Betes Sauvages [Wild Animals]

Fernand Deroussen

The discovery of the sounds of wild mammals is often complex: it is a contrast between the subtleties of a breath, a rustle, a yelp and the power of movement, an argument, a fight. Observation of mammals requires a lot knowledge acquired ...

Ethnoprimatology: Primate Conservation in the 21st Century

Michel Waller

The list of challenges facing nonhuman primates in the 21st century is a long one. The expansion of palm oil plantations to feed a growing consumer class is eating away at ape and monkey habitats in Southeast Asia and Central Africa.

Grizzly: The Bears of Greater Yellowstone

Grizzly 399 and Her Family of Pilgrim Creek

Thomas D Mangelsen, Todd Wilkinson and Ted Turner

Renowned photographer Thomas D. Mangelsen s latest project focuses on a celebrated Yellowstone grizzly bear family, which he has been tracking and photographing for ten years. The grizzly bears of Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Park ...

Handbook of the Mammals of the World, Volume 6: Lagomorphs and Rodents

Don E Wilson, Jr.,Thomas E Lacher, Russell A Mittermeier and Toni Llobet

Rats and mice and their relatives in the order Rodentia make up almost half of the species of mammals. Because of this, Lynx polled their readers and the overwhelming positive response was to produce two volumes treating Rodents.

Handbook of the Mammals of the World, Volumes 1 to 6

Don E Wilson and Russell A Mittermeier

This is a set of the first six volumes in the Handbook of the Mammals of the World Series.

Horses in Society

A Story of Animal Breeding and Marketing Culture, 1800-1920

Margaret E Derry

Before crude oil and the combustion engine, the industrialized world relied on a different kind of power – the power of the horse. Horses in Society is the story of horse production in the United States, Britain, and Canada ...

La Voix des Loups [The Voices of Wolves]

Fernand Deroussen

This CD is devoted entirely to the vocalizations of wolves and has been produced in partnership with the Parc du Gévaudan, a near-wild habitat for wolves in southern France.

Primatas do Brasil: Guia de Campo [Primate of Brazil: Field Guide]

Nelio Roberto dos Reis, Adriano Lucio Peracchi, Carolina Blefari Batista and Gabriel Medina Rosa

This is a field guide to Brazilian’s primates – and the only in Portuguese that describes the 116 existing species in Brazil, including the newly describes Callicebus miltoni. All of the species are presented with ...

The Ecology of Large Herbivores in South and Southeast Asia

Farshid Ahrestani and Mahesh Sankaran

Large terrestrial mammalian herbivores play critical roles in ecosystems by acting as regulators of energy and nutrient cycles, modulators of plant community composition and grassland-woodland transitions, agents of seed dispersal, and ...

The Mammals of Texas

David J Schmidly and Robert D Bradley

The Mammals of Texas has been the standard reference since the first edition was coauthored by William B. Davis and Walter P. Taylor in 1947. Revised several times over the succeeding decades, it remains the most authoritative ...

The Pipestone Wolves

The Rise and Fall of a Wolf Family

Gunther Bloch, John E Marriott and Mike Gibeau

In the winter of 2008–09, a new wolf family from the Pipestone Valley suddenly appeared in the Bow Valley of Banff National Park, taking up residence alongside a family that had ruled there for over a decade. Within a year, these ...

The Water Vole

The Story of One of Britain's Most Endangered Mammals

Christine Gregory and Chris Packham

The water vole is one of Britain's most endangered mammals. A native of the British Isles, and popularised in modern culture as 'Ratty' in Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows, the water vole is a cherished ...

Whales & Nations

Environmental Diplomacy on the High Seas

Kurkpatrick Dorsey and William Cronon

Before commercial whaling was outlawed in the 1980s, diplomats, scientists, bureaucrats, environmentalists, and sometimes even whalers themselves had attempted to create an international regulatory framework that would allow for a sustainable ...

Wolf Empire

An Intimate Portrait of A Species

Scott Ian Barry

Now in paperback, from award-winning photographer Scott Ian Barry comes Wolf Empire – the most comprehensive and stunning visual record of wolves ever published in black-and-white photography. Barry's photographs show ...

Beaks, Bones, and Bird Songs

How the Struggle for Survival Has Shaped Birds and Their Behavior

Roger J Lederer

When we see a bird flying from branch to branch happily chirping, it is easy to imagine they lead a simple life of freedom, flight, and feathers. What we don't see is the arduous, life-threatening challenges they face at every moment ...

Bird Voices from French Guyana / Chants d'Oiseaux de Guyane (3CD)

Alexandre Renaudier and Fernand Deroussen

For the first time, sounds of 230 bird species found in French Guiana were brought together (almost 4 hours of listening!). These sounds have been recorded by members of the GEPOG (Groupe d'Etude et de Protection des Oiseaux en Guyane ...

Birds Recorded During a Study in Himachal Pradesh

Diljeet Singh

Birds Recorded During a Study in Himachal Pradesh is based on the field work carried out by the author on the occurrence and distribution of birds in Himachal Pradesh during June 2007 to May 2012. It illustrates 308 species belong ...

Birds of Vieques Island Puerto Rico

Status, Abundance, and Conservation

Daphne deJersey Gemmill

This is a special issue of the Journal of Caribbean Ornithology. This study describes the 174 documented wild bird species on Vieques Island, Puerto Rico – the birds' status, abundance, habitat preference ...

Birds of the Wet Tropics of Queensland and Great Barrier Reef and Where to Find Them

Lloyd Nielsen

This comprehensive field guide covers two World Heritage areas. It is based on the concept of identifying birds by colour, habits or habitat. Every bird is accurately illustrated by the author and includes the status and range of all ...

Chouettes et Hiboux de France et d'Europe [Owls of France and Europe]

Fernand Deroussen

This CD presents the calls of all species of owls in France and Europe in 13 tracks. It was produced in partnership with the French league for the protection of nirds and the Federation of Natural Parks (Fédération des Parcs ...

Conservacion Colombiana 20: El Estado de las Aves en Colombia: Evaluando las Prioridades de Conservacion y Proteccion

[State of the Birds in Colombia: Assessing Priorities for Conservation and Protection of the Avifauna of Colombia]

Fundacion ProAves

This special issue of Conservación Colombiana presents an interim report of the conservation status of the Colombian avifauna. It is divided in four sections and deals with the current status of the avifauna of the country according ...

Die Vogelwelt des Nationalparks Unteres Odertal [The Avifauna of Lower Oder Valley National Park]

Winfried Dittberner

The Lower Oder Valley, on the border with Poland in the German state of Brandenburg, is one of the most bird species-rich areas of Germany. In the National Park alone 293 species have been recorded so far; 160 species belong are regular ...

Dutch Birding, Volume 38(1): Identification of the Larus canus Complex

Peter Adriaens and Chris Gibbins

The paper Identification of the Larus canus Complex by Peter Adriaens and Chris Gibbins is published as a special issue of Dutch Birding; the paper is groundbreaking as it treats the entire Mew Gull Larus canus ...

Flight Paths

A Field Journal of Hope, Heartbreak, and Miracles with New York's Bird People

Darryl McGrath

In the late 1970s, the bald eagle and the peregrine falcon were heading toward extinction, victims of the combined threats of DDT, habitat loss, and lax regulation. Flight Paths tells the story of how a small group of New York ...

Gulls of the World

A Photographic Guide

Klaus Malling Olsen

Until recently, gulls were a group that inspired dread among birders, due to the bewildering variety of plumages, age-groups, and races, many of which are very difficult indeed to separate, even to species. Things changed in 2003 with the ...

Hawk Mountain

A Conservation Success Story

James J Brett, Keith L Bildstein, Pete Dunne and Julie Zickefoose

This new book is an expanded and fully updated version of Jim Brett's The Mountain and The Migration, and combines the inspirational story of Hawk Mountain, a wild bird sanctuary in eastern Pennsylvania, with important new information ...

Lapwings, Loons and Lousy Jacks

The How and Why of Bird Names

Ray Reedman

The Lapwing once had many regional names; the Loon has a British–American identity crisis and the respectable-sounding Apostlebird is often called a Lousy Jack. Why do bird names, both common and scientific, change over time and why ...

Oiseaux de France: Les Passereaux (5CD) [Birds of France: The Passerines]

Fernand Deroussen and Frederic Jiguet

The Audio Library of the Paris Museum of Natural History presents this reference case, edited by Fernand Deroussen and Frederic Jiguet. - 5 CDs of approximately 70 minutes each, each in a cardboard sleeve. - 148 passerine species ...

Oiseaux des Forets de France (2CD) [Forest Birds of France]

Fernand Deroussen and Herve Millancourt

This 2CD set presents the songs of 72 bird species typically found in the forests of France. Includes a beautifully illustrated booklet. The discs are not announced.

Oiseaux des Jardins de France [Garden Birds of France]

Fernand Deroussen

This commentated audio guide allows one to easily discover and memorize songs of common garden birds in France. With the commentary presented with each song, memorizing bird songs becomes simple. A total of 66 species are included.

Peregrine Spring

A Master Falconer's Extraordinary Life with Birds of Prey

Nancy Cowan, Sy Montgomery and Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

Peregrine Spring, Nancy Cowan's memoir of her thirty years living intimately with raptors, gives us a new perspective on the relationship between humans and the natural world. Cowan shares her experiences running a world-famous ...

Polevoi Fotoopredelitel' Vsekh Vidov Ptits Evropeiskoi Chasti Rossii, Kniga 1 [Photographic Field Guide of all the Bird

Mikhail Vladimirovich Kaliagin

This photographic field guide to the birds of the European part of Russia, published in three parts, is a unique guide with descriptions and photos of all species of birds, as well as seasonal and age plumages shown for each.

Polevoi Fotoopredelitel' Vsekh Vidov Ptits Evropeiskoi Chasti Rossii, Kniga 2 [Photographic Field Guide of all the Bird

Mikhail Vladimirovich Kaliagin

This photographic field guide to the birds of the European part of Russia, published in three parts, is a unique guide with descriptions and photos of all species of birds, as well as seasonal and age plumages shown for each.

Polevoi Fotoopredelitel' Vsekh Vidov Ptits Evropeiskoi Chasti Rossii, Kniga 3 [Photographic Field Guide of all the Bird

Mikhail Vladimirovich Kaliagin

This photographic field guide to the birds of the European part of Russia, published in three parts, is a unique guide with descriptions and photos of all species of birds, as well as seasonal and age plumages shown for each.

Polygyny and Sexual Selection in Red-Winged Blackbirds

William A Searcy and Ken Yasukawa

A reprint of a classical work in the Princeton Legacy Library, originally published in 1995. The purpose of Polygyny and Sexual Selection in Red-Winged Blackbirds is to explain why red-winged blackbirds are polygynous ...

Popular Birds of Mizoram

H Lalthanzara and Raju Kasambe

Popular Birds of Mizoram covers 208 bird species belonging to 53 families which are popular among the Mizo people in Northeast India, either in the past or in the present. Identification characters are given for a few selected species.

Sketching & Illustrating Birds

Professional Drawing Class

Juan M Varela Simo

Have you ever been walking in the woods, or looking out your window, when you suddenly spotted a beautiful bird? Whether you're an artist, scientist, bird enthusiast, or student, you'll love learning how to portray all kinds of ...

Stepnye Ptitsy Severnogo Kavkaza i Sopredel'nykh Regionov: Izuchenie, Ispol'zovanie, Okhrana: Materialy Mezhdunarodnoi K

[Steppe Birds of the Northern Caucasus and Adjacent Areas: Research, Employment, Protection: Proceedings of the Internat

VP Belik

These proceedings collect 25 papers presented at an international conference on the steppe birds of the North Caucasus. Subjects deal with general issues affecting the study and conservation of steppe birds, the current state of their ...

The Birds of Exmoor and the Quantocks

David K Ballance, Brian Gibbs, Roger Butcher, Tom Raven and Brian Slade

This is the second edition of a work by the �rst two authors, published in 2002. It has been largely re-written, so as to include records of 300 species, results from recent surveys and county Atlases, and commentary from 2001 to the ...

The Feathered Tribes of Van Diemen's Land

Sarah Lloyd and Sally Bryant

This book is not just about Tasmania's birds. It draws on knowledge gained through the author's extensive field work, her interest in bird song and her passion for the continuing survival of birds and their habitats wherever they ...

The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Birds of Britain, Europe and Africa

A Comprehensive Visual Guide and Identifier to Over 550 Birds

David Alderton

The habitats of Great Britain, Europe and Africa boast some of the most interesting and adaptable members of the avian world. This accessible and fully illustrated guide presents some of the rare and familiar species of these lands.

The Joy of Birding

A Beginner's Guide

Kate Rowinski

More than 50 million birders can't be wrong. No matter where you live in the USA, you have the joy of hearing and seeing birds. This easy-to-use, full-color guide, which is US-focused, provides you with the answers. Here you'll ...

Vogelwelt Schleswig-Holsteins, Band 7: Zweiter Brutvogelatlas [Avifauna of Schleswig-Holstein, Volume 7: Second Breeding

Bernd Koop and Rolf K Berndt

In the second breeding bird atlas the results of mapping efforts during the years 2005-2009, which were carried out for the national Atlas Deutscher Brutvogelarten, are evaluated in detail at the level of the province of Schleswig-Holstein.

Was Fliegt denn da?: Alle Vogelarten Europas Sicher Bestimmen [What's Flying There? Identifying All European Bird Specie

Peter H Barthel and Paschalis Dougalis

Identifying birds with the number one guide in Germany: this fourth edition allows you to easily and correctly identify 540 European bird species (up from 520 in the third edition) with over 1800 colour illustrations. Thanks to the KOSMOS ...

Was Fliegt denn da?: Der Fotoband ô 346 Vogelarten Europas [What's Flying There?: The Photo Guide ô 346 European Bir

Detlef Singer

Identify birds with the number one guide in Germany: 346 European bird species can be identified easily and reliably with more than 1,400 photos and drawings. Thanks to the proven KOSMOS colour codes you will quickly find your way around ...

Where Song Began

Australia's Birds and How They Changed the World

Tim Low

Renowned for its unusual mammals, Australia is a land of birds that are just as unusual, a result of the continent's tens of millions of years of isolation. Compared with birds elsewhere, ours are more likely to be intelligent, aggressive ...

A Field Guide on Amphibians of Himachal Pradesh

Indu Sharma and Kaushik Deuti

The amphibian fauna of Himachal Pradesh, India, comprises of 17 species in 10 genera and 4 families. Sixteen of those species are described here, with two species, Amolops afganus and Bufo andersonii, not included as ...

Amphibiens Chanteurs de France, de Suisse et du Benelux [Calls of the Amphibians of France, Switzerland, and the Benelux

Fernand Deroussen

This CD contains 26 recordings of the calls of all frog and toad species found in France, Switzerland and the Benelux. Tracks include a French commentary.

Chants des Grenouilles, Rainettes et Crapauds [Calls of Frogs, Tree Frogs and Toads]

Fernand Deroussen, Marc Namblard, Jean Chevallier, Jacques Coatmeur and Vincent Fradet

- This audio guide, without commentary, to the amphibians of France presents the calls of 22 species of frogs, toads and tree frogs recorded in nature. Several recordings and examples are present for each species, evoking the diversity of ...

Reptiles and Amphibians of the Mojave Desert

A Field Guide

Joshua M Parker and Simone Brito

Focusing on the 64 species of reptiles and amphibians found in the Mojave Desert, this concise field guide uses hundreds of intimate photographs, gorgeous range maps, and concise, at-a-glance information to make identification easy while ...

Studies on the Herpetofauna of Loktak Lake, Keibul Lamjao National Park and its Adjoining Areas, Manipur

Asem Bipin Meetei, Jennifer Lyngdoh, Nibedita Sen and Bhaskar Saikia

This publication reports on the herpetofauna of Loktak Lake, Keibul Lamjao National Park and its adjoining areas, Manipur, India.

The Map Turtle and Sawback Atlas

Ecology, Evolution, Distribution, and Conservation

Peter V Lindeman and Anders GJ Rhodin

Covering all facets of the biology of a little-known genus, Peter V. Lindeman's lavishly illustrated The Map Turtle and Sawback Atlas is both a scientific treatise and an engaging introduction to a striking group of turtles.

Turtles of Alabama

Craig Guyer, Mark A Bailey and Robert H Mount

For nearly 200 million years, Earth has been occupied by reptiles – a lineage of terrestrial vertebrates that includes some, like birds, that have invaded the aerial environment, and others, like turtles, that have invaded aquatic ...

An Annotated Checklist of the Snappers (Pisces: Perciformes: Lutjanidae) of India

RP Barman and SS Mishra

The present work is aimed at bringing together all related literature pertaining to the snappers of Indian waters. Although there are few fisheries-related publications, most of the works are systematic papers or books. Attempts have been ...

Atlas of Fishes of China [Chinese]

Li Linchun

The Atlas of Fishes of China is divided into two sections, covering bony and cartilaginous fish, and includes more than 600 species of Chinese fish. For each species names, distribution, morphological description, notes on ecology ...

Fish4knowledge: Collecting and Analyzing Massive Coral Reef Fish Video Data

Robert B Fisher, Yun-Heh Chen-Burger, Daniela Giordano, Lynda Hardman and Fang-Pang Lin

This book gives a start-to-finish overview of the whole Fish4Knowledge project, in 18 short chapters, each describing one aspect of the project. The Fish4Knowledge project explored the possibilities of big video data, in this case from ...

Ichthyofauna of the Inland Water Bodies of Pondicherry Karaikal, Yanam and Mahe

K Rema Devi

The present report details the fish collections made by the ZSI team during 1991, 1992, 1994 and 1995. The tours to Pondicherry and Karaikal were headed by Dr. K.V. Lakshminarayana, Dr. K. Ramachandra Rao and Dr. Mary Bai and the tours ...

Made of Salmon

Alaska Stories from the Salmon Project

Nancy Lord

All over the world, salmon populations are in trouble, as overfishing and habitat loss have combined to put the once-great Atlantic and Pacific Northwest runs at serious risk. Alaska, however, stands out as a rare success story: its salmon ...

Poissons: Les Voix des Oceans [Fish: The Voices of the Ocean]

Jean-Paul Lagardere

This novel CD, which includes a commentary, features recordings of 16 vocalisations emitted by fish living in the world's oceans, recorded by experts liaised with respectively the CNRS (the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) ...

Australian Longhorn Beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae), Volume 2

Subfamily Cerambycinae

Stanislaw Adam Slipinski and Hermes E Escalona

Longhorn Beetles – Cerambycidae are one of the most easily recognised groups of beetles, a family that worldwide encompasses over 33,000 species in 5,200 genera. With over 1,400 species classified in 300 genera, this is the sixth ...

Biology and Ecology of Aphids

Andreas Vilcinskas

Most people know of aphids as garden pests, infesting the soft green tissues of plants in vast numbers and killing them by sucking out the sap. Indeed, among the 4000 or so known species of aphids about 250 are pests, and in temperate ...

Bird-Dropping Tortrix Moths of the British Isles

A Field Guide to the Bird-Dropping Mimics

Jon Clifton and Jim Wheeler

A comprehensive new field guide to the bird-dropping Tortrix moths of Great Britain and Ireland. Written by Jon Clifton and Jim Wheeler, Bird-Dropping Tortrix Moths of the British Isles shows classic examples of ...

Cahiers de Biologie Marine, Volume 54(4): Special Issue 14th International Echinoderm Conference

This special issue of the journal Cahiers de Biologie Marine contains the proceedings of the 14th International Echinoderm Conference which was organised in Brussels, Belgium, 20–24 August 2012. See the table of contents for more ...

Chants des Sauterelles de France [Calls of the Locusts of France]

Fernand Deroussen, Marc Namblard, Olivier Namblard, Quentin Delorme and Baudewijn Ode

- This is an audio guide, without commentary, to the grasshoppers (superfamily Tettigonioidea) of France, and presents the songs of 55 species of locusts, crickets, and katydids recorded directly in nature. - Multiple recording and ...

Cigales de France [Cicadas of France]

Fernand Deroussen, Jerome Sueur and Stephane Puissant

The Audio Library of the Paris Museum of Natural History presents this reference case to the cicadas of France. One of the great features of the cicadas is of course their songs and this disc contains 74 recordings of 20 species of French ...

Cle d'Identification des Principales Familles d'Insectes d'Europe [Identification Keys to the Principal Insect Families

Jacques Mignon, Eric Haubruge and Frederic Francis

Some insects are recognizable at glance or simply by comparison with a quality illustration. Unfortunately, these are exceptions, and the study of insects is often complicated by the need to use a loupe and mastering a specific vocabulary ...

De Loopkevers van Nederland en Belgie (Carabidae) [The Ground Beetles of the Netherlands and Belgium]

Jan Muilwijk, Ron Felix, Wouter Dekoninck and Ortwin Bleich

The main purpose of this publication is to provide an illustrated practical identification key to the 408 carabid beetle species inhabiting the Netherlands (376 species) and Belgium (406 species). Both present and extirpated species are ...

Die Libellen Schleswig-Holsteins [The Dragonflies of Schleswig-Holstein]

Arbeitskreis Libellen in der Faunistisch-Oekologischen Arbeitsgemeinschaft e. V.

Dragonflies have been flying around the Earth for 300 million years already, and at the time they reached wingspans of about 70 centimeters. While many other animal species have become extinct over the course of time, the iridescent insect ...

Explore the Deadly World of Bugs, Snakes, Spiders, Crocodiles

And Hundreds of Other Amazing Reptiles and Insects

Barbara Taylor, John Farndon, Jen Green and Mark O'Shea

This exciting and comprehensive guide captures the enthralling world of reptiles and insects from all over the globe. From poisonous snakes and fearsome alligators to delicate butterflies and industrious honey bees, you'll discover amazing facts.

Icones Insectorum Europae Centralis: Coleoptera: Staphylinidae, Omaliinae [English / Czech]

Jaroslav Bohac

This issue deals with the species of the beetle family Omaliinae. A key to identification of central European species is given.

Infested: How the Bed Bug Infiltrated Our Bedrooms and Took Over the World

Brooke Borel

Bed bugs. Few words strike such fear in the minds of travelers. In cities around the world, lurking beneath the plush blankets of otherwise pristine-looking hotel beds are tiny bloodthirsty beasts just waiting for weary wanderers to ...

Management of Insect Pests to Agriculture

Lessons Learned from Deciphering Their Genome, Transcriptome and Proteome

Henryk Czosnek and Murad Ghanim

Thanks to the application of new technologies such as whole-genome sequencing, analysis of transcriptome and proteome of insect pest to agriculture, great progress has been made in understanding the life style, reproduction, evolution ...

Mexico Butterflies: Quintana Roo, Yucatan, Campeche [English / Spanish]

Jannah Brown and Enrique Leal C

A laminated fold-out field guide to the butterflies of the Mexican states of Quintana Roo, Yucátan, and Campeche. For each butterfly, English, Spanish and scientific names are given, as well as wingspan in centimetres. When folded ...

Mieren van de Benelux [Ants of the Benelux]

Peter Boer

Second updated edition, with several additional species. Includes all the species found in the Netherlands as well as 38 species from neighbouring areas that could be found in the Netherlands. Species descriptions include information on ...

Miniature Lives

Identifying Insects in Your Home and Garden

Michelle Gleeson

We can't avoid insects. They scurry past us in the kitchen, pop up in our gardens, or are presented to us in jars by inquisitive children. Despite encountering them on a daily basis, most people don't know an aphid from an ...

Revision of Genus Paraphytoseius Swirski and Schechter, 1961 (Acari: Phytoseiidae)

Vikram Prasad

Mites of the family Phytoseiidae are important predators to many plant feeding mites and insects throughout the world. Therefore, their correct identification is important. This extensive 503-page reference book, completed after four years ...

Seashells of the Kenya Coast

Oliver Fowler

Seashells of the Kenya Coast is a guide to the marine mollusks of Kenya. The Kenyan shells have not previously been well-documented. 932 species and subspecies are described, of which 914 are illustrated with images of 948 species ...

The Dragonfly-Friendly Gardener

Ruary Mackenzie Dodds

With stunning colours and phenomenal flying abilities, dragonflies are extraordinarily beautiful – and vital to our eco-system. Ruary Mackenzie Dodds, Britain's leading dragonfly expert, offers top tips on how to attract these ...

The Moths of Gaoligong Mountains (Insecta: Lepidoptera) [Chinese]

Yang Pingzhi

The Moths of Gaoligong Mountains (Insecta: Lepidoptera) is an illustrated handbook that describes moths belonging to the now obsolete group of the Phalaenae. It covers 1005 species, 13 subgenera, 536 genera, 12 tribes, 52 subfamilies ...

Type Catalogue of Darkling Beetles (Tenebrionidae) Preserved in the Hungarian Natural History Museum

Otto Merkl

With nearly 20,000 known species, the darkling beetles (Tenebrionidae) form one of the largest families within the order of beetles (Coleoptera). The Hungarian Natural History Museum in Budapest houses one of the largest and most complete ...

Verbreitungsatlas der Libellen Mecklenburg-Vorpommerns [Distribution Atlas of Dragonflies of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern]

Andre Bonsel and Michael Frank

This distribution atlas of the dragonflies of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, a federated state in northern Germany, gives the current distribution situation for each of the previously verified 63 dragonfly species, and indicates the respective ...

Vazky (Insecta: Odonata) Ceske Republiky [Dragonflies of the Czech Republic]

Ales Dolny, Filip Harabis and Dan Barta

Dragonflies appeared on Earth about 300 million years ago, and stand out in having a number of unique features. Due to the relatively low number of species they are among the best-studied insect group with regards to their taxonomy, ecology ...

Dinosaur Tracks

The Next Steps

Peter L Falkingham, Daniel Marty and Annette Richter

The latest advances in dinosaur ichnology are showcased in this comprehensive and timely volume, in which leading researchers and research groups cover the most essential topics in the study of dinosaur tracks. Some assess and demonstrate ...

Diversity of Late Palaeozoic Terrestrial Ecosystems, Part 2

In Honour of Manfred Barthel's 80th birthday

Stefan Schultka

This volume contains the following four contributions: - The generic taxonomy of Pennsylvanian age marattialean fern frond adpressions; Cleal, Christopher J., p. 1-21 - A new look at Lepidodendron ophiurus ...

Malacofauna Pliocenica Toscana, Volume 10: Bivalvia: Pteriomorphia Beurlen, 1894 [Italian]

Carlo Chirli and Enrico Ulivi

The introduction presents the internal characteristics and the hinge detail of some species of the Order Arcoida, Limoida, Mytiloida, Pectinida and Pterioida. Volume 10 describes 69 fossil shell species included in the Superorder ...

Malacofauna Pliocenica Toscana, Volume 11: Bivalvia: Pteriomorphia Beurlen, 1894 [Italian]

Carlo Chirli and Enrico Ulivi

The introduction presents the internal characteristics and the hinge detail of some species of the Anomalodesmata with Pandora inaequivalvis; Carditoida with Astarte fusca, Cardita calyculata, and ...

Malacofauna Pliocenica Toscana, Volume 2: Superfamiglia Muricoidea [Italian]

Carlo Chirli and Enrico Ulivi

Volume 2 describes 132 fossil shell species, including 39 species of Muricidae, 4 species of Coralliophilidae, 4 species of Thaididae, 72 species of Buccinidae and 13 species of Fasciolaridae. Every species is accompanied by the original ...

Malacofauna Pliocenica Toscana, Volume 5: Caenogastropoda [Italian]

Carlo Chirli, Enrico Ulivi and Stefano Caporali

Volume 5 describes 117 fossil shell species from the superfamily Caenogastropoda. Every species is accompanied by the original name and the book’s title where the author described it. This is followed by a large bibliography ...

Malacofauna Pliocenica Toscana, Volume 6: Neotaenioglossa [Italian]

Carlo Chirli and Enrico Ulivi

Volume 6 describes 76 fossil shell species, with one new species: Trivia danconae. Every species is accompanied by the original name and the book’s title where the author described it. This is followed by a large ...

Malacofauna Pliocenica Toscana, Volume 7: Ptenoglossa [Italian]

Carlo Chirli, Enrico Ulivi and Stefano Caporali

Volume 7 describes 65 fossil shell species in the following families: Cerithiopsidae with 4 genera and 12 species, Triforidae with 4 genera and 6 species, Epitonidae with 11 genera and 32 species, Eulimidae with 7 genera and 16 species.

Malacofauna Pliocenica Toscana, Volume 8: Pyramidellidae [Italian]

Carlo Chirli, Enrico Ulivi and Stefano Caporali

Volume 8 describes 110 fossil shell species in the family Pyramidellidae, in the following genera: Pyramidella (2 species), Bacteridium (1 species), Eulimella (11 species), Chrysallida (30 species) ...

Malacofauna Pliocenica Toscana, Volume 9: Gastropoda fine, Scaphopoda [Italian]

Carlo Chirli and Enrico Ulivi

Volume 9 describes 73 fossil shell species and is the final part dealing with the Gastropoda, as well as treating the Scaphopoda. Species of the following families are included: Pyramidella (2 species), Omalogiridae (2 species) ...

Neanderthals Among Mammoths

Excavations at Lynford Quarry, Norfolk

William A Boismier, Clive Gamble and Fiona Coward

In spring 2002 mammoth bones and associated Mousterian stone tools were found in situ at Lynford Quarry, near Munford village, Norfolk, UK. The finds were within the organic sediments of a palaeochannel. Excavation was undertaken with ...

Palaeovertebrata Sinica, Volume 3: Basal Synapsids and Mammals, Fascicle 2 (Serial no. 15): Primitive Mammals [Chinese]

Meng Jin

This volume includes an introduction to primitive mammals and mammalian systems in two parts. The introductory part includes the basic framework that defines a mammal, the general morphology, phylogeny and classification, geographical ...

Retrograde Evolution During Major Extinction Crises

Jean Guex

Retrograde Evolution During Major Extinction Crises is the first of its kind, providing in-depth analysis of the retrograde evolution occurring during major extinction periods. The text offers a non-strictly adaptative explanation ...

The Early Cambrian Tommotiid Genus 'Dailyatia' from South Australia

Christian B Skovsted, Marissa J Betts, Timothy P Topper and Glenn A Brock

The camenellan tommotiid 'Dailyatia' is one of the most common fossils in shallow water carbonates from Cambrian Stages 2-4 in South Australia (Arrowie and Stansbury basins). Six species of Dailyatia are documented ...

The Pleistocene Gastropods of Rhodes Island (Greece)

Carlo Chirli, Ulrich Linse and Enrico Ulivi

This volume examines 388 species, 7 of which are new to science. The book includes an extensive introduction dealing with the history of fossil research on Rhodes Island in the South Aegean region, a map of the studies localitie ...

Coral Reefs at the Crossroads

Dennis K Hubbard, Caroline S Rogers, Jere H Lipps and Jr.,George D Stanley

In Coral Reefs at the Crossroads, contributors from diverse backgrounds take a first step toward an integrated view of reefs and the significance of their recent decline. More than any other earth system, coral reefs sit at a ...

Fauna of Budhabalanga Estuary, Balasore District, Odisha (w.s.r. to Fishes and Crustaceans)

DV Rao, Laishram Kosygin and Shibananda Rath

The estuarine systems of Mahanadi, Brahmani, Baitarani, Subarnarekha, Rushikulya, Bhdhabalang etc. in the Indian state of Odisha are extensive and support a rich aquatic biodiversity in addition to providing many ecological services.

Fauna of Cauvery Estuarine system, Tamil Nadu (w.s.r. to Ichthyofauna and Crustaceans)

Laishram Kosygin, DV Rao and Shibananda Rath

The Cauvery river is one of the major rivers of India, and perhaps, physically the most remarkable river of the Peninsula. The river originates at Talakaveri, Kodagu district of Karnataka in the Western Ghats and flows generally south east ...

Introduction to the Biology of Marine Life

John F Morrissey, James L Sumich and Deanna R Pinkard-Meier

Written in a conversational tone, the Eleventh Edition of Introduction to the Biology of Marine Life, continues to provide students with a clear and engaging introduction into the exciting world of marine organisms and the ...

Laboratory and Field Investigations in Marine Life

Virginia Dudley and Gordon Dudley

This unique marine biology laboratory and field manual engages students in the excitement and challenges of understanding marine organisms and the environments in which they live. The laboratory and field activities are designed to encourage ...

Marine Wildlife King George Island Antarctica

Identification Guide

Dirk Schories and Gesche Kohlberg

Over five years of diving and boat operations in shallow Antarctic waters, the authors have collected thousands of photographs and have taken hundreds of taxonomic samples from the seafloor and along the coast. The image collection was ...

A Garden Eden: Masterpieces of Botanical Illustration [English / French / German]

Hans Walter Lack

In pursuit of both knowledge and delight, the craft of botanical illustration has always required not only meticulous draftsmanship but also a rigorous scientific understanding. This fresh TASCHEN edition celebrates the botanical tradition ...

A River in Time

The Story of a Peak District River

Christine Gregory and Chris Smith

A River in Time is a written and photographic celebration of a limestone river in the Derbyshire Dales. The River Bradford, while only four miles long, has shaped the communities that depended on it over centuries. The river ...

American Serengeti

The Last Big Animals of the Great Plains

Dan E Flores

America's Great Plains once possessed one of the grandest wildlife spectacles of the world, equaled only by such places as the Serengeti, the Masai Mara, or the veld of South Africa. Pronghorn antelope, gray wolves, bison, coyotes ...

Animal Kingdom

Stereoscopic Images of Natural History

Jim Naughten

Drawn from the archives of some of the world's finest museums, this collection of historic specimens, photographed for stereoscopic viewing, brings the natural world to life in thrilling and beautiful ways. Published in association ...

Born to Be Wild

Hundreds of Free Nature Activities for Families

Hattie Garlick and Nancy Honey

Want to save cash, your child's imagination and possibly even the planet? This is the book you need. Packed with great photos of real families in the outdoors, Born to Be Wild contains easy-to-follow instructions ...

Brief Candle in the Dark

My Life in Science

Richard Dawkins

In Brief Candle in the Dark Dawkins continues his autobiography, following the threads that have run through the second half of his life so far and homing in on the key individuals, institutions and ideas that inspired and motivated him.

Darwin's Man in Brazil

The Evolving Science of Fritz Muller

David A West

Fritz Müller (1821-1897), though not as well known as his colleague Charles Darwin, belongs in the cohort of great nineteenth-century naturalists. In Darwin's Man in Brazil, David A. West recovers Müller's legacy ...

Dream Island

Ronald M Lockley and Amy Liptrot

In 1927, Ronald Lockley took a 21 year lease on the small island of Skokholm, just off the Pembrokeshire coast in South Wales. A keen ornithologist, he began studies of the bird life on the island, and on neighbouring Skomer, famous today ...

Forests Are Gold

Trees, People, and Environmental Rule in Vietnam

Pamela D McElwee

Forests Are Gold examines the management of Vietnam's forests during the twentieth century – from French colonial rule to the recent transition to market-oriented socialism – as the country united, prospered, and ...

From Man to Ape

Darwinism in Argentina, 1870-1920

Adriana Novoa and Alex Levine

Upon its publication, On the Origin of Species was critically embraced in Europe and North America. But how did Darwin's theories fare in other regions of the world? Adriana Novoa and Alex Levine offer here a history and interpretation of the ...

How to Read Water

Clues, Signs & Patterns from Puddles to the Sea

Tristan Gooley

A must-have book for walkers, sailors, swimmers, anglers and everyone interested in the natural world, in How to Read Water, Natural Navigator Tristan Gooley shares knowledge, skills, tips and useful observations to help you enjoy ...

Migrations: Wildlife in Motion

Art Wolfe and Barbara Sleeper

Inspired by the imaginative spatial designs of Dutch artist M.C. Escher, photographer Art Wolfe traveled the globe in search of similar patterns in nature. The result is a book of remarkable wildlife images that captures both the beauty ...

Natural History Drawings

The Complete William Farquhar Collection Malay Peninusla 1803-1818

John Bastin and Chong Guan Kwa

This is a wonderfully illustrated and evocative look at the natural history of the Malay Peninsula. Now for the first time, all 477 drawings of the flora and fauna of the Malay Peninsula commissioned by Colonel William Farquhar during his ...

Naturalists, Explorers and Field Scientists in South-East Asia and Australasia

Indraneil Das and Andrew Alek Tuen

"Alfred Russel Wallace – His Predecessors and Successors. Naturalists, Explorers and Field Scientists in South-east Asia and Australasia. An International Conference" will be the premier forum for the presentation of ...

Outdoor Photographer of the Year, Volume 1

Ammonite Press

Outdoor Photographer of the Year, Portfolio 1 is a stunning collection of the winning, commended and shortlisted photographs from the 2015 competition. Among a sea of excellent images, these are the photographs that exhibit that ...

Penguins and Other Sea Birds

Matt Sewell

Did you know... The Galapagos Penguin's speckled markings make each of them as unique as a snowflake? The Emperor Penguin weighs the same as a Labrador retriever? The Adelie Penguin takes its name from the sweetheart of a Napoleonic ...

Photographing Wildlife in the UK

Where and How to Take Great Wildlife Photographs

Andrew J Marshall and Iolo Williams

Photographing Wildlife in the UK is a photography-location guidebook. Author and professional wildlife photographer Andrew Marshall describes 70 of the best locations for wildlife photography in the UK in this lavishly illustrated ...

Producing Predators

Wolves, Work, and Conquest in the Northern Rockies

Michael D Wise

In Producing Predators, Michael D. Wise argues that contestations between Native and non-Native people over hunting, labor, and the livestock industry drove the development of predator eradication programs in Montana and Alberta ...

Siivekkaat Ihmeet: Luonnontutkijan Perhos- ja Linturetkia Siperiassa ja Pohjois-Amerikassa [The Winged Wonders: Butte

Kauri Mikkola

Siivekkäät Ihmeet is a book about Finnish Professor Kauri Mikkola's expeditions to Siberia and North America – to taiga and mountains, the Altai steppe and spruce forests of the Baikal, the Ottawa wetlands ...

The Arid Lands

History, Power, Knowledge

Diana K Davis

Deserts are commonly imagined as barren, defiled, worthless places, wastelands in need of development. This understanding has fueled extensive anti-desertification efforts – a multimillion-dollar global campaign driven by perception ...

The Book of the Bird

The Bird in Art

Angus Hyland and Kendra Wilson

Birdscape celebrates the bird in art with an elegant, international collection of paintings, illustrations and photographs, featuring all kinds of birds from the smallest tits and wrens to colourful exotics. Interspersed though the ...

The Missouri River Journals of John James Audubon

John James Audubon and Daniel Patterson

Historians, biographers, and scholars of John James Audubon and natural history have long been mystified by Audubon's 1843 Missouri River expedition, for his journals of the trip were thought to have been destroyed by his granddaughter ...

The Naturalist on the River Amazons

Henry Walter Bates

Henry Walter Bates and his co-naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace embarked together in 1848 on an expedition to the forests of the Amazon in search of plants and animals that would help solve the problems of the origin of species.

The Social Lives of Forests

Past, Present, and Future of Woodland Resurgence

Susanna B Hecht, Kathleen D Morrison and Christine J Padoch

Forests are in decline, and the threats these outposts of nature face – including deforestation, degradation, and fragmentation – are the result of human culture. Or are they? The Social Lives of Forests calls these ...

The Wilderness Writings of Howard Zahniser

Mark WT Harvey and William Cronon

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

The Winged Wonders

Butterfly, Moth and Bird Expeditions to Siberia and North America

Kauri Mikkola

The Winged Wonders is a book about Finnish Professor Kauri Mikkola's expeditions to Siberia and North America – to taiga and mountains, the Altai steppe and spruce forests of the Baikal, the Ottawa wetlands, Colorado ...

Travels in the Interior of Africa

Mungo Park

Mungo Park set off from his home in the Scottish borders in May 1795 at the age of 23 to discover the course of the River Niger in West Africa. When he reappeared in England more than two and a half years later, he had been presumed dead ...

Trickster

Tom Moorhouse

First a rat must earn his name. Then he must live up to it. This is the story of Gabble, a young rat with a wild, beloved, but unpredictable brother, Ash. At the start of the book Ash tricks Gabble into going out with him on a ...

Villager Jim's Peak District

Landscapes - Country Lanes - Wildlife and Farm Life - Garden

Villager Jim

'The Banksy of the photography world. Jim's stunning work has been going viral across the internet but his identity has remained a secret.' – BBC Countryfile Who is Villager Jim? Nobody knows ...

Wildlife, Wild Places

Jim Beveridge

In Wildlife, Wild Places, photographer Jim Beveridge recalls many of his weird and wonderful interactions with wildlife. His tales display empathy for wild creatures and take place during his travels in Baja, Amazonas, and Belize ...

A Sky Full of Birds

In Search of Murders, Murmurations and Britain's Great Bird Gatherings

Matt Merritt

Britain is a nation of bird-lovers. However, few of us fully appreciate the sheer scale, variety and drama of our avian life. From city-centre hunters to vast flocks straight out of the Arctic wilderness, much-loved dawn songsters to the ...

Animaux Sauvages de France [Wild Animals of France]

Fernand Deroussen

This CD, which includes a commentary, contains 72 tracks and is intended as an identification guide to a range of wild animals (mammals, amphibians, and insects) found in France.

Boissiera, Volume 68: Biodiversidade da Reserva Biol gica de Pedra Talhada Alagoas, Pernambuco - Brasil [Biodiversity

Anita Studer, Louis Nusbaumer and Rodolphe E Spichiger

This volume presents an in-depth of the flora and fauna of the Pedra Talhada Biological Reserve, a biological reserve in northeastern Brazil. It includes chapters on bryophytes, fungi, lichens and higher plants, and both invertebrates ...

Crossbill Guide: Lesbos, Greece

Alex Tabak and Dirk Hilbers

The Greek island of Lesbos is a famous destination for birdwatchers and naturalists. In spring and autumn, the already impressive number of breeding birds swells with the arrival of countless migrants. Less well known but equally ...

Der Kosmos Tier und Pflanzenfuehrer [The Kosmos Guide to Animals and Plants]

Frank Hecker

The "must have" for every nature lover: open up the book and quickly identify animals with the KOSMOS colour code. Der Kosmos Tier Und Pflanzenführer allows easy identifcation of approximately 1,000 European animals ...

Exploring Wild Alabama

A Guide to the State's Publicly Accessible Natural Areas

Kenneth M Wills and LJ Davenport

Exploring Wild Alabama is an exceptionally detailed guide to the most beautiful natural destinations in the state. From the rocky outcrops of the Appalachian plateaus to the sugar-white beaches of the Gulf Coast's Orange ...

Fauna of Chandoli National Park Maharashtra

RM Sharma and KA Subramanian

Information on the diversity and distribution of faunal resources at habitat, local and regional scale is the key to biodiversity conservation. Thus, survey, collection and inventorisation of faunal resources becomes imperative to general ...

National Parks of America

Experience America's 59 National Parks

Lonely Planet Publications

Celebrate and explore all 59 of America's national parks in the centenary year of the National Parks Service with this beautifully illustrated introduction to each one. Find out what activities to do, which animals to spot, where to ...

Nepal: An Introduction to the Natural History, Ecology, and Human Environment of the Himalayas

A Companion to the Flora of Nepal

Georg Miehe and Colin A Pendry

The Himalayas are Earth's greatest mountain range. They include its highest peaks, and have profound effects on Asia's climate, biodiversity and human cultures. Nepal is a microcosm for the Himalayas and this is the ...

Rising Ground

A Search for the Spirit of Place

Philip Marsden

In 2010, Philip Marsden, whom Giles Foden has called "one of our most thoughtful travel writers", moved with his family to a rundown farmhouse in the countryside in Cornwall. From the moment he arrived, Marsden found himself ...

Scats and Tracks of the Desert Southwest

A Field Guide to the Signs of 70 Wildlife Species

James C Halfpenny and Todd Telander

Whether you're on the lookout for a kit fox, or trying to steer clear of a bear, Scats and Tracks of the Desert Southwest, by nationally reknown tracker and author Dr. James Halfpenny, helps you recognize what critters went ...

Sea of Sand

A History of Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve

Michael M Geary

Sculpted into graceful contours by countless centuries of wind and water, the Great Sand Dunes sprawl along the eastern fringes of the vast San Luis Valley of south-central Colorado. Covering an area of nearly thirty square miles, they ...

The Beginner's Guide to the Animals of Southern Africa

Lynne Matthews

This essential guide to the animals of Southern Africa has been written specifically for young outdoor enthusiasts. It is filled with fascinating facts about the extraordinary animals living in the area. Discover the amazing ...

The Last Wild Places of Kansas

Journeys into Hidden Landscapes

George Frazier

Since the last wild bison found refuge on the back of a nickel, the public image of natural Kansas has progressed from Great American Desert to dust bowl to flyover country that has been landscaped, fenced, and farmed. But look a little ...

The Wood for the Trees

One Man's Long View of Nature

Richard A Fortey

From one of our greatest science writers, this biography of a beech-and-bluebell wood through diverse moods and changing seasons combines stunning natural history with the ancient history of the countryside to tell the full story of the ...

Wild Escapades Around Central India

A Collection of Travel Stories through the Wooded Valleys of Madhya Pradesh

Malay Mandal and Ankita Roy

Wild Escapades Around Central India is a guide book on wildlife with in-depth information on 10 National Parks and Wildlife Sanctuaries in Madhya Pradesh, India. This guide book deals with first-hand travel experiences through ...

Wilderland: Wildlife and Wonder from the Shropshire Borders

Andrew Fusek Peters

Wilderland explores the extraordinary wildlife & stunning landscapes of Shropshire & the borders throughout the four seasons. With sumptuous full photographs, evocative nature writing, lyrical poetry as well as technical ...

A Monograph of Codonopsis and Allied Genera (Campanulaceae)

De-Yuan Hong

Codonopsis and its allied genera, are a group of plants which are important in economy and horticulture. A Monograph of Codonopsis and Allied Genera (Campanulaceae) offers its audience comprehensive knowledge of these ...

A la Decouverte des Orchidees d'Alsace et de Lorraine [Discovering the Orchids of Alsace and Lorraine]

Christian Dirwimmer, Damien Martinak, Herve Parmentelat and Alain Pierne

This book portrays the 55 native orchid species of Alsace and Lorraine in north-eastern France. The book opens with a historical, geographical and ecological presentation of the regions covered which is followed by a description of the ...

Beautiful Flowers of Assam

Namita Nath and Sachin Kumar Borthakur

Beautiful Flowers of Assam includes the common flower bearing plants having blossoms. Besides exotic and native ornamental plants the book covers some wild plants, which are often neglected but have potential to grow as ornamental ...

Biology of Microfungi

De-Wei Li

Biology of Microfungi book includes 24 chapters written by a group of experts in the different fields of microfungi and cover a broad range of topics on microfungi. It provides the most updated information on the latest development ...

Boissiera, Volume 69: Inventaire des Lichens du Canton de Gen ve [Inventory of Lichens of the Canton of Geneva]

Mathias Vust

The lichen inventory of the Canton of Geneva was undertaken based on three components: (a) field surveys realized between 2008 and 2013; {b) compilation of existing data and literature, and (c) search for specimens from the Canton ...

Botany: A Lab Manual

James D Mauseth

Botany: A Lab Manual, Sixth Edition is designed to provide students with a hands-on learning experience that will enhance their understanding of plant biology. It examines plant structure, plant groups, genetics, classification ...

Botany: An Introduction to Plant Biology

James D Mauseth

The sixth edition of Botany: An Introduction to Plant Biology provides a modern and comprehensive overview of the fundamentals of botany while retaining the important focus of natural selection, analysis of botanical phenomena ...

Central Park Trees and Landscapes

A Guide to New York City's Masterpiece

Edward Sibley Barnard and Neil Calvanese

This is the ultimate field guide to the trees and landscapes of Central Park, with a lively, authoritative text and over 900 color photographs, botanical plates, and extraordinarily detailed maps. Under the direction of the ...

Cryptogamica Helvetica, Volume 22: Flechten und Assoziierte Nicht Lichenisierte Pilze des Bodmerenwald-Silberen-Gebiete

[Lichens and Associated Non-Lichenized Mushrooms of the Bodmerenwald-Silberen Area in Muotatal, Canton of Schwyz (Switz

Urs Groner

Cryptogamica Helvetica publishes original work dedicated to floristics, ecology, phytosociology and systematics of cryptogams with a geographical link to Switzerland. Volume 22 describes the lichens and associated non-lichenized ...

Faunal Exploration of Sitamata Wildlife Sanctuary Rajasthan

Padma Bhora, Sanjeev Kumar and Gaurav Sharma

This volume reports on the results of faunal inventory of Sitamata Wildlife Sanctuary. This sanctuary, with an area of 42,294 ha, lies within revenue limits of Chittorgarh, Pratapgarh and Udaipur districts in the south west region of Rajasthan ...

Field Guide to the Wild Flowers of the Western Mediterranean

Chris Thorogood

Field Guide to the Wild Flowers of the Western Mediterranean is the most comprehensive and up-to-date plant identification guide to the area. The western Mediterranean is one of the most important regions in the world for its ...

Flora del Bajio y de Regiones Adyacentes, Volume 190

Familia Ranunculaceae

Mahinda Martinez

Volume 190 treats the family Ranunculaceae, a family of herbaceous annuals or perennials with circa 60 genera and 1700 species distributed worldwide.

Flora del Bajio y de Regiones Adyacentes, Volume 191

Familia Annonaceae

Andres E Ortiz-Rodriguez, Victoria Sosa and Eduardo Ruiz-Sanchez

Volume 191 treats the family Annonaceae, a family of trees and shrubs with approximately 108 genera and 2500 species worldwide.

Flora of Madeira

John R Press and MJ Short

Flora of Madeira is the first book to describe fully all of the vascular plants of the Madeiran and Salvage Islands. It covers over 1360 species of native and naturalized plants, many of them little known. A high proportion of the ...

Flora of Solapur District

SP Gaikwad and KU Garad

The Flora of Solapur District is the first comprehensive and systematic account of plant wealth of the district. It will be catering to the needs of people of district in various occupations, be it an anthropologist, agriculturist ...

Forest Trees of Kerala

A Checklist Including Exotics

N Sasidharan

Situated along the Western Ghats, one of the biodiversity hotspots in India, the state of Kerala is endowed with a luxuriant vegetation rich in species. It is estimated that there are about 4,000 species of flowering plants in the Western ...

Gingers of Cambodia, Laos & Vietnam

Jana Leong-Skornickova and Mark F Newman

The Gingers of Cambodia, Laos & Vietnam is the first guide showcasing the beauty and diversity of this economically and ecologically important plant family in these countries. Based on extensive fieldwork with local experts in Cambodia ...

Guide de la Flore des Alpes [Guide to the Flora of the Alps]

Delahaye Thierry

The alpine flora is outstanding with approximately 4500 species of flowering plants and ferns known. This guide invites you to discover a selection of easily observable plants on the French side of the Alps. For each plant, a listing ...

Guide to Foraging

Top 25 Edible Plants

Clare Cremona and Lizzie Harper

What better way to enjoy the outdoors than to go and find your own food for free? This is an essential resource to take on a family walk or for Forest Schools. The guide covers the top 25 most common and tasty plants that can be found ...

Highly Traded Medicinal and Aromatic Plants of North East India

Sujit Kumar Dutta and Binay Singh

This book highlights the business opportunities of highly traded medicinal and aromatic plants in the north eastern states of India. The book covers five north eastern states: Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Nagaland, and Sikkim.

Himalayan Orchids

Distribution and Taxonomy

Bikarma Singh

Orchids in the Himalayan belt are a hot topic since the subject came to the fore in the context of their exploration, conservation and multiplication. The present book is a part of a floristic inventory work carried out in different regions ...

Illustrated Handbook of Succulent Plants: Aizoaceae A-E

Heidrun EK Hartmann

About 15 years after the first edition of the Illustrated Handbook of Succulent Plants: Aizoaceae A-E, a wealth of changes can be reported for the family Aizoaceae, and this second edition brings a completely new survey over all ...

Mountain Flowers

Michael Scott

Britain's mountains – and the exposed sub-arctic regions of her far north – are home to a staggering range of specialist flowers, shrubs and ferns. These plants are able to thrive on our islands due to conditions unusual ...

Name Those Grasses

Identifying Grasses, Sedges and Rushes

Ian Clarke

The Grasses constitute one of the largest families of Flowering Plants, with estimates of numbers suggesting more than 12,000 species. They can scarcely be challenged as the 'most important plant family' to humanity, providing ...

Pflanzen auf Teneriffa [Plants of Tenerife]

Hermann Schmidt

This book provides an introduction to the beauty and uniqueness of the Tenerife landscape and its fauna. With many colour photos and small descriptions the reader is offered basic information and a practical key to the vegetation of the ...

PhytoKeys 59: World Checklist of Hornworts and Liverworts (2-Volume Set)

Lars Soderstrom, Anders Hagborg and Matt von Konrat

This special issue of the journal PhytoKeys contains a working checklist of accepted taxa worldwide. This is vital in achieving the goal of developing an online flora of all known plants by 2020 as part of the Global Strategy for ...

Plant Galls of India

MS Mani

Originally published in 1973, this book motivated research on the anatomy, cecidogenesis, and life history of many common galls.

Plant Systematics

A Phylogenetic Approach

Walter S Judd, Christopher S Campbell, Elizabeth A Kellogg, Peter F Stevens and Michael Donoghue

A comprehensive introduction to vascular plant phylogeny, the Fourth Edition of Plant Systematics: A Phylogenetic Approach reflects changes in the circumscription of several families in order to represent monophyletic groups ..

Plants of Northern British Columbia

Andy MacKinnon, Jim Pojar and Ray Coupe

More than 500 species of trees, shrubs, wildflowers, grasses, ferns, mosses and lichens are illustrated and described. Revised and substantially updated, this comprehensive and accessible guide to a region rich in plant life includes ...

Rhododendrons of the Subgenus Vireya

George Argent, Simon Milne and Stephen Blackmore

Vireya rhododendrons are an attractive group of plants with a greater diversity of flower form than any other group of rhododendrons. They are widely grown around the world for their beautiful and sometimes powerfully perfumed ...

Seaweed Phylogeography

Adaptation and Evolution of Seaweeds Under Environmental Change

Zi-Min Hu and Ceridwen Fraser

Seaweed Phylogeography provides an overview of research on the remarkable diversity, adaptive genetic differentiation, and evolutionary complexity of intertidal macroalgae species. Through incorporating molecular data, ecological ...

Seeds: Safeguarding Our Future

Carolyn Fry

From the magnificence of a towering redwood to the simple elegance of a tiny dandelion, seed-bearing plants abound on planet earth. The sheer diversity of plants thriving today is largely thanks to the evolution of the seed, as this made ...

Setas del Pais Valenciano [Mushrooms of Valencia]

Antoni Belda Antoli and Ana Alvarez Guinea

The aim of this book is to introduce the reader to the fascinating world of mycology, i.e. mushrooms and their environment. Inside, illustrated with many photographs, are the most representative species of Valencia, Spain, their culinary ...

Steinbachs Grosser Pflanzenfuehrer: Blumen, Straucher, Baume [Steinbach's Large Plant Guide: Flowers, Shrubs, and Tree

Bruno P Kremer

Steinbachs Großer Pflanzenführer makes identifying plants child's play. Easily and reliably recognize more than 850 flowers, shrubs and trees. Here are the most important species of Germany's flora, from the ...

Syllabus of Plant Families, Volume 1/2: Ascomycota

Walter Jaklitsch, Hans-Otto Baral, Robert Lucking, H Thorsten Lumbsch and Wolfgang Frey

Part 1/2 of Engler’s Syllabus of Plant Families – Ascomycota provides a thorough treatise of the world-wide morphological and molecular diversity of the fungal phylum Ascomycota. The Ascomycota (including ...

The Cabaret of Plants

Botany and the Imagination

Richard Mabey

We depend on plants for almost everything, whether food, oxygen, or the pleasure and relaxation provided by landscapes and gardens. And, as Richard Mabey reveals in this lyrical and highly original exploration of our relationship with plants ...

The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants, Volume 14

Flowering Plants: Eudicots - Aquifoliales, Boraginales, Bruniales, Dipsacales, Escalloniales, Garryales, Paracryphiales,

Joachim W Kadereit and Volker Bittrich

The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants, Volume 14 covers the orders Boraginales, Garryales and Solanales (except Convolvulaceae) of the Lamiids (Asterids I) as well as three unplaced families of that clade, i.e. Vahliaceae ...

The Forests of Maraca Northern Brazilian Amazonia

Structure, Phenology, Fruit Assessment and an Illustrative Field Guide to their Fruit

Antonio Rossano Mendes Pontes

This book describes the forests of Maracá Ecological Station, in the northernmost Brazilian Amazonia, with its tree diversity, forest types, from seasonally-dry to tropical rainforests, phenology, fruit productivity in the canopy ...

The Mycota, Volume 4: Environmental and Microbial Relationships

Irina S Druzhinina and Christian P Kubicek

The Mycota, Volume 4: Environmental and Microbial Relationships provides insights into current research on fungal populations, communities and their interactions with other organisms. It focuses on fungal responses to the physical ...

The New York Botanical Garden

Gregory Long, Todd Forrest and Larry Lederman

In The New York Botanical Garden, the institution's remarkable history and collections are presented in one magnificent volume. Through hundreds of beautiful photographs and reproductions of rare botanical art ...

The Phytochemical Landscape

Linking Trophic Interactions and Nutrient Dynamics

Mark D Hunter

The dazzling variation in plant chemistry is a primary mediator of trophic interactions, including herbivory, predation, parasitism, and disease. At the same time, such interactions feed back to influence spatial and temporal variation ...

The Reason for Flowers

Their History, Culture, Biology, and How They Change Our Lives

Stephen L Buchmann

Flowers, and the fruits that follow, feed, clothe, sustain, and inspire all humanity. They have done so since before recorded history. Flowers are used to celebrate all-important occasions, to express love, and are also the basis of global ...

Tree Flora of Balaghat Ranges (Ramling Hills) of Maharashtra

SP Gaikwad and RD Gore

The Tree Flora of Balaghat Ranges is the first comprehensive and systematic account of the trees of Balaghat, Maharashtra, India. It will cater to the needs of people of the region in various occupations, be it an anthropologist ...

Tropical African Flowering Plants: Ecology and Distribution, Volume 9

Orchidaceae Part 1 (Genera A-G)

Jean-Pierre Lebrun and Adelaide L Stork

After the family Asteraceae, the family Orchidaceae represents one of the two largest families of flowering plants. Its number of species currently stands at 27,732 divided over 773 genera. Note that five of the thirty largest genera of ...

Tropical Fruits and Other Edible Plants of the World

An Illustrated Guide

Rolf Blancke

Tropical fruits such as banana, mango, papaya, and pineapple are familiar and treasured staples of our diets, and consequently of great commercial importance, but there are many other interesting species that are little known to inhabitants ...

Tropical Tree Physiology

Adaptations and Responses in a Changing Environment

Guillermo Goldstein and Louis Santiago

This book presents the latest information on tropical tree physiology, making it a valuable research tool for a wide variety of researchers. It is also of general interest to ecologists, physiologists, and tropical biologists.

Governing Behavior

How Nerve Cell Dictatorships and Democracies Control Everything We Do

Ari Berkowitz

From simple reflexes to complex choreographies of movement, all animal behavior is governed by a nervous system. But what kind of government is it – a dictatorship or a democracy? Nervous systems consist of circuits of ...

The Biological Foundations of Action

Derek M Jones

Jones presents an innovative study into the role of action – as distinct from mere movement – in the natural world. He argues that an organism's behaviour must always have its roots in some form of need, but that action ...

The Hidden Half of Nature

The Microbial Roots of Life and Health

David R Montgomery and Anne Bikle

Our world is built on an invisible one we are barely beginning to understand. In The Hidden Half of Nature, geologist David R. Montgomery and biologist Anne Biklé argue that Earth's smallest creatures – microbes ...

The Inner Workings of Life

Vignettes in Systems Biology

Eberhard O Voit

Living systems are dynamic and extremely complex and their behaviour is often hard to predict by studying their individual parts. Systems biology promises to reveal and analyse these highly connected, regulated and adaptable systems, using ...

Unnatural Selection

How We are Changing Life, Gene by Gene

Emily Monosson

In a narrative style, Emily Monosson explains how humans are driving rapid contemporary evolution through the use of toxic chemicals and what we can do about it. Gonorrhoea. Bed bugs. Weeds. Salamanders. Polar Bears. People. All are evolving ...

Adaptation in Metapopulations

How Interaction Changes Evolution

Michael J Wade

All organisms live in clusters, but such fractured local populations, or demes, nonetheless maintain connectivity with one another by some amount of gene flow between them. Most such metapopulations occur naturally, like clusters of ...

Creating Language

Integrating Evolution, Acquisition, and Processing

Morten H Christiansen, Nick Chater and Peter W Culicover

Language is a hallmark of the human species; the flexibility and unbounded expressivity of our linguistic abilities is unique in the biological world. In Creating Language, Morten Christiansen and Nick Chater argue that to understand ...

Out of Eden

The Surprising Consequences of Polygamy

David P Barash

In this changing world of what is socially and politically "correct", polygamy is perhaps the last great taboo. Over the last thousand years, monogamy – at least in name – has been the default setting for coupledom ...

The Human Advantage

A New Understanding of How Our Brain Became Remarkable

Suzana Herculano-Houzel

Humans are awesome. Our brains are gigantic, seven times larger than they should be for the size of our bodies. The human brain uses 25% of all the energy the body requires each day. And it became enormous in a very short amount of time ...

The Selfish Gene

40th Anniversary Edition

Richard Dawkins

The million copy international bestseller, critically acclaimed and translated into over 25 languages. As influential today as when it was first published, The Selfish Gene has become a classic exposition of evolutionary ...

Biogeography: An Ecological and Evolutionary Approach

C Barry Cox, Peter D Moore and Richard J Ladle

Through eight successful editions, and over nearly 40 years, Biogeography: An Ecological and Evolutionary Approach has provided a thorough and comprehensive exploration of the varied scientific disciplines and research that are ...

Biological Soil Crusts

An Organizing Principle in Drylands

Bettina Weber, Burkhard Budel and Jayne Belnap

Biological Soil Crusts summarizes our current understanding of biological soil crusts (biocrusts), which are omnipresent in dryland regions. Since they cover the soil surface, they influence, or even control, all surface exchanges ...

Moore in Brandenburg und Berlin [Mires of Brandenburg and Berlin]

Vera Luthardt and Jutta Zeitz

Mires are fascinating, diverse, complicated to use and sensitive to changes. They characterize large landscapes in Brandenburg and Berlin and have been used by humans for centuries, with only about two percent of the former surface in ...

National Parks Beyond the Nation

Global Perspectives on

Adrian Howkins, Jared Orsi and Mark Fiege

"The idea of a national park was an American invention of historic consequences marking the beginning of a worldwide movement", the U.S. National Park Service asserts in its 2006 Management Policies.

Parks of the Future

Protected Areas in Europe Challenging Regional and Global Change

Thomas Hammer, Ingo Mose, Dominik Siegrist and Norbert Weixlbaumer

Climate change, declines in biodiversity, increasing consumption of resources, urbanisation, urban sprawl and demographic change continue to challenge the regions of Europe. In response to these processes of regional and global change ...

Ramsar Wise-Use Protocol

Indian Experiences

Nitai Kundu

Policy studies related to any subject are the reflection of objective reality. Thus the policy related to wetland conservation of 1942 under the iniative of Sir Peter Scott of the UK, or the policy envisaged in the Ramsar Convention of ...

Roundwood and Sawlog Volume Tables

Forestry Commission (FC)

This publication combines and replaces Forestry Commission Field Book 1: Top Diameter Sawlog Tables and Forestry Commission Field Book 11: Mid Diameter Volume Tables. The top diameter method for assessing volume is ...

Sabkha Ecosystems, Volume 5

The Americas

M Ajmal Khan, Benno Boer, Munir Ozturk, Miguel Clusener-Godt, Bilquees Gul and Siegma Breckle

This book is a part of the Sabkha Ecosystems series which was designed to provide information on sabkha ecosystems of different regions and to add to the collective knowledge available about saline ecosystems. The comprehensive ...

Structure and Function of Mountain Ecosystems in Japan

Biodiversity and Vulnerability to Climate Change

Gaku Kudo

The purpose of this book is to summarize new insights on the structure and function of mountain ecosystems and to present evidence and perspectives on the impact of climate change on biodiversity.

The Biology of Deserts

David Ward

A revised and thoroughly updated edition of this concise but comprehensive introduction to desert ecology.

The Running Hare

The Secret Life of Farmland

John Lewis-Stempel

Traditional ploughland is disappearing. Seven cornfield flowers have become extinct in the last twenty years. Once abundant, the corn bunting and the lapwing are on the Red List. The corncrake is all but extinct in England. And the hare ...

Timber Measurement

Ewan D Mackie and Robert W Matthews

Timber Measurement was first published in 1983 as Booklet 49. Its punchy, practical style proved popular with practitioners trying to work out how to take basic measurements on trees and timber and apply standard forest mensuration ...

Belize Audubon Society

40 Years of Conservation

Judy Lumb, Lydia Waight and Dirk Francisco

The Belize Audubon Society was formed by a group of 55 enthusiastic and energetic conservationists on February 6, 1969, as a chapter of the Florida Audubon Society, and became an independent Society in 1973. For 40 years, each advocacy ...

Biodiversity and Development in Western Ghats

Mohan Nair

The purpose of this book is to illustrate biodiversity hotspots through interesting, informative and inspirational articles. The chapter on water harvesting and restoration of biodiversity will be inspirational for those who attempt to ...

Biodiversity in North East India

B Kharbuli, H Kayang and D Syiem

This book is an effort by the North-Eastern Biodiversity Research Cell (NEBRC), North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong, India, to contribute towards biodiversity study, use, and conservation in the North East of India. It is a compilation ...

Livro Vermelho da Flora do Brasil [Red Book of the Brazilian Flora]

Gustavo Martinelli, Miguel Avila Moraes, Fl ívia Anderson and Chris Hieatt

This scientific publication includes reviews of the risk of extinction of plant species in Brazil and is one of the scientific community's contribution to updating of the official list of endangered Brazilian flora ...

Livro Vermelho da Flora do Brasil: Plantas Raras do Cerrado [Red Book of the Flora of Brazil: Rare Plants of the Cerrado

Gustavo Martinelli, Tainan Messina, Luiz Santos Filho, Flavia Anderson and David Straker

This book follows the first large scale evaluation carried out by CNCFlora, which was consolidated in the Livro Vermelho da Flora do Brasil published in 2013. For that evaluation CNCFlora assessed the risk of extinction of about 4,600 species ...

The International Regulation of Extinction

Timothy M Swanson

Originally published in 1994, The International Regulation of Extinction presents an economic analysis of the forces contributing to the global decline of biological diversity, and the policies available to control extinctions.

Wild Kingdom

Bringing Back Britain's Wildlife

Stephen Moss

Britain's wildlife is in trouble. Wild creatures that have lived here for thousands of years are disappearing, because of pollution and persecution, competition with alien species, changing farming and forestry practices, and climate ...

A World to Live In

An Ecologist's Vision for a Plundered Planet

George M Woodwell

A century of industrial development is the briefest of moments in the half billion years of the earth's evolution. And yet our current era has brought greater changes to the earth than any period in human history. The biosphere ...

Extreme Weather

Forty Years of the Tornado and Storm Research Organisation (TORRO)

Robert K Doe

This book is about weather extremes in the United Kingdom. It presents fascinating and detailed insights into tornadoes (supercell and non-supercell tornadoes, historical and contemporary case studies, frequency and spatial distributions ...

L'Evenement Anthropocene: La Terre, l'Histoire et Nous [The Shock of the Anthropocene: The Earth, History, and Us]

Christophe Bonneuil and Jean-Baptiste Fressoz

Scientists tell us that the Earth has entered a new epoch: the Anthropocene. We are not facing simply an environmental crisis, but a geological revolution of human origin. In two centuries, our planet has tipped into a state unknown for ...

The Shock of the Anthropocene

The Earth, History, and Us

Christophe Bonneuil and Jean-Baptiste Fressoz

Scientists tell us that the Earth has entered a new epoch: the Anthropocene. We are not facing simply an environmental crisis, but a geological revolution of human origin. In two centuries, our planet has tipped into a state unknown for ...

Am Puls der Erde: Naturkatastrophen Verstehen [Taking the Earth's Pulse: Understanding Natural Disasters]

Peter Linke, Sarah Zierul, Birte Friedlander, Bernd Grundmann and Frank Schotzing

In Am Puls der Erde, Kiel scientists get to the bottom of natural disasters. They take helicopters to the tops of active volcanoes, research earthquakes and tsunamis, and explore the deep sea with diving robots. They have changed ...

Arran

Alan McKirdy

The Isle of Arran dominates the Firth of Clyde. A favourite haunt of holidaymakers, it is also a place of fascination for the geologist, offering a huge variety of rocks that represent a massive slice through geological time.

Astronomy Photographer of the Year, Collection 4

Royal Observatory Greenwich

All the winning and shortlisted images from the 2015 Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition, which is organized by the Royal Observatory, Greenwich. The images are submitted in one of the following categories: - Earth and Space ...

Earth as an Evolving Planetary System

Kent C Condie

Earth as an Evolving Planetary System, Third Edition, examines the various subsystems that play a role in the evolution of the Earth, including subsystems in the crust, mantle, core, atmosphere, oceans, and life. This third edition ...

Environmental Mineralogy II

David J Vaughan and RA Wogelius

In 1997, the European Mineralogical Union (EMU) began organising a series of Short Courses ('Schools') with the associated publication of a series of review volumes (the EMU Notes in Mineralogy) on topics of interest to ...

Ion Partitioning in Ambient-Temperature Aqueous Systems

Manuel Prieto and Heather Stoll

From the preface: "On the surface of the Earth, the intermingling of water and minerals gives rise to a diverse suite of reactions that determine the purity of water we drink, the fate of contaminants we emit, and the ...

Layered Mineral Structures and Their Application in Advanced Technologies

Maria Franca Brigatti, Annibale Mottana, Giovanni Ferraris and Roberta Oberti

From the preface: "This volume covers the topics related to the 13th EMU School "Layered Mineral Structures and their Application in Advanced Technologies". All of the selected topics, the school, and this volume ...

Minerals at the Nanoscale

Fernando Nieto Garcia and Kenneth JT Livi

From the preface: "We have gathered in this book, reviews of past and current studies of mineral groups that have played important roles in geology, environmental science and health science. The various chapters cover the ...

Roadside Geology of Southern California

Arthur Gibbs Sylvester and Elizabeth O'Black Gans

Since Mountain Press started the Roadside Geology series forty years ago, southern Californians have been waiting for an Roadside Geology volume of their own. During those four decades which were punctuated by jarring earthquakes ...

Skye

Alan McKirdy

The Isle of Skye offers a magical combination of wild land and breath-taking natural beauty. Skye's geological history involves some of the most ancient rocks on the planet; a grandstand view as the Highlands of Scotland were formed ...

Taking the Earth's Pulse

Understanding Natural Disasters

Peter Linke, Sarah Zierul, Birte Friedlander, Bernd Grundmann and Teresa Aydelotte

In Taking the Earth's Pulse, Kiel scientists get to the bottom of natural disasters. They take helicopters to the tops of active volcanoes, research earthquakes and tsunamis, and explore the deep sea with diving robots.

The Geology of Mississippi

David T Dockery III, David E Thompson and Phil Bryant

The Geology of Mississippi is an encyclopedic work by authors with extensive experience in Mississippi's surface geology mapping program. It brings together published work, unpublished work from agency files, and the authors ...

The Munich Show / Mineralientage Muenchen: Das Themenbuch Edelsteine [German]

The Munich Show

Rare and precious stones have always aroused the desire of man. They have been a source of fascination and their perceived value has fluctuated strongly over the millennia. Even today, religion and tradition still influence preferences ...

The Munich Show / Mineralientage Muenchen: Theme Book Precious Stones [English]

The Munich Show

Rare and precious stones have always aroused the desire of man. They have been a source of fascination and their perceived value has fluctuated strongly over the millennia. Even today, religion and tradition still influence preferences ...

Weird Astronomical Theories of the Solar System and Beyond

Counterintuitive Notions About the Cosmos

David AJ Seargent

After addressing strange cosmological hypotheses in Weird Universe, David Seargent tackles the no-less bizarre theories closer to home. Alternate views on the Solar System's formation, comet composition, and the evolution of life on ...

How Did We Get into This Mess?

Politics, Equality, Nature

George Monbiot

Here are some of the things George Monbiot tries to fight: undemocratic power, corruption, deception of the public, environmental destruction, injustice, inequality and the misallocation of resources, waste, denial, the libertarianism ...

How Population Change Will Transform Our World

Sarah Harper

Predicting the shape of our future populations is vital for installing the infrastructure, welfare, and provisions necessary for society to survive. There are many opportunities and challenges that will come with the changes in our population ...

Patagonia Tools for Grassroots Activists

Best Practices for Success in the Environmental Movement

Nora Gallagher, Lisa R Myers and Yvon Chouinard

For over twenty years, Patagonia has organized a Tools Conference, where experts provide practical training to help make activists more effective. Now Patagonia has captured Tools' best wisdom and advice into a book, creating a resource ...

Tainted: How Philosophy of Science Can Expose Bad Science

Kristin Shrader-Frechette

Three-fourths of scientific research in the United States is funded by special interests. Many of these groups have specific practical goals, such as developing pharmaceuticals or establishing that a pollutant causes only minimal harm.

The Carbon Farming Solution

A Global Toolkit of Perennial Crops and Regenerative Agriculture Practices for Climate Change Mitigation and Food Securi

Eric Toensmeier and Hans Herren

Agriculture is rightly blamed as a major culprit of our climate crisis. But in this groundbreaking new book, Eric Toensmeier argues that agriculture – specifically, the subset of practices known as "carbon farming" ...

Raman Spectroscopy Applied to Earth Sciences and Cultural Heritage

Jean Dubessy, Marie-Camille Caumon and Fernando Rull Perez

The present volume of the EMU Notes in Mineralogy series describes the "Applications of Raman Spectroscopy to Earth Sciences and Cultural Heritage". It is associated with the 12th EMU "school" co-sponsored by the French ...

The Future of Phylogenetic Systematics

The Legacy of Willi Hennig

David Williams, Michael Schmitt, Quentin D Wheeler and Norman I Platnick

Willi Hennig (1913-76), founder of phylogenetic systematics, revolutionised our understanding of the relationships among species and their natural classification. An expert on Diptera and fossil insects, Hennig's ideas were applicable ...

The Academic Job Search Handbook

Julia Miller Vick, Jennifer S Furlong and Rosanne Lurie

The Academic Job Search Handbook is the comprehensive guide to finding a faculty position in any discipline. Building on the groundbreaking success and unique offerings of earlier volumes, the fifth edition presents insightful ...

The New Librarianship Field Guide

R David Lankes

The New Librarianship Field Guide offers a guide for librarians who see their profession as a chance to make a positive difference in their communities – librarians who recognize that it is no longer enough to stand behind ...