunter-gatherer past brings us closer to an answer. The original chapters in ...

391 pages | b/w illustrations, b/w maps, tables |

Hardback | 09/2014 | 9781611329391 | #227590A | £80.50 Add to basket

Paperback | 01/2016 | 9781611329407 | #227591A | £32.50 Add to basket

 

Why Only Us

Language and Evolution

Robert C Berwick and Noam Chomsky

We are born crying, but those cries signal the first stirring of language. Within a year or so, infants master the sound system of their language; a few years after that, they are engaging in conversations. This remarkable ...

224 pages | 4 colour & 7 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 02/2016 | 9780262034241 | #227679A | £15.95 Add to basket

 
Ecology
 

Biological Invasions in Changing Ecosystems

Vectors, Ecological Impacts, Management and Predictions

Jo úo Canning-Clode

When organisms are deliberately or accidentally introduced into a new ecosystem a biological invasion may take place. These so-called 'invasive species' may establish, spread and ecologically alter the invaded community.

330 pages | 28 colour illustrations, 18 tables |

Hardback | NYP 12/2015 | 9783110438659 | #227454A | £159.00 Add to basket

 

Invasive Alien Species in Seychelles

Why and How to Eliminate Them? Identification and Management of Priority Species

Gerard Rocamora, Elvina Henriette, Daniel Simberloff and Didier Dogley

Invasive Alien Species in Seychelles addresses conservation practitioners, island managers, scientists, naturalists and any person willing to learn more about invasive species and how to fight them. Part one provides ...

384 pages | colour photos, colour illustrations, colour tables |

Paperback | 12/2015 | 9782856537800 | #227471A | £31.99 Add to basket

 

Reclaiming South Georgia

The Defeat of Furry Invaders on a Sub-Antarctic Island

Tony Martin, Team Rat and HRH The Princess Royal

This is the story, in word and image, of the South Georgia Heritage Trust Habitat Restoration Project fieldwork that took place on South Georgia in three phases (in 2011, 2013 and 2015), baiting every inch of rodent-infested land on the ...

144 pages | colour photos, colour maps |

Hardback | 01/2015 | 9780956454638 | #227633A | £24.99 Add to basket

 

Serendipity: An Ecologist's Quest to Understand Nature

James A Estes and Harry W Greene

To newly minted biologist James Estes, the sea otters he was studying in the leafy kelp forests off the coast of Alaska appeared to have an unbalanced relationship with their larger environment. Gorging themselves on the sea urchins that ...

288 pages | 19 b/w photos, 14 b/w illustrations, 3 maps |

Hardback | NYP 05/2016 | 9780520285033 | #227657A | £19.95 Add to basket

 

Why Ecology Matters

Charles J Krebs

Global temperatures and seawater levels rise; the world's smallest porpoise species looms at the edge of extinction; and a tiny emerald beetle from Japan flourishes in North America – but why does it matter? Who cares?

208 pages | 68 b/w photos, 12 b/w illustrations, 3 tables |

Hardback | NYP 03/2016 | 9780226318011 | #227697A | £52.50 Add to basket

Paperback | NYP 03/2016 | 9780226318158 | #227698A | £17.50 Add to basket

 
Habitats & Ecosystems
 

Atlas of Protected Areas in Rio de Janeiro State / Atlas das Unidades de Conservacao do Estado do Rio de Janeiro

Patricia Figueiredo de Castro

This book is the new revised, expanded and practical format edition of the Atlas das Unidades de Conservação da Natureza do Estado do Rio de Janeiro released in 2001. The authors hope that this work, in a bilingual ...

172 pages | colour photos, colour maps |

Hardback | 06/2015 | 9788582200087 | #227315A | £92.50 Add to basket

 

Boreal and Temperate Trees in a Changing Climate

Modelling the Ecophysiology of Seasonality

Heikki H ñnninen

Boreal and temperate tree species are adapted to the seasonally varying climatic conditions with their annual cycle of development so that the frost hardy dormant phase and the susceptible growth phase are synchronized with the seasonality ...

39 colour & 79 b/w illustrations, 39 colour tables |

Hardback | NYP 04/2016 | 9789401775472 | #227772A | £89.99 Add to basket

 

Ecology and Conservation of Mountain-Top Grasslands in Brazil

Geraldo Wilson Fernandes

Ecology and Conservation of Mountain-Top Grasslands in Brazil is a pioneer attempt to bring forward the first synthesis on the most diverse and threatened mountain top vegetation of South America, the rupestrian grasslands.

662 pages | 163 colour photos and colour illustrations, 35 tables |

Hardback | NYP 06/2016 | 9783319298078 | #227758A | £117.00 Add to basket

 

Encyclopedia of Soil Science (3-Volume Set)

Rattan Lal

This three-volume third edition offers a vast array of recent peer-reviewed articles. Compiled by hundreds of international experts, the Encyclopedia of Soil Science, Third Edition, covers all branches of soil science including ...

1600 pages | illustrations |

Hardback | 12/2005 | 9780849338304 | #155023A | £516.00 Add to basket

Hardback | NYP 07/2016 | 9781498738903 | #227489A | £589.00 Add to basket

 

Governing Marine Protected Areas

Resilience through Diversity

Peter JS Jones

In this innovative volume, the author addresses some important challenges related to the effective and equitable governance of marine protected areas (MPAs). These challenges are explored through an analysis of twenty MPA case studies ...

256 pages | 20 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 02/2014 | 9781844076635 | #196387A | £52.99 Add to basket

Paperback | NYP 02/2016 | 9781138679238 | #227490A | £27.99 Add to basket

 

Grandeur of the Tropical Rainforest in Peninsular Malaysia

Samsudin Musa, Christine Fletcher, Azian Mohti, Ismail Parlan and Ismail Harun

Grandeur of the Tropical Rainforest in Peninsular Malaysia brings to light the hidden wonders of what makes the tropical rainforests truly grandeur. It takes us on a journey through many different forests, from the coastal mangroves ...

204 pages |

Hardback | 01/2015 | #227552A | £94.99 Add to basket

 

Historic Acadia National Park

Catherine Schmitt

If parks could speak, what would they say? Historic Acadia National Park is a vibrant collection of true stories that share different aspects of Acadia National Park's history. From its glacial origins, to its rising peaks ...

224 pages | 50 b/w illustrations |

Paperback | NYP 07/2016 | 9781493018130 | #225715A | £10.95 Add to basket

 

Leben in Gezeiten: Die Nordseekuste Entdecken [Life amongst the Tides: Discovering the North Sea Coast]

Jorge Gross, Hansjoerg Kuester, Manfred Thies and Klaus Waechtler

The tidal flats in the Wadden Sea, the intertidal zone in the southeastern part of the North Sea, are not just a recreational area with increasing visitor numbers, but is also an ecologically very sensitive and exciting habitat, which is ...

216 pages | 41 colour photos, 44 illustrations |

Paperback | NYP 01/2016 | 9783894324353 | #227448A | £29.99 Add to basket

 

Lebensraume der Elbe und ihrer Auen [Habitats of the Elbe and its Floodplains]

Mathias Scholz, Sabine Stab, Frank Dziock and Klaus Henle

Hardly any other river in recent years has been at the center of such public interest as the Elbe, one of the major rivers of Central Europe. If it initially was a symbol for the division between East and West, it has now become a symbol ...

380 pages | 96 illustrations, 31 tables |

Hardback | 12/2015 | 9783510653010 | #226821A | £49.99 Add to basket

 

Mountains and Climate Change

A Global Concern

Thomas Kohler, Andre Wehrli, Matthias Jurek, Manuel Sager and Jan Dusik

Mountains are among the regions most affected by climate change. The implications of climate change will reach far beyond mountain areas, as the contributions in the present publication prepared for the Conference of the Parties to the ...

136 pages | colour photos, colour illustrations, colour tables |

Paperback | 12/2014 | 9783905835380 | #227473A | £22.99 Add to basket

 

Savanna: A Very Short Introduction

Peter A Furley

Savannas form one of the largest and most important of the world's ecological zones. Covering one fifth of the Earth's land surface, they are home to some of the world's most iconic animals and form an extremely important global ...

144 pages | 32 b/w illustrations |

Paperback | NYP 06/2016 | 9780198717225 | #225789A | £7.99 Add to basket

 

Soda Lakes of East Africa

Michael Schagerl

This book is devoted to the alkaline-saline lakes of East Africa, which include the world-famous "flamingo lakes". It covers the full range of issues, from the lakes' origin and history, life in and around these unique waters ...

290 pages | 140 illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 05/2016 | 9783319286204 | #227602A | £100.50 Add to basket

 

Soil Science Simplified

Neal S Eash, Thomas J Sauer, Deb O'Dell, Evah Odoi, Aga Razvi, Forbes Walker and Mary C Bratz

Already renowned as a user-friendly beginners guide to soil science, Soil Science Simplified, 6th Edition is an updated version of the beloved textbook that includes even more thorough applications of soil science to interdisciplinary ...

272 pages | illustrations |

Hardback | 12/2015 | 9781118540695 | #227455A | £40.50 Add to basket

 

The Australian Soil Classification

RF Isbell and The National Committee on Soil and Terrain

The Australian Soil Classification provides a framework for organising knowledge about Australian soils by allocating soils to classes via a key. Since its publication in 1996, this book has been widely adopted and formally endorsed ...

152 pages |

Paperback | 11/2002 | 9780643068988 | #137107A | £54.95 Add to basket

Paperback | NYP 01/2016 | 9781486304639 | #227560A | £54.50 Add to basket

 

The Forests of Michigan

Donald I Dickmann and Larry A Leefers

Completely revised and updated, this new edition of The Forests of Michigan takes a comprehensive look at the natural history, ecology, management, economic importance, and use of the rich and varied forests that cover about half ...

344 pages | 154 photos, 24 illustrations, 22 maps, 24 tables |

Hardback | 10/2003 | 9780472098163 | #142418A | £60.50 Add to basket

Paperback | 10/2003 | 9780472068166 | #142419A | £32.50 Add to basket

Paperback | NYP 06/2016 | 9780472036530 | #227357A | £46.50 Add to basket

 

The Soils of Poland

Renata Maria Bednarek, Michal Jankowski and Marcin Switoniak

The Soils of Poland gives an extensive characterisation of the soils of Poland, as well as information about soil-forming environment, soil cover description, soil classification and land use.

250 pages | 20 colour & 20 b/w photos, illustrations and maps |

Hardback | NYP 06/2016 | 9789401786331 | #225823A | £89.99 Add to basket

 

Thinning Control

Forestry Commission (FC)

One of the most sought after Forestry Commission titles for some time, a revised 4th ed. of Thinning Control is now available – this was previously published as a booklet and then a field guide.

56 pages | colour illustrations, 14 colour tables |

Spiralbound | 11/2015 | 9780855389307 | #227548A | £13.99 Add to basket

 

Urban Wildlife Management

Clark E Adams

Continuing the tradition of the first two editions, Urban Wildlife Management, Third Edition, provides a comprehensive examination of the issues that have led to an increasing need for urban wildlife management.

628 pages | 214 colour illustrations, 84 tables |

Hardback | NYP 05/2016 | 9781498702010 | #227487A | £76.99 Add to basket

 

Veld Management

Principles and Practices

Frits van Oudtshoorn

Veld is a natural resource vital to our survival on earth. About 80% of our beautiful country consists of veld. Most of this area is used for livestock and game ranching as well as for biodiversity conservation and recreation. Good veld ...

256 pages | 380 colour photos and illustrations |

Paperback | 11/2015 | 9781920217297 | #227404A | £19.95 Add to basket

 

Wetlands Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Wetlands Structure and Function

C Max Finlayson, Glenn R Guntenspergen and Beth A Middleton

In discussion with Ramsar’s Max Finlayson and Nick Davidson, and several members of the Society of Wetland Scientists, Springer is proposing the development of a new Encyclopedia of Wetlands, a comprehensive resource aimed at supporting ...

800 pages | 60 colour illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 06/2016 | 9789048134939 | #187630A | £449.50 Add to basket

 
Conservation & Biodiversity
 

An Introduction to Primate Conservation

Serge A Wich and Andrew J Marshall

This book provides a comprehensive and state-of-the-art synthesis of research principles and applied management practices for primate conservation.

368 pages |

Hardback | NYP 05/2016 | 9780198703389 | #227241A | £74.99 Add to basket

Paperback | NYP 05/2016 | 9780198703396 | #227242A | £37.50 Add to basket

 

CITES and Timber

A Guide to CITES-Listed Tree Species

Madeleine Groves and Catherine Rutherford

CITES and Timber covers the main timber species regulated by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES). It provides information on the key issues regarding the implementation of the Convention for this ...

92 pages |

Paperback | NYP 03/2016 | 9781842465929 | #227457A | £39.99 Add to basket

 

Inglorious: Conflict in the Uplands

Mark Avery and Chris Packham

Driven grouse shooting, where flocks of Red Grouse are chased by lines of beaters so that they fly over lines of 'guns' that shoot the fast-flying birds, is a peculiarly British fieldsport. It is also peculiarly British in that ...

304 pages | no illustrations |

Hardback | 07/2015 | 9781472917416 | #223142A | £16.99 Add to basket

Paperback | NYP 07/2016 | 9781472917430 | #227546A | £9.99 Add to basket

 

Livre Rouge des Especes Menacees en Alsace [Red Book of Endangered Species in Alsace]

Vadim Heuacker, Stephanie Kaempf, Raynald Moratin, Yves Muller and Philippe Richert

The French region of Alsace lies in the east of the country and borders Germany and Switzerland. More than 10 years after the first edition of the Red Book of endangered nature in Alsace, this updated version is the reference awaited both ...

511 pages | 320 colour photos |

Hardback | 11/2015 | 9782952004817 | #227344A | £34.99 Add to basket

 

Species Conservation in Managed Habitats

The Myth of a Pristine Nature

Werner Kunz

Written by an author with longstanding experience in the ecology of insects and birds and with a stellar academic record in molecular life sciences, this is a welcome challenge to the widely held beliefs in conventional environmental policy ...

312 pages |

Hardback | NYP 07/2016 | 9783527338450 | #225363A | £59.99 Add to basket

 

Wildlife & Natural Resource Management

Kevin H Deal

Understand how professionals manage the natural world with Wildlife and Natural Resource Management, 4th edition. From running fisheries and national parks to studying the environment and resources conservation, career opportunities ...

384 pages | colour photos, colour illustrations |

Hardback | 01/2010 | 9781435453975 | #195082A | £66.99 Add to basket

Paperback | NYP 01/2016 | 9781305627741 | #227630A | £111.99 Add to basket

 
Physical Sciences
 

A Photographic Guide to Shetland's Geology

David Malcolm and Robina R Barton

This book is the first photographic guide to the geology of the Shetland Island's. Shetland's landscape, its hills and beaches, cliffs and stacks, are not only places of extraordinary beauty but have locked up within them secrets ...

108 pages | colour photos |

Paperback | 05/2015 | 9781904746973 | #227330A | £20.99 Add to basket

 

Berliner Hoehlenkundliche Berichte, Volume 61: Philippines 2014 and 2015: Mindanao (Sultanat Kudarat) and Luzon (Kalinga

Rafael Camargo, Joel Despain and Michael Laumanns

Presents the results yielded by two expeditions who targeted previously untouched caving areas in the Philippines: the mountainous karsts of Sultanat Kudarat and Kalinga provinces as well as the coastal cone karst of Sta. Teresita.

112 pages | illustrations |

Paperback | 01/2016 | #227705A | £11.99 Add to basket

 

Berliner Hoehlenkundliche Berichte, Volume 62: Speleological Expeditions to Gabon (2013) and to Mozambique (2015)

Michael Laumanns, Jean-Pierre Bartholeyns, Livia Cordeiro, Ryo Matsuzawa and Renato Serodio

This volume features a 2013 expedition to southern Gabon that yielded 21 smaller caves, including one with presumably old rock art. In addition, a 2015 expedition to southern Mozambique is presented where in the Buchane area ten well-known ...

70 pages | illustrations |

Paperback | 01/2016 | #227755A | £11.99 Add to basket

 

Beyond: Our Future in Space

Chris Impey

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

320 pages | 55 illustrations |

Hardback | 05/2015 | 9780393239300 | #220933A | £17.99 Add to basket

Paperback | NYP 03/2016 | 9780393352153 | #227402A | £10.99 Add to basket

 

Building Stones & Stone Buildings of Staffordshire

PA Floyd

The UK is rich in the use of local natural stone for many buildings, and this book describes the building stones and stone building of Staffordshire. - Historical and geological background to the wealth of stone utilized throughout ...

348 pages | 231 colour & b/w photos and colour & b/w illustrations |

Paperback | 10/2015 | 9780722345436 | #227440A | £18.99 Add to basket

 

Canada Rocks

The Geologic Journey

Nick Eyles and Andrew Miall

For anyone curious about the geological history of our country, Canada Rocks is a marvelous portrait of what the authors describe as the incredible 4 billion year 'construction project' that gave shape to the continents ...

450 pages | b/w photos, b/w illustrations, b/w maps |

Paperback | NYP 05/2016 | 9781554553624 | #227643A | £34.99 Add to basket

 

Contributions to the Geology of Kansas by University of Kansas Geologists

With Emphasis on 1866-1966

Daniel F Merriam and James D Merriam

This is a story about the geology of Kansas and the geologists at the University of Kansas, both geology department faculty and Survey scientists. KU was founded in 1866 and from that time on geology or earth science has been taught, and ...

163 pages | 63 colour & b/w photos and b/w illustrations |

Paperback | 02/2014 | 9780983359951 | #213149A | £31.99 Add to basket

 

Dreams of Other Worlds

The Amazing Story of Unmanned Space Exploration

Chris Impey and Holly Henry

Dreams of Other Worlds describes the unmanned space missions that have opened new windows on distant worlds. Spanning four decades of dramatic advances in astronomy and planetary science, Dreams of Other Worlds tells the ...

450 pages | 8 plates with 24 colour photos and colour illustrations; 41 b/w photos, 13 b/w illustratio |

Hardback | 10/2013 | 9780691147536 | #207513A | £14.99 Add to basket

Paperback | NYP 04/2016 | 9780691169224 | #227468A | £16.95 Add to basket

 

Eruption: The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens

Steve Olson

For months in early 1980, scientists, journalists, sightseers, and nearby residents listened anxiously to rumblings in Mount St. Helens, part of the chain of western volcanoes fueled by the 700-mile-long Cascadia fault. Still, no one was ...

320 pages | 8 plates with colour photos; 7 b/w illustrations, 8 maps |

Hardback | NYP 04/2016 | 9780393242799 | #227510A | £17.99 Add to basket

 

Goldilocks and the Water Bears

The Search for Life in the Universe

Louisa Preston

All life as we know it is carbon-based, and reliant on sources of liquid water and energy for its survival; it is also, of course, known from just one planet, the Earth – a world perfectly suited to host life. But across a Universe ...

288 pages |

Hardback | NYP 06/2016 | 9781472920096 | #227539A | £16.99 Add to basket

 

Kristalybarlang a Nagyvaros Alatt: A Budapesti Jozsef-Hegyi-Barlang [The Crystal Cave beneath the Big City

Leel-Ossy Szabolcs

The author is the leader of the team that explored the Joseph Hill Cave in. There are around sixty caves in the area, but this is the only crystal cave, and is the ninth largest at 5677 metres in length. Discovered at the end of 1984 during ...

190 pages |

Hardback | 01/2014 | 9789633062647 | #227582A | £46.99 Add to basket

 

Minerals of Georgia

Their Properties and Occurrences

Robert B Cook, Julian C Gray and Jose Santamaria

Minerals of Georgia presents an illustrated, alphabetized record of every mineral (or mineral group) identified in the state. Under each entry is a county-by-county listing of every occurrence known, including both widespread ...

360 pages | 167 colour photos, 1 map, 3 tables |

Paperback | NYP 02/2016 | 9780820345581 | #227723A | £30.50 Add to basket

 

Moore's Compendium of Mineral Discoveries 1960-2015 (2-Volume Set)

Thomas P Moore

Moore's Compendium of Mineral Discoveries 1960-2015 is one of the most important publications for mineral collectors since Dana's System of Mineralogy. It can be thought of as a 'What's New in Minerals' covering ...

1644 pages |

Hardback | 01/2016 | #227592A | £550.00 Add to basket

 

Mudstone Primer

Lithofacies Variations, Diagnostic Criteria, and Sedimentologic/Stratigraphic Implications at Lamina to Bedset Scale

Remus Lazar, Kevin M Bohacs, Juergen Schieber, Joe Macquaker and Timothy Demko

A comprehensive volume on the properties and characteristics of fine grained rocks and how to evaluate them by some of the reigning experts in the field. A must have book for anyone involved in the ‘shale’ plays or working with ...

198 pages |

Hardback | 01/2015 | 9781565763395 | #227740A | £165.00 Add to basket

Paperback | 01/2015 | #227741A | £141.00 Add to basket

 

Oxygen: The Molecule that Made the World

Nick Lane

Oxygen is the engine of life and evolution. This book explores the impact that oxygen has had on Earth, and the history of life. Explaining the rise of animals and plants, the origin of two sexes, and the evolution of ageing and death ...

384 pages | 13 b/w illustrations |

Paperback | 09/2003 | 9780198607830 | #143089A | £6.99 Add to basket

Paperback | NYP 04/2016 | 9780198784937 | #227363A | £9.99 Add to basket

 

Planetary Mineralogy

MR Lee and H Leroux

This volume of the EMU Notes in Mineralogy is one of the outcomes of a school in planetary mineralogy that was held in Glasgow, Scotland, in 2014. The school was inspired by the recent advances in our understanding of the nature ...

314 pages |

Paperback | 04/2015 | 9780903056557 | #227571A | £81.99 Add to basket

 

South West Stone Quarries

Building Stone Quarries in the West of England

Peter Stanier

The South West of England has provided quality building stone for many of Britain's finest buildings over many centuries, and continues to do so. Locally the stone contributes to the distinctive character of many of the region's ...

216 pages | 241 colour illustrations |

Paperback | 11/2015 | 9780906294833 | #227441A | £17.99 Add to basket

 

Szilard Asvanyi Nyersanyagok Magyarorszagon [Solid Minerals in Hungary]

Pal-Molnar Elemer and Biro Lorant

This book is intended to give an overview of the most important raw materials important for Hungary. Each chapter presents specific raw materials, discussing mining history, research methods, and the availability of supplies.

248 pages |

Hardback | 01/2013 | 9789633062449 | #227581A | £40.99 Add to basket

 

The Cosmic Cocktail

Three Parts Dark Matter

Katherine Freese

The ordinary atoms that make up the known universe – from our bodies and the air we breathe to the planets and stars – constitute only 5 percent of all matter and energy in the cosmos. The rest is known as dark matter and dark ...

250 pages | 8 plates with colour photos and colour illustrations; 42 b/w photos, 31 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 05/2014 | 9780691153353 | #211374A | £19.95 Add to basket

Paperback | NYP 05/2016 | 9780691169187 | #227469A | £13.95 Add to basket

 

The Hebrides

Con Gillen

Field guide to the one of the most popular areas in the UK for geological field trips and studies.

192 pages |

Paperback | NYP 06/2016 | 9781780460413 | #213373A | £24.99 Add to basket

 

The Last Volcano

A Man, a Romance, and the Quest to Understand Nature's Most Magnificent Fury

John Dvorak

Volcanoes have fascinated - and terrified - people for ages. They have destroyed cities and ended civilizations. John Dvorak, the acclaimed author of Earthquake Storms, looks into the early scientific study of volcanoes and the life ...

356 pages | 8 plates with b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 12/2015 | 9781605989211 | #227627A | £17.99 Add to basket

 

Vulkaner: Varme Hilsner fra Jordens Indre [Volcanoes: Warm Greetings from Earth's Interior]

Paul Martin Holm

Periodically volcanoes attract much attention: they stop air traffic, they destroy farmland for miles, they cover cities and roads with lava, they affect the weather – and they fascinate with their beautiful violence.

280 pages | colour illustrations |

Hardback | 08/2015 | 9788702175585 | #227533A | £42.99 Add to basket

 

Vulkanok: A Karpat-Pannon Terseg Tuzhanyoi [Volcanoes: The Volcanoes of the Carpathian-Pannonian Region]

Szabolcs Harangi

This book presents the topic of volcanology for a broader audience, utilizing recent advances in the field. The author has provided examples of volcanic features in the Carpathian-Pannonian region in Central Europe wherever posible, so ...

440 pages | 350+ colour illustrations |

Hardback | 01/2011 | 9789633061107 | #227580A | £48.99 Add to basket

 
Sustainable Development
 

Humanity in a Creative Universe

Stuart A Kauffman

In the hard sciences, which can often feel out of grasp for many lay readers, there are "great thinkers" who go far beyond the equations, formulas, and research. Minds such as Stephen Hawking philosophize about the functions ...

312 pages |

Hardback | NYP 04/2016 | 9780199390458 | #227680A | £22.99 Add to basket

 

Is the Planet Full?

Ian Goldin

What are the impacts of population growth? Can our planet support the demands of the ten billion people anticipated to be the world's population by the middle of this century? While it is common to hear about the problems ...

264 pages | 21 illustrations, 10 tables |

Hardback | 05/2014 | 9780199677771 | #210075A | £31.99 Add to basket

Paperback | NYP 08/2016 | 9780198784876 | #227290A | £16.99 Add to basket

 

Markets and the Environment

Nathaniel O Keohane and Sheila M Olmstead

A clear grasp of economics is essential to understanding why environmental problems arise and how we can address them. So it is with good reason that Markets and the Environment has become a classic text in environmental studies ...

304 pages | 30 illustrations |

Paperback | 06/2007 | 9781597260473 | #163472A | £14.99 Add to basket

Paperback | NYP 03/2016 | 9781610916073 | #227696A | £18.99 Add to basket

 

Organisms and Personal Identity

Individuation and the Work of David Wiggins

AM Ferner

David Wiggins's contribution to metaphysics, logic and ethics has been widely recognized, but the connections between his work and recent issues in the philosophy of biology have been overlooked. This study demonstrates how Wiggins' ...

256 pages |

Hardback | NYP 03/2016 | 9781848935730 | #219537A | £84.99 Add to basket

 

Run, Spot, Run

The Ethics of Keeping Pets

Jessica Pierce

A life shared with pets brings many emotions. We feel love for our companions, certainly, and happiness at the thought that we're providing them with a safe, healthy life. But there's another emotion, less often acknowledged, that ...

256 pages |

Hardback | NYP 04/2016 | 9780226209890 | #227700A | £17.99 Add to basket

 

Why REDD Will Fail

Jessica L DeShazo, Chandra Lal Pandey and Zachary A Smith

Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD) attempts to address climate change from one angle – by paying developing countries to slow or stop deforestation and forest degradation. Trumpeted as a way to both ...

130 pages | 3 b/w illustrations, 3 tables |

Hardback | NYP 02/2016 | 9780415729260 | #227663A | £44.99 Add to basket

 
Data Analysis
 

Arduino for Biologists

Ed Baker

Technology has become crucial to biological science, from sensor networks to drones. These technologies are often expensive and difficult to modify, even if they do suit your specific needs. Arduino is a hugely popular, low-cost platform ...

304 pages |

Paperback | NYP 06/2016 | 9781784270421 | #223948A | £29.99 Add to basket

Hardback | NYP 06/2016 | 9781784270438 | #223949A | £59.99 Add to basket

 

CCTV for Wildlife Monitoring

An Introduction

Susan Young

CCTV for Wildlife Monitoring is a handbook on the use of CCTV in nature watching, conservation and ecological research. CCTV offers a unique ability to monitor wildlife in real time, stream video to the web, capture imagery of ...

220 pages | colour illustrations |

Paperback | NYP 04/2016 | 9781784270971 | #227479A | £29.99 Add to basket

Hardback | NYP 04/2016 | 9781784270964 | #227480A | £59.99 Add to basket

 

Environmental and Ecological Statistics with R

Song S Qian

This new edition provides a substantial update, with a revised introductory chapter that better sets the scene for the role that statistics can play in the field. It includes new chapters on data manipulation and Bayesian statistics and ...

544 pages | 180 b/w illustrations |

Paperback | 08/2009 | 9781420062069 | #182522A | £59.99 Add to basket

Hardback | NYP 07/2016 | 9781498728720 | #227488A | £57.99 Add to basket

 

Experimental Design for the Life Sciences

Graeme D Ruxton and Nick Colegrave

The careful design of experiments lies at the core of good research. Experimental Design for the Life Sciences equips you with the skills you need to effectively design experiments, making this essential aspect of the research ...

208 pages | 35 b/w illustrations |

Paperback | NYP 06/2016 | 9780198717355 | #227077A | £22.99 Add to basket

 

Quantitative Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Integrating Models with Data

Otso Ovaskainen, Henrik Johan de Knegt and Maria del Mar Delgado

This novel, interdisciplinary text achieves an integration of empirical data and theory with the aid of mathematical models and statistical methods. The emphasis throughout is on spatial ecology and evolution, especially on the interplay ...

352 pages |

Paperback | NYP 05/2016 | 9780198714873 | #227624A | £34.99 Add to basket

Hardback | NYP 05/2016 | 9780198714866 | #227625A | £74.99 Add to basket

 

Semantic Web for the Life Sciences

Andrea Splendiani and Paolo Romano

Offering a practical introduction for bioinformaticians, computational biologist, and other life scientists, Semantic Web for the Life Sciences explains the basic principles behind the semantic web and explains how to build data ...

356 pages | 50 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 06/2016 | 9781439873601 | #216625A | £49.99 Add to basket

 
Reference
 

Exhibiting the Empire

Cultures of Display and the British Empire

John McAleer and John M MacKenzie

Exhibiting the Empire considers how a whole range of cultural products – from paintings, prints, photographs, panoramas and 'popular' texts to ephemera, newspapers and the press, theatre and music, exhibitions ...

304 pages |

Hardback | 10/2015 | 9780719091094 | #227384A | £74.99 Add to basket

 

Exploration & Discovery

Treasures of the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History

David K Skelly, Thomas J Near and Robert Lorenz

Founded in 1866 with a generous gift from international financier George Peabody, the Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale University has for 150 years acquired, studied, protected, and displayed its ever-expanding collections.

128 pages | 150 colour photos and colour illustrations |

Paperback | NYP 04/2016 | 9781933789057 | #227551A | £17.99 Add to basket

 

Getting it Published

A Guide for Scholars and Anyone Else Serious About Serious Books, Third Edition

William Germano

For more than a decade, writers have turned to William Germano for his insider's take on navigating the world of scholarly publishing. A professor, author, and thirty-year veteran of the book industry, Germano knows what editors want ...

304 pages | 5 b/w illustrations |

Paperback | 11/2008 | 9780226288536 | #176334A | £13.50 Add to basket

Paperback | NYP 04/2016 | 9780226281407 | #227694A | £19.99 Add to basket

Hardback | NYP 04/2016 | 9780226281377 | #227695A | £41.99 Add to basket

 

Gifts for the Gods

Ancient Egyptian Animal Mummies and the British

Lidija M McKnight and Stephanie Atherton-Woolham

Gifts for the Gods is an enlightening and richly illustrated book on animal mummies from ancient Egypt. Introducing readers to the wealth of animal mummies in British museums and private collections, this fascinating collection ...

140 pages | 102 colour photos |

Paperback | 09/2015 | 9781781382554 | #227751A | £19.99 Add to basket

 

New Oxford Style Manual

Oxford University Press (OUP)

The New Oxford Style Manual brings together the new editions of two essential reference works in a single volume. Combining New Hart's Rules with the New Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors, this is ...

928 pages | b/w illustrations |

Paperback | NYP 03/2016 | 9780198767251 | #227682A | £24.99 Add to basket

 

The Times Comprehensive Atlas of the World

The Times

The latest edition of the world's most prestigious and authoritative world atlas, containing up-to-date world maps and thematic information curated by experts in geography and cartography. The 14th edition contains over ...

544 pages | colour photos, colour illustrations, 320 colour maps |

Hardback | 09/2014 | 9780007551408 | #227346A | £150.00 Add to basket

 

Trusting Judgements

How to Get the Best Out of Experts

Mark A Burgman

Policy- and decision-makers in government and industry constantly face important decisions without full knowledge of all the facts. They rely routinely on expert advice to fill critical scientific knowledge gaps. There are unprecedented ...

214 pages | 56 b/w illustrations, 4 tables |

Paperback | 10/2015 | 9781107531024 | #227393A | £19.99 Add to basket

Hardback | 10/2015 | 9781107112087 | #227394A | £54.99 Add to basket