Amongst the Wolves

Memoirs of a Wolf Handler

Toni Shelbourne

Life sometimes offers very special opportunities and experiences a some too magical not to share. That's what Amongst the Wolves is: a wealth of stories about an incredible decade in Toni Shelbourne's life.

Beaver

Rachel Poliquin

Despite their humble appearance, beavers have a remarkable history. Ancient Greeks regarded beavers as models of chastity and prudence. Beaver fur drove the exploration of North America, and beavers are heralded as heroes, able to survive ... ....

Bison

Desmond Morris

Bison once ranged across the Great Plains of North America in vast herds – early eighteenth century explorers described them as 'innumerable' – and at the beginning of the nineteenth century they numbered in the tens ... ....

Cats & Lions

Mitsuaki Iwago

From renowned animal photographer Mitsuaki Iwago comes this visually arresting collection of photographs juxtaposing our domestic cat companions with their wild cousins. Iwago masterfully captures these feline relatives in a variety of ... ....

Chimpanzee Behavior in the Wild

An Audio-Visual Encyclopedia

T Nishida, K Zamma, T Matsusaka, A Inaba and W McGrew

The behavior of chimpanzees is complex and challenging: they can be cheerful, curious, and tolerant while also being capable of cunning, greed, and violence. Combining recent video footage with decades' worth of documented across ... ....

Elephant Sense and Sensibility

Michael Garstang

Elephant Sense and Sensibility is a comprehensive treatment of the full range of elephant behavior. Beginning with chapters on evolution and the elephant's brain, this book is an integrated presentation of the elephant's ... ....

Fauna Respubliki Tadzhikistan: Khishchnye (Carnivora) [The Carnivore Mammals (Order carnivora)]

Sh Sharapov

Part of a Russian fauna to Tajikistan. This volume focuses on the mammalian order Carrnivora.

Grizzly West

A Failed Attempt to Reintroduce Grizzly Bears in the Mountain West

Michael J Dax

Environmentalists and the timber industry do not often collaborate, but in the years immediately following gray wolf reintroduction in the interior American West, a plan to reintroduce grizzly bears to the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness of ... ....

Guinea Pig

Dorothy Yamamoto

Guinea pigs are a popular pet, 'cute but dim' friends for those looking for an alternative to dogs and cats. They are increasingly bred for looks, shaped by humans in search of an ideal appearance. But it was guinea pigs that ... ....

Horse Welfare, Use Not Abuse

Christopher Hall

Horse Welfare, Use Not Abuse is dedicated to the protection of horses, ponies and donkeys and is based on first-hand international experience from a lifetime spent with horses – hunting, racing and welfare – whether ... ....

Hunting Caribou

Subsistence Hunting Along the Northern Edge of the Boreal Forest

Henry S Sharp and Karyn Sharp

Denesuline hunters range from deep in the Boreal Forest far into the tundra of northern Canada. Henry S. Sharp, a social anthropologist and ethnographer, spent several decades participating in fieldwork and observing hunts by this ... ....

Lesser Beasts

A Snout-to-Tail History of the Humble Pig

Mark Essig

Unlike other barnyard animals, which pull plows, give eggs or milk, or grow wool, a pig produces only one thing: meat. Incredibly efficient at converting almost any organic matter into nourishing, delectable protein, swine are nothing ... ....

Spirit of the Wind

A Photographic Celebration of the Wild Horses of the Namib Desert

Miona Janeke

The Namib Desert is vast, arid expanse of constantly moving gravel plains and dunes. It covers more than 31 000 square miles stretching the whole of the western coast of Namibia, into Angola and South Africa. The winds blow relentlessly ... ....

Story of Giant Panda

Tan Kai

After quaternary glaciers retreated and even the ferocious saber-toothed tiger fell, the giant panda has survived and is still among us. This hardcover gift book contains a wealth of richly illustrated information for readers to uncover ... ....

Stuarts' Field Guide to Mammals of Southern Africa

Including Angola, Zambia & Malawi

Chris Stuart and Mathilde Stuart

Greater southern Africa has a wealth of mammal species, almost 400 – all of which are covered in this fully updated, comprehensive field guide. Now expanded to include species found in Angola, Zambia and Malawi, it has also been ... ....

The Impenetrable Forest

My Gorilla Years in Uganda

Thor Hanson

Lying in the remote hills of southwest Uganda, Bwindi Impenetrable Forest harbors elephants, chimpanzees, monkeys, and half the world's population of endangered mountain gorillas. For two years, Thor Hanson called that forest home ... ....

The New World Primates

Adaptive Radiation and the Evolution of Social Behavior, Languages, and Intelligence

Martin Moynihan

A reprint of a classical work in the Princeton Legacy Library. Originally published in 1976. The New World primates have radiated widely in tropical America, evolving a variety of adaptations to cope ...

Behind the Binoculars

Interviews with Acclaimed Birdwatchers

Mark Avery and Keith Betton

How and why did our most acclaimed birdwatchers take up birding? What were their early experiences of nature? How have their professional birding careers developed? What motivates them and drives their passion for wildlife? How many birds ... ....

Birding Hot Spots of Santa Fe, Taos, and Northern New Mexico

Judy Liddell and Barbara Hussey

In their second guide to birding in New Mexico, Judy Liddell and Barbara Hussey share their experiences and intimate knowledge of the best places to find birds in and around Santa Fe and other areas in northern New Mexico.

Birds Nearby

Getting to Know 45 Common Species of Eastern North America

John Eastman

This new bird guide collects Eastman's writings focusing on the birds we see around us in our yards, parks, and neighborhoods every day, and includes stunning new color photos.

Birds of New Zealand

Alison Dench and Rob Suisted

New Zealand boasts exceptional species of birds; a quarter of the birdlife lives nowhere else on the planet. With the concerted focus on bird recovery, through sanctuaries, the Department of Conservation and volunteer groups, native birds ... ....

Birdsong: 150 British and Irish Birds and Their Amazing Sounds

Jonathan Elphick, Lars Svensson and Jan Pedersen

Now it is possible to listen to the amazing variety of birdsong that enriches our environment simply by opening this newly formatted book. Delve into the absorbing text and beautiful photographs of each of the 150 birds whilst listening ... ....

Bloomsbury Concise Coastal Bird Guide

Richard Allen, David Daly, Szabolcs Kokay, Dan Cole and Stephen Message

This beautifully illustrated mini field guide is packed with information on the coastal birds of Britain and the near Continent. It covers more than 170 species, which are illustrated with superb full-colour artworks that show ...

Boobies, Peckers and Tits

One Man's Naked Perspective

Olaf Danielson

Boobies, Peckers and Tits: One Man’s Naked Perspective documents Olaf’s epic quest, which combined seeing as many species of birds In one year…while he was nude. Called “wickedly extraordinary ... ....

Die Steuerfedern der Voegel Mitteleuropas / The Tail Feathers of the Birds of Central Europe

Wilfried Hansen, Juergen Synnatzschke and Ulrich N Glutz von Blotzheim

Die Steuerfedern der Vögel Mitteleuropas / The Tail Feathers of the Birds of Central Europe is a potential new classic of ornithology in the making. The author Wilfried Hansen, together with his co-author ...

Feeding Wild Birds in America

Culture, Commerce, and Conservation

Paul J Baicich, Margaret A Barker and Carrol L Henderson

Today, according to the US Fish and Wildlife Service, more than fifty million Americans feed birds around their homes, and over the last sixty years, billions of pounds of birdseed have filled millions of feeders in backyards everywhere. ....

Field Guide to the Birds of Machu Picchu and the Cusco Region

Barry Walker

New field guide that describes and illustrates all the bird species recorded in the Historic Sanctuary of Machu Picchu. A native of England, Barry Walker has lived in Cusco, Peru for the past 30 years and is the owner of Manu Expeditions ... ....

Field Guide to the Neighborhood Birds of New York City

Leslie Day, Trudy Smoke, Beth Bergman and Don Riepe

Look around New York, and you'll probably see birds: wood ducks swimming in Queens, a stalking black-crowned night-heron in Brooklyn, great horned owls perching in the Bronx, warblers feeding in Central Park, or Staten Island's ... ....

Flamingo

Caitlin R Kight

The flamingo is possibly the most easily recognized bird in the world. But it is not a single species – there are six different species of flamingos, each differing in size and colour. Caitlin R. Kight presents this fascinating creature ... ....

Guide to the Birds of Alaska

Robert H Armstrong and Nils Warnock

Guide to the Birds of Alaska has been a must-have for Alaska birders for more than thirty years. In the sixth edition, Robert Armstrong provides hundreds of new photographs. Every bird is now illustrated including the casuals ... ....

Handleiding Veldonderzoek Roofvogels

Rob G Bijlsma

Written by *the* Dutch raptor expert Rob Bijlsma. This book is essential for anyone doing fieldwork on raptors. It treats elementary knowledge such as mapping and monitoring, nest surveys, age determination, identification, diet and habitat ... ....

Lake Kerkini: Portrait of a Wetland (Region ALL)

Malcolm Rymer and Peter Swayne

Lake Kerkini National Park, in north-eastern Greece, is a beautiful, little known and globally important nature reserve. The wetland and associated forests, mountains and pastoral habitats are hosts to a wide variety of up to ...

Our British Birds

Spotting and Jotting Guide

Matt Sewell

There is nothing better than spotting a bird you have never seen before, so here is a handy way of keeping all your jottings in check. In Matt Sewell's much-loved pop art style, and small enough to pop in your pocket ...

Pigeons and Doves in Australia

Joseph M Forshaw and William T Cooper

Possibly the most successful urban birds, pigeons and doves in the Order Columbiformes are one of the most easily recognised groups. They are an ancient and very successful group with an almost worldwide distribution and are most strongly ... ....

The Faroese Bird Migration Atlas / Faerosk Traekfugleatlas

Sjurdur Hammer, Jesper J Madsen, Jens-Kjeld Jensen, Kjeld T Pedersen, Dorete Bloch and Ka Thorup

The Faroese Bird Migration Atlas contains separate sections for 90 species, including colour photographs and maps which should be inviting for anyone with an interest in North Atlantic ornithology. While the bulk of the text is ... ....

The Great Horned Owl

An in-Depth Study

Scott Rashid and Paul Bannick

The Great Horned Owl is the largest owl found throughout most of North America. Adult owls are between eighteen to 24 inches from head to tail and can have a wing span of more than four feet. Their long ear tufts and cryptic coloration ... ....

The Peregrine, The Hill of Summer & Diaries

The Complete Works of J. A. Baker

JA Baker, Mark Cocker and John Fanshawe

Despite the association of peregrines with the wild, outer reaches of the British Isles, The Peregrine is set on the flat marshes of the Essex coast, where J A Baker spent a long winter looking and writing about the visitors from ... ....

Top 100 Birding Sites of the World

Dominic Couzens

Top 100 Birding Sites of the World features detailed accounts of the best birdwatching sites in the world, giving background and first-hand experience of what you can find there. Each is ranked from one to 100. The expertly written ... ....

Cold Blood

Adventures with Reptiles and Amphibians

Richard Kerridge

As a boy, Richard Kerridge loved to encounter wild creatures and catch them for his back-garden zoo. In a country without many large animals, newts caught his attention first of all, as the nearest he could get to the African wildlife he watched ... ....

Fauna Iberica, Volume 10: Reptiles

Alfredo Salvador

The second edition of this monograph from the Fauna Ibérica series, dedicated to the Ibero-Balearic orders of the Testudines and Squamata, has been revised and updated to show that there has been an increase in the knowledge ... ....

Historical Snakeys

John Cann

This fully illustrated book explores the astonishing stories of Australia's reptile showmen, known as "snakeys", from days gone by. Author John Cann, whose family played a vital role in snake collection, education and train ... ....

Les Amphibiens de l'Ouest et du Sud de Madagascar

Franco Andreone, Goncalo M Rosa and Achille P Raselimanana

Madagascar is home to an extraordinary number of frog species, with nearly all native species endemic to the island and many not yet described by science. While a considerable percentage of these species occur in the eastern humid forest ... ....

Reptiles & Amphibians of North America

Catherine Herbert Howell

Part of the Pocket Guide series launched in 2013, this new guide to trees hits the sweet spot of what National Geographic does best – combining spot-on descriptive information and key facts in a handy, pleasant-to-hold, easy-to-reference ... ....

Texas Lizards

A Field Guide

Troy D Hibbitts, Toby J Hibbitts and Laurie J Vitt

"Texas offers the opportunity to observe lizard diversity like no other part of the country," writes Laurie J. Vitt in the foreword to Texas Lizards. From the moist eastern Piney Woods to the western deserts, lizards ... ....

A Field Guide to Common Fish of the Pacific Northwest

Andy Lamb, Bernard Hanby and Phil Edgell

The waters of the Pacific Northwest are home to some of the most unique and diverse marine creatures in the world, including rockfishes, greenlings and, of course, salmon. This full-colour brochure is packed with information on ... ....

Biology of Damselfishes

Eric Parmentier and Bruno Frederich

Damselfishes (Pomacentridae) are a well-known coral reef family showing high diversity and many interesting characteristics in dealing with their way of life (sound production, sex change, farming and gregarious behavior, settlement, diet ... ....

Medaka: A Model for Organogenesis, Human Disease, and Evolution

Kiyoshi Naruse, Minoru Tanaka and Hiroyuki Takeda

Oryzias latipes, known as medaka, is a model organism from East Asia. Breeding of this small, egg-laying freshwater teleost fish has long been popular among hobbyists in Japan. Now, as biological science has entered the genome ... ....

Migration Ecology of Marine Fishes

David H Secor

Not since F. R. Harden Jones published his masterwork on fish migration in 1968 has a book so thoroughly demystified the subject. With stunning clarity, David Hallock Secor's Migration Ecology of Marine Fishes finally penetrates ... ....

Taxonomic Study on Nemacheiline Loaches of North East India

Dimos Khynriam and Nibedita Sen

This taxonomic study looked at Nemacheiline loaches of North East India. It includes a key to genera and a systematic list describing species.

A Buzz in the Meadow

Dave Goulson

In A Buzz in the Meadow Goulson tells the story of how he bought a derelict farm in the heart of rural France, together with 33 acres of surrounding meadow and how, over a decade, he has created a place for his beloved bumblebees ... ....

Biorational Control of Arthropod Pests

Application and Resistance Management

Isaac Ishaaya and A Rami Horowitz

Among the highlights of Biorational Control of Arthropod Pests are the use of selective control agents acting on specific biochemical sites such as neuropeptides, ecdysteroids and juvenile hormone analogs; GABA, ACh, ryanodine ... ....

Butterfly Conservation in North America

Efforts to Help Save our Charismatic Microfauna

Jaret C Daniels

Impacts from habitat loss and fragmentation, invasive species, and climate change continue to accelerate the rate of biodiversity loss and necessitate increased and often aggressive conservation action. Zoos, natural history museums, botanic ... ....

Calcareous Tubeworms (Polychaeta, Serpulidae) of the Arctic Ocean

Alexander V Rzhavsky, Elena K Kupriyanova, Andrei V Sikorski and Salve Dahle

Calcareous Tubeworms (Polychaeta, Serpulidae) of the Arctic Ocean is a taxonomic guide to serpulid polychaetes (including the subfamily Spirorbinae) of the Arctic Ocean. Identification keys include 37 serpulid taxa, all of which ... ....

Catalogue of the Insect Type Specimens Deposited in China, Volume 3

Bai Ming

The first volume of this book series included a total of four classes, 32 orders, 386 families, 3 147 genera, and 10 106 species. The second volume included a total of four classes, 29 orders, 357 families, 2681 genera, and 8385 species ... ....

Current Concepts in Forensic Entomology

Jens Amendt, Carlo P Campobasso, M Lee Goff and Martin Grassberger

Twenty years ago the use of entomology in a crime scene investigation was considered bizarre, despite the solid scientific background and documented historical applications. Today, the use of insect evidence is an accepted sub-discipline ... ....

Diagnosing Bee Mites

D Sammataro

This booklet deals with varroa and tracheal mites and and gives clear instruction on how to identify and sample them.

Die Grossschmetterlinge (Macrolepidoptera) der Diluviallandschaften um Eberswalde

Dritter Nachtrag mit einer Darstellung Phaenologischer Veraenderungen im Zeitraum 1989-2013 und einer Betrachtung uber

Arnold Richtert

An account of the macrolepidoptera found in the diluvial landscapes around Eberswalde-Finow, Germany, includings an account of the phenological changes between 1989 and 2013, with a detailed consideration of the causes.

Do Beekeeping

The Secret to Happy Honey Bees

Orren Fox

Bees are fascinating insects. Critical to the pollination of one third of the foods we eat – and they produce honey, enough said. Do Beekeeping invites you to share the journey of a rookie beekeeper and discover that keeping ... ....

Dragonflies of Texas

A Field Guide

John C Abbott

Dragonflies and damselflies (together known as Odonata) are among the most remarkably distinctive insects in their appearance and biology, and they have become some of the most popular creatures sought by avocational naturalists.

Fauna Iberica, Volume 38: Mollusca: Solenogastres, Caudofoveata, Monoplacophora

Oscar García-Alvarez, Luitfried von Salvini-Plawen, Victoriano Urgorri and Jesus S Troncoso

The current volume of the series of Fauna Ibérica is dedicated to Mollusca: Solenogastres, Caudofoveata and Monoplacophora from the coast of the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands. It presents a general introduction ... ....

Fauna Iberica, Volume 39: Pycnogonida

Tomas Munilla Leon and Anna Soler-Membrives

This volume in the series Fauna Ibérica is dedicated to the twelve families of the order Pantopoda (Acheliidae, Aschorhynchidae, Tanystylidae, Nymphonidae, Callipallenidae, Pallenopseidae, Phoxichilidiidae, Endeididae ... ....

Fiddler Crabs of the World

Ocypididae: Genus Uca

Jocelyn Crane

A reprint of a classical work in the Princeton Legacy Library. Originally published in 1975. Jocelyn Crane presents a survey of the members of the genus Uca, with special reference to their ...

Freshwater Gastropods Described by Ya. I. Starobogatov

AV Sysoev

A richly illustrated (16 colour plates) compendium of the freshwater Gastropoda described by the late Y. Starobogatov, mostly from the former Soviet Union, based on the types kept in the Zoological Institute in St. Petersburg.

Our Friends the Termites

Pat Lowe

Take a journey into the micro-world of one of the most maligned creatures on the planet and discover the real story of termites. After years of keen observation in Western Australia's Kimberley region, Pat Lowe shows that there is more ... ....

Ponsonby's Curious Compendium: Insects & Spiders

Claire Beverley and David Ponsonby

Insects and spiders hold a powerful allure their design is so complex and their scale so entrancingly minute. This compact book, itself hardly bigger than the world's biggest beetle (which is over five inches long, by the way), contains ... ....

Sea Snails

A Natural History

Joseph Heller

This richly illustrated book presents the diversity and natural history of sea snail groups. By integrating aspects of morphology, ecology, evolution and behaviour, it describes how each group copes with problems of defence, locomotion ... ....

Studies on the Helminth Parasites of District Dehradun

Anjum Nasreen Rizvi and PT Bhutia

This volume contains a systematic studies of helminth parasites found in frogs in Dehradun, India.

The Beekeepers Annual 2015

John Phipps

A must for any beekeeper and nearly as essential as an orange in the stocking at the bottom of the bed at Christmas. First published in 1984, this Annual, updated yearly, includes a listing of beekeeping associations, a diary and a large ... ....

The Planthoppers and Leafhoppers of Benelux

Identification Keys to all Families and Genera and all Benelux Species not Recorded from Germany

Kees den Bieman, Robert Biedermann, Herbert Nickel and Rolf Niedringhaus

This book contains the first identification keys to the hopper fauna of Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxemburg, comprising altogether 487 species, based on new checklists for the three countries. It is closely linked to the basic work ... ....

The Planthoppers and Leafhoppers of Britain and Ireland

Identification Keys to all Families and Genera and all British and Irish Species not recorded from Germany

Michael A Wilson, Alan Stewart, Robert Biedermann, Herbert Nickel and Rolf Niedringhaus

This book presents an updated identification key to the hopper fa^una of Britain and Ireland, comprising altogether 401 species, based on new checklists for the two countries. It is closely linked to the basic work ...

The Types of Hymenoptera Described by Pater Gabriel Strobl

Milan Chvala

Types of Hymenoptera described by Gabriel Strobl, a friar in the Benedictine abbey at Admont, Austria, from 1865 until his death in 1925. Strobl was primarily a dipterist, and built up an enormous collection which has been re-curated over ... ....

ZooKeys 377: A Nomenclator of Extant and Fossil Taxa of the Valvatidae (Gastropoda, Ectobranchia)

Gerhard Haszprunar

The present catalog provides a compilation of all supra- and (infra-) specific taxa of extant and fossil Valvatidae (Ectobranchia), a group of freshwater operculate snails (Gastropoda, Heterobranchia). Taxa initially described in this ... ....

ZooKeys 392: Annotated Type Catalogue of the Bulimulidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Orthalicoidea) in the Natural History Mu

Abraham SH Breure and Jonathan D Ablett

The family Bulimulidae is a dominant land snail family in the Neotropics, with more than 1 000 nominal taxa described. Revisionary work has only partially been done, but many genera need further revisionary work for which a sound taxonomy ... ....

ZooKeys 393: A Cybertaxonomic Revision of the Micro-Landsnail Genus Plectostoma Adam (Mollusca, Caenogastropoda, Diplomm

Thor-Seng Liew and Jaap Jan Vermeulen

The Tropical micro-landsnail of the genus Plectostoma exhibits a greater diversity in shell forms, largely due to the last whorl, which, in some species is coiled irregularly. The genus counts 79 species and occurs in Vietnam ... ....

A History of Life in 100 Fossils

Paul D Taylor and Aaron O'Dea

This is the epic story of life on Earth, uniquely retold through some of the most significant fossils ever found. A History of Life in 100 Fossils travels through 3.5 billion years of Earth's history and across all seven ... ....

Dinosaur Footprints and Trackways of Rioja

Felix Perez-Lorente

During the Early Cretaceous, lakes, meandering streams, and flood plains covered the region where the current foothills of Rioja now exist. Today the area is known for its wine and for the dozens of sites where footprints and trackways ... ....

Historical Climate Variability and Impacts in North America

Lesley-Ann Dupigny-Giroux and Cary J Mock

Climatologists with an eye on the past have any number of sources for their work, from personal diaries to weather station reports. Piecing together the trajectory of a weather event can thus be a painstaking process taking years and ... ....

Past Climates

Tree Thermometers, Commodities, and People

Leona Marshall Libby

Leona Marshall Libby was a pioneer in modern climatic research, a field that gained great impetus in the late twentieth century because of the promise it holds for predicting future climatic trends. Libby's work led to remarkable new ... ....

Rocks and Fossils of the Central United States, with Special Emphasis on the Greater Kansas City Area

Richard J Gentile

Discover ancient life that inhabited the Kansas City area millions of years ago! This books includes photos of fossils found in Kansas City and appendices with locations of Kansas City area rock sections.

The Paleoarchaic Occupation of the Old River Bed Delta

David B Madsen, Dave N Schmitt and David Page

About 12 000 years ago, a major river ran from the Sevier Basin to the Great Salt Lake, feeding a wetland delta system and creating riparian habitat along its length. But after three thousand years the river dried up and the surrounding ... ....

The White River Badlands

Geology and Paleontology

Rachel C Benton, Jr.,Dennis O Terry, Emmett Evanoff and H Gregory McDonald

The forbidding Big Badlands in Western South Dakota contain the richest fossil beds in the world. They are a bone hunter's paradise. Even today these rocks continue to yield new specimens brought to light by snowmelt and rain washing ... ....

Field Guide to the Marine Life of India

Deepak Apte

A pictorial guide to the Indian marine fauna, illustrating over 1200 species.

Guia da Biodiversidade Marinha da APA Costa dos Corais

Pedro Henrique Cipresso Pereira, Joao Lucas Leao Feitosa and Laís de Carvalho Teixeira Chaves

The Guia da Biodiversidade Marinha da APA Costa dos Corais is the most complete work produced to date addressing the fauna and flora of the APA Costa dos Corais (APACC), an Environmental Protection Area located along 135 km of ... ....

Ponsonby's Curious Compendium: Sea Creatures

Georges Dussart and David Ponsonby

For centuries, naturalists have created intricate illustrations of the sheer diversity of the ocean. Ponsonbys Curious Compendium: Sea Creatures reproduces more than 600 engravings, offering a panorama of the world that sea-dwellers ... ....

A Bond with Birds

Terence James Bond

It was clear from his schooldays in Suffolk that Terance James Bond was destined for a career in wildlife art. He grew up on a farm during the 1950s, learning to love the fields, trees and birds surrounding him. An early talent with pencil ... ....

A Monograph of the British Carboniferous Trilobites

Henry Woodward

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. Henry Woodward (1832–1921) intended A Monograph of the British Carboniferous Trilobites, originally published as two parts in ...

A Photographer's Guide to Ohio, Volume 2

Ian Adams and Guy Denny

Ian Adams is perhaps the best-known landscape photographer in Ohio, and in the first volume of A Photographer's Guide to Ohio, he shared his knowledge of what to photograph in the Buckeye State and how to photograph it. Now, in this second volume ... ....

A Strange Place to Call Home

The World's Most Dangerous Habitats & the Animals That Call Them Home

Marilyn Singer and Ed Young

Of all the miracles of life, it is life's persistence that astounds the most. In the endless black of the deepest caves, blind fish find their way. In a frozen forest, snow monkeys find a cozy hot spring to keep warm. Even in the ... ....

Alfred Russel Wallace

Letters from the Malay Archipelago

John van Wyhe, Kees Rookmaaker, Alfred Russel Wallace and Sir David Attenborough

Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters from the Malay Archipelago brings together the letters of the great Victorian naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) during his famous travels of 1854-62 in the Malay Archipelago ...

Allied Power

Mobilizing Hydro-Electricity During Canada's Second World War

Matthew D Evenden

Canada emerged from the Second World War as a hydro-electric superpower. Only the United States generated more hydro power than Canada and only Norway generated more per capita. Allied Power is about how this came to be ... ....

Animal, Vegetable, Mineral?

How Eighteenth-Century Science Disrupted the Natural Order

Susannah Gibson

Does the natural world divide neatly into 'animal, vegetable, mineral'? Discoveries in the 18th century threw the question wide open; debates raged, and fed into wider religious and political battles concerning God's creation ... ....

Archaeology, Volcanism, and Remote Sensing in the Arenal Region, Costa Rica

Payson D Sheets and Brian R McKee

How humans adapt to life in an area prone to natural disasters is an intriguing study for the social sciences. In Archaeology, Volcanism, and Remote Sensing in the Arenal Region, Costa Rica, experts from several disciplines explain ... ....

Arts i Naturalesa

Biologia i Simbolisme a la Barcelona del 1900

Pere Capella Simo and Antoni Galmes Martí

During the era of modernism nature was reaffirmed as an inexhaustible source of artistic inspiration. Influenced by the cult of nature, artists created poetic imagery, symbolic dreams, while scientists who were alive during the initial ... ....

Astrology and Cosmology in Early China

Conforming Earth to Heaven

David W Pankenier

The ancient Chinese were profoundly influenced by the Sun, Moon and stars, making persistent efforts to mirror astral phenomena in shaping their civilization. In this pioneering text, David W. Pankenier introduces readers to a seriously ... ....

Biophilia

Christopher Marley

Biophilia means "love of nature." The word was invented by evolutionary biologist E. O. Wilson, who believes that biophilia is a deep human instinct. Artist Christopher Marley is a biophiliac, and his art expresses his passionate ... ....

Botanical Illustration for Beginners

A Step-By-Step Guide

Meriel Thurstan and Rosie Martin

A unique and exciting approach to botanical illustration, this beginner guide demonstrates everything you need to know about capturing beautiful botanical specimens on paper. Each exercise guides the reader through a different aspect of ... ....

Brian Cox

The Unauthorised Biography of the Man Who Brought Science to the Nation

Ben Falk

Professor Brian Cox is among the best-known physicists in the world. As presenter of hit television series Human Universe, Wonders of the Solar System and Wonders of the Universe, his affable charm and infectious enthusiasm have brought science ... ....

Budget Astrophotography

Imaging with Your DSLR or Webcam

Timothy J Jensen

Here are clear explanations of how to make superb astronomical deep-sky images using only a DSLR or webcam and an astronomical telescope – no expensive dedicated CCD cameras needed! Budget Astrophotography is written ... ....

Catalogues of Plants in the Dublin Society's Botanic Garden, at Glasnevin

Walter Wade

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. This plant catalogue is in two parts. The first, published in 1801, provides a list, organised according to the Linnaean system, of the hothouse and ...

Cicerone Guides: The Two Moors Way

Devon's Coast to Coast Walk

Sue Viccars

This guidebook describes the 187 km (102 mile) Devon Coast-to-Coast Path, or Two Moors Way. The trek travels south to north, from Wembury on the south coast, up through Dartmoor and mid-Devon, through Exmoor to Lynmouth on the Bristol Channel ... ....

Cicerone Guides: Walking the Jurassic Coast

Dorset and East Devon - The Walks, the Rocks, the Fossils

Ronald Turnbull

This guidebook includes over 35 walks to the Jurassic Coast of Devon and Dorset. Stretching between Exmouth and Bournmouth, with some routes venturing inland, the walks range from short easy strolls, to longer challenging walks.

Come Rain or Shine

A Weather Miscellany

Storm Dunlop

In Faversham, Kent, in 2003, the highest ever temperature in the UK was recorded: a blistering 38.5 °C (101.3 °F). The word 'blirty' in Scotland describes 'gusts of wind and rain'. The weather is a subject that ... ....

Common Ground

Rob Cowen

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

Dancing with Disaster

Environmental Histories, Narratives, and Ethics for Perilous Times

Kate Rigby

The calamitous impacts of climate change that are beginning to be felt around the world today expose the inextricability of human and natural histories. Arguing for a more complex account of such calamities, Kate Rigby examines a variety ... ....

David Attenborough: The Early Years

Plus David Attenborough in His Own Words

Sir David Attenborough

Three of David Attenborough's early adventures are collected here, along with a fascinating collection of archive interviews with the broadcaster and naturalist David Attenborough's books and broadcasts have opened up ...

Deadly Pole to Pole Diaries

Steve Backshall

This is Steve Backshall's incredible first-hand account of his 14-month voyage from the Arctic to the Antarctic via Alaska, California, Hawaii, Mexico and Brazil and many more amazing locations besides. Go with him every step of the ... ....

Extreme Animals

Dominic Couzens

Prepare to be amazed by the most astounding feats in the natural world. Did you know that the mantis shrimp can punch its way through a sheet of glass, that the Bar-tailed Godwit can migrate 11 000km non-stop from Alaska to New Zealand ... ....

Fluid Frontiers

New Currents in Marine Environmental History

John R Gillis and Franziska Toma

There is a blue hole in environmental history. The thirteen essays in this very accessible collection fill it by closing the gap between land and sea, by exploring the ways the earthly and maritime realms influence one another. What has ... ....

Fruits of Eden

David Fairchild and America's Plant Hunters

Amanda Harris

David Fairchild (1869–1954), son-in-law of Alexander Graham Bell and brother-in-law of National Geographic editor Gilbert Grosvenor, shared the contagious spirit of scientific discovery and invention that characterized the ... ....

Gotham Unbound

The Ecological History of Greater New York

Theodore Steinberg

This is the story of the monumental struggle between New York and the natural world. From Henry Hudson's discovery of Mannahatta to Hurricane Sandy, Gotham Unbound is Ted Steinberg's sweeping ecological history of one of ... ....

Halcyon

Andrew Haslen

Wildlife artist and gallery owner Andrew Haslen uses this collection of spectacular drawings, paintings and linocuts to demonstrate a brilliant technique and a love for kingfishers, hares, woodpeckers, snipe and even the humble tortoise. ....

Hazel Wolf

Fighting the Establishment

Susan Starbuck

When Hazel Wolf died, at the age of 101, more than nine hundred of her friends – from the governor of Washington to union organizers, from birdwatchers to hunters – crowded Town Hall in Seattle to honor the feisty activist and ... ....

Hen Harrier Poems

Colin Simms

Hen Harrier Poems is Colin Simms' fifth collection with Shearsman, and his third devoted to poems on a specific species, following Otters and Martens (2004) and Gyrfalcon Poems (2007). Future plans include volume devoted to poems on merlins ... ....

Historical Ecology of Malaria in Ethiopia

Deposing the Spirits

James C McCann

Malaria is an infectious disease like no other: it is a dynamic force of nature and Africa's most deadly and debilitating malady. James C. McCann tells the story of malaria in human, narrative terms and explains the history and ecology ... ....

Landscapes in Between

Environmental Change in Modern Italian Literature and Film

Monica Seger

Since its economic boom in the late 1950s, Italy has grappled with the environmental legacy of rapid industrial growth and haphazard urban planning. One notable effect is a preponderance of interstitial landscapes such as abandoned field ... ....

Lost in the Yellowstone

Thirty-Seven Days of Peril and a Handwritten Account of Being Lost

Truman Everts and Lee H Whittlesey

In 1870, Truman Everts visited what would two years later become Yellowstone National Park, traveling with an exploration party intent on mapping and investigating that mysterious region. Scattered reports of a mostly unexplored wilderness ... ....

Maskelyne: Astronomer Royal

Rebekah Higgett

Nevil Maskelyne (1732-1811) was a hugely significant figure in the worlds of British science and maritime exploration. His high international standing and wide influence have in many ways been unfairly overlooked as his story has come to ... ....

Mastering Wildlife Photography

Richard Garvey-Williams

This is a concise and comprehensive guide to the popular subject of wildlife photography. It covers scouting locations, timing of trips relative to the seasons and assembling a kit of equipment. It contains an essential guide to lighting ... ....

Memorials of the Sea: My Father

Being Records of the Adventurous Life of the Late William Scoresby, Esq. of Whitby

William Scoresby

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. Son of an Arctic whaler, William Scoresby (1789–1857) made the first of many voyages to northern latitudes when he was just ten years old.

Midwest Maize

How Corn Shaped the U.S. Heartland

Cynthia Clampitt

Food historian Cynthia Clampitt pens the epic story of what happened when Mesoamerican farmers bred a nondescript grass into a staff of life so prolific, so protean, that it represents nothing less than one of humankind's greatest ... ....

Molecular Red

Theory for the Anthropocene

McKenzie Wark

Of all the "liberation movements" of the twentieth century, the one that succeeded beyond anyone's wildest dreams did not liberate a class or a gender or a race. It liberated an element: carbon.

New Essays on John Clare

Poetics, Culture and Community

Simon Kovesi and Scott McEathron

John Clare (1793-1864) has long been recognised as one of England's foremost poets of nature, landscape and rural life. Scholars and general readers alike regard his tremendous creative output as a testament to a probing and powerful ... ....

Palm Trees of the Amazon, and their Uses

Alfred Russel Wallace

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. The scientist Alfred Russel Wallace (1823–1913), famous for his theory of evolution, which he developed in parallel with that of Darwin, published ... ....

Proving Grounds

Militarized Landscapes, Weapons Testing, and the Environmental Impact of U.S. Bases

Edwin A Martini

Proving Grounds brings together a wide range of scholars across disciplines and geographical borders to deepen our understanding of the environmental impact that U.S. military presence has had at home and abroad. The result is a ... ....

Rising Ground

A Search for the Spirit of Place

Philip Marsden

When Philip Marsden moved to a remote, creekside farmhouse in Cornwall, the intensity of his response took him aback. It led him to wonder why we react so strongly to certain places and set him off on a journey on foot westwards to Land's End ... ....

Rivers, Fish, and the People

Tradition, Science, and Historical Ecology of Fisheries in the American West

Pei-Lin Yu

America's western rivers are under assault from development, pollution, invasive species, and climate change. Returning these ecosystems to the time of European contact is often the stated goal for restoration efforts, yet neither the ... ....

Robinson Jeffers

Poet and Prophet

James Karman

The precipitous cliffs, rolling headlands, and rocky inlets of the California coast come alive in the poetry of John Robinson Jeffers, an icon of the environmental movement. In this concise and accessible biography, Jeffers scholar ... ....

Sweet's Hortus Britannicus

Or, a Catalogue of Plants, Indigenous, or Cultivated in the Gardens of Great Britain, Arranged According to their Natura

Robert Sweet

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. The first career of Robert Sweet (1783–1835) was as a gardener in private employment and as a nurseryman. He turned in 1826 to botanical writing ... ....

Taking Flight

The Birds of Langford Lowfields

Michael Warren and Simon Barnes

Mascot Media has published renowned bird artist Michael Warren's second book of colourful sketches from Langford Lowfields, the Nottinghamshire sand and gravel pit being transformed into the newest RSPB reserve. Mike has been sketching ... ....

The Artful Hare

HJ Jackson

The Artful Hare collected more than 370 hare-themed original prints of more than 70 British artists.

The Biohistory of Alachua County, Florida

Francis William Zettler

Examines Alachua County and its immediate surroundings from a chronological perspective, beginning when Florida was still connected to the African continent and ending in modern times. The Biohistory of Alachua County, Florida ... ....

The Birds' Wedding

Bryna Hellmann and Leslie Browne

This is two books inside one cover. The story of The Birds’ Wedding is for reading aloud – perhaps at bedtime, since it ends with “Good Night!”. It’s a fantasy, of course, but even though the wedding ... ....

The Garden of Ignorance

The Experiences of a Woman in a Garden

Marion Cran

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. Marion Cran (1875–1942), born in South Africa, passed most of her life in England, and, from 1910 until her death, lived and gardened in a house ... ....

The Influence of Man on Animal Life in Scotland

A Study in Faunal Evolution

James Ritchie

Originally published in 1920, The Influence of Man on Animal Life in Scotland contains the text of a series of lectures that were originally delivered to general audiences in Aberdeen in 1917 on the subject of the impact of human ... ....

The Magic of Watercolour Flowers

Paul Riley

Watercolour is the ideal medium for painting flowers due to its wonderful translucency and in his new book, The Magic of Watercolour Flowers, Paul Riley shows readers how to paint colourful, vibrant flower paintings. He explains ... ....

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 Philosophy of Zoology Before Darwin

A Translated and Annotated Version of the Original French Text by Edmond Perrier

Alexander McBirney, Stanton Cook, Edmond Perrier, Gregory Retallack and Alexander McBirney

Jean Octave Edmond Perrier was a French zoologist who lived through the tumult of British Darwinism and Lyellism, and reminds us in this revealing account that French scientists had much to contribute to such perennial topics as evolution ... ....

The Seaside Year

A Month-by-Month Guide to Making the Most of the Coast

Isobel Carlson

This charming and practical handbook is bursting with tips, facts and folklore to guide you through a year by the sea. Find out how to identify shells by shape and markings, choose the best coastal routes to explore and learn about the ... ....

The Southern Forest

A Chronicle

Laurence C Walker

When the first European explorers reached the southern shores of North America in the early seventeenth century, they faced a solid forest that stretched all the way from the Atlantic coast to eastern Texas and Oklahoma. The ways in which ... ....

The Story of the British and their Weather

From Frost Fairs to Indian Summers

Patrick Nobbs

The British weather. Subject of endless complaint, small-talk saviour of the British public, famously changeable. We all feel we know it well, as a largely benign and gentle backdrop to our lives. But how well do we really know it? ....

The Walker's Year

A Month-by-Month Guide for Hikers and Ramblers

David Bathurst

This charming and practical handbook is bursting with tips, facts and folklore to guide those who love to roam through the natural rhythms and seasons of the year. Find out how to identify flora by colour and shape, discover routes of ... ....

The Weather Experiment

The Pioneers Who Sought to See the Future

Peter Moore

In 1865 a broken Admiral Robert FitzRoy locked himself in his dressing room and cut his throat. His grand meteorological project had failed. Yet only a decade later, FitzRoy's storm-warning system and 'forecasts' would return ... ....

This Strange Wilderness

The Life and Art of John James Audubon

Nancy Plain

Birds were "the objects of my greatest delight," wrote John James Audubon (1785-1851), founder of modern ornithology and one of the world's greatest bird painters. His masterpiece ...

Trees

Sarah Johnson

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

Where Roads Will Never Reach

Wilderness and Its Visionaries in the Northern Rockies

Frederick H Swanson

The Rocky Mountains of Idaho and Montana are home to some of the most important remaining American wilderness areas, preserved because of citizens who stood against massive development schemes that would have diminished important wildlife ... ....

Wild Garden Weekends

Explore the Secret Gardens, Wild Meadows and Kitchen Garden Cafes of Britain

Tania Pascoe and Sarah Price

This stunning and original British travel guide charts lesser known gardens, spectacular meadows, the best kitchen garden food, plus wild places to camp and stay. From traditional cottage gardens and walled-gardens, to newly designed gardens ... ....

A Handbook of Scotland's Coasts

The Essential Guide for Beachcombers, Walkers, Wildlife Lovers, Rockpoolers, Wild Swimmers, Foragers, Fossil-Hunters and

Fiona Martynoga

A Handbook of Scotland's Coasts offers an inspirational resource for those who want to discover more about the thousands of miles of Scotland's spectacular coastline – from its stunning geology and diverse marine ... ....

Atlas of Comprehensive Nature and Desertification of the Tibetan Plateau

Yang Ping

This atlas compiles results from integrated and experimental research done during the last decade on desertification of the Tibetan plateau. Its main purpose is to use maps to present a comprehensive, systematic summary of achievements ... ....

Backyard Wildlife

Todd Telander

Backyard Wildlife is a field guide to the most common and sought-after species you can find in your very own backyard. Anatomically correct illustrations and detailed descriptions about each animal's prominent physical attributes ... ....

Biodiversite et Societe en Seine-et-Marne

Outils pour l'Amenagement du Territoire

Fanny Guillet, Richard Raymond and Olivier Renault

Biodiversité et Société en Seine-et-Marne is the fourth volume of the "Atlas Dynamique de la Biodiversité de Seineet-Marne". It crowns almost ten years of work by the Department of Seine-et-Marne ... ....

Birds & Animals of Australia's Top End

Darwin, Kakadu, Katherine, and Kununurra

Nick Leseberg and Iain Campbell

One of the most amazing and accessible wildlife-watching destinations on earth, the "Top End" of Australia's Northern Territory is home to incredible birds and animals – from gaudy Red-collared Lorikeets to sinister ... ....

Bloomsbury Concise Garden Wildlife Guide

Sandra Doyle, Stuart Carter, David Daly and Lyn Wells

This mini guide covers more than 220 species that live in northern European gardens. It includes all the most common earthworms, molluscs, crustaceans, insects, arachnids, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals found here, and is invaluable ... ....

Bradt Travel Guide: Senegal

Sean Connolly

Like the whole of West Africa in microcosm, Senegal boasts a variety of landscapes and cultures that belie its compact size. Northern desert wilds give way to the rain-soaked Casamance, fringed by hundreds of kilometres of pristine beaches ... ....

Conservation and Hunting

Bialowieza Forest in the Time of Kings

Tomasz Samojlik

Bialowieza Forest, Poland, has survived thanks to both its status as a royal property, and because of special protection over the centuries. This last fragment of European primeval forest is not only a treasure of natural heritage but ... ....

Die Camargue

Rosa Flamingos, Weisse Pferde, Schwarze Stiere

Gregor Faller

Pink flamingos, white horses and black bulls – these symbolic animals dominate the Camargue. Not too far away from central Europe –- from Freiburg in southwest Germany to Arles is just over 700 km – is this ... ....

Dorset - Slow Travel

Local, Characterful Guides to Britain's Special Places

Alexandra Richards

Many of Dorset's attractions are well-hidden and known only to locals, who like to keep the county's treasures to themselves. The Slow Guide, written by a native of Dorset, takes you to those secret places and introduces you to ... ....

Faunal Resources in Ritchie's Archipelago, Andaman and Nicobar Islands

Chandrakasan Sivaperuman

Ritchie's Archipelago is a cluster of smaller islands which lie some 25–30 km (16–19 mi) east of Great Andaman, the main island group of the Andaman Islands. This publication describes the fauna of the island, covering ... ....

Field Notes from the Edge

Paul Evans

In Field Notes from the Edge, the acclaimed writer of the Guardian's 'Country Diary', Paul Evans, takes us on a journey through the in-between spaces of Nature – such as strandlines, mudflats, cliff ... ....

Latin America and the Caribbean

A Systematic and Regional Survey

Brian W Blouet and Olwyn M Blouet

Updated and revised with many new detailed maps and photographs, this seventh edition enables geographers to explore the changes andmajor issues facing this dynamic region today. The historicalmaterial has been streamlined in order to ... ....

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. Brought up ... ....

Long-term Limnological Research and Monitoring at Crater Lake, Oregon

A Benchmark Study of a Deep and Exceptionally Clear Montane Caldera Lake

Gary L Larson, Robert W Collier and Mark W Buktenica

Reprinted from Hydrobiologia, volume 574, 2007. Crater Lake is located in the caldera of Mount Mazama in Crater Lake National Park, Oregon. The lake has a surface area of about 53 km² at an elevation of ...

Louisa Atkinson's Nature Notes

Louisa Atkinson and Penny Olsen

Nineteenth-century writer and journalist Louisa Atkinson was a remarkable woman. She was the author, at the age of 23, of the first novel penned by a native-born woman to be published in Australia. She was also a keen naturalist, whose ... ....

Natuurgids Middellandse Zee

Enric Ballesteros and Toni Llobet

This field guide describes the more than 800 species of plants and animals found in the Mediterranean Sea. Filled with gorgeous illustrations, tips, and accessible information on species identification, whether on the beach, from a ship ... ....

Northumberland: Including Newcastle, Hadrian's Wall and the Coast - Slow Travel

Local, Characterful Guides to Britain's Special Places

Gemma Hall

This is the most comprehensive guide to the far north of England in print. It encourages visitors to slow down and explore the green lanes, footpaths, rivers and cycle trails that link Northumberland's 'Castle Coast' with the ... ....

Records of the Zoological Survey of India: A Journal of Indian Zoology: Volume 114, Part 1

Zoological Survey of India (ZSI)

Contains the following papers: 1. Diversity and distribution of Harpacticoid copepods from Tamila Nadu Coast, India/G. Sivaleela and K. Venkataraman 2. A checklist of Aphelinidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea of India)/S.

Records of the Zoological Survey of India: A Journal of Indian Zoology: Volume 114, Part 2

Zoological Survey of India (ZSI)

This volume contains the following papers: 1. Protozoans and other fauna associated with sea grass ecosystems of Palk Bay/L. Bindu, G. Sivaleela, G. Rajkumar Rajan and K. Venkatraman 2. On an account of Pentatomoidea ...

Tanganyika: Espace Feconde par le Lac et le Rail

Jean Omasombo

Like its predecessors, this monograph of the ‘Provinces-Decentralisation’ project devotes a large portion to historical, socio-administrative, political, and socio-economic developments. It nonetheless seeks to provide an ... ....

The Natural History of the Isle of Sheppey

John Badmin

The Isle of Sheppey is an island off the northern coast of Kent, England in the Thames Estuary, some 46 miles (74 km) to the east of London. It has an area of 36 square miles (93 km²). Sheppey is derived from the ancient ... ....

The Rough Guide to Yorkshire

The Rough Guide to Yorkshire was the first comprehensive guidebook to England's largest county. Detailed coverage of the ruggedly beautiful Dales and Moors, the magnificent North Sea coast and historic York rubs shoulders with ... ....

The Rough Guide to the Cotswolds

Completely revamped for the second edition, The Rough Guide to the Cotswolds brings the Cotswolds bang up to date like no other guidebook does. Illustrated in colour throughout, it reviews the best places to eat, drink and stay ... ....

The Sacred Headwaters

The Fight to Save the Stikine, Skeena, and Nass

Wade Davis, David Suzuki, Jr.,Robert F Kennedy and Carr Clifton

In a rugged knot of mountains in northern British Columbia lies a spectacular valley known to the First Nations as the Sacred Headwaters. There, three of Canada's most important salmon rivers – the Stikine, the Skeena, and the ... ....

Touring the Springs of Florida

A Guide to the States' Best Springs

Melissa Watson

Highlighting the finest cold springs in the state, Touring the Springs of Florida features full-color photos and in-depth descriptions for each of the springs and surrounding areas. Detailed maps, GPS coordinates, and thorough ... ....

Tree Matters

Gita Wolf and Gangu Bai

The Bhil people of Central India are amongst the country's oldest indigenous communities. To them, the natural world is not 'a thing apart', but exists in a seamless relationship to their home and the everyday. Gangu Bai ... ....

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 ... ....

200 Let Nikitskomu Botanicheskomu Sadu: Sbornik Nauchnykh Trudov Tom 134 [200 Years of Nikitsky Botanical Gardens: Colle

VN Yezhov

A collection of scientific articles to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Nikitsky Botanical Garden, one of the oldest botanical gardens, located in Crimea, Ukraine. See the images of the table of contents for more information.

A Field Guide to Foraging for Wild Greens and Flowers

Michelle Nelson

A Field Guide to Foraging for Wild Greens and Flowers pinpoints easy-to-find greens and flowers that many don't realize are edible – such as dandelion, clover, chicory, sheep's sorrel and lamb's quarters ... ....

A Garden of Marvels

How We Discovered That Flowers Have Sex, Leaves Eat Air, and Other Secrets of Plants

Ruth Kassinger

In the tradition of The Botany of Desire and Wicked Plants, a witty and engaging history of the first botanists interwoven with stories of today's extraordinary plants found in the garden and the lab.

A National Treasure: Dawyck: Its Fungal Heritage

Observations and Conservation

Roy Watling

This book covers the history of Dawyck, a long established formal garden in the Borders of Scotland, from the Ice Age to the present time, emphasising the plant introductions and interweaving them with the fungi to be found there.

A Traveller's Flora

A Guide to Familiar Plants, along Roadsides, in Fields and Forgotten Places

Bruce Archibald Auld

A Traveller's Flora describes and illustrates the common and conspicuous plants you see while driving around south eastern Australia. It includes crop plants, trees, common roadside plants and weeds. Every plant has a name ... ....

Abiotic Stress Adaptation in Plants

Physiological, Molecular and Genomic Foundation

Ashwani Pareek, Sudhir K Sopory, Hans J Bohnert and Govindjee

Environmental insults such as extremes of temperature, extremes of water status as well as deteriorating soil conditions pose major threats to agriculture and food security. Employing contemporary tools and techniques from all branches of ... ....

Abiotic Stresses in Crop Plants

Usha Chakraborty and Bishwanath N Chakraborty

Abiotic Stresses in Crop Plants is based to a great extent on the biochemical and molecular mechanisms of tolerance of commonly encountered abiotic stresses in nature. Abiotic Stresses in Crop Plants will deal with ... ....

Algae of Ukraine, Volume 4: Charophyta

Diversity, Nomenclature, Taxonomy, Ecology and Geography

Petro M Tsarenko, Solomon P Wasser and Eviatar Nevo

This volume deals with Mesostigmatophyceae, Zygnematophyceae, and Charophycae. A total of 58 genera, 813 species, and 1 177 infraspecific taxa are dealt with. Also included supplemental materials for volumes 1 - 3 (109 genera and 216 species) ... ....

Arbuscular Mycorrhizas

Physiology and Function

Hinanit Koltai and Yoram Kapulnik

In the years since the first edition of Arbuscular Mycorrhizas: Physiology and Function was published, an exceptional proliferation of interest in mycorrhizal biology has developed. This has been associated with advances in different ... ....

Attracting Hummingbirds and Butterflies in Tropical Florida

A Companion for Gardeners

Roger L Hammer

In this authoritative and friendly guide, Roger Hammer shares more than thirty years' experience tempting butterflies and hummingbirds into tropical Florida's gardens. From ground cover to large trees, from soil requirements to ... ....

Bloomsbury Pocket Guide to Wild Flowers

Bob Gibbons

An accessible guide providing comprehensive detail on 130 of the most common British species of wild flowers. A short introduction to the book includes information on the structure of flowers and how to use the guide to identify wild flowers ... ....

Botanic Gardens

Sarah Rutherford

Across the world hundreds of botanic gardens combine scientific research, conservation and beauty with public access, with Kew Gardens alone attracting around one million visitors a year. For centuries they have variously focused on cultivating ... ....

Breeding Plantation Tree Crops: Temperate Species

Shri Mohan Jain and PM Priyadarshan

Tree species are indispensable to human needs. Due to their long life cycle and environmental sensitivity, breeding trees for sustainable production is a formidable challenge in order to meet the demands of growing human population and ... ....

Brilliant Green

The Surprising History and Science of Plant Intelligence

Stefano Mancuso, Alessandra Viola and Michael Pollan

Are plants intelligent? Can they solve problems, communicate, and navigate their surroundings? Or are they passive, incapable of independent action or social behavior? Philosophers and scientists have pondered these questions since ancient ... ....

Bryoflore du Mont Lozere

Jacques Bardat, Pierre Boudier and Robert Gauthier

The mountains of Mont Lozère spread over 40 000 ha and culminates at nearly 1 700 meters. It constitutes a unique geological, morphological and climatic landscape feature on the southern edge of the Massif Central in contact with ... ....

Capturing Flora

300 Years of Australian Botanical Art

Richard Aitken

Capturing Flora is a handsome historical survey of the botanical illustration of Australian plants, from the time of Dampier to 2012. This sumptuous publication accompanied the exhibition of the same name at the Art Gallery of ... ....

Catalogo de las Plantas Vasculares de Bolivia (2-Volume Set)

Peter Moller Jorgensen, Michael Harley Nee and Stephan Georg Beck

The Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares de Bolivia is more than a list of the species of plants recorded for the country; it also includes citations, synonyms, information about political distribution, types of vegetation ... ....

Compendium of Coffee Diseases and Pests

Alvaro L Gaitan, Marco A Cristancho, Bertha L Castro Caicedo, Carlos A Rivillas and Cadena Gomez

Coffee Leaf Rust, also known as Roya in Central and South American countries, is a fungus that has been grabbing headlines in recent years for its devastating effect on coffee crops – totaling more than $1 billion in losses since ... ....

Daffodils in American Gardens, 1733-1940

Sara L Van Beck

Since their earliest identification in the mid-1500s, more than twenty-eight thousand hybrid daffodils have been named and registered with the Royal Horticulture Society of England. Daffodils began as wildflowers in the Mediterranean basin ... ....

Empire of Tea

The Asian Leaf That Conquered the World

Markman Ellis, Richard Coulton and Matthew Mauger

Tea has a rich and well-documented past. The beverage originated in Asia long before making its way to seventeenth-century London, where it became an exotic, highly sought after commodity. Over the subsequent two centuries, tea's ... ....

Field Guide to Edible Mushrooms of Britain and Europe

Peter Jordan

Field Guide to Edible Mushrooms of Britain and Europe is an invaluable source of information and advice on when and where to look for edible fungi throughout Europe.

Flora Vladimirskoi Oblasti: Analiz Dannykh Setochnogo Kartirovaniia [Flora of Vladimir Oblast, Russia: Grid Data Analysi

AP Seregin

Extensive data on the vascular plant flora of the Vladimir region, Russia, collected by grid mapping, were published earlier by the author in an earlier book. The current book contains the analytical part of the study.

Garden Plants for Scotland

Kenneth Cox, Raoul Curtis-Machin and Jim McColl

Scotland is one of the best places in the world to garden. Its maritime climate, ample rainfall, and the rarity of severe droughts and really hot weather mean that huge numbers of plants grow well there. But the climate varies considerably ... ....

Genetics and Genomics of Rosaceae

Kevin M Folta and Susan E Gardiner

The Rosaceae Family is represented by approximately 3 000 species of diverse plants, primarily confined to temperate climates. The family has a rich variety of architectural forms and contains herbaceous, tree and shrub species.

Grapevine Molecular Physiology and Biotechnology

Kalliopi A Roubelakis-Angelakis

Grapevine is one of the most widely cultivated plant species worldwide. With Grapevine Molecular Physiology and Biotechnology of the grapevine genome sequence in 2007, a new horizon in grapevine research has unfolded.

Great Garden Design

Contemporary Inspiration for Outdoor Spaces

Ian Hodgson and John Brookes

Great Garden Design presents the best garden designs of the last ten years from more than 50 top garden designers. It offers design solutions for every situation, every area, all tastes and budgets, and any size of garden. ....

How to Prune Trees, Shrubs & Climbers

A Gardeners Guide to Cutting, Trimming and Training, with over 650 Photographs and Illustrations, and Practical, Easy-to

Richard Bird

This is a gardener's guide to cutting, trimming and training, with over 650 photographs and illustrations, and practical, easy-to-follow advice. It is a complete guide to pruning and training ornamental plants, including trees, shrubs ... ....

Hypocrealean Lineages of Industrial and Phytopathological Importance

Lorenzo Lombard, Johannes Z Groenewald and Pedro W Crous

This volume of Studies in Mycology is dedicated to Amy Y. Rossman, who published fundamental papers revising numerous genera and species in the Hypocreales. This issue contains five contributions treating fungi in the families ... ....

Illustrated Field Guide to the Flowers of Sri Lanka, Volume 2

Jacob de Vlas and Johanna de Vlas-de Jong

The authors of Illustrated Field Guide to the Flowers of Sri Lanka, Volume 2, Dr. Jacob de Vlas and his wife Johanna de Vlas-de Jong have been visiting Sri Lanka since 1977. In 2008, they published the ...

Illustrated Flora of Lebanon

Georges Thome and Henriette Thome

The Illustrated Flora of Lebanon, which is close to an atlas of Lebanon's plants, is the product of personal initiative taken by the authors. It assembles 2 612 plant species from various parts and different ecosystems of ... ....

Inventaire Floristique de Saint-Jean-de-la-Motte (Sarthe)

Francis Zanre

A small flora, even that of a single town, deserves the attention of botanists in its department. Rather than focusing on the flora of Sarthe, France, at large, the author chose an original approach in that he wanted to investigate fully ... ....

Las Gramíneas de la Península Iberica e Islas Baleares

Claves Ilustradas para la Determinacion de los Generos y Catalogo Preliminar de las Especies

Carlos Romero Zarco

Do you have trouble identifying grasses? Do you feel frustrated? This work will help you determine the 144 genera of grasses in the Iberian Peninsula (Peninsular Spain, Portugal, and Andorra) and the Balearic Islands, thanks to a key ... ....

Les Vegetaux: Evolution, Developpement et Reproduction

Lydie Suty

Plants are essential to the functioning of all ecosystems on Earth. This volume traces the outline of the evolution of plants and addresses the main aspects of descriptive plant biology: characteristics of plant cells, introduction of ... ....

Les Vegetaux: Les Relations avec leur Environnement

Lydie Suty

Plants establish complex relationships with their biotic (all living organisms) and abiotic (for example climate) environment. Taking some ecological elements as its starting point, the book explains the key role of plants across the major ... ....

Llibre Vermell de les Plantes Endemiques i Amenacades de Catalunya

L Saez, P Aymerich and Cesar Blanche

A reference work for anyone interested in nature conservation. So far science has paid more attention to inventory and analyze the status of animal populations, and among these, the most colorful and attractive to people in general, but ... ....

Maize Cobs and Cultures

History of Zea mays L.

John E Staller

Our perceptions and conceptions regarding the roles and importance of maize to ancient economies is largely a product of scientific research on the plant itself, developed for the most part out of botanical research, and its recent role ... ....

Medical Ethnobiology of the Highland Maya of Chiapas, Mexico

The Gastrointestinal Diseases

Elois Ann Berlin and Brent Berlin

A reprint of a classical work in the Princeton Legacy Library. Originally published in 1996. Whereas most previous work on Maya healing has focused on ritual and symbolism ...

Metal Toxicity in Plants

Perception, Signaling and Remediation

Dharmendra Kumar Gupta and Luisa M Sandalio

Heavy metal accumulation in soil and water from natural sources or anthropogenic activities have produced severe environmental contamination in some parts of the world due to the persistence of metals in the environment by their accumulated ... ....

Mosses of Dry Forests in South Eastern Australia

Cassia Read and Bernard Slattery

A guide for students and absolute beginners – technically accurate, but free of technical language – this is an attempt to present a little known part of the plant kingdom to a new audience. There are dozens of species descriptions ... ....

Noms de Plantes

Corpus de Fitonímia Catalana

Joan Valles, Joan Veny, Josep Vigo, M Angels Bonet, M Antonia Julia and Joan Carles Villalonga

Noms de Plantes: Corpus de Fitonímia Catalana brings together more than thirty-five thousand Catalan names of plants with the corresponding scientific names. It is a multifaceted work, which provides insights into botany ... ....

Nouvelles Encyclopedie des Roses Anciennes

Francois Joyaux

An encyclopedia for the demanding amateur as well as for the avid collector, to better know and grow roses from before 1914 and enter their history.

Orchids of East Gippsland

A Field Guide

James Turner, Andrew Bould and Jennifer Wilkinson

An accurate record of all orchid species and hybrids found in the East Gippsland region, Victoria, Australia, as observed by local field naturalists over 50 years. Introductory chapters include orchid structure, pollination and habitat ... ....

Orchids of South Africa

A Field Guide

Steve Johnson, Benny Bytebier and Herbert Starker

Orchids of South Africa is the first field guide to local orchids to be published in over 30 years, and presents the more than 450 orchid species found in the region, including Lesotho and Swaziland. A comprehensive roundup of ... ....

Orchids of the Department of Valle del Cauca (Colombia), Volume 3

Epidendroideae (Epidendreae - Pleurothallidinae)

Marta Kolanowska and Dariusz L Szlachetko

The third volume in 4-volume series deals with the orchid subfamily Epidendroideae (Epidendreae - Pleurothallidinae).

Organic Gardening Bible

Successful Growing the Natural Way

Bob Flowerdew

Bob Flowerdew's Organic Gardening Bible is a comprehensive and invaluable guide to gardening in a more natural, sustainable and pleasurable way. Bob has been gardening organically for over 30 years – he knows all there ... ....

Pilze Finden

Der Blitzkurs fuer Einsteiger

Christine Schneider and Maurice Gliem

Boletes, Agaricus, chanterelles – It's mushroom time! This book tells you how to determine fungi, in a compact and entertaining way. Which edible mushrooms can I reliably detect? What time of year is worth the ... ....

Plantes Genetiquement Modifiees

Menace ou Espoir?

Jean-Claude Pernollet

"The public always prefers a simple lie to a complex truth." Noting that the sentence of Alexis de Tocqueville is particularly applicable to genetically modified plants (GMP), The academy of agriculture of France wishes to provide ... ....

Ponderosa: Big Pine of the Southwest

Sylvester Allred

For hundreds of years, the massive ponderosa pine of the U.S. Southwest has left multitudes in awe. After spending nearly three decades researching among these trees, Sylvester Allred shares his wealth of experience in the southwestern ... ....

Quand les Fruits Racontent des Histoires d'Hommes

Jean-Yves Maisonneuve and Armelle Delaplace

Life is born of the encounter. This is the covenant of the seed and soil which germinated the plant, the wind against the sail which advances the boat, and in contact with the egg, the pollen grain and the sperm bear forth the fruit and ... ....

Rhodiola rosea

Le Nouveau Gingseng

Jean-Francois Astier

Did you know that in Europe, a medicinal plant has been known for over 2 000 years that is more powerful than ginseng and that grows in the mountainous parts of France? This fabulous medicinal herb is called rhodiola!

Rosas de Aragon y Tierras Vecinas

Pedro Montserrat, Daniel Gomez, Jose Vicente Fernandez and Manuel Bernal

This book is about the spontaneous and feral roses found in Aragon, Spain, which moreover comprise all those growing in the Iberian Peninsula (Spain, mainland Portugal, and Andorra) and the Baleares. For each rose species the book discusses ... ....

Roses: Les Meilleures Varietes pour un Petit Jardin

Isabelle Olikier-Luyten

In this book, Isabelle Olikier-Luyten shares her experience and presents 127 preferred varieties of roses, which are for her the most beautiful and the most suitable for small spaces. Advice on culturing (size, planting, care), association ... ....

Solanaceae and Convolvulaceae: Secondary Metabolites

Biosynthesis, Chemotaxonomy, Biological and Economic Significance (A Handbook)

Eckart Eich

This comprehensive and interdisciplinary handbook provides a bird's-eye view of two centuries of research on secondary metabolites of the two large Solanales families, Solanaceae and Convolvulaceae.

Study and Investigation of Massive Algae in the Yellow Sea [Chinese]

Song Wenpeng

The Biology of Mangroves and Seagrasses

Peter Hogarth

Mangroves and seagrasses form extensive and highly productive ecosystems that are both biologically diverse and economically valuable. The Biology of Mangroves and Seagrasses, now in its third edition and fully updated throughout ... ....

The Flora of Derbyshire

Ken Willmott

The first Flora for this botanically-rich county since 1969. Printed in full colour throughout, it covers all wild flowers, trees, conifers and ferns recorded in Derbyshire over the last 400 years. Based on ¾ million plant records ... ....

The Good Gardener

Expert Advice for Every Garden from the National Trust

Simon Akeroyd

Create your ideal garden with this indispensable guide from the National Trust. The Good Gardener explains traditional skills tried and tested by generations of National Trust gardeners, including expert advice from the head gardener ... ....

The Mycota, Volume 6: Human and Animal Relationships

Axel A Brakhage and Peter F Zipfel

Pathogenic fungi are widely distributed and can infect many organisms, particularly humans, but also other vertebrates and insects. Due to a growing number of fungal infections, there is an increasing need to understand the interaction ... ....

The New Shade Garden

Creating a Lush Oasis in the Age of Climate Change

Ken Druse

In The New Shade Garden, Ken Druse provides a new generation of gardeners with a comprehensive guide to creating a shade garden with an emphasis on the adjustments necessary for our changing climate.

The Plants of Sudan and South Sudan

An Annotated Checklist

Iain Darbyshire, Maha Kordofani, Imadeldin Farag, Ruba Candiga and Helen Pickering

From gummy bears to watercolors to fireworks, many everyday products contain traces of Sudanese plants. With more than four thousand diverse species of flora in the Republic of Sudan and the recently seceded Republic of South Sudan, they ... ....

The Science of Grapevines

Anatomy and Physiology

Markus Keller

The Science of Grapevines: Anatomy and Physiology is an introduction to the physical structure of the grapevine, its various organs, their functions and their interactions with the environment. Beginning with a brief overview of ... ....

The Syon Abbey Herbal

The Last Monastic Herbal in England c. AD 1517

Thomas Betson, John Adams and Forbes Stuart

The Syon Abbey Herbal was written by Thomas Betson in his notebook, sometime between his profession as a priest-brother at the Bridgettine double monastery of Syon Abbey near London, and his death there in 1517. He is the last recorded ... ....

The Tanoak Tree

An Environmental History of a Pacific Coast Hardwood

Frederica Bowcutt

Tanoak (N. densiflorus) is a resilient and common hardwood tree native to California and southwestern Oregon. Paradoxically, people's radically different perceptions of the tree have ranged from cash crop to treasured food ... ....

The Triumph of Seeds

How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses, and Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History

Thor Hanson

We live in a world of seeds. From our morning toast to the cotton in our clothes, they are quite literally the stuff and staff of life, supporting diets, economies, and civilizations around the globe. Just as the search for nutmeg and ... ....

Traite de Lichenologie

Henry des Abbayes and Roger Heim

A reprint of this French monograph, originally published in 1951.

Trees & Shrubs of North America

Bland Crowder

Part of the Pocket Guide series launched in 2013, this new guide to trees hits the sweet spot of what National Geographic does best – combining spot-on descriptive information and key facts in a handy, pleasant-to-hold, easy-to-reference ... ....

Une Ethnologue au Jardin des Plantes

Dix Petits Terrains

Bernadette Lizet

It is out of the office whose windows overlook the Menagerie du Jardin des Plantes in Paris that Bernadette Lizet begins her investigations. Between 1989 and 2014, ten "petits terrains", little essays, mark twenty-five years of ... ....

Weeds

Nina Edwards

Weeds can seem nothing more than intruders in a well-manicured garden. They spring up unwanted and are hastily removed without a second thought. Superweeds are characterized as malevolent trespassers, intent on destroying humanity's ... ....

Wild Crop Relatives: Genomic and Breeding Resources: Cereals

Chittaranjan Kole

Wild crop plants play a significant part in the elucidation and improvement of the genomes of their cultivated counterparts. The 10-volume Wild Crop Relatives: Genomic and Breeding Resources offers a comprehensive examination of ... ....

Wild Crop Relatives: Genomic and Breeding Resources: Forest Trees

Chittaranjan Kole

Wild crop relatives are now playing a significant part in the elucidation and improvement of the genomes of their cultivated counterparts. Wild Crop Relatives: Genomic and Breeding Resources  includes comprehensive ... ....

Wild Crop Relatives: Genomic and Breeding Resources: Legume Crops and Forages

Chittaranjan Kole

Wild crop relatives are now playing a significant part in the elucidation and improvement of the genomes of their cultivated counterparts. Wild Crop Relatives: Genomic and Breeding Resources: Legume Crops and Forages includes ... ....

Wild Crop Relatives: Genomic and Breeding Resources: Millets and Grasses

Chittaranjan Kole

Wild crop plants play a significant part in the elucidation and improvement of the genomes of their cultivated counterparts. The 10-volume Wild Crop Relatives: Genomic and Breeding Resources offers a comprehensive examination of ... ....

Wild Crop Relatives: Genomic and Breeding Resources: Oilseeds

Chittaranjan Kole

Wild crop relatives are now playing a significant part in the elucidation and improvement of the genomes of their cultivated counterparts. Wild Crop Relatives: Genomic and Breeding Resources: Oilseeds includes comprehensive examination ... ....

Wild Crop Relatives: Genomic and Breeding Resources: Temperate Fruits

Chittaranjan Kole

Wild crop relatives are now playing a significant part in the elucidation and improvement of the genomes of their cultivated counterparts. Wild Crop Relatives: Genomic and Breeding Resources: Temperate Fruits includes comprehensive ... ....

Wild Crop Relatives: Genomic and Breeding Resources: Tropical and Subtropical Fruits

Chittaranjan Kole

Wild crop relatives are now playing a significant part in the elucidation and improvement of the genomes of their cultivated counterparts. Wild Crop Relatives: Genomic and Breeding Resources: Tropical and Subtropical Fruits including ... ....

Wild Crop Relatives: Genomic and Breeding Resources: Vegetables

Chittaranjan Kole

Wild crop relatives are now playing a significant part in the elucidation and improvement of the genomes of their cultivated counterparts. Wild Crop Relatives: Genomic and Breeding Resources: Vegetables includes comprehensive ... ....

Wild Orchids of the Algarve

How, When and Where to Find Them

Sue Parker

Despite its small geographical area, Portugal's Algarve region is home to at least 1 500 native wildflower species including more than 30 wild orchids. For tourists and residents alike these are major attractions of the very varied ... ....

Wildflowers of the Northern and Central Mountains of New Mexico

Sangre de Cristo, Jemez, Sandia, and Manzano

Larry J Littlefield and Pearl M Burns

This unique reference work describes over 350 wildflowers and flowering shrubs that grow in New Mexico's Sangre de Cristo, Jemez, Sandia, and Manzano Mountains, as well as neighboring ranges, including the Manzanita, San Pedro ... ....

Adam's Nose, and the Making of Humankind

Michael Stoddart

Adam's Nose, and the Making of Humankind is about the evolution of the sense of smell, from its bacterial origin 3.4 billion years ago, to today's modern, sophisticated humans with an insatiable appetite for perfumes and ... ....

Bacteria in Agrobiology

Plant Growth Responses

Dinesh K Maheshwari

The future of agriculture strongly depends on our ability to enhance productivity without sacrificing long-term production potential. An ecologically and economically sustainable strategy is the application of microorganisms, such as the ... ....

Beyond the Brain

How Body and Environment Shape Animal and Human Minds

Louise Barrett

When a chimpanzee stockpiles rocks as weapons or when a frog sends out mating calls, we might easily assume these animals know their own motivations – that they use the same psychological mechanisms that we do.

Biological Materials of Marine Origin: Vertebrates

Hermann Ehrlich

Biological Materials of Marine Origin: Vertebrates is a source of modern knowledge on biomineralization, biomimetics and materials science with respect to marine vertebrates. For the first time in scientific literature the author ... ....

Bones and Cartilage

Developmental and Evolutionary Skeletal Biology

Brian K Hall

Bones and Cartilage provides the most in-depth review and synthesis assembled on the topic, across all vertebrates. It examines the function, development and evolution of bone and cartilage as tissues, organs and skeletal systems ... ....

Cell Membranes

Lukas Buehler

Cell Membranes provides a concise introduction to the structure and function of biological membranes. Cell Membranes begins by explaining the composition and dynamics of cell membranes discussing the diversity, structure ... ....

Escaping From Predators

An Integrative View of Escape Decisions

Jr.,William E Cooper, Daniel T Blumstein, Ron Ydenberg and Larry Dill

When a predator attacks, prey are faced with a series of 'if', 'when' and 'how' escape decisions – these critical questions are the foci of Escaping From Predators. Cooper and Blumstein bring together ... ....

Evolutionary Developmental Biology of Invertebrates, Volume 1

Introduction, Non-Bilateria, Acoelomorpha, Xenoturbellida, Chaetognatha

Andreas Wanninger

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

Evolutionary Developmental Biology of Invertebrates, Volume 3

Ecdysozoa I: Non-Tetraconata

Andreas Wanninger

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

Evolutionary Developmental Biology of Invertebrates, Volume 4

Ecdysozoa II: Crustacea

Andreas Wanninger

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

Evolutionary Developmental Biology of Invertebrates, Volume 5

Ecdysozoa III: Hexapoda

Andreas Wanninger

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

Evolutionary Developmental Biology of Invertebrates, Volume 6

Deuterostomia

Andreas Wanninger

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

Histology: A Text and Atlas (International Edition)

With Correlated Cell and Molecular Biology

Michael H Ross and Wojciech Pawlina

Now in its seventh edition, Histology: A Text and Atlas is ideal for medical, dental, health professions, and undergraduate biology and cell biology students. This best-selling combination text and atlas includes a detailed text ... ....

Hybridization of Somatic Cells

Boris Ephrussi

A reprint of a classical work in the Princeton Legacy Library. Originally published in 1972. Since its discovery in 1960, the hybridization of somatic cells has evolved from a biological curiosity ...

Junk DNA

A Journey Through the Dark Matter of the Genome

Nessa Carey

From the author of the acclaimed The Epigenetics Revolution ('A book that would have had Darwin swooning' - Guardian) comes another thrilling exploration of the cutting edge of human science. For decades after the structure of DNA was identified ... ....

Missing Microbes

How Killing Bacteria Creates Modern Plagues

Martin J 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 ... ....

Organelle Genetics

Evolution of Organelle Genomes and Gene Expression

Charles E Bullerwell

Mitochondria and chloroplasts are eukaryotic organelles that evolved from bacterial ancestors and harbor their own genomes. The gene products of these genomes work in concert with those of the nuclear genome to ensure proper organelle ... ....

Plumb's Veterinary Drug Handbook (Desk Edition)

Donald C Plumb

The Eighth Edition of Plumb's Veterinary Drug Handbook is an up-to-date edition of the most complete guide to drug dosing information for animals available, now with fewer dosages per indication, making it quicker and easier to make a dosage decision. ....

Plumb's Veterinary Drug Handbook (Pocket Edition)

Donald C Plumb

The Eighth Edition of Plumb's Veterinary Drug Handbook is an up-to-date edition of the most complete guide to drug dosing information for animals available, now with fewer dosages per indication, making it quicker and easier to make a dosage decision. ....

Postgenomics: Perspectives on Biology After the Genome

Sarah S Richardson and Hallam Stevens

Ten years after the Human Genome Project's completion, the life sciences stand in a moment of uncertainty, transition, and contestation. The "postgenomic era" has seen rapid shifts in research methodology, funding, scientific ... ....

Pseudomonas, Volume 4: Molecular Biology of Emerging Issues

Juan-Luis Ramos and Roger C Levesque

The first three volumes of the Pseudomonas series covered the biology of pseudomonads in a wide context, including the niches they inhabit, the taxonomic relations among members of this group, the molecular biology of gene expression in ... ....

Soil Microbiology and Sustainable Crop Production

Geoffrey R Dixon and Emma L Tilston

Soils into which crop plants root and from which they obtain essential minerals and water contain huge arrays of microbes. Many have highly beneficial effects on crop growth and productivity, others are pathogens causing diseases and ... ....

The Comparative Embryology of Sponges

Alexander V Ereskovsky

One of the major questions in the evolution of animals is the transition from unicellular to multicellular organization, which resulted in the emergence of Metazoa through a hypothetical Urmetazoa.

The Homing Instinct

The Story and Science of Migration

Bernd Heinrich

Home is the place we long for most, when we feel we have travelled too far, for too long. Since boyhood, acclaimed scientist and author Bernd Heinrich has returned every year to a beloved patch of woods in his native western Maine. ....

The Symbiotic Habit

Angela E Douglas

Throughout the natural world, organisms have responded to predators, inadequate resources, or inclement conditions by forming ongoing mutually beneficial partnerships--or symbioses--with different species. Symbiosis is the foundation for ... ....

Theories of Population Variation in Genes and Genomes

Freddy Bugge Christiansen

Theories of Population Variation in Genes and Genomes provides an authoritative introduction to both classical and coalescent approaches to population genetics. Written for graduate students and advanced undergraduates by one of ... ....

What is Life?

A Guide to Biology with Physiology

Jay Phelan

From the front of the classroom to the top of the bestseller's list, award-winning educator Jay Phelan knows how to tell the story of how scientists investigate the big questions about life. He is also a master at using biology as ... ....

Zoonoses: Infectious Diseases Transmissible from Animals to Humans

Rolf Bauerfeind, Justus Liebig, Alexander von Graevenitz, Peter Kimmig, Hans Gerd Schiefer and Sch

Written by an international, interdisciplinary team of physicians, veterinarians, virologists, medical microbiologists, and parasitologists, Zoonoses: Infectious Diseases Transmissible between Animals and Humans covers zoonotic pathogens ... ....

30-Second Evolution

The 50 Most Significant Ideas and Events, Each Explained in Half a Minute

Mark Fellowes and Nicholas Battey

Adapt or die: it's nature's most famous imperative. But how does evolution actually happen? It's too slow to see, but it's going on all around you, all the time. Even if you're on top of the key terms – variations ... ....

A Remarkable Journey

The Story of Evolution

R Paul Thompson

Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species (1859) appeared a little more than 150 years ago. Before the publication of Darwin's groundbreaking theory others had advocated evolutionary views, but his work, two decades in the making ... ....

Beasts: What Animals Can Teach Us About Human Nature

Jeffrey Moussaief Masson

Orcas (or killer whales) are one of the planet's supreme predators. Alongside humans, they have the most complex brains to be found in nature. But while one of these two species has killed 200 million members of its own kind in the ... ....

Cultural Evolution

Conceptual Challenges

Tim Lewens

Tim Lewens aims to understand what it means to take an evolutionary approach to cultural change, and why it is that this approach is often treated with suspicion. Convinced of the exceptional power of natural selection, many thinkers ... ....

Earth, Life and System

Evolution and Ecology on a Gaian Planet

Bruce B Clarke

Exploring the broad implications of evolutionary theorist Lynn Margulis's work, this collection brings together specialists across a range of disciplines, from paleontology, molecular biology, evolutionary theory, and geobiology to ... ....

Evolutionary Analysis (Global Edition)

Jon C Herron and Scott Freeman

By presenting evolutionary biology as a dynamic, ongoing research effort and organizing discussions around questions, this best-selling text helps you think like a scientist as you learn about evolution. The authors convey the excitement ... ....

Evolutionary Biology

Concepts, Molecular and Morphological Evolution

Pierre Pontarotti

The annual Evolutionary Biology Meetings in Marseille aim to bring together leading scientists, promoting an exchange of state-of-the-art knowledge and the formation of inter-group collaborations.

Evolutionary Biology

Concept, Modeling and Application

Pierre Pontarotti

Since 1997, scientists of different disciplines sharing a deep interest in concepts and knowledge related to evolutionary biology have held the annual Evolutionary Biology Meetings in Marseille in order to discuss their research and ... ....

Evolutionary Theory and the Creation Controversy

Olivier Rieppel

Evolutionary theory addresses the phenomenon of the origin and diversity of plant and animal species that we observe. In recent times, however, it has become a predominant ideology which has gained currency far beyond its original confines ... ....

Genetic Geographies

The Trouble with Ancestry

Catherine Nash

What might be wrong with genetic accounts of personal or shared ancestry and origins? Genetic studies are often presented as valuable ways of understanding where we come from and how people are related. In Genetic Geographies ... ....

Origins of Life

The Primal Self-Organization

Richard Egel, Dirk-Henner Lankenau and Armen Y Mulkidjanian

If theoretical physicists can seriously entertain canonical "standard models" even for the big-bang generation of the entire universe, why cannot life scientists reach a consensus on how life has emerged and settled on this planet ... ....

Our Beleaguered Species

Beyond Tribalism

Elizabeth Crouch Zelman

Can anthropology contribute to understanding today's world? How can knowledge about our origins as upright apes help our species solve its current challenges? Are there grounds for hope for ourselves and Planet Earth? As Homo sapiens ... ....

Reticulate Evolution

Symbiogenesis and Lateral Gene Transfer

Nathalie Gontier

Written for non-experts, Reticulate Evolution introduces the mechanisms that underlie reticulate evolution. Chapters are either accompanied with glossaries that explain new terminology or timelines that position pioneering ... ....

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Yuval Noah Harari

100 000 years ago, at least six human species inhabited the earth. Today there is just one. Us. Homo sapiens. How did our species succeed in the battle for dominance? Why did our foraging ancestors come together to create ... ....

The Arrival of the Fittest

Solving Evolution's Greatest Puzzle

Andreas Wagner

We all know about natural selection and the so-called survival of the fittest, which governs how evolution preserves useful adaptations in each subsequent generation of a species. Unfortunately, random change alone could not have produced ... ....

The Ecology of the Bari

Rainforest Horticulturalists of Latin America

Stephen Beckerman and Roberto Lizarralde

Inhabiting the rainforest of the southwest Maracaibo Basin, split by the border between Colombia and Venezuela, the Bari have survived centuries of incursions. Anthropologist Roberto Lizarralde began studying the Bari in 1960, when he ... ....

The Greatest Safari

In the Beginning Was Africa: The Story of Evolution Seen from the Savannah

Soren Rasmussen

Why does the zebra have stripes and the elephant a long trunk? How did the giraffe acquire a long neck and why does a hippopotamus lie in muddy water all day? How does an acacia tree kill grazing wild? Do wild animals speak to each other ... ....

The Incredible Unlikeliness of Being

Evolution and the Making of Us

Alice Roberts

The presenter of BBC's The Incredible Human Journey gives us a new and highly accessible look at our own bodies, allowing us to understand how we develop as an embryo, from a single egg into a complex body, and how our embryos ...

Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation

Bill Nye and Corey S Powell

Sparked by the a provocative comment to BigThink.com last fall, and fueled by a highly controversial debate with Creation Museum curator Ken Ham, Bill Nye's campaign to confront the scientific shortcoming of creationism has exploded ... ....

Microclimate, Vegetation & Fauna

Philip Stoutjesdijk and Jan J Barkman

In Microclimate, Vegetation & Fauna the ecologist meets the meteorologist: it is about the biological aspects of microclimate and its variation in horizontal and vertical directions. The great diversity found in the various ... ....

Australian Rainforest Woods

Characteristics, Uses and Identification

Morris Lake

Australian Rainforest Woods describes 141 of the most significant Australian rainforest trees and their wood. The introductory sections draw the reader into an understanding of the botanical, evolutionary, environmental, historical ... ....

Beaches in Space and Time

A Global Look at the Beach Environment and How We Use It

Jr.,Richard A Davis

This well-illustrated book, by an internationally well-known coastal expert, translates science into a comprehensible popular language. He explains a wide range of topics including geology, hydrodynamics, sedimentation, coastal engineering ... ....

Carbon Sequestration in Forest Ecosystems

Klaus J Lorenz and Rattan Lal

A comprehensive book describing the basic processes of carbon dynamics in forest ecosystems, their contribution to carbon sequestration and implications for mitigating abrupt climate change.

Der Forstwirt

Joachim Morat

In Forstwirt all issues relevant to forest management and forestry are addressed in an intelligible form. Whether you are an apprentice forester, practitioner in further education, forest owner, or seasoned forester ...

Ecological Continuum from the Changjiang (Yangtze River) Watersheds to the East China Sea Continental Margin

Jing Zhang

The book provides a cross-disciplinary and multi-scale assessment of a world top river, the Changjiang (Yangtze River) and its adjacent marginal environment, the East China Sea.

Evolution of Desert Biota

David W Goodall

Written by specialists in the field, the papers in Evolution of Desert Biota, originally published in 1976, explore evolution of animals and plants on the deserts of North America, South America, and Australia.

Governing Cambodia's Forests

The International Politics of Policy Reform

Andrew Cock

The destruction of Cambodia's forests gathered pace from the 1990s, receiving much international publicity at the time from environmental NGOs but far less scholarly treatment. That deficiency is now addressed by this detailed and ... ....

Indiana State Parks

A Centennial Celebration

Matt Williams

The stunning photographs in Indiana State Parks bring out the full glory of Indiana's state parks and reservoirs. From the icy toboggan run at Pokagon State Park to fireworks on a balmy night at Versailles State Park, the ... ....

Management and Sustainable Development of Coastal Zone Environments

AL Ramanathan, Prosun Bhattacharya, B Neupane, T Dittmar and B Prasad

Coastal areas face increasing pressures from land use change, developmental activities, shoreline erosion, biodiversity losses and natural calamities. Management and Sustainable Development of Coastal Zone Environments addresses ... ....

On the Edge

The State and Fate of the World's Tropical Rainforests - A Report to the Club of Rome

Claude Martin and Thomas E Lovejoy

In 1972, The Limits to Growth introduced the idea that world resources are limited. Soon after, people became aware of the threats to the world's rainforests, the biggest terrestrial repositories of biodiversity and essential .... ....

Past and Future Yellowstone

Finding Our Way in Wonderland

Paul Schullery

Drawing on historical perspectives, personal excursions, and decades of professional research and work in the field, Paul Schullery illuminates many of the possible truths embedded within the natural and cultural reality that is Yellowstone ... ....

Political Landscapes

Forests, Conservation and Community in Mexico

Christopher R Boyer

Following the 1917 Mexican Revolution inhabitants of the states of Chihuahua and Michoacan received vast tracts of prime timberland as part of Mexico's land redistribution program. Although locals gained possession of the forests ... ....

Protecting Yellowstone

Science and the Politics of National Park Management

Michael J Yochim

Yellowstone National Park looks like a pristine western landscape populated by wild bison, grizzly bears, and wolves. But the bison do not always range freely, snowmobile noise intrudes upon the park's winter silence, and some tourists ... ....

Rainforest Cowboys

The Rise of Ranching and Cattle Culture in Western Amazonia

Jeffrey Hoelle

The opening of the Amazon to colonization in the 1970s brought cattle, land conflict, and widespread deforestation. In the remote state of Acre, Brazil, rubber tappers fought against migrant ranchers to preserve the forest they relied on ... ....

Rediscovering National Parks in the Spirit of John Muir

Michael Frome

As a journalist, advocate, and professor, Michael Frome has spent decades engaged with conservation topics and has taken particular interest in America's national parks. He draws on this experience and knowledge to address what remains ... ....

Soil and Culture

Edward R Landa , Christian Feller and Philippe Descola

SOIL: beneath our feet / food and fiber / ashes to ashes, dust to dust / dirt! Soil has been called the final frontier of environmental research. The critical role of soil in biogeochemical processes is tied to its properties and place ... ....

The Natural History of Waveney Forest

Tim Gardiner

Waveney Forest in east Norfolk is a large area of coniferous woodland, interspersed with remnant heathland and bog. The Forest has been the subject of much interest recently due to proposals for large-scale gravel extraction.

The Subtropical Vegetation of Southwestern China

Plant Distribution, Diversity and Ecology

Cindy Q Tang

The first presentation of the special character, uniqueness, and value of the subtropical vegetation of southwestern China, seen also as a result of geological events and evolution, and in terms of correspondence with ecological factors ... ....

Tsifrovoe Kartografirovanie Pochv Solontsovykh Kompleksov Severnogo Prikaspiia [Digital soil Mapping of Solonetzic Regio

MV Koniushkova

This monograph presents the results of studies on the soil and soil salinity of Dzhanybek Research Station and its surroundings (Volgograd Region, Russia / Western Kazakhstan) on the basis of a dual analysis of ground and remote sensing ... ....

Water and Sustainability in Arid Regions

Bridging the Gap Between Physical and Social Sciences

Graciela Schneier-Madanes and Marie-Francoise Courel

International voices fill the pages of Water and Sustainability in Arid Regions, forming an original scientific exploration of current water research and management issues. In arid regions, agriculture that is ill-adapted to the ... ....

Wildlife Habitat Conservation

Concepts, Challenges, and Solutions

Michael L Morrison and Heather A Mathewson

"Habitat" is probably the most common term in ecological research. Elementary school students are introduced to the term, college students study the concept in depth, hunters make their plans based on it, nature explorers ... ....

Biodiversity Conservation and Ecosystem Functions

Economics, Optimisation and Sustainability

CA Tisdell

This innovative book identifies socio-economic processes which transform the stock of genetic resources and ecosystems and discusses sustainability issues raised by variations in this stock. It focuses subsequently on the socio-economics ... ....

Biodiversity Conservation and Environmental Change

Using Palaeoecology to Manage Dynamic Landscapes in the Anthropocene

Lindsey Gillson

Ecosystems today are dynamic and complex, leaving conservationists faced with the paradox of conserving moving targets. New approaches to conservation are now required that aim to conserve ecological function and process, rather than ... ....

Human-Wildlife Conflict

Complexity in the Marine Environment

Megan Draheim, Francine Madden, Julie-Beth McCarthy and Chris Parsons

This is the first human-wildlife conflict (HWC) book to focus on the marine system, exploring the complexity of HWC in marine-based conservation through the 'Level of Conflict' model, a theoretical yet highly practical tool ... ....

Man Swarm

How Overpopulation Is Killing the Wild World

Dave Foreman and Laura Carroll

Overpopulation is real. We have come on like a swarm of locusts. Now at over seven billion and counting, renowned visionary conservationist and global thinker Dave Foreman helps us understand that only by stabilizing and reducing human ... ....

Roads & Ecological Infrastructure

Concepts and Applications for Small Animals

Kimberly M Andrews, Priya Nanjappa and Seth PD Riley

Few of us think twice about driving on roads. Yet the very presence of roads and the act of driving on them can impact the ecological infrastructure that supports an animal's daily life. What chance does a turtle have of successfully ... ....

The Hunt for the Golden Mole

All Creatures Great & Small, and Why They Matter

Richard Girling

This story is a quest for an animal so rare that a sighting has never been recorded. The Somali golden mole was first described in 1964. It is mentioned in a number of textbooks, but the sole evidence for its existence is a tiny fragment ... ....

Wild Life

The Institution of Nature

Irus Braverman

Wild Life documents a nuanced understanding of the wild versus captive divide in species conservation. It also documents the emerging understanding that all forms of wild nature – both "in situ" (on-site) and ... ....

Zapovednoe delo Rossii: Teoriya, Praktika, Istoriya [Conservation Management in Russia: Theory, Practice, History]

FR Shtilmark

A compendium on nature conservation in Russia.

A New Dimension of Climate Justice

Climate Change and the Threat to Cultural Identity

Clare Heyward

A New Dimension of Climate Justice argues that the impact of climate change on cultural identity has been overlooked in political and philosophical discussions about how to respond to climate change. Beginning with a review of ... ....

An Introduction to the Global Circulation of the Atmosphere

David A Randall

This is a graduate-level textbook on the global circulation of the Earth's atmosphere – the large-scale system of winds by which energy is transported around the planet, from the tropical latitudes to the poles.

Applied Thermodynamics for Meteorologists

Sam Miller

Applied Thermodynamics for Meteorologists on atmospheric thermodynamics is for students of meteorology or atmospheric science. It also serves as a reference text for working professionals in meteorology and weather forecasting. ....

Before Silent Spring

Pesticides and Public Health in Pre-DDT America

James C Whorton

A reprint of a classical work in the Princeton Legacy Library. Originally published in 1975. Modern consumers are well aware that the food they eat is tainted by pesticidal residues; they are less ...

Betting the Farm on a Drought

Stories from the Front Lines of Climate Change

Seamus McGraw

Climate change has become one of the most polarizing issues of our time. Extremists on the left regularly issue hyperbolic jeremiads about the impending destruction of the environment, while extremists on the right counter with crass ... ....

Climate Change and Insect Pests

Christer Bjorkman and Pekka Niemela

Insects, being poikilothermic, are among the organisms that are most likely to respond to changes in climate, particularly increased temperatures. Range expansions into new areas, further north and to higher elevations, are already well ... ....

Eurasian Arctic Land Cover and Land Use in a Changing Climate

Garik Gutman and Anni Reissell

Eurasian Arctic Land Cover and Land Use in a Changing Climate is a compilation of studies on interactions of land-cover/land-use change with climate in a region where the climate warming is most pronounced compared to other areas ... ....

Faunal Resources and Assessment of the Impact of Mining Activities on Fauna of Chhotonagpur Coalfield Areas Jharkhand, I

AK Sanyal, SK Chattapadhyay, TK Pal and AK Karmakar

The objective of the study was to provide base line data on the faunal composition, assemblage and probable impact of mining projects on fauna. An attempt was also made to provide recommendations for reclamation along with better management ... ....

Field Notes from a Catastrophe

Man, Nature, and Climate Change

Elizabeth Kolbert

Elizabeth Kolbert's environmental classic Field Notes from a Catastrophe first developed out of a groundbreaking, National Magazine Award-winning three-part series in The New Yorker. She expanded it into a ... ....

Handbook of Climate Change and India

Development, Politics and Governance

Navroz K Dubash

How do policymakers, businesses and civil society in India approach the challenge of climate change? What do they believe global climate negotiations will achieve and how? And how are Indian political and policy debates internalizing climate ... ....

In Extremis

Disruptive Events and Trends in Climate and Hydrology

Juergen Kropp and Hans Joachim Schellnhuber

In Extremis addresses a weakness of current methodologies used in extreme value assessment, i.e. the assumption of stationarity, which is not given in reality. With respect to this issue a lot of new developed technologies are ... ....

Junkyard Planet

Travels in the Billion-Dollar Trash Trade

Adam Minter

When you drop your Diet Coke can or yesterday's newspaper in the recycling bin, where does it go? Probably halfway around the world, to people and places that clean up what you don't want and turn it into something you can't ... ....

Only One Chance

How Environmental Pollution Impairs Brain Development and How to Protect the Brains of the Next Generation

Philippe Grandjean

Today, one out of every six children suffers from some form of neurodevelopmental abnormality. The causes are mostly unknown. Some environmental chemicals are known to cause brain damage and many more are suspected of it, but few have been ... ....

The Sun's Influence on Climate

Joanna D Haigh and Peter Cargill

The Earth's climate system depends entirely on the Sun for its energy. Solar radiation warms the atmosphere and is fundamental to atmospheric composition, while the distribution of solar heating across the planet produces global winds ... ....

Trash Talk

An Encyclopedia of Garbage and Recycling Around the World

Robert William Collin

As the popularity of sustainability grows and climate change becomes an accepted reality, experts point to trash and waste as the link between environmental and public health. This detailed reference-one of the most comprehensive resources ... ....

A Space Traveller's Guide to the Solar System

Mark Thompson

Have you ever dreamt of being an astronaut, travelling through the universe on your very own space mission? What would it be like to tour the Solar System, visiting the Sun and the planets, taking in everything from moons to asteroid ... ....

Adventures in Human Being

Gavin Francis

We have a lifetime's association with our bodies, but for many of us they remain uncharted territory. In Adventures in Human Being, Gavin Francis leads the reader on a journey through health and illness, offering insights on ... ....

Can Squid Fly?

Answers to 101 More Questions About the Sea, the Life within it and the Forces Surrounding it

Tony Rice

Using the same question and answer format of his highly successful first book Do Whales Get the Bends?, marine expert Tony Rice sets out to answer another selection of general interest questions about the sea, sea life and man's relationship ... ....

Cave: Nature and Culture

Ralph Crane and Lisa Fletcher

To enter caves is to venture beyond the realm of the everyday. From huge vaulted caverns to impassable water-filled passages, the karst topography of Guilin in China and the lava tubes of Hawaii, from tiny remote pilgrimage sites to massive ... ....

Global Volcanic Hazards and Risk

Susan Loughlin, Steve Sparks, Sarah L Brown, Susanna Jenkins and Charlotte Vye-Brown

Originally prepared for the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, this is the first comprehensive assessment of global volcanic hazards and risk, presenting the state of the art in our understanding of global volcanic activity ... ....

God and the Multiverse

Humanity's Expanding View of the Cosmos

Victor J Stenger

Cosmologists have reasons to believe that the vast universe in which we live is just one of an endless number of other universes within a multiverse – a mind-boggling array that may extend indefinitely in space and endlessly in ... ....

In the Path of Destruction

Eyewitness Chronicles of Mount St. Helens

Richard Waitt

"The air had no oxygen, like being trapped underwater…I was being cremated, the pain unbearable." – Jim Scymanky "I was on my knees, my back to the hot wind. It blew me along, lifting my rear ...

Mission to Mars

My Vision for Space Exploration

Buzz Aldrin and Leonard David

In this, his crowning manifesto on behalf of continued space exploration and travel, legendary space statesman Buzz Aldrin argues passionately and articulately for continuing to push the boundaries of our knowledge of the universe and ... ....

Missions to Mars

Rod Pyle

Now that man has successfully walked on the moon, Mars has become the next frontier for space exploration. Since 1965, when the first Mariner spacecraft sped past Mars and snapped 22 grainy photos, the exploration of the Red Planet has ... ....

Nuclear Physics: A Very Short Introduction

Frank Close

Nuclear physics began long before the identification of fundamental particles, with J. J. Thomson's discovery of the electron at the end of the 19th century, which implied the existence of a positive charge in the atom to make it ... ....

Paleontology and Geology of the Martinsburg, Shawangunk, Onondaga, and Hornerstown Formations (Northeastern United State

Howard Feldman

The chapters in Paleontology and Geology of the Martinsburg, Shawangunk, Onondaga, and Hornerstown Formations (Northeastern United States) with Some Field Guides will cover the paleontology and geology of some important rock ... ....

Spring Chicken

Stay Young Forever (or Die Trying)

Bill Gifford

Spring Chicken is a full-throttle, high-energy ride through the latest research, popular mythology, and ancient wisdom on mankind's oldest obsession: How can we live longer? And better? In his funny, self-deprecating voice ... ....

Stargazing: The Digital Astronomer

The Practical Guide to Observing and Photographing the Moon, Sunday, Planets, Stars and Beyond in the Digital-Imaging Ag

Sir Patrick Moore, Pete Lawrence and Brian May

A one-stop introduction to how to do astronomy in the digital age. Thanks to modern technology, there is no longer a daunting boundary for those of us who wish to experience what it is like to actually do astronomy. Starting with a simple ... ....

Steve Backshall's Deadly 60

Steve Backshall

Please note, this book has been reissued in 2014 under the Bloomsbury imprint with the contents remaining unchanged. Steve Backshall embarks on his most daring adventure yet. He has just six months to travel six continents and ... ....

Stratigraphy and Palaeoenvironments of the Jurassic Rocks of Kachchh

Field Guide

Franz T Fuersich, Matthias Alberti and Dhirendra K Pandey

The Jurassic sedimentary succession of Kachchh represents the fill of a small rift basin situated at the western margin of the Indian Plate adjacent to the Malagasy Gulf. Jurassic rocks are exposed in three areas, the so-called lsland ... ....

Stratigraphy and Palaeoenvironments of the Jurassic Rocks of the Jaisalmer Basin

Field Guide

Dhirendra K Pandey, Franz T Fuersich and Matthias Alberti

The Jaisalmer Basin was located on the southern shelf of the Neotethys during Jurassic tirnes. The basin is well known for its Jurassic outcrops which display abundant and diverse fossils. Lithostratigraphically, the Jurassic siliciclast ... ....

The Alignment of Telescope Mirrors and Instructions in the Successful Use of the Cave Collimator

Peter R Clark

This booklet contains instructions got getting telescope mirrors aligned quickly, accurately and reliably, using the cave collimator, which has been invented and is being sold by the author. Its use extends to include the more complex ... ....

The Chimp and the River

How AIDS Emerged from an African Forest

David Quammen

The real story of AIDS-how it originated with a virus in a chimpanzee, jumped to one human, and then infected more than 60 million people-is very different from what most of us think we know. Recent research has revealed dark surprises and yielded ... ....

The Earth

From Myths to Knowledge

Hubert Krivine, David Fernbach and Tariq Ali

Are we entitled to say that the Earth is 4.55 billion years old, and its trajectory an ellipse centered on the Sun, with an average radius of 150 million kilometers? Most educated people today would say yes. Curiously, however, three hundred ... ....

The Encyclopedia of Volcanoes

Haraldur Sigurdsson, Bruce Houghton, Stephen R McNutt, Hazel Rymer, John Stix and Robert D Ballard

Volcanoes are unquestionably one of the most spectacular and awe-inspiring features of the physical world. Our paradoxical fascination with them stems from their majestic beauty and powerful, sometimes deadly, destructiveness. Notwithstanding ... ....

The Secret Life of Space

Heather Couper and Nigel Henbest

The fascination with Space is one, which has gripped us throughout history. Nigel Henbest and Heather Couper, two world-renowned scientists in astrophysics, chart our discoveries throughout the ages in The Secret Life of Space. ....

The Water Book

Alok Jha

Water is the most every day of substances. It pours from our taps and falls from the sky. We drink it, wash with it, and couldn't live without it. Yet, on closer examination it is also a very strange substance (it is one of only a very ... ....

Tsunamis: Case Studies and Recent Developments

Kenji Satake

Twenty papers comprise a timely review of state-of-the-art tsunami research. Various approaches are taken to study tsunamis: field-surveys of recent tsunamis; analysis of tide-gauge records; numerical simulations of tsunami generation and ... ....

Una Historia de la Geología en Espana

En su Contexto Socioeconomico, Cultural y Político, y en el Marco de la Geología Internacional

Manuel Julivert

This work is the first synthesis of the history of geology in Spain, of the people who have cultivated this discipline, and the institutions that have conducted research and taught this science. The socioeconomic context in which it was ... ....

Virus Hunt

The Search for the Origin of HIV/Aids

Dorothy H Crawford

The hunt for the origin of the AIDS virus began over twenty years ago. It was a journey that went around the world and involved painstaking research to unravel how, when, and where the virus first infected humans.

Water: Nature and Culture

Veronica Strang

Since the beginning of time humans have had a vital relationship with water. Water considers humanity's interaction with this essential substance, its physical properties and their material effects, as well as exploring how diverse ... ....

Alienation and Nature in Environmental Philosophy

Simon Hailwood

Many environmental scientists, scholars and activists characterise our situation as one of alienation from nature, but this notion can easily seem meaningless or irrational. In Alienation and Nature in Environmental Philosophy ... ....

Andean Waterways

Resource Politics in Highland Peru

Mattias Borg Rasmussen

Andean Waterways explores the politics of natural resource use in the Peruvian Andes in the context of climate change and neoliberal expansion. It does so through careful ethnographic analysis of the constitution of waterways ... ....

Animal Cell Biotechnology

Methods and Protocols

Ralf Poertner

The second edition of Animal Cell Biotechnology constitutes a comprehensive manual of new techniques for setting up mammalian cell lines for production of biopharmaceuticals, and for optimizing critical parameters for cell culture ... ....

Bacteria in Agrobiology: Crop Ecosystems

Dinesh K Maheshwari

The future of agriculture strongly depends on our ability to enhance productivity without sacrificing long-term production potential. An ecologically and economically sustainable strategy is the application of microorganisms, such as the ... ....

Charles Taylor's Ecological Conversations

Politics, Commonalities and the Natural Environment

Glen Lehman

Central to the argument of Charles Taylor's Ecological Conversations are Charles Taylor's perspectives on authenticity and expressivism, which the author reads as a radical reworking of our understanding of being in the ... ....

Comportement, Conduite et Bien-etre Animal

Xavier Manteca i Vilanova and Anthony J Smith

In tropical and subtropical regions, the conditions in which domestic animals are kept sweep the spectrum from close confinement in factory farms to near freedom. Whatever the situation, knowing and understanding animal behavior maximize ... ....

Don't Trust, Don't Fear, Don't Beg

The Extraordinary Story of the Arctic 30

Ben Stewart

The Arctic is now the stage on which our future will be decided. And as temperatures rise and the ice retreats, Putin orders Russia's oil rigs to move north. But in September 2013, 30 men and women from 18 countries – the crew ... ....

Dynamic Models of Infectious Diseases, Volume 1

Vector-Borne Diseases

V Sree Hari Rao and Ravi Durvasula

Despite great advances in public health worldwide, insect vector-borne infectious diseases remain a leading cause of morbidity and mortality. Diseases that are transmitted by arthropods such as mosquitoes, sand flies, fleas, and ticks ... ....

Environmental Conflict Management

Tracylee Clarke and Tarla Rai Peterson

Using case studies exercises, Tracylee Clarke and Tarla Rai Peterson introduce students to the research and practice of environmental conflict and provide a step-by-step process for engaging stakeholders and interested parties in the ... ....

Environmental Policy

New Directions for the Twenty-First Century

Norman J Vig and Michael E Kraft

Environmental Policy: New Directions for the Twenty-First Century looks at how national environmental policy and its place within public discourse developed over time; how policy has changed within federal institutions ... ....

Environmentally-Friendly Product Development

Methods and Tools

Eberhard Abele, Reiner Anderl and Herbert Birkhofer

Introduces methods to improve the environmental characteristics of products. Every manufactured product has environmental impacts during its life-cycle. These arise in the product's manufacture, use, recycling and disposal.

Ethics and the Beast

A Speciesist Argument for Animal Liberation

Tzachi Zamir

Many people think that animal liberation would require a fundamental transformation of basic beliefs. We would have to give up "speciesism" and start viewing animals as our equals, with rights and moral status. And, we would have ... ....

Fantasy Islands

Chinese Dreams and Ecological Fears in an Age of Climate Crisis

Julie Sze

The rise of China and its status as a leading global factory are altering the way people live and consume. At the same time, the world appears wary of the real costs involved. Fantasy Islands probes Chinese, European, and American ... ....

Fever: Its Biology, Evolution, and Function

Matthew J Kluger

A reprint of a classical work in the Princeton Legacy Library. Originally published in 1979. Fever has long been recognized as a symptom of disease. Until the past century it was considered a healthy ...

Freshwater Fisheries Ecology

John F Craig

Inland fisheries are vital for the livelihoods and food resources of humans worldwide but their importance is underestimated, probably because large numbers of small, local operators are involved. Freshwater Fisheries Ecology ... ....

Genetic Modification and Food Quality

A Down to Earth Analysis

Robert Blair and Joe M Regenstein

The development of recombinant DNA methods has changed the face of the food industry over the last 50 years. Crops which have been genetically modified are being cultivated in more and more countries and this process is likely to accelerate ... ....

Green Politics

The History and Ideology of Green Parties Worldwide

Per Gahrton

Over the past four decades the world has seen a 'Green awakening'. Green parties have been elected to parliaments and councils all over the world, and in many cases have played a part in national and local government.

Hypernatural: Architecture's New Relationship with Nature

Blaine Brownell, Marc Swackhamer, Olga Budashevskaya, Blair Satterfield and Michael Weinstock

Despite the ever-growing sophistication of synthetic and digital tools, it's the natural world that captures the imaginations of today's vanguard designers. By looking to nature as a teacher rather than simply as a source for raw ... ....

Interdependence: Biology and Beyond

Kriti Sharma

From biology to economics to information theory, the theme of interdependence is in the air, framing our experiences of all sorts of everyday phenomena. Indeed, the network may be the ascendant metaphor of our time. Yet precisely because ... ....

Kirby's Journal

Backyard Butterfly Magic

Charlotte Caldwell

On an eventful summer spent in Charleston, South Carolina, eleven-year-old Kirby, Grandma, and Grandpa plant a butterfly garden, and Kirby documents the wondrous adventures in learning that follow. Their observations, excitement, and ... ....

Letters to My Grandchildren

David Suzuki

In this inspiring series of letters to his grandchildren, David Suzuki offers grandfatherly advice mixed with stories from his own remarkable life and explores what makes life meaningful. He challenges his grandchildren – and us ... ....

Managing Biosecurity Across Borders

Ian Falk, Ruth A Wallace and Marthen L Ndoen

Managing biosecurity is everybody's business. Managing Biosecurity Across Borders's multi-site, multi-sectoral research contributes to an holistic, evidence-based strategy for managing plant biosecurity in complex contexts ... ....

Managing Coastal and Inland Waters

Pre-Existing Aquatic Management Systems in Southeast Asia

Kenneth Ruddle and Arif Satria

Managing Coastal and Inland Waters examines pre-existing management systems in fishing communities in Indonesia, Laos, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam. Besides the erroneous assumption that tropical fisheries ...

Natural Resource Management and Local Development

Emmanuel Torquebiau and Russel D Taylor

Reprinted from Biodiversity and Conservation 18: 10 (2009). Natural resource management by rural citizens in tropical regions is crucial both to the conservation of biodiversity and ecosystem processes, but also to the ... ....

Nature in Translation

Freedom, Subjectivity and Japanese Tourism Encounters in Canada

Shiho Satsuka

Nature in Translation is an ethnographic exploration in the cultural politics of the translation of knowledge about nature. Shiho Satsuka follows the Japanese tour guides who lead hikes, nature walks, and sightseeing bus tours ... ....

New Visions of Nature

Complexity and Authenticity

Martin AM Drenthen, Jozef FW Keulartz and James Proctor

New Visions of Nature focuses on the emergence of these new visions of complex nature in three domains. The first selection of essays reflects public visions of nature, that is, nature as it is experienced, encountered, and ... ....

Nobody Owns the Moon

The Ethics of Space Exploitation

Tony Milligan

Space exploration and commercial activity off-world has its skeptics as well as its enthusiasts. What does seem to be clear, however, is that such activity has increased and is set to expand further, and dramatically so, during the present ... ....

Plato's Animals

Gadflies, Horses, Swans, and Other Philosophical Beasts

Jeremy Bell and Michael Naas

Plato's Animals examines the crucial role played by animal images, metaphors, allusions, and analogies in Plato's Dialogues. These fourteen lively essays demonstrate that the gadflies, snakes, stingrays, swans, dogs, horses ... ....

Precision Crop Protection - The Challenge and Use of Heterogeneity

Erich-Christian Oerke, Roland Gerhards, Gunter Menz and Richard A Sikora

Precision farming is an agricultural management system using global navigation satellite systems, geographic information systems, remote sensing, and data management systems for optimizing the use of nutrients, water, seed, pesticides and ... ....

Rawls and the Environmental Crisis

Dominic Welburn

Impending environmental crises have led to general consensus within green political thought that liberal principles of justice and green concerns make for uneasy bedfellows. Rawls and the Environmental Crisis critiques the ... ....

Sea Urchin and Sea Cucumber Aquaculture

Nicholas Brown and Steve Eddy

Sea urchins and sea cucumbers are highly sought after delicacies growing in popularity globally. The demand for these species is rapidly outpacing natural stocks, and researchers and seafood industry personnel are now looking towards aquaculture ... ....

Shale Gas and the Future of Energy

Law and Policy for Sustainability

John Dernbach and JR May

The rapid growth of shale gas development has led to an intense and polarizing debate about the merit of shale gas. At the same time, and essentially independent of shale gas development, countries around the world concluded at the 2012 ... ....

Solar Energy

An Introduction

Michael E Mackay

An introduction to the fundamental science and engineering of solar energy technologies. Gives a concise and detailed review of solar energy and its interaction with materials, and discusses photovoltaic devices and solar thermal technology ... ....

State of the World 2105

Confronting Hidden Threats to Sustainability

The Worldwatch Institute

We think we understand environmental damage: pollution, water scarcity, a warming world. But these problems are just the tip of the iceberg. Food insecurity, financial assets drained of value by environmental damage, and a rapid rise in ... ....

Tea Production, Land Use Politics and Ethnic Minorities

Struggling Over Dilemmas in China's Southwest Frontier

Po-Yi Hung

In Tea Production, Land Use Politics and Ethnic Minorities, Po-Yi Hung uses tea production as a lens to investigate the tension between nature and society under the market economy in frontier China. By focusing on the landscape ... ....

Technological Innovations in Major World Oil Crops, Volume 1

Breeding

Surinder Kumpar Gupta

Major world oil crops and their products are among the most valuable commodity in today's world trade. Over the past couple of decades, oilseed production has increased to become the most important world sources of vegetable oils ... ....

The First Green Wave

Pollution Probe and the Origins of Environmental Activism in Ontario

Ryan P O'Connor

The First Green Wave traces the rise of Ontario's environmental movement. At the heart of the story is Pollution Probe, an organization founded in 1969 by students and faculty at the University of Toronto. In its first year ... ....

The Future of Electricity Demand

Customers, Citizens and Loads

Tooraj Jamasb and Michael G Pollitt

What will electricity and heat demand look like in a low-carbon world? Ambitious environmental targets will modify the shape of the electricity sector in the twenty-first century. 'Smart' technologies and demand-side management ... ....

The Rise and Fall of Gunns Ltd

Quentin Beresford

At its peak, Gunns Ltd had a market value of $1 billion, was listed on the ASX 200, was the largest employer in the state of Tasmania and its largest private landowner. Most of its profits came from woodchipping, mainly from clear-felled ... ....

Thought, Law, Action and Rights in the Age of Environmental Crisis

A Grear and E Grant

In the climate-pressed Anthropocene epoch, nothing could be more urgent than fresh engagements with the fractious relationships between 'humanity', law and the living order. This collection draws together theoretical reflections ... ....

Unearthing Conflict

Corporate Mining, Activism and Expertise in Peru

Fabiana Li

In Unearthing Conflict Fabiana Li analyzes the aggressive expansion and modernization of mining in Peru since the 1990s to tease out the dynamics of mining-based protests. Issues of water scarcity and pollution, the loss of farm ... ....

Advances in Land Remote Sensing

System, Modelling, Inversion and Application

Shunlin Liang

Advances in Land Remote Sensing collects the review papers of the 9th International Symposium on Physical Measurements and Signatures in Remote Sensing (ISPMSRS). It systematically summarizes the past achievements and identifies ... ....

Atlas of Knowledge

Anyone Can Map

Katy Boerner

Maps of physical spaces locate us in the world and help us navigate unfamiliar routes. Maps of topical spaces help us visualize the extent and structure of our collective knowledge; they reveal bursts of activity, pathways of ideas, and ... ....

Geometrical Geodesy

Using Information and Computer Technology

Maarten Hooijberg

Geometrical Geodesy has evolved through the author's 25 years of advising and writing on geodetic methods in which the aspect of learning by doing is stressed, including analyses of quality. Consequently, it covers practical ... ....

Integrating Omics Data

George Tseng, Debashis Ghosh and Xianghong Jasmine Zhou

In most modern biomedical research projects, application of high-throughput genomic, proteomic and transcriptomic experiments has gradually become an inevitable component. Popular technologies include microarray and next-generation ... ....

Make - The Annotated Build-it-Yourself Science Laboratory

Learn How to Build Over 200 Pieces of Science Equipment

Windell Oskay

Raymond E. Barrett's Build-It-Yourself Science Laboratory took on an audacious task: to show readers how to build a complete working science lab (starting with a workbench) for chemistry, biology, and physics – and how ... ....

Modern Magnetic Resonance (3-Volume Set)

Graham A Webb

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

PhytoKeys 45: Report on Botanical Nomenclature - Vienna 2005. XVII International Botanical Congress, Vienna: Nomenclat

Christina Flann, John R McNeill, Fred R Barrie, Dan H Nicolson, David L Hawksworth and Nic Turland

The five-day meeting of the Nomenclature Section of the XVII International Botanical Congress took place in Vienna, Australia in July 2005. This meeting is held every six years and it is where botanists, mycologists, and phycologists ... ....

Primer to Analysis of Genomic Data Using R

Cedric Gondro

Through Primer to Analysis of Genomic Data Using R, researchers and students will learn to use R for analysis of large-scale genomic data and how to create routines to automate analytical steps. The philosophy behind the book is ... ....

Statistics Done Wrong

The Woefully Complete Guide

Alex Reinhart

Everyone knows that abuse of statistics is rampant in popular media. Politicians and marketers present shoddy evidence for dubious claims all the time. But smart people make mistakes too, and when it comes to statistics, plenty of otherwise ... ....

Visual Insights

A Practical Guide to Making Sense of Data

Katy Boerner and David E Polley

In the age of Big Data, the tools of information visualization offer us a macroscope to help us make sense of the avalanche of data available on every subject. Visual Insights offers a gentle introduction to the design of insights ... ....

Catalogue of Mammalia in the Collection of the Zoological Survey of India, Western Regional Centre, Pune

SS Talmale

Catalogues of mammalian specimens were previously published by Anderson, 1881, Sclater, 1891 (Collection of Indian Museum), Agrawal and Chakraborty, 1979 (Order, Rodentia, Family, Sciuridae of ZSI, Kolkata collection) and Ghosh, 2005 and ... ....

Environmental Communication and the Public Sphere

J Robert Cox and Phaedra C Pezzullo

The Fourth Edition of the award-winning Environmental Communication and the Public Sphere remains the only comprehensive introduction to the growing field of environmental communication. In the updated and revised edition ... ....

Writing for Scholars

A Practical Guide to Making Sense & Being Heard

Lynn P Nygaard

Academics are not just researchers, but writers too. Using her many years of practical experience gained as a teacher and editor, Lynn Nygaard guides you through the whole process of writing and presenting your research in order to help ... ....

Fauna Lepidoptera Nacionalnog Parka

Deo Prvi: Microlepidoptera [The Lepidoptera Fauna of Tara National Park

Part One: Microlepidoptera]

This monograph describes the microlepidoptera fauna of Tara National Park in western Serbia. UTM maps are given for all species and 134 color photos of wings of different species and 146 color photos of the genitalia are included.