Ape

John Sorenson

New in Reaktion's burgeoning "Animal" series, "Ape" relates the situation of the non-human great apes (bonobos, chimpanzees, gibbons, gorillas and orangutans), ....

Fauna Helvetica 21: Clés de Détermination - Mammifères

P Marchesi, M Blant and S Capt

Covers 94 species of mammal (including 30 species of bat) found in Switzerland. ....

The Gibbons

New Perspectives on Small Ape Socioecology and Population Biology

Susan Lappan, Danielle Whittaker and Thomas Geissmann

The small apes, or gibbons, are among our closest living relatives, yet they have received little attention from the scientific community and the public in comparison ....

Hare

Simon Carnell

Colourfully described by early natural historians as the 'fastest, hairiest, most lascivious, and most melancholy' of mammals (and also one that changed sex, never closed ....

Identification Manual for Mammals in China

Yan Kun

This book describes 14 orders of the mammals from China, including 200 species which belong to 53 families. ....

Mammals of Alaska

Stephen O MacDonald and Joseph A Cook

From the polar bear and the gray wolf to the walrus and the river otter, there are 115 species of mammals in Alaska that have never been fully catalogued until now. Biologists ....

The Meaning of Primate Signals

Edited by R Harre and V Reynolds

Language is just one particularly highly developed form of primate communication. Recent years have seen increased attention to other forms: studies of animals in the wild, ....

The North American Porcupine

Uldis Roze

The North American porcupine (Erethizon dorsatum) is universally recognizable, yet has a complex biology that continues to fascinate. This large-bodied, slow-moving herbivore is ....

Albatross

Elusive Mariners of the Southern Ocean

A Terauds

Tells the life histories of each of these species, as well as describing the islands on which they live and outlining the efforts being made to conserve them. It also looks at ....

Beat About the Bush: Birds

Trevor Carnaby

The Beat about the Bush series answers all those everyday questions that are prompted by visits to the bush. It fills the gap in exisiting literature and field guides alike, ....

A Best Practice Guide For Wild Bird Monitoring Schemes

Edited by P Vorisek, A Klvanova, S Wotton and RD Gregory

This book summarises recommendations on establishing, running and improving national wild bird monitoring schemes. The methodology is described in details and includes field ....

Bird Banding in North America: The First Hundred Years

Edited by Jerome A Jackson, William E Davis and John Tautin

This book deals with the early history of bird banding; the role of banding organizations; the Bird Banding Laboratory; the role of bird banding in population ....

Bird Sounds From Southern South America / Sonidos de Aves del Cono Sur

Edited by Bernabe Lopez-Lanus

This work has one peculiarity: the integration of fifty-eight professional and amateur recordists in a collection of bird sounds equivalent to 27 audio CDs. One thousand ....

Birdsongs of South Africa

South Africa has everything that a birder could ask for. With a spectrum of habitat ranging from humid montane and lowland forests to sparse and succulent deserts, grassy ....

Contributions to the History of Australian Ornithology

Edited by William E Davis, Harry F Recher, Walter E Boles and Jerome A Jackson

This book includes chapters on Gould's collector John Gilbert; ornithology at the Auckland Museum, the Western Australian Museum, and CSIRO; systematics and biogeography ....

Field Guide to Bird Nests and Eggs of Alaska's Coastal Tundra

Timothy D Bowman

Illustrated with more than 600 photographs of birds, nests and nesting habitat, eggs, feathers and wings of over 70 species, this book provides an efficient way to identify ....

Field Guide to the Birds of South America: Passerines

Guy Tudor and Robert S Ridgely

This is a single-volume guide to South American passerines, based on a two-volume work first published in 1989 and 1994. For the new edition, the text has been condensed, most ....

A Field Guide to the Birds of South-East Asia

Craig Robson

This fully updated edition of the award-winning A Field Guide to the Birds of South-East Asia includes more than 20 new species for the region which are recent discoveries, ....

101 Golden Rules of Bird Watching

Marcus Schneck

Birdwatching is a hobby that sometimes pleases, sometimes frustrates, but always enthrals. It is a pastime that can take years to understand and "101 Golden Rules of ....

A Guide to the Garden Birds of Britain and Northern Europe

Dave Farrow

Birds are one of the best things about having a garden, whether that's a few acres in the countryside or a tiny city roof-space. And the humble garden is one of the most ....

Jim Burns' Arizona Birds

From the Backyard to the Backwoods

Jim Burns

Arizona is renowned as a premier birding state, a place where many species rarely seen anywhere else in the country reach the northern end of their migratory range. Jim Burns ....

National Geographic Complete Birds of the World

Jonathan Alderfer

Authoritative and concise, with carefully selected, fully up-to-date information, this hardworking and exquisite reference covers every bird family worldwide, with detailed ....

Nouvel Inventaire des Oiseaux de France

P-J Dubois, P Le Maréchal, G Olioso and P Yésou

Survey of over 560 species and subspecies of wild bird recorded in France, including: conservation status, habitat, distribution, migration and life history. The authors are ....

Return of the Eagle

How America Saved its National Symbol

G Breining

Declared the national symbol of the USA in 1782, the bald eagle was on the brink of extinction in the 1960s. Concerted efforts by conservation groups and government ....

A Single Swallow

Following the Migration from South Africa to South Wales

Horatio Clare

A journey of 6,000 miles across two continents and fourteen countries is nothing to swallows: they do it twice a year. But for a writer and birdwatcher, this is the ....

Where to Watch Birds in Britain

Simon Harrap and Nigel Redman

Covers over 450 of the very best birding sites in Britain and considers each site in terms of habitat, timing, access and calendar. It includes detailed maps of the larger ....

A Conservation Strategy for the Amphibians of Madagascar

Edited by Franco Andreone

A collection of original contributions by the most prominent herpetologists studying the amphibians of Madagascar. The book provides an updated overview on the conservation ....

Frogs

A Chorus of Colors

John L Behler and Deborah A Behler

A companion to the unique travelling exhibition, one of the most popular ever at museums throughout America. With richly colourful photos and compelling, informative ....

Handbuch der Reptilien und Amphibien Europas, Band 5/II: Froschlurche (Anura) II

Edited by Kurt Grossenbacher

This second of two volumes on frogs deals with hylids and toads. Includes colour photos and comprehensive bibliographies. The first volume on archaeobatrachia will be available ....

Snakes

Ecology and Conservation

Edited by Stephen J Mullin and Richard A Seigel

Destruction of habitat due to urban sprawl, pollution, and deforestation has caused population declines or even extinction of many of the world's approximately 2,600 snake ....

Teppichchamäleon: Furcifer lateralis

W Schmidt and M Meyer

Carpet-chameleons are amongst the most popular chameleons kept in the Terrarium. In this book are comprehensive and practical details for the care and propagation of these ....

The Biology of Blennies

Edited by Robert A Patzner et al

Blennies are diverse group of bony fishes found around the globe. Most blennies are small and somewhat difficult to identify, so until recently these fish did not occupy ....

Biology of Skates

David A Ebert and James A Sulikowski

Skates have life history characteristics that may make them vulnerable to over-exploitation. This concern that prompted the editors to organize an international ....

Damselfishes and Anemonefishes

The Complete Illustrated Guide to their Identification, Behaviors and Captive Care

Scott W Michael

Damselfishes & Anemonefishes is the much-anticipated fourth volume in Scott Michael's landmark Reef Fishes Series, highly acclaimed by serious marine aquarium hobbyists and ....

Development of Non-Teleost Fishes

Edited by Yvette W Kunz, Carl A Luer and BG Kapoor

An up-to-date compilation of the development of non-teleost fishes has so far been unavailable. These fishes include the jawless fishes (hagfish and lampreys), the ....

Eel

Richard Schweid

Although it might seem the most ordinary and mundane of fish when pulled from the mud of creeks, ponds, rivers or the sea, the eel's life cycle is one of the most remarkable on ....

Fish Defenses, Volume 2: Pathogens, Parasites and Predators

Giacomo Zaccone, C Perrière, A Mathis and BG Kapoor

Dramatic changes in the environment, including habitat degradation and climate change, have focused attention on how individuals and populations respond to a shifting biotic ....

Fish Locomotion

An Eco-ethological Perspective

Edited by Paolo Domencini and BG Kapoor

Fish accomplish most of their basic behaviors by swimming. Swimming is fundamental in a vast majority of fish species for avoiding predation, feeding, finding food, mating, ....

Sharks

The Perfect Predator

Alessandro de Maddalena

Sharks are the sea's most feared predators, and many people think of them as ferocious monsters - but they are also fascinating, graceful and powerful creatures that evolved ....

An Annotated Checklist of the Irish Two-winged Flies (Diptera)

PJ Chandler, JP O'Connor, R Nash, JP O'Connor and S Milne

Ecobiology of Aquatic Insects

Edited by A Kumar and H Kaur

The factors governing life on earth are changing constantly and the same is true for life too. The unique property of the aquatic insects in their ability to change ....

Elenco Mondiale dei Generi di Hymenoptera con Specie Tipo

Guido Pagliano

Indian Pest Aphids

TV Sathe and BV Jadhav

Aphids (Hemiptera: Aphididae) are very harmful pests for agricultural, horticultural and forest plants. They suck the cell sap and affect photosynthesis and yield of crops. They ....

Insect Infection and Immunity

Evolution, Ecology, and Mechanisms

Jens Rolff and Stuart Reynolds

Under continual attack from both microbial pathogens and multicellular parasites, insects must cope with immune challenges every day of their lives. However, this has not ....

Jewels in the Air

The Complete Guide to British Butterflies

Roger Kemp

The DVD includes a new commentary by Roger Kemp plus a picture library and location guide to every British butterfly. Also included is a 64 page pocket-size field guide ....

Molluschi Terrestri e d'Acqua Dolce della Valle di Susa

Elena Gavetti, Stefano Birindelli, Marco Bodon and Giuseppe Manganelli

Phasmatodea of China

C Shuchun and H Ynheng

In this monograph 336 species (including 76 new species) of phasmatodea of China, which are grouped in 65 genera in 5 families are described. The morphology descriptions of ....

Remarkable Insects of South Africa

A Photographic Safari

Lambert Smith

Remarkable Insects of South Africa seeks to introduce the reader to many of the more common and interesting species. The book features many unique never before published ....

Early Life on Earth

A Practical Guide

David Wacey

When did life first appear on Earth and what form did it take? The answer to this intriguing and fundamentally important question lies somewhere within the early Archean ....

Great Dinosaur Discoveries

Darren Naish

Books on dinosaurs have generally arranged them in terms of their classification or according to when they lived. This major new book looks at dinosaurs from a historical ....

A New Horned Dinosaur from an Upper Cretaceous Bone Bed in Alberta

PJ Currie, W Langston and DH Tanke

In the first monographic treatment of a horned (ceratopsid) dinosaur in almost a century, this monumental volume presents one of the closest looks at the anatomy, ....

Paleogene Fossil Birds

Gerald Mayr

The present book is the first detailed review of the Paleogene avian fossil record on a worldwide scale. Numerous well-preserved fossil bird remains from this geological ....

Animals of the San Francisco Bay

A Field Guide to the Common Benthic Species

Rich Mooi, Victor G Smith and Margaret Gould Burke

This book is a product of the SFBay:2K Project, the California Academy of Sciences' biotic survey of the bottom-dwelling animals in San Francisco Bay. The survey took place ....

Beneath Cornish Seas

Mark Webster

Hidden below the surface of the temperate Cornish seas is an amazing array of colourful marine life, whose diversity challenges that of a tropical reef. Indeed, many of our ....

Big Fish

Richard Ellis

From painter and popular naturalist Richard Ellis, America's foremost illustrator and chronicler of undersea life, comes "Big Fish", a unique guide to the natural history of ....

Dangerous Marine Animals

Matthias Bergbauer, Manuela Kirschner and Robert F Myers

This guide to the marine environment covers all forms of sea-life. It describes colenterates, molluscs, crustacea, urochordates, fish, reptiles, seabirds, cetaceans and ....

Diatom Monographs, Volume 10: Catalogue of the genera, species and

infraspecific taxa erected by J. Frenguelli

Edited by EA Sar, SE Sala, I Sunesen, MS Henninger and M Montastruc

Frenguelli's vast work and his collections (from Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Peru, Uruguay, Egypt, Somalia and Antarctica) constitute a primary reference for those who ....

Ecology and Classification of North American Freshwater Invertebrates

Edited by James H Thorp and Alan P Covich

The third edition of Ecology and Classification of North American Freshwater Invertebrates continues the tradition of in-depth coverage of the biology, ecology, ....

Handbuch zum Bewertungsverfahren von Flie gewässern mittels Phytoplankton zur Umsetzung der EU-WRRL in Deutschland

Ute Mischke and Horst Behrendt

Marine Ecology

Concepts and Applications

Martin Speight and PA Henderson

Takes a unique approach to the subject, focusing on concepts, processes and applications and moving away from the traditional habitats approach that is found in marine biology ....

African Diaries

David Derrick

An artistic journey as seen through the drawings, sculptures and observations of David Derrick. ....

The Canon

The Beautiful Basics of Science

Natalie Angier

Unless we are brilliant at science in our teenage years, many of us put off 'childish things' - science museums, palaeontology - in favour of museums, art galleries and ....

The Cloud Collector's Handbook

Gavin Pretor-Pinney

Convenient size allows cloudspotters to identify cloud formations anytime and anywhere. All the common cloud types are represented, as are many of the rare ones, each fully ....

Colours of Southern Africa

Hannes Lochner

Colours of Southern Africa is a wonderful photographic debut. Hannes Lochner has captured not only the wild and spontaneous essence of his subjects, the images speak to ....

Darwin Slept Here

Discovery, Adventure and Swimming Iguanas in Charles Darwin's South America

Eric Simons

One snowy day in Ushuaia, Argentina, the self-proclaimed 'southernmost city in the world,' at the end of a long trip designed to put as much distance between himself and a ....

Decoding the Heavens

Solving the Mystery of the World's First Computer

Jo Marchant

In 1900, a group of sponge divers blown off course in the Mediterranean discovered an Ancient Greek shipwreck dating from around 70 BC. Lying unnoticed for months amongst ....

Extreme Ice Now

Vanishing Glaciers and Changing Climate: A Progress Report

James Balog and Tim Appenzeller

Using both time-lapse and conventional photography as well as digital video, the Extreme Ice Survey is the most extensive visual study ever conducted to illustrate the ....

From Hedgerow to High Tor

The Wildlife Diary of a Country Artist

Dick Twinney

Wildlife artist Dick Twinney is a painter for all seasons. His paintings have life-like detail, art oozing colour and character, taking you to the edge of reality, his animals ....

Garden Photo Shoot

A Photographer's Year-Book of Garden Wildlife

John Thurlbourn

This book shows that, with sympathetic management, wildlife can be enhanced and will thrive in any English suburban garden. If Thurlbourn has done nothing else, he surely ....

A General History of Quadrupeds

The Figures Engraved on Wood

Thomas Bewick

In the late eighteenth century, the British took greater interest than ever before in observing and recording all aspects of the natural world. Travelers and colonists ....

How We Live and Why We Die

The Secret Lives of Cells

Lewis Wolpert

Cells are the basis of all life in the universe. Our bodies are made up of billions of them: an incredibly complex society that governs everything, from movement to memory and ....

The Indian and Pacific Correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks, 1768-1820

Neil Chambers

Following his participation in James Cook's circumnavigation in HMS Endeavour (1768-71), Joseph Banks developed an extensive global network of scientists and explorers. His ....

A New Science of Life

Rupert Sheldrake

After chemists crystallised a new chemical for the first time, it became easier and easier to crystallise in laboratories all over the world. After rats at Harvard first ....

Notes from Walnut Tree Farm

Roger Deakin

For the last six years of his life, Roger Deakin kept notebooks in which he wrote his daily thoughts, impressions, feelings and observations. Discursive, personal and often ....

Olympic National Park

A Natural History

T McNulty

In this thoroughly revised edition, Tim McNulty returns his gaze to the Olympic National Park: 1,400 square miles of rugged mountains and wilderness in the heart of the Olympic ....

The Prince of Mathematics

Carl Friedrich Gauss

MBW Tent

Biography of the 18th century mathematician, from his prodigious childhood to his extraordinary achievements that earned him the title 'Prince of Mathematics'. Along the ....

Science Translated

Latin and Vernacular Translations of Scientific Treatises in Medieval Europe

Edited by Michèle Goyens, Pieter de Leeman and An Smets

Medieval translators played an important role in the development and evolution of a scientific lexicon. At a time when most scholars deferred to authority, the translations ....

The Sun and the Moon

The Remarkable True Account of Hoaxers, Showmen, Dueling Journalists, and Lunar Man-bats in Nineteenth-Century New York

Matthew Goodman

This is the remarkable story of the outrageous newspaper hoax that captivated 19th century America and gave birth to tabloid journalism.1835 was an extraordinary year in ....

Sunshine

Why We Love the Sun

Robert Mighall

Robert Mighall is hopelessly addicted to sunshine. He climbs ladders to catch the last rays of the descending sun and takes regular sun breaks during the working day, joining ....

Fauna of the European North-East of Russia: Volume 9

OA Loskutova

A compendium of the Plecoptera (stoneflies) occurring in the Russian Arctic immediately west of the Ural Mountains. ....

Field Guide to Wildlife of The Gambia

An Introduction to Common Flowers and Animals

David Penney

The Gambia, located on the coast of tropical West Africa supports a diverse range of habitat types, from forests to mangrove swamps. It has a rich and biodiverse biota, ....

Mannahatta

A Natural History of New York City

Eric W Sanderson and Markley Boyer

It's difficult to imagine today what Manhattan would have looked like to its early explorers - before the skyscrapers, the crowded sidewalks and the busy intersections. ....

Mysteries of the Gobi

Searching for Wild Camels and Lost Cities in the Heart of Asia

John Hare

John Hare is a star author and one of the most well-known explorers of his generation. The Gobi is a perennially fascinating part of the world - a desert that people love to ....

RSPB Wildlife of Britain

A Unique Photographic Guide to British Wildlife

Discover over 1,000 species of animal, plant and fungi found in Britain - from the humming-bird Hawk moth to the False Deathcap Fungi, spot common British animal, plant ....

Saving the Zululand Wilderness

An Early Struggle for Nature Conservation

Donal P McCaracken

Enough elephant tusks to fill a thousand ox wagons - that's how much ivory alone was shipped out of Durban bay between the 1820s and the 1880s. It amounted to at least a ....

Tunnels, Towers and Temples

London's 100 Strangest Places

David Long

"Tunnels, Towers & Temples" takes a sideways look at London, revealing the hidden stories, curious histories and sometimes comic assocations behind dozens of often quite ....

Turning to Nature in Germany

Hiking, Nudism, and Conservation, 1900-1940

John Alexander Williams

"Turning to Nature in Germany" is a study of mass movements that aimed to bring the German people into closer contact with nature. In the early twentieth century organized ....

The Use and Abuse of Nature

incorporating This Fissured Land: An Ecological History of India and Ecology and Equity

M Gadgil and G Ramachandra

This is an omnibus edition of two books that have radically altered our understanding of Indian history. This Fissured Land presents an interpretive ecological history of the ....

The Alga Dunaliella

Biodiversity, Physiology, Genomics and Biotechnology

Edited by Ami Ben-Amotz, Jurgen EW Polle and DV Subba Rao

This volume presents a state-of-the art research in biochemistry, molecular biology and medical application. A glossary of ....

Algae

James Graham, Linda E Graham and Lee W Wilcox

The foremost textbook and reference for studying phycology, the second edition features hundreds of new illustrations, a new chapter on terrestrial algae, and thorough updates ....

Algae

Nutrition, Pollution, Control, and Energy Sources

Kristian N Hagen

This book presents the latest research from around the world in this increasingly important field. ....

Biochemistry of Plant Cell Walls

CT Brett and John R Hillman

Contains twelve contributions from scientists of international repute concerning the chemistry of the cell wall, its biosynthesis, and biochemical aspects of its functions. ....

Biorational Tree Fruit Pest Management

Martin Aluja, TC Leskey and C Vincent

As the human impact upon the environment becomes more apparent and severe, the need to develop agricultural techniques that cause minimal damage to the environment has ....

Catalogue of Marchantiophyta and Anthocerotophyta of Southern South America

H de Menendez and MF Rubies

Covers Chile, Argentina and Uruguay, including Easter Is. (Pascua I.), Malvinas Is. (Falkland Is.), South Georgia Is., and the subantarctic South Shetland Is., ....

The Cell Division Cycle in Plants

JA Bryant and D Francis

Information is presented and summarized in this account of how plant cells divide. The chapters give information on control points in the cell cycle, on DNA replication and on ....

Common Wetland Plants in China

Zhang Shuren

The book includes 592 species, 4 sub-species, 35 varieties and 1 form of wetland vascular plants in China. ....

Control of Leaf Growth

NR Baker, WJ Davies and CK Ong

Covers the physiological and environmental factors that regulate leaf growth. It opens with a consideration of the importance to the plant of leaf size, form and development, ....

Darwin's Garden

Down House and the Origin of Species

Edited by Michael Boulter

Five years after returning from his trip around the world on HMS Beagle, the young Charles Darwin became the owner of Down House in Kent, where he moved his growing ....

Ecology of the Shortgrass Steppe

A Long-Term Perspective

W K Lauenroth and I C Burke

Ecology of the Shortgrass Steppe: A Long-Term Perspective summarizes and synthesizes more than 60 years of research that has been conducted throughout the shortgrass region. ....

Exkursionsflora für Osterreich, Liechtenstein, Südtirol

Manfred A Fischer, Wolfgang Adler and Karl Oswald

New revised edition of the major identification flora for Austria, containing keys and line drawings. ....

Field Guide to the Acacias of South Africa

Nico Smit

The Acacias, commonly known as "thorn trees", are probably the most distinctive and well known group of trees in Africa. They are one of the largest groups and are generally ....

Flora Iberica, Volume 13: Plantaginaceae to Scrophulariaceae

C Benedi et al

Flora Patagonia

Southern Forests / Bosques Australes

Claudia Guerrido and Damian Fernandez

In this book 120 species of plants belonging to 50 families are described, many of them endemic to this region. ....

Flora Vegetativa

Un guide de détermination pour les plantes de Suisse à l'état végétatif

Stefan/Möhl, Adrian Eggenberg

Identification guide to 2130 plant species in Switzerland. This unique guide allows the identification of plants throughout the year, even when they are not in flower. ....

Flora of Australia, Volume 44A

Poaceae 2

Australian Biological Resources Study

The third volume to be published in a projected set of four volumes by ABRS on the grasses of Australia, Volume 44A of the Flora of Australia documents four subfamilies of ....

Flora of Russia, Volume 10B

The European Part and Bordering Regions

Edited by An A Fedorov

The tenth volume (in two parts A and B) of Flora Vostochnoi Evropy [Flora of Eastern Europe] is a direct continuation of Flora Evropeiskoi Chasti SSSR [Flora of Russia: The ....

Flora, Vegetazione ed Ambiente Delle Isole Dell'Arcipelago Toscano

Gianfranco Barsotti

After a few comments about the particular climatic conditions that characterize the islands of the Tuscan archipelago, this book describes the complex geological history ....

Flowering Plants of Thailand

A Field Guide

Patrick D McMakin

Flowering Plants of Thailand , Expanded Edition, includes a new chapter and over 60 additional of Thailand's most representative flora. Colour plates and descriptions of ....

Flowers of the Norfolk Coast

Simon Harrap

This new guide by Simon Harrap illustrates in detail 77 of the most characteristic and charismatic plants to be found on the coast of Norfolk. After an introduction describing ....

Fungi from Different Environments

JK Misra and SK Deshmukh

Mycologists now look at the genes of fungi to decipher many features that they have been studying in the past beyond just looking at the morphology and other such traits of ....

Fungi, Lichens and Mosses / Hongos, Liquenes y Musgos

Enrique Couve and Claudio F Vidal

This work is a concise introduction orientated to nature enthusiasts with an interest of discovering the beauty and features of the fascinating micro-world of lichens, fungus ....

The Genus Hoya

Species & Cultivation

Anders Wennstrom

Covers 118 species from the popular genus Hoya. Each of these are shortly described with for example origin, size, colour and shape plus some hints on successfull growing. There ....

Grow Your Own Fruit and Vegetables

Lawrence D Hills

Lawrence D. Hills' (1911-1991) ground-breaking book on all aspects of fruit and vegetable growing. It was widely praised on its publication and remains a classic text ....

Iconographia Bambusoidearum Sinicarum

Yi Tongpei and Shi Junyi

The book introduces 707 species, 52 varieties, 98 metatypic which are under 43 genera. There are 1910 colour photos, most of the pictures were photographed in alpine areas. ....

Junipers of the World

The genus Juniperus

Robert P Adams

The Junipers of the World contains a synthesis of data on evolution by examining: ....

Manual of Leaf Architecture

B Ellis, DC Daly, LJ Hickey, KR Johnson, JD Mitchell and P Wilf

This is an essential reference for describing, measuring and classifying the foliage of flowering plants. The presented system provides long-needed guidelines for ....

Mr Roscoe's Garden

Jyll Bradley

"Mr Roscoe's Garden" is a key outcome of The Fragrant Liverpool project. Conceived by Jyll Bradley, this is a unique international art project exploring the stories, rites ....

Nineteenth International Seaweed Symposium

Michael A Borowitzka, Alan T Critchley, Stefan Kraan, Akira Peters and Sjot

The Proceedings of the 19th International Seaweed Symposium provides an invaluable reference to a wide range of fields in applied phycology. Papers cover topics as diverse ....

Photo Guide to Trees of Southern Africa

Braam van Wyk, Piet van Wyk and Ben-Erik van Wyk

Identification and reference guide to 300 of the more common tree species in Southern Africa, both native and naturalised. ....

Plains Apache Ethnobotany

Julia A Jordan

Plains Apache Ethnobotony is the most comprehensive ethnobotanical study of a southern plains tribe. Handsomely illustrated, this book is a valuable resource for ....

The Plant

Gerbert Grohmannm

Plant Cold Hardiness

From the Laboratory to the Field

LV Gusta, ME Wisniewski and KK Tanino

Presenting the latest research on the effects of cold and sub-zero temperatures on plant distribution, growth and yield, this comprehensive volume contains 28 chapters by ....

Plant-Environment Interactions

Edited by Frantisek Baluska

Our image of plants is changing dramatically away from passive entities merely subject to environmental forces and organisms that are designed solely for the accumulation of ....

Plants and Habitats of European Cities

Edited by Norbert Muller and John G Kelcey

A collection of studies on the ecologies of European cities, including Paris, Zurich, and Amsterdam among others. Discussion includes the natural and historical development ....

Plants of Central Texas Wetlands

Scott B Fleenor and Stephen W Taber

Along the San Marcos River, in and surrounding Palmetto State Park in south central Texas, lie more than five square kilometers of relict ecosystem ....

Plants of Indian Botanic Garden

HJ Chowdhery and DS Pandey

This publication on Plants of the Indian Botanic Garden Howrah is indeed an inclusive and colourful work on floral inventory of this renowned garden. Indian Botanic Garden ....

The Reference Manual of Woody Plant Propagation

From seed to tissue culture

MA Dirr and CW Heuser

Compiled by two distinguished professors of horticulture, The Reference Manual of Woody Plant Propagation is a must for professionals and students of horticulture. Over 1,100 ....

Resources Plants of China

Zhu Taiping and Liu Liang

This book is based on the datum obtained through exploration outdoor and research accumulates by the authors for a long time. It is a special work introducing the plant ....

A Revision of the Genus Minthostachys (Labiatae)

A Schmidt-Lebuhn

This title is volume 98 of Memoirs of The New York Botanical Garden. Minthostachys (Benth.) Spach (Labiatae) is a genus of aromatic, scandent shrubs distributed along the ....

Root Development and Function

Effects of the Physical Environment

Edited by JV Lake et al

Looks at root development and functions. Besides affecting the development of roots directly, the physical environment also influences the organisms associated with roots ....

The Self-Coloured Spermatopryte of the Littoral in Jiangsu Province

The Gymnosperm and the Dicotyledonous Choripetalae

Yu Yanqiu

Introduces 527 species, 49 varieties of spermatophyta, which belong to 302 genera in 85 families. This book is a check list of the related plants. For each species the ....

Signaling in Plants

Edited by Frantisek Baluska and Stefano Mancuso

This book addresses diverse aspects of signaling at all levels of plant organization, starting from single molecules; through vesicle recycling and organelles, dynamic actin ....

Taxonomic Studies of Meliolales

Identification Manual

VB Hosagoudar

Meliolaceous fungi are commonly known as black or dark mildews. In contrast to the saprophytic sooty moulds, these are the obligate biotrophic parasites and are host ....

Use of Entomopathogenic Fungi in Biological Pest Management

Edited by S Ekesi and NK Maniania

The implementation of pest management tactics coupled with the concomitant changes in production systems are leading to increasing reliance on biological control agents such ....

Vegetation of the Soviet Polar Deserts

V Aleksandrova

This is a translation of Vera Aleksandrova's classic book, first published in Russian, which characterizes the vegetation of this rather special botanical region. Much ....

Adaptation and Fitness in Animal Populations

Evolutionary and Breeding Perspectives on Genetic Resource Management

Edited by J van der Werf, H-U Graser, R Frankham and C Gondro

Fitness and adaptation are fundamental characteristics of plant and animal species, enabling them to survive in their environment and to adapt to the inevitable changes in ....

Altering Nature

Edited by B. Andrew Lustig, B.A Brody and Gerald P McKenny

The two volumes of Altering Nature consider the complex ways that concepts of `nature' and `the natural' are understood and the relevance of those understandings to ....

Bacterial Circadian Programs

Edited by Jayna L Ditty, Shannon R Mackey and Carl H Johnson

Since the discovery of circadian rhythms in cyanobacteria in the late 1980s, the field has exploded with new information. The cyanobacterial model system for studying ....

Biophysical Tools for Biologists

John J Correia and HWilliam Detrich

Driven in part by the development of genomics, proteomics, and bioinformatics as new disciplines, there has been a tremendous resurgence of interest in physical methods to ....

Epigenomics

Anne Ferguson-Smith, John M Greally and Robert A Martienssen

Epigenetic modifications act on DNA and its packaging proteins, the histones, to regulate genome function. Manifest as the heritable methylation of DNA and as ....

The Ethology of Domestic Animals

An Introductory Text

Edited by P Jensen

Modern farm environments are profoundly different from the natural habitats of the ancestors of today's farm animals, and through genetic selection, the appearance and ....

Handbook of RNA Biochemistry

Edited by RK Hartmann, A Bindereif, A Schön and E Westhof

This all-in-one compendium of current laboratory techniques for the study of RNA brings together numerous novel methods that were hitherto only available through the primary ....

Horizontal Gene Transfer

Genomes in Flux

Edited by Maria Boekels Gogarten, Johann Peter Gogarten and Lorraine Olendzenski

Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) events encompass processes as varied as the exchange of genetic material between microbes coexisting in the same environment, between symbiotic ....

Integrative Wildlife Nutrition

Perry S Barboza, Katherine L Parker and Ian D Hume

This book applies the basic principles of nutrition to the study of fish, reptiles, birds, and mammals in their natural environments. The acquisition of food, its digestion ....

Introduction to Proteomics

Agnieszka Kraj and Jerzy Silberring

In addition to comprehensive discussions of the basic concepts, techniques, and applications of the subject, the text also includes an extensive glossary and a chapter ....

Management of Disease in Wild Mammals

Edited by Richard J Delahay, Graham C Smith and Michael R Hutchings

Wildlife populations may be a significant source of infection for humans and domestic animals while in some cases being themselves endangered by pathogens. The development of ....

Microbes and the Environment

Perspectives and Challenges

Edited by Shuang-Jiang Liu and Harold L Drake

A group of microbiologists from China, Germany, and additional European countries met in Beijing in September 2007 and held a conference entitled 'Microbes and the Environment'. ....

Prediction of Protein Structures, Functions, and Interactions

Janusz M Bujnicki

The prediction of protein structure and function is an increasingly important discipline used by the pharmaceutical industry to help researchers select and understand drug ....

Reproductive Biology - a Molecular Approach

HDM Moore

Small Animal Internal Medicine

Richard W Nelson and Guillermo Couto

Emphasizes practical diagnostic approaches and focuses on the clinically relevant aspects of patient medical management. Extensive color illustrations, boxes, and ....

Thinking about Life

The history and philosophy of biology and other sciences

Paul S Agutter and Denys N Wheatley

This is a 'popular science' book, designed as a sequel to our "About Life", though readers need not be familiar with the earlier volume. Indeed, no specialist knowledge is ....

Wild Justice

The Moral Lives of Animals

Marc Bekoff and Jessica Pierce

Scientists have long counseled against interpreting animal behavior in terms of human emotions, warning that such anthropomorphizing limits our ability to understand animals ....

Animal Evolution

Genomes, Fossils, and Trees

Edited by Maximilian J Telford and DTJ Littlewood

Animal life, now and over the past half billion years, is incredibly diverse. Describing and understanding the evolution of this diversity of body plans - from vertebrates such ....

The Annotated Origin

A Facsimile of the First Edition of on the Origin of Species

Charles Darwin and James T Costa

Charles Darwin's "Origin of Species" is the most important and yet least read scientific work in the history of science. Now James T. Costa - experienced field biologist, ....

Darwin: For the Love of Science

Andrew Kelly, Melanie Kelly, Brian Dolan, Jonathan Hodge and Marcus Waithe

Darwin: For the Love of Science is a collection of specially commissioned essays to mark the bicentenary of the birth of Charles Darwin, one of the world's greatest scientists. ....

E.O. Wilson and B.F. Skinner

A Dialogue Between Sociobiology and Radical Behaviorism

Paul Naour

"This is going to be a conversation that I will have with B.F. Skinner. This is Ed Wilson. He invited me by to talk about sociobiology." Thus began a 1987 conversation ....

The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals

Charles Darwin and Sharon Messenger

Published in 1872, "The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals" was a book at the very heart of Darwin's research interests - a central pillar of his 'human' series. This ....

Kluge

The Haphazard Construction of the Human Mind

Gary Marcus

A 'kluge' is an engineering term for a makeshift solution, an inelegant construction that somehow works. This is Gary Marcus' analogy for the way the human mind has evolved. ....

Monad to Man

The Concept of Progress in Evolutionary Biology

Michael Ruse

Ubiquitous in Darwin's time, the idea of an unceasing improvement in life insinuated its way into evolutionary theory from the first. In interviews with today's major figures in ....

The Naked Man

A Study of the Male Body

Desmond Morris

No life form has had a greater impact upon this planet than the human male. What is it that has made his legacy so utterly distinct from that of all other life forms, ....

On the Origin of Species

Charles Darwin, William Bynum and Damien Hirst

This anniversary edition has a new introduction and scholarly references by William Bynum, and the cover design is by Damien Hirst. ....

The Selfish Genius

How Richard Dawkins Rewrote Darwin's Legacy

Fern Elsdon-Baker

Richard Dawkins is one of the world's most recognisable living scientists. In the public perception of evolutionary theory, it often seems as if Dawkins has become more ....

Environmental Biology

The Conditions of Life: Environmental Selection, Extinction, Creation, Adaptation and Overpopulation

Terry Bruce Hilleman

Environmental biology is a study in the conditions of life; these conditions impact the life within it. The conditions of life are not limited to the present time; ....

Multitrophic Interactions in Terrestrial Systems

Edited by A C Gange and V K Brown

Multitrophic interactions are now recognised as being of the utmost importance in understanding the complexity of the natural world. However, their complex nature had ....

Sika Deer

Biology and Management of Native and Introduced Populations

Edited by Dale R McCullough, Seiki Takatsuki and Koichi Kaji

Sika deer, the graceful spotted deer of Japanese and Chinese art, originally were native to Asia from far-east Russia to Vietnam to the islands of Japan and Taiwan. They are ....

Toward a More Exact Ecology

Edited by PJ Grubb and JB Whittaker

Documents how ecology has emerged from being a predominantly descriptive subject to one with a more substantial theoretical framework underpoinned by evidence from experiments. ....

Advances in Mycorrhizal Science and Technology

D P Khasa, Y Piche and A P Coughlin

Mycorrhizal symbioses are widespread and fundamental components of terrestrial ecosystems and have shaped plant evolution. Research in this field is rapidly evolving ....

Amazonian Dark Earths: Wim Sombroek's Vision

Edited by W.I Woods et al

Amazonian soils are almost universally thought of as extremely forbidding. However, it is now clear that complex societies with large, sedentary populations were present for ....

America's National Wildlife Refuges: A Complete Guide

Russell D Butcher et al

An all-in-one updated guide to the National Wildlife Refuge system describing over 530 US wildlife reserves. Contains detailed explanations of each refuge's habitat and ....

The Atlantic Coastal Forest of Northeastern Brazil

WW Thomas

The Atlantic Coastal Forest of Brazil is one of the world's biodiversity hotspots, highly threatened areas rich in species found nowhere else. The long, narrow strip of ....

Criminal and Environmental Soil Forensics

Edited by Karl Ritz, Lorna Dawson and David Miller

Soils have important roles to play in criminal and environmental forensic science. Since the initial concept of using soil in forensic investigations was mooted by Conan Doyle ....

Ecology of Arctic Environments

Edited by Sarah J Woodhin and Mick Marquiss

Once thought of as a pristine environment it is now all too apparent that the Arctic is a sink for pollutants transported northwards over long distances in the atmosphere and ....

Fire Effects on Soils and Restoration Strategies

Artemi Cerda and Peter R Robichaud

In this book, the collected expertise of over 50 international scientists provides a global view of fire effects on soil and ....

Forest Diseases of Mexico / Enfermedades Forestales en Mexico

An Identification and Management Guide for Common Forest Diseases

D Cibrian Tovar, D Alvarado Rosales and SE Garcia Diaz

This book presents the available information on biotic and abiotic agents that affect forest trees and shrubs in Mexico. The reader will find information on the identities, ....

Forests Forever

Their Ecology, Restoration, and Protection

John J Berger and Charles E Little

An expanded and revised version of Berger's best-selling Understanding Forests, this book offers a clear and readable survey of forest history and management. Berger ....

Green Building Trends

Jerry Yudelson

This title is the first in a series of essential overviews of green building trends from around the world. The 'green building revolution' is a worldwide movement for ....

On the Roof of the World

Richard Nelsson

Throughout its history the "Guardian" has had unparalleled access to mountaineers and climbers, and its coverage of the sport is second to none. From Edward Whymper's ....

Patterns and Processes of Speciation in Ancient Lakes

Thomas Wilke, Risto Vainola and Frank Riedel

Ancient lakes are exceptional freshwater environments that have continued to exist for hundreds of thousands of years. They have long been recognized as centers of ....

Planning for Coastal Resilience

Best Practices for Calamitous Times

T Beatley

Climate change is predicted to increase the frequency and magnitude of coastal storms around the globe, and the anticipated rise of sea levels will have enormous impact on ....

Rainforests

John Feltwell

Naturalist and photographer John Feltwell has travelled to Central and South America to bring you some of the highlights of its flora and fauna. From jaguars and tapirs to ....

Savannas, Barrens and Rock Outcrop Plant Communities of North America

Edited by Roger C Anderson, James S Fralish and Jerry M Baskin

Provides a description of the climate, geology, and soils associated with the community, and information about its historic and current vegetation. ....

Southeast Asian Grasslands

Understanding a Vernacular Landscape

Edited by M Dove

Local communities and non-local development agencies often hold diametrically opposing views of grasslands. Villagers may see grasslands as fragile, whereas officials see them ....

State of the World's Forests 2009

FAO

What will be the impact on forests of future economic development, globalized trade and increases in the world's population? The 2009 edition of the biennial State of the ....

State of the World's Oceans

M Allsopp, R Page, P Johnston and D Santillo

This book provides a contemporary overview of the world's oceans. It identifies and describes the various problems which continue to threaten environmental quality and ....

Sustaining the World's Wetlands

Setting Policy and Resolving Conflicts

RC Smardon

Written both as a textbook and as a professional reference book, "Sustaining the World's Wetlands: Setting Policy and Resolving Conflicts" contains detailed case studies of ....

Taking the Air

Ideas and Change in Canada's National Parks

Paul Kopas

Although natural resource management is a major concern in recent Canadian policy literature, analysts have devoted little attention to parks and protected areas. "Taking ....

Conservation Genetics in the Age of Genomics

George Amato, R DeSalle and HC Rosenbaum

Genome sequencing enables scientists to study genes over time and to test the genetic variability of any form of life, from bacteria to mammals. Thanks to advances in ....

Endangered Species Deskbook

Lawrence R Liebesman and Rafe Petersen

This is a guide through the maze of the Endangered Species Act - and the regulations and court decisions it has spawned."The Endangered Species Deskbook" is a comprehensive ....

Recovery of Gray Wolves in the Great Lakes Region of the United States

An Endangered Species Success Story

Edited by Adrian P Wydeven, Timothy R Van Deelen and Edward Heske

The Great Lakes region is unique in that it is the only portion of the lower 48 states where wolves were never extirpated. As the birthplace of some of the first modern ....

Wildlife and Conservation Volunteering: The Complete Guide

Peter Lynch

The climate is changing, the forests are vanishing, and the Yangtze river dolphin is no more. With increasing numbers of us eager to do something to save the planet, the ....

An Appeal to Reason

A Cool Look at Global Warming

Nigel Lawson

In the 1960s, we were warned that the population explosion would lead to mass global starvation. In the 1970s, we were warned that the planet was running out of natural ....

Atmospheric and Biological Environmental Monitoring

Edited by YJ Kim, U Platt, MB Gu and H Iwahashi

The harmful impacts of pollution on atmospheric, terrestrial and aquatic environments can cause extreme temperature changes, clean water shortage, and increase toxicity. ....

Biometeorology for Adaptation to Climate Variability and Change

Edited by Kristie L Ebi, Ian Burton and Glenn R McGregor

Biometeorology has long been concerned with describing and understanding the impacts of weather and climate on humans and their activities and the natural (biosphere) system. ....

Building a Low-carbon Economy

The UK's Contribution to Tackling Climate Change

Committee on Climate Change

The inaugural report from the UK's new Committee on Climate Change (CCC) offers independent and expert analysis of current levels of greenhouse gas emissions and the ....

Facing Global Environmental Change

Environmental, Human, Energy, Food, Health and Water Security Concepts

Edited by HG Brauch et al

Global environmental change and globalisation pose new security challenges in the 21st century. More than 100 experts assess the systemic, cultural, religious and spatial ....

The Hot Topic

How to Tackle Global Warming and Still Keep the Lights on

David King and Gabrielle Walker

"The Hot Topic" is a collaborative work by one of the most respected scientists and one of the most dynamic writers in the field of climate change. Sir David King, ....

Influence of Climate Change on the Changing Arctic and Sub-Arctic Conditions

Edited by Jacques CJ Nihoul and Andrey G Kostianoy

The current warming trends in the Arctic may shove the Arctic system into a seasonally ice-free state not seen for more than one million years. The melting is accelerating, ....

New Directions in Climate Change Vulnerability, Impacts, and Adaptation Assessment

Summary of a Workshop

With effective climate change mitigation policies still under development, and with even the most aggressive proposals unable to halt climate change immediately, many decision ....

All That Glitters

A Review of Payments for Watershed Services in Developing Countries

Ina Poras, Maryanne Grieg-Gran and Nanete Neves

A growing international debate calls for downstream beneficiaries of wise upstream land and water use to dig into their pockets and pay. IIED stimulated the debate several ....

Earth-System History

Steven M Stanley

Shows how Earth's ecosystem has developed over time, and how events in the past can help us deal with present and future changes. Key themes and concepts are examined and a ....

The First Soviet Cosmonaut Team

Their Lives and Legacies

Colin Burgess and Rex Hall

"The First Soviet Cosmonaut Team" relates who these men were and offers far more extensive background stories, in addition to those of the more familiar names of early ....

The Gregory Rift Valley and Neogene-recent Volcanoes of Northern Tanzania

JB Dawson

Mars 3-D

A Rover's-Eye View of the Red Planet

Jim Bell

What would it be like to visit Mars--to explore the distinctive, untouched terrain that inspired astronomers and stirred so many sci-fi writers' imaginations? Two highly ....

Moonshot

The Inside Story of Mankind's Greatest Adventure

Dan Parry

In 1969, people from across the globe gathered round television sets to witness one of the most historic moments in the history of mankind - the first human moon landing. ....

Of Rock and Rivers

Seeking a Sense of Place in the American West

Ellen Wohl

This beautifully written and deeply personal collection of essays paints a progressive view of the American West as seen by a geologist. Ellen Wohl traces her twenty years of ....

Orogenic Processes in the Alpine Collision Zone

Stefan M Schmid and N Froitzheim

This book covers a multitude of Alpine-type working areas and processes active in collisional mountain building in the form of 16 selected very up-to-date review and ....

Planetary Crusts

Their Composition, Origin and Evolution

S Ross Taylor and Scott McLennan

This is the first book to explain how and why solid planets and satellites develop crusts. Extensively referenced and annotated, it presents a geochemical and geological ....

2009 Organic Farm Management Handbook

Edited by N Lampkin, M Measures and S Padel

It is difficult to predict how the organic market will respond to rising food and fuel prices and the 'credit crunch'. In such as rapidly changing situation it becomes ....

Advances in Agronomy, Volume 100

Donald L Sparks

Contributors to this special 100th volume were carefully selected by the editor for their perspectives on not only the current state-of-the-art of their topic but also ....

Agriculture at Crossroads, Volume 1: Global Report

International Assessment of Agricultural

The results of the project are contained in seven reports: a Global Report, five regional Sub-Global Assessments, and a Synthesis Report. The Global Report gives the key ....

Agriculture at Crossroads, Volume 3: East and South Asia and the Pacific

International Assessment of Agricultural

The results of the project are contained in seven reports: a "Global Report", five regional "Sub-Global Assessments", and a "Synthesis Report". "The Global Report" gives ....

Agriculture at Crossroads, Volume 4: Latin America and the Caribbean

International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge

The results of the project are contained in seven reports: a "Global Report", five regional "Sub-Global Assessments", and a "Synthesis Report". "The Global Report" gives ....

Agriculture at Crossroads, Volume 5: North America and Europe

International Assessment of Agricultural

The results of the project are contained in seven reports: a "Global Report", five regional "Sub-Global Assessments", and a "Synthesis Report". "The Global Report" gives ....

Agriculture at Crossroads, Volume 6: Sub-Saharan Africa

International Assessment of Agricultural

The results of the project are contained in seven reports: a Global Report, five regional Sub-Global Assessments, and a Synthesis Report. The Global Report gives the key ....

Apollo's Fire

Igniting America's Clean Energy Economy

J Inslee and B Hendricks

To free the U.S. of fossil fuel dependency while boosting the economy, we need the kind of visionary leadership that led to the Apollo moon landings in 1969, according to ....

The Changing Governance of Renewable Natural Resources in Northwest Russia

Edited by Soili Nystén-Haarala

Bringing together scholars of human geography, environmental sociology, law, economics and international policy from Finland, Russia, Sweden and Germany, this book examines ....

Climate Change Act 2008

The 'Climate Change Act 2008' is an Act to set a target for the year 2050 to: reduce targeted greenhouse gas emissions; provide for a system of carbon budgeting; establish a ....

Climate Change and Sustainable Development

New Challenges for Poverty Reduction

Edited by MA Mohamed Salih

This book offers original analysis of the complex relations influencing sustainable development within the context of global economic restructuring and the heritage of ....

Coping with Water Scarcity

Addressing the Challenges

Luis Santos Pereira, Ian Cordery and Iacovos Iacovides

One of the main problems confronting the world of the 21st Century is a shortage of water. There is already severe scarcity in many regions of the world, causing tremendous ....

Dead Seas

How the Fish on Our Plates is Killing Our Planet

Taras Grescoe

There's simply no limit to the sins people will commit for a tasty meal. The Japanese are notorious for their trade in bluefin tuna, while newlyweds in Bangkok, Shanghai and ....

Desert Olive Oil Cultivation

Advanced Bio Technologies

Zeev Wiesman

Due to the adverse stress conditions typical of olive cultivation in desert conditions, the olive tree is responding with production of high levels of ....

The First Decade of Herbicide-Resistant Crops in Canada

Edited by RH Gulden and CJ Swanton

The 10th anniversary since the commercial release of the first herbicide-resistant crop cultivars in Canada was in ....

Forest Dynamics, Growth and Yield

From Measurement to Model

Hans Pretzsch

The aim of this book is to improve the understanding of forest dynamics and the sustainable management of forest ecosystems. How do tree crowns, trees or entire forest ....

Geographies of Development in the 21st Century

An Introduction to the Global South

Sylvia Chant and Cathy McIlwaine

Written by two widely published academics with many years experience in university teaching, research and consultancy, "Geographies of Development in the 21st Century" ....

The Great Lakes Water Wars

Peter Annin

The Great Lakes are the largest collection of fresh surface water on earth, and more than 40 million Americans and Canadians live in their basin. Will we divert water from ....

Handbook of Sustainable Development

Edited by Giles Atkinson, Simon Dietz and Eric Neumayer

This timely and important Handbook takes stock of progress made in our understanding of what sustainable development actually is and how it can be achieved. Twenty years on ....

Hydrologic Data Analysis and Water Harvesting Structures

Taffa Tulu

Intellectual Property Rights and Food Security

M Blakeney

Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) play an important role in the struggle for food security and encouraging agricultural research and development. This book examines these ....

It's Not Easy Being Green

One Family's Journey Towards Self-Sufficiency

Dick Strawbridge

"It's Not Easy Being Green" follows Dick Strawbridge and his family as they leave their comfortable home in the Midlands to tackle a remarkable self-sufficiency project - New ....

Managing Water Resources in a Time of Global Change

Alberto Garrido and Ariel Dinar

Global change possesses serious challenges for water managers and scientists. In mountain areas, where water supplies for half of the world population originate, climate ....

Marine and Industrial Biofouling

Hans-Curt Flemming, R Venkatesan, P Sriyutha Murthy and Keith Cooksey

Biofouling is a costly problem, and it is encountered in a wide spectrum of technical systems, ranging from the shipping industry, power industry, water purification, ....

Materials and the Environment

Eco-informed Material Choice

Michael Ashby

As concern for the environment grows, there is a corresponding trend among colleges and universities worldwide to incorporate sustainability into engineering education. ....

Nature Protests

The End of Ecology in Slovakia

Edward Snajdr

As societies around the world are challenged to respond to ever growing environmental crises, it has become increasingly important for activists, policy makers, and ....

Negotiate: Reaching Agreement Over Water

This publication will help water professionals negotiate workable agreements on how best to manage water resources. It will guide users through ways of building meaningful ....

Organic Crop Production - Ambitions and Limitations

Edited by Holger Kirchmann and Lars Bergström

Many people believe that organic agriculture is a solution for various problems related to food production. Organic agriculture is supposed to produce healthier products, does ....

Penicillin

Triumph and Tragedy

Robert Bud

Penicillin is the drug of the twentieth century. It was the first of the antibiotics that, for decades after the Second World War, underpinned a popular belief that ....

The Quest for Sustainable International Fisheries

E Meltzer

The United Nations Fish Stocks Agreement (UNFSA) represents a major international effort to improve fisheries governance, resource recovery, and sustainable development of ....

Revealed Preference Approaches to Environmental Valuation

Volumes I and II

Edited by Joseph Herriges and Catherine L Kling

In this two volume collection the editors have chosen a sample of some of the most essential and inspirational articles and papers for understanding revealed preference ....

Rule: Reforming Water Resources Governance

This toolkit will introduce readers to the central role played by policy, law and institutions in designing and implementing good governance for water resources. It will ....

Seasick

The Hidden Ecological Crisis of the Global Ocean

Alanna Mitchell

You thought the climate was the problem? Actually, it's the ocean. Read for the first time how the global ocean - 99 per cent of the planet's living space - is undergoing ....

Share: Managing Water Across Boundaries

This publication will provide an overview of the world's shared water resources and insights for managing these resources. Using case studies from around the world, it ....

The The Environment and International Relations

Kate O'Neill

This exciting new textbook introduces students to the ways in which the theories and tools of International Relations can be used to analyse and address global environmental ....

Tree Nuts

Cesarettin Alasalvar and Fereidoon Shahidi

Nuts have been long perceived as a high-fat, high-calorie food, best avoided or consumed in moderation. However, research is showing that tree nuts are cholesterol-free and ....

Virtual Water

Tackling the Threat to our Planet's Most Precious Resource

Tony Allan

How much water does it take to make a cup of coffee? The answer may shock you: 140 litres! That's the true amount of water used in growing, producing, packaging and ....

Water Quality for Ecosystem and Human Health

The purpose of the new edition is to introduce the basic concepts of water quality and how it is related to ecosystem and human health; and to present an overview and ....

Water Requirements for Irrigation and the Environment

M.G Bos, R.A.L Kselik, R.G Allen and D Molden

Irrigated agriculture produces about 40 percent of all food and fibre on about 16 percent of all cropped land. As such, irrigated agriculture is a productive user of ....

Water for a Changing World

Developing Local Knowledge and Capacity

Guy Alaerts and Nicholas Dickinson

This collection of papers represents the outcomes of the International Symposium held in Delft, The Netherlands, on June 13-15, 2007, at the occasion of the 50th anniversary of ....

Wildlife Law

A Primer

Eric T Freyfogle and Dale D Goble

This title presents the first-ever comprehensive survey of American wildlife law. "Wildlife Law" is a comprehensive and readable primer that provides an overview of U.S. ....

World Development Report 2009

Reshaping Economic Geography

World Bank Group

Rising densities of human settlements, migration and transport to reduce distances to market, and specialization and trade facilitated by fewer ....

Bioinformatics and Computational Genomics

Lee Kozar

As the bioinformatics course has begun to evolve it has become clear that students need a cohesive picture of what bioinformatics is, what methods it employs, how genomes are ....

Biostatistics for Animal Science

M Kaps and W Lamberson

Designed to cover techniques for analysis of data in the animal sciences, this textbook provides an overview of the basic principles of statistics enabling the subsequent ....

Ecological Models and Dynamics

Roger Schmitz

Uses mathematical models and computer simulations to study the dynamics of ecosystems, both natural and in response to disturbances. As an electronic 'pop-up' textbook, it ....

Principles and Practice of Variable Pressure

Environmental Scanning Electron Microscopy (VP-ESEM)

Debbie Stokes

This title offers a simple starting point to VPSEM, especially for new users, technicians and students containing clear, concise explanations. Crucially, the ....

Systems Biology

Edited by Ivan V Maly

The rapidly developing methods of systems biology can help investigators to make inference and predictions from their data that intuition alone would not discern; ....

ASLIB Directory of Information Sources in the United Kingdon

First published in 1928, the "Aslib Directory" is the leading information sources reference work on organizations of all kinds. Now published in its fifteenth edition, ....

Google Scholar and More

New Google Applications and Tools for Libraries and Library Users

William Miller and Rita Pellen

In only a few years, Google has become an authoritative provider of multiple products which have changed the digital information landscape. This book discusses how libraries ....

Museums, Anthropology and Imperial Exchange

Amiria Henare

Amiria Henare explores the role of material cultural research in anthropology and related disciplines from the late eighteenth century to the present. Grounded in a ....