Asian Elephants: Past, Present And Future

D Swain

Provides many new and outstanding features of the grave threats posed on Asian elephants. ....

The Bat House Builder's Handbook

MD Tuttle, M Kiser and S Kiser

This new edition has been completely revised to incorporate the latest research on improving the success rates for bat houses. It updates the original bat house plans and ....

Buffalo

H Picton

In the 1800's millions of buffalo roamed the North American continent. By the turn of the century there were fewer than 500 left. This book traces the history of the North ....

Cats of Africa

Luke Hunter and Gerald Hinde

Stunning coffee-table volume that examines all members of the cat family in Africa. Hunter's text compares and contrasts all African species but concentrates on the big ....

Great Ape Odyssey

Birute Mary Galdikas

This book explores each of the great apes (gorillas, chimpanzees - including bonobos - and orangutans), interpreting the latest research and describing relationships among ....

Hippos

G Feldhake

Hippos live in the wild in over 29 countries across Africa and have existed for approx. 20 million years. They are the second largest land mammal on earth, after the elephant, ....

The Lost Wolves of Japan

Bret L Walker

Takes a deep look at the scientific, cultural, and environmental dimensions of wolf extinction in Japan and tracks changing attitudes toward nature through Japan's long ....

Otters in Britain

Grace Yoxon and Paul Yoxon

The Eurasian otter was one of the sad casualties of the 20th century, with populations declining drastically throughout its range, largely because of pesticides, habitat loss ....

Shetland Sea Mammal Report 2003

10th Anniversary Edition

Edited by Hugh Harrop

This 10th Anniversary Edition includes: A systematic list of cetaceans and other marine life seen off Shetland in 2003; A historical perspective of 'whale driving' in Shetland ....

Tree-Kangaroos

Of Australia and New-Guinea

R Martin

This book reviews the natural history and biology of tree-kangaroos from the time of their first discovery by Europeans in the jungles of West Papua in 1846 right up to ....

The War Against the Beaver

Learning to be Wild in the North Woods

V Andermatt Conley

The War against the Beavers is a wry and funny account of two people's ten-year apprenticeship in backwoods living, from their arrival as naive babes in the woods to ....

Wolves

T Fuller

Today, many people consider the wolf as a symbol of wilderness, and admire their physical prowess and sense of family life. Yet others still despise the wolf as a ....

Arrivals and Rivals: A Birding Oddity

A Year of Competitive Twitching

Adrian Riley

An account of competitive twitching by two leading British birders, this book describes in an informed and lively manner the struggle in 2002 to become nationally recognised ....

Barn Owls and Major Roads

Results and Recommendations From a 15 Year Research Project

David J Ramsden

This book highlighs the impact of major roads on Barn Owl populations, suggesting that numbers have been seriously depleted over some 40% of rural England. The Trust's ....

Bird Words

Poetic Images of Wild Birds

Hugh David Loxdale

Selection of 50 poems on birds. Many species are written about including the blackbird, sparrow, pigeon, magpie, hummingbirdswan, albatross and duck.&l;&l; ....

Birds

PJ Dubois and V Guidoux

From fascinating facts to differing nesting practices and comparisons of beaks and songs, this informative book features a wide range of feathered friends, from owls to ....

Birds and Bird Lore of Bougainville and the North Solomons

D Hadden

This book describes and illustrates the birds of the North Solomons Province of Papua New Guinea. Highlights include 199 colour photographs and 25 paintings illustrating 142 ....

Birds of Myanmar

Kyaw Nyunt Lwin, Kwin Ma Mathwin and Aung Thant

This book is about the birdlife of Myanmar, and provides updated information on the more common species of the country together with full-colour illustrations. It also features ....

Birds of The World

M Baran-Marescot

With nearly ten thousand species of birds scattered throughout five continents, bird societies swarm with diversity. People have long been fascinated by birds' ability to ....

Birds of Torres del Paine National Park - Patagonia Chile\Aves del Parque Nacional Torres del Paine - Patagonia Chile

Enrique Couve and Claudio Vidal-Ojeda

This book is a photographic identification guide for over 100 resident, visiting or accidental birds in Torres del Paine National Park. Valuable information is provided on ....

Birds of Tropical America: A Watcher's Introduction to Behavior, Breeding and Diversity

Steven Hilty

Written by the author of A Guide to the Birds of Colombia and based on his many years experience leading tours in South America, this is a personal natural history of ....

Blue Grouse: Their Biology and Natural History

FC Zwickel and JF Bendell

Documents and reviews much of what is known about the biology and natural history of this bird. ....

Canadian Feathers

A Loon-atics Guide to Anting, Mimicry and Dump Nesting

Pat Bumstead

Pulled together in a single volume are details on characteristics, diet, behaviour, reproduction and family status on all 426 Canadian bird species. This book doesn't ....

Chasing Neotropical Birds

V Thornton and B Thornton

From Belize to Brazil, the forests of the American neotropics are home to an astonishing array of birds - over 3,700 different species, or nearly 40% of all the birds on earth. ....

Collins Guide to Scottish Birds

Valerie Thom

Illustrated by Norman Arlott. &l; This is an ideal pocket guide to over 180 species of bird found throughout Scotland. Each bird is illustrated with colour photos, followed by ....

Eggs of British Birds

From the Collections of the Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, Coventry

Richard Wright

This CD contains an incredible 700 photographs of more than 2,100 eggs from 215 species, coverage of almost all species found in the UK. A number of photographs of each species ....

Important Bird Areas in India: Priority Sites for Conservation

Edited by M Zafar-Ul Islam and AR Rahmani

This book is the result of five years' exhaustive work by the Bombay Natural History Society. The data, which form the core of the book, have been collected by more than ....

Introduction to California Birdlife

Jules Evens and Ian Tait

Describes the representative birds in California's seven major bioregions: ocean, seashore, coastal ranges, Central Valley, mountains and foothills, Great Basin, and ....

Introduction to the California Condor

NFR Snyder and HA Snyder

The authors delineate in clear fashion the myriad issues facing the Condor today, and looking to the future, convey a message of hope that we may still achieve viable wild ....

Know Your Birds: Australia's Most Common Birds

Louise Egerton

There are over 750 species of birds in Australia, and this guide narrows the field to Australia's best known birds. Each of the 80 entries features a photographic portrait of ....

Les Oiseaux de Midi-Pyrénées

A Gilles Brun and Eric Garcia

Covers 200 species of birds nesting in the Pyrenees. ....

Petronia: Fifty Years of Post-Independence Ornithology in India: A Centenary Dedication to Dr Salim Ali, 1896-1996

J Daniels and GW Ugra

Co-published with the Bombay Natural History Society, this commemorative volume in honor of Dr. Ali - who had been involved with the history society since he was a child - ....

Raptors Worldwide

Proceedings of the 6th World Conference on Birds of Prey and Owls

RD Chancellor and BU Meyburg

This volume forms the Proceedings of the 6th World Conference on Birds of Prey & Owls held in May 2003 in Budapest, Hungary. Provided is an extensive section on vultures, ....

Raptors of California

H Peeters and P Peeters

Notes well established field marks in addition to introducing several new pointers that help distinguish especially difficult species. More than a field guide, the book also ....

Wings Over Falsterbo

L Karlsson

This book provides background information about the migration and the research of the birds of Falsterbo, South west Sweden. It also ....

Amphibians of Peninsular India

R Daniels

Amphibians are considered to be the best indicators of environmental health. A decline in amphibian populations indicates ecosystem deterioration that might affect a wider ....

The Biology and Status of the Star Tortoise (Geochelone elegans) in Sri Lanka

Anslem de Silva

Published on the occasion of the first PHVA (Populations and Habitat Viability Assessment) for Geochelone elegans in Sri Lanka 10th-12th December 2003, Sri ....

Canadian Skin and Scales

Despite its temperate climate, Canada is home to a host of small, overlooked animals dependent on external heat sources. How they survive our harsh winters is just one ....

Elsevier's Dictionary of Herpetological and Related Terminology

DC Wareham

A compilation of clear, concise and informative definitions of the characteristic vocabulary commonly encountered and used by herpetologists when discussing, reading, or ....

Poison Frogs

Biology, Species and Captive Husbandry

J Lotters, KH Jungfer and W Schmidt

There are still many colour morphs, species and subspecies to be found in Central and South America. The authors provide the most recent overview to all known species based ....

Snakes, Lizards and Frogs of the Victorian Mallee

M Swan and S Watharow

This book covers 56 species that inhabit this area as well as a further 24 species occurring in fringe riverine and woodland systems. To aid identification a photograph of ....

Timothy the Tortoise: The Remarkable Story of the Nation's Oldest Pet

R Bruce

Timothy made his first appearance in the nation's history when he was a ship's mascot in the Crimean War in 1854. After a long naval career, he retired for a quieter life on ....

Untersuchunden zur Vergleichenden Morphologie des Gastrointestinaltraktes der Schildköten

Markus Baur

Atlas of Pacific Salmon

The First Map-Based Status Assessment of Salmon in the North Pacific

Zanthippe Augerot

This is the first book to apply a common, newly caliberated yardstick to measure, across this broad ecosystem, the state of the Pacific salmon, which have suffered precipitous ....

Coastal Fishes of Southern Africa

P Heemstra and E Heemstra

This up-to-date guide to over 400 species of the fascinating fishes along the coast of southern Africa and features over 600 original paintings showing changes with growth and ....

Common and Scientific Names of Fishes from the US and Canada

Richard C Robins

This authoritative reference provides an accurate, up-to-date checklist of common and scientific names for all described and taxonomically valid fish species living in fresh ....

Conservation of Freshwater Fish

English Edition

PS Maitland and AJ Crivelli

Fish Genetics and Aquaculture Biotechnology

Edited by TJ Pandian, CA Strussmann and MP Marian

To feed the world population, water is looked upon as a major source of food production. This book is an attempt to bring out a comprehensive volume on Fish Transgenesis, ....

FishBase 2004

Comes with a FishBase 2000 manual. ....

Sharks and Rays

Doug Perrine

These mysterious creatures belong to a fascinating group of fish which is uniquely adapted for survival in a harsh environment. This study, a general introduction to the ....

Threadfins of the world (family Polynemidae)

An Annotated and Illustrated Catalogue of Polynemid Species Known To Date

Hiroyuki Motomura

Includes 41 species belonging to 8 genera. An introductory section provides general remarks on habitat and fisheries of the family, a glossary of technical terms, an ....

Armored Scale Insect Pests of Trees and Shrubs

DR Miller and JA Davidson

This book provides the most comprehensive available information on the identification, field appearance, life history, and economic importance of the 110 species of armored ....

Australian Psylloidea Jumping Plantlice and Lerp Insects

D Hollis

Beautiful Butterflies

From the Collections of the Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, Coventry

Richard Wright

This work illustrates some 1,350 species of butterfly - all photographed from collections at the Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, Coventry, UK. For each species, ....

Blattaria, Mantodea, Orthoptera and Dermaptera of the Czech and Slovak Republics - Illustrated Key 3

P Kocarek and J Holusa

This is a list of all species of orders Orthoptera, Blattaria, Mantodea and Dermaptera found in the territory of the Czech and Slovak Republics. ....

The Butterflies of West Africa

2 Vol Set

TB Larsen

This book summarises the state of knowledge on West African butterflies. Contains up-to-date taxonomy and nomenclature for the almost 1,500 species and numerous ....

Carpenter Ants of the United States and Canada

LD Hansen and JH Klotz

In the first book devoted entirely to carpenter ants, the authors covers the ants' life history and foraging behaviour, then turn to their economic importance. A comprehensive ....

Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 2

Hydrophiloidea-Histeroidea-Staphylinoidea

I Lobl and A Smetana

Covers the following families: Helophoridae, Epimetopidae, Georissidae, Hydrochidae, Spercheidae, Hydrophilidae, Sphaeritidae, Syntelidae, Histeridae, Hydraenidae, ....

Caterpillars of Eastern North America

A Guide to Identification and Natural History

DL Wagner

This illustrated guide will enables identification of caterpillars of nearly 700 butterflies and moths found east of the Mississippi. ....

De Nederlandse Zoetwatermollusken\ The Freshwater Molluscs of The Netherlands

E Gittenberger et al

Presents detailed information on mollusc anatomy, nomenclature, living, ecology, collection, identification and geology. Apart from the approx. 90 species presently ....

De Sprinkhanen en Krekels Van Nederland\ Grasshoppers and Crickets from The Netherlands

R Kleukers et al

This book describes the distribution of all 45 species of grasshoppers and crickets known from the Netherlands and deals with the changes in distribution patterns and their ....

De Wespen en Mieren van Nederland/The Aculeate Wasps and Ants of the Netherlands

TJ Peeters et al

Provides a general account of the current knowledge of the ecology, behaviour, evolutionary history, diversity, threats and conservation aspects of this group, as well ....

Dragonflies and Damselflies of the South-Central United States

Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and New Mexico

J Abbott

This is the first guide to dragonflies and damselflies of the south-central United States. The book covers 263 species, representing more than half of the North American ....

Eastern Pacific Nudibranchs - A Guide to the Opisthobranchs from Alaska to Central America

D Behrens and A Hermosillo

A completely revised edition of Behrens' 'Pacific Coast Nudibranchs' - now has an expanded geographic coverage to include Baja California, the Pacific Coast of Mexico and ....

Fauna Iberica Volume 23

Hymenoptera, Apoidea I

Edited by Angeles Ramos Sanchez

Field Guide to the Bumblebees of Great Britain and Ireland

Mike Edwards and Martin Jenner

Excellent photographic field guide bumblebees of Britain and Ireland published in association with English Nature. The guide contains a quick identification chart, ....

First Field Guide to Dragonflies of South Africa

W Goodwin and V Goodwin

This field guide introduces the little-known world of the colourful dragonflies and damselflies of southern Africa. The ....

The Honey Bee Inside Out

CF Davis

Gives detailed information about the anatomy and physiology of the honey bee in a clear and concise format. Each of the eight copiously illustrated chapters covers an aspect of ....

Hoverflies of Northwest Europe

Identification Keys to the Syrphidae

MP Van Veen

Identifies the hoverflies of Northwest Europe and incorporates the knowledge that has been published in many articles over past decades. The book covers 500 species - nearly ....

Land Snails of British Columbia

R Forsyth

Describes all 88 species of terrestrial molluscs inhabit British Columbia. It includes photographs and detailed drawings of each, diagnostic keys and a selection of colour ....

New Developments in the Biology of Chrysomelidae

Edited by P Jolivet, JA Santiago-Blay and M Schmitt

The sheer number of species and, especially their astonishingly diverse characteristics and way of life, pose endless questions and opportunities for research. Herbivorous ....

Perspectives on Biosystematics and Biodiversity

Prof. T.C. Narendran Commemoration Volume

Edited by K Rajmohana, K Sudheer, P Girish Kumar and S Santhosh

This volume was compiled to mark the retirement of Professor T.C. Narendran, a reknowned entomologist and expert in insect systematics. Contains taxonomic reviews, revisions, ....

Pictorial Handbook: Indian Land Snails

SC Mitra et al

Contents: 1. Introduction. 2. Ecology/habitat. 3. The shell. 4. Adaptation to terrestrial habitat. 5. Feeding. 6. Reproduction. 7. Aestivation. 8. Arboreal habits. 9. ....

A Review and an Illustrated Key to Genera of Encyrtidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) from China

Edited by Zhang Yanzhou and Huang Dawei

The Chinese genera of the family Encyrtidae are reviewed in the light of systematic advances. A key to these genera is provided, and is illustrated with 111 scanning ....

SBF Volume 55: Lobsters, Mud Shrimps and Anomuran Crabs

Ray W Ingle and Marit E Christiansen

Covers those Crustacea Decapoda not included in earlier Synopses-volumes 15 (Coastal Shrimps & Prawns) and 25 (Shallow Water Crabs). ....

World Catalogue of Insects, Volume 6

Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera)

J Buszko, J De Prins and W De Prins

Ecology and Behaviour of Mesozoic Reptiles

John L Cloudsley-Thompson

Our knowledge of extinct animals depends almost entirely upon the study of fossils. This richly illustrated book clothes the skeletons of dinosaurs and other Mesozoic reptiles ....

Eifel-Trilobiten 1: Proetida

Martin Basses

The Jehol Biota

The Emergence of Feathered Dinosaurs, Beaked Birds and Flowering Plants

Edited by Mee-mann Chang

In the recent years, the late Mesozoic Jehol Biota of northern China has shown the world some of the most astonishing fossil finds ever since the discovery of the first complete ....

Late Glacial and Holocene History of Vegetation in Poland Based on Isopollen Maps

Edited by M Ralska-Jasiewiczowa et al

This book aims to present the migration histories of all main trees and some selected shrub and herb taxa on the territory of Poland during the last 14,000 years BP. ....

Missing Links: Evolutionary Concepts and Transitions Through Time

RA Martin

Provides a compendium of scientific evidence of extinct organisms, or 'missing links', that bridge the evolutionary gaps between primordial species and modern life. There is ....

Oceans of Kansas

A Natural History of the Western Interior Sea

MJ Everhart

Tells the story of the 5 million years when giant sharks, marine reptiles called mosasaurs, pteranodons, and birds with teeth flourished in and around this shallow sea. ....

The Palynology and Micropalaeontology of Boundaries

Special Publication No 330

Edited by AB Beaudoin and MJ Head

This volume explores geological boundaries in time and space using palynology and micropalaeontology. Boundaries produce distinct signatures in the micropalaeontological ....

Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part E: Porifera, Volume 3

(Demospongea, Hexactinellida, Heteractinida, Calcarea)

Keith Rigby et al

Art Forms From the Ocean

E Haeckel

This new edition of Ernst Haeckel's first work reintroduces the genius of an enigmatic scientist and passionate observer of the natural world. The beautifully reproduced ....

Diving the World's Coral Reefs

Jack Jackson

Provides a spectacular visual guide to these natural kingdoms. The text covers the natural history and ecology of coral reefs and underlines the urgent need to safeguard ....

Guide to Marine Invertebrates

Alaska to Baja California

DW Gotshall

This second revised edition includes 35 species not included in the first edition, including 13 nudibranchs. Information on each species has been updated from the first ....

Constantine Samuel Rafinesque: A Voice in the American Wilderness

Leonard Warren

Constantine Samuel Rafinesque was a quintessential nineteenth-century American scientist and naturalist. Exalted by some, cursed by others, Rafinesque gave Latin names to over ....

The Correspondence of Charles Darwin

Volume 14 1866

Charles Darwin

Charles Darwin's health improved substantially in 1866 under a dietary and exercise regime prescribed by his physician Henry Bence Jones. With renewed vigour, he worked ....

Edward Wilson's Nature Notebooks: Standard Edition

D Wilson

Edward Wilson is remembered as the artist of the British Antarctic Expedition of 1910-1912, led by Captain Robert Falcon Scott. The "Terra Nova" sailed via Madeira, ....

The Essential Wildlife Photography Manual

Successful Digital and Film Techniques for Creative Photography

Chris Weston

Invaluable manual for wildlife photographers keen to improve and update their work with the newest techniques and digital equipment. ....

Journal Kept By David Douglas During His Travels in North America 1823-1827

D Douglas

A reprint of the complete journals of David Douglas, as originally published by the Royal Horticultural Society in 1914. ....

Life in the Underground

David Attenborough

Attenborough covers not just bugs, beetles and creepy-crawlies, but scorpions and centipedes, mites and mantids, spiders and dragonflies. And not just life in the ....

Martinus Houttuyn (1720-1798) and His Contributions to the Natural Sciences, With Emphasis on Zoology

M Boeseman and W De Ligny

After a short introduction of the political and economical developments in 17th-18th century Netherlands and some general information on the Houttuyn family and its social ....

Nature's Child

Encounters with Miracles of the Natural World

John Lister-Kaye

A look, through the eyes of John Lister-Kaye and his young daughter, at the workings of nature - from jackdaws in Scotland, to fossils in Lyme Regis, to scorpions in Botswana. ....

The Rattlesnake

A Voyage of Discovery to the Coral Sea

Jordan Goodman

Epic tale of the HMS Rattlesnake, an aging British warship which was commissioned in 1846 to survey the Great Barrier Reef. ....

Traveller's Wildlife Guides

Fantastic series of wildlife guides reprinted from the popular Ecotraveller's Wildlife Guide Series. ....

Under Ground: How Creatures of Mud and Dirt Shape Our World

Y Baskin

Yvonne Baskin takes the reader from the polar desert of Antarctica to the coastal rain forests of Canada, from the rangelands of Yellowstone National Park to the vanishing ....

The Way and the Word

Science and Medicine in Early China and Greece

Geoffrey Lloyd and Nathan Sivin

Two world-renowned scholars compare and contrast the cosmology, science, and medicine of China and Greece between 400 B.C. and A.D. 200. In the process they cast new light not ....

Act III in Patagonia

William Conway

The first book to take an in-depth look at wildlife and human interaction in this spectacular area of the world. Written by William Conway, former president of the ....

Alabama Wildlife Volume 3

Imperiled Terrestrial Wildlife

Ralph E Mirarchi

This volume focuses on imperilled terrestrial wildlife, providing a close look at the vertebrates and invertebrates of special interest within the state, many of which are ....

Antarctica: The Blue Continent

D McGonigal and L Woodworth

This is the story of Antarctica, the last great wilderness on earth. Isolated by ice, wind and the wild seas of the Southern Ocean, it is the world's most pristine ....

Indian Ocean Rim: Southern Africa and Regional Cooperation

Edited by Gwym Campbell

Focuses upon the relationship between South Africa, Southern Africa and the association of Indian Ocean Rim countries. The latter, initiated by South Africa, India, Mauritius ....

The Island Chumash

Behavioral Ecology of a Maritime Society

DJ Kennett

This book provides a powerful and innovative synthesis of the cultural and environmental history of the chain of islands. Douglas J. Kennett shows that the trends in cultural ....

Secret Nature of Devon

Andrew Cooper

Practical and inspirational companion to exploring the extraordinary richness of Devon's wildlife and countryside. The first in a major new series of books covering the British ....

This Land

A Guide to the National Forests of the Central United States

Robert H Mohlenbrock

"To my knowledge, there is no other title that assembles the information gathered i this book in such a comprehensive and helpful manner...'This Land' will be a singular, ....

This Land

A Guide to the National Forests of the Western United States

Robert H Mohlenbrock

"Americans are very mobile today and many have become disillusioned with the masses encountered in the national parks...The national forests are a national secret to most ....

Wild Belfast

Robert Scott

Tells the story of the wild creatures and plants that live within the urban environment of Northern Ireland's capital. The book also takes a fresh look at the common plants ....

Wild Land

Images of Nature from the Cairngorms

Mark Hamblin and Peter Cairns

The diverse habitats in the Cairngorms, Britain's largest National Park, are home to an unrivalled variety of wildlife, including the Golden Eagle, Osprey, Pine Marten, Red ....

Wildlife of the Box-Ironbark Country

A Guide to Victoria's Goldfields Region

Chris Tzaros

The forests and woodlands of Victoria's Box-Ironbark region are one of the most important areas of faunal diversity and significance in Southern Australia. Box-Ironbark ....

Algal Culturing Techniques

Edited by Robert A Andersen

A comprehensive reference on all aspects of the isolation and cultivation of marine and freshwater algae, including seaweeds. It is divided into seven parts that cover history, ....

Antarctic Marine Protists

Edited by FJ Scott and J Marchant

A comprehensive guide to the protists that live in the surface waters and sea-ice south of the Antarctic Polar Front. More than 550 species are described and superbly ....

Auswirkungen des Landschaftswandels au die Verbreitungsmuster von Waldpflanzen

Konsequenzen für den Naturschutz

Monika Wulf

This book covers the effects of landscape change on distribution patterns of forest plants. It discusses the consequences for conservation. ....

The Biology of Fungal Pathogens

Volume 3: Fungal Pathogens and Diseases of Cereals

Edited by Joseph-Alexander Verret and Holger Klink

Necrotic leaf spots on barley caused by abiotic or biotic factors have gained considerable importance in some regions where the crop is grown. This disease complex ....

Biology of Plants

Peter H Raven, Ray F Evert and Susan E Eichhorn

This classic introduction to botany is authoritative, accurate and accessible. It emphasizes the relationships between growth and development, and structure and function, ....

Chelsea: Greatest Flower Show on Earth

Leslie Geddes-Brown

21 days, over 590 tons of soil, 157,000 visitors and the medals - The Chelsea Flower Show: the greatest flower show on Earth. Revel in the glory of this prestigious event ....

Collins Guide to Scottish Wild Flowers

Michael Scott

A pocket guide to over 350 plant species found throughout Scotland. Each species is illustrated in full colour with a comprehensive description, plus the plant's English, ....

Cotyledon and Tylecodon

Ernst van Jaarsveld and Daryl Koutnik

The first account to cover the closely related genera Cotyledon and Tylecodon. It represents information gathered over the past 25 years. Each species is described and ....

Dwarf Shrub Heaths of Europe - From Atlantic to Caucasus and Ural

Die Zwergstrauch - Heiden Europas vom Atlantik bis zum Kaukasus und Ural

I Gorissen

This book discusses European dwarf shrub heaths on oligotrophic - acid soils in all their floristic diversity. It addresses questions of how to characterise the European ....

The Easy Wildflower Guide

N Fletcher

Uses a combination of photography and artwork to make identification as easy as possible. The photographs show the plants in bloom in their natural habitats while the ....

First Records of British Flowering Plants

William A Clarke

Flora Y Vegetacion Del Macizo Occidental de la Sierra de Gredos (Sistema Central, Espana)

S Sardinero

A total of 1165 taxa have been recognised and the phytosociological character of each is provided. ....

Flora Yunnanica, Volume 21

Pteridophyta

Edited by Zu Zhengyi

Flora de Veracruz Fasc. 134: Dilleniaceae

Claudia Gallardo-Hernandez

Fungi In Forest Ecosystems

Systematics, Diversity and Ecology

Edited by Cathy L Cripps

A compilation of research from around the globe that documents a diversity of fungi and the critical roles they play in forest health and function. The intricacies of fungal ....

Handbook of Photosynthesis

Edited by M Pessarakli

Detailing all of the photosynthetic factors and processes under both normal and stressful conditions, covering lower and higher plants as well as related biochemistry ....

Hillier Plant Names Explained

Botanical Terms and their Meaning

What may seem at first a dry but necessary convention is revealed to be a way of opening up the intriguing world of plants and plantsmen. This is much more than an indispensable ....

Historic Trees of Zimbabwe

LJ Mullin

This book marks the culmination of a 30 year project. Its purpose is to preserve and share the unique heritage of Zimbabwean trees, whether indigenous or exotic, whether ....

Illustrated Field Guide to Selected Rare Plants of Northern California

Edited by Gary Nakamura and Julie Kierstead Nelson

This guide provides description and photographs of 149 rare or endangered plants found in 10 counties in Northern California. Each description is accompanied by a photo of the ....

Introduction to the Plant Life of Southern California

Coast to Foothills

PW Rundel and R Gustafson

Provides an ecological framework for the plants and their environments in the coast and foothill regions of Southern California, an area that boasts an extremely rich flora. It ....

Journey of a Single Cell to Plant

Edited by SJ Murch and PK Saxena

In plants, the ability to regenerate identical individuals from single cells is the basis for modern agriculture. These scientific advancements have given us virus-free ....

The Lichen Hunters

Oliver Gilbert

An enthusiastic account of the recent years of a burgeoning ecological movement - The British Lichen Society. Formed in 1958 the society created a complete listing of all ....

Magnolias of China

Edited by Yu-Hu Liu

The book includes 170 species, 1 hybrid, 1 subspecies and 6 varieties belonging to 11 genera. Botanical names and Chinese names are both given to each species, along with ....

Mycoflora of Northwest Himalayas (Himachal Predesh)

YS Paul and RC Sharma

In this book, fungal genera and species reported from Himachal Pradesh are listed in alphabetical order. Each genus is followed by the subdivision and class from which it ....

The Nature of Plants

Habitats, Challenges, and Adaptations

J Dawson and R Lucas

Explains how plants adapt to the challenges of their habitats. Plants may live in places that provide too little rainfall, yet they thrive, either by evading drought, like the ....

Orchid Conservation

Edited by K Dixon, S Kell, R Barrett and P Cribb

This book is a product of the First International Orchid Conservation Conference held in Perth, Australia in September 2001. It highlights the current plight of orchids and ....

Orchids: Crete and Dodecanese

Horst, Kretzschmar and Eccarius

This guide presents 70 species and 23 sub-species, while a further 5 species are to be considered doubtful or unstable. For each plant there is a detailed description and ....

Phylogenetic Supertrees

Combining Information to Reveal the Tree of Life

Edited by ORP Bininda-Emonds

This is the first book on phylogenetic supertrees, a recent, but controversial development for inferring evolutionary trees. It provides a comprehensive look at ....

Plant Biodiversity of the World

ML Rao

The book gives a complete account of the biodiversity of world. It contains six chapters, the first chapter deals with different environmental problems faced by the ....

Plant Resources of Tropical Africa Volume 2 (English Edition)

Vegetables

Edited by GJH Grubben and OA Denton

350 vegetable species are described in 275 review articles. ....

Plants from the Edge of the World

New Explorations in the Far East

Mark Flanagan and Tony Kirkham

In October 1987, a great storm devastated the historic tree collections at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and Wakehurst Place in West Sussex. The losses sparked a ....

The Plants of Mount Kinabalu Volume 5

Dicotyledon Families Magnoliaceae to Winteraceae

JH Beaman

The final volume of this excellent comprehensive account of the Kinabalu flora. The systematic section, which includes such families as Rosaceae and Rubiaceae, ....

The Pteridophytes of Mexico

John T Mickel and Alan R Smith

Written by the New York Botanical Garden's fern curator, John Mickel, and Alan Smith, a curator at UC Berkeley, a monumental and comprehensive treatment of the pteridophytes of ....

Revision of the Genus Amphisphaeria

YZ Wang, A Aptroot and KD Hyde

Sea Lavendar, Rust and Mildew

A Perennial Pathosystem in the Netherlands

JC Zadoks

This book describes how long-lived sea lavender populations come and go, and how the fungal diseases "rust" and "mildew" may contribute to their going. The temporal and ....

Sticky Wicket

Gardening In Tune with Nature

Pam Lewis

Provides information on how modifying garden habits can benefit local wildlife. This book, an account of the process, is both sharply observed and full of valuable ....

The Tree Collector

The Life and Explorations of David Douglas

A Lindsay and S House

David Douglas was one of the most important botanical collectors. Thanks to his heroic and arduous explorations of Western Canada in the nineteenth century - he once walked ....

Wattle

Acacias of Australia: Windows CD-Rom

BR Maslin

A powerful electronic key for the quick and accurate identification of Australian Acacia species. ....

The Whole Story

Alternative Medicine On Trial?

T Murcott

Alternative medicine is a fifty billion dollar per year industry. But is it all nonsense? The Whole Story rounds up the latest evidence on the placebo effect, the ....

Wild Orchids of the Southeastern United States, North of Peninsular Florida

Paul Martin-Brown

This field guide offers information on what, where, and when to find wild orchids in the Southeastern United States. ....

Wild Plants in Auckland

A Esler

Based on the author's unparalleled knowledge of the flora of Auckland, this book focuses on the urban plants growing without intentional aid from man, both native and ....

Wildlife Ponds

How to Create a Natural Looking Pond to Attract Wildlife To Your Garden

Jenny Steel

Booklet providing an insight into the importance of ponds in gardens, how to effectively make a natural looking pond, and what creatures you may expect to use it. ....

Witch Hazels

Chris Lane

Once discovered, witch hazels capture the hearts of gardeners who rank them among the best of all winter-flowering shrubs. Shrugging off several degrees of frost and a heavy ....

Woody Plants of the Southeastern United States

A Winter Guide

Ron Lance

Winter, when plants are dormant and their leaves may have fallen, is a challenging time to identify woody flora. Designed especially for winter use and featuring almost 600 ....

Animals in Translation

Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behaviour

Temple Grandin

Profoundly attracted to animals from childhood, Temple Grandin began early on to make links between the autistic and the animal views of the world. Farmers and breeders were ....

The Art of Being a Parasite

C Combes

Claude Combes illustrates what it means to be a parasite by considering every stage of its interactions, from invading and reproducing to leaving the host.&l;&l; ....

Biological Diversity: Current Trends

Edited by SP Gautam, YK Bansal and AK Pandey

To create awareness an attempt has been made to discuss various aspects of biodiversity at one platform. This book contains 40 reviews/research papers that will provide a new ....

Biology in the Laboratory

Doris R Helms, Robert J Kosinski, Carl W Helms and John R Cummings

Designed to accompany introductory level biology courses, help students to learn to form hypotheses and apply the scientific method. Questions in the manual promote critical ....

Campylobacter

Edited by JM Ketley and ME Konkel

Introductory chapters explore the taxonomy, genetic diversity, habitats, and epidemiological analysis of campylobacters. Other chapters review Campylobacter plasmid ....

Cell Biology: A Laboratory Handbook

Edited by Julio E Celis et al

A practical, exhaustive, four volume set which claims to be the first to provide cell biologists and other life scientists with the most up-to-date instructions for basic and ....

Chemical Consequences

Environmental Mutagens, Scientist Activism, and the Rise of Genetic Toxicology

Scott Frickel

Provides a historical and sociological account of the formation of an interdisciplinary science known as genetic toxicology, and of the scientists' social movement that created ....

Farewell to the Internal Clock: A Contribution in the Field of Chronobiology

G Klein and P Becker

This book is not a contribution to the numerous superstitious beliefs relating to the moon. Rather, the following will demonstrate and above all prove ....

Genes In Conflict

The Biology of Selfish Genetic Elements

A Burt and R Trivers

In evolution, most genes survive and spread wihin populations because they increase the ability of their hosts (or their close relatives) to survive and reproduce. But some ....

The Genetic Code and the Origin of Life

L Ribas de Pouplana

Celebrates the 50th anniversary of the discovery of the double helix. This book combines two complementary approaches to address the question of the development of the Genetic ....

Genetics

A Conceptual Approach

Benjamin Pierce

Focuses on the important concepts and mechanics of genetics by making important connections between topics, providing advice and encouragement, and describing the ....

Living With the Genome

Edited by F Ticehurst and A Clarke

A whole new world of genetics research is underway with its exciting potential for a better understanding of heredity and genetically inherited disease, with opportunities ....

Microbial Diversity: Opportunities and Challenges

SP Gautam, A Sharma, SS Sandhu and AK Pandey

Physiological and Ecological Adaptations to Feeding in Vertebrates

JM Starck and T Wang

Principles of Virology: Molecular Biology, Pathogenesis, and Control of Animal Viruses

SJ Flint, LW Enquist, VR Racaniello and AM Skalka

Completely revised and updated to reflect important advances in the field, Principles of Virology, Second Edition continues to fill the gap between simple introductory ....

S.A.G.E

Current Technologies and Applications

Edited by S Ming Wang

Reviews every aspect of SAGE technology (Serial Analysis of Gene Expression), including the evaluation of SAGE, the improvement and further development of SAGE methodology, the ....

The Ape in the Tree

An Intellectual and Natural History of Proconsul

A Walker and P Shipman

This book offers a unique insider's perspective on the unfolding discovery of a crucial link in our evolution: Proconsul, a fossil ape named after a performing chimpanzee ....

Bones, Stones and Molecules: "Out of Africa" and Human Origins

David Cameron and Colin Groves

Provides some of the best evidence for resolving the debate between the two hypotheses of human origins. The debate between the 'Out of Africa' model and the 'Multiregional' ....

Environmental Anthropology

From Pigs to Policies

Patricia K Townsend

Opening with a vivid description of an early anthropological life as a "child" in a new place with no dictionaries nor etiquette books, Patricia Townsend provides readers with ....

Evolution in Four Dimensions

Genetic, Epigenetic, Behavioral, and Symbolic Variation in the History of Life

E Jablonka and MJ Lamb

Ideas about heredity and evolution are undergoing a revolutionary change. New findings in molecular biology challenge the gene-centered version of Darwinian theory according ....

The Evolution-Creation Struggle

M Ruse

Creation versus evolution: What seems like a cultural crisis of our day, played out in courtrooms and classrooms across the county, is in fact part of a larger story reaching ....

Evolutionary Biology: An Introduction

D Futuyma

In its scope and emphases, Evolution is a readily recognized descendant of the author's previous textbook, Evolutionary Biology. The content of all chapters has been updated, ....

Pollenanalytische Untersuchung der Zeit der Jäger und Sammler und der Ersten Bauern an zwei Lokalitäten des Zentralen Schweizer Mittellandes

Madlena Beckmann

A pollen-analytical study of the time of hunters and collectors and the first farmers in two locations of the Central Berne Mittelland (Switzerland). The book discusses its ....

Robustness and Evolvability in Living Systems

A Wagner

All living things are remarkably complex, yet their DNA is unstable, undergoing countless random mutations over generations. Despite this instability, most animals ....

Sexual Conflict

G Arnqvist and L Rowe

The past decade has seen a profound change in the scientific understanding of reproduction. The traditional view of reproduction as a joint venture undertaken by two ....

Tending the Wild

Native American Knowledge and the Management of California's Natural Resources

MK Anderson

"This is a highly significant - one might argue revolutionary - book. It, and the author's previous research, has the potential to completely change the way 'western' ....

Why Intelligent Design Fails

A Scientific Critique of the New Creationism

Edited by Matt Young and Taner Edis

Is Darwinian evolution established fact, or a dogma ready to be overtaken by the next scientific revolution? This book argues the latter. It examines intelligent design from ....

A History of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide and its Effects on Plants, Animals and Ecosystems

Edited by JR Ehleringer, TE Cerling and MD Dearing

Extensive research in geology, atmospheric science, and paleontology provides a detailed history of CO2 in the atmosphere and an understanding of factors that have influenced ....

A Natural History of Families

Scott Forbes

Why do baby sharks, hyenas, and pelicans kill their siblings? Why do beetles and mice commit infanticide? Why are twins and birth defects more common in older human mothers? ....

Practical Ecology for Planners, Developers and Citizens

DL Perlman and JC Milder

An invaluable new resource for land use professionals and citizens (oriented toward US practitioners). It offers clear guidelines and a wealth of information on how we can ....

Sampling Rare or Elusive Species

Concepts, Designs, and Techniques for Estimating Population Parameters

Edited by WL Thompson

Describes sampling designs and survey methods for readily estimating occupancy, abundance, and other population parameters of rare, elusive, or otherwise hard-to-detect ....

Scientific Research and Discovery

Process, Consequences and Practice

Louis Legendre

Focuses on achievements and shortcomings of modern marine ecology. It also analyses the crux of all science: human capabilities and limitations of conducting research - of ....

Baumdiversität, Waldstruktur und Wachstumsdynamik zweier tropischer Bergregenwälder in Ecuador und Costa Rica

Jürgen Homeier

This book compares tree diversity, forest structure and growth dynamics of two tropical mountainous rain forests in Ecuador and Costa Rica. ....

Biodiversity of Tropical Aquatic Ecosystems

SK Kulshrestha

Aims to describe the biodiversity of two lentic ecosystems including lower lake and Mansarovar lake of Bhopal and three lotic ecosystems including rivers Khan near Indore, ....

The Community Forests of Mexico

Managing for Sustainable Landscapes

Edited by D Barton Bray and L Merino-Perez

Mexico leads the world in community managment of forests for the commercial production of timber. Yet this success story is not widely known, even in Mexico, despite the fact ....

The Comparative Roles of Suspension Feeders in Ecosystem

RF Dame and S Olenin

Systems dominated by suspension-feeders are typically impacted by human activities including recreation, aquaculture, human and industrial pollution, and bilge water from ....

The Complex Forest

Communities, Uncertainty, and Adaptive Collaborative Management

Carol J Pierce Colfer

Ecology of Indian Rivers

KS Unni

This book is a consolidated literature review of most Indian rivers from an ecological point of view covering different aspects of river studies including phytoplankton, ....

Forests Of Andaman Islands

P Devaraj

This book provides a general introduction to the distribution of rain forests of the world, and covers the following topics: The history of the Andamans; Forests of Andaman ....

Grassland - A Global Resource

DA McGilloway

The concept of grasslands as a global resource is not new. Indeed many recognised authorities have been canvassing for a global approach to understanding, managing and ....

Lamto: Structure, Functioning, and Dynamics of a Savanna Ecosystem

Edited by L Abbadie, J Gignoux, X Le Roux and M Lepage

This book synthesizes 30 years of ecological research conducted at Lamto in Cote d'ivoire about the structure, function, and dynamics of a humid savanna. The research is ....

Managing European Coasts

Past, Presnt and Future

Edited by JE Vermaat, LC Ledoux, W Salomons and K Turner

This book focuses on the interchange between a selected multidisciplinary team on future coastal management in Europe. It serves as a background for the successful ....

Meeting the Challenge: Silvicultural Research in a Changing World

Edited by JA Parrotta, HF Maitre, D Auclair and MH Lafond

This conference, entitled "Meeting the Challenge: Silvicultural Research in a Changing World", was convened to explore the changing role and expectations of silviculture to ....

Optimisation of Nutrient Cycling and Soil Quality for Sustainable Grasslands

Edited by SC Jarvis, PJ Murray and JA Roker

Terrestrial Ecoregions of Africa and Madagascar

A Conservation Assessment

N Burgess, J D'Amico Hales, E Underwood, E Dinerstein et al

As part of a global effort to identify those areas where conservation measures are needed most urgently, World Wildlife Fund has assembled teams of scientists to conduct ....

Towards Sustainable Management of the Boreal Forest

Edited by WL Adamowicz, PJ Burton, C Messier and DW Smith

A summary of the state-of-the-art in boreal forest management, this book provides a progressive vision for all of the world's northern forests. Top forestry scientists and ....

Conservation Directory 2005-2006

The Guide to Worldwide Environmental Organizations

National Wildlife Federation

50th anniversary edition of the indispensable National Wildlife Federation directory. Coverage biased toward the US, but there is good coverage of international organisations ....

Hotspots Revisited

Earth's Biologically Richest and Most Endangered Terrestrial Ecoregions

R Mittermeier et al

This new book presents the results of a four year re-analysis of the biodiversity hotspots, which originally appeared in the original Hotspots book in 1999, and provides ....

Living With Coyotes

Managing Predators Humanely Using Food Aversion Conditioning

SR Ellins

Plant Conservation

A Natural History Approach

GA Krupnick and WJ Krees

Natural history has always been the foundation of conservation biology. For centuries, botanists collected specimens in the field to understand plant diversity; now that many ....

Twitching Through the Swamp

Droppings From the Natural World

P Marren and D Carstairs

This new book is the first collection of short musings by 'Twitcher', accompanied by cartoons drawn by David Carstairs, originally published in bi-monthly editions of ....

Wildlife and Traffic - A European Handbook for Identifying Conflicts and Designing Solutions

Bjorn Luell et al

Provides practical guidance for those involved in the different phases of planning, construction and maintenance of transportation infrastructure. The main aim of the book ....

The Zoo

The Story of London Zoo

J Barrington-Johnson

Fascinating history of London Zoo going back right to the beginnings in 1826 when Sir Stamford Raffles founded the Zoological Society of London. Many people who contributed ....

Beyond Kyoto - A New Global Climate Certificate System

L Wicke

This balanced analysis presents news from the `climate-protection front'. On the down-side, neither the current 'Kyoto-Protocol' Climate Protection System with (legally ....

Diffuse Pollution

An Introduction to the Problems and Solutions

Neil Campbell, Brian D'Arcy, Alan Frost, Vladimir Novotny and Anne Sansom

Diffuse (non-point source) pollution is increasingly being recognised as a major source of water quality problems in both surface and ground water. Indeed, as pollution ....

Eutrophication Management and Ecotoxicology

Edited by MCT Scholten, EM Foekema, HP Van Dokkum, KNHBM Kaag and RG Jak

This book aims to bridge the gap between ecotoxicology and limnology. It provides an ecotoxicological perspective on lake management and describes eutrophication of shallow, ....

Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

Series Editor: LA Albert et al

Venomous Earth

How Arsenic Caused The World's Worst Mass Poisoning

A Meharg

The worst chemical disaster ever could be happening right now. In India and Bangladesh between forty and eighty million people are at risk of consuming too much arsenic from ....

White Sea

Its Marine Environment and Ecosystem Dynamics Influenced by Global Change

N Filatov

This unique book written by Russian and Norwegian scientists is an analysis of studies based on extensive data analysis and numerical modelling simulations of the White Sea ....

The Application of Ichnology to Palaeoenvironmental and Stratigraphic Analysis: Special Publication No 228

Edited by D McIlroy

It has been increasingly realized by sedimentologists in the petroleum industry and academia that integration of ichnological information into sedimentological models, and ....

The Art of Fieldwork

HF Wolcott

In this long-anticipated second edition of The Art of Fieldwork, prominent anthropologist Harry F. Wolcott updates his original groundbreaking text, which both ....

Aspects of the Tectonic Evolution of China

Special Publication No 226

Edited by J Malpas, CJN Fletcher, JR Ali and JC Aitchison

The subject of this Special Publication is one of the most interesting in global geoscience, the tectonic evolution of China. The assemblage of terranes that underlie ....

Charles Darwin, Geologist

S Herbert

The early nineteenth century was a golden age for the study of geology. New discoveries in the field were greeted with the same enthusiasm reserved today for advances in the ....

Coastal Chalk Cliff Instability in NW France: Engineering

Special Publication No 20

Edited by RN Mortimore and A Duperret

Most of the rocky coastlines around the world are subject to active erosion processes. Because of the growing hazard to local communities from coastal cliff retreat, it is ....

Confined Turbidite Systems

Special Publication No 222

Edited by S Lomas and P Joseph

This publication arose from a growing appreciation of the extent to which the development of turbidite depositional systems is fundamentally affected by basin-floor ....

Environmental Change and its Implications for Population Migration

JD Unruh, MS Krol and N Kliot

Environmental change in general, and climatic change in particular, are likely to impact significantly upon resources such as water and soils, transforming present day ....

Flow Processes in Faults and Shear Zones

Special Publication No 224

Edited by GI Alsop, RE Holdsworth, KJW McCaffrey and M Hand

Faults and their deeper level equivalents, shear zones, are localized regions of intense deformation within the Earth. They are recognized at all scales from micro to plate ....

Geochronology: Linking the Isotopic Record with Petrology and Textures

Special Publication No 220

Edited by D Vance, W Müller and IM Villa

Isotope geochemistry has produced many technical developments in the past decade or so that have revolutionized the potential information available on the tectonics of ....

Geology of the San Francisco Bay Region

Doris Sloan

This book is for the San Francisco Bay area residents and visitors who want to explore the geologic world of this spectacular area, to learn about its shapes, colours, and ....

Intra-Oceanic Subduction Systems

Special Publication No 219

Edited by R Larter and PT Leat

Recycling of oceanic plate back into the Earth's interior at subduction zones is one of the key processes in Earth evolution. Volcanic arcs, which form above subduction zones, ....

Land Change Science

Observing, Monitoring and Understanding Trajectories of Change on the Earths Surface

Edited by G Gutman et al

This volume is a synthesis of the NASA funded work under the Land-Cover and Land-Use Change Program. This is the most organised effort made to understand the dominant force ....

The Living Universe

NASA and the Development of Astrobiology

Steven J Dick and James E Strick

The authors explain how research on the origin of life became wedded to the serach for life on other planets and for extraterrestrial intelligence. ....

Mass Spectrometry

J Gross

Starting from the very principles of gas-phase ion chemistry and isotopic properties, this book leads through the design of mass analyzers and ionization methods in use to ....

Mineralogy and Geochemistry

Resources, Environment and Life

Edited by Shengrong Li, Junfeng Shen and Hong Xu

Part 1 covers Biomineral Homologies and Abiotic Biomorphs; Part 2 Biological - Mineralogical Interactions; Part 3 Biomineral and its Evironmental Information; Part 4 ....

Ophiolites in Earth History

Special Publication No 218

Edited by Y Dilek and PT Robinson

The 32 research papers in this volume examine the mode and nature of igneous, metamorphic, tectonic, sedimentological and biological processes associated with the ....

Origin and Evolution of the Ontong Java Plateau

Special Publication No 229

JG Fitton, JJ Mahoney, PJ Wallace and AD Saunders

The Cretaceous submarine Ontong Java Plateau, in the western Pacific Ocean, is the most voluminous of the world's large igneous provinces (LIPs), and represents the largest ....

The Physical Geography of Western Europe

Edited by EA Koster

The Physical Geography of Western Europe is designed to be a state-of -the-art evaluation of the physical environment of Western Europe, being both retrospective and ....

Precambrian Geology of the Tobacco Root Mountains, Montana

Edited by JB Brady, HR Burger, JT Cheney and TA Harms

Precambrian Ophiolites and Related Rocks

TM Kusky

Provides a comprehensive description and discussion of the field aspects, geochemistry, geochronology, and structure of the best of these ophiolites. ....

A Reason for Everything

Natural Selection and the English Imagination

Marek Kohn

A Reason for Everything is about Britain and natural history, butterflies and snails, impassioned beliefs, and ideological struggles. The book begins with Alfred ....

Science Serialized

Representations of the Sciences in Nineteenth Century Periodicals

Edited by G Cantor and S Shuttleworth

Examines the variety of ways in which the nineteenth century periodical press represented science to both general and specialised readerships. They explore the role ....

SuperVolcano

BBC

The year is 2020 and the world faces the ultimate threat. Not nuclear war or a terrorist attack, but the eruption of a gigantic 'supervolcano' simmering beneath Yellowstone ....

Assessments of Regional and Global Environmental Risks

Designing Processes for the Effective Use of Science in Decisionmaking

AE Farrell and J Jäger

Defying Oceans End: An Agenda for Action

Edited by LK Glover, SA Earle and G Kelleher

The result of an unprecedented effort among the world's largest environmental organizations, scientists, the business community, media, and international governments ....

Environmental Protection and the Social Responsibility of Firms

Perspectives from Law, Economics, and Business

Edited by Bruce L Hay, Robert N Stavins and Richard HK Vietor

Environmentalism and the Technologies of Tomorrow

Shaping the Next Industrial Revolution

Edited by R Olson and D Rejeski

Environmentalism and the Technologies of Tomorrow is a collection of essays by leading scientists, technologists, and thinkers that examine the nature of current technological ....

Environmentality

Technologies of Government and the Making of Subjects

A Agrawal

Fish and Fishery Products. World Apparent Consumption Statistics Based On Food Balance Sheets (1961-2001)

G Laurenti

Forcing the Spring

The Transformation of the American Environmental Movement

R Gottlieb

From the Island Press announcement: &l;&l; ....

Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology

Concepts, Methods and Agronomic Applications

Yves Tourte

The first part of the book is devoted to a recapping and integration of the essentials of plant biology, agronomy, and molecular biology so as to be able to address more ....

Histories de Légumes

des Origines à L'Orée du XXI Siècle

Edited by Michel Pitrat and Claude Foury

Well illustrated evolutionary history of some 30 domesticated vegetables, including accounts of their scientific, historical, economic and cultural significance. ....

Isles of the North: A Voyage to the Realms of the Norse

Ian Mitchell

Five years ago Ian Mitchell published Isles of the West, a unique and personal insight on the impact of "conservation bureaucracy" on the Inner Hebrides. It was the ....

Liquid Gold

The Lore and Logic of Using Urine to Grow Plants

Carol Steinfeld

Every day we urinate nutrients that could be used as fertilizer for plants, which in turn could be used to make beautiful landscapes, food, fuel, and fibre. Instead, these ....

Maize and Grace

Africa's Encounter with a New World Crop 1500-2000

JC McCann

Sometime around 1500 AD, an African farmer planted a maize seed imported from the New World. That act set in motion the remarkable saga of one of the world's most influential ....

The Meaning of Water

Veronica Strang

Water is the most valuable of our natural resources. It is, however, predicted that an alarming percentage of major cities are going to be running short of it in the next ....

Mindful Conservation

Re-thinking the Ideological and Educational Basis of an Ecologically Sustainable Future

CA Bowers

Mindful Conservatism examines how the misuse of our political vocabulary contributes to governmental, corporate, and educational policies that degrade the Earth's natural ....

Pastoral Systems in Marginal Environments

Edited by JA Milne

Permo-carboniferous Magmatism and Rifting in Europe

Special Publication No 223

Edited by M Wilson, ER Neumann, GR Davies, MJ Timmerman, M Heeremans and BT Larsen

Widespread extension occurred within the Variscan orogen and its northern foreland during Late Carboniferous to Early Permian times. This was associated with magmatism and ....

The Potato Book

Alan Romans

Traces the history of the potato from its beginnings in South America to the development of variety breeding. It explains all aspects of growing, from choosing seed potatoes, ....

Sharing Power

Learning by Doing in Co-Management of Natural Resources Throughout the World

So Shall We Reap

What's gone wrong with the world's food - and how to fix it descendants are likely to be in serious trouble

Colin Tudge

Exposes the price we have paid for the food on our table: the relentless drive for maximum production at minimum cost that has led to the erosion of rural communities ....

Strategic Management of Marine Ecosystems

Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute, Held in Nice, France, 1-11 October, 2003

Edited by E Levner et al

Tilapias as Alien Aquatics in Asia and the Pacific: A Review

SS De Silva, RP Subasinghe, DM Bartley and A Lowther

Transboundary Water Resources: Strategies for Regional Security and Ecological Stability

Proceedings of the NATO ARW held in Novosibirsk, Russia, 25-27 August 2003.

Edited by Hartmut Vogtmann and Nikolai Dobretsov

True Warnings and False Alarms: Evaluating Fears about Health Risks of Technology, 1948-1971

Allan Mazur

The Upper Parana River and its Floodplain

Physical Aspects, Ecology and Conservation

Edited by SM Thomaz, AA Agostinho and NS Hahn

In this book, the authors discuss data obtained at different spatial and temporal scales for physical and chemical factors and biological communities of the Upper Parana River ....

Biometry

Robert Sokal

This easily understood but rigorous introduction to biological statistics is a standard text and valuable reference for anyone doing scientific research. The fourth edition has ....

Concise Encyclopedia of Bioresource Technology

Edited by Ashok Pandey

Provides up-to-date information on advances in the applications and management of bioprocesses, biomass, bioenergy, biological waste treatment, biotransformations, and ....

Harrod's Librarians' Glossary and Reference Book

Ray Prytherch

Reinventing the Museum

Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on the Paradigm Shift

Gail Anderson

Brings together for the first time 35 seminal articles that reflect the museum world's ongoing conversation with itself and the public about what it means to be a museum. ....