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Welcome to the May 2013 edition of the NHBS Monthly Catalogue. This monthly update contains all of the wildlife, science and environment titles added to nhbs.com in the last month.

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Mammals
 

Advances in Equine Nutrition - Volume 4

JD Pagan

This volume is a new collection of original research and review papers presented during Kentucky Equine Research nutrition conferences. Conferences feature international authorities on nutrition, exercise physiology, and veterinary topics ... ....

442 pages |

Paperback | 01/2009 | 9781899043507 | #206043A | £57.50 Add to basket

 

Are Dolphins Really Smart?

The Mammal Behind the Myth

Justin Gregg

How intelligent are dolphins? ls their communication system really as complex as human language? And are they as friendly and peaceful as they are made out to be? The Westem world has had an enduring love affair with ...

296 pages | no illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 09/2013 | 9780199660452 | #204632A | £16.99 Add to basket

 

European Bison

The Nature Monograph

Malgorzata Krasinska and Zbigniew A Krasinski

The mighty and majestic European bison is the relictual embodiment of the wildness of prehistoric Europe. Tragically, the millennia since that time have seen so many species driven to extinction by human impacts, and the European bison ... ....

398 pages | 35 colour & 186 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 05/2013 | 9783642365546 | #206227A | £126.00 Add to basket

 

Field Companion to Mammals of Australia

Steve van Dyck, Ian Gynther and Andrew Baker

This invaluable companion to The Mammals of Australia is intended to be taken out into the field and used in conjunction with the more comprehensive volume. Genuinely practical in the outdoors, the book includes accounts of 389 species and newly ... ....

512 pages | colour photos, b/w illustrations, distribution maps |

Paperback | NYP 06/2013 | 9781877069819 | #200220A | £49.99 Add to basket

 

Fur Seals and Sea Lions

Roger Kirkwood and Simon Goldsworthy

Fur seals and sea lions are charismatic, large carnivores that play and engage the public with both their skill and their dog-like appearance. Fur seals and sea lions are top level predators in southern Australian marine ecosystems and ... ....

160 pages | colour plates, colour illustrations |

Paperback | NYP 06/2013 | 9780643096929 | #204946A | £40.95 Add to basket

 

Les Mammiferes de l'Arc Alpin

Jacques Gillieron and Pierre Hainard

This book brings together for the first time all the mammal species found in the Alpine region, from large carnivores to smaller rodents and insectivores. Illustrated with over 200 photographs, 72 maps and 50 superb drawings, and enriched ... ....

408 pages | 200+ colour photos, 50 colour illustrations, 72 colour distribution maps |

Hardback | 11/2012 | 9782940446315 | #205912A | £99.99 Add to basket

 

Mouse Development

From Oocyte to Stem Cells

Jacek Z Kubiak

The mouse is a perfect model organism to study mammalian, and thus indirectly also human, embryology. Most scientific achievements that have had an important impact on the understanding of basic mechanisms governing embryo development in ... ....

446 pages | 43 colour & 21 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 08/2012 | 9783642304057 | #205865A | £135.00 Add to basket

 

Phillipps' Field Guide to the Mammals of Borneo and their Ecology

Quentin Phillipps and Karen Phillipps

A sister publication to the critically acclaimed Phillipps'Field Guide to the Birds of Bomeo, this is a user-friendly field guide to the mammals of Borneo, covering Sabah, Sarawak, Brunei and Kalimantan.

372 pages | 141 plates with colour illustrations; colour distribution maps, 12 colour maps |

Paperback | NYP 09/2013 | 9781906780920 | #204788A | £24.99 Add to basket

Hardback | NYP 09/2013 | 9781906780913 | #204789A | £34.99 Add to basket

 

Primate Communication

Katja Liebal, Bridget Waller, Katie Slocombe and Anne M Burrows

Primates communicate with each other using a wide range of signals: olfactory signals to mark territories, screams to recruit help while fighting, gestures to request food and facial expressions to initiate play.

288 pages | 64 b/w illustrations, 8 tables |

Paperback | NYP 10/2013 | 9780521178358 | #205603A | £34.99 Add to basket

Hardback | NYP 10/2013 | 9780521195041 | #205604A | £69.99 Add to basket

 

Primates of the World

An Illustrated Guide

Jean-Jacques Petter, Fran? ois Desbordes and Robert Martin

This stunningly illustrated guide to the world's primates covers nearly 300 species, from the feather-light and solitary pygmy mouse lemurs of Madagascar – among the smallest primates known to exist – to the regal mountain ... ....

192 pages | 72 colour plates, 13 colour & 7 b/w illustrations, 86 colour distribution maps |

Hardback | NYP 08/2013 | 9780691156958 | #206579A | £19.95 Add to basket

 

Primates: The Fearless Science of Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Birute Galdikas

Jim Ottaviani and Maris Wicks

Jim Ottaviani returns with an action-packed account of the three greatest primatologists of the last century: Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Biruté Galdikas. These three ground-breaking researchers were all students of the great ... ....

144 pages | illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 07/2013 | 9781596438651 | #206281A | £14.99 Add to basket

 

Rabbit

Victoria Dickenson

Rabbit is the story of the winsome long-eared animal that hops through children's stories, myths and legends, and back yards. In this richly illustrated book, Victoria Dickenson explores the natural and cultural history of the ... ....

224 pages | 60 colour & 40 b/w photos and illustrations |

Paperback | NYP 10/2013 | 9781780231815 | #206463A | £9.99 Add to basket

 

The Leopard's Tale

Featuring Half-Tail and Zawadi, Stars of Big Cat Diary

Jonathan Scott and Angie Scott

Almost everyone on safari hopes for a glimpse of the charismatic and elusive leopard. Chui was the first of a new generation of leopards Jonathan Scott watched and photographed in Kenya's Masai Mara Game Reserve in the 1970s and 1980s ... ....

240 pages | 16 pages with colour photos, 2 maps |

Paperback | NYP 07/2013 | 9781841624792 | #206234A | £9.99 Add to basket

 

White-Tailed Deer Habitat

Ecology and Management on Rangelands

Timothy E Fulbright and Jose Alfonso Ortega-Santos

In this second, full-color edition, revised and expanded to include the entire western United States and northern Mexico, Fulbright and Ortega-S. provide a carefully reasoned synthesis of ecological and range management principles that ... ....

328 pages | 79 colour photos, 37 b/w illustrations, 2 maps |

Paperback | NYP 06/2013 | 9781603449519 | #206103A | £27.50 Add to basket

 

Wild Dog Dreaming

Love and Extinction

Deborah Bird Rose

Rose explores what constitutes an ethical relationship with other species during this current period of mass extinction. Using both science and the humanities, Rose explores questions involving our own species and our place in the ... ....

168 pages | 5 b/w photos |

Hardback | 04/2011 | 9780813930916 | #197757A | £24.95 Add to basket

Paperback | 04/2013 | 9780813933597 | #205608A | £15.50 Add to basket

 
Birds
 

A Sample Survey of the Breeding Birds at Woodland Expansion Sites of the Scottish Forest Alliance in 2007

John Calladine, Graeme Garner and Liz Humphreys

A Sample Survey of the Breeding Birds at Woodland Expansion Sites of the Scottish Forest Alliance in 2007 presents the results of a sample survey of breeding birds at Scottish Forest Alliance (SFA) sites in Scotland in 2007. ....

48 pages | 1 illustration, 16 tables |

Spiralbound | 02/2013 | 9781908581198 | #205901A | £8.99 Add to basket

 

Alameda County Breeding Bird Atlas

Bob Richmond, Helen Green, David Rice and Hans Peeters

A joint publication of Golden Gate Audubon Society and Ohlone Audubon Society, the Atlas lists 173 local bird species and provides maps of the precise locations where they have been sighted. More than a hundred Audubon volunteers contribute ... ....

illustrations, maps |

Paperback | 12/2012 | #206112A | £35.99 Add to basket

 

Albatross

Graham Barwell

Albatross looks at the place of these iconic birds in a wide variety of human cultures, from early responses by north Atlantic mariners to modern encounters, examining in detail the role the bird plays in the lives of different ... ....

224 pages | 60 colour & 40 b/w photos and illustrations |

Paperback | NYP 10/2013 | 9781780231914 | #206461A | £9.99 Add to basket

 

All the Birds of Nova Scotia

Ian McLaren

All the Birds of Nova Scotia aims to help observers evaluate bird sightings in Nova Scotia by focusing on the finer details of occurrence and identification. Compiling and evaluating a broad range of historical and contemporary ... ....

336 pages | illustrations |

Hardback | 01/2012 | 9781554471164 | #205644A | £44.50 Add to basket

 

Atlas of Duck Populations in Eastern Europe

Janis Viksne, Saulius Svazas, Alexandre Czajkowski, Mara Janaus, Alexander Mischenko and A Kozulin

The Atlas of Duck Populations in Eastern Europe is a synthesis of recent knowledge on 11 duck species of Eastern Europe, in six Eastern European countries (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, European Russia, Belarus and Ukraine). ....

199 pages | colour photos, 48 colour illustrations and colour distribution maps, 31 colour tables |

Hardback | 06/2011 | 9789986759409 | #205869A | £22.99 Add to basket

 

Birds of the Indian Ocean Islands

Madagascar, Mauritius, Reunion, Rodrigues, Seychelles and the Comoros

Ian Sinclair, Olivier Langrand, Norman Arlott, Hilary Burn, Peter Hayman and Ian Lewington

Birds of the Indian Ocean Islands is a comprehensive guide to the bird life of Madagascar, the Seychelles, the Comoros, and the Mascarenes – an area that boasts high levels of endemism. This new, expanded edition is fully ... ....

264 pages | plates with 1160 colour illustrations; colour distribution maps |

Paperback | 02/2004 | 9781868729562 | #142862A | £18.99 Add to basket

Paperback | NYP 07/2013 | 9781431700851 | #199270A | £18.99 Add to basket

 

Das Kompendium der Voegel Mitteleuropas (3-Volume Set)

Ein umfassendes Handbuch zu Biologie, Gefaehrdung und Schutz

Hans-Guenther Bauer, Einhard Bezzel and Wolfgang Fiedler

Completely revised edition of the standard reference. Volumes 1 and 2 deal with non-passerines and passerines respectively, vol 3 contains a bibliography, information about endangered species, a glossary and an index of bird names in all ... ....

1444 pages | colour photos, 440 distribution maps |

Hardback | 01/2012 | 9783891047583 | #206090A | £129.00 Add to basket

 

Feasting, Fowling and Feathers

A History of the Exploitation of Wild Birds

Michael Shrubb

The way wild birds have been exploited over the centuries forms the focus of this remarkable new book by Michael Shrubb. It looks at the use of birds as food, for feathers and skins, for eggs, as cage birds, as specimens and for hunting ... ....

256 pages | illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 08/2013 | 9781408159903 | #202330A | £44.99 Add to basket

 

Guide des Rapaces Diurnes du Monde

338 Especes Decrites et Illustrees

James Ferguson-Lees, David A Christie, Kim Franklin, D Mead, Philip Burton and Alan Harris

This is the French translation of Raptors of the World: A Field Guide. The first ever raptor world field guide, which uses all of the plates from the author's 2001 Raptors of the World handbook.

320 pages | 118 plates with colour illustrations, colour distribution maps |

Hardback | 03/2013 | 9782603019115 | #206084A | £39.99 Add to basket

 

Hornbills in the City

A Conservation Approach to Hornbill Study in Singapore

Marc Cremades and Soon Chye Ng

Hornbills in the City narrates the efforts made by the author's field team and by all students and volunteers to facilitate the return of the hornbills to Singapore. It also relates the experiences of international experts ... ....

222 pages | 600 colour photos and colour illustrations, 100+ colour maps, includes 40-minute DVD |

Hardback | 03/2013 | 9789810734534 | #205933A | £39.99 Add to basket

 

Owls of North America

Frances Backhouse

Owls are almost everywhere. These distinctive birds populate every continent except Antarctica and survive in everything from arid desert to arctic tundra to dense rain forest. In Owls of North America Frances Backhouse provides ... ....

216 pages | 70 colour photos |

Hardback | 09/2008 | 9781554073429 | #202781A | £29.99 Add to basket

Paperback | 09/2013 | 9781770852327 | #206468A | £16.95 Add to basket

 

Owls of North America

Owls are almost everywhere. These distinctive birds populate every continent except Antarctica and survive in everything from arid desert to arctic tundra to dense rain forest. In Owls of North America Frances Backhouse ... ....

216 pages | 70 colour photographs |

Paperback | NYP 09/2013 | 9781770852327 | #206467A | £16.95 Add to basket

 

Penguins: Close Encounters

David Tipling

The vibrant and exciting world of penguins is shown in all its glory in this new book from renowned wildlife photographer David Tipling, who has trekked to remote and beautifullocations to capture birds in their natural habitat going about ... ....

160 pages | 130 colour photos |

Hardback | 05/2013 | 9781780092478 | #197515A | £19.99 Add to basket

 

Scilly Birding

Joining the Madding Crowd

Simon Davey

For sure, to the 'average' man or woman in the street, twitching (the competitive recording of wild birds, either as site, year or life lists) often appears as some kind of madness, an obsession. But is this obsession any more ... ....

162 pages | 10 b/w illustrations, maps |

Paperback | 04/2013 | 9781908241177 | #206392A | £8.99 Add to basket

 

Strategic Ornithological Support Services - Project SOSS-02 - A Review of Flight Heights and Avoidance Rates of Birds in

Aonghais SCP Cook, Alison Johnston, Lucy J Wright and Niall HK Burton

One of the potential impacts on birds from offshore wind farms is the mortality associated with collisions with turbine blades. There have been considerable advances in the development of statistical techniques to estimate potential ... ....

59 pages | 24 b/w illustrations, 3 tables |

Spiralbound | 03/2013 | 9781908581211 | #205900A | £8.99 Add to basket

 

The Woodhen

A Flightless Island Bird Defying Extinction

Clifford B Frith

The Woodhen tells the fascinating success story of saving the flightless Woodhen of Lord Howe Island. This unique large rail, an iconic and highly endangered Australian bird, was at the very brink of extinction with just 15 individuals ... ....

232 pages |

Hardback | NYP 06/2013 | 9780643108707 | #204948A | £49.99 Add to basket

 

Winged Encounters

Raymond Beggan

Winged Encounters shows us what most fail to notice: the beauty of birds people see every day as they walk the streets, parks and canals of Dublin. Ray Beggan has captured swans, ducks, herons, seagulls, even pigeons, showing the ... ....

120+ colour photos |

Hardback | NYP 07/2013 | 9781843513995 | #206465A | £19.99 Add to basket

 

Within-site Waterbird Trends Relative to Whole-site, Regional and National Population Trends

Dungeness, Romney Marsh and Rye Bay SSSI

Graham E Austin and Neil A Calbrade

This report contains the results of an analysis for within-site waterbird trends relative to whole-site, regional and national population trends for Dungeness, Romney Marsh and Rye Bay in southeast England.

115 pages | 6 illustrations, 3 tables |

Spiralbound | 02/2013 | 9781908581204 | #205902A | £16.99 Add to basket

 
Reptiles & Amphibians
 

A Checklist of Host-Parasite Interactions of the Order Crocodylia

Marisa Tellez

Records of parasitism in crocodilians date back to the early 1800s, distributed among various types of published and unpublished materials. Analyzing parasite-host specificity, geographic distribution, and taxonomy can provide otherwise ... ....

387 pages |

Paperback | NYP 10/2013 | 9780520098893 | #206471A | £44.95 Add to basket

 

A Complete Guide to Reptiles of Australia

Steve Wilson and Gerry Swan

The Complete Guide to the Reptiles of Australia explores the rich diversity of Australia's Reptiles. This book represents an accessible identification guide to reptiles, including: Crocodiles, sea turtles, freshwater turtles ... ....

480 pages | colour & b/w illustrations, b/w maps |

Paperback | NYP 06/2013 | 9781921517280 | #206038A | £25.99 Add to basket

 

Amphibian Biology, Volume 11, Part 3

Status of Conservation and Decline of Amphibians: Eastern Hemisphere: Western Europe

Harold Heatwole and John W Wilkinson

Amphibian species around the world are unusually vulnerable to a variety of threats, by no means all of which are properly understood. Volume 11 in this major series will be published in parts devoted to the causes of amphibian decline ... ....

110 pages | illustrations, tables |

Paperback | NYP 06/2013 | 9781907807527 | #205934A | £59.99 Add to basket

 

Amphibians and reptiles

Trevor JC Beebee

Amphibians and Reptiles is a comprehensive guide to the native and non-native species of amphibian and reptile found in the British Isles. Professor Trevor Beebee covers the biology, ecology, conservation and identification of ... ....

170 pages | colour photos, colour illustrations |

Paperback | NYP 08/2013 | 9781907807459 | #206083A | £19.99 Add to basket

 

Amphibians of the Eastern Europe, Part 1

Order Caudata

Yevgen Pysanets

The first volume in this series covers the order Caudata.

205 pages | colour & b/w photos; colour distribution maps |

Paperback | 04/2013 | 9789660265134 | #206024A | £59.99 Add to basket

 

Origin, Evolution and Biogeographic History of South American Turtles

Juliana Sterli, Marcelo de la Fuente and Ignacio Maniel

The extended continental South American turtle record (Norian to Lujanian) allows us to follow the evolution of this reptile clade from its origins. Several significant stem turtle taxa such as Palaeochersis talampayensis and ... ....

200 pages | 46 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 07/2013 | 9783319005171 | #206105A | £89.99 Add to basket

 

The Hemiphractid Frogs

Phylogeny, Embryology, Life History, and Cytogenetics

M Schmid, JP Bogart and SB Hedges

Reprint of Cytogenetic and Genome Research 2012, Vol. 138, No. 2-4 This monograph is an exhaustive analysis of the biology of hemiphractid frogs, presenting results obtained over a 43-year period on 16 expeditions to ...

316 pages | 80 colour & 88 b/w illustrations, 24 tables |

Hardback | 02/2013 | 9783318023183 | #206101A | £215.00 Add to basket

 

The Turtles of Mexico

Land and Freshwater Forms

John M Legler and Richard C Vogt

The Turtles of Mexico is the first comprehensive guide to the biology, ecology, evolution, and distribution of more than fifty freshwater and terrestrial turtle taxa found in Mexico. Legler and Vogt draw on more than fifty years ... ....

416 pages | colour photos |

Hardback | NYP 07/2013 | 9780520268609 | #206474A | £84.99 Add to basket

 
Fishes
 

North Atlantic Batoids and Chimaeras Relevant to Fisheries Management

A Pocket Guide

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

North Atlantic Batoids and Chimaeras Relevant to Fisheries Management presents a fully illustrated identification guide to a selection of batoid and chimaera species of the North Atlantic, encompassing FAO Fishing Areas ... ....

84 pages | illustrations |

Hardback | 04/2013 | 9789251073650 | #206122A | £44.95 Add to basket

 

North Atlantic Sharks Relevant to Fisheries Management

A Pocket Guide

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

North Atlantic Sharks Relevant to Fisheries Management presents a fully illustrated identification guide to a selection of shark species of the North Atlantic, encompassing FAO Fishing Areas 21 and 27. It includes 38 species ... ....

88 pages |

Spiralbound | 04/2013 | 9789251073667 | #206124A | £52.50 Add to basket

 

Physiology and Ecology of Fish Migration

Hiroshi Ueda and Katsumi Tsukamoto

Among the roughly 30,000 species of fish, migratory species account for only 165 species, but most of them are very important fisheries resources. Physiology and Ecology of Fish Migration presents up-to-date innovative research ... ....

175 pages | 5 colour & 38 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 09/2013 | 9781466595132 | #206276A | £63.99 Add to basket

 

Sharks of the World

A Fully Illustrated Guide

David A Ebert, Sarah Fowler and Marc Dando

This lavishly illustrated, large-format, monograph comes at a time when pressures on the world's shark species are greater than any time in their long history. This up to date, authoritative book describes and illustrates in detail ... ....

528 pages | 75 colour plates, 100 colour illustrations, 1500 b/w illustrations, colour distribution ma |

Hardback | NYP 06/2013 | 9780957394605 | #197508A | £44.99 Add to basket

 

Sharks, Batoids and Chimaeras of the North Atlantic

David A Ebert and Matthias FW Stehmann

Sharks, Batoids and Chimaeras of the North Atlantic is a comprehensive, fully illustrated catalogue, encompassing FAO Fishing Areas 21 and 27. The present volume includes 11 orders, 32 families, 66 genera, and 148 species of ... ....

523 pages | b/w illustrations, b/w distribution maps, tables |

Paperback | 04/2013 | 9789251074664 | #206404A | £48.50 Add to basket

 
Invertebrates
 

Asiatic Honeybee Apis cerana

Biodiversity Conservation and Agricultural Production

DP Abrol

Despite its economic usefulness, biodiversity of Asian hive bee Apis cerana is suffering precipitous decline and is threatened with extinction in its entire native habitat. Although a number of publications have appeared on ... ....

350 pages | 10 colour & 30 b/w illustrations, 64 tables |

Hardback | NYP 06/2013 | 9789400769274 | #206102A | £135.00 Add to basket

 

Atlas of Phytoseiidae of the World (Acari: Mesostigmata)

Vikram Prasad

Mites of the family Phytoseiidae are of great economic importance as they are effective predators of the plant feeding mites and insects. For this reason, they have received global attention not only by the acarologists, entomologists or ... ....

1319 pages | colour illustrations |

Hardback | 03/2013 | 9780930337308 | #205868A | £522.00 Add to basket

 

Bug Music

How Insects Gave Us Rhythm and Noise

David Rotherberg

In the spring of 2013 the cicadas will return on their seventeen year cycle – the longest gestation period of any animal. Their deafening sound upon their arrival is familiar to most Americans. Cicadas are famous throughout the world ... ....

320 pages |

Hardback | NYP 05/2013 | 9781250005212 | #206282A | £18.99 Add to basket

 

Catalogue of the Heteroptera of the Palaearctic Region, Volume 6: Supplement

This volume is a supplement to volumes 1-5, covering the literature up to and including 2011.

629 pages |

Paperback | 04/2013 | #206390A | £46.99 Add to basket

 

Demoiselle Damselflies / Neidonkorennot

Winged Jewels of Silvery Streams / Solisevien Vetten Lentavat Jalokivet

Sami Karjalainen and Matti Hamalainen

The demoiselle damselflies are among the most beautiful of all insects. They typically inhabit clear pristine streams, where they cavort jewel-like in the sun over the waters. The superb photographs in ...

224 pages | colour photos |

Hardback | 03/2013 | 9789529310456 | #206585A | £49.99 Add to basket

 

Freshwater Invertebrates in Central Europe

A Field Guide

Gyorgy Kriska

This current guide book on freshwater invertebrates of the central European region is a richly illustrated volume providing an excellent systematic information source on freshwater macroinvertebrates. Numerous colour photos and additional ... ....

400 pages | 500 colour illustrations |

Paperback | NYP 10/2013 | 9783709115466 | #204199A | £62.99 Add to basket

 

Handbook of Turfgrass Insects

Rick L Brandenburg and Callie P Freeman

The highly anticipated second edition of this best-selling Handbook of Turfgrass Insects contains the most current, thorough, and practical information covering all aspects of turfgrass insect management in a streamlined format. ....

144 pages | colour photos |

Paperback | / | 9780977620944 | #206143A | £98.99 Add to basket

 

Insect Pests of Potato

Global Perspectives on Biology and Management

Andrei Alyokhin, Charles Vincent and Philippe Giordanengo

Insect Pests of Potato provides a comprehensive source of up-to-date scientific information on the biology and management of insects attacking potato crops, with an international and expert cast of contributors providing its ... ....

616 pages | illustrations |

Hardback | 09/2012 | 9780123868954 | #205684A | £75.99 Add to basket

 

Insect Pharmacology

Channels, Receptors, Toxins and Enzymes

Lawrence I Gilbert and Sarjeet S Gill

The publication of the extensive 7-volume work Comprehensive Molecular Insect Science provided library customers and their end-users with a complete reference encompassing important developments and achievements in modern insect science ... ....

392 pages | colour & b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 05/2010 | 9780123814470 | #205685A | £60.99 Add to basket

 

Insectes Ravageurs et Maladies des Arbres et Arbustes d'Europe

Milan Zubrik, Andrej Kunca and Gyorgy Csoka

A comprehensive atlas to the world of insects and diseases damaging trees and shrubs in Europe. Illustrated by over 4300 unique colour photographs, showing more than 1100 species of insects and diseases causing damage to tree species and ... ....

535 pages | 4300+ colour photos |

Hardback | 04/2013 | 9782913688179 | #206218A | £175.00 Add to basket

 

Insects and Diseases Damaging Trees and Shrubs of Europe

Milan Zubrik, Andrej Kunca and Gyorgy Csoka

A comprehensive atlas to the world of insects and diseases damaging trees and shrubs in Europe. Illustrated by over 4300 unique colour photographs, showing more than 1100 species of insects and diseases causing damage to tree species and ... ....

535 pages | 4300+ colour photos |

Hardback | 04/2013 | 9782913688186 | #206217A | £175.00 Add to basket

 

Land Snails and Slugs of the Pacific Northwest

Thomas E Burke and William P Leonard

Terrestrial mollusks, the second largest phylum in the animal kingdom, are vitally important to the earth's ecology. With Land Snails and Slugs of the Pacific Northwest of ...

352 pages | 280 colour photos, distribution maps |

Paperback | NYP 05/2013 | 9780870716850 | #205904A | £31.95 Add to basket

 

Moths of Romania 4 / Fluturi de Noapte din Romania 4

Geometridae 3 - Sterrhinae

Szekely Levente

The fourth volume continues the treatment of Larentiinae moths and features 219 species.

96 pages | 4 plates with 219 colour photos; 150 b/w distribution maps |

Paperback | 04/2013 | 9789730146967 | #206220A | £19.99 Add to basket

 

Octopus

Richard Schweid

The octopus is generally acknowledged to be the most intelligent invertebrate in the world: according to marine biologists the common octopus (Octopus vulgaris) has a mental capacity comparable with that of a dog. If you look at ... ....

224 pages | 60 colour & 40 b/w photos and illustrations |

Paperback | NYP 10/2013 | 9781780231778 | #206462A | £9.99 Add to basket

 

Patrick Barkham's Guide to British Butterflies (Region 0)

Patrick Barkham

From the Cumbrian fells to the Broads of his native Norfolk, Patrick Barkham, acclaimed author of The Butterfly Isles, has travelled the country to present this personal and definitive guide to British butterflies.

2 discs, runtime: 290 min, region 0, aspect ratio: 16:9, rating: E |

Paperback | 03/2013 | 9781908397577 | #205639A | £27.95 Add to basket

 

People, Places and Species

A History of the Study of Wasps, Ants and Bees in Watsonian Yorkshire

Michael Archer

A detailed account of the people involved in studying Yorkshire aculeates from the 19th century to the present day.  An introduction to the aculeates, their life-histories, resource needs and habitats. Records of aculeates in Yorkshire ... ....

78 pages | 14 colour & 16 b/w illustrations |

Spiralbound | 01/2011 | 9781904446323 | #205596A | £8.50 Add to basket

 

Review of Jellyfish Blooms in the Mediterranean and Black Sea

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

In the last decade, media reports of increasingly high number of gelatinous plankton blooms have increased with thousands of tourists stung, fisheries harmed or even impaired by jellyfish that eat fish eggs and larvae, and coastal plants ... ....

60 pages |

Paperback | 04/2013 | 9789251074572 | #205637A | £14.95 Add to basket

 

Rovnokridli Ceske Republiky [Orthoptera of the Czech Repubic]

Petr Kocarek

The family Orthoptera, grasshoppers and crickets, are very conspicuous, and at a general level a rather familiar group of insects. Rovnok?Öídlí ?îeské Republiky provides a complete overview of all 97 species ... ....

288 pages | colour photos, includes audio CD |

Hardback | 03/2013 | 9788020021731 | #205640A | £49.99 Add to basket

 

The Beginner's Guide to Beekeeping

Everything You Need to Know

Daniel Johnson and Samantha Johnson

Raising bees is becoming increasingly popular in backyards and on farms large and small-and it's easy to see why. These resourceful insects produce organic honey and beeswax, all while constantly providing natural aid to the health of ... ....

208 pages | colour photos, colour illustrations |

Paperback | NYP 07/2013 | 9780760344477 | #206312A | £12.99 Add to basket

 

The Encyclopedia of the Swedish Flora and Fauna, Tagghudingar och Svalgstrangsdjur

Echinodermata & Hemichordata

Hans G Hansson, Tomas Cedhagen, Malin Strand and Helena Samuelsson

Covers 75 species of echinodermata and hemichordata.

256 pages | colour photos, colour illustrations, b/w line drawings, colour distribution maps |

Hardback | NYP 09/2013 | 9789188506825 | #166634A | £82.50 Add to basket

 

The Myriapoda: Volume 2

Myriapods are the only major zoological group for which a modern encyclopedic treatment has never been produced. In particular, this was the single major gap in the largest zoological treatise of the XIX century ...

500 pages | colour photos, b/w line drawings |

Hardback | NYP 10/2013 | 9789004156128 | #204923A | £168.00 Add to basket

 
Palaeontology
 

Discovery Channel's Megalodon & Prehistoric Sharks

Discovery Channel

Enjoy this graphic novel's unique blast from the past as the ancestors of today's shark are brought to life again. See what types of shark used to inhabit the prehistoric world of dinosaurs and just how they survived in such a ... ....

120 pages | colour & b/w illustrations |

Paperback | NYP 07/2013 | 9781937068387 | #206405A | £7.50 Add to basket

 

Mound Centers and Seed Security

A Comparative Analysis of Botanical Assemblages from Middle Woodland Sites in the Lower Illinois Valley

Natalie G Mueller

At Middle Woodland sites in the eastern United States, excavations have uncovered naturalistic art worked on exotic materials from points as distant Wyoming, Ontario, and the Gulf Coast, revealing a network of ritual exchange referred to ... ....

72 pages | 3 colour & 25 b/w illustrations |

Paperback | 11/2012 | 9781461459200 | #206001A | £44.99 Add to basket

 

The Early Devonian Posongchong Flora of Yunnan

A Contribution to an Understanding of the Evolution and Early Diversification of Vascular Plants

Hao Shougang

This book treats the Devonian flora of Yunnan, China, focusing on vascular plants in particular.

366 pages | illustrations |

Hardback | 01/2013 | 9787030366160 | #205633A | £129.00 Add to basket

 

The Fossils of the Carpathian Region

Istvan Fozy, Istvan Szente and Gareth Dyke

Provides a comprehensive review of the fossil record of the Carpathian Basin in modern-day Hungary. The Fossils of the Carpathian Region describes and illustrates the region's fossils, recounts their history, and tells the stories ... ....

556 pages | 446 colour illustrations, 7 maps |

Hardback | NYP 10/2013 | 9780253009821 | #199767A | £73.99 Add to basket

 
Marine & Freshwater Biology
 

Ecology and Conservation of Tropical Marine Faunal Communities

K Venkataraman , C Sivaperuman and C Raghunathan

Ecology and Conservation of Tropical Marine Faunal Communities consisting of 30 chapters offers an overview of Indian marine faunal communities and focusses on their ecology and conservation.

550 pages |

Hardback | NYP 07/2013 | 9783642381997 | #206121A | £153.00 Add to basket

 

Iconographia Diatomologica Volume 24: Diatoms of Antartica

The Freshwater Floras of Livingston Island (South Shetland Islands) and Joames Ross Island, Maritime Arctic Region

Ralitsa Zidarova, Katerina Kopalova and Bart van de Vijver

It is widely accepted that climate change will have significant effects on polar ecosystems. Because of their (bio-)geographically interesting location, the study of Antarctic environments currently receives considerable attention. ....

450 pages | 170 plates with b/w photos |

Hardback | NYP 09/2013 | 9783874294348 | #204941A | £192.00 Add to basket

 

Seasearch Guide to Sea Anemones and Corals Of Britain and Ireland

Chris Wood

The waters around Britain and Ireland contain a huge variety of marine life and some of the brightest and most attractive are the sea anemones and corals, the Anthozoa. Anemones and corals can be found from rockpools to the deepest depth ... ....

128 pages | 200 colour photos, colour illustrations |

Paperback | 12/2005 | 9780948150418 | #154338A | £18.50 Add to basket

Paperback | NYP 06/2013 | 9780957394636 | #206400A | £14.99 Add to basket

 

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

Chris Wood and Miranda Krestovnikoff

The cool temperate waters around Britain and Ireland are at the cross roads between warmer waters to the south and colder Arctic ones to the north. Consequently they contain a huge variety of marine animals and plants which differ significantly ... ....

160 pages | colour photos, colour illustrations |

Paperback | NYP 05/2013 | 9780957394650 | #206402A | £14.99 Add to basket

 
General Natural History
 

20 Day Trips in and Around the Shawnee National Forest

Larry Mahan and Donna Mahan

One of the unique and most scenic treasures in the Midwest, the Shawnee National Forest spans more than 279,000 acres deep in southern Illinois. The natural beauty, stunning vistas, and diverse flora and fauna of this picturesque region ... ....

160 pages | illustrations |

Paperback | 04/2013 | 9780809332557 | #206188A | £18.50 Add to basket

 

20 Ways to Draw a Tree and 44 Other Nifty Things from Nature

A Sketchbook for Artists, Designers, and Doodlers

Eloise Renouf

This motivational illustration book is part of the new 20 Ways series from Quarry Books, designed to offer artists, designers, and doodlers a unique collection of fun and sophisticated exercises. Each spread features 20 illustrations ... ....

96 pages | illustrations |

Paperback | NYP 06/2013 | 9781592538379 | #206480A | £12.99 Add to basket

 

A Botanical Life

Robert David Fitzgerald

Penny Olsen

Robert David Fitzgerald (1830-1892) was a successful colonial surveyor who had arrived in Australia in 1856 as a young Irish immigrant of 25. He was employed by the Lands Department in New South Wales and, although he was an exemplary ... ....

160 pages | colour & b/w illustrations |

Paperback | 04/2013 | 9780642277718 | #206500A | £26.99 Add to basket

 

A Sketch of the Physical Structure of Australia

So Far as it is at Present Known

Joseph Beete Jukes

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. The geologist Joseph Beete Jukes (1811-1869) studied at Cambridge under Adam Sedgwick (1785-1873). In 1841, having already gained field ... ....

118 pages | 2 maps |

Paperback | 05/2011 | 9781108030847 | #205694A | £14.99 Add to basket

 

A Sound Like Water Dripping

In Search of the Boreal Owl

Soren Bondrup-Nielsen

With enthusiasm and sincerity biologist Soren Bondrup-Nielsen recalls his experience as a graduate student in the 1970s researching the Boreal Owl in northern Ontario and Alberta. After receiving his B.Sc. in the spring of 1974 ... ....

240 pages |

Paperback | 12/2009 | 9781554470747 | #205645A | £30.99 Add to basket

 

Beyond the Bear

How I Learned to Live and Love Again After Being Blinded by a Bear

Dan Bigley and Deborah McKinney

A 25-year-old backcountry wanderer, a man happiest exploring wild places with his dog, Dan Bigley woke up one midsummer morning to a day full of promise. Before it was over, after a stellar day of salmon fishing along Alaska's ... ....

224 pages |

Hardback | 04/2013 | 9780762784554 | #206109A | £21.99 Add to basket

 

Big Swamp Beasts

Monstrously Muddy Swamp Beast Facts!

Michael Cox and Chuck Whedon

They slither, they bite, they go bump in the night. Meet the Big Swamp Beasts! From crocodiles and snakes to birds, frogs and bugs, meet the strangest and most amazing creatures that live in the world's wet, murky and muddy swamps. ....

96 pages | colour photos, colour illustrations |

Paperback | 02/2013 | 9781408835760 | #205665A | £7.99 Add to basket

 

Bluntnose Sixgill Sharks and Other Strange Sharks

Rachel Lynette

In which oceans do bluntnose sharks live? What color is the bluntnose shark? Learn all about these incredible creatures and other sharks in this title.

32 pages | colour photos, colour illustrations, 1 colour map |

Paperback | 07/2011 | 9781410942036 | #205878A | £8.99 Add to basket

Hardback | 07/2011 | 9781410941961 | #205879A | £26.99 Add to basket

 

Centennial History of the Carnegie Institution of Washington (5-Volume Set)

Allan Sandage, Louis Brown, Hatten S Yoder, Patricia Craig, Jane Maienschein, Marie Glitz and Allen

A 2005 set comprising five volumes detailing the histories of the established departments of the Carnegie Institution of Washington: the Mount Wilson Observatory, the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, the Geophysical Laboratory, the ... ....

1794 pages | illustrations |

Hardback | 03/2013 | 9780521842884 | #205627A | £383.00 Add to basket

 

Centennial History of the Carnegie Institution of Washington: Volume 5

The Department of Embryology

Jane Maienschein, Marie Giltz and Garland E Allen

Founded in 1914, the Department of Embryology of the Carnegie Institution of Washington has made an unparalleled contribution to the biological understanding of embryos and their development. Originally much of the research was carried ... ....

244 pages | 50 b/w photos, 6 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 03/2005 | 9780521830829 | #152613A | £90.99 Add to basket

Paperback | 01/2013 | 9781107412422 | #205622A | £26.99 Add to basket

 

Cicerone Guide: Via Ferratas of the French Alps

Richard Miller

This guidebook shows the unique character of the via ferrata routes of the French Alps, which have been increasing in number in recent years. Combining elements of scrambling, mountaineering and rock climbing, all in the boldest, most ... ....

320 pages | colour photos, colour maps |

Paperback | NYP 10/2013 | 9781852846480 | #201253A | £16.95 Add to basket

 

Collecting Ladies

Women Botanical Illustrators and Ferdinand Von Mueller

Penny Olsen

What trouble would it be to collect and preserve flowers, and enclose in an envelope to their destination? How many ladies might devote a few leisure hours to this pursuit? Around 1870, Ferdinand von Mueller (1825–1896) ...

248 pages | colour illustrations |

Paperback | 04/2013 | 9780642277534 | #206545A | £44.50 Add to basket

 

Creative Bird Photography

Bill Coster

This beautifully illustrated, inspirational guide to bird photography is packed with practical advice presented in author Bill Coster's informative but accessible writing style. It takes a fresh approach to the subject, breaking it up ... ....

172 pages | 120 colour photos |

Hardback | 07/2009 | 9781847735096 | #179354A | £19.99 Add to basket

Paperback | NYP 07/2013 | 9781780094472 | #205874A | £14.99 Add to basket

 

Deep-Sea Anglerfish and Other Fearsome Fish

Rachel Lynette

How deep in the ocean do anglerfish live? How big are anglerfish? What is the anglerfish's lure and how does in attract prey? Learn all about these "black sea devils" and other frightening fish in this title.

32 pages | colour photos |

Paperback | 07/2011 | 9781410942029 | #205880A | £8.99 Add to basket

Hardback | 07/2011 | 9781410941954 | #205881A | £26.99 Add to basket

 

Die Letzten Gaeste

Das Leben in Verlassenen Haeusern

Kai Fagerstrom, Heikki Willamo and Risto Rasa

This is the German version of The House in the Woods.

160 pages | colour photos |

Hardback | 05/2012 | 9789525870763 | #206254A | £39.99 Add to basket

 

Digital Plant Photography

For Beginners to Professionals

Adrian Davies

Ever wondered how to get the best from your camera when taking photographs of plants and fungi in the garden or out in the field? Then Digital Plant Photography is the book for you. This beautifully illustrated guide is aimed both ... ....

176 pages | 450 colour photos |

Paperback | NYP 06/2013 | 9781408171295 | #206099A | £19.99 Add to basket

 

Down the Wild Cape Fear

A River Journey Through the Heart of North Carolina

Philip Gerard

In Down the Wild Cape Fear novelist and nonfiction writer Philip Gerard invites readers onto the fabled waters of the Cape Fear River and guides them on the 200-mile voyage from the confluence of the Deep and Haw Rivers at ... ....

276 pages | illustrations |

Hardback | 03/2013 | 9781469602073 | #205937A | £26.50 Add to basket

 

Everest Calling

The Irish Journey

Lorna Siggins and Dermot Somers

Everest Calling (1994) was an account of the first Irish ascent of Everest in 1993. On May 27, 1993 Dawson Stelfox became the first Irish person to reach the summit following the route used by Mallory and Irvine in 1924.

224 pages | photos |

Hardback | 03/2013 | 9781848891630 | #205708A | £17.99 Add to basket

 

Everest: Reflections from the Top

Christine Gee, Garry Weare and Margaret Gee

On 29 May 1953, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay were the first ever to set foot on the highest point on earth: the summit of Everest. It was a magical moment. Since then many men and women have striven to reach the top of this awesome ... ....

160 pages |

Paperback | 05/2013 | 9781846043949 | #206142A | £6.99 Add to basket

 

Exploring the Thames Wilderness

A Guide to the Natural Thames

Richard Mayon-White and Wendy Yorke

The River Thames is an often undiscovered haven of stunning scenery, wonderful wildlife and brilliant natural beauty. As well as the famous stretches passing through our biggest cities and towns, there is a hidden side to the river ... ....

240 pages | colour photos, maps |

Paperback | NYP 05/2013 | 9781408181126 | #206262A | £14.99 Add to basket

 

Extraordinary Birds

Essays and Plates of Rare Book Selections from the American Museum of Natural History Library

Paul Sweet

American Museum of Natural History Ornithologist Paul Sweet takes readers on a migratory journey across the globe, introducing them to unique and exquisite birds, as well as to groundbreaking avian studies from the past five centuries. ....

144 pages | colour illustrations |

Paperback | NYP 10/2013 | 9781454906599 | #206226A | £34.99 Add to basket

 

Ghosts of Gone Birds

Ceri Levy and Chris Aldhous

It is rare that the birding and art worlds come together. It is even rarer that they bring in some of the greatest artists in the world, along with musicians such as Doves, Gorillaz and Blur. This phenomenon is called ...

256 pages | illustrations |

Paperback | NYP 10/2013 | 9781408187463 | #202441A | £19.99 Add to basket

 

Giant Morays and Other Extraordinary Eels

Casey Rand

Do morays attack humans with their razor sharp teeth? How does the moray move through the water? Learn all about giant morays and other eels in this title.

32 pages | colour photos, colour illustrations |

Paperback | 07/2011 | 9781410942043 | #205882A | £8.99 Add to basket

Hardback | 07/2011 | 9781410941978 | #205883A | £26.99 Add to basket

 

Giant Tube Worms and Other Interesting Invertebrates

Heidi Moore

How big can giant tube worms grow? What do giant tube worms eat? Learn all about these fascinating invertebrates in this title.

32 pages | colour & b/w photos |

Paperback | 07/2011 | 9781410942067 | #205884A | £8.99 Add to basket

Hardback | 07/2011 | 9781410941992 | #205885A | £26.99 Add to basket

 

Glass Squid and Other Spectacular Squid

Casey Rand

How many hearts does a glass squid have? How do squid move through the water? This title looks at the amazing glass squid and other spectacular squid.

32 pages | colour photos, colour illustrations |

Paperback | 07/2011 | 9781410942012 | #205886A | £8.99 Add to basket

Hardback | 07/2011 | 9781410941947 | #205887A | £26.99 Add to basket

 

Illustrated Historical Universal Ampelography / Ampelografia Universale Storica Illustrata (3-Volume Set)

Grape Varieties from around the World / I Vitigni del Mondo

Anna Schneider, Giusi Mainardi and Stefano Raimondi

Illustrated Historical Universal Ampelography / Ampelografia Universale Storica Illustrata contains the most important ampelographic works published in the late 19th and early 20th centuries: ...

1500 pages | 551 colour illustrations |

Hardback | 12/2012 | 9788873202202 | #206113A | £420.00 Add to basket

 

Imperial Dreams

Tracking the Imperial Woodpecker Through the Wild Sierra Madre

Tim Gallagher

Explorer and naturalist Tim Gallagher is obsessed with rare birds. A decade ago, Gallagher was one of the rediscoverers of the legendary ivory-billed woodpecker, which most scientists believed had been extinct for more than half a century ... ....

304 pages |

Hardback | 04/2013 | 9781439191521 | #205926A | £23.99 Add to basket

 

Lost Cat

A True Story of Love, Desperation, and GPS Technology

Caroline Paul and Wendy MacNaughton

Caroline Paul was recovering from a bad accident (she had been flying a plane when it happened) and thought things couldn't get worse. But then her beloved cat Tibia disappeared. She and her partner, illustrator Wendy MacNaughton ... ....

colour illustrations |

Paperback | NYP 04/2014 | 9781408843697 | #206413A | £8.99 Add to basket

 

Measure of the Earth

The Enlightenment Expedition That Reshaped Our World

Larrie D Ferreiro

In the 18th century, Europe's scientific community was torn between two opposing theories: Descartes' argument that the Earth was spherical, and Newton's contention that it was flattened at the poles. Recognizing that the answer ... ....

376 pages |

Paperback | NYP 07/2013 | 9780465063819 | #206483A | £11.99 Add to basket

 

Meteorological Observations and Essays

John Dalton

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. Famed for his seminal work in the development of atomic theory, John Dalton (1766-1844) was a chemist and natural philosopher who ...

230 pages | 4 b/w illustrations |

Paperback | 06/2011 | 9781108184489 | #205695A | £17.99 Add to basket

 

Monkey in the Garden

Lisa Regan and Kelly Caswell

What would happen if an monkey came to stay? How would you look after it? Where would it sleep? What would it eat (baked beans, raw fish or cream cakes?) and how would you play with it? Wild Things! gives young readers a first ... ....

24 pages | colour illustrations |

Hardback | 01/2013 | 9781408179390 | #205666A | £8.99 Add to basket

 

My Seaside Activity and Sticker Book

Sea, sun and sand fun with puzzles, stickers and other activities packed into this lovely book. Can you find the anchors for the boats, decorate the yummy ice creams or give the seagulls some silly shoes to wear?

32 pages | colour illustrations |

Paperback | NYP 07/2013 | 9781408190098 | #206266A | £4.99 Add to basket

 

My Under the Sea Sticker Activity Book

Does an octopus really have eight legs and a clownfish no legs? You'll find out when you go under the sea with all the magical creatures that live there and have watery sticker fun as you go. Bloomsbury Activity Books is an ... ....

16 pages | colour illustrations |

Paperback | NYP 07/2013 | 9781408190050 | #206263A | £4.99 Add to basket

 

Narrative of an Excursion to the Lake Amsanctus and to Mount Vultur in Apulia in 1834

Charles Daubery

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. This short but distinctive paper was published in 1835 by Charles Daubeny (1795-1867), who began his career as a physician but soon ...

62 pages | 3 b/w illustrations, 1 b/w map |

Paperback | 06/2011 | 9781108029636 | #205696A | £14.99 Add to basket

 

Northumberland Coast Path

From the centre of Newcastle to the Scottish border

Roland Tarr

The Northumberland coastline stretches from the outskirts of Newcastle up to the Scottish border at Berwick-upon-Tweed – a popular holiday destination for its wild and sweeping landscape of endless beaches of pale sand, succession ... ....

168 pages | 50 colour illustrations, 50 colour maps |

Paperback | 05/2013 | 9781781310656 | #206308A | £12.99 Add to basket

 

On the Geological Structure of the Alps, Apennines and Carpathians

More Especially to Prove a Transition from Secondary to Tertiary Rocks, and the Development of Eocene Deposits in Southe

Roderick Impey Murchison

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. Few men were better placed to produce an authoritative study of Continental geology than Roderick Impey Murchison (1792-1871) ...

176 pages | 41 b/w illustrations |

Paperback | 06/2011 | 9781108072564 | #205697A | £15.99 Add to basket

 

Pilgrim Paths in Ireland

From Slieve Mish to Skellig Michael - A Walking Guide

John G O'Dwyer

In recent times the popularity of the Camino de Santiago has prompted renewed interest in pilgrim walks in Ireland. Increasing numbers now follow ancient Irish pilgrim paths. Irish people have a particular sensitivity to holy places ... ....

160 pages | photos, maps |

Paperback | 03/2013 | 9781848891715 | #205709A | £12.99 Add to basket

 

Rain Later, Good

Painting the Shipping Forecast

Peter Collyer

Rain Later, Good is the award winning story of Peter Collyer's extraordinary journey around the Shipping Forecast areas. The Shipping Forecast is a national institution, relied upon by mariners but also strangely comforting ... ....

144 pages | colour illustrations |

Paperback | NYP 09/2013 | 9781408178577 | #206268A | £14.99 Add to basket

 

Rory McEwen

Colours of Reality

Martyn Rix

Rory McEwen: Colours of Reality showcases the botanical work and other creative talents of Rory McEwen (1932-82) ranging from the 1950s to the early 1980s. McEwen developed a distinctive style working on unadorned vellum ... ....

224 pages | colour illustrations |

Paperback | 05/2013 | 9781842464663 | #206476A | £24.99 Add to basket

Hardback | 05/2013 | 9781842464878 | #206477A | £31.99 Add to basket

 

Saving the White Lions

One Woman's Battle for Africa's Most Sacred Animal

Linda Tucker

In this captivating, suspenseful memoir, white lion conservationist Linda Tucker describes her perilous struggle to protect the sacred white lion from the merciless and mafia-like trophy-hunting industry, armed only with her indomitable ... ....

374 pages | 4 plates with colour photos |

Paperback | NYP 06/2013 | 9781583946053 | #206100A | £17.99 Add to basket

 

Science Before Socrates

Parmenides, Anaxagoras, and the New Astronomy

Daniel W Graham

In Science Before Socrates, Daniel Graham argues against the prevalent belief that the Presocratic philosophers did not produce any empirical science and that the first major Greek science, astronomy, did not develop until at least ... ....

320 pages | 15 illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 06/2013 | 9780199959785 | #205688A | £32.50 Add to basket

 

Searching for Sasquatch

Crackpots, Eggheads, and Cryptozoology

Brian Regal

Bigfoot hunters and their brethren are often depicted as outcasts, misfits, or passionate amateurs toiling in solitude. But has this always been the case? This fresh and entertaining study, Searching for Sasquatch: Crackpots, Eggheads ... ....

262 pages |

Paperback | NYP 08/2013 | 9781137349439 | #205941A | £18.99 Add to basket

Hardback | 02/2011 | 9780230111479 | #205942A | £61.99 Add to basket

 

Seven Lectures on Meteorology

Luke Howard

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. Luke Howard (1772-1864) was a pharmacist and businessman, but is most famous for his contributions to meteorology. He classified clouds ... ....

230 pages | 19 b/w illustrations |

Paperback | 11/2011 | 9781108040167 | #205698A | £17.99 Add to basket

 

Shimmer & Splash: The Sparkling World of Sea Life

Jim Arnosky

What can you see in the deep blue sea? Dolphins, stingrays, men o' war and more! In Shimmer and Splash, acclaimed author and artist Jim Arnosky, whose award-winning nature books delight children, parents and teachers alike ... ....

40 pages | colour illustrations |

Hardback | 05/2013 | 9781402786235 | #206307A | £9.99 Add to basket

 

Solitude of a Humble Genius - Gregor Johann Mendel, Volume 1

Formative Years

Jan Klein and Norman Klein

Gregor Johann Mendel continues to fascinate the general public as well as scholars, the former for his life and the latter for his achievements. Solitude of a Humble Genius is a two-volume biography presenting Mendel in the context of the ... ....

418 pages | 2 colour & 84 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 06/2013 | 9783642352539 | #206515A | £135.00 Add to basket

 

Soundings

The Story of the Remarkable Woman Who Mapped the Ocean Floor

Hali Felt

Soundings is the story of the enigmatic, unknown woman behind one of the greatest achievements of the 20th century. Before Marie Tharp, geologist and gifted draftsperson, the whole world, including most of the scientific community ... ....

349 pages | 8 plates with colour & b/w photos and illustrations |

Hardback | 07/2012 | 9780805092158 | #200466A | £26.99 Add to basket

Paperback | NYP 07/2013 | 9781250031457 | #205610A | £17.50 Add to basket

 

South West Coast Path: Exmouth To Poole

From Jane Austen's Cobb to Lulworth Cove - over 100 miles of historic coastline

Roland Tarr

The South West Coast Path is the spectacular 630-mile (1008-km) National Trail around the tip of Britain. South West Coast Path: Exmouth to Poole features the section of the Path from Exmouth to Poole, a distance of 116 miles ... ....

168 pages | colour illustrations, colour maps |

Paperback | 05/2013 | 9781781310588 | #206306A | £12.99 Add to basket

 

South West Coast Path: Minehead to Padstow

160 miles of coastal walking from Exmoor to North Cornwall

Roland Tarr

The South West Coast Path is the spectacular 630-mile (1008-km) National Trail around the tip of Britain. South West Coast Path: Minehead to Padstow features the section of the Path from Minehead to Padstow, a distance of ... ....

168 pages | colour illustrations, colour maps |

Paperback | 05/2013 | 9781781310601 | #206305A | £12.99 Add to basket

 

Spot The Zebra at the Zoo

Joelle Dreidemy

Take a trip to the zoo, visit the farm, travel through space and explore the city with this great book Spot The Zebra at the Zoo! You can look for hidden objects as you work your way through every spread, taking in all the details ... ....

24 pages | colour illustrations |

Paperback | NYP 07/2013 | 9781781711422 | #206304A | £4.99 Add to basket

 

Survival at 40C Above

Debbie S Miller and Jon Van Zyle

Travel to one of the hottest places in the world, and discover the amazing animals who call the desert home. Meet the unique creatures of the Australian desert, from the sand goanna and red kangaroo, and find out just how these incredible ... ....

40 pages | colour illustrations |

Paperback | 01/2013 | 9781408190296 | #205664A | £6.99 Add to basket

 

The Forms of Water in Clouds and Rivers, Ice, and Glaciers

John Tyndall

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. John Tyndall (1820-93) was an Irish physicist who became fascinated by mountaineering after a scientific expedition to Switzerland in 1856.

206 pages | 35 b/w illustrations |

Paperback | 11/2011 | 9781108037839 | #205662A | £17.99 Add to basket

 

The Genius of Earth Day

How a 1970 Teach-in Unexpectedly Made the First Green Generation

Adam Rome

The first Earth Day is the most famous little-known event in modern American history. Because we still pay ritual homage to the planet every April 22, everyone knows something about Earth Day. Some people may also know that Earth Day ... ....

352 pages | b/w illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 05/2013 | 9780809040506 | #206310A | £18.99 Add to basket

 

The Harvest of a Century

Discoveries of Modern Physics in 100 Episodes

Siegmund Brandt

Physics was the leading science of the twentieth century and The Harvest of a Century retraces important discoveries, made between 1895 and 2001, in 100 self-contained episodes. Each is a short story of the scientists involved ... ....

520 pages | 350 colour & b/w photos, 250 b/w illustrations |

Paperback | NYP 05/2013 | 9780199673780 | #206150A | £29.99 Add to basket

Hardback | 11/2008 | 9780199544691 | #206257A | £42.50 Add to basket

 

The House in the Woods

Kai Fagerstrom, Heikki Willamo and Risto Rasa

The stoves in these deserted houses are now cold, but their rooms have attracted new inhabitants from the nearby woods. An ambiguous atmosphere reigns in the houses. The melancholic spirits of the last residents linger in the ...

160 pages | colour photos |

Hardback | 04/2011 | 9789525870442 | #206252A | £39.99 Add to basket

 

The Lost Art of Finding Our Way

John Edward Huth

Long before GPS, Google Earth, and global transit, humans traveled vast distances using only environmental clues and simple instruments. John Huth asks what is lost when modern technology substitutes for our innate capacity to find our way ... ....

520 pages | 171 b/w photos, 54 b/w illustrations, 3 tables |

Hardback | 04/2013 | 9780674072824 | #206129A | £24.99 Add to basket

 

The Natural History of Coal

EA Newell Arber

Originally published during the early part of the twentieth century, the Cambridge Manuals of Science and Literature were designed to provide concise introductions to a broad range of topics. They were written by experts for the ... ....

174 pages | b/w illustrations |

Paperback | 03/2012 | 9781107605763 | #205703A | £13.99 Add to basket

 

The RSPB Bumper Book of Wildlife Stories

Pat Kelleher and Daniel Howarth

Inspire young naturalists with The RSPB Bumper Book of Wildlife Stories. This full-colour, beautifully illustrated title is packed full of wonderful tales of wildlife, fascinating facts, puzzles, games and much, much more. ....

96 pages | colour illustrations |

Hardback | 02/2013 | 9781408178881 | #202479A | £10.99 Add to basket

Paperback | NYP 10/2013 | 9781408178898 | #206231A | £7.99 Add to basket

 

The Ridgeway

87 miles of walking along the crest of the downs

Anthony Burton

The Ridgeway follows one of the oldest 'green roads' in Europe. It runs for 87 miles (140 km) from Overton Hill in the west, across the Marlborough Downs and the Vale of the White Horse, to Ivinghoe Beacon on the northern ... ....

168 pages | colour illustrations, colour maps |

Paperback | NYP 07/2013 | 9781781310632 | #206309A | £14.99 Add to basket

 

The Road of a Naturalist

Donald Culross Peattie

The Road of a Naturalist is a fascinating autobiographical wonder written by one of America's most beloved naturalists at the height of his fame. A scientist, a philosopher, and a poet, Donald Culross Peattie takes us on an ... ....

328 pages |

Paperback | NYP 09/2013 | 9781595341686 | #206185A | £12.99 Add to basket

 

The Silwood Circle

A History of Ecology and the Making of Scientific Careers in Late Twentieth-Century Britain

Hannah Gay

The Silwood Circle is an original and wide-ranging account of the careers of a close-knit group of highly influential ecologists working in Britain from the late 1960s onwards. The Silwood Circle can also be read as a ... ....

456 pages |

Paperback | NYP 05/2013 | 9781783262922 | #205714A | £25.99 Add to basket

 

The Tourist's Flora

A Descriptive Catalogue of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of the British Islands, France, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, a

Joseph Woods

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. By the middle of the nineteenth century, botany was a popular amateur pursuit as well as a rapidly developing science.

1 b/w illustration |

Paperback | NYP 05/2013 | 9781108062466 | #205693A | £32.99 Add to basket

 

The West Highland Way

Anthony Burton

The 93-mile West Highland Way is indisputably Britain's most spectacular long-distance path. The first section, following the eastern shore of Loch Lomond, offers an idyllic waterside walk, with the full grandeur of the Highlands ... ....

168 pages | colour illustrations, colour maps |

Paperback | NYP 07/2013 | 9781781310892 | #206298A | £12.99 Add to basket

 

There's a Diplodocus at the Door!

Chris Jarvis

Have you ever wondered how dinosaurs would cope if they were alive today? What if they went to the dentist? What if they went to a birthday party? What if they came round for dinner? What if a dinosaur...? gives young readers a ... ....

24 pages | colour illustrations |

Paperback | NYP 07/2013 | 9781781711552 | #206303A | £4.99 Add to basket

 

There's a Stegosaurus on the Stairs

Chris Jarvis

Have you ever wondered how dinosaurs would cope if they were alive today? What if they went to the dentist? What if they went to a birthday party? What if they came round for dinner? What if a dinosaur...? gives young readers a ... ....

24 pages | colour illustrations |

Paperback | NYP 07/2013 | 9781781711569 | #206302A | £4.99 Add to basket

 

There's a T-rex in Town

Chris Jarvis

Have you ever wondered how dinosaurs would cope if they were alive today? What if they went to the dentist? What if they went to a birthday party? What if they came round for dinner? What if a dinosaur...? gives young readers a ... ....

24 pages | colour illustrations |

Paperback | NYP 07/2013 | 9781781711545 | #206301A | £4.99 Add to basket

 

There's a Triceratops in the Tree House

Chris Jarvis

Have you ever wondered how dinosaurs would cope if they were alive today? What if they went to the dentist? What if they went to a birthday party? What if they came round for dinner? What if a dinosaur...? gives young readers a ... ....

24 pages | colour illustrations |

Paperback | NYP 07/2013 | 9781781711576 | #206300A | £4.99 Add to basket

 

Tiger at the Door

Lisa Regan and Kelly Caswell

What would happen if an tiger came to stay? How would you look after it? Where would it sleep? What would it eat (baked beans, raw fish or cream cakes?) and how would you play with it? Wild Things! gives young readers a first ... ....

24 pages | colour illustrations |

Hardback | 01/2013 | 9781408179352 | #205668A | £8.99 Add to basket

 

Viimeiset Vieraat

Elamaa Autiotaloissa

Kai Fagerstrom, Heikki Willamo and Risto Rasa

This is the original Finnish version of The House in the Woods.

160 pages | colour photos |

Hardback | 04/2010 | 9789525652857 | #206253A | £39.99 Add to basket

 

Wales Coast Path: Tenby to Swansea

Endless sandy beaches and the beautiful Gower Peninsula

Chris Moss

2012 saw the opening of the entire Welsh coastline as an official long-distance footpath. Now, to complement its existing National Trail Guide to the Pembrokeshire Coast Path, which makes up the section of the Path from Fishguard to just ... ....

168 pages | colour illustrations, colour maps |

Paperback | NYP 05/2013 | 9781781310670 | #206299A | £12.99 Add to basket

 

Wildlife Photographer of the Year Desk Diary 2014

The Natural History Museum (London - UK)

The Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition is the international showcase for the very best photography featuring natural subjects. The Museum's 2014 week-toview diaries feature stunning photographs of the natural world ... ....

112 pages | Colour photographs throughout |

Paperback | NYP 07/2013 | 9780565093235 | #206297A | £15.59 Add to basket

 

Wildlife Photographer of the Year Desk Diary 2014

The Natural History Museum (London - UK)

The Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition is the international showcase for the very best photography featuring natural subjects. The Museum's 2014 week-toview diaries feature stunning photographs of the natural world from ... ....

112 pages | colour photos |

Hardback | NYP 07/2013 | 9780565093235 | #206434A | £12.99 Add to basket

 

Wildlife Photographer of the Year Pocket Diary 2014

The Natural History Museum (London - UK)

The Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition is the international showcase for the very best photography featuring natural subjects. The Museum's 2014 week-to-view diaries feature stunning photographs of the natural world ... ....

112 pages |

Hardback | NYP 07/2013 | 9780565093242 | #206296A | £8.39 Add to basket

 

Wildlife Photographer of the Year Pocket Diary 2014

The Natural History Museum (London - UK)

The Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition is the international showcase for the very best photography featuring natural subjects. The Museum's 2014 week-to-view diaries feature stunning photographs of the natural world from ... ....

112 pages | colour photos |

Paperback | NYP 07/2013 | 9780565093242 | #206433A | £6.99 Add to basket

 

Yorkshire Wolds Way

Nearly 80 miles of walking through a landscape of chalk hills and valleys

Tony Gowers

The Yorkshire Wolds were brought to international attention in 2012 by David Hockney's magnificent Royal Academy exhibition of paintings of the region. Now, Tony Gowers' completely updated, expanded and re-designed ...

144 pages | colour illustrations, colour maps |

Paperback | NYP 08/2013 | 9781781310649 | #206294A | £14.99 Add to basket

 
Regional & Travel
 

Adriatic East Coast

Seeing Birds and Experiencing Nature in Historic Landscapes on the Mediterranean Coast

Martin Schneider-Jacoby and Borut Stumberger

Summer, sun and seas of azure blue: most people think of a holiday on the beach when they hear the words East Adriatic Coast. The EuroNatur guide Adriatic East Coast shows impressively that the region has a great deal more to ... ....

268 pages | 234 colour photos, 6 colour maps |

Paperback | 01/2012 | 9783000359521 | #206541A | £29.99 Add to basket

 

An Illustrated Country Year

Nature Uncovered Month by Month

Celia Lewis

An Illustrated Country Year is perfect for nature lovers and for everyone who enjoys spending time in the countryside. Dip into it at any time of year, especially before a walk or after day trips, and discover something new about ... ....

192 pages | 300 colour illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 08/2013 | 9781408181348 | #206267A | £19.99 Add to basket

 

Beastly London

A History of Animals in the City

Hannah Velten

Virtually every street in London was once filled with a cacophony of animal calls and noises. From cattle being herded through the streets surrounding Smithfield meat market, to the exotic residents of the Tower of London zoo.

272 pages | illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 08/2013 | 9781780231679 | #206464A | £28.99 Add to basket

 

Bradt Travel Guide: Liguria

Rosie Whitehouse

The only in-depth guide to Liguria, a mountainous region of dizzy passes and breath-taking views where mountains plunge down into the sparkling blue waters of the Mediterranean. Liguria will leave you awestruck by its beauty.

248 pages | 16 pages with colour photos; 30 maps |

Paperback | 04/2013 | 9781841624730 | #205585A | £15.99 Add to basket

 

Bradt Travel Guide: Northern Tanzania

Serengeti, Kilimanjaro, Zanzibar

Philip Briggs and Chris McIntyre

Tanzania has grown to be one of the top safari destinations in Africa. This new edition of Northern Tanzania focuses solely on the northern region and Zanzibar. This area accounts for a tiny fraction of the country's surface area but ... ....

440 pages | 16 pages with colour photos; 27 maps |

Paperback | 06/2009 | 9781841622927 | #181933A | £14.99 Add to basket

Paperback | NYP 06/2013 | 9781841624570 | #206241A | £15.99 Add to basket

 

Bradt Travel Guide: South Sudan

Sophie Lovell-Hoare and Max Lovell-Hoare

Separated from the north in 2011, South Sudan is the world's newest country and has emerged from decades of inaccessibility as a vibrant and diverse destination. Nature lovers are drawn to the region to experience one of the ... ....

192 pages | 16 pages with colour photos; 12 maps |

Paperback | NYP 10/2013 | 9781841624662 | #206235A | £14.99 Add to basket

 

Bradt Travel Guide: Tanzania Safari Guide

With Kilimanjaro, Zanzibar and the Coast

Philip Briggs and Chris McIntyre

Tanzania is one of Africa's greatest safari destinations, home to the legendary Serengeti National Park, Ngorongoro Crater and Mount Kilimanjaro as well as the 'spice island' of Zanzibar and lesser known gems such as the vast ... ....

600 pages | 16 pages with colour photos; 63 maps |

Paperback | 08/2009 | 9781841622880 | #185572A | £17.99 Add to basket

Paperback | NYP 08/2013 | 9781841624624 | #206244A | £17.99 Add to basket

 

Bradt Travel Guide: Uzbekistan

Sophie Lovell-Hoare and Max Lovell-Hoare

This is the most detailed guide to Central Asia's most populous country and the heart of the historic Silk Road. Strikingly beautiful yet little understood, Uzbekistan finally has a guide to inspire independent travelling, with all ... ....

256 pages | 16 pages with colour photos; 29 maps |

Paperback | NYP 07/2013 | 9781841624617 | #206236A | £16.99 Add to basket

 

Empire of Shadows

The Epic Story of Yellowstone

George Black

Empire of Shadows is the epic story of the conquest of Yellowstone, Wyoming, a landscape uninhabited, inaccessible and shrouded in myth in the aftermath of the Civil War. In a radical reinterpretation of the nineteenth century ... ....

576 pages |

Paperback | NYP 06/2013 | 9781250023209 | #206388A | £12.99 Add to basket

 

Europe's Lost World

The Rediscovery of Doggerland

Vincent Gaffney, Simon Fitch, David Smith and Tony Robinson

It frequently feels that there is nothing new to explore on the earth – the most distant places are visited by TV crews and even tourists. However, the past can also be a foreign country and recently archaeologists have begun to ... ....

232 pages | 125 colour illustrations |

Paperback | 03/2009 | 9781902771779 | #205656A | £23.99 Add to basket

 

Geology and Sedimentology of the Korean Peninsula

Dr. Sung Kwun Chough

Written by one of Korea's most respected earth scientists, Geology and Sedimentology of the Korean Peninsula analyzes sedimentary facies, basin evolution, and sequence stratigraphy to provide answers to depositional processes ... ....

348 pages |

Hardback | 01/2013 | 9780124055186 | #205682A | £110.00 Add to basket

 

Himalaya: Mountains of Life

Kamal Bawa, Sandesh Kadur, George Schaller and Peter Raven

The Eastern Himalaya – land of Gods, of ancient mountain kingdoms, of icy peaks and alpine meadows – is like no other place on Earth. The life and landscapes of the region are as diverse, spectacular, and fragile as the mountains ... ....

305 pages | colour illustrations, colour maps |

Hardback | 01/2013 | 9781615845125 | #205558A | £44.99 Add to basket

 

Ireland: Timeless Images by Giles Norman

Giles Norman

To mark 25 years since the opening of his gallery, renowned Irish photographer Giles Norman presents more than 150 of his most enduring black and white images in this remarkable collection. From rugged headlands and windswept oceans to ... ....

160 pages | b/w photos |

Hardback | 03/2013 | 9781848891685 | #205707A | £21.99 Add to basket

 

Naturparke in Oesterreich

Herfried Marek and Ewald Neffe

Two of Austria's best nature photographers provide insight into the most beautiful natural and cultural landscapes in Austria, including its animal in plant life, in over 300 images. Naturparke in ™sterreich also contains important visitor ... ....

260 pages | 300+ colour photos |

Hardback | 01/2013 | 9783702013967 | #206055A | £59.99 Add to basket

 

Secrets of the Irish Landscape

The Story of the Irish Landscape Is the Story of Ireland

Matthew Jebb and Colm Crowley

Secrets of the Irish Landscape examines the history of the Irish Landscape since the last Ice Age until now. Secrets of the Irish Landscape also celebrates the life of Robert Lloyd Praeger (The Way That I Went) and the ... ....

192 pages | colour photos |

Hardback | NYP 06/2013 | 9781782050100 | #206138A | £24.99 Add to basket

 

Sierra Nevada: Guía De Montana

Antonio Castillo Rodriguez and Aurelio del Castillo Amaro

This guidebook contains 40 routes in different parts of the Spanish Sierra Nevada mountains.

180 pages | illustrations |

Paperback | 01/2010 | 9788493565329 | #205631A | £25.50 Add to basket

 

Sierra Nevada: Mountain Guidebook

Antonio Castillo Rodríguez and Aurelio del Castillo Amaro

This guidebook contains 40 routes in different parts of the Spanish Sierra Nevada mountains.

180 pages | illustrations |

Paperback | 01/2010 | 9788493565336 | #205630A | £22.50 Add to basket

 

Sierra de Grazalema: Complete Guidebook to the Natural Park

Francisco Orduna Beuzon and Montserrat Ollero Verdu

This book contains practical information about this nature reserve in Andalusia, Spain, covering walking routes, mountain biking trails, caves, canyons, locations of outstanding natural beauty, villages, and long-distance walking route ... ....

238 pages | illustrations |

Paperback | 01/2010 | 9788493565381 | #205628A | £22.50 Add to basket

 

Sierra de Grazalema: Guía Completa del Parque Natural

Francisco Orduna Beuzon and Montserrat Ollero Verdu

This book contains practical information about this nature reserve in Andalusia, Spain, covering walking routes, mountain biking trails, caves, canyons, locations of outstanding natural beauty, villages, and long-distance walking route ... ....

238 pages | illustrations |

Paperback | 01/2010 | 9788493565374 | #205629A | £25.50 Add to basket

 

Slow New Forest

Emily Laurence Baker

Slow New Forest is part of the Bradt Travel Guides that embraces the Slow Tourism movement, and encourages visitors to slow down and discover for themselves the often hidden and unsung delights of one of the most unspoilt ... ....

184 pages | 16 pages with colour photos; 15 maps |

Paperback | 03/2013 | 9781841624488 | #206131A | £9.99 Add to basket

 

Sunflower Countryside Guides: Landscapes of Sorrento and the Amalfi Coast

Julian Tippett

This pocket-sized full-colour guide is designed for holidaymakers who want to get off the beaten track. It describes excursions to Pompei, Vesuvius and other famous sites in the area, as well as suggestions for countryside picnics. ....

136 pages | colour photos, fold-out map |

Paperback | 04/2013 | 9781856914291 | #206429A | £12.99 Add to basket

 

The Changing Role of Yorkshire's Waterways

Veronica Wallace

A history of the canal movement and the development of Yorkshire’s waterways; Hull and the River Hull’s international links; conservation and recreation on the waterways; the Sobriety Society and the Port of Goole.

44 pages | 25 colour & 3 b/w illustrations |

Paperback | 01/2011 | 9781906604349 | #205597A | £7.50 Add to basket

 

The DMZ of Korea - A Unique Ecosystem

Protection, Conservation and Restoration

Kwi-Gon Kim

Untouched since 1953, the Korean DMZ (Demilitarized Zone) has transformed itself into one of the few ecologically pristine zones and a vital habitat for endangered species. Often cited as a potential "peace park", it could one ... ....

450 pages |

Hardback | NYP 07/2013 | 9783642384622 | #206491A | £135.00 Add to basket

 

The Last Ocean: Antartica's Ross Sea Project

Saving the Most Pristine Ecosystem on Earth

John Weller and Carl Safina

A stunning collection of oceanic photography documenting the world's last pristine ocean. Due to its remoteness and harsh weather, Antarctica's Ross Sea remained free from human interference until 1996, when commercial fishing ... ....

208 pages | 100 colour photos |

Hardback | NYP 10/2013 | 9780847841233 | #206293A | £29.95 Add to basket

 

The Yorkshire Dales

Mark Denton and Richard Mabey

Mark Denton captures the drama and beauty of one of England's most treasured landscapes. From broad, open dales to bleak uplands and isolated high hills, Mark Denton's panoramic camera reveals the ever-changing light on both ... ....

112 pages | colour photos |

Hardback | 05/2013 | 9780711232822 | #206295A | £16.99 Add to basket

 

Tracks and Signs of the Animals and Birds of Britain and Europe

Lars-Henrik Olsen

This beautifully illustrated field guide enables you to easily identify the tracks and signs left by a wide variety of mammal and bird species found in Britain and Europe, covering behaviors ranging from hunting, foraging, and feeding to ... ....

274 pages | 600 colour illustrations, 25 maps |

Paperback | NYP 08/2013 | 9780691157535 | #206580A | £17.95 Add to basket

 

Winter Nature

Common Mammals, Birds, Trees and Shrubs of the Maritimes

Merritt Gibson, Soren Bondrup-Nielsen and Twila Robar-DeCoste

Though often associated with hibernation – for bears and humans alike – winter can in fact be a time of observation and discovery in the outdoors. Winter Nature provides the interested walker, skier or snowshoer with ... ....

224 pages |

Paperback | 12/2008 | 9781554470594 | #205646A | £31.50 Add to basket

 
Botany & Plant Science
 

500 Fleurs des Alpes par la Couleur

Ansgar Hoppe

This is a French translation of A Field Guide to the Flowers of the Alps.

192 pages | colour photos |

Paperback | 04/2013 | 9782603018958 | #206085A | £17.50 Add to basket

 

A Colored Identification Atlas of Chinese Materia Medica and Plants as Specified in the Pharmacopoeia of the People's Re

Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences Institute of Medicinal Plant Department

This compilation is based on the Pharmacopoeia of the People's Republic of China, 2010 edition. In A Colored Identification Atlas of Chinese Materia Medica and Plants as Specified in the Pharmacopoeia of the People's ... ....

1236 pages | 2300+ colour photos |

Hardback | 01/2010 | 9787117129275 | #205643A | £425.00 Add to basket

 

A Dictionary of Seed Plant Names (5-Volume Set)

Shang Yanchong

This 5-volume dictionary contains scientific names of seed plants and provides their names in four different languages.

Hardback | 01/2012 | #205636A | £979.00 Add to basket

 

An Atlas of the World's Conifers

An Analysis of Their Distribution, Biogeography, Diversity and Conservation Status

Aljos Farjon and Denis Filer

An Atlas of the World's Conifers is the first ever atlas of all known conifer species. It is based on locality information of ca. 35,000 collected herbarium specimens held in scientific institutions. As well as providing ... ....

colour photos, colour distribution maps |

Hardback | NYP 09/2013 | 9789004211803 | #204922A | £84.59 Add to basket

 

An Illustrated Guide to Common Grasses, Sedges and Rushes of New Zealand

Paul Champion, Trevor James, Ian Popay and Kerry Ford

This fully illustrated new guide has been published to meet popular demand; earlier guides to identification of grasses found in New Zealand are out of print, and this comprehensive new book also includes sedges and rushes.

208 pages | colour photos |

Paperback | 08/2012 | 9780473216603 | #205652A | £64.99 Add to basket

 

An Illustrated Guide to Weed Seeds of New Zealand

Trevor James, Ian Popay, Paul Champion, Nik Grbavac and Birgit Rhode

An Illustrated Guide to Weeds Seeds of New Zealand provides a wide audience with access to expert seed identification and will be an invaluable tool for anyone working in agricultural or horticultural production, ecological ... ....

144 pages | colour photos |

Spiralbound | 11/2012 | 9780473224103 | #205661A | £59.99 Add to basket

 

Antiviral Resistance in Plants

Methods and Protocols

John Matheson Watson and Ming-Bo Wang

Studies related to pathogen-mediated virus resistance in plants were instrumental in providing some of the historical observations which ultimately led to the vital discovery of double-stranded RNA (dsRNA)-induced gene silencing or RNA ... ....

391 pages | 10 colour & 49 b/w illustrations, 3 tables |

Hardback | 06/2012 | 9781617798818 | #205720A | £98.99 Add to basket

 

Ascorbic Acid in Plants

Biosynthesis, Regulation and Enhancement

Yuyang Zhang

Ascorbate acid (AsA) is an important antioxidant in plants, playing important roles in various physiological processes. Humans have lost the ability to synthesize AsA because of the lack of L-gulono-1,4-lactone oxidoreductase, and thus ... ....

131 pages | 9 colour & 5 b/w illustrations, 1 table |

Paperback | 08/2012 | 9781461441267 | #205773A | £44.99 Add to basket

 

Atlas of Wood, Bark and Pith Anatomy of Eastern Mediterranean Trees and Shrubs

with a Special Focus on Cyprus

Alan Crivellaro and Fritz Hans Schweingruber

Atlas of Wood, Bark and Pith Anatomy of Eastern Mediterranean Trees and Shrubs presents anatomical descriptions of the xylem, bark and pith of 264 species belonging to 71 families. It highlights the anatomical diversity of trees ... ....

580 pages | 2000 colour photos |

Hardback | NYP 07/2013 | 9783642372346 | #205653A | £89.99 Add to basket

 

Australian Native Plants

The Kings Park Experience

Mark Webb

Australian Native Plants provides a comprehensive guide to the horticulture of our native plants. Based on nearly 50 years of experience at Kings Park and Botanic Garden in Perth, Australian Native Plants describes the ... ....

144 pages | colour photos, colour illustrations |

Paperback | NYP 06/2013 | 9780643103214 | #204947A | £36.50 Add to basket

 

Bacteria in Agrobiology

Plant Probiotics

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 sustainable strategy is the application of microorganisms, such as the ... ....

385 pages | 3 colour & 24 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 04/2012 | 9783642275142 | #205726A | £135.00 Add to basket

 

Bamboo

Susanne Lucas

Bamboo has an unparalleled history; it is very old, and at the same time very new. Bamboo extends far beyond the boundaries of most plants – it is distributed widely throughout the world, and is utilized by hundreds of millions of ... ....

224 pages | 70 colour & 30 b/w photos and illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 10/2013 | 9781780232010 | #206457A | £15.99 Add to basket

 

Carnivorous Plants of Australia Magnum Opus, Volume 1

Allen Lowrie

Australia is home to over one third of all carnivorous plants species that are currently known worldwide. This amazing concentration is far greater than any other continent or country, and the Australian species include the largest, most ... ....

400 pages | colour photos |

Hardback | NYP 07/2013 | 9781908787118 | #206045A | £34.99 Add to basket

Hardback | NYP 07/2013 | 9781908787118 | #206046A | £39.99 Add to basket

 

Carnivorous Plants of Australia Magnum Opus, Volume 2

Allen Lowrie

Australia is home to over one third of all carnivorous plants species that are currently known worldwide. This amazing concentration is far greater than any other continent or country, and the Australian species include the largest, most ... ....

400 pages | colour photos |

Hardback | NYP 07/2013 | 9781908787125 | #206047A | £34.99 Add to basket

Hardback | NYP 07/2013 | 9781908787125 | #206048A | £39.99 Add to basket

 

Carnivorous Plants of Australia Magnum Opus, Volume 3

Allen Lowrie

Australia is home to over one third of all carnivorous plants species that are currently known worldwide. This amazing concentration is far greater than any other continent or country, and the Australian species include the largest, most ... ....

400 pages | colour photos |

Hardback | NYP 07/2013 | 9781908787132 | #206049A | £34.99 Add to basket

Hardback | NYP 07/2013 | 9781908787132 | #206050A | £39.99 Add to basket

 

Centennial History of the Carnegie Institution of Washington: Volume 4

The Department of Plant Biology

Patricia Craig

From humble beginnings as a small desert laboratory in Tucson, Arizona, at the beginning of the twentieth century, the Carnegie Institution's Department of Plant Biology has evolved into a thriving international center of plant molecular ... ....

294 pages | illustrations |

Hardback | 05/2005 | 9780521830812 | #152612A | £85.00 Add to basket

Paperback | 01/2013 | 9781107412415 | #205623A | £27.99 Add to basket

 

Creative Gardening with Indigenous Plants

A South African Guide

Pitta Joffe and Tinus Oberholzer

Creative gardening with Indigenous Plants, now in its second edition, is an invaluable handbook for South African gardeners. In this comprehensive guide the authors set out to popularise the use of indigenous South African plants ... ....

392 pages | colour photos, distribution maps |

Paperback | 08/2012 | 9781875093991 | #206013A | £22.50 Add to basket

 

Development of Aspergillus niger

J Dijksterhuis and H Woesten

This Issue of Studies in Mycology deals with vegetative growth and development of Aspergillus in general and A. niger in particular. Aspergillus niger is a member of the Aspergillus section ... ....

85 pages | colour photos |

Paperback | 01/2013 | #205632A | £57.50 Add to basket

 

Die Botanik in Sudtirol

Und Angrenzenden Gebieten im 20. Jahrhunder: Eine Bibliographische Rundschau

Otto Huber, Bruno Wallnoefer and Thomas Wilhalm

Since publication of the book Die Literatur der Flora von Tirol, Vorarlberg und Liechtenstein by Karl Wilhelm von Dalla Torre and Ludwig Graf von Sarnthein in 1900, there has been no further bibliographic analysis of the botanical ... ....

568 pages |

Paperback | 09/2012 | 9788872834282 | #206059A | £39.99 Add to basket

Hardback | 09/2012 | 9788872834282 | #206060A | £44.99 Add to basket

 

Die Flora Sachsens und Angrenzender Gebiete

Ein Pflanzenkundlicher Exkursionsfuehrer

Peter Gutte, Hans-Juergen Hardtke and Peter A Schmidt

In publication since 1956, the 12th edition of this field guide has been completely revised and contains logical and easy to understand identification keys, supported by numerous line drawings of the amazing plant life of Saxony, Germany ... ....

992 pages | 800 b/w line drawings |

Paperback | 10/2012 | 9783494015293 | #205660A | £45.99 Add to basket

 

Die Orchideen Deutschlands und Angrenzender Laender

Finden und Bestimmen

Horst Kretzschmar

Orchids have always been among the most popular flowering plants. The botanical descriptions even go back to antiquity. Die Orchideen Deutschlands und Angrenzender L„nder contains a systematic review of all 84 species and sub-species ... ....

288 pages | 764 colour illustrations, 69 colour distribution maps |

Paperback | 01/2013 | 9783494015460 | #206053A | £38.99 Add to basket

 

Die Pflanzenwelt im Westerwald

18 Faszinierende Entdeckungstouren zwischen Rothaargebirge und Lahntal

Dirk Boensel, Petra Schmidt and Christel Wedra

The Westerwald - a low mountain range on the right bank of the River Rhine in the German federal states of Rhineland-Palatinate, Hesse and North Rhine-Westphalia - is characterized by the huge variety of different habitats ...

432 pages | 535 colour photos, 18 maps |

Paperback | 04/2013 | 9783494015309 | #206093A | £26.99 Add to basket

 

Domestication of Plants in the Old World

The Origin and Spread of Domesticated Plants in Southwest Asia, Europe, and the Mediterranean Basin

Daniel Zohary, Maria Hopf and Ehud Weiss

The origin of agriculture is one of the defining events of human history. Some 11-10,000 years ago bands of hunter-gatherers started to abandon their high-mobility lifestyles in favour of growing crops, and the creation of settled, sedentary ... ....

264 pages | 8 plates with colour photos, illustrations, and map; b/w photos, b/w illustrations, b/w ma |

Hardback | 03/2012 | 9780199549061 | #194523A | £54.99 Add to basket

Paperback | NYP 08/2013 | 9780199688173 | #206506A | £34.99 Add to basket

 

Ecophysiology and Responses of Plants Under Salt Stress

Parvaiz Ahmad, M M Azooz and M N V Prasad

Ecophysiology and Responses of Plants Under Salt Stress will shed light on the effect of salt stress on plants development, proteomics, genomics, genetic engineering, and plant adaptations, among other topics. Understanding the ... ....

525 pages | 27 colour & 25 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 11/2012 | 9781461447467 | #205813A | £135.00 Add to basket

 

Edible Ectomycorrhizal Mushrooms

Current Knowledge and Future Prospects

Alessandra Zambonelli and Gregory M Bonito

This Soil Biology volume describes the biology and ecology of edible ectomycorrhizal fungi. A focus is on the improved techniques for truffle cultivation, e.g. the exciting results in Oceania and America where these exotic fungi ... ....

421 pages | 16 colour & 19 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 01/2013 | 9783642338229 | #206007A | £135.00 Add to basket

 

Endemism in Vascular Plants

Carsten Hobohm

Endemism in Vascular Plants is the first comprehensive analysis of the macroecology and geobotany of endemic vascular plants with case-studies and analyses from different regions in the world. Endemism is a pre-extinction phenomenon ... ....

300 pages | 60 colour & 19 b/w illustrations, 24 tables |

Hardback | NYP 09/2013 | 9789400769120 | #206145A | £126.00 Add to basket

 

Ethnobotany of South America

Ingrid Roth

Ethnobotany of South America presents a survey over the life of the diverse Indian communities in South America, related with the use of plants. All plants are useful for them, including plants for firewood.

274 pages | 115 |

Paperback | 01/2013 | 9783844016154 | #206454A | £46.50 Add to basket

 

Ferns and Fern Allies of Taiwan - Supplement

Ralf Knapp

A description of all 747 species of ferns and related plants in Taiwan. Taiwan is one of the global diversity centers of pteridophytes (ferns, and plants allied to them) with more than 700 species distributed over an area of 35 800 km.. ....

212 pages | 560 colour photos |

Paperback | 03/2013 | 9789868709812 | #206052A | £49.99 Add to basket

 

Flora Celtica

Plants and People in Scotland

William Milliken and Samuel Bridgewater

Flora Celtica: Plants and People in Scotland documents the continuously evolving relationship between the Scots and their environment. Based on a mixture of detailed research and information provided by the public ...

328 pages | colour photos, colour illustrations |

Hardback | 12/2004 | 9781841583037 | #149593A | £29.99 Add to basket

Paperback | NYP 08/2013 | 9781780271699 | #205903A | £19.99 Add to basket

 

Flora of Birmingham & The Black Country

Ian Trueman, Mike Poulton and Paul Reade

The first Flora of Birmingham and The Black Country is an essential record of the vegetation of Britain's second conurbation. It covers the metropolitan districts of Birmingham, Dudley, Sandwell, Walsall and Wolverhampton and has ... ....

544 pages | colour photos, b/w line drawings, colour distribution maps |

Hardback | 03/2013 | 9781874357551 | #206544A | £44.99 Add to basket

 

Flora of Iraq, Volume Five, Part Two

Lythraceae to Campanulaceae

Shahina A Ghazanfaris and John R Edmondson

The Flora of Iraq is the only comprehensive reference for this region in the Middle East. It enables anyone documenting, studying, or managing Iraq's vast and rich flora to identify the vascular cryptograms and flowering ... ....

450 pages | 100 b/w illustrations |

Paperback | NYP 07/2013 | 9781842464939 | #206481A | £79.99 Add to basket

 

Flore Photographique du Cambodge

Mathieu Leti, Sovanmoly Hul, Jean-Gabriel Fouche, Sun Kaing Cheng and Bruno David

This field guide describes 524 plant species of the Khmer kingdom through detailed descriptions and more than 2000 photographs taken in the field. Two species are newly described and six are reported for the first time in the country. ....

592 pages | 2000+ colour photos |

Hardback | 04/2013 | 9782708959194 | #205649A | £79.50 Add to basket

 

Flore d'Ile-de-France (2-Volume Set)

Philippe Jauzein, Olivier Nawrot and Gerard Aymonin

This is a regional flora to Île-de-France, one of the twenty-seven administrative regions of France, consisting mostly of the Paris metropolitan area. What do we know of the floristic richness of the Paris region?

972 pages | colour photos, 1500 distribution maps |

Hardback | 10/2011 | 9782759209484 | #205702A | £149.99 Add to basket

 

Flore du Gabon, Volume 45: Clusiaceae, Malvaceae

MSM Sosef

For the first the taxonomy has changed little with the use of molecular tools and leads us in the forestry sector, with 7 genera and 24 species. The majority, fifteen, belong to the genus Garcinia for which a previous publication presented two ... ....

94 pages | illustrations |

Paperback | 01/2013 | 9783823616467 | #205654A | £58.99 Add to basket

 

Flowering Plants and Ferns of St Helena

Phil Lambdon

This is the first full account of St Helena's vascular plants since 1875, and deals with the identification, ecology and history of 600 species. It incorporates many taxonomic changes and includes 2 new endemics and over 60 introductions ... ....

620 pages | colour photos, colour distribution maps |

Paperback | NYP 07/2013 | 9781874357520 | #206411A | £34.95 Add to basket

 

Genomics of Cultivated Palms

V Arunachalam

Bioinformatics offers novel tools and resources to analyze plant genomes and genes. The complete genomes of two important commercial palms (dates and oil palm) have recently been sequenced. This offers scope for many computational tools ... ....

114 pages |

Hardback | 12/2011 | 9780123877369 | #205686A | £84.99 Add to basket

 

Genomics of the Saccharinae

Andrew H Paterson

The Saccharinae clade of the Poaceae (grass) family of flowering plants includes several important crops with a rich history of contributions to humanity and the promise of still-greater contributions, as a result of some of the highest ... ....

583 pages | 11 colour & 50 b/w illustrations, 37 tables |

Hardback | 09/2012 | 9781441959461 | #205768A | £153.00 Add to basket

 

Healing Flowers

Practical Ways to Balance the Mind, Body and Spirit

Jessica Houdret

Healing Flowers: Practical Ways to Balance the Mind, Body and Spirit is a fully illustrated guide to therapeutic flowers and their uses, and how to make safe, effective treatments at home. It includes easy-to-prepare remedies to ... ....

64 pages | 160+ colour photos |

Hardback | NYP 05/2013 | 9780754827542 | #206137A | £3.99 Add to basket

 

High Throughput Phenotyping in Plants

Methods and Protocols

Jennifer Normanly

Genetic approaches to understanding plant growth and development have always benefitted from screens that are simple, quantitative and rapid. Visual screens and morphometric analysis have yielded a plethora of interesting mutants and ... ....

376 pages | 46 colour & 14 b/w illustrations, 14 tables |

Hardback | 08/2012 | 9781617799945 | #205771A | £98.99 Add to basket

 

Identifying Moulds

A Practical Guide

Liliane E Petrini and Orlando Petrini

Identifying moulds is an introduction to the procedures to be followed for the identification of the most common and important genera of moulds. This first English edition is based on the third German edition of ...

191 pages | 37 illustrations, 12 tables |

Paperback | 04/2013 | 9783443500382 | #205877A | £59.99 Add to basket

 

Invasion of Woody Legumes

OW Van Auken and JK Bush

Invasion of Woody Legumes includes our current knowledge of the invasion or encroachment and cause of population growth and spread of some dry land, arid zone woody legumes. Community structure, population growth, and competition ... ....

84 pages | 5 colour & 24 b/w illustrations |

Paperback | NYP 05/2013 | 9781461471981 | #206517A | £44.99 Add to basket

 

Jatropha, Challenges for a New Energy Crop, Volume 1

Farming, Economics and Biofuel

Bir Bahadur, Mulpuri Sujatha and Nicolas Carels

Jatropha curcas or Physic Nut is a small tree (bush plant) that produces fruits under tropical climate. The fruits contained seed that are 40 percent oil rich. This oil is excellent for biodiesel. The bush is a now new coming ... ....

619 pages | 184 colour illustrations |

Hardback | 12/2012 | 9781461448051 | #205816A | £135.00 Add to basket

 

Jatropha, Challenges for a New Energy Crop, Volume 2

Genetic Improvement and Biotechnology

Bir Bahadur, Mulpuri Sujatha and Nicolas Carels

Jatropha curcas or Physic Nut is a small tree (bush plant) that produces fruits under tropical climate. The fruits contained seed that are 40 percent oil rich. This oil is excellent for biodiesel. The bush is a now new coming ... ....

631 pages | 63 colour & 72 b/w illustrations, 36 tables |

Hardback | 12/2012 | 9781461449140 | #205815A | £135.00 Add to basket

 

Lichens of St Helena

Andre Aptroot

A total of 225 species of lichen are currently known from St Helena, some of which dominate large areas of dry coastal hillside, yet this is the first treatment of a rich assemblage. The comprehensive technical keys are necessary for the ... ....

116 pages | colour photos |

Paperback | NYP 07/2013 | 9781874357517 | #206409A | £11.95 Add to basket

 

Lichens to Biomonitor the Environment

Vertika Shukla, DK Upreti and Rajesh Bajpai

Lichens to Biomonitor the Environment embodies the detailed account about unique symbionts i.e. Lichens in ecosystem monitoring. The first chapter deals with unique characteristics features of lichens which facilitate ... ....

250 pages | 36 colour & 7 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 06/2013 | 9788132215028 | #206494A | £89.99 Add to basket

 

Lundy Lichens

Ann Allen

An identification guide to the lichens found on Lundy Island.

48 pages | illustrations |

Spiralbound | 01/2007 | 9780953053292 | #206588A | £9.99 Add to basket

 

Mesembs: The Titanopsis Group

Steven A Hammer

The Titanopsis Group is a division of the Aizoaceae (the mesemb family), a horticulturally important group of miniature succulent plants dominant in many parts of southern Africa. Mesembs: The Titanopsis Group covers the ... ....

194 pages | 137 colour photos, 25 colour illustrations, 7 colour distribution maps |

Hardback | 02/2013 | 9781939134004 | #205889A | £49.99 Add to basket

 

Microbial Carotenoids From Fungi

Methods and Protocols

Jose-Luis Barredo

Carotenoids are a family of yellow to orange-red terpenoid pigments synthesized by photosynthetic organisms and many bacteria and fungi. They have beneficial health effects protecting against oxidative damage, and may be responsible for ... ....

301 pages | 9 colour & 42 b/w illustrations, 7 tables |

Hardback | 06/2012 | 9781617799174 | #205748A | £85.50 Add to basket

 

Modern Roses

An Illustrated Guide to Varieties, Cultivation and Care, with Step-by-step Instructions and Over 150 Beautiful Photograp

Andrew Mikolajski

Modern Roses is an illustrated guide to varieties, cultivation and care, with step-by-step instructions and over 150 beautiful photographs. It features full photographic directory of over 40 varieties, including cluster-flowered ... ....

64 pages | 150+ colour photos |

Paperback | NYP 05/2013 | 9781780192727 | #206133A | £6.99 Add to basket

 

Molecular Stress Physiology of Plants

Gyana Ranjan Rout and Anath Bandhu Das

Crop growth and production is dependent on various climatic factors. Both abiotic and biotic stresses have become an integral part of plant growth and development. There are several factors involved in plant stress mechanism. The information ... ....

457 pages | 46 colour & 51 b/w illustrations, 21 tables |

Hardback | 02/2013 | 9788132208068 | #206004A | £135.00 Add to basket

 

Mosses and Liverworts of St Helena

Martin J Wigginton

Describing over 100 species with detailed keys, field notes, photos and line drawings, Mosses and Liverworts of St Helena comprehensively covers all bryophytes from a notable flora, including 65 which have been newly identified ... ....

128 pages | colour photos, b/w line drawings |

Paperback | NYP 07/2013 | 9781874357513 | #206410A | £11.95 Add to basket

 

Mosses and Liverworts of the Azores and Madeira

Jan-Peter Frahm

The mild and humid climate in the Azores and Madeira favours the growth of mosses and liverworts. More than 500 species were so far found in each archipelago. Many are found else only along the oceanic coastal regions of Europe, some even ... ....

116 pages | colour photos |

Paperback | 02/2013 | 9783848214464 | #205655A | £34.99 Add to basket

 

Natural Antioxidants and Biocides from Wild Medicinal Plants

CL Cespedes, DA Sampietro, DS Seigler and MK Rai

Natural Antioxidants and Biocides from Wild Medicinal Plants offers up-to-date knowledge on antioxidant and biocidal compounds from plants in a single source. Plants produce secondary metabolites with herbicidal, insecticidal ... ....

272 pages | illustrations |

Hardback | 04/2013 | 9781780642338 | #205651A | £94.99 Add to basket

 

Natural Compounds: Plant Sources, Structure and Properties (6-Volume Set)

Shakhnoza S Azimova

Natural Compounds: Plant Sources, Structure and Properties details the properties of over 7500 chemical compounds of pharmacological interest found in plants. Each volume systematically covers occurrence of the compounds in plants ... ....

4816 pages |

Paperback | 01/2013 | 9780387491394 | #206511A | £1800.00 Add to basket

 

Nouvelle Flore de la Belgique, du Grande-Duche de Luxembourg, du Nord de la France et des Regions Voisnes

Jacques Lambinon and F Verloove

Long awaited by all plant lovers the sixth edition of the Nouvelle Flore de Belgique has now been published. With almost 1200 pages, this book allows the identification of all vascular plants - including flowering plants, conifers, mosses ... ....

1195 pages | 126 plates with 1500 b/w line drawings; 16 illustrations, fold-out map |

Hardback | 10/2012 | 9789072619884 | #206054A | £56.99 Add to basket

 

Orchidees de La Reunion

Patrice Bernet and Jean Bosser

On Reunion Island, identification of orchids began in 1880 with the work of botanist Charles Frappier. He published at this time a provisional catalog that included only 145 species names, without any description.

368 pages | 1200 colour photos |

Hardback | 12/2010 | 9782746627055 | #206546A | £87.99 Add to basket

 

Organic Gardening

The Natural No-dig Way

Charles Dowding

In this new full-colour edition of Organic Gardening, Charles Dowding shares the wealth of his experience, explaining his approach to soil and plants and revealing the range of techniques that have enabled him to grow healthy ... ....

256 pages | colour illustrations |

Paperback | 02/2013 | 9780857840899 | #205782A | £14.95 Add to basket

 

Parasitic Orobanchaceae

Parasitic Mechanisms and Control Strategies

Daniel M Joel, Jonathan Gressel and Lytton John Musselman

Internationally recognized leading scientists provide a comprehensive account of the current knowledge on all aspects of the parasitic syndrome within the Orobanchaceae and of the available means for parasitic weed management.

400 pages |

Hardback | NYP 07/2013 | 9783642381454 | #206146A | £135.00 Add to basket

 

Pelargoniums

An Illustrated Guide to Varieties, Cultivation and Care, with Step-by-step Instructions and Over 170 Beautiful Photograp

Blaise Cooke

Pelargoniums is an illustrated guide to varieties, cultivation and care, with step-by-step instructions and over 170 beautiful photographs. Features: everything you need to know at a glance in one handy and magnificently illustrated ... ....

64 pages | 170+ colour photos |

Paperback | NYP 05/2013 | 9781780192734 | #206134A | £6.99 Add to basket

 

Phytochemicals, Plant Growth, and the Environment

David R Gang

This 42nd volume of Recent Advances in Phytochemistry (RAP) includes a total of seven articles, many, but not all, based on talks presented at the 50th annual meeting of the PSNA. As was seen in RAP volume 41 ...

180 pages | 16 colour & 26 b/w illustrations, 8 tables |

Hardback | 08/2012 | 9781461440659 | #205766A | £126.00 Add to basket

 

Phytohormones and Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Plants

Nafees A Khan, Rahat Nazar, Noushina Iqbal and Naser A Anjum

Plants are sessile and prone to multiple stresses in the changing environmental conditions. Of the several strategies adopted by plants to counteract the adverse effects of abiotic stress, phytohormones provide signals to allow plants to ... ....

314 pages | 13 colour & 54 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 03/2012 | 9783642258282 | #205588A | £126.00 Add to basket

 

Plant Signaling Peptides

Helen R Irving and Christoph Gehring

Plants have evolved with a complex array of signaling molecules to facilitate their growth and development and their interactions with the environment. A vast number of different peptide molecules form an important but until recently often ... ....

294 pages | 27 colour & 10 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 06/2012 | 9783642276026 | #205750A | £126.00 Add to basket

 

Plant Signalling Networks

Zhiyong Wang and Zhenbiao Yang

Signal transduction is the fundamental mechanism for regulation of cellular activities by environmental cues and regulatory signals, and is particularly important for plants, whose survival requires proper physiological and developmental ... ....

241 pages | 7 colour & 21 b/w illustrations, 4 tables |

Hardback | 05/2012 | 9781617798085 | #205730A | £85.50 Add to basket

 

RHS How to Grow Practically Everything

Gardening Projects Anyone Can Do

Zia Allway and Lia Leendertz

Gardening projects absolutely anyone can do, from the experts at the RHS. If you want to start gardening or simply improve your skills, RHS How to Grow Practically Everything will show you how. The fool-proof projects for beginners ... ....

448 pages | colour photos |

Paperback | NYP 06/2013 | 9781409332978 | #206135A | £14.99 Add to basket

 

Rice Protocols

Yinong Yang

With the completion of a finished rice genome sequence, increasing efforts have focused on functional characterization of rice genes, elucidation of the underlying mechanisms involved in major agronomic traits (e.g., high yield, grain ... ....

347 pages | 7 colour & 36 b/w illustrations, 8 tables |

Hardback | 11/2012 | 9781627031936 | #205830A | £98.99 Add to basket

 

Rothmaler - Exkursionsflora von Deutschland, Band 3

Gefaesspflanzen: Atlasband

EJ Jaeger, F Mueller, C Ritz, E Welk and K Wesche

In the new Rothmaler Atlas volume more than 3000 habitus drawings of wild vascular plants of the flora of Germany are included. Each plant is scientifically and accurately represented to scale with several characteristic details.

816 pages | 2953 colour photos |

Hardback | NYP 05/2013 | 9783827420503 | #206057A | £29.99 Add to basket

 

Seasearch Guide to Seaweeds of Britain and Ireland

Frances StP D Bunker, Juliet A Brodie, Christine A Maggs and Anne R Bunker

British and Irish shallow seas contain an astonishing 7% of the world's seaweed species, around 700 different seaweeds, and yet most divers, snorkelers and rockpoolers can put names to only a handful of them.

224 pages | 450 colour photos, 36 illustrations |

Paperback | 12/2010 | 9780948150517 | #188944A | £22.50 Add to basket

Paperback | 11/2012 | 9780957394612 | #206401A | £16.95 Add to basket

 

Stalking the Wild Sweetgrass

Domestication and Horticulture of the Grass Used in African-American Coiled Basketry

Robert J Dufault

Stalking the Wild Sweetgrass is concerned with the historical domestication of sweetgrass, the main construction/structural grass used in the three century old African-American tradition of coiled basketry in South Carolina. ....

128 pages | 24 colour & 41 b/w illustrations |

Paperback | 12/2012 | 9781461459026 | #205993A | £44.99 Add to basket

 

Textual Criticism of Type Specimens of Vascular Plants Preserved in the Northeast China Herbarium

Cao Wei

The Northeast China Herbarium stores about 570 000 specimens, including vascular plants, bryophytes, lichens, fungi, insects, plant diseasea and wood specimens et al. Its entreasures is in the front ranks of China.

415 pages | colour illustrations |

Hardback | 01/2011 | 9787030313485 | #205635A | £55.99 Add to basket

 

The CABI Encyclopedia of Forest Trees

Centre for Agricultural Bioscience International (CABI)

The CABI Encyclopedia of Forest Trees provides an overview of 300 of the world's most important forest trees based on datasheets from CABI's Forestry Compendium. Tropical, subtropical, temperate and boreal trees of major ... ....

600 pages |

Hardback | NYP 09/2013 | 9781780642369 | #204844A | £175.00 Add to basket

 

The Drunken Botanist

The Plants That Create The World's Great Drinks

Amy Stewart

This quirky guide, The Drunken Botanist, explains the chemistry and botanical history of over 150 plants, trees, flowers and fruits, showing how they form the bases of our favourite cocktails. Amy Stewart offers gardeners ... ....

368 pages | colour illustrations |

Hardback | 03/2013 | 9781616200466 | #203692A | £18.99 Add to basket

Hardback | NYP 05/2013 | 9781604694765 | #206284A | £14.99 Add to basket

 

The Flora of Leicestershire and Rutland

Checklist and Rare Plant Register

Michael Jeeves

This new work – by the Trust's Head of Conservation Michael Jeeves – is the first complete published listing of those flowering plants, ferns, clubmosses and horsetails recorded growing wild in the combined counties of ... ....

144 pages | 4 plates with colour photos |

Paperback | 01/2012 | #150941A | £14.99 Add to basket

 

The Holistic Orchard

Tree Fruits and Berries the Biological Way

Michael Philips

Many people want to grow fruit on a small scale but lack the insight to be successful orchardists. Growing tree fruits and berries is something virtually anyone with space and passionate desire can do – given wise guidance and a ... ....

432 pages | colour illustrations |

Paperback | 03/2012 | 9781933392134 | #205784A | £34.99 Add to basket

 

The National Plant Collections Directory 2013

National Council for the Conservation of Plants and Gardens (NCCPG)

The 2013 directory details all the current National Plant Collections, lists of collections by County, and lists Special Open Days.

140 pages |

Paperback | 03/2013 | 9780956169853 | #205897A | £12.99 Add to basket

 

Turfgrass Physiology and Ecology

Advanced Management Principles

Gregory E Bell

In order to face new challenges and unique situations in turfgrass management, students need to understand why specific management practices work and how to adjust them based on plants' requirements. Explaining the physiological need ... ....

248 pages | 71 ilustrations |

Paperback | 02/2011 | 9781845936488 | #206489A | £39.95 Add to basket

 

Un Jardin pour les Insectes

Les Connaitre et Favoriser leur Presence

Vincent Albouy and Gilbert Hodebert

Un Jardin pour les Insectes is a guide how to turn your garden into a haven for insects. This book describes the insects in hedgerows, orchards, gardens, and meadows, and suggests measures that will support their proliferation. ....

223 pages | colour photos, colour illustrations |

Paperback | 03/2013 | 9782603019573 | #205562A | £23.50 Add to basket

 

Wild Flowers on the Edge

The Story of North Yorkshire's Road Verges

Margaret Atherden and Nan Sykes

Wild Flowers on the Edge explains the history, management and many uses of roadside verges and their importance for wildlife in North Yorkshire. A 90-page book with colour pictures on every page, it reveals how the treatment of ... ....

90 pages | colour photos |

Paperback | 01/2012 | 9781906604404 | #205601A | £21.99 Add to basket

 

Yew

Fred Hageneder

Botanists around the world marvel at the unique characteristics of the yew, Europe's most ancient species of tree. It is a 'conifer' without resin or cones but with juicy scarlet fruits that feed many birds and animals ... ....

224 pages | 70 colour & 30 b/w photos and illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 10/2013 | 9781780231891 | #206458A | £15.99 Add to basket

 
Animal & General Biology
 

Animal Earth

The Amazing Diversity of Living Creatures

Ross Piper

The familiar tigers, elephants, eagles, fish, and insects of the animal kingdom account for only a tiny proportion of known species. The true picture of animal life on our planet is much more diverse.

320 pages | 565 colour photos and illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 09/2013 | 9780500516966 | #205607A | £26.96 Add to basket

 

Antimicrobial Resistance in Animal and Public Health

J Acar and G Moulin

The focus of this Review is to address the various factors that must be taken into account when trying to understand the antimicrobial resistance problem, with a particular focus on the use of antimicrobials in animals.

Paperback | 01/2012 | #206029A | £83.99 Add to basket

 

Aquatic Animal Health Code

World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE)

The OIE Aquatic Animal Health Code (the Aquatic Code) sets out standards for the improvement of aquatic animal health and welfare and veterinary public health worldwide, including through standards for safe international trade in aquatic ... ....

170 pages | - |

Paperback | 01/2012 | 9789290448631 | #206026A | £56.99 Add to basket

 

Basic Cell Culture Protocols

Cheryl D Helgason and Cindy L Miller

At some point in their careers, virtually every scientist and technician, as well as many medical professionals, regardless of their area of specialization have a need to utilize cell culture systems. Updating and significantly expanding ... ....

564 pages | 44 colour & 60 b/w illustrations, 28 tables |

Hardback | 11/2012 | 9781627031271 | #205820A | £112.50 Add to basket

 

Beyond Mechanism

Putting Life Back into Biology

It has been said that new discoveries and developments in the human, social, and natural sciences hang "in the air" (Bowler, 1983; 2008) prior to their consummation. While neo-Darwinist biology has been powerfully served by its ... ....

484 pages | illustrations |

Hardback | 02/2013 | 9780739174364 | #206456A | £55.99 Add to basket

 

Biology

For the IB Diploma

Andrew Allott

Closely supporting the Biology course book, this comprehensive study guide effectively reinforces all the key concepts for the 2007 syllabus at SL and HL. Packed with detailed assessment guidance, it supports the highest ...

186 pages | b/w photos and illustrations |

Paperback | 06/2012 | 9780198389941 | #206395A | £20.99 Add to basket

 

Biomimetics: A Molecular Perspective

Raz Jelinek

Biological systems have always inspired mankind in the creation of new systems and technologies. In recent years the interface between the biological and non-biological worlds appears increasingly blurred due to significant advances both ... ....

268 pages |

Paperback | NYP 05/2013 | 9783110281170 | #206125A | £100.00 Add to basket

 

Black's Veterinary Dictionary

Edward Boden and Anthony Andrews

Black's Veterinary Dictionary is much more than a list of veterinary terms; its practical approach ensures that readers gain an insight into the signs of common, and less common, diseases, their diagnosis and treatment. ....

816 pages | b/w photos, 200 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 10/2013 | 9781408175729 | #206230A | £27.99 Add to basket

 

Calcium Signaling Protocols

David G Lambert and Richard D Rainbow

The regulation of intracellular Ca2+ has continued to be a powerful area of study since the publication of the first and second editions of Calcium Signaling Protocols, and the developments in the field have also ... ....

371 pages | 17 colour & 34 b/w illustrations, 13 tables |

Hardback | 09/2012 | 9781627030854 | #205804A | £98.99 Add to basket

 

Capillary Electrophoresis of Biomolecules

Methods and Protocols

Nicola Volpi and Francesca Maccari

Capillary Electrophoresis of Biomolecules: Methods and Protocols details key techniques used to investigate Capillary electrophoresis (CE). It focuses on simple and complex carbohydrates (polysaccharides), aminoacids, peptides ... ....

372 pages | 30 colour & 78 b/w illustrations, 15 tables |

Hardback | 02/2013 | 9781627032957 | #206006A | £98.99 Add to basket

 

Comparative Genomics

Xuhua Xia

Comparative Genomics provides an evolutionary conceptual framework for comparative genomics, with the ultimate objective of understanding the loss and gain of genes during evolution, the interactions among gene products, and the ... ....

79 pages | 3 colour & 17 b/w illustrations |

Paperback | NYP 05/2013 | 9783642371455 | #206527A | £44.99 Add to basket

 

Corynebacterium Glutamicum

Biology and Biotechnology

Hideaki Yukawa and Masayuki Inui

Corynebacterium Glutamicum shows how data from genome sequencing allows engineering of the entire cellular metabolism, and how systems biology permits further optimization of C. glutamicum as a biocatalyst.

424 pages | 14 colour & 59 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 08/2012 | 9783642298561 | #205861A | £135.00 Add to basket

 

Cyclic Nucleotide Signaling in Plants

Methods and Protocols

Christoph Gehring

Over the last two decades there has been a growing interest in cyclic nucleotide research in plants with an emphasis on the elucidation of the roles of cGMP and cAMP.

340 pages | 22 colour & 16 b/w illustrations, 9 tables |

Hardback | NYP 05/2013 | 9781627034401 | #206524A | £85.50 Add to basket

 

D-Xylitol

Fermentative Production, Application and Commercialization

Silvio Silverio Da Silva and Anuj Kumar Chandel

Commercially, D-xylitol is produced by chemical reactions that are tailored to the requirements of various sectors. However, due to the rising interest in sustainable development and ecologically benign practices, microbial transformation ... ....

360 pages | 24 black & white illustrations, 13 colour illustrations |

Hardback | 10/2012 | 9783642318863 | #205818A | £135.00 Add to basket

 

Diagnostics in Plant Breeding

Thomas Lubberstedt and Rajeev K Varshney

Diagnostics in Plant Breeding is systematically organizing cutting-edge research reviews on the development and application of molecular tools for the prediction of plant performance. Given its significance for mankind and the ... ....

536 pages | 32 colour & 13 b/w illustrations, 34 tables |

Hardback | 03/2013 | 9789400756861 | #205999A | £135.00 Add to basket

 

Dictyostelids

Evolution, Genomics and Cell Biology

Maria Romeralo, Sandra Baldauf and Ricardo Escalante

Since their discovery in 1869, the dictyostelids have attracted the attention of scientists in a wide variety of fields. This interest has stemmed from their peculiar lifestyle and developmental properties, which were shaped by the evolution ... ....

250 pages |

Hardback | NYP 09/2013 | 9783642384868 | #206495A | £126.00 Add to basket

 

Dictyostelium Discoideum Protocols

Methods and Protocols

Ludwig Eichinger and Francisco Rivero

Dictyostelium Discoideum Protocols: Methods and Protocols offers an introduction to the amoebozoa, presents large-scale analysis methods made possible by the completion of the Dictyostelium genome sequence ... ....

491 pages | 55 colour & 55 b/w illustrations, 20 tables |

Hardback | 04/2013 | 9781627033015 | #205994A | £98.99 Add to basket

 

Electron Crystallography of Soluble and Membrane Proteins

Methods and Protocols

Ingeborg Schmidt-Krey and Yifan Cheng

The basic principle of electron crystallography is to calculate a 3D density map by combining the amplitudes obtained from electron diffraction patterns with the experimental phases calculated from images of two-dimensional crystals of ... ....

599 pages | 63 colour & 88 b/w illustrations, 12 tables |

Hardback | 11/2012 | 9781627031752 | #205826A | £112.50 Add to basket

 

Enzymatic Transformation

Soundar Divakar

Transformations using enzymes have been extensively investigated in the last two decades and the results promise great potential for this growing field, especially in the area of synthetic organic chemistry mainly due to of its many ... ....

304 pages | 14 colour & 384 b/w illustrations, 113 tables |

Hardback | 12/2012 | 9788132208723 | #205992A | £126.00 Add to basket

 

Epithelial Cell Culture Protocols

Methods and Protocols

Scott H Randell and M Leslie Fulcher

Fascinating biology occurs at epithelial interfaces, whether between organism and environment or within body compartments, and many diseases inflicting huge personal and societal burdens result from dysfunction of epithelial systems ... ....

481 pages | 35 colour & 47 b/w illustrations, 20 tables |

Hardback | 10/2012 | 9781627031240 | #205825A | £98.99 Add to basket

 

Equine Welfare

Bernard E Rollin and C Wayne McIllwraith

A rational exploration of the ethical and welfare issues in all areas of equine use. Equine Welfare addresses controversial and emotive issues surrounding these iconic creatures, providing a reliable source of information to ... ....

504 pages | illustrations |

Paperback | 03/2011 | 9781405187633 | #205676A | £47.50 Add to basket

 

Evolution's Rainbow

Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in Nature and People

Joan Roughgarden

In this innovative celebration of diversity and affirmation of individuality in animals and humans, Joan Roughgarden challenges accepted wisdom about gender identity and sexual orientation. A distinguished evolutionary biologist ... ....

474 pages |

Paperback | NYP 10/2013 | 9780520280458 | #206497A | £24.95 Add to basket

 

Exploring Animal Behavior

Readings from American Scientist

Paul W Sherman and John Alcock

This anthology contains 37 articles published since 1974 in American Scientist, the journal of the scientific society Sigma Xi. While sequenced particularly to complement John Alcock's Animal Behavior, this readily ... ....

374 pages |

Paperback | NYP 08/2013 | 9781605351957 | #206584A | £26.99 Add to basket

 

Extracellular Matrix

Pathobiology and Signaling

Nikos K Karamanos

Over the last decades cell biology and biological chemistry have increasingly turned their attention to the space between cells and revealed an elaborate network of macromolecules essential for structural support, cell migration, adhesion ... ....

938 pages | 160 colour illustrations, 60 tables |

Hardback | 08/2012 | 9783110258769 | #205786A | £258.00 Add to basket

 

Extracorporeal Photopheresis

Cellular Photoimmunotherapy

Hildegard T Greinix and Robert Knobler

Extracorporeal photopheresis (ECP) is the first FDA approved cellular photoimmunotherapy for cancer and has demonstrated efficacy in T-cell mediated disorders including prevention and treatment of acute and chronic graft-versus-host disease ... ....

227 pages | 50 colour illustrations, 16 black & white tables, 50 farb. Abb., 16 schw.-w. Tab. |

Hardback | 07/2012 | 9783110275940 | #205787A | £3.99 Add to basket

 

Foundations in Microbiology (International Edition)

Kathleen Park Talaro and Barry Chess

Foundations in Microbiology is an allied health microbiology text for non-science majors with a taxonomic approach to the disease chapters. It offers an engaging and accessible writing style through the use of tools such as case ... ....

928 pages | illustrations |

Hardback | 02/2011 | 9780071316736 | #206498A | £138.00 Add to basket

 

Genetic Mapping and Marker Assisted Selection

N Manikanda Boopathi

Genetic mapping and marker assisted selection (MAS) is considered as one of the major tools in genetic improvement of crop plants in this genomics era. Genetic Mapping and Marker Assisted Selection describes basics in linkage ... ....

312 pages | b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 12/2012 | 9788132209577 | #205990A | £126.00 Add to basket

 

Genetic Preservation of Plant Cells in Vitro

Brian Grout

The preservation of different plant varieties and valuable species is an important prerequisite for successful plant breeding. All relevant techniques required to maintain viable plant cells or organs in vitro over extended periods of ... ....

184 pages | b/w illustrations |

Paperback | 04/2013 | 9783642489686 | #206116A | £71.99 Add to basket

 

Genome-Wide Prediction and Analysis of Protein-Protein Functional Linkages in Bacteria

Vijaykumar Yogesh Muley and Vishal Acharya

Using genome sequencing, one can predict possible interactions among proteins. There are very few titles that focus on protein-protein interaction predictions in bacteria. The authors of Genome-Wide Prediction and Analysis<\em> ... ....

70 pages | 12 colour & 7 b/w illustrations |

Paperback | 07/2012 | 9781461447047 | #205806A | £44.99 Add to basket

 

Good Governance and Financing of Efficient Veterinary Services

L Msellati

This issue of the Review aims at providing the reader with a conceptual framework to analyse the governance of national Veterinary Services and shows how reforms that promote good governance can help enhance the quality of national animal ... ....

Paperback | 01/2012 | #206030A | £83.99 Add to basket

 

Handbook of Cyanobacteria

TA Sarma

Handbook of Cyanobacteria acquaints readers with the exciting developments in various areas of cyanobacterial research in the backdrop of the publication of complete genome sequence of the cyanobacterium Synechocystis ... ....

812 pages | 46 colour & 104 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 12/2012 | 9781578088003 | #206289A | £127.00 Add to basket

 

Helicobacter Species

Methods and Protocols

JeanMarie Houghton

Identifying Helicobacter infection as the leading cause of peptic ulcer disease and gastric cancer has dramatically altered the treatment of these disease states. Over the last several decades, scientists have come to understand that the ... ....

268 pages | 20 black & white illustrations, 8 colour illustrations, 2 black & white tables |

Hardback | 09/2012 | 9781627030045 | #205859A | £85.50 Add to basket

 

Inquiry into Life (International Edition)

Sylvia Mader

A new edition of this textbook. A separate lab manual is also available.

864 pages | illustrations |

Paperback | 05/2013 | 9781259080746 | #206560A | £47.99 Add to basket

 

Intrinsically Disordered Protein Analysis, Volume 1

Methods and Experimental Tools

Vladimir N Uversky and A Keith Dunker

Over the past decade, there has been an explosive development of research of intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs), which are also known as unfolded proteins. Structural biologists now recognize that the functional diversity provided ... ....

525 pages | 76 colour & 62 b/w illustrations, 5 tables |

Hardback | 07/2012 | 9781617799266 | #205755A | £98.99 Add to basket

 

Intrinsically Disordered Protein Analysis, Volume 2

Methods and Experimental Tools

Vladimir N Uversky and A Keith Dunker

Over the past decade, there has been an explosive development of research of intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs), which are also known as unfolded proteins. Structural biologists now recognize that the functional diversity provided ... ....

468 pages | 30 colour & 55 b/w illustrations, 18 tables |

Hardback | 07/2012 | 9781461437031 | #205756A | £98.99 Add to basket

 

JAK-STAT Signalling

Methods and Protocols

Sandra E Nicholson and Nicos Nicola

The receptor-associated JAK protein kinases and their substrates, the STAT transcriptional activators, transmit signals following cytokine and growth factor binding to receptors expressed on the cell surface, to result in specific ... ....

329 pages | 9 colour & 43 b/w illustrations, 12 tables |

Hardback | 12/2012 | 9781627032414 | #206002A | £98.99 Add to basket

 

Lateral Gene Transfer in Evolution

Uri Gophna

Although the phenomenon of lateral gene transfer has been known since the 1940's, it was the genomics era that has really revealed the extent and many facets of this evolutionary/genetic phenomenon. Even in the early 2000s with but a ... ....

294 pages | 27 colour & 21 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 09/2013 | 9781461477792 | #206187A | £126.00 Add to basket

 

Lipid-Protein Interactions

Methods and Protocols

Juerg H Kleinschmidt

Biological membranes are the essential structuring elements of all living cells. Many enzymatic reactions take place at the membrane-water interface. To gain detailed insight into membrane properties, it is therefore of great importance ... ....

474 pages | 56 colour & 51 b/w illustrations, 26 tables |

Hardback | 02/2013 | 9781627032742 | #205998A | £98.99 Add to basket

 

Mammalian Oocyte Regulation

Methods and Protocols

Hayden A Homer

Mammalian oocytes occupy a critical nexus in reproduction as they not only contribute half the genetic makeup of the embryo but also provide virtually all of the cytoplasmic building blocks required for sustaining embryogenesis.

322 pages | 19 colour & 42 b/w illustrations, 8 tables |

Hardback | 11/2012 | 9781627031905 | #205821A | £85.50 Add to basket

 

Manual of Diagnostic Tests and Vaccines for Terrestrial Animals (2-Volume Set)

World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE)

Aims to facilitate international trade in animals and animal products and to contribute to the improvement of animal health services world-wide. The principal target readership is laboratories carrying out ...

1404 pages |

Paperback | 01/2012 | 9789290448785 | #206027A | £190.00 Add to basket

 

Mass Spectrometry of Glycoproteins

Methods and Protocols

Jennifer Kohler and Steven M Patrie

Glycosylation is the most abundant post-translational modification of proteins. Estimates vary widely, but a common assessment is that upwards of 50 per cent of eukaryotic proteins are modified by some type of glycan.

350 pages | 12 colour & 78 b/w illustrations, 13 tables |

Hardback | 12/2012 | 9781627031455 | #205822A | £98.99 Add to basket

 

Membrane Protein Structure

Methods and Protocols

Nagarajan Vaidehi and Judith Klein-Seetharaman

Membrane proteins play key roles in numerous cellular processes, in particular mediating cell-to-cell communication and signaling events that lead to a multitude of biological effects. Membrane proteins have also been implicated in many ... ....

368 pages | 62 colour & 34 b/w illustrations, 7 tables |

Hardback | 09/2012 | 9781627030229 | #205863A | £98.99 Add to basket

 

Microbial Carotenoids from Bacteria and Microalgae

Methods and Protocols

Jose-Luis Barredo

Carotenoids are a family of yellow to orange-red terpenoid pigments synthesized by photosynthetic organisms and many bacteria and fungi. They have beneficial health effects protecting against oxidative damage and may be responsible for the ... ....

368 pages | b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 05/2012 | 9781617798788 | #205738A | £98.99 Add to basket

 

Microbial Growth in Drinking Water Supplies

Problems, Causes, Control and Research Needs

Dirk van der Kooij and Paul WJJ van der Wielen

Maintaining the microbial quality in distribution systems and connected installations remains a challenge for the water supply companies all over the world, despite many years of research.

500 pages | illustrations |

Paperback | NYP 06/2013 | 9781780400402 | #206537A | £129.00 Add to basket

 

Microbial Metal Respiration

From Geochemistry to Potential Applications

Johannes Gescher and Andreas Kappler

Microbes can respire on metals. This seemingly simple finding is one of the major discoveries that were made in the field of microbiology in the last few decades. The importance of this observation is evident. Metals are highly abundant ... ....

241 pages | 14 colour & 33 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 11/2012 | 9783642328664 | #205995A | £126.00 Add to basket

 

Microbial Systems Biology

Methods and Protocols

Ali Navid

Systems biology is the study of interactions between assorted components of biological systems with the aim of acquiring new insights into how organisms function and respond to different stimuli. Although more and more efforts are being ... ....

627 pages | 81 colour & 73 b/w illustrations, 37 tables |

Hardback | 05/2012 | 9781617798269 | #205727A | £112.50 Add to basket

 

Mitochondrial DNA, Mitochondria, Disease and Stem Cells

Justin St John

Mitochondrial DNA, Mitochondria, Disease and Stem Cells investigates how the mitochondrial genome is transmitted, segregated, and inherited. It starts by describing mtDNA mutations and deletions and how these impact on the ... ....

199 pages | 6 black & white illustrations, 15 colour illustrations, 5 black & white tables |

Hardback | 09/2012 | 9781627031004 | #205802A | £126.00 Add to basket

 

Molecular Typing in Bacterial Infections

Ivano de Filippis and Marian L McKee

Molecular Typing in Bacterial Infections covers common bacterial pathogenic agents, with the most effective methods for their identification and classification in the light of their specific epidemiology. The book will be a valuable ... ....

494 pages | 30 black & white illustrations, 10 colour illustrations |

Hardback | 11/2012 | 9781627031844 | #205819A | £153.00 Add to basket

 

Morphogenesis in Living Systems

Nadine Peyrieras

Morphogenesis in Living Systems presents interdisciplinary approaches which currently revolutionize the representation of the morphogenesis of living systems. Morphogenesis in Living Systems introduces concepts ... ....

250 pages | 20 colour & 40 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 09/2013 | 9783642359941 | #206516A | £89.99 Add to basket

 

Oxidative Stress and Redox Regulation

Ursula Jakob and Dana Reichmann

Many physiological conditions such as host defense or aging and pathological conditions such as neurodegenerative diseases, and diabetes are associated with the accumulation of high levels of reactive oxygen species and reactive nitrogen ... ....

493 pages | 44 colour & 28 b/w illustrations, 4 tables |

Hardback | 04/2013 | 9789400757868 | #205997A | £135.00 Add to basket

 

P53 Protocols

Sumitra Deb and Swati Palit Deb

The second edition of p53 Protocols expands upon the first edition with progress in p53 research since the publication of the first edition. In p53 Protocols, Second Edition expert researchers in the field detail many of the ... ....

248 pages | 33 colour & 18 b/w illustrations, 4 tables |

Hardback | 11/2012 | 9781627032353 | #205991A | £85.50 Add to basket

 

PCR Detection of Microbial Pathogens

Mark Wilks

PCR methods for the detection of microbial pathogens have made relatively little impact in diagnostic microbiology laboratories due to the common decision to use expensive commercially produced tests rather than the cheaper alternative ... ....

328 pages | 19 colour & 11 b/w illustrations, 42 tables |

Hardback | 07/2010 | 9781603273527 | #205829A | £69.99 Add to basket

 

Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptors (PPARs)

Methods and Protocols

Mostafa Z Badr and Jihan Youssef

All three peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor (PPAR) subtypes share a high degree of structural homology but differ in function, tissue distribution and ligand specificity. PPARs play critical roles as regulators of numerous physical ... ....

354 pages | 37 colour & 28 b/w illustrations, 18 tables |

Hardback | 10/2012 | 9781627031547 | #205814A | £98.99 Add to basket

 

Plant Cell Culture Protocols

Methods and Protocols

Victor M Loyola-Vargas and Neftali Ochoa-Alejo

Cell culture methodologies have become standard procedures in most plant laboratories. Currently, facilities for in vitro cell cultures are found in practically every plant biology laboratory, serving different purposes since tissue culture ... ....

444 pages | 18 colour & 28 b/w illustrations, 27 tables |

Hardback | 05/2012 | 9781617798177 | #205725A | £98.99 Add to basket

 

Protein Acetylation

Methods and Protocols

Sandra B Hake and Christian Janzen

This Methods in Molecular Biology book covers techniques for identifying protein acetylation, column- and gel electrophoresis-based approaches, computational predictionand biological response to protein acetylation.

277 pages | 18 colour & 36 b/w illustrations, 8 tables |

Hardback | 02/2013 | 9781627033046 | #205996A | £85.50 Add to basket

 

Protein Supersecondary Structures

Methods and Protocols

Alexander E Kister

Super Secondary Structure (SSS) helps to understand the relationship between primary and tertiary structure of proteins. In Protein Supersecondary Structure: Methods and Protocols expert researchers in the field detail the useful ... ....

337 pages | 54 colour & 45 b/w illustrations, 25 tables |

Hardback | 09/2012 | 9781627030649 | #205864A | £98.99 Add to basket

 

Proteins of the Nucleolus

Regulation, Translocation, & Biomedical Functions

Danton H O'Day and Andrew Catalano

Proteins of the Nucleolus: Regulation, Translocation, & Biomedical Functions contains 14 original review chapters each yielding new, exciting and intriguing data about the emerging understanding of nucleolar structure and ... ....

377 pages | 22 colour & 31 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 03/2013 | 9789400758179 | #206003A | £135.00 Add to basket

 

Quantitative Methods in Proteomics

Katrin Marcus

Protein modifications and changes made to them, as well as the quantities of expressed proteins, can define the various functional stages of the cell. Accordingly, perturbations can lead to various diseases and disorders. As a result, it ... ....

554 pages | 11 colour & 86 b/w illustrations, 19 tables |

Hardback | 06/2012 | 9781617798849 | #205752A | £98.99 Add to basket

 

RNA 3D Structure Analysis and Prediction

Neocles Leontis and Eric Westhof

With the dramatic increase in RNA 3D structure determination in recent years, we now know that RNA molecules are highly structured. Moreover, knowledge of RNA 3D structures has proven crucial for understanding in atomic detail how they ... ....

410 pages | 80 colour & 35 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 05/2012 | 9783642257391 | #205753A | £126.00 Add to basket

 

RNA Metabolism in Trypanosomes

Albrecht Bindereif

Trypanosomes are unicellular protozoa of ancient evolutionary origin that are responsible for several tropical diseases, such as African sleeping sickness. Over the last few decades, research in trypanosome biology has revealed many unique ... ....

277 pages | 22 colour & 5 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 06/2012 | 9783642286865 | #205754A | £126.00 Add to basket

 

Receptor Binding Techniques

Methods and Protocols

Anthony P Davenport

A broad definition of a receptor is a specialized protein on or in a cell that recognizes and binds a specific ligand to undergo a conformational change, leading to a physiological response or change in cell function. A ligand can be an ... ....

321 pages | 30 colour & 40 b/w illustrations, 22 tables |

Hardback | 06/2012 | 9781617799082 | #205749A | £85.50 Add to basket

 

Single-molecule Studies of Proteins

Andres F Oberhauser

In Single Molecule Studies of Proteins, expert researchers discuss the successful application of single-molecule techniques to a wide range of biological events, such as the imaging and mapping of cell surface receptors, the ... ....

287 pages | 73 colour & 12 b/w illustrations, 5 tables |

Hardback | 11/2012 | 9781461449201 | #205824A | £126.00 Add to basket

 

Single-stranded DNA Binding Proteins

Methods and Protocols

James L Keck

The genomes of cellular organisms are organized as double-stranded DNA, a structure that must be unwound to provide DNA replication, recombination, and repair machinery access to genomic information. However, DNA unwinding comes with ... ....

269 pages | 20 colour & 20 b/w illustrations, 5 tables |

Hardback | 09/2012 | 9781627030311 | #205860A | £85.50 Add to basket

 

Spermiogenesis and Spermatogenesis

Methods and Protocols

Douglas T Carrell and Kenneth I Aston

Deficiencies in sperm function are usually the result of spermatogenic defects. Spermatogenesis is a biologically complex and essential process during which spermatogonia undergo meiotic recombination, reduction of the genome to a haploid ... ....

571 pages | 42 black & white illustrations, 68 colour illustrations, 18 black & white tables |

Hardback | 09/2012 | 9781627030373 | #205858A | £98.99 Add to basket

 

Sphingosine-1-Phosphate

Methods and Protocols

Alice Pebay and Kursad Turksen

Sphingosine-1-phosphate is a bioactive lysophospholipid which has become, in recent years, the focus of much research interest as it has widespread developmental and physio-pathological actions, controlling events within the nervous ... ....

232 pages | 10 colour & 29 b/w illustrations, 15 tables |

Hardback | 04/2012 | 9781617797996 | #205728A | £85.50 Add to basket

 

Symplasmic Transport in Vascular Plants

Katarzyna Sokolowska and Pawel Sowinski

Concentrates on symplasmic transport of small molecules, although the cell-to-cell transport of macromolecules will also be discussed. Symplasmic Transport in Vascular Plants characterizes the efficiency of symplasmic ... ....

250 pages | 22 colour & 8 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 07/2013 | 9781461477648 | #206285A | £126.00 Add to basket

 

Terrestrial Animal Health Code (2-Volume Set)

The 2012 edition of the Terrestrial Code is a two-volume publication. Volume one contains recommendations that apply to a wide range of species, production sectors and/or diseases (so-called ‘horizontal standards') and ... ....

800 pages |

Paperback | 01/2012 | 9789290448549 | #206028A | £77.50 Add to basket

 

The Absolute, Ultimate Guide to Lehninger Principles of Biochemistry

Study Guide and Solutions Manual

Marcy Osgood and Karen Ocorr

The Absolute, Ultimate Guide combines an innovative study guide with a reliable solutions manual (providing extended solutions to end-of-chapter problems) in one convenient volume. The Study Guide includes for each chapter ... ....

600 pages |

Paperback | 03/2013 | 9781429294768 | #205677A | £41.99 Add to basket

 

The Centrosome

Cell and Molecular Mechanisms of Functions and Dysfunctions in Disease

Heide Schatten

The Centrosome: Cell and Molecular Mechanisms of Functions and Dysfunctions in Disease includes chapters on classic and modern aspects of centrosome research to cover topics of current interest that have not been covered in ... ....

410 pages | 38 black & white illustrations, 54 colour illustrations, 6 black & white tables |

Hardback | 07/2012 | 9781627030342 | #205862A | £140.00 Add to basket

 

Veterinary and Animal Ethics

Proceedings of the First International Conference on Veterinary and Animal Ethics, September 2011

Christopher Wathes, Sandra Corr, Stephen May, Steven McCulloch and Martin Whiting

The first International Conference on Veterinary and Animal Ethics (ICVAE) held in September 2011 saw leading experts from across the world come together to discuss the most important issues of animal welfare in contemporary veterinary ... ....

318 pages | illustrations |

Hardback | 11/2012 | 9781118314807 | #205675A | £69.99 Add to basket

 

Water in Biological and Chemical Processes

From Structure and Dynamics to Function

Biman Bagchi

Building up from microscopic basics to observed complex functions, this insightful monograph explains and describes how the unique molecular properties of water give rise to its structural and dynamical behaviour which in turn translates ... ....

376 pages | 9 colour & 127 b/w illustrations, 5 tables |

Hardback | NYP 10/2013 | 9781107037298 | #205125A | £79.99 Add to basket

 
Evolutionary Biology
 

Concealing Coloration in Animals

Judy Diamond and Alan B Bond

The biological functions of coloration in animals are sometimes surprising. Color can attract mates, intimidate enemies, and distract predators. But color patterns can also conceal animals from detection. Concealing coloration is unusual ... ....

271 pages | 52 colour photos & b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 03/2013 | 9780674052352 | #205875A | £22.95 Add to basket

 

Don't Look, Don't Touch

The Science Behind Revulsion

Valerie Curtis

There is a powerful subconscious reaction that influences a disturbingly wide range of our daily behaviour – our eating habits, our relationships, our values. The very same reaction that makes us draw back, lip curled, when we step ... ....

224 pages |

Hardback | NYP 09/2013 | 9780199579488 | #205338A | £16.99 Add to basket

 

Evolutionary Biology

Exobiology and Evolutionary Mechanisms

Pierre Pontarotti

Evolutionary Biology: Exobiology and Evolutionary Mechanisms collects 19 selected contributions presented at the 16th Evolutionary Biology Meeting in Marseille, which took place in September 2012.

312 pages | 24 colour & 45 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 06/2013 | 9783642382116 | #206270A | £135.00 Add to basket

 

Future Primal

How Our Wilderness Origins Show Us the Way Forward

How should we respond to our converging crises of violent conflict, political corruption, and global ecological devastation? In this sweeping, big-picture synthesis, Louis G. Herman argues that for us to create a sustainable ...

480 pages | Black and White Photographs |

Paperback | 04/2013 | 9781608681150 | #206455A | £16.99 Add to basket

 

Homo Mysterious

Evolutionary Puzzles of Human Nature

David P Barash

For all that science knows about the living world, notes David P. Barash, there are even more things that we don't know, genuine evolutionary mysteries that perplex the best minds in biology. Paradoxically, many of these mysteries are ... ....

344 pages | no illustrations |

Hardback | 09/2012 | 9780199751945 | #199028A | £18.99 Add to basket

Paperback | NYP 10/2013 | 9780199324521 | #206221A | £12.99 Add to basket

 

How We Do It

The Evolution and Future of Human Reproduction

Robert Martin

The author is a leading primatologist who offers a provocative new look at the past, present and future of sex, pregnancy, and childcare. Despite our culture's seemingly endless fascination with sex and parenting, the origins of our ... ....

320 pages |

Hardback | NYP 06/2013 | 9780465030156 | #206140A | £17.99 Add to basket

 

How to Think Like a Neandertal

Thomas Wynn and Frederick L Coolidge

There have been many books, movies, and even TV commercials featuring Neandertals – some serious, some comical. But what was it really like to be a Neandertal? How were their lives similar to or different from ours?

224 pages |

Hardback | 01/2012 | 9780199742820 | #195672A | £15.99 Add to basket

Paperback | NYP 11/2013 | 9780199329229 | #206222A | £12.99 Add to basket

 

Human Evolution

Genes, Genealogies and Phylogenies

Graeme Finlay

Controversy over human evolution remains widespread. However, the human genome project and genetic sequencing of many other species have provided myriad precise and unambiguous genetic markers that establish our evolutionary relationship ... ....

288 pages |

Hardback | NYP 09/2013 | 9781107040120 | #205216A | £39.99 Add to basket

 

Photosynthesis in Bryophytes and Early Land Plants

David T Hanson and Steven K Rice

Bryophytes, which are important constituents of ecosystems globally and often dominate carbon and water dynamics at high latitudes and elevations, were also among the pioneers of terrestrial photosynthesis. Consequently, in addition to ... ....

500 pages | 22 colour & 43 b/w illustrations, 12 tables |

Hardback | NYP 09/2013 | 9789400769878 | #206493A | £135.00 Add to basket

 

Rough and Tumble

Aggression, Hunting, and Human Evolution

Travis Rayne Pickering

Travis Rayne Pickering argues that the advent of ambush hunting approximately two million years ago marked a milestone in human evolution, one that established the social dynamic that allowed our ancestors to expand their range and diet. ....

224 pages | illustrations |

Hardback | 03/2013 | 9780520274006 | #206128A | £19.95 Add to basket

 

Strickberger's Evolution

Brian K Hall and Benedikt Hallgrimsson

Now with a new full color design and art program, the Fifth Edition of Strickberger's Evolution is updated with the latest data and updates from the field. The authors took care to carefully modify the chapter order in an ... ....

646 pages | colour illustrations |

Hardback | 04/2013 | 9781449691929 | #206219A | £45.99 Add to basket

 

The Oxford Handbook of Language Evolution

Maggie Tallerman and Kathleen R Gibson

In The Oxford Handbook of Language Evolution, sixty leading scholars present critical accounts of every aspect of the field. Its five parts are devoted to insights from comparative animal behaviour; the biology of language evolution ... ....

800 pages | illustrations, tables |

Hardback | 11/2011 | 9780199541119 | #206509A | £94.99 Add to basket

Paperback | NYP 09/2013 | 9780199679164 | #206510A | £29.99 Add to basket

 

Understanding Cultural Transmission in Anthropology

A Critical Synthesis

Roy Ellen, Stephen J Lycett and Sarah E Johns

The concept of "cultural transmission" is central to much contemporary anthropological theory, since successful human reproduction through social systems is essential for effective survival and for enhancing the adaptiveness of ... ....

368 pages | 33 illustrations, 10 tables |

Hardback | NYP 08/2013 | 9780857459930 | #205641A | £75.99 Add to basket

Paperback | NYP 08/2013 | 9781782380719 | #205642A | £18.50 Add to basket

 

War, Peace, and Human Nature

The Convergence of Evolutionary and Cultural Views

Douglas P Fry and Frans de Waal

Have humans always waged war? Is warring an ancient evolutionary adaptation or a relatively recent behavior – and what does that tell us about human nature? In War, Peace, and Human Nature, editor Douglas P. Fry brings together ... ....

624 pages | 19 b/w photos, 8 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 04/2013 | 9780199858996 | #205691A | £59.99 Add to basket

 
Ecology
 

Biogeography of Australasia

A Molecular Analysis

Michael Heads

Over the last decade, molecular studies carried out on the Australasian biota have revealed a new world of organic structure that exists from submicroscopic to continental scale. Furthermore, in studies of global biogeography and evolution ... ....

475 pages | 140 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 10/2013 | 9781107041028 | #206034A | £64.99 Add to basket

 

Chemical Ecology of Insect Parasitoids

Eric Wajnberg and Stefano Colazza

Insect parasitoids are a fascinating group of animals in many respects. Perhaps the most fascinating point is that these insects, in the course of the evolutionary time, have developed an impressive way to use chemical compounds to ... ....

328 pages | illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 05/2013 | 9781118409527 | #206228A | £74.99 Add to basket

 

Ecological Gradient Analyses in a Tropical Landscape

Grizelle Gonzalez, Michael R Willig and Robert B Waide

Ecological Gradient Analyses in a Tropical Landscape contains a comprehensive analysis of ecological gradients in the Luquillo Mountains of Puerto Rico. This tropical island setting comprises six ecological life zones and is ideal ... ....

248 pages |

Hardback | NYP 05/2013 | 9781118659328 | #206108A | £37.50 Add to basket

 

Entropy Principle for the Development of Complex Biotic Systems

Organisms, Ecosystems, the Earth

Ichiro Aoki

The concept of entropy in thermodynamics is a complex one, though it is fundamental in understanding physics, the workings of the mind, and biology. Entropy is the measure of the quality of energy, and it can also refer to the turn from ... ....

122 pages |

Hardback | 01/2012 | 9780123914934 | #205757A | £60.99 Add to basket

 

Invasion Biology and Ecological Theory

Insights from a Continent in Transformation

Herbert HT Prins, Iain J Gordon and Charles J Krebs

Many conservationists argue that invasive species form one of the most important threats to ecosystems the world over, often spreading quickly through their new environments and jeopardising the conservation of native species.

Hardback | NYP 10/2013 | 9781107035812 | #205062A | £64.99 Add to basket

 

Invasive Pflanzen der Schweiz

Erkennen Und Bekaempfen

Ewald Weber

Not all plants that thrive in meadows, along streams and in forests in Switzerland, are desirable. Invasive alien plants may pose a threat to biodiversity, health and economy. But how should the various invasive species be treated? ....

224 pages | 200 colour photos, 100 b/w illustrations, 70 maps |

Hardback | 04/2013 | 9783258077963 | #206058A | £51.99 Add to basket

 

Invasive Species and Global Climate Change

Lewis Ziska and Jeffery Dukes

Invasive Species and Global Climate Change examines what will happen to global invasive species, including plants, animals and pathogens with current and expected man-made climate change. The effects on distribution, success ... ....

288 pages | illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 11/2013 | 9781780641645 | #204853A | £84.99 Add to basket

 

Marine Ecology in a Changing World

Andres Hugo Arias and Maria Clara Menendez

With contributions from an impressive group of Argentinean and German oceanographers, Marine Ecology in a Changing World examines classical ecological issues relating to marine ecosystems in the context of climate change. ....

250 pages |

Hardback | NYP 10/2013 | 9781466590076 | #206275A | £76.99 Add to basket

 

Microclimate: Vegetation and Fauna

Philip Stoutjesdijk, Jan J Barkman, Marijke van der Maarel and Eddy van der Maarel

Microclimate: Vegetation and Fauna is an extended and updated version of the Dutch text Mikroklimaat, Vegetatie en Fauna. The aim in writing Microclimate: Vegetation and Fauna was to consider microclimate from ... ....

216 pages | 67 b/w illustrations, 43 tables |

Paperback | 01/1992 | #206044A | £29.99 Add to basket

 

Parasitism

The Diversity and Ecology of Animal Parasites

Timothy M Goater, Cameron P Goater and Gerald W Esch

Reflecting the enormous advances made in the field over the past ten years, Parasitism: The Diversity and Ecology of Animal Parasites synthesizes the latest developments in the ecology and evolution of animal parasites against ... ....

600 pages | 32 colour & 325 b/w illustrations, 8 tables |

Hardback | NYP 11/2013 | 9780521190282 | #199709A | £94.99 Add to basket

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Plantes Invasives de Suisse

Les Reconnaitre, Lutter Contre

Ewald Weber

Invasive plants pose a threat to biodiversity, and sometimes even human health. This book offers for the first time a reference for the general public to - understand the phenomenon of invasive plants, - recognize the species ...

224 pages | colour photos, illustration, distribution maps |

Paperback | 03/2013 | 9782940365562 | #205647A | £39.99 Add to basket

 

Population Ecology

First Principles

John H Vandermeer and Deborah E Goldberg

Ecology is capturing the popular imagination like never before, with issues such as climate change, species extinctions, and habitat destruction becoming ever more prominent. At the same time, the science of ecology has advanced dramatically ... ....

304 pages | 1 b/w photo, 129 b/w illustrations, 4 tables |

Hardback | NYP 08/2013 | 9780691160306 | #206582A | £64.99 Add to basket

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Habitats & Ecosystems
 

Creeping Bentgrass Management

Peter H. Dernoeden

Creeping bentgrass is considered the premier turfgrass species grown on golf courses, and there is a growing demand for an understanding of its maintenance and management practices. Still the only comprehensive reference on the subject ... ....

378 pages | 201 colour illustrations, 44 tables |

Paperback | 07/2012 | 9781466509924 | #205983A | £81.99 Add to basket

 

Desert

Nature and Culture

Roslynn D Haynes

Desert takes a fresh look at one of the most significant natural aspects of our planet, as both a geographical feature and a cultural entity. It examines and often overturns our common notions about deserts, from the fear of ... ....

224 pages | 60 colour & 40 b/w photos and illustrations |

Paperback | NYP 11/2013 | 9781780231693 | #206459A | £14.95 Add to basket

 

Developments in Soil Classification, Land Use Planning and Policy Implications

Innovative Thinking of Soil Inventory for Land Use Planning and Management of Land Resources

Shabbir A Shahid, Faisal K Taha and Mahmoud A Abdelfattah

As the world's population continues to expand, maintaining and indeed increasing agricultural productivity is more important than ever, though it is also more difficult than ever in the face of changing weather patterns that in some ... ....

913 pages | 160 colour & 69 b/w illustrations, 1 colour table |

Hardback | 02/2013 | 9789400753310 | #205839A | £153.00 Add to basket

 

Ecosystem Services, Biodiversity and Environmental Change in a Tropical Mountain Ecosystem of South Ecuador

Jorg Bendix, Erwin Beck, Achim Brauning, Franz Makeschin, Reinhard Mosandl, Stefan Scheu and Wilcke

Ecosystem Services, Biodiversity and Environmental Change in a Tropical Mountain Ecosystem of South Ecuador provides an assessment of the current and future state of biodiversity and ecosystem services in one of the ... ....

450 pages |

Hardback | NYP 07/2013 | 9783642381362 | #206147A | £117.00 Add to basket

 

Forests and Global Change

David A Coomes, David FRP Burslem and William D Simonson

Forests hold a significant proportion of global biodiversity and terrestrial carbon stocks and are at the forefront of human-induced global change. The dynamics and distribution of forest vegetation determines the habitat for other organisms ... ....

464 pages | 12 colour & 82 b/w illustrations, 26 tables |

Hardback | NYP 08/2013 | 9781107041851 | #205699A | £74.99 Add to basket

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Fungi as Bioremediators

Ebrahim Mohammadi Goltapeh, Younes Rezaee Danesh and Ajit Varma

Biological remediation methods have been successfully used to treat polluted soils. While bacteria have produced good results in bioremediation for quite some time now, the use of fungi to decontaminate soils has only recently been established ... ....

500 pages | 6 colour & 26 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 02/2013 | 9783642338106 | #206000A | £126.00 Add to basket

 

Glaciers of the Karakoram Himalaya

Glacial Environments, Processes, Hazards and Resources

Kenneth Hewitt

The Karakoram contains the greatest concentration of glaciers and most of the largest ice masses outside high latitudes. They comprise major stores and sources of fresh water in an otherwise extreme, continental, dry region.

400 pages | 127 colour & 26 b/w illustrations, 39 tables |

Hardback | NYP 08/2013 | 9789400763104 | #206144A | £117.00 Add to basket

 

Great Lakes

Lessons in Participatory Governance

Velma I Grover and Gail Krantzberg

Great Lakes: Lessons in Participatory Governance while focusing on participatory governance in the Great Lakes basin of North America also gives a comparative perspective of the African Great Lakes. The book describes the action ... ....

454 pages | 10 colour & 29 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 10/2012 | 9781578087693 | #205958A | £76.99 Add to basket

 

Island Sustainability II

Carlos A Brebbia and S Favro

Containing the papers presented at the second conference organised on island sustainability by the Wessex Institute of Technology, Island Sustainability II addresses the massive scale of seasonal population mobility that ... ....

illustrations |

Hardback | 09/2012 | 9781845646189 | #206323A | £97.99 Add to basket

 

Making Meaning Out of Mountains

The Political Ecology of Skiing

Mark CJ Stoddart

Mountains bear the imprint of human activity. Scars from logging and surface mining sit alongside national parks and ski lodges. Although the environmental effects of extractive industries are well known, skiing is more likely to bring ... ....

240 pages |

Paperback | 04/2013 | 9780774821971 | #205716A | £28.50 Add to basket

 

Meadows

George Peterken

Meadows are the quintessential British habitat, and yet the flower-rich hay meadows that have inspired writers for hundreds of years have almost disappeared from our countryside. In this exceptional work, George Peterken, one of our most ... ....

432 pages | ~300 colour photos |

Hardback | NYP 05/2013 | 9780956490247 | #200197A | £26.95 Add to basket

 

Modeling Forest Trees and Stands

Harold E Burkhart and Margarida Tome

Drawing upon a wealth of past research and results, Modeling Forest Trees and Stands provides a comprehensive summary of state-of-the-art methods for empirical modeling of forest trees and stands. It opens by detailing ... ....

471 pages | 85 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 04/2012 | 9789400715974 | #205721A | £117.00 Add to basket

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Molecular Environmental Soil Science

Jian-Ming Xu and Donald L Sparks

Based on the International Symposium of Molecular Environmental Soil Science at the Interfaces in the Earth's Critical Zone, Molecular Environmental Soil Science focuses on the Critical Zone supporting life at the ...

500 pages | 24 colour & 112 b/w illustrations, 1 colour table |

Hardback | 11/2012 | 9789400741768 | #205779A | £117.00 Add to basket

 

Painting the Landscape with Fire

Longleaf Pines and Fire Ecology

Den Latham

Fire can be a destructive, deadly element of nature, capable of obliterating forests, destroying homes, and taking lives. Den Latham's Painting the Landscape with Fire describes this phenomenon but also tells a different story ... ....

224 pages |

Hardback | NYP 07/2013 | 9781611172423 | #205943A | £27.50 Add to basket

 

Piriformospora Indica

Sebacinales and their Biotechnological Applications

Ajit Varma, Gerhard Kost and Ralf Oelmueller

Sebacinales have emerged as a fascinating order with mutualistic plant-fungal symbionts that consists of exclusively beneficial fungi. This volume of Soil Biology presents an overview of the current results in Sebacinales research ... ....

410 pages | 64 colour & 43 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 02/2013 | 9783642338014 | #206005A | £135.00 Add to basket

 

Sensitivity of Mangrove Ecosystem to Changing Climate

Abhijit Mitra

Mangroves are basically salt tolerant forest ecosystems found mainly in tropical and sub-tropical inter-tidal regions. Till about 1960s, mangroves were largely viewed as "economically unproductive areas" and were therefore destroyed ... ....

350 pages | 43 colour & 30 b/w illustrations, 79 tables |

Hardback | NYP 09/2013 | 9788132215080 | #206492A | £135.00 Add to basket

 

Soil Ecology and Ecosystem Services

Diana H Wall, Richard D Bardgett, Valerie Behan-Pelletier, Jeffrey E Herrick, T Hefin Jones and Si

This multi-contributor, international volume synthesizes contributions from the world's leading soil scientists and ecologists, describing cutting-edge research that provides a basis for the maintenance of soil health and sustainability ... ....

424 pages | illustrations |

Hardback | 06/2012 | 9780199575923 | #195931A | £75.00 Add to basket

Paperback | NYP 08/2013 | 9780199688166 | #206507A | £37.50 Add to basket

 

Surface- and Groundwater Quality Changes in Periods of Water Scarcity

Milos Gregor

Surface- and Groundwater Quality Changes in Periods of Water Scarcity deals with the evaluation of surface and groundwater quality changes in the periods of water scarcity in river catchment areas. The work can be divided into ... ....

248 pages | 107 colour & 18 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 09/2012 | 9783642322433 | #205845A | £89.99 Add to basket

 

The Biology of Peatlands

Hakan Rydin and John K Jeglum

Peatlands form important landscape elements in many parts of the world and play significant roles for biodiversity and global carbon balance. This new edition has been fully revised and updated, documenting the latest advances in areas ... ....

432 pages |

Hardback | NYP 10/2013 | 9780199602995 | #206080A | £74.99 Add to basket

Paperback | NYP 10/2013 | 9780199603008 | #206081A | £34.95 Add to basket

 

The Sustainable City VII (2-Volume Set)

Urban Regeneration and Sustainability

Marco Pacetti, G Passerini and Carlos A Brebbia

Containing research on sustainable urban redevelopment presented at the latest in a biennial series organised by the Wessex Institute of Technology and first held in 2000, these proceedings, split into two volumes, address an area of ... ....

1312 pages | illustrations |

Hardback | 05/2012 | 9781845645786 | #206326A | £550.00 Add to basket

 

To Conserve Unimpaired

The Evolution of the National Park Idea

Robert B Keiter

When the national park system was first established in 1916, the goal 'to conserve unimpaired' seemed straightforward. But Robert Keiter argues that parks have always served a variety of competing purposes, from wildlife protection ... ....

400 pages |

Paperback | NYP 05/2013 | 9781597266604 | #206478A | £21.99 Add to basket

Hardback | NYP 07/2013 | 9781597266598 | #206479A | £43.99 Add to basket

 
Conservation & Biodiversity
 

A Preliminary Red List of Taiwanese Vascular Plants

Jenn-Che Wang, Wen-Liang Chiou and Ho-Ming Chang

A preliminary red list to vascular plants found in Taiwan.

104 pages |

Paperback | 01/2012 | 9789860337693 | #205634A | £32.50 Add to basket

 

Going, Going, Gone

100 Animals and Plants on the Verge of Extinction

In 2006, 100 conservation groups around the world were asked: 'If you could pick one species that epitomises your work, which would it be?' From the RSPB to WWF to the Cheetah Conservation Fund, the answers came rolling in, and ... ....

224 pages | colour photos |

Hardback | NYP 09/2013 | 9781408186305 | #206229A | £19.99 Add to basket

 

Habitat Management for Invertebrates

A Practical Handbook

Peter Kirby

A practical guide to the management of habitat for invertebrates. Many invertebrates are highly specialised creatures with very precise habitat requirements. This means that they can be very sensitive indicators of environmental ... ....

150 pages | b/w illustrations |

Paperback | 05/2013 | 9781907807510 | #205867A | £29.99 Add to basket

 

Nature's Saviours

Celebrity Conservationists in the Television Age

Graham Huggan and Dan Brockington

Today's celebrity conservationists, many of whom made their reputations through television and other visual media, play a major role in drawing public attention to an increasingly threatened world.

288 pages |

Hardback | NYP 08/2013 | 9780415519137 | #206271A | £89.99 Add to basket

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Protecting Lundy's Marine Life

40 Years of Science and Conservation

Keith Hiscock and Robert Irving

Marine conservation has been undertaken at Lundy for forty years and Protecting Lundy's Marine Life describes the major landmarks, illustrates some of the marine-life highlights and celebrates the success of all of those who ... ....

102 pages | colour & b/w photos, colour & b/w illustrations |

Paperback | 12/2011 | 9780953053223 | #205659A | £12.50 Add to basket

 

Sanidad Animal Mundial 2012 (2-Volume Set)

World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE)

Sanidad Animal Mundial 2012 with its two volumes, presents a synthesis of animal health information from OIE Members as well as from non-OlE member countries. It provides a unique tool for all those involved in animal production ... ....

1150 pages | tables |

Paperback | NYP 10/2013 | 9789290449041 | #205150A | £90.99 Add to basket

 

Sante Animale Mondiale 2012 (2-Volume Set)

World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE)

Santé Animale Mondiale 2012 with its two volumes, presents a synthesis of animal health information from OIE Members as well as from non-OlE member countries. It provides a unique tool for all those involved in animal production ... ....

1150 pages | tables |

Paperback | NYP 10/2013 | 9789290449010 | #205149A | £90.99 Add to basket

 

The Law of Nature Conservation

Christopher Rodgers

Providing a detailed account of the law of nature conservation, The Law of Nature Conservation reviews and discusses the way in which the law promotes the conservation of species of animal, bird, and plant, and how it protects ... ....

368 pages |

Hardback | 03/2013 | 9780199543137 | #205692A | £69.99 Add to basket

 

World Animal Health 2012 (2-Volume Set)

World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE)

World Animal Health 2012 with its two volumes, presents a synthesis of animal health information from OIE Members as well as from non-OlE member countries. It provides a unique tool for all those involved in animal production ... ....

1150 pages | tables |

Paperback | NYP 10/2013 | 9789290448983 | #205148A | £90.99 Add to basket

 
Environmental Science
 

A Great Aridness

Climate Change and the Future of the American Southwest

William deBuys

With its soaring azure sky and stark landscapes, the American Southwest is one of the most hauntingly beautiful regions on earth. Yet staggering population growth, combined with the intensifying effects of climate change, is driving the ... ....

369 pages | illustrations |

Hardback | 12/2011 | 9780199778928 | #204815A | £24.99 Add to basket

Paperback | 05/2013 | 9780199974672 | #206096A | £19.50 Add to basket

 

Acidic Pit Lakes

The Legacy of Coal and Metal Surface Mines

Walter Geller, Martin Schultze, Robert Kleinmann and Christian Wolkersdorfer

This monograph, Acidic Pit Lakes, provides an international perspective on pit lakes in post-mining landscapes, including the problem of geogenic acidification. Much has been learned during the last decade through research and ... ....

525 pages | 88 b/w and 127 colour illustrations |

Hardback | 03/2013 | 9783642293832 | #205758A | £117.00 Add to basket

 

Aerosols Handbook

Measurement, Dosimetry, and Health Effects

Lev S Ruser and Naomi H Harley

With the rapid growth of the nanotechnology industry, the need to understand the biological effects of aerosol exposure has become increasingly important. Featuring contributions by leading experts in the field ...

666 pages | 183 b/w illustrations, 73 tables |

Hardback | 08/2012 | 9781439855102 | #205968A | £114.00 Add to basket

 

Air Pollution Modeling and Its Application XXII

Douw Steyn, Peter JH Builtjes and Renske MA Timmermans

Recent developments in air pollution modeling and its application are explored here in contributions by researchers at the forefront of their field. Air Pollution Modeling and Its Application XXII is focused on local, urban ... ....

628 pages |

Paperback | NYP 05/2013 | 9789400760967 | #206020A | £89.99 Add to basket

Hardback | NYP 05/2013 | 9789400755765 | #206051A | £180.00 Add to basket

 

Atmospheric Temperature Profiles of the Northern Hemisphere

A Compendium of Data

Young Yee, Kueyson Yee and Erik Yee

For more than three decades, the US Standard Atmosphere has been used by researchers and professionals in many areas of aeronautics and atmospheric sciences. It is an idealized, all season average temperature profile of the earth's ... ....

327 pages | 22 colour illustrations |

Hardback | 05/2012 | 9789400740280 | #205732A | £117.00 Add to basket

 

Biodiversity, Carbon Storage and Dynamics of Old Northern Forests

Nordic Council of Ministers and Erik Framstad

Environmentally sound disposal of Ozone Depleting Substances is increasingly recognised as an important issue in terms of both the protection of the ozone layer and the effect on climate change. However, there is only a limited overview ... ....

130 pages | colour illustrations, tables |

Paperback | 01/2013 | 9789289325103 | #206532A | £39.99 Add to basket

 

CO2 Storage in Carboniferous Formations and Abandoned Coal Mines

Manchao He, Luis Ribeiro e Sousa, Derek Elsworth and Euripedes Vargas

Underground geological storage of carbon dioxide (CO2) has considerable potential for mitigating climate change. CO2 can be safely injected and stored at well characterized and properly managed sites.

216 pages | illustrations, maps |

Hardback | 09/2011 | 9780415620796 | #206191A | £88.99 Add to basket

 

Cadmium

From Toxicity to Essentiality

Astrid Sigel, Helmut Sigel and Roland K O Sigel

Volume 11 provides in an authoritative and timely manner in 16 stimulating chapters, written by 40 internationally recognized experts from 11 nations, and supported by more than 2600 references, 35 tables, and over 100 illustrations ... ....

596 pages | 43 colour & 85 b/w illustrations, 20 tables |

Hardback | 03/2013 | 9789400751781 | #205827A | £153.00 Add to basket

 

California Climate Scenarios Assessment

Daniel R Cayan, Susanne C Moser, Guido Franco, Michael Hanemann and Myoung-Ae Jones

Reprinted from Climatic Change, Vol. 109: Supplement 1 (2011) In response to Executive Order S-3-05, an evaluation of the implications to California of possible climate changes was undertaken using a scenario-based approach ... ....

544 pages | 45 colour & 100 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 08/2012 | 9789400740136 | #205735A | £153.00 Add to basket

 

Capitalism and Climate Change

Theoretical Discussion, Historical Development and Policy Responses

Max Koch

Capitalism and Climate Change discusses climate change as a social issue by analysing its development in parallel with capitalism. By integrating political economy and environmental economics, it examines the incompatibility of ... ....

240 pages | 30 tables |

Hardback | 10/2011 | 9780230272514 | #206382A | £57.50 Add to basket

 

Chemical Structure of Pelagic Redox Interfaces

Observation and Modelling

Evgenii V Yakushev

Over the last few decades many studies have focused on the oxygen depletion of coastal and oceanic waters. An understanding of the processes involved is fundamental to assess the effects of global and climatic changes and to support an ... ....

301 pages | 39 colour & 42 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 09/2012 | 9783642321245 | #205842A | £206.50 Add to basket

 

Choosing Ecological Sewage Treatment

Nick Grant, Mark Moodie and Chris Weedon

Choosing Ecological Sewage Treatment describes several off-mains sewage treatment systems and shows you how to deal safely with the sewage of up to about 50 people – Understand nutrient recycling and the ...

184 pages | b/w photos, illustrations |

Paperback | 09/2012 | 9781902175782 | #205775A | £19.95 Add to basket

 

Climate Adaptation and Flood Risk in Coastal Cities

Jeroen Aers, Wouter Botzen, Malcolm Bowman, Philip Ward and Piet Dircke

Climate Adaptation and Flood Risk in Coastal Cities presents climate adaptation and flood risk problems and solutions in coastal cities – including an independent investigation of adaptation paths and problems in Rotterdam ... ....

352 pages | colour plates, b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 08/2011 | 9781849713467 | #206063A | £52.99 Add to basket

 

Climate Change and Tradition in a Small Island State

The Rising Tide

Peter Rudiak-Gould

The citizens of the Marshall Islands have been told that climate change will doom their country, and they have seen confirmatory omens in the land, air, and sea. Climate Change and Tradition in a Small Island State investigates ... ....

240 pages | 11 b/w photos, 13 b/w illustrations, 2 tables |

Hardback | NYP 08/2013 | 9780415832496 | #206286A | £79.99 Add to basket

 

Climate Change, Climate Science and Economics

Prospects for An Alternative Energy Future

G Cornelis van Kooten

Climate Change, Climate Science and Economics enables readers to understand the complexity associated with climate change policy and the science behind it. For example, the author describes the criticism and defense of the widely ... ....

489 pages | 5 colour & 68 b/w illustrations, 47 tables |

Hardback | 08/2012 | 9789400749870 | #205790A | £117.00 Add to basket

 

Climate Management Issues

Economics, Sociology, and Politics

Julie K Gines

Despite all the controversy and hype that climate change has generated, there now exists an overwhelming body of scientific evidence that the problem is real and that its effects are already being felt on a global scale. Part of what makes ... ....

470 pages | 65 b/w illustrations, 18 tables |

Hardback | 12/2011 | 9781439861066 | #205981A | £66.99 Add to basket

 

Climate and Weather of the Sun-Earth System (CAWSES)

Highlights From a Priority Program

Franz-Josef Luebken

CAWSES (Climate and Weather of the Sun-Earth System) is the most important scientific program of SCOSTEP (Scientific Committee on Solar-Terrestrial Physics). CAWSES has triggered a scientific priority program within the German Research ... ....

655 pages | 263 colour & 50 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 08/2012 | 9789400743472 | #205745A | £153.00 Add to basket

 

Decontamination of Heavy Metals

Processes, Mechanisms, and Applications

Jiaping Paul Chen

Heavy metals, such as lead, chromium, cadmium, zinc, copper, and nickel, are important constituents of most living organisms, as well as many nonliving substances. Some heavy metals are essential for growth of biological and microbiological ... ....

454 pages | 201 b/w illustrations, 61 tables |

Hardback | 01/2013 | 9781439816677 | #205949A | £76.99 Add to basket

 

Disposal of Dangerous Chemicals in Urban Areas and Mega Cities

Role of Oxides and Acids of Nitrogen in Atmospheric Chemistry

Ian Barnes and Kryzsztof J Rudzinski

Oxides and acids of nitrogen play an important role in regulating atmospheric radical levels, in particular, that of the OH radical the main initiator of the degradation of chemicals in the atmosphere. A comprehensive overview on the ... ....

364 pages | b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 10/2012 | 9789400750333 | #205831A | £153.00 Add to basket

Paperback | 10/2012 | 9789400750364 | #205832A | £80.99 Add to basket

 

Distribution and Transformation of Nutrients and Eutrophication in Large-scale Lakes and Reservoirs

The Three Gorges Reservoir

Zhenyao Shen, Junfeng Niu, Ying Wang, Hongyuan Wang and Xin Zhao

Distribution and Transformation of Nutrients and Eutrophication in Large-scale Lakes and Reservoirs: The Three Gorges Reservoir presents key findings on early eutrophication in large-scale lakes and reservoirs, providing readers ... ....

300 pages | 30 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 02/2013 | 9783642349638 | #206019A | £117.00 Add to basket

 

Effect of Algal Biofilm and Operational Conditions on Nitrogen Removal in Waste Stabilization Ponds

UNESCO-IHE PhD Thesis

Mohammed Babu

Discharge of nutrient rich wastewater causes eutrophication of surface water; therefore wastewater treatment before discharge is required. Wastewater stabilization ponds are low cost technology used by developing countries but not effective .... ....

140 pages |

Paperback | 05/2011 | 9780415669467 | #205977A | £40.99 Add to basket

 

Emerging Organic Contaminants in Sludges

Teresa Vicent, Gloria Caminal, Ethel Eljarrat and Damia Barcelo

There are a growing number of new chemicals in the environment that represent an ascertained or potential risk. Many of them can be found in sewage sludge and are the subject of Emerging Organic Contaminants in Sludges.

303 pages | 7 colour & 44 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 04/2013 | 9783642356087 | #206021A | £206.50 Add to basket

 

Emerging and Priority Pollutants in Rivers

Bringing Science into River Management Plans

Helena Guasch, Antoni Ginebreda and Anita Geiszinger

The enduring changes in the aquatic environment and the increasing influx of contaminants call for novel conceptual and methodological approaches to relating chemical pollution and ecological alterations in ecosystems.

284 pages | 11 colour & 30 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 02/2012 | 9783642257216 | #205590A | £206.50 Add to basket

 

Encyclopedia of Environmental Science and Engineering (2-Volume Set)

James R Pfafflin and Edward N Ziegler

The latest edition of a bestseller, Encyclopedia of Environmental Science and Engineering, Sixth Edition is still the most comprehensive, authoritative reference available in the field. This monumental two-volume encyclopedia .. ....

1434 pages | 560 b/w illustrations, 398 tables |

Hardback | 06/2012 | 9781439804421 | #205989A | £550.00 Add to basket

 

Energy Security in the Era of Climate Change

The Asia-Pacific Experience

Jonathan Symons and Luca Anceschi

Climate change is one of the defining challenges of our times andits implications for energy security are profound. Climate concerns, declining reserves of easily accessible oil and gas, and the rise of new energy consumers will drive ... ....

320 pages | 22 illustrations, 11 tables |

Hardback | 11/2011 | 9780230279872 | #206379A | £62.99 Add to basket

 

Environment: Our Impact on the Earth

National Geographic Learning

National Geographic Learning Reader, Environment: Our Impact On The Earth is part of a ground-breaking new National Geographic Learning series that brings learning to life by featuring compelling images, media, and ... ....

128 pages |

Paperback | 01/2013 | 9781285421070 | #206189A | £15.99 Add to basket

 

Environmental Innovation in China

David Strangeway, Liu Xielin and Feng Zhijun

China has both the capacity and the need to become a global leader in sustainable development and innovation in environmental technology. Environmental Innovation in China acknowledges many of the mistakes that have been made in ... ....

176 pages | illustrations |

Hardback | 12/2011 | 9781845646400 | #206318A | £129.00 Add to basket

 

Environmental Sociology

From Analysis to Action

Leslie King and Deborah McCarthy Auriffeille

Environmental Sociology encourages students to use the sociological imagination to explore a broad spectrum of issues facing the environment today. The third edition of this reader includes thirteen new pieces that examine how ... ....

424 pages | 8 b/w illustrations, 1 table |

Hardback | NYP 07/2013 | 9781442220751 | #205710A | £69.99 Add to basket

Paperback | NYP 07/2013 | 9781442220768 | #205711A | £37.95 Add to basket

 

Extremes in a Changing Climate

Detection, Analysis and Uncertainty

Amir AghaKouchak, David Easterling, Kuolin Hsu, Siegfried Schubert and Soroosh Sorooshian

Extremes in a Changing Climate provides a collection of the state-of-the-art methodologies and approaches suggested for detecting extremes, trend analysis, accounting for nonstationarities, and uncertainties associated with ... ....

437 pages | 89 colour & 43 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 10/2012 | 9789400744783 | #205759A | £89.99 Add to basket

 

Flash Floods

Forecasting and Warning

Kevin Sene

Flash floods typically develop in a period a few hours or less and can arise from heavy rainfall and other causes, such as dam or flood defence breaches, and ice jam breaks. The rapid development, often associated with a high debris content ... ....

398 pages | 88 colour & 12 b/w illustrations, 43 tables |

Hardback | 12/2012 | 9789400751637 | #205853A | £117.00 Add to basket

 

Flood

Nature and Culture

John Withington

From Noah's Biblical deluge to the China floods of 1931 that killed more than 3 million people; and from the broken levees in New Orleans to submerged streets and homes all over Britain, floods have always been an unwelcome companion. ....

224 pages | 60 colour & 40 b/w photos and illustrations |

Paperback | NYP 11/2013 | 9781780231969 | #206460A | £14.95 Add to basket

 

From Landfill Gas to Energy

Technologies and Challenges

Vasudevan Rajaram, Faisal Zia Siddiqui and Mohd Emran Khan

Converting old landfills to energy producing sites, while capturing emitted greenhouse gases, has faced numerous technical, financial and social challenges and developments lately. Also, the re-mining of landfills to recover useful land ... ....

325 pages | illustrations |

Hardback | 12/2011 | 9780415664745 | #205975A | £59.99 Add to basket

 

Garbology

Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash

Edward Humes

In this narrative science book about trash, the author, a journalist takes readers on a surprising tour of the world of garbage. Trash is America's largest export. Individually, we make more than four pounds a day, sixty-four tons ... ....

336 pages | illustrations |

Hardback | 11/2012 | 9781583334348 | #206126A | £24.50 Add to basket

Paperback | 03/2013 | 9781583335239 | #206127A | £16.99 Add to basket

 

Geotechnical Engineering for Mine Waste Storage Facilities

Geoffrey E Blight

Geotechnical Engineering for Mine Waste Storage Facilities is a comprehensive treatment of the application of geotechnical engineering to site selection, site exploration, design, operation and closure of mine waste storage ... ....

652 pages | 20 b/w photos, 150 b/w illustrations, 20 tables |

Hardback | 11/2009 | 9780415468282 | #205974A | £134.00 Add to basket

 

Global Cooling

Strategies for Climate Protection

Hans-Josef Fell

Global Cooling: Strategies for Climate Protection redefines climate protection measures and readjusts climate protection targets in line with what is scientifically necessary and economically feasible. The reader is provided with ... ....

150 pages | illustrations |

Paperback | 06/2012 | 9780415628532 | #205984A | £15.99 Add to basket

 

Global Crisis

War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century

Geoffrey Parker

Revolutions, droughts, famines, invasions, wars, regicides, government collapses – the calamities of the mid-seventeenth century were unprecedented in both frequency and extent. The effects of what historians call the ...

904 pages | 83 illustrations |

Hardback | 02/2013 | 9780300153231 | #206130A | £29.99 Add to basket

 

Global Warming and Political Intimidation

How Politicians Cracked Down on Scientists as the Earth Heated Up

Raymond S Bradley

Global warming is the number one environmental issue of our time, yet some prominent politicians have refused to accept scientific evidence of human responsibility and have opposed any legislation or international agreement that would ... ....

168 pages | illustrations |

Hardback | 07/2011 | 9781558498686 | #206362A | £72.95 Add to basket

 

Handbook of Water Analysis

Leo ML Nollet and Leen SP De Gelder

Extensively revised and updated, Handbook of Water Analysis, Third Edition provides current analytical techniques, starting from 2005 until now, for detecting various compounds in water samples. Maintaining the detailed and ... ....

950 pages | 86 b/w illustrations, 128 tables |

Hardback | NYP 08/2013 | 9781439889640 | #206418A | £121.00 Add to basket

 

Handbook on Climate Change and Agriculture

Robert Mendelsohn and Ariel Dinar

Handbook on Climate Change and Agriculture explores the interaction between climate change and the agriculture sector. Agriculture is essential to the livelihood of people and nations, especially in the developing world ... ....

544 pages | colour & b/w illustrations, maps |

Hardback | 12/2011 | 9781849801164 | #206062A | £145.00 Add to basket

Paperback | NYP 06/2013 | 9781781001943 | #206087A | £39.99 Add to basket

 

Harmful Natural Chemicals and Radiation in the Environment

Stories, History and What You Need to Know

Raymond Poon

This unique volume provides in layman's terms, without sacrificing scientific facts, the health hazards and potential dangers of naturally occurring substances that are around us everyday. The comprehensive coverage includes compound ... ....

276 pages | illustrations |

Hardback | 02/2013 | 9789814412933 | #206010A | £67.99 Add to basket

 

Hazardous Material (HAZMAT) Life Cycle Management

Corporate, Community and Organizational Planning and Preparedness

Robert Jaffin

It is well known that fluorescent light bulbs and consumer appliances such as televisions, computers, and monitors contain mercury, dangerous chemicals, and other harmful components. The existing literature on hazardous materials address ... ....

249 pages | 62 b/w illustrations, 32 tables |

Hardback | 12/2012 | 9781439873878 | #205972A | £63.99 Add to basket

 

How the World's Religions are Responding to Climate Change

Social Scientific Investigations

Randolph Haluza-Delay, Andrew Szasz and Robin Globus

A growing chorus of voices has suggested that the world's religions may become critical actors as the climate crisis unfolds, particularly in light of international paralysis on the issue. In recent years, many faiths have begun to ... ....

392 pages | 19 b/w illustrations, 7 tables |

Hardback | NYP 09/2013 | 9780415640343 | #206287A | £79.99 Add to basket

 

Impacts of Climate Change on Rainfall Extremes and Urban Drainage Systems

Patrick Willems, Jonas Olsson and Karsten Arnbjerg-Nielsen

Impacts of Climate Change on Rainfall Extremes and Urban Drainage Systems provides a state-of-the-art overview of existing methodologies and relevant results related to the assessment of the climate change impacts on urban rainfall ... ....

238 pages | Illustrations, maps |

Paperback | 09/2012 | 9781780401256 | #206574A | £88.99 Add to basket

 

Maritime Transport and the Climate Change Challenge

Regina Asariotis and Hassiba Benamara

International maritime transport is the backbone of the world globalized economy. It is a significant contributor to global CO2 emissions but also likely to be affected by wide-ranging and potentially devastating climate change ... ....

360 pages | 11 b/w photos, 74 b/w illustrations, 27 tables |

Hardback | 05/2012 | 9781849712385 | #206196A | £64.99 Add to basket

 

Nation-states and the Global Environment

New Approaches to International Environmental History

Erika Marie Bsumek, David Kinkela, Mark Atwood Lawrence and JR McNeill

Hardly a day passes without prominent journalists, policymakers, academics, or scientists calling attention to the worldwide scale of the environmental crisis confronting humankind. While climate change has generated the greatest alarm ... ....

288 pages |

Paperback | NYP 05/2013 | 9780199755363 | #205717A | £16.99 Add to basket

Hardback | NYP 05/2013 | 9780199755356 | #205927A | £59.99 Add to basket

 

Observing and Modeling Earth's Energy Flows

Lennart Bengtsson, Symeon Koumoutsaris, Roger-Maurice Bonnet, Richard P Allan and Claus Froehlich

Reprinted from Surveys in Geophysics 33: 3-4 (2012) Observing and Modeling Earth's Energy Flows provides a comprehensive presentation of Earth's energy flows and their consequences for ... ....

492 pages | 155 colour & 10 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 09/2012 | 9789400743267 | #205778A | £117.00 Add to basket

 

Organic Pollutants

An Ecotoxicological Perspective

CH Walker

Significantly updated, revised, and expanded, this third edition of Organic Pollutants: An Ecotoxicological Perspective presents the basic principles of ecotoxicology along with the major organic pollutants. Two new chapters cover ... ....

408 pages | 72 b/w illustrations, 41 tables |

Hardback | 10/2008 | 9781420062588 | #205947A | £69.99 Add to basket

 

Phytoremediation

Role of Aquatic Plants in Environmental Clean-Up

Bhupinder Dhir

Contamination of the different components of environment through industrial and anthropogenic activities have guided new eras of research. This has lead to development of strategies/methodologies to curtail/minimize environmental contamination ... ....

145 pages | 5 colour & 15 b/w illustrations, 12 tables |

Hardback | NYP 08/2013 | 9788132213062 | #206186A | £89.99 Add to basket

 

Phytotechnologies

Remediation of Environmental Contaminants

Naser A Anjum, Maria E Pereira, Iqbal Ahmad, Armando C Duarte, Shahid Umar and Nafees A Khan

Phytotechnologies: Remediation of Environmental Contaminants highlights the use of natural and inherent traits of plants and associated microbes to exclude, accumulate, or metabolize a variety of contaminants, with the goal of ... ....

617 pages | 16 colour & 140 b/w illustrations, 54 tables |

Hardback | 10/2012 | 9781439875186 | #205952A | £108.00 Add to basket

 

Pollinators and Pesticides

Seventh Report of Session 2012-13, Vol. 1: Report, Together with Formal Minutes, Oral and Written Evidence

Environmental Audit Committee and Joan Walley

If farmers had to pollinate fruit and vegetables without the help of insects it would cost hundreds of millions of pounds and we would all be stung by rising food prices. Defra Ministers, however, have refused to back EU efforts to protect ... ....

305 pages |

Paperback | 04/2013 | 9780215055538 | #206118A | £25.20 Add to basket

 

Principles of Environmental Chemistry

Includes access to the Student Companion Website Appropriate for students with a general chemistry background, Principles of Environmental Chemistry helps students understand the underlying chemical processes that are operating in the ... ....

712 pages |

Paperback | 04/2013 | 9781449693527 | #206453A | £45.99 Add to basket

 

Remediation Manual for Contaminated Sites

David L Russell

To ask the right question, one needs to have some idea of what the answer might be. So it is with remediation. There is no such thing as too much information when it comes to characterizing a site, as information can aid in selecting the ... ....

256 pages | 45 b/w illustrations, 25 tables |

Paperback | 10/2011 | 9781439836224 | #205953A | £79.99 Add to basket

 

Remediation of Former Manufactured Gas Plants and Other Coal-tar Sites

JP Lindenmayer and Allen W Hatheway

Over the long history of former manufactured gas plants (FMGPs) and other coal-tar-producing sites, there were an enormous variety of fuel stocks used as well as many processing and disposal methods, each leading to unique waste and site ... ....

1398 pages | 398 b/w illustrations, 257 tables |

Hardback | 07/2011 | 9780824791063 | #205954A | £134.00 Add to basket

 

Sharing for Survival

Restoring the Climate, the Commons and Society

Brian Davey

Sharing for Survival recognises that official climate policy is dominated by states in thrall to fossil fuel and financial lobbies. It offers a realistic radical way to rapidly reduce emissions through stabilising the economy and ... ....

200 pages | illustrations |

Paperback | 04/2012 | 9780954051020 | #205785A | £14.95 Add to basket

 

Soil Emission of Nitrous Oxide and Its Mitigation

David Ussiri and Rattan Lal

Nitrous oxide gas is a long-lived relatively active greenhouse gas (GHG) with an atmospheric lifetime of approximately 120 years, and heat trapping effects about 310 times more powerful than carbon dioxide per molecule basis.

395 pages | 12 colour & 12 b/w illustrations, 29 tables |

Hardback | 11/2012 | 9789400753631 | #205841A | £89.99 Add to basket

 

Solid Waste Management

Principles and Practice

Ramesha Chandrappa and Diganta Bhusan Das

Solid waste was already a problem long before water and air pollution issues attracted public attention. Historically the problem associated with solid waste can be dated back to prehistoric days. Due to the invention of new products ... ....

436 pages | 239 colour & 12 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 07/2012 | 9783642286803 | #205744A | £153.00 Add to basket

 

The Atlas of Climate Change-Based on SEAP-CMIP5

Super-Ensemble Projection and Attribution (SEAP) of Climate Change

Wenjie Dong, Fumin Ren, Jianbin Huang and Yan Guo

The Atlas of Climate Change-Based on SEAP-CMIP5 is intended to satisfy readers' curiosity: how will our climate system change over the next 100 years? It is the first showcase for the state-of -the-art earth system models ... ....

208 pages | 170 colour & 21 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 10/2012 | 9783642317729 | #205843A | £117.00 Add to basket

 

The Human Impact on the Natural Environment

Past, Present, and Future

Andrew S Goudie

The seventh edition of this classic student text, The Human Impact on the Natural Environment, explores the multitude of impacts that humans have had over time upon vegetation, animals, soils, water, landforms and the atmosphere ... ....

424 pages | colour plates; b/w illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 05/2013 | 9781118576571 | #206152A | £89.99 Add to basket

Paperback | NYP 05/2013 | 9781118576588 | #206153A | £34.95 Add to basket

 

The Merck Index

An Encyclopedia of Chemicals, Drugs, and Biologicals

Maryadele J O'Neil

The Merck Index is the definitive reference work for scientists and professionals looking for authoritative information on chemicals, drugs and biologicals. It has been the leading source of information on chemical compounds for ... ....

2708 pages | b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 04/2013 | 9781849736701 | #206097A | £99.99 Add to basket

 

The Metabolism of Arsenite

Joanna M Santini and Seamus A Ward

Up to 200 million people in 70 countries are at risk from drinking water contaminated with arsenic, which is a major cause of chronic debilitating illnesses and fatal cancers. Until recently little was known about the mobility of arsenic ... ....

218 pages | illustrations |

Hardback | 04/2012 | 9780415697194 | #205946A | £76.99 Add to basket

 

Waste Management and the Environment VI

V Popov, H Itoh and CA Brebbia

Waste management can be problematic. Especially with the emphasis in many countries now being on sustainability, there is a great need for more research on disposal methods. While we have found ways to reduce the volume of waste that needs ... ....

448 pages | illustrations |

Hardback | 06/2012 | 9781845646066 | #206316A | £193.00 Add to basket

 

Waste Treatment in the Service and Utility Industries

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

Waste Treatment in the Service and Utility Industries provides in-depth coverage of environmental pollution sources, waste characteristics, control technologies, management strategies, facility innovations, process alternatives ... ....

320 pages | 150 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 01/2009 | 9781420072372 | #205950A | £63.99 Add to basket

 
Physical Sciences
 

A Dictionary of Human Geography

Alisdair Rogers, Noel Castree and Rob Kitchin

A Dictionary of Human Geography is a brand new addition to Oxford's Paperback Reference Series, offering over 2000 clear and concise entries on human geography terms. From basic terms and concepts to biographical .... ....

592 pages | 10 b/w illustrations, 6 maps |

Paperback | 04/2013 | 9780199599868 | #205687A | £12.99 Add to basket

 

Astro2

Dana Backman and Michael E Seeds

Created through a "student-tested, faculty-approved" review process, ASTRO 2 is an engaging and accessible solution to accommodate the diverse lifestyles of today's learners. ASTRO 2 employs the same engaging ... ....

544 pages |

Paperback | 02/2013 | 9781133950134 | #206015A | £32.99 Add to basket

 

Astrobiology: A Very Short Introduction

David C Catling

Astrobiology is the study of the origin and development of life on this and other planets. What fascinates people about astrobiology is that it seeks answers to long-standing unsolved questions: How quickly did life evolve on Earth and ... ....

144 pages | 10 b/w illustrations |

Paperback | NYP 10/2013 | 9780199586455 | #204958A | £7.99 Add to basket

 

Atlas of Quartz Sand Surface Textures

David H Krinsley and John C Doornkamp

Atlas of Quartz Sand Surface Textures was first published in 1973. Its authors, David Krinsley and John Doornkamp, have here compiled a comprehensive catalogue of the many presences and absences found within the characteristics ... ....

102 pages |

Paperback | 03/2011 | 9780521169141 | #205705A | £15.99 Add to basket

 

CLEAN

CO2 Large-Scale Enhanced Gas Recovery in the Altmark Natural Gas Field - GEOTECHNOLOGIEN Science Report No. 19

Michael Kuehn and Ute Muench

The project Clean (CO2 Large-Scale Enhanced Gas Recovery in the Altmark Natural Gas Field) provides site specific knowledge for a potential future pilot project. CLEAN: CO2 Large-Scale Enhanced Gas Recovery ... ....

209 pages | 16 colour & 103 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 01/2013 | 9783642316760 | #205847A | £89.99 Add to basket

 

CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics

William M Haynes

Mirroring the growth and direction of science for a century, the Handbook, now in its 93rd edition, continues to be the most accessed and respected scientific reference in the world. An authoritative resource consisting tables of data ... ....

2664 pages | illustrations |

Hardback | 07/2012 | 9781439880494 | #206095A | £108.00 Add to basket

 

Capture and Utilization of Carbon Dioxide with Polyethylene Glycol

Zhen-Zhen Yang, Qing-Wen Song and Liang-Nian He

In Capture and Utilization of Carbon Dioxide with Polyethylene Glycol, Professor He and his coworkers summarize polyethylene glycol (PEG)-promoted CO2 chemistry on the basis of understanding about phase behavior of ... ....

94 pages | b/w illustrations |

Paperback | 08/2012 | 9783642312670 | #205792A | £44.99 Add to basket

 

Centennial History of the Carnegie Institution of Washington: Volume 1

The Mount Wilson Observatory

Allan Sandage and Richard A Meserve

Since its foundation in 1904, the Mount Wilson Observatory has been at the centre of the development of astrophysics. Perched atop a mountain wilderness, two mammoth solar tower telescopes and the 60- and 100-inch behemoth night-time ... ....

662 pages | illustrations |

Hardback | 03/2005 | 9780521830782 | #152609A | £91.00 Add to basket

Paperback | 01/2013 | 9781107412392 | #205626A | £44.99 Add to basket

 

Centennial History of the Carnegie Institution of Washington: Volume 2

The Department of Terrestrial Magnetism

Louis Brown

In 1902, Andrew Carnegie founded the Carnegie Institution of Washington, to support innovative science research. Since its creation two years later, the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism has undertaken a broad range of research from ... ....

314 pages | illustrations |

Hardback | 12/2005 | 9780521830799 | #152610A | £90.99 Add to basket

Paperback | 01/2013 | 9781107412453 | #205625A | £29.99 Add to basket

 

Centennial History of the Carnegie Institution of Washington: Volume 3

The Geophysical Laboratory

Hatten S Yoder

For over a century, the Geophysical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution of Washington has witnessed exciting discoveries and ingenious research, made possible by the scientific freedom granted to members of the department.

286 pages | 50 b/w photos, 62 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 03/2005 | 9780521830805 | #152611A | £92.99 Add to basket

Paperback | 01/2013 | 9781107412408 | #205624A | £27.99 Add to basket

 

Cosmic Numbers

The Numbers That Define Our Universe

James D Stein

In Cosmic Numbers, mathematics professor James Stein traces the discovery, evolution, and interrelationships of the great numbers that define our world. Some numbers, like the speed of light and absolute zero, are well known to ... ....

240 pages |

Paperback | NYP 06/2013 | 9780465063796 | #206485A | £10.99 Add to basket

 

Crashes, Crises, and Calamities

How We Can Use Science to Read the Early-Warning Signs

Len Fisher

Why do certain civilizations, societies, and ecosystems collapse? How does the domino effect relate to the credit crunch? When can mathematics help explain marriage? And how on earth do toads predict earthquakes? The future is uncertain. ....

272 pages | illustrations |

Paperback | NYP 05/2013 | 9780465023325 | #206487A | £10.99 Add to basket

Hardback | NYP 05/2013 | 9780465021024 | #206488A | £15.99 Add to basket

 

Dangerous Neighbors

Volcanoes and Cities

Grant Heiken

What are the real risks posed by a volcanic eruption near a city – what is fact and what is myth? How have volcanic eruptions affected cities in the past, and how can we learn from these events? Why do communities continue to develop ... ....

Hardback | NYP 09/2013 | 9781107039230 | #205370A | £19.99 Add to basket

 

Deep Crustal Structure of the Son-narmada-tapti Lineament, Central India

G Dhanunjaya Naidu

With a length of about 1200 km, the Son-Narmada-Tapti Lineament (NSL) is one of the most prominent geomorphic features in the Indian subcontinent. Anomalous conductive bodies are delineated at mid-lower crustal depths below major earthquake ... ....

163 pages | 85 colour & 6 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 04/2012 | 9783642284410 | #205737A | £89.99 Add to basket

 

Deep-Sky Companions

The Messier Objects

Stephen James O'Meara

The bright galaxies, star clusters, and nebulae catalogued in the late 1700s by the famous comet hunter Charles Messier are still the most widely observed celestial wonders in the sky. The second edition of ...

350 pages |

Hardback | NYP 10/2013 | 9781107018372 | #202796A | £32.99 Add to basket

 

Distal Impact Ejecta Layers

A Record of Large Impacts in Sediment Deposits

Billy P Glass and Bruce M Simonson

Impact cratering is an important geological process on all solid planetary bodies, and, in the case of Earth, may have had major climatic and biological effects. Most terrestrial impact craters have been erased or modified beyond recognition ... ....

731 pages | 16 colour & 264 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 12/2008 | 9783540882619 | #205844A | £118.50 Add to basket

 

Earth System Science: Bridging the Gaps Between Disciplines

Perspectives from a Multi-Disciplinary Helmholtz Research School

Gerrit Lohmann, Klaus Grosfield, Dieter A Wolf-Gladrow, Vikram Umnithan, Justus Notholt and Wegner

Earth system science is traditionally split into various disciplines (Geology, Physics, Meteorology, Oceanography, Biology etc.) and several sub-disciplines. Overall, the diversity of expertise provides a solid base for interdisciplinary ... ....

145 pages | 52 colour & 9 b/w illustrations |

Paperback | 11/2012 | 9783642322341 | #205848A | £44.99 Add to basket

 

Environmental Chemistry in Society

James M Beard

As with the first edition, Environmental Chemistry in Society takes a nonmathematical approach to the material, presenting the chemistry of the environment in a way accessible to students who have little or no science background ... ....

400 pages | 3 colour & 106 b/w illustrations, 31 tables |

Paperback | NYP 07/2013 | 9781439892671 | #206416A | £44.99 Add to basket

 

Forces of Nature and Cultural Responses

Katrin Pfeifer and Niki Pfeifer

How do and how did people perceive, manage and respond to natural disasters? How are the causes of natural disasters explained in history, how are they explained today? Forces of Nature and Cultural Responses investigates relations ... ....

238 pages | 22 colour & 15 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 12/2012 | 9789400749993 | #205850A | £89.99 Add to basket

 

Galaxy: Explore the Universe, Planets and Stars

Royal Observatory Greenwich

Galaxy: Explore the Universe, Planets and Stars is an accessible guide to the solar system and our night skies. Published in association with the Royal Observatory Greenwich. Richly illustrated with full-colour images ... ....

192 pages | colour photos, colour illustrations |

Paperback | NYP 06/2013 | 9780007501243 | #206136A | £14.99 Add to basket

 

Geodesy

Wolfgang Torge and Juergen Mueller

The fourth edition of Geodesy has been thoroughly revised in order to reflect the central role which geodesy has achieved in the past ten years. It follows the principal directions of geodesy, providing the theoretical background ... ....

529 pages | 111 illustrations |

Paperback | 04/2012 | 9783110207187 | #205743A | £63.99 Add to basket

 

Geology and Resource Potential of the Congo Basin

Maarten de Wit, Francois Guillocheau, Max Fernandez-Alonso, Michiel de Wit and Valent Kanda Nkula

Geology and Resource Potential of the Congo Basin will summarize the geology and geophysics of the Congo basin and provide an up to date analyses of this data in terms of the origin and evolution of this, one of the world's ... ....

460 pages | 100 colour & 100 b/w illustrations |

Paperback | NYP 06/2013 | 9783642294815 | #206514A | £117.00 Add to basket

 

How to Fake a Moon Landing

Exposing the Myths of Science Denial

Darryl Cunningham and Andrew C Revkin

Is hydro-fracking safe? Is climate change real? Did the moon landing actually happen? How about evolution: fact or fiction? Author-illustrator Darryl Cunningham looks at these and other hot-button science topics and presents a fact-based ... ....

176 pages |

Hardback | 04/2013 | 9781419706899 | #205911A | £17.50 Add to basket

 

In Search of the True Universe

The Tools, Shaping, and Cost of Cosmological Thought

Martin Harwit

In In Search of the True Universe astrophysicist and scholar Martin Harwit examines how our understanding of the Cosmos advanced rapidly during the twentieth century and identifies the factors contributing to this progress. ....

456 pages | 61 b/w illustrations, 4 tables |

Hardback | NYP 09/2013 | 9781107044067 | #206503A | £34.99 Add to basket

Paperback | 09/2013 | 9781107620254 | #206504A | £0.00 Add to basket

 

Landslide Science and Practice, Volume 1

Landslide Inventory and Susceptibility and Hazard Zoning

Claudio Margottini, Paolo Canuti and Kyoji Sassa

Landslide Science and Practice contains peer-reviewed papers from the Second World Landslide Forum, organised by the International Consortium on Landslides (ICL), that took place in September 2011. The entire material from ... ....

625 pages | 482 colour & 61 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 03/2013 | 9783642313240 | #205945A | £153.00 Add to basket

 

Landslide Science and Practice, Volume 2

Early Warning, Instrumentation and Monitoring

Claudio Margottini, Paolo Canuti and Kyoji Sassa

Landslide Science and Practice contains peer-reviewed papers from the Second World Landslide Forum, organised by the International Consortium on Landslides (ICL), that took place in September 2011. The entire material from ... ....

704 pages | 669 colour & 86 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 03/2013 | 9783642314445 | #205794A | £153.00 Add to basket

 

Landslide Science and Practice, Volume 3

Spatial Analysis and Modelling

Claudio Margottini, Paolo Canuti and Kyoji Sassa

Landslide Science and Practice contains peer-reviewed papers from the Second World Landslide Forum, organised by the International Consortium on Landslides (ICL), that took place in September 2011. The entire material from the ... ....

457 pages | 374 colour & 75 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 03/2013 | 9783642313097 | #205795A | £117.00 Add to basket

 

Landslide Science and Practice, Volume 4

Global Environmental Change

Claudio Margottini, Paolo Canuti and Kyoji Sassa

Landslide Science and Practice contains peer-reviewed papers from the Second World Landslide Forum, organised by the International Consortium on Landslides (ICL), that took place in September 2011. The entire material from ... ....

448 pages | 350 colour & 42 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 03/2013 | 9783642313363 | #205796A | £117.00 Add to basket

 

Landslide Science and Practice, Volume 5

Complex Environment

Claudio Margottini, Paolo Canuti and Kyoji Sassa

Landslide Science and Practice contains peer-reviewed papers from the Second World Landslide Forum, organised by the International Consortium on Landslides (ICL), that took place in September 2011. The entire material from ... ....

370 pages | 286 colour & 63 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 03/2013 | 9783642314261 | #205797A | £153.00 Add to basket

 

Landslide Science and Practice, Volume 6

Risk Assessment, Management and Mitigation

Claudio Margottini, Paolo Canuti and Kyoji Sassa

Landslide Science and Practice contains peer-reviewed papers from the Second World Landslide Forum, organised by the International Consortium on Landslides (ICL), that took place in September 2011. The entire material from ... ....

809 pages | 783 colour & 81 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 04/2013 | 9783642313189 | #205798A | £117.00 Add to basket

 

Landslide Science and Practice, Volume 7

Social and Economic Impact and Policies

Claudio Margottini, Paolo Canuti and Kyoji Sassa

Landslide Science and Practice contains peer-reviewed papers from the Second World Landslide Forum, organised by the International Consortium on Landslides (ICL), that took place in September 2011. The entire material from ... ....

347 pages | 259 colour & 15 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 03/2013 | 9783642313127 | #205799A | £117.00 Add to basket

 

Metasomatism and the Chemical Transformation of Rock

The Role of Fluids in Terrestrial and Extraterrestrial Processes

Daniel E Harlov and Hakon Austrheim

Fluid-aided mass transfer and subsequent mineral re-equilibration are the two defining features of metasomatism and must be present in order for metamorphism to occur. Coupled with igneous and tectonic processes, metasomatism has played ... ....

814 pages | b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 08/2012 | 9783642283932 | #205736A | £153.00 Add to basket

 

Mid-Ocean Ridges

Roger Searle

The world's mid-ocean ridges form a single, connected global ridge system that is part of every ocean, and is the longest mountain range in the world. Geologically active, mid-ocean ridges are key sites of tectonic movement, intimate ... ....

370 pages |

Hardback | NYP 09/2013 | 9781107017528 | #205047A | £44.99 Add to basket

 

Minerals of the Mercury Ore Deposit Idria

Aleksander Recnik

Minerals of the Mercury Ore Deposit Idria is the first comprehensive study of mineralogy of the world's second largest mercury mine Idria. In the first chapter the readers are acquainted with the history of mining and its ... ....

115 pages | 143 colour & 16 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 04/2013 | 9783642316319 | #205851A | £89.99 Add to basket

 

Natural Gas Hydrates

Experimental Techniques and Their Applications

Yuguang Ye and Changling Liu

Natural Gas Hydrates: Experimental Techniques and Their Applications attempts to broadly integrate the most recent knowledge in the fields of hydrate experimental techniques in the laboratory.

414 pages | 24 colour & 280 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 09/2012 | 9783642311000 | #205800A | £117.00 Add to basket

 

New Frontiers in Engineering Geology and the Environment

Proceedings of the International Symposium on Coastal Engineering Geology, ISCEG-Shanghai 2012

Yu Huang, Faquan Wu, Zhenming Shi and Bin Ye

New Frontiers in Engineering Geology and the Environment collects selected papers presented at the International Symposium on Coastal Engineering Geology (ISCEG-Shanghai 2012). These papers involve many subjects – such as ... ....

304 pages | 140 colour & 142 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 08/2012 | 9783642316708 | #205846A | £117.00 Add to basket

 

Observational Molecular Astronomy

David A Williams and Serena Viti

Molecular line emissions offer researchers exciting opportunities to learn about the evolutionary state of the Milky Way and distant galaxies. This text provides a detailed introduction to molecular astrophysics and an array of useful ... ....

Hardback | NYP 09/2013 | 9781107018167 | #204778A | £34.99 Add to basket

 

Perfect Swarm

The Science of Complexity in Everyday Life

Len Fisher

The process of self-organization reveals itself in the inanimate worlds of crystals and seashells, but, as Len Fisher shows, it is also evident in living organisms, from fish to ants to human beings. Understanding the swarm intelligence ... ....

288 pages | illustrations |

Paperback | 03/2011 | 9780465020249 | #206559A | £10.99 Add to basket

 

Physics of the Upper Polar Atmosphere

Asgeir Brekke

Physics of the Upper Polar Atmosphere is the only extended textbook that covers in particular the physics of the upper polar atmosphere where the polar lights demonstrates the end product of a process taking place at extremely ... ....

409 pages | 10 colour & 226 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 12/2012 | 9783642274008 | #205833A | £89.99 Add to basket

 

Plasticity and Geomechanics

RO Davis and APS Selvadurai

Plasticity theory is widely used to describe the behaviour of soil and rock in many engineering situations. Plasticity and Geomechanics presents a concise introduction to the general subject of plasticity with a particular emphasis ... ....

300 pages | 179 b/w illustrations |

Paperback | 08/2005 | 9780521018098 | #205910A | £41.99 Add to basket

 

Probably, Approximately Correct

Nature's Algorithms for Learning and Prospering in a Complex World

Leslie Valiant

How does life prosper in a complex and erratic world? While we know that nature follows patterns – such as the law of gravity – our everyday lives are beyond what known science can predict. We nevertheless muddle through ... ....

272 pages |

Hardback | NYP 06/2013 | 9780465032716 | #206484A | £17.99 Add to basket

 

Progress of Geo-disaster Mitigation Technology in Asia

Fawu Wang, Masakatsu Miyajima, Tonglu Li, Wei Shan and Teuku Faisal Fathani

Progress of Geo-disaster Mitigation Technology in Asia includes the recent 10-year achievement of geo-disaster mitigation by leading Asian scientists from Japan, China, Indonesia, Korea, Iran and Far East of Russia.

639 pages | 305 colour & 208 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 09/2012 | 9783642291067 | #205854A | £117.00 Add to basket

 

Red Rover

Inside the Story of Robotic Space Exploration, from Genesis to the Mars Rover Curiosity

Roger Wiens

In its eerie likeness to Earth, Mars has long captured our imaginations – both as a destination for humankind and as a possible home to extraterrestrial life. It is our twenty-first century New World; its explorers robots, shipped ... ....

233 pages | illustrations |

Hardback | 03/2013 | 9780465055982 | #206398A | £17.99 Add to basket

 

Science Tales

Lies, Hoaxes, and Scams

Darryl Cunningham

A graphic milestone of investigative reporting, Science Tales takes on controversies surrounding climate change, electro-convulsive therapy, the moon landing, the MMR vaccine, homeopathy, chiropractic, evolution and science ... ....

colour & b/w illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 06/2013 | 9781908434364 | #206139A | £11.99 Add to basket

 

Science, Religion, and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence

David Wilkinson

If the discovery of life elsewhere in the universe is just around the corner, what would be the consequences for religion? Would it represent another major conflict between science and religion, even leading to the death of faith?

232 pages |

Hardback | NYP 08/2013 | 9780199680207 | #206149A | £24.99 Add to basket

 

Sciences of Geodesy - II

Innovations and Future Developments

Guochang Xu

This series of reference books describes the sciences of different fields in and around geodesy. Each chapter, is written by experts in the respective fields and covers an individual field and describes the history, theory, the objective ... ....

410 pages | 12 colour & 83 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 07/2012 | 9783642279997 | #205731A | £117.00 Add to basket

 

The Drunken Botanist

The Plants That Create The World's Great Drinks

Amy Stewart

This quirky guide, The Drunken Botanist, explains the chemistry and botanical history of over 150 plants, trees, flowers and fruits, showing how they form the bases of our favourite cocktails. Amy Stewart offers gardeners ... ....

368 pages |

Hardback | NYP 05/2013 | 9781604694765 | #206283A | £14.99 Add to basket

 

The Earth System and Evolution of Life

Shigenori Maruyama and Madhava Warrier Santosh

During the last 200 years since Geology has been established as an integrated science, nearly the same duration as modern Biology, our understanding of the Earth has taken great leaps forward through the works of several experts, and by ... ....

310 pages | 200 colour illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 09/2013 | 9789048190478 | #204650A | £69.99 Add to basket

 

The Earth's Electric Field

Sources from Sun to Mud

Michael C Kelley

The Earth's Electric Field provides you with an integrated and comprehensive picture of the generation of the terrestrial electric fields, their dynamics and how they couple/propagate through the medium.

336 pages | illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 08/2013 | 9780123978868 | #205683A | £60.99 Add to basket

 

The Geology and Tectonic Settings of China's Mineral Deposits

Franco Pirajno

Extensive descriptions of a wide range of key or world-class mineral deposits of China are presented in the context of the country's general geology, tectonic units and mineral systems and their geodynamic evolution within the tectonic ... ....

697 pages | 89 colour & 126 b/w illustrations, 20 tables |

Hardback | 08/2012 | 9789400744431 | #205746A | £117.00 Add to basket

 

The Origin of Feces

What Excrement Tells Us About Evolution, Ecology, and a Sustainable Society

David Waltner-Toews

An entertaining and enlightening exploration of why waste matters, The Origin of Feces explores an often ignored subject matter and makes a compelling argument for a deeper understanding of human and animal waste.

220 pages |

Paperback | 06/2012 | 9781770411166 | #206141A | £12.99 Add to basket

 

The Physical Universe

Konrad Krauskopf and Arthur Beiser

The Physical Universe 15th edition, by Konrad Krauskopf and Arthur Beiser, is an outstanding text with a long history that has been updated and given a fresh look. This edition of The Physical Universe is also accompanied ... ....

752 pages |

Paperback | 02/2013 | 9780073513928 | #206499A | £119.99 Add to basket

 

The Rocks Don't Lie

A Geologist Investigates Noah's Flood

David R Montgomery

In Tibet, geologist David R. Montgomery heard a local story about a great flood that bore a striking similarity to Noah's Flood. Intrigued, Montgomery began investigating the world's flood stories and – drawing from historical ... ....

302 pages | illustrations, maps |

Paperback | NYP 08/2013 | 9780393346244 | #206106A | £11.99 Add to basket

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The Seismic Analysis Code

A Primer and User's Guide

George Helffrich, James Wookey and Ian Bastow

The Seismic Analysis Code (SAC) is one of the most widely used analysis packages for regional and teleseismic seismic data. For the first time, The Seismic Analysis Code provides users at introductory and advanced levels with a ... ....

Paperback | NYP 09/2013 | 9781107613195 | #205429A | £29.99 Add to basket

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Trap Magmatism and Ore Formation in the Siberian Noril'sk Region (2-Volume Set)

VV Ryabov, AY Shevko and MP Gora

The basis of Trap Magmatism and Ore Formation in the Siberian Noril'sk Region is the petrographic and geochemical understanding of principal igneous rock types of the Noril'sk region, in order to demonstrate that these ... ....

870 pages | 314 colour & 114 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 05/2013 | 9789400750210 | #205852A | £153.00 Add to basket

 

Unseen Cosmos

The Universe in Radio

Francis Graham-Smith

Radio telescopes have transformed our understanding of the Universe. Pulsars, quasars, Big Bang cosmology: all are discoveries of the new science of radio astronomy. In Unseen Cosmos Francis Graham-Smith describes the ... ....

256 pages | colour plates, b/w illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 10/2013 | 9780199660582 | #205259A | £19.99 Add to basket

 

Volcanic Lakes

Dmitri Rouwet, Franco Tassi and Jean Vandemeulebrouck

Volcanic Lakes aims to give an overview on the present state of volcanic lake research, covering topics such as volcano monitoring, the chemistry, dynamics and degassing of acidic crater lakes, mass-energy-chemical-isotopic ... ....

450 pages | 110 colour & 190 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 05/2013 | 9783642368325 | #206513A | £117.00 Add to basket

 
Sustainable Development
 

Advances in Citrus Nutrition

Anoop Kumar Srivastava

Advances in Citrus Nutrition is a solitary attempt to streamline all the possible information related to citrus nutrition, with emphasis on diagnosis and management of nutrient constraints, employing a variety of state-of-art ... ....

491 pages | 184 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 06/2012 | 9789400741706 | #205719A | £153.00 Add to basket

 

Agricultural Policies for Poverty Reduction

Jonathan Brooks

Agricultural Policies for Poverty Reduction addresses the role of agricultural policies in raising incomes in developing countries. It sets out a strategy for raising rural incomes which emphasises the need to create diversified ... ....

192 pages | 37 illustrations |

Hardback | 04/2012 | 9781780641058 | #205856A | £74.99 Add to basket

 

Alternative Energy Demystified

Stan Gibilisco

Demystified fuels your knowledge of tricky subjects like alternative energy If you think a Maglev train is a child's toy, or learning about fusion makes your brain reach critical mass ...

368 pages | illustrations |

Paperback | 01/2013 | 9780071794336 | #206009A | £16.99 Add to basket

 

Animals and the Limits of Postmodernism

Gary Steiner

While postmodern approaches to politics and ethics have offered some intriguing and influential insights in philosophy and theory, Gary Steiner illuminates the fundamental inability of these approaches to arrive at viable ethical and political ... ....

312 pages |

Hardback | 04/2013 | 9780231153423 | #206011A | £61.99 Add to basket

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Animals, Literature and the Politics of Representation

John Simons

Animals, Literature and the Politics of Representation addresses the question of animal rights in the context of literary criticism. Working from a committed position, it asks the question, "What would literary studies look ... ....

232 pages |

Hardback | 12/2001 | 9780333745144 | #206154A | £91.99 Add to basket

 

Arsenic Contamination in the World

An International Sourcebook

Susan Murcott

Arsenic Contamination in the World: An International Sourcebook provides a global compendium of cited arsenic occurrences in the world as they affect public health. This book details arsenic contamination by source, region and ... ....

368 pages | colour illustrations, colour maps |

Paperback | 09/2012 | 9781780400389 | #206578A | £145.00 Add to basket

 

BP and the Macondo Spill

The Complete Story

Colin Read

Most of us drive to the gas station to purchase fuel for our cars. Heating oil is delivered to our homes to keep us warm throughout the winter. We do not stop to think about the raw materials that make up so many of the goods we consume. ....

248 pages | 23 illustrations |

Hardback | 05/2011 | 9780230293588 | #206174A | £26.99 Add to basket

 

Beg: A Radical New Way of Regarding Animals

Rory Freedman

Rory Freedman, co-author of the #1 New York Times mega-seller Skinny Bitch, returns with a call-to-arms to all animal lovers. So many of us call ourselves animal lovers and worship our dogs and cats – but we could be using ... ....

208 pages |

Hardback | NYP 05/2013 | 9780762449545 | #206486A | £11.99 Add to basket

 

Best Practice Guide on Metals Removal from Drinking Water by Treatment

Mustafa Ersoz and Lisa Barrott

The EU Drinking Water Directive sets a range of standards for metals and related substances in drinking water, many of which are concerned with health protection. A number of these standards are very stringent and require compliance to ... ....

136 pages | b/w illustrations |

Paperback | 06/2012 | 9781843393849 | #206563A | £59.99 Add to basket

 

Best Practice Guide on the Control of Iron and Manganese in Water Supply

Adam Postawa and Colin Hayes

This Best Practice Guide on the Control of Iron and Manganese in Water Supply is one of a series produced by the International Water Association's Specialist Group on Metals and Related Substances in Drinking Water.

96 pages |

Paperback | NYP 08/2013 | 9781780400044 | #206538A | £59.99 Add to basket

 

Breeding Crops with Resistance to Diseases and Pests

RE Niks, JE Parlevliet, P Lindhout and Y Bai

Breeding Crops with Resistance to Diseases and Pests is the most up-to-date text book on this topic targeted towards students in Plant Sciences. Breeding Crops with Resistance to Diseases and Pests describes the most ... ....

200 pages | illustrations |

Paperback | 02/2011 | 9789086861712 | #206522A | £58.99 Add to basket

 

Capacity Development for Improved Water Management

Maarten Blokland, Guy Alaerts, Judith Kaspersma and Matt Hare

Capacity Development for Improved Water Management provides a wide range of cutting-edge papers on recent advances in capacity development. It describes the current conceptual approaches to knowledge and capacity development ... ....

408 pages | 51 colour & 30 b/w illustrations, 40 colour tables |

Hardback | 01/2010 | 9780415573986 | #205965A | £69.99 Add to basket

 

Cause and Prevention of Clogging of Wells Abstracting Groundwater from Unconsolidated Aquifers

Kees Van Beek

Groundwater serves many purposes. It is a source of public and private drinking water, it is utilized as an industrial feedstock and it is used in agriculture for irrigation and cattle watering. The abstraction of groundwater also serves ... ....

168 pages | b/w illustrations |

Paperback | 10/2011 | 9781780400242 | #206566A | £78.99 Add to basket

 

Chemistry for Sustainable Development in Africa

Ameenah Gurib-Fakim and Jacobus Nicolaas Eloff

Chemistry for Sustainable Development in Africa gives an insight into current Chemical research in Africa. It is edited and written by distinguished African scientists and includes contributions from Chemists from Northern ... ....

269 pages | 11 colour & 47 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 08/2012 | 9783642296413 | #205762A | £89.99 Add to basket

 

Clean Technology

Bioenergy, Renewables, Storage, Grid, Waste and Sustainability (2011)

Nanoscience and Technology Institute (NSTI)

NSTI's Cleantech and Nanotech conferences have built a tradition of being the most prestigious forum in the world for leading scientists in the field, and Cleantech 2011 is no exception. Top contributors offer an up-to-date global ... ....

422 pages |

Paperback | 06/2011 | 9781439881897 | #206076A | £81.99 Add to basket

 

Compendium of Bioenergy Plants: Switchgrass

Hong Luo and Yanqi Wu

Compendium of Bioenergy Plants: Switchgrass contains the most comprehensive reviews on the latest development of switchgrass research including the agronomy of the plant, the use of endophytes and mycorrhizae for biomass ... ....

450 pages | 7 colour & 7 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 09/2013 | 9781466596368 | #205671A | £88.99 Add to basket

 

Computational Fluid Dynamics in Drinking Water Treatment

Bas Wols

Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) uses advanced numerical models to predict flow, mixing and (bio)-chemical reactions. In drinking water engineering, CFD is increasingly applied to predict the performance of treatment installations and ... ....

160 pages | b/w illustrations |

Paperback | 10/2011 | 9781780400310 | #206567A | £78.99 Add to basket

 

Computational Modeling of Shallow Geothermal Systems

Rafid Al-Khoury

Geothermal heat is a viable source of energy and its environmental impact in terms of CO2 emissions is significantly lower than conventional fossil fuels. Shallow geothermal systems are increasingly utilized for heating and ... ....

254 pages | illustrations |

Hardback | 09/2011 | 9780415596275 | #206197A | £88.99 Add to basket

 

Contested Agronomy

Agricultural Research in a Changing World

James Sumberg and John Thompson

The dramatic increases in food prices experienced over the last four years, and their effects of hunger and food insecurity, as well as human-induced climate change and its implications for agriculture, food production and food security ... ....

232 pages | 12 tables |

Hardback | 03/2012 | 9780415698061 | #206192A | £89.99 Add to basket

Paperback | 03/2012 | 9780415507141 | #206193A | £19.99 Add to basket

 

Cracking the Carbon Code

The Key to Sustainable Profits in the New Economy

Terry Tamminen and Arnold Schwarzenegger

The carbon market is a new one, so investing in it is not as easy as it could be. The market is extremely volatile and very illiquid, to say nothing of being at the mercy of the whims of politicians. Still, that doesn't mean it ... ....

192 pages | illustrations, maps |

Hardback | 02/2011 | 9780230109506 | #206178A | £21.99 Add to basket

 

Criminological and Legal Consequences of Climate Change

Stephen Farrall, Tawhida Ahmed and Duncan French

This edited collection – the result of a 2010 international seminar held at the International Institute for the Sociology of Law, Onati, Spain – explores the potential legal and criminological consequences of climate change ... ....

282 pages |

Hardback | 04/2012 | 9781849461863 | #206025A | £46.99 Add to basket

 

Crop Improvement Under Adverse Conditions

Narendra Tuteja and Sarvajeet Singh Gill

Plant development and productivity are negatively regulated by various environmental stresses. Abiotic stress factors such as heat, cold, drought, and salinity represent key elements limiting agricultural productivity worldwide.

415 pages | 48 colour & 29 b/w illustrations, 21 tables |

Hardback | 12/2012 | 9781461446323 | #205828A | £135.00 Add to basket

 

Crop Stress Management and Global Climate Change

Vijay Mittal

Climate change will pose many challenges to agriculture in the future, but by taking an integrative approach to predicting and adapting to change, Crop Stress Management and Global Climate Change will inspire researchers to turn ... ....

351 pages |

Hardback | 02/2012 | 9789380090504 | #205777A | £54.50 Add to basket

 

Decision-Making for a Sustainable Environment

A Systemic Approach

Chris Maser

Increasingly, environmental decision making is like playing a multidimensional game of chess. With interactions between the atmosphere, the litho-hydrosphere, and the biosphere, the game is at once a measure of complexity, uncertainty ... ....

304 pages | 1 b/w illustration |

Hardback | 08/2012 | 9781466552166 | #205956A | £49.99 Add to basket

 

Deep Water

The Epic Struggle Over Dams, Displaced People, and the Environment

Jacques Leslie

There are more than 45,000 of them in the world. They have altered the speed of the planet's rotation, the tilt of its axis, and the shape of its gravitational field. They influence landscapes and societies. They are dams, and in ... ....

352 pages | no illustrations |

Hardback | 12/2005 | 9780374281724 | #154424A | £22.50 Add to basket

Paperback | 11/2006 | 9780312425562 | #206403A | £17.99 Add to basket

 

Design and Nature VI

Comparing Design in Nature with Science and Engineering

CA Brebbia and S Hernandez

Throughout history, many leading thinkers have been inspired by the parallels between nature and human design, in mathematics, engineering and other areas. Today, the huge increase in biological knowledge, developments in design engineering ... ....

332 pages | illustrations |

Hardback | 06/2012 | 9781845645922 | #206204A | £143.00 Add to basket

 

Dynamic Models of Infectious Diseases, Volume 1

Vector-Borne Diseases

V Sree Hari Rao and Ravi Durvasula

Despite great advances in public health worldwide, insect vector-borne infectious diseases remain a leading cause of morbidity and mortality. Diseases that are transmitted by arthropods such as mosquitoes, sand flies, fleas, and ticks ... ....

304 pages | 46 colour & 20 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 11/2012 | 9781461439608 | #205769A | £135.00 Add to basket

 

Dynamics of Energy Governance in Europe and Russia

Caroline Kuzemko, Andrei V Belyi, Andreas Goldthau and Michael F Keating

Energy in Europe and Russia is in flux. The authors of Dynamics of Energy Governance in Europe and Russia address key issues in this context and seek to analyze contemporary transition processes in the region's energy sector ... ....

312 pages | 9 illustrations, 7 tables |

Hardback | 02/2012 | 9780230307902 | #206380A | £59.99 Add to basket

 

EAF Toolbox

The Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

The Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries (EAF) has been adopted by the FAO Committee on Fisheries (COFI) as the appropriate and practical way to fully implement the Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries, including the ecological, social ... ....

178 pages |

Hardback | 03/2013 | 9789251072677 | #205638A | £75.59 Add to basket

 

Eco-Architecture IV

Harmonisation Between Architecture and Nature

CA Brebbia

Containing the proceedings of the latest in a series of conferences on the emerging topic of eco-architecture, Eco-Architecture IV: Harmonisation Between Architecture and Nature presents the newest research in the field.

464 pages | illustrations |

Hardback | 08/2012 | 9781845646141 | #206201A | £199.00 Add to basket

 

EcoProduction and Logistics

Emerging Trends and Business Practices

Paulina Golinska

Environmental awareness is driven mainly by the scarcity of natural resources and by more strict legal regulations. The modern enterprise policy should look at the relations between economic actions and ecological consequences.

340 pages | b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 08/2012 | 9783642235528 | #205760A | £117.00 Add to basket

 

Ecological Modernisation and Renewable Energy

David Toke

Ecological Modernisation and Renewable Energy discusses the emergence and development of the new renewable energy industry. David Toke reinvigorates ecological modernisation (EM), a key theory of environmental development. ....

216 pages | 2 tables |

Hardback | 02/2011 | 9780230224261 | #206341A | £61.99 Add to basket

 

Ecology and Religion

John Grim and Mary Evelyn Tucker

From the "Psalms" in the Bible to the sacred rivers in Hinduism, the natural world has been integral to the world's religions. John Grim and Mary Tucker argue that today's growing environmental challenges make the relation ... ....

200 pages |

Paperback | NYP 09/2013 | 9781597267083 | #203837A | £12.99 Add to basket

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Economic Sustainability and Environmental Protection in Mediterranean Countries Through Clean Manufacturing Methods

Jose Coca-Prados and Gemma Gutierrez-Cervello

Economic Sustainability and Environmental Protection in Mediterranean Countries Through Clean Manufacturing Methods, with contributions from a team of multi-disciplinary team experts, addresses the economic sustainability and ... ....

168 pages | b/w illustrations |

Paperback | 10/2012 | 9789400750814 | #205834A | £62.99 Add to basket

Hardback | 10/2012 | 9789400750784 | #205835A | £126.00 Add to basket

 

Encyclopedia of Environmental Management (5-Volume Set)

Sven Erik Joergensen

Bringing together a wealth of knowledge, the Encyclopedia of Environmental Management gives a comprehensive overview of environmental problems, their sources, their assessment, and their solutions. Through in-depth entries and a ... ....

3512 pages | b/w illustrations, b/w maps |

Hardback | 12/2012 | 9781439829271 | #205988A | £1400.00 Add to basket

 

Encyclopedia of Marine Natural Products (3-Volume Set)

Jean-Michel Kornprobst

Now in its second edition and further expanded by 15%, this encyclopedic work is one of the largest resources on marine natural products. It contains an exhaustive and systematic listing of more than 9000 formulae and 10,000 references ... ....

2180 pages | illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 08/2013 | 9783527334292 | #206088A | £570.00 Add to basket

 

Energy and Sustainability |||

AA Mammoli, Carlos A Brebbia and Esteve Y Villacampa

It has been clear for some time that the way in which our society exists, operates, and develops is strongly influenced by the way in which energy is produced and consumed. No industrial process can proceed without an adequate energy supply ... ....

528 pages | illustrations |

Hardback | 03/2011 | 9781845645083 | #206337A | £227.00 Add to basket

 

Engineering Education and Sustainable Development

A Guide to Rapid Curriculum Renewal in Higher Education

Karlson Hargroves, Cheryl Desha, Barry Grear, Goolam Mohamedbhai, Tony Marjoram and Wal Leal-Filho

Responding to the global and unprecedented challenge of capacity building for 21st Century life, Engineering Education and Sustainable Development is a practical guide for tertiary education institutions to quickly and effectively ... ....

192 pages | illustrations, tables |

Paperback | NYP 10/2013 | 9781844078608 | #206065A | £27.99 Add to basket

Hardback | NYP 10/2013 | 9781844078592 | #206066A | £105.00 Add to basket

 

Environmental Imaginaries of the Middle East and North Africa

Diana K Davis and Edmund Burke III

The landscapes of the Middle East have captured our imaginations throughout history. Images of endless golden dunes, camel caravans, isolated desert oases, and rivers lined with palm trees have often framed written and visual representation ... ....

280 pages | illustrations |

Hardback | 12/2011 | 9780821419748 | #205672A | £54.95 Add to basket

Paperback | 04/2013 | 9780821420409 | #205673A | £27.50 Add to basket

 

Environmental Issues in Supply Chain Management

New Trends and Applications

Carlos Andres Romano and Paulina Golinska

The aim of Environmental Issues in Supply Chain Management is to present the emerging environmental issues in organization and management of complex supply chains. The book includes set of solutions which show different stakeholders ... ....

278 pages | b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 06/2012 | 9783642235610 | #205761A | £117.00 Add to basket

 

Environmental Restoration and Design for Recreation and Ecotourism

Robert L France

A wetland center in London, parks in downtown San Francisco, a wildlife sanctuary in Arcata, and a wetlands park on the outskirts of Las Vegas – what do these urban and suburban locations have in common? They are leading examples of ... ....

312 pages | 190 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 11/2011 | 9781439869864 | #205982A | £79.99 Add to basket

 

Environmental Stress and Amelioration in Livestock Production

Veerasamy Sejian, SMK Naqvi, Thaddeus C Ezeji, Jeffrey Lakritz and Rattan Lal

Given the importance of livestock to the global economy, there is a substantial need for world-class reference material on the sustainable management of livestock in diverse eco-regions. With uncertain climates involving unpredictable ... ....

590 pages | 16 colour & 34 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 06/2012 | 9783642292040 | #205770A | £153.00 Add to basket

 

Environmental and Natural Resources Economics

Theory, Policy and the Sustainable Society

Steven C Hackett

This new edition of a classic text presents an accessible yet rigorous treatment of environmental and natural resources economics, including climate change and the economics of sustainability. Completely revised and updated, the fourth edition ... ....

496 pages | illustrations |

Paperback | 01/2011 | 9780765624949 | #206363A | £72.95 Add to basket

 

European Energy Security

Turkey's Future Role and Impact

Mehmet Efe Biresselioglu

European Energy Security identifies the EU's main energy security challenges and looks at Turkey's possible role in this policy area. By investigating the role of Turkey as a westward transit hub for hydrocarbons from the ... ....

216 pages | 49 illustrations, 2 maps, 26 tables |

Hardback | 06/2011 | 9780230252684 | #206344A | £57.99 Add to basket

 

Evolutionary Religion

JL Schellenberg

J. L. Schellenberg articulates and defends a simple but revolutionary idea: we are still at a very early stage in the possible history of intelligent life on our planet, and should frame our religious attitudes accordingly. Humans have ... ....

176 pages |

Hardback | NYP 06/2013 | 9780199673766 | #205689A | £19.99 Add to basket

 

Farming Systems Research into the 21st Century

The New Dynamic

Ika Darnhofer, David Gibbon and Benoit Dedieu

Farming Systems Research has three core characteristics: it builds on systems thinking, it depends on the close collaboration between social and biophysical sciences, and it relies on participation to build co-learning processes.

503 pages | 26 colour & 81 b/w illustrations, 16 tables |

Hardback | 06/2012 | 9789400745025 | #205765A | £153.00 Add to basket

 

Food and Development

EM Young

The relationship between food and development has always been controversial. Over the last thirty years, development in the north and south has failed to deliver people a decent diet. While some people have too little food and die as a ... ....

432 pages | 36 b/w photos, 60 b/w illustrations, 25 tables |

Hardback | 03/2012 | 9780415497992 | #206194A | £86.99 Add to basket

Paperback | 02/2011 | 9780415498005 | #206195A | £26.99 Add to basket

 

Food and Fuel

The Example of Brazil

Marcos Fava Neves, Mairun Junqueira Alves Pinto, Marco Antonio Conejero and Vini Gustavo Trombin

Food and Fuel: The Example of Brazil is a contribution of the authors to the food – fuel debate. During 2007 and 2008 several factors led to the food inflation problem: growing population, income distribution, urbanization ... ....

150 pages |

Paperback | 02/2011 | 9789086861668 | #206518A | £56.50 Add to basket

 

Food: A Very Short Introduction

John Krebs

In this Very Short Introduction, Prof Lord John Krebs provides a brief history of human food, from our remote ancestors 3 million years ago to the present day. By looking at the four great transitions in human food ...

144 pages |

Paperback | NYP 09/2013 | 9780199661084 | #204960A | £7.99 Add to basket

 

Fun in Fusion Research

John Sheffield

Fun in Fusion Research discusses the fun side of the quest to develop fusion energy – a modern equivalent of the hunt for the Holy Grail. After more than 70 years of research, despite great progress, the goal has not been ... ....

160 pages |

Hardback | 03/2013 | 9780124077935 | #205681A | £42.99 Add to basket

 

Fundamentals of Mold Growth in Indoor Environments and Strategies for Healthy Living

Olaf CG Adan and Robert A Samson

Today, indoor mold and moisture, and their associated health effects, are a society-wide problem. The economic consequences of indoor mold and moisture are enormous. Their global dimension has been emphasized in several recent international ... ....

350 pages |

Hardback | 03/2011 | 9789086861354 | #206521A | £117.00 Add to basket

 

Garden Earth

From Hunter and Gatherers to Global Capitalism and Thereafter

Gunnar Rundgren

Our society and the capitalist market economy have failed to create well-being for many. Big parts of humanity are as poor today as they were fifty years ago, despite unprecedented growth. Gaps between the rich and poor are abnormal and ... ....

418 pages | b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 01/2013 | 9789198089202 | #205674A | £19.99 Add to basket

 

Genomics and Breeding for Climate-Resilient Crops, Volume 1

Concepts and Strategies

Chittaranjan Kole

Climate change is expected to have a drastic impact on agronomic conditions including temperature, precipitation, soil nutrients, and the incidence of disease pests, to name a few. To face this looming threat, significant progress in ... ....

640 pages | 15 colour & 8 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 05/2013 | 9783642370441 | #206525A | £135.00 Add to basket

 

Genomics and Breeding for Climate-Resilient Crops, Volume 2

Target Traits

Chittaranjan Kole

Climate change is expected to have a drastic impact on agronomic conditions including temperature, precipitation, soil nutrients, and the incidence of disease pests, to name a few. To face this looming threat, significant progress in ... ....

527 pages | 15 colour & 13 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 05/2013 | 9783642370472 | #206526A | £135.00 Add to basket

 

Global Forest Governance

Legal Concepts and Policy Trends

Rowena Maguire

Global Forest Governance provides insightful legal analysis of the current key policy trends and the challenges surrounding international forest regulation. Global Forest Governance identifies the fundamental legal principles ... ....

374 pages | tables |

Hardback | 01/2013 | 9780857936066 | #206119A | £94.99 Add to basket

 

Global Tea Breeding

Achievements, Challenges and Perspectives

Liang Chen, Zeno Apostolides and Zong-Mao Chen

Global Tea Breeding: Achievements, Challenges and Perspectives provides a global review on biodiversity and biotechnology issues in tea breeding and selection. The contributions are written by experts from China, India, Kenya ... ....

250 pages | 65 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 02/2013 | 9783642318771 | #205817A | £117.00 Add to basket

 

Globalization: A Very Short Introduction

Manfred B Steger

Globalization has become one of the defining buzzwords of our time – a term that describes a variety of accelerating economic, political, cultural, ideological, and environmental processes that are rapidly altering our experience of ... ....

176 pages | 23 illustrations |

Paperback | 04/2013 | 9780199662661 | #205690A | £7.99 Add to basket

 

Governing the Provision of Ecosystem Services

Roldan Muradian and Laura Rival

Founded on the core notion that we have reached a turning point in the governance, and thus the conservation, of ecosystems and the environment, Governing the Provision of Ecosystem Services features more than 20 original chapters ... ....

497 pages | 5 colour & 34 b/w illustrations, 35 tables |

Hardback | 11/2012 | 9789400751750 | #205838A | £117.00 Add to basket

 

Green National Accounting and Sustainability

Karl Gustaf Lofgren and Chuan-Zhong Li

Concerns about natural resource scarcity, together with the increased awareness of environmental problems, has led to widespread interest in green accounting, which attempts to extend the standard national accounts to include the yields ... ....

768 pages | Illustrations |

Hardback | 10/2011 | 9781848446915 | #206061A | £245.00 Add to basket

 

Greener Products

The Making and Marketing of Sustainable Brands

Al Iannuzzi

As the global demand for natural and organic products continues to grow, making and marketing greener products is becoming an imperative. The old stereotype of green products' sub-par performance has been shattered as large multinational ... ....

222 pages | 22 b/w illustrations, 10 tables |

Hardback | 11/2011 | 9781439854310 | #205987A | £59.99 Add to basket

 

Groundwater Around the World

A Geographic Synopsis

Jean Margat and Jac Van Der Gun

Groundwater Around the World presents a unique and up-to-date summary of what is known about groundwater on our planet, from a global perspective and in terms of area-specific factual information. Unlike most textbooks on groundwater ... ....

376 pages | maps |

Hardback | 03/2013 | 9781138000346 | #206290A | £49.99 Add to basket

 

Groundwater Optimization Handbook

Flow, Contaminant Transport, and Conjunctive Management

Groundwater Optimization Handbook: Flow, Contaminant Transport, and Conjunctive Management presents a thorough introduction to groundwater systems analysis and optimization terminology, principles, and techniques ...

532 pages |

Hardback | 06/2012 | 9781780401119 | #206540A | £81.99 Add to basket

 

Groundwater and Ecosystems

Luis Ribeiro, Tibor Y Stigter, Antonio Chambel, M Teresa Condesso De Melo and Jose Monteiro

Groundwater resources are facing increasing pressure from consuming and contaminating activities. There is a growing awareness that the quantitative and qualitative preservation of groundwater resources is a global need, not only to safe ... ....

365 pages |

Hardback | NYP 05/2013 | 9781138000339 | #206291A | £98.99 Add to basket

 

Guide to BREEAM

Stuart Barlow

BREEAM is the leading environmental assessment method for buildings, setting the standard for best practice in sustainable design. Yet many professionals find BREEAM difficult to understand and often miss out on opportunities to optimise ... ....

120 pages | illustrations |

Paperback | 12/2011 | 9781859464250 | #206374A | £29.99 Add to basket

 

Handbook of Inland Aquatic Ecosystem Management

Sven Erik Joergensen, Jose Galizia Tundisi and Takako Matsumura Tundisi

Combining background knowledge and practical tools, Handbook of Inland Aquatic Ecosystem Management gives you an overview of how to manage inland waters in a holistic manner. It examines the problems that threaten aquatic inland ... ....

430 pages | 150 b/w illustrations, 77 tables |

Hardback | 10/2012 | 9781439845257 | #205948A | £76.99 Add to basket

 

Historical Agriculture and Soil Erosion in the Upper Mississippi Valley Hill Country

Stanley W Trimble

This thought-provoking book demonstrates how processes of landscape transformation, usually illustrated only in simplified or idealized form, play out over time in real, complex landscapes. Trimble illustrates how a simple landscape ... ....

290 pages | 212 b/w illustrations, 1 table |

Hardback | 11/2012 | 9781466555747 | #205960A | £57.99 Add to basket

 

Human and Other Animals

Critical Perspectives

Bob Carter and Nickie Charles

Human and Other Animals brings together a range of inter-disciplinary works which explore the questions raised by scientific practices and by different ways of conceptualizing the place of human beings in the material world. ....

264 pages | 5 b/w photos, 1 illustration, 1 table |

Hardback | 10/2011 | 9780230246591 | #206162A | £57.50 Add to basket

 

Human and Water Security in Israel and Jordan

Philip Jan Schaefer

Human and Water Security in Israel and Jordan aims at answering the question as to how far discourses on human security are present in Jordan and Israel, if they converge and if political solutions for the issue of water security ... ....

129 pages | 1 colour illustration |

Paperback | 10/2012 | 9783642292989 | #205763A | £44.99 Add to basket

 

Implementing Industrial Ecology

Methodological Tools and Reflections for Constructing a Sustainable Development

Cyril Adoue

Implementing Industrial Ecology: Methodological Tools and Reflections for Constructing a Sustainable Development is the fruit of the author's six years of research and fieldwork undertaken while at the Centre for Sustainable ... ....

166 pages | 1 colour & 35 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 01/2011 | 9781578087006 | #205963A | £57.99 Add to basket

 

Industrial Composting

Environmental Engineering and Facilities Management

Eliot Epstein

The ultimate in recycling, composting has been in use in some form since ancient times. A well-managed composting facility should exist as a good neighbor contributing to ecology. However, since local populations often perceive risks if ... ....

334 pages | 124 b/w illustrations, 75 tables |

Hardback | 02/2011 | 9781439845318 | #205976A | £93.99 Add to basket

 

Innovation in Agri-food Clusters

Theory and Case Studies

C Ryan and P Philips

Innovation has moved through a range of revolutionary epochs, but there is no clear picture of how, or even if, innovation can be managed. Innovation in Agri-food Clusters explores the models, methods and metrics of innovation ... ....

240 pages | 5 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 11/2012 | 9781780640419 | #205855A | £64.99 Add to basket

 

Integrating Agriculture, Conservation and Ecotourism

Societal Influences

W Bruce Campbell and Silvia Lopez Ortiz

Agroecology not only encompasses aspects of ecology, but the ecology of sustainable food production systems, and related societal and cultural values. To provide effective communication regarding status and advances in this field ... ....

299 pages | 3 colour & 13 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 06/2012 | 9789400744844 | #205764A | £135.00 Add to basket

 

Internal Corrosion Control of Water Supply Systems

Metals and Related Substances in Drinking Water

Colin Hayes

This Code of Practice is concerned with metal pick-up by drinking water within the water supply chain, particularly from water mains and from domestic and institutional pipe-work systems. The principal metals of interest are copper ... ....

116 pages | b/w illustrations |

Paperback | 09/2012 | 9781780404547 | #206539A | £64.99 Add to basket

 

International Climate Finance

Erik F Haites

International Climate Finance is the first to provide a complete overview of international climate finance. In the Copenhagen Accord of 2009, developed countries jointly committed to mobilize US$100 billion per year to address ... ....

248 pages | 46 b/w illustrations, 24 tables |

Hardback | 05/2011 | 9781849714051 | #206064A | £84.99 Add to basket

 

International Development Policy

Energy and Development

Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHED) and Gilles Carbonnier

International Development Policy is a critical source of analyses of development policy trends and international cooperation for scholars, policy-makers, development professionals and journalists.It offers a diverse range of ... ....

240 pages | 32 illustrations, 10 tables |

Paperback | 06/2011 | 9780230282483 | #206370A | £36.99 Add to basket

 

International Handbook on the Economics of Energy

Joanne Evans and Lester C Hunt

As an essential component for economic growth, energy has a significant impact on the global economy. The need to meet growing energy demand has prompted cutting-edge innovation in clean technology in an attempt to realise environmental ... ....

848 pages | illustrations |

Hardback | 09/2009 | 9781847203526 | #206022A | £200.00 Add to basket

Paperback | 07/2011 | 9780857938251 | #206023A | £44.99 Add to basket

 

Japanese Commons in the Coastal Seas

How The Satoumi Concept Harmonizes Human Activity in Coastal Seas with High Productivity and Diversity

Tetsuo Yanagi

The author proposed the satoumi concept, analogous to the satoyama concept on land, as "coastal sea with high biodiversity and productivity in harmony with human interaction" in 1998. The concept for environmental conservation ... ....

123 pages | 39 colour & 35 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 07/2012 | 9784431540991 | #205742A | £89.99 Add to basket

 

Long Term Socio-Ecological Research

Studies in Society-Nature Interactions Across Spatial and Temporal Scales

Simron Jit Singh, Helmut Haberl, Marian R Chertow, Michael Mirtl and Martin Schmid

In Long Term Socio-Ecological Research, the editors propose to bring together several interdisciplinary research traditions and case studies that deal with long term socio-ecological fields of enquiry; for example, social ecology ... ....

625 pages | 42 colour & 65 b/w illustrations, 25 tables |

Hardback | 11/2012 | 9789400711761 | #205840A | £53.99 Add to basket

 

Lost in the Backwoods

Scots and the North American Wilderness

Jenni Calder

Lost in the Backwoods shows how the American wilderness shaped Scottish experience, imagination and identity. How is the Scottish imagination shaped by its emigre experience with wilderness and the extreme? Drawing on journals ... ....

224 pages |

Hardback | 05/2013 | 9780748647392 | #206110A | £64.99 Add to basket

Paperback | 05/2013 | 9780748647385 | #206111A | £19.99 Add to basket

 

Lyme Disease

An Evidence-based Approach

JJ Halperin

Providing the medical practitioner with a broad scientific understanding, Lyme Disease: An Evidence-based Approach discusses the causative organism, its requisite ecosystem, disease epidemiology, host-Borrelia interactions ... ....

296 pages | illustrations |

Hardback | 08/2011 | 9781845938048 | #205857A | £84.99 Add to basket

 

Making Space for the River

Governance Experiences with Multifunctional River Flood Management in the US and Europe

Jeroen Frank Warner, Arwin Van Buuren and Jurian Edelenbos

Making Space for the River examines recent developments in river (flood) management from the viewpoint of Making Space for the River and the resulting challenges for water governance. Different examples from Europe ... ....

218 pages | b/w illustrations |

Paperback | 11/2012 | 9781780401126 | #206573A | £88.99 Add to basket

 

Management of Natural Resources, Sustainable Development and Ecological Hazards |||

Carlos A Brebbia and SS Zubir

Management of Natural Resources, Sustainable Development and Ecological Hazards: III contains the proceedings of the third in a now-biennial series of conferences organised by the Wessex Institute of Technology around the ... ....

688 pages | illustrations |

Hardback | 11/2011 | 9781845645328 | #206330A | £296.00 Add to basket

 

Managing Climate Change Business Risks and Consequences

Leadership for Global Sustainability

James AF Stoner and Charles Wankel

Climate change can have major impacts on business (and business can have major impacts on climate change). Risk management is a valuable way of framing climate change issues and for grappling with the possible consequences of climate change ... ....

254 pages | illustrations |

Hardback | 02/2012 | 9780230115835 | #206176A | £65.99 Add to basket

 

Managing Climate Risk in Water Supply Systems

Casey Brown and Neil Ward

Water resources systems provide multiple services and, if managed properly, can contribute significantly to social well-being and economic growth. However, extreme or unexpected hydroclimatic conditions, such as droughts and floods ... ....

168 pages |

Paperback | 02/2013 | 9781780400587 | #206572A | £78.99 Add to basket

 

Mechanism Design for Sustainability

Techniques and Cases

Zongwei Luo

Mechanism Design for Sustainability provides advanced analytics and decision management techniques and tools for developing sustainable competitive advantages in the studied target context. In order to achieve sustainable economic ... ....

328 pages | 42 colour & 44 b/w illustrations, 4 colour tables |

Hardback | 03/2013 | 9789400759947 | #206018A | £89.99 Add to basket

 

Meeting the Challenge of Financing Water and Sanitation

Tools and Approaches

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

The investments needed to deliver sustainable water and sanitation services, including the funds that are needed to operate and maintain the infrastructure, expand their coverage and upgrade service delivery to meet current social and ... ....

115 pages |

Paperback | 11/2011 | 9781780400327 | #206535A | £21.99 Add to basket

 

Merchants of Virtue

Herman Miller and the Making of a Sustainable Company

Bill Birchard

Merchants of Virtue is about the company Herman Miller and a band of people who determined to make their company a good global citizen. They end up answering one of the critical questions of our time: Is sustainable business ... ....

256 pages | illustrations |

Hardback | 10/2011 | 9780230106604 | #206177A | £19.99 Add to basket

 

Metals and Related Substances in Drinking Water

Proceedings of the 4th International Conference, METEAU

Prosun Bhattacharya, Ingegerd Rosborg, Arifin Sandhi, Colin Hayes and Maria Joao Benoliel

Metals and Related Substances in Drinking Water comprises the proceedings of COST Action 637 - METEAU, held in Kristianstad, Sweden, October 13-15, 2010 This book collates the understanding of the various factors which control ... ....

290 pages | b/w illustrations |

Paperback | 11/2012 | 9781780400358 | #206565A | £98.99 Add to basket

 

Methods and Procedures for Building Sustainable Farming Systems

Application in the European Context

Ana Alexandra Marta-Costa and Emiliana Silva

Showing how the method of sustainability assessment plays a key role in choosing the best agricultural productive mode, Methods and Procedures for Building Sustainable Farming Systems guides the reader through the process of ... ....

300 pages | 5 colour & 42 b/w illustrations, 43 tables |

Hardback | 10/2012 | 9789400750029 | #205837A | £89.99 Add to basket

 

Modern Biotechnology

Panacea or New Pandora's Box?

Johannes Tramper and Yang Zhu

According to Greek mythology Pandora was sent down to earth upon the orders of Zeus. She was given a mysterious box which she was not allowed to open. However, Pandora was very curious and when she arrived on earth she couldn't help ... ....

284 pages |

Hardback | 11/2010 | 9789086861699 | #206519A | £62.50 Add to basket

 

Monitoring Water Quality

Pollution Assessment, Analysis, and Remediation

Satinder Ahuja

Water is the second most important essential material for human survival. Even though Earth is compsed largely of water, fresh water comprises only 3 per cent of the total water available to us. Of that. only 0.06 per cent is easily accessible ... ....

400 pages |

Hardback | 01/2013 | 9780444593955 | #206016A | £78.99 Add to basket

 

Natural Resources

Technology, Economics & Policy

U Aswathanarayana

Natural resources management has two principal dimensions: Science-illuminated (earth, space, hydrological, pedological, information, etc. sciences) management of local resources (waters, soils, bioresources, minerals, rocks, sediments ... ....

500 pages | illustrations |

Hardback | 03/2012 | 9780415897914 | #205959A | £63.99 Add to basket

 

Network Economics of Marine Ecosystems and Their Exploitation

Christian Mullon

Network Economics of Marine Ecosystems and Their Exploitation addresses the question of the double exposure of marine ecosystems, i.e. to both global climate changes and economic globalization. The book contains a short, but ... ....

275 pages | 105 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 08/2013 | 9781466590052 | #206292A | £63.99 Add to basket

 

New Essays in Applied Ethics

Animal Rights, Personhood, and the Ethics of Killing

Hon-Lam Li and Anthony Yeung

This collection of essays aims to address some of the most perplexing moral issues arising from death and dying, as well as the question of the moral status of persons and animals. In New Essays in Applied Ethics, leading scholars ... ....

288 pages | illustrations |

Hardback | 10/2007 | 9780230006508 | #206160A | £67.99 Add to basket

 

North Atlantic Batoids and Chimaeras Relevant to Fisheries Management

A Pocket Guide

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

North Atlantic Batoids and Chimaeras Relevant to Fisheries Management presents a fully illustrated identification guide to a selection of batoid and chimaera species of the North Atlantic, encompassing FAO Fishing Areas ... ....

84 pages | illustrations |

Hardback | 04/2013 | #206123A | £44.95 Add to basket

 

Nuclear Energy Development in Asia

Problems and Prospects

Xu Yi-Chong

Why is nuclear energy in Asia accepted as part of the solution to power shortages and environmental pollution, whilst still regarded with suspicion in Europe and North America? The majority of new nuclear power stations are being built ... ....

272 pages | 5 illustrations, 42 tables |

Hardback | 02/2011 | 9780230240247 | #206342A | £62.99 Add to basket

 

Nutrient Indicator Models for Determining Biologically Relevant Levels

A Case Study Based on the Corn Belt and North Great Plain Nutrient Ecoregion

Charles Clarence Morris and Thomas Paul Simon

Nutrient Indicator Models for Determining Biologically Relevant Levels: A case study based on the Corn Belt and Northern Great Plain Nutrient Ecoregion is the first book to provide answers to the management of nutrients based on ... ....

76 pages | b/w illustrations |

Paperback | 04/2012 | 9789400741287 | #205591A | £44.99 Add to basket

 

Plant Nematology

Roland N Perry and Maurice Moens

Plant-parasitic nematodes devastate crops worldwide, in turn impacting international trade, and social and economic development. Effective control of nematodes is essential for crop protection and requires an understanding of nematode biology ... ....

512 pages | illustrations |

Paperback | NYP 09/2013 | 9781780641539 | #204830A | £49.95 Add to basket

Hardback | NYP 09/2013 | 9781780641515 | #204831A | £94.99 Add to basket

 

Practice of Sustainable Community Development

A Participatory Framework for Change

R Warren Flint

Ordinary people, community leaders, and even organizations and corporations still do not fully comprehend the interconnected, "big picture" dynamics of sustainability theory and action. In exploring means to become more sustainable ... ....

484 pages | 14 colour & 62 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 10/2012 | 9781461450993 | #205836A | £89.99 Add to basket

 

Property Rights and Sustainability

The Evolution of Property Rights to Meet Ecological Challenges

David Grinlinton and Prue Taylor

Published with the support of The New Zealand Law Foundation. As collapses and crises involving ecological systems, economic and financial management and international governance increase, the need for bold alternatives to traditional ... ....

416 pages |

Hardback | 04/2011 | 9789004182646 | #205807A | £118.00 Add to basket

 

Rainwater Harvesting for Agriculture in the Dry Areas

Theib Yousef Oweis, Dieter Prinz and Ahmed Yousif Hachum

Dry areas suffer not only from limited rainfall but also 'natural leakage' – 90% of rainwater is lost directly or indirectly, and is unavailable for agriculture or domestic use. Water harvesting is a low-cost, easy-to-use ... ....

266 pages | Illustrations |

Hardback | 05/2012 | 9780415621144 | #205957A | £63.99 Add to basket

 

Reading the Animal in the Literature of the British Raj

Shefali Rajamannar and Kincaid R James

Reading the Animal in the Literature of the British Raj explores representations of animals during British rule in India – the tigers, elephants, boars, furs, and feathers that sometimes all but obscured the human beneath ... ....

232 pages | illustrations |

Hardback | 02/2012 | 9780230114494 | #206159A | £57.99 Add to basket

 

Recent Advances in Crop Protection

P Parvartha Reddy

In the recent years, the need to increase food production to meet the demands of rapidly increasing population from a limited land resource necessitated the use of intensive farming systems, with the inputs like narrow genetic base ... ....

278 pages | 10 colour & 45 b/w illustrations, 50 tables |

Hardback | 09/2012 | 9788132207221 | #205801A | £135.00 Add to basket

 

Regulation of Agricultural Biotechnology

The United States and Canada

Chris A Wozniak and Alan McHughen

Agricultural biotechnology takes many forms and applications, with the number and diversity of products ever increasing. With this rapid development, regulatory authorities have sought to keep pace through regulatory adjustments and ... ....

405 pages | 10 colour & 4 b/w illustrations, 40 colour tables |

Hardback | 10/2012 | 9789400721555 | #205803A | £135.00 Add to basket

 

Reinventing Fire

Bold Business Solutions for the New Energy Era

Amory B Lovins

Oil and coal have built our civilisation, created our wealth and enriched the lives of billions. Yet their rising costs to our security, economy, health and environment are starting to outweigh their benefits. Moreover, the tipping point ... ....

352 pages | illustrations |

Hardback | 02/2012 | 9781603583718 | #205783A | £27.50 Add to basket

 

Researching Sustainability

A Guide to Social Science Methods, Practice and Engagement

Alex Franklin and Paul Blyton

Researching Sustainability is for students and researchers across the social sciences who are planning, conducting and disseminating research on sustainability-related issues. Real-world sustainability problems cross many boundaries ... ....

352 pages | illustrations, tables |

Hardback | 05/2011 | 9781849711210 | #206067A | £84.99 Add to basket

Paperback | 05/2011 | 9781849711227 | #206068A | £30.99 Add to basket

 

Seed Development

OMICS Technologies Toward Improvement of Seed Quality and Crop Yield

Ganesh Kumar Agrawal and Randeep Rakwal

Seed Development: OMICS Technologies Toward Improvement of Seed Quality and Crop Yield is about the seed development in the model and crop plants. Seed development is a key step of the plant life cycle that determines ... ....

615 pages | 29 colour & 49 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 12/2012 | 9789400747487 | #205812A | £135.00 Add to basket

 

Soil and Water Contamination

Marcel Van Der Perk

Soil and Water Contamination, 2nd Edition provides an overview of transport and fate processes of environmental contamination, in such a way that the reader can both understand and predict contaminant patterns in soil, groundwater ... ....

450 pages |

Hardback | NYP 11/2013 | 9781780404912 | #206570A | £49.99 Add to basket

 

Southeast Asian Water Environment, Volume 5

K Yamamoto, Hiroaki Furumai and H Katayama

This is the fifth volume in the series of books on the Southeast Asian water environment. The most important articles presented at the Eighth and Ninth International Symposiums on Southeast Asian Water Environment have been selected for ... ....

220 pages |

Paperback | NYP 09/2013 | 9781780404950 | #206534A | £94.99 Add to basket

 

Stochastic Water Demand Modelling

Hydraulics in Water Distribution Networks

Mirjam Blokker

Water quality processes in the drinking water distribution network are strongly influenced by the flow velocity and residence time of the water in the network. In order to understand how the water quality changes in the drinking water ... ....

180 pages | b/w illustrations |

Paperback | 09/2011 | 9781780400280 | #206568A | £78.99 Add to basket

 

Superfuel

Thorium, the Green Energy Source for the Future

Richard Martin

Abundant in the Earth's crust, thorium has been used in various industrial processes since its discovery in 1828. Advocates, writes Martin (an award-winning journalist and senior research analyst for Pike Research, a clean energy ... ....

272 pages |

Hardback | 06/2012 | 9780230116474 | #197882A | £18.99 Add to basket

Paperback | 09/2013 | 9781137278340 | #206184A | £10.99 Add to basket

 

Sustainability Strategies

When Does it Pay to be Green?

Renato J Orsato

Managers have increasingly been requested to base eco-investments on solid grounds. They need to know what they should do first, and why. Should they focus on generating carbon credits via eco-efficiencies? Enhance corporate reputation ... ....

272 pages | 13 illustrations |

Hardback | 04/2009 | 9780230212985 | #206173A | £31.99 Add to basket

 

Sustainability and Design Ethics

Tom Russ

From microcosm to macrocosm, ecodesign, green design, environmental design, and triple bottom line are quickly becoming more than just catchy phrases that describe touchy-feely trends. Increases in climate uncertainty and energy costs as ... ....

176 pages | 4 tables |

Paperback | 03/2010 | 9781439808542 | #205964A | £41.99 Add to basket

 

Sustainability in the Chemical Industry

Eric Johnson

It's the new rock and roll. It's the new black. Sustainability is trendy, and not just among hipsters and pop stars. The uncool chemical sector helped pioneer it, and today, companies inside and outside the sector have embraced ... ....

192 pages | b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 04/2012 | 9789400738331 | #205741A | £89.99 Add to basket

 

Sustainable Development (4-Volume Set)

John Blewitt

The United Nations has pithily defined sustainable development as progress that 'meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs'. But sustainable development remains ... ....

1792 pages |

Hardback | NYP 08/2013 | 9780415520157 | #206529A | £800.00 Add to basket

 

Sustainable Development and Planning V

E Beriartos and Carlos A Brebbia

Sustainable Development and Planning: V contains the proceedings of the latest in a series of biennial conferences on the topic of sustainable regional development that began in 2003. Organised by the Wessex Institute of Technology ... ....

992 pages | illustrations |

Hardback | 06/2011 | 9781845645441 | #206332A | £427.00 Add to basket

 

Sustainable Development: Environment, Energy and Water Resources

MK Ghosh Roy

The over-exploitation of the Earth's resources has brought about an unsustainable situation where biodiversity and ecological balance are under dire threat. But the most immediate concern is global warming, caused by high anthropogenic ... ....

384 pages | illustrations |

Hardback | 10/2011 | 9781439888254 | #205961A | £46.99 Add to basket

 

Sustainable Energy Management

Mirjana Golusin, Stevan Popov and Sinasa Dodic

While the last few decades have witnessed incredible leaps forward in the technology of energy production, technological innovation can only be as transformative as its implementation and management allows. The burgeoning fields of renewable ... ....

384 pages | 100 illustrations |

Hardback | 02/2013 | 9780124159785 | #206014A | £48.99 Add to basket

 

Sustainable Global Outsourcing

Achieving Social and Environmental Responsibility in Global it and Business Process Outsourcing

Ron Babin and Brian Nicholson

Sustainable Global Outsourcing begins with the premise that the $450 billion per-annum market for outsourcing services will continue to grow and that organizations will increasingly expect providers to live up to international ... ....

176 pages | 25 illustrations, 14 tables |

Hardback | 08/2012 | 9780230285071 | #206169A | £25.99 Add to basket

 

Sustainable Hospitality as a Driver for Equitable Development

Case Studies from Developing Regions of the World

Philip Sloan, Claudia Simons-Kaufman and Willy Legrand

It is now widely agreed that the climate is changing, global resources are diminishing and biodiversity is suffering. Developing countries – many of them considered by the World Tourism Organization to be ...

496 pages | 69 b/w photos, 103 b/w illustrations, 49 tables |

Hardback | 08/2011 | 9780123851963 | #206199A | £79.99 Add to basket

 

Sustainable Maritime Transportation and Exploitation of Sea Resources (2-Volume Set)

Enrico Rizzuto and Carlos Guedes Soares

Sustainable Maritime Transportation and Exploitation of Sea Resources covers the most updated aspects of maritime transports and of coastal and sea resources exploitation, with a focus on (but not limited to) the Mediterranean ... ....

1162 pages |

Hardback | 08/2011 | 9780415620819 | #206200A | £267.00 Add to basket

 

Sustainable Potato Production

Global Case Studies

Zhongqi He, Robert P Larkin and Wayne Honeycutt

Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) is grown in over 100 countries throughout the world. As a staple food, potato is the fourth most important crop after rice, wheat, and maize, and has historically contributed to food and nutrition ... ....

556 pages | b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 05/2012 | 9789400741034 | #205723A | £153.00 Add to basket

 

Sustainable Process Engineering

Concepts, Strategies, Evaluation and Implementation

David Brennan

Sustainable Process Engineering: Concepts, Strategies, Evaluation and Implementation introduces chemical engineering students to key concepts, strategies, and evaluation methods in sustainable process engineering. The book is in ... ....

422 pages | 76 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 10/2012 | 9789814316781 | #205985A | £94.99 Add to basket

 

Sustainable Tourism V

Carlos A Brebbia and FD Pineda

Tourism has become a major international industry, with many countries all over the world relying on the income it produces. Its economic advantages as a major source of finance and employment leads to its active promotion by governments ... ....

424 pages | illustrations, maps |

Hardback | 06/2012 | 9781845645946 | #206329A | £182.00 Add to basket

 

Sustainable Transport

New Trends and Business Practices

Paulina Golinska and Marcin Hadjul

The aim of Sustainable Transport is to present the emerging environmental issues in organization and management of transport logistics. The scope of Sustainable Transport includes set of solutions which show different ... ....

358 pages | b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 01/2012 | 9783642235498 | #205589A | £117.00 Add to basket

 

Systems Biology of Tuberculosis

Johnjoe McFadden, Danny Beste and Andrzej M Kierzek

Systems Biology of Tuberculosis starts with a general introduction into the relevance of systems biology for understanding tuberculosis. This will be followed by several chapters which describe the application of systems biology ... ....

241 pages | 5 black & white illustrations, 28 colour illustrations |

Hardback | 12/2012 | 9781461449652 | #205823A | £126.00 Add to basket

 

The Animal Manifesto

Ten Reasons for Expanding Our Compassion Footprint

Mark Bekoff

For biologist Marc Bekoff, improving our relationship with animals is not an all or nothing proposition. In The Animal Manifesto Bekoff shows that improving our treatment of animals is a practice of examining sometimes ... ....

192 pages |

Paperback | 02/2010 | 9781577316497 | #205944A | £13.99 Add to basket

 

The Big Flatline

Oil and the No-Growth Economy

Jeff Rubin

In an urgent follow-up to his best-selling Why Your World Is About To Get A Whole Lot Smaller, Jeff Rubin argues that the end of cheap oil means the end of growth. What it will be like to live in a world where growth is over? ....

272 pages |

Hardback | 09/2012 | 9780230342187 | #206179A | £16.99 Add to basket

 

The China Environment Yearbook

State of Change: Environmental Governance and Citizens' Rights

Yang Dongping

With the annual publication of the China Environment Yearbook by Friends of Nature, China's environmental situation is revealed through the eyes of civil society. In this fifth volume, key issues affecting China's environment ... ....

292 pages |

Hardback | 05/2011 | 9789004183025 | #205809A | £95.88 Add to basket

 

The Cry of Nature

Art and the Making of Animal Rights

Stephen F Eisenman

The Cry of Nature reveals how humans engaged in the struggle for animal emancipation and examines for the first time the role of visual art in the growth of animal rights. Artists from Hogarth to Soutine, and Gericault to Picasso ... ....

256 pages | 100 colour |

Paperback | NYP 09/2013 | 9781780231952 | #206482A | £17.99 Add to basket

 

The Doomsday Machine

The High Price of Nuclear Energy, the World's Most Dangerous Fuel

Martin Cohen and Andrew McKillop

Today, there are over 400 nuclear reactors in 31 countries, including France, Brazil, India, the UK, and Canada. Proponents claim that nuclear power is the only viable alternative to fossil fuels given rising energy consumption and the ... ....

256 pages | illustrations |

Hardback | 04/2012 | 9780230338340 | #206182A | £16.99 Add to basket

 

The Environmental Design Pocketbook

Sofie Pelsmakers

The Environmental Design Pocketbook places the information you need for sustainable, low-energy building design at your fingertips. Packed with diagrams, tools, and tips, it cuts through the complex mass of technical data and ... ....

196 pages | illustrations, maps |

Paperback | 11/2011 | 9781859463741 | #206373A | £26.99 Add to basket

 

The Ethics of Japan's Global Environmental Policy

The Conflict Between Principles and Practice

Midori Kagawa-Fox

The Ethics of Japan's Global Environmental Policy examines the Japanese government policies that impact on the environment in order to determine whether they incorporate a sufficient ethical substance. Through the three case ... ....

224 pages | 19 b/w illustrations, 7 tables |

Hardback | 01/2012 | 9780415681483 | #206198A | £84.99 Add to basket

 

The Home Energy Handbook

A Guide to Saving and Generating Energy in Your Home and Community

Allan Shepherd, Paul Allen and Peter Harper

The Home Energy Handbook is CAT's definitive guide to saving and generating energy. Covering energy efficiency, insulation, passive solar, solar water heating, wood fuels, heat pumps, combined heat and power, solar PV ... ....

252 pages | 90 full colour illustrations |

Paperback | 05/2012 | 9781902175713 | #205774A | £19.95 Add to basket

 

The Nature of Business

Redesigning for Resilience

Giles Hutchins

The Nature of Business sets out a new business paradigm. Author Giles Hutchins presents the challenges to the prevailing 'business as usual' model, explains the pressing need for transformational change, and reveals the ... ....

208 pages |

Paperback | 09/2012 | 9780857840486 | #205781A | £14.95 Add to basket

 

The New Economics of Sustainable Consumption

Seeds of Change

Gill Seyfang

Climate change is forcing us to rethink our lifestyles, but green consumerism won't save the planet. Mainstream approaches simply cannot deliver the radical changes we need for a sustainable society.

232 pages | 15 b/w illustrations, 11 tables |

Paperback | 08/2011 | 9780230321755 | #206339A | £20.99 Add to basket

Hardback | 12/2008 | 9780230525337 | #206340A | £57.99 Add to basket

 

The Orange Juice Business

A Brazilian Perspective

The orange juice chain is unique, probably a sui generis commodity. Although several countries produce oranges and juices, two regions in the world are the responsible for around 80 per cent of the production. These are the states of ... ....

176 pages |

Paperback | 09/2011 | 9789086861811 | #206520A | £65.99 Add to basket

 

The Policy Process in International Environmental Governance

Sheila Aggarwal-Khan

Previously published literature often comments pessimistically on International Environmental Governance (IEG) and, as a result, many proposals to reform IEG are criticized. Although such critiques may acknowledge the social, economic and ... ....

208 pages | 14 tables |

Hardback | 11/2011 | 9780230279919 | #206369A | £57.99 Add to basket

 

The Politics of Species

Reshaping our Relationships with Other Animals

Raymond Corbey, Annette Lanjouw and Jon Stryker

The assumption that humans are cognitively and morally superior to other animals is fundamental to social democracies and legal systems worldwide. It legitimises treating members of other animal species as inferior to humans.

320 pages |

Hardback | NYP 09/2013 | 9781107032606 | #204726A | £64.99 Add to basket

 

The Quest

Energy, Security and the Remaking of the Modern World

Daniel Yergin

In The Quest, master storyteller, leading energy expert and Pulitzer prize-winner for The Prize, Daniel Yergin shows us how energy is the ultimate engine of global political and economic change, in a gripping story that spans the ... ....

832 pages |

Paperback | 10/2012 | 9780241957776 | #205780A | £12.99 Add to basket

 

The Third Industrial Revolution

How Lateral Power is Transforming Energy, the Economy, and the World

Jeremy Rifkin

The Industrial Revolution, powered by oil and other fossil fuels, is spiraling into a dangerous endgame. The price of gas and food are climbing, unemployment remains high, the housing market has tanked, consumer and government debt is so ... ....

304 pages |

Paperback | 02/2013 | 9780230341975 | #206166A | £10.99 Add to basket

 

The World Ocean in Globalisation

Climate Change, Sustainable Fisheries, Biodiversity, Shipping, Regional Issues

Davor Vidas and Peter Johan Schei

Have we already entered a new epoch, the Anthropocene, dominated by the impact of human activities? What of the effects of increasing globalisation on the seas? Thirty-three experts on marine affairs and the law of the sea examine the ... ....

550 pages |

Hardback | 08/2011 | 9789004191754 | #205810A | £151.00 Add to basket

 

Total Sustainability in the Built Environment

Alison Cotgrave and Mike Riley

Total Sustainability in the Built Environment is the first textbook in sustainable construction bringing together the whole range of topics from planning through to facilities management in an accessible and engaging way ... ....

328 pages | b/w photos, 43 colour & 66 b/w illustrations, 25 tables |

Paperback | 12/2012 | 9780230390584 | #206008A | £36.99 Add to basket

 

UNEP the First 40 Years

Stanley P Johnson

To mark its 40th anniversary, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has sponsored a new book detailing the history of the Nairobi-based organization over the last four decades.Written by award-winning conservationist ...

297 pages | colour illustrations |

Paperback | 01/2013 | 9789280733143 | #206120A | £29.99 Add to basket

 

Urban Environmental Policy Analysis

Heather E Campbell and Elizabeth A Corley

This timely book provides a wealth of useful information for following through on today's renewed concern for sustainability and environmentalism. It's designed to help city managers, policy analysts, and government administrators ... ....

384 pages | colour & b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 04/2012 | 9780765624291 | #206365A | £95.50 Add to basket

 

Wastewater Reuse and Management

Sanjay Kumar Sharma and Rashmi Sanghi

Over the past 50 years Wastewater Reuse and Management of wastewater has grown exponentially as a result of the increasing world population and the expansion of industrial developments. Researchers all over the world have been ... ....

534 pages | 54 colour & 69 b/w illustrations, 2 colour tables |

Hardback | 11/2012 | 9789400749412 | #205789A | £117.00 Add to basket

 

Water Governance in OECD Countries

A Multilevel Approach

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

Water Governance in OECD Countries addresses multilevel governance challenges in water policy implementation and identifies good practices for coordinating water policy across ministries, between levels of government, and across ... ....

250 pages |

Paperback | 11/2011 | 9781780400273 | #206536A | £66.99 Add to basket

 

Water Policy in Israel

Context, Issues and Opinions

Nir Becker

This book deals with water policy in Israel. It offers a detailed examination of the main sources of Israel's water, its principle consumers, the gap between supply and demand, and the complex, contentious work of analyzing and devising ... ....

308 pages | 33 colour & 17 b/w illustrations, 40 colour tables |

Hardback | 02/2013 | 9789400759107 | #206017A | £117.00 Add to basket

 

Water Reclamation Technologies for Safe Managed Aquifer Recharge

Christian Kazner, Thomas Wintgens and Peter Dillon

Water Reclamation Technologies for Safe Managed Aquifer Recharge has been developed from the RECLAIM WATER project supported by the European Commission under Thematic Priority 'Global Change and Ecosystems' of the Sixth ... ....

456 pages | b/w illustrations |

Paperback | 04/2012 | 9781843393443 | #206564A | £110.00 Add to basket

 

Water Resource Management in a Vulnerable World

The Hydro-Hazardscapes of Climate Change

Daanish Mustafa

Attempts by governments and NGOs to provide modern solutions to the management of local water resources, and to alleviate the hazards of flooding, often create unforeseen problems adversely affecting future water resources and leading to ... ....

256 pages | illustrations |

Hardback | 11/2012 | 9781848855366 | #206075A | £55.99 Add to basket

 

Water Sensitive Urban Design

Sustainable Stormwater Management in the Cities of the Future

Jacqueline Hoyer, Wolfgang Dickhaut, Bjorn Weber and Lukas Kronawitter

During recent years, techniques and legislation for decentralized storm-water management have advanced all over the world. However, decentralized storm-water management systems are still under-utilized and acceptance among citizens and ... ....

144 pages |

Paperback | 04/2011 | 9783868591064 | #206371A | £27.99 Add to basket

 

Yorkshire's Green and Healthy Land?

Connecting Urban and Rural Greenspace

Margaret Atherden, Aileen Bloomer and Veronica Wallace

Introduction on the links between urban green space and human health, followed by chapters on liveable cities and the links between environment and health. Research on sustainable uplands for sustainable lowlands; a study of the Swale ... ....

48 pages | 35 colour illustrations |

Paperback | 01/2010 | 9781906604318 | #205595A | £7.50 Add to basket

 
Data Analysis
 

Advances in Statistical Bioinformatics

Models and Integrative Inference for High-Throughput Data

Kim-Anh Do, Zhaohui S Qin and Marina Vannucci

Providing genome-informed personalized treatment is a goal of modern medicine. Identifying new translational targets in nucleic acid characterizations is an important step toward that goal. The information tsunami produced by such genome ... ....

Hardback | NYP 07/2013 | 9781107027527 | #203978A | £79.99 Add to basket

 

Application of Nature Based Algorithm in Natural Resource Management

Mrinmoy Majumder, Rabindra Nath Barman and Debasri Roy

Application of Nature Based Algorithm in Natural Resource Management highlights the application of nature-based algorithms in natural resource management.

349 pages | 29 colour & 9 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 03/2013 | 9789400751514 | #205849A | £89.99 Add to basket

 

Applied Logistic Regression

David W Hosmer, Stanley Lemeshow and Rodney X Sturdivant

A new edition of the definitive guide to logistic regression modeling for health science and other applications This thoroughly expanded Third Edition provides an easily accessible introduction to the logistic regression (LR) ...

528 pages |

Hardback | 04/2013 | 9780470582473 | #206132A | £86.95 Add to basket

 

Bayesian Phylogenetics

Methods, Computational Algorithms, and Applications

Lynn Kuo, Ming-Hui Chen and Paul O Lewis

Unique in its coverage of Bayesian phylogenics, Bayesian Phylogenetics covers advances in statistics as applied to the field of phylogenetics and coalescence-based population genetics. It is designed for statisticians who are ... ....

600 pages |

Hardback | NYP 10/2013 | 9781466500792 | #204276A | £63.99 Add to basket

 

Data Mining for Systems Biology

Methods and Protocols

Charles DeLisi, Minoru Kanehisa and Hiroshi Mamitsuka

The post-genomic revolution is witnessing the generation of petabytes of data annually, with deep implications ranging across evolutionary theory, developmental biology, agriculture, and disease processes.

291 pages | 18 colour & 59 b/w illustrations, 19 tables |

Hardback | 11/2012 | 9781627031066 | #205805A | £85.50 Add to basket

 

Derivative Spectrophotometry and Electron Spin Resonance (ESR) Spectroscopy for Ecological and Biological Questions

Vladimir Saakov, Valery Z Drapkin, Alexander I Krivchenko, Eugene V Rozengart and Yuri V Bogachev

Derivative Spectrophotometry and Electron Spin Resonance (ESR) Spectroscopy for Ecological and Biological Questions provides a multidisciplinary overview to the application of high order derivative spectrophotometry and ... ....

376 pages | b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 10/2012 | 9783709110065 | #205729A | £135.00 Add to basket

 

Evolutionary Computation, Machine Learning and Data Mining in Bioinformatics

Leonardo Vanneschi, William S Bush and Mario Giacobini

Evolutionary Computation, Machine Learning and Data Mining in Bioinformatics constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation, Machine Learning and Data Mining in Bioinformation ... ....

229 pages | b/w illustrations |

Paperback | 03/2013 | 9783642371882 | #206528A | £41.99 Add to basket

 

Exploration and Analysis of DNA Microarray and Other High Dimensional Data

Dhammika Amaratunga

This new edition answers the need for a comprehensive, cutting-edge overview of this important and emerging field – effectively outlining all phases of this revolutionary analytical technique, from preprocessing to the analysis ... ....

320 pages |

Hardback | NYP 10/2013 | 9781118356333 | #205229A | £80.50 Add to basket

 

Gene Expression Analysis in the RNA World

Jade Q. Clement

Gene expression analysis in the RNA world is a practical guide to the principles and techniques that are essential to RNA-based gene expression analysis. Key features include a detailed presentation of the procedures and methods for ... ....

220 pages |

Hardback | NYP 09/2013 | 9781907568305 | #201868A | £98.99 Add to basket

 

Introduction to Systems Analysis

Mathematical Modelling of Natural Systems

Dieter M Imboden and Stefan J Pfenninger

Systems and their mathematical description play an important role in all branches of science. Mathematical Modelling of Natural Systems offers an introduction to mathematical modeling techniques. It is intended for undergrad ... ....

260 pages | 142 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 12/2012 | 9783642306389 | #205793A | £44.99 Add to basket

 

Lab Manual for Inquiry into Life

Sylvia Mader

This laboratory manual accompanies the 14th edition of Inquiry into Life.

512 pages |

Spiralbound | 02/2013 | 9780077516246 | #206490A | £82.99 Add to basket

 

Mastering ArcGIS with Video Clips DVD-ROM

Maribeth Price

Mastering ArcGIS is an introductory GIS text that is designed to offer everything you need to master the basic elements of GIS. The author's step-by-step approach helps students negotiate the challenging tasks involved in learning ... ....

illustrations |

Spiralbound | 04/2013 | 9780077826260 | #205876A | £76.83 Add to basket

 

Protein Electrophoresis

Methods and Protocols

Biji T Kurien and R Hal Scofield

Proteins are the functional units of the cellular machinery and they provide significant information regarding the molecular basis of health and disease. Therefore, techniques to separate and isolate the various proteins are critical to ... ....

662 pages | 31 colour & 120 b/w illustrations, 15 tables |

Hardback | 05/2012 | 9781617798207 | #205724A | £112.50 Add to basket

 

The BUGS Book

A Practical Introduction to Bayesian Analysis

David Lunn, Christopher Jackson, Nicky Best, Andrew Thomas and David Spiegelhalter

Bayesian statistical methods have become widely used for data analysis and modelling in recent years, and the BUGS software has become the most popular software for Bayesian analysis worldwide. Authored by the team that originally developed ... ....

399 pages | 91 b/w illustrations, 23 tables |

Paperback | 10/2012 | 9781584888499 | #206391A | £24.99 Add to basket

 
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How to Succeed as a Scientist

From Postdoc to Professor

Barbara Gabrys and Jane A Langdale

This unique, practical guide for postdoctoral researchers and graduate students explains how to build and perfect the necessary research tools and working skills to build a career in academia and beyond.

226 pages | 15 b/w illustrations, 3 tables |

Hardback | 11/2011 | 9780521765862 | #205678A | £54.99 Add to basket

Paperback | 11/2011 | 9780521186834 | #205679A | £19.99 Add to basket

 

Living in the World

Cultural Themes for Writers

Tatiana Holway

Living In The World: Cultural Themes For Writers is a part of The National Geographic Learning Reader Series, bringing learning to life by featuring compelling images, media, and text from ...

368 pages |

Paperback | 01/2013 | 9781285071978 | #206190A | £23.99 Add to basket

 

Protecting Intellectual Freedom in Your Public Library

Scenarios from the Front Lines

June Pinell-Stephens

Chock-full of case studies, real-life examples, and hypothetical scenarios, this book provides

- An engaging way to introduce new employees to basic IF concepts - Practical advice on how to effectively handle intellectual freedom ... ....

236 pages |

Paperback | 01/2013 | 9780838935835 | #206378A | £45.50 Add to basket

 

Science Writers' Handbook

Everything You Need to Know to Pitch, Publish, and Prosper in the Digital Age

Thomas Hayden and Michelle Nijhuis

Popular science writing has exploded in the past decade, both in print and online. Who better to guide writers striving to succeed in the profession than a group of award-winning independent journalists with a combined total of 225 years ... ....

320 pages |

Paperback | NYP 05/2013 | 9780738216560 | #206466A | £11.99 Add to basket

 

Small Public Library Management

Jane Pearlmutter and Paul Nelson

Those at the helm of a small public library know that every little detail counts. But juggling the responsibilities that are part and parcel of the job is far from easy. Finally, here's a handbook that includes everything administrators ... ....

176 pages | illustrations |

Paperback | 11/2011 | 9780838910856 | #206376A | £45.50 Add to basket

 

The Whole Library Handbook

Current Data, Professional Advice and Curiosa

George M Eberhart

The Whole Library Handbook, now in its fifth edition, is an encyclopedia filled with facts, tips, lists, and resources essential for library professionals and information workers of all kinds, all carefully handpicked to reflect the most ... ....

528 pages |

Paperback | NYP 07/2013 | 9780838910900 | #206377A | £45.50 Add to basket