America's Neighborhood Bats

Understanding and Learning to Live in Harmony with Them

Merlin D Tuttle

Since its first publication in 1988, America's Neighborhood Bats has changed the way we look at bats by underscoring their harmless and beneficial nature. In this second ....

Bat Migrations in Europe

A Review of Banding Data and Literature

R Hutterer, T Ivanova, C Meyer-Cords and L Rodrigues

Many of the 47 European species of bats perform seasonal long distance migrations and use geographically widely separate habitats during their life cycle. A successful ....

Behavioural Patterns of the One Horned Indian Rhinoceros

Observations in Kaziranga

Kamal Chandra Patar

The food preferences of the one horned Indian rhinoceros were determined in the Kaziranga National Park, (KNP) during the dry season of 1975-1976. ....

Building Homes for Bats

Merlin Tuttle

Bat houses now provide vital roosting habitat for bats throughout North America. In this 33-minute DVD, Merlin Tuttle introduces viewers to America's most successful bat house ....

Cognitive Development in Chimpanzees

Edited by Tetsuro Matsuzawa, Masaki Tomonaga and Masayuki Tanaka

Foreword by Jane Goodall. ....

Collins Animals

Stephen Harris

A visually engaging, large format family reference guide to the animals of Britain and Europe, from one of the UK's foremost wildlife experts. ....

Death in the Grizzly Maze: The Timothy Treadwell Story

M Lapinski

On the afternoon of October 5, 2003, in Alaska's Katmai National Park, one or more brown bears killed and ate Timothy Treadwell, a well-known wildlife celebrity, and his ....

Digit and the Gorillas of Rwanda

Ian Redmond

From the pen of a leading writer and conservationist, this is a compelling account of the mountain gorillas of Rwanda. Redmond tells the history of Digit (the gorilla so ....

Fauna Sinica: Mammalia, Volume 9: Cetacea: Carnivora: Phocoidea Sirenia

Zhou Kaiya

The Chinese marine mammals include representatives in three mammalian orders: Cetacea, Carnivora and Sirenia. The cetacean fauna contains 9 of the world's 14 cetacean families ....

The Grandest of Lives

Eye to Eye with Whales

Douglas H Chadwick

The largest creatures to inhabit the Earth, whales have long inspired awe in human beings. Because they spend almost 95 percent of their time beneath the ocean surface, ....

A Guide to Rabbit Management

S Wray

This publication is a summary of the existing body of knowledge with regard to the European Rabbit Oryctolagus cuniculus, and gives relatively straightforward guidance on ....

A Guide to the Large Mammals of Thailand

John WK Parr

This concise guide will assist the amateur naturalists and professionals in the field identification of all 138 large mammal species found within Thailand. Every species has ....

Horse Breeds of the World

Nicola Jane Swinney and Bob Langrish

Presents histories of 150 world horse and pony breeds. Horses and ponies from 50 countries are profiled, including descriptions of their physique, personality, and ....

Rats

A Year with New York's Most Unwanted Inhabitants

Robert Sullivan

Surprisingly funny and compulsively readable, Rats is an unlikely account of a year spent in a garbage-strewn alley in lower Manhattan. Sullivan spends the year with a ....

Rhino Rescue

Garry Hamilton

Profiles people and organisations around the world helping to preserve rhinos in their natural environments. ....

The Secret World of Bats

Merlin Tuttle

This 48-minute film, originally shown on CBS television, captures all aspects of bat behavior as world-renowned cinematographer Dieter Plage follows Bat Conservation ....

Seeing the Elephant

The Ties That Bind Elephants and Humans

Eric Scigliano

For millennia, people all over the world have revered, adored and exploited elephants. In Thailand, a pregnant woman might duck under an elephant's belly to encourage an easy ....

White-tailed Deer Habitat

Ecology and Management on Rangelands

Timothy Edward Fulbright and J Alfonso Ortega-S

For most of the last century, range management meant managing land for livestock. The best measure of success was how well a landowner grew the grass that cattle ate. In this ....

The World of the Polar Bear

Norbert Rosing

The culmination of more than 20 years' study by one of the world's leading natural history photographers. Rosing takes us through the year of the polar bear, showing the ....

An Atlas of Movements of Southwest Siberian Waterbirds

J Veen et al

This Atlas of Movements of Southwest Siberian Waterbirds is a contribution to the knowledge of the migratory movements of Siberian waterbirds, with special reference to ....

Avian Flight

J Videler

Covers all the main aspects of aerial locomotion by birds including sections on the history of bird flight study, aerodynamics, functional morphology, evolution, ....

BWPi 2006

OUP/BirdGuides Ltd

A supplementary disk to BWPi (Bird of the Western Palearctic on DVD-ROM). BWPi 2006 contains additional species accounts from the journal BWP Update. ....

Bird Mimicry

A Remarkable Collection of Imitations by Birds

Richard Ranft

Marvel at the sounds of a Shropshire Jay that neighs like a horse and a Blackbird in London that imitates a computer modem. From the world's largest collection of nature ....

Birding Babylon

A Soldier's Journal from Iraq

Jonathan Trouern-Trend

Early in 2004, a National Guardsman from Connecticut arrived in Iraq for a year's posting. From nearly day one until he left Iraq, Trouern-Trend wrote about his bird ....

Birding Costa Rica

Birds of Brazil / Aves do Brasil

An Artistic View / Uma Visao Artística

Tomas Sigrist

Birds of Brazil - An Artistic View, will dazzle ornithologists, nature lovers, conservationists and artists everywhere. This generous 672 page hardback is teeming with ....

Birds of Prey Rescue

Pamela Hickman

Illustrated with spectacular photographs, this book profiles the dedicated people, organisations and projects around the world helping endangered raptors survive in their ....

Birds of Southwestern British Columbia

Richard Cannings, Tom Aversa and Hal Opperman

This beautiful little volume will delight and inspire bird lovers who live in or are visiting southwestern BC. An amazing amount of useful information is packed into this ....

Birds of the Dominican Republic and Haiti

S Latta, J Wiley, C Rimmer, H Raffaele, A Keith, K McFarland and E Fernandez

The Dominican Republic and Haiti share the island of Hispaniola, the second largest in the Caribbean after Cuba, and the home of several endemic species, including the Palm ....

Birds of the World

Recommended English Names

Edited by Frank B Gill and Minturn T Wright

The product of more than 15 years of discussion, debate and review by a team of international experts sanctioned by the International Ornithological Congress, this book ....

Collins Bird eGuide

The most complete field guide to the birds of Britain and Europe

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

Superb new electronic field guide based on the best-selling Collins Bird Guide. ....

DVD-ROM Guide to British Birds, Version 8

BirdGuides

The DVD-ROM Guide to British Birds Version 8 uses new software based on BWPi - now it's even easier to compare any images or sounds and to view the superb artwork and video ....

Donde Ver Aves en España

Los 100 Mejores Lugares

José Antonio Montero, Eduardo de Juana and Fernando Barrio

The ideal guide for discovering a hundred of the most interesting and accessible natural sites for birding. Includes informative, up-to-date texts on the natural features and ....

The Goshawk

Robert Kenward

A large and spectacular bird of prey, the Goshawk lives in boreal forests throughout the Northern hemisphere. A powerful hunter of large birds and woodland mammals, it was ....

Handbook of Australian, New Zealand and Antarctic Birds: 7 Volume Set

Edited by Peter Higgins

The Handbook of Australian, New Zealand and Antartic Birds (HANZAB) is one of the world's major ornithological projects. This seven volume set, realises the vision to ....

Handbook of Australian, New Zealand and Antarctic Birds: Volume 7

Boatbill to Starlings

Peter Higgins, John Peter and Sid Cowling

The Handbook of Australian, New Zealand and Antartic Birds is one of the world's major ornithological projects. This final volume, published in 2 parts, is the culmination of ....

Handbook on Indian Wetland Birds and their Conservation

A Kumar, JP Sati, PC Tak and JRB Alfred

The first comprehensive handbook on Indian Wetland birds, which provides information on 310 wetland bird species from India. Each species description comprises brief ....

Hummingbirds of Texas

With their New Mexico and Arizona Ranges

CE Shackelford et al

Written for a general audience, with spectacular images for birders and nature enthusiasts at every level, "Hummingbirds of Texas" reveals the enormous appeal of this ....

Life on the Wing

A stunning photographic biology of birds

Brutus Ostling and Magnus Ullman

Illustrated with photographs taken around the world, this book is the first to show the huge range of lifestyles that birds have used to become one of the most successful ....

The New Birds of the West Midlands

covering Staffordshire, Warwickshire, Worcestershire, and the former West Midlands County

Graham Harrison and Janet Harrison

The original Birds of the West Midlands, produced for the West Midland Bird Club's 50th anniversary, was highly acclaimed at the time. Now, 25 years on, the long-awaited New ....

Ospreys

Flying home to Rutland Water

David Attenborough

Ospreys are back and breeding in England after an absence of 150 years. David Attenborough narrates their story and that of the organisations and volunteers that made ....

A Photographic Guide to the Birds of the Indian Ocean Islands / Guide Photographique des Oiseaux des Iles de l'Océan Indien

Madagascar, Mauritius, Seychelles, Reunion and the Comoros

Ian Sinclair, Olivier Langrand and Fanja Andriamialisoa

This photographic guide depicts a selection of the most commonly encountered and striking bird species of Madagascar, the Seychelles, the Comoros, and the Mascarenes - a ....

The Pocket Guide to the Birds of Prey of Britain and Europe

Peter Hayman and Rob Hume

A definitive field reference, "The Pocket Guide to the Birds of Prey of Britain and Europe" explores the nine raptor families, giving detailed habitat, feeding, and ....

RSPB Handbook of British Birds

Peter Holden and Tim Cleeves

This is a completely revised and updated edition of the best selling RSPB Handbook of British Birds. This unique guide provides a `biography' of each of the 300 commonest ....

The Really Useful Garden Bird Handbook

Mike Ward

This little book tells you everything you need to know to attract, feed and shelter wild birds in your garden. How to turn even the smallest garden into a haven for birds all ....

Secret Lives of British Birds

Dominic Couzens

Following the bestselling Secret Lives of Garden Birds, this trip around Britain's principal habitats exposes the extraordinary hidden world of some of our most familiar ....

Toucans of the Americas / Tucanos das Américas

Herculano Alvarenga and Eduardo Brettas

Toucans, Toucanets and Aracaris ....

UK500: Birding in the Fast Lane

James Hanlon

Birding in the Fast Lane is an insight into the world of twitching, an anecdotal, humourous and highly personal account of some of the author's most memorable - and ....

Veränderungen der ostdeutschen Agrarlandschaft und ihrer Vogelwelt

K George

Dissertation on the subject of changes in the East German agricultural landscape and its bird distribution since reunification. ....

What's That Bird?

A Quick Reference Guide to the Most Common European Garden Birds

Paul Sterry

An easy-to-use guide to 200 of the most common European garden birds that includes pictures of males and females, flight patterns and calls so you can quickly identify ....

Amphibians and Reptiles of the San Diego Region

Jeffrey M Lemm

With its varied topography of coast, mountains, and desert, the San Diego region, considered one of the world's biodiversity hotspots, boasts a rich variety of amphibians ....

Atlas of the Amphibians of Cheshire and Wirral

Jonathan Guest and Andy Harmer

This atlas includes sections on conservation, estimating populations, distribution, amphibians in place-names, amphibian habitats in Cheshire etc. ....

The Calls of the Frogs of Madagascar

Edited by Miguel Vences, Frank Glaw and Rafael Marquez

This bundle of 3 CD contains two types of recordings: (1) Calls of a particular species, for which we usually selected recordings of single specimens, with highest recording ....

Common Rat Snake of India: Their Functional Morphology and Bionomics

Shiv Dutta

The Common Indian Rat Snake, Pyas Mucosus (Linn.) is one of the commonest snake both in the hills and the plains and is widely distributed throughout the whole of India, ....

The Eyelash Geckos

Care, Breeding and Natural History

Edited by Hermann Seufer et al

As to date, there is no comprehensive monograph about this family of geckos, it suggested itself to gather as much of the available knowledge as possible, and to ....

A Guide to the Reptiles and Amphibians of Egypt

Sherif Baha El Din

Reptiles and amphibians are among Egypt's most successful wildlife, found in almost every habitat in the country, from homes to fields and the desert itself. For the first ....

Lizards

Windows to the Evolution of Diversity

Eric R Pianka and Laurie J Vitt

Pianka and Vitt, authors of Lizard Ecology (Princeton UP, 1994), provide the definitive reference on lizards, covering species evolution, diversity, ecology, and ....

Die Nilweichschildkröte - Trionyx triunguis

Dieter Gramentz

After more than 15 yeras of field research in Western and Central Africa and Turkey, Gramentz hereby presents the first monograph featuring this soft-shelled tortoise. The ....

Reptilien und Amphibien Europas

Axel Kwet

Identification guide to the reptiles and amphibians of Europe. Covers more than 190 species, with up to four photos per species. Contains distribution maps and keys. ....

The Snakes of Sulawesi: A Field Guide to the Land Snakes of Sulawesi with Identification Keys

Ruud de Lang and Gernot Vogel

Covers 54 Species and sub-species of snakes found in Sulawesi, located in the south Pacific. Each species account provides scientific and common names, identification ....

The Biology of the Threespined Stickleback

Sara Ostlund-Nilsson, Ian Mayer and Felicity Anne Huntingford

Since sticklebacks have undergone evolutionary radiation in different environments, research provides an important new model system for understanding the underlying ....

Commercial Fishes of the Eritrean Red Sea

Amanuel Ghebremichael

This book provides a guide to some of the many commercial fishes of the Eritrean Red Sea and the marine environment they inhabit. This guide is designed as a working tool for ....

A Field Guide to the Fishes of Kuching Rivers

Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo

Katherine Atack

A Field Guide to the Fishes of Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo introduces the non-taxonomic reader to the variety of fish species in the mostly estuarine rivers ....

Fish Endocrinology

Edited by Manfred Reinecke, Giacomo Zaccone and BG Kapoor

During the past two decades, fish endocrinology has witnessed exciting developments due to our increased knowledge at all levels of biological organizations, including ....

Fishes of the World

Joseph S Nelson

Celebrating it's 30th year in print, Dr. Nelson's book is a classic in its field, unique in its presentation of a modern introductory systematic treatment of all major fish ....

The Freshwater Fishes of Manitoba

Kenneth Stewart and Douglas A Watkinson

Manitoba's ninety-three species of fish give the province the third most diverse fish population in Canada. The province's variety of geological features, with its major ....

Metazoan Parasites of Salmonid Fishes of Europe

Salmonids represent a large group of freshwater and migratory fishes of tremendous value in both sport and commercial fisheries; many species have become the subject of ....

Sharks, Skates and Rays of the Gulf of Mexico

A Field Guide

Glenn R Parsons

Designed as a field guide, this easy-to-use reference provides details on biology, distribution and status, similar species and nomenclature, as well as personal ....

World Atlas of Marine Fishes

Rudie H Kuiter and Helmut Debelius

This World Atlas shows more than 6000 photos of 4200 species of fish found in the oceans worldwide. Presented here are the fishes one is likely to see when diving or ....

100 Caterpillars

Portraits from the Tropical Forests of Costa Rica

Jeffrey C Miller, Daniel H Janzen and Winifred Hallwachs

Every bright monarch butterfly or striking luna moth started out in a far subtler form of nature's mosaic, a humble caterpillar. It is this early stage of life--crafted by ....

Acta Zoologica Fennica, Vol. 215: Morphological Characters of Adult Syrphidae

Descriptions and phylogenetic utility

H Hippa and G Stahls

Aphids on the World's Herbaceous Plants and Shrubs

An Identification and Information Guide

Roger Blackman and Victor Eastop

Aphids are well-known as pests of agriculture, horticulture and forestry, but they are also one of the most biologically interesting groups of plant-feeding insects, and thus ....

Asian Honey Bees

Biology, Conservation and Human Interactions

Benjamin P Oldroyd and Siriwat Wongsiri

The familiar European hive bee, Apis mellifera, has long dominated honey bee research. But in the last 15 years, teams in China, Japan, Malaysia, and Thailand began to shift ....

Beetles of California

Arthur V Evans and James N Hogue

With perhaps 8,000 different species, beetles are easily the largest group of animals in California and can be found virtually everywhere in the state. They grapple over flower ....

The Biology and Fisheries of the Slipper Lobster

Kari L Lavalli and Ehud Spanier

The Biology and Fisheries of the Slipper Lobster serves as the first major volume dedicated to the biology of slipper lobsters, including Scyllarides, Scyllarus, Thenus, ....

Bivalves and Bivalve Habitats in the Northern Red Sea

An Actuopalaeontological Approach

M Zuschin and PG Oliver

Butterflies of Cape Peninsula

A Comprehensive Guide

AJM Claassens

In this area of less than 420 square kilometres are found 67 species and sub-species. Uppersides and undersides of all species are depicted in colour, and relevant ....

The Butterflies of Ladakh: Volume 5

V Tshikolovets

The first comprehensive reference on 370 butterfly and skipper species known to occur in Ladakh (NW India). All species are figured in colour (about 1470 images, including many ....

Butterflies of the Bristol Region

R Barnett, R Higgins, T Moulin and C Wiltshire

With a foreword by Bill Oddie. ....

Butterflies of the Western Cape

A Guide to Common Garden, Park and Wayside Butterflies

AJM Claassens

A user-friendly guide to the identification of the 53 species common in urban areas of the region. Both sexes of each species are illustrated. The photographs are accompanied ....

Cercopid Spittle Bugs of the New World

(Hemiptera, Auchenorrhyncha, Cercopidae)

Cervasio Carvalho and Michael D Webb

South America possesses a staggering number of insect species. Whilst most people are familiar with its butterflies few realise that there is a group of equally colourful and ....

Cleroidea : Beetles of the Superfamily Cleroidea in the Czech and Slovak Republics and Neighbouring Areas / Brouci nadceledi Cleroidea Ceska,

Slovenska a sousednich oblasti

J Kolibac, K Majer and V Svihla

The book includes a key to the species of the families Phloiophilidae, Trogossitidae, Thanerocleridae, Cleridae, Acanthocnemidae, Dasytidae, Melyridae aand Malachiidae. The ....

Coleopterist's Handbook

Edited by Jonathan Cooter and MVL Barclay

A completely rewritten edition of the classic handbook. ....

Coléoptères d'Europe: Carabidae, Dytiscidae and Gyrinidae, Volume 1: Adephaga

Gaetan du Chatenet

Illustrated descriptions of nearly 900 beetle species, including clear descriptions of each species, giving its Latin name, its biology, a description including its minimum ....

Drepcici (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Alticinae) Ceska a Slovenska

P Cizek

Flea-beetles of the Czech and Slovak Republics. ....

Encyclopedia of South American Aquatic Insects: Odonata - Anisoptera

Illustrated Keys to Known Families, Genera, and Species in South America

Charles W Heckman

Anisoptera is the first of two volumes on the Odonata in the series Encyclopedia of South American Aquatic Insects. The second will treat the Zygoptera. ....

Fascinating Insects: Some Aspects of Insect Life

Pierre Jolivet and Krishna K Verma

This book highlights the very successful and much diversified group of organisms, the insects, and deals with some interesting aspects of insect life, which are often ignored ....

Fauna Helvetica 15: Decapoda

P Stucki and B Zaugg

Field Guide of Cuban-West Indies Butterflies

Luis Roberto Hernandez

The Fire Ants

Walter R Tschinkel

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

Fruit Beetles of Costa Rica

Angel Solis

This field guide includes an introduction with information about the morphological characteristics of the Cetoniinae, their distribution in the world and in Costa Rica, ....

Function and Detailed Morphology of the Tylenchida (Nematoda)

E Geraert

This is the first and so far the one and only treatise on the morphology of the Tylenchs. Tylenchs are economically important Nematodes that live in huge numbers in the ....

Galling Arthropods and their Associates

Ecology and Evolution

Edited by Kenichi Ozaki et al

This book addresses recent developments in the ecology, evolution, systematics, physiology, and biodiversity of gall-inducing arthropods, with individual contributions ....

Highland Bumblebees

Distribution, Ecology and Conservation

Murdo Macdonald and Gill Nisbet

This book describes the current state of the 16 species of bumblebee found in the Highland region of Scotland. Covers all aspects of the biology and ecology of these ....

Insect Symbiosis, Volume II

Kostas Bourtzis and Thomas A Miller

Insect Symbiosis, Volume 2 summarizes current knowledge of symbiotic organisms in the biology of insects. Written by authorities on symbionts, the microbes associated with ....

Insects and Human Life

Brian Morris

Based on his years spent in Malawi, Morris demonstrates an intimate knowledge of virtually every aspect of human-insect relations. Not only is the book useful in terms ....

Katydids of Costa Rica, Volume 1

Systematics and bioacoustics of the cone-head katydids

P Naskrecki

This volume, first in a 3-part series, presents a monographic treatment of the Costa Rican fauna of the cone-head katydids (Conocephalinae + Copiphorinae + Agraeciinae). ....

Kaufmann Field Guide to Insects of North America

K Kaufmann and E Easton

Many insects are difficult even for the experts to identify. In the new Kaufman Field Guide to Insects of North America, a ....

Libellen sterreichs

Rainer Raab, Andreas Chovanec and Josef Pennerstorfer

Describes all 77 species of dragonflies in Austria in detail and provides general information about the biology, distribution and status of dragonflies. ....

Les Libellules de France, Belgique et Luxembourg

Daniel Grand and Jean-Pierre Boudot

The first book published on the dragonflies of France, Belgium and Luxemburg in the French language. This book serves as a textbook on the biology, taxonomy and ecology of ....

Les Longicornes des Petits Antilles (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae)

Taxonomie, Ethologie, Biogeographie

F Chalumeau and J Touroult

This monograph on the longhorn beetles of the Lesser West Indies (Anguilla to Grenada) and Virgin Islands is the first regional synthesis covering all known species, including ....

Monograph of the Gomphodesmidae, a Family of African Polydesmoid Millipeds

RL Hoffman

The Moths of Borneo, Parts 15 & 16 (Noctuidae: Catocaline)

Subfamilies Euteliinae, Stictopterinae, Plusiinae, Pantheinae

JD Holloway

Opisthobranchs of Japan Islands

Nakano Rie

Photo identification guide. ....

The Other Insect Societies

James T Costa

Foreword by Bert Holldobler and a commentary by E O Wilson ....

Les Papillons de la Réunion et leurs chenilles

Dominique Martiré and Jacques Rochat

Richly illustrated guide to 32 species of butterflies and more than 200 species of moths found on Reunion. ....

A Pocket Guide: Phasmids of Peninsular Malaysia and Singapore

Francis Seow-Choen

Although phasmids are found in almost all tropical forests, not much was known about them until recently. Over the last 25 years, the Phasmid Study Group (popularly known as ....

RES Handbook Volume 1, Part 7

Psocoptera

TR New

Since the first edition of this handbook was published in 1974, seven new species of Psocoptera have been recorded in Britain. ....

Spiders of the North Woods

L Webber

Spiders of the North Woods introduces over 60 fascinating northern spiders. Spider guides are few and far between. Larry's easy-to-follow format makes field identification ....

The State of Britain's Moths

This report reveals that the moth population of Britain is in serious decline, causing concern for the future of many species of birds, bats and several small mammals that ....

The State of Butterflies in Britain and Ireland

Richard Fox, Jim Asher, Tom Brereton, David Roy and Martin Warren

This major new landmark publication provides the first assessment of the changing status of butterflies in the 21st Century, updating the Millennium Atlas of Butterflies of ....

Sterile Insect Technique

Principles and Practice in Area-Wide Integrated Pest Management

Edited by VA Dyck, J Hendrichs and AS Robinson

The sterile insect technique (SIT) is an environment-friendly method of pest control that integrates well into area-wide integrated pest management (AW-IPM) programmes. A ....

Texas Bug Book

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Howard Garret and C Malcolm Beck

Takes an organic approach to pest control highlighting the many useful roles that bugs play in nature and offering proven organic remedies for infestations of pest insects. ....

The World's First Shell Collecting Guide from 1821

John Mawe's 'The Voyager's Companion or Shell Collector's Pilot'

JD Stilwell

Shells have a mystique that transcends time. Shelled molluscs have existed since the beginning of the Palaeozoic era, an amazing half billion years ago. For thousands of ....

A Walk around the Pond

Insects in and over the Water

Gilbert Waldbauer

A water strider darts across a pond, its feet dimpling the surface tension; a giant water bug dives below, carrying his mate's eggs on his back; hidden among plant roots on ....

The Liverworts in Baltic and Bitterfeld Amber

Riclef Grolle and Kay Meister

Muschelkalkmuseum Ingelfingen

Hans Hagdorn

Descriptions of the fossils in the museum in Ingelfingern, Germany. ....

Stable Isotopes in Paleoclimatology

Mark Maslin and Jonathan Holmes

This book examines the application of stable isotopes in the reconstruction of past climatic conditions. With particular emphasis on the Quaternary, Stable Isotopes in ....

Atlante di Flora e Fauna del Mediterraneo

Guida all'ambiente sommerso

Egidio Trainito

Photographic identification guide to the flora and fauna of the Mediterranean, covering more than 800 species. ....

Cladocera: Family Ilyocryptidae (Branchiopoda: Cladocera: Anomopoda)

AA Kotov and P Stifter

Field Guide to the Sea Slugs of the Tropical Eastern Pacific

Yolanda Camacho-Garcia, Terence M Gosliner and Angel Valdes

First opisthobranch guide to the area from Guatemala to Ecuador and the Galapagos, covering 145 species, with a taxonomic key. Contains an introduction to external ....

Marine Life of the Pacific Northwest

A Photographic Encyclopedia of Invertebrates, Seaweeds and Selected Fishes

Andy Lamb and Bernard Hanby

With 1,700 superb colour photographs of over 1,400 species, Marine Life of the Pacific Northwest: A Photographic Encyclopedia of Invertebrates, Seaweeds and Selected Fishes is ....

Nudibranch Behavior

DW Behrens

This book is notable for its collection of photographs of opisthobranch biology and behaviour. Chapters include a discussion of the different orders of sea slugs, senses ....

Seashore Life of the Caribbean

Alick Jones and Sarah Jones

Survey reports of the R/V DR. FRIDTJOF NANSEN 1975-89

FAO

The research vessel DR. FRIDTJOF NANSEN operated for 18 years (1975 to 1993), surveying shelves and slopes of tropical and subtropical regions. The main objective was to ....

Window to the Sea

Behind the Scenes at America's Great Public Aquariums

John Grant and Ray Jones

Captures the beauty and adventure of the undersea world and reveals the dramatic work done by marine scientists and other staff at public aquariums in the US. ....

The Birdwatcher's Guide to Digital Photography

David Tipling

"The Birdwatcher's Guide to Digital Photography" is a comprehensive guide that covers a wide number of topics, such as ....

Civilized Life in the Universe

Scientists on Intelligent Extraterrestrials

George Basalla

This book is a selective and fascinating history of scientific speculation about intelligent extraterrestrial life. From Plutarch to Stephen Hawking, some of the most ....

Ending in Ice

Alfred Wegener's Revolutionary Idea and Tragic Expedition

Roger M McCoy

An old truism holds that a scientific discovery has three stages: first, people deny it is true; then they deny it is important; finally, they credit the wrong person. ....

Experiencing Nature

The Spanish American Empire and the Early Scientific Revolution

Antonio Barrera-Osorio

As Spain colonized the Americas during the sixteenth century, Spanish soldiers, bureaucrats, merchants, adventurers, physicians, ship pilots, and friars explored the ....

Lake Monster Mysteries

Investigating the World's Most Elusive Creatures

Benjamin Radford and Joe Nickell

For centuries, eyewitnesses around the world - from America to Africa, Argentina to Scotland - have reported sightings of dark, mysterious creatures in area lakes that ....

Life

Lennart Nilsson

Presents a visual account of human development, from DNA to stem cells, by one of the leading scientific photographers. This book includes studies of hormones, conception and ....

Lonesome George

The Life and Loves of a Conservation Icon

Henry Nicholls

Lonesome George is a 5ft long, 200lb tortoise aged between 60 and 200. In 1971, he was discovered on the remote Galapagos island of Pinta, from which tortoises had supposedly ....

The Longest Winter

The Incredible Survival of Captain Scott's Lost Party

Katherine Lambert

One of the greatest unknown survival stories to come out of the heroic age of polar exploration. This book documents the unknown story of Scott's Northern party and their ....

Naturalist

Edward O Wilson

Now available in a revised and updated edition with a new foreword by the author. ....

Nature Revealed

Selected Writings, 1949-2006

Edward O Wilson

Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Edward O. Wilson is one of the leading biologists and philosophical thinkers of our time. In this compelling collection, Wilson's observations ....

Nature's Restoration

People and Places on the Front Lines of Conservation

Peter Friederici

Across America and around the world, people are working to help nature heal itself. In Bermuda, a man single-handedly grows thousands of trees on a small island to restore ....

The Open Air

Richard Jefferies

A collection of essays that attempt to distill the essence of nature, and of life in the country into prose, and to impart the wonder the author feels when immersed in nature. ....

Planet Earth

Alistair Fothergill

Foreword by Sir David Attenborough ....

The Psychology of Science and the Origins of the Scientific Mind

Gregory J Feist

In this book, Gregory Feist reviews and consolidates the scattered literatures on the psychology of science, then calls for the establishment of the field as a unique ....

RSPB Guide to Digital Wildlife Photography

David Tipling

This is a helpful and practical RSPB guide to all aspects of digital wildlife photography, accessibly written by and beautifully illustrated with the work of one of ....

Reconceiving the Gene

Seymour Benzer's Adventures in Phage Genetics

Frederic L Holmes

Relates how, between 1954 and 1961, the biologist Seymour Benzer mapped the fine structure of the rII region of the genome of the bacterial virus known as phage T4. ....

Science Magazine's State of the Planet 2006-2007

Edited by Donald Kennedy

How often in today's environmental debates have you read that "the science is in dispute" - even when there is overwhelming consensus among scientists? Too often, the ....

Seeking the Sacred Raven

Politics and Extinction on a Hawaiian Island

Mark Jerome Walters

Will the 'Alala ever return to the wild? A bird sacred to Hawaiians and a member of the raven family, the 'Alala today survives only in captivity. How the species once ....

Stubbs and the Horse

Malcolm Warner and Robin Blake

A versatile genius whose oeuvre includes paintings, engravings and detailed anatomical studies, George Stubbs (1724-1806) was fascinated by horses. This handsome book presents ....

TWAS at 20

A History of the Third World Academy of Sciences

Daniel Schaffer

For the past 20 years, the Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) has been at the forefront of efforts to promote science and science-based developments in the developing ....

Thus Spoke Galileo

The great scientist's ideas and their relevance to the present day

Andrea Frova and Mariapiera Marenzana

You might know what is said about Galileo, but not many people know what Galileo himself actually said! His elusive and often misquoted discourse has resulted, over the years, ....

Vanishing Wildlife

A Sound Guide to Britain's Endangered Species

Richard Ranft

Recordings from the British Library Sound Archive of some of the most elusive birds, mammals, insects and frogs in Britain. ....

Archipelago

Portraits of Life on the World's Most Remote Islands

David Liittschwager and Susan Middleton

This new masterwork, by the creators of the acclaimed 2001 book, Remains of a Rainbow, showcases the unique flora and fauna of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, both ....

Beat About the Bush

Trevor Carnaby

More comprehensive than a field guide yet more accessible than an academic text, this authoritative reference answers fundamental questions about mammals and birds in the ....

Bill Oddie's How to Watch Wildlife DVDs

Bill Oddie

Two DVDs containing episodes 1-8 and 6-19 of the BBC series. ....

Creatures of Empire

How Domestic Animals Transformed Early America

Virginia DeJohn Anderson

When we think of the key figures of early American history, we think of explorers, or pilgrims, or Native Americans--not cattle, or goats, or swine. But as Virginia DeJohn ....

An Ecotraveller's Guide to Costa Rica

Hannah Robinson

Costa Rica: More diversity is crammed into its borders per square mile than any other country in the world, and this book takes you to the best places to see it all. ....

Good Parks Guide

The ultimate compendium of over 500 of the best public, countryside, urban and historic parks in the UK. Compiled in conjunction with GreenSpace and the RHS, this practical ....

Hiking the Grand Canyon

John Annerino

Fully revised, updated, and expanded, this ever-popular Sierra Club Totebook is an information-packed guide to America's best-known national park, the destination of more ....

Introduction to California Chaparral

Ronald D Quinn and Sterling C Keeley

The characteristic look of California Chaparral--a soft bluish-green blanket of vegetation gently covering the hills--is known to millions who have seen it as the ....

Ireland's Coastline

Exploring its Nature and Heritage

Richard Nairn

No part of Ireland is more than 100km from the coast and over half the population live within 10km of it. This book is a comprehensive account of the natural and human history ....

Irish Trees

The Wild Flowers, Plants and Trees of Ireland

Niall Mac Coitir

In ancient Ireland mythology and folklore were part of the general knowledge about each tree. This book gathers the myths, legends and folklore associated with the native Irish ....

Land of Mountain and Flood

The Geology and Landforms of Scotland

Alan McKirdy, John Gordon and Roger Crofts

The sheer diversity of Scotland's rocks and landforms are the physical reminders of a fascinating physical and chronological journey which shows that the land that makes up ....

Life in the Chesapeake Bay

An Illustrated Guide to the Fishes, Invertebrates, Plants, Birds and other Animals of Bays and Inlets from Cape Cod to Cape Hatteras

Alice J Lippson and Robert L Lippson

Life in the Chesapeake Bay is the most important book ever published on America's largest estuary. Since publication of the first edition in 1984, tens of thousands of ....

The Meadowlands

Wilderness Adventures on the Edge of New York City

Robert Sullivan

Just five miles west of New York City, the Meadowlands is an untamed, vilified, half-developed and smelly tract of swampland. It is home to rare birds and missing ....

Mike Butterfield's Guide to the Mountains of New Mexico

Peter Greene

This handy, beautifully illustrated guide to the mountains of New Mexico includes all prominent mountain ranges and other high points, with their locations, access, major ....

Le Monde Vegetal de Zermatt

C Käsermann, F Meyer and A Steiner

Mountains of New Mexico

Robert Julyan

Many non-New Mexicans envision New Mexico as one large desert, yet New Mexico is very much a mountain state, with more than one hundred named mountain groups. New Mexico's ....

Northwest California

A Natural History

John O Sawyer

Northwestern California is mainly known for its majestic redwood forests and incomparable coastline, but there is much more in its rich biota and scenery. The ....

A Portrait of England

Campaign to Protect Rural England

A visual celebration of the English countryside and its natural and human history. Published in association with the CPRE and introduced by its President, Sir Max ....

Return to Wild America

A Yearlong Search for the Continent's Natural Soul

Scott Weidensaul

In 1953, birding guru Roger Tory Peterson and noted British naturalist James Fisher set out on what became a legendary journey-a one hundred day trek over 30,000 miles around ....

Sipadan Mabul Kapalai: Sabah's Underwater Treasure

Jason Isley et al

On the northeast coast of Sabah, Malaysia, lie three seemingly insignificant islands. Ignored by the rest of the world until the 1980s, it has only recently been discovered ....

Travellers' Wildlife Guide: Australia - the East

Les Beletsky

This book provides you with all the information you need to find, identify, and learn about Australia's magnificent animal and plant life. Identification and location ....

Travellers' Wildlife Guide: Hawaii

Les Beletsky

This book contains all the information a traveller needs to find, identify, and learn about the region's magnificent animal life. ....

Travellers' Wildlife Guide: Southern Africa

W Branch, C Stuart, T Stuart and W Tarboton

From the world-famous Kruger National Park in South Africa, to Botswana's Okavango Delta, Namibia's Etosha National Park, and Zimbabwe's Hwange National Park, the ....

Travellers' Wildlife Guide: Southern Mexico

Les Beletsky

Useful for nature travellers to Southern Mexico, this guide covers the Cancun Region, Yucatan Peninsula, Oaxaca, Chiapas, and Tabasco. It provides the information you need to ....

Vietnam: A Natural History

Eleanor Jane Sterling, Martha Maud Hurley and Le Duc Minh

A country uncommonly rich in plants, animals, and natural habitats, the Socialist Republic of Vietnam shelters a significant portion of the world's biological diversity, ....

Acta Botanica Fennica, Vol. 177: Bryophyte Flora of Hunan Province, China, 3: Bryophytes from Taoyuandong and Yankou Nature Reserves and

Badagongshan and Hupingshan National Nature Reserves, with additions to floras of Mangshan Nature Reserve and Wulingyuan Global Cultural Heritage Area

T Koponen et al

Acta Botanica Fennica, Vol. 178: Bryophyte Flora of Hunan Province, China, 5 and 6

MS Ignatov et al

Contains Brachytheciaceae (Musci), with an overview of Eurhynchiadelphus and Rhynchostegiella in SE Asia; and Jungermanniaceae and Gymnomitriaceae (Hepaticae). ....

Alaska Trees and Shrubs

LA Viereck and EL Little

New, completely revised and updated edition of the classic Alaska Trees and Shrubs, which has long been the definitive work on the woody plants of the fourty-ninth state. ....

Algae of Ukraine, Volume 1

Cyanoprocaryota, Euglenophyta, Chrysophyta, Xanthophyta, Raphidophyta, Phaeophyta, Dinophyta, Cryptophyta, Glaucostophyta, and Rhodophyta

OV Borisova et al

The first of a scheduled 2 volume set on the algae of the Ukraine. The present volume covers 967 genera and 4942 species (5905 infra- specific taxa). For each taxon ....

Alleebäume

Wenn Bäume ins Holz, Laub und in die Frucht wachsen sollen

Peter Kurz and Michael Machatschek

Antidesma in Malesia and Thailand

Petra Hoffmann

Antidesma is a genus in the family Phyllanthaceae (Malpighiales; Euphorbiaceae sensu lato). It comprises trees and shrubs which are conspicuous by their racemes of often ....

Arbres et Arbustes aux Quatre Saisons

JD Godet

Guide to 270 trees and shrubs of Western Europe. ....

Les Bryophytes du Centre-Ouest

Classification, Determination, Repartition

RB Pierrot

Cactus Basics

Tony Mace

The strange and beautiful world of cacti and succulents is explored in this guide to their care and cultivation. It includes tips and techniques on treating pests, diseases, ....

Check-list of Gabonese Vascular Plants

MSM Sosef

A Checklist of the Spermatophytes of Mount Mulanje, Malawi

AM Strugnell

Cinco Anos de Adiciones a la Flora del Ecuador 1999-2004

Carmen Ulloa Ulloa and David A Neill

Of the 1246 new additions to the Ecuadorian flora, 820 are new taxa described from Ecuadorian material, 337 names are new records for Ecuador, and 89 are taxonomic ....

DNA and Tissue Banking for Biodiversity and Conservation

Theory, Practice and Uses

Edited by Vincent Savolainen, Martyn P Powell, Kate Davis et al

The world is facing a biodiversity crisis of unprecedented magnitude. Unless there are radical changes in human behaviour, we can expect significant and alarming species loss ....

Distributiones Fungorum Belgii et Luxemburgi Fasc. 3

A Fraiture and R Walleyn

Ecology of Harmful Algae

Edna Graneli and Jefferson T Turner

Table of contents: 1 An Introduction to Harmful Algae ....

The Ecology of Plants

Jessica Gurevitch, Samuel M Scheiner and Gordon A Fox

This thoroughly revised and updated book is now in full colour and augmented by many new illustrations and references. Brighter than ever, "The Ecology of Plants" covers a range ....

Endangered Plants of Japan: A Florilegium

Edited by Ohba Hideaki

Beautiful illustrations of 182 of Japan's rarest and most notable plants. The full page illustrations are accompanied by descriptions and distribution information in Japanese ....

The Epidemiology of Plant Diseases

Edited by BM Cooke, D Gareth Jones and B Kaye

Plant disease epidemiology is a dynamic science that forms an essential part of the study of plant pathology. This book brings together a team of 35 international experts. ....

European Community Plant Variety Protection

Gert Würtenberger et al

This book is intended as a practical guide to the European Community plant variety protection system under Council Regulation (EC) 2100/94. This system was introduced to ....

Farbatlas der Basidiomyceten (Colour Atlas of Basidiomycetes): Lfg 23

Meinhard Moser and Ursula Peintner

Feast of Dates

D Potts

Tells the story of the date palm from archaeological finds, oral and historical records, practical farming knowledge and scientific research. Not only does it place the tree ....

Flora Genérica de los Páramos

Guía Ilustrada de las Plantas Vasculares

Petr Sklenao, Lames L Luteyn et al

The Paramo is one of the richest high-elevation mountain ecosystems in the World with high biological diversity and endemism, but it is ecologically fragile. This book ....

Flora Hellenica Bibliography

Arne Strid

Second, revised edition listing 13.276 bibliographic references; includes a searchable CD-ROM. ....

Flora Neotropica, Volume 95: Siparunaceae

Susanne S Renner and Gerlinde Hausner

This monograph treats both genera and discusses the family`s vegetative and reproductive morphology and anatomy, embyology, palynology, chemistry, ethnobotany, and ecology as ....

Flora Neotropica, Volume 96: Drosera (Droseraceae)

Mireya D Correa A and Tânia R dos Santos Silva

A taxonomic revision of Drosera, the only genus of Droseraceae found in the Neotropics, is presented. This treatment includes full synonymy, typification, descriptions, and ....

Flora Neotropica, Volume 97: Marchantiidae

Helene Bischler-Causse, S Robbert Gradstein et al

This monograph of the neotropical Marchantiidae treats 103 species in two orders: Marchantiales and Monocleales. Marchantiales are represented in the Neotroppics by 102 ....

Flora Neotropica, Volume 98: Tococa (Melastomataceae)

Fabian Michelangeli

In Tococa (Melastomataceae), the author puts the spotlight on this Neotropical genus. While mostly woody shrubs and small trees and occasionally climbing or creeping vines, ....

Flora de la República de Cuba, Series A: Plantas Vasculares, Fasicúlo 11 Pteridophyta

PA Gonzalez Gutierrez and J Sierra Calzado

Covers the following families: Azollaceae/ Dicksoniaceae/ Equisetaceae/ Isoetaceae/ Lophosoriaceae/ Marsileaceae/ Oleandraceae/ Ophioglossaceae/ Osmundaceae/ ....

Flora of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 4: Campanulaceae - Asteraceae

Peter Sell and Gina Murrell

Planned in five volumes, this critical Flora provides a definitive account of the native species, naturalised species, frequent garden escapes and casuals found in the British ....

Flora of Siberia, Volume 11: Pyrolaceae - Lamiaceae (Labiatae)

Flore d'Afrique Centrale (Congo-Kinshasa, Rwanda, Burundi): Spermatophytes - Iridaceae

Daniel Geerinck

Forêts de la Réserve du Dja (Cameroun)

Etudes floristiques et structurales

Bonaventure Sonké

Fruit Trees of the Caribbean

Sandra Hewitt

Fruit growing in the tropical regions of the world is quite different from the more temperate areas where the majority of fruits are strictly seasonal and mostly ripen from ....

Fungi Europaei, Volume 5a: Entoloma (Supplement)

Machiel E Noordeloos

Fungi Europaei, Volume 9: Amaniteae

P Neville and S Poumarat

Gene Transfer to Plants

R Twyman

Gene transfer to plants was first achieved more than twenty years ago. Since then, plant transformation technology has developed rapidly and in the last few years the benefits ....

The Genus Arisaema

A Monograph for Botanists and Nature Lovers

Liliane Gusman and Guy Gusman

This second edition, fully revised and updated, takes into account latest results in phylogeny of Arisaema, and incorporates all new species described since 2002, the year ....

Golden Harvest

The Story of Daffodil Growing in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly

A Tompsett

Presents the history of daffodil growing in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. ....

Guide Delachaux des Arbres d'Europe

Owen Johnson and David More

French translation of the Collins Tree Guide. ....

Guide des Fleurs de Montagne

Alpes, Pyrenees, Vosges, Jura, Massif Central

Christopher Grey-Wilson and Majorie Blamey

Popular guide to 1600 flowers found in the mountainous regions of Europe. ....

Guide des Orchidées d'Europe d'Afrique du Nord et du Proche-Orient

P Delforge

Identification guide to 485 species and their different varieties found in Britain and Europe, and including North Africa, Israel, Lebanon, Syria and Asian Turkey. Basic keys ....

Guide des Plantes à Fleurs

Des arbres et des arbustes d'Europe occidentale

D Mac Clintock, R Fitter, S Favarger and C Favarger

Covers more than 1700 flowering plants, trees and shrubs in Western Europe. ....

Guide to Common Urban Lichens 1 (on Trees and Wood)

Dobson

This is a good time to look at urban lichens, as levels of sulphur dioxide, air pollution and acid rain have been falling rapidly. Many leafy lichens are growing in ....

Guide to the Seaweeds of KwaZulu-Natal

O De Clerck et al

Herbs

Challenges in Chemistry and Biology of Herbs

Edited by Mingfu Wang et al

Herbs have been widely used for centuries to promote good health and treat disease in Asian countries. Indeed, the general population of both Eastern and Western countries ....

Histoire de la Botanique

Joelle Magnin-Gonze

A history of botany from Antiquity to the end of the 19th century. ....

Horticultural Flora of South-Eastern Australia, Volume 5: Flowering Plants - Monocotyledons

Edited by Roger Spencer

This is the fifth and final volume of The Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. The series gives gardeners, horticulturists, landscape designers, park ....

Intermountain Flora, Volume 2B: Subclass Dilleniidae

Noel H Holmgren, Patricia K Holmgren and Arthur Cronquist

Part B of volume 2, covering subclass Dilleniidae, contains many economically and ecologically important plant groups, including Brassicaceae (mustard family), Salicaceae ....

Lichen - Forming, Lichenicolous and Allied Fungi of Israel

Edited by S Wasser and N Eviatar

Algae and Fungi of Israel is a critical inventory of recent species diversity of lichen - forming, lichenicolous, and allied fungi found in Israel up to 2005 and includes 112 ....

A Little History of British Gardening

J Uglow

This "potted" history of gardening in Britain takes the reader on a garden tour from the thorn hedges around prehistoric settlements to the rage for decking and ornamental ....

Maine Mosses: Sphagnaceae-Timmiaceae

B Allen

The mosses of Maine, families Sphagnaceae through Timmiaceae, are keyed, illustrated, and described in detail. Within this volume, 23 families, 72 genera, and 231 species are ....

Medicinal Plants of Asia and the Pacific

Christophe Wiart

Covers all aspects of botany, ethnology, pharmacology, toxicology, pharmacy and medicine, and presents all important classes of natural products, classified by their ....

Morels

Michael Kuo

A comprehensive, accessible book for both amateur morel hunters and mushroom scientists about one of North America's most popular outdoor activities Michael Kuo brings years of ....

Natural Resistance Mechanisms of Plants to Viruses

Edited by Gad Loebenstein and John Peter Carr

This book is a first attempt to link well known plant resistance phenomena with emerging concepts in molecular biology. Resistance phenomena such as the local lesion response, ....

The Orchids of Cuba / Las Orquídeas de Cuba

Juan O Llamacho and Julio A Larramendi

The compilation of photographs of more than 150 species of Cuba's orchids will allow those who are not regular visitors to regions where these wonders live, or those who do ....

The Oxford Companion to the Garden

Patrick Taylor

This sumptuous new Oxford Companion is devoted to gardens of every kind and the people and ideas involved in their making, in every part of the world where the designed ....

A Passion for Trees

The Legacy of John Evelyn

Maggie Campbell-Culver

Given the extent of his influence on 17th-century life, and his lasting impact on the British landscape it is remarkable that no book has been written before about John ....

Philip's Guide to Mushrooms and Toadstools of Britain and Europe

Geoffrey Kibby

A rapid identification guide to the larger fungi of Britain and Northern Europe, containing accurate illustrations with distinguishing characteristics labelled. A ....

Pictorial Encyclopedia of Oaks in Japan

Plant Genome: Biodiversity and Evolution

Volume 2, Part B: Lower Groups

Edited by AK Sharma and Sharma A

The present series on Plant Genomics: Biodiversity and Evolution aims to cover, in successive volumes, comprehensive reviews, concepts and discussions on the results of ....

Plant Micronutrients

Roles, Responses and Amelioration of Deficiencies

CP Sharma

This book addresses biochemical and physiological roles of micronutrients in plants and the diverse ways in which they react to limitations in micronutrients supply, ....

Plant Physiology

Lincoln Taiz and Eduardo Zeiger

The fourth edition of this established US textbook text returns better than ever to provide plant science students with a fresh, colourful textbook, suitable for a variety ....

Plant Pigments and Their Manipulation

Kevin Davies

Plant pigments represent a large and active field of research that impacts on fundamental studies of plant function and gene expression, agriculture, the processing ....

Plant Resistance to Arthropods

Molecular and Conventional Approaches

C Michael Smith

Plant Resistance to Arthropods - Molecular and Conventional Approaches synthesizes new information about the environmental advantages of plant resistance, transgenic ....

Plant-Environment Interactions

Bingru Huang

Fully revised and expanded, Plant-Environment Interactions, Third Edition leverages recent research to provide unparalleled insight concerning the most important and common ....

Les Plantes Protégées de Lorraine

Distribution, Ecologie et Conservation

Serge Muller

214 protected plant species of the Lorraine are described. This book provides historical and current distribution, habitat, ecology and conservation status for each species. ....

Plants of the Simen

A flora of the Simen Mountains and surroundings, northern Ethiopia

Christian Puff and Sileshi Nemomissa

The book covers 101 families (gymnosperms: 1; dicots: 79; monocots: 21), close to 300 genera and 545 species recorded from the Simen and surroundings. Brief descriptions are ....

Plastids

Simon Geir Moller

Plastids are essential plant organelles, vital for life on earth. They are important not just as photosynthetic organelles (chloroplasts) but also as sites involved in many ....

Propagation Basics

How to Make More from Your Plants

Steve Bradley

An award-winning guide to increasing your plant supply with practical, step-by-step illustrations. Starting with the easiest of techniques like planting seeds and taking ....

La Préparation des Echantillons d'Herbier

L Fish

Rose Basics

Amanda Beales

A guide to growing and cultivating roses. From the history, species and traditions that have made roses so popular, to an understanding of the basic anatomy and development of ....

Seeds of Central America and Southern Mexico: The Economic Species

David L Lentz and Ruth Dickau

This work features photographs of seeds and background data, including family names, common names, distribution information, habitat and growth habit and descriptions, ....

Shetland Lichens

Kery Dalby and Claire Dalby

This book is the first county lichen flora for any part of Britain. The first half of the book looks at lichens, what they are, their reproduction, lifestyle, habitats etc. ....

Terricolous Bryophyte Vegetation of Chilean Temperate Rain Forests

Communities, adaptive strategies and divergence patterns

Friederike Schaumann

Texas Wildflowers: A Field Guide

C Loughmiller and L Loughmiller

For two decades and counting, Texans have relied on Texas Wildflowers to identify the common and rare flowers we see along the roadsides and in the pastures, fields, and ....

Wiens Pflanzenwelt

B Haslehner

Photo identification guide with 638 common and rare plant species found in Vienna. Includes a distribution map for each species. ....

Wildflowers in the Field and Forest

A Field Guide to the Northeastern United States

Steve Clemants

Many of us have stopped to pick wildflowers or have admired them as they flourished in fields and along hiking trails and roads. Always appreciated, but not always recognized, ....

A World Monograph of the Genus Plectocarpon (Roccellaceae, Arthoniales)

Edited by Damien Ertz and Claude Christnach

Animal and Human Health and Welfare

A Comparative Philosophical Analysis

L Nordenfelt

For many years scientists within human and animal science have extensively discussed the philosophy of medicine, but never have both sides communicated on their concepts of ....

BSAVA Manual of Psittacine Birds

Edited by Nigel Harcourt-Brown and John Chitty

Aimed at veterinarians and aviculturalists, but with usefulness to zoo workers. The second edition has been updated and rewritten under the direction of a new editorial ....

Chemical Signals in Vertebrates, Volume 10

Edited by RT Mason, MP LeMaster and D Muller-Schwarze

This volume is comprised of the proceedings of Chemical Signals in Vertebrates 10, held July 29th through August 1st, 2003 at Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon, USA. ....

Doctor Dolittle's Delusion

Animals and the Uniqueness of Human Language

Stephen R Anderson

Dr Dolittle had it wrong, says the author of this fascinating book: animals cannot use language. Stephen Anderson explains the difference between communication and language, ....

Evolutionary Genetics

Concepts and Case Studies

Edited by Charles W Fox and Jason B Wolf

The diverse field of evolutionary genetics is unified by two goals: to understand the impact that evolutionary processes have on genetic variation, and to understand the ....

Handbook of Biologically Active Peptides

Abba Kastin

Peptides play a crucial role in many physiological processes, whether as neurotransmitters, hormones and antibiotics. Research has shown their importance in ....

Human Physiology: The Basis of Medicine

G Pocock and CD Richards

This established textbook provides medical students and others in health-related disciplines with the essential information and learning tools necessary to understand ....

Introduction to Glycobiology

Maureen E Taylor and Kurt Drickamer

Introduction to Glycobiology reveals the true impact of the sugars on biological systems, explaining their functions at the molecular, cellular, and organismal level. ....

Invertebrate Medicine

Gregory Lewbart

Diseases of Invertebrates is the single most comprehensive resource available today on invertebrate animal medicine. Public and private aquarists, aquaculturists, and ....

Life Sciences for the Non-Scientist

Viqar Zaman

As diverse as they are interesting, the issues within the life sciences never fail to impress and stir controversy among the lay public. In a field that too often presents ....

Mammalian Diversification

From Chromosomes to Phylogeography

Eileen A Lacey and Philip Myers

This volume combines a series of rigorous, original research papers with more informal recollections of James L. Patton, who served as Curator of Mammals in the Museum of ....

Microbial Degradation of Aromatic Compounds

Jerome J Kukor and Gerben J Zylstra

Emphasizing metabolism, Microbial Degradation of Aromatic Compounds integrates information on metabolic pathways, enzymology, genetics, and molecular biology. This ....

Natural Products Isolation

Edited by Richard JP Cannell

Natural Products Isolation: Second Edition presents a practical overview of just how natural products can be extracted, prepared, and isolated from the source material. ....

Prokaryotic Diversity

Mechanisms and Significance

Edited by Niall Logan, Hilary Lappin-Scott and Petra Oyston

The true extent of prokaryote diversity, encompassing the spectrum of variability among bacteria, remains unknown. Current research efforts focus on understanding why ....

Rätseltiere

Krypto-Zoologie: Mythen, Spuren und Beweise

Manfred Reitz

This book gives a general overview of cryptozoology, the science of finding "hidden" or mythical animals. ....

Systems Biology

Properties of Reconstructed Networks

Bernhard O Palsson

Genome sequences are now available that enable us to determine the biological components that make up a cell or an organism. The new discipline of systems biology examines how ....

Techniques of Molecular Biology

Edited by D Tagu and C Moussard

Contents: Definition; Structure and Expression of a Eukaryote Gene Coding for an mRNA and a ....

The 21st Century Brain

Explaining, Mending and Manipulating the Mind

Steven Rose

This is a compelling and authoritative study of the brain - its past, present and future. The human brain is the most complex structure in the known universe. How it ....

The Emergence of Life

From Chemical Origins to Synthetic Biology

Pier Luigi Luisi

The origin of life from inanimate matter has been the focus of much research for decades, both experimentally and philosophically. Luisi takes the reader through the ....

Evolutionary Pathways in Nature

A Phylogenetic Approach

John C Avise

Reconstructing phylogenetic trees from DNA sequences has become a popular exercise in many branches of biology, and here the well-known geneticist John Avise explains why. ....

The Evolving World

Evolution in Everyday Life

David P Mindell

In the 150 years since Darwin, evolutionary biology has proven as essential as it is controversial, a critical concept for answering questions about everything from the ....

Geoarchaeology

The Earth-Science Approach to Archaeological Interpretation

George (Rip) Rapp and Christopher L Hill

Considering the history and theory of geoarchaeology, this book discusses soils and environmental interpretations; initial context and site formation; methods of discovery ....

The Primordial Emotions

The dawning of consciousness

Derek Denton

To understand what is happening in the brain in the moment you decide, at will, to summon to consciousness a passage of Mozart's music, or decide to take a deep breath, is ....

Structural and Evolutionary Genomics

Natural Selection in Genome Evolution

Giorgio Bernardi

Structural genomics is the study of the DNA of living organisms. Evolutionary genomics is the study of the history of the genome. These subjects are closely interlinked. They ....

Toward an Evolutionary Biology of Language

Philip Liebeman

In this forcefully argued book, the leading evolutionary theorist of language draws on evidence from evolutionary biology, genetics, physical anthropology, anatomy, and ....

Aliens in the Backyard

Plant and Animal Imports into America

John Leland

Some 10,000 alien plants and animals live in North America. The iconic American cowboy spread such alien life forms as cows, horses, anthrax, and ....

Community Ecology

Peter J Morin

Standard textbook for community ecology and population, and community ecology courses. Revised edition in preparation, due to be published at the end of 2006. ....

An Ecological and Societal Approach to Biological Control

Edited by HMT Hokkanen and J Eilenberg

Biological control is among the most promising methods for control of pests (including vectors), diseases and weeds. In this book ecological and societal aspects are for the ....

Foundations of Restoration Ecology

Donald A Falk, Margaret A Palmer and Joy B Zedler

Foundations of Restoration Ecology advances the science behind the practice of restoring ecosystems while exploring ways in which restoration ecology can inform basic ecological ....

Fundamental Processes in Ecology

An earth systems approach

David M Wilkinson

Fundamental Processes in Ecology presents a way to study ecosystems that is not yet available in ecology textbooks but is resonant with current thinking in the emerging ....

Invasion Biology: Critique of a Pseudoscience

DI Theodoropoulos

This book presents an unorthodox point of view on invasive species: ....

Invasive Species in the Pacific Northwest

Edited by PD Boersma, SE Reichard and AN Van Buren

The U.S. government defines invasive species as "an alien species whose introduction does or is likely to cause economic or environmental harm or harm to human health." What ....

Stable Isotope Ecology

Brian Fry

Stable isotopes are used as tracers in biological systems, and their ability to track changes and processes over time has made them increasingly important to ecological and ....

Biomes of the Earth

Michael Allaby, Trevor Day and Peter D Moore

Biomes of the Earth is a 10-volume set, in full color, that outlines the main features of each of Earth's major biomes. The biomes covered include the tundra habitats, the ....

Boreal Peatland Ecosystems

Edited by R Kelman Wieder and Dale H Vitt

Table of Contents: ....

Borne of The Wind

Michigan Sand Dunes

Dennis Albert

Sand dunes are among the most rugged and beautiful natural features of the Lake Michigan and Lake Superior shorelines. These dunes comprise the most extensive freshwater dunes ....

Building for Life

Designing and Understanding the Human-nature Connection

Stephen R Kellert

This is a definitive examination of how the inter-relationship between nature, architecture, and design is essential to human well-being. "Sustainable design" has made ....

Computer Applications in Sustainable Forest Management

Including Perspectives on Collaboration and Integration

Edited by Guofan Shao and Keith M Reynolds

Computer Applications in Sustainable Forest Management presents state-of-the-art computer applications in a variety of specialty areas of forestry, including inventory, ....

Corridor Ecology

The Science and Practice of Linking Landscapes for Biodiversity Conservation

Jodi A Hilty, William Z Lidicker and Adina M Merenlender

"Corridor Ecology" presents guidelines that combine conservation science and practical experience for maintaining, enhancing, and creating connectivity between natural areas ....

Designing Greenways

Sustainable Landscapes for Nature and People

Paul Cawood Hellmund and Daniel Smith

How are greenways designed? What situations lead to their genesis, and what examples best illustrate their potential for enhancing communities and the environment? Designing ....

Dry

Life without Water

Ehsan Masood and Daniel Schaffer

Water is in the air we breathe and beneath the ground we walk on. The very substance of life, it makes up as much as 60 percent of the human body. And yet, for one billion ....

Forests in Time

The Environmental Consequences of 1000 years of Change in New England

Edited by David R Foster and John D Aber

Based on research at Harvard Forest, this book describes the natural and human-induced changes in the land and environment of New England over the past one thousand years. ....

In Search of Swampland: A Wetland Sourcebook and Field Guide

R Tiner

Traditionally, most Americans have viewed natural wetlands as wastelands, places to be drained and converted for farming or filled for housing and industrial development. To ....

Logjam

The Crisis of Global Forest Governance

David Humphreys

In this timely book, David Humphreys, author of Forest Politics, extends his analysis of the main political developments in forest governance over the last decade including ....

Managed Ecosystems and CO2

Case Studies, Processes, and Perspectives

Edited by J Nösberger et al

Contents: ....

The Maya Tropical Forest

People, Parks and Ancient Cities

James D Nations

The Maya Tropical Forest, which occupies the lowlands of southern Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize, is the closest rainforest to the United States and one of the most popular ....

Methods in Stream Ecology

Edited by F Richard Hauer and Gary A Lamberti

This bestselling title has been significantly revised and updated. Now including important information on remote sensing, the relation between stream flow and ....

The Mountain Encyclopaedia

A A-Z Compendium of over 2,250 Terms, Concepts, Ideas and People

Frederic Hartemann and Robert Hauptman

A comprehensive reference containing a stunning collection of mountain art and photography, The Mountain Encyclopedia is an alphabetically arranged overview of all the ....

Perspectives on Tsunami Hazard Reduction: Observations, Theory and Planning

Gerald Hebenstreit

Philip's Guide to Deserts

Tony Allan and Andrew Warren

Well illustrated introduction to the world's desert regions - their formation, highly adapted animal and plant life, precarious ecologies and natural resources, significant ....

Philip's Guide to Mountains

Tim Stott and Stephen J Cribb

Brings together the many and various aspects of the study of mountains and mountain activity into a single volume. The book begins by looking at how mountains form, and ....

Remote Sensing of Aquatic Coastal Ecosystem Processes

Science and Management Applications

Edited by Laurie L Richardson and Ellsworth F LeDrew

The aquatic coastal zone is one of the most challenging targets for environmental remote sensing. Properties such as bottom reflectance, spectrally diverse suspended sediments ....

Restoring The Pacific Northwest

The Art and Science of Ecological Restoration in Cascadia

Dean Apostol and Marcia Sinclair

The Pacific Northwest is a global ecological "hotspot" because of its relatively healthy native ecosystems, a high degree of biodiversity, and the number and scope of ....

Savannas and Dry Forests

Linking People with Nature

Edited by Jay Mistry and Andrea Berardi

Parched landscapes, biodiversity loss, encroaching deserts and deforestation are some of the environmental crises taking place in tropical savanna and dry forests throughout the ....

State of the World's Forests. Collection 1995-2005

FAO

FAO has released a CD-ROM containing the entire collection of the "State of the World's Forests" since its first edition. It contains all six issues of the publication. ....

Urban Forest Acoustics

Voichita Bucur

Trees can reduce noise by sound reflection and absorption. Investigating noise control in urban environments, Voichita Bucur's new book Urban Forest Acoustics covers the ....

Waterlogged Wealth

Why Waste the World's Wild Places?

E Maltby

First published in 1986, this book did much to raise awareness of the importance of wetlands to people, wildlife and environmental quality. The last 20 years have witnessed ....

Wildfire

A Century of Failed Forest Policy

George Wuerthner

Wildfires are an awe-inspiring natural phenomenon that have shaped North America's landscapes since the dawn of time. They are a force that we cannot really control, and ....

A Winter Survey of Syrian Wetlands

Final Report of the Syrian Wetland Exhibition January - February 2004

DA Murdoch et al

Animal Biodiversity: Patterns and Processes

TN Ananthakrishnan and KG Sivaramakrishnan

Indian perspective on biodiversity. This book attempts to provide an overall emphasis of diverse aspects of animal ....

Conservation Across Borders

Biodiversity in an Interdependent World

Charles C Chester

Conservationists have long been aware that political boundaries rarely coincide with natural boundaries. From the establishment of early "peace parks" to the designation of ....

The Endangered Species Act at Thirty, Volume 2

Conserving Biodiversity in Human-dominated Landscapes

Edited by J Michael Scott, Dale D Goble and Frank W Davis

A companion volume to "The Endangered Species Act at Thirty: Renewing the Conservation Promise", published by Island Press in fall 2005, this new book examines the key policy ....

Striper Wars

An American Fish Story

Dick Russell

When populations of striped bass began plummeting in the early 1980s, author and fisherman Dick Russell was there to lead an Atlantic coast conservation campaign that ....

Activated Carbon Surfaces in Environmental Remediation

Teresa J Bandosz

Activated Carbon Surfaces in Environmental Remediation provides a comprehensive summary of the environmental applications of activated carbons. In order to understand the ....

Applied Atmospheric Dynamics

Amanda Lynch and John Cassano

The weather can be a cause of disruption, despair and even danger everywhere around the world at one time or another. Even when benign it is a source of constant fascination. ....

The Barrier Zones in the Ocean

Emelyan M Emelyanov

Geochemical barrier zones play an important role in determining various physical systems and characteristics of the oceans, e.g. hydrodynamics, salinity, temperature and light. ....

Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage

Special Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

IPCC

This IPCC Special Report describes sources, capture, transport, and storage of CO2. It discusses the costs, economic potential, and societal issues of the technology, ....

The Effects of UV Radiation in the Marine Environment

Edited by Stephen de Mora, Serge Demers and Maria Vernet

Provides a comprehensive review of UV radiation effects in the marine environment. A multidisciplinary approach is adopted to discuss all aspects from a physical, chemical ....

The Environmental Endgame

Mainstream Economics, Ecological Disaster, and Human Survival

Robert L Nadeau

Environmental economics from a U.S. perspective. ....

Environmental and Pollution Science

Ian L Pepper, Charles P Gerba and Mark L Brusseau

This updated edition of Pollution Science includes the latest on environmental influences and impact. It integrates a large number of environmental subjects and ....

The Equations of Oceanic Motions

Peter Müller

Modeling and prediction of oceanographic phenomena and climate is based on the integration of dynamic equations. ....

Fragile Earth

Views of a changing world

Mark Lynas, Guy Dauncey, Michael Allaby and Joel Garreau

Natural disasters, climate change, the exploitation of the world's resources and human development are changing our planet at a relentless pace. Now, using one hundred and ....

Frontiers of Climate Modeling

JT Kiehl and V Ramanathan

The physics and dynamics of the atmosphere and atmosphere-ocean interactions provide the foundation of modern climate models, upon which our understanding of the chemistry and ....

The Global Climate System

Patterns, Processes, and Teleconnections

Howard Bridgman and John E Oliver

A readable account of recent advances that help explain regional and global climates. ....

The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry, Volume 5, Part L

The Rhine

Edited by Thomas P Knepper

The Rhine, in many ways the most important river in Europe has undergone not only tremendous contamination but also recreation. This book clearly demonstrates that the ....

The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry, Volume 5, Part N

Persistent Organic Pollutants in the Great Lakes

Edited by Ronald Hites

The environment around the Laurentian Great Lakes region has been adversely affected by agricultural runoff, urban waste, industrial discharge, landfill leachate, and ....

Heavy Metals in the Environment

Edited by Heike Bradl

Excessive levels of heavy metals can be introduced into the environment, for example, by industrial waste or fertilizers. Soil represents a major sink for heavy metals ions, ....

High Tech Trash

Digital Devices, Hidden Toxins and Human Health

Elizabeth Grossman

The Digital Age was expected to usher in an era of clean production, an alternative to smokestack industries and their pollutants. But, as environmental journalist Elizabeth ....

Introduction to Air in California

David Carle

What is air? Why is the sky blue? Why do people react favorably to mountain or sea air? How does desert air differ from the air of California's Central Valley? How is air ....

Mitigation of Natural Hazards and Disasters

International Perspectives

Edited by C Emdad Haque

This book examines the aspects of prevention, mitigation, and management of environmental hazards and disasters from an international perspective. In light of the ....

Natural Disaster Hotspots Case Studies

Margaret Arnold et al

These case studies complement the earlier ground breaking work of "Natural Disaster Hotspots: A Global Risk Analysis" published in April 2005. Three case studies address ....

Natural Disaster Reduction

Dilip Kumar Sinha

Explores the characteristics of coastal disasters in Southeast Asia. ....

Pollution Control

The Powers and Duties of Local Authorities

Neil Hawke et al

The regulation of polluting activities is an important responsibility, which must be carried out effectively to prevent the environment sustaining any more harm than is ....

The Predictability of Weather and Climate

Edited by Tim Palmer and Renate Hagedorn

The topic of predictability in weather and climate has advanced significantly in recent years, both in understanding the phenomena that affect weather and climate and in ....

Predicting the Weather

Victorians and the Science of Meteorology

K Anderson

Victorian Britain, with its maritime economy and strong links between government and scientific enterprises, founded an office to collect meteorological statistics in 1854 ....

Understanding the Oceans from Space

The unique applications of satellite oceanography

Ian S Robinson

Remote sensing of oceans from space has developed rapidly since 1978 when the first dedicated ocean-viewing sensors were launched. The increasing abundance of satellite ....

The Adria Microplate: GPS Geodesy, Tectonics and Hazards

Edited by N Pinter, G Grenerczy, J Weber, S Stein and D Medak

Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on The Adria Microplate: GPS Geodesy, Active Tectonics and Hazards, held in Veszprem, Hungary 4-7 April 2004. ....

The Amateur Astronomer

Patrick Moore

This 2000 Edition of Sir Patrick Moore's classic book has been completely revised in the light of changes in technology. Not only do these changes include commercially available ....

Astrobiology

A Brief Introduction

Kevin W Plaxco and Michael Gross

Astrobiology - which studies the intimate relationship between life and the cosmos - is a fast-growing field that touches on aspects of cosmology, astrophysics, and chemistry. ....

Bioestratigrafia y Eventos del Cretacico Inferior en las Zonas Externas de la Cordillera Betica

GA de Gea Guillen

Biological Processes Associated with Impact Events

Edited by Charles Cockell, Christian Koeberl and Iain Gilmour

The diversity of papers presented in this volume attest to the fact that impact cratering is very much a biological process. This volume is the tenth in a series of ....

Chemistry for the Biosciences

Tony Bradshaw, Jonathan Crowe and Paul Monk

Chemistry for the Biosciences leads students through the essential concepts that are central to understanding biological systems, using everyday examples and analogies to ....

Collins Skywatching

The Ultimate Guide to the Universe

David Levy

Highly illustrated introductory guide to astronomy, written by the co-discoverer of Comet Shoemaker-Levy-9. ....

Deep Earthquakes

Cliff Frohlich

Deep earthquakes (earthquakes with origins deeper than 60 km) are of scientific importance and account for approximately one-quarter of all earthquakes. They are ....

Encyclopedia of Quaternary Science, 4 volume set

SA Elias

The Quaternary Sciences constitute a dynamic, multidisciplinary field of research that ....

The Equation That Couldn't be Solved

How a Mathmatical Genius Discovered the Language of Symmetry

Mario Livio

Mathematical symmetry is thought to be much too difficult for most laypeople to understand, but this engaging book approaches it in an elegantly entertaining way. The ....

Geological Hazards

Their Assessment, Avoidance and Mitigation

Fred Bell

Contents include: volcanic activity; earthquake activity; mass movements; problem soils; marine and river action and control; wind action and arid regions; waste and its ....

The Geomorphology of Upland Peat

Erosion, Form and Landscape

Jeff Warburton

Erosion of upland blanket peat is recognized as a major environmental problem, degrading habitats, leading to loss of amenity, and water-colouration problems and increased ....

The Grand Tour

A Traveler's Guide to the Solar System

William K Hartmann and Ron Miller

Completely updated and revised and drawing on discoveries made by Voyager I and II, Magellan, Galileo, the Hubble Space Telescope, the Mars Global Surveyor Mission and ....

The Infinite Cosmos

Questions from the Frontiers of Cosmology

Joseph Silk

From time immemorial, poets and philosophers have looked in awe and wonder at the Universe. Such awe is shared by astrophysicists, too, as they seek to understand its ....

Making Modern Science: A Historical Survey

PJ Bowler and IR Morus

In Making Modern Science, a text designed for introductory college courses in the history of science and as a single-volume introduction for the general reader, Bowler ....

Night Sky Tracker

A Handbook and Logbook for Amateur Astronomers

Leslie Alan Horvitz

Glow-in-the-dark cover. ....

Nightwatch

Terence Dickinson

This is the fifth edition of this established introduction to astronomy, but the first edition with UK specific content. With more than 275,000 copies in print since its ....

Philip's Astronomy Dictionary: An Illustrated A-Z Guide to the Universe

Edited by John Woodruff, Neil Bone and Storm Dunlop

Presents a comprehensive A - Z dictionary, covering various aspects of astronomy. This work contains more than 1,000 entries, ranging from aberration and ablation to Zond and ....

The Planets

Dava Sobel

After the sucess of Longitude and Galileos's Daughter, Dava Sobel tells the human story of the nine planets of our solar system. She ranges from each planet's ....

Precambrian Geology of Finland

Key to the Evolution of the Fennoscandian Shield

Edited by Marti Lehtinen, Pekka Nurmi and O Tapani Ramo

Principles of Stable Isotope Geochemistry

Zachary Sharp

Discussion of stable isotope geochemistry is generally limited to a specific scholarly paper or to cursory coverage in a larger geochemistry text. This is the first dedicated ....

Quantum Physics - A First Encounter

Interference, Entanglement, and Reality

Valerio Scarani

Quantum physics is often perceived as a weird and abstract theory, which physicists must use in order to make correct predictions. But many recent experiments have shown that ....

Return to the Moon

Exploration, Enterprise, and Energy in the Human Settlement of Space

Harrison Schmitt

The Moon is not just a "local" destination, argues former NASA Astronaut Harrison Schmitt. As a destination, the Moon presents us with a goal that tests our ....

Science and Technology in World History

An Introduction

James E McClellan and Harold Dorn

Now in its second edition, this bestselling textbook may be the single most influential study of the historical relationship between science and technology ever published. ....

The Sky at Night: 2001-2005

Patrick Moore

Sir Patrick Moore's new collection of Sky at Night articles covers the period from 2001 until early 2005. It is the 12th Sky at Night book (the second to be published by ....

Smithsonian Intimate Guide to the Cosmos

Dana Berry

Takes the reader on a visual tour of the "new" cosmos, outward bound from earth, through the solar system, to the farthest imaginable reaches of space. Berry presents incredible ....

Time Series Analysis and Its Applications

Robert H Shumway and David S Stoffer

"Time Series Analysis and Its Applications, Second Edition", presents a balanced and comprehensive treatment of both time and frequency domain methods with accompanying ....

Traveller's Guide to the Solar System

Giles Sparrow

This spoof travel guide will take you to the outer extremes of the solar system to see it as never before. ....

Tsunamis: Case Studies and Recent Developments

Edited by Kenji Satake

Twenty papers comprise a timely review of state-of-the-art tsunami research. Various approaches are taken to study tsunamis: field-surveys of recent tsunamis; analysis of ....

Universe

Edited by Martin Rees

With its innovative visual style, dynamic design and some previously unpublished, stunning images, this groundbreaking and comprehensive encyclopedia will appeal to ....

Water and the Search for Life on Mars

David Harland

Mars has long been believed to have been cold, dead and dry for aeons, but there is now striking new proof that not only was Mars a relatively warm and wet place in ....

Allelochemicals: Biological Control of Plant Pathogens and Diseases

Edited by Inderjit and KG Mukerji

Biological control of plant diseases and plant pathogens is of great significance in forestry and agriculture. There is great incentive to discover biologically active ....

Basic Biotechnology

Edited by C Ratledge and B Kristiansen

In this new edition of the textbook Basic Biotechnology, biology and bioprocessing topics are uniquely combined to provide a complete overview of biotechnology. The ....

Biodiesel

Growing a New Energy Economy

Greg Pahl

Today, 95 percent of global oil is consumed for transportation, and other alternatives are distant possibilities at best. We need a solution now, one that will pave the way to ....

Bioeconomic Modelling and Valuation of Exploited Marine Ecosystems

JCJM at al van den Bergh

This book offers an environmental-economic analysis of exploited ecosystems with a clear policy orientation. The study tries to move beyond traditional economic fishery analysis ....

The Biology and Management of the World Tarpon and Bonefish Fisheries

Jerald S Ault

This book is a comprehensive reference guide to the economically and ecologically important tarpon and bonefish species. It combines an overview of the world tarpon and ....

The Biomass Assessment Handbook

Bioenergy for a Sustainable Environment

Edited by Frank Rosillo-Calle

Responding to the need for reliable and detailed information on biomass consumption and supply and overcoming the lack of standardized measurement and accounting procedures, ....

Challenged Earth

An Overview of Humanity's Stewardship of Earth

Stephen F Lincoln

This timely book provides a comprehensive insight into the challenges facing humanity and Earth in the 21st century. It opens with a discussion of the domination of all the ....

Communicating Sustainability

How to produce effective public campaigns

UNEP

This guide shows how the power of communication can be harnessed for achieving the goal of promoting more sustainable lifestyles. It is designed to be read by local and ....

Computational Methods in the Management of Hydro-Environmental Systems

V Nassehi and DB Das

This book provides concise, up-to-date and easy-to-follow information on an increasingly important area of hydro-environmental analysis and management. It covers important ....

The Conversion to Sustainable Agriculture: Principles, Processes, and Practices

Stephen R Gliessman, Sean L Swezey and Martha Rosemeyer

Serving as both a core textbook for students as well as a comprehensive reference for agricultural practitioners, The Conversion to Sustainable Agriculture: Principles, ....

Defending the Environment

Civil Society Strategies to Enforce International Environmental Law

Linda A Malone and Scott Pasternack

Defending the Environment provides the means for nongovernmental organizations, communitykgroups, and individuals to bring environmental and public health problems to ....

Dictionary of Agriculture

Edited by Alan Stephens

Containing over 7,000 entries, this fully revised edition provides clear, up-to-date and comprehensive coverage of agricultural terms. Subjects covered include cultivation, ....

Eco-Warriors

Understanding the Radical Environmental Movement

Rik Scarce

First published in 1990, "Eco-warriors" was the first in-depth look at the people, the actions, the history and the philosophies behind the "radical" environmental movement. ....

Economic Valuation of Water Resources in Agriculture

From the sectoral to a functional perspective of natural resource management

Kerry Turner et al

This publication arose from a perceived gap in the literature on the specific problems of raw water allocation for agriculture as distinct from other users. The concern is ....

Environmental Awareness Series

ME Snodgrass

Addresses the ever growing environmental problems of today. Each title stresses the importance of clean water, pure air, and proper methods of waste disposal, that are ....

Environmental Health Engineering in the Tropics

An Introductory Text

S Cairncross and R Feachem

Describes the major infectious diseases of tropical and developing countries, and the measures that may be used effectively against them. This edition includes a new chapter ....

The Ethical Travel Guide

Your Passport to Exciting Alternative Holidays

Polly Pattullo

"All too often the problems are well hidden," says Tricia Barnett, Director of Tourism Concern. "How would you know that this beautiful hotel is on land snatched from ....

Frontiers in Water Resource Economics

Edited by Renan-Ulrich Goetz and Dolors Berga

This edited volume focuses on recent methodological advanced within the field of water resource economics and shows how these advances can be applied to the economics of water ....

Genetic Improvement of Solanaceous Crops, Volume 2: Tomato

MK Razdan and AK Mattoo

Contents: *History, Origin and Early Cultivation of Tomato (Solanaceae): Iris E. Peralta and ....

Germany's Nature

Cultural Landscapes and Environmental History

Thomas Lekan and Thomas Zeller

Germany boasts one of the strongest environmental records in the world. The Rhine River is cleaner than it has been in decades, recycling is considered a civic duty, and German ....

Global Environmental Governance

James Gustave Speth and Peter M Haas

Today's most pressing environmental problems are planetary in scope, confounding the political will of any one nation. How can we solve them? "Global Environmental ....

Global Environmental Politics

Gareth Porter, Janet Welsh Brown and Pamela S Chasek

In addition to providing a concise yet comprehensive overview of global environmental issues, the authors have worked to contextualise key topics such as the 1992 Earth ....

Making Tourism More Sustainable

A Guide for Policy Makers

UNEP

Tourism is a major economic force whose development can have a fundamental impact on societies and the environment, both positive and negative. This guide shows governments ....

Modern Extraction Techniques for Food and Agricultural Samples

Edited by Charlotta Turner

During the last ten years, several new extraction techniques have been developed that are faster, more automated and use less organic solvents compared to classical solvent ....

The Natural Advantage of Nations

Business Opportunities, Innovation and Governance in the 21st Century

Karlson Hargroves and Michael Harrison Smith

This book is about innovation, solutions, competitiveness and profitability. It is also about building environmental integrity and sustainability now and for future ....

Oxford Handbook of Medical Sciences

Edited by Robert Wilkins, Simon Cross, Ian Megson and David Meredith

The Oxford Handbook of Medical Sciences has been written by biomedical scientists and clinicians to explain the fundamental scientific principles that underpin clinical ....

Plant-Associated Bacteria

Edited by Samuel S Gnanamanickam

This volume is developed on the broad theme of plant-associated bacteria. It is envisioned as a resource volume for researchers working with beneficial and harmful ....

Policy Reforms and Agriculture Development in Central Asia

Suresh Chandra Babu and Sandjar Djalalov

The Central Asian republics - Kazakhstan, the Krygyz Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan - are transitioning from centrally planned economies to market -oriented ....

The Politics and Economics of Indonesia's Natural Resources

Budy P Resosudarmo

A team of scholars and policy experts from both Indonesia and the larger international community review political and economic developments in post-Soeharto era Indonesia. ....

Punctuated Equilibrium and the Dynamics of U.S. Environmental Policy

Robert Repetto

Although many environmental policy issues remain deadlocked for decades with little movement, sometimes breakthroughs occur abruptly. Why do deadlocks persist? Why do major ....

Small Firms and the Environment in Developing Countries

Collective Impacts, Collective Action

Allen Blackman

Small firms - including "microenterprises" and "small and medium enterprises" (SMEs) - play a vital economic role in developing countries. They typically provide half of all ....

Stem Cell Repair and Regeneration

Edited by NA Habib et al

Stem cell research is one of the leading "cutting edge" areas of life science research in the world today and is a topic of significant interest to a broad range of the ....

Sustainable Communties and The Challenge of Environmental Justice

Julian Agyeman

Focusing on the US, Julian Agyeman argues that environmental justice and the sustainable communities movement are compatible in practical ways. Yet sustainability, which focuses ....

Sustainable Use of Natural Resources in the Context of Trade Liberalization and Export Growth in Indonesia

UNEP

The aim of this publication is to promote the use of economic instruments for environmental protection, by providing in-depth analysis, a comprehensive assessment, ....

Tools for Environmental Management

A Practical Introduction and Guide

Edited by Dixon Thompson

With a growing commitment to environmental awareness and protection on the part of corporations and governments, there has never been a greater need for an integrated ....

Water - A Shared Responsibility

The United Nations World Water Development Report 2

United Nations

A joint undertaking of the 24 UN agencies comprising UN-Water, and in partnership with governments and other entities concerned with freshwater issues, this volume, covering ....

Water Encyclopedia

Series Editors: Jay H Lehr and Jack Keeley

A thorough and comprehensive resource, the Water Encyclopedia is a valuable addition to any reference library. ....

Water Institutions

Policies, Performance and Prospects

Edited by Chennat Gopalakrishnan, Cecilia Tortajada and Asit K Biswas

This study is a major first attempt to address the many issues associated with the institutional innovation in water resource management comprehensively and in depth. It ....

Water Quality Management in the Americas

Edited by AK Biswas et al

The book contains several in-depth case studies which comprehensively analyze the present status of water quality management practices at country and state levels, ....

Why Conservation is Failing and How it Can Regain Ground

Eric T Freyfogle

North American perspective on the struggles of the conservation movement. ....

World Development Report 2006

Equity and Development

World Bank

Presents a social development strategy organized around the themes of social inclusion, cohesion, and accountability. It examines equality of opportunities--a potentially ....

The Worldwide Crisis in Fisheries

The Use and Misuse of Models

Colin W. Clark

The world's marine fisheries are in trouble, as a direct result of overfishing and the overcapacity of fishing fleets. Despite intensive management efforts, the problems still ....

Yearbook of European Environmental Law, Volume 6

Edited by Thijs FM Etty

The Yearbook of European Environmental Law brings together topical analyses of contemporary European Environmental Law. Leading European and American academics provide ....

Computational Text Analysis for Functional Genomics and Bioinformatics

Soumya Raychaudhuri

This book brings together the two disparate worlds of computational text analysis and biology and presents some of the latest methods and applications to proteomics, sequence ....

Cybercartography

Theory and Practice

DRF Taylor

The map has been central to how societies function all over the world for generations. This book argues for a new paradigm for maps and mapping the information era - ....

Data Analysis for Chemistry

D Brynn Hibbert and J Justin Gooding

Chemical data analysis, with aspects of metrology in chemistry and chemometrics, is an evolving discipline where new and better ways of doing things are constantly being ....

Digital Imaging of Biological Type Specimens: A Manual of Best Practice

Edited by C Hauser, A Steiner, J Holstein and Malcolm J Scoble

Essential Bioinformatics

Jin Xiong

Essential Bioinformatics is a concise yet comprehensive textbook of bioinformatics, which provides a broad introduction to the entire field. Written specifically for a life ....

Extending the Linear Model with R

Generalized Linear, Mixed Effects and Nonparametric Regression Models

JJ Faraway

This modern statistics text discusses the extension of the linear model through the regression model. It extensively addresses the generalized linear model, GLM ....

Geophysical Exploration for Engineering and Environmental Investigations

This manual provides an introduction to geophysical exploration for engineering, geological, and environmental (to include Hazardous, Toxic and Radioactive Waste (HTRW)) ....

Handbook of Single Molecule Fluorescence Spectroscopy

Christopher Gell, David Brockwell and Alastair Smith

This book is aimed at providing a practical introduction to single molecule fluorescence experiments, the analysis of the data, and applications of the techniques to the study ....

A Handbook of Statistical Analyses Using R

BS Everitt

Doing for R what Everitt's other Handbooks have done for S-PLUS, STATA, SPSS, and SAS, A Handbook of Statistical Analyses Using R presents straightforward, self-contained ....

Introduction to Computer-Intensive Methods of Data Analysis in Biology

Derek Roff

This guide to the contemporary toolbox of methods for data analysis will serve graduate students and researchers across the biological sciences. Modern computational tools, ....

Modern Magnetic Resonance

Edited by Graham A Webb

Modern Magnetic Resonance provides a unique and comprehensive resource on up-to-date uses and applications of magnetic resonance techniques in the sciences, including ....

R Graphics

P Murrell

In today's world of statistical computing, R is the program of choice for tens of thousands of statisticians, which is why R Graphics is sure to become an instant ....

Sampling Algorithms

Yves Tillé

Over the last few decades, important progresses in the methods of sampling have been achieved. This book draws up an inventory of new methods that can be useful for ....

Collins World Atlas: New Edition

A fully revised general reference atlas in the Collins world atlas range. Highly detailed maps giving balanced worldwide coverage, beautifully illustrated thematic pages ....

Developing a Records Management Programme in the Electronic Environment

C Hare and J McCleod

A practical approach to developing and operating an effective programme to manage hybrid records within an organization. This title positions records management as an integral ....

Environmental Online Communication

Arno Scharl

The Internet and wireless communication networks are transforming the way society handles the explosive growth & the dwindling half-life of environmentally relevant ....

GeoRef Thesaurus

BA Goodman

The Thesaurus is the guide to the 29,000 controlled vocabulary terms used in GeoRef, of which approximately 1,250 are new. The Thesaurus is an indispensable tool for efficient ....

How to Write and Publish a Scientific Paper

Robert A Day and Barbara Gastel

New edition of one of the world's bestselling scientific writing guides. ....

The Little Green Data Book 2006

The World Bank

Pocket-sized reference on key environmental data for over 200 countries. Includes key indicators on agriculture, forestry, biodiversity, energy, emission and pollution, and ....

Oxford Dictionary of Scientific Quotations

Edited by WF Bynum and R Porter

The original words announcing great scientific discoveries, from the first 'Eureka!' to the cloning of Dolly the sheep, can all be found in this fascinating collection, a major ....

The Public Art Museum in Nineteenth Century Britain: The Development of the National Gallery

C Whitehead

The author here offers an account of the development of the public museum in 19th century Britain, with particular reference to the National Gallery in London. The ....

The Rosetta Stone of Science

Writing and Presenting in English

P Young

"The Rosetta Stone of Science" is a useful and practical guide to presenting scientific research in the English language. It is written specifically for scientists who would ....

Specialist Control: The Publications Commitee of the Academie Royale des Sciences (Paris), 1700-1793

James E McClellan

The Comite du Librairie of the Academie Royale des Science in Paris and its influence on modern scientific refereeing are examined in this monograph. James McClellan ....

Terms of Geology

Glossary of Geological Terms

The Times Atlas of the World: Concise Edition

Times Books

Fully revised new edition. ....