A Brief History of South American Metatherians

Evolutionary Contexts and Intercontinental Dispersals

Francisco J Goin, Michael O Woodburne, Ana Natalia Zimicz, Gabriel M Martin and Laur Chornogubsky

A Brief History of South American Metatherians summarizes major aspects of the evolution of South American metatherians (one of two major mammalian clades), including their epistemologic, phylogenetic, biogeographic, faunal ...

Among the Bears

Raising Orphan Cubs in the Wild

Benjamin Kilham and Ed Gray

A first-person account of wild bear behavior that is both a thrilling animal story and a groundbreaking work of science. In the spring of 1993, Ben Kilham, a naturalist who lives in the woodlands of New Hampshire, began raising a pair of ...

Beneath the Surface

Killer Whales, SeaWorld, and the Truth Beyond Blackfish

John Hargrove and Howard Chua-Eoan

Over the course of two decades, John Hargrove worked with 20 different whales on two continents and at two of SeaWorld's U.S. facilities. For Hargrove, becoming an orca trainer fulfilled a childhood dream. However, as his experience ...

Bighorn Sheep

Jack Ballard

Falcon Pocket Guide: Bighorn Sheep presents readers with substantive yet easily digestible information on this majestic animal. Where do they live? What enemies do they have? How do they communicate? Bighorn Sheep contains ...

Das Europa der Wolfe [A Europe Ruled by Wolves]

Kaj Granlund

This book is a competent but also critical view about the return of the wolf to Central Europe and contributes to an objective discussion on the progressive return of the wolf in its natural habitat. For 2000 years man defended himself ...

Dog Behaviour, Evolution, and Cognition

Adam Miklosi

This is the first book to collate and synthesize the recent burgeoning primary research literature on dog behaviour, evolution, and cognition. The author presents a new ecological approach to the understanding of dog behaviour, demonstrating ...

Dynamics of Tiger Management in Priority Landscapes

Evaluating and Developing a Mitigation Strategy for Maintaining Metapopulation Structure

Rajesh Gopal

Tigers have an inherent habit to move across landscapes. To facilitate such movement, corridors are essential. Lack of corridors connecting landscapes results in fatal human–tiger conflict, where, in most cases, it is the tiger which ...

Echoes of Camusfearna

Paul Yoxon and Grace M Yoxon

In this touching and amusing book Grace and Paul Yoxon, founders of the International Otter Survival Fund, share their adventures over the first 12 years ... from the creation of a Field Centre on the Isle of Skye through its evolution ...

Echoes of Camusfearna DVD (All Regions)

Virginia McKenna

This fascinating and haunting wildlife programme is narrated by Virginia McKenna and centres on the West of Scotland not far from the Isle of Mull. This is the last stronghold of the wild sea otter in Britain, made famous by Gavin Maxwell ...

Elephant Dawn

The Inspirational Story of Thirteen Years Living with Elephants in the African Wilderness

Sharon Pincott

In 2001, Sharon Pincott traded her privileged life as a high-flying corporate executive to start a new life with the Presidential Elephants of Zimbabwe. She was unpaid, untrained, self-funded and arrived with the starry-eyed idealism of ...

Grizzlies and Grizzled Old Men

A Tribute to Those Who Fought to Save the Great Bear

Mike Lapinski

Grizzlies and Grizzled Old Men is a tribute to the core of men who were largely responsible for saving the grizzly bear from extinction by questioning public opinion and policies of their day, a time before professional biologists ...

Growing Up Grizzly

The True Story of Baylee and Her Cubs

Amy Shapira and Douglas H Chadwick

The True Story of a Big-Hearted Bear is a factual story of a mother grizzly bear named Baylee, her three cubs, and a two-year-old grizzly who Baylee adopts into their family. Grizzly bears are extremely protective of their young and ...

Heart of a Lion

A Lone Cat's Walk Across America

William Stolzenburg

Late one June night in 2011, a large animal collided with an SUV cruising down a Connecticut parkway. The creature appeared as something out of New England's forgotten past. Beside the road lay a 140-pound mountain lion.

In the Presence of Grizzlies

The Ancient Bond Between Men and Bears

Doug Peacock and Andrea Peacock

The most comprehensive and compelling chronicle of human-grizzly-bear interactions ever written, In the Presence of Grizzlies (formerly published as The Essential Grizzly) examines the fragile bond between ourselves and the quintessential ...

Le Cheval de Guerre en Grece Ancienne [The War Horse in Ancient Greece]

Alexandre Blaineau and Pierre Brule

This book is a contribution to the history of equestrian culture of the Greek world. By adopting the angle of the war horse, it aims to study the perks of military horseback riding and the actions of cavalry on the battlefield.

Le Renard [The Fox]

Jean-Steve Meia

This book is more than just a monograph. It presents a synthesis of knowledge about the fox, but also the original results of the author, excerpts from field notes and tips for observation. The book seeks to place information about the ...

Lonesome for Bears

A Woman's Journey in the Tracks of the Wilderness

Linda Jo Hunter and Amy Shapira

Linda Hunter was terrified of bears, but she yearned for the solitude of the wilderness. Setting aside her fears, she became an expert tracker and guide and grew to miss the company of the very animals that once kept her from her love of ...

Mamiferos: Nao Voadores do Pantanal e Entorno [Mammals: An Overview of the Pantanal and Environs]

Wellington Hannibal, Leonardo Avelino Duarte and Cyntia Cavalcante Santos

Mamíferos: Não Voadores do Pantanal e Entorno, in its introduction, provides an overview of the wetlands with the mosaic of environments in the Pantanal region in Brazil, including a brief characterization of the ...

Man-Elephant Conflict

A Case Study from Forests in West Bengal, India

Nilanjana Das Chatterjee

Man-Elephant Conflict sheds new light on the causes and consequences of elephant migration in the Panchet Forest Division of Bankura District in West Bengal, India – an area characterized by fragmented forested landscapes ...

Reproductive Decisions

An Economic Analysis of Gelada Baboon Social Strategies

Robin Dunbar

A reprint of a classical work in the Princeton Legacy Library, originally published in 1985. Robin Dunbar uses economic models to explore the social behavior of the gelada baboon (Theropithecus gelada), a unique species ...

Rethinking Human-Elephant Relations in South Asia

Conflict, Negotiation, and Coexistence

Piers Locke and Jane Buckingham

The interconnected lives of humans and elephants have shaped landscapes, determined the destinies of empires, and stimulated new kinds of knowledge, skill, and practices. Their encounters have also produced intimate forms of companionship ...

Running with Rhinos

Stories from a Radical Conservationist

Edward M Warner

Running with rhinos is not a euphemism, not when you're ground support for the International Rhino Foundation's Rhino Conservancy Project. Edward M. Warner, a self-proclaimed radical conservationist, presents his outrage ...

Social Inequalities in Health in Nonhuman Primates

The Biology of the Gradient

Carol Shively and Mark E Wilson

Social Inequalities in Health in Nonhuman Primates provides a comprehensive look at nonhuman primate social inequalities as models for differences in social status and socioeconomic in humans. The benefit of the socially-housed ...

Stories of a Golden Wolf / Historias de um Lobo

Rogerio Cunha de Paula and Adriano Gambarini

This book is of great importance for generating awareness and admiration for the maned wolf (Chrysocyon brachyurus), a species that unjustly remains little known, even as a savanna icon and a national treasure of Brazil.

Taken by Bear in Yellowstone

More Than a Century of Harrowing Encounters Between Grizzlies and Humans

Kathleen Snow

Humans and grizzly bears have been coming into contact in Yellowstone National Park ever since it was founded in 1872. Most of these encounters have ended peacefully, but many have not. In order to most accurately tell the stories of ...

The Barbastelle Bat Conservation Handbook

Ian Davidson-Watts, Matt Zeale and Chris Packham

The Barbastelle Bat Conservation Handbook is a long-awaited guide to barbastelle bat ecology, behaviour, conservation management and threats, the first publication of its kind to draw together all of the scientific research on ...

The Bear Almanac

A Comprehensive Guide to the Bears of the World

Gary P Brown

Here in a single volume, The Bear Almanac collects what is known about the world's bears, presenting in words and gorgeous photographs, a complete factual compendium of bear knowledge for the amateur naturalist and the bear ...

The Beast That Walks Like Man

The Story of the Grizzly Bear

Harold McCracken

If you're hoping to someday catch a glimpse of the imposing and powerful grizzly bear, you'll have to take a trek through the Northern Rockies, Canada, or Alaska. Having once roamed the entire continent of North America, the population ...

The Complete Tracker

Tracks, Signs, and Habits of North American Wildlife

Len McDougall

The Complete Tracker is a concise, thorough guide to the tracks, signs, and habits of North America's most popular species of wildlife. Readers learn the secrets of a master tracker, assembling a clear picture from tracks ...

The Hare Book

The Hare Preservation Trust and Jane Russ

Elusive, ethereal, evocative – the hare permeates our consciousness like no other creature. Despite facing ever increasing environmental pressures, it still retains its ability to both delight and confound in equal measure.

The Little Red Thief

The True Story of Foxyloxy, an Orphaned Fox Cub

Louise Wren

Louise Wren was closing her bedroom curtains one night when she spotted a fox cub sitting alone and forlorn on her lawn in the dark. Realising it had been orphaned, she began to feed it, soon recruiting her grandchildren to help. So began ...

The Red Kangaroo in Central Australia

An Early Account by A. E. Newsome

Alan Newsome and Thomas Newsome

The red kangaroo is at the heart of Australia's ecological identity. It is Australia's largest terrestrial land mammal, the largest extant marsupial, and the only kangaroo truly restricted to Australia's arid interior.

The Soul of the Rhino

A Nepali Adventure with Kings and Elephant Drivers, Billionaires and Bureaucrats, Shamans and Scientists, and the Indian

Hemanta R Mishra, Jr.,Jim Ottaway, Bruce Babbitt and Jim Fowler

In early 2006, National Public Radio reported that "A promising conservation effort to save one of Nepal's signature endangered species is now in serious trouble, due primarily to poachers taking advantage of fighting between ...

Tiger Reserves of India

...and the Saga of Wildlife Conservation

Puneet Sood

A study of six Indian tiger reserves.

Vargens Europa [A Europe Ruled by Wolves]

Kaj Granlund

This book is a competent but also critical view about the return of the wolf to Central Europe and contributes to an objective discussion on the progressive return of the wolf in its natural habitat. For 2000 years man defended himself ...

Whalers No More

William A Hagelund

Like most of us, William Hagelund sees whales through compassionate eyes now, and marvels at the boom times of BC's whaling industry when he and a host of legendary old harpooners hunted down the great sperm and humpback herds off ...

Where the Grizzly Walks

The Future of the Great Bear

Bill Schneider and Stephen Herrero

Admired for its majesty and often feared for its strength, speed, and supposed aggressiveness, the grizzly bear was once unchallenged as the great apex predator of the American West. By the 1970s, however, hunting and habitat loss had ...

Wild Equids

Ecology, Management, and Conservation

Jason I Ransom and Petra Kaczensky

Wild horses, zebras, asses, and feral equines exhibit intriguing and complex social structures that captivate the human imagination and elicit a wide range of emotions that influence conservation and management efforts.

Wilderness Predators of the Rockies

The Bond Between Predator and Prey

Mike Lapinski

Wilderness Predators of the Rockies takes readers on an in-depth journey into the secluded backcountry where legendary predators such as the mighty grizzly, taciturn wolverine, stately wolf, awesome jaguar, and other wild animals ...

Wolf Land

Carter Niemeyer

Carter Niemeyer has followed wolves – and captured many – since he helped reintroduce them in the Northern Rockies in the mid-1990s. In his second memoir, Wolf Land, he takes us across the rugged West as he tracks ...

A Naturalist's Guide to the Birds of Costa Rica

Steve Bird

Written by an expert with extensive local knowledge, this volume features all species that the amateur naturalist might expect to see in the field, with high quality photographs accompanied by detailed species descriptions that include ...

A Photographic Guide to the Birds of Chitwan (Nepal)

Including 13 Orders, 51 Families and Sub-Families and 284 Species of Birds

Suresh Shakya and Bhima Shakya

Nepal is a very small country but it has more than 865 species of birds. This book is an excellent photographic guide to the birds of Chitwan and other national parks, wildlife reserves and conservation areas of lowland Nepal. This book ...

Asiatic Parrots and Their Mutations

T Bastiaan and GJJ Bastiaan

The successor of Ringnecked Parakeets and their Mutations. The book describes the Ringnecked Parrots and the other species and subspecies of the Psittacula family (Asiatic parrots) as well. The information is meant for the ...

Beautiful Songbirds

And the Joy They Inspire

Ashley Halsey

Beautiful Songbirds celebrates the beauty of 30 of the most melodious backyard birds found in North America and abroad. Artist Ashley Halsey has created original watercolors of each bird in their natural landscape. Accompanying ...

Being a Bird in North America, North of Mexico, Volume 1

Waterfowl to Shorebirds

Robert Alvo

Each of North America's species is given a full page description of its natural history and conservation in an informal style, including names and classification, conservation status, a color photo, and global distribution map.

Berichte zum Vogelschutz, Heft 51

Deutscher Rat fur Vogelschutz (DRV) and Naturschutzbund Deutschland (NABU)

Volume 51 of the German journal Berichte zum Vogelschutz, published by the Deutscher Rat für Vogelschutz (DRV) and the Naturschutzbund Deutschland (NABU), provides detailed information on various topical issues of bird protection ...

Bird Brain

An Exploration of Avian Intelligence

Nathan Emery

An absorbing study of how birds think, revealing how science is exploding the myth of our feathered friends being 'bird brained', and how recent discoveries may call for us to re-evaluate how we identify and classify intelligence ...

Birding for Beginners

A Comprehensive Introduction to the Art of Birdwatching

Sheila Buff and Richard Day

This updated edition includes a new chapter on birding online and features detailed chapters on equipment, identification techniques, birding "by ear", where to view birds, field guides, optics, and other essentials to get the ...

Birds in My Indian Garden

Malcolm MacDonald and Bulbul Sharma

First published in 1960 by Jonathan Cape. "One of my favourite birds is the white-eye. It is a dapper little creature measuring only four inches long from the tip of its beak to the end of its tail, and its colouring is ...

Birds of Fernando de Noronha / Aves de Fernando de Noronha

Robson Silva e Silva

Through this book the author shows the birds that are part of the fauna of Fernando de Noronha, a volcanic archipelago about 350 kilometers off Brazil's northeast coast. Featuring stunning images and beautiful landscapes, the ...

Birds of Libya / Oiseaux de Libye

Paul Isenmann, Jens Hering, Stefan Brehme, Mohamed Essghaier, Khaled Etayeb, Essam Bourass and Azaf

Birds of Libya / Oiseaux de Libye is written in English and French and is an annotated checklist of the 350 bird species (of which 100 are currently breeding) recorded in Libya. This North African country is mostly a Saharan ...

Birds of Nepal

Richard Grimmett, Carol Inskipp, Tim Inskipp and Hem Sagar Baral

Nepal has long been one of the world's most popular birding and trekking destinations. This new field guide covers all 800 species of bird found in this tiny, mountainous kingdom. Based on the revised edition of ...

Birds of West Virginia

Todd Telander

Birds of West Virginia is a field guide to the 180 most common and sought-after species in the state. Falcon Field Guides are full-color, visually appealing, on-the-go guides for identifying plants and animals and learning ...

Birds to Watch in Namibia

Red, Rare and Endemic Species

Rob E Simmons, Christopher J Brown and Jessica Kemper

Birds to Watch in Namibia is Namibia’s Red Data Book on birds. Seventy one of the 687 bird species recorded in Namibia to date have been found to be either Threatened (48 species) or Near-threatened (23 species), according to IUCN ...

Birds: Myth, Lore & Legend

Rachel Warren-Chadd and Marianne Taylor

Why are owls regarded either as wise or as harbingers of doom? What gave rise to the fanciful belief that storks bring babies? Why is the eagle associated with victory or the hummingbird with paradise? The answers are here in this new ...

Birdwatching in New York City and on Long Island

Deborah Rivel and Kellye Rosenheim

This easy-to-use guide gives seasonal information for both popular birding sites and those off the beaten path. Precise directions to the best viewing locations within the region's diverse habitats enable birdwatchers to efficiently ...

Brazil Birds

A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Species

James R Kavanagh and Raymond Leung

Brazil has one of the richest bird diversities in the world, with a total of 1,901 species, 270 of which are endemic. This beautifully illustrated guide highlights over 140 familiar and unique species and includes a map featuring prominent ...

Charles Darwin's Life with Birds

His Complete Ornithology

Clifford B Frith

Much of Charles Darwin's groundbreaking work as an evolutionary biologist stemmed from his study of birds. It is universally acknowledged that Darwin's observation of bird groups and species like the Galapagos finches, mockingbirds ...

Colorado Birds

A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Species

James R Kavanagh and Raymond Leung

Colorado Birds is a pocket-sized, folding naturalist guide. Distinctive colorful illustrations highlight the most commonly seen birds in Colorado. Printed on laminated material for durability, these handy guides are a great source ...

Connecticut Birds

A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Species

James R Kavanagh and Raymond Leung

Connecticut is the permanent or migratory home of 431 species of birds, including the state bird – the American robin. This beautifully illustrated guide highlights over 140 familiar and unique species and includes a featuring prominent ...

Corbeaux et Corneilles [Ravens and Crows]

Georges Olioso

Is it because they are mostly black? Because their cries are inharmonious? Because they are sometimes perceived as harmful? Whatever it is, most corvids still have a bad reputation. Sometimes they are accused of stealing, sometimes of ...

Crow Country

Mark Cocker

The Birds and the Bees series was designed for Vintage Classics by Timorous Beasties, the Scottish studio famous for their designs inspired by the natural world. Books in this series are beautifully designed reissues of the finest British ...

Cuba Birds

A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Species

James R Kavanagh and Raymond Leung

One of the world's top birding destinations, this Caribbean island is home to 354 recorded species including 21 endemics; the charming Cuban tody, the elegant Cuban trogon and the world's smallest bird, the bee hummingbird.

Feathers: Displays of Brilliant Plumage

Robert Clark and Carl Zimmer

These beautiful photographs from award-winning National Geographic photographer Robert Clark offer a fascinating new view of bird feathers. Each detailed close-up image is paired with informative text about the function and evolution of ...

Finding Birds in Southeast Arizona

David Stejskal, Gary H Rosenberg and Kenn Kaufman

Tucson Audubon's updated edition of Finding Birds in Southeast Arizona, the Revised Eighth, brings together all the latest information on finding birds in southeast Arizona. This is your best source of detailed information ...

Flyways: A Celebration of Waterfowl and Wetlands

Gary Kramer

Flying south in the fall and north in the spring, waterfowl have followed travel routes in the sky for centuries. These migrations are repeated year after year as ducks and geese pass from one region or climate to another for feeding ...

Faeroernes Fugle: Fakta og Tal [Birds of the Faroe Islands: Facts and Numbers]

Jens-Kjeld Jensen and Soren Sorensen

Færøernes Fugle: Fakta og Tal deals with a total of 312 bird species and more than 30 subspecies, which have been observed in the Faroe Islands until 31 December 2014. Species that escaped from captivity or have ...

Guests of Summer

A House Martin Love Story

Theunis Piersma and Ian Newton

Guests of Summer tells the story of the House Martins of a small Dutch village, and the historic and contemporary connectedness of lives, both of birds and people. The journey begins from the comfort of a chair in ...

Guia de les Aus de Menorca [Guide to the Birds of Menorca]

Felix de Pablo Pons

This book introduces the reader to the birds of Menorca. The book is illustrated with photos, and provides comments on the species, and the habitats they occupy. It is an introduction to ornithology, providing information on which species ...

Guia de las Aves de Menorca [Guide to the Birds of Menorca]

Felix de Pablo Pons

This book introduces the reader to the birds of Menorca. The book is illustrated with photos, and provides comments on the species, and the habitats they occupy. It is an introduction to ornithology, providing information on which species ...

H is for Hawk

Helen Macdonald

The Birds and the Bees series was designed for Vintage Classics by Timorous Beasties, the Scottish studio famous for their designs inspired by the natural world. Books in this series are beautifully designed reissues of the fine ...

Le Petit Guide Ornitho: Observer et Identifier les Oiseaux [The Small Ornithological Guide: Observing and Identifying Bi

Marc Duquet and Jean Chevalier

Le Petit Guide Ornithos gives practical tips on watching and identifying birds. It covers 142 bird species (up from 116 in the previous edition) found in western Europe.

New England Bird-Lover's Garden

Attracting Birds with Plants and Flowers

Randi Minetor and Nic Minetor

New England Bird-Lover's Garden helps you maximize your home birding experiences and attract a wider variety of birds. With 100 plus full-color photos and concise, informative text, it provides indispensable details on what ...

Parrots of the World

Steve Brookes

Parrots have always captured the imagination of humans thanks to their bright plumage and ability to mimic speech. This beautifully illustrated book on the world's parrots explores all aspects of their lives, as well as the various ...

Plumage Across the Pir Panjal

The Poonch and Rajouri Districts - A Photographic Guide

Rajendra Singh

The author is a mountaineer, an amateur photographer, naturalist and is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. Despite being a serving officer, he could find time to study 310 species of birds, 260 species from the Poonch and Rajouri ...

Portraits d'Oiseaux Guyanais [Portraits of Guyanese Birds]

Association GEPOG

Guyanese birds are beautiful, but often overlooked. For the first time in French, a work allows a great public to discover nearly 150 species, amongst them the most beautiful, the most symbolic, or simply the most common in ...

Queen of the Sky

Jackie Morris

This is the amazing story of a peregrine falcon rescued from the sea off the remote coast of west Wales. Jackie Morris tells the story of how her friend Ffion Rees nursed the Falcon back to life and back to the wild – it's about ...

Scarlet Ibis in Brazil: The Preservation's Vibrant Colors / Guarís Vermelhos no Brasil: As Cores Vibrantes da Preserva

Robson Silva e Silva

Contents: - The scarlet ibis and its life in the mangroves - Taxonomy and other names - Species Distribution - Other members of the family - The day-to-day business of the scarlet ibis - Movements - Population ...

South Africa Birds

A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Species

James R Kavanagh and Raymond Leung

One of the world's top birding hotspots, South Africa's diverse habitats harbor more than 950 species. This beautifully illustrated guide covers over 140 familiar and unique species found in South Africa, Lesotho, Swaziland, Namibia ...

Terra Papagalli / Land of Parrots

Eduardo Parentoni Brettas, Luis Fíbio Silveira and Neiva Maria Robaldo Guedes

Terra Papagalli brings the most artistic and scientific survey ever conducted, containing all 91 species of Brazilian parrots. All species are finely painted by Eduardo Parentoni Breitas, one of the most gifted painters of birds ...

The Running Sky

A Bird-Watching Life

Tim Dee

The Birds and the Bees series was designed for Vintage Classics by Timorous Beasties, the Scottish studio famous for their designs inspired by the natural world. Books in this series are beautifully designed reissues of the fine ...

Vinterfoglar [Winter Birds]

Lars Jonsson

Bird seeds, fat balls and feeders. Many of us feed birds in winter, and it is a more widespread employment than you might at first think. It is estimated that half a million Swedish households somehow feed birds during the winter months.

Vogels Buiten Beleven [Experiencing Birds Outdoors]

Jip Louwe Kooijmans

Birds are everywhere, and they are fascinating to watch. If you make your garden attractive to birds, you can enjoy the sight of them daily. Go for a walk on your day off to watch and listen to their lives. In the spring they are singing ...

Vogel in Deutschland 2014 [Birds in Germany 2014]

Johannes Wahl, Rainer Droschmeister, Bettina Gerlach, Christoph Gruneberg and Torste Langgemach

Vögel in Deutschland 2014 is based on data collection, carried out largely by volunteers as part of nationwide bird monitoring efforts. For the study, comprehensive data from the national report by the European Birds ...

Waterbirds of Australia

Don Hadden

Australia supports a fascinating variety of waterbirds, such as the Jabiru, Ibis, Heron and many more. This book showcases over 85 birds that frequent the wetlands, shores and coastal waters. All have been captured in their natural environment ...

Why Did the Chicken Cross the World?

The Epic Saga of the Bird that Powers Civilization

Andrew Lawler

From ancient empires to modern economics, veteran journalist Andrew Lawler delivers a sweeping history of the animal that has been most crucial to the spread of civilization across the globe – the chicken. Queen Victoria ...

Wings of Dwarka: Birds of GGS Indraprastha University Campus and Surrounding Areas - A Field Guide

Ranjana Pal, Srishti Solanki and Aman Malik

The Wings of Dwarka offers a concise description of the birds which frequent GGSIP University campus and its surroundings. The book is enriched with beautiful photographs and entertaining knowledge. This book aims to encourage ...

Oekologie der Wasservoegel [Ecology of Waterfowl]

Lothar Kalbe

Due to the massive destruction of wetlands, their preservation or recovery as a habitat for waterfowl is an important task for nature and environmental protection organisations. An essential tool, especially for protection of waterfowl ...

A Photographic Field Guide to the Amphibians and Reptiles of the Lowland Monsoon Forests of Southern Vietnam

Anna B Vassilieva, Eduard A Galoyan, Nikolay A Poyarkov and Peter Geissler

This richly illustrated photographic field guide describes to the amphibians and reptiles of the lowland monsoon forests of southern Vietnam.

Amphibien und Reptilien des Paraguayischen Chaco [Amphibians and Reptiles of the Paraguayan Chaco]

Ludwig Trutnau, Markus Monzel and Albia Consul

Over the course of 30 years Ludwig Trutnau has regularly visited and done herpetological fieldwork in Chaco, a historical department in Paraguay. With his typical meticulousness he has kept a field diary, where he has accurately recorded ...

Behavioral Ecology of the Eastern Red-Backed Salamander

Robert G Jaeger, Birgit Gollmann, Caitlin R Gabor, Nancy R Kohn and Carl D Anthony

Behavioral Ecology of the Eastern Red-Backed Salamander features over 50 years of research findings straight from the lab of the primary researcher of the red-backed salamander. The structure of the book allows for it to be used ...

Discovering Amphibians

Frogs and Salamanders of the Northeast

John Himmelman

As author Himmelman can attest, people of all ages are actively learning more about frogs, toads, and salamanders. Discovering Amphibians covers everything from amphibians' physiology to their place in folklore and literature ...

Green Guide to Crocodiles of Australia

Grahame Webb and Charlie Manolis

How dangerous are crocodiles to humans? How do crocodiles hunt their prey? How can I avoid being taken by a crocodile? Answers to these and many more commonly asked questions about crocodiles can be found inside this useful guide.

Les Reptiles et Amphibiens de France [The Reptiles and Amphibians of France]

Dominique Martire and Franck Merlier

Just like insects and spiders, reptiles and amphibians play an essential role in nature. Man certainly has more benefits from their existence than inconveniences. This richly illustrated field guide allow everyone to discover these sometimes ...

Reptiles of the Federated States of Micronesia

Donald W Buden and Danko Taborosi

This book offers a comprehensive look at the turtles, lizards, and snakes of the Federated States of Micronesia. It includes identification keys, detailed species accounts, and hundreds of high quality illustrations. In addition to rich ...

Serpentes do Cerrado: Guia Ilustrado [Snakes of the Cerrado: Illustrated Guide]

Otavio AV Marques, Andre Eterovic, Cristiano C Nogueira and Ivan Sazima

Knowing the fauna of an ecosystem threatened by human activities is one of the important steps for their conservation. This guide aims to assist in the identification of the snakes that occur in the Brazilian Cerrado and present information ...

Snake: The Essential Visual Guide

Chris Mattison

Snake: The Essential Visual Guide is the essential visual guide to the world of serpents, featuring more than 3,000 species. With a fresh new look, updated classifications, stunning photography and amazing artworks, Snake ...

The Poisonous Terrestrial Snakes of our British Indian Dominions (Including Ceylon) and How to Recognize Them with Sympt

Major F Wall

Originally published in 1913, this book deals with the snakes found in India and Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) and clearly describes how to identify and recognize the different kinds of poisonous terrestrial snakes. The snakes have been classified ...

A Catalogue of Pisces in the Collection of the Arunachal Pradesh Regional Centre, Zoological Survey of India, Itanagar,

B Sinha and L Tamang

The Arunachal Pradesh Regional Centre (APRC) based at Itanagar, India, is one among the sixteen renowned Regional Centres of the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) and is engaged in survey and documentation of the fauna of Arunachal Pradesh ...

Herring Tales

How the Silver Darlings Shaped Human Taste and History

Donald S Murray

Scots like to smoke or salt them. The Dutch love them raw. Swedes look on with relish as they open bulging, foul-smelling cans to find them curdling within. Jamaicans prefer them with a dash of chilli pepper. Germans and the English enjoy ...

Know Your New Zealand Fishes

Tony Enderby and Jenny Enderby

New Zealand boasts beautiful and unique coastlines, lakes and rivers, brimming with more than 1100 different fish species. In Know Your New Zealand Fishes, Jenny and Tony Enderby identify more than 80 of the country's best-known ...

Malawi Cichlids in Their Natural Habitat

Ad Konings

No lake in the world contains such a diversified and distinctive community of cichlid fishes as Lake Malaŵi. The total number of cichlid species in the lake is now estimated at about 1000, which is about 200 more than all the freshwater ...

Marine Fishes of Florida

David B Snyder and George H Burgess

The most comprehensive book about Florida's marine fishes ever produced, Marine Fishes of Florida includes hundreds of photographs and descriptions of species you'll encounter – plus many that are rare – when ...

Seahorses: A Life-Size Guide to Every Species

Sara A Lourie

Seahorses are extraordinary creatures. They swim upright and spend days in dancing courtship. They are small, shy and have heads shaped like miniature ponies. And the male carries the female's eggs in his pouch and 'births' ...

Sharks of the Mediterranean

An Illustrated Study of All Species

Alessandro De Maddalena, Harald Bansch and Walter Heim

This is the most complete, beautiful and up-to-date book on sharks of the Mediterranean Sea ever written. Sharks of the Mediterranean opens with an exhaustive general part on the biology and ecology of sharks of the Mediterranean ...

The Billfish Story

Swordfish, Sailfish, Marlin, and Other Gladiators of the Sea

Stan L Ulanski

The billfish is fixed at the apex of the oceanic food chain. Composed of sailfish, marlin, spearfish, and swordfish, they roam the pelagic waters of the Atlantic and are easily recognized by their long, spear-like beaks. Noted for their ...

The U.K. Great White Shark Enigma

Richard Peirce

Human-wildlife conflicts are a daily occurrence all over the world, and often result in humans being killed or injured. The Great White Shark is among the predators most feared by humans, but in terms of the actual annual number of deaths ...

Young Reed A-Z of Sharks and Rays

From the Great White to the Wobbegong, We Cover All the Basics

Nigel Marsh

Sharks are the kings of the ocean, sometimes feared, occasionally loved, and always a subject of intrigue for children and adults alike. A-Z of Sharks and Rays, the latest addition to the popular Young Reed series, addresses ...

A Pictorial Guide of Australian Fossil Cowries and their Allies

CJ Goudey

In this book, an attempt has been made to record all the known fossil cowries and their allies found in Australia. This book is not a taxonomic treatise of the Cypraeidae, but a handbook for the serious collector of fossils, in particular ...

A Spring Without Bees

How Colony Collapse Disorder Has Endangered Our Food Supply

Michael Schacker and Bill McKibben

More than a century after the birth of Rachel Carson, the world faces a new environmental disaster, from a chemical similar to DDT. This time the culprit appears to be IMD, or imidacloprid, a relatively new but widely used insecticide ...

A Sting in the Tale

Dave Goulson

The Birds and the Bees series was designed for Vintage Classics by Timorous Beasties, the Scottish studio famous for their designs inspired by the natural world. Books in this series are beautifully designed reissues of the fine ...

Abeilles Sauvages: Les Conna tre, les Accueillir, les Prot ger [Wild Bees: Recognizing, Welcoming and Protecting Them]

Vincent Albouy

While the honeybee, highly regarded for its honey production, is widely publicized, we know less of a wild species that exists, unique to Europe, and that also produces honey. Still, it faces the same problems as its breeding sisters ...

Ants of Africa and Madagascar

A Guide to the Genera

Brian L Fisher and Barry Bolton

Across the Afrotopical and Malagasy regions, ants are one of the most conspicuous and ecologically dominant animal groups. From driver ants to weaver ants, there are over 2,000 species in Africa alone and over 600 in Madagascar.

Atlas of Butterflies in Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire

Jim Asher, Nick Bowles, Jan Haseler, Grahame Hawker, Peter Ogden, David Roy, Richard Soulsby and Wil

Copiously illustrated with photographs and other graphics, the trends of all local species are individually described, with discussion of factors driving change and threats, pressures and opportunities for butterfly species in our local ...

Atlas of the Predaceous Water Beetles (Hydradephaga) of Britain and Ireland

Garth N Foster, David T Bilton and BH Nelson

This atlas concerns the predaceous water beetles, or Hydradephaga – the whirligig beetles (Gyrinidae), the crawling water beetles (Haliplidae), one species of squeak beetle (Paelobiidae), the burrowing water beetles (Noteridae) ...

Australian Insects

A Natural History

Bert Brunet

Insects are survivors. Since their evolution some 365 million years ago, they have penetrated almost every habitat on Earth. Today in Australia there are over 100,000 species crawling, flying, hopping and hurrying across the continent.

Beetles of Britain and Ireland, Volume 4

Cerambycidae to Curculionidae

Andrew G Duff and Michael Cox

Volume 4 covers the phytophagous (plant-feeding) beetles in the superfamilies Chrysomeloidea and Curculionoidea, including the familiar and popular longhorn beetles, seed and leaf beetles, weevils and bark beetles. Chapters on the seed ...

Bienen: 104 Besondere Arten aus Aller Welt in Faszinierenden Nahaufnahmen [Bees: An Up-Close Look at Pollinators Around

Sam Droege, Laurence Packer and Tanja Bruxmeier

Get the buzz on bees with up-close and personal, stunning photographs of more than a hundred species. If a bee flies near you or if it lands on your arm, you might want to run away as fast as you can. Or maybe you freeze and hope the bee ...

Butterflies and Wildflowers of Tollygunge Club

A Pictorial Field Guide

Arjan Basu Roy

This field guide compiles the butterfly fauna and wildflowers around Tollygunge Club, a country club located in Tollygunge in south Kolkata, India. It took more than a year to capture the richness of butterfly fauna of this area. Seventy ...

Call of Nature

The Secret Life of Dung

Richard Jones

Journey through the digestive systems of humans, farm and wild animals, and meet some of nature's ultimate recyclers as they eat, breed in and compete for dung. The fall of bodily waste onto the ground is the start of a race against ...

Catalogue des Coleopteres de France, Supplement 1: Index, Errata, Donnees Nouvelles [Catalogue of Coleoptera of France

Marc Tronquet

The first supplement to this beetle catalogue. Its publications was necessary for three reasons: 1) Feedback from readers, 2) correction of a fairly large number of textual or typographical errors, mostly minor, 3) errors in the automatic ...

Catalogue et Atlas des Coleopteres d'Alsace, Tome 17

Nitidulidae, Cryptophagidae, Latridiidae, Ciidae, Kateretidae, Cybocephalidae, Phloeostichidae, Languriidae, Merophysiid

HJ Callot

The penultimate volume covers the beetle families Nitidulidae, Cryptophagidae, Latridiidae, Ciidae, Kateretidae, Cybocephalidae, Phloeostichidae, Languriidae, and Merophysiidae. New records for the region are described below.

Catalogue et Atlas des Coleopteres d'Alsace, Tome 18

HJ Callot

This is the last volume in this series, covering the following families: Scirtidae, Cantharidae, Cleridae, Dasytidae, Malachiidae, Dermestidae, Anobiidae, Byrrhidae, Eucinetidae, Clambidae, Dascillidae, Drilidae, Lycidae, Homalisidae ...

Cephalopods of Australia and Sub-Antarctic Territories

Amanda Reid

Australian waters contain the highest diversity of cephalopods (squid, cuttlefish and octopus) found anywhere in the world. They are highly significant ecologically, both as top-level predators and as prey for numerous vertebrates, including ...

Chinese Leaf Beetles

Yang Xingke, Ge Siqin, Nie Ruie, Ruan Yongying and Li Wenzhu

There are 260 genera and 2,304 species and subspecies of leaf beetles recorded in China, that belong to three subfamilies under consideration. Among them, 397 species and 36 genera belong to the Chrysomelinae, 1,054 species and 124 genera ...

Coleoptera Poloniae: Tenebrionoidea (Tetratomidae, Melandryidae, Ripiphoridae, Prostomidae, Oedemeridae, Mycteridae, Pyt

Daniel Kubisz, Dariusz Iwan and Piotr Tykarski

The book catalogues distribution data on occurrence of families of Tenebrionoidea. Having reviewed available distribution data, the authors consider 84 species to be present in Poland, belonging to the following families: Aderidae ...

Colorado Butterflies & Moths

A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Species

James R Kavanagh and Raymond Leung

Butterfly fossils discovered near Colorado Springs place butterflies in the area over 40 million years ago. The state insect, the stunningly blue Colorado hairstreak is one of over 600 species of butterflies and moths found in the diverse ...

Dangerous World of Butterflies

The Startling Subculture of Criminals, Collectors, and Conservationists

Peter Laufer

This widely praised book chronicles Peter Laufer's adventures within the butterfly industry and the butterfly underground. Laufer begins by examining the allure of butterflies throughout history, but his research soon veers into the ...

Der Neue Kosmos-Schmetterlingsfuhrer: Schmetterlinge, Raupen und Futterpflanzen [The New Kosmos Butterfly Guide: Butter

Heiko Bellmann and Rainer Ulrich

Which caterpillar turns into which butterfly? Why do you always find the same caterpillars on a plant? What do the pupae look like? These questions can be clearly answered year round with this butterfly guide, at all life stages of the ...

Diversity and Evolution of the Southeast-Asian Planthopper Taxon Bennini (Hemiptera, Cixiidae)

Hannekore Hoch

The present work is the first comprehensive treatment of the cixiid tribe Bennini. An overview on the state of knowledge of cixiid morphology and a first synopsis of the morphological configuration of Bennini is presented. Bennini have ...

Ephemeroptera (with Wibu Key)

Key to Larvae from Central Europe

Ernst Bauernfeind and Wolfgang Lechthaler

Please note: this product includes the Wibu copy protection key and is intended for first-time buyers. If you are purchasing several products only one has to include a Wibu key. If you already have a Wibu key, please purchase ...

Ephemeroptera (without Wibu Key)

Key to Larvae from Central Europe

Ernst Bauernfeind and Wolfgang Lechthaler

This DVD-ROM is part of the range of Eutaxa Electronic Key & Reference Collection; specialist taxonomic software for biological scientists that provides precise documentation of most species known from a certain geographic region.

Esperiana Memoir, Volume 7: The Afrotropical Scythrididae

Bengt Ake Bengtsson

This work embraces all known taxa of the family Scythrididae in the Afrotropical Region. Seven genera are recognized from the area and 307 species are descried or re-described. Most species are illustrated in colour (imagines) and in black ...

Esperiana, Volume 20 (2-Volume Set)

Hermann H Hacker

Published in two books, volume 1 containing the text, volume 2 containing the plates. The books includes descriptions of 2 genera, 149 species and 17 subspecies and the following taxonomic reviews: - Review of the genera ...

Gardening for Butterflies

How You Can Attract and Protect Beautiful, Beneficial Insects

The Xerces Society and Robert Michael Pyle

Can gardening change the world? It certainly can when it comes to butterflies. Butterflies are in danger, but everyone who has a garden can do their part to make a difference. Gardening for Butterflies is an optimistic call to ...

Gossamer Days

Spiders, Humans and Their Threads

Eleanor Morgan

What happens when one making animal meets another? Gossamer Days explores the strange web of spider-human relationships. Artist and writer Eleanor Morgan has spent a decade working with spiders and their silk. Her explorations ...

Guide des Mollusques Terrestres: Escargots et Limaces [Guide to Terrestrial Molluscs: Snails and Slugs]

Cedric Audibert and Alain Bertrand

Here is a complete guide on to the terrestrial molluscs (snails and slugs) of France. With this guide, the reader can easily, reliably and intuitively identify these animals. The guide features an original system of tabs for with character ...

Ika no Fushigi Kisetsu no Tabibito: Surumeika Tankobon

Yasunori Sakurai

Along with tuna, squid, every year account for the second or third place of most consumed seafood in Japan. On the other hand, the squid is difficult to breed in the aquarium, and many questions surrounding the egg masses and larvae in ...

Insects and Diseases of Mediterranean Forest Systems

Timothy D Paine and Francois Lieutier

Insect and disease issues are often specific to the Mediterranean forest systems rather than shared with the temperate forests. In addition to the specific native insects and diseases, the forests are subject to the invasion of exotic species ...

Jellyfish: A Natural History

Lisa-ann Gershwin

Jellyfish are mysterious creatures, luminously beautiful with remarkably varied life cycles. These simple, ancient animals are found in every ocean at every depth, and have lived on Earth for at least the last 500 million years. Ominously ...

Libellen in Drenthe [Dragonflies of Drenthe]

Rene Manger, Gerard Abbingh, Hans Schinkel and Jan Joost Mekkes

This book is the result of ten years of research conducted by volunteers into the dragonfly fauna of the Dutch province of Drenthe. The result is this richly illustrated book containing a large amount of data on the province of Drenthe.

Lycaenidae Part 2 (Guide to the Butterflies of the Palearctic Region)

Subfamily Theclinae, Tribe Eumaeini (partim): Satyrium, Superflua, Armenia, Neolycaena, Rhymnaria

Z Weidenhoffer, Gian Cristoforo Bozano, Alexander B Zhdanko and Sergei V Churkin

This volume covers the butterfly subfamily Theclinae, Tribe Eumaeini, genera Satyrium, Superflua, Armenia, Neolycaena, and Rhymnaria. This new edition has 12 pages more than the first one, including ...

Moths of Victoria, Part 6: Ghost Moths - Hepialidae and Allies

Axel Kallies, Peter Marriott and Marilyn Hewish

Part six in a series of ten to twelve which will cover the 2,000 species of Victorian moths. This part covers the Ghost moths and allies. A CD-ROM provides over additional pages which contain biology and distributions for each species ..

Neritidae of the World, Volume 1

Thomas E Eichhorst

Nerites inhabit marine, brackish, freshwater, and arboreal environments worldwide in tropical to temperate climes. Neritidae of the World is a two-volume set of books that provides an in-depth examination of the almost 300 nerites ...

Perhoskompassi, Osa 1: Kaakkois-Aasia [Butterfly Compass, Volume 1: Southeast Asia]

Tari Haahtela

Perhoskompassi is a handy field guide for naturalists is interested in butterflies. Volume 1 treats about 770 speceis, mainly from South-East Asia, but also wider-ranging Indo-Australian species of the region have been photographed ...

Pheromone Communication in Moths

Evolution, Behavior, and Application

Jeremy D Allison and Ring T Carde

Common among moths is a mate-finding system in which females emit a pheromone, which induces males to fly upwind along the pheromone plume. Following the chemical identification of the pheromone of the domesticated silk moth in 1959, the ...

Pictorial of Insect Type Specimens Deposited in Guizhou University

Li Zizhong, Li Hu Xing and Ji Chun

Pictorial of Insect Type Specimens Deposited in Guizhou University deals with the type specimens of 734 insect species of Mantodea (Thespidae), Phasmatodae (Phasmatidae), Homoptera (Cicadellidae, Cicadellin, Delphacidae, Ricanii ...

Slugs and Snails

Robert Cameron

Slugs and snails are part of the great Phylum Mollusca, a group that contains creatures as different as the fast-moving squid of the oceans and the sedentary clams, cockles and mussels. The largest group, however, are the gastropods ...

Spiderwatch: A Guide to Australian Spiders

Bert Brunet

An easy-to-use and practical field manual. More than 100 of the most frequently encountered Australian spiders are shown, with information on toxicity, habitat and prey capture. Gives advice on first aid for treating bites from Australian ...

Spinnen: Die Erfolgreichen Jaeger [Spiders: The Ultimate Predators]

Stephen Dalton and Jorunn Wissmann

Spiders are the most successful terrestrial predators on earth and we are privileged to share the planet with about 40,000 known species of these remarkable animals. Wherever we are, from mountain tops to seashores and from ponds to desert ...

Swiss Butterflies Site Guide

Jason Sargerson

This is a pioneering, original, site guide to Swiss Butterflies. Easily accessible butterfly sites across Switzerland are described. The full range of habitat is visited including Woodland, Wetland, Rocky Steppe, Mountain and High Mountain ...

The Bee Book

Discover the Wonder of Bees and How to Protect Them for Generations to Come

Emma Tennant and Fergus Chadwick

The Bee Book shows you step-by-step how to create a bee-friendly garden, get started in beekeeping, and harness the power of honey for well-being. Fully illustrated with full-color photographs throughout, this beautiful ...

The Behaviour and Social Life of Honeybees

Ronald Ribbands, Thomas D Seeley and Norman L Carreck

A fantastic and comprehensive review, designed to meet the needs of scientists, beekeepers, and all readers who are interested in the natural history of insects. It is written in everyday English, without scientific jargon. Re-printed with ...

The Butterfly Fauna of Sri Lanka

George Michael van der Poorten and Nancy E van der Poorten

This comprehensive work describes and discusses the lives of all 247 species of butterflies in Sri Lanka and illustrates the adults of both sexes with colour photographs taken in the field. Additionally, the egg, larva and pupa of each ...

The Cnidaria, Past, Present and Future

The World of Medusa and Her Sisters

Stefano Goffredo and Zvy Dubinsky

The Cnidaria, Past, Present and Future presents a broad panorama of the current status of research of invertebrate animals considered belonging to the phylum Cnidaria, such as hydra, jellyfish, sea anemone, and coral. In this book ...

The Genus Mesodorylaimus Andr íssy, 1959 (Nematoda: Dorylaimida)

A Monographic Study

Uzma Tauheed and Wasim Ahmad

The dorylaim nematodes constitute a very large group among terrestrial forms and occur more frequently than any other group. They are found the world over, in all types of soil and freshwater, in every conceivable habitat and usually ...

The Lives of Lepidopterists

Lee A Dyer and Matthew L Forister

Inchworms, tiger moths, underwings, owlet moths, silkworms, sphinx moths, grass moths, and butterflies. Collectively, these and many others are the Lepidoptera, one of the most diverse groups of animals on the planet.

The Soul of an Octopus

A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness

Sy Montgomery

In 2011 Sy Montgomery wrote a feature for Orion magazine entitled 'Deep Intellect' about her friendship with a sensitive, sweet-natured octopus named Athena and the grief she felt at her death. It went viral, indicating ...

Trichoptera Families

Key to Larvae from Central Europe

Wolfgang Lechthaler

This CD-ROM is part of the range of Eutaxa Electronic Key & Reference Collection; specialist taxonomic software for biological scientists that provides precise documentation of most species known from a certain geographic region.

Vlinders & Libellen Buiten Beleven [Experiencing Butterflies and Dragonflies Outdoors]

Barbara Rijpkema

Butterflies can be enjoyed when they visit your garden on a sunny day, searching for nectar, or you can go out at night to search for months. Can you tell the difference between dragonflies and damselflies? This guide allows the reader ...

ZooKeys 567: The Genus Litophyton Forskal, 1775 (Octocorallia, Alcyonacea, Nephtheidae) in the Red Sea and the western

LP van Ofwegen

The Octocorallia (Cnidaria) are a poorly understood group of marine animals and most genera are badly in need of revision. This article represents the second revision of genera of the family Nephtheidae, that occurs throughout the world's ...

ZooKeys 570: Catalogue of Texas spiders

David Allan Dean

Texas is the second largest state and includes range-limits of many species of spiders and also has part of its border adjoining Mexico. The climate varies from subtropical in South Texas, to temperate conditions in the panhandle ...

A Field Guide to the Dinosaurs of North America

And Prehistoric Megafauna

Bob Strauss and Sergey Krosovskiy

A field guide to 60 dinosaurs and prehistoric animals that once lived in what is now North America. Featuring stunning illustrations of each animal by world-famous artist Sergey Krosovskiy and based on the latest paleontogical research ...

Amber Palaeobiology

Research Trends and Perspectives for the 21st Century

David Penney

Fossils in amber provide a unique insight into the evolutionary history of arthropods (insects, spiders and their relatives), the most diverse and ecologically important group of animals on the planet today. The fossils provide direct evidence ...

Arthur Smith Woodward

His Life and Influence on Modern Vertebrate Palaeontology

Z Johanson, Paul M Barrett, M Richter and M Smith

Arthur Smith Woodward was the Natural History Museum's longest-serving Keeper of Geology and the world's leading expert on fossil fish. He was also an unwitting victim of the Piltdown fraud, which overshadowed his important scientific ...

Bring Back the King

The Science of De-Extinction

Helen Pilcher

If you could bring back one living being from the whole of the history of time, what would you choose? In Bring Back the King, comedian and former stem-cell biologist Helen Pilcher explains the cutting-edge science that makes ...

Cetacean Paleobiology

Felix G Marx, Olivier Lambert and Mark D Uhen

Cetaceans (whales, dolphins, and porpoises) have fascinated and bewildered humans throughout history. Their mammalian affinities have been long recognized, but exactly which group of terrestrial mammals they descend from has, until recently ...

Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs

The Astounding Interconnectedness of the Universe

Lisa Randall

Sixty-six million years ago, an object the size of a city crashed into Earth, killing off the dinosaurs and three-quarters of other species on the planet. Lisa Randall proposes it was a comet dislodged from its orbit as the solar system ...

Dinosaurs - The Grand Tour

Everything Worth Knowing about Dinosaurs from Aardonyx to Zuniceratops

Keiron Pim and Jack Horner

We live in a golden age of paleontological discovery – the perfect time to dig in to the spectacular world of dinosaurs. From Aardonyx, a lumbering beast that formed a link between two- and four-legged dinosaurs, to Zuniceratops ...

Dinosaurs: A Concise Natural History

David E Fastovsky, David B Weishampel and John Sibbick

The ideal textbook for non-science majors, this lively and engaging introduction encourages students to ask questions, assess data critically and think like a scientist. Building on the success of the previous editions, Dinosaurs has been ...

Giant Sloths and Sabertooth Cats

Archaeology of the Ice Age Great Basin

Donald K Grayson

As the Ice Age came to an end, North America lost a stunning variety of animals. Mammothmastodons, ground-dwelling sloths the size of elephants, beavers the size of bears, pronghorn antelope the size of poodles, llamas, and carnivores ...

Giants of the Lost World

Dinosaurs and Other Extinct Monsters of South America

Donald R Prothero

More than a hundred years ago, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote a novel called The Lost World with the exciting premise that dinosaurs and other prehistoric beasts still ruled in South America. Little did Conan Doyle know, there were ...

Horned Armadillos and Rafting Monkeys

The Fascinating Fossil Mammals of South America

Darin A Croft and Velizar Simeonovski

South America is home to some of the most distinctive mammals on Earth giant armadillos, tiny anteaters, the world s largest rodent, and its smallest deer. But the continent once supported a variety of other equally intriguing mammals ...

Neogene Fossils from Kathiawar, Gujarat, India with Special Emphasis on Taxonomic Description of Molluscs and Corals

RL Jain and SK Wdhawan

From the foreword: "The present work is restricted to the western-most part of Kathiawar (Saurashtra), covering Okha Mandal and Kalyanpur Talukas of Iamnagar district of Gujarat, India. The author came across several ...

Upper Vendian Macrofossils of Eastern Europe: Middle Dniester Area and Volhynia / Makrofossilii Verkhnego Venda Vostochn

A Yu Ivantsov, VP Gritsenko, VM Paliy, VA Velikanov, LI Konstantinenko, A Sh Menasova and Fedonkin

This publication presents a report of the main data on all species of Vendian and Early Cambrian macrofossils, that were ever discovered on Middle Dniester area (Podolia) and Volhynia, two historic regions in Europe that straddle contemporary ...

Atlantic Seashore Field Guide

Florida to Canada

J Duane Sept

A photographic guide to the common plants and animals that inhabit the intertidal zone – the area covered by water at high tide and exposed during low tide – on the Atlantic coast from Cape Canaveral, Florida, to Cape Breton ...

Coral Reefs of the Eastern Tropical Pacific

Persistence and Loss in a Dynamic Environment

Peter W Glynn, Derek P Manzello and Ian C Enochs

This book documents and examines the state of health of coral reefs in the eastern tropical Pacific region. It touches on the occurrence of coral reefs in the waters of surrounding countries, and it explores their biogeography, biodiversity ...

Green Guide to Seashore Life Of Britain And Europe

Bob Gibbons and Denys W Ovenden

Our coastlines are home to a wide range of animals and plants; some that are iconic sights on beaches and others that we only see when we look more closely. The Green Guide to Seashore Life makes identifying them easy for beginners and amateur ...

Macrozoobenthos (with Wibu Key)

Key to Families of Macroinvertebrates in European Freshwaters

Wolfgang Lechthaler

This DVD-ROM is part of the range of Eutaxa Electronic Key & Reference Collection; specialist taxonomic software for biological scientists that provides precise documentation of most species known from a certain geographic region. Eutaxa offers ...

Macrozoobenthos (without Wibu Key)

Key to Families of Macroinvertebrates in European Freshwaters

Wolfgang Lechthaler

This DVD-ROM is part of the range of Eutaxa Electronic Key & Reference Collection; specialist taxonomic software for biological scientists that provides precise documentation of most species known from a certain geographic region. Eutaxa offers ...

Opredelitel' Zooplanktona i Zoobentosa Presnykh Vod Evropeiskoi Rossii, Tom 1: Zooplanktona [Identification Keys to Zoop

VR Alekseev

This illustrated Manual to the zooplankton and zoobenthos of the inland waters of European Russia can be used for aquatic ecosystems research. It can also be used for training and self-learning by students of biological disciplines.

Opredelitel' Zooplanktona i Zoobentosa Presnykh vod Evropeiskoi Rossii, Tom 2: Zoobentosa [Identification Keys to Zoopla

VR Alekseev

This illustrated Manual to the zooplankton and zoobenthos of the inland waters of European Russia can be used for aquatic ecosystems research. It can also be used for training and self-learning by students of biological disciplines.

African Animal Lore

Clive Alfred Spinage

With historical facts and anecdotes from Ancient Egypt, Roman times, through recent historical times to present, this is not a biology book nor a guidebook to African animals, but a miscellany of information from the bizarre to the ...

Allotments

David Crouch

The allotment is a British institution. Working a small plot of land in a village, town or city is for many a way of life. It can also be an assertion of independence or self-sufficiency and a political and ecological statement.

America's Great National Forests,Wildernesses & Grasslands

White River, Angeles, Gifford Pinchot, Tongass, Superior, Mt. Hood, Bitterroot, Wasatch-Cache, Francis Marion, Monongahe

Char Miller, Tim Palmer, Bill McKibben and Scott J Tilden

For more than a century, America's national forests have proved an environmental gift and cultural treasure, our spectacular backyard. Under the management of the U.S. Forest Service, this system of public lands encompasses 193 million ...

Animals Are Delicious

3 Foldout Food Chain Books

Meagan Bennett, Dave Ladd and Stephanie Anderson

Animals eat animals in this informative expose of three animal food chains. Three of the longest food chains of the animal kingdom are depicted in three accordion-foldout volumes, complete with stunning dimensional art and sparse ...

Au Fil des Songes

Michel Munier, Vincent Munier and CharlElie Couture

Amazing pictures and subtle words take the reader to a journey into a secret, fragile and ignored nature. An unreal world, however, that stands on our doorstep. All the photographs were shot in Lorraine, on the ponds, in the peat bogs ...

Backpacker Magazine's Bear Country Behavior

Essential Skills and Safety Tips for Hikers

Bill Schneider

Backpacker Magazine's Bear Country Behavior informs readers about how to hike and backpack safely in grizzly bear and black bear country throughout the United States. Topics covered include hiking and camping in bear country ...

Basic Illustrated Animal Tracks

Jonathan Hanson and Roseann Hanson

For a generation, the Basic Illustrated series has been as much a part of the US outdoors experience as backpacks and hiking boots. Information-packed tools for the novice or handy references for the veteran, these volumes ...

Basic Illustrated Guide to Frogs, Snakes, Bugs, and Slugs

John Himmelman

A surefire hit with young backyard diggers and bug-watchers, Basic Illustrated Guide to Frogs, Snakes, Bugs, and Slugs combines detailed illustrations of bugs, slugs, snakes, toads, and other creepy crawlies with clear and ...

Basic Illustrated Weather Forecasting

Michael Hodgson and Lon Levin

Michael Hodgson gives detailed lessons in recognizing shifts in weather patterns, understanding why they occur, identifying cloud formations, and mastering basic meteorological concepts.

Bear Aware

The Quick Reference Bear Country Survival Guide

Bill Schneider

Heading into bear country can seem frightening ...but it doesn't have to be. This handy, packable guide will show you preventive measures that can reduce your chances of coming across a bear and techniques that can minimize your risk ...

Being Happy When You See the Crappy

The Incomplete Hikers Guide to Knowing What Lurks in the Woods Based on That Pile Near the Trail

Hubbert Family

This US-centric pocket guide, with hand-drawn pictures by members of the Hubbert family of all ages, is a tongue-in-cheek field guide to scats left by common mammals and birds. Ideal for family hikes, this helpful guide will allow you to ...

Beneath the Ice

In Search of the Sami

Kenneth Steven

Beneath the Ice tells the fascinating, often troubling, story of the Sami – the indigenous people of the Scandinavian Arctic. A proud and resilient people in an unforgiving yet stunningly beautiful northern wildscape, the ...

Best Wildflower Hikes Western Washington

Year-Round Opportunities Including Mt. Rainier, Olympic, and North Cascades National Parks

Peter Stekel

Best Wildflower Hikes Western Washington combines the best aspects of hiking and wildflowers into one guide. The Best Wildflower Hikes series features 40 hikes with honorable mentions throughout that focus on the best ...

Black Apples of Gower

Iain Sinclair

Iain Sinclair walks back along the blue-grey roads and the cliff-top paths of his childhood in south Wales, rediscovering the Gower Peninsula, a place first explored in his youth. Provoked by the strange, enigmatic series of paintings ...

Black and White in the Wild

John Feltwell and Nick Baker

Black and White in the Wild is a photographic celebration and investigation into the anomaly that is black and white colouration in wild animals. In this beautiful book Dr John Feltwell explores the nature of black and ...

British Urban Trees

A Social and Cultural History 1800-1914

Paul A Elliott

Whether we consider the great London Planes which are now the largest trees in many British urban streets, the exotic ornamentals from across the globe flourishing in numerous private gardens, the stately trees of public parks and squares ...

Bugling Elk and Sleeping Grizzlies

The Who, What, and When of the Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks

Shirley A Craighead and John Craighed George

Discover the secrets of the seasons in Yellowstone and Grand Teton! Bugling Elk and Sleeping Grizzlies reveals the patterns of life in Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks. Colorful photos and easy-to-follow text help you ...

Causeway Coast Way

With Moyle Way

Eoin Reilly

The unspoiled Causeway Coast of Antrim is one of Ireland's best-kept secrets. The World Heritage Site of the Giant's Causeway is the jewel in its crown, and its amazing geology is best enjoyed on foot. The Causeway Coast Way offers ...

Chasing Alaska

A Portrait of the Last Frontier Then and Now

CB Bernard

Alaska looms as a mythical, savage place, part nature preserve, part theme park, too vast to understand fully. Which is why C. B. Bernard lashed his canoe to his truck and traded the comforts of the Lower 48 for a remote island and a ...

Cleveland Way

Gordon Simm and Jacquetta Megarry

The Cleveland Way is one of England's oldest and best-loved National Trails. It runs for 110 miles (177 km) around the North York Moors National Park, starting inland at Helmsley, offering panoramic views over the vales of York and ...

Coast to Coast

The Wainwright Route

Sandra Bardwell

This challenging walk of 184 miles (296 km) crosses the north of England from St Bees on the Irish Sea to Robin Hood's Bay on the North Sea. It passes through three National Parks – the Lake District, Yorkshire Dales and North ...

Crimea and the Black Sea

An Environmental History

Carlos Cordova

The Crimean Peninsula has a rich and complex environmental history. The Black Sea in particular has had a major impact on nearly all aspects of Crimea's natural and cultural history. Carlos Cordova explains the making of Crimea's ...

Defining Species

A Sourcebook from Antiquity to Today

John S Wilkins

Defining Species: A Sourcebook from Antiquity to Today provides excerpts and commentary on the definition of species from source material ranging from the Greeks, through the middle ages, to the modern era. It demonstrates that ...

Fine Lines

Vladimir Nabokov's Scientific Art

Stephen H Blackwell and Kurt Johnson

This landmark book is the first full appraisal of Vladimir Nabokov's long-neglected contributions as a scientist. Although his literary achievements are renowned, until recently his scientific discoveries were ignored or dismissed by ...

Fingers in the Sparkle Jar

A Memoir

Chris Packham

"Every minute was magical, every single thing it did was fascinating and everything it didn't do was equally wondrous, and to be sat there, with a Kestrel, a real live Kestrel, my own real live Kestrel on my wrist! I felt like I ...

Flakes, Jugs and Splitters

A Rock Climber's Guide to Geology

Sarah Garlick

With an informal Q-and-A format and fun, informative language, Flakes, Jugs and Splitters brings the science of geology into the hands of rock climbers. It covers topics that range from how to use a geologic map to find new ...

Inherit the Dust

Nick Brandt

Three years after the conclusion of his trilogy (On This Earth, A Shadow Falls, Across the Ravaged Land), Nick Brandt returns to East Africa to photograph the escalating changes to the continent's natural world. In a series of epic panoramas ...

Instant Weather Forecasting

You Can Predict the Weather

Alan Watts

Instant Weather Forecasting has been a perennial bestseller since it was first published nearly 50 years ago. A brilliant concept, its winning formula of 24 clear colour photographs of cloud formations and their accompanying ...

Into the Mysterium

Michele Oka Doner

With the oceans covering over 70 percent of the Earth's surface, our planet can be called a marine planet. Beneath the waves are millions of remarkable creatures – beautiful big whales, dangerous jellyfish, legions of phytoplankton ...

John Muir and the Ice That Started a Fire

How A Visionary and the Glaciers of Alaska Changed America

Kim Heacox

John Muir was a fascinating man who was many things: inventor, scientist, revolutionary, druid (a modern day Celtic priest), husband, son, father and friend, and a shining son of the Scottish Enlightenment – both in temperament and ...

Land and Forest Governance in Swat

Transition from Tribal System to State to Pakistan

Sultan-i-Rome

Land and Forest Governance in Swat covers in detail and shows how forests have been managed and used in the Swat State areas and Kalam from the sixteenth century CE until 2007. As forestry issues and the related complexities ...

Landscape Photographer of the Year, Collection 9

AA (Automobile Association)

Now in its ninth year, the Landscape Photographer of the Year Award was devised by Charlie Waite, one of Britain's foremost landscape photographers and created in association with AA Publishing.

Let My People Go Surfing

The Education of a Reluctant Businessman

Yvon Chouinard

In his long-awaited memoir, Yvon Chouinard – legendary climber, businessman, environmentalist, and founder of Patagonia, Inc. – shares the persistence and courage that have gone into being head of one of the most respected ...

Living Things We Love to Hate

Facts, Fantasies & Fallacies

Des Kennedy and David Takayoshi Suzuki

Flora and fauna that have historically been given a bum rap are examined in these fascinating anecdotes about life on a small island. Living Things We Love to Hate's ecological importance is reinforced in the foreword by ...

Lonely Planet's Beautiful World

Sublime Photography of the World's Most Magnificent Spectacles

Lonely Planet Publications

Forty years of passion and experience has been poured into Lonely Planet's Beautiful World. We witness fiery volcanic eruptions; wind-sculpted icebergs in the Antarctic; mind-blowing migrations of wildlife large and small ...

Marianne North

A Very Intrepid Painter

Michelle Payne

This is the story of Marianne North, an unmarried middle-aged Victorian lady of comfortable means, set off in 1871 on her first expedition to make a pictorial record of the tropical and exotic plants of the world. Marianne produced more ...

Night of the Deer / La Nuit du Cerf

Vincent Munier, Marc Namblard and Yves Paccalet

In the deep of the autumnal night, the deer shows up. Dark shadows and pale moonlight, unreal atmospheres and surprising fuzziness bring to light the admired silhouette of the animal. Like in mysterious tales, the subtle and original ...

Photographs of Environmental Phenomena

Scientific Images in the Wake of Environmental Awareness, USA 1860s-1970s

Gisela Parak

Since well before the debates about global warming and climate change, images have played an important part in bringing changes in nature and the environment to the attention of the general public. Moreover, most of these images have ...

Rain: Four Walks in English Weather

Melissa Harrison

This is an evocative meditation on the English landscape in wet weather by the acclaimed novelist and nature writer, Melissa Harrison. Whenever rain falls, our countryside changes. Fields, farms, hills and hedgerows appear altered, the ....

Robert Bateman: Life Sketches

A Memoir

Robert Bateman

Internationally acclaimed artist Robert Bateman has brought the natural world to vivid life with his unique perspective. His vast body of work spanning species as large as the buffalo and as small as the mouse has touched millions of ...

Sea of Storms

A History of Hurricanes in the Greater Caribbean from Columbus to Katrina

Stuart B Schwartz

The diverse cultures of the Caribbean have been shaped as much by hurricanes as they have by diplomacy, commerce, or the legacy of colonial rule. In this panoramic work of social history, Stuart Schwartz examines how Caribbean societies ...

Secrets of the Seas

A Journey into the Heart of the Oceans

Callum M Roberts and Alex Mustard

Our seas are host to an extraordinary variety of plant and animal life, but much of it remains mysterious and great imagery is surprisingly hard to find. Alex Mustard is one of the world's leading underwater photographers and his images ...

Shark Tracker

Confessions of an Underwater Cameraman

Richard Fitzpatrick

Killer tales from an award-winning cinematographer and marine biologist. Marine biologist and underwater cameraman Richard "Shark Tracker" Fitzpatrick wrangles sharks and other deadly marine creatures for a living.

Spare the Birds!

George Bird Grinnell and the First Audubon Society

Carolyn Merchant

In 1887, a year after founding the Audubon Society, explorer and conservationist George Bird Grinnell launched Audubon Magazine. The magazine constituted one of the first efforts to preserve bird species decimated by the ...

Strange Case of the Mad Professor

A True Tale of Endangered Species, Illegal Drugs, and Attempted Murder

Peter Kobel

It was one of the biggest scandals in New York University history. Professor John Buettner-Janusch, chair of the Anthropology Department, was convicted of manufacturing LSD and Quaaludes in his campus laboratory. He claimed the drugs were ...

Sustainability: A History

Jeremy L Caradonna

The word is nearly ubiquitous: at the grocery store we shop for "sustainable foods" that were produced from "sustainable agriculture"; groups ranging from small advocacy organizations to city and state governments to ...

Tancho [French]

Vincent Munier and Zeno Bianu

Tancho is now a collectible book that invites us to an encounter with the rare and elegant Red-crowned Crane, on the Japanese island of Hokkaido. This spectacular bird, known as Tancho, is a symbol of long life, happiness and ...

The Arran Coastal Way

Jacquetta Megarry

The Arran Coastal Way is one of Scotland's newest long-distance walks, running around the coast of the Isle of Arran for 65 miles. Arran is easily reached from Glasgow by frequent ferry from nearby Ardrossan. Famous as Scotland's ..

The Art of Botanical Painting

Margaret Stevens

This is the definitive instructional guide to the art of botanical illustration, published in association with The Society of Botanical Artists and featuring detailed step-by-step demonstrations by members of the Society. Botanical illustration ...

The Art of Flight

Fredrik Sjoberg

"Stories just begin. We rarely know where and almost never why. It doesn't matter. Nothing is certain any longer. I just want to shut my eyes, point at random and say, as a sort of experiment, that once, when I was sixteen years ...

The Boiling River

Andres Ruzo

This fantastical tale – which sent scores of Spanish conquistadores to their death during the great age of discovery – paints an intoxicating image of shamans and spells, forest-dwelling creatures and a river so hot it can ...

The Ethical Carnivore

My Year Killing to Eat

Louise Gray

Louise Gray's first kill is a disaster. She injures a rabbit and thinks it has died in agony. But the experience teaches her a lesson and, when she subsequently finds the extraordinary 'rabbit with a white blaze', she vows to ...

The Gathering Tide

A Journey Around the Edgelands of Morecambe Bay

Karen Lloyd

Karen Lloyd takes us on a deeply personal journey around the 60 miles of coastline that make up 'nature's amphitheatre'. Embarking on a series of walks that take in beguiling landscapes and ever-changing seascapes, Karen tells ...

The Great Wonders of Nature

The Most Amazing Superlatives on Earth

Monaco Books

The highest mountains, the longest rivers and the deepest lakes, the strongest and fastest land animals or the oldest plants on Earth – Nature is the greatest and also the most fascinating record-holder on our planet. From the icy ...

The Illustrated Compendium of Amazing Animal Facts

Maja Safstrom

An artfully playful collection of unexpected and remarkable facts about animals, illustrated by Swedish artist Maja Säfström. Did you know that an octopus has three hearts? Or that ostriches can’t walk backwards ...

The Invention of Nature

The Adventures of Alexander Von Humboldt, the Lost Hero of Science

Andrea Wulf

Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) is the great lost scientist: more things are named after him than anyone else. There are towns, rivers, mountain ranges, the ocean current that runs along the South American coast, there's a penguin ...

The Joy of Nature Photography

101 Tips to Improve Your Outdoor Photos

Steve Price

Nature and the outdoors provide us with exceptional beauty year-round. Now, author and professional photographer Steve Price has put together a collection of tips, tricks, and pointers for any photographer – amateur or pro – ...

The Little Book of Woodland Bird Songs

Caz Buckingham and Andrea Pinnington

Birds can be hard to spot at the best of times and never more so than in the woods, so let The Little Book of Woodland Bird Songs and your ears do the work instead. Listen to the wonderfully varied songs and calls of woodland birds ...

The Lord Treasurer of Botany

Sir James Edward Smith and the Linnaean Collections

Tom Kennett, Leonie Berwick and Helen Cowdy

Written by Archivist Tom Kennett, this is the definitive biography of the founder of The Linnean Society of London, Sir James Edward Smith. This new and honest work details Smith’s life, from his beginnings as the son of a Norwich ...

The Perfect Pond

Rebecca Neal and Vanessa Barber

A newt went down to the pond one night........What did he find?.....Who did he meet?.....Join our fearless friend on an exciting adventure through the countryside to find the perfect pond. The Perfect Pond is a children's ...

The Pocket Naturalist

Felicity Hart

"In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." – John Muir Packed with absorbing countryside facts and tips on everything from birdwatching to identifying flora and fauna, this miscellany ...

The Story of Beatrix Potter

Sarah Gristwood

This highly illustrated biography looks at the iconic work and fascinating life of one of our national treasures – Beatrix Potter. Bestselling historian Sarah Gristwood follows Potter from her constricted Victorian childhood to the ...

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 ...

The Woods of Ireland

A History, 700-1800

Nigel Everett

The accepted view of Irish woodlands is that Ireland was covered in trees until the English came and chopped them down. While admirable in its brevity, this interpretation is inadequate regarding the actual management of Irish forests ...

Tracks and Trailcraft

A Fully Illustrated Guide to the Identification of Animal Tracks in Forest and Field, Barnyard and Backyard

Ellsworth Jaeger

From dinosaurs to birds and mammals to insects, here are hundreds of tracks typically encountered in the USA described and illustrated.

Transporting Visions

The Movement of Images in Early America

Jennifer L Roberts

Transporting Visions follows pictures as they traveled through and over the swamps, forests, towns, oceans, and rivers of British America and the United States between 1760 and 1860. Taking seriously the complications involved in ...

Underwater Photography Masterclass

Alex Mustard

There is an astonishing world just waiting to be photographed underwater. With marine biologist Dr Alexander Mustard as your guide you can learn all you need to know to explore the amazing creatures and landscapes that lie beneath the surface ...

Upin: A Bornean Banteng

Jaswinder Kaur Kler, Penny Gardner and Benoit Goossens

This is a story about Upin, a four-year old Bornean Banteng (a species of wild cattle found in Southeast Asia), who lives in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo. Through his journey of discovery, Upin learns from his mother and relatives a number of ...

Visions of Science

Books and Readers at the Dawn of the Victorian Age

Jim Secord

The first half of the nineteenth century saw new scientific disciplines begin to take shape, while new concepts of the natural world and its processes - concepts of evolution and the vastness of geological time - began to spread.

Walking Through Spring

An English Journey

Graham Hoyland

Walking Through Spring follows Graham Hoyland's journey as he creates a new national trail, walking with the Spring from the south coast in March up to the border with Scotland, which he reaches on the longest day ...

Wild About Botswana

Michael C Brook

This large coffee table book, with almost 400 full colour pages, over 25,000 words and 650 images, describes Botswana's principal tourist attractions – world heritage sites, game reserves, national parks, wildlife and bird sanctuaries ...

Wild Animals of the North

Dieter Braun

The first in a series of illustrated books covering animals of the world, Wild Animals of the North features Dieter Braun's beautiful drawings of northern animals accompanied by fun facts and clever descriptions that children ...

Wildlife Australia

Murray Unkovich

Australia is blessed with a wonderful assortment of birds, mammals, reptiles, insects and other animals. They are all around you, in cities and urban areas, regional and national parks and of course in the vast outback. This book brings ...

Winged Fire

A Celebration of Indian Birds

Valmik Thapar

India has more than 1,200 species of birds. The richness and diversity of the country's birdlife has been celebrated by thousands of ornithologists, birders and amateur naturalists for hundreds of years. Winged Fire brings the ...

ZooKeys 550: Anchoring Biodiversity Information

From Sherborn to the 21st Century and Beyond

Ellinor Michel

Names are our primary framework for organizing information on the living world. But how do we tie scientific names to a foundation so they provide stability and repeatability to otherwise fluid conceptual topics such as taxonomies?

A Glimpse of Biodiversity in India

Dipak Konwar and Pankaj Kalita

This edited collection contains the following chapters dealing with biodiversity in India: 1    Concept in Biodiversity 2    Emergence in Mapping Microbial diversity in tea soil in Assam ...

A Guide to Some Urban Fauna of India

Preston Ahimaz

A Guide to Some Urban Fauna of India has been prepared to provide an understanding and consequently appreciation of nature, which could lead to its conservation, a dire need today. The book has been designed to suit the beginner ...

A Naturalist's Guide to Canyon Country

David B Williams and Gloria Brown

Published in cooperation with Canyonlands Natural History Association, this comprehensive and beautifully illustrated trailside reference describes more than 270 plants and animals plus geology of an area that includes nine national parks ...

Australian Alps

Kosciuszko, Alpine and Namadgi National Parks

Deirdre Slattery

Australian Alps is a fascinating guide to Kosciuszko, Alpine and Namadgi National Parks. It introduces the reader to Australia's highest mountains, their climate, geology and soils, plants and animals and their human history ...

Beat About the Bush: Family Edition

Trevor Carnaby

Following the other popular books in the Beat About the Bush series, Beat About the Bush: Family Edition is a collection of common everyday questions about animals prompted by visits to the bush. However, the contents ...

Brazil Wildlife

A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Species

James R Kavanagh and Raymond Leung

One of the world's richest ecosystems, Brazil is home to the most species of plants (55,000), fishes (3,000) and mammals (600+) anywhere on earth. A naturalist's paradise, it also harbors 744 reptiles, 517 amphibians, 1,901 birds ...

Colorado Wildlife

A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Animals

James R Kavanagh and Raymond Leung

Colorado Wildlife is an excellent guide to popular species of mammals, birds, and reptiles found in Colorado. Laminated for durability, and richly illustrated with impeccable detail, these handy guides are a great source of ...

Crocodile Pools Botswana

History & Biodiversity

Michael C Brook and Kitso Mokaila

Notwane (Ngotwane) and Crocodile Pools are located adjacent to one another in the South East District, some 15 km south of Gaborone, the capital city of Botswana. Despite their close proximity to the capital, the areas are steeped in ...

Crossbill Guide: Cevennes and Grand Causses, France

Dirk Hilbers and Paul Knapp

The Cévennes National Park, together with its twin the Parc Naturel des Grands Causses, are among the richest natural areas in France. Against a stunning background of steep cliffs, extensive forests and open, steppe-like plateaux ...

Crossbill Guide: Spanish Pyrenees and Steppes of Huesca, Spain

Dirk Hilbers and Kees Woutersen

This guide covers the central part of the Spanish Pyrenees plus the dry, desert-like Ebro basin beneath it. It covers the northern part of Aragón, roughly coinciding with the province of Huesca. This guide covers the famous Pyrenean ...

Fatal Revolutions

Natural History, West Indian Slavery and the Routes of American Literature

Christopher P Iannini

Drawing on letters, illustrations, engravings, and neglected manuscripts, Christopher Iannini connects two dramatic transformations in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world – the emergence and growth of the Caribbean plantation system ...

Field Guide to Acadia National Park, Maine

Russell D Butcher

The 42,000 acres that comprise Acadia National Park include glacier-worn granite mountains, rocky cliffs, crystal blue ponds and lakes, and a dramatic coastline where waves collide spectacularly with dramatic headlands.

Glorious Gulf of Mexico

Life Below the Blue

Jesse Cancelmo and Jr.,John W Tunnell

Stunned by widespread ignorance about the Gulf of Mexico following the 2010 Macondo oil spill, underwater photographer Jesse Cancelmo decided to turn his camera on the marine life of this 600,000 square mile international sea that connects ...

Greater Mekong Subregion

Atlas of the Environment

Asian Development Bank (ADB)

The Atlas celebrates the peoples of the Greater Mekong Subregion, and presents the environmental and development challenges they face and their responses. In 1992, Cambodia, the People's Republic of China, the Lao People's ...

Historic Redwood National & State Parks

The Stories Behind One of America's Great Treasures

Gail L Fiorini-Jenner

If redwood trees could share their stories, what would they say? Some of these giants are thousands of years old, but all have witnessed some truly unique moments in history. Historic Redwood National and State is a vibrant collection of ...

Historic Yosemite National Park

The Stories Behind One of America's Great Treasures

Tracy Salcedo-Chourre

The view from Yosemite National Park is so vast and wide, but what hikers see from its peak today is different from the view Native Americans and Spanish colonialists looked upon. Historic Yosemite National Park is a vibrant collection ...

Knowing Yellowstone

Science in America's First National Park

Jerry Johnson

Presently in Yellowstone there are almost 200 active research permits that involve over 500 investigators, but only a small fraction of this scientific work is reported in the popular press. Furthermore, the results are mixed and frequently ...

Landmarks

Robert MacFarlane

Landmarks is Robert Macfarlane's joyous meditation on words, landscape and the relationship between the two. Words are grained into our landscapes, and landscapes are grained into our words. Landmarks is about the ...

Living with Biodiversity in an Island Ecosystem

Cultural Adaptation in the Solomon Islands

Takuro Furusawa

Living with Biodiversity in an Island Ecosystem presents a detailed case study of ecological and cultural interactions between the people and their natural environment at Roviana Lagoon, Solomon Islands, a land of rich biodiversity ...

Mightier Hudson

The Spirited Revival of a Treasured Landscape

Roger D Stone

Against the odds, the Hudson Valley has cleaned up its act and rediscovered its soul. In this well researched and passionate treatise on the much celebrated but long abused Hudson River, author Roger Stone describes how protecting New York ...

Mountains of the Heart: A Natural History of the Appalachians (20th Anniversary Edition)

Scott Weidensaul

Part natural history, part poetry, Mountains of the Heart is full of hidden gems and less traveled parts of the Appalachian Mountains. Stretching almost unbroken from Alabama to Belle Isle, Newfoundland, the Appalachians are one ...

National Geographic Guide to National Parks of the United States

National Geographic and Phil Schermeister

For all national parks lovers, and anyone with a sense of history, this 100% updated, completely redesigned edition of the best-selling National Parks guide in North America will continue to impress travelers with all-new descriptions ...

Newsday's Guide to Long Island's Natural World

Newsday Inc. and Lisa Davila

For more than two years, a team of Newsday reporters and photographers explored the woods and waters of a world most visitors to Long Island never see. As they waded through bogs, kayaked on the island's four rivers, hiked through ...

On Silbury Hill

Adam Thorpe

Silbury Hill in Wiltshire has inspired and perplexed people for generations. Artists and poets have fathomed their deepest thoughts searching for the hill's hidden meanings, archaeologists have tunneled through earth for fragments ...

Scats and Tracks of the Great Lakes

A Field Guide to the Signs of 70 Wildlife Species

James C Halfpenny and Todd Telander

See those animal signs on the trail? Was that footprint left by a fox or a wolf? Was that pile of droppings deposited by a moose, a mouse, or a marten? Scats and Tracks of the Great Lakes will help you determine which mammals ...

Scats and Tracks of the Northeast

A Field Guide to the Signs of 70 Wildlife Species

James C Halfpenny and Todd Telander

See those animal signs on the trail? Was that footprint left by a fox or a wolf? Was that pile of droppings deposited by a moose, a mouse, or a marten? Scats and Tracks of the Northeast will help you determine which mammals, birds ...

Scats and Tracks of the Pacific Coast

A Field Guide to the Signs of 70 Wildlife Species

James C Halfpenny and Todd Telander

See those animal signs on the trail? Was that footprint left by a fox or a wolf? Was that pile of droppings deposited by a moose, a mouse, or a marten? Scats and Tracks of the Pacific Coast will help you determine which mammals ...

Scats and Tracks of the Rocky Mountains

A Field Guide to the Signs of 70 Wildlife Species

James C Halfpenny and Todd Telander

See those animal signs on the trail? Was that footprint left by a fox or a wolf? Was that pile of droppings deposited by a moose, a mouse, or a marten? Scats and Tracks of the Rocky Mountains will help you determine which mammals ...

Scats and Tracks of the Southeast

A Field Guide to the Signs of 70 Wildlife Species

James C Halfpenny and Todd Telander

See those animal signs on the trail? Was that footprint left by a fox or a wolf? Was that pile of droppings deposited by a moose, a mouse, or a marten? Scats and Tracks of the Southeast will help you determine which mammals, birds ...

Seen and Unseen

Discovering the Microbes of Yellowstone

Kathy B Sheehan, David J Patterson, Brett Leigh Dicks and Joan M Henson

Yellowstone National Park is one of the world's truly extraordinary places. Its landscape, dominated by a great volcanic crater and sculpted over millennia by water and glacial ice, is host to a dramatically complex and diverse environments ...

Sixty Degrees North

Around the World in Search of Home

Malachy Tallack

The sixtieth parallel marks a borderland between the northern and southern worlds. Wrapping itself around the lower reaches of Finland, Sweden and Norway, it crosses the tip of Greenland and the southern coast of Alaska, and slices the ...

The Ancient Pinewoods of Scotland

A Companion Guide

Clifton Bain, Darren Rees, Vanessa Collinrgidge and Aubrey Manning

Scattered across the Scottish Highlands are the last surviving remnants of the Caledonian forest which have survived, naturally seeding and growing since the last ice age. Visiting these ancient woods provides an emotional connection to ...

The Natural History of the Amami Islands [Japanese]

Taku Mizuta

The Amami archipelago, a group of subtropical islands in Japan, are a biological frontier, and a "promised land" for biologists due to its high degree of biodiversity. This book describes the area's natural history, showing ...

The Sonoran Desert

Wayne Lynch

Once again, author/photographer Wayne Lynch takes readers on a personal journey through a treasured North American ecosystem. Amazing photography, first-person anecdotes, and tons of factual information on the animals, plants, climate and ...

When Man Becomes Prey

Fatal Encounters with North America's Most Feared Predators

Cat Urbigkit

Sam Ives's family set up camp in a Utah campground, cooked dinner, cleaned up and packed their gear away, and climbed into their multi-chambered tent to sleep. It was a great end to Father's Day. Eleven-year-old Sam crawled into ...

Wild Maine

Discoveries of a Wildlife Photographer

Jr.,Bill Silliker

Blessed with varied topography and a mix of climate zones, Maine is home to a rich variety of wildlife. In Wild Maine, renowned wildlife photographer Bill Silliker, Jr. (he died in 2003, just before Wild Maine was published ...

Wild in the Willamette

Exploring the Mid-Valley's Parks, Trails, and Natural Areas

Lorraine Anderson, Abby Phillips Metzger and Monica Drost

Located between the population centers of Portland and Eugene, Oregon's Willamette Valley boasts rich opportunities for outdoor recreation that are too often overlooked. Wild in the Willamette is a guidebook to the natural ...

1001 Garden Plants In Singapore

Lily Chen, Ang Wee Foong and Arthur Ng

1001 Garden Plants in Singapore presents a quick pictorial reference to the great selection of plants found in Singapore. More than 2,000 plants have been selected for the enjoyment of all, including novice gardeners, students ...

A Field Guide to Poison Ivy, Poison Oak, and Poison Sumac

Prevention and Remedies

Susan Carol Hauser and William Epstein

The most up-to-date and comprehensive guide on the market. A Field Guide to Poison Ivy, Poison Oak, and Poison Sumac takes the mystery out of identifying these common US weeds and provides useful antidotes for treating their ...

A Photographic Guide to Wildflowers of Outback Australia

Denise Greig

Approximately 250 native flowering plants are featured with authoritative text describing key identification features. Also included are line drawings, full-colour photographs, thumbnail symbols for family groups and a map showing area ...

A Photographic Guide to Wildflowers of South-Eastern Australia

Denise Greig

Covers around 250 species of those wildflowers you are most likely to encounter growing in the more accessible or regularly visited parts of south-eastern Australia. Some species are widespread and common in all states, while others may ...

Atlas of the Aegean Flora (2-Volume Set)

Arne Strid

The Aegean archipelago of Greece is floristically rich and of great biogeographical interest, with a high degree of endemism. It provides a model area for studies of evolution and speciation. For the first time in more than ...

Australian Native Plants

Cultivation, Use in Landscaping and Propagation

John W Wrigley and Murray Fagg

Now in its sixth edition, Australian Native Plants provides a wealth of information for over 3,500 native plants, their properties, cultivation and propagation. The introductory chapters provide sound practical advice on the ...

Australian Native Plants (Concise Edition)

Cultivation, Use in Landscaping and Propagation

John W Wrigley and Murray Fagg

This concise edition of the phenomenally successful Australian Native Plants makes it even easier to choose Australian native plants for your garden. Which includes more than 1500 species and cultivars that are easy to obtain and grow, many ...

Autoecology and Ecophysiology of Woody Shrubs and Trees

Fundamental Concepts and Their Applications

Ratikanta Maiti, Humbero Gonzalez Rodriguez and Natalya Sergeevna Ivanova

Autoecology and Ecophysiology of Woody Shrubs and Trees unites the two very relevant fields of autoecology and ecophysiology of trees. It provides information on practical field knowledge and recent advances in scientific research ...

Bamboos of Meghalaya

Pushpa Kumari and Paramjit Singh

Bamboos of Meghalaya provides an account of indigenous and cultivated bamboos reported from Meghalaya. It includes the current accepted name of species with basionym and synonyms, if any, detailed morphological descriptions along with ...

Basic Illustrated Edible Wild Plants and Useful Herbs

Jim Meuninck

An information-packed tool for the novice or handy reference for the veteran to the contiguous United States. Distills years of knowledge into an affordable and portable book. With this updated guide, you'll discover how to identify ...

Basic Illustrated Edible and Medicinal Mushrooms

Jim Meuninck

For a generation, the Basic Illustrated series, which is US-focused, has been as much a part of the outdoors experience as backpacks and hiking boots. Information-packed tools for the novice or handy references for the veteran ...

Basic Illustrated Medicinal Plants

Jim Meuninck

An information-packed tool for the novice or handy reference for the veteran. Distills years of knowledge into an affordable and portable book. With Basic Illustrated Medicinal Plants, you'll discover how to identify medicinal ...

Basic Illustrated Poisonous and Psychoactive Plants

Jim Meuninck

A richly photographed and information-packed tool for the novice or handy reference for the veteran, Basic Illustrated Poisonous and Psychoactive Plants distills years of knowledge into an affordable visual guide. Whether planning ...

Big Leaf Rhododendrons

Growing the Giants of the Genus

Glyn Church, Graham Smith and Pat Greenfield

Rhododendrons are a most versatile garden plant, large and evergreen, with glorious flowers and wonderful foliage, and the big-leaf species (Falconera and Grandia) take these attributes to a whole new level. All of the big-leaf rhododendrons ...

Boundary Layer

Exploring the Genius Between Worlds

Kem Luther

In atmospheric science, a boundary layer is the band of air nearest the ground. In the Pacific Northwest, the boundary layer teems with lichens, mosses, ferns, fungi, and diminutive plants. It's an alternate, overlooked universe whose ...

Cactus: Identification, Soins, Reproduction [Cacti: Identification, Care, Proliferation]

Markus Berger and Denis-Armand Canal

The world of cacti is at once rich in varieties, exotic and full of fascinating beauty! This book is a serious introduction to cactus science: it clearly explains all aspects of maintenance and proliferation, and to this end contains ...

Carnivorous Plants

Gardening with Extraordinary Botanicals

Nigel Hewitt-Cooper

Carnivorous plants used to be considered something of a niche, fawned over mainly by collectors and maybe some horror-film fans. But these plants that eat bugs and small rodents are poised to be the next big trend. Now commonly sold ...

Central Florida Wildflowers

A Field Guide to Wildflowers of the Lake Wales Ridge, Ocala National Forest, Disney Wilderness Preserve, and More Than 6

Roger L Hammer

Central Florida Wildflowers features stunning color photographs of 300 common wildflowers from Ocala National Forest, Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge, Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge, the Disney Wilderness Preserve ...

Colorado Trees & Wildflowers

An Introduction to Familiar Species

James R Kavanagh and Raymond Leung

Colorado Trees & Wildflowers is a pocket-sized, folding nature guide highlighting the most commonly seen trees and wildflowers in Colorado. Laminated for durability, these handy guides are a great source of portable information ...

Common Mangroves of Sundarbans

Arjan Basu Roy, Devsena Roychaudhury, Lipika Ray and Ujjwal Bhattacharya

From the foreword: "The most common inhabitants of the Sundarbans are its mangroves. There are very few books on these unique plants in a simple language. A large number of people visit the Sundarbans and many of them do ...

Compendium of Corn Diseases

Gary P Munkvold and Donald G White

The Compendium of Corn Diseases is one of our all-time bestselling titles. Old editions of this vital field guide can be found in trucks, farms, extension offices, and diagnostic labs wherever corn is grown. Copies of ...

Desmids of Eastern Himalaya

Debjyoti Das and Jai Prakash Keshri

The authors present an exhaustive catalogue of desmids of the Eastern Himalaya, including most parts of Sikkim and the northern regions of West Bengal (Kalimpong, Lava, Lolegaon etc.). In spite of an enormous range of biodiversity ...

Diatoms and the Continuing Relevance of Morphology to Studies on Taxonomy, Systematics and Biogeography

Celebrating the Work and Impact of Patricia A. Sims on the Occasion of Her 80th Birthday

Jakub Witkowski, David Williams and John Patrick Kociolek

The collection of 13 papers in this volume of Nova Hedwigia Beihefte all focus on aspects of diatom taxonomy and systematics. Amongst these contributions are papers describing new species, both fossil and recent, marine and freshwater ...

Die Flora der Voralpen: Zwischen Thuner- und Genfersee [The Flora of the Swiss Alps: Between Lake Thun and Lake Geneva]

Emanuel Gerber, Gregor Kozlowski and Anne-Sylvie Mariethoz

Die Flora der Voralpen takes you on a journey of discovery in the plant world of the mountains between Lake Thun and Lake Geneva, revealing the richness and uniqueness of this natural heritage. The flora of this region ...

Dipterocarp Biology, Ecology, and Conservation

Jaboury Ghazoul

Asian tropical forests are amongst the most diverse on the planet, a richness that belies the fact that they are dominated by a single family of trees, the Dipterocarpaceae. Many other families contribute to Asia's natural diversity ..

Distribution Atlas of Vascular Plants of Hungary / Magyarorszag Edenyes Novenyfajainak Elterjedesi Atlasza

Bartha Denes and Kiríly Gergely

The atlas contains 2231 distribution maps of vascular plants of Hungary. The taxa are visualized according to the Central European Grid Unit which area is nearly 6,25 km × 5,55 km. The sources of the data mostly originate from ...

Edible & Medicinal Plants of Canada

Andy MacKinnon, Linda J Kershaw and Patrick Owen

Throughout human history plants have provided us with food, clothing, medicine and shelter. Canada is a huge country with diverse habitats that are home to an incredible diversity of plant species that have helped native peoples and early ...

Edible Mushrooms

A Forager's Guide to the Wild Fungi of Britain and Europe

Geoff Dann

An up-to-date, comprehensive and brilliantly illustrated book on fungi foraging in Britain and Europe. It covers every known edible species, and all the poisonous groups, as well as a few other extremely common ones and a handful that are ...

Edible Plants of North West Himalaya (Uttarakhand)

Rakesh Shah

The Himalayas have always been considered a storehouse of biological diversity. There occur 21 forest types in the Himalayas, which itself is an indicator of the presence of a vast biodiversity. Uttarakhand State, which is a part of the ...

Edible Seaweeds of the World

Leonel Pereira

Seaweed is used in many countries for very different purposes – directly as food, especially in sushi, as a source of phycocolloids, extraction of compounds with antiviral, antibacterial or antitumor activity and as biofertilizers.

Ethnoveterinary Plants of Central Himalaya

PC Pande and Lalit Tiwari

Plants have been used by man for a variety of purposes. The use of medicinal plants in maintaining the health of animals and human beings has been recognised since the Vedic period. The importance of drug resources has also been recognised ...

Evening-Primroses (Oenothera) of Britain and Ireland

Rosaline J Murphy and Robin Walls

The 18 species and hybrid accounts include a description, with notes on any infraspecific taxa, together with details on habitats and distribution. Line drawings and distribution maps are given for the most important taxa with some colour ...

Flora Zambesiaca, Volume 8, Part 6: Acanthaceae: Barleria to Hypoestes

Jonathan R Timberlake and ES Martins

The Flora Zambesiaca series, published in over 200 parts, provides comprehensive descriptive accounts of the flowering plants and ferns native and naturalized in Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana and the Caprivi ...

Flora of Guntur City, Andhra Pradesh

PR Mohana Rao, SM Khasim and Bi Bi Aasiya

The Flora of Guntur City is the brain child of Professor P.R. Mohana Rao, whose association with the Professor Olov Hedberg at Uppsala University inspired him to take up flora work which eventually culminated into a most valuable ...

Flora of Telangana: The 29th State of India (3-Volume Set)

T Pullaiah

The Indian state of Telangana has been intensively explored by the author and his scholars for plant wealth during the last 30 years. For the purpose of this work, all the herbaria in India have been consulted for specimens of Telangana.

Flore du Luberon [Flora of Luberon]

Georges Guende

Field guide to flowers of Luberon, a mountainous area of Provence, France, which has preserved a unique ecological balance.

Flowers of Bangladesh [English / Bengali]

MA Taher, Kabir Chowdhury and Dwijen Sharma

This book, enriched by magnificent photographs, provides both interesting and useful information about the flowers of Bangladesh.

Fungus Among Us

An Exploration of Fungi in the Anamalai Hills

Ranjini Murali, P Jeganathan, TR Shankar Raman and Divya Mudappa

The rainforests of the Anamalai hills in the Western Ghats India provide ideal conditions for the occurence of a wide diversity of remarkable fungi. This booklet presents a brief introduction to the rich diversity of fungi in the Anamalai ...

Green Guide to Trees of Australia

Peter Krish

This new title in New Holland's award-winning Green Guides series investigates the ever-popular subject of Australia's trees and shrubs, celebrating the beauty, great diversity and unique evolution of the country's ...

Growing Windowsill Orchids

Phillip Seaton

From elegant warmth-loving moth orchids to exquisite slipper orchid, Growing Windowsill Orchids tells you everything you need to know about successful orchid growing in the home. Written in non-technical language and copiously ...

Guide des Characees de France Mediterraneenne [Guide to Characeae of Mediterranean France]

Jean-Baptiste Mouronval

This guide describes and illustrates, via photographic images, the 42 stonewort species, varieties and forms currently recorded for Mediterranean, continental France. This guide also provides information relative to the biology, ecology ...

Guide des Orchidees d'Europe d'Afrique du Nord et du Proche-Orient [Orchids of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East

Pierre Delforge

More than 600 species and many varieties of orchids are described and illustrated. After a presentation of the morphology of orchids, accompanied by an identification key down to genus level, each species is presented following a fixed outline ...

Handbook of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi

Tancredo Souza

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) are obligate root symbionts that impact plant growth, productivity and competitiveness. Handbook of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi integrates key information about AMF concepts, structures and ...

Higher Plants of the Indian Subcontinent, Volume 11

AN Purohit

This is the 11th Volume of Higher Plants of the Indian Sub-Continent brought out under the Additional Series of the Indian Journal of Forestry. The articles included in this volume had been originally submitted to the ...

Hygrophorus, Hygrocybe e Cuphophyllus del Friuli Venezia Giulia [Hygrophorus, Hygrocybe and Cuphophyllus of Friuli-Venez

Emanuele Campo

This book covers the mycoflora in the three genera Hygrophorus, Hygrocybe and Cuphophyllus in Friuli-Venezia Giulia, an Italian region bordering Austria, Slovenia and the Adriatic. It treats 83 species, with ...

Identification Book of Trees and Shrubs in Bulgaria [Bulgarian]

D Gramatikov

This identification guide covers the entire Bulgarian dendroflora. It includes all wild and cultivated trees and shrubs in Bulgaria as studied by the author. A total of 726 species of plant are described systematically, and most descriptions ...

Images of Singapore Botanic Gardens

Alvin Loh

With more than 150 years of history, the 74-hectare Singapore Botanic Gardens holds a unique and significant place in the history of Singapore and the region. It was responsible in its early days for the introduction, experimentation and ...

In Praise of Poison Ivy

The Secret Virtues, Astonishing History, and Dangerous Lore of the World's Most Hated Plant

Anita Sanchez

For centuries, poison ivy has bedeviled, inconvenienced, and downright tortured the human race. In Praise of Poison Ivy explores the question of why this plant is apparently on a mission to give us humans grief, from itchy ankles ...

Invasive Alien Plants of Jharkhand

Rameshwar Das, BN Divakara and Santosh Prasad

This is a guide to invasive alien plants of Jharkhand, a state in eastern India. It contains below six chapters: Chapter 1    Introduction Chapter 2    Documentation of Invasive Plant Species ...

Kew Gardens

Virginia Woolf and Livi Mills

This charming short story by one of the greatest literary figures of the 20th century, Virginia Woolf, is set on a hot July day in Kew Gardens. Woolf creates an impressionistic world with snippets of conversation, wondering thoughts and ...

Lady's Slipper Orchids of India

HJ Chowdhery

Lady's Slipper or Slipper Orchids are an extremely well known group of orchids. They are popularly called Lady's slippers because of the presence of a highly modified pouch-like lip or labellum, which looks similar to a lady's ...

Les Bromeliacees [The Bromeliads]

Albert Roguenant, Marcel Lecoufle, Aline Raynal-Roques and Jason Ryan Grant

Les Broméliacées covers the whole Bromeliad family. These tropical plants count more than 3300 species, including Ananas, and play an important role in worldwide horticulture. A large introductory chapter, in French ...

Medicinal Plants of Northeast India

Sachin Kumar Borthakur, M Ahmed, P Gogoi, DN Dutta and GU Ahmed

During the last few decades there has been a resurgence of interest on medicinal and aromatic plants across the globe owing to their demands, either for use in different health-care systems or for manufacture of various health-care products ...

Mushrooms for Health

Medicinal Secrets of Northeastern Fungi

Greg A Marley

There is a burgeoning interest in natural medicines in the United States. Among these natural health powerhouses are mushrooms, and here mycologist Greg Marley introduces ten species found in New England – and elsewhere, too, in ...

Mushrooms of Northeast North America

Midwest to New England

George Barron

An authoritative and full-color photographic field guide to mushrooms and fungi of the northern United States, from the Midwest to New England. Featured in USA Today, this must-have reference has 700 spectacular photos and excellent ...

Mushrooms of the Northeast

A Simple Guide to Common Mushrooms

Teresa Marrone and Walter E Sturgeon

Hundreds of full-colour photos with easy-to-understand text make this a great visual guide to learning about more than 400 species of common wild mushrooms found in the Northeast of the USA. The species (from Morel Mushrooms to Shelf Mushrooms ...

North American Mushrooms

A Field Guide to Edible and Inedible Fungi

Jr.,Orson K Miller and Hope H Miller

North American Mushrooms is a field guide to more than 600 edible and inedible mushrooms that can be found across the United States and Canada. Filled with full colour photographs, detailed identification information, and illustrated ...

Pflanzen Einfach Bestimmen: Schritt fur Schritt Einheimische Arten Kennenlernen [Easily Identifying Plants: Learning to

Peter M Kammer and Stefan Eggenberg

Identifying plants is a skill that can be considered to have been learned when it's not just the flower colour that serves as a guide. This entry-level identification key introduces the reader to identifying 674 of the most common ...

Protea: A Guide to Cultivated Species and Varieties

Lewis J Matthews

The proteas (Proteaceae) are a large and ancient plant family of Gondwana origins with an impressive diversity of flower and form, and an intriguing distribution pattern throughout mainly the Southern Hemisphere. In his spectacular photographs ...

Southern Rocky Mountain Wildflowers

A Guide to Common Wildflowers, Shrubs, and Trees

Leigh Robertson and Christine Kassar

Published in cooperation with the Rocky Mountain Nature Association. This book describes 200 wildflowers common to the Rocky Mountains.

Stirling Macoboy's What Tree is That?

Stirling Macoboy

Now in its third edition, this classic reference book for Australian gardeners, by the late, best-selling author Stirling Macoboy, has been in print for almost 30 years. The completely revised edition, with existing entries updated and ...

Strombomonas (Euglenophyta) Taxonomical Review

Takaaki Yamagishi

The genus Strombomonas Deflandre is well known alga genus for a group of interesting and widely distributed Euglenoid Flagellata. The genus was proposed firstly by Deflandre (1930) and many taxa, 33 species and 28 varieties ...

The Amaryllidaceae of Southern Africa

Graham Duncan, Barbara Jeppe and Leigh Voigt

Barbara Jeppe, botanical artist extraordinaire, began work on the paintings in July 1971 and for the next 28 years she collected and painted over 200 species of Amaryllidaceae. After her death in 1999, her daughter, Leigh Voigt, a versatile ...

The Bee-Friendly Garden

Design an Abundant, Flower-Filled Yard That Nurtures Bees and Supports Biodiversity

Kate Frey and Gretchen LeBuhn

For every gardener who cares about the planet, The Bee-Friendly Garden to designing a bee garden helps you create a stunningly colorful, vibrant, healthy habitat that attracts both honeybees and native bees.

The Book About the Book - The Search for the Inferior Ovary

The Story of the Making of The Amaryllidaceae of Southern Africa

Leigh Voigt

This book documents the passion and the pain, and the trials and tribulations inherent in a collaboration of the magnitude of the main work, The Amaryllidaceae of Southern Africa. Many personalities, both past and present, were involved in the ...

The British Oak

Archie Miles

The British Oak is a comprehensive overview of everything that the iconic oak tree signifies to Britain and its people. Archie Miles explores the rise of oak woods since the last Ice Age, placing the tree in its biological, cultural ...

The Hidden Life of Trees

What They Feel, How They Communicate - Discoveries from a Secret World

Peter Wohlleben

In The Hidden Life of Trees Peter Wohlleben shares his deep love of woods and forests and explains the amazing processes of life, death, and regeneration he has observed in the woodland and the amazing scientific processes behind ...

The Kew Tropical Plant Families Identification Handbook

Timothy Utteridge and Gemma Bramley

The tropics with their lush rainforests are extremely rich in plant life but are still comparatively unknown. Botanists at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew have a long tradition of exploring and plant collecting in the tropics, accumulating ...

The Man Who Made Things Out of Trees

Robert Penn

Robert Penn cut down an ash tree to see how many things could be made from it. After all, ash is the tree we have made the greatest and most varied use of over the course of human history. Journeying from Wales across Europe and Ireland ...

The Secrets of Wildflowers

A Delightful Feast of Little-Known Facts, Folklore, and History

Jack Sanders

The Secrets of Wildflowers is a colourful tribute filled with odd, little-known facts and wonderful superstitions about some of North America's most beautiful and common plants. The Secrets of Wildflowers includes ...

The Wild Plants of the Burren and the Aran Islands

A Field Guide

Charles Nelson

The Burren and the Aran Islands, southwest Ireland, are renowned worldwide for their beautiful wild flowers and plants. Charles Nelson has selected 136 of the most widely occurring plus a number of special plants. By illustrating each ...

The World of Plants in Renaissance Tuscany

Medicine and Botany

Cristina Bellorini

In the sixteenth century medicinal plants, which until then had been the monopoly of apothecaries, became a major topic of investigation in the medical faculties of Italian universities, where they were observed, transplanted, and grown ...

Trees of Chandigarh

Chhatar Singh, Rajnish Wattas and Harjit Singh Dhillon Singh Dhillon

Originally published in 1998. Chandigarh, one of the greatest experiments in urban planning in India of the 20th century, is today as much famous for its landscaping, as it is for its architecture. An important feature of its planning was ...

Trees: A Handbook of Forest Botany

H Marshall Ward

The purpose of this book is to provide students of forest botany with a guide to the study of trees and shrubs from the point of view of the outdoor naturalist. At the same time, the purpose is to interest them in certain methods of ...

Tuindieren Buiten Beleven [Experiencing Garden Animals Outdoors]

Tialda Hoogeveen

A diverse garden will be overflowing with animal life, not just above, but also below ground. This nature guide explores your garden: which garden animals live here, what do they need, and what can you do for them? Birds, butterflies ...

Type Specimens in China National Herbarium (PE), Volume 1: Pteridophyta (1) [English / Chinese]

Lin Qi

This book is a very important work for researching and identifying Chinese plants. It couuld also be used as a reference by plant taxonomists and people from botanic research institutions, educational institutions and production departments ...

Type Specimens in China National Herbarium (PE), Volume 3: Pteridophyta (3): Gymnospermae [English / Chinese]

Lin Qi

Voulume 3 of Type Specimens In China Herbarium (PE) includes 432 type specimens from Dryopteridaceae (2) to Cyatheaceae, and Gymnospermae, comprising 342 holotypes, 50 isotypes, 15 lectotypes, 6 isosyntypes, 15 paratypes ...

Type Specimens in China National Herbarium (PE), Volume 6: Angiospermae (3) [English / Chinese]

Lin Qi

Volume 6 of Type specimens in China National Herbarium (PE) includes 565 type specimens from Juglandaceae to Urticaceae, comprising 367 holotypes, 141 isotypes, 29 lectotypes, 1 syntype, 3 isosyntypes, 24 paratypes, 2 isoparatypes ...

Waldgraeser: Der Bestimmungsfuehrer [Wild Herbs: The Identification Guide]

Christine Rapp and Norbert Bartsch

Compared to meadow grasses, wild herbs lead a shadowy existence in the truest sense of the word. While some characterize grassland and steppe landscapes and serve as important food and feed crops worldwide, others are hardly noticed.

Welche Alpenblume ist das?: 168 Alpenblumen Einfach Bestimmen [Which Alpine Flower Is That? Easily Identifying 168 Alpin

Manuel Werner

Welche Alpenblume ist das? is a practical nature guide on 168 different species of alpine flowers.

Welcher Baum ist das?: 170 Baume Einfach Bestimmen [Which Tree Is That? Easily Identifying 170 Trees]

Joachim Mayer

The practical and expert nature guide in your pocket – recommended by NABU. Detailed in Welcher Baum ist das? are 170 known native trees.

Wildflowers of Tennessee

The Ohio Valley and the Southern Appalachians

Dennis Horn and Tavia Cathcart

This is the revised, second edition of the most complete, comprehensive and informative field guide ever published on the flora of this region. Sponsored by the Tennessee Native Plant Society, this labor of love has been fourteen years in ...

Wonderful Weeds

An Extensive & Fully Illustrated Guide from Seedlings to Fruit

Madeline Harley

Botanist Madeline Harley pairs clear, informative descriptions with exquisite photographs to provide unsurpassed coverage of almost 200 British weedy species. Now, for the first time, enthusiasts and non-specialists alike will be able to ...

Woodland Flora

A Field Guide for the Southern Tablelands (NSW and ACT)

Sarah Sharp, Rainer Rehwinkel, Dave Mallinson and David Eddy

This field guide covers over 440 plant species found in woodlands in the Southern Tablelands region, Australia. Provides images and details of the most common species that are likely to be encountered in the area, as well as some of the ...

10% Human

How Your Body's Microbes Hold the Key to Health and Happiness

Alanna Collen

There's more to being human than you think. 10% Human explores the extraordinary world of the powerful microbes that make up 90% of the human body. You are more 'them' than you are 'you'. You are just 10% human ...

Animal Laws of India

Maneka Gandhi, Ozair Husain and Raj Panjwani

The law, effectively harnessed, can become the most potent weapon in the fight against animal abuse and exploitation. Interpreted with courage and compassion, it can extend the maximum protection to living beings that cannot speak or ...

Life: The Leading Edge of Evolutionary Biology, Genetics, Anthropology, and Environmental Science

John Brockman

The newest addition to John Brockman's Edge.org series explores life itself, bringing together the world's leading biologists, geneticists, and evolutionary theorists – including Richard Dawkins, Edward O. Wilson, J. Craig ...

Mammal Societies

Tim Clutton-Brock

Mammal Societies aims to integrate our understanding of mammalian societies into a novel synthesis that is relevant to behavioural ecologists, ecologists, and anthropologists. It adopts a coherent structure that deals initially ...

Systems Biology

A Textbook

Edda Klipp, Wolfram Liebermeister, Christoph Wierling, Axel Kowald and Ralf Herwig

This advanced textbook is tailored for an introductory course in Systems Biology and is well-suited for biologists as well as engineers and computer scientists. It comes with student-friendly reading lists and a companion website ...

The Diet Myth

The Real Science Behind What We Eat

Tim Spector

Why do most diets fail? Why does one person eat a certain meal and gain weight, while another eating the same meal loses pounds? Why, despite all the advice about what to eat, are we all still getting fatter? The answers are much more ...

The Gene

An Intimate History

Siddhartha Mukherjee

Spanning the globe and several centuries, The Gene is the story of the quest to decipher the master-code that makes and defines humans, that governs our form and function. The story of the gene begins in an obscure Augustinian ...

The Systems View of Life

A Unifying Vision

Fritjof Capra and Pier Luigi Luisi

Over the past thirty years, a new systemic conception of life has emerged at the forefront of science. New emphasis has been given to complexity, networks, and patterns of organisation leading to a novel kind of 'systemic' thinking ...

What Would Animals Say If We Asked the Right Questions?

Vinciane Despret, Brett Buchanan and Bruno Latour

Is it all right to urinate in front of animals? What does it mean when a monkey throws its feces at you? Do apes really know how to ape? Do animals form same-sex relations? Are they the new celebrities of the twenty-first century?

100 Million Years of Food

What Our Ancestors Ate and Why It Matters Today

Stephen Le

There are few areas of modern life that offer as much information and advice, often contradictory, as diet and health: eat a lot of meat, don't eat meat; whole-grains are healthy, whole-grains are a disaster; and on it goes. Biological ...

Homo sapiens

An Unauthorized Biography

Claudio Tuniz and Patrizia Tiberi Vipraio

Based on the latest scientific discoveries, this "unauthorized biography" of Homo sapiens recounts the story of our distant ancestors during the past 6 million years, since the line of our extended family separated from ...

People and Nature

An Introduction to Human Ecological Relations

Emilio F Moran

This book provides a lively and thoughtful introduction to ecological anthropology by examining the evolving relations between human communities and nature. - Written by a noted anthropologist, geographer, and environmental ...

Restless Creatures

The Story of Life in Ten Movements

Matt Wilkinson

Despite the overwhelming diversity of life on earth, one theme has dominated its evolution: the apparently simple act of moving from one place to another. Restless Creatures is the first book for a general audience telling the ...

The Evolution of the Primate Hand

Anatomical, Developmental, Functional, and Paleontological Evidence

Tracy L Kivell, Pierre Lemelin, Brian G Richmond and Daniel Schmitt

The Evolution of the Primate Hand demonstrates how the primate hand combines both primitive and novel morphology, both general function with specialization, and both a remarkable degree of diversity within some clades and yet ...

The Extended Phenotype

The Long Reach of the Gene

Richard Dawkins and Daniel C Dennett

In The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins crystallized the gene's eye view of evolution developed by W.D. Hamilton and others. The Extended Phenotype provoked widespread and heated debate. Written in part as a response, The Extended Phenotype gave a ...

The Extended Selfish Gene

Richard Dawkins and Robert Trivers

The Selfish Gene is a classic exposition of evolutionary thought. In it Professor Dawkins articulates a gene's eye view of evolution – a view giving centre stage to these persistent units of information, and in which ...

The Illusion of God's Presence

The Biological Origins of Spiritual Longing

John C Wathey

An essential feature of religious experience across many cultures is the intuitive feeling of God's presence. More than any rituals or doctrines, it is this experience that anchors religious faith, yet it has been largely ignored in ...

Exotic Brome-Grasses in Arid and Semiarid Ecosystems of the Western US

Causes, Consequences, and Management Implications

Matthew J Germino, Jeanne C Chambers and Cynthia S Brown

Invasions by exotic grasses, particularly annuals, rank among the most extensive and intensive ways that humans are contributing to the transformation of the earth's surface. The problem is particularly notable with a suite of exotic ...

Invasion Genetics

The Baker and Stebbins Legacy

Invasion Genetics: The Baker & Stebbins Legacy provides a state-of-the-art treatment of the evolutionary biology of invasive species, whilst also revisiting the historical legacy of one of the most important books in evolutionary ...

Learning and Behavior

A Contemporary Synthesis

Mark E Bouton

The considerable progress that has been made researching fundamental learning processes tells an important and interesting story. In this new book – written for undergraduates, graduate students, and curious professionals – ...

Long-Term Ecological Research

Changing the Nature of Scientists

Michael R Willig and Lawrence R Walker

The Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) Program is, in a sense, an experiment to transform the nature of science, and represents one of the most effective mechanisms for catalyzing comprehensive site-based research that is collaborative ...

Theory-Based Ecology

A Darwinian Approach

Liz Pasztor, Zoltan Botta-Dukat, Gabriella Magyar, Tamas Czaran and Geza Meszena

Ecology is in a challenging state as a scientific discipline. While some theoretical ecologists are attempting to build a definition of ecology from first principles, many others are questioning even the feasibility of a general and universal ...

Unheimliche Eroberer: Invasive Pflanzen und Tiere in Europa [Alien Invaders: Invasive Plants and Animals in Europe]

Wolfgang Nentwig

Unbeknownst to most, animal and plant species from other continents immigrate with us. Some of them like it so well here that they multiply rapidly and suddenly cause considerable damage: They harry, indeed displace, the native flora and ...

Araucaria: The Meridional Brazil Forest / A Floresta do Brasil Meridional

Zig Koch and Maria Celeste Corr

This work deals with the formation of pine forests since the emergence of the first ancestor of the Araucaria, 250 million years ago. It reveals the richness of the flora and fauna, shows the way of life of the first inhabitants of the ...

Big, Bold and Blue

Lessons from Australia's Marine Protected Areas

James Fitzsimons, Geoff Wescott, Tim Winton and Inger Andersen

The world's oceans cover about 70% of our planet. To safeguard the delicate ecological and environmental functions of the oceans and their remarkable biodiversity, networks of marine protected areas are being created. In some of these ...

Collaborative Governance of Forestry

Motomu Tanaka and Makoto Inoue

This extensive reference writes a modern history of forestry in Japan, Indonesia, the Solomon Islands, and other Asian countries, reflecting industrial and colonial exploitation, periods of excessive deforestation, and the alienation of ...

Community Participation in Conservation of Great Himalayan National Park, India

Suman Bhanoo

Conservation of protected areas usually suffers from two problems. First, local people are disallowed access to natural resources on which they depended for ages. Second, when people are displaced they rarely get compensation, and if the ...

Ekosistema Gipergalinnykh Vodoemov Kalmykii [Ecosystems of Hypersaline Waters of Kalmykia]

Nadezhda Matsakovna Baktasheva

This book contains the results of long-term scientific research on the biota of hypersaline waters of the Republic of Kalmykia, Russia. The studies were conducted in different climatic indicator years. Particular attention is paid to the ...

India's Notified Ecologically Sensitive Areas (ESAs)

The Story So Far...

Meenakshi Kapoor, Kanchi Kohli and Manju Menon

This is the first comprehensive compilation of Ecologically Sensitive Areas (ESAs) and the range of experiences associated with them. It traces the chronology of the notifications declaring ESAs in India using the Environment Protection ...

Indian Estuaries

Utpal Bhaumik, MK Mukhopadhyay, NP Shrivastava and AP Sharma

Starting from the definition of an estuary, and the process of formation and classification of estuaries on the basis of salinity and climatic conditions, Indian Estuaries goes on to cover more complex aspects such as circulation ...

National Parks

The American Experience

Alfred Runte

In this lavishly illustrated book well-known environmental historian Alfred Runte, a prominent figure on the Ken Burns documentary The National Parks: America's Best Idea, tells the highly engaging story of the development ...

Rechnye Sistemy Dal'nego Vostoka Rossii: Chetvert' veka Issledovanii [River Systems of Pacific Russia: A Quarter Century

Boris Il'ich Gartsman

This book contains the most important results of published studies conducted during the last 25 years in the development of the Far Eastern Scientific Hydrological school. It sequentially sets out a holistic concept of the surface of the ...

Stepi Tuvy i IUgo-Vostochnogo Altaia [The Steppes of Tuva and South-East Altai]

Bimba-TSyren Batomunkuevich Namzalov

This monograph contains a comprehensive analysis of the steppe vegetation of the southern face of the Altai-Sayan mountain region of Tuva and Southeast Altai, Russia. The regularities of vegetation distribution in the various sectors of ...

The Governance of the Countryside

Property, Planning and Policy

Ian Hodge

Conflicts over the conservation of biodiversity, changing patterns in land use, pollution, climate change, public access and increasing demands for food and energy security lead to the creation of policies designed to reconcile interests ...

Urban Forests

Ecosystem Services & Management

J Blum

This new research compendium focuses on urban forestry research and management, while also considering the sociological and community aspects. The book looks at the benefits of urban forests with respect to urban sustainability and human ...

Wilderburbs: Communities on Nature's Edge

Communities on Nature's Edge

Lincoln Bramwell and William Cronon

Since the 1950s, the housing developments in the West that historian Lincoln Bramwell calls "wilderburbs" have offered residents both the pleasures of living in nature and the creature comforts of the suburbs. Remote from cities ...

Agricultural Biodiversity Heritage Sites and Systems in India

Anurudh K Singh and SN Nigam

The author has documented the agricultural biodiversity associated with 21 heritage sites and component systems in India. These chapters provide valuable lessons on how to achieve sustainable agriculture based on local resources.

Aquatic Biodiversity Conservation and Ecosystem Services

Shin-ichi Nakano, Tetsukazu Yahara and Tohru Nakashizuka

Aquatic Biodiversity Conservation and Ecosystem Services examines the topic of local biodiversity conservation in the Asia-Pacific region, one of the most rapidly changing areas in the world. With a focus on aquatic systems ...

Biodiversity Conservation, Research and Management

HK Sahu, Janmejay Sethy and Rabindra Kumar Mishra

India is an identified megadiverse country, rich in biodiversity and associated traditional knowledge. The country has a tradition of conservation and sustainable use of its biodiversity, which has now come under wider pressure on account ...

Biodiversity: Nature Conservation In The Greening Of Singapore

Singapore (CLC) The Centre for Liveable Cities and Singapore (NParks) National Parks Board

In a small city-state where land is considered a scarce resource, the tension between urban development and biodiversity conservation, which often involves protecting areas of forest from being cleared for development, has always been ...

Bringing Back the Birdsong

Two Dedicated Conservationists Work to Restore the Natural Balance to Their Slice of Coastal New Zealand

Wade Doak and Jan Doak

Diver, undersea explorer and passionate conservationist Wade Doak has lived near the Tutukaka coast with wife Jan since 1968. Well known for his pioneering dives at the Poor Knights Islands off the coast of Whangarei, Wade has gradually ...

Conservation and Environmental Management in Madagascar

Ivan Scales and Barry Ferguson

Madagascar is one of the most biologically diverse places on the planet, the result of 160 million years of isolation from the African mainland. More than 80% of its species are not found anywhere else on Earth. However, this highly diverse ...

Earth's Legacy: Natural World Heritage / Legado de la Tierra: Patrimonio Natural Mundial

Cyril F Kormos, Tim Badman, Russell A Mittermeier, Bastian Bertzky and Cristina Goett Mittermeier

At the time when the global biodiversity crisis and climate change persist increase, the World Heritage Sites represent an international model that incessantly reminds us about the wonder and uniqueness of our living planet and our obligation ...

Ecological Challenges and Conservation Conundrums

Essays and Reflections for a Changing World

John A Wiens

This book is a compendium of the authors' writing over the last 30-plus years. Although the individual essays address a variety of issues in ecology and conservation, collectively they share a common theme which describes the challenges ...

Essentials of Wildlife Management (2-Volume Set)

N Anil Kumar

Wildlife management is a very interesting subject and very few books are available on this topic for the Indian market. The books available are dealing with specific areas of wildlife management as per the expertise of the author and ...

Forbidden Creatures

Inside the World of Animal Smuggling and Exotic Pets

Peter Laufer

Forbidden Creatures chronicles Laufer's worldwide quest to penetrate the underworld network of hunters, traders, and customers who constitute the nefarious business of animal smuggling.

From Soup to Superstar

The Story of Sea Turtle Conservation along the Indian Coast

Kartik Shanker

Tigers, elephants, lions and other large mammals have so far been central to India's conservation story. In spite of the country's vast coastline and millions being dependent on marine resources for their livelihoods, such species ...

How to Clone a Mammoth

The Science of De-Extinction

Beth Shapiro

Could extinct species, like mammoths and passenger pigeons, be brought back to life? The science says yes. In How to Clone a Mammoth, Beth Shapiro, evolutionary biologist and pioneer in "ancient DNA" research, walks ...

Manual d'Identificacio dels Habitats Protegits a la Comunitat Valenciana (Decret 70/2009) [Manual of identification of

Carles Fabregat Llueca and Javier Ranz Ayuso

The Manual d’identificació dels Hàbitats Protegits a la Comunitat Valenciana (Decret 70/2009) constitutes a tool that is intended to facilitate the identification and understanding of habitats listed in Annexe ...

No More Endlings

Saving Species One Story at a Time

Allison Hegan and Wade Davis

A blend of story-telling, science, and imagery, No More Endlings features adventurous, endearing, and sometimes disheartening tales that arise from working to protect endangered species. Chapter authors, ranging from National ...

Protecting Paradise

Saving New Zealand's Native Wildlife - The Case for 1080

Dave Hansford

New Zealand's native wildlife is in crisis. It's being slaughtered by pests and we need to intervene more frequently, more comprehensively, and across a broader front than we currently are if we are to protect our mainland population ...

Rainforest Restoration

A Guide to Principles and Practice

Divya Mudappa and TR Shankar Raman

This is a practical guide to rainforest restoration, with several chapters dedicated practical experiences gained in the Western Ghats in India.

Saving Wild India

A Blueprint for Change

Valmik Thapar

In his new book, naturalist and conservationist Valmik Thapar gives us a bold yet considered plan to preserve and protect our dwindling forests, wildlife and wilderness areas. Saving wild India (whether we realize it or not) is of critical ...

The Geo Handbook on Biodiversity Observation Networks

Michele Walters and Robert J Scholes

Biodiversity observation systems are almost everywhere inadequate to meet local, national and international (treaty) obligations. As a result of alarmingly rapid declines in biodiversity in the modern era, there is a strong, worldwide ...

The IUCN Red List: 50 Years of Conservation / La Lista Roja de la UICN: 50 Anos de Conservacion

Jane Smart, Craig Hilton Taylor, Russell A Mittermeier and Cristina Goettsch Mittermeier

The message put forward this book is a simple one: conservation works and the extinction of species can be prevented. Informative essays by experts, and captivating photographs made by talented photographers, strive to inspire people around ...

Threatened Animals of Sunderbans: Vertebrates

Varadaraju

Threatened Animals of Sunderbans: Vertebrates is the first attempt to provide a comprehensive list of threatened animals of Sunderbans from fishes to mammals. The book deals with taxonomic features and ecology of each species ...

A Farewell to Ice

Peter Wadhams

A captivating guide to the past, present and future of 'the amazing crystal' that plays a vital role in regulating our planet. Peter Wadhams is Professor of Ocean Physics at Cambridge University and the world's leading expert ...

China National Assessment Report on Risk Management and Adaptation of Climate Extremes and Disasters

Dahe Qin

This report analyzes the characteristics of extreme weather and climate events and disasters in China, and assesses their impact on disaster risk management and adaptation-related issues. It also reports on the latest research progress ...

Freegans: Diving Into the Wealth of Food Waste in America

Alex V Barnard

If capitalism is such an efficient system, why does 40 percent of all U.S. food production go to waste – while one in six people in the nation face hunger? This startling truth has stirred increasing interest and action of late ...

Los Bosques y La Biodiversidad Frente al Cambio Clim ítico: Impactos, Vulnerabilidad y Adaptacion En Espana

Mendez A Herrero

Spain has a huge natural heritage and rich biodiversity, and is highly vulnerable to climate change. To address and reduce this vulnerability the PNACC (Plan Nacional de Adaptación al Cambio Climático, a National Plan for ...

Militarizing the Environment

Climate Change and the Security State

Robert P Marzec

As the seriousness of climate change becomes more and more obvious, military institutions are responding by taking a prominent role in the governing of environmental concerns, engaging in "climate change war games", and preparing ...

Rain: A Natural and Cultural History

Cynthia Barnett

It is elemental, mysterious, precious, destructive. It is the subject of countless poems and paintings; the top of the weather report; the source of all the world's water. Yet this is the first book to tell the story of rain.

Reading Weather

The Field Guide to Forecasting the Weather

Jim Woodmencey

Reading Weather provides a quick and simple way to understand how the atmosphere works, how to interpret and use weather forecasts before venturing outdoors, and also how to make your own forecast in the field by observing the ...

Tide: The Science and Lore of the Greatest Force on Earth

Hugh Aldersey-Williams

From Cnut to D-Day: the history and science of the ever-powerful tide explored for the first time. Half of the world's population today lives in coastal regions lapped by tidal waters. On our little island, we live surrounded by water ...

30-Second Biology

The 50 Most Thought-Provoking Theories of Life, Each Explained in Half a Minute

Nicholas Battey and Mark Fellowes

The 50 most thought-provoking theories of life, each explained in half a minute. 30-Second Biology tackles the vital science of life, dissecting the 50 most thought-provoking theories of our ecosystem and ourselves. At a time when ...

Annals of the Deep Sky - A Survey of Galactic and Extragalactic Objects, Volume 3

Cameloparadalis, Cancer, Canes Venatici, Canis Major

Jeff Kanipe and Dennis Webb

Annals of the Deep Sky – A Survey of Galactic and Extragalactic Objects is by far the most up-to-date and comprehensive observing guide available today, featuring in-depth astrophysical profiles of the major stars and ...

Azokh Cave and the Transcaucasian Corridor

Yolanda Fernandez-Jalvo, Tania King, Levon Yepiskoposyan and Peter Andrews

This edited volume describes the geology, stratigraphy, anthropology, archaeology, dating, taphonomy, palaeobotany, palaeontology and palaeoecology of Azokh caves. The chapters review exhaustively the key recent research on this limestone ...

Botswana's Diamonds

Prospecting to Jewellery

Michael C Brook and P Kedikilwe

Botswana's Diamonds covers all aspects of the diamond industry in Botswana, starting with early prospecting, evaluation, mining, sorting, valuation, polishing, cutting and Botswana diamond jewellery. In fact the complete ...

Earth's Evolving Systems

The History of Planet Earth

Ronald E Martin

Earth's Evolving Systems: The History of Planet Earth, Second Edition is an introductory text designed for popular courses in undergraduate Earth history. Written from a "systems perspective", it provides coverage ...

Exploring the Limestone Landscapes of the Cumbrian Ring

Phillip Murphy

The Cumbrian Ring is a limestone outcrop surrounding the Lake District. Twelve short walks are described, which show the features of this landscape and its industrial heritage. This area, less well-known than the Lake District, contains ...

Failure: Why Science is So Successful

Stuart Firestein

The pursuit of science by professional scientists every day bears less and less resemblance to the perception of science by the general public. It is not the rule-based, methodical system for accumulating facts that dominates the public ...

Introducing Stratigraphy

David Bond

Stratigraphy is that branch of geology which studies rock layers (strata) and layering (stratification). It is primarily used in the study of sedimentary and layered volcanic rocks. Stratigraphy and the relationship of rock layers and the ...

Krizna Jama: Palaeontology, Zoology and Geology of Krizna Jama in Slovenia

M Pacher, Vida Pohar and Gernot Rabeder

In order to establish modern research on caves faunas from Slovenia, a co-operation for several years between the University of Vienna, the University of Ljubljana and the Austrian Academy of Sciences was established in 1996.

Philip's Astronomy Starter Pack

Ian Ridpath and Wil Tirion

A new edition of the exciting Philip's Astronomy Starter Pack, suitable for use in the Northern Hemisphere, containing three essential items to introduce the beginner to the fascinating hobby of astronomy ...

Rockhounding Alaska

A Guide to 75 of the State's Best Rockhounding Sites

Montana Hodges

Rockhounding Alaska will be an in-depth guide to the rocks, minerals and fossils legally found and collected within the state. Rockhounding Alaska will contain a light, informative overview of the geologic history of ...

Rockhounding Colorado

Cora Kappele and William A Kappele

A fascinating treasure hunt awaits you in the Centennial State. Rockhounding Colorado takes you to nearly one hundred of the best rockhounding sites in the state. Search for amethyst and quartz at the Crystal Hill Mine.

Rockhounding Delaware, Maryland, and the Washington, DC Metro Area

A Guide to the Areas' Best Rockhounding Sites

Robert D Beard

With this informative guide, you can explore the mineral-rich areas' of Delaware, Maryland, and Washington D.C., from the beaches to the mountains. It describes the areas' best rockhounding sites and covers popular and commercial ...

Rockhounding New Mexico

A Guide to 140 of the State's Best Rockhounding Sites

Martin Freed and Ruta Vaskys

More than a third of New Mexico is public land that holds untold quantities of mineralogical treasure. With Rockhounding New Mexico anyone can learn where to find unusual mineral displays, fossils, jasper, agate, petrified ...

Solar System

A Visual Exploration of the Planets, Moons, and Other Heavenly Bodies that Orbit our Sun

Marcus Chown

In Solar System, bestselling author Marcus Chown leads us on a grand tour through the incredible diversity of planets, moons, asteroids, comets, and spacecraft that surround the Sun in our cosmic backyard. Illuminating his insight ...

The Deep Earth

Physics and Chemistry of the Lower Mantle and Core

Hidenori Terasaki and Rebecca A Fischer

The Deep Earth: Physics and Chemistry of the Lower Mantle and Core highlights recent advances and the latest views of the deep Earth from theoretical, experimental, and observational approaches and offers insight into future ...

The Earth and I

James Lovelock, Lisa Randall, Sir Martin J Rees, Edward O Wilson, Eric Kandel and Jack Hudson

Human beings are extraordinary creatures. Intelligent, agile, and curious, we have adapted and invented our way to becoming the most important species on the planet. So great is the extent of our influence, that many speak of a new geological ...

The Geologic Story of the Uinta Mountains

Wallace R Hansen, Jean Kostak, John R Stacy and Clint McKnight

Other than the Brooks Range in Alaska, the Uintas are the most prominent east/west range in the United States. They also contain the highest mountains in Utah, many of which exceed 13,000 feet, including Kings Peak at 13,528 feet ...

The Great Acceleration

How the World is Getting Faster, Faster

Robert Colvile

Flash crashes. Speed dating. Instant messaging. From the devices we carry to the lives we lead, everything is getting faster, faster. But where did this great acceleration come from? And where will it lead?

The Little Book of Big History

The Story of Life, the Universe and Everything

Ian Crofton and Jeremy Black

From the Big Bang to the future of our planet, The Little Book of Big History divides history into manageable but comprehensive time frames, encompassing the cosmos, the stars, life and everything in between. Big History is the ...

The Water Book

The Extraordinary Story of our Most Ordinary Substance

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 ...

Venomous: How Earth's Deadliest Creatures Mastered Biochemistry

Christie Wilcox

In Venomous the molecular biologist Christie Wilcox investigates venoms and the animals that use them, revealing how they work, what they do to the human body, and how they can revolutionize biochemistry and medicine today.

Virus: An Illustrated Guide to 100 Incredible Microbes

Marilyn Roossinck

Viruses are the last frontier of undiscovered life on our planet. The most abundant type of organism on Earth, they infect all types of cellular life, and, as micro-organisms that cause disease in their hosts, they are highly opportunistic ...

Volcano Discoveries

A Photographic Journey Around the World

Tom Pfeiffer and Ingrid Smet

One of the most eye-catching guides to the world's volcanoes ever published, packed with stunning photography. Introductory chapters include clear and concise information on plate tectonics, different types of volcanoes, different ...

Agriculture: A Very Short Introduction

Paul Brassley and Richard Soffe

Agriculture, one of the oldest human occupations, is practised all over the world, using techniques ranging from the profoundly traditional to the most scientifically advanced. Without it we would starve. Yet how many of us understand why ...

Climate Change and the Future of Sustainability

The Impact on Renewable Resources

Muyiwa Adaramola

Renewable resources such as wind, solar, and geothermal are often perceived as being the answer to the fossil fuel crisis. Ironically, however, climate change may also negatively impact on these energy sources. All forms of renewable energy ...

Community, Commons and Natural Resource Management in Asia

Haruka Yanagisawa

In many traditional societies, certain resources are held in common, with their use and disposition controlled by the community collectively. Such common-pool resources have come to play a significant element in programs of environmental ...

Faith Versus Fact

Why Science and Religion Are Incompatible

Jerry A Coyne

In his provocative new book, evolutionary biologist Jerry A. Coyne lays out in clear, dispassionate detail why the toolkit of science, based on reason and empirical study, is reliable, while that of religion – including faith, dogma ...

Natural Capital

Valuing the Planet

Dieter Helm

Natural capital is what nature provides to us for free. Renewables – like species – keep on coming, provided we do not drive them towards extinction. Non-renewables – like oil and gas – can only be used once.

No Animals Were Harmed

The Controversial Line Between Entertainment and Abuse

Peter Laufer

Investigative journalist Peter Laufer is back with his third book in a trilogy that explores the way we humans interact with animals. The attack of a trainer at Sea World by a killer whale in February 2010 is the catalyst for this examination ...

Respecting Truth

Willful Ignorance in the Internet Age

Lee McIntyre

Throughout history, humans have always indulged in certain irrationalities and held some fairly wrong-headed beliefs. But in his newest book, philosopher Lee McIntyre shows how we've now reached a watershed moment for ignorance in the ...

The Fourth Revolution

How the Infosphere is Reshaping Human Reality

Luciano Floridi

Who are we, and how do we relate to each other? Luciano Floridi, one of the leading figures in contemporary philosophy, argues that the explosive developments in Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) is changing the answer to ...

The Ocean Wise Cookbook

Seafood Recipes That Are Good for the Planet

Jane Mundy

Ocean Wise is a nation-wide conservation program designed to educate restaurants and consumers about the issues surrounding sustainable seafood. Created by the renowned Vancouver Aquarium, Ocean Wise has an affiliation with restaurants ...

The Ocean Wise Cookbook 2

More Seafood Recipes That are Good for the Planet

Jane Mundy

In a sequel to the best-selling The Ocean Wise Cookbook, The Ocean Wise Cookbook 2 offers an all-new collection of recipes for sustainable seafood. Made with the help of the world-renowned Vancouver Aquarium this book contains updated ...

The Responsible Company

What We've Learned from Patagonia's First 40 Years

Yvon Chouinard and Vincent Stanley

The Responsible Company, by Yvon Chouinard, founder and owner of Patagonia, and Vincent Stanley, co-editor of its Footprint Chronicles, draw on the their 40 years' experience at Patagonia – and knowledge of ...

The Ultimate Wildlife Destinations

Samantha Wilson

The Ultimate Wildlife Destinations combines the desire for ever more adventurous activities with our long-standing passion for wildlife, all the while infused with responsible travel themes and conservation topics. From tracking ...

Wildlife Tourism in India

Anil Sharma

The wildlife in India comprises a mix of species of different types of organisms. Apart from a handful of the major farm animals such as cows, buffaloes, goats, poultry, pigs and sheep, India has an amazingly wide variety of animals native ...

A First Course in Statistical Programming with R

W John Braun and Duncan J Murdoch

This new, colour edition of Braun and Murdoch's bestselling textbook integrates use of the RStudio platform and adds discussion of newer graphics systems, extensive exploration of Markov chain Monte Carlo, expert advice on common errors ...

Biological Data Analysis with R

Csaba Ortutay and Zsuzsanna Ortutay

Biological Data Analysis with R addresses the difficulties experienced by wet lab researchers with the statistical analysis of molecular biology related data. The authors explain how to use R and Bioconductor for the analysis of ...

Discovering Statistics

The Reality Enigma

Andy Field and James Iles

Once again, bestselling author and award-winning teacher Andy Field hasn't just broken the traditional textbook mould with his new novel/textbook, he has forged in the fire of his imagination the only statistics book on the market with ...

Environmental Data Analysis with MATLAB

William Menke and Joshua Menke

Since publication of the bestselling Environmental Data Analysis with MATLAB, many advances have been made in environmental data analysis. This new edition expands fundamentally on the original with an expanded tutorial approach ...

Bibliography of Atlases, Floras and Faunas of European Cities 1650 to 2013

John G Kelcey

The bibliography provides information about the presence and distribution of plants and animals in cities throughout Europe. It will be of considerable interest to and should be used by a wide range of people including academics, research ...

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