new and forthcoming titles Issue: 2008/05
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Mammals
 

Cronin's Key Guide to Australian Wildlife

Leonard Cronin

An indispensable guide to Australia's fascinating monotremes, marsupials and placental mammals. ....

208 pages | Illus, maps | Allen & Unwin

Pbk | 2007 | 174175075X | #171546A | £39.99 Add to basket

 

Elephant

Dan Wylie

Turning to the elephant's biological history, Wylie describes the three remaining species - the African Bush Elephant, the African Forest Elephant and the Asian Elephant ....

224 pages | 100 illus | Reaktion Books

Pbk | NYP 10/2008 | 1861893973 | #175220A | £9.99 Add to basket

 

L'Elevage en Mouvement

Flexibilite et Adaptation des Exploitations d'herbivores

Benoit Dedieu, Eduardo Chia, Bernadette Leclerc and Muriel Tichit

296 pages | Quae

2008 | 2759200779 | #174844A | £59.50 Add to basket

 

The Evolutionary History and a Systematic Revision of Woodrats of the Neotoma lepida Group

James L Patton, David G Huckaby and Sergio Ticul Alvarez-Castaneda

Details the evolutionary history of the desert woodrat complex (lepida group, genus Neotoma) of western North America. The analyses include standard multivariate ....

472 pages | California UP

Pbk | 2008 | 0520098668 | #175565A | £38.95 Add to basket

 

Field Guide to the Large Mammals of Pakistan

Thomas Roberts

Tom Roberts' first definitive account of the mammals of Pakistan in 1977 was brought up to date and revised in 1997. The present book on the large mammals of Pakistan is a ....

282 pages | illustrations | OUP

Pbk | 2005 | 0195795687 | #175366A | £9.99 Add to basket

 

Giant Panda ex-situ Conservation Theory and Practice

Zhang Zhihe and Wei Fuwen

The literature collected should completely and systematically reflect the research results in the giant panda ex-situ conservation. Meanwhile, we have consulted the most ....

546 pages | CCPH

Hbk | 2006 | 703016525X | #175727A | £69.99 Add to basket

 

Gorilla Biology

A Multidisciplinary Perspective

Edited by Andrea B Taylor and Michele L Goldsmith

Comprehensive examination of gorilla biology combining recent research in morphology, genetics and behavioral ecology to reveal the complexity and diversity of gorilla ....

508 pages | B/w illus, figs, tabs, maps | CUP

Hbk | 2002 | 0521792819 | #131710A | £80.00 Add to basket

Pbk | NYP 09/2008 | 0521078911 | #175526A | £32.99 Add to basket

 

A Guide to Animal Diseases in South Africa

Horses, Donkeys and Mules

Pamela Oberem

Guide for the South Africa horse, mule or donkey owner that covers the diseases, parasites and plant poisonings that occur in these animals, with the emphasis on how to ....

164 pages | 250 photographs | Briza

Pbk | 2007 | 1875093656 | #175164A | £16.95 Add to basket

 

The Last Wild Wolves

Ghosts of the Rain Forest

Ian McAllister

"As if appearing in a dream, a stream of wolves emerged from the forest edge." So begins this exhilarating journey to one of the planet's most spectacular regions - Canada's ....

192 pages | col. Illustrations | California UP

Hbk | 2007 | 0520254732 | #175128A | £23.99 Add to basket

 

The Lion Man - DVD: Series 1

Craig Busch

Craig Busch loves lions so much he is creating the Zion Wildlife Gardens as a paradise for his feline friends, who include 14 Barbary Lions, seven Royal White Bengal Tigers, ....

running time: 300 minutes, 4-disc set | Demand Media

DVD | NYP 06/2008 | #175841A | £29.99 Add to basket

 

Meerkat Manor - DVD: Series 3

Bill Nighy

This nature series follows the lives of a family of meerkats living in the Kalahari Desert. With complicated relationships and rivalries more akin to a soap opera, the show ....

running time: 300 minutes | Demand Media

DVD | NYP 06/2008 | #175840A | £29.99 Add to basket

 

Moose

Kevin Jackson

Explains the animal's behaviour, evolution and diet, and describes its natural environments around the world, including in the USA, Canada, Scandinavia, where the ....

224 pages | 100 illus | Reaktion Books

Pbk | NYP 11/2008 | 1861893965 | #175218A | £9.99 Add to basket

 

The Musk Deer in China

Sheng Helin Liu Zhixiao

Musk deer (Moschus) are among the most valuable of the game animals of China. The secretion from the preputial gland of males, known as musk, is an indispensable ....

222 pages | Fidgs, photos | CCPH

Hbk | 2007 | 7532387941 | #175726A | £39.99 Add to basket

 

A Photographic Guide to Mammals of New Zealand

Carolyn King

This new addition to a popular series delves into a fascinating field of New Zealand's natural history. In prehistory, only a few bats, marine mammals and odd quadrupeds ....

128 pages | 100 col photos | New Holland

Pbk | NYP 10/2008 | 1869662024 | #175223A | £9.99 Add to basket

 

Primates of the World

The Amazing Diversity of Our Closest Relatives

Ian Redmond and Jane Goodall

Covering nearly 300 species, this comprehensive illustrated guide takes a close look at every branch of the primate family around the world, from tiny nocturnal mouse lemurs in ....

176 pages | 180 col photos | New Holland

Hbk | NYP 10/2008 | 1847732917 | #175355A | £24.99 Add to basket

 

Spider Monkeys

The Biology, Behavior and Ecology of the Genus Ateles

Christina Campbell

Spider monkeys are one of the most widespread New World primate genera, ranging from southern Mexico to Bolivia. Although they are common in zoos, spider monkeys are ....

352 pages | illus, diagrams | CUP

Hbk | NYP 08/2008 | 0521867509 | #175529A | £64.99 Add to basket

 

The Welfare of Sheep

Cathy Dwyer

The welfare of the sheep has received less attention than the welfare of intensively husbanded animals. However, domestic sheep may be kept under conditions that are very ....

430 pages | Kluwer

Hbk | NYP 09/2008 | 1402085524 | #175811A | £86.50 Add to basket

 

Wildcat Haven

Mike Tomkies

Some seven years after abandoning the life of an international journalist for a life in the wilds, Mike Tomkies began a remarkable experiment, rearing the ferocious Scottish ....

192 pages | Col photos | Whittles

Pbk | NYP 08/2008 | 1904445756 | #175235A | £18.99 Add to basket

 
Birds
 

The Backyard Birdsong Guide: Eastern and Central North America

A Guide to Listening

Donald Kroodsma

Building on the tremendous success of Bird Songs (250,000 copies sold), The Backyard Birdsong Guides are regional, interactive handbooks of birds and their songs for ....

192 pages | illustrations | Chronicle Books

Hbk | 2008 | 0811863425 | #175336A | £15.99 Add to basket

 

The Backyard Birdsong Guide: Western North America

A Guide to Listening

Donald Kroodsma

Building on the tremendous success of Bird Songs (250,000 copies sold), The Backyard Birdsong Guides are regional, interactive handbooks of birds and their songs for ....

192 pages | illustrations | Chronicle Books

Hbk | NYP 06/2008 | 0811863972 | #175334A | £15.99 Add to basket

 

The Birds and Wildlife of Paxton Pits 2007

1st September 2006 to 31st December 2007

Julian Hughes and Mark Ward

Reports sightings in the gravel workings in the Ouse Valley in southwest Cambridgeshire, an SSSI. ....

55 pages | drawings, diagrams | Trevor Gunton

Spiralbound | 2008 | #169715A | £6.99 Add to basket

 

Birdsongs of the Himalayas

Scott Connop

A birdsong CD with recordings of 99 species; it combines most songs from two cassettes produced in the 1990s (Birdsongs of the Himalayas and Birdsongs of Nepal), plus an ....

Turaco

CD | 2008 | #175593A | £21.74 Add to basket

 

Corvus

A Life with Birds

Esther Woolfson

Esther Woolfson has been fascinated by corvids, the bird group that includes crows, rooks, magpies and ravens, since her daughter rescued a fledgling rook sixteen years ....

288 pages | Granta

Hbk | NYP 08/2008 | 1847080294 | #175298A | £16.99 Add to basket

 

Egg and Nest

Rosamond Purcell, Linnea S Hall and Rene Corado

The beauty of the robin's egg is not lost on the child who discovers the nest, nor on the collector of nature's marvels. Such instances of wonder find fitting expression in ....

224 pages | 183 colour photos | Belknap Press

Hbk | NYP 11/2008 | 0674031725 | #175915A | £25.95 Add to basket

 

Extreme Birds

Dominic Couzens

A beautiful and fascinating portrait of the world's most extreme birds, from the biggest and fastest, to the smelliest and smartest. ....

288 pages | Harper Collins

Hbk | NYP 11/2008 | 000727923X | #172271A | £29.99 Add to basket

 

Garden Birds

Reader's Digest Wild Britain

Gardens would be far less calming and enchanting without the cheerful singing of birds. But how can you tell just which birds you have visiting your garden? With this expert ....

256 pages | over 300 colour illustrations | Reader's Digest

Pbk | NYP 06/2008 | 0276442717 | #175499A | £7.99 Add to basket

 

The Grouse Species of Britain and Ireland

Adam Watson and Robert Moss

Grouse and their habitats are of much interest to hunters and game-dog enthusiasts, and to the many others involved in outdoor recreation. However, grouse are also of great ....

512 pages | Harper Collins

Hbk | NYP 09/2008 | 0007150970 | #137634A |

Normally £44.99

NHBS OFFER PRICE: £34.99

Pbk | NYP 09/2008 | 0007150989 | #137635A |

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NHBS OFFER PRICE: £17.99

 

The Guide to British Garden Birds

B Westwood and S Moss

Most of us can tell the difference between a blue tit and a blackbird or a robin and a wren, but what happens if you close your eyes - can you still tell which bird is which ....

Duration: 1 Hour (1 CD) | BBC Books

CD | 2008 | 1405689315 | #175897A | £10.56 Add to basket

 

Handbook of the Birds of the World. Volume 13: Penduline Tits to Shrikes

Edited by Josep Del Hoyo, Andrew Elliot and David A Christie

This volume includes a foreword on Bird Migration by Ian Newton. ....

800 pages | plates, colour photos, distribution maps | Lynx

Hbk | NYP 10/2008 | 8496553450 | #134325A |

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NHBS OFFER PRICE: £119.00

 

The History of British Birds

Derek Yalden and Umberto Albarella

The History of British Birds reviews our knowledge of avifaunal history over the last 15,000 years, setting it in its wider historical and European context. The authors, ....

288 pages | 40 illus | OUP

Hbk | NYP 11/2008 | 0199217513 | #174989A | £65.00 Add to basket

 

The Little Owl

Conservation, Ecology and Behavior of Athene noctua

Dries van Nieuwenhuyse, Jean-Claude Genot and David H Johnson

Understanding of the basic biology of owls is poor compared to that of other bird species. The Little Owl, Athene noctua, has become one of the best models for ....

608 pages | 50 line figures, 128 halftones, 30 plates, 54 tables | CUP

Hbk | NYP 07/2008 | 0521886783 | #175305A | £39.99 Add to basket

 

Norwegian Bird Ringing Atlas, Volume 2: Pigeons - Passerines / Norsk RingmerkingsAtlas, Volum 2: Duer - Spurvefugler

Vidar Bakken, Olav Runde and Even Tjorve

Presents the results of more than 80 years of ringing in Norway. ....

446 pages | maps, illustrations, diagrams | Stavanger Museum

Hbk | 2006 | 8290054653 | #175153A | £99.99 Add to basket

 

Penguins From Around the World

Uko Gorter

Laminated identification guide to 20 species of penguin; shows numbers of breeding pairs and status, size, distribution, and names in English and Latin. ....

2 pages | A4 Laminated Guide, col illus | HML Enterprises

Unbound | 2007 | 1888538805 | #175113A | £4.99 Add to basket

 

Petrels Night and Day

A Sound Approach Guide

Magnus Robb, Killian Mullarney and The Sound Approach

This is a comprehensive exploration of the petrels of Europe and North Africa. You can listen to previously unpublished digital stereo recordings of 23 species of petrels ....

300 pages | Col photos, figs, maps | Sound Approach

Hbk | 2008 | 9081093320 | #165722A | £34.95 Add to basket

 

A Photographic Guide to Birds of Ecuador and Galapagos

Clive Byers

Although it is one of South America's smallest countries, Ecuador is home to nearly 1,600 species of birds. This is thanks to the huge variety of habitats created by the ....

144 pages | 280 col photos, 1 map | New Holland

Pbk | NYP 10/2008 | 1847731406 | #175353A | £7.99 Add to basket

 

Plumas: Birds in Ecuador

R Gelis and M Cooper

A new book of bird photography, with 250 plus species from different geographical regions of Ecuador. ....

239 pages | Murray Cooper Photography

Hbk | 2007 | 9978455159 | #174703A | £64.99 Add to basket

 

The Race to Save the World's Rarest Bird

The Discovery and Death of the Po'ouli

Alvin Powell

Thirty years ago researchers discovered a previously unknown species of bird in the rain-soaked and remote mountains of Hawaii. As they studied the creature - which sported ....

272 pages | illustrations | Stackpole

Hbk | 2008 | 081173448X | #175136A | £15.50 Add to basket

 

A Sky Full of Starlings

A Diary of a Birding Year

Stephen Moss

Stephen Moss' "This Birding Life" was universally acclaimed for one of the most irresistibly beautiful and colourful jackets to grace any book that year. This follow-up ....

192 pages | line illustrations throughout | Aurum Press

Hbk | NYP 08/2008 | 1845133536 | #175295A | £12.99 Add to basket

 

Surveillance of Winter Spring Aggregation of Seaducks, Divers and Grebes in UK Inshore Areas: Aerial Surveys and Shore-Based Counts 2006/07

M Lewis, L Wilson, I Sohle, B Dean, A Webb and J Reid

This report outlines the mehods used during the 2006/07 winter and spring aerial surveys of selected Scottish inshore water areas and shore-based counts of Aberdeen Bay, and ....

50 pages | Maps, tabs | JNCC

Pbk | 2008 | #175139A | £9.99 Add to basket

 

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 ....

216 pages | line drawings | Aurum Press

Hbk | 2006 | 1845131800 | #159533A | £12.99 Add to basket

Pbk | NYP 08/2008 | 1845133609 | #175124A | £7.99 Add to basket

 

Top 100 Birding Sites of the World

Dominic Couzens

The top 100 birdwatching sites on the planet are presented in this book, with a written account of each along with a series of photographs depicting the habitat and star birds ....

320 pages | 400 col photos, 100 maps | New Holland

Hbk | NYP 11/2008 | 1847731090 | #171991A | £34.99 Add to basket

 

Die Vögel der Schweiz

Lionel Maumary, Laurent Vallotton and Peter Knaus

Handbook on the birds of Switzerland. Covers 419 species, including migrants. Each species account shows several colour photos, distribution map, graphs of seasonal ....

848 pages | colour photos, distribution maps | Station Ornithologique

Hbk | 2007 | 3952300624 | #175106A | £129.99 Add to basket

 

Where to Watch Birds in Yorkshire

(including the former North Humberside)

John R Mather

This is a detailed account of over 100 of the best birdwatching sites in the great county on Yorkshire. The sites range from Spurn Point in the south-east, northwards ....

336 pages | line drawings, maps | Christopher Helm

Pbk | NYP 11/2008 | 0713687827 | #174655A | £16.99 Add to basket

 

Wintering Waterbird Survey along the Coastline of Fujian Province, China (8-27 February 2006)

M Barter, Y Li, C Lei et al

The survey covered 21 coastal and near-coastal wetlands along the complete length of the Fujian coast over a twenty-day period. The survey team comprised skilled counters from ....

92 pages | Figs | CSBS

Pbk | 2007 | 7503848243 | #175873A | £14.99 Add to basket

 

The Wisdom of Birds

An Illustrated History of Ornithology

Tim Birkhead

For thousands of years people have been fascinated by birds, and today that fascination is still growing. In 2007 bird-watching is one of the most popular pastimes, not just in ....

448 pages | illus | Bloomsbury

Hbk | NYP 10/2008 | 074759256X | #175906A | £24.99 Add to basket

 

The Young Birder's Guide to Birds of Eastern North America

Bill Thompson III

A Peterson Field Guide to 200 of the most common and interesting birds in eastern North America, written especially for kids ages eight to twelve. Increasingly popular among ....

256 pages | colour photos, drawings, maps | Houghton Mifflin

Hbk | 2008 | 0547119348 | #175063A | £9.50 Add to basket

 
Reptiles & Amphibians
 

The Amphibian Tree of Life

Daniel R Frost et al

The evidentiary basis of the currently accepted classification of living amphibians is discussed and shown not to warrant the degree of authority conferred on it by use and ....

370 pages | AMNH

Pbk | 2006 | #175592A | £39.00 Add to basket

 

A Complete Guide to the Reptiles of Australia

Steve Wilson and Gerry Swan

This book provides the most comprehensive account of more than 800 species of reptiles in Australia. For the second edition, the text has been fully updated and about 20 newly ....

480 pages | 930 col photos | New Holland

Pbk | NYP 11/2008 | 1877069469 | #173828A | £24.99 Add to basket

 

Evolution of the Side-Necked Turtles

The families Bothremydidae, Euraxemydidae, and Araripemydidae

Eugene S Gaffney, Haiyan Tong and Peter A Meylan

Although pleurodires have been considered significantly less diverse than their sister group, the cryptodires, current discoveries show that pleurodires had a more complex and ....

698 pages | AMNH

Pbk | 2006 | #175591A | £69.00 Add to basket

 

A Photographic Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians of New Zealand

Tony Jewell

Everyone has heard of the tuatara, New Zealand's unique 'living dinosaur'; but equally fascinating, if less well known, are the country's other reptiles. There are more than ....

144 pages | 120 col photos, maps | New Holland

Pbk | NYP 11/2008 | 1869662032 | #175224A | £9.99 Add to basket

 

The Reptiles of the Western Palearctic 1

Annotated checklist and distributional atlas of the Turtles, Crocodiles, Amphisbaenians and Lizards of Europe, North Africa, Middle East and Central Asia

Roberto Sindaco and Valery K Jeremcenko

This book shows a comprehensive picture of the reptiles, excluding snakes, living in Europe, North Africa, Middle and Near East and Central Asia. ....

480 pages | B/w & col illus, figs, maps | Belvedere

Pbk | NYP 06/2008 | #174903A | £59.99 Add to basket

 

The Summit Herpetofauna of Auyantepui, Venezuela

Report from the Robert G. Goelet American Museum-Terramar Expedition

Charles W Myers, Maureen A Donnelly and Robert G Goelet

The summit of Auyantepui has a known fauna of 24 species of amphibians and reptiles. ....

147 pages | AMNH

Pbk | 2008 | #175589A | £19.50 Add to basket

 
Fishes
 

Burbot

Ecology, Management, and Culture

Edited by Vaughn L Paragamian and David H Bennett

Burbot are circumpolar in distribution and found in the northern tier of states and Canada. Recent research suggests that there are two subspecies: Lota lota lota found in ....

270 pages | AFS

Pbk | 2008 | 1888569980 | #165628A | £71.00 Add to basket

 

Ecology of Juvenile Salmon in the Northeast Pacific Ocean

Regional Comparisons

Edited by Churchill B Grimes, Richard D Brodeur, Lewis J Haldorson and SM McKinnell

Understanding the interaction between Pacific salmon and their environment is critical for salmon management. This book presents recent advances in our understanding of the ....

247 pages | AFS

Pbk | 2007 | 1888569956 | #175746A | £71.00 Add to basket

 

Fish Diseases - 2 Volume Set

Edited by Jorge Eiras, Helmut Segner, Thomas Wahli and BG Kapoor

Diseases are a major threat to both wild and farmed fish. Pathogen-induced alterations in viability and growth of wild fish stocks can have implications on diversity and ....

1300 pages | Science Publishers/Enfield

Hbk | NYP 06/2008 | 1578084385 | #164851A | £83.40 Add to basket

 

Red Snapper Ecology and Fisheries in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico

Edited by William F Patterson, James H Cowan, Gary Fitzhugh and David L Nieland

Red snapper is among the most ecologically and economically important reef fishes in the northern Gulf of Mexico. Fisheries management for the species also happens to be among ....

396 pages | AFS

Pbk | 2007 | 1888569972 | #175748A | £71.00 Add to basket

 

The Shark Handbook

The Essential Guide for Understanding and Identifying the Sharks of the World

Gregory Skomal and Nick Caloyianis

Greg Skomal is one of the world's leading shark experts: many thousands of viewers know him as the "Shark Guy" on Discovery Channel; he's affiliated with Woods Hole ....

476 pages | illus | Sterling

Pbk | NYP 06/2008 | 1604330074 | #175493A | £8.99 Add to basket

 
Invertebrates
 

Advances in Ant Systematics (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

Homage to E.O. Wilson - 50 years of contributions

Edited by Roy R Snelling, Brian L Fisher and Phillip S Ward

690 pages | American Entomological Inst.

2007 | #175723A | £179.00 Add to basket

 

Ants of New Zealand

Warwick Don

Written by the acknowledged expert, this first book on the subject that identifies and describes both native and exotic species. Including notes on identification and ....

240 pages | colour & b/w illus, maps | Otago UP

Hbk | 2008 | 1877372471 | #175367A | £32.50 Add to basket

 

Arthropod Fauna of the UAE, Volume 1

Edited by Antonius van Harten

This impressive and weighty volume presents the results of a concerted effort to study the arthropod fauna of the United Arab Emirates, which started in 2004 and is involving ....

754 pages | colour photos, line drawings | Dar Al Ummah

Hbk | 2008 | 9948036425 | #175309A | £38.00 Add to basket

 

Bee Pollination in Agricultural Ecosystems

Rosalind James and Theresa Pitts Singer

For many agricultural crops, bees play a vital role as pollinators, and this book discusses the interplay among bees, agriculture and the environment. Although honey bees ....

256 pages | 14 halftones, 11 line illustrations | OUP

Hbk | NYP 08/2008 | 0195316959 | #175407A | £40.99 Add to basket

 

Catalogue of the Insect Type Specimens Deposited in China (Volume 1)

Cui Junzhi, Bai Ming, Wu Hong and Ji Liqiang

In the book, the new insect type specimens from China are collected from the papers at home and abroad after 1950. It includes 4 classes, 32 orders, 386 families, 3147 genera ....

792 pages | CCPH

Pbk | 2007 | 7503849045 | #175728A | £84.99 Add to basket

 

Les Chenilles Comestibles et leurs Plantes Nourricieres dans la Province du Bas-Congo

Paul Latham

Identification guide to the caterpillars of Bas-Congo and their host plants. ....

44 pages | colour photos | Paul Latham

Pbk | 2008 | 0955420865 | #175825A | £9.99 Add to basket

 

Dominican Amber Spiders

A Comparative Palaeontological-Neontological Approach to Identification, Faunistics, Ecology and Biogeography

David Penney

The author ia a world expert on fossil spiders preserved in amber and in interpreting what they can reveal about the ecology of the extinct forests in which they lived. ....

178 pages | Illus, col photos | Siri Scientific Press

Pbk | 2008 | 0955863600 | #174347A | £55.00 Add to basket

 

Dragonflies and Damselflies of Hertfordshire

Alan Reynolds, Tom Gladwin and Christine Shepperson

The book covers all 19 species breeding in the county, with distribution maps and flight charts based on the results of the six-year countywide survey carried out by the Herts ....

142 pages | colour photos, distribution maps | HNHS

Pbk | 2008 | 0952168561 | #175123A | £13.99 Add to basket

 

Encyclopedia of Marine Gastropods

A Robin

The Encyclopedia of Marine Gastropods features more than 12,000 photos of the 5,500 worldwide species of marine gastropods collectors are most likely to encounter when ....

480 pages | 469 colour plates | ConchBooks

Hbk | 2007 | #175718A | £94.00 Add to basket

 

Folia Heyrovskyana, Supplement 13: Review of the Genera Calodema and Metaxymorpha (Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Stigmoderini)

Ulf Nylander

The genera Calodema Gory & Laporte, 1838 and Metaxymorpha Parry, 1848 are reviewed. ....

90 pages | 265 col photos | Kabourek

Pbk | 2008 | 8086447146 | #175377A | £48.00 Add to basket

 

The Land and Freshwater Bugs (Hemiptera) of Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly

Keith NA Alexander

The Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Federation of Biological Recorders (CISFBR) and the Environmental Records Centre for Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly (ERCCIS) have jointly ....

CISFBR

Pbk | 2008 | 0953461327 | #174866A | £15.50 Add to basket

 

Marine Ornamental Shrimp

Biology, Aquaculture and Conservation

Ricardo Calado

Marine ornamental shrimp are amongst the most heavily traded invertebrate species in the aquarium industry. The majority of traded species are still collected from the wild, ....

280 pages | Blackwell

Hbk | NYP 07/2008 | 1405170867 | #175673A | £99.50 Add to basket

 

Orthopteroidea of the Seychelles Islands

Justin Gerlach and Fabian Haas

This account deals with all species of Orthopteroidea recorded in the islands. The Orthopteroid insect orders comprise the crickets, katydids and grasshoppers ....

88 pages | 4 colour plates, figures | Backhuys

Pbk | 2008 | 9057821974 | #175354A | £27.50 Add to basket

 

Philippine Marine Shells, Volume 1: Gastropoda I

Edited by G Poppe

Volume I covers 69 families of Archeo- and Caenogastropods from Nacellidae to Cerithiopsidae, such as Patelliformes, Trochacea, Cypraeacea, Strombacaea, Naticoidae, ....

766 pages | 312 colour plates | ConchBooks

Hbk | 2008 | #175720A | £117.00 Add to basket

 

Registry of World Record Size Shells

D Pisor and G Poppe

210 pages | ConchBooks

Spiralbound | 2007 | #175721A | £36.50 Add to basket

 

Des Scorpions et des Hommes

Une histoire de la scorpionologie de l'Antique a nos jours

Gérard Dupre

Historians of science have not paid much interest in the history of zoology and even less than the scorpionology. This gap is now partially filled with this book. The ....

424 pages | 58 figures | Editions Arachnides

2008 | 2953155104 | #175716A | £34.50 Add to basket

 

Species Revision and Generic Systematics of World Rileyinae (Hymenoptera: Eurytomidae)

Michael W Gates

The subfamily Rileyinae (Hymenoptera: Eurytomidae) is redefined to contain 6 genera and 69 species for which keys are provided. Two morphological data sets, analyzed via ....

333 pages | b&w photos, illus, tables | California UP

Hbk | 2008 | 0520098501 | #175566A | £38.95 Add to basket

 

Ticks

Biology, Disease and Control

Alan Bowman and Patricia Nuttall

Widespread and increasing resistance to most available acaracides threatens both global livestock industries and public health. This necessitates better understanding of ticks ....

504 pages | 59 line figures 34 halftones | CUP

Hbk | NYP 08/2008 | 0521867614 | #175259A | £74.99 Add to basket

 
Palaeontology
 

A Search for Origins

Science, History and South Africa's Cradle of Humankind

Phillip Bonner, Amanda Esterhuysen, Trefor Jenkins and Phillip V Tobias

The 'Cradle of Humankind' (COH), bordering Gauteng and the North-West Province in South Africa, was declared a World Heritage Site for the wealth of the human and animal ....

420 pages | full colour illustrations | Wits UP

Pbk | 2008 | 1868144186 | #175302A | £23.95 Add to basket

 
Marine & Freshwater Biology
 

Advances in Marine Biology, Volume 54

Edited by David William Sims

Advances in Marine Biology was first published in 1963 under the founding editorship of Sir Frederick S. Russell, FRS. Now edited by D.W. Sims (Marine Biological Association ....

Academic Press

Hbk | NYP 11/2008 | 0123743516 | #175624A | £99.00 Add to basket

 

Coral

A Pessimist in Paradise

Steve Jones

While writing this book, Steve Jones had beside him the coral brooch that his sea captain grandfather brought back across the Indian Ocean as a gift for his wife. This ....

256 pages | 6 illus | Little, Brown

Hbk | 2007 | 0316729388 | #166960A | £15.99 Add to basket

Pbk | NYP 07/2008 | 0349118353 | #175595A | £8.99 Add to basket

 

Creatures of the Deep Blue

Jonathan Bird

The ocean contains an astounding variety and diversity of life, much of which is completely foreign to us on land. While the colourful and varied forms of invertebrates ....

132 pages | full colour illustrations | Evans Mitchell Books

Hbk | NYP 05/2008 | 1901268349 | #175130A | £14.99 Add to basket

 

Ireland Seabirds & Marine Life

Vincent Hyland and Patrick Kavanagh

The first ever comprehensive account of Ireland's Atlantic Marine Wildlife on one DVD - consisting of 9 short films exploring the amazing marine life existent in the offshore ....

running time: 120 minutes | Vincent Hyland

DVD | 2007 | #173849A | £18.49 Add to basket

 

Pond Scum to Carbon Sink

Geological and Environmental Applications of the Diatoms

Edited by Scott W Starratt

193 pages | Paleontological Society

Pbk | 2007 | #175809A | £21.50 Add to basket

 

The Rocky Shore Name Trail

A Key to Common Seashore Animals and Plants

Mark Ward, Andy Simms and Clare Cremona

Our rocky shores provide a wonderful opportunity to investigate seashore animals and plants in their natural habitat. ....

8 pages | Col illus (laminated fold out identification guide) | FSC

Unbound | 2008 | 1851538712 | #175155A | £2.75 Add to basket

 

Seasearch Observer's Guide to Marine Life of Britain and Ireland

Chris Wood

This lavishly illustrated book aims to introduce divers and snorkellers to a selection of the animals and plants from sponges to fishes and sea squirts to seaweeds, that are ....

160 pages | colour photos | Marine Conservation Society

Pbk | 2007 | 0948150467 | #175160A | £19.99 Add to basket

 
General Natural History
 

Archimedes to Hawking

Laws of Science and the Great Minds Behind Them

Clifford A Pickover

Archimedes to Hawking takes the reader on a journey across the centuries as it explores the eponymous physical laws - from Archimedes' Law of Buoyancy and Kepler's Laws of ....

480 pages | OUP

Hbk | NYP 07/2008 | 0195336119 | #175406A | £14.99 Add to basket

 

Audubon: Early Drawings

Richard Rhodes, Scott V Edwards and Leslie A Morris

In 1805, Jean Jacques Audubon was a twenty-year-old itinerant Frenchman of ignoble birth and indifferent education who had fled revolutionary violence in both Haiti and France ....

272 pages | 116 colour illustrations | Harvard UP

Hbk | NYP 10/2008 | 0674031024 | #175916A | £80.95 Add to basket

 

Big Five of Africa

Gerald Hinde

Think of an African safari and the 'Big Five' - lion, leopard, rhino, buffalo and elephant - immediately come to mind. Award-winning wildlife photographer Gerald Hinde ....

144 pages | 130 col photos | Struik

Pbk | NYP 11/2008 | 1770221573 | #175836A | £12.99 Add to basket

 

Botanicals

Butterflies & Insects

Leslie K Overstreet

Including more than three centuries of drawings culled from the rare books library of the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, each page in Botanicals explodes with ....

300 pages | 250 colour illustrations | Assouline

Hbk | 2008 | 275940269X | #174983A | £31.50 Add to basket

 

A Comprehensible Universe

The Interplay of Science and Theology

George V Coyne and Michael Heller

Why is our world comprehensible? This question seems so trivial that few people have dared to ask it. In this book we explore the deep roots of the mystery of rationality. ....

150 pages | 4 illus | Springer

Hbk | 2008 | 3540776249 | #175217A | £30.50 Add to basket

 

Curassows, Guans and Chachalacas

Nigel Hughes

This catalogue of paintings exhibited at the Fine Art Society, London, 7-22 June 2006, shows 41 colour illustrations of the neotropical bird family Cracidae. There are two ....

33 pages | Col illus | Nigel Hughes

Pbk | 2006 | 0905062264 | #175231A | £14.99 Add to basket

 

Digital Photography Masterclass: Advanced Photographic and Image-manipulation Techniques for Creating Perfect Pictures

Tom Ang

Tom Ang's clear tutorials, practical assignments, step-by-step projects and inspirational examples of the photographer's art teach you how to make the most of the ....

360 pages | Dorling Kindersley

Hbk | 2008 | 1405315563 | #175129A | £19.99 Add to basket

 

Dry Store Room No. 1

The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum

Richard Fortey

Dry Store Room No. 1 is an intimate biography of the Natural History Museum, celebrating the eccentric personalities who have peopled it and capturing the wonders of ....

352 pages | Harper Collins

Hbk | 2008 | 0007209886 | #172399A | £19.99 Add to basket

Pbk | NYP 09/2008 | 0007209894 | #175928A | £8.99 Add to basket

 

From the Bottom Up

One Man's Crusade to Clean America's Rivers

Chad Pregracke

Chad Pregracke was a high school student and part-time mussel diver in East Moline, IL when he first glimpsed the trash that littered the beds where he and his brother fished. ....

320 pages | 20 black and white photos | National Geographic

Pbk | NYP 06/2008 | 1426202202 | #175935A | £8.99 Add to basket

 

How to be Wild

Simon Barnes

Barnes takes us on a journey through a year - with sparrows and flying squirrels, blackbirds and elephants, badgers, butterflies and mosquitoes, as his companions. And ....

282 pages | illus | Short Books

Hbk | 2007 | 1904977979 | #169141A | £14.99 Add to basket

Pbk | NYP 07/2008 | 1906021481 | #175596A | £7.99 Add to basket

 

Illustrated Encyclopedia of Animals

David Burnie

This is the ultimate visual guide to the animal kingdom. From the largest mammal to the smallest invertebrate, this is the reference to all creatures great and small. Capturing ....

624 pages | Dorling Kindersley

Hbk | NYP 07/2008 | 1405332719 | #175602A | £19.99 Add to basket

 

Impressions of Nature

A History of Nature Printing

Roderick Cave

Nature printing is the name given to the print-making technique in which natural objects provide the surface from which prints are taken - without the interpolation of artist's ....

304 pages | 200 colour illustrations | British Library

Hbk | NYP 09/2008 | 0712306730 | #175373A | £60.00 Add to basket

 

The Making of Mr Gray's Anatomy

Bodies, Books, Fortunes and Fame

Ruth Richardson

Gray's Anatomy is probably one of the most iconic scientific books ever published: an illustrated textbook of anatomy that is still a household name 150 years since its first ....

288 pages | Illus | OUP

Hbk | NYP 10/2008 | 0199552991 | #175357A | £16.99 Add to basket

 

Natural Selection and Beyond

The Intellectual Legacy of Alfred Russel Wallace

Edited by Charles H Smith and George Beccaloni

Twenty scientists and historians reflect on Wallace's enduring contributions to biology and natural history, to glaciology, anthropology and epidemiology, to socialism, and ....

448 pages | b&w halftones, 8 page colour plate section | OUP

Hbk | NYP 11/2008 | 0199239169 | #175356A | £24.99 Add to basket

 

Return to Warden's Grove

Science, Desire, and the Lives of Sparrows

Christopher Norment

Based on three seasons of field research in the Canadian Arctic, Christopher Norment's exquisitely crafted meditation on science and nature, wildness and civilization, is ....

215 pages | illus | Iowa UP

Hbk | 2008 | 1587296330 | #175233A | £17.95 Add to basket

 

The Science Book

Everything You Need to Know About the World and How it Works

"The Science Book" covers a wide range of scientific areas, providing both a general overview of topics for the browsing reader, and more specific information for those who ....

512 pages | 2000 photographs and illustrations | National Geographic

Hbk | NYP 11/2008 | 1426203373 | #175930A | £19.99 Add to basket

 

Science and Controversy

A Biography of Sir Norman Lockyer, Founder Editor of Nature

A J Meadows

Sir Norman Lockyer left Nature, the world's leading scientific journal, as his lasting memorial. But his life, and controversial theories, are an important part of science ....

352 pages | Palgrave

Hbk | NYP 09/2008 | 0230220207 | #175791A | £24.99 Add to basket

 

Springwatch and Autumnwatch

Accompanies the BBC 2 TV series

Bill Oddie, Kate Humble and Simon King

BBC TV's Springwatch is one of the most watched programmes on BBC2. Springwatch by Bill Oddie, Kate Humble and Simon King brings together the three presenters who take you ....

256 pages | 250 colour illus | Harper Collins

Hbk | 2007 | 0007247060 | #164749A | £17.99 Add to basket

Pbk | NYP 06/2008 | 0007285108 | #175886A | £12.99 Add to basket

 

Stanley

The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer

Tim Jeal

Henry Morton Stanley, so the tale goes, was a cruel imperialist - a bad man of Africa - who connived with King Leopold II of Belgium in horrific crimes against the people of ....

570 pages | colour and b&w photos | Faber & Faber

Hbk | 2007 | 0571221025 | #175143A | £24.99 Add to basket

 
Regional & Travel
 

Africa

Atlas of Our Changing Environment

UNEP

Increasing concern as to how human activities impact Africa's environment has led to documentation and quantification of the changes taking place. Through a combination of ....

350 pages | UNEP

Hbk | NYP 06/2008 | 9280728717 | #175019A | £75.00 Add to basket

 

Animals

Reader's Digest Wild Britain

Being able to identify wild creatures in their natural environment adds an extra dimension to the enjoyment of being outdoors. This handy guide will help you spot, ....

256 pages | over 300 colour illustrations | Reader's Digest

Pbk | NYP 06/2008 | 0276442725 | #175498A | £7.99 Add to basket

 

Antarctic Impressions

Seasons in the Southern Ocean

Peter Steyn

One of South Africa's authors and photographers, Peter Steyn has been travelling to the Antarctic and the islands of the Southern Ocean for many years. Antarctic impressions is ....

176 pages | colour photos | New Africa

Hbk | 2007 | 0864867085 | #175117A | £24.99 Add to basket

 

Antarctica

A Keystone in a Changing World

Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Antarctic Earth Sciences, Santa Barbara, California, August 26 to September 1, 2007. ....

164 pages | National Academies Press

Hbk | 2008 | 0309118549 | #175325A | £20.99 Add to basket

 

Below Freezing

A Dive Guide to Antarctica

LE Trotter

Below Freezing is the first and only dive guide to the Antarctic. Until recently the exclusive realm of scientific and military divers, this icy wilderness has become ....

116 pages | Col photos, maps | Wild Guides

Pbk | 2008 | 1903657288 | #175313A | £19.95 Add to basket

 

The Best of East African Wildlife

Dave Richards

East Africa is home to a vast diversity of wildlife, which abounds in a landscape of haunting beauty. The Best of East African Wildlife skillfully portrays this abundance of ....

128 pages | 123 col photos | Struik

Pbk | NYP 09/2008 | 1770075186 | #175835A | £14.99 Add to basket

 

Carpathians Environment Outlook 2007

The "Carpathians Environment Outlook" (KEO) project was initiated in early 2004 by UNEP's Division of Early Warning and Assessment (DEWA)/GRID-Geneva and the Regional ....

232 pages | UNEP

Pbk | 2008 | 9280728709 | #175135A | £14.99 Add to basket

 

Coastline Wales

Andy Davies

Marine photographer Andy Davies captures the dramatic and stunning coastlines of Wales through the lens of his camera. This book is a visual exploration of towering cliffs, ....

160 pages | over 100 photographs | Graffeg

Hbk | NYP 10/2008 | 1905582161 | #175496A | £24.99 Add to basket

 

Costa Rica: Reptiles

Mark Wainwright

This handy identification guide shows 126 of the 226 reptile species recorded for Costa Rica: both crocodilians, 12 turtles, 42 lizards, 70 snakes (including all 22 of the ....

14 pages | concertina style, col illus laminated guide | HML Enterprises

Unbound | 2005 | 1888538988 | #175112A | £5.25 Add to basket

 

Costa Rica: Tropical Trees

North and Central Pacific

Enrique Leal C

This handy illustrated field guide shows 49 tree species that are found on the North and Pacific Slope (less than 1500 meters) and the Central Valley. Also shows flowers, ....

14 pages | 14 page concertina style, col illus laminated guide | HML Enterprises

Unbound | 2008 | 1888538694 | #175111A | £5.25 Add to basket

 

David Attenborough - The Early Years: Quest Under Capricorn

Sir David Attenborough

This third volume in David Attenborough's "Early Years" trilogy recounts his expedition to Australia in search of more rare species. As with the previous two titles, "Zoo Quest ....

Duration: 3 Hours (3 CDs) | BBC Books

CD | 2008 | 1405688025 | #175896A | £18.79 Add to basket

 

David Attenborough - The Early Years: Quest in Paradise

Sir David Attenborough

Following his expedition to Indonesia, as told in "Zoo Quest For A Dragon", David Attenborough's next animal collecting and filming trip was to New Guinea, home of the ....

Duration: 3 Hours (3 CDs) | BBC Books

CD | 2008 | 1405688017 | #175895A | £18.79 Add to basket

 

The End of the Game

The Last Word from Paradise

Peter H Beard

Originally published in 1965, and available once again, this landmark work dramatically documents the changing ....

288 pages | 300 b/w photos, illus | Taschen

Hbk | NYP 07/2008 | 3836505304 | #175492A | £24.99 Add to basket

 

A Gleaming Landscape

A Hundred Years of the Guardian's Country Diary

Edited by Martin Wainwright

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

230 pages | b&w photos | Aurum Press

Hbk | 2006 | 1845131827 | #159535A | £12.99 Add to basket

Pbk | NYP 07/2008 | 1845133684 | #175594A | £7.99 Add to basket

 

Last Unspoiled Place

Exploring Utah's Logan Canyon

Michael Sweeney

Although bearing traces of human activity, Logan Canyon in Utah remains largely unspoiled by its proximity to civilization. Reveling in the sights and sounds of this ....

192 pages | 110 colour photographs | National Geographic

Pbk | NYP 07/2008 | 1426202822 | #175934A | £9.99 Add to basket

 

New Island, Falkland Islands

A South Atlantic Wildlife Sanctuary for Conservation Management

Ian J Strange et al

A look at how New Island has been transformed from a sheep farming property into one of the most unique and precious wildlife sanctuaries in the Falkland Islands. Includes many ....

152 pages | colour photos | New Island Conservation Trust

Pbk | 2007 | 0955070813 | #175847A | £19.99 Add to basket

 

New Zealand Through Time

An Illustrated Journey Through 83 Million Years of Natural History

Ronald Cometti

New Zealand's isolation began over 80 million years ago when, powered by mighty geological forces, the land mass drifted away from ancient Gondwana and drifted into the ....

96 pages | Col illus | New Holland NZ

Pbk | NYP 09/2008 | 186966163X | #175838A | £14.99 Add to basket

 

Spectrum Guide to Uganda

Edited by Barbara Balletto, Helen van Houten and Gail Porter

With more than 200 colour photographs, Spectrum Guide to Uganda takes you from the snowcapped "Mountains of the Moon" through lush rainforests and fertile farmlands to the ....

372 pages | Col photos, maps | Camerapix

Pbk | 2007 | 1904722296 | #173106A | £15.99 Add to basket

 

Traveller's Wildlife Guides: Thailand

David L Pearson and Les Beletsky

Thailand holds a special place in the minds of the world's nature-lovers as a paradise of splendid tropical forests, untrammelled ocean beaches, and spectacular underwater ....

472 pages | colour illus, photos | Arris Books

Pbk | 2008 | 190521460X | #175142A | £16.99 Add to basket

 

Wild Costa Rica

Adrian Hepworth

Costa Rica is one of the world's true biodiversity hot-spots. This superbly illustrated book investigates the country's habitats, including rainforest, cloudforest and paramo, ....

176 pages | 250 col photos, 35 col maps | New Holland

Hbk | NYP 11/2008 | 1847731139 | #171993A | £29.99 Add to basket

 

The Wild Trees

What if the Last Wilderness is above Our Heads?

Richard Preston

Hidden in unseen valleys of dense rainforest on the coast of California are the world's tallest and largest things - trees up to forty stories tall and as old as the Parthenon: ....

256 pages | Allen Lane

Hbk | 2007 | 1846140234 | #170513A | £19.99 Add to basket

Pbk | NYP 08/2008 | 0141031905 | #175126A | £8.99 Add to basket

 
Botany & Plant Science
 

Alpenpflanzen in ihren Lebensräumen

Ein Bestimmungsbuch

Peter Mertz

Introduction to the habitats and vegetation of the alps, with keys, colour photos and chapters covering climate, geology, 28 regions of the alps, 30 walking tours. Covers ....

472 pages | colour photos, diagrams | Paul Haupt Verlag

Pbk | NYP 10/2008 | 3258071950 | #175304A | £37.50 Add to basket

 

Anthocyanins

Biosynthesis, Functions, and Applications

Kevin Gould, Kevin Davies and Chris Winefield

In recent years, knowledge of anthocyanin pigments has undergone unprecedented expansion. Indeed, the molecular genetic control of anthocyanin biosynthesis is now one ....

338 pages | 20 illus | Springer

Hbk | NYP 08/2008 | 0387773347 | #175198A | £77.00 Add to basket

 

Aphids on Deciduous Trees

Tony Dixon and Thomas Thieme

This latest volume in the Naturalists' Handbooks series deals with the identification, biology, and ecology of these herbivorous insects. Many line drawings, keys and photos ....

138 pages | drawings, 16 colour plates | Richmond

Pbk | 2008 | 0855463147 | #175069A | £9.95 Add to basket

 

Applied Principles of Horticultural Science

Laurie Brown

"Applied Principles of Horticultural Science" is that critical thing for all students of horticulture - a book that teaches the theory of horticultural science through the ....

551 pages | Illustrated | Butterworth Heinemann

Pbk | NYP 07/2008 | 0750687029 | #175630A | £24.99 Add to basket

 

Beechcombings

The Narratives of Trees

Richard Mabey

Richard Mabey's new book is about beech trees - but also, of course, about numerous other issues, including global warming and the importance of trees in the landscape. ....

289 pages | B/w & col illus | Chatto & Windus

Hbk | 2007 | 1856197336 | #170621A | £19.99 Add to basket

Pbk | NYP 09/2008 | 1844139204 | #175927A | £8.99 Add to basket

 

Collins Mushroom Miscellany

Patrick Harding

Mushroom collecting is becoming increasingly popular, and while a comprehensive identification guide is essential, the folklore, facts and fables, recipes and stories ....

192 pages | Harper Collins

Hbk | NYP 09/2008 | 0007284640 | #175891A | £14.99 Add to basket

 

Cryptogamica Helvetica, Volume 21: Die Moose des Kantons Bern (Schweiz)

Edited by B Bagutti and H Hofmann

The Canton of Bern is the second in size and covers parts of the three main geographical areas: Jura, Plateau, and Alps. Its geology, vegetation and climate is highly diverse ....

320 pages | illus | Cryptogamica Helvetica

Pbk | 2007 | #171698A | £49.99 Add to basket

 

Ecology of Saprotrophic Basidiomycetes

Lynne Boddy, Juliet C Frankland and Pieter van West

The breadth and depth of understanding of many areas concerning basidiomycetes has increased dramatically since the premier publication of Frankland et al., "Decomposer ....

386 pages | Illustrations | Academic Press

Hbk | 2007 | 0123741858 | #175518A | £85.00 Add to basket

 

The Ecophysiology of Plant-Phosphorus Interactions

Philip J White and John P Hammond

This latest volume in the Plant Ecophysiology series takes an in-depth look at the diverse plant-phosphorus interactions in natural and agricultural environments, ....

312 pages | Springer

Hbk | NYP 06/2008 | 140208434X | #175539A | £101.50 Add to basket

 

The Eden Project - DVD

Alan Titchmarch

This double DVD features two specials narrated by Alan Titchmarsh: The Gardeners of Eden and Growing Pains. ....

2 DVDs, running time: 118 minutes | Acorn Media

DVD | | #158636A | £19.99 Add to basket

 

The Encyclopedia of the Swedish Flora and Fauna: Bladmossor: Kompaktmossor - Kapmossor

Bryophyta: Anoectangium - Orthodontium

Edited by Tomas Hallingbäck, N Lönnell and H Weibull

Covers 300 species. ....

430 pages | colour illus | ArtDatabanken

Hbk | NYP 11/2008 | #166632A | £37.00 Add to basket

 

Essential Oil Bearing Grasses

Akhila Anand

Essential oil bearing or aromatic grasses, such as lemongrass and citronella, are used widely across the world in perfumes, soaps, candles, and incense, as well as for ....

288 pages | CRC Press

Hbk | NYP 09/2008 | 0849378575 | #175376A | £73.99 Add to basket

 

Field Guide to Edible Wild Plants

Bradford Angier and David K Foster

This illustrated guide to North American wild edibles has been a nature classic for over thirty years. In this new edition, David K Foster revises Bradford Angier's invaluable ....

258 pages | 133 colour illus | Stackpole

Pbk | 2008 | 0811734471 | #175137A | £13.50 Add to basket

 

Flora Fungorom Sinicorum: Myxomycetes II

Physarales and Stemonitales

Li Yu

This volume includes 181 species of physarales and stemonitales, which belong to 3 families, 25 genera. ....

204 pages | 64 plates | Science Press

Hbk | 2008 | 7030186788 | #175710A | £35.50 Add to basket

 

Flora Liquenologica Iberica: Lecanorales

Bacidiaceae I: Bacidia y Bacidina

Esteve Llop

49 pages | colour photos | SEL

Pbk | 2007 | #174311A | £33.50 Add to basket

 

Flora Ningxiaensis (Two Volume Set)

Ma Dezi, Huilan Lin and Hu Fuxin

Volume I describes 942 species in 290 genera, 77 families including Pteridophyta, Gymnospermae, Angiospermae and ....

1277 pages | Wanhai Books

Hbk | 2007 | 7237033344 | #175345A | £94.99 Add to basket

 

Flora of China, Volume 11: Oxalidaceae-Aceraceae

622 pages | Missouri BG

Hbk | 2008 | 1930723733 | #039105A | £91.00 Add to basket

 

Flora of Ecuador, Volume 82: Meilaceae

90 pages | Botanical Institute, Goteborg

Pbk | 2007 | #175533A | £23.50 Add to basket

 

Flora of Ecuador, Volume 83: Compositae-Eupatoreae

350 pages | Botanical Institute, Goteborg

Pbk | 2008 | #175534A | £47.00 Add to basket

 

Flora of Russia, Volume X Part A

The European Part and Bordering Regions

Edited by NN Tzvelev

Volume 10A of the series features 19 families of Class Dicotyledones which includes the Ranunculaceae and Rosaceae, families with great economic importance. This volume ....

376 pages | Illus | Balkema

Hbk | 2007 | 9058097609 | #101171A | £140.00 Add to basket

 

Frangipani

A Practical Guide to Growing Frangipani at Home

L Ross, L Rose and J Stower

This book is a celebration of the frangipani family, inspiring gardeners and flower lovers throughout the world. ....

224 pages | New Holland

Hbk | NYP 11/2008 | 1877069558 | #175843A | £17.99 Add to basket

 

Fungi in Bioremediation

Edited by GM Gadd

Bioremediation is an expanding area of environmental biotechnology, and may be defined as the application of biological processes to the treatment of pollution. Much ....

481 pages | 39 figs, 21 tabs | CUP

Hbk | 2001 | 0521781191 | #121094A | £89.99 Add to basket

Pbk | NYP 06/2008 | 0521065313 | #175516A | £42.99 Add to basket

 

Guide des Jardins Botaniques de Suisse

Colette Gremaud

Guide to the 26 botanical gardens of Switzerland. ....

176 pages | Rossolis

Pbk | 2007 | 2940365148 | #175689A | £36.50 Add to basket

 

How to Prune

Techniques and Tips for Every Plant and Season

John Cushnie

John Cushnie has been pruning plants for more years than he cares to remember. He now draws on those decades of experience to guide readers through techniques that will ....

256 pages | Col illustrations | Kyle Cathie

Hbk | 2007 | 1856267385 | #175832A | £19.99 Add to basket

 

Illustrations of Edible and Medicinal Fungi in Northeastern China

Dai Yucheng and T Bau

This book summarizes the knowledge of the edible and medicinal mushrooms in northeastern China, and 100 species are reported in this area. A full description in Chinese for each ....

231 pages | Science Press

Hbk | 2007 | 7030192532 | #175834A | £76.99 Add to basket

 

International Daffodil Register and Classified List 2008

Sally Kington

Compiled by Sally Kington, former International Daffodil Registrar, this major reference work brings the RHS cumulative list of daffodil names up to June 2007 and contains ....

Illus | RHS

Pbk | 2008 | #175722A | £62.00 Add to basket

 

Joe's Urban Garden Handbook

Joe Swift

Any outdoor space in an urban environment, however small, is an invaluable bonus. Here, expert garden designer Joe Swift shows us how to create an area that meets all your ....

176 pages | Quadrille Publishing

Hbk | NYP 08/2008 | 1844006115 | #175294A | £19.99 Add to basket

 

Kew's Big Trees

Christina Harrison

First ever guide to Kew Garden's iconic trees and arboretum. ....

68 pages | colour photos | Kew RBG

Pbk | 2008 | 184246390X | #175743A | £4.95 Add to basket

 

Liquens - Flechten - Lichens

Mariana Fleig and Werner Grüninger

As typical for all rain forests, the subtropical araucaria forests of Rio Grande do Sul are rich in epiphytic lichens. For the first time 60 species of macrolichens, all ....

220 pages | colour photos | Universitat Tubingen

Pbk | 2008 | 8574307092 | #175154A | £26.50 Add to basket

 

List of Medicinal Plants in Mt. Gaoligong

Edited by Oian Zigang and Li Anhua

This book records 1298 species in 200 families of medicinal plants in Mountain Gaoligong, China. ....

335 pages | CCPH

Hbk | 2008 | 7030213467 | #175344A | £39.99 Add to basket

 

Microalgae

Biotechnology and Microbiology

EW Becker

The utilization of unconventional microbial sources, particularly microalgae, for the production of feed, food, food additives, pharmaceuticals and fine chemicals is growing ....

300 pages | 43 b/w photos, 60 line illus, 48 tabs | CUP

Hbk | 1994 | 0521350204 | #028518A | £69.99 Add to basket

Pbk | 2008 | 052106113X | #175303A | £27.99 Add to basket

 

Molecular Mechanisms of Plant and Microbe Coexistence

Chandra S Nautiyal and Patrice Dion

The role of soil microbial diversity in enhancing plant health and plant microbe beneficial symbioses is discussed. Microbial communities are shown in the light of ....

511 pages | 54 illus | Springer

Hbk | NYP 06/2008 | 3540755748 | #175540A | £135.50 Add to basket

 

Muhlenbergia (Poaceae) de Chihuahua, México

Yolanda Herrera Arrieta and Paul M Peterson

This comprehensive revision is completely illustrated with 59 original line-drawings of Muhlenbergia from the state of Chihuahua. In addition, this work includes detailed ....

109 pages | Texas Botanical RI

Pbk | 2007 | 1889878162 | #175551A | £20.99 Add to basket

 

Ornamental Plants of the East Margin of the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau of China

Li Rongwei et al

236 species of 62 families, the most of ornamental plant (including alpine and sub-alpine flower plants) growing in the east margin of the Qinghai- Xizang Plateau are ....

250 col photos | CCPH

Hbk | 2007 | #175349A | £94.99 Add to basket

 

The Oxford Companion to the Garden

Patrick Taylor

This sumptuous new Oxford Companion is devoted to gardens of every kind and the people and ideas involved in their making, in every part of the world where the designed ....

584 pages | 96 col plates, 45 historical engravings | OUP

Hbk | 2006 | 0198662556 | #158469A | £39.99 Add to basket

Pbk | NYP 09/2008 | 0199551979 | #175362A | £19.99 Add to basket

 

Pictoral Book of Mushrooms in China

Yuan Mingsheng and Sun Peiqiong

This book consists of three parts: ....

552 pages | 2166 col photos | CCPH

Hbk | 2007 | 7536463189 | #175346A | £153.00 Add to basket

 

Plants of Mount Emei

Edited by Li Zhenyu and Shi Lei

This colour book includes 3703 species in 1271 genera, 280 families of higher plants of Mount Emei, which located in Sichuan province, southwest of China. ....

492 pages | 454 col photos | CCPH

Hbk | 2007 | 7530435973 | #175343A | £89.99 Add to basket

 

Plants of the Falkland Islands

Ali Liddle

This is a simple identification guide to the most common and attractive plants of the Falkland Islands. It describes 56 different plants, selected because they are ....

96 pages | colour photos, map, tabs | Falklands Conservation

Pbk | 2007 | 095383719X | #175311A | £9.99 Add to basket

 

Pyrenocarpous Lichens with Bitunicate Asci

A first assessment of the lichen biodiversity inventory in Costa Rica

Edited by Andre Aptroot, Robert Lücking, Harrie JM Sipman, L Umana and JL Chaves

This publication provides an extensive treatment of the pyrenocarpous lichens with bitunicate asci (excluding Porinaceae, Myeloconidaceae and chiefly saxicolous genera) in ....

162 pages | figures, tables | Cramer

Pbk | 2008 | 3443580769 | #174911A | £115.00 Add to basket

 

RHS Plant Finder 2008-2009

Royal Horticultural Society

Find the right plants for your garden with the help of the experts at the RHS. Whatever plant you are looking for, you'll find it: with over 4,000 new entries you can browse ....

976 pages | maps | Dorling Kindersley

Pbk | 2008 | 1405331909 | #175348A | £14.99 Add to basket

 

Sclerotinia Diseases of Crop Plants

Biology, Ecology and Disease Management

GS Saharan and Naresh Mehta

Sclerotinia is one of the most devastating and cosmopolitan soil borne plant pathogen that infects more than 500 species of plants worldwide including field crops, fruit ....

500 pages | Kluwer

Hbk | NYP 06/2008 | 1402084072 | #175208A | £154.00 Add to basket

 

The Seed Plants in Panxi Area of Sichuan

Liu Jianlin et al

This book describes 4558 species in 180 families of seed plants in Panxi area in Sichuan province of China. ....

607 pages | CCPH

Hbk | 2007 | 7302155968 | #175347A | £38.99 Add to basket

 

Seedling Ecology and Evolution

Edited by Mary Allessio Leck, VThomas Parker and Robert Simpson

Seedlings are highly sensitive to their environment. After seeds, they typically suffer the highest mortality of any life history stage. This book ....

400 pages | 60 line figures, 13 halftones, 15 tables | CUP

Hbk | NYP 07/2008 | 0521873053 | #175845A | £69.99 Add to basket

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Smut Fungi of the Indian Subcontinent

Kalaman Vanky

Descriptions of 369 smut fungi species belonging to 45 genera known from the Indian Subcontinent (Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka) are described, including ....

265 pages | Illus | Polish Botany Institute

Pbk | 2007 | 8389648598 | #175921A | £57.00 Add to basket

 

Structure and Dynamics of Alvar Vegetation on Oland and Some Related Dry Grasslands

Edited by E van der Maarel

94 pages | Opulus Press

Pbk | 2007 | 9172104880 | #175807A | £70.00 Add to basket

 

Trees in Patagonia

Bernardo Gut

This book is a guide to the native trees and approximately 95% of the introduced arboreal species of Argentine and Chilean Patagonia. Introductory chapters convey an ....

260 pages | 760 illus | Birkhauser

Hbk | NYP 07/2008 | 3764388374 | #175768A | £46.90 Add to basket

 

Tropical Gardens of Hawai'i

David Leaser

A visit to one of Hawai`i's botanical gardens helps us escape the hustle and bustle of daily life, and reminds us how lucky we are to live here. These ....

192 pages | Mutual Publishing

Hbk | 2008 | 1566478626 | #175337A | £34.00 Add to basket

 

Tundra to Tropics: The Floristic Plant Geography of North America

Steven McLaughlin

Floristic elements and floristic areas for North America were circumscribed using principle components analysis (PCA) of a sample of 245 local floras from Canada, the ....

58 pages | maps | Texas Botanical RI

Pbk | 2007 | 1889878170 | #175552A | £16.50 Add to basket

 

Wild Food

Raymond Mears and Gordon C Hillman

In Wild Food, Ray Mears and Gordon Hillman lead us into the wildest parts of Britain to demonstrate the huge variety of indigenous foods that can be found. One of the most ....

352 pages | Col photos | Hodder

Hbk | 2007 | 0340827904 | #169860A | £19.99 Add to basket

Pbk | NYP 07/2008 | 0340827912 | #175900A | £14.99 Add to basket

 

The Wildflowers of Britain and Ireland

Charles Coates

This book offers a completely new quick and easy way to identify almost any wildflower you may come across in Britain or Ireland. It is unique in the simplicity of its method ....

384 pages | colour line drawings | Frances Lincoln

Pbk | NYP 07/2008 | 0711228752 | #175604A | £14.99 Add to basket

 

The Yellow Book 2008

Stephen Anderton, Tim Wonnacott and Zac Goldsmith

The National Gardens Scheme is a charity which raises money through the opening of gardens to the public. This book contains details of gardens which open for the scheme ....

600 pages | 56 colour pages | National Gardens Scheme

Pbk | 2008 | 1905942095 | #175808A | £7.99 Add to basket

 
Animal & General Biology
 

Algal Toxins

Nature, Occurrence, Effect and Detection

Edited by Valtere Evangelista, Laura Barsanti, Anna Maria Frassanito et al

Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Sensor Systems for Biological Threats: The Algal Toxins Case, Pisa, Italy, 30 September-11 October 2007 ....

411 pages | Kluwer

Hbk | NYP 06/2008 | 1402084781 | #175765A | £120.50 Add to basket

Pbk | NYP 06/2008 | 140208479X | #175766A | £52.50 Add to basket

 

Analysis of Vertebrate Pest Control

J Hone

How do we decide whether a particular vertebrate species can be classified as a pest? What is achieved by control of such pests? This book describes the application of ....

300 pages | 48 line illus, 34 tabs | CUP

Hbk | 1994 | 0521415284 | #035979A | £64.99 Add to basket

Pbk | 2007 | 0521038979 | #175519A | £23.99 Add to basket

 

Animal Osmoregulation

Timothy J Bradley

Water is fundamental to life and all metabolic reactions are influenced by the aqueous environment in which they occur. Osmoregulation and water balance are therefore ....

320 pages | illus | OUP

Hbk | NYP 10/2008 | 0198569955 | #172283A | £65.00 Add to basket

Pbk | NYP 10/2008 | 0198569963 | #172282A | £27.50 Add to basket

 

Animal Physiology

Richard W Hill, Gordon A Wyse and Margaret Anderson

Animal Physiology presents all the branches of modern animal physiology with a strong emphasis on integration among physiological disciplines, ecology, and evolutionary ....

776 pages | 609 illus, 70 tabs | Sinauer

Hbk | NYP 07/2008 | 0878933174 | #175785A | £43.99 Add to basket

 

The Animal Research War

P Michael Conn and James V Parker

This book analyzes the effect of the animal rights movement on the world's scientists, their institutions, and professional societies. "The Animal Research War" traces the ....

208 pages | Palgrave

Hbk | NYP 07/2008 | 023060014X | #175789A | £22.99 Add to basket

 

Bioenergetics

Energy Conservation and Conversion

Gunter Schafer and Harvey Penefsky

The present book addresses fundamental questions of biological energy transformation and conservation, with a focus on those processes which can now be understood on a ....

325 pages | Illus | Springer

Hbk | 2008 | 354078621X | #175209A | £115.50 Add to basket

 

The Biology of Sensory Systems

CU Smith

Biology of Sensory Systems, Second Edition is a comprehensive and highly illustrated advanced text providing a broad and invaluable overview of sensory systems in ....

443 pages | B/w photos, figs, tabs | Blackwell

Hbk | NYP 09/2008 | 0470518626 | #175667A | £95.00 Add to basket

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Computional Proteomics

Golan Yona

Focusing on protein classification and meta-organization, "Computational Proteomics" describes detailed methods for detecting self-organization in complex biological ....

356 pages | Chapman & Hall (CRC Press)

Hbk | NYP 07/2008 | 1584885556 | #175578A | £41.99 Add to basket

 

The Encyclopedia of Applied Animal Behaviour and Welfare

D Mills

The practical focus of this authoritative, comprehensive encyclopedia aims to promote the understanding and improvement of animals' behaviour without compromising welfare. ....

750 pages | Photos | CABI

Hbk | NYP 11/2008 | 0851997244 | #174872A | £175.00 Add to basket

 

Environmental Microbiology

Raina M Maier, Ian L Pepper and Charles P Gerba

Environmental microbiology is the study of microbial fate and activity in the air, water, and soil and the resulting impact on human health and welfare. This study ....

632 pages | Illus, figs, tabs | Academic Press

Hbk | NYP 07/2008 | 0123705193 | #175626A | £49.99 Add to basket

 

Genome Mapping and Genomics in Fishes and Acquatic Animals

Thomas D Kocher

Mapping of animal genomes has generated huge databases and several new concepts and strategies, which are useful to elucidate origin, evolution and phylogeny. Genetic and ....

220 pages | Illus | Springer

Hbk | NYP 06/2008 | 3540738363 | #175769A | £98.00 Add to basket

 

Horizontal Gene Transfer in the Evolution of Pathogenesis

Michael Hensel and Herbert Schmidt

Horizontal gene transfer is a major driving force in the evolution of many bacterial pathogens. The development of high-throughput sequencing tools and more sophisticated ....

344 pages | 12 halftones, 17 tables | CUP

Hbk | NYP 07/2008 | 0521862973 | #175270A | £74.99 Add to basket

 

Human and Nonhuman Bone Identification

A Color Atlas

Diane L France

Written by one of the most respected forensic anthropologists in the world for use in the laboratory or in the field, "Human and Nonhuman Bone Identification: A Color Atlas" ....

800 pages | 3000 colour illustrations | CRC Press

Hbk | NYP 07/2008 | 1420062867 | #175379A | £156.00 Add to basket

 

An Introduction to Behavior Genetics

Terence Bazzett

This book provides a solid foundation to the field of Behavior Genetics, covering a wide range of topics and concepts, presented in an orderly sequence. It is suitable for ....

500 pages | Sinauer

Hbk | NYP 08/2008 | 0878930493 | #175782A | £38.99 Add to basket

 

Introduction to Biosemiotics

The New Biological Synthesis

Edited by Marcello Barbieri

This book is addressed to students, researchers and academics who have barely heard of the emerging young science of Biosemiotics, and who want to know more about it. Written ....

530 pages | diagrams | Springer

Hbk | 2007 | 1402048130 | #164058A | £107.50 Add to basket

Pbk | 2008 | 1402083440 | #175197A | £54.00 Add to basket

 

An Introduction to Genetic Engineering

Desmond ST Nicholl

In this third edition of his popular undergraduate-level textbook, Des Nicholl recognises that a sound grasp of basic principles is vital in any introduction to ....

292 pages | 11 b/w plates, 111 illus, 121 figs, 27 tabs | CUP

Hbk | NYP 07/2008 | 0521850061 | #175849A | £59.99 Add to basket

Pbk | NYP 07/2008 | 0521615216 | #175850A | £24.99 Add to basket

 

Large Animal Neurology

A Handbook for Veterinary Clinicians

Mayhew

Long-awaited new edition of the classic text on large animal neurology. Written by one of the world's leading experts, the book reflects his considerable experience gained in ....

380 pages | 138 illus | Blackwell

Hbk | NYP 09/2008 | 1405154934 | #175665A | £69.99 Add to basket

 

Lipid-Mediated Signaling

Eric J Murphy and Thad A Rosenberger

Reviewing the most current research in this rapidly expanding yet resource-limited field, Lipid-Mediated Signaling provides a much needed examination of a decade's worth ....

480 pages | CRC Press

Hbk | NYP 07/2008 | 084938141X | #175380A | £84.00 Add to basket

 

Osmotic and Ionic Regulation

Cells and Animals

David H Evans

Written by acknowledged leaders in this field, this book not only fills a 40 year gap in the literature, but presents a markedly changed field with new approaches, outlooks, and ....

616 pages | illustrations, tables | CRC Press

Hbk | NYP 10/2008 | 0849380308 | #175382A | £62.99 Add to basket

 

Practical Handbook of Microbiology

Emanuel Goldman and Lorrence H Green

Presented in a concise, easy-to-use format, the second edition of this bestselling handbook covers major topics in bacteria, fungi, viruses, methods of culture collection, ....

816 pages | illustrations | CRC Press

Hbk | NYP 07/2008 | 0849393655 | #175228A | £84.00 Add to basket

 

Protein Structure and Function

Gregory Petsko and Dagmar Ringe

How does the chemical description of a protein relate to its three-dimensional structure? How does the three-dimensional structure relate to the machinery that brings ....

220 pages | OUP

Pbk | 2008 | 0199556849 | #175332A | £28.99 Add to basket

 

Proteome Research

Concepts, Technology and Application

Marc R Wilkins, Ron D Appel, Keith L Williams and Denis F Hochstrasser

Proteomics is a multifaceted, interdisciplinary field which studies the complexity and dynamics of proteins in biological systems. It combines powerful separation and ....

240 pages | Illus | Springer

Hbk | 2007 | 3540712402 | #168731A | £107.50 Add to basket

Pbk | 2008 | 3540712410 | #175211A | £45.99 Add to basket

 

Süsswasserflora von Mitteleuropa, Bd 2/3: Bacillariophyceae 3.Teil

Centrales, Fragilariaceae, Eunotiaceae

K Krammer and H Lange-Bertalot

576 pages | B/w photos throughout. | Gustav Fischer

Pbk | 2008 | 3827419875 | #175121A | £69.00 Add to basket

 

Tetrapyrroles

Birth, Life and Death

Martin Warren and Alison Smith

Excluding the biological polymers proteins, lipids and nucleic acids, modified tetrapyrroles are the biological molecules that have had the greatest impact on the ....

414 pages | 157 Illus | Springer

Hbk | NYP 06/2008 | 0387785175 | #175210A | £107.50 Add to basket

 

Understanding Animal Welfare

David Fraser

Not so long ago, applying scientific principles to animal welfare was unheard of. Now, there are many scientific journals, research and academic institutes that exist with the ....

336 pages | 70 illustrations | Blackwell

Pbk | NYP 09/2008 | 1405136952 | #175664A | £34.99 Add to basket

 
Evolutionary Biology
 

Anthropology for Dummies

Cameron M Smith

Anthropology is the scientific study of humankind and human societies. This plain-English guide helps students and other interested readers understand anthropology ....

384 pages | Wiley

Pbk | NYP 08/2008 | 0470279664 | #175500A | £13.99 Add to basket

 

Between Biology and Culture

Holger Schutkowski

Humans, unlike other animals, adapt to their environment through both culture and biology. Culture is intrinsic to human nature, and human identity is essentially shaped ....

314 pages | 30 halftones | CUP

Hbk | NYP 10/2008 | 0521859360 | #175531A | £64.99 Add to basket

 

Evolutionary Biology from Concept to Application

Pierre Pontarotti

Every biological system is the outcome of its evolution; therefore, the deciphering of its evolutionary history is of tremendous importance to understand the biology of a ....

230 pages | Springer

Hbk | NYP 07/2008 | 3540789928 | #175771A | £77.00 Add to basket

 

Evolutionary Psychology

An Introduction

Lance Workman and Will Reader

Evolutionary psychology starts from the premise that the human brain is the product of natural selection; therefore, by adopting an evolutionary stance, we might come to ....

480 pages | CUP

Pbk | 2004 | 0521805325 | #166801A | £24.99 Add to basket

Hbk | NYP 06/2008 | 0521888360 | #175271A | £64.99 Add to basket

Pbk | NYP 06/2008 | 0521716535 | #175272A | £27.99 Add to basket

 

Evolutionary Writings

Charles Darwin and James A Secord

On topics ranging from intelligent design and climate change to the politics of gender and race, the evolutionary writings of Charles Darwin occupy a pivotal position in ....

496 pages | OUP

Hbk | NYP 11/2008 | 0199208638 | #174358A | £12.99 Add to basket

 

The First Africans

LS Barham and PJ Mitchell

Africa has the longest record - some 2.5 million years - of human occupation of any continent. For nearly all of this time, its inhabitants have made tools from stone and ....

602 pages | Tabs | CUP

Hbk | NYP 06/2008 | 0521847966 | #175775A | £49.99 Add to basket

Pbk | NYP 06/2008 | 0521612659 | #175774A | £18.99 Add to basket

 

The Fossil Record of Primate Evolution

JG Fleagle

Derived from a best seller, "The Fossil Record of Primate Evolution" has been expanded with a focus on primate phylogeny. This updated edition will include information on ....

450 pages | illustrations | Academic Press

Hbk | NYP 07/2008 | 0120885999 | #175628A | £33.99 Add to basket

 

Handbook of Human Molecular Evolution (Two Volume Set)

David N Cooper and Hildegard Kehrer-Sawatzki

A Unique Collection of High-Quality Articles - Derived from the Acclaimed Encyclopedia of Life Sciences. ....

1838 pages | Blackwell

Hbk | NYP 08/2008 | 0470517468 | #175669A | £295.00 Add to basket

 

The Health Consequences of 'Modernisation'

Evidence from Circumpolar Peoples

Roy J Shephard and Andris Rode

What are the health consequences of a transition from an active `hunter-gatherer' lifestyle to that of sedentary modern living? In this book, the impact of ....

320 pages | 24 line diagrams 62 tables | CUP

Hbk | 1996 | 0521474019 | #156160A | £69.99 Add to basket

Pbk | 2008 | 0521065569 | #175524A | £29.99 Add to basket

 

Human Adult Odontometrics

The Study of Variation in Adult Tooth Size

J Kieser

An appreciation of the genetic and environmental determinants of tooth size is fundamental to an understanding of the metric variation of teeth in humans. Thus, ....

206 pages | Figs | CUP

Hbk | 1990 | 0521353904 | #015718A | £54.99 Add to basket

Pbk | 2008 | 0521064597 | #175522A | £20.99 Add to basket

 

Navigating Social-Ecological Systems

Building Resilience for Complexity and Change

Edited by Fikret Berkes, Johan Colding and Carl Folke

Investigates how human societies deal with change in linked social-ecological systems, and build capacity to adapt to change. Case studies and examples from several geographic ....

393 pages | Figs, tabs | CUP

Hbk | 2003 | 0521815924 | #131729A | £84.99 Add to basket

Pbk | 2008 | 0521061849 | #175257A | £34.99 Add to basket

 

On the Origin of Species

Edited by Charles Darwin and Gillian Beer

'can we doubt ...that individuals having any advantage, however slight, over others, would have the best chance of surviving and of procreating their kind?' ....

480 pages | one chart | OUP

Pbk | NYP 11/2008 | 0199219222 | #175363A | £8.99 Add to basket

 

Sex, Size and Gender Roles

Evolutionary Studies of Sexual Size Dimorphism

Edited by Daphne J Fairbairn, Wolf U Blanckenhorn and Tamás Székely

Investigates the genetic, developmental, and physiological basis of sexual size dimorphism found within and among the major taxonomic groups of animals. Carefully ....

266 pages | 81 illus | OUP

Hbk | 2007 | 0199208786 | #164545A | £55.00 Add to basket

Pbk | NYP 11/2008 | 0199545588 | #175830A | £29.95 Add to basket

 

Surnames and Genetic Structure

Gabriel Ward Lasker

Surnames are inherited in much the same way as are biological traits. Since surnames were generally adopted - in Europe during Medieval times - their distribution has become ....

156 pages | CUP

Hbk | 1985 | 0521302854 | #156155A | £44.99 Add to basket

Pbk | 2008 | 0521057639 | #175520A | £17.99 Add to basket

 

Unnatural Selection

The Challenges of Engineering Human Nature and Lifespan

Edited by P Healey and S Rayner

This book, written by a range of experts in science and technology, bioethics and social science, examines the range of technological innovations offering lives that purport to ....

224 pages | Photos, figs | Earthscan

Hbk | NYP 09/2008 | 1844076229 | #175507A | £34.95 Add to basket

 
Ecology
 

Demographic Toxicity

Methods in Ecological Risk Assessment

HResit Akcakaya, John D Stark and Todd S Bridges

This edited volume collects population and metapopulation models for a wide variety of species, focusing on the use of models in population-level risk assessment for toxins. ....

288 pages | OUP

Hbk | NYP 06/2008 | 0195332962 | #175331A | £68.00 Add to basket

 

Ecology

Michael L Cain, William D Bowman and Sally D Hacker

This book offers just the right balance of subject matter emphasis, clearly presented concepts, and engaging, fresh examples to help students gain a clear and solid ....

544 pages | Sinauer

Hbk | NYP 08/2008 | 0878930833 | #175779A | £39.99 Add to basket

 

Invasive Plants

Guide to Identification and the Impacts and Control of Common North American Species

Sylvan Ramsey Kaufman and Wallace Kaufman

This is an easy-to-use, wide-ranging guide to invasive plants in North America. It features full-colour photographs and descriptions of some 175 alien species - both ....

458 pages | colour photos | Stackpole

Pbk | 2007 | 0811733653 | #175860A | £24.50 Add to basket

 

Pathways to Scientific Teaching

Diane Ebert-May and Janet Hodder

This book presents methods that will facilitate student learning through the process of scientific discovery. Chapter 1 describes how to structure and sustain a learning ....

206 pages | Sinauer

Pbk | NYP 08/2008 | 0878932224 | #175783A | £14.99 Add to basket

 

A Primer of Ecology

Nicholas J Gotelli

This book contains more mathematical detail than many ecology textbooks, but avoids the jargon and mathematical terminology that can intimidate students. The book demystifies ....

265 pages | Figs, tabs | Sinauer

Hbk | NYP 08/2008 | 0878933182 | #175784A | £29.99 Add to basket

 

Speciation and Patterns of Diversity

Edited by Roger Butlin, Jon Bridle and Dolph Schluter

Bringing together the viewpoints of leading ecologists concerned with the processes that generate patterns of diversity, and evolutionary biologists who focus on mechanisms of ....

315 pages | CUP

Hbk | NYP 10/2008 | 0521883180 | #175858A | £74.99 Add to basket

Pbk | NYP 10/2008 | 0521709636 | #175859A | £34.99 Add to basket

 
Habitats & Ecosystems
 

The Algal Bowl

Overfertilization of the World's Freshwaters and Estuaries

David W Schindler and John R Vallentyne

The greatest threat to water quality worldwide is nutrient pollution. Eutrophication by nutrients in sewage, fertilizers and detergents is feeding massive algal blooms in ....

344 pages | Figs, tabs, boxes, maps, colour plate section, photos | Earthscan

Pbk | NYP 08/2008 | 1844076237 | #175544A | £22.95 Add to basket

 

Aquatic Ecosystems

Trends and Global Prospects

Nicholas Polunin

Concern about future supplies of fresh water to society, to meet the full range of human needs, now comes very high on the priority list of global societal issues. An ....

520 pages | 78 line diagrams, 11 half-tones, 39 tables, 89 figures | CUP

Hbk | NYP 08/2008 | 0521833272 | #175267A | £79.99 Add to basket

 

Chalkstreams

A Guide to their Natural History and River Keeping

Edited by Jim G Glasspool

A comprehensive guide to the natural history of chalk streams. Each chapter has been written by an acknowledged expert; includes over 130 colour photographs and ....

172 pages | Illus, maps | Test & Itchen Assn

Hbk | 2007 | 0955576105 | #174946A | £38.50 Add to basket

 

The Chemistry of Soils

Garrison Sposito

There have been many advances in soil chemistry since the first edition of The Chemistry of Soils was published in 1989. The physical-chemistry approach to soil chemistry taken ....

352 pages | 60 line illustrations | OUP

Hbk | 2008 | 0195313690 | #175330A | £48.99 Add to basket

 

Coastal Systems

Simon K Haslett

"Coastal Systems" offers a concise introduction to the processes, landforms, ecosystems and management of this important global environment. New to the second edition is a ....

256 pages | B/w photos, illus, figs, tabs, maps | Routledge

Hbk | NYP 07/2008 | 0415440610 | #175607A | £75.00 Add to basket

Pbk | NYP 07/2008 | 0415440602 | #175207A | £20.99 Add to basket

 

Coral Reefs of the USA

Bernhard M Riegl and Richard E Dodge

Coral Reefs of the USA provides a complete overview of the present status of knowledge regarding all coral reef areas within the USA and its territories. It is written by the ....

828 pages | illus | Springer

Hbk | 2008 | 1402068468 | #175634A | £96.00 Add to basket

 

The Decentralization of Forest Governance

Politics, Economics and the Fight for Control of Forests in Indonesian Borneo

Moira Moeliono, Eva Wollenberg and Godwin Limberg

This powerful new book from leading experts provides an in-depth account of how trends towards increased local governance are shifting control over natural resource management ....

320 pages | Figs, maps, index | Earthscan

Hbk | NYP 09/2008 | 1844075869 | #175545A | £75.00 Add to basket

 

The Ecology of Trees in the Tropical Rain Forest

IM Turner

Our knowledge of the ecology of tropical rain-forest trees is limited, with detailed information available for perhaps only a few hundred of the many thousand of species ....

298 pages | 5 b/w illus, 73 figs, 30 tabs | CUP

Hbk | 2001 | 0521801834 | #117465A | £69.99 Add to basket

Pbk | 2008 | 0521063744 | #175536A | £29.99 Add to basket

 

The Fly River, Papua New Guinea

Environmental Studies in an Impacted Tropical River System

Edited by Barry R Bolton

The Fly River and its tributaries, the Ok Tedi and Strickland rivers, are located in the Western Province of Papua New Guinea. All three rivers have their source in the rugged ....

400 pages | Elsevier

Hbk | NYP 09/2008 | 0444529640 | #175638A | £105.00 Add to basket

 

A Handbook of Tropical Soil Biology

Sampling and Characterization of Below-ground Biodiversity

Edited by Fatima MS Moreira, E Jeroen Huising and David E Bignell

This practical handbook describes sampling and laboratory assessment methods for the biodiversity of a number of key functional groups of soil organisms, including insects, ....

224 pages | figs, tabs, boxes, maps, photos, col plates | Earthscan

Hbk | NYP 07/2008 | 1844076210 | #175509A | £85.00 Add to basket

Pbk | NYP 07/2008 | 1844075931 | #175510A | £29.95 Add to basket

 

Illegal Logging

Law Enforcement, Livelihoods and the Timber Trade

Edited by Luca Tacconi

In many countries, illegal logging now accounts for more than 50 per cent of timber. Once cut, illegal logs feed an insatiable demand for exotic hardwoods in developed and ....

301 pages | Maps, diagrams, tables | Earthscan

Hbk | 2007 | 1844073483 | #166969A | £39.95 Add to basket

Pbk | NYP 09/2008 | 1844076075 | #175547A | £29.95 Add to basket

 

Land, Water and Development

Sustainable and Adaptive Management of Rivers

Malcolm Newson

Water is newsworthy: there is, or will be, a world water crisis. Aggravated by climate change, we are approaching the limits of human exploitation of freshwater resources, ....

464 pages | B/w photos, illus, figs, tabs, maps | Routledge

Hbk | NYP 08/2008 | 041541945X | #175225A | £80.00 Add to basket

Pbk | NYP 08/2008 | 0415419468 | #175226A | £22.99 Add to basket

 

Logjam

Deforestation and the Crisis of Global Governance

David Humphreys

In this timely book, David Humphreys, author of Forest Politics, extends his analysis of the main political developments in forest governance over the last decade including ....

302 pages | Maps | Earthscan

Hbk | 2006 | 1844073017 | #158453A | £49.95 Add to basket

Pbk | NYP 09/2008 | 1844076113 | #175546A | £19.99 Add to basket

 

New Trends in Soil Micromorphology

Selim Kapur, AR Mermut and Georges Stoops

The book contains state of the art new research results in micromorphology as well as other disciplines of soil science. It provides very useful up-to-date information for ....

200 pages | Springer

Hbk | 2008 | 3540791337 | #175762A | £77.00 Add to basket

 

Permafrost Soils

Edited by Rosa Margesin

Vast areas of the soil ecosystem are permanently frozen or are unfrozen for only a few weeks in summer. Permafrost soils are of global interest since a significant increase in ....

360 pages | Springer

Hbk | NYP 09/2008 | 354069370X | #175541A | £113.00 Add to basket

 

Pine Wilt Disease

A Worldwide Threat to Forest Ecosystems

Paulo R Vieira and Manuel M Mota

The pinewood nematode (PWN), Bursaphelenchus xylophilus, the causal agent of pine wilt disease (PWD), is a serious pest and pathogen of forest tree species, in particular ....

300 pages | Springer

Hbk | NYP 06/2008 | 1402084544 | #175772A | £94.00 Add to basket

 

Principles of Snow Hydrology

David R DeWalle and Albert Rango

Principles of Snow Hydrology describes the factors that control the accumulation, melting and runoff of water from seasonal snowpacks over the surface of the earth. The ....

416 pages | 105 line diagrams, 81 half-tones, 8 colour plates | CUP

Hbk | NYP 07/2008 | 0521823625 | #175852A | £74.99 Add to basket

 

Soil Science Simplified

Milo L Harpstead, Thomas J Sauer and William F Bennett

Soil Science Simplified, Fifth Edition is a significant update and revision of the classic introductory soils text. The new edition includes greater coverage of ....

220 pages | Illus | Iowa State UP

Hbk | 1997 | 0813815045 | #098695A | £29.25 Add to basket

Hbk | 2008 | 0813818230 | #175680A | £29.99 Add to basket

 

Streamflow Measurement

RW Herschey

We often have the dichotomy: 'too little water or too much'. In either case, streamflow measurement is crucial. Climate change could have a significant affect on water ....

560 pages | 98 b/w photos, 140 illus | Taylor & Francis

Hbk | NYP 07/2008 | 0415413427 | #175392A | £140.00 Add to basket

 

Sustainability Impact Assessment of Land Use Changes

Edited by Katharina Helming, Marta Perez-Soba and Paul Tabbush

The principle of multi-functionality simultaneously considers a variety of social, economic and environmental goods and services related to land use. It is thus a key to ....

512 pages | 72 figures, 55 in colour | Springer

Hbk | 2008 | 3540786473 | #175181A | £115.50 Add to basket

 

Tools and Criteria for Sustainable Coastal Ecosystem Management

Examples from the Baltic Sea and Other Aquatic Systems

Lars Hakanson and Andreas C Bryhn

The aim of this book is to discuss practically useful (operational) bioindicators for sustainable coastal management, criteria for coastal area sensitivity to eutrophication ....

299 pages | 127 illus | Springer

Hbk | 2008 | 354078361X | #175192A | £77.00 Add to basket

 

Use and Abuse of Reindeer Range

O Eriksson, M Niva and A Caruso

In consequence of variations in geology and soils, in climate, and in its wide extent in longitude, latitude and altitude, the Scandinavian mountain chain exhibits major ....

104 pages | Opulus Press

Pbk | 2007 | 9172104872 | #175806A | £76.00 Add to basket

 

Valuing Ecosystem Services

The Case of Multi-functional Wetlands

R Kerry Turner, Stavros Georgiou and Brendan Fisher

Ecosystem services can be broadly defined as the aspects of ecosystems that provide benefits to people. This book explains the valuation of ecosystem services, using the ....

200 pages | figures, tables, boxes, index | Earthscan

Hbk | NYP 07/2008 | 1844076156 | #175521A | £49.95 Add to basket

 
Conservation & Biodiversity
 

Conservation Biology

Evolution in Action

Scott P Carroll and Charles W Fox

The main goal of this book is to encourage and formalize the infusion of evolutionary thinking into mainstream conservation biology. It reviews the evolutionary foundations ....

432 pages | 68 black and white illustrations | OUP

Hbk | NYP 09/2008 | 0195306791 | #175408A | £54.00 Add to basket

Pbk | NYP 09/2008 | 0195306783 | #175409A | £23.99 Add to basket

 

Deep-Sea Biodiversity and Ecosystems

A scoping report on their socio-economy, management and governance

UNEP

The deep sea is the oldest and largest biome on Earth, yet we have little knowledge of the ecosystems and processes in these dark, hidden depths. Only in the last two decades ....

84 pages | UNEP

Pbk | 2007 | 928072892X | #175810A | £12.99 Add to basket

 

Evaluacion y Conservacion de Biodiversidad en Paisajes Fragmentados de Mesoamerica

Edited by Celia Harvey and Joel Saenz

This book is a first effort and a first synthesis of advancements in research on biodiversity in managed landscapes in Mesoamerica. It is the current only work of its ....

620 pages | INBio

2008 | 9968927295 | #175167A | £23.50 Add to basket

 

Evolution and Innovation in Wildlife Conservation

From Parks and Game Ranches to Transfrontier Conservation Areas

Edited by H Suich and B Child

Based on the most widespread research to date, this book provides a record of the evolving thought and approaches to achieving conservation in Southern Africa. Early ....

432 pages | Figs, maps, tabs | Earthscan

Hbk | NYP 09/2008 | 1844076342 | #175514A | £49.95 Add to basket

 

Going, Going, Gone?

Animals and Plants on the Brink of Extinction and How you can Help

Malcolm Tait

Many scientists believe that we are on the brink of a new mass extinction, with at least a million species in danger of not making it through to the end of the century. One ....

216 pages | colour photos | Aurum Press

Hbk | 2006 | 1845250273 | #160494A | £12.99 Add to basket

Pbk | NYP 08/2008 | 1845250583 | #175125A | £9.99 Add to basket

 

Nature of the Miracle Years

Conservation in West Germany, 1945-1975

Sandra Chaney

After 1945, Germans responsible for conservation resumed their work with a high degree of continuity in terms of laws and personnel. Yet conservationists had little choice but ....

272 pages | 6 maps | Berghahn Books

Hbk | 2008 | 1845454308 | #175149A | £42.50 Add to basket

 

Participatory Research in Conservation and Rural Livelihoods

Doing Science Together

Louise Fortmann

Participatory Research in Conservation and Rural Livelihoods: Doing Science Together starts from the understanding that all people create knowledge and that the creation of ....

312 pages | Blackwell

Pbk | NYP 08/2008 | 1405176792 | #175672A | £29.99 Add to basket

 

A Primer of Conservation Biology

Richard B Primack

The fourth edition provides an up-to-date coverage of Conservation Biology, including sustainable development, global warming, payments for ecological services, and ....

300 pages | B/w photos, figs | Sinauer

Hbk | NYP 08/2008 | 0878936920 | #175786A | £29.99 Add to basket

 

Protected Landscapes and Agrobiodiversity Values

T Amend, J Brown, A Kothari, A Phillips and S Stolton

The publication presents twelve case studies from different parts of the world illustrating the role Protected Landscapes are playing in conserving agrobiodiversity ....

139 pages | IUCN

Pbk | 2008 | 3925064486 | #175133A | £14.99 Add to basket

 

Wildlife Rescue

Angela Wilkes

The toll of British wildlife is increasing every year, with an annual 5 million casualties, many of them through man-made hazards. To give these casualties a second ....

288 pages | 150 cartoons & line drawings | Broadcast Books

Pbk | NYP 06/2008 | 1874092893 | #175612A | £14.95 Add to basket

 
Environmental Science
 

Advances in Hazardous Industrial Waste Treatment

Lawrence K Wang, Nazih K Shammas and Yung-Tse Hung

This volume covers environmental pollution sources, waste characteristics, control technologies, management strategies, facility innovations, process alternatives, costs, ....

512 pages | illus | CRC Press

Hbk | NYP 09/2008 | 1420072307 | #175394A | £62.99 Add to basket

 

Air Pollution Modeling and its Application XIX

Edited by Carlos Borrego and Ana Isabel Miranda

The book is aimed at researchers and government policy makers who wish to keep abreast of the most recent developments in air pollution modelling and air quality issues. The ....

777 pages | Kluwer

Hbk | NYP 06/2008 | 140208451X | #175187A | £146.00 Add to basket

Pbk | NYP 06/2008 | 1402084528 | #175189A | £69.00 Add to basket

 

Air-Ice-Ocean-Interaction

Turbulent Ocean Boundary Layer Exchange Processes

Miles McPhee

At a time when the polar regions are undergoing rapid and unprecedented change, understanding exchanges of momentum, heat and salt at the ice-ocean interface is ....

368 pages | 125 illus | Springer

Hbk | NYP 06/2008 | 0387783342 | #175182A | £60.00 Add to basket

 

The Asian Monsoon

Causes, History and Effects

Peter Clift and R Alan Plumb

The Asian monsoon is one of the most dramatic climatic phenomena on Earth, with far reaching environmental and societal effects. Almost two thirds of humanity lives within ....

296 pages | 126 line figures, 24 halftones, 4 plates | CUP

Hbk | NYP 06/2008 | 0521847990 | #175368A | £69.99 Add to basket

 

Avoided Deforestation

Prospects for Mitigating Climate Change

Charles Palmer and Stefanie Engel

Avoided deforestation can be characterized as the use of financial incentives to reduce rates of deforestation and forest degradation, with much of the focus on forests in ....

256 pages | illustrations, tables | Routledge

Hbk | NYP 08/2008 | 0415447127 | #175201A | £75.00 Add to basket

 

Climate Change and the Private Sector

Managing Climate Risks and Financing Carbon Neutral Energy Infrastructure

Craig Hart

The private sector is increasingly engaged in the climate change issue as it has become clear that climate risks potentially affect financial markets and solutions to climate ....

288 pages | Routledge

Hbk | NYP 07/2008 | 0415774756 | #175202A | £75.00 Add to basket

 

Climate Change in Prehistory

The End of the Reign of Chaos

William J Burroughs

How did humankind deal with the extreme challenges of the last Ice Age? How have the relatively benign post-Ice Age conditions affected the evolution and spread of humanity ....

356 pages | 10 line diagrams 19 half-tones | CUP

Hbk | 2005 | 0521824095 | #152607A | £20.99 Add to basket

Pbk | NYP 08/2008 | 0521070104 | #175561A | £14.99 Add to basket

 

Climatology

Robert V Rohli and Anthony J Vega

Climatology provides a thorough foundation in the processes contributing to the condition of the climatic system for students with little background while still ....

488 pages | Jones & Bartlett

Pbk | 2007 | 076373828X | #175795A | £32.99 Add to basket

 

Development Policy as a Way to Manage Climate Change Risks

Edited by Bert Metz and Marcel Kok

Climate change and its impacts can have a very negative influence on people and their economies, and yet social and economic development is the very driver of climate change. ....

144 pages | Figs, tabs | Earthscan

Hbk | 2008 | 1844076415 | #175479A | £65.00 Add to basket

 

The Earth's Atmosphere

Its Physics and Dynamics

Kshudiram Saha

This book covers a wide area of the atmospheric science, focusing particularly on those physical and dynamical aspects of our environment which tend to create heat sources and ....

523 pages | Illus | Springer

Hbk | 2008 | 3540784268 | #175184A | £115.50 Add to basket

 

Economic Analysis of Land Use in Global Climate Change Policy

Thomas W Hertel, Steven Rose and Richard Tol

Land has long been neglected in economics. That is now changing. Recently, seven teams from Australia, the European Union, and the USA have, for the first time, included land ....

256 pages | illustrations, tables | Routledge

Hbk | NYP 08/2008 | 0415773083 | #175203A | £75.00 Add to basket

 

Extreme Ocean Waves

Edited by Efim N Pelinovsky and C Kharif

Extreme, freak or rogue waves are produced by a number of physical mechanisms that focus the water-wave energy into a small area, due to wave instability, chaotic behaviour, ....

224 pages | 118 illus | Kluwer

Hbk | NYP 06/2008 | 1402083130 | #175183A | £77.00 Add to basket

 

Fundamentals of Environmental Chemistry

Stanley E Manahan

This text explores the emerging area that is broadly described as sustainability science and technology, which includes green chemistry and industrial ecology. It is designed ....

1003 pages | Figs, tabs | CRC Press

Hbk | NYP 08/2008 | 1420052675 | #175398A | £33.99 Add to basket

 

Global Warming: A Very Short Introduction

Mark Maslin

Global warming is arguably the most critical and controversial issue facing the world in the twenty first century. This concise and accessible explanation of the key topics in ....

162 pages | Figs, tabs | OUP

Pbk | NYP 11/2008 | 0199548242 | #175364A | £7.99 Add to basket

 

Integrating Climate Change Actions into Local Development

John Robinson, Livia Bizikova and Stewart Cohen

The current gap between scientific knowledge and practitioners' needs in addressing climate adaptation and mitigation is due to one-dimensional assessments of climate ....

160 pages | figures, tables | Earthscan

Hbk | 2008 | 1844075524 | #175478A | £65.00 Add to basket

 

Kick the Habit

A UN Guide to Carbon Neutrality

United Nations Environment Programme

The worldwide discussion about climate change has been dominating the media for the last years and people all over the world have taken on the topic. Politicians advocate for ....

UNEP

NYP 06/2008 | 9280729268 | #175020A | £9.99 Add to basket

 

Kyoto2

How to Manage the Global Greenhouse

Oliver Tickell

The Kyoto Protocol, the world's first tentative step towards avoiding the threat of climate change, has failed. We urgently need a new course of action. In "Kyoto2", the ....

124 pages | Zed Books

Hbk | NYP 07/2008 | 1848130244 | #175609A | £39.99 Add to basket

Pbk | NYP 07/2008 | 1848130252 | #175608A | £10.99 Add to basket

 

Large-Scale Disasters

Prediction, Control and Mitigation

Mohamed Gad-el-Hak

'Extreme' events - including climatic events, such as hurricanes, tornadoes, drought - can cause massive disruption to society, including large death tolls and property damage ....

632 pages | 249 line figures, 33 halftones, 22 tables | CUP

Hbk | NYP 08/2008 | 0521872936 | #175851A | £99.99 Add to basket

 

Modeling Environment-Improving Technological Innovations Under Uncertainty

Alexander Golub and Anil Markandya

This book presents a compendium of methodologies for evaluating the economic impact of technological innovation upon climate-change policy. There is a broad consensus on the ....

288 pages | illustrations, tables | Routledge

Hbk | NYP 08/2008 | 0415463769 | #175205A | £75.00 Add to basket

 

Ocean Energy

Tide and Tidal Power

Roger Henri Charlier and Charles W Finkl

Man has been tapping the energy of the sea to provide power for his industries for centuries. Tidal energy combined with that of waves and marine winds rank among those ....

336 pages | 35 illustrations | Springer

Hbk | NYP 07/2008 | 3540779310 | #175761A | £100.00 Add to basket

 

The Path to Survival

Al Gore

Al Gore has been a passionate advocate of action to halt climate change for many years. In his best-selling book, "An Inconvenient Truth", he wrote about the urgent need to ....

326 pages | Bloomsbury

Pbk | NYP 11/2008 | 0747590982 | #174378A | £11.99 Add to basket

 

Pharmaceuticals in the Environment

Sources, Fate, Effects and Risks

Edited by K Kümmerer

The study of pharmaceuticals in the environment as an area of research has only just taken off in recent years. Since the first edition was printed, many research articles ....

265 pages | Figs, tabs | Springer

Hbk | 2008 | 3540746633 | #175763A | £98.00 Add to basket

 

Principles of Marine Bioacoustics

Mardi C Hastings

Principles of Marine Bioacoustics is about studying the acoustics of marine animals using underwater acoustic techniques. The book discusses and unites the various areas of ....

360 pages | Illus | Springer

Hbk | NYP 07/2008 | 0387783644 | #175174A | £32.99 Add to basket

 

Reducing Climate Impacts in the Transportation Sector

Daniel Sperling and James S Cannon

More than 250 experts from around the world gathered at the Asilomar Transportation and Energy Conference in August 2007 to tackle what many agree is the greatest environmental ....

255 pages | Illus | Kluwer

Pbk | NYP 08/2008 | 1402069782 | #175764A | £30.50 Add to basket

 

Sediment and Contaminant Transport in Surface Waters

Wilbert J Lick

Contaminated bottom sediments and their negative impacts on water quality are a major problem in surface waters. "Sediment and Contaminant Transport in Surface Waters" ....

384 pages | illustrations | CRC Press

Hbk | NYP 07/2008 | 1420059874 | #175585A | £67.99 Add to basket

 

Shore Processes and their Palaeoenvironmental Applications

Edward J Anthony

The last five years have been marked by rapid technological and analytical developments in the study of shore processes and in the comprehension of shore deposits and forms, ....

500 pages | Elsevier

Hbk | NYP 09/2008 | 0444527338 | #175637A | £83.00 Add to basket

 

Surviving the Century

Facing Climate Chaos and Other Global Challenges

Edited by Herbert Girardet

Environmental and human catastrophe looms ever larger for planet Earth. From the need to build sustainable cities to house growing billions to transforming the international ....

224 pages | - | Earthscan

Hbk | 2007 | 1844074587 | #171134A | £17.99 Add to basket

Pbk | NYP 09/2008 | 1844076121 | #175477A | £16.99 Add to basket

 

Systems Science and Modeling for Ecological Economics

Alexey Voinov

Modeling is a key component to sciences from mathematics to life science, including environmental and ecological studies. By looking at the underlying concepts of the ....

432 pages | Academic Press

Hbk | NYP 07/2008 | 0123725836 | #175627A | £39.99 Add to basket

 
Physical Sciences
 

40 Years of Pulsars

Millisecond Pulsars, Magnetars and More

C Bassa, Z Wang, A Cumming and VM Kaspi

This conference was in celebration of the 40th anniversary of the discovery of radio pulsars in the summer of 1967. The conference highlighted the important discoveries of ....

674 pages | Illustrations | Springer

Hbk | 2008 | 0735405026 | #175759A | £152.50 Add to basket

 

Atlas of Migmatites

The Canadian Mineralogist Special Publication 9

EW Sawyer

Migmatites are highly heterogeneous rocks found in high-grade metamorphic environments; they are commonly encountered in the continental crust. Until now, many geologists have ....

387 pages | Col plates | NRC

Hbk | NYP 06/2008 | 0660197871 | #175872A | £72.00 Add to basket

 

Atlas of the Messier Objects

Highlights of the Deep Sky

Ronald Stoyan, Stefan Binnewies, Susanne Friedrich and Klaus Schroeder

The 110 star clusters, nebulae and galaxies of Messier's catalog are among the most popular of all the deep sky objects and are beautiful targets for amateur observers of ....

368 pages | 200 halftones, 180 plates, 50 tables | CUP

Hbk | NYP 06/2008 | 0521895545 | #175370A | £34.99 Add to basket

 

Biology for Engineers

Arthur T Johnson

Rather than treating biology as a science requiring memorization of connections and classifications, the book explores its relevance as an application area for engineering ....

850 pages | 400 black & white illustrations | CRC Press

Hbk | NYP 10/2008 | 1420077635 | #175385A | £44.99 Add to basket

 

Building a Roll-off Roof Observatory

A Complete Guide for Design and Construction

John Hicks

Almost every practical astronomer who takes the pursuit to its second level aspires to a fixed, permanent housing for his telescope, permitting its rapid and comfortable use and ....

192 pages | 130 illus | Springer

Pbk | NYP 08/2008 | 0387766030 | #175214A | £35.50 Add to basket

 

The CRC Encyclopedia of Mathematics - 3 Volume Set

Eric W Weisstein

The third edition of a bestseller, this new edition is now presented as a three-volume set. Keeping the format that made the previous editions so popular, the third edition ....

4512 pages | illustrations | CRC Press

Hbk | NYP 09/2008 | 1420072218 | #175576A | £199.00 Add to basket

 

Chemistry for the Life Sciences

Raul Sutton, Bernard Rockett and Peter Swindells

Retaining the user-friendly style of the first edition, this text is designed for undergraduate life science students who have not studied chemistry at an advanced level. ....

232 pages | 170 b&w line drawings | CRC Press

Pbk | NYP 08/2008 | 1420069357 | #175583A | £19.99 Add to basket

 

Clocks in the Sky

The Story of Pulsars

Geoff McNamara

Pulsars are rapidly spinning neutron stars, the collapsed cores of once massive stars that ended their lives as supernova explosions. ....

200 pages | Illus | Praxis Publishing

Pbk | NYP 08/2008 | 0387765603 | #175773A | £18.99 Add to basket

 

Clusters of Galaxies

Beyond the Thermal View

Jelle Kaastra

Clusters of galaxies are the largest structures in the Universe. Most of the visible matter is in the form of hot gas permeating the volume of the cluster. The bulk of this ....

436 pages | 162 illus | Springer

Hbk | 2008 | 0387788743 | #175178A | £107.50 Add to basket

 

Deep Space Flight and Communications

Exploiting the Sun as a Gravitational Lens

Claudio Maccone

The majority of books dealing with prospects for interstellar flight tackle the problem of the propulsion systems that will be needed to send a craft on an interstellar ....

500 pages | Springer

Hbk | 2008 | 3540729429 | #175179A | £77.00 Add to basket

 

Earthquakes

Simulations, Sources and Tsunamis

Edited by Kristy F Tiampo, Stuart A Weinstein and Dion K Weatherley

In recent years, large earthquakes in the circum-Pacific region have repeatedly demonstrated its particular vulnerability to this potentially devastating natural ....

400 pages | Birkhauser

Pbk | NYP 06/2008 | 3764387564 | #175374A | £38.50 Add to basket

 

Essentials of Mathematical Methods in Science and Engineering

S Selcuk Bayin

This book addresses the need for mathematical techniques to be introduced early on in the undergraduate program. Topics that are unique to the undergraduate curriculum, i.e. ....

832 pages | Wiley

Hbk | NYP 08/2008 | 0470343796 | #175675A | £60.95 Add to basket

 

Extrasolar Planets and Astrobiology

Caleb A Scharf

This book offers an advanced introduction to the fields of extrasolar planets and astrobiology. The book contains over 150 images and illustrations; extensive ....

400 pages | illustrations | University Science Books

Hbk | NYP 08/2008 | 1891389556 | #175788A | £44.99 Add to basket

 

Geological Atlas of Africa

With Notes on Stratigraphy, Tectonics, Economic Geology, Geohazards and Geosites of Each Country

Thomas Schlüter

This is the first attempt to summarise the geology of Africa by presenting it in an atlas and to synthesise the stratigraphy, tectonics, economic geology, geohazards, ....

308 pages | Illus | Springer

Hbk | 2008 | 3540763244 | #175185A | £130.50 Add to basket

 

The Geology of Chile

Edited by T Moreno and W Gibbons

This book is the first comprehensive account in English of the geology of Chile, providing a key reference work that brings together many years of research, and written ....

440 pages | Geological Society

Pbk | 2007 | 186239220X | #175912A | £51.99 Add to basket

 

Great Tsunami, 26 December, 2004, Sumatra Region

Geological Society of India

143 pages | Geological Society

Pbk | 2006 | 8185867704 | #174961A | £43.00 Add to basket

 

How to Build Your Own Spaceship

The Science of Personal Space Travel

Piers Bizony

Imagine booking your ticket on a commercial passenger flight, not to the other side of the planet but out of the Earth's orbit altogether. Piers Bizony argues that far from ....

247 pages | - | Portobello

Hbk | 2008 | 1846271258 | #174362A | £12.99 Add to basket

 

An Introduction to the Earth-life System

Charles Cockell, Richard Corfield, Neil Edwards and Nigel Harris

This concise undergraduate textbook brings together Earth and biological sciences to explore the co-evolution of the Earth and life over geological time. Written for a ....

328 pages | 220 line diagrams, 220 colour figures | CUP

Hbk | 2008 | 0521493919 | #175371A | £69.99 Add to basket

Pbk | 2008 | 052172953X | #175372A | £29.99 Add to basket

 

Mathematical Ecology of Populations and Ecosystems

John Pastor

Population ecologists study how births and deaths affect the dynamics of populations and communities while ecosystem ecologists study how species control the flux of energy and ....

320 pages | Blackwell

Hbk | NYP 08/2008 | 1405177950 | #175666A | £34.99 Add to basket

 

Mathematical and Experimental Modeling of Physical and Biological Processes

HT Banks and HT Tran

Written by experienced instructors, this text provides a fundamental understanding of how mathematics is applied to problems in science and engineering. It takes a case study ....

275 pages | illustrations | Chapman & Hall (CRC Press)

Hbk | NYP 08/2008 | 1420073370 | #175579A | £41.99 Add to basket

 

Middle American Terranes, Potential Correlatives, and Orogenic Processes

J Duncan Keppie, J Brendan Murphy, F Ortega-Gutierrez and WG Ernst

This book focuses on Middle American terranes in which flat-slab subduction appears to have been an important mechanism for orogenic development at various times since the ....

416 pages | illus, tables | CRC Press

Hbk | 2008 | 1420073702 | #175568A | £62.99 Add to basket

 

Mining and the Environment

From Ore to Metal

Karlheinz Spitz and John Trudinger

The history of mining is replete with controversy, much of it relating to environmental damage and consequent community outrage. Over recent decades there has been increasing ....

900 pages | Taylor & Francis

Hbk | NYP 07/2008 | 0415465095 | #175581A | £125.00 Add to basket

Pbk | NYP 07/2008 | 0415465109 | #175580A | £62.00 Add to basket

 

Numerical Methods in Scientific Computing, Volume I

Germund Dahlquist and Ake Bjorck

This new book from the authors of the classic book Numerical Methods addresses the increasingly important role of numerical methods in science and engineering. More ....

745 pages | - | CUP

Hbk | NYP 06/2008 | 0898716446 | #175369A | £59.99 Add to basket

 

Philip's Stargazing 2009

Month-By-Month Guide to the Northern Night Sky

N Henbest and H Couper

A Concise guide to the night sky, helping starwatchers to see the year's most fascinating events, whether observing with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope. ....

64 pages | Philip's

Pbk | NYP 11/2008 | 0540093149 | #175907A | £6.99 Add to basket

 

Quantitative Modeling of Earth Surface Processes

Jon Pelletier

This textbook describes some of the most effective and straightforward quantitative techniques for modeling Earth surface processes. By emphasizing a core set of equations ....

304 pages | 184 half-tones, 12 colour plates, 184 figures | CUP

Hbk | NYP 05/2008 | 0521855977 | #175853A | £39.99 Add to basket

 

Research in Computational Molecular Biology

12th Annual International Conference, Recomb 2008, Singapore, March 30-April 2, 2008, Proceedings

Martin Vingron

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th Annual International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology, RECOMB 2008, held in ....

480 pages | Springer

Pbk | 2008 | 3540788387 | #175172A | £45.99 Add to basket

 

Reviews in Modern Astronomy

Cosmic Matter

Edited by Siegfried Roser

"Volume 20" continues the "Reviews in Modern Astronomy" with highlight contributions which were presented at the 80th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Astronomische ....

360 pages | Wiley

Hbk | NYP 08/2008 | 3527408207 | #175674A | £90.00 Add to basket

 

The Search for Life Continued

Planets Around Other Stars

Barrie Jones

Barrie Jones addresses the question "are we alone?", which is one of the most frequently asked questions by scientists and non-scientists alike. In The Search for Life ....

300 pages | 100 illus | Springer

Pbk | NYP 08/2008 | 0387765573 | #175215A | £18.99 Add to basket

 

Sirius Matters

Noah Brosch

Since very early times Sirius was a point of attraction in the night sky. It served to synchronize calendars in antiquity and was the subject of many myths and legends, ....

255 pages | Kluwer

Hbk | 2008 | 1402083181 | #175760A | £77.00 Add to basket

 

Soil Mechanics for Environmental Engineering

Dorairaja Raghu and Swamy C Basim

Remediation of contaminated soils and groundwater is an interdisciplinary field cutting across several areas of engineering and science including Geotechnical and environmental ....

300 pages | CRC Press

Hbk | NYP 09/2008 | 0824758188 | #175582A | £52.99 Add to basket

 

Spaceplanes

From Airport to Spaceport

Matthew A Bentley

Someday, there may be plane-like vehicles that take off from a runway and fly high above Earth, bringing people to work in space, to stay at a space hotel, to visit a Moonbase, ....

208 pages | Illus | Springer

Pbk | NYP 10/2008 | 0387765093 | #175758A | £20.50 Add to basket

 

Stephen James O'Meara's Observing the Night Sky with Binoculars

A Simple Guide to the Heavens

Stephen James O'Meara

Month by month, star by star, object by object, Stephen James O'Meara takes readers on a celestial journey to many of the most prominent stars and constellations visible from ....

300 pages | 225 halftones | CUP

Pbk | NYP 08/2008 | 0521721709 | #175269A | £19.99 Add to basket

 

Strategies of Life Detection

O Botta, JL Bada, J Gomez-Elvira, E Javaux, F Selsis and R Summons

The search for life outside the Earth has been one of the biggest quests of mankind. We have reached a level in technology that allows the first steps towards a scientific ....

350 pages | 120 illus | Springer

Hbk | 2008 | 0387775153 | #175176A | £100.00 Add to basket

 

The Universe Before the Big Bang

Cosmology and String Theory

Maurizio Gasperini

Terms such as "expanding Universe", "big bang", and "initial singularity", are nowadays part of our common language. The idea that the Universe we observe today originated from ....

200 pages | 32 illus | Springer

Hbk | NYP 06/2008 | 3540744193 | #175213A | £22.99 Add to basket

 

Uranus, Neptune, Pluto and How to Observe Them

Richard Schmude

This book tells the story of two giants and a dwarf. The giants, Uranus and Neptune, are mostly huge balls of gas, and they make their home in the remotest reaches of the Solar ....

232 pages | 162 illus | Springer

Pbk | NYP 08/2008 | 0387766014 | #175216A | £18.99 Add to basket

 

Why is Uranus Upside Down?

And Other Questions About the Universe

Fred Watson

Ever wondered what dark matter is or why galaxies collide? Or why the Moon is gradually drifting away from Earth? Space is really, really big, as Douglas Adams once pointed ....

256 pages | Summersdale

Pbk | NYP 08/2008 | 1840246871 | #175299A | £7.99 Add to basket

 
Sustainable Development
 

Agriculture in World History

Mark Tauger

The survival of the human race since earliest times has depended on its exploitation of the land through agriculture. Mark Tauger looks at farming in early civilizations - from ....

160 pages | 10 black & white tables | Routledge

Hbk | NYP 10/2008 | 0415773865 | #175177A | £55.00 Add to basket

Pbk | NYP 10/2008 | 0415773873 | #175191A | £15.99 Add to basket

 

Agrobiodiversity, Conservation and Economic Development

Edited by Andreas Kontoleon, Unai Pascual and Melinda Smale

This book reflects current developments in the economics of agrobiodiversity and focuses its attention on the role agrobiodiversity can have for economic development. ....

288 pages | Tabs, figs | Routledge

Hbk | NYP 09/2008 | 0415465052 | #175645A | £90.00 Add to basket

 

Aquatic Stewardship Education in Theory and Practice

Edited by Barbara A Knuth and William F Siemer

This topical book presents the most current thinking about how to define, foster, and evaluate desirable aquatic stewardship behaviors as well as how to develop the ....

187 pages | AFS

Pbk | 2007 | 1888569905 | #175750A | £62.00 Add to basket

 

Arctic Oil and Gas

Sustainability at Risk?

Aslaug Mikkelsen and Oluf Langhelle

This book analyzes the expanding oil and gas activities in the Arctic from the perspective of Sustainable Development (SD) and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). ....

384 pages | illustrations, tables, | Routledge

Hbk | NYP 07/2008 | 041544330X | #175200A | £90.00 Add to basket

 

The Atlas of Food

Who Eats What, Where and Why

Erik Millstone and Tim Lang

Now completely updated, this award-winning atlas maps every link of the food chain, from farming, production and retail to the food on our plates. It also investigates how, in ....

128 pages | Col photos, figs, tabs, maps | Earthscan

Pbk | NYP 08/2008 | 1844074994 | #175475A | £12.99 Add to basket

 

Bioenergy Crops

A Development Guide and Species Reference

N El Bassam

Biomass currently accounts for about 15 per cent of global primary energy consumption and is playing an increasingly important role in the world's energy consumption in the ....

352 pages | tables, photographs, index | Earthscan

Hbk | NYP 08/2008 | 1844075400 | #175480A | £60.00 Add to basket

 

Business Planning in Turbulent Times

New Methods for Applying Scenarios

Rafael Ramirez, John W Selsky and Kees van der Heijden

This book is for business and organizational leaders who feel the ever-increasing turbulence of the environment and are interested in thinking through how to deal with ....

240 pages | figures, tables, boxes, index | Earthscan

Hbk | NYP 08/2008 | 1844075672 | #175476A | £39.95 Add to basket

 

The Challenges of Globalization

Rethinking Nature, Culture, and Freedom

Edited by S Hicks and D Shannon

This volume contains eleven essays dealing with the question of how to face the current challenges of globalization. These essays examine topics ranging from global justice, ....

256 pages | Blackwell

Hbk | 2007 | 1405173572 | #175662A | £22.99 Add to basket

Pbk | 2007 | 1405173564 | #175663A | £22.99 Add to basket

 

The China Environment Yearbook, Volume 2

Changes and Struggles

Edited by Yang Dongping

This volume of The China Environment Yearbook is the second in a series of annual records written, commissioned, produced, and edited by Friends of Nature, China's ....

EJ Brill

Hbk | NYP 08/2008 | 9004168001 | #175793A | £85.00 Add to basket

 

Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation in the Tourism Sector

Frameworks, Tools and Practices

With its close connections to the environment and climate itself, tourism is considered to be a vulnerable and highly climate-sensitive economic sector, similar to agriculture, ....

136 pages | UNEP

Pbk | 2008 | 9280729217 | #175833A | £20.50 Add to basket

 

Common Wealth

Economics for a Crowded Planet

Jeffrey D Sachs

This is a book about how we should address the great, and interconnected, global challenges of the twenty-first century. Our task, Sachs argues, is to achieve truly ....

400 pages | Illustrations | Allen Lane

Hbk | 2008 | 0713999195 | #175747A | £21.99 Add to basket

 

The Community Planning Event Manual

How to Use Collaborative Planning and Urban Design Events to Improve Your Environment

Nick Wates

Want to improve your village? Your town? Your city? Frustrated with conventional planning processes? A community planning event may be just what you have been waiting ....

128 pages | photographs, figures, index | Earthscan

Pbk | 2008 | 1844074927 | #175485A | £16.99 Add to basket

 

The Contested Commons

Conversations between Economists and Anthropologists

Edited by Pranab Bardhan and Isha Ray

Interdisciplinary work in the social sciences is challenging. While sometimes similar in their research themes, the large variance in the histories and methods of different ....

304 pages | Blackwell

Hbk | 2008 | 140515716X | #175797A | £50.00 Add to basket

 

Crap at the Environment

Mark Watson

What the environmental movement really needs is a hard-travelling, blissfully ignorant comedian with no credibility whatsoever to talk on serious issues. ....

320 pages | Hodder Headline

Pbk | NYP 06/2008 | 0340952806 | #175168A | £11.99 Add to basket

 

Demands of Expanding Populations and Development Planning

Clean Air, Safe Water, Fertile Soils

Frederic R Siegel

This book brings together three topics that interact to affect the quality of life on Earth. First, it examines expanding populations (and contracting ones) in regional and ....

186 pages | Illus | Springer

Hbk | NYP 07/2008 | 3540788069 | #175186A | £61.50 Add to basket

 

Designing and Building Mini and Micro Hydro Power Schemes

A Practical Guide

Luis Rodriguez and Teodoro Sanchez

Small hydro power installations have the potential to provide a renewable supply of energy to people in remote, hilly communities, far from the national grid. This book is ....

320 pages | Practical Action Publishing

Pbk | NYP 09/2008 | 185339646X | #175342A | £22.95 Add to basket

 

Does Foreign Aid Really Work?

Roger Riddell

Foreign aid is now a $100bn business and is expanding more rapidly today than it has for a generation. But does it work? Indeed, is it needed at all? ....

448 pages | OUP

Hbk | 2007 | 0199295654 | #162425A | £18.99 Add to basket

Pbk | NYP 08/2008 | 0199544468 | #175361A | £9.99 Add to basket

 

Ecoescape: Ireland

Catherine Mack

Ecoescape is a new way to travel proving that holidaymakers can enjoy the environment but leave no trace behind. ....

192 pages | Markham Publishing

Pbk | 2008 | 1905731299 | #175188A | £8.99 Add to basket

 

Ecoescape: United Kingdom

Laura Burgess

Ecoescape is a new way to travel proving that holidaymakers can enjoy the environment but leave no trace behind. ....

208 pages | Markham Publishing

Pbk | 2008 | 190573140X | #175165A | £8.99 Add to basket

 

The Ecofriendly Home

Living the Natural Life

Dan Phillips

This easy-to-understand guide will inspire you to make your home kinder to and safer for the environment and your family. It contains the most up-to-date recommendations for ....

192 pages | col. Illustrations | Carroll & Brown

Pbk | 2008 | 1904760627 | #175256A | £14.99 Add to basket

 

The Ecology of Wisdom

Writings by Arne Naess

Arne Naess, Alan Drengson and Bill Devall

A founder of the Deep Ecology Movement, Arne Naess' has produced articles on environmentalism that have provided unmatched inspiration for ecologists, philosophers, ....

304 pages | Counterpoint

Hbk | NYP 07/2008 | 1582434018 | #175314A | £17.99 Add to basket

 

Environmental Impacts of Ecotourism

Edited by R Buckley

All forms of tourism have impacts on the natural environment. The impacts of ecotourism tend to be concentrated in areas of highest conservation value, hence the need to manage ....

389 pages | Figs | CABI (Consignment)

Hbk | 2004 | 0851998100 | #148156A | £110.00 Add to basket

Pbk | NYP 09/2008 | 1845934563 | #175162A | £34.99 Add to basket

 

Environmental Justice and the Rights of Unborn and Future Generations

Law, Environmental Harm and the Right to Health

Edited by Laura Westra

The traditional concept of social justice is increasingly being challenged by the notion of a human-kind which spans current and future generations. This book is the first ....

352 pages | tables, index | Earthscan

Hbk | 2006 | 1844073661 | #159722A | £65.00 Add to basket

Pbk | 2008 | 1844075508 | #175505A | £29.95 Add to basket

 

Environmental Liability and Ecological Damage In European Law

Monika Hinteregger

Providing a comprehensive analysis of environmental liability law in Europe, this book offers a general introduction to the status of environmental ....

650 pages | CUP

Hbk | NYP 07/2008 | 0521889979 | #175848A | £84.99 Add to basket

 

Environmental Policy Convergence in Europe

The Impact of International Institutions and Trade

Katharina Holzinger, Christoph Knill and Bas Arts

Has globalisation led to a convergence in policy-making across nations and, if so, what are the causal mechanisms? This book analyses the extent to which the environmental ....

288 pages | line figures, tables | CUP

Hbk | NYP 06/2008 | 0521888816 | #175273A | £44.99 Add to basket

 

Environmental Reform in the Information Age

The Contours of Informational Governance

APJ Mol

As the information revolution continues to accelerate, the environment remains high on public and political agendas around the world. These two topics are rarely connected, ....

300 pages | Figs | CUP

Hbk | NYP 06/2008 | 0521888123 | #175661A | £44.99 Add to basket

 

Ethics in an Era of Globalization

Wim Vandekerckhove, S Ronald Commers and An Verlinden

This much-needed volume represents all that is new in the field of global ethics. It recognizes the emergence of the search to move beyond relativism and the study of ....

250 pages | Ashgate

Hbk | NYP 06/2008 | 075467195X | #175248A | £55.00 Add to basket

 

Flood Warning, Forecasting and Emergency Response

Kevin Sene

Recent flood events in Europe, the USA and elsewhere have shown the devastating impact that flooding can have on people and property. Flood warning and forecasting systems ....

350 pages | 59 illus | Springer

Hbk | NYP 06/2008 | 3540778527 | #175194A | £100.00 Add to basket

 

Future Energy

Improved, Sustainable and Clean Options for Our Planet

Edited by TM Letcher

Increasing global energy demand requires fact-based evaluations of alternative energy sources. This includes solving questions like how energy is produced, provided, and ....

400 pages | Elsevier

Hbk | NYP 08/2008 | 0080548083 | #175639A | £45.99 Add to basket

 

Game Theory and Policy Making in Natural Resources and the Environment

Edited by Ariel Dinar, Jose Albiac and Joaquin Sanchez-Soriano

Game Theory has become one of the main analytical tools for addressing strategic issues in the field of economics and is increasing its influence in other fields of social ....

368 pages | Illus | Routledge

Hbk | 2008 | 0415774225 | #175653A | £85.00 Add to basket

 

Good Green Guide for Small Businesses

How to Change the Way Your Business Works for the Better

Impetus Consulting

Can your business go green? Can it afford not to? Never has our impact on the environment been so relevant as it is today, and organisations of all sizes have an ....

224 pages | A & C Black

Pbk | NYP 11/2008 | 0713689323 | #175038A | £12.99 Add to basket

 

Governing a Common Sea

Environmental Policies in the Baltic Sea Region

Marko Joas, Detlef Jahn and Kristine Kern

How is a natural common pool resource such as a sea, which is shared by several countries, best governed? The potential for international conflict is immense, as each ....

224 pages | figures, tables, index | Earthscan

Hbk | 2008 | 1844075370 | #175506A | £60.00 Add to basket

 

Green

Your Place in the New Energy Revolution

Jane Hoffman, Michael Hoffman and Bill Clinton

"Green" will illustrate and shed new light on the gamut of issues associated with renewable energy, a topic whose importance increases exponentially with every ....

272 pages | Palgrave

Pbk | NYP 08/2008 | 0230605443 | #175790A | £8.99 Add to basket

 

Handbook of Strategic Environmental Assessment

Edited by Barry Sadler

This authoritative handbook, written and edited by forty international leaders in Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) practice and theory, is the most comprehensive ....

704 pages | Figs, tabs | Earthscan

Hbk | NYP 08/2008 | 1844073653 | #167336A | £75.00 Add to basket

 

Hard Rain

Our Headlong Collision with Nature

Mark Edwards

In July 1969, Mark Edwards, lost on the edge of the Sahara, is rescued by a Tuareg nomad, who takes him to his people, makes a fire and produces a cassette player. Bob ....

184 pages | 96 col photos | Still Pictures Moving Words

Pbk | NYP 06/2008 | 1905588011 | #175340A | £16.99 Add to basket

 

A History of Natural Philosophy

From the Ancient World to the Nineteenth Century

Edward Grant

Natural philosophy encompassed all natural phenomena of the physical world. It sought to discover the physical causes of all natural effects and was little concerned with ....

376 pages | CUP

Hbk | 2007 | 0521869315 | #175777A | £39.99 Add to basket

Pbk | 2007 | 0521689570 | #175778A | £14.99 Add to basket

 

Innovations and the Environment

Yoram Krozer

Companies wishing to become less environmentally polluting without incurring high (or increasing) costs must embrace innovations. There are various technologies which enable ....

202 pages | Illus | Springer

Hbk | NYP 06/2008 | 1848001967 | #175173A | £60.00 Add to basket

 

Integrating Multiscale Observations of U.S. Waters

Committee on Integrated Observations for Hydrologic and Related Sciences

Water is essential to life for humans and their food crops, and for ecosystems. Effective water management requires tracking the inflow, outflow, quantity and quality ....

230 pages | National Academies Press

Pbk | 2007 | 0309114578 | #175326A | £26.99 Add to basket

 

International Documents on Environmental Liability

Hannes Descamps, Robin Slabbinck and Hubert Bocken

International Documents on Environmental Liability brings together 30 official full-text documents in the field of international environmental liability into an easily ....

314 pages | Kluwer

Hbk | 2008 | 1402083661 | #175190A | £96.00 Add to basket

 

International Environmental Governance

Edited by Peter M Haas

This book reviews the contentious approaches to addressing global and transboundary environmental threats. ....

604 pages | Ashgate

Hbk | NYP 10/2008 | 0754625613 | #175470A | £150.00 Add to basket

 

Kitchen Table Sustainability

Practical Ways of Helping Communities Engage Directly with Sustainability Challenges

Wendy Sarkissian, Nancy Hofer and Steph Vajda

Kitchen Table Sustainability offers a unique view on sustainability through the lens of community engagement. ....

242 pages | Tabs | Earthscan

Pbk | NYP 09/2008 | 1844076148 | #175484A | £19.99 Add to basket

 

Linking Conservation and Poverty Reduction

Landscapes, People and Power

R Fisher, S Jeanrenaud, S Maginnis, W Jackson and E Barrow

Provides a grand overview and a conceptual framework for addressing poverty reduction in the context of conservation and conservation in the context of poverty reduction. ....

144 pages | Figs | Earthscan

Hbk | NYP 09/2008 | 1844076350 | #175513A | £65.00 Add to basket

Pbk | NYP 09/2008 | 1844076369 | #175511A | £18.99 Add to basket

 

Low-Enthalpy Geothermal Resources for Power Generation

Exploration and Economics

D Chandrasekharam and Jochen Bundschuh

In many developing countries the exponentially growing electricity demand can be covered by using locally available, sustainable low-enthalpy geothermal resources (80-150 C). ....

142 pages | illus | Taylor & Francis

Hbk | NYP 08/2008 | 0415401682 | #175399A | £38.99 Add to basket

 

Making Peace with the Earth

Twenty-first Century Talks

Jerome Binde

The current world situation is fraught with potential future conflicts and calls for global responses. The point needs to be made yet again that sustainable development ....

184 pages | 21 ills. | Berghahn Books

Pbk | 2007 | 1845454987 | #175150A | £14.99 Add to basket

 

Nature-based Tourism, Environment and Land Management

Edited by R Buckley, C Pickering, D B Weaver and G Mason

This volume looks at the economic, social and environmental consequences of nature-based tourism and its effects on land managers. It discusses the importance of links and ....

213 pages | B/w photos, figs, maps | CABI (Consignment)

Hbk | 2003 | 0851997325 | #141640A | £49.95 Add to basket

Pbk | NYP 08/2008 | 1845934555 | #175161A | £27.50 Add to basket

 

One Valley and a Thousand

Dams, Nationalism, and Development

Daniel Klingensmith

By the end of the twentieth century, more then 45,000 large dams were built world wide displacing millions of people, and dramatically altering both ecosystems and social ....

352 pages | OUP

Hbk | 2007 | 0195687833 | #175405A | £22.99 Add to basket

 

The Oxford Companion to Global Change

Andrew Goudie and David J Cuff

The Oxford Companion to Global Change is an up-to-date, comprehensive, interdisciplinary guide to the range of issues surrounding natural and human-induced changes in the ....

624 pages | 150 b/w illustrations | OUP

Hbk | NYP 09/2008 | 0195324889 | #175359A | £60.00 Add to basket

 

Participation in Environmental Organizations

Benno Torgler and Maria A Garcia-Valinas

For decades, social scientists have searched for factors that shape pro-environmental behaviour. However, only a few studies have investigated the causes and consequences of ....

208 pages | Routledge

Hbk | NYP 07/2008 | 0415446317 | #175655A | £75.00 Add to basket

 

Particularly Sensitive Sea Areas

The IMO's Role in Protecting Vulnerable Marine Areas

Markus J Kachel

Designations of large Particularly Sensitive Sea Areas (PSSAs) triggered a controversial debate within the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) concerning the legal basis ....

376 pages | Illus | Springer

Pbk | 2008 | 354078778X | #175212A | £84.50 Add to basket

 

Partnerships for Empowerment

Participatory Research for Community-based Natural Resource Management

Edited by Carl Wilmsen, William Elmendorf, Larry Fisher, Jacquelyn Ross et al

Participatory research has emerged as an approach to producing knowledge that is sufficiently grounded in local needs and realities to support community-based natural ....

288 pages | figures, tables, boxes, index | Earthscan

Hbk | NYP 06/2008 | 1844075621 | #175525A | £85.00 Add to basket

Pbk | NYP 06/2008 | 184407563X | #175523A | £24.95 Add to basket

 

Positive Development

From Vicious Circles to Virtuous Cycles Through Built Environment Design

Janis Birkeland

Genuine sustainability will require more than 'ecological restoration'. 'Zero carbon' and 'zero waste', at best, leave things as they are - we need to go beyond zero to ....

272 pages | photographs, figures, tables, index | Earthscan

Hbk | 2008 | 1844075788 | #175486A | £85.00 Add to basket

Pbk | 2008 | 1844075796 | #175487A | £24.95 Add to basket

 

Post-Oil Energy Technology

After the Age of Fossil Fuels

Bela G Liptak

With an emphasis on solar-hydrogen technology, this volume focuses on how to solve the global warming problem. This book explores clean, permanent, and un-exhaustible energy ....

536 pages | illustrations, tables | CRC Press

Hbk | NYP 08/2008 | 1420070258 | #175575A | £67.99 Add to basket

 

Poverty Reduction that Works

Experience of Scaling Up Development Success

Edited by Paul Steele, Neil Fernando and Maneka Weddikkara

This book looks at 20 of the most innovative case studies of poverty reduction and Millennium Development Goal localization and presents a wealth of knowledge, evidence ....

256 pages | Maps, figs, tabs | Earthscan

Hbk | NYP 06/2008 | 1844076016 | #175491A | £70.00 Add to basket

Pbk | NYP 06/2008 | 1844076024 | #175490A | £19.99 Add to basket

 

The Power of Sustainable Thinking

How to Create a Positive Future for the Climate, the Planet, Your Organization and Your Life

Bob Doppelt

In this new book, renowned sustainability and business and organizational change specialist Bob Doppelt provides both an easy to understand explanation and practical ....

192 pages | Figs, tabs | Earthscan

Hbk | NYP 08/2008 | 1844075958 | #175472A | £16.99 Add to basket

 

A Practical Guide to Solar Photovoltaic Systems for Technicians

Sizing, Installation and Maintenance

Jean-Paul Louineau

An ideal addition to the toolkit of anyone involved in the installation of solar powered photovoltaic systems, this practical guide provides step by step explanations of the ....

256 pages | Illus | Practical Action Publishing

Pbk | NYP 07/2008 | 1853396591 | #175341A | £18.95 Add to basket

 

Protein Engineering Handbook

Stefan Lutz and Uwe Theo Bornscheuer

Unparalleled in size and scope, this new major reference integrates academic and industrial knowledge into a single resource, allowing for a unique overview of the ....

1650 pages | Wiley

Hbk | NYP 09/2008 | 352731850X | #175671A | £360.00 Add to basket

 

Public and Private in Natural Resource Governance

A False Dichotomy?

Edited by Thomas Sikor

Natural resources have historically been considered as being governed by public or private interests - that is, by the state on behalf of the people, or by companies or ....

224 pages | figures, maps, index | Earthscan

Hbk | 2008 | 1844075257 | #175527A | £70.00 Add to basket

 

Regulating Water and Sanitation for the Poor

Economic Regulation for Public and Private Partnerships

Richard Franceys and Esther Gerlach

The aim of this book is to present the potential benefits as well as the challenges of introducing a more formal economic regulatory process into the ....

320 pages | figures, tables, boxes, photographs, index | Earthscan

Hbk | NYP 08/2008 | 1844076172 | #175528A | £49.95 Add to basket

 

Responsible Enterprise, Foreign Direct Investment and Investment Promotion

A Dufey and M Grieg-Gran

Foreign direct investment (FDI) is widely considered to be a key factor in economic development in middle and low income countries. Positively, it can be associated with ....

200 pages | IIED

Pbk | 2008 | 1843696835 | #175134A | £20.50 Add to basket

 

Responsible Tourism

Critical Issues for Conservation and Development

Edited by Anna Spenceley

Employing case studies drawn from across southern Africa - one of the testing grounds for the idea that responsible tourism can promote biodiversity conservation and poverty ....

432 pages | Maps, figs, tabs | Earthscan

Hbk | NYP 09/2008 | 1844076393 | #175517A | £49.95 Add to basket

 

The State of the World Atlas

A Unique Survey of Current Events and Global Trends

Dan Smith

Pages of full-colour graphics break down hardcore statistics to provide a compelling, succinct analysis of all the political, social, economic and ecological nightmares that ....

144 pages | Col photos, tabs, maps | Earthscan

Pbk | NYP 09/2008 | 1844075737 | #175474A | £12.99 Add to basket

 

The Sustainability Mirage

Illusion and Reality in the Climate War

John Foster

This original and controversial book argues that what is now preventing us from taking the next step to combating climate change is the sustainable development framework ....

240 pages | Earthscan

Hbk | NYP 09/2008 | 1844075346 | #175489A | £70.00 Add to basket

Pbk | NYP 09/2008 | 1844075354 | #175488A | £17.99 Add to basket

 

Sustainable Development and Environmental Management

Experiences and Case Studies

Ignazio Musu, Maria Lodovica Gullino and Corrado Clini

This book presents the new EU approach to environmental management and its attempt to place it in the perspective of sustainable development. China and other large and fast ....

445 pages | Springer

Hbk | 2008 | 1402082282 | #175193A | £92.50 Add to basket

 

Sustainable Energy Production and Consumption

Benefits, Strategies and Environmental Costing

Frano Barbir and Sergio Ulgiati

Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Sustainable Energy Production and Consumption and Environmental Costing, Naples, Italy, 4-7 July 2007 ....

385 pages | Kluwer

Hbk | NYP 06/2008 | 1402084927 | #175755A | £120.50 Add to basket

Pbk | NYP 06/2008 | 1402084935 | #175756A | £52.50 Add to basket

 

Sustainable Futures

Comparative Perspectives on Communal Lands and Individual Ownership

Lee Godden and Maureen Tehan

"Sustainable Futures" is a specially organized collection of critical debates, analyses and evaluations of changing models of property as the vehicle governing access to land ....

288 pages | 20 black & white line drawings | Routledge

Hbk | NYP 06/2008 | 0415457203 | #175650A | £75.00 Add to basket

 

Sustainable Tourism - 4 Volume Set

Stephen Page and Joanne Connell

The origins of sustainable tourism as a topic of serious academic interest are comparatively recent. The subject is largely a postwar development which began to unfold ....

2064 pages | Routledge

Hbk | 2007 | 0415437148 | #175588A | £595.00 Add to basket

 

Ten Technologies to Save the Planet

Chris Goodall

Chris Goodall profiles ten technologies to watch, explaining how they work and telling the stories of the inventors and entrepreneurs driving them forward. Some of Goodall's ....

224 pages | Profile Books

Pbk | NYP 11/2008 | 184668868X | #174123A | £9.99 Add to basket

 

Tomorrow's Table

Organic Farming, Genetics, and the Future of Food

Pamela C Ronald and RW Adamchak

In modern agricultural politics, organic farming and genetic engineering occupy opposite ends of the spectrum. In the Ronald-Adamchak household, the world is not so black and ....

232 pages | OUP

Hbk | 2008 | 0195301757 | #175636A | £17.99 Add to basket

 

Understanding the Social Dimension of Sustainability

Edited by J Dillard, V Dujon and M King

The imperative of the 21st century is sustainability: to raise the living standards of the world's poor and to achieve and maintain high levels of social health among the ....

176 pages | Routledge

Hbk | NYP 07/2008 | 0415964652 | #175657A | £60.00 Add to basket

 

Using Digital Maps and GPS in Fieldwork

A practical guide for teachers

Based on a 12-month project into using two strands of ICT (digital maps and global positing systems) carried out by FSC in 2007, this booklet describes in detail some of ....

FSC

Pbk | 2008 | #175554A | £4.99 Add to basket

 

Water Reuse System Management Manual (AQUAREC)

European Commission

The project AQUAREC "Integrated concepts for reuse of upgraded wastewater" was funded by the Fifth Framework Programme of the European Commission. Its major aim was to ....

676 pages | European Union

Pbk | 2007 | 9279019341 | #175794A | £34.99 Add to basket

 

Whole System Design

Peter Stasinopoulos et al

This book outlines 10 key design elements to demonstrate how Whole System Design can enhance traditional design processes. This is then followed by demonstrating the ....

256 pages | Figs, photos, tabs | Earthscan

Hbk | NYP 09/2008 | 1844076423 | #175483A | £75.00 Add to basket

Pbk | NYP 09/2008 | 1844076431 | #175482A | £19.99 Add to basket

 
Data Analysis
 

Applied Spatial Data Analysis with R

Roger S Bivand, Edzer J Pebesma and Virgilio Gomez-Rubio

Applied Spatial Data Analysis with R is divided into two basic parts, the first presenting R packages, functions, classes and methods for handling spatial data. This ....

400 pages | Springer

Pbk | NYP 08/2008 | 0387781706 | #175753A | £33.99 Add to basket

 

Assessing the Accuracy of Remotely Sensed Data

Principles and Practices

Russell G Congalton and Kass Green

The field of accuracy assessment of maps derived from remotely sensed data has continued to grow since the first edition of this groundbreaking book published in 1999. As a ....

210 pages | Figs, tabs | CRC Press

Hbk | NYP 08/2008 | 1420055127 | #175570A | £52.99 Add to basket

 

Bayesian Methods for Data Analysis

Bradley P Carlin

The third edition of "Bayesian Methods for Data Analysis" has been updated to provide a more accessible introduction to the foundations of Bayesian analysis along with a ....

480 pages | illustrations, tables | Chapman & Hall (CRC Press)

Hbk | NYP 07/2008 | 1584886978 | #175577A | £36.99 Add to basket

 

Bioconductor Case Studies

Florian Hahne, Wolfgang Huber, Robert Gentleman and Seth Falcon

Bioconductor software has become a standard tool for the analysis and comprehension of data from high-throughput genomics experiments. Its application ....

292 pages | Springer

Pbk | NYP 06/2008 | 0387772391 | #175169A | £40.50 Add to basket

 

Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Collaborative Research and Resources

Frederick Marcus

Collaborative research in bioinformatics and systems biology is a key element of modern biology and health research. This book highlights and provides access to many of the ....

270 pages | Illustrations | Springer

Hbk | NYP 06/2008 | 3540783520 | #175199A | £69.00 Add to basket

 

Data Manipulation with R

Phil Spector

Everyone using R needs to work with data, data almost always comes from an external source that has to be imported into R. The tasks covered in this book are essential ....

164 pages | Springer

Pbk | 2008 | 0387747303 | #175171A | £34.50 Add to basket

 

Environmental Modelling

An Uncertain Future?

Keith Beven

"Environmental Modelling: An Uncertain Future?" introduces students, scientists and decision makers to the different concepts and techniques of uncertainty estimation in ....

304 pages | diagrams | Taylor & Francis

Hbk | NYP 07/2008 | 0415463025 | #175389A | £90.00 Add to basket

Pbk | NYP 07/2008 | 0415457599 | #175388A | £29.99 Add to basket

 

Field Sampling Methods for Remedial Investigations

Mark Edward Byrnes

This book provides practical guidance on developing cost-effective and defensible environmental sampling programs to support site characterization, site remediation, and ....

376 pages | Figs, tabs | CRC Press

Hbk | NYP 07/2008 | 1420059084 | #175393A | £67.99 Add to basket

 

Genomes, Browsers and Databases

Data-Mining Tools for Integrated Genomic Databases

Peter Schattner

The recent explosive growth of biological data has lead to a rapid increase in the number of molecular biology databases. Held in many different locations and often using ....

344 pages | 51 halftones, 4 tables, 46 exercises | CUP

Hbk | NYP 06/2008 | 0521884438 | #175260A | £64.99 Add to basket

Pbk | NYP 08/2008 | 0521711320 | #175261A | £27.99 Add to basket

 

Geoinformation

Remote Sensing, Photogrammetry and Geographical Information Systems

Gottfried Konecny

Geoinformation provides complete coverage of remote sensing, digital photogrammetry, and GIS. This second edition features new and updated information on ....

248 pages | Col photos, b/w photos, illus, figs, tabs, maps | CRC Press

Hbk | NYP 09/2008 | 1420068563 | #175571A | £41.99 Add to basket

 

International Conference on Mathematical Biology 2007

ICMB07 - Putrajaya, Malaysia, 4-6 September 2007

Edited by Kamel Ariffin Mohd Atan and Isthrinayagy S Krishnarajah

Mathematical biology is an interdisciplinary area that focuses on the application of mathematics to biology systems. Mathematical biology spans all levels of biological ....

308 pages | Illus | Springer

Hbk | 2008 | 0735404895 | #175195A | £82.50 Add to basket

 

Introductory Statistics

A Problem-solving Approach

Stephen Kokoska

Written in a precise and logical style, this text helps students learn statistical concepts by using a stepped problem-solving approach. The content is easy to read and ....

400 pages | WH Freeman

Hbk | NYP 08/2008 | 0716757621 | #175787A | £31.99 Add to basket

 

Introductory Statistics with R

Peter Dalgaard

R is an Open Source implementation of the well-known S language. It works on multiple computing platforms and can be freely downloaded. R is thus ideally suited for teaching ....

267 pages | - | Springer

Pbk | NYP 08/2008 | 0387790535 | #175754A | £34.99 Add to basket

 

Linear Models

The Theory and Application of Analysis of Variance

Brenton R Clarke

This graduate-level book succinctly describes the role of analysis of variance (ANOVA) in the study of linear models. Applications to linear regression (both simple and ....

288 pages | Wiley

Hbk | NYP 08/2008 | 0470025662 | #175676A | £47.50 Add to basket

 

The Practice of Statistics in the Life Sciences

Brigitte Baldi and David S Moore

This is a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the use of statistics in life sciences. It is a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the use of statistics in ....

608 pages | WH Freeman

Hbk | 2008 | 1429218762 | #175781A | £41.99 Add to basket

 

Probability Models for DNA Sequence Evolution

Richard Durrett

How is genetic variability shaped by natural selection, demographic factors, and random genetic drift? To approach this question, we introduce and analyze a number of ....

440 pages | Springer

Hbk | NYP 07/2008 | 0387781684 | #175752A | £54.00 Add to basket

 

Quality Aspects in Spatial Data Mining

Alfred Stein, John Shi and Wietske Bijker

Both end users and researchers are eager to develop more sophisticated ways to quantify, model, and visualize spatial data. In this cohesive collection of peer-reviewed ....

300 pages | CRC Press

Hbk | NYP 08/2008 | 1420069268 | #175572A | £62.99 Add to basket

 

Remote Sensing and Image Interpretation

Thomas M Lillesand and Ralph W Kiefer

Remote sensing is the science and art of obtaining information about an object, area, or phenomenon through the analysis of data acquired by a device that is not in contact with ....

724 pages | 25 col plates, b/w photos, figs, tabs, maps | Wiley

Hbk | 2008 | 0470052457 | #175679A | £39.95 Add to basket

 

Remote Sensing of Soil Salinization

Impact and Land Management

Graciela Metternicht and Alfred Zinck

Providing an overview of soil salinity assessment using remote sensing technologies, this book analyzes basic issues of remote detection, such as the spectral behavior of ....

350 pages | illustrations | CRC Press

Hbk | NYP 08/2008 | 1420065025 | #175573A | £52.99 Add to basket

 

Representing, Modeling and Visualizing the Natural Environment

Nick Mount, Paul Aplin and Gary Priestnall

The increase in public interest on the natural environment can most certainly be attributed to growing public awareness on the impacts of global warming and climate ....

300 pages | 100 black & white illustrations | CRC Press

Hbk | NYP 07/2008 | 1420055496 | #175574A | £62.99 Add to basket

 

Rethinking Maps

Martin Dodge, Rob Kitchin and Chris Perkins

Mapping is in a state of transformation given the development of new spatial technologies and techniques that fundamentally alter the creation, distribution and use ....

296 pages | Routledge

Hbk | NYP 09/2008 | 0415461529 | #175640A | £75.00 Add to basket

 

Statistical Rules of Thumb

Gerald Van Belle

Not even the most brilliant statistician can instantly recall every rule and concept that forms the daily bread of statistical work. Sensibly organized for quick reference, ....

312 pages | Wiley

Pbk | NYP 08/2008 | 0470144483 | #175677A | £28.95 Add to basket

 

Study Guide for the Practice of Statistics in the Life Sciences

Brigitte Baldi and David S Moore

Written by the author, the guide helps students sharpen their analytical and problem-solving skills as they review material from the text and prepare for quizzes and ....

256 pages | WH Freeman

Pbk | 2008 | 1429201657 | #175780A | £16.99 Add to basket

 

Transmission Electron Microscopy

Physics of Image Formation and Microanalysis

Ludwig Reimer and Helmut Kohl

This text presents the theory of image and contrast formation, and the analytical modes in transmission electron microscopy. The principles of particle and wave optics of ....

615 pages | illus | Springer

Hbk | NYP 08/2008 | 0387400931 | #175230A | £84.50 Add to basket

 
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Concise Oxford English Dictionary

Catherine Soanes and Angus Stevenson

11th edition revised. Contains over 240,000 words, phrases, and definitions. ....

1728 pages | - | OUP

Hbk | NYP 07/2008 | 0199548412 | #175234A | £24.99 Add to basket

 

Copyright Compliance

Practical Steps to Stay Within the Law

Paul Pedley

Copyright is not a subject that most individuals or organizations want to study in depth. They simply wish to be able to copy material in the knowledge that what they are ....

151 pages | tables | Facet

Hbk | 2008 | 1856046400 | #173713A | £39.95 Add to basket

 

Curiosity and Enlightenment

Collectors and Collections from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century

Arthur MacGregor

This fascinating book offers a history of museum collecting in western Europe over the course of its formative centuries, tracing its origins from the culture of collecting ....

386 pages | photos, illus | Yale UP

Hbk | 2007 | 0300124937 | #175105A | £44.99 Add to basket

 

Investigating Science Communication in the Information Age

Implications for public engagement and popular media

Edited by Richard Holliman, Elizabeth Whitelegg, Eileen Scanlon et al

How are recent policy changes affecting how scientists engage with the public? How are new technologies influencing how scientists disseminate their work and knowledge? How ....

320 pages | illus | OUP

Pbk | NYP 11/2008 | 0199552665 | #174074A | £19.99 Add to basket

 

Navigating with GPS

Pete Hawkins

In this practical guide to navigating with a GPS, navigation expert Pete Hawkins explains how to get the best from your GPS. He breaks down the jargon into ....

128 pages | Col.ill. | Cicerone

Pbk | NYP 06/2008 | 1852844914 | #175709A | £7.99 Add to basket