Domestic Dog Cognition and Behavior

The Scientific Study of Canis familiaris

Alexandra Horowitz

Domestic Dog Cognition and Behavior highlights the state of the field in the new, provocative line of research into the cognition and behavior of the domestic dog. Eleven chapters from leading researchers describe innovative methods ... ....

Ecology, Evolution and Behaviour of Wild Cattle

Implications for Conservation

Mario Melletti, James Burton and Simon Stuart

The first comprehensive guide of its kind, this volume is essential for any study of wild cattle. Covering all 13 species of wild cattle, the Evolution and Behaviour of Wild Cattle brings together the contributions of 70 international ... ....

Empty Hands, Open Arms

The Race to Save Bonobos in the Congo and Make Conservation Go Viral

Deni Bechard

When acclaimed author Deni Bechard first learned of the last living bonobos – matriarchal great apes that are, alongside the chimpanzee, our closest relatives in the animal kingdom – he was completely astonished.

Squirrels

John Gurnell, Peter WW Lurz and Luc Wauters

Part of The Mammal Society's series of species guides, this 24-page book covers the biology, ecology and conservation issues for the red and grey squirrel, with images and colourful graphics.

Sur les Traces de la Panthere des Neiges (Region 2)

Eric Dragesco

In this wildlife documentary, Eric Dragesco spent eight weeks following former hunting guide Baasan. He was converted to eco-tourism and now regularly departs for the most remote valleys of his country, Mongolia.

The Carnivore Way

Coexisting with and Conserving North America's Predators

Cristina Eisenberg

What would it be like to live in a world with no predators roaming our landscapes? Would their elimination, which humans have sought with ever greater urgency in recent times, bring about a pastoral, peaceful human civilization?

The Guide to Colorado Mammals

Mary Taylor Young

A wonderful resource and guidebook for a general audience, The Guide to Colorado Mammals describes 128 species of mammals native to Colorado. Each mammal is described within a species account, including common and scientific ... ....

The Mammals of Sri Lanka

Asoka Yapa, Gamini Ratnavira, Rohan Pethiyagoda, Sarath Kotagama, Anouk Ilangakoon and Saparamadu

The Mammals of Sri Lanka is the first comprehensive treatment of the subject in eighty years. Although the book is intended for the wildlife enthusiast and observer, it will be of value to students and professional zoologists. ....

A Message from Martha

The Extinction of the Passenger Pigeon and Why it Still Matters

Mark Avery

September 1st, 2014 sees the centenary of one of the best-documented extinctions in history – the demise of the Passenger Pigeon. From being the commonest bird on the planet 50 years earlier, the species became extinct with the ... ....

Bird Facts for Everyone

Kerry Atkinson

No bird books to date have included references to paintings by Velasquez, Van Gogh and John Constable, poetry by TS Eliot and Shelley or to Bob Dylan and Lamborghini sportscars – all with at least indirect links to birds and their ... ....

Birdhouses of the World

Anne Schmauss

Along with a brief history of birdhouses, author Anne Schmauss lets readers know what kinds of birds live in birdhouses and the types of structures each kind of bird is attracted to. While she features both functional and decorative bird ... ....

Birds of Western Africa

Nik Borrow and Ron Demey

This new edition uses all of the plates from Birds of Western Africa, with a concise, authoritative text on facing pages, to create a conveniently-sized, lightweight field reference covering all 1300 species found in the region.

Breeding Birds of the Sheffield Area including the North-east Peak District

David Wood, Richard Hill, Tim Birkhead, Richard Dale, Paul Leonard and Ray Scally

The Sheffield area lies on the boundary of upland and lowland Britain and contains a diversity of habitats which is reflected in the great variety of its birdlife.

Fascinants Oiseaux

Markus Varesvuo

This is a French translation of Fascinating Birds.

Feeder Birds of Eastern North America

Getting to Know Easy-To-Attract Backyard Visitors

Sandy Allison

Beautiful color photos and drawings and concise text introduce the 30 North American birds most likely to appear at a backyard feeder Feeder Birds of Eastern North America includes identification tips and fascinating facts about ... ....

Field Guide to Birds of the Northern California Coast

Rich Stallcup, Jules Evens and Keith Hansen

The northern California coast, from Monterey County to the Oregon border, is home to some of the richest avian habitats on the North America continent. Field Guide to Birds of the Northern California Coast provides a comprehensive ... ....

Guide des Rapaces Diurnes

Europe, Afrique du Nord et Moyen-Orient

Benny Gensbol

This is a French translation of Collins Birds of Prey.

In the Dark of the Night

A Journey in the Secret Life of the Eagle Owl

Vincenzo Penteriani and Maria del Mar Delgado

Vincenzo Penteriani and Maria del Mar Delgado are both researchers working in animal ecology and behaviour. At present, Vincenzo is a permanent researcher at the Estacion Biologica de Donana, a research centre of the Spanish Council for ... ....

Latin for Bird Lovers

Over 3,000 bird names explored and explained

Roger J Lederer and Carol Burr

Latin for Bird Lovers is an accessible, informative, and beautifully illustrated guide to the mysteries of ornithological Latin. It reveals the meaning, origin, and pronunciation of Latin binomials, helping readers to get to grips ... ....

Le Guide Ornitho

Le Guide le Plus Complet des Oiseaux d'Europe, d'Afrique du Nord et du Moyen-Orient: 900 Especes

Lars Svensson, Killian Mullarney and Dan Zetterstrom

This is a French translation of the well-known Collins Bird Guide.

Ocells de Catalunya, País Valencia i Balears

Inclou tambe Catalunya Nord, Franja de Ponent i Andorra

Joan Estrada, Francesc Jutglar, Toni Llobet and Martí Franch

The first guide covering exclusively the birds of this area. All species are illustrated, including recently established exotics. Completely new and updated texts and maps.

Pocket Guide To Garden Birds

Nigel Blake

This compact title is an essential guide to every aspect of the subject, from when and what to feed the birds to building bird tables and nest boxes and planting a garden that will provide nesting, feeding and roosting places.

Predictors of Juvenile Survival in Birds

Terri J Maness and David J Anderson

The survival probability of birds during the juvenile period, between the end of parental care and adulthood, is highly variable and has a major effect on population dynamics and parental fitness. As such, a large number of studies have ... ....

The Owl Who Liked Sitting on Caesar

Life with a Loveable Tawny Owl

Martin Windrow

"Perched on the back of a sunlit chair was something about 9 inches tall and shaped rather like a plump toy penguin with a nose-job. It appeared to be wearing a one-piece knitted jumpsuit of pale grey fluff with brown stitching ... ....

Waterbirds in the UK 2011/12

GE Austin , RWJ Read, NA Calbrade, HJ Mellan, Andy J Musgrove, W Skellorn, Richard Hearn and Stroud

The Wetland Bird Survey (WeBS) is a joint scheme of the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO), Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) and Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC), in association with Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust ... ....

Welcher Vogel ist das?

Volker Dierschke

Welcher Vogel ist das? covers 440 species of birds from all over Europe - multiple images and drawings per species - Kosmos colour code - Extra: survey of the most important bird eggs

Why We Bird

David C Rice and Robin G Pulich

What makes birders get up early to walk through the woods or tromp through wet fields? Why do we drive a hundred miles to catch a glimpse of a rare species? Why do we keep the feeder full? There are as many reasons to bird as ...

A Field Guide to the Amphibians and Reptiles of Iowa

Jeffrey B LeClere

The first publication to include all 67 species of amphibians and reptiles native to Iowain a single volume. This is a comprehensive yet non-technical field guide with an emphasis on the identification and ranges.

Amphibian Evolution

The Life of Early Land Vertebrates

Rainer R Schoch

Amphibian Evolution focuses on the first vertebrates to conquer land and their long journey to become fully independent from the water. It traces the origin of tetrapod features and tries to explain how and why they transformed ... ....

Are Trout South African?

Duncan Brown

Are trout as South African as braaivleis, biltong and Mrs Balls chutney? Duncan Brown, academic, literary critic, author and fisherman, explores questions about the complex community of humans, fauna and flora that make up South Africa. ....

A Slow Passion

Snails, My Garden and Me

Ruth Brooks

When BBC Radio 4's Material World programme announced a search for the UK's top amateur scientist, little did anyone expect that the winning experiment would comprise one of our humblest garden pests. Ruth Brooks posed ... ....

An Illustrated Guide to Common Diatoms of Peninsular India

B Karthick, PB Hamilton and John Patrick Kociolek

An Illustrated Guide to Common Diatoms of Peninsular India is the first book from India, which illustrates most common diatoms species of Peninsular India.

Cephalopod Cognition

Anne-Sophie Darmaillacq, Ludovic Dickel and Jennifer A Mather

Cephalopods are generally regarded as the most intelligent group among the invertebrates. Despite their popularity, relatively little is known about the range and function of their cognitive abilities. Cephalopod Cognition fills ... ....

Cephalopod Culture

Jose Iglesias, Lidia Fuentes and Roger Vilanueva

Cephalopod Culture is the first compilation of research on the culture of cephalopods. It describes experiences of culturing different groups of cephalopods: nautiluses, sepioids (Sepia officinalis, Sepia pharaonis ... ....

Cylindrical Bark Beetles of Japan [Japanese]

Families Bothrideridae and Zopheridae

Jyunichi Aoki

This iconography shows all members of the families Bothrideridae and Zopheridae on colour plates.

Insectes de France et d'Europe

Wolfgang Dierl and Werner Ring

Dragonflies, grasshoppers, cockroaches, bed bugs, beetles, bees and ants, butterflies, flies and mosquitoes, fleas, etc., the most representative European species of this order are illustrated and described in detail in this field guide. ....

Loger et Abriter Les Insectes au Jardin

Transformez votre Jardin en Relais et Chateaux pour Insectes!

Vincent Albouy and Andre Fouquet

Insects have long been neglected in gardens – even worse, the so-called 'harmful' species have been fought with masses of chemicals. Today, we know that insects can be valuable allies for gardeners. Before the alarming ... ....

Mollusk Shells As Bio-Geo-Archives

Evaluating Environmental Changes During the Quaternary

Sandra Gordillo, Maria Sol Bayer, Gabriella Boretto and Melisa Charo

In view of the wide range of disciplines involved in Quaternary research, Mollusk Shells As Bio-Geo-Archives offers a one-stop resource for the Quaternary research community, since it reviews the latest techniques and provides a ... ....

Overview and Descriptions of Trichoptera in Baltic Amber: Spicipalpia and Integripalpia

Wilfried Wichard

In 1912 Georg Ulmer (1877-1963) published his famous book Die Trichopteren des Baltischen Bernsteins and described 152 species of 26 genera and 12 families, including 9 spicipalpian and 48 integripalpian species. After 100 years ... ....

Pests of Fruit Crops

A Colour Handbook

David V Alford

The second edition of Pests of Fruit Crops focuses on insect and mite pests affecting fruit as well as hop and nut crops in both temperate and subtropical climates. Some of the fruits covered include pome fruits, stone fruits ... ....

RES Handbook, Volume 4, Part 5b: Keys to Adults of the Water Beetles of Britain and Ireland (Part 2)

Garth N Foster, David T Bilton and Laurie E Friday

Illustrated keys are provided for the families, genera, species and other taxa of British and Irish members of the superfamily Hydrophiloidea (Coleoptera suborder Polyphaga). The Hydrophiloidea comprise the families Helophoridae ... ....

Spiders of Borneo

With Special Reference to Brunei

Joseph KH Koh and Leong Tzi Ming

Written by the author of the highly popular field manual, A Guide to Common Singapore Spiders, this book on the spiders of Brunei is another user-friendly pictorial identification guide — in a more attractive format, and ... ....

The Backyard Beekeeper

An Absolute Beginner's Guide to Keeping Bees in Your Yard and Garden

Kim Flottum

The Backyard Beekeeper is Quarry's comprehensive, hands-on guide to beekeeping for hobbyists, first published in 2005 and revised in 2009. It features how-to advice on setting up colonies, caring for the bees, and harvesting ... ....

The Buprestid Beetles of Japan [Japanese]

Sadahiro Ohmomo and Hirokazu Fukutomi

Fine colour plates showing 1885 species (10% of world Bupresitidae), including many type specimens.

The Dragonfly Diaries

The Story Behind Europe's First Dragonfly & Damselfly Sanctuary

Ruray Mackenzie Dodds

Britain is home to some 40 species of dragonfly, and public interest in their plight is high right now thanks to their primeval beauty, aerobatic grace and a growing realisation of their importance for water ecosystems.

Wiltshire Beetles

History, Status, Distribution and Use in Site Assessment

Michael Darby

This is the first book on this fascinating and important group of insects in Wiltshire. It lists 1839 species with information on locations, dates and names of recorders. The colour illustrations include 125 rare and notable species as ... ....

A New Silurian (Llandovery, Telychian) Sponge Assemblage from Gotland, Sweden

Freek Rhebergen and Joseph Botting

A newly discovered, diverse sponge fauna of early Silurian age, is described from Gotland, Sweden. This is the first Silurian sponge assemblage known from Baltica, and the only diverse Llandoverian assemblage known worldwide.

Brakhiopody i Biostratigrafiia Verkhnego Devona Srednego i IUzhnogo Urala [Brachiopods and Biostratigraphy of the Upper

Anita G Mizens

This monograph presents the results of a study of the Upper Givetian brachiopod type sections of the western and eastern slopes of the Central and Southern Urals. It presents a summary of the stratigraphic distribution of 227 species of brachiopods ... ....

Cambrian Ocean World

Ancient Sea Life of North America

John Foster

Cambrian Ocean World, aimed at the general reader, presents life and times of the amazing animals that inhabited Earth more than 500 million years ago. The Cambrian Period was a critical time in Earth's history during this ... ....

Dinosaurs and Other Reptiles from the Mesozoic of Mexico

Hector E Rivera-Sylva, Kenneth Carpenter and Eberhard Frey

This overview of dinosaur discoveries in Mexico synthesizes current information about the geography and environment of the region during the Mesozoic when it was the western margin of the ancient continent of Pangea.

Dinosaurs by the Decades

A Chronology of the Dinosaur in Science and Popular Culture

Randy Moore

This exhaustive, up-to-date book contains more than 2000 entries about dinosaurs and dinosaur-related topics. It provides not only detailed information about their discovery, underlying science, and recent technologies and theories but ... ....

Experimental Approaches to Understanding Fossil Organisms

Lessons from the Living

Daniel I Hembree, Brian F Platt and Jon J Smith

Paleontologists and geologists struggle with research questions often complicated by the loss or even absence of key paleobiological and paleoenvironmental information. Insight into this missing data can be gained through direct exploration ... ....

Fossilium Catalogus Animalia, Volume 149 [English]

Testudinomorpha I Index Ichnia et Ova Testudinarum fossilium, Testudinata permotriadica

Hans-Volker Karl

The turtles are one of the most long-lasting groups of tetrapods. They are documented from their earliest record of Lower Triassic (Skythian) age until today which means a period of time of approximately 250 million years, leading to a ... ....

Fossilium Catalogus Animalia, Volume 150 [English]

Trilobites Africae: Catalogus typorum

Martin Basse

The Palaeozoic of northern Africa, western Africa, and South Africa (West Gondwana) has locally yielded rich trilobite faunas from the Cambrian, Ordovician, and Devonian. From the Silurian and especially from Carboniferous and Permian ... ....

Fossilium Catalogus Animalia, Volume 151 [English]

Lower Cretaceous Ammonites VI - Douvilleiceratiodea & Deshayesitoiea

Jaap Klein and Tamara Bogdanova

The superfamilies Deshayesitoidea and Douvilleiceratoidea are both restricted to the Lower Cretaceous, mainly Aptian and Albian. The genera Turkmeniceras and Paraspiticeras, included by Wright et al., 1996 in ... ....

A Manual of Water Plants

W Vivian De Thabrew

This is a book on aquatic plants written in accessible language, so that anyone interested in water plants can acquire useful knowledge about them. As far as possible botanical language has been used sparingly, and then only when absolutely ... ....

A Countryside Miscellany

Isobel Carlson

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time. John Lubbock Lovers of the great ... ....

A Home in the Howling Wilderness

Settlers and the Environment in Southern New Zealand

Peter Holland

During the 19th century, New Zealand's South Island underwent an environmental transformation at the hands of European settlers. They diverted streams and drained marshes, burned native vegetation and planted hedges and grasses ... ....

A Land Between Waters

Environmental Histories of Modern Mexico

Christopher R Boyer

Mexico is one of the most ecologically diverse nations on the planet, with landscapes that range from rainforests to deserts and from small villages to the continent's largest metropolis. Yet historians are only beginning to understand ... ....

A Rugged Nation

Mountains and the Making of Modern Italy

Marco Armiero

Landscape, politics and history: the Italian mountains as a crucible of national and natural identity. A Rugged Nation is part of a wider current in environmental history, that explores the links between nature and nation. ....

A Story About Ducks

Jack Townend

First published in the 1940s, this beautifully illustrated children's books was written and illustrated by Jack Townend during the Second World War. Long out of print, it is now reproduced here for the first time.

A Teen Guide to Being Eco in Your Community

Cath Senker

This series features stylish books that give school-age readers realistic and practical advice on how they can live an eco-conscious life, right now.

A Teen Guide to Eco-Fashion

Liz Gogerly

This series features stylish books that give school-age readers realistic and practical advice on how they can live an eco-conscious life, right now.

A Teen Guide to Eco-Gardening, Food, and Cooking

Jen Green

Eco Guides are trendy, stylish books that give school-age readers realistic and practical advice on how they can live an eco-conscious life, right now. And that action can be taken by themselves, with their family, or as part of ... ....

A Teen Guide to Eco-Leisure

Neil Morris

Eco Guides are trendy, stylish books that give school-age readers realistic and practical advice on how they can live an eco-conscious life, right now. And that action can be taken by themselves, with their family, or as part of ... ....

Active Earth - Discovery Edition

The World As You've Never Seen It Before

Belinda Gallagher

Explore the extremes of planet earth with this remarkable guide. Produced in assocation with Discovery Channel, Active Earth - Discovery Edition focuses on dramatic landscapes and natural forces. From volcanic rock to violently ... ....

Animals

Sarah Johnson

The fourth volume in the reader series, Themes in Environmental History. Comprising essays selected from Environment and History and Environmental Values, these collections address important aspects of environmental ... ....

Arctic Dreams

Barry H Lopez and Robert MacFarlane

This book was originally published in 1986. Arctic Dreams comes with an introduction by Robert MacFarlane. Lopez's journey across our frozen planet is a celebration of the Arctic in all its guises.

Awesome Animals - Discovery Edition

The World As You've Never Seen It Before

Belinda Gallagher

Explore the extremes of the animal world with this remarkable guide. Produced in assocation with Discovery Channel, Awesome Animals - Discovery Edition focuses on amazing animal species, behaviour and survival. From geckos to ... ....

Bad Water

Nature, Pollution, and Politics in Japan, 1870-1950

Robert Stolz

Bad Water is a sophisticated theoretical analysis of Japanese thinkers and activists' efforts to reintegrate the natural environment into Japan's social and political thought in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth ... ....

Bears

Barbara Taylor

A little book packed full of answers to lots of questions kids ask, as well as some they haven't even thought of yet! Younger readers can find out everything from whether bears are good at climbing trees to which bear is the best ... ....

Bernard Durin: Beetles and Other Insects

Bernard Durin and Paul-Armand Gette

Using rare and fascinating specimens entrusted to him by the entomologists of the Museum of Natural History in Paris, painter and illustrator Bernard Durin (1940–1988) portrayed each insect as an "individual personality." ... ....

Between the Atlantic and the Mediterranean

Responses to Climate and Weather Conditions throughout History

Cristina Joanaz de Melo, Ana Isabel Queiroz, Luis Espinha da Silveira and Ian D Rotherham

Responses to Climate and Weather Conditions throughout History brings together a set of case studies on living organisms' adaptation to the evolution of the climate and adjustments to extreme weather conditions.

Birds

Camilla de la Bedoyere

A little book packed full of answers to lots of questions kids ask, as well as some they haven't even thought of yet! Younger readers can find out everything from why some birds are colourful to how they look after their chicks. ....

Birds of Prey

Anna Claybourne

A little book packed full of answers to lots of questions kids ask, as well as some they haven't even thought of yet! Younger readers can find out everything from why kestrels perch near roads to which owl lives in a cactus.

Breath of Wilderness

The Life of Sigurd Olson

Kristin Eggerling

Breath of Wilderness is the story of Sigurd Olson's love for wild places and how that love transformed his life. It inspired him to play a key role in the movement to preserve wilderness throughout North America, including ... ....

California's Channel Islands

The Archaeology of Human-Environment Interactions

Christopher S Jazwa and Jennifer E Perry

California's Channel Islands are a chain of eight islands that extend along the state's southern coastline from Santa Barbara's Point Conception to the Mexican border. Popular tourist destinations today, these islands once ... ....

Car Country

An Environmental History

Christopher W Wells and William Cronon

For most residents of the United States, getting almost anywhere begins with reaching for the car keys. This is true, Christopher Wells argues, because the United States is car country: a nation whose landscapes are so completely oriented ... ....

Caves

Ellen Labrecque

Read Caves to learn all about these exciting, beautiful, and unique landforms. Discover the different cave types, how caves are formed, and what living things can be found in and around caves.

Changing Deserts

Integrating People and their Environments

Lisa Mol and Troy Sternberg

Deserts – vast, empty places where time appears to stand still. The very word conjures images of endless seas of sand, blistering heat and a virtual absence of life. However, deserts encompass a large variety of landscapes and life ... ....

Civilizing the Wilderness

Culture & Nature in Pre-Confederation Canada & Rupert's Land

AA den Otter

In this collection of essays, A. A. den Otter explores the meaning of the concepts 'civilizing' and 'wilderness' within an 1850s Euro-British North American context. At the time, den Otter argues, these concepts meant ... ....

Cold: Extreme Adventures at the Lowest Temperatures on Earth

Sir Ranulph Fiennes

Few humans have evolved who can survive and thrive in the bitter cold. Below a certain temperature, death is inevitable. Cold: Extreme Adventures at the Lowest Temperatures on Earth is about this aspect of our environment and ... ....

Coloring Birds

A delightful coloring-in book for adults, featuring beautiful natural history illustrations as color reference. Includes garden favorites, such as wrens and woodpeckers, to more rarely glimpsed birds like owls and the jewel-like kingfisher ... ....

Coloring Flowers

A delightful coloring-in book for adults, featuring beautiful natural history illustrations from the well-known botanical classic Choice of the Most Beautiful Flowers (1827) by Pierre-Joseph Redouté (1759-1840), known as ... ....

Conquering the Highlands

A History of the Afforestation of the Scottish Uplands

Jan Oosthoek

Deforestation of Scotland began millennia ago and by the early 20th century woodland cover was down to about 6 per cent of the total land area. A century later woodland cover had tripled. Most of the newly established forestry plantations ... ....

Conservation Song

A History of Peasant-state Relations and the Environment in Malawi, 1860-2000

Wapulumuka Oliver Mulwafu

Conservation Song explores ways in which colonial relations shaped meanings and conflicts over environmental control and management in Malawi. By focusing on soil conservation, which required an integrated approach to the use ... ....

Creepy Crawlies and the Scientific Method

More Than 100 Hands-On Science Experiments for Children

Sally Kniedel

From monarch butterflies to earthworms, Creepy Crawlies and the Scientific Method, Second Edition shows teachers and parents how to use bugs and other creatures to inspire in kids a passionate enthusiasm for living things and ... ....

Deadly Creatures

Miles Kelly

A little book packed full of answers to lots of questions kids ask, as well as some they haven't even thought of yet! Younger readers can find out everything from why fish bite to whether snakes have fangs. The fun questions are ... ....

Deadly Detectives

Top Tips to Track Wildlife

Steve Backshall

Finding wildlife is rarely easy – unless you're Steve Backshall! In Deadly Detectives Steve tells young trackers everything they need to know about the origins of tracking, what you need to become a tracker ...

Deadly Nature - Discovery Edition

The World As You've Never Seen It Before

Camilla de la Bedoyere

Discover the deadliest and most dangerous creatures in the animal world with this remarkable guide. Produced in association with Discovery Channel, this book takes you on a detailed journey through the most hostile creatures you will find ... ....

Devonian Floras

A Study of the Origin of Cormophyta

EA Newell Arber

Originally published in 1921, Devonian Floras presents a detailed account 'of the two Devonian land floras'. Illustrative figures and textual notes are incorporated throughout. Devonian Floras will be of value to ... ....

Drawing Trees

Denis John-Naylor

Denis John-Naylor creates wonderful drawings of trees and their leaves and seeds. Here he describes the techniques he uses, such as shaping the pencil end to make the right mark, building up a pattern of lights and darks, sketching in ... ....

Ecological Nationalisms

Nature, Livelihoods, and Identities in South Asia

Gunnel Cederlof and K Sivaramakrishnan

The works presented in this collection take environmental scholarship in South Asia into novel territory by exploring how questions of national identity become entangled with environmental concerns in Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, and India ... ....

Edward Bawden's Kew Gardens

Peyton Skipwith and Brian Webb

This book draws on Edward Bawden's delightful illustrations, posters and linocuts of Kew Gardens made over 60 years. It presents a light-hearted social history of Kew, peopled with the many Hanoverian Kings, Queens and Princes who ... ....

Elephants

Camilla de la Bedoyere

Elephants is a little book packed full of answers to lots of questions kids ask, as well as some they haven't even thought of yet! Younger readers can find out everything from where elephants go to drink to why elephants ... ....

Environmental Problems of the Greeks and Romans

Ecology in the Ancient Mediterranean

J Donald Hughes

In this dramatically revised and expanded second edition of the work entitled Pan's Travail, J. Donald Hughes examines the environmental history of the classical period and argues that the decline of ancient civilizations resulted in part from ... ....

Environmental Winds

Making the Global in Southwest China

Michael J Hathaway

Environmental Winds challenges the notion that globalized social formations emerged solely in the Global North prior to impacting the Global South. Instead, such formations have been constituted, transformed, and propelled through ... ....

Exploring Coasts

A Benjamin Blog and His Inquisitive Dog Investigation

Anita Ganeri

- What are the world's highest sea cliffs? - What is a sea anemone? - Why doesn't seaweed get washed away? Read this book to find out. Join intrepid explorer Benjamin Blog and his inquisitive dog Barko Polo ...

Exploring Coral Reefs

A Benjamin Blog and His Inquisitive Dog Investigation

Anita Ganeri

- What is an atoll? - How does the parrot fish get its name? - How does a lionfish protect itself? Read this book to find out. Join intrepid explorer Benjamin Blog and his inquisitive dog Barko Polo as they travel through ...

Exploring Deserts

A Benjamin Blog and His Inquisitive Dog Investigation

Anita Ganeri

- How hot is the Sahara desert? - What is a playa? - How tall is the tallest sand dune? Read this book to find out. Join intrepid explorer Benjamin Blog and his inquisitive dog Barko Polo as they travel the globe exploring ...

Exploring Mountains

A Benjamin Blog and His Inquisitive Dog Investigation

Anita Ganeri

- What are fold mountains? - Why are mountain goats so good at climbing? - How do marmots survive the winter? Read this book to find out. Join intrepid explorer Benjamin Blog and his inquisitive dog Barko Polo as the ...

Exploring Rain Forests

A Benjamin Blog and His Inquisitive Dog Investigation

Anita Ganeri

- What is a cloud forest? - What do most rainforest animals live? - What is a rafflesia and what does it smell of? Read this book to find out. Join intrepid explorer Benjamin Blog and his inquisitive dog Barko Polo ...

Exploring Rivers

A Benjamin Blog and His Inquisitive Dog Investigation

Anita Ganeri

- What is a meander? - Where is the world's tallest waterfall? - What are torrent ducks? Read this book to find out. Join intrepid explorer Benjamin Blog and his inquisitive dog Barko Polo as they travel the globe ...

Extreme Close-Up Photography and Focus Stacking

Julia Cremona

This practical book Extreme Close-Up Photography and Focus Stacking explains what is meant by macro photography and how to get even closer to your subject: not just a close-up of a butterfly, but details of the eye and wing ... ....

Flora: The Art of Plant Exploration

Sandra Knapp

Through exquisite botanical paintings and insightful essays, Flora: The Art of Plant Exploration examines the fascinating history of plants and flowers. Over 20 plant families are profiled, including cacti, daffodils, iris, magnolias ... ....

For the Birds

The Life of Roger Tory Peterson

Peggy Thomas and Laura Jacques

Roger Tory Peterson revolutionized the way we look at and appreciate birds, animals, and plants. Some kids called him "Professor Nuts Peterson" because of his dedication to his craft; yet he went on to create the immensely popular ... ....

Freshwater Passages

The Trade and Travels of Peter Pond

David Chapin

Peter Pond, a fur trader, explorer, and amateur mapmaker, spent his life ranging much farther afield than Milford, Connecticut, where he was born and died (1740-1807). He traded around the Great Lakes, on the Mississippi and the Minnesota ... ....

Handleiding Digiscopen

Marcel van der Tol and Arno van Berge Henegouwen

Photography by means of digiscoping means combining a digital camera with a spotting or fieldscope. The advantage is that it obviates the need for an expensive SLR camera with telephoto lens. The results are often on part with those of a ... ....

Holloway

Robert Macfarlane, Stanley Donwood and Dan Richards

Holloway – a hollow way, a sunken path. A route that centuries of foot-fall, hoof-hit, wheel-roll and rain-run have harrowed deep down into bedrock. In July 2005, Robert Macfarlane and Roger Deakin travelled to explore the holloway ... ....

Homage to Gaia

The Life of an Independent Scientist

James Lovelock

This paperback edition has been revised and updated from the original hardback published in 2000. James Lovelock tells the fascinating story of his life as an independent scientist and how he came to develop his inventions and ... ....

How Does a Caterpillar Become a Butterfly?

And Other Questions About Butterflies

Melissa Stewart and Carol Schwartz

How Does a Caterpillar Become a Butterfly? explains what a chrysalis is, how a new butterfly breaks out of its cocoon and more. It is suitable for children aged 7 and over. How does a caterpillar turn into a beautiful butterfly? ....

How Does a Seed Sprout?

And Other Questions About Plants

Melissa Stewart

How Does a Seed Sprout? offers interesting insights into nature for young readers to enjoy. It includes information on what happens to plants in winter, why leaves come in so many shapes and sizes and more.

How to Connect with Nature

Tristan Gooley

A deep knowledge of our natural environment is no longer a vital part of everyday survival, certainly for those of us living in cities and working in weatherproof offices. Unless we have an inherent love of the great outdoors, do we really ... ....

Island Year

Anderson Island, Puget Sound

Hazel Heckman

In her first book, Island in the Sound, Hazel Heckman brought Anderson Island, in Puget Sound, to the world with stories about its people, its history, and its sadly vanishing way of life. Now, in Island Year, she brings ... ....

Islands

Ellen Labrecque

Read Islands to learn all about these exciting, beautiful, and unique landforms. Discover the different island types, how islands are formed, and what living things can be found on and around islands.

Itin: A Bornean Elephant

Jaswinder Kaur Kler, Benoit Goossens and Marc Ancrenaz

This is a story about Itin, an eight-year-old Bornean elephant who lives in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo. In his journey of discovery, Itin learns from his mother and relatives about folklore that tells how elephants are revered by indigenous ... ....

La Frontera

Forests and Ecological Conflict in Chile's Frontier Territory

Thomas Miller Klubock

In La Frontera, Thomas Miller Klubock offers a pioneering social and environmental history of southern Chile, exploring the origins of today's forestry "miracle" in Chile. Although, Chile's forestry boom is often ... ....

Making Rocky Mountain National Park

The Environmental History of an American Treasure

Jerry J Frank

On September 4, 1915, hundreds of people gathered in Estes Park, Colorado, to celebrate the creation of Rocky Mountain National Park. This new nature preserve held the promise of peace, solitude, and rapture that many city dwellers crave ... ....

Managing the Mountains

Land Use Planning, the New Deal, and the Creation of a Federal Landscape in Appalachia

Sara M Gregg

Historians have long viewed the massive reshaping of the American landscape during the New Deal era as unprecedented. Managing the Mountains uncovers the early twentieth-century history rich with precedents for the New Deal in ... ....

Mississippi River Tragedies

A Century of Unnatural Disaster

Christine A Klein and Sandra B Zellmer

American engineers have done astounding things to bend the Mississippi River to their will: forcing one of its tributaries to flow uphill, transforming over a thousand miles of roiling currents into a placid staircase of water, and ... ....

Mobilizing Nature

The Environmental History of War and Militarization in Modern France

Chris Pearson

Mobilizing Nature traces the environmental history of war and militarisation in France, from the creation of Chalons Camp in 1857 to military environmentalist policies in the twentieth century. It offers a fresh perspective on ... ....

Modern Pastoralism and Conservation

Old Problems, New Challenges

Troy Sternberg and Dawn Chatty

Changing pastoral dynamics make knowledge of pastoralism vital to understanding landscapes, development and governance across dryland regions. Modern Pastoralism and Conservation: Old Problems, New Challenges presents new ... ....

Morning Comes to Elk Mountain

Dispatches from the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge

Gary Lantz and David Taylor

Organized as a series of monthly journal entries, Morning Comes to Elk Mountain is Lantz's response to ten years of exploring the rough and unexpected beauty of the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge. A combination of memoir ... ....

Mountains

Chris Oxlade

Read Mountains to learn all about these exciting, beautiful, and unique landforms. Discover the different mountain types, how mountains are formed, and what living things can be found in and around mountains.

My Life as an Explorer

Roald Amundsen

My Life as an Explorer is a classis of Polar literature, written by the one man to do more to further the exploration of both Polar Regions than any other person. First sailing to the Antarctic in the 1899 Belgian expedition ... ....

My Little Book of Lifecycles

Camilla de la Bedoyere

How does an acorn grow into a tree? What does a baby sea horse eat? Discover the amazing stages of different life cycles and learn all about your favourite species with this stunning series. From plants and pets to exotic animals, readers ... ....

Native American Environmentalism

Land, Spirit, and the Idea of Wilderness

Joy Porter

In Native American Environmentalism the history of indigenous peoples in North America is brought into dialogue with key environmental terms such as "wilderness" and "nature." The conflict between Christian ... ....

Nature's Ambassador

The Legacy of Thornton W. Burgess

M Christie Palmer Lowrance

For over 100 years, the animal books and stories of beloved childrens author Thornton W. Burgess have delighted millions of children and their parents; more than of half his seventy books remain in print today. However, there was much more ... ....

Nature, Environment and Culture in East Asia

The Challenge of Climate Change

Carmen Meinert

Since in the current global environmental and climate crisis East Asia will play a major role in negotiating solutions, it is vital to understand East Asian cultural variations in approaching and solving environmental challenges in the ... ....

New Mexico's Spanish Livestock Heritage

Four Centuries of Animals, Land, and People

William W Dunmire

The Spanish introduced European livestock to the New World – not only cattle and horses but also mules, donkeys, sheep, goats, pigs, and poultry. This survey of the history of domestic livestock in New Mexico is the first of its kind ... ....

Norfolk - Slow Travel

Local, Characterful Guides to Britain's Special Places

Laurence Mitchell

Norfolk - Slow Travel, although selective, includes the whole of Norfolk from Great Yarmouth and the Broads to the east to the Fens of the far west, from the iconic North Norfolk coast to the Breckland region to the south. ....

North by Degree

New Perspectives on Arctic Exploration

Susan A Kaplan and Robert McCracken Peck

North by Degree: New Perspectives on Arctic Exploration is a stimulating volume of papers on the history of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Arctic exploration. The contributors have contextualized expeditions ... ....

On Kiki's Reef

Carol L Malnor and Trina L Hunner

A tiny baby sea turtle scrambles across the sandy beach and into the sea. Floating far out in the ocean, Kiki is becoming a gentle giant. She swims to shallower water where a rainbow of corals puts on a show. Kiki adopts the busy coral reef ... ....

Origami Animal Sculpture

Paper Folding Inspired by Nature

John Szinger

Challenge yourself with these creative new innovations in the ancient art of origami paper folding! Origami Animal Sculpture offers a refreshing take on the endlessly fascinating field of zoomorphic origami paper folding.

Our Woodland Birds

Matt Sewell

Britain has some of the most beautiful woodland in the world, with some of the most beautiful inhabitants. All year round, the trees in forests, copses and wastelands offer our feathered friends food, shelter and a place to congregate and ... ....

Penguins

Barbara Taylor

A little book packed full of answers to lots of questions kids ask, as well as some they haven't even thought of yet! Younger readers can find out everything from what penguins eat to whether penguins are show-offs.

Peregrine Falcon

Dynamic Carving and Painting Techniques for a New Era

Floyd Scholz

Acclaimed bird carver Floyd Scholz explains his carving and painting techniques and demonstrates the unique talent that makes him one of the world's greatest bird carvers and instructors. Peregrine Falcon features ... ....

Petites Lecons de Dessin Animalier

Une Approche de Terrain

Jean Chevallier

To draw animals properly, we must first know them well. Conversely, drawing animals also teaches us to observe them better.  Based on experience in the field, Jean Chevallier leads us step by step and shows us a thousand tricks ... ....

Photographing Birds

Art and Techniques

Mark Sisson

Bird photography is one of the most challenging genres of photography, and can test even modern high-specification cameras to their limits. This practical book guides you through both how to understand your camera and how to develop your ... ....

Prehistoric Life

Miles Kelly

A little book packed full of answers to lots of questions kids ask, as well as some they haven't even thought of yet! Younger readers can find out everything from where the first whales lived to which scorpion was as big as a lion. ....

Puffin on the Beach

A Story with Widgit Symbols

David Blakesley and Tharada Blakesley

Puffin on the Beach describes how Sam and Hollie's plan to spend an afternoon rock pooling takes an unexpected turn when Sam thinks he has found a Penguin. Hollie is not so sure, and their father realises that the bird is ... ....

Quagmire: Nation-Building and Nature in the Mekong Delta

David T Biggs

In the twentieth century, the Mekong Delta has emerged as one of Vietnam's most important economic regions. Its swamps, marshes, creeks, and canals have played a major role in Vietnam's turbulent past, from the struggles of ....

Record Busters: Bugs

Clive Gifford

Record Busters: Bugs is perfect for capturing a young general reader's or an older reluctant reader's interest, this hi-lo title features gripping, minimal, fact-based text, dramatic and impactful pictures, and an edgy ... ....

Research on the Edge: Polar Regions

Science At Work In Earth's Wildest Places

Louise Spilsbury and Joyce Bentley

Can you imagine living and working at the North or South pole? It's the reality for some scientists, who inhabit laboratories in the frozen wastes of the Arctic or Antarctic. Research on the Edge – Polar Regions is a gripping ... ....

Sacred Groves and Local Gods

Religion and Environmentalism in South India

Eliza F Kent

In recent years, India's "sacred groves," small forests or stands of trees set aside for a deity's exclusive use, have attracted the attention of NGOs, botanists, specialists in traditional medicine and anthropologists. ....

Saving Wildlife: Mountain Animals

Sonya Newland

Saving Wildlife: Mountain Animals looks at efforts to save the animals that have learned to survive in the world's harsh mountain regions ­– high among the peaks and in the forested mountain slopes. It is part of ... ....

Saving Wildlife: Polar Animals

Sonya Newland

Saving Wildlife: Polar Animals investigates the threats and conservation efforts focused on creatures that live on the land and in the icy waters of the world's harshest and most remote regions. It is part of the ...

Saving Wildlife: Rainforest Animals

Sonya Newland

Saving Wildlife: Rainforest Animals looks at some of the thousands of rainforest animals under threat and the efforts underway to save the precious environment they need to survive. It is part of the Saving Wildlife series ... ....

Saving Wildlife: Woodland and Forest Animals

Sonya Newland

Saving Wildlife: Woodland & Forest Animals studies creatures under threat in woodland areas, and looks at how conservation is reversing damage caused by human activity and natural disasters. It is part of the ...

Science and Hope

A Forest History

John Dargavel and Elisabeth Johann

Science and Hope tells the story of the hopeful science and trusting art of forestry. It is a story about the hopes of foresters and other scientists to understand the forests more deeply, and about their unspoken trust that the ... ....

Sea Turtle Scientist

Stephen R Swinburne

Dr. Kimberly Stetwart, also known as the Turtle Lady of St. Kitts, is already waiting at midnight when an 800-pound leatherback sea turtle crawls out of the Caribbean surf and onto the sandy beach. The mother turtle has a vital job to do ... ....

Seeking the Greatest Good

The Conservation Legacy of Gifford Pinchot

Char Miller

President John F. Kennedy officially dedicated the Pinchot Institute for Conservation Studies on September 24, 1963 to further the legacy and activism of conservationist Gifford Pinchot (1865–1946). Pinchot was the first chief of ... ....

Shifting Ground

People, Mobility and Animals in India's Envrionmental Histories

Mahesh a Rangarajan

Shifting Ground explores fresh critical questions about India's environmental past in terms of environmental issues and human intervention. Cutting across divides of prehistory and history and of ancient, medieval, colonial ... ....

Shipton and Tilman

The Great Decade of Himalayan Exploration

Jim Perrin

Using unpublished diaries, Jim Perrin, the acclaimed author of The Villain and Menlove, tells the story of the greatest exploring partnership in British history. In the 1930s Tilman and the younger Shipton pioneered ... ....

Sight Unseen

How Fremont's First Expedition Changed the American Landscape

Andrew Menard

John C. Fremont was the most celebrated explorer of his era. In 1842, on the first of five expeditions he would lead to the Far West, Fremont and a small party of men journeyed up the Kansas and Platte Rivers to the Wind River Range in ... ....

South Devon & Dartmoor - Slow Travel

Local, Characterful Guides to Britain's Special Places

Hilary Bradt and Janice Booth

Discover the hidden secrets of this varied and beautiful region, from the 'English Riviera', where palm-trees abound and the sandy beaches of Torquay and Paignton attract numerous summer visitors, to the wild landscape of Dartmoor ... ....

Suffolk - Slow Travel

Local, Characterful Guides to Britain's Special Places

Laurence Mitchell

Suffolk represents quintessential East Anglia, a region that has locally distinctive architectural styles, regional accents, scenery, culture and climate. The county, which is low-lying but by no means flat, has some of its best scenery ... ....

Super Scientists: Charles Darwin

Sarah Ridley

Super Scientists are first biographies introducing some of the world's great scientists, simply retelling their lives and explaining why their work was important. Illustrated with archive images and photographs, the chronology ... ....

Super Scientists: David Attenborough

Sarah Ridley

Super Scientists are first biographies introducing some of the world's great scientists, simply retelling their lives and explaining why their work was important. Illustrated with archive images and photographs, the chronology ... ....

Swamp Where Gator Hides

Marianne Berkes and Robert Baird

Under the algae that carpets the swamp, near the duck who paddles in ooze, close to the turtle who takes a snooze . . . hides a gator! Still as a log, only his watchful eyes can be seen. But when gator moves, he really moves!

The Animal in Ottoman Egypt

Alan Mikhail

Since humans first emerged as a distinct species, they have been locked into relationships with other animals. Humans ate, fought, prayed, and moved with animals. In this original and conceptually rich book, historian Alan Mikhail puts ... ....

The Ansel Adams Wilderness

Peter Essick

In this exquisitely photographed and affordable keepsake book, esteemed National Geographic photographer Peter Essick pays tribute to Ansel Adams and the craggy California Sierra Nevada wilderness area named in his honour.

The Art and History of Globes

Sylvia Sumira

From medieval globes made when much of the world was unexplored to the huge, decorative examples made for the princely courts of Renaissance Europe, The Art and History of Globes celebrates the art and history of the globe ... ....

The Best Ever Step-by-step Kid's First Gardening

Fantastic Gardening Ideas for 5-12 Year Olds, from Growing Fruit and Vegetables and Fun with Flowers to Wildlife Gardeni

Jenny Hendy

The Best Ever Step-by-step Kid's First Gardening offers fantastic gardening ideas for 5-12 year olds, from growing fruit and vegetables and fun with flowers to wildlife gardening and craft projects. It includes 120 fabulous ... ....

The Big Countdown: 30 Million Different Insects in the Rainforest

Paul Rockett

You can count numbers all around you, from the eight legs on a spider to the one nose on your face. But can you the animal species found in the rainforest or the fish in the River Amazon? Find out all about rainforest in ...

The Big Countdown: Ten Thousand Poisonous Plants in the World

Paul Rockett

You can count numbers all around you, from the eight legs on a spider to the one nose on your face. But can you count the stars in the sky or the fish in the Amazon? Find out all about Plants in The Big Countdown, including the ... ....

The Big Countdown: Ten Thousand, Eight Hundred and Twenty Endangered Species in the Animal Kingdom

Paul Rockett

You can count numbers all around you, from the eight legs on a spider to the one nose on your face. But can you count the stars in the sky or the fish in the Amazon? Find out all about animals in The Big Countdown, including ... ....

The Botanical Illustrator's Handbook

Sally Pinhey

The Botanical Illustrator's Handbook takes a closer look at how to accurately portray the riches of the botanical world. It tackles and explains many of the difficulties that artists encounter so they can extend and expand ... ....

The Embattled Wilderness

The Natural and Human History of Robinson Forest and the Fight for Its Future

Erik Reece, James J Krupa and Wendell Berry

Robinson Forest in eastern Kentucky is one of America's most important natural landscapes – and one of the most threatened. Covering fourteen thousand acres of some of the most diverse forest region in temperate North America ... ....

The Great Barrier Reef

An Environmental History

Ben Daley

The Great Barrier Reef is located off the coast of Queensland in north-east Australia and is the world's largest coral reef system. Designated a World Heritage Site, it has been subject to increasing pressures from tourism, fishing ... ....

The Hidden Habitat

PK Dickmeyer and Joe Snyder

The Hidden Habitat is the story of a young woman who ventures to Canada for the purpose of an in-depth study of the indigenous wildlife found in a particularly remote region. She finds herself both enthralled and mystified by ... ....

The Horse Lover

A Cowboy's Quest to Save the Wild Mustangs

Day H Alan, Lynn Wiese Sneyd and Sandra Day O'Connor

He already owned and managed two ranches and needed a third about as much as he needed a permanent migraine: that's what Alan Day said every time his friend pestered him about an old ranch in South Dakota. But in short order, he proudly ... ....

The Malthusian Moment

Global Population Growth and the Birth of American Environmentalism

Thomas Robertson

Although Rachel Carson's Silent Spring (1962) is often cited as the founding text of the U.S. environmental movement, in The Malthusian Moment Thomas Robertson locates the origins of modern American environmentalism ...

The Maximum of Wilderness

The Jungle in the American Imagination

Kelly Enright

Danger in the Congo! The unexplored Amazon! Long perceived as a place of mystery and danger, and more recently as a fragile system requiring our protection, the tropical forest captivated America for over a century.

The Medieval Discovery of Nature

Stephen A Epstein

The Medieval Discovery of Nature examines the relationship between humans and nature that evolved in medieval Europe over the course of a millennium. From the beginning, people lived in nature and discovered things about it. ....

The Moor

Lives Landscape Literature

William Atkins

In this deeply personal journey across our nation's most forbidding and most mysterious terrain, William Atkins takes the reader from south to north, in search of the heart of this elusive landscape. His account is both travelogue and ... ....

The River of Life

Changing Ecosystems of the Mekong Region

Yos Santasombat

In northern Thailand, Laos, and southern China, marginal fishing communities along the Mekong River and its tributaries are experiencing the adverse effects of changing ecosystems on their fish stocks, local economies, lifestyles, and ... ....

The State and the Stork

The Population Debate and Policy Making in US History

Derek S Hoff

From the colonial era to the present, the ever-shifting debate about America's almost uninterrupted population growth has exerted a profound influence on the evolution of politics, public policy, and economic thinking in the United States ... ....

The Steppe to Europe

An Environmental History of Hungary in the Traditional Age

Lajos Racz and Alan Campbell

The Steppe to Europe, a much-augmented translation of the author's original Hungarian version, is an account of Hungary's past from the perspective of environmental history, incorporating a wide range of environmentally ... ....

The Student's Flora of the British Islands

Joseph Dalton Hooker

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. The Student's Flora of the British Islands was originally published in 1870, but is here reissued in the third edition of 1884.

The Third Dimension

A Comparative History of Mountains in the Modern Era

Jon Mathieu

The Third Dimension considers the variegated world of mountains and their development during the last 500 years. It takes as its starting point the United Nations environmental conference of 1992 in Rio de Janeiro, where the ... ....

The Twitch

Birdwatching Can Be Murder...

Kevin Parr

One year. One list. Five bodies. Edward J Banger is a man obsessed. The drudgery of a nine-to-five job, the pressures of maintaining a healthy marriage and raising teenage girls are unwelcome inconveniences. The real challenge is ticking ... ....

The Wilderness Writings of Howard Zahniser

Mark WT Harvey

Howard Zahniser (1906-1964), executive secretary of The Wilderness Society and editor of The Living Wilderness from 1945 to 1964, is arguably the person most responsible for drafting and promoting the Wilderness Act in 1964.

Thinking Through the Environment

Green Approaches to Global History

Timo Myllyntaus

Thinking Through the Environment: Green Approaches to Global History is a collection offering global perspectives on the intersections of mind and environment across a variety of discourses – from history and politics to ... ....

Trees and Timber in the Anglo-Saxon World

Michael DJ Bintley and Michael G Shapland

Trees were of fundamental importance in Anglo-Saxon society. Anglo-Saxons dwelt in timber houses, relied on woodland as an economic resource, and created a material culture of wood which was at least as meaningfully-imbued, and vastly more ... ....

Trekking in Peru

50 Best Walks and Hikes

Hilary Bradt and Kathy Jarvis

Trekking in Peru is the most comprehensive, user-friendly trekking guide to Peru available. Peru's mountains offer the most varied and dramatic treks in South America with the added attraction of Pre-Columbian ruins along the ... ....

Under the Sea

Magnetic Story and Play Scene

Erin Ranson and Barry Green

Simple text guides the child to find the correct magnets to complete each page, then all of the magnets can be used together on the giant fold-out playscene.

Untamed: The Wildest Woman in America and the Fight for Cumberland Island

Will Harlan

Carol Ruckdeschel is the wildest woman in America. She eats road kill, wrestles alligators, rides horses bareback, and lives in a ramshackle cabin that she built herself in an island wilderness. She's had three husbands and many lovers ... ....

Valleys

Ellen Labrecque

Read Valleys to learn all about these exciting, beautiful, and unique landforms. Discover the different valley types, how valleys are formed, and what living things can be found in and around valleys.

Volcanoes

Chris Oxlade

- How are volcanoes formed? - What is magma? - Where is a volcano's crater? Read Volcanoes to learn all about these fascinating landforms, including where they can be found, how they are formed, and what ...

Voyaging in Strange Seas

The Great Revolution in Science

David Knight

In 1492 Columbus set out across the Atlantic; in 1776 American colonists declared their independence. Between these two events old authorities collapsed – Luther's Reformation divided churches, and various discoveries revealed ... ....

Who Lives in the Jungle?

Kate Thomson and Katy Frost

Who Lives on Safari?

Eilidh Rose and Nicola Moore

Why Does Earth Spin?

And Other Questions About Our Planet

Mary Kay Carson

Why Does Earth Spin? reveals answers to must-know questions about our amazing planet. It includes information about Earth's size and location, why the sky is blue and much more. It is suitable for children aged 7 and over. ....

Wild Flowers in Watercolour

Wendy Tait

The Art Handbooks provide the best in art tuition in a small, handy format, covering all the major aspects of painting and drawing in various media. There is excellent advice on what materials are needed and on basic techniques ... ....

Wild Ocean

Sharks, Whales, Rays, and Other Endangered Sea Creatures

Matt Dembicki

The world's oceans represent the last wild frontier on Earth. While our understanding of life in the ocean is relatively basic, our actions are putting hundreds of species in danger. In this graphic anthology, Matt Dembicki, editor ... ....

Wild Things

Nature and the Social Imagination

William Beinart, Karen Middleton and Simon Pooley

Wild Things: Nature and the Social Imagination assembles eleven substantive and original essays on the cultural and social dimensions of environmental history. They address a global cornucopia of social and ecological systems ... ....

Yorkshire Dales - Slow Travel

Local, Characterful Guides to Britain's Special Places

Mike Bagshaw

The Yorkshire Dales is one of the best loved and most visited National Parks in Britain. Yorkshire Dales - The Bradt Slow Travel Guide celebrates the beautiful limestone landscapes it contains, both above and below ground. ....

A History of the Peak District Moors

David Hey

The moors of the Peak District provide some of the finest walking country in England. The pleasure of rambling across them is enhanced by a knowledge of their history, ranging from prehistoric times and the middle ages to their conversion ... ....

A Natural History Guide to the Arid Kalahari

Including the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park

Gus Mills and Margie Mills

The landscapes and vegetation, the antelope, the hyaenas, cats and other carnivores, the birds and the smaller creatures... all are included in this comprehensive guide. Plus: Tips and advice for getting the most out of your visit to the ... ....

Antarctic Wildlife

A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Species of the Antarctic and Subantarctic Environments

James Kavanagh and Raymond Leung

Antarctic Wildlife is a durable laminated pocket reference guide to more than 120 of the most common species of marine birds, whales, seals, fishes and marine invertebrates. With brilliant illustrations and text highlighting ... ....

Bradt Safari Guide: Botswana

Okavango Delta, Chobe, Northern Kalahari

Chris McIntyre

A safari in northern Botswana takes the traveller to a wilderness populated almost exclusively by wildlife. Here are the predators and their prey; here, too, are the elephants, the hippos and the astonishing birdlife of the Okavango Delta ... ....

Bradt Travel Guide: Iraq

Karen Dabrowska and Geoff Hann

Iraq is a country with a rich culture. Ancient sites such as Babylon and Ur, the stunning architecture of the country's mosques, the natural beauty and wildlife of the Marshes and beautiful Iraqi handicrafts create a myriad of attractions ... ....

Bradt Travel Guide: Kashmir

Including Ladakh and Zanskar

Sophie Lovell-Hoare and Max Lovell-Hoare

After decades of instability, Kashmir – the undisputed jewel of the hippie trail – is back online and ready to welcome visitors with open arms. Whether you want to follow in the footsteps of Great Game heroes in Gilgit and ... ....

Bradt Travel Guide: West Sweden

Including Gothenburg

James Proctor

With a bewildering array of over 8000 islands, endless meadows of wild flowers and the lively and cosmopolitan coastal city of Gothenburg, west Sweden perfectly encapsulates both the rugged beauty and urban delights Scandinavia has to offer ... ....

Brecon Beacons

Jonathan Mullard

The Brecon Beacons are one of the most impressive upland areas in Wales, a multi-layered landscape with an astonishing variety of habitats ranging from extensive cave systems to limestone crags and rich meadows. This variety supports ... ....

Exploring Nature in Illinois

A Field Guide to the Prairie State

Michael R Jeffords and Susan L Post

Loaded with full color photographs and evocative descriptions, Exploring Nature in Illinois provides a panorama of the state's overlooked natural diversity. Naturalists Michael Jeffords and Susan Post explore fifty preserves ... ....

Kruger National Park

Questions & answers

PF Fourie and Chris van der Linde

Kruger National Park: Questions & answers is a compilation of the questions most frequently asked by visitors to the Park, and their answers, given by a seasoned game park official. This new edition has been expanded, and ... ....

Life of a Chalkstream

Simon Cooper

This delightful book Life of a Chalkstream records a year in the life of an essentially English waterscape, one that is home to a vast array of wildlife and natural habitat of the keen angler – the chalkstream.

Lonely Planet Travel Guide: Colorado

Carolyn McCarthy

Lonely Planet Colorado is your passport to all the most relevant and up-to-date advice on what to see, what to skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Admire the near-constant blue skies of Denver, hike through Rocky Mountain ... ....

Lonely Planet Travel Guide: Eastern USA

Karla Zimmerman

 Lonely Planet Eastern USA is your passport to all the most relevant and up-to-date advice on what to see, what to skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Hit the streets of New York City, experience the magic of ... ....

Lonely Planet Travel Guide: Mallorca

Kerry Christiani

Expanded coverage of walking and other outdoor activities; Increased coverage for families travelling with children; New hiking itineraries and driving tours ...

Lonely Planet Travel Guide: Western USA

Amy Balfour

Lonely Planet Travel Guide: Western USA is your passport to all the most relevant and up-to-date advice on what to see, what to skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Watch Old Faithful blow its top at Yellowstone, take a ... ....

Out of Africa

On safari through Botswana, Kenya, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe

Sylvie Pons

The splendours of Namibia, unknown Zambia, secret Botswana, fantastic South Africa, fabulous Kenya, majestic Tanzania and the magic of Zimbabwe: this stunningly photographed book reveals the most prestigious safari lodges throughout Africa ... ....

Salmon is Everything

Community-Based Theatre in the Klamath Watershed

Theresa J May

After a devastating fish kill on the Klamath River, tribal members and theatre artist Theresa May developed a play to give voice to the central spiritual and cultural role of salmon in tribal life. Salmon Is Everything presents the ... ....

Savannah Diaries

Brian Jackman

Let Savannah Diaries take you on a safari of discovery through Africa's most beautiful national parks and big game sanctuaries, in the company of its spectacular wildlife and the remarkable characters – scientists ... ....

Scotland's Landscapes

The National Collection of Aerial Photography

James Crawford

As the glaciers of the last Ice Age receded, humans ventured into the far north, exploring a wild, fertile territory. Nomadic hunter-gatherers at first, they made the decision to stay for good – to farm and to build. The landscapes ... ....

Shropshire & Downe

Two Landscapes Darwin Held Dear

Ewa Prokop

Shropshire and Downe: Two Landscapes Darwin Held Dear aims to present an impression of the natural environment in which Charles Darwin grew up and where he later came to live in Downe; the two landscapes are compared.

Silt Road

The Story of a Lost River

Charles Rangeley-Wilson

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

The New B.C. Roadside Naturalist

A Guide to Nature Along B.C. Highways

Richard Cannings and Sydney Cannings

Discover a whole new dimension to taking a car trip with this fascinating guide to the roadside ecology of the major highways in British Columbia. Each of the 13 chapters covers one highway in the province. Beginning with an overview of ... ....

Underlands: A Journey Through Britain's Lost Landscape

Ted Nield

Not so very long ago, our roads, our buildings, our gravestones and our monuments were built from local rock, our cities were powered by coal from Welsh mines, and our lamps were lit with paraffin from Scottish shale. At the height of the ... ....

111 Roadside Plants

A Tribute to Namibia's Fascinating Plant Life

Antje Burke

111 Roadside Plants is different, not only in look, but also in content, and is so much more than simply a flower guide. Having written a series of flower guides for the Namib and the central part of the country to introduce some ... ....

A Field Guide to California Lichens

Stephen Sharnoff and Peter H Raven

Lichens are among the most colourful and abundant organisms in the world. They provide food and nesting material for a wide variety of wildlife, contribute nutrients to the soil, and are indicators of both undisturbed ecosystems and ... ....

African Apiaceae

A Synopsis of the Apiaceae / Umbelliferae of Sub-Saharan Africa and Madagascar

Ben-Erik van Wyk, Patricia May Tilney and Anthony Richard Magee

The Apiaceae (Umbelliferae) of sub-Saharan Africa and Madagascar have remained scientifically poorly known despite their critical importance in understanding the early evolutionary history of the family. This scientific review gives a ... ....

Algues des Mers d'Europe

Pres de 300 Especes Decrites

Jacqueline Cabioc'h, Jean-Yves Floc'h, Alain Le Toquin, Charles Francois Boudouresque and Meines

This completely revised new edition of Algues des Mers d'Europe describes over 300 species found in the Atlantic and Mediterranean. The guide contains nearly 300 color photographs of unrivaled quality. Species are organized ... ....

An Ocean Garden

The Secret Life of Seaweed

Josie Iselin

Josie Iselin celebrates the unexpected beauty of seaweed, an often overlooked but fundamental aspect of ocean life. Produced on a flatbed scanner, Iselin's vibrant portraits of ocean flora reveal the exquisite colour and extraordinary ... ....

Ancient Pathways, Ancestral Knowledge (2-Volume Set)

Ethnobotany and Ecological Wisdom of Indigenous Peoples of Northwestern North America

Nancy J Turner

Volume 1: The History and Practice of Indigenous Plant Knowledge Volume 2: The Place and Meaning of Plants in Indigenous Cultures and Worldviews Nancy Turner has studied Indigenous peoples' knowledge of plants and environment ... ....

Ancient and Other Veteran Trees

Further Guidance on Management

David Lonsdale

Ancient and Other Veteran Trees recognises that, alongside the appreciation of old trees, there are responsibilities for their continuity, protection and care. This illustrated practical handbook from the Ancient Tree Forum brings ... ....

Ascomycete Fungi of North America

A Mushroom Reference Guide

Michael Beug, Alan E Bessette and Arleen R Bessette

Approximately 75 percent of all fungi that have been described to date belong to the phylum Ascomycota. They are usually referred to as Ascomycetes and are commonly found and collected by mushroom enthusiasts. Ascomycetes exhibit a remarkable ... ....

Basisgids Korstmossen

Arie van den Bremer and Leo Spier

This accessible basic guide is aimed at everyone keen to get to know lichens. With over 500 colour photos, this photographic guide introduces the world of lichens, the special symbiosis of fungi and algae. Over 100 common species are ... ....

Diatom Monographs, Volume 16: Marine Mastogloia Thwaites ex W. Sm. and Stigmaphora Wallich Species from the French Lesse

Maurice Loir and Gianfranco Novarino

Sampling carried out during the winter-spring period from 2005 to 2011 has made it possible to identify 90 Mastogloia taxa present on sandy bottoms located in the sublittoral zone (first ten meters below the water surface) along ... ....

Diatoms of Mongolia

NI Dorofeyuk and MS Kulikovskiy

Diatoms of Mongolia summarizes results of comprehensive research on fossil and recent taxa. It covers 1393 taxa and infraspecific taxa (1198 species from 120 genera). Of these, 594 taxa and infraspecific taxa are new to Mongolia ... ....

Eden Project: The Guide

Eden Project

Revised and updated edition of the highly illustrated guide to the Eden Project site, with a clear user-friendly explanation of all the exhibits, in a landscape format. The guide takes the visitor from the Visitor Centre down into the ... ....

Edible Medicinal and Non-Medicinal Plants, Volume 8: Flowers

TK Lim

Volume 8 is part of a multicompendium Edible Medicinal and Non-Medicinal Plants, on plants with edible flowers from Geraniaceae to Zingiberaceae (tabular) and 82 species in Geraniaceae, Iridaceae, Lamiaceae, Liliaceae, Limnocharitaceae ... ....

Edible Plants of the Eastern Woodlands

A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Species

Dave Canterbury, James R Kavanagh, JM Kavanagh and Raymond Leung

The eight most easily-found wild edible plants are the core of this practical guide, with a focus on achieving the basic nutritional needs of vitamins, nutrients, carbohydrates and proteins. Identifying edible plants is critical ... ....

Field Guide to Grasses of California

Jr.,James Payne Smith

Grasses and grasslands are of increasing interest to conservationists, biologists, and gardeners. There are more than 300 species of native California grasses and they are found in almost every climate-from cool, wet forests to hot, dry ... ....

Field Guide to the Sedges of the Pacific Northwest

Barbara L Wilson, Richard Brainerd, Danna Lytjen, Bruce Newhouse and Nick Otting

Field Guide to the Sedges of the Pacific Northwest is an illustrated guide to all 169 species, subspecies, and varieties in the genus Carex that grow in the wild in Oregon and Washington. Most of these species are found ... ....

Field Guide to the Wild Flowers of the Algarve

Chris Thorogood and Simon Hiscock

This is the first comprehensive identification guide to the rich Mediterranean flora of the Algarve region of southern Portugal, including the Cape St. Vincent Peninsula National Park, an area of immense botanical importance with numerous ... ....

Flora Algarum Sinicarum Aquae Dulcis, Volume 18 [Chinese]

Chlorophyta Desmidiales Desmidiaceae Sectio III Xanthidium, Staurodesmus, Staurastrum, Filamentous desmids

Wei Yinxin

Volume 18 covers the following groups Chlorophyta Zygnemaphyceae Desmidiales Desmidiineae 15. Xanthidium Ralfs 16. Staurastrum Ralfs 17. Staurodesmus Teiling 18.

Flora Malesiana, Series 1: Volume 21: Lecythidaceae, Peraceae

Sir Ghilean T Prance, EK Kartawinata, Peter C van Welzen and Hans-Joachim Esser

Contains taxonomic revisions of two families for Malesia, i.e., the area covering the countries Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei Darussalam, Singapore, The Philippines, Timor Este (East Timor), and Papua New Guinea.

Flora Malesiana, Series 2: Ferns and Fern Allies, Volume 4

Blechnaceae, Hypodematiaceae, Monachosoraceae, Nephrolepidaceae, Oleandraceae, Pteridaceae subfam. Parkerioideae, Textar

HP Nooteboom

Contains taxonomic revisions of (parts of) seven families or groups of ferns for Malesia, i.e., the area covering the countries Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei Darussalam, Singapore, The Philippines, Timor Este (East Timor), and Papua New Guinea ... ....

Flora Neotropica, Volume 111-113: Grammitid Ferns (Polypodiaceae)

Paulo H Labiak, M Lehnert, AL Moguel-Velazquez and M Kessler

This installment in the Flora Neotropica combines three volumes in one physical volume. Volum 111: I. Lellingeria – This work presents a taxonomic treatment of Lellingeria, one of the largest ...

Flora de la Republica de Cuba, Series A: Plantas Vasculares, Fascículo 19

Buxaceae, Lauraceae, Theophrastaceae

This volume contains the following monographs: Köhler, Egon: Buxaceae. 2014. 37 col. plates. Many dot maps. 124 p. / Rohwer, J. G.: Lauraceae. 2014. 16 figs. 29 dot maps. 86 p. / Lepper, Lothar y Jorge E. Gutierrez Amaro ...

Flora von Nordtirol, Osttirol und Vorarlberg, Band 6

Adolf Polatschek and Wolfgang Neuner

Volume 6 is a supplementary volume to this flora.

Flora von Nordtirol, Osttirol und Vorarlberg, Band 7

Adolf Polatschek and Wolfgang Neuner

Volume 7 is a supplementary volume to this flora.

Freshwater Algae of Eastern India

Sudipta Kumar Das and Siba Prasad Adhikary

Freshwater Algae of Eastern India presents a comprehensive account of the algae of the Eastern and North eastern region of India. Several taxa were the first records from this region as well as from India. Details of these algal ... ....

Freshwater Fungi

And Fungal-Like Organisms

KD Hyde, EBG Jones and Ka-Lai Pang

The available literature on freshwater fungi is limited. In recent years a considerable volume of scientific papers have appeared scattered throughout numerous journals. There is therefore no recent synthesis of the subject and this is ... ....

Harmony and Grit

Papers Celebrating the Holmgrens' Completion of Intermountain Flora

William R Buck and Robert FC Naczi

The ambitious and expansive Intermountain Flora Project spanned three generations of botanists and the better part of a century. Conceived in the 1940s by Bassett Maguire, the project began in earnest in the 1960s, driven by ...

Heilpflanzen und Ihre Giftigen Doppelgaenger

Heilpflanzen Sammeln - Aber Richtig

Ursula Stumpf

Accidentally mistaking a medicinal plant with a poisonous or toxic one can have lethal consequences, so clear species identification is extremely important. This field guide introduces 90 medicinal plants and 60 confusion species that are ... ....

Herbs: An Illustrated Guide to Varieties, Cultivation and Care, with Step-by-step Instructions and Over 160 Beautiful Ph

Susie White

This is an illustrated guide to varieties, cultivation and care, with step-by-step instructions and over 160 beautiful photographs. It includes a photographic directory of over 60 varieties, including basil, borage, catmint, chives, fennel ... ....

Historic Gardens of Cambridgeshire

and the Isle of Ely

Timothy Mowl and Laura Mayer

In landscape terms, Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely are known, unjustifiably, only for leaden skies and the endless flat expanse of cultivated land or marshy fens that lie beneath. Apart from the college gardens, where the ...

La Vegetation Lichenique du Massif Armoricain

Henry des Abbayes

Reprint of a book published in 1934. This monograph describes the lichen flora of this area in the NW corner of France.

Landscaping with Trees in the Midwest

A Guide for Residential and Commercial Properties

Scott A Zanon

Trees not only add beauty and value to property but also enhance the physical environment by providing shade, reflecting heat, and blocking wind. Choosing the right trees for the right location and conditions, however, is not always easy ... ....

Le Orchidee dell'Italia Nordorientale

Atlante Corologico e Guida al Riconoscimento

Giorgio Perazza and Richard Lorenz

This is the first chorological atlas for a larger part of Italy (northeast) dealing with spontaneously growing orchids. 89 entities of species and subspecies have been mapped.

Lianas of the Guianas

A Fieldguide to Woody Climbers in the Tropical Forests of Guyana, Suriname and French Guyana

Bruce Hoffman

Lianas (woody vines) are iconic symbols of tropical forest ecosystems around the world. Forest climbers take advantage of the biologically-expensive architecture of trees to gain relatively inexpensive access to the light-rich canopy. ....

Low-oxygen Stress in Plants

Oxygen Sensing and Adaptive Responses to Hypoxia

Joost T Van Dongen and Francesco Licausi

During the last ten years, knowledge about the multitude of adaptive responses of plants to low oxygen stress has grown immensely. The oxygen sensor mechanism has been discovered, the knowledge about the interaction network of gene expression ... ....

Medicinal and Other Useful Plants of the Eastern Woodlands

A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Species

Dave Canterbury, James R Kavanagh, JM Kavanagh and Raymond Leung

Many plants are contained in this useful reference guide can be used to counteract common every-day ailments such as an upset stomach or headache. In addition, we highlight plants that can be used to create survival items like rope and ... ....

Messages from the Gods: Guide to the Useful Plants of Belize

Michael J Balick and Rosita Arvigo

Despite its small size, Belize is one of the most ecologically diverse nations in Central America. 3,408 species of plants can be found here, within six different ecological life zones. Because of this, Belize is paradise for ecotourists ... ....

National Geographic Pocket Guide to Wildflowers of North America

National Geographic

With this basic beginner's field guide to North American wildflowers, all who enjoy nature and the outdoors can identify common wildflowers, from backyard weeds to dainty forest blossoms. In a logical, user-friendly, highly visual ... ....

Orchidees du Bresil: As Orquídeas da Serra do Castelo (Espírito Santo, Brasil), Volume 3

Guy Chiron and RX Bolsanello

Volume 3 of a projected series on the orchids of the Serra do Castelo in the Atlantic state of Espirito Santo, Brazil. Some 750 species will be covered in four volumes; Volume 3 pays particular attention to the tribes Elleantheae ... ....

Orchids of the Department of Valle del Cauca (Colombia), Volume 2

Marta Kolanowska, Eric Hagsater, Dariusz L Szlachetko and Elisabeth Santiago Ayala

Volume two covers Epidendroideae (Epidendreae 1): Subtribes Laeliinae, Epidendrinae, Ponerinae. Also added are two keys to identification which did not appear in the first volume, due to technical reasons.

Papyrus - The Plant That Changed the World

From Ancient Egypt to Today's Water Wars

John Gaudet

At the center of the most vital human-plant relationship in history, Papyrus evokes the mysteries of the ancient world while holding the key to the world's wetlands and atmospheric stability. From ancient Pharos to 21st Century ... ....

Plant Disease

The Jamaican Experience

Phyllis Coates-Beckford and Paula Tennant

Interesting studies of plant diseases in Jamaica have been conducted since the early twentieth century. Plant Disease gives an account of the history and development of the science of plant pathology and of plant disease control ... ....

Plant Resources of Russia, Family Asteraceae, Volume 5: Family of Asteraceae (Compositae). Part 2: Childbirth Echinops -

Wild Flowering Plants, Their Component Composition and Biological Activity

AL Budantsev

This book presents information on the composition and biological activity of 246 species of wild Asteraceae in Russia, covering 67 genera (genera Echinops – Youngia). Descriptions are based on generalizations of ... ....

Pocket Guide to Trees and Shrubs

Bob Gibbons

Pocket Guide to Trees and Shrubs is as visually impressive as it is useful in the field, with many stunning full-page and double-page photographs to support the authoritative text. The introduction explains the basics of tree ... ....

Professor Risto Tuomikoski Memorial Issue

Timo Koponen, Sinikka Piippo and Pekka Isoviita

Includes the following articles: - Timo Koponen, The biography of Professor Risto Tuomikoski: bryologist, entomologist, linguist, mycologist, vegetation scientist and ecologist - Rauno Ruuhijärvi, Risto Tuomikoski as a ...

Remarkable Plants of Texas

Uncommon Accounts of Our Common Natives

Matt Warnock Turner

With some 6000 species of plants, Texas has extraordinary botanical wealth and diversity. Learning to identify plants is the first step in understanding their vital role in nature, and many field guides have been published for that purpose ... ....

Rubiaceas de Mexico

Attila Borhidi

This book is the first complete monograph of the Rubiaceae family in Mexico. It contains descriptions and identification keys for 103 genera and over 600 taxa including 585 species among them, more than 2500 synonyms, followed by 107 ... ....

Seven Flowers and How They Shaped Our World

And How They Shaped Our World

Jennifer Potter

The lotus, lily, sunflower, opium poppy, rose, tulip and orchid. Seven flowers: seven stories full of surprise and secrets. Where and when did these flowers originate? What is the nature of their power and how was it acquired?

Spring Bulbs

An Illustrated Guide to Varieties, Cultivation and Care, with Step-by-step Instructions and Over 160 Inspirational Photo

Peter McHoy

This is an illustrated guide to varieties, cultivation and care, with step-by-step instructions and over 160 inspirational photographs. Everything you need to know at a glance in one handy and beautifully illustrated practical guide. ....

Terricolous Lichens in India, Volume 2

Morphotaxonomic Studies

Himanshu Rai and Dalip K Upreti

Terricolous lichens, a habitat specialist group of lichens play a vital role in maintenance and ecological stability of soil crusts with reference to their physical stability, hydrology and growth of soil microflora.

The Bryophyte Flora of Bromarv, Southwest Finland, Based on Hans Buch's Reliquiae and Other Collections

Nijole Kalinauskaite and Sinikka Piippo

The purpose of this study was to identify and revise bryophyte specimens collected by Hans Buch in the Bromarv area in southwest Finland and additionally examine all the collections in Bromarv kept in Finnish herbaria, especially in ... ....

The Mycota, Volume 12: Human Fungal Pathogens

Oliver Kurzai

Whereas plant and insect infections are commonly caused by fungi, only a small minority of the vast diversity of fungal species is pathogenic to humans. Despite this, fungal infections cause considerable morbidity and mortality worldwide ... ....

The Plant Lover's Guide to Dahlias

Andy Vernon

The Plant Lover's Guides are a collection of full colour hardback books in which expert authors share their enthusiasm for and knowledge of popular garden plants. The series will grow into a handsome reference library that ... ....

The Plant Lover's Guide to Salvias

John Whittlesey

The Plant Lover's Guides are a collection of full colour hardback books in which expert authors share their enthusiasm for and knowledge of popular garden plants. The series will grow into a handsome reference library that ... ....

The Poppy

A Cultural History from Ancient Egypt to Flanders Fields to Afghanistan

Nicholas J Saunders

Please note: the paperback edition is subtitled "A History of Conflict, Loss, Remembrance, and Redemption". In the aftermath of the horrific trench warfare of the First World War, the poppy – sprouting across ...

Trees of Bristol

Frank Drake and Tony D'Arpino

Trees of Bristol is a poetic chronicle of the byways and oddities of local tree lore. It turns a perceptive eye on our green-faced and many-limbed fellow citizens, the trees of Bristol – 'pervasive icons of our daily ... ....

Useful Plants of Bas-Congo Province, Democratic Republic of Congo (2-Volume Set)

Paul Latham and Augustin Konda ku Mbuta

Plants and plant products are of direct importance to the rural population in most of Africa. Collected locally, they are used for building, packaging, as food and medicine, for feeding livestock and for crop protection. In addition edible ... ....

Uses of Plants by the Hidatsa of the Northern Plains

Gilbert L Wilson and Michael Scullin

In 1916 anthropologist Gilbert L. Wilson worked closely with Buffalobird-woman, a Hidatsa born in 1839 on the Fort Berthold Reservation in western North Dakota, for a study of Hidatsa uses of local plants. What resulted was a treasure trove ... ....

Vegetation der Erde

Grundlagen, Oekologie, Verbreitung

Jorg S Pfadenhauer and Frank A Klotzli

An up-to-date book on the Earth's vegetation has been long overdue. Vegetation der Erde contains exact and concise descriptions of all the vegetation types of our planet. The focus of the authors is on conveying the causal ... ....

Welche Blume ist das?

Margot Spohn and Roland Spohn

Welche Blume ist das? is a great guide to identify flowers from all over Europe.

Welche Heilpflanze ist das?

Wolfgang Hensel

 Welche Heilpflanze ist das? is a field guide to the medicinal plants of Europe.

Welcher Baum ist das?

Margot Spohn and Roland Spohn

Welcher Baum ist das? teaches you to identify trees all over Europe. Recommended by NABU.

Welcher Pilz ist das?

Tanja Bohning and Andreas Gminder

This new edition combines e-book and paper copy, with a unique download code included. Using the Kosmos colour code, identify European mushrooms. Find useful paintings and drawings in Welcher Pilz ist das?.

Willow

Alison Syme

Haunters of waterways and guardians of hedgerows; jewels of the garden and common companions in the fields: willows are at once the most poetic and practical of plants. For millennia they have played a key role in cultures across the ... ....

Kaplan AP Biology 2014-2015

Linda Brooke Stabler, Mark Metz, Paul Gier and Alison Wilkes

Kaplan AP Biology 2014-2015 is intended for high school students studying for the AP Biology exam. The Advanced Placement exam preparation guide that delivers 75 years of proven Kaplan experience and features exclusive ... ....

Migration: The Biology of Life on the Move

Hugh Dingle

Migration, broadly defined as directional movement to take advantage of spatially distributed resources, is a dramatic behaviour and an important component of many life histories that can contribute to the fundamental structuring of ecosystems ... ....

Missing Microbes

How Killing Bacteria Creates Modern Plagues

Martin Blaser

Far beneath our skin exists an unfathomable, ancient universe – an internal Eden that is critical to our health. Dr Martin Blaser invites us into the wilds of the human microbiome, unfurling its inner workings and evolution, in a ... ....

Molecular Evolution

A Statistical Approach

Ziheng Yang

Studies of evolution at the molecular level have experienced phenomenal growth in the last few decades, due to rapid accumulation of genetic sequence data, improved computer hardware and software, and the development of sophisticated ... ....

Philosophy of Biology

Peter Godfrey-Smith

Philosophy of Biology is a concise, comprehensive, and accessible introduction to the philosophy of biology written by a leading authority on the subject. Geared to philosophers, biologists, and students of both ...

The Hologenome Concept

Human, Animal and Plant Microbiota

Eugene Rosenberg and Ilana Zilber-Rosenberg

Groundbreaking research over the last 10 years has given rise to the hologenome concept of evolution. This concept posits that the holobiont (host plus all of its associated microorganisms) and its hologenome (sum of the genetic information ... ....

The Prokaryotes, Volume 10

Deltaproteobacteria and Epsilonproteobacteria

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

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

Beyond Words

Sobs, Hums, Stutters and other Vocalizations

Steven Connor

Aristotle defined voice as 'a particular sound made by something with a soul; for nothing which does not have a soul has a voice'. Beyond Words encompasses human language outside words, the realm of the sounds of the ... ....

Britain: One Million Years of the Human Story

Rob Dinnis and Chris Stringer

When did the first humans arrive in Britain? Where did they come from? And what did they look like? This is the amazing story of human life in Britain. It begins nearly one million years ago, during the earliest known human occupation ... ....

Darwin's on the Origin of Species

A Modern Rendition

Daniel Duzdevich and Olivia Judson

Charles Darwin's most famous book On the Origin of Species is without question, one of the most important books ever written. While even the grandest works of Victorian English can prove difficult to modern readers, Darwin wrote his text in haste ... ....

Human Evolution

Robin Dunbar

What makes us human? How did we develop language, thought and culture? Why did we survive, and other human species fail?

The Foragers of Point Hope

The Biology and Archaeology of Humans on the Edge of the Alaskan Arctic

Charles E Hilton, Benjamin M Auerbach and Libby W Cowgill

On the edge of the Arctic Ocean, above the Arctic Circle, the prehistoric settlements at Point Hope, Alaska, represent a truly remarkable accomplishment in human biological and cultural adaptations. Presenting a set of anthropological ... ....

Thinking Big

How the Evolution of Social Life Shaped the Human Mind

Clive Gamble and John Gowlett

When and how did the brains of our hominin ancestors become human minds? When and why did our capacity for language or art, music and dance evolve? It is the contention of this pathbreaking and provocative book that it was the need for ... ....

Why Humans Like to Cry

The Evolutionary Origins of Tragedy

Michael R Trimble

Human beings are the only species to have evolved the trait of emotional crying. We weep at tragedies in our lives and in those of others – remarkably even when they are fictional characters in film, opera, music, novels, and theatre ... ....

Alien Invaders in Nature

A Folding Pocket Guide to North America's Most Aggressive Invasive Plants & Animals

James Kavanagh and Raymond Leung

Alien Invaders in Nature, a pocket-sized guide, highlights the invasive species that are threatening our eco-systems and impacting the lives of native North American plants and animals. This beautifully illustrated guide highlights ... ....

Autecology: Organisms, Interactions and Environmental Dynamics

Gimme H Walter and Rob Hengeveld

Autecology: Organisms, Interactions and Environmental Dynamics spells out the theoretical structure, methodology and philosophy of the science of autecology. The autecological approach focuses on the interactions of individual ... ....

Biosecurity Surveillance

Quantitative Approaches

Frith Jarrad, Sama Low Choy and Kerrie L Mengersen

Biosecurity Surveillance: Quantitative Approaches is a source of information on practical and innovative approaches to biosecurity surveillance. lt explains the foundation and concepts behind surveillance design, with examples of ... ....

Ecology: The Experimental Analysis of Distribution and Abundance

The Experimental Analysis of Distribution and Abundance

Charles J Krebs

Charles Krebs' best-selling majors-level text approaches ecology as a series of problems that are best understood by evaluating empirical evidence through data analysis and application of quantitative reasoning. No other text presents ... ....

Pest Risk Modeling and Mapping for Invasive Alien Species

Robert C Venette

Over the past century, the number of species that have been transported to areas outside their native range has increased steadily. New pests and pathogens place biological pressure on valuable resident species, but strict bans may conflict ... ....

The Gentianaceae, Volume 1

Characterization and Ecology

Jan J Rybczinski, Michael R Davey and Anna Mikula

This is the first of two volumes on Gentianaceae. Comprising twelve chapters, The Gentianaceae, Volume 1 centres upon the characterization and ecology of Gentianaceae worldwide, with emphasis on the application of molecular and ... ....

Visual Ecology

Thomas W Cronin, Sanke Johnsen, N Justin Marshall and Eric J Warrant

Visual ecology is the study of how animals use visual systems to meet their ecological needs, how these systems have evolved, and how they are specialized for particular visual tasks. Visual Ecology provides the first up-to-date ... ....

Aquatische Ecologie in Nederland

Functioneren en Beheren van Zoete en Brakke Aquatische Ecosystemen

Henk Hoogenboom

The management of areas of fresh and brackish water requires in-depth knowledge of their complex ecology, and Aquatische Ecologie in Nederland provides the reader with a thorough overview. This is an indispensable reference work ... ....

Coastal Environments and Global Change

Processes and Adaptation

Gerhard Masselink and Roland Gehrels

The coastal zone is one of the most dynamic environments on our planet and is much affected by global change, especially sea-level rise. Coastal environments harbour valuable ecosystems, but they are also hugely important from a societal ... ....

Ecosystem Dynamics

From the Past to the Future

Richard Bradshaw and Martin Sykes

Ecosystem Dynamics focuses on long-term terrestrial ecosystems and their changing relationships with human societies. The unique aspect of this text is the long-time scale under consideration as data and insights from the last ... ....

Europas Feldeinfriedungen

Georg Muller

Summary in German (for English summary follow above link to the English edition): Feldeinfriedungen wie Wallhecken, Hecken, Feldmauern und andere Umzäunungen gibt es in Europa in sehr unterschiedlichen ...

Europe's Field Boundaries (2-Volume Set)

Georg Muller

Field boundaries such as hedged banks, hedges and field walls are found in widely differing forms across Europe. Mostly they enclose areas used for agriculture. Closely associated with the history of cultural landscapes, they are an ... ....

Humic Matter in Soil and the Environment

Principles and Controversies

Kim H Tan

The field of humic matter research has undergone drastic changes in concepts and principles, and a second edition is now warranted to communicate these advances. This revised and updated edition continues the tradition of providing ... ....

National Forest Monitoring Systems

Monitoring and Measurement, Reporting and Verification (M & MRV) in the Context of REDD+ Activities

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

The purpose of National Forest Monitoring Systems is to describe the elements in National Forest Monitoring Systems (NFMSs) as they relate to REDD+ under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), and to ... ....

Soil Carbon in Space and Time

Alfred E Hartemink and Kevin McSweeney

Few topics cut across the soil science discipline wider than research on soil carbon. Soil Carbon in Space and Time contains 48 chapters that focus on novel and exciting aspects of soil carbon research from all over the world. ....

Sustainable Urban Development Reader

Stephen M Wheeler and Timothy Beatley

Building on the success of its second edition, the third edition of the Sustainable Urban Development Reader provide a generous selection of classic and contemporary readings giving a broad introduction to this topic.

The Guiana Shield Ecoregion

Conserving Forest-based Biocapacity for Green Development

Patrick Chesney

The Guiana Shield ecoregion is part of the Amazonian biome. The publication will highlight the contribution of standing forests to the high biocapacity of this eooregion and how to leverage that capacity tor sustainable development. ....

Tracking the Great Bear

How Environmentalists Recreated British Columbia's Coastal Rainforest

Justin Page

Encompassing more than six million hectares of globally rare coastal rainforest, the Great Bear Rainforest in coastal British Columbia is home to thousand-year-old trees, rich runs of salmon, abundant species, including Kermode bears ... ....

Urban Forests, Trees and Greenspace

A Political Ecology Perspective

L Anders Sandberg, Adrina Bardekjian and Sadia Butt

Urban forests, trees and greenspace are critical in contemporary planning and development of the city. Their study is not only a question of the growth and conservation of green spaces, but also has social, cultural and psychological ... ....

Why National Parks?

Ian O Brodie

National Parks and Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty are, in statute, the highest forms of landscape protection in England and Wales. After sixty years they are perhaps more controversial than at any time in their history.

Biodiversity and the Ancestors

Challenges to Customary and Environmental Law: Case Studies from Namibia

Manfred O Hinz and Oliver C Ruppel

Biodiversity and the Ancestors intends to span an arc between legislative efforts on local, regional, national and local levels and traditional ways of maintaining the environment and its biodiversity.

Feral: Searching for Enchantment on the Frontiers of Rewilding

George Monbiot

Monbiot follows his own hunger for new environmental experiences, and through a riveting tale of possibility and travel with wildlife and wild people, shows why we need to change our policies in order to properly cherish the wild and our experience ... ....

Riverbanks Zoo and Garden

Forty Wild Years

Palmer Krantz and Monique Blanchette Jacobs

Recognized today as one of America's best zoos, Riverbanks Zoo and Garden has become one of Columbia, South Carolina's most popular tourist destinations and one of the most visited zoos in the southeastern United States.

UK BAP Mammals

Interim Guidance for Survey Methodologies, Impact Assessment and Mitigation

JDNS Birks, Simone Bullion, WJ Cresswell and M Dean

An essential publication for consultants and conservationists involved in surveying and protecting the UK Biodiversity Action Plan mammal species. This 130-page book details previously unavailable guidelines for surveying, impact assessment ... ....

Abrupt Impacts of Climate Change

Anticipating Surprises

Committee on Understanding and Monitoring Abrupt Climate Change and Its Impacts and Board on A

Climate is changing, forced out of the range of the past million years by levels of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases not seen in the Earth's atmosphere for a very, very long time. Lacking action by the world's nations ... ....

Air: Nature and Culture

Peter Adey

Air has always been essential to life, from the atmospheric composition that gave life to the forests and gigantic insects of the Carboniferous age some 300 million years ago to the air that fuels the most important technologies today. ....

An Ecosystem Services Approach to Assessing the Impacts of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico

Ocean Studies Board (OSB), National Research Council (NRC) and Division on Earth and Life Studi

As the Gulf of Mexico recovers from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, natural resource managers face the challenge of understanding the impacts of the spill and setting priorities for restoration work. The full value of losses resulting ... ....

Behind the Curve

Science and the Politics of Global Warming

Joshua P Howe and William Cronon

In 1958, Charles David Keeling began measuring the concentration of carbon dioxide in the earth's atmosphere at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii. His project kicked off a half century of research that has expanded our knowledge of ... ....

Climate Time Series Analysis

Classical Statistical and Bootstrap Methods

Manfred Mudelsee

Climate is a paradigm of a complex system. Analysing climate data is an exciting challenge, which is increased by non-normal distributional shape, serial dependence, uneven spacing and timescale uncertainties.

Living with Environmental Change

Waterworlds

Kirsten Hastrup and Cecilie Rubow

Climate change is a lived experience of changes in the environment, often destroying conventional forms of subsistence and production, creating new patterns of movement and connection, and transforming people's imagined future. ....

Oceans and Human Health

Implications for Society and Wellbeing

Robert E Bowen, Michael H Depledge, Cinnamon Pinon Carlarne and Lora E Flemming

It is increasingly clear that a broader and deeper understanding of the global environment in general, and the global ocean in particular, can provide essential insights into the health and well-being of humankind. Climate change may be ... ....

Transnational Climate Change Governance

Harriet Bulkeley, Liliana Andonova, Michele M Betsill, Daniel Compagnon, Thomas Hale and Hoffmann

It is increasingly clear that the world of climate politics is no longer confined to the activities of national governments and international negotiations. Critical to this transformation of the politics of climate change has been the ... ....

An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth

Chris Hadfield

Colonel Chris Hadfield has spent decades training as an astronaut and has logged nearly 4000 hours in space. During this time he has broken into a Space Station with a Swiss army knife, disposed of a live snake while piloting a plane ... ....

Complexity: A Very Short Introduction

John H Holland

In this Very Short Introduction, John Holland presents an introduction to the science of complexity. Using examples from biology and economics, he shows how complexity science models the behaviour of complex systems.

Earthquake Storms

The Fascinating History and Volatile Future of the San Andreas Fault

John Dvorak

It is a prominent geological feature that is almost impossible to see unless you know where to look. Hundreds of thousands of people drive across it every day. The San Andreas Fault is everywhere, and primed for a colossal quake.

Geology of the Nepal Himalaya

Regional Perspective of the Classic Collided Orogen

Megh Raj Dhital

As part of the Nepal Himalaya, where most structures were recognized and new concepts were developed, the centrally located Nepal Himalaya is ideally suited for research on Himalayan geology. Geology of the Nepal Himalaya deals ... ....

Hormones: A Very Short Introduction

Martin Luck

Hormones are vital to the workings of the body, and while many people are aware of what hormones do, few have an appreciation of the nature and importance of the endocrine system. In this Very Short Introduction, Martin Luck ... ....

Introducing Sedimentology

Stuart Jones and Dorrik Stow

Introducing Sedimentology explains the key concepts of this core earth science discipline to students and to the interested non-specialist. In a wide-ranging survey of sedimentology, the authors consider sedimentary processes ... ....

Laboratory Studies in Earth History

Harold L Levin and Michael S Smith

Utilizing actual case studies and field photographs, this successful lab manual Laboratory Studies in Earth History covers the full spectrum of historical geology sediments, plate tectonics, paleontology, and petrology in flexible ... ....

Lucky Planet

Why Earth is Exceptional - and What that Means for Life in the Universe

David Waltham

Science tells us that life elsewhere in the Universe is increasingly likely to be discovered. But in fact the Earth may be a very unusual planet – perhaps the only one like it in the entire visible Universe.

Moon: Nature and Culture

Edgar Williams

Since humans first gazed upward, the moon has hung in the sky virtually unchanged, entrancing generations of poets, artists and scientists. Once worshipped as a deity, often thought to cause madness, now known to manipulate our tides and ... ....

National Geographic Pocket Guide to Rocks and Minerals of North America

National Geographic

With this basic beginner's field guide to North American geology, anyone who enjoys nature and the outdoors can identify common rocks, gems, fossils, and land formations. In a logical, user-friendly, highly visual format ...

Research on the Edge: Space

Science At Work In Earth's Wildest Places

Angela Royston and Joyce Bentley

Can you imagine living and working in space? It's the reality for some scientists, who inhabit laboratories in deep space, far above our planet. Research on the Edge: Space is a gripping look at the daily lives of these scientists ... ....

Rivers in the Landscape

Ellen Wohl

Rivers in the Landscape will summarize the state of knowledge concerning physical processes and forms in rivers. The organization and content of Rivers in the Landscape emphasize that rivers exist as part of a greater ... ....

Supercontinent: 10 Billion Years in the Life of Our Planet

Ted Nield

The shifting continents of the Earth are heading for inevitable collision. Two hundred and fifty million years from now, all the landmasses on this planet will come together in a single, gigantic supercontinent which no human is ever ... ....

The Geology of Uganda

Robert MacDonald

The Geology of Uganda covers all geological and geoscience data produced to date in Uganda. In a regional and historical approach to the Geology of Uganda it includes references to the work of early geologists. Applied geoscience ... ....

The Volcano Registry

Names, Locations, Descriptions and Histories for Over 1500 Sites

Harris M Lentz III

From quiet underwater craters to mountains that violently spew lava and ash, more than 1500 of the world's volcanoes are featured in The Volcano Registry. The volcanoes are arranged alphabetically, from Abek in Chad to ... ....

Trap Magmatism and Ore Formation in the Siberian Noril'sk Region (2-Volume Set)

VV Ryabov, AY Shevko and MP Gora

Volume 1. Trap Petrology Volume 2. Atlas of Magmatic Rocks The basis of this investigation is the petrographic and geochemical understanding of principal igneous rock types of the Noril'sk region, in order to demonstrate ...

Volcanic Evolution of the Canary Islands

Hans-Ulrich Schmincke

Volcanic Evolution of the Canary Islands reviews the geological evolution of the Canary Islands, one of the major volcanic archipelagos in the world. The authors use a very broad approach and treat major general aspects in 7 chapters ... ....

Welcher Stein ist das?

Rupert Hochleitner

Welcher Stein ist das? presents over 350 minerals and rocks in more than 1300 photos and crystal drawings.

Why Mars

NASA and the Politics of Space Exploration

W Henry Lambright

Mars has captured the human imagination for decades. Since NASA's establishment in 1958, the space agency has looked to Mars as a compelling prize, the one place, beyond the Moon, where robotic and human exploration could converge. ....

Before Earth Day

The Origins of American Environmental Law, 1945-1970

Karl Boyd Brooks

Most Americans – even environmentalists – date the emergence of laws protecting nature to the early 1970s. But Karl Boyd Brooks shows that, far from being a product of that activist decade, American environmental law emerged ... ....

Biotechnologies at Work for Smallholders

Case Studies from Developing Countries in Crops, Livestock and Fish

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

Biotechnologies at Work for Smallholders documents a unique series of 19 case studies where agricultural biotechnologies were used to serve the needs of smallholders in developing countries. They cover different regions, products ... ....

Climate Justice

Vulnerability and Protection

Henry Shue

The fruit of twenty years of moral reflection on the emerging greatest challenge to humanity of the 21st century, these far-sighted and influential essays by a pioneering practical philosopher on the tangled questions of justice between ... ....

Corporate Crops

Biotechnology, Agriculture, and the Struggle for Control

Gabriela Pachlaner

Biotechnology crop production area increased from 1.7 million hectares to 148 million hectares worldwide between 1996 to 2010. While genetically modified food is a contentious issue, the debates are usually limited to health and environment ... ....

Edible Insects

Future Prospects for Food and Feed Security

Arnold Von Huis and Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

Edible Insects describes the contribution of insects to food security. It shows the many traditional and potential new uses of insects for direct human consumption and the opportunities for and constraints to farming them for ... ....

Evaluating the Effectiveness of Fish Stock Rebuilding Plans in the United States

Ocean Studies Board (OSB), Division on Earth and Life Studies (DELS) and National Research Coun

In the United States (U.S.), the Fishery Conservation and Management Act of 1976, now known as the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (MSFCMA), was the first major legislation to regulate federal fisheries in the U.S. ....

Gene Jockeys

Life Science and the Rise of Biotech Enterprise

Nicolas Rasmussen

The biotech arena emerged in the 1970s and 1980s, when molecular biology, one of the fastest-moving areas of basic science in the twentieth century, met the business world. Gene Jockeys is a detailed study of the biotech project ... ....

Genes, Cells and Brains

The Promethean Promises of the New Biology

Hilary Rose and Steven Rose

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

International Environmental Law, Policy, and Ethics

Alexander Gillespie

This second edition of International Environmental Law, Policy, and Ethics revises and expands this groundbreaking study into the question of why the environment is protected in the international arena. This question is rarely ... ....

Interrelationships Between Corals and Fisheries

Stephen A Bortone

There is extensive concern about the impact of fishing on coral reef structure and, conversely, the impact of decreasing coral on fisheries, and stress on coral reefs seems to be increasing due to global warming, coral disease, and pollution ... ....

Islands' Spirit Rising

Reclaiming the Forests of Haida Gwaii

Louise Takeda

Set in the rich natural, cultural, and political landscape of Haida Gwaii, Islands' Spirit Rising examines the long-running conflict over the islands' ancient forests and the recent game-changing events unfolding in the ... ....

Japan's Dietary Transition and Its Impacts

Vaclav Smil and Kazuhiko Kobayashi

In a little more than a century, the Japanese diet has undergone a dramatic transformation. In 1900, a plant-based, near-subsistence diet was prevalent, with virtually no consumption of animal protein. By the beginning of the twenty-first ... ....

Plunkett's Green Technology Industry Almanac 2014

Green Technology Industry Market Research, Statistics, Trends & Leading Companies

Jack W Plunkett

Plunkett's Renewable, Alternative & Hydrogen Energy Industry Almanac 2014

Renewable, Alternative & Hydrogen Energy Industry Market Research, Statistics, Trends & Leading Companies

Jack W Plunkett

There are few industry sectors in the world today with more potential than renewable and hydrogen energy. Clean, green and renewable energy technologies are receiving immense emphasis from investors, environmentalists, governments and ... ....

Policymakers' Guide to Crop Diversification

The Case of the Potato in Kenya

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

A concerted effort is needed to fully realize the potato's potential to help improve livelihoods, reduce poverty and enhance food security in Kenya. Full implementation of the policy guidelines presented in ...

Range Wars

The Environmental Contest for White Sands Missile Range

Ryan H Edgington

Established in south-central New Mexico at the end of World War II, White Sands Missile Range is the largest overland military reserve in the western hemisphere. It was the site of the first nuclear explosion, the birthplace of the American ... ....

Rethinking Private Authority

Agents and Entrepreneurs in Global Environmental Governance

Jessica F Green

Rethinking Private Authority examines the role of non-state actors in global environmental politics, arguing that a fuller understanding of their role requires a new way of conceptualizing private authority. Jessica Green identifies ... ....

Science and Politics

An A-to-Z Guide to Issues and Controversies

Brent S Steel

Recent partisan squabbles over science in the news are indicative of a larger tendency for scientific research and practice to get entangled in major ideological divisions in the public arena. This politicization of science is deepened ... ....

Sustainable Consumption

Multi-disciplinary Perspectives in Honour of Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta

Alistair Ulph and Dale Southerton

If global society is to address the many environmental and other sustainability challenges that confront us in the twenty-first century, such as climate change and water resources, it will be necessary to make significant changes in our ... ....

The Emerging Alliance of Religion and Ecology

Mary Evelyn Tucker

The environmental crisis is most frequently viewed through the lens of science, policy, law, and economics. In recent years the moral and spiritual dimensions of this crisis are becoming more visible. Indeed, world religions are bringing ... ....

The Landgrabbers

The New Fight Over Who Owns the Earth

Fred Pearce

What do City speculators, Gulf oil sheikhs, Chinese entrepreneurs, big-name financiers like George Soros and industry titans like Richard Branson buy when they go shopping? Land. Parcels the size of Wales are being snapped up across the ... ....

The Little Green Data Book 2014

World Bank Publications

The Little Green Data Book is a pocket-sized ready reference on key environmental data for over 200 countries. Key indicators are organized under the headings of agriculture, forestry, biodiversity, energy, emission and... ....

The Problem With Water

Reformulating Global Water Issues

Julie Trottier

In this elegant yet hard-hitting volume, Julie Trottier asks a simple question: why is it, after all the time, money and attention devoted to the management of global water resources, we have made so little headway? Isn't water research ... ....

The Transition Companion

Making Your Community More Resilient in Uncertain Times

Rob Hopkins

In 2008, the bestselling The Transition Handbook suggested a model for a community-led response to peak oil and climate change. Since then, the Transition idea has gone viral across the globe, from universities and London neighbourhoods ... ....

A Handbook of Statistical Analyses using R

Torsten Hothorn and Brian S Everitt

One of the leading references on analyzing data using R, this third edition has been updated with much more descriptive text to support the computer code. Along with many new references, datasets, and exercises, this edition also include ... ....

A Survivor's Guide to R

An Introduction for the Uninitiated and the Unnerved

Kurt Taylor Gaubatz

A Survivor's Guide to R provides a gentle, but thorough, introduction to R. It is an ideal supplement to any introductory statistics text or a practical field guide for those who want to use the powerful R language for statistics ... ....

Forestry Applications of Airborne Laser Scanning

Concepts and Case Studies

Matti Maltamo, Erik Nasset and Jari Vaukkonen

Airborne laser scanning (ALS) has emerged as one of the most promising remote sensing technologies to provide data for research and operational applications in a wide range of disciplines related to management of forest ecosystems. ....

Hidden Markov Processes

Theory and Applications to Biology

M Vidyasagar

Hidden Markov Processes: Theory and Applications to Biology explores important aspects of Markov and hidden Markov processes and the applications of these ideas to various problems in computational biology. The book starts from ... ....

Light and Video Microscopy

Randy Wayne

The purpose of Light and Video Microscopy is to provide the most comprehensive, easy-to-use, and informative guide on light microscopy. Light and Video Microscopy will prepare the reader for the accurate interpretation ... ....

The Biologist's Imagination

Innovation in the Biosciences

William Hoffman

An analysis of past models of bioscientific innovation, as well as a forward-looking argument for how the biosciences can continue to grow and develop. Provides a survey of the current state of innovation in the bioscientific community. ....

New Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors

The New Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors is the essential A to Z guide for everyone who works with words. Drawing on the expertise of the Oxford Dictionaries department, it provides authoritative advice on those words ... ....

Recommended Principles to Guide Academy-Industry Relationships

American Association of University Professors

The reputation of a college or institution depends upon the integrity of its faculty and administration. Though budgets are important, ethics are vital, and a host of new ethical problems now beset higher education.