Alaska's Bears of the North

Steve Kazlowski

Contains exquisite portraiture of all the bear species of Alaska, from the southeast to the north slope through Denali, as well as dynamic images of the daily life of ....

Big Cat Week (Big Cat Diary Series 1 and 2)

The Complete First and Second Series

BBC

A BBC series profiling the lives of Africa's big cats over a two-year period in the Masai Mara, Kenya. Series One follows the Marsh Pride of lions that rely on Simba to ....

Ecologia y Conservacion del Tejon

En Ecosistemas Mediterraneos

Edited by Emilio Virgos, Eloy Revilla, Julian G Mangas and Xavier Domingo-Roura

Ecology and conservation of the badger in Southern Europe. ....

Evolutionary History of the Marsupials and an Analysis of Osteological Characters

Frederick S Szalay

The aim of this book is to examine a variety of problems in the understanding of the evolutionary history of the marsupials. In his exposition, the author covers ....

Feeding Ecology of Mammal Predators Living in Hungary

Lanszki J

A Field Guide to Indian Mammals

Vivek Menon

Photo identification guide to over 400 Indian mammals. This book is the product of many years of field observation and research. Text, identification markers, photographs, and ....

Die Kleine Hufeisennase im Aufwind

Ursachen der Bedrohung, Lebensraumansprüche und Förderung einer Fledermausart

Fabio Bontadina, Therese Hotz and Kathi Märki

Discusses international research into the causes of the decline of the Lesser Horseshoe Bat in Central Europe. ....

Little Polar Bears

Thorsten Milse

Selection of polar bear photographs taken from the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition throughout the years. ....

Primates: Evolución, Cultura y Diversidad

Homenaje a Jordi Sabater Pí

Edited by Jorge Martinez Contreras and Joaquin J Vea

Ringtailed Lemur Biology

Edited by A Jolly, RW Sussman, N Koyama and HR Rasamimanana

This volume includes up-to-date field research on the longest-studied and best known of lemur species. It contains articles by scientists from America, Europe, Japan and ....

To Save the Wild Bison

Life on the Edge in Yellowstone

Mary Ann Franke

Although the American bison was saved from near-extinction in the nineteenth century, today almost all herds are managed like livestock. The Yellowstone area is the only ....

Birds of Europe

Version 3

ETI

This revised and updated CD contains detailed descriptions of 447 bird species. Includes colour illustrations, sound recordings of birdcalls, pictures of eggs, video clips, and ....

Birds of Pelion

Barbara Martin

Pelion is on the central Greek migratory route for birds on their spring and autumn passages. This book shows 31 species in colour photographs with short descriptions in ....

Coffret Oiseaux

Suzanne Brulotte

Contains the Les Oiseaux du Quebec Guide d'Initiation and Attirer les Oiseaux Chez Soi in a boxed set. ....

Handbook of the Birds of the World. Volumes 1-11

As each new volume in this landmark series appears, all existing volumes plus the new one are customarily offered at a special ....

Les Oiseaux du Québec

Guide d'identification

Suzanne Brulotte

Identification guide to 326 species, organised by size. Detailed information is provided for each species. ....

Raptors: A Field Guide to Survey and Monitoring

Jon Hardey, Humphrey Clark, Chris Wernham, Helen Riley and Brian Etheridge

At a time when many raptors in Britain and Ireland are recovering from low population in the mid to late 20th Century (or earlier), there is a growing demand for high quality ....

The Real Roadrunner

Martha Anne Maxon

The roadrunner, an icon of the Southwest and one of the most beloved birds of the United States, is also one of the least understood. In The Real Roadrunner, Martha Anne Maxon ....

Shorebirds of Australia

Their Biology and Conservation

Andrew Geering, Lindsay Agnew and Sandra Harding

"Shorebirds of Australia: Their Biology and Conservation" brings together the latest information about the behavior and biology of waders and how they are distributed on the ....

This Birding Life

The Best of the Guardian's Birdwatch

Stephen Moss

A collection of the Guardian's popular `Birdwatch' column, by the author of A Bird in the Bush: A Social History of Birdwatching ....

Wintering Seaducks, Divers and Grebes in the UK Inshore Areas: Aerial Surveys and Shore Based Counts 2004/5

LJ Wilson, BJ Dean, A Webb, CA McSorley and JB Reid

During December 2004, February 2005 and March 2005, the JNCC conducted aerial surveys of wintering aggregations of seaducks, divers and grebes within a number of UK inshore ....

Frogs of Tasmania

Murray Littlejohn

This publication describes Tasmania's 11 species of frogs, in two families: Hylidae with three species and Myobatrachidae with eight species. There are subspecies of ....

Hearing and Sound Communication in Amphibians

Edited by PM Narins, AS Feng, RR Fav and AN Popper

As models for vertebrate auditory systems, amphibians have been the source of extensive, ground-breaking research on hearing, the nervous system and acoustic communication. This ....

Serpentes do Pantanal

Guia Ilustrado

Otavio AV Marques, Andre Eterovic, Christine Strussmann and Andre Sazima

Snakes and Lizards of Tasmania

Mark Hutchinson, Roy Swain and Michael Driessen

All of Tasmania's reptiles are squamates, the total fauna consisting of eighteen species of lizard and three species of snake. ....

Snakes of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest

An illustrated field guide for the Serra do Mar range

Otavio AV Marques, Andre Eterovic and Ivan Sazima

Systematics of the Carlia "fusca" Lizards (Squamata: Scincidae) of New Guinea and Nearby Islands

George R Zug

Identifies and describes Carlia "fusca" lizards on New Guinea and nearby islands. ....

Turtles

Proceedings: International Turtle and Tortoise Symposium, Vienna 2002

Edited by H Artner, B Farkas and V Loehr

Proceedings of the First International Turtle & Tortoise Symposium, held in Vienna in January 2002. ....

Checklist of the Fishes of the Hawaiian Archipelago

Bruce C Mundy

All fish species recorded from within the 200 nautical mile exclusive economic zone surrounding the State of Hawaii and Johnston Atoll (200-nmi EEZ) are reviewed. These ....

Field Identification Guide to the Sharks and Rays of the Mediterranean and Black Sea

Fabrizio Serena

This volume presents a fully illustrated field guide for the identification of the sharks and rays most relevant to the fisheries of the Mediterranean and Black Sea. An ....

Fish Cognition and Behavior

Felicity Huntingford and Kevin Laland

The study of animal cognition has been largely confined to birds and mammals; a historical bias which has led to the belief that learning plays little or no part in the ....

Hakes of the World (Family Merluccidae)

An annotated and illustrated catalogue of hake species known to date

D Lloris, J Matallanas and P Oliver

This is a worldwide catalogue of the family Merlucciidae. Two subfamilies, Macruroninae and Merlucciinae, are recognized comprising four genera, Lyconodes, Lyconus, Macruronus ....

Reproductive Biology and Early Life History of Fishes in the Ohio River Drainage, Volume 5

Aphredoderidae through Cottidae, Moronidae, and Sciaenidae

Robert Wallus and Thomas P Simon

This seven-volume series is the most extensive treatise on early life histories of the freshwater fishes of North America. It represents the state-of-the-art in fishery ....

Bees and Honey

From Flower to Jar

Michael Weiler

Bees make honey; we all know that. But what happens between the bee buzzing around our garden, and the sticky knife in the jar, is a mystery to most of us. ....

Bibionidae (Diptera: Bibionomorpha)

Morfologia e Analise Filogenetica

Lenira Guimaraes Pinto and Dalton de Souza Amorim

Catalog of the Mythicomyiidae of the World (Insecta: Diptera)

Neal L Evenhuis

Catalog of all taxonomic names of Mythicomyiidae found in the literature and includes 337 valid taxonomic species in 25 genera. Nomina nuda are included and are synonymized ....

Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 3

Scarabaeoidea - Scirtoidea - Dascilloidea - Buprestoidea - Byrrhoidea

Edited by I Lobl and A Smetana

Contributions to the Systematics and Evolution of Diptera

D. Elmo Hardy Memorial Volume

Edited by Neal L Evenhuis and Kenneth Y Kaneshiro

D. Elmo Hardy was "one of the last polymaths of Diptera Systematics." Over the nearly 7 decades of active research, Elmo named and described nearly 2,000 species in 34 ....

Damselflies of the North Woods

Bob Dubois

A comprehensive guide to all 44 species of North Woods damselflies, exclusively for Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan. Innovative format shows 120 colour photos of all ....

Fauna Iberica, Volume 26: Lepidoptera: Zygaenidae

Fidel Fernández-Rubio

The Fauna of Mosquitos in Hungary (Diptera: Culicidae)

S Toth

Fauna of New Zealand, No 54: Hierodoris (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea; Oecophoridae)

Robert Hoare

Oecophorid moths are an unusual family of small moths occurring throughout the world. Their caterpillars usually feed on dead leaves or in dead wood, unlike most moth ....

Fauna of New Zealand, No 55: Criconematina (Nematoda: Tylenchida)

WM Wouts

Criconematina are nematodes, or unsegmented roundworms, belonging to the group Tylenchida. Tylenchids are plant parasitic nematodes with a hardened mouth piece which ....

Field Guide to the Bark Beetles of Idaho and Adjacent Regions

Malcolm M Furniss and James B Johnson

Identification guide to more than 100 species of bark beetles and their close relatives. Includes a host tree index. ....

Field Guide to the Dragonflies of Britain and Europe

Klaas-Douwe B Dijkstra

Identification guide to all resident and migrant dragonflies and damselflies in Europe, from the Arctic to the Sahara, including western Turkey, Cyprus, Morocco, Algeria, ....

The Genitalia of the Rhopalocera and Larger British Moths

FN Pierce and Bryan P Beirne

As the sixth volume in F.N. Pierce's series on the Genitalia of the British Lepidoptera, "Rhopalocera" was published in 1941. Though they are regarded as invaluable for ....

A Guide Book to the Hungarian Cuculiinae, Hadeninae and Noctuinae (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae)

G Ronkay and L Ronkay

The Moths of Borneo, Part 17 (Noctuidae: Hypeninae & Herminiinae)

JD Holloway

Neotyphodium in Cool-Season Grasses

Edited by Craig Roberts, Charles West and Donald Spiers

This book is an up to date compilation of the latest knowledge on the genus Neotyphodium including the molecular biology, their effects on their grass hosts, invertebrate and ....

Review of Rhyncogonus of the Hawaiian Islands (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)

GA Samuelson

Treated are 47 species of which 14 are proposed as new. The Hawaiian species, divided into provisional species groups, are contrasted and keyed with a separate group of 3 ....

Review of the Haleakalae Species Group of Hawaiian Drosophila

(Diptera: Drosophilidae)

D Elmo Hardy, KY Kaneshiro, FC Val and PM O'Grady

The haleakalae, as currently defined, contains a total of 51 species, 18 of which are described as new. ....

Revision of the Subfamily Macrocentrinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) in America North of Mexico

KR Ahlstrom

Scallops

Biology, Ecology and Aquaculture

Sandra E Shumway and Jay Parsons

Scallops are among the better known shellfish and are widely distributed throughout the world. They are of great economic importance, support both commercial fisheries and ....

The Woodland Name Trail

A key to the invertebrates of soil and leaf litter

Anne Bebbington, John Bebbington and Steve Tilling

This simple key is designed to enable children and beginners to identify the invertebrates commonly found in woodland soils and leaf litter. The Factfile gives ....

Atlas of Amber Insects of China

Edited by Hong Youchong

Magnoliophyta Fossilia Rossiae et Civitatum Finitimarum, Volume 4

Nyctaginaceae - Salicaceae

L Budantsev

Quaternary Dating Methods

Mike Walker

This textbook introduces the basics of dating, the range of techniques available and the strengths and limitations of each of the principal methods. ....

Guide to the Zooplankton of South Eastern Australia

David Ritz, Kerrie Swadling, Graham Hosie and Fabienne Cazassus

Zooplankton constitutes a fascinating, diverse and abundant group of animals living in the upper layers of the seas. They are the principal diet of most of the larger pelagic ....

Mittelmeer Atlas

Fische und ihre Lebensräume

Volker Neumann and Thomas Paulus

Illustrated guide to the fishes of the Mediterranean and their habitat. ....

Nudibranch Behaviour

David W Behrens

Nudibranchs are among the most beautiful creatures on the reef, with colors and shapes that dazzle and delight. Unlike fish that may disappear before our eyes in a flash, the ....

Animal et Animalite dans la Philosophie de la Renaissance et de l'Age Classique

Edited by Thierry Gontier

Don't You Have Time to Think?

Richard P Feynman

Richard Feynman was one of the most inspirational men of our times. He won the Nobel Prize, wrote equations on napkins in strip joints, cracked safes for fun while working ....

Electric Universe

David Bodanis

For centuries, electricity was viewed as little more than a curious property of certain substances that sparked when rubbed. Then, in the 1790s, Alessandro Volta began the ....

Emblems of Mind

The Inner Life of Music and Mathematics

Edward Rothstein

One is a science, the other an art; one useful, the other seemingly decorative, but mathematics and music share common origins in cult and mystery and have been linked ....

From Atoms to Infinity

88 Great Ideas in Science

John Gribbin, Mary Gribbin, Ralph Edney and Nicholas Halliday

From Atoms to Infinity takes you on a journey from the furthest reaches of the known Universe to the tiniest particles that make up life on Earth. With their characteristic ....

Go Wild with Your Camcorder

How to Make Wildlife Films

Piers Warren

Whether you want to film wildlife as a fascinating hobby, or are hoping for a career as a professional wildlife film-maker, this book and a basic camcorder are all you need to ....

Journals: Scott's Last Expedition

R Falcon Scott

In 1912, Captain Scott reached the South Pole, to find he had been beaten by Roald Amundsen's Norwegian expedition. Scott and his companions perished on the return. Later, ....

Local Science vs. Global Science

Approaches to Indigenous Knowledge in International Development

Paul Sillitoe

While science has achieved a remarkable understanding of nature, affording humans an astonishing technological capability, it has led, through Euro-American global ....

Mad about Wildlife

Looking at social conflict over wildlife

Ann Herda-Rapp and Theresa L Goedeke

This edited volume documents the presence and types of Nature discourse that emerge during conflicts between people over wildlife. This collection of qualitative case ....

Nature

Bernadette Gilbertas and Olivier Grunewald

Image after image, nature is unveiled in all its beauty and glory: from water, fire and foam to ice and stone; from the infinitely vast to the infinitely small; from the ....

Out of Sight!

From Quarks to Living Cells

Sven Kullander and Börje Larsson

This book is a popular introduction to modern natural science and provides an insight into the advanced and expensive technology that is required in the exploration of the ....

Outdoor Photographer Landscape and Nature Photography with Photoshop CS2

Rob Sheppard

This book is not about "fixing it in Photoshop." It's about how you, the serious nature photographer, can use technology to enhance your art. Rob Sheppard sees Photoshop not as ....

Pierre Simon Laplace, 1749-1827

A Determined Scientist

Roger Hahn

Often referred to as the Newton of France, Pierre Simon Laplace has been called the greatest scientist of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. He affirmed ....

True North

Peary, Cook, and the Race to the Pole

Bruce Henderson

Bruce Henderson has constructed this revealing narrative out of the claims and counterclaims of Robert Peary and Frederick Cook, introducing fascinating scientific and ....

Bear Island

The Story of an Isolated Arctic Island - Exploration, People, Culture and Nature

Dag Hagenaes-Kjelldahl

It is possible that Bear Island was first discovered by Vikings, but the first documented observations were written by the Dutchman Willem Barents in 1596. Although ....

Borneo's Tropical Eden: Sabah

Chua Ee Kiam

The tropical rainforest of Sabah, one of the oldest in the world, and phenomenally luxuriant and have spawned an abundance of wildlife. Many creatures and plants are ....

Fauna and Vegetation of the Latranyi Puszta Natura Conservation Area

Edited by L Abraham

La Fauna en Castilla y Leon

Jose Luis Rodriguez

Guide to the fauna of Castilla y Leon, Spain. ....

Field Guide to the Sandia Mountains

Edited by Robert Julyan and Mary Stuever

Each year over 2 million visitors to New Mexico's Sandia Mountains enjoy more than 100 miles of trails, hiking, climbing, running, biking, skiing, and birding, as well as ....

Hedgerow History

Ecology, History and Landscape Character

Gerry Barnes and Tom Williamson

From the Scots pine windbreaks of the Brecklands to the ancient earth and stone banks of the West Country, the hedgerow is an essential component of regional landscape ....

Islands, Forests and Gardens in the Caribbean

Conservation and Conflict in Environmental History

Edited by Robert S Anderson, Richard Grove and Karis Hiebert

The continuing struggle to preserve the ecological abundance of the eastern Caribbean is a recurrent theme in this collection of essays on the gardens (both botanical and small ....

A Marvellous Change in the Landscape

A Hundred Years of the Guardian's Country Diary

Edited by Martin Wainwright

In 2006, the Guardian's much-loved Country Diary column is a hundred years old, and to commemorate the anniversary Martin Wainwright has compiled a collection of the best of a ....

National Trail Guides, 10: South West Coast Path - Falmouth to Exmouth

Brian Le Messurier

The South West Coast Path is the spectacular 630-mile National Trail that follows the coastline round from Minehead in Somerset to Poole in Dorset. This volume covers the ....

A Nature and Wildlife Guide to Greenland

Benny Gensbol

The Nature of the Cairngorms

Diversity in a Changing Environment

Edited by Philip Shaw and Des Thompson

The Cairngorms area is arguably the most significant for nature conservation in Britain, and contains its largest National Park. ....

Recreational Path Guide: The Capital Ring

Colin Saunders

The Capital Ring is a 75-mile (120 km) walking route encircling inner London that links the astonishing number of islands of greenery - parks, woodlands, abandoned railway ....

Recreational Path Guide: The London Loop

David Sharp

The LOOP (London Outer Orbital Path) is a 140-mile (224-km) walking route around the capital's periphery that utilises the network of rural footpaths linking the secret ....

La Reserve de Faune du Dja

A la découverte de la forêt tropicale

Lucienne Wilmé

A Traveler's Guide to the Galapagos Islands

Barry Boyce

From the basics of which airline to choose to a detailed description of the islands, this is the authoritative guidebook. Tour operators are profiled thoroughly, with ....

Volcanoes and the Making of Scotland

Brian Upton

Scotland's mountains and glens retain the secrets of the long and frequently violent geological history that has gone into their making. Volcanoes have played a major role ....

Wild Caribbean

The hidden wonders of the world's most famous islands

Michael Bright

In our minds the Caribbean is the embodiment of paradise - crystal blue waters, magical coral reefs and lush tropical forests. Yet behind its tranquil beauty, the Caribbean ....

Wildlife of the North

Steve Kazlowski

Includes intimate and surprising images of the normally unseen life of Alaskan mammals, fish, and birds. This stunning collection illustrates the beauty and full range of ....

Angraecoid Orchids

Species from the African Region

Joyce Stewart, Johan Hermans and Bob Campbell

These so-called 'jewels of Africa' with their sparkling flowers, distinctive growth habit and floriferous nature are much prized and this account, the first to include the ....

Arboles Frutales Exóticos y Pocos Conocidos en Puerto Rico

Juan A Rivero and Bryan R Brunner

This lavishly illustrated guide describes rare and exotic fruit trees grown in Puerto Rico. Aside from each tree's physical description, every entry elaborates on its ....

The Black Poplar

Ecology, History and Conservation

Fiona Cooper

When seen silhouetted against the winter sky on a river bank, the black poplar easily earns a place among Britain's largest, most charismatic trees. It is also one of the ....

Bonsai with Japanese Maples

Peter Adams

With their delicate foliage, seasonal color changes, and intricate pattern of branching, Japanese maples are among the most popular and suitable plants for bonsai design. In ....

The Botany of Robert Wight

Henry J Noltie

Noltie`s monograph deals with Robert Wight, a Scottish surgeon working for the East India Company. Wight was the most prolific taxonomist working in South India in the ....

A Contribution to the Flora and Plant Formations of Mount Kinabalu and the Highlands of British North Borneo

Lilian S Gibbs

This account represents a record of the observations made and studies into the flora of British North Borneo (now the Malaysian state of Sabah) conducted by Lilian Gibbs in ....

Contributions Towards a New Systematics of the Lichen Family Thelotremataceae

Andreas Frisch, Klaus Kalb and Martin Grube

Contents: I. The lichen family Thelotremataceae in Africa ....

Dendrobium and Its Relatives

Bill Lavarack, Wayne Harris and Geoff Stocker

Dendrobium is an enormous orchid genus of more than 1000 species native to south Asia, Australia and New Zealand, and Oceania. They are highly popular among orchid growers for ....

Descripcion de Algunas Plantas Raras Encontradas en España y Portugal

Charles de L'ecluse de Arras

A translation of Carolus Clusius' Spanish flora "Rariorum aliquot stirpium per Hispanias observatarum historia", originally published in 1576. ....

Diatom Monographs: Volume 6

Amphorotia nov. gen., a new genus in the family Eunotiaceae (Bacillariophyceae), based on Eunotia clevei Grunow in Cleve and Grunow 1880

Edited by Andrzej Witkowski

The new genus Amphorotia is described based on Eunotia clevei Grunow in Cleve et Grunow 1880. The genus is defined by a complex of morphological characters, ....

Dictionary of Plant Tissue Culture

AC Cassells and Peter B Gahan

A practical, A-to-Z guide to the technical terms of plant cell, tissue, and organ culture. ....

Dwarf Campanulas

And Associated Genera

Graham Nicholls

Campanulas have long been a gardeners' favourite, their spectacular summer performance earning them a place in the herbaceous border year after year. Here their lesser-known ....

Esau's Plant Anatomy

Meristems, Cells, and Tissues of the Plant Body

Ray F Evert and Susan E Eichhorn

This revision of the now classic Plant Anatomy offers a completely updated review of the structure, function, and development of meristems, cells, and tissues of the plant body. ....

The Essential Garden Maintenance Workbook

Rosemary Alexander

The Essential Garden Maintenance Workbook takes over where Rosemary Alexander's first book leaves off. With the newly designed garden in place how do you manage the work in a ....

Ethylene Action in Plants

Edited by Nafees A Khan

The plant hormone ethylene plays a prominent role among several intrinsic and extrinsic factors that control growth and physiology of plants. Its biological activity was ....

The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants, Volume 8

Flowering Plants: Eudicots - Asterales

Edited by Joachim W Kadereit and Charles Jeffrey

This volume contains a complete systematic treatment of the flowering plant order Asterales, comprising 12 families with ca. 1,720 genera and about 26,300 species. The ....

The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants, Volume 9

Flowering Plants: Eudicots - Berberidopsidales, Buxales, Crossosomatales, Fabales p.p., Geraniales, Gunnerales, Myrtales p.p., Proteales, Saxifragales, Vitales, Zygophyllales, Clusiaceae Alliance, Passifloraceae Alliance, Dilleniaceae, Huaceae, Picram

Edited by Klaus Kubitzki

Flora Alpina English Introduction

David Aeschimann, Konrad Lauber et al

English introduction to the 3-volume set Flora Alpina. ....

Flora Briofitica Ibérica, Volumen 3

Bryophyta, Bryopsida: Pottiales & Encalyptales

Edited by J Guerra, MJ Cano and RM Ros

The first volume to be published in this new series on the bryophyte flora of Spain. ....

La Flora en Castilla y Leon

Jose Luis Rodriguez

This book suggests the 25 most appropriate routes to explore the richness of the flora of Castilla y Leon. Inside the book are photographs and index files of the most ....

Flora of China, Volume 22: Typhaceae-Poaceae

Chen Shouliang et al

This large volume is devoted to just one plant family, the grasses (Poaceae or Gramineae), and no group of plants is of greater economic importance. The Poaceae range ....

Flora of Ecuador, Volume 76. Orchidaceae, Genera AA - Cyrtidiorchis

CH Dodson and CA Luer

Flora of Ecuador, Volume 77

Flowering Plants

Flowering Rush to Rushes

RH Mohlenbrock

The second edition of "Flowering Plants: Flowering Rush to Rushes" offers new material, including a preface, seventeen new illustrations of the additional species now known ....

Fungal Pathogenesis in Plants and Crops

Molecular Biology and Host Defense Mechanism

P Vidhyasekaran

Completely updated and revised edition. ....

Fungi

Biology and Applications

Edited by Kevin Kavanagh

Fungi: Biology and Applications is a comprehensive, balanced introduction of the biology, biotechnological applications and medical significance of fungi. With no prior ....

Gardening on Pavement, Tables, and Hard Surfaces

George Schenk

Gardening on Pavement, Tables, and Hard Surfaces is the first book to describe how to grow garden plants directly on hard surfaces such as pavement, rocks, tables, and other ....

The Good Gardens Guide 2006

Peter King

An independent reference book for all garden visitors and enthusiasts. It selects gardens of real merit, vividly describing their main characteristics and special ....

Green Roof Plants

A Resource and Planting Guide

Edmund C Snodgrass and Lucie L Snodgrass

In just a few years, green roofs have gone from a horticultural curiosity to a booming growth industry - primarily because the environmental benefits of extensively planted ....

Growing Carnivorous Plants

Barry A Rice

For centuries, carnivorous plants have carried an air of fascination and mystique unparalleled in the plant world. Growing Carnivorous Plants is a comprehensive guide to ....

Guide to Common Urban Lichens 2 (on Stone and Soil)

Dobson

This is a good time to look at urban lichens, as levels of sulphur dioxide, air pollution and acid rain have been falling rapidly. Many leafy lichens are growing in ....

Hollies for Gardeners

Christopher Bailes

Richly enshrouded in legend and superstition, valued for a wide variety of uses and prized by gardeners, hollies have always been part of our lives and gardens. Now they ....

Identification Guide for Near Eastern Grass Seeds

Mark Nesbitt

Grasses are of major importance to archaeobotanists and other scholars who investigate the ecology and subsistence of human populations through much of the Old World. ....

Marine Green and Brown Algae of the Hawaiian Islands

Isabella Aiona Abbott and John Huisman

The first comprehensive taxonomic treatment of these two groups of marine plants for the tropical and subtropical Pacific, "Marine Green and Brown Algae of the Hawaiian Islands" ....

Microbial Root Endophytes

Edited by Barbara Schulz, Christine JC Boyle and Thomas N Sieber

Plant roots may not only be colonized by mycorrhizal fungi, but also by a myriad of bacterial and fungal root endophytes that are usually not considered by the ....

Monograph of Ourisia (Plantaginaceae)

Heidi M Meudt

The genus Ourisia (formerly included in Scrophulariaceae, now assigned to the revised Plantaginaceae) occurs almost exclusively at high elevations in the southern hemisphere. ....

Monograph of Schiedea (Caryophyllaceae-Alsinoideae)

Warren L Wagner, Stephen G Weller and Ann Sakai

Schiedea (Caryophyllaceae subfam. Alsinoideae), endemic to the Hawaiian Islands, comprises deciduous perennials, sprawling subshrubs, shrubs, and rainforest vines ....

Mushrooms

Roger Phillips

The culmination of over thirty years' work, this authoritative and superbly illustrated reference work is packed with the most up-to-date information and original photographs. ....

On the Flora of Mount Kinabalu in North Borneo

O Stapf

Stapf's book, first published in 1894, was a crowning achievement of his early career as a botanist and perhaps still the single most important work ever published on the flora ....

Orchids of Mexico

Eric Hagsater et al

From the preface: "This book presents the great diversity of form and color adopted by the species of ....

Ornamental Bamboos

David Crompton

Bamboos are among the most fascinating of plants. Their unusual life cycle, tremendous power of growth, and extraordinary diversity of size and form give them a special ....

Plant Breeding Reviews, Volume 26

Edited by Jules Janick

Presents state-of-the-art reviews on plant genetics and the breeding of all types of crops by both traditional means and molecular methods. Understanding and preserving crop ....

Plant Breeding Reviews, Volume 27

Edited by Jules Janick

Plant Electrophysiology

Theory and Methods

Edited by Alexander G Volkov

As a pioneering work on plant electrophysiology, this exciting reference compiles new findings from the work of internationally renowned experts in the fields of ....

Plant Propagation by Tissue Culture, Volume 1

The Background

Edited by Edwin F George, Michael A Hall and Geert-Jan De Klerk

Procedures for plant tissue culture have been developing from ca. 1930 onwards and are now essential in many domains of science and teaching. The use of these techniques for ....

Plant Responses to Air Pollution and Global Change

Edited by Kenji Omasa, Isamu Nouchi and Luit J De Kok

The main impetus for climate change is the elevated concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere. Carbon dioxide and air pollutants arise largely from the same industrial ....

Plant Species-level Systematics

New perspectives on pattern & process

Edited by Freek T Bakker, Lars W Chatrou, Barbara Gravendeel and Pieter B Pelser

Plant systematics has seen dramatic changes in the last decade, mainly due to application of molecular markers in phylogenetic reconstruction at the generic level and ....

Pleurocarpous Mosses

Systematics and Evolution

Angela E Newton and Raymond S Tangney

Pleurocarpous Mosses: Systematics and Evolution presents a timely summary of the evolution of pleurocarpous mosses, including recent breakthroughs. This book discusses ....

Revision of Delissea (Campanulaceae-Lobelioideae)

Thomas G Lammers

Delissea is a genus of soft-wooded shrubs, treelets, and palm-like trees endemic to the seven largest Hawaiian Islands; it is most closely related to the endemic Hawaiian genus ....

Rhododendrons of Subgenus Vireya

George Argent

This new book is the first full modern scientific account of vireya rhododendrons ever published, and it replaces the last major reference book, Sleumer's Flora Malesiana ....

Seedheads in the Garden

Noël Kingsbury and Jo Whitworth

Seedheads bring impact to late summer borders and linger to provide interest well into autumn and winter. They look dramatic set against a backdrop of fading flowers, ....

Steyermark's Flora of Missouri, Volume 2

Dicots, Acantheae through Fabaceae, first part

George Yatskievych

Steyermark's Flora of Missouri is an account of Missouri's vascular flora, including the pteridophytes, gymnosperms, and flowering plants growing spontaneously in the state. ....

The Story of the Apple

Barrie E Juniper and David J Mabberley

The Story of the Apple reveals the solution to a long-standing puzzle. Where did the apple come from, and why is the familiar large, sweet, cultivated apple so different ....

Systematics of Baccharis (Compositae-Astereae) in Bolivia, Including an Overview of the Genus

Jochen Müller

Baccharis (Compositae-Astereae) includes herbaceous perennials, shrubs, vines, and trees. It occurs throughout the warmer regions of North America and in Central America, ....

Systematics of Mimulus subg. Schizoplacus (Scrophulariaceae)

David M Thompson

Mimulus subg. Schizoplacus is one of two subgenera in the genus and is characterized by parietal placentation, marcescent corollas, and pedicels that are shorter than the ....

Timber Press Pocket Guide to Clematis

Mary K Toomey

Written by three distinguished clematis experts, the Timber Press Pocket Guide to Clematis profiles 300 stunning plants from an international selection of garden-worthy ....

Timber Press Pocket Guide to Ground Covers

David S MacKenzie

Weary of plain green turf grasses, boring brown wood chips, and high-maintenance yards, creative gardeners and homeowners are turning to colorful, reliable ground covers. ....

A Tour of the Flowering Plants

Based on the Classification System of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group

Priscilla Spears

With over 800 color photos showcasing a representative spectrum of the flowering plants of the United States and Canada, A Tour of the Flowering Plants provides an overview of ....

Tree Diversity Analysis

A Manual and Software for Common Statistical Methods for Ecological and Biodiversity Studies

R Kindt and R Coe

Effective data analysis requires familiarity with basic concepts and an ability to use a set of standard tools, as well as creativity and imagination. Tree diversity analysis ....

Trees: National Champions

Edited by JR Stilgoe

Hauntingly beautiful photographs of 70 "champion" trees - each the biggest of its species - in a book that offers a dignified portrait of the American landscape and its ....

The Well-Tended Perennial Garden

Planting & Pruning Techniques

Tracy DiSabato-Aust

With more than 130,000 copies sold since its original publication, The Well-Tended Perennial Garden has proven itself to be one of the most useful tools a gardener can ....

World Seaweed Resources

An authoritative reference system

Edited by AT Critchley, M Ohno and DB Largo

Seaweed represents a major component of marine ecosystems. It is used as food, fertiliser and as a resource for chemical constituents. This interactive multimedia ....

The Bacteria: Their Origin, Structure, Function and Antibiosis

Arthur L Koch

The book's purpose is to explain from the development of life on earth to the evolution of diversity. It is this diversity that led, almost automatically to the development of ....

Culture of Animal Cells

A Manual of Basic Technique

R Ian Freshney

Since publication of the previous edition of this benchmark text, numerous groundbreaking advances have occurred in stem cell research, cloning, tissue ....

The Ethics of Animal Experimentation

A Critical Analysis and Constructive Christian Proposal

Donna Yarri

The ethical treatment of animals has become an issue of serious moral concern. Many people are challenging long-held assumptions about animals and raising questions about ....

Fundamental Molecular Biology

Lizabeth A Allison

While Molecular Biology has become the underpinning in any advanced cellular/molecular biology course, the books that service that underpinning are predominantly ....

Gene Mapping, Discovery, and Expression

Methods and Protocols

Minou Bina

A collection of cutting-edge computational tools and experimental techniques to study how genes are regulated, and to reconstruct the regulatory networks through which ....

Handbook of Computational Molecular Biology

Edited by Srinivas Aluru

The enormous complexity of biological systems at the molecular level must be answered with powerful computational methods. Computational biology is a young field, but has ....

An Introduction to Systems Biology

Design Principles of Biological Circuits

Uri Alon

Thorough and accessible, this book presents the design principles of biological systems, and highlights the recurring circuit elements that make up biological networks. It ....

MicroRNA Protocols

Edited by Shao-Yao Ying

MicroRNA Protocols provides diverse, novel, and useful descriptions of miRNAs in several species, including plants, worms, flies, fish, chicks, mice, and humans. These include ....

Plumb's Veterinary Drug Handbook Pocket Edition

Donald C Plumb

The 5th edition of Donald Plumb's Veterinary Drug Handbook remains the resource every veterinarian needs to keep within easy reach. Newly revised, this edition of the ....

Structural Biology of Bacterial Pathogenesis

Gabriel Waksman and Michael Caparon

Structural Biology of Bacterial Pathogenesis explores recent developments in the understanding of the molecular basis of bacterial infectious diseases, from structures ....

Water and the Cell

Edited by Gerald H Pollack, Ivan L Cameron and Denys N Wheatley

This book deals with the role of water in cell function. Though long recognized to be central to cell function, water's role has not received the attention lately that it ....

Artificial Evolution

7th International Conference, Evolution Artificielle, EA 2005, Revised Selected Papers

Edited by E Talbi, P Liardet, P Collet, E Lutton and M Schoenauger

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Artificial Evolution, EA 2005, held in Lille, France, in October 2005. ....

Battle of the Genomes

The Struggle for Survival in a Microbial World

HM Lachman

We live in a microbial world populated by millions of species of bacteria, viruses, fungi and protozoa. Peaceful coexistence usually prevails. Occasionally, though, a ....

Evolution

A Beginner's Guide

Burt Guttman

Covering everything from fossilised dinosaurs to intelligent apes, this is an accessible guide to one of the most important scientific theories of all time. Burt Guttman assumes ....

Genes, Mind, and Culture

The Coevolutionary Process : 25th Anniversary Edition

Charles J Lumsden and Edward O Wilson

Long considered one of the most provocative and demanding major works on human sociobiology, "Genes, Mind, and Culture" introduces the concept of gene-culture ....

Human Mitochondrial DNA and the Evolution of Homo sapiens

Edited by Hans-Jürgen Bandelt, Martin Richards and Vincent Macaulay

Mitochondrial DNA is one of the most explored genetic systems because of what it can tell us about the human past. This volume takes a unique perspective, presenting the ....

Introducing Darwin

Progress in genetics today would not have been possible without Darwin's revolution, but the mysterious man who undermined belief in God's creation was remarkably timid. He ....

Research Methods in Anthropology

Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches

H Russell Bernard

Research Methods in Anthropology is the standard textbook for methods classes in anthropology programs. Over the past dozen years, it has launched tens of thousands of ....

Chemical Ecology

From Gene to Ecosystem

Edited by Marcel Dicke and Willem Takken

Chemical ecology is the ecology of body odour. Every organism uses chemical information in intra- and inter-specific interactions. Animals emit chemicals to attract a mate or ....

Conceptual Ecology and Invasion Biology: Reciprocal Approaches to Nature

Edited by Marc William Cadotte, Sean M McMahon and Tadashi Fukami

The conservation threat represented by invasive species is well-known, but the scientific opportunities are underappreciated. Invasion studies have historically been ....

Historico e Impacto das Pragras Introduzidas no Brasil

Evaldo F Vilela, Roberto A Zucchi and Fernando Cantor

Morphology and biology of 22 introduced species which had an impact on the Brazilian agriculture and economy. ....

Invading Nature - Springer Series in Invasion Ecology

Series Editor: James A Drake

Biological Invasions represent one of those rare themes that cut across the disciplines of academic biology, while having profound environmental, philosophical, socioeconomic, ....

Island Biogeography

Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation

Robert J Whittaker and José Maria Fernández-Palacios

Island biogeography is the study of the distribution and dynamics of species in island environments. Due to their isolation from more widespread continental species, islands ....

Seeking Nature's Limits

Ecologists in the field

R Drent, JM Tinbergen, JP Bakker, T Piersma et al

Seeking Nature's Limits is a colourful collection of ecological stories. Focusing on individual organisms and their struggle for existence, Dutch ecologists of international ....

Surtsey

Ecosystems Formed

Sturla Fridriksson

Surtsey, Iceland: the birth of the island was in itself an interesting geological phenomenon but the island also became a biological laboratory, where scientists could ....

Climate and Hydrology of Mountain Areas

Edited by Carmen de Jong and David N Collins

A comprehensive overview of interaction of the major hydrological and meteorological processes in mountain areas ie Cryosphere and Climatic Change, Snow Melt and Soil Water, ....

Common Standards Monitoring for Designated Sites: First Six Year Report 2006

Series Editor: JM Williams

The Joint Nature Conservation Committee was brought into being by the Environmental Protection Act 1990. Amongst its functions is a ....

Common Standards Monitoring for Designated Sites: First Six Year Report 2006: Summary

Edited by JM Williams

The Joint Nature Conservation Committee was brought into being by the Environmental Protection Act 1990. Amongst its functions is a ....

Common Standards Monitoring for Designated Sites: First Six Year Report 2006: Geology

Edited by JM Williams

The Joint Nature Conservation Committee was brought into being by the Environmental Protection Act 1990. Amongst its functions is a requirement to develop common standards ....

Common Standards Monitoring for Designated Sites: First Six Year Report 2006

Edited by JM Williams

The Joint Nature Conservation Committee was brought into being by the Environmental Protection Act 1990. Amongst its functions is a ....

Common Standards Monitoring for Designated Sites: First Six Year Report 2006: Habitats

Edited by JM Williams

The Joint Nature Conservation Committee was brought into being by the Environmental Protection Act 1990. Amongst its functions is a ....

Common Standards Monitoring for Designated Sites: First Six Year Report 2006: Species

Edited by JM Williams

The Joint Nature Conservation Committee was brought into being by the Environmental Protection Act 1990. Amongst its functions is a ....

Environment

Edited by Jules Pretty

Explores the locations where the environment matters most, such as where people are poor, and where environments are under threat (such as on frontiers). This four-volume ....

Forest Trees of Bukit Timah

Population Ecology in a Tropical Forest Fragment

James V Lafrankie and Stuart J Davies

The Bukit Timah Nature Reserve harbours one of Singapoire's most diverse ecosystems. It is home to the largest remaining patch of primary forest in Singapore. An icon of ....

Forests and Protected Areas

Guidance on the Use of the IUCN Protected Area Management Categories

Nigel Dudley and Adrian Phillips

These Guidelines centre around five related concepts: protected areas, forests, forests as defined forests protected areas, and other conserved forests. ....

Green Roof Systems

A Guide to the Planning, Design and Construction of Building Over Structure

Susan Weiler and Katrin Scholz-Barth

Green Roof Systems goes beyond the fashionable green roof movement and provides solid information on building accessible space, often as important public space, over ....

Interactions Between Macro- and Microorganisms in Marine Sediments

Edited by E Kristensen et al

Marine sediments support complex interactions between macro-and microorganisms that have global implications for carbon and nutrient cycles. What is the state of the science on ....

The Invention of the Park

Recreational Landscapes from Garden of Eden to Disney's Magic Kingdom

Karen Jones and John Wills

The Invention of the Park explores our fascination with making parks. In a broad-ranging environmental and social history, authors Karen Jones and John Wills search for a common ....

Modern Soil Microbiology

Edited by J D Van Elsas, J T Trevors and E M H Wellington

With nearly 3,000 entries this complete resource is an indispensable reference for soil and environmental microbiologists, microbial ecologists, plant and soil virologists, ....

New Research on Forest Ecosystems

Edited by AR Burk

Ecology is the study of the interrelationships between organisms and their environment, including the biotic and abiotic components. There are at least six kinds of ecology: ....

The Nordic Seas: An Integrated Perspective

Edited by H Drange et al

The Nordic Seas comprise a small area of the world's oceans but contribute greatly to key climate processes and variations in the Northern Hemisphere and across the globe. As ....

Plant Diversity after Rainforest Fires in Borneo

Karl AO Eichhorn

A PhD study on the structure, composition and diversity of plant communities in burnt and unburnt rain forest of East-Kalimantan (Indonesia) including trees, lianas, ....

Las Playas del Desierto Chihuahuense (Parte Mexicana)

Influencia de las sales en ambientes arido y seminarido

Edited by Olivier Grünberger et al

Securing the Wet Tropics

A retrospective on managing Australia's tropical rainforests

Geoff McDonald and Marcus Lane

The Wet Tropics is only a tiny fragment of the Australian landmass but it is of exceptional biological and human value. It is a productive region of great beauty ....

Soil Microbiology and Biochemistry

Edited by Eldor R Paul

This revised and updated text guides students through biochemical and microbial processes in soils and introduces them to microbial processes in water and sediments. ....

Soil and Soil Fertility

FR Troeh and LM Thompson

Touted by users for its clear explanations and readability, Troeh and Thompson's Soil and Soil Fertility provides an excellent overview of soils for students in agriculture ....

Soils and Societies

Perspectives from Environmental History

JR McNeill and Verena Winiwarter

This multi-authored volume shows some of the ways in which soils, their properties and their histories, have influenced human affairs. The complex interrelations between ....

The Subseafloor Biosphere at Mid-Ocean Ridges

William S.D. Wilcock et al

The Subseafloor Biosphere at Mid-Ocean Ridges presents contributions from marine geoscientists, biologists, and microbiologists whose work on mid-ocean ridge systems has ....

Teaming with Microbes

A Gardener's Guide to the Soil Food Web

Jeff Lowenfels and Wayne Lewis

Smart gardeners know that soil is anything but an inert substance. Healthy soil is teeming with life - not just earthworms and insects, but a staggering multitude of ....

Understanding Forest Disturbance and Spatial Pattern

Remote Sensing and GIS Approaches

Edited by Michael Wulder and Steven E Franklin

Remote sensing and GIS are increasingly used as tools for monitoring and managing forests. This data is often the primary source of information for understanding forest ....

Biodiversity

A Beginner's Guide

John Spicer

Three species are said to disappear every hour. We are in a global biodiversity crisis and if nothing is done, future generations may talk of rainforests in the past tense. In ....

CITES Handbook Manual Guide

CITES

CITES Handbook Manual Guide: English Edition

CITES

All essential texts in one volume. ....

CITES Handbook Manual Guide: French Edition

CITES

All essential texts in one volume. ....

CITES Handbook Manual Guide: Spanish Edition

CITES

All essential texts in one volume. ....

Ashgate Handbook of Pesticides and Agricultural Chemicals

Edited by GWA Milne

Pesticides and other agricultural chemicals are in use in virtually every country in the world. It is therefore useful and important to those involved with these chemicals to ....

Basic Concepts of Environmental Chemistry

Des W Connell

Basic Concepts of Environmental Chemistry, Second Edition provides a theoretical basis for the behavior and biological effects of natural chemical entities and contaminants in ....

Catastrophe Modeling

A New Approach to Managing Risk

Edited by Patricia Grossi and Howard Kunreuther

"Catastrophe Modeling: A New Approach to Managing Risk" is the first book that systematically analyzes how catastrophe models can be used for assessing and managing ....

Change in the Weather

A Daily Telegraph Book

Philip Eden

'It is extraordinary what a sadistic old crone Mother Nature is when you think about it. Even in a comparatively benign climate like ours, we have gallons of water thrown at us ....

Climate Change: The UK Programme 2006

H M Government

'Climate Change: The UK Programme 2006' sets out the Government's policies and priorities for action on climate change in the UK and internationally. The first section ....

Coral Reefs and Climate Change: Science and Management

JT Phinney et al

Coral reefs are among the most beautiful and bountiful of nature's achievement in the oceans. Not only do coral reefs host the ocean's greatest biodiversity, they contain ....

Driving Climate Change

Cutting Carbon from Transportation

Daniel Sperling and James S Cannon

Climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing global society. The debate over what to do is confounded by the uncertain relationship between increasing greenhouse gas ....

EU Climate Change Policy

The Challenge of New Regulatory Initiatives

Edited by Marjan Peeters and Kurt Deketelaere

This book explores the current policy measures adopted by the EU in order to realize its Kyoto Protocol commitment and to prepare for further emission reductions after 2012. ....

Earthquake Hazard and Seismic Risk Reduction

Serguei Balassanian, Armando Cisternas and Mikael Melkumyan

This volume contains selected and rigorously scrutinized presentations made at the Second International Conference on Earthquake Hazard and Seismic Risk Reduction held in ....

Environmental Science

A Self-Teaching Guide

Barbara W Murck

This new Wiley Self-Teaching Guide introduces learners to all the basics of environmental science, from air pollution to the water cycle, covering both natural ....

Extreme Weather

Peter Bunyard

Record-breaking extreme weather conditions are on the rise. Violent and frequent hurricanes, unparalleled drought, tropical storms, rivers at unprecedently low levels in ....

Floods in Bangladesh

History, Dynamics and Rethinking the Role of the Himalayas

Bruno Messerli and Thomas Hofer

Is it really true that deforestation and land use practices of the Himalayan farmers are to blame for the recurring and devastating monsoon floods in the plains of the Ganga and ....

Global Warming in the 21st Century

Bruce E Johansen

Evidence of rising temperatures, melting ice, rising sea levels, and damage to flora and fauna on land and in the oceans has been accumulating for several decades. Scientific ....

Handbook of Global Environmental Politics

Edited by Peter Dauvergne

The first Handbook of original articles by leading scholars of global environmental politics, this landmark volume maps the latest theoretical and empirical research in ....

Helvetien im Treibhaus

Der weltweite Klimawandel und seine Auswirkungen auf die Schweiz

Martine Rebetez

Discusses the impacts of global climate change on Switzerland. ....

An Inconvenient Truth

Al Gore

Our climate crisis may at times appear to be happening slowly, but in fact it is happening very quickly - and has become a true planetary emergency. The Chinese ....

Management of Intentional and Accidental Water Pollution

Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Management of Intentional and Accidental Water Pollution, Sofia, Bulgaria, 8-12 May 2005

Edited by Gyula Dura, Veska Kambourova and Fina Simeonova

The book gives theoretical knowledge and practical approaches on the complex process of water management in case of pollution with chemical and biological hazards. Frameworks ....

Mediterranean Climate Variabiliy

Edited by P Lionello, Paola Malanotte-Rizzoli and R Boscolo

The book provides an updated description of climate variability in the Mediterranean basin, focusing on its strong inter-annual to decadal features. It describes both local ....

Natural Hazards

State-of-the-Art at the End of the Second Millennium

Edited by GA Papadopoulos, TS Murty, S Venkatesh and R Blong

This special volume contains a selection of papers that were presented as part of the Seventh International Symposium on Natural and Man-Made Hazards (HAZARDS-98), held in ....

Natural Hazards and Disasters

Rob Hyndman

This text emphasises earth and atmospheric hazards that appear suddenly or rapidly without significant warning. The text further discusses ways to prevent or mitigate the ....

Pesticides

An International Guide to 1800 Pest Control Chemicals

Edited by GWA Milne

Organized by functional category, this compilation provides important chemical and toxicity data for the 1800 substances registered by the US Environmental Protection ....

Sea Salt Aerosol Production: Mechanisms, Methods, Measurements, and Models

Edited by ER Lewis and SE Schwartz

Sea salt aerosol (SSA) exerts strong influences on radiation transfer, cloud formation, meteorology, and chemistry in the marine atmosphere. Understanding these influences is ....

Astrophysical Concepts

Martin Harwitt

This classic text - aimed at senior undergraduates and beginning graduate students in physics and astronomy - presents a wide range of concepts in sufficient depth to give ....

Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers

Edited by T Hockey et al

The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers is a unique and valuable resource for historians and astronomers alike. The two volumes include approximately 1550 ....

Biomimetics

Biologically Inspired Technologies

Yoseph Bar-Cohen

Nature is the world's foremost designer. With billions of years of experience and boasting the most extensive laboratory available, it conducts research in every branch ....

Chemistry for Environmental and Earth Sciences

Peter G Swindells, CVA Duke and CD Williams

An ideal textbook for first and second year undergraduate students in environmental sciences, physical geography, geology as well as earth sciences, Chemistry for ....

Dams and Geomorphology

Edited by PJ Beyer

Dams profoundly impact the geomorphology of rivers by altering the natural patterns of water, sediment, and energy flow in rivers. These changes have a largely negative impact ....

David Levy's Guide to Variable Stars

David H Levy

Variable stars are fascinating objects to observe; found all over the sky, they change in brightness over time and can be seen with even the most basic of equipment. Variable ....

Digital Astrophotography: The State of the Art

Edited by David Ratledge

The CCD (Charge-Coupled Device) has revolutionised optical astronomy during the past 20 years, and specialised astronomical CCD cameras are now even more affordable, colour is ....

Edinburgh Rock

The Geology of Lothian

Euan Clarkson and Brian Upton

Looking at Edinburgh Castle it is easily appreciated that it embodies a thousand year's worth of history. By investigation of soils and erosional features we can extend ....

Extreme Events in Nature and Society

Edited by S Albeverio, V Jentsch and H Kantz

Significant, and usually unwelcome, surprises, such as floods, financial crisis, epileptic seizures, or material rupture, are the topics of Extreme Events in Nature and ....

Fundamentals of Astronomy

C Barbieri

Fundamentals of Astronomy is an undergraduate text covering the whole of fundamental astronomy as taught to students of physics or astronomy. Classical in approach and ....

The Future of the Universe

AJ Meadows

There are many books that describe what we know of the past of the Universe, beginning with the Big Bang. But what of its future? ....

Groundwater in Geologic Processes

Steven E Ingebritsen and Ward E Sanford

The second edition of this well received and widely adopted textbook has been extensively revised to provide a more comprehensive treatment of hydromechanics (the ....

ISO Science Legacy

A Compact Review of ISO Major Achievements

Edited by Catherine J Cesarsky and Alberto Salama

Stars are born and die in clouds of gas and dust, opaque to most types of radiation, but transparent in the infrared. Requiring complex detectors, space missions and cooled ....

In Search of Ancient Oregon

A Geological and Natural History

Ellen Morris Bishop

Geology is an extremely visual subject, and In Search of Ancient Oregon is a beautifully photographed, expertly written account of Oregon's fascinating geological story. Written ....

Introducing Stephen Hawking

JP McEvoy and Oscar Zarate

Stephen Hawking is a world-famous physicist, but few people outside his field know what he has done. To the public he is a figure of tragic dimensions - a brilliant scientist ....

Knowing

The Nature of Physical Law

Michael Munowitz

We ask question after question of an indifferent universe that would just as soon remain mute; and slowly, patiently, one sentence at a time, we write our own version of the ....

Kristalle und ihre Formen

Erich Offermann

Volume 1: Theoretische Kristallmorphologie Volume 2: Praktische Kristallmorphologie ....

Observer's Guide to Stellar Evolution

The Birth, Life and Death of Stars

Mike Inglis

Stellar evolution - the birth, development and death of stars - is central to our current understanding of astronomy, but surprisingly the majority of amateur astronomers ....

Observing Variable Stars

Gerry A Good

Observing variable stars is one of the major contributions amateur astronomers make to science. There are 36,000 variable stars listed in the General Catalogue of Variable ....

The Philip's Pocket Star Atlas

John Cox

"The Philip's Pocket Star Atlas" is a highly practical atlas in a compact format for use out of doors. It contains a series of maps showing the entire night sky, as well as a ....

Principles of Sequence Stratigraphy

Octavian Catuneanu

This textbook provides an in-depth coverage and impartial assessment of all current ideas and models in the field of sequence stratigraphy. Even though widely popular among ....

Principles of Space Instrument Design

AM Cruise, JA Bowles, TJ Patrick and CV Goodall

This book provides an informative account of the design of instruments used in rockets and spacecraft. The volume begins with a chapter introducing the basic principles of ....

Quaternario do Brasil

Celia RG Souza, Kenitiro Suguio, Antonio MS Oliveira and PE de Oliveira

Space Invaders

How Robotic Spacecraft Explore the Solar System

Michel Van Pelt

Manned space programs attract the most media attention, and it is not hard to understand why: the danger, the heroism, the sheer adventure we as earthbound observers can imagine ....

The State of the Universe

A Primer in Modern Cosmology

Pedro G Ferreira

It is science's last and greatest challenge: fathoming the depths of the night sky. The objective: to crack the cosmic code, to unravel the blueprint for nature's grandest ....

Treatise on Geochemistry Volume 4: The Atmosphere

Ralph K Keeling

Reprinted individual volume from the Treatise on Geochemistry Series. ....

Treatise on Geochemistry, Volume 6: The Oceans and Marine Geochemistry

H Elderfield

Reprinted individual volume from the Treatise on Geochemistry Series. ....

Tsunami

The World's Most Terrifying Natural Disaster

Geoff Tibballs

Before 25 December 2004, while many people knew what a tsunami was, few had any idea of the wholesale destruction that one could cause. All of that changed as a powerful ....

VESUVIUS

Education, Security and Prosperity

Flavio Dobran

VESUVIUS 2000 is an interdisciplinary project aimed at producing a safe and prosperous habitat for the people living around Vesuvius. To produce this environment requires an ....

Volcanism in the Campania Plain

Vesuvius, Campi Flegrei and Ignimbrites

B de Vivo

The book deals with the study of three important volcanisms in the Campania Plain: Vesuvius, Campi Flegrei and Ignimbrites. The knowledge of the volcanic evolution of ....

Water: A Matrix of Life

Felix Franks

This book discusses current scientific knowledge of water: its properties, its influence on dissolved substances and its usually neglected but controlling role in the life ....

Agroecology: Ecological Processes in Sustainable Agriculture

Stephen R Gliessman

Providing the theoretical and conceptual framework for this growing field, Agroecology: The Ecology of Sustainable Food Systems, Second Edition develops the understanding of ....

Biodiversity and Environmental Philosophy

An Introduction

Sahotra Sarkar

This book explores the epistemological and ethical issues at the foundations of environmental philosophy, emphasizing the conservation of biodiversity. Sahota Sarkar ....

Biomaterials from Aquatic and Terrestrial Organisms

Edited by Milton Fingerman and Rachakonda Nagabhushanam

Organisms, both aquatic and terrestrial, are sources of a wide variety of substances, many of which have already been shown to be bioactive. They play a wide variety of ....

The Collapsing Bubble

Growth and Fossil Energy

Lindsey Grant

The Collapsing Bubble: Growth and Fossil Energy is a collection of three papers, The New American Century, The End of Fossil Fuels: Part I - How Long the Twilight, and The End ....

A Colour Handbook of Vegetable Diseases

Steven T Koike, Peter Gladders and Albert O Paulus

Our dependence on healthy vegetable crops as a reliable source of food transcends all barriers of nation and culture. Consumers now demand excellent quality from the industry ....

Conversations on the Beach

Local Knowledge and Environmental Change in South India

G Hoeppe

The South Indian state of Kerala has been called a model of development. Despite a low per-capita income, its child mortality, literacy and general life expectancy resemble ....

Developing Wind Power Projects

Theory and Practice

Tore Wizelius

Wind power is developing rapidly, in terms of both the number of new installations and interest from various stakeholders (including policy-makers, NGOs, research scientists, ....

Earth Democracy

Justice, Sustainability and Peace

Vandana Shiva

This book is Vandana Shiva's most extensive treatment of the struggles she has helped bring to international attention in genetic food engineering, cultural theft, and ....

Echoes from the Poisoned Well

Global Memories of Environmental Injustice

Sylvia H Washington, Heather Goodall and Paul Rosier

The emerging environmental justice movement has created greater awareness among scholars that communities from all over the world suffer from similar environmental inequalities. ....

Ecohydrology

Vegetation Function, Water and Resource Management

Derek Eamus, Tom Hatton, Peter Cook and Christine Colvin

Ecohydrology: Vegetation Function, Water and Resource Management describes and provides a synthesis of the different disciplines required to understand the sustainable ....

Ecological Ethics

An Introduction

Patrick Curry

This book is an introduction to the field of ecological ethics. Taking issue with the common assumption that existing human ethics can be 'extended' to meet the demands of ....

Energy

A Beginner's Guide

Vaclav Smil

As Einstein pointed out in his famous equation E=MC2, all matter can be described as energy. It is everywhere and is everything. In this engaging book, the author describes ....

Energy Science

Principles, technologies, and impacts

Edited by John Andrews and Nick Jelley

Do renewable energy sources really provide a realistic alternative to fossil fuels? How does wind power compare to nuclear power, in terms of the energy it can generate? How do ....

Enhancing Participation and Governance in Water Resources Management

Conventional Approaches and Information Technology

Edited by Libor Jansy and Juha I Uitto

This book aims to further global understanding of approaches and techniques for applying public participation to improve water resources management. It originates from the ....

Environment and Sustainability Policy

Creation, Implementation and Evaluation

Stephen Dovers

Stephen Dovers argues that better public policy is the key to creating a more sustainable environment. Environment and Sustainability Policy: Creation, Implementation ....

The Environment and Sustainable Development in the New Central Europe

Edited by Zbigniew Bochniarz and Gary B Cohen

With the enlargement of the European Union, the accession countries are coming under pressure to develop and meet EU standards for environmental protection and sustainable ....

Environmental Adult Education

Ecological Learning, Theory, and Practice for Socioenvironmental Change

LH Hill

Environmental adult education brings an ecological perspective to studies of adult learning by concretizing the interconnections between people's experiences of ....

Environmental Awareness

Evolutionary, Aesthetic and Social Perspectives

Edited by Richard G Coss

This edited volume presents a series of reviews and empirical studies of human-environment relationships relevant to readers interested in environmental ....

Environmental Ethics

An Introduction to Environmental Philosophy

Joseph R Des Jardins

This brief yet wide-ranging introduction to environmental ethics offers an overview of the major issues and schools of thought in the field. A discussion of basic concepts in ....

Environmental Health

From Global to Local

Edited by Howard Frumkin

Environmental Health: From Global to Local offers students a comprehensive introduction to environmental health. It provides an overview of methods and paradigms used in this ....

Environmental Issues in American History

A Reference Guide With Primary Documents

Chris J Magoc

Since the time of the early settlers, issues concerning the environment have plagued the minds of certain groups of Americans. Primary documents serve to support different sides ....

Environmental Justice

Creating Equity, Reclaiming Democracy

Kristin Shrader-Frechette

Kristin Shrader-Frechette, a well known philosopher of environmental ethics, makes an ethical case for Environmental Justice. Explaning fundamental ethical concepts such as ....

Environmental Justice and the Rights of Unborn and Future Generations

Law, Environmental Harm and the Right to Health

Laura Westra

In many countries a three-month-old foetus can be aborted - so what does the law say about the poisoning of an unborn child by a toxic spill, HIV infection or the future ....

Environmental Management

Processes and Practices for Australia

Ian Thomas

Environmental Management: Processes and Practices describes the main approaches to environmental management that come from the social sciences, in an Australian context. ....

Environmental and Geographic Education for Sustainability

John Chi-Kin Lee

Geography, environment, sustainability, culture and education standing alone or in any combination, provide the ingredients for a variety of stews. They are all difficult to ....

Environmentally Friendly Technologies for Agricultural Produce Quality

Edited by Shimshon Ben-Yeoshua

This book focuses on the most recent environmentally-friendly technologies, such as heat treatments and modified atmospheric packaging, developed to reduce spoilage and maintain ....

Fair Trade

Market-Driven Ethical Consumption

Alex Nicholls and Charlotte Opal

Fair Trade is at a crucial moment in its evolution from alternative trading mechanism to mainstream economic model. This timely and thoughtful book looks at the strategic future ....

Fresh Water and International Economic Law

E Brown Weiss, L Boisson de Chazournes and N Bernasconi-Osterwalder

Fresh water resources are at the same time ecological, economic, social, and cultural goods and must be managed accordingly. However, efforts to manage these resources are ....

Fundamentals of Temperate Zone Tree Fruit Production

Edited by J Tromp, AD Webster and SJ Wertheim

In a way, this book is a successor of a former Dutch book called `Grondslagen van de Fruitteelt' (`Fundamentals of Fruit Production'), published in 1976. That handbook, ....

The Future of Environmental Criticism

Environmental Crisis and Literary Imagination

Lawrence Buell

Written by one of the world's leading theorists in ecocriticism, this manifesto provides a critical summary of the ecocritical movement. ....

Geoenvironmental Sustainability

Raymond N Yong, Catherine N Mulligan and Masaharu Fukue

Industrialization, urbanization, agriculture, and resource exploitation are activities associated with a developing society. ....

Geotourism

Sustainability, Impacts and Management

Edited by Ross Dowling and David Newsome

Geotourism is tourism surroounding geological attractions and destinations. This unique text uses a wealth of case studies to discuss the issues involved in the management and ....

Globalization and the World Ocean

Peter Jacques

Jacques offers a unique analysis of the connections between global marine and atmospheric science to global political phenomena. He shows how human survival is ....

Glossary of Biotechnology and Nanobiotechnology Terms

Kimball R Nill

Even if you studied biotechnology in school, if you haven't stayed current, it's not likely you'll be able to speak the same language as today's biotech scientists. The same ....

Green Encounters

Shaping and Contesting Environmentalism in Costa Rica

Luis A Vivanco

Since the 1970s and 1980s, Monte Verde, Costa Rica has emerged as one of the most renowned sites of nature conservation and ecotourism in Costa Rica, and some would ....

Handbook of Microbial Biofertilizers

Edited by Mahendra K Rai

Provides coverage of several microbial biofertilizers (Rhizobia, Arbuscular Mychorrizal fungi and Cyanobacteria), as well as growth promoters (endophytes). This book examines ....

Handbook of Plant Nutrition

Edited by Allen V Barker and David J Pilbeam

Handbook of Plant Nutrition explores the principles of plant nutrition from a historical standpoint to current knowledge of the requirements of crops for certain elements and ....

Handbook of Seed Science and Technology

Edited by Amarjit S Basra

The Handbook of Seed Science and Technology is an extensive reference text for educators, students, practitioners, and researchers that focuses on the underlying ....

Handbook of Sustainable Weed Management

Edited by Harminder Pal Singh, Daizy Rani Batish and Ravinder Kumar Kohli

The Handbook of Sustainable Weed Management presents the latest international strategies for controlling weeds while preventing dangerous chemicals from endangering the ....

In Defense of Globalization

Jagdish Bhagwati

The riot-torn meeting of the World Trade Organization in Seattle in 1999 was only the most dramatic sign of the intensely passionate debate now raging over globalization, ....

Innovative Communities

People-centred Approaches to Environmental Management in the Asia-Pacific Region

Edited by Jerry Velasquez, Makiko Yashiro, Susan Yoshimura and Izumi Ono

This book introduces the concept of community innovation and illustrates its role and impact in promoting sustainability. It includes nine case studies from the Asia-Pacific ....

Introduction to Watershed Development

Understanding and Managing the Impacts of Sprawl

Robert L France

"Sprawl"--the cancer-like spread of development from urban centers out into the countryside--is one of our most serious and influential environmental concerns. ....

Legal and Institutional Aspects of Urban and Peri-urban Forestry and Greening

Lidija Knuth

Overall, urban and peri-urban forestry and greening (UPFG) receives little interest on political agendas despite its importance to society in terms of the social, economic, ....

The Logic of Environmentalism

Anthropology, Ecology, and Postcoloniality

Vassos Agyrou

Although modernity's understanding of nature and culture has now been superseded by that of environmentalism, the power to define the meaning of both, and hence the meaning of ....

Managing Australia's Environment

Edited by Stephen Dovers and Su Wild River

Managing Australia's Environment is a report card of unprecedented scope, examining Australia's resource and environmental management institutions and policies against the ....

Marine Ranching

Devin M Bartley and Kenneth M Leber

With coastal fisheries in decline around the world, there is mounting concern about how long current sources of seafood can supply world needs. Governments, resource managers ....

Microbial Biotechnology in Horticulture, Volume 1

Edited by RC Ray and OP Ward

The application of microbial biotechnology to horticulture is of great importance, because it has the potential to increase productivity, to enhance quality and shelf-life ....

NGO Accountability

Politics, Principles and Innovations

Edited by Lisa Jordan and Peter van Tuijl

As the fastest growing segment of civil society, as well as featuring prominently in the global political arena, NGOs are under fire for being `unaccountable'' But who do NGOs ....

Natural Kinds and Conceptual Change

J Laporte

According to the received tradition, the language used to refer to natural kinds in scientific discourse remains stable even as theories about these kinds are refined. ....

Negotiation and Mediation Techniques for Natural Resource Management

Antonia Engel and Benedict Korf

Wouldn't it be great if we could manage natural resources effectively and get the right balance between development and conservation? If we knew more of how to help people ....

The Organic Directory 2006

Edited by Clive Litchfield

A comprehensive UK county-by-county guide to where to buy everything organic - from carrots to cosmetics. Revised annually. ....

The Precautionary Principle in Practice

Environmental decision-making and scientific uncertainty

Jacqueline Peel

The precautionary principle puts forward the `commonsense' notion that decision-makers should be cautious when assessing potential health or environmental harms in the absence ....

Progress in Marine Conservation in Europe

NATURA 2000 Sites in German Offshore Waters

Edited by Henning von Nordheim, Dieter Boedecker and Jochen C Krause

This volume offers insight in the identification and selection procedure of marine protected areas in the German exclusive economic zones (EEZs) of the North - and Baltic ....

Reinventing the Common

Cross-boundary farming for a sustainable future

Sima Williamson, David Brunckhorst and Gary Kelly

Across Australia, farmers and rural communities are seeking ways to salvage ailing land and struggling communities. Many farms are too small to be economically viable and ....

Renewable Resources and Renewable Energy

A Global Challenge

Mauro Graziani

Renewable Resources and Renewable Energy presents research on the production of bio-based products, environmentally degradable plastics, and renewable energy. This book ....

Restoring Cursed Earth

Appraising Environmental Policy Reforms in Eastern Europe and Russia

Matthew R Auer

Among the most costly and complicated chapters in the former Eastern bloc countries' transitions to democracy is the clean up and restoration of the environment. Even as ....

Science and International Environmental Policy

Regimes and Nonregimes in Global Governance

Radoslav S Dimitrov

The proliferation of environmental agreements is a defining feature of modern international relations that has attracted considerable academic attention. The ....

Sustainability Strategy

Paul Martin and Miriam Verbeek

Sustainability Strategy is a practical guide to achieving sustainability goals for the public sector, business and natural resource management. ....

Sustainable Development Policy and Administration

Edited by Gedeon M Mudacumura, Desta Mebratu and MS Haque

Sustainable Development Policy and Administration provides a learning resource describing the major issues that are critical to understanding the multiple dimensions ....

Sustainable Financing of Protected Areas

A Global Review of Challenges and Options

Lucy Emerton, Joshua Bishop and Lee Thomas

This volume places an emphasis on understanding the complex issues of financing protected areas as well as helping managers find solutions from the experience gained in ....

Sustainable Nuclear Power

William J Suppes and Truman Storvick

By 2050, the world's population is expected to reach 10 billion. In the same time, industrial activity will increase by at least three times. Whether considering the use ....

Sustainable Tourism

David Weaver

Sustainable Tourism comprehensively examines the theoretical and applied dimensions of contemporary sustainable tourism from a global perspective. Using international case ....

Tarzan Was an Eco-Tourist

...and Other Tales in the Anthropology Adventure

Edited by Luis A Vivanco and Robert A Gordon

Adventure is currently enjoying enormous interest in public culture. The image of Tarzan provides a rewarding lens through which to explore this phenomenon. In their day, Edgar ....

Visions for a Sustainable Energy Future

Mark Gabriel

This book offers a unique insight into the corporate health of energy companies in an evolving landscape of deregulation. Cutting across both historical and present-day ....

The WTO and Sustainable Development

Gary P Sampson

The WTO has evolved into a World Trade and Sustainable Development Organization and many issues now on its agenda are far from traditional trade policy matters. ....

Water

Global Common and Global Problems

Edited by Velma I Grover

Water is one of the most essential elements for the survival of living beings. With the increase in demand and decreasing quality and quantity, water has become one of the ....

Water

Use Less, Save More

Jon Clift and Amanda Cuthbert

Our population is growing, our climate changing and our lifestyle demands more and more water. Quite simply, we are consuming too much. And with water usage at an all-time ....

Water Resource Management

There has been a fundamental change in our understanding of water resource management and problems. The conventional view has stressed the scientific and technical nature of ....

World Trends in Environmental Education

Ulisses Azeiteiro

This book contains the keynote papers delivered at the First World Environmental Education Congress (FWEEC) held in Espinho, Portugal in May, 2003. The FWEEC gathered ....

The Air Spora

A manual for catching and identifying airborne biological particles

Maureen E Lacey and Jonathan S West

The Air Spora is an illustrated guide to trapping, identifying and quantifying airborne biological particles such as fungus and plant spores and pollen. This book will be of ....

Applied Bayesian Statistical Studies in Biology and Medicine

Edited by M di Bacco, G d'Amore and F Scalfari

This volume presents the results of biological and medical research with the statistical methods used to obtain them. Nowadays the fields of biology and experimental medicine ....

Bayesian Statistical Modelling

Peter Congdon

The goal of this book is to provide an accessible approach to Bayesian computing and data analysis, with an emphasis on the interpretation of real data sets. Following in ....

Chromatographic Analysis of the Environment

Edited by Leo ML Nollet

Chromatographic Analysis of the Environment, Third Edition is a detailed handbook on different chromatographic analysis techniques and chromatographic data for compounds ....

Computational Biology

A Statistical Mechanics Perspective

Ralf Blossey

Quantitative methods have a particular knack for improving any field they touch. For biology, computational techniques have led to enormous strides in our understanding of ....

Computational Molecular Evolution

Ziheng Yang

The field of molecular evolution has experienced explosive growth in recent years due to the rapid accumulation of genetic sequence data, continuous improvements to computer ....

DNA Microarrays and Related Genomics Techniques

Design, Analysis, and Interpretation of Experiments

Edited by DB Allison, GP Page, TM Beasley and JW Edwards

Considered highly exotic tools as recently as the late 1990s, microarrays are now ubiquitous in biological research. Traditional statistical approaches to design and ....

Fluorescence Sensors and Biosensors

Edited by Richard B Thompson

Fluorescence-based sensing is a significant technique used in prominent fields such as fluorescence-activated cell sorting, DNA sequencing, high-throughput screening, and ....

Hyperspectral Remote Sensing

Marcus Borengasser and ROger L King

Presenting a tutorial on the fundamentals of hyperspectral remote sensing, this book provides a highly readable discussion of its applications to agriculture, environmental ....

Immunoassay and Other Bioanalytical Techniques

Edited by Jeanette M van Emon

Using an interdisciplinary approach, Immunoassay and Other Bioanalytical Techniques describes the strength and the versatility of immunochemical and related bioanalytical ....

Intelligent Bioinformatics

The Application of Artificial Intelligence Techniques to Bioinformatics Problems

Edward Keedell and Ajit Narayanan

~Bioinformatics is contributing to some of the most ~important advances in medicine ....

Randomization, Bootstrap and Monte Carlo Methods in Biology

Bryan FJ Manly

Modern computer-intensive statistical methods play a key role in solving many problems across a wide range of scientific disciplines. This new edition of the bestselling ....

Remote Sensing

Models and Methods for Image Processing

Robert A Schowengerdt

Remote sensing is a technology that engages electromagnetic sensors to measure and monitor changes in the earth's surface and atmosphere. Normally this is accomplished ....

Remote Sensing of Landscapes with Spectral Images

A Physical Modeling Approach

John B Adams and Alan R Gillespie

Remote Sensing of Landscapes with Spectral Images describes how to process and interpret spectral images using physical models to bridge the gap between the engineering and ....

Research in Computational Molecular Biology

10th Annual International Conference, RECOMB 2006, Venice, Italy, April 2-5, 2006, Proceedings

Edited by A Apostolico, C Guerra, S Istrail, P Pevzner and M Waterman

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th Annual International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology, RECOMB 2006, held in Venice, ....

Smart Biosensor Technology

Edited by George K Knopf and Amarjeet S Bassi

With a multidisciplinary perspective, Smart Biosensor Technology provides background essential to understanding biosensors and introduces new ideas of intelligent biosensor ....

Statistics

A Gentle Introduction

Frederick L Coolidge

An ideal text for students who are taking their first course in statistics. This introductory statistics book has been specifically designed to curtail students' ....

Stochastic Modelling for Systems Biology

Darren J Wilkinson

Although stochastic kinetic models are increasingly accepted as the best way to represent and simulate genetic and biochemical networks, most researchers in the field ....

The Ten Most Wanted Solutions in Protein Bioinformatics

Anna Tramontano

Utilizing high speed computational methods to extrapolate to the rest of the protein universe, the knowledge accumulated on a subset of examples, protein bioinformatics ....

A Chronology and Calendar of Documents Relating to the London Book Trade 1641-1700

Donald McKenzie and Maureen Bell

"The Chronology and Calendar of Documents relating to the London Book Trade 1641-1700" presents abstracts of documents relating to the book trade and book production between ....

A Chronology and Calendar of Documents Relating to the London Book Trade 1641-1700

Volume I: 1641-1670

Donald McKenzie and Maureen Bell

A Chronology and Calendar of Documents Relating to the London Book Trade 1641-1700

Volume II: 1671-1685

Donald McKenzie and Maureen Bell

A Chronology and Calendar of Documents Relating to the London Book Trade 1641-1700

Volume III: 1686-1700

Donald McKenzie and Maureen Bell

Communicating Science

A Practical Guide

Pierre Laszlo

Have you new and interesting, or even outstanding, scientific results that you want to be recognized by your scientific colleagues, or be understood by the public? Or do you ....

Dictionary of Geophysics, Astrophysics, and Astronomy

Edited by Richard A Matzner

The Dictionary of Geophysics, Astrophysics, and Astronomy provides a lexicon of terminology covering fields such as astronomy, astrophysics, cosmology, relativity, ....

The Green Directory 2006/08

Your Regional and National Guide

Edited by A Coleman

The Green Directory is the UK's most comprehensive guide to green living. As well as being the UK's only national directory it is the only directory to also include Regional ....

Handbook for Small Science Centers

Edited by CC Yao, Lynn D Dierking, Peter A Anderson, Dennis Schatz and Sarah Wolf

There has been, and continues to be, an explosion of interest in developing new small science centers that is changing the world of museums. This handbook is designed to be a ....

Metals and Corrosion

A Handbook for the Conservation Professional

Lyndsie Selwyn

This book discusses the chemical and physical characteristics and the corrosion products of nine common metals: aluminum, copper, gold, iron, lead, nickel, silver, tin, and ....

Philip's Atlas of the World

Philip's

Major new edition, published in association with the Royal Geographical Society. Includes new topographic maps of Scandinavia, Southern Europe, the Eastern ....

Philip's Concise World Atlas

Philip's Concise World Atlas has been fully revised and updated for 2006-2007. It contains 128 pages of world mapping, and a comprehensive index, and provides topical ....

World Atlas of Sustainable Development

Economic, Social and Environmental Data

Anne-Marie Sacquet

The concept of `sustainable development' was first introduced at the time of the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio, where over 170 heads of state signed a plan of action for the 21st ....