A Field Guide to the Carnivores of the World

Luke Hunter and Priscilla Barrett

Ranging from the largest terrestrial carnivore, the Polar Bear, and hyper-predatory wild cats, to the tiny Least Weasel that can squeeze through a wedding ring, the true ....

Die Fledermäuse Europas

Eine umfassendes Handbuch zur Biologie, Verbreitung und Bestimmung

Franz Krapp and Jochen Niethammer

This handbook provides detailed information on bat species occurring in Europe. After a determination key, which leads to the families and genera, all species are portrayed in ....

Gorillas

Living on the Edge

Andy Rouse

This book is a celebration of their life through his personal journeys into their world, set on the misty slopes of their last stronghold, the magnificent Virunga Volcanoes. ....

Handbook of the Mammals of the World, Volume 2: Hoofed Mammals

Edited by Don E Wilson and Russell A Mittermeier

Hoofed mammals include many families of large, well-known animals. In the second volume of HMW they are revealed in all their fascinating detail, in riveting accounts written ....

Handbook of the Mammals of the World, Volumes 1 & 2

Don E Wilson and Russell A Mittermeier

This is a set of the first two volumes in the Handbook of the Mammals of the World Series. If you order this set at the special offer price, both books will be sent ....

Mammals in Qinling Mountains

Zheng Shengwu and Song Shiying

Pocket Guide Mammals of Southern Africa

Chris Stuart and Mathilde Stuart

This easy-to-use, compact book is the perfect pocket ID guide to mammals of the region. It covers - in surprising detail - some 120 mammals, from the smallest (bats, sengis and ....

Whales and Dolphins

Cognition, Culture, Conservation and Human Perceptions

Edited by Philippa Brakes and Mark Simmonds

Whales and dolphins are icons for the conservation movement. They are the most conspicuous ambassadors for entire marine ecosystems and possibly even for the biosphere ....

Whales' Bones of The Netherlands and Belgium

Nicholas Redman

Part of a project that aims single-handedly to record all the practical and decorative uses to which the huge skulls, jawbones, shoulder blades, vertebrae and ribs of the ....

Advanced Bird ID Handbook

The Western Palearctic

Nils Van Duivendijk

This book is intended as a reference companion for the original Advanced Bird ID Guide, the ground-breaking title by the same author that relies on characteristic lists to ....

Attracting Birds to Your Garden

Stephen Moss and David Cottridge

A well illustrated volume, which is packed full of excellent, practical advice on feeding birds and creating pools and nest sites. The reader is taken through the steps ....

Aves Rapaces de Uruguay, Argentina, Brasil y Paraguay

Fernando Perez Piedrabuena

Contains species descriptions and distribution maps of the raptors of Uruguay and neighbouring countries. The varying plumages of the adults of the various subspecies are ....

Beautiful Bird Songs of Britain

The Music of Nature

The British Library

This compilation brings together some of the most beautiful bird songs that can be heard around the British Isles. The Blackbird, Skylark, Nightingale and Mistle Thrush are just ....

The Birdman Abroad

Stuart Winter

Stuart Winter's "Tales of a Tabloid Twitcher" earned many plaudits in 2010, as the birder journalist who brought the subjects of birdwatching and conservation to millions ....

Birds of Seychelles

Adrian Skerrett and Tony Disley

This compact field guide, based on Birds of Seychelles by Adrian Skerrett, Ian Bullock and Tony Disley (Helm 2000), is the only field guide to cover every species recorded in ....

A Birdwatcher's Guide to Norway

Where, When and How to find the Birds of Norway including Svalbard

Bjorn Olav Tveit

For the first time ever, here is a guide to the birdwatching sites of Norway, including the arctic archipelago of Svalbard (Spitsbergen). More than 350 sites are covered with ....

A Checklist on the Distribution of the Birds in Xinjiang

Ma Ming

Common Birds of Coastal Georgia

Jim Wilson

Common Birds of Greater Atlanta

Jim Wilson and Anselm Atkins

The Fearsome Flute Players

Australian Magpies in our Lives

Philip Roetman and Christopher Daniels

Seen a magpie today? Or have you heard their tuneful song? If you live in Australia it's virtually impossible for you to go a day without encountering these amazing birds. We ....

A Field Guide to the Birds of South-East Asia

Craig Robson

This fully updated edition of the award-winning A Field Guide to the Birds of South-East Asia includes more than 20 new species for the region which are recent discoveries, ....

The Garden Bird Handbook

Stephen Moss

Published in association with the Wildlife Trusts, this book contains practical advice and key information, ranging from planning and maintaining a bird-friendly garden, ....

Hummingbirds and Butterflies

Bill Thompson and Connie Toops

Hummingbirds and butterflies are some of the most beautiful visitors to a backyard, but they can also be some of the most elusive. This second collaboration between the ....

The Puffin

MP Harris

With its colourful beak and fast, whirring flight, the Atlantic Puffin is the most recognisable and popular of all North Atlantic seabirds. Puffins spend most of the year ....

SASOL Birds of Southern Africa

Ian Sinclair, Phil Hockey and Warwick Tarboton

This book remains the region's most comprehensively illustrated and trusted field guide. The fourth edition has been improved by the addition of group introductions, calendar ....

The True Shrikes (Laniidae) of the World

Ecology, Behavior and Evolution

EN Panov

This book is the first monograph in English on the 34 shrike species distributed across Africa, Eurasia and North America. These birds have attracted the attention of ....

The Urban Birder

David Lindo

Anyone can become an Urban Birder. You can do it anywhere and any time, whether you've got the day to spare, on your way to work, during your lunch break or just looking out ....

Colored Illustrations of Amphibians and Reptiles of Taiwan

Xiang Gaoshi and Li Pengxiang

This book includes details of 61 snake, 11 lizard and 37 ambhibian species found in Taiwan. ....

The Lizard Man Speaks

ER Pianka

Alone on the endless red-sand desert in the Australian outback, tracking Varanus giganteus, the perentie lizard that grows to be more than six feet long ...for desert ....

Tracks in the Sand

Sea Turtles and their Protectors

Frank Gromling and Mike Cavaliere

A profile of Florida's rich coastal heritage, this account showcases the many animals and plants found here. Combining photography mined from decades of volunteer work with ....

The Devil's Teeth

The True Story of Great White Sharks

Susan Casey

Great white sharks are enigmas. They ruled the oceans long before dinosaurs inhabited the earth. Yet we know nothing about them. Scientists speculate they can live for 60 ....

Fish Cognition and Behavior

Edited by Culum Brown, Kevin Laland and Jens Krause

An international team of experts have been brought together to explore all major areas of fish learning, including: ....

Fish Karyotypes

A Check List

Ryoichi Arai

As the largest group of extant vertebrates, fish offer an almost limitless number of striking examples of evolutionary adaptation to environmental and biotic selection ....

Bird-Dropping Tortrix Moths of the British Isles

A Field Guide to the Bird-dropping Mimics

Jon Clifton and Jim Wheeler

Many species of moth have evolved black and white markings which give them the appearance of bird droppings and provide camouflage. This guide shows classic examples ....

Cetoniimania, Volume 1

Legrand et al

Contains seven articles on world Cetoniinae. ....

Cetoniimania, Volume 2

Legrand et al

Contains four articles on Cetoniinae of Africa and Pakistan. ....

Chinese Insects Illustrated

Zhang Weiwei and Li Yuansheng

Description d'une Nouvelle Espèce de la Tribu des Callichromatini Originaire du Kenya: Promeces Masai sp. nov.

Pierre Juhel and Joan Bentanachs

Diverse Neuropterida in Cretaceous Amber, with particular reference to the Paleofauna of Myanmar

Engel and Grimaldi

Faune de France, Volume 93: Hémiptères Pentatomoidea Euro-Mediterraneens (volume 3): Podopinae et Asopinae

Jean Pericart

Guia dos Sphingidae da Serra dos Orgaos, Sudeste do Brasil

A Guide to the Hawkmoths of the Serra dos Orgaos, South-eastern Brazil

Alan Martin, Alexandre Soares and Jorge Bizarro

The Mata Atlantica or Atlantic Rainforest of Brazil is one of the most threatened biomes in the world with less than 7% of the original forest remaining, and most of this highly ....

An Illustrated Guide to Cockroaches

Ekaterina Smirnova

An enlighteningly grotesque illustrated introduction to the omnipresent cockroach. The worlds city dwellers, especially in places like Manhattan, grow accustomed to having ....

Indian Haemaphysalis Ticks

G Geeverghese and A C Mishra

Ticks are obligate blood-sucking arthropods found in almost every region of the world. They are very important vectors of human and animal diseases. Tick-borne protozoan ....

Insects from Leigongshan Landscape

Li Zizhong Yang and Maofa Jin Daochao

This book describes 1861 species of insects from the Leigongshan Nature Reserve, Guizhou Province, China. ....

Kraken

The Curious, Exciting, and Slightly Disturbing Science of Squid

Wendy Williams

The oceans are perhaps the last remaining source of profound mystery and discovery on Earth, and are as such of perennial fascination. Kraken introduces one of the most ....

Ladybirds

M Majerus and P Kearns

This book enables enthusiasts to pursue their studies of British ladybird natural history further. It provides details of their biology and keys for identification, and ....

The Natural History of Hoverflies

Graham E Rotheray and Francis Gilbert

Hoverflies are valuable insects and particularly over the last two decades, they have started to impact on a wider range of people than just specialists. Hoverflies are known ....

Non-Native and Invasive Ticks

Threats to Human and Animal Health in the United States

Michael J Burridge

At least 100 non-native tick species have been introduced into the continental United States during the past century. These introductions of invasive ticks have increased ....

Pests

A Guide to the World's Most Maligned Yet Misunderstood Creatures

Ross Piper

From mosquitoes to nematodes to mice, there are a multitude of organisms and animals that pose major health risks, cause economic burdens, and even threaten famine ....

Psyllidomorpha of China (Insecta: Hemiptera)

Li Fasheng

The Psyllidomorpha is one of the infraorders in Hemiptera. More than 3850 species and 305 genera are known in the world. Most of them feed on Dicoryledonae of Spermatorphyta, ....

Pyraloidea of Central Europe / Pyraloidea Mitteleuropas

Identification, Distribution, Habitat, Biology

Frantisek Slamka

This atlas comprises the description and photographs of 403 species of the Superfamily Pyraloidea known or recorded from Central Europe (Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Poland, ....

Shells of the Hawaiian Islands, Volume 1: The Sea Shells

The verifiable species and their described variants

Mike Severns

The Hawaiian archipelago is the most isolated archipelago on Earth. Stretching 2,500 km across the Central Pacific it is 3,500 ....

Shells of the Hawaiian Islands, Volume 2: The Land Shells

The endemic land and freshwater species and their described variants

Mike Severns

The Hawaiian archipelago is the most isolated archipelago on Earth. Stretching 2,500 km across the Central Pacific it is 3,500 ....

Shells of the Hawaiian Islands, Vols 1 & 2

Mike Severns

The Hawaiian archipelago is the most isolated archipelago on Earth. Stretching 2,500 km across the Central Pacific it is 3,500 ....

Taiwan Nudibranchs

Woodland Management for Butterflies and Moths

A Best Practice Guide

Susan A Clarke, David G Green, Nigel A Bourn and Daniel J Hoare

Butterflies and moths are disappearing from our countryside at an alarming rate, but nowhere more dramatically than in woodlands. Many species that were common only a few ....

ZooKeys 74

Zoogeography, Taxonomy, and Conservation of West Virginia's Ohio River Floodplain Crayfishes (Decapoda, Cambaridae)

Thomas P Simon and Zachary J Loughman

The crayfish fauna of West Virginia consists of 23 species and several undescribed taxa. Most survey efforts documenting this fauna have been conducted in lotic waterways ....

ZooKeys 80

Revision of the Malagasy genus Trichoteleia Kieffer (Hymenoptera, Platygastroidea, Platygastridae)

EJ Talamas, L Masner and NF Johnson

Conducted as part of the Platygastroidea Planetary Biodiversity Inventory (PBI), the revision of Trichoteleia reveals an astounding diversity of species within the Malagasy ....

ZooKeys 88

Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta)

Patrice Bouchard et al

In recent years, zoologists have been reviewing the family-group names in several major orders of animals. One of the goals of these works is to provide a foundation of valid, ....

Back to the Future in the Caves of Kaua'i

A Scientist's Adventures in the Dark

David A Burney

For two decades, paleoecologist David Burney and his wife, Lida Pigott Burney, have led an excavation of Makauwahi Cave on the island of Kaua'i, uncovering the fascinating ....

The Lost Woodlands of Ancient Nasca

A Case-study in Ecological and Cultural Collapse

David Beresford-Jones

This book presents an archaeological case of prehistoric human environmental impact: a study of ecological and cultural change from the arid south coast of Peru, beginning ....

Handbook of Marine Natural Products

Edited by Ernesto Fattorusso, William H Gerwick and Orazio Taglialatela-Scafati

Marine natural products concerns the chemistry, chemical ecology, chemical biology, ecology and allied fields of study of small-molecules produced by marine invertebrates ....

New Holland Concise Seashore Wildlife Guide

The seashore is unlike any terrestial habitat, and the plants and animals that occur on it are usually very different in form from their land-based relatives. This illustrated ....

Reef Fishes of South-East Asia

Including Corals and Marine Invertebrates

Elizabeth Wood and Michael Aw

This concise, easy-to-follow field guide to 270 species of fish, corals and marine invertebrates is an essential companion for anyone interested in this fascinating ....

Sea Fishes and Invertebrates of the Mediterranean Sea

Lawson Wood

Covers 265 species and includes full-colour photographs and identification details, including diet, habits and habitats of a spectacular array of underwater life. Attention ....

Albertus Seba, Cabinet of Natural Curiosities

Albertus Seba, Irmgard Musch, Jes Rust and Rainer Willmann

This title presents Albertus Seba's curious creatures. This is a most unusual collection of natural specimens. Albertus Seba's "Cabinet of Natural Curiosities" is one of the ....

Cicerone Guides: Walking in Abruzzo

Stuart Haines

This guide to walking in Abruzzo, in the Apennine mountains, is centred on Sulmona and between L'Aquila and Castel de Sangro, one of Italy's wildest regions with 3 national ....

Close Up and Macro Photography

Tracy Hallett

Essential guide to a fascinating technique, beginning with an explanation of the difference between close-up and macro work. Aimed at the novice or ....

Eyewitness Guide: Pond and River

Steve Parker

This book is an exciting and informative guide to the fascinating natural world of ponds and rivers. Stunning real-life photographs of fish, water beetles, frogs, underwater ....

The Indian and Pacific Correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks, 1768-1820, Volume 2

Edited by Neil Chambers

Following his participation in James Cook's circumnavigation in HMS Endeavour (1768-71), Joseph Banks developed an extensive global network of scientists and explorers. His ....

The Indian and Pacific Correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks, 1768-1820, Volume 3

Edited by Neil Chambers

Following his participation in James Cook's circumnavigation in HMS Endeavour (1768-71), Joseph Banks developed an extensive global network of scientists and explorers. His ....

The Indian and Pacific Correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks, 1768-1820, Volume 4

Edited by Neil Chambers

Following his participation in James Cook's circumnavigation in HMS Endeavour (1768-71), Joseph Banks developed an extensive global network of scientists and explorers. His ....

Jungles

Frans Lanting

This title shows where the wild things are, from South America to Africa, up close with rainforest flora and fauna. Jungles is a personal exploration of nature in the tropics ....

My Natural History

The Animal Kingdom and How It Shaped Me

Simon Barnes

"The animal kingdom came to my rescue. It always has done. I suspect it always will. It rescued me at Sunnyhill Primary School, it rescued me in my adolescence, it has rescued ....

A Passion for Nature

The Life of John Muir

Donald Worster

"I am hopelessly and forever a mountaineer," John Muir wrote. "Civilization and fever and all the morbidness that has been hooted at me has not dimmed my glacial eye, ....

The Scientific Revolution

A Very Short Introduction

Lawrence M Principe

The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries witnessed such fervent investigations of the natural world that the period has been called the 'Scientific Revolution.' New ideas and ....

There and Back

A Celebration of Bird Migration

Edited by Andy Brown and Michael Warren

This book is a celebration of the phenomenon of migration, through the words and pictures of those seeped in its appreciation-of artists, regular migration-observers, ....

Walking in Ireland

Christopher Somerville

Walking has never been a more popular pastime and nowhere is more beautiful for walkers to explore than Ireland. In this beautifully written and superbly researched guide, ....

The Wild Rover

A Blistering Journey Along Britain's Footpaths

Mike Parker

Mike Parker, bestselling author of Map Addict, is back with a brilliant, intelligent and witty exploration of a glorious and passionate British subject - footpaths and our ....

The Baltic Sea Basin

Edited by Jan Harff, Svante Bjorck and Peer Hoth

This book reports about the results of a Special Symposium "The Baltic Sea Basin", held on August 11, 2008, within the frame of the 33rd IGC at Oslo, Norway in order to foster ....

The Biological Diversity of Mihintale

with Special Reference to its Herpetofauna

Edited by Anselm de Silva

This special edition of Lyriocephalus (Journal of the Amphibia and Reptile Research Organization of Sri Lanka) consists of two parts. Mihintale is noteworthy as the world's ....

Canal Walks

Julia Bradbury

Accompanying a BBC series, this book describes four of the best walks: Llangollen Canal, Caledonian Canal, Worcester and Birmingham Canal and Kennet and Avon Canal. ....

The Changing Nature of Scotland

Edited by Susan J Marrs, Simon Foster, Catriona Henrie, EC Mackey and DBA Thompson

The environmental challenges ahead have never been more acute. Pitted against a backdrop of rapidly changing land-use, climate change and economic challenges, we need the best ....

Coast - Our Island Story

A Journey of Discovery Around Britain's Coastline

Nick Crane

This is the first book to be written by a "Coast" presenter in a narrative format and it will become the definitive guide to our coastline. Nick Crane brings his geographer's ....

Colorado's Spanish Peaks Region

An Exploration Guide to History, Natural History, Trails, and Drives

Richard C Keating

Colorado's Spanish Peaks are landmarks of unique beauty. The peaks and surrounding landscape possess a fascinating geologic history, as well as equally diverse human and ....

Environmental History of Early India

A Reader

Nandini Sinha Kapur

This reader provides a multilayered analysis of different aspects of history, politics, economy and its interface with environment and ecology in early India. One of the first ....

Field Guide to Urban Wildlife

Julie Feinstein

This title helps to identify and understand the wildlife most commonly found living near humans - and how they have adapted to thrive in cities and suburbs. This is the first ....

The Future History of the Arctic

How Climate, Resources and Geopolitics are Reshaping the North, and Why it Matters to the World

Charles Emmerson

Previously always at the margins of global affairs, the Arctic has now found its way to the centre of the issues which will challenge and define our world in the twenty-first ....

Imam Cimiucia: Our Changing Sea

Anne Salomon, Henry Huntington and Nick Tanape

Through the lens of Western science and traditional Native knowledge, art, and photography, the authors uncover some of the ecological, social, and economic causes of ....

Latin America and the Caribbean

Atlas of Our Changing Environment

Latin America and the Caribbean is the richest region of the planet in terms of its biological diversity. Within the dazzling array of the region's ecosystems lie roughly a ....

The Magnetic North

Travels in the Arctic

Sara Wheeler

Smashing through the Arctic Ocean with the crew of a Russian icebreaker, herding reindeer across the tundra with Lapps and shadowing the Trans-Alaskan pipeline with ....

Monserrat

A Guide to the Centre Hills

Steve H Holliday

A guide to the Centre Hills area of Montserrat (Caribbean), providing an insight to the unique flora and fauna that can be found on the island, including the endemic Montserrat ....

The Natural History of Ulster

Robert Thompson and John Faulkner

The first comprehensive book on natural history in the nine-county province of Ulster - a subject that has been remarkably overlooked in such ....

Nature and Empire in Ottoman Egypt

An Environmental History

Alan Mikhail

In one of the first environmental histories of the Ottoman Empire, Alan Mikhail examines relations between the empire and its most lucrative province of Egypt. Based on both the ....

No Boat Required

Exploring Tidal Islands

Peter Caton

When is an island not an island? Peter Caton takes us to all four corners of England, Scotland and Wales to find out. Sharing our nation's fascination ....

Norvège, Finlande, Suède

30 destinations naturalistes

Pascal Etienne

Pathways

David Stewart

From the processional routes of ancient Britain to Victorian promenades along the sea-front, Britain's pathways are inextricably woven into our landscape and history. In ....

Sierra de Guadarrama

Fauna y Flora

Juan Antonio Rodríguez Llano

The guide covers the animal and plant species found in this region of Central Spain. ....

Terra Incognita

Travels in Antarctica

Sara Wheeler

After writing two highly praised travel books, Sara Wheeler was accepted by the American government to be the first foreigner on their National Science Foundation's Antarctic ....

Walking the Amazon

860 Days. The Impossible Task. The Incredible Journey

Ed Stafford

On 2 April 2008, Ed Stafford began his attempt to become the first man ever to walk the entire length of the Amazon river. He has crossed the whole of South America from the ....

Wild Hares and Hummingbirds

The Natural History of an English Village

Stephen Moss

Naturalist and author Stephen Moss lives in the longest village in England - Mark, on the Somerset Levels. This watery wonderland is steeped in history: it is the land of ....

Wild North Carolina

Discovering the Wonders of Our State's Natural Communities

David Blevins and Michael P Schafale

Will of the Land

Peter Dettling

Peter Dettling first visited Canada's internationally renowned Rocky Mountains national parks as a Swiss tourist in 1993. Immediately, he fell in love with the untouched ....

The Aloe Names Book

O M Grace, RR Klopper, E Figueiredo and GF Smith

This book brings together, for the first time, information on the current taxonomy of each species, the plethora of common names by which aloes are known globally, derivative ....

The Applied Mycology of Fusarium

Symposium of the British Mycological Society Held at Queen Mary College London, September 1982

Edited by Maurice O Moss and John E Smith

This book resulted from a symposium held by the British Mycological Society to bring together the many diverse areas of study of the genus Fusarium. Among the contributors ....

The British Arboretum

Trees, Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century

Paul A Elliott, Charles Watkins and Stephen Daniels

This study explores the science and culture of nineteenth-century British arboretums, or tree collections. The development of arboretums was fostered by a variety of factors, ....

A Checklist of Benthic Marine Algae of the Tropical and Subtropical

Western Atlantic | Third revision

Edited by Michael Wynne

This "third revision" of M.J. Wynne's "Checklist" is a rigorously prepared and updated compilation of the taxa of benthic marine algae, or seaweeds, currently recognized as ....

Chinese Cymbidium

Guan Wenchang

Clematis

An Essential Guide

Ruth Gooch

Clematis are loved for the abundance and colour of their blooms but are not so well known for their versatility. Although they are typically and successfully used as ....

Color Atlas of Rare and Endangered Plant in the Three Gorges Reservoir Area

Wu Jinqing and Zhao Zien

Des Graines et des Hommes

Romain Dufayard

Describes 330 species of seed and their uses around the world. ....

Encyclopedia of Flora and Fauna of Bangladesh, Algae: Chlorophyta

Zia Uddin Ahmed

Ferns of Southern Africa

A Comprehensive Guide

Neil R Crouch, Ronell R Klopper, John Burrows and Sandra M Burrows

This comprehensive guide, covering South Africa, Swaziland, Lesotho, Botswana and Namibia, enables quick and sure identification of all 315 ferns known to occur in the ....

Field Guide to the Common Trees and Shrubs of East Africa

Najma Dharani

Field guide to the more common trees and shrubs, indigenous, naturalized and exotic, that are found in East Africa. In addition to full-colour photographs and illustrations ....

A Field Guide to the Ferns and Lycophytes of Louisiana

Including East Texas, Southern Arkansas, and Mississippi

Ray Neyland

Flora de San Juan, Republica Argentina, Volumen IV

Edited by Roberto Kiesling

Deals with Lemnaceae, Zannichelliaceae, Potamogetonaceae, Ruppiaceae, Juncaginaceae, Typhaceae, Gramineae (Poaceae), Cyperaceae, Asparagaceae, Bromeliaceae, Commelinaceae, ....

Flora del Bajio y de Regiones Adyacentes, Volume 168: Hydrocharitaceae

Flora del Bajio y de Regiones Adyacentes, Volume 169: Dipentodontaceae

Flora del Bajio y de Regiones Adyacentes, Volume 170: Viscaceae

Flora of County Waterford

Paul Green

With detailed introductory chapters outlining the history of botanical recording in the county, the fieldwork involved, including some of Paul's favourite botanical walks, and ....

Die Flora von Deutschland und der angrenzenden Länder

Schmeil-Fitschen

Siegmund Seybold

The most popular flora of Germany and Austria, now in its 95th edition. Also includes Liechtenstein, Switzerland and South Tirol. ....

Fungi

Biology and Applications

Edited by Kevin Kavanagh

Fungi: Biology and Applications , Second Edition provides a comprehensive treatment of fungi, covering biochemistry, genetics and the medical and economic significance of ....

Genetic Diversity in Establishing Plant Populations

Founder Number and Geometry

Edited by Steven H Rogstad and Stephan Pelikan

The new research described in this book demonstrates that the interplay of a host of founding conditions can frequently produce profound differences in population expansion ....

Guide to the Vascular Plants of Florida

Edited by Richard P/Hansen, Bruce F Wunderlin

In this 2nd edition of the only comprehensive identification manual and definitive guide to the flora of Florida, over 100 additional species have been added, nomenclature ....

Liverworts, Mosses and Hornworts of Southwest Asia (Marchantiophyta,

Bryophyta, Anthocerotophyta)

Edited by Harald Kürschner and Wolfgang Frey

This bryophyte flora of Southwest Asia is the first comprehensive, structured synthesis of the current knowledge available on the liverworts, mosses and hornworts of this ....

The Lotus Quest

In Search of the Sacred Flower

Mark Griffiths

The Lotus is the world's most iconic flower. Galvanized by receiving seeds from a three-thousand-year-old lotus, which flowered without difficulty in an English summer, ....

Machiavelli's Lawn

Mark Crick

12 great authors offer their top tips on gardening, from Sylvia Plath's struggles with autumn bulbs, to JD Salinger's helpful hints on growing from seed. In Cormac McCarthy's ....

Mineral Nutrition of Higher Plants

H Marschner

Respected and known worldwide in the field for his research in plant nutrition, Dr. Horst Marschner authored two editions of "Mineral Nutrition of Higher Plants". His ....

Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest

Steve Trudell and Joe Ammirati

The Pacific Northwest is one of the best places to find mushrooms - they are both abundant and spectacularly diverse. Yet until now, there has been no mushroom guide that ....

Nature Displaced, Nature Displayed

Order and Beauty in Botanical Gardens

Nuala Johnson

From their origins in the Renaissance to their apogee in the nineteenth century, botanical gardens brought together in a single space the great diversity of the earth's ....

New Holland Concise Mushroom Guide

This illustrated mini field guide is packed with information on 200 species of fungi found in Britain and the near Continent. The range covered demonstrates the incredible ....

The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu (2 volumes)

Jeffrey J Wood et al

This two-volume work provides a detailed account of the orchid flora of Mount Kinabalu which, at 4095 m, is the highest peak between the Himalayas and New Guinea. Kinabalu ....

Les Orchidées de Madagascar

Jean Bosser and Marcel Lecoufle

Presents more than 400 species. ....

A Photographic Guide to Mushrooms of China

Xiao Bo and Fan Yuguang

Plants, Biotechnology and Agriculture

D Murphy

This book offers a comprehensive yet concise overview of plants as both biological organisms and useful resources for people to exploit. The first half of the book gives a ....

RHS How to Garden

A Practical Introduction to Gardening

Whether you're a complete novice or looking to improve your existing gardening skills, this is the complete guide on how to garden from the experts at the RHS, now with a ....

A la Rencontre des Orchidées Sauvages de Rhône-Alpes

Dominique Bonardi and Gil Scappaticci

Rothmaler - Exkursionsflora von Deutschland: Band 2

Gefässpflanzen: Grundband

Edited by Eckehart J Jäger

Field guide to the German flora, now in its 20th edition. First part covering the vascular plants. ....

Seaweeds

A Colour Guide to Common Benthic Green, Brown and Red Algae of the World's Oceans

Wolfram Braune and Michael D Guiry

Translation of the German edition (2008). This guide will help in the identification of marine algae (macroalgae, seaweeds) without requiring special knowledge of the subject ....

Vascular Plants of Texas

A Comprehensive Checklist including Synonymy, Bibliography, and Index

Stanley D Jones, Joseph K Wipff and Paul M Montgomery

`The key to the value of this new checklist is the synonymy. Anybody who does taxonomic work will be overjoyed to have a list of synonyms available for the Texas ....

Wild Flower Wonders of the World

Bob Gibbons

From the Mojave Desert in the USA to the Italian Dolomites, and from South Africa's Cape National Park to the Stirling Ranges of Australia, this book showcases the most ....

Wild Plants in the Dry Valleys around Quito, Ecuador

An Illustrated Guide

Catalina Quintana M

This guide brings together little-known information abut the plants that we commonly find along roadsides or remnants of native vegetation in the inter-Andean valleys of ....

Wildflowers and Ferns of Indiana Forests

A Field Guide

Michael A Homoya

This illustrated guide identifies nearly 300 common plants in Indiana's most prominent ecosystem - the Eastern Deciduous Forest. For ease of identification, the plants are ....

Your Herb Garden

Month-by-Month

Barbara Segall

"The Herb Garden" covers everything the gardener needs to know in order to cultivate, harvest and use a vast array of different herbs. There is a wealth of practical ....

Advances in Genetics

Edited by Theodore Friedman and Stephen F Goodwin

Genes interact with environment, experience, and the biology of the brain to shape an animal's behavior. This latest volume in "Advances in Genetics", organized according to ....

Animal Welfare

Edited by Michael C Appleby and Barry O Hughes

The welfare of animals continues to increase in recognition and concern throughout the world, with more and more research in the field offering new insights into the optimal ....

Aquatic Animal Health Code

OIE

The aim of this book is to assure the sanitary safety of international trade in aquatic animals (fish, molluscs and crustaceans) and their products. This is achieved through ....

Chirality in Biological Nanospaces

Reactions in Active Sites

Nilashis Nandi

Vital life processes occur within the active sites of large biological macromolecules such as proteins, nucleic acids, and lipids. These nanodimensional structures greatly ....

Developmental Biology

A Very Short Introduction

Lewis Wolpert

From a single cell - a fertilized egg - comes an elephant, a fly, or a human. How does this astonishing feat happen? How does the egg 'know' what to become? How does it divide ....

Environmental Microbiology of Aquatic and Waste Systems

Nduka Okafor

This book places the main actors in environmental microbiology, namely the microorganisms, on center stage. Using the modern approach of 16S ribosomal RNA, the ....

Essentials of Biochemistry

Herbert J Fromm and Mark Hargrove

This textbook incorporates the lectures of the authors given to students with a strong chemistry background. An emphasis is placed on metabolism and reaction mechanisms and ....

Inside Nature's Giants

Inside Nature's Giants Team and Richard Dawkins

Based on the BAFTA award-winning Channel 4 TV series, Inside Nature's Giants gets under the skin of the largest animals on the planet. See them as you've never seen them before ....

Introduction to Marine Genomics

Edited by J Mark Cock, Kristin Tessmar-Raible, Catherine Boyen and Frederique Viard

Marine biology has always played an important role in biological research, being at the origin of many key advances. To a certain extent, the influence of marine biology on the ....

Micro and Nano Techniques for the Handling of Biological Samples

Jaime Castillo, Winnie Edith Svendsen and Maria Dimaki

The techniques and tools used to understand many biological problems must be able to handle biological material without damaging or altering its natural state. This book ....

Polar and Sub-Polar Microbiology

Robert V Miller and Lyle White

This edited volume on Arctic, Antarctic and sub-polar microbiology is designed to introduce this fascinating field to a wide range of microbiologists and environmental ....

Principles of Animal Communication

Jack W Bradbury and Sandra L Vehrencamp

The second edition of this text contains over 90% new citations and the topics have been condensed and integrated into 16 chapters. The book emphasises the general principles ....

Second Nature

The Inner Lives of Animals

Jonathan Balcombe

Who knew that chickens and humans find the same faces beautiful? Or that fish choose reliable partners for dangerous predator inspection missions? Referencing such ....

Structural Biology of DNA Damage and Repair

Edited by Michael Stone

The human genome is continuously exposed to many classes of genotoxins. Of these, three that will be discussed herein include 5,6-dihydroxy-5,6- dihydrothymine (thymine glycol; ....

Terrestrial Animal Health Code

The aim of the Terrestrial Animal Health Code is to assure the sanitary safety of international trade in terrestrial animals and their products. This is achieved through ....

Viruses

A Very Short Introduction

Dorothy H Crawford

Viruses are big news. From pandemics such as HIV, swine flu, and SARS, we are constantly being bombarded with information about new lethal infections. In this guide, Dorothy ....

Adaptive Diversification

Michael Doebeli

Understanding the mechanisms driving biological diversity remains a central problem in ecology and evolutionary biology. Traditional explanations assume that differences in ....

Environmental Anthropology Today

Cross-Disciplinary Investigations

Edited by Helen Kopnina and Eleanor Shoreman-Ouimet

As the role of humans in environmental degradation becomes increasingly clear, the field of environmental anthropology has expanded considerably. This collection offers a wide ....

Evolution: The Basics

Sherrie L Lyons

This book is an engaging introduction to the history, development and science of the theory of evolution. Beginning pre-Darwin and concluding with the latest research and ....

Principles of Evolution

Edited by Hildegard Meyer-Ortmanns and Stefan Thurner

With contributions from a team of leading experts, this volume provides a comprehensive survey of recent achievements in our scientific understanding of evolution. The ....

Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Human Evolution

Edited by Bernard Wood

This comprehensive A to Z encyclopedia provides extensive coverage of important scientific terms related to improving our understanding of how we evolved. Specifically, ....

A Handbook of Global Freshwater Invasive Species

Edited by Robert A Francis

Invasive non-native species are a major threat to global biodiversity. Often introduced accidentally through international travel or trade, they invade and colonize new ....

Authenticity in Nature

Making Choices About the Naturalness of Ecosystems

Nigel Dudley

This book examines the concept of naturalness in ecosystems, discusses its values and considers choices about the level of naturalness in conservation efforts. The author ....

Central European Stream Ecosystems

The Long Term Study of the Breitenbach

Edited by Rudiger Wagner, Jurgen Marxsen, Peter Zwick and Eileen J Cox

Probably the best-studied stream on earth. The result of unmatched long-term data taken by the Max-Planck outstation in Schlitz from the nearby Breitenbach stream since 1949, ....

Encyclopedia of Modern Coral Reefs

Structure, Form and Process

Edited by David Hopley

Coral reefs are the largest landforms built by plants and animals. Their study therefore incorporates a wide range of disciplines. This encyclopedia approaches coral reefs from ....

Forest Analytics with R

Andrew P Robinson and Jeff D Hamann

Forest Analytics with R combines practical, down-to-earth forestry data analysis and solutions to real forest management challenges with state-of-the-art statistical and ....

Forestry Economics

A Managerial Approach

John E Wagner

This book introduces students and practitioners to all aspects of the management and economics of forestry. It adopts the approach of managerial economics textbooks and ....

Forests and People

Property, Governance, and Human Rights

Thomas Sikor, Thomas Sikor and Johannes Stahl

A human rights-based agenda has received significant attention in writings on general development policy, but less so in forestry. "Forests and People" ....

The Future of the World's Forests

Ideas vs Ideologies

Jim Douglas and Markku Simula

At the landmark 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (Earth Summit), solemn resolutions were made both to protect the world's biodiversity and to ....

Grassland Productivity and Ecosystem Services

Edited by Gilles Lemaire, John Hodgson and Abad Chabbi

Grassland ecosystems are deeply affected by human activities and need appropriate management to optimise trade-offs between ecosystem functions and services. Until now ....

Modelling Forest Growth and Yield

Applications to Mixed Tropical Forests

J Vanclay

Completely updated and expanded new edition of this widely cited book, Modelling Forest Growth and Yield, 2nd Edition synthesizes current scientific literature, provides ....

New Perspectives on People and Forests

Edited by Eva Ritter and Dainis Daukstra

The aim of this book is to elucidate the role of forests as part of a landscape in the life of people. Most landscapes today are cultural landscapes that are influenced by ....

Soil Carbon in Sensitive European Ecosystems

From Science to Land Management

Robert Jandl, Mirco Rodeghiero and Mats Olsson

Soil Carbon and Greenhouse Gas Dynamics in European Ecosystems is a comprehensive overview of the latest research in this field drawn together by a network of scientists, ....

Soil Hydrology, Land Use and Agriculture

Measurement and Modelling

Edited by Manoj K Shukla

Agriculture is strongly affected by changes in soil hydrology as well as changes in land use and management practices and the complex interactions between them. This book aims ....

Sustainable Forests, 4-Volume Set

Edited by Jeffrey Sayer, Neil Byron and Gillian Petrokofsky

This four-volume set is edited by leading experts on the evolving role of forests in providing raw materials and environmental services to meet society's ....

Sustaining Soil Productivity in Response to Global Climate Change

Sauer

Sustaning Soil Productivity in Response to Global Climate Change is a two-part text bringing together the latest research in soil science and climatology and the ethical, ....

Urban Pest Management

an Environmental Perspective

Edited by Partho Dhang

Urban pest management has recently faced dramatic change: advances in research and formulation technology now shape the products available and how they are applied. ....

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 ....

Biodiversity Conservation Ethics in Major Religions

HSA Yahya

Covering three broader issues - biodiversity conservation, religious doctrine and environment - this book attempts to initiate scientific discourse through the fabric of ....

Confronting Biopiracy

Challenges, Cases and International Debates

Daniel Robinson

Biopiracy refers either to the unauthorised extraction of biological resources, such as plants with medicinal properties, and associated traditional knowledge from indigenous ....

Forbidden Creatures

Inside the World of Animal Smuggling and Exotic Pets

Peter Laufer

What is being smuggled, from where and how and why do so many people keep illicit, dangerous pets? On the heels of his acclaimed The Dangerous World of Butterflies, ....

Rambunctious Garden

Saving Nature in a Post-Wild World

Emma Marris

For decades people have unquestioningly accepted the idea that our goal is to preserve nature in its pristine, pre-human state. But many scientists have come to see this as an ....

Realizing Nature's Potential

Proceedings of the William L. Brown Symposium Honoring Dr. Gordon Cragg

Edited by Bruce E Ponman and James S Miller

A two-day event was held at the Missouri Botanical Garden in the fall of 2006 in honor of Dr. Gordon Cragg. Dr. Cragg, former chief of the Natural Products Branch of the ....

Saving the World's Wildlife

The WWF's First 50 Years

Alexis Schwarzenbach

The WWF was established in 1961 spurred by the efforts of Max Nicholson, head of Britain's Nature Conservancy Council, naturalist Peter Scott, and a series of articles ....

Sponsoring Nature

Environmental Philanthropy for Conservation

Maano Ramutsindela, Marja Spierenburg and Harry Wells

Saving the world's flora and fauna, especially high-profile examples such as chimpanzees, whales and the tropical rain forests, is big business. Individuals and ....

Air Pollution Modeling and Its Application XXI

Edited by Douw G Steyn and Silvia Trini Castelli

Recent developments in air pollution modeling and its application are explored here in contributions by researchers at the forefront of their field. ....

The Aral Sea Environment

Edited by Andrey Kostianoy and Aleksey N Kosarev

The environmental problems in the Aral Sea region continue to worsen. This volume presents the information gathered to date on various aspects of the Aral Sea ....

Atmospheric Circulation Dynamics and General Circulation Models

M Satoh

This book describes the methods used to construct general circulation models of the atmosphere, and how such models perform in applications relating to the real climate and ....

Brominated Flame Retardants

Edited by Ethel Eljarrat and Damia Barcelo

Brominated flame retardants are one of the last classes of halogenated compounds that are still being produced worldwide and used in large quantities in many applications. ....

The Carbon Connection

Climate Change Solutions for Our Energy, Economic and Geopolitical Challenges

Michael Grubb

The oil shock, the credit crunch and the near-collapse of global climate negotiations demand a radical rethink of current policies. Michael Grubb and his co-authors present a ....

The Changing Climate

Selected Papers

H H Lamb

First published in 1966 these collected papers, written by the distinguished and visionary climatologist Hubert H. Lamb, describe how climates come about and give a ....

Chemicals, Environment, Health

A Global Management Perspective

Edited by Philip Wexler, Jan van der Kolk, Asish Mohapatra and Ravi Agarwal

This book reviews and analyzes the global multi-lateral efforts established to address the danger of chemicals on the world stage. It refers to a number of environmental ....

China's Responsibility for Climate Change

Ethics, Fairness and Environmental Policy

Edited by Paul G Harris

Drawing on practices and theories of environmental justice, "China's responsibility for climate change" describes China's contribution to global warming and analyzes its policy ....

Cities and Climate Change

Global Report on Human Settlements 2011

United Nations Human Settlements Program

"Cities and Climate Change" examines the links between urbanization and climate change, the potentially devastating effects of climate change on urban populations and the ....

Climate Stabilization Targets

Emissions, Concentrations, and Impacts Over Decades to Millennia

Committee on Stabilization Targets for Atmospheric Greenhouse Gas

Emissions of carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels have ushered in a new epoch where human activities will largely determine the evolution of Earth s climate. Carbon ....

Climate: Present, Past and Future

Volume 2: Climatic History and the Future

H H Lamb

First published in 1977, the second volume of Climate: Past, Present and Future covers parts III and IV of Professor Hubert Lamb's seminal and pioneering study of climatology. ....

Climate: Present, Past and Future

Volume 1: Fundamentals and Climate Now

H H Lamb

First published in 1972, this first volume of Professor Lamb's study of our changing climate deals with the fundamentals of climate and climatology, as well as providing ....

The Copenhagen Diagnosis

Updating the World on the Latest Climate Science

Matthew England

"The Copenhagen Diagnosis" is a summary of the global warming peer reviewed science since 2007. Produced by a team of 26 scientists led by the University of New South Wales ....

Coping with Global Environmental Change, Disasters and Security

Threats, Challenges, Vulnerabilities and Risks

Edited by Hans Gunter Brauch et al

Coping with Global Environmental Change, Disasters and Security - Threats, Challenges, Vulnerabilities and Risks reviews conceptual debates and case studies focusing on ....

Crops and Carbon

Paying Farmers to Combat Climate Change

Michael Alwyn Robbins

Rich countries are paying poor countries to fight climate change on their behalf - and one way they are doing it is through carbon sinks. These are reservoirs of organic ....

The Ebro River Basin

Edited by Damia Barcelo and Mira Petrovic

The Ebro is a typical Mediterranean river characterized by seasonal low flows and extreme flush effects, with important agricultural and industrial activity that has ....

Economic Choices in a Warming World

Christian de Perthuis

Since the publication of the Stern Review, economists have started to ask more normative questions about climate change. Should we act now or tomorrow? What is the best ....

Effect-Directed Analysis of Complex Environmental Contamination

Edited by Werner Brack

Today more than 5 million chemicals are known and roughly 100,000 of them are frequently used, with both numbers rising. Many of these chemicals are ....

The Ethics of Global Climate Change

Edited by Denis Arnold

Global climate change is one of the most daunting ethical and political challenges confronting humanity in the twenty-first century. The intergenerational and ....

Global Contamination Trends of Persistent Organic Chemicals

Edited by Bommanna G Loganathan and Paul Kwan-Sing Lam

Composed by a diverse group of experts, this reference covers the history, present status, and projected future trends of environmental contamination from highly toxic ....

Global Environmental Change

Julia Cole

The author writes: ....

The Green Zone

The Environmental Cost of Militarism

Mike Davis and Barry Sanders

Argues that the American military at war is one of the greatest sources of pollution and environmental devastation in the world. ....

Handbook of Climate Change Mitigation

Edited by Wei-Yin Chen, John Seiner, Toshio Suzuki and Maximilian Lackner

There is a mounting consensus that human behavior is changing the global climate and its consequence could be catastrophic. Reducing the 24 billion metric ....

Handbook of Hazards and Disaster Risk Reduction

Edited by Ben Wisner, JC Gaillard and Ilan Kelman

This handbook provides a comprehensive statement and reference point for hazard and disaster research, policy making, and practice in an international and ....

A History of Climate Changes - 4 Volume Set

Selected Works of H. H. Lamb

H H Lamb

First published between 1966 and 1988, the four volumes in this collection demonstrate the immense breadth and depth of work on climate change by the pioneering English ....

The Hurricane

Roger A Pielke

First published in 1990, this book describes the nature of the hurricane, one of the world's most dangerous weather hazards. It examines the formation, development, ....

Is a Little Pollution Good for You?

Incorporating Societal Values in Environmental Research

Kevin Elliott

Could low-level exposure to polluting chemicals be analogous to exercise-a beneficial source of stress that strengthens the body? Some scientists studying the phenomenon of ....

Living in Denial

Climate Change, Emotions, and Everyday Life

Kari Marie Norgaard

Global warming is the most significant environmental issue of our time, yet public response in Western nations has been meager. Why have so few taken any ....

Microwave Propagation and Remote Sensing

Atmospheric Influences with Models and Applications

Pranab Kumar Karmakar

This book deals with both microwave propagation and remote sensing in various atmospheric and tropospheric conditions. After discussing the derived parameters of ....

Ocean Acidification

Edited by Jean-Pierre Gattuso and Lina Hansson

The ocean helps moderate climate change thanks to its considerable capacity to store CO2, through the combined actions of ocean physics, chemistry, and biology. This storage ....

The Oxford Handbook of Climate Change and Society

Edited by John S Dryzek, Richard B Norgaard and David Schlosberg

Climate change presents perhaps the most profound challenge ever confronted by human society. This volume is a definitive analysis drawing on the best thinking on questions ....

Polymers - Opportunities and Risks II

Edited by Peter Eyerer, Martin Weller and Christof Hubner

Since their first industrial use, polymers have gained a tremendous success. The two volumes of "Polymers - Opportunities and Risks" elaborate on both their potentials and ....

Remediation and Management of Contaminated Sites

Steven Wuerz

This book presents a complete demonstration of what needs to be done for contaminated sites, from analyzing a site's potential economic value and the site's contamination ....

Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, Volume 212

Edited by David M Whitacre

Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, Volume 213

Edited by David M Whitacre

Rip Currents

Beach Safety, Physical Oceanography, and Wave Modeling

Edited by Stephen Leatherman and John Fletemeyer

This volume is the culmination of research from over 100 coastal scientists, engineers, forecast meteorologists, lifeguard chiefs, and other practitioners from around the world ....

The Sea

A Photographic Celebration of the First Wonder of the World

The sea is the first wonder of the world. Source of all life, key to our survival and home to innumerable and astonishing life forms, the sea has fascinated humanity from its ....

Sittig's Handbook of Toxic and Hazardous Chemicals and Carcinogens

Richard P Pohanish

For more than a quarter century, "Sittig's Handbook of Toxic and Hazardous Chemicals and Carcinogens" has proven to be among the most reliable, easy-to-use and essential ....

Waste Water Treatment and Reuse in the Mediterranean Region

Edited by Damia Barcelo and Mira Petrovic

Water scarcity and the need for ecological sustainability have led to the introduction of treated waste water as an additional water resource in the national water resource ....

Waste and Environmental Policy

Edited by Massimiliano Mazzanti and Anna Montini

This research deals with the increasingly complex issues of waste generation, waste management and waste disposal that in less developed industrialised ....

Advances in Rock Dynamics and Applications

Edited by Yingxin Zhou and Jian Zhao

The study of rock dynamics is important because many rock mechanics and rock engineering problems involve dynamic loading ranging from earthquakes to vibrations and explosions. ....

The Beautiful Invisible

Creativity, Imagination, and Theoretical Physics

Giovanni Vignale

The realm of theoretical physics is teeming with abstract and beautiful concepts. And the task of imagining them is one that demands profound creativity. ....

Collins Stars and Planets Guide

Ian Ridpath and Wil Tirion

Previously entitled 'Collins Pocket Guide Stars and Planets', this classic guide to the night sky enters its fourth edition as part of the authoritative 'Collins Guide' series. ....

The Colours of Infinity

Edited by Nigel Lesmoir-Gordon

The groundbreaking documentary (accompanying this book), introduced by Arthur C. Clarke, has been shown in over 50 countries around the world. Twenty five years ago it brought ....

Earth as an Evolving Planetary System

Kent Condie

"Earth as an Evolving Planetary System" explores key topics and questions relating to the evolution of the Earth's crust and mantle over the last four billion years. This ....

Economic Geology

Principles and Practice

Walter L Pohl

Humanity's ever-increasing hunger for mineral raw materials, caused by a growing global population and ever increasing standards of living, has resulted in economic geology ....

Green Organic Chemistry in Lecture and Laboratory

Edited by Andrew Dicks

The last decade has seen a huge interest in green organic chemistry, particularly as chemical educators look to "green" their undergraduate curricula. Detailing published ....

Hertfordshire Geology and Landscape

John Catt

Introduction to Cosmology

Matts Roos

The Third Edition of the hugely successful Introduction to Cosmology provides a concise, authoritative study of cosmology at an introductory level. Starting from elementary ....

Modeling Uncertainty in the Earth Sciences

Jef Caers

Modeling Uncertainty in the Earth Sciences highlights the various issues, techniques and practical modeling tools available for modeling the uncertainty of complex Earth systems ....

A Photographic Guide to Rocks and Minerals of New Zealand

Nick Mortimer, Hamish Campbell and Margaret Low

The twelfth book in the popular New Holland series examines New Zealand's fascinating geology. Almost every kind of rock found on Earth can be seen in New Zealand, and most ....

Tectonic Geomorphology

D Burbank and R Anderson

Tectonic geomorphology is the study of the interplay between tectonic and surface processes that shape the landscape in regions of active deformation and at time scales ....

Los Volcanes de las Islas Canarias IV / Canarian Volcanoes IV

La Palma, La Gomera, El Hierro

JC Carracedo

African Seed Enterprises

Sowing the Seeds of Food Security

Edited by P Van Mele, Jeffrey W Bently and Robert G Guei

In most developing countries, good quality seed is hard to obtain and farmers struggle to save seed from one year to the next. In many areas, farmers have come to rely on seed ....

Aid and Development

Emma Mawdsley

"Aid for Development" not only explains the architecture of aid for developing countries, but engages centrally with so-called new 'emerging', 'non-traditional' ....

Bacteria in Agrobiology

Crop Ecosystems

Edited by Dinesh K Maheshwari

The future of agriculture strongly depends on our ability to enhance productivity without sacrificing long-term production potential. An ecologically and economically ....

Best Practice Guidelines for Great Ape Tourism

FAO

Great ape tourism, if well implemented, can serve to conserve the species but it can also have considerable negative impacts if it is not based on sound conservation ....

Beyond Resource Wars

Scarcity, Environmental Degradation, and International Cooperation

Edited by Shlomi Dinar

Common wisdom holds that the earth's dwindling natural resources and increasing environmental degradation will inevitably lead to inter-state conflict, and possibly ....

Biology and Breeding of Food Legumes

Edited by A Pratap and J Kumar

Food legumes are important constituents of the human diet and animal feed where they are crucial to a balanced diet, supplying high quality proteins. These crops also play an ....

Blueberries

James F Hancock and Jorge B Retamales

This book covers the major topics of interest to blueberry breeders and researchers including botany, physiology, nutrition, growth regulation, photosynthesis, environment, ....

Citizen Participation in Global Environmental Governance

Edited by Mikko Rask, Richard Worthington and Minna Lammi

On one day in 2009, in 38 countries around the world, 4,000 ordinary citizens gathered to discuss the future of climate policy. This project, 'WWViews', was the first-ever ....

Climate Change Liability

Edited by Michael Faure and Marjan Peeters

This book sheds new light on the growing issue of using liability as a tool for both preventing and compensating for the damage caused by climate change. Michael Faure and ....

Compliance and Enforcement in Environmental Law

Toward More Effective Implementation

Edited by Lee Paddock, Du Qun and Louis J Kotze

Compliance and enforcement are critical elements of assuring that international environmental treaties and domestic environmental laws actually produce desired ....

Crop Genetic Resources as a Global Commons

Challenges in International Law and Governance

Edited by Michael Halewood and Noriega Isabel Lopez

The Earth's plant genetic resources are a common inheritance of all humankind, which should be held in shared trust for a common future. A key component of the global ....

Drinking Water Treatment

Focusing on Appropriate Technology and Sustainability

Edited by Chittaranjan Ray and Ravi Jain

Sustainable technologies for water supply are urgently needed if water has to be supplied to billions of less fortunate people with inadequate access to water. These ....

Ecological Imaginations in the World Religions

An Ethnographic Analysis

Tony Watling

The field of religion and ecology is an emerging and growing movement that is becoming relevant and influential in the world. It seeks to analyse, encourage, inspire, use, ....

Economic Incentives for Stormwater Control

Edited by Hale W Thurston

Addressing a huge knowledge gap from a policy perspective, this book focuses on the economic tools available for stormwater runoff control. It provides case studies ....

Economics and Ecology

United for a Sustainable World

Russ Beaton and Chris Maser

This reference discusses the problems of ecological and economic crises and explains how they are the product of the overextension of resources. The book summarizes the standard ....

The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity in National and International Policy Making

UNEP

The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) study is a major international initiative drawing attention to local, national and global economic benefits of ....

Encyclopedia of Agrophysics

Edited by Jan Glinski and Jozef Horabik

This encyclopedia provides up-to-date information on the physical properties and processes affecting the quality of the environment and plant production and features a ....

Encyclopedia of Environmental Health, 5-Volume Set

Edited by Jerome O Nriagu

Knowledge in the field of environmental health is growing rapidly. Within the context of external factors that define its boundaries, environmental health has evolved over time ....

Energy Economics

Co2 Emissions in China

Edited by Yiming Wei, Lancui Liu, Gang Wu and Lele Zou

"Energy Economics: CO2 Emissions in China" presents a collection of the researches on China's CO2 emissions as studied by the Center for Energy & Environmental Policy ....

Environmental Audit in Nepal

Rabindra Roy

Environmental Governance in Europe and Asia

A Comparative Study of Institutional and Legislative Frameworks

Jona Razzaque

Both developed and developing countries in Asia, in the name of economic development, are following, to a large extent, the same potentially environmentally destructive path ....

Environmental Health and Safety Audit

LB Cahill and RW Kane

Environmental Management Accounting and Supply Chain Management

Edited by R Burritt, S Schaltegger, M Bennett, T Pohjola and Csutora. M

This volume's focus on the environmental accounting of supply chain processes is of particular relevance because these processes supply data about the environmental impact ....

Environmental Management in Organisations

The IEMA Handbook

Edited by John Brady

Environmental issues can present some daunting operational concerns for all types of organization, whether in the private, public and voluntary sectors. Managing them ....

Exploring Hard Rocks for Groundwater

Edited by Shivendra Nath Rai and Jiri Krasny

This volume contains papers resulting from the 37th IAH Congress held in Hyderabad, India from 6-12 September 2009. ....

Fear of Farming

Caroline Wickham-Jones

The environmental crisis is one of the most pressing concerns to face the population of the world today. The debate centres on the way in which our current problems are of ....

Field Hydrogeology

A Guide for Site Investigations and Report Productions

John E Moore

Revised and updated, this second edition presents new coverage of aquifers, springs, US federal regulations, groundwater withdrawal, and land subsidence and includes new ....

Fish

Elizabeth R DeSombre and Jeffrey Barkin

Fishing has played a vital role in human history and culture. But today this key resource faces a serious crisis as most species are being overfished or ....

Florida's Water

A Fragile Resource in a Vulnerable State

Tom Swihart

"Florida's Water" poses fundamental questions about water sustainability in the United States' fourth largest state. Florida has long-standing water quality problems. Global ....

Fodder Crops and Amenity Grasses

Edited by Beat Boller, Ulrich K Posselt and Fabio Veronesi

The main role of grasses, clovers and alfalfa in temperate agriculture is still to provide forage for ruminant animals but, in the last decades, the importance of amenity ....

Food Security in Africa and Asia

Strategies for Small-scale Agricultural Development

H Bakker

Authored by an experienced agriculturalist with substantial field experience in developing countries, this book adds to the literature on food security by proposing ....

Food, Globalization and Sustainability

Peter Oosterveer and David Sonnenfeld

Food is increasingly traded internationally, thereby transforming the organisation of food production and consumption globally and influencing most ....

From Red to Green?

How the Financial Credit Crunch Could Bankrupt the Environment

Paul Donovan and Julie Hudson

Written by an economist and an investment professional, this book addresses the twin crises that the world is facing in the form of a simultaneous ....

Frontiers in Nature-based Tourism

Lessons from Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden

Edited by Peter Fredman and Liisa Tyrvainen

Nature has been a key attraction factor for tourism in the Nordic countries for decades. The demand for nature-based tourism has steadily grown and is one of the most rapidly ....

Fruit Breeding

Edited by Marisa Luisa Badenes and David Byrne

This book comprises temperate fruit species, nuts and other fruit crops as kiwi and grapes. A chapter on citrus breeding is included, since the crop is largely established ....

Good Food for Everyone Forever

A People's Takeover of the World's Food Supply

Colin Tudge

Everyone who is ever likely to be born on to this planet could be fed to the highest standards of nutrition and gastronomy-and this could be done without cruelty, or ....

Green Hills, Blue Cities

An Ecosystems Approach to Water Resources

UNEP

Africa is currently the least urbanised region in the world, but this is changing fast. Of the billion people living on the African continent, about 40 per cent lives in urban ....

Greening Household Behaviour

The Role of Public Policy

OECD Publishing

Groundwater Hydrology

Engineering, Planning, and Management

Mohammad Karamouz, Azadeh Ahmadi and Masih Akhbari

This textbook examines the interface between groundwater engineering and management with tools such as data collection, simulation modeling, and economic analysis. The chapters ....

Groundwater Management Practices

Edited by Angelos N Findikakis and Kuniaki Sato

The monograph presents and compares practices followed in different countries for the development, protection and management of groundwater resources. It includes overviews ....

Human Rights and Climate Change

A Review of the International Legal Dimensions

Siobhan McInerney-Lankford, Mac Darrow and Lavanya Rajamani

Integrated Watershed Management in Rainfed Agriculture

SP Wani, Johan Rockstrom and Kanwar Lal Sahrawat

The incentive of watershed programs is to increase the return on investment with over 20% for 65% of the projects that are currently underperforming. This book provides a ....

Integrating Agriculture, Conservation and Ecotourism

Examples from the Field

Edited by Bruce Campbell and Silvia Lopez Ortiz

International Environmental Law

Ulrich Beyerlin and Thilo Marauhn

"International Environmental Law" is a new textbook written for students, practitioners, and anyone interested in the subject. The overall aim of the book is to provide a fresh ....

Irrigation Systems

Design, Planning and Construction

Adrian Laycock

Of all the confrontations man has engineered with nature, irrigation systems have had the most widespread and far-reaching impact on the natural environment. Over a quarter ....

Knowing Nature

Conversations at the Intersection of Political Ecology and Science Studies

Edited by Mara J Goldman, Paul Nadasdy and Matthew D Turner

Political ecology and science studies have found fertile meeting ground in environmental studies. While the two distinct areas of inquiry approach the environment from different ....

Legislative and Regulatory Options for Animal Welfare

FAO

Animal welfare is inextricably linked to animal health, human health and ethical concerns. Burgeoning international trade is triggering more interest in animal welfare, ....

Managing Biosecurity Across Borders

Edited by Ian Falk, Ruth A Wallace and Marthen L Ndoen

This book works towards a strategy for managing plant biosecurity in complex contexts. Managing the risks that pests and diseases pose to plants of all kinds is a highly ....

One Illness Away

Why People Become Poor and How They Escape Poverty

Anirudh Krishna

Why does poverty persist? A critical, but so far ignored, part of the answer lies in the fact that poverty is regularly created. Large numbers of people are escaping poverty, ....

Organic Farming

An International History

Edited by William Lockeretz

Beginning as a small protest to the industrialization of agriculture in the 1920s, organic farming has become a significant force in agricultural policy, marketing, and ....

The Oxford Handbook of the Economics of Food Consumption and Policy

Edited by Jayson L Lusk, Jutta Roosen and Jason Shogren

Historically, the challenge for humans has been to secure a sufficient supply of food to stave off hunger and starvation. As a result, much of the research on food and ....

Prosperity without Growth

Economics for a Finite Planet

Tim Jackson

"Prosperity without Growth" challenges the assumption of continued economic expansion in rich countries, providing a radical re-think of embedded, unquestioned assumptions and ....

Quantitative Genetics in Maize Breeding

Arnel R Hallauer, Marcelo J Carena and JB Miranda Filho

Maize is used in an endless list of products that are directly or indirectly related to human nutrition and food security. Maize is grown in producer ....

Revolutionizing Development

Reflections on the Work of Robert Chambers

Edited by Ian Scoones and Andrea Cornwall

This book tells the story of development studies in practice over the last 50 years through the work of one remarkable individual - Robert Chambers. His work has taken him ....

Seasonality, Rural Livelihoods and Development

Edited by Rachel Sabates-Wheeler, Richard Longhurst and Stephen Devereux

Seasonality is a severe constraint to sustainable rural livelihoods, and a driver of poverty and hunger, particularly in the tropics. Many poor people in developing ....

State of Food and Agriculture 2010-11

Women in Agriculture: Closing the Gender Gap for Development

FAO

Women make significant contributions to the rural economy in all developing country regions. Their roles differ across regions, yet they consistently have less access than ....

The State of the World's Land and Water Resources

Olivier Dubois

"The State of Land and Water Resources" ("SOLAW") is FAO's first flagship publication on the global status of land and water resources. It is an 'advocacy' report, to be ....

Statutory Recognition of Customary Land Rights in Africa

An investigation into best practices for lawmaking and implementation

FAO

Given the recent trend of granting vast areas of African land to foreign investors, the urgency of placing real ownership in the hands of the people living and making their ....

Strategic Management in Tourism

Edited by Luiz Mouthinho

Fully updated with new chapters linking strategic thinking and action in the management of tourism, this comprehensive textbook provides an analytical evaluation of the most ....

Top 100 Exotic Food Plants

Ernest Small

This book provides extensive information on food plants including their description, history, and economic as well as social importance. It includes a culinary portrait of ....

Toxic Loopholes

Failures and Future Prospects for Environmental Law

Craig Collins

The EPA was established to enforce the environmental laws Congress enacted during the 1970s. Yet today lethal toxins still permeate our environment, causing widespread ....

Turkey's Water Policy

National Frameworks and International Cooperation

Edited by Annika Kramer, Aysegul Kibaroglu and Waltina Scheumann

Water is a strategic natural resource of vital importance to all nations. As such it has been the cause of several international disputes. For Turkey especially, water is ....

Urban Watersheds

Geology, Contamination, and Sustainable Development

Martin M Kaufman, Daniel T Rogers and Kent S Murray

With the continuing increase in population, more people are sharing the finite resources of the urban watershed, resulting in new and increasingly complex interactions between ....

Vegetable Production and Marketing in Africa

Socio-economic Research

Edited by D Mithöfer and Hermann Waibel

Vegetables are a significant component of agricultural farming systems in Africa and have recently moved into the focus of research organizations, development partners and ....

Water Policy in Australia

The Impact of Change and Uncertainty

Edited by Lin Crase

In the last twenty years, policy makers in Australia have been forced to acknowledge that it is not possible to perpetually supply more water at a low cost. Consequently, ....

Water Security

The Water-food-energy-climate Nexus

World Economic Forum

The world is on the brink of the greatest crisis it has ever faced: a spiralling lack of fresh water. Groundwater is drying up, even as water demands for food production, for ....

Water in the Middle East

Edited by Waltina Scheumann and Manuel Schiffler

The book deals with the potential conflicts over shared rivers in the Middle East, and with approaches towards cooperation regarding the Euphrates and Tigris, the Jordan and ....

When a Billion Chinese Jump

Voices from the Frontline of Climate Change

Jonathan Watts

With foul air, filthy water, rising temperatures and encroaching deserts, China is already suffering an environmental disaster. Now it faces a stark choice: either accept ....

Wildlife Law and the Empowerment of the Poor

Wildlife law can contribute to the legal empowerment of the poor to varying extents by granting local and indigenous communities clear and secure rights to conserve and use ....

Advanced Simulation and Modelling for Urban Groundwater Management - UGROW

Edited by Dubravka Pokrajac and Ken WF Howard

This title presents the theory and software on URban GRoundWater (UGROW) modelling with one of the most advanced tools available to date that fully integrates all urban water ....

Asking Questions in Biology

A Guide to Hypothesis Testing, Experimental Design and Presentation in Practice

Francis Gilbert, Peter McGregor and Chris Barnard

Asking and answering questions is the cornerstone of science yet formal training in understanding this key process is often overlooked. Asking Questions in Biology unpacks ....

Chemometrics with R

Ron Wehrens

"Chemometrics with R" offers readers an accessible introduction to the world of multivariate statistics in the life sciences, providing a complete description of the ....

EMBOSS Administrator's Guide

Bioinformatics Software Management

Alan J Bleasby, Jon C Ison and Peter M Rice

The European Molecular Biology Open Software Suite (EMBOSS) is a high quality package of open source software tools for molecular biology. It includes over 200 applications ....

EMBOSS Developer's Guide

Bioinformatics Programming

Jon C Ison, Peter M Rice and Alan J Bleasby

This book is the official and definitive guide to developing software under EMBOSS (European Molecular Biology Open Software Suite). It includes comprehensive reference ....

EMBOSS User's Guide

Practical Bioinformatics

Peter M Rice, Alan J Bleasby and Jon C Ison

The European Molecular Biology Open Software Suite (EMBOSS) is a well established, high quality package of open source software tools for molecular biology. It includes over ....

Environmental Modelling

Finding Simplicity in Complexity

Edited by Mark Mulligan and John Wainwright

Simulation models are increasingly used to investigate processes and solve practical problems in a wide variety of disciplines. Central to the concept of this book is the ....

Fisher, Neyman, and the Creation of Classical Statistics

Erich L Lehmann and Juliet Shaffer

Classical statistical theory--hypothesis testing, estimation, and the design of experiments and sample surveys--is mainly the creation of two men: Ronald ....

GIS Applications in Agriculture

Volume 3: Invasive Species

Edited by Sharon A Clay

While many "alien" plant and animal species are purposefully introduced into new areas as ornamentals, livestock, crops, and even pets, these species can escape into other ....

GIS Applications in Agriculture

Volume 2: Nutrient Management for Energy Efficiency

Edited by David E Clay and John F Shanahan

Using mathematics, technology, and creativity, this volume examines the development of nutrient management practices that help producers improve their profitability and energy ....

Introduction to Remote Sensing

James B Campbell and Randolph H Wynne

A leading text for undergraduate- and graduate-level courses, this book introduces widely used forms of remote sensing imagery and their applications in plant sciences, ....

Model-based Methods for Sample Survey

Design and Estimation

Ray Chambers and Robert Clark

This text brings together important ideas on the model-based approach to sample survey which has been developed over the last twenty years. The content moves from basic ideas ....

Numerical Ecology with R

Daniel Borcard, Francois Gillet and Pierre Legendre

Numerical Ecology with R provides a long-awaited bridge between a textbook in Numerical Ecology and the implementation of this discipline in the R ....

Practical Field Ecology

A Project Guide

Charles Philip Wheater, Penny A Cook and James Bell

This book introduces experimental design and data analysis / interpretation as well as field monitoring skills for both plants and animals. Clearly structured throughout and ....

Remote Sensing of Land Use and Land Cover

Principles and Applications

Chandra P Giri

This book discusses the fundamentals of land use/land cover characterization and mapping using remote sensing technology. It covers basic concepts of land use/land cover ....

Statistical Methods in the Atmospheric Sciences

Daniel S Wilks

Fundamentally, statistics is concerned with managing data and making inferences and forecasts in the face of uncertainty. It should not be surprising, therefore, that ....

Statistics and Scientific Method

An Introduction for Students and Researchers

Peter J Diggle and Amanda Chetwynd

An antidote to technique-oriented service courses, this book studiously avoids the recipe-book style and keeps algebraic details of specific statistical methods to the ....

The Atlas of New Librarianship

R David Lankes

Libraries have existed for millennia, but today the library field is searching for solid footing in an increasingly fragmented (and increasingly digital) ....

The Concise Oxford Dictionary

The Classic First Edition

HW Fowler, FG Fowler and David Crystal

The Concise Oxford English Dictionary, today a world-famous bestseller, has always been a ground-breaking dictionary. In its first edition, it was adapted by Henry Watson ....

Concise Oxford English Dictionary

100 years after its first publication, the twelfth edition of this world-famous bestseller gives the most up-to-date picture of the English language today. It includes ....

Do Museums Still Need Objects?

Steven Conn

By closely observing the cultural, intellectual, and political roles that museums play in contemporary society, while also delving deeply into their institutional histories, ....

English for Writing Research Papers

Adrian Wallwork

Publishing your research in an international journal is key to your success in academia. This guide is based on a study of referees' reports and letters from journal editors on ....

Europa World Year Book 2011

Globally renowned for its accuracy, consistency and reliability, the Europa World Year Book provides detailed country surveys containing the latest analytical, ....

Mastering Your PhD

Survival and Success in the Doctoral Years and Beyond

Patricia A Gosling and Bart D Noordam

"Mastering Your PhD: Survival and Success in the Doctoral Years and Beyond" helps guide PhD students through their graduate student years. Filled with practical advice on ....

Museum Educator's Handbook

Graeme K Talboys

Described by GEM (Group for Education in Musuems) as 'a very informative and practical book...worth having on any museum shelf', the "Museum Educator's Handbook" is a thorough ....

Scientific Research as a Career

Finlay MacRitchie

This book provides guidance to those who are contemplating a career in scientific research and those who are already engaged in the profession. Aiming to provoke ....

Technical Writing

A Practical Guide for Engineers and Scientists

Phillip A Laplante

Written by an engineer with diverse experience in all aspects of technical publishing, including as a specifications writer, editor, book reviewer, and blogger, this volume ....