Atlas van de Nederlandse Zoogdieren [Atlas of Dutch Mammals]

Sim Broekhuizen, Kamiel Spoelstra and Johan Thissen

The Netherlands is home to some 90 mammal species. This monumental book brings together current knowledge, and has been written by a large number of Dutch experts. An expansive work that is a must for both amateur naturalists and professional ...

China's Giant Panda [English / Chinese]

Zhou Mengqi

The giant panda has been around for 8 million years. It witnessed the evolution of the late Miocene and the test of the Quaternary glaciers. It was the flagship of the "Giant panda–Stegodon" animal group. The giant panda ...

De Das

Frans van Bommel, Hans Hollander and Maurice La Haye

The badger has made a spectacular comeback in the Netherlands. Still, changes in nature management are casting a shadow on its future. 2015 is the year of the badger and in this monograph three Dutch experts tell the story of this impressive ...

Dolphin Communication and Cognition

Past, Present, and Future

Denise L Herzing and Christine M Johnson

Dolphin researchers have collected an impressive amount of data over the last twenty years, thanks to advances in technology for monitoring, recording, and analyzing dolphin behavior as well as increasing interest in exploring and modeling ...

Guide to Marine Mammals and Turtles of the U.S. Pacific

Kate Wynne and Garth Mix

This unique field guide to marine mammals and sea turtles of Hawaii, California, Oregon, and Washington is ideal for use on boats, on beach walks, and in classrooms, offices, laboratories, and at home. Created by Kate Wynne, a leading ...

Larga (Phoca largha) v Zalive Petra Velikogo [The Spotted Seal (Phoca largha) in the Peter the Great Bay]

Vladimir Alekseevich Nesterenko

Long-term studies on the spotted seal (Phoca largha) territorial grouping in the Peter the Great Bay, which is the smallest reproductive concentration of this species and characterized by such an unique feature as coastal breeding ...

Mahale Chimpanzees

50 Years of Research

Michio Nakamura, Kazuhiko Hosaka, Noriko Itoh and Koichiro Zamma

Long-term ecological research studies are rare and invaluable resources, particularly when they are as thoroughly documented as the Mahale Mountain Chimpanzee Project in Tanzania. Directed by Toshisada Nishida from 1965 until 2011, the ...

Marine Mammals

Evolutionary Biology

Annalisa Berta, James L Sumich and Kit M Kovacs

Marine Mammals: Evolutionary Biology, Third Edition is a succinct, yet comprehensive text devoted to the systematics, evolution, morphology, ecology, physiology, and behavior of marine mammals. Earlier editions of this valuable ...

Moose

Jack Ballard

Falcon Pocket Guide: Moose presents readers with substantive yet easily digestible information on this elusive animal. Where do moose live? What enemies do they have? How do they communicate? Moose contains all the information ...

Mountain Lions

Jack Ballard

Mountain Lions presents readers with substantive yet easily digestible information on these mysterious big cats. Where do mountain lions live? What enemies do they have? How do they communicate? What issues exist in the sometime ...

The Dingo Debate

Origins, Behaviour and Conservation

Bradley Smith

The Dingo Debate explores the intriguing and relatively unknown story of Australia's most controversial animal – the dingo. Throughout its existence, the dingo has been shaped by its interactions with human societies.

The Mind of the Dolphin

A Nonhuman Intelligence

John Cunningham Lilly

In this Consciousness Classic dating from 1967, Dr. John C. Lilly details the discoveries of his research regarding the abilities of dolphins, current ideas (at that time) about their intellect, and the paradoxes of interspecies ...

Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises

A Natural History and Species Guide

Annalisa Berta

The 89 species of the order Cetacea are some of the most diverse, intelligent, and elusive animals on the planet. Highly migratory, they live beneath remote skies thousands of miles away from land. The huge distances they cover and the ...

Wild Cats of the World

Luke Hunter and Priscilla Barrett

Ranging from the largest – the Tiger to the smallest species – the Rusty-Spotted Cat and Black-Footed Cat, the world's wild cats are some of the most beautiful, ferocious and feared carnivores in the world.

A Naturalist's Guide to the Birds of Australia

Dean Ingwersen

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

Aves do Pantanal

Renato Cintra, Luiz Claudio Marigo, Robson Czaban and Rafael Bessa

This book brings together 523 species of birds, including about 350 that also occur in the Amazon and 450 that occur in the Cerrado. They are illustrated in color, and described with scientific name and vernacular names in English and Portuguese ...

Bird Minds

Cognition and Behaviour of Australian Native Birds

Gisela Kaplan

In her comprehensive and carefully crafted book, Gisela Kaplan demonstrates how intelligent and emotional Australian birds can be. She describes complex behaviours such as grieving, deception, problem solving and the use of tools.

Birding in Poland

Adam Sterno

Poland is the most obvious destination in Europe to watch and listen to Aquatic Warbler. Forests and coppices provide shelter for all species of European woodpecker. Wetlands are an important stopover point for migrating waders, geese and ...

Birds in Counties: Third Supplement

An Ornithological Bibliography for the Counties of England, Wales & Scotland, the Isle of Man, the Channel Islands, Nort

David K Ballance

The third supplement to this ornithological bibliography.

Birds of Prey

Todd Telander

Falcon Pocket Guide: Birds of Prey is a field guide to the 55 birds of prey in North America. Anatomically correct illustrations of the birds in flight and on the ground and detailed descriptions about each bird's prominent ...

Birds of the Rocky Mountains

Todd Telander

Birds of the Rocky Mountains is a field guide to more than 250 of the most common and sought-after bird species in the region. Anatomically correct illustrations and detailed descriptions about each bird's prominent physical ...

Blueberry Goose

Jane Paffey

Blueberry, a blue-phase lesser snow goose, came to live at the York University campus in 2001. This is her life story, told by her human friend Jane.

Collins Field Guide to the Birds of South East Asia

Norman Arlott

Every species of bird you might encounter in the region is featured, apart from non-established introductions. This includes coverage of China (south of the line used to define the Palearctic), Hainan (treated separately from SE China) ...

Die Federn der Voegel Mitteleuropas

Ein Handbuch zur Bestimmung der Wichtigsten Arten

Hans-Heiner Bergmann

Whether conspicuously coloured, interestingly shaped, or inconspicuous: feathers are one of the most fascinating inventions of nature! But to what bird does a feather belong? With the help of this guide one can safely determine the feathers ...

Ekologiia i Monitoring Ptits Priokhotskoi Ravninnoi Lesotundry na Primere Landshaftov Basseina Reki Kava

[Ecology and Monitoring of Birds from the Plain Forest-Tundra of the Northern Coast of the Sea of Okhotsk by the Example

Arsenii Vasil'evich Krechmar

Since 1991 the author regularly conducted field research in the area of ornithological field base located in a typical lowland wood tundra at the right-bank tributary of the Kava River, about 50 km from the coast of the Sea of Okhotsk and ...

Glorious Gannets: A Celebration of our Fabulous Gannet Colonies (Region 2)

David Christopher Hollis

Another film in the series A Black Country Lad Explores, looks at the Gannet a magnificent seabird which nests in large colonies around the UKs coastline. This gentle short film explores one such colony at Bempton Cliffs in Yorkshire ...

Latein fuer Vogelbeobachter

Uber 3.000 Ornithologische Begriffe Erklaert und Erforscht

Roger J Lederer and Carol Burr

Latein für Vogelbeobachter is an accessible, informative, and beautifully illustrated guide to the mysteries of ornithological Latin. It reveals the meaning, origin, and pronunciation of Latin binomials, helping readers to ...

Le Guide Ornitho

Le Guide le Plus Complet des Oiseaux d'Europe, d'Afrique du Nord et du Moyen-Orient

Lars Svensson, Killian Mullarney and Dan Zetterstroem

This is a French translation of the well-known Collins Bird Guide. This edition features new species and updated distribution maps. This book covers all the birds that nest or can be regularly observed in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East.

Pato-Mergulhao: Biologia e Conservacao do Pato-mergulhao (Mergus octosetaceus) no Parque Nacional da Serra da Canastra

Savio Freire Bruno

Biology and conservation of the Brazilian Merganser, a critically endangered duck species found mainly in the headwaters of the San Francisco River, Serra de Canastra National Park, Minas Gerais.

Peterson Reference Guide to Owls of North America and the Caribbean

Scott Weidensaul

Owls are perhaps the most intriguing of all birds – instantly recognizable and endlessly fascinating. Whether viewed as symbols of wisdom or bad omens, these unusual birds have had a hold on human imagination for millennia.

Report on Scarce Migrant Birds in Britain in 2011-2012: Passerines

Steve White and Chris Kehoe

The April 2015 issue of British Birds contains the first part of the Report on Scarce Migrant Birds in Britain in 20011–2012. This report presents data on scarce passerine migrants recorded in Britain ...

Somerset Atlas of Breeding and Wintering Birds 2007-2012

David K Ballance, Rob Grimmond, Stephen Moss, Julian Thomas, Eve Tigwell and Simon King

This is the first published Atlas of breeding and wintering birds in Somerset and will be a valuable resource for anyone interested in the county's birds. It covers five years of fieldwork from winter 2007 to summer 2012 and contains ...

Threatened Birds of Uttar Pradesh

Asad R Rahmani, Sanjay Kumar, Neeraj Srivastav, Rajat Bhargava and Noor Inayat Khan

Threatened Birds of Uttar Pradesh is the fourth in the series of statewise volumes on threatened birds of India, and is largely derived from Threatened Birds of India (2012) by Dr. Asad R. Rahmani, published by BNHS/OUP. Information has been updated ..

Understanding Bird Behaviour

Stephen Moss

The way birds behave is one of the vital keys to accurate identification and Understanding Bird Behaviour provides the experienced instruction needed to understand and get the most out of watching birds. Understanding Bird Behaviour covers ...

Why Does My Parrot...?

Rosemary Low

Rosemary Low explains the common problems that parrot owners encounter, such as biting, feather plucking and screaming. Drawing on her thirty years of experience, and using her relationship with a parrot she kept for nearly forty years ...

Amphibian Biology, Volume 11, Part 2

Status of Conservation and Decline of Amphibians: Eastern Hemisphere: Northern Africa

Stephen D Busack and Harold Heatwole

This year's volume of Basic & Applied Herpetology is dedicated entirely to publication of Part 2 of volume 11 of the book series Amphibian Biology. In 2013, the editors of this part, Stephen Busack and Harold Heatwole ...

Fauna CR: Plazi, Reptilia [Reptile Fauna of the Czech Republic]

Jirí Moravec

The publication follows the previous volume of the series Fauna (Fauna CSFR Reptiles - Reptilia, Academia 1992). But this is a new treatment with updated information on the Czech reptilian fauna. The book summarizes current knowledge about ...

Marine Turtles of Rushikulya

Basudev Tripathy

This book is partly an outcome of the doctoral work and compilation of information from several other research publications of the author on Olive Ridley sea turtles of Rushikulya rookery which covers the natural history, conservation ...

Our Sea Turtles

A Practical Guide for the Atlantic and Gulf, from Canada to Mexico

Blair Witherington and Dawn Witherington

Blair and Dawn Witherington intimately reveal the lives of sea turtles in Our Sea Turtles: A Practical Guide to the Atlantic and Gulf from Canada to Mexico. The book's pithy, well-organized sections are lavishly illustrated.

Vajícka a Larvy Obojzivelníku Ceske Republiky

Jaromír Mastera, Vít Zavadil and Jan Dvorak

The publication seeks to provide a comprehensive and as detailed as possible an overview of the larvae of all Czech amphibian species, complete with extensive photographs and drawings of tadpoles and the developmental stages of caudate ...

Biology and Ecology of Bluefin Tuna

Takashi Kitagawa and Shingo Kimura

Biology and Ecology of Bluefin Tuna focuses on latest information on the biology and ecology of the three bluefin tuna species: the Pacific (Thunnus orientalis), Atlantic (T. thynnus), and southern bluefin tuna ...

Biology of Perch

Patrice Couture and Greg Pyle

The genus Perca includes only three species of fish, but they are ubiquitous and abundant in freshwater and brackish environments of the northern hemisphere, from North America to Europe and Asia. These species are important ...

Europe and Mediterranean Marine Fish Identification Guide

Patrick Louisy

Already considered as a reference in most of Europe, Europe and Mediterranean Marine Fish Identification Guide is now presented in a new, completely reviewed and updated English version including the most recent scientific findings ...

Field Guide on Reef Associated Fishes of India

Rekha J Nair and Somy Kuriakose

From the preface: "With lndia being a party to the CBD, the importance of accounting for the marine diversity of India is a priority. Biological diversity is defined as “variability among Iiving organisms from all ...

Fish Atlas of the Celtic Sea, North Sea and Baltic Sea

Henk JL Heesen, Niels Daan and Jim R Ellis

An in-depth reference work on marine fish, this is the first complete overview of all marine fish species found in the North Sea, Baltic Sea, and Celtic Sea. Whereas European research mainly focuses on species of commercial interest, this ...

Fish Cytogenetic Techniques

Ray-Fin Fishes and Chondrichthyans

Catherine Ozouf-Costaz, Eva Pisano, Fausto Foresti and Lurdes Foresti de Almeida Toledo

Recent advances in fish cytogenetics have enhanced the interest in chromosome analysis in both fundamental (systematics and comparative genomics among fishes and other vertebrate groups) and applied (aquaculture, conservation and ...

Hagfish Biology

Susan L Edwards and Gregory G Goss

There are over 70 species of hagfishes inhabiting the depths of the world's oceans. Hagfishes are essential benthic organisms that play a vital role in our understanding of the evolutionary origins of vertebrate life and in the ...

Marine Finfishes of Karnataka

An Illustrated Compendium

Sujitha Thomas, Prathibha Rohit, Geetha Sasikumar, KM Rajesh, AP Dineshbabu, PU Zacharia and G Rao

From the foreword: "Advancements in fishing methods and extension of fishing activities to farther areas have resulted in exploitation of several finfish species, which were not generally encountered earlier in the catch.

Phylogeny, Anatomy and Physiology of Ancient Fishes

Giacomo Zaccone, Konrad Dabrowski, Michael S Hedrick, Jorge MO Fernandes and Jose M Icardo

Phylogeny, Anatomy and Physiology of Ancient Fishes on ancient fishes unites the work of many specialists coming from different areas of biology. Hagfishes, lungfishes, Chondrosteans, and Holosteans constitute the main subject of ...

A Guide to the Dragonflies & Damselflies of South Africa

Warwick Tarboton and Michele Tarboton

This field guide to all the dragonflies and damselflies of South Africa – a total of 162 species – addresses a growing area of interest and fills the gap left by two previous books on the topic, now both out of print.

Atlas of the Carabus of the Caucasus

Imre Retezar

Contains am iconography, descriptions of genital morphology, and systematics and faunistics.

Beekeeping with ZEST

Bringing Bee Keeping into the 21st Century to Make Happy Healthy Bees

Bill Summers

This is a book like no other on the subject of honey bees. It addresses the author's belief and that of his colleague (Dave Durrant) that the welfare of honey bees in a traditional hive fails to provide for their needs as biological ...

Biology and Management of Invasive Quagga and Zebra Mussels in the Western United States

Wai Hing Wong and Shawn L Gerstenberger

This book is a synthesis of the biology and management of invasive mussels from scientists and managers working on invasive quagga and zebra mussels in the western United States. Invasive dreissenid mussels have spread throughout southwest ...

Bugs & Slugs

Todd Telander

Falcon Pocket Guide: Bugs & Slugs is a field guide to 100 of the most common and sought-after bug and slug species in the region. Anatomically correct illustrations and detailed descriptions about each insect's prominent ...

Butterflies of the World, Part 42: The ABRI Collections 1: Unusual Papilionidae

Steve Collins

The first in a two-part special looking at the African Butterfly Research Institute (ABRI) collection. Part 1 describes unusual Papilionidae.

Butterflies of the World, Part 43: The ABRI Collections 2: Unusual Butterflies

Steve Collins

The second in a two-part special looking at the African Butterfly Research Institute (ABRI) collection. Part 2 describes unusual butterflies.

Butterflies of the World, Part 44: Nymphalidae XXV: Kallima

Peter V Kuppers

This part is the 25th dealing with the family Nymphalidae and describes the genus Kallima.

Butterflies of the World, Supplement 25 [English]

The Leaf Butterflies of the Genus Kallima

Peter V Kuppers

This part supplements Butterflies of the World, Part 44 and contains more detailed text to this genus.

Cryptic Female Choice in Arthropods

Patterns, Mechanisms and Prospects

Alfredo Vicente Peretti and Anita Aisenberg

This timely book revisits cryptic female choice in arthropods, gathering detailed contributions from around the world to address key behavioral, ecological and evolutionary questions. The reader will find a critical summary of major ...

Die Bockkaefer Mitteleuropas, Band 1: Biologie und Bestimmung [Longhorn Beetles of Central Europe, Volume 1: Biology and

Bernhard Klausnitzer, Ulrich Klausnitzer, Ekkehard Wachmann and Zdenek Hromadko

Volume 1 covers biology and identification. The representatives of the longhorn beetle family (Cerambycidae) belong to the most striking native beetles in Germany, often due to their large size, their bizarre body shape, and ...

Die Bockkaefer Mitteleuropas, Band 2: Die Mitteleuropaeischen Arten [Longhorn Beetles of Central Europe, Volume 2: The C

Bernhard Klausnitzer, Ulrich Klausnitzer, Ekkehard Wachmann and Zdenek Hromadko

Volume 2 covers the Central European species. The representatives of the longhorn beetle family (Cerambycidae) belong to the most striking native beetles in Germany, often due to their large size, their bizarre body shape, and ...

Dinoflagellate Cysts along the Coast of China [Chinese]

Lan Dongzhao and Gu Haifeng

Dung Down Under

Dung Beetles for Australia

Bernard Doube and Tim Marshall

International dung beetle scientist Dr Bernard Doube and organic agriculture expert Tim Marshall have teamed up to produce a new publication on dung beetles and soil health. Dung Down Under: Dung Beetles for Australia is the ...

Eucosma Hubner of the Contiguous United States and Canada (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae: Eucosmini)

Donald J Wright and Todd M Gilligan

Eucosma is one of the largest genera in the Tortricidae, with more than 230 described species. It achieves its greatest species richness in the Nearctic, where members of the genus can be found in nearly every habitat, from the ...

Field Guide to the Sea Stars of the Aleutian Islands

Stephen C Jewett, Roger N Clark, Heloise Chenelot, Shawn Harper and Max K Hoberg

Sea stars, with myriad colors and markings, have intrigued people for centuries and may be the most recognized marine animals worldwide. This field guide features 63 species of sea stars in the nearshore subtidal community of the Aleutian ...

Galling Arthropods and their Associates

Ecology and Evolution

Kenichi Ozaki, Junichi Yukawa, Takayuki Ohgushi and PW Price

Galling Arthropods and their Associates is the result of an international symposium on gall-inducing arthropods, which was held September 5-9, 2005, in Kyoto, Japan. It was organized as the 4th international symposium on ...

Genomics, Physiology and Behaviour of Social Insects

Amro Zayed and Clement F Kent

Genomics, Physiology and Behaviour of Social Insects provides comprehensive information on the social insect groups described, including new and unique reviews on emerging model social organisms.

Guia Ilustrado de Borboletas da Reserva Florestal Adolpho Ducke

Rosemary S Vieira

Illustrated guide to the butterflies of the Adolpho Ducke Forest Reserve on the outskirts of Manaus, Brazil.

Insect Physiology and Biochemistry

Following the tradition of its bestselling predecessors, this edition provides working scientists and students with an engaging and authoritative guide to the most current findings in the dynamic field of insect physiology. Expanded and ...

Introduced Dung Beetles in Australia

A Pocket Field Guide

Penny Edwards, Pam Wilson and Jane Wright

Introduced Dung Beetles in Australia to introduced dung beetles covers all species found in Australia, including two newly introduced species. It will enable farmers, Landcare workers and the interested public to identify and ...

La Vie des Papillons de France

Ecologie, Biologie et Comportement des Rhopaloceres de France

Tristan Lafranchis, David Jutzeler, Pieter Kan, Brigitte Kan and Jean-Yves Guillosson

An indispensible companion to identification guides, covering life cycles, adaptation to varied and changing environments, rlationships to landscapes, plants and other insects (ants, parasitoids, predators), etc. Includes the latest discoveries ...

Les Nouveaux Cahiers Magellanes, No. 17

This volume contains nine contributions on longicorn beetles of Asia and Africa.

Metamorphosis: Astonishing Insect Transformations

Rupert Soskin and George McGavin

Insects truly are the ugly ducklings of the natural world. How does something as beautiful as a butterfly begin life as little more than a fancy maggot? Or something as elegant and delicate as a lacewing hatch out looking like a minuscule ...

Pavouci Ceske Republiky [Spiders of the Czech Republic]

Antonín Kurka, Milan Rezac, Rudolf Macek and Jan Dolansky

Spiders are undoubtedly one of the most popular groups of animals, due to their ubiquity and striking and interesting behaviours, such as making of cobwebs and unique ways of hunting prey. By studying spiders experts have documented the ...

Physiology of the Cladocera

Nikolai N Smirnov

The Physiology of Cladocera is a much-needed summary of foundational information on these increasingly important model organisms. This unique and valuable summary is based on the world's literature, including Russian research ...

Research Materials on Pentatomidae in China

China Scientific Book Services (CSBS)

This collected works contains following 22 papers published in Chinese journals in recent years.

Sea Shells of India

Deepak Apte

The Book of Indian Shells by Deepak Apte, first published by the BNHS-OUP in 1999, and widely used as a field guide for many years, is now out of print and also outdated from the taxonomic point of view. Taxonomy is rapidly evolving ...

Sea and Land Shells of the Don Pisor Collection

Color, Form, Shape

Don Pisor

Don Pisor started his career as shell collector more than 45 years ago. Born and educated at the U.S. Pacific Coast, his engineering job eventually brought him to Florida where he started diving and collecting in the Florida Keys.

Selected Arctiid Moths of the World [Japanese]

Yasunori Kishida

The world's beautiful and excellent arctiid moths (Arctiinae) are shown on 47 color plates depicting 265 species in 1 092 specimens (include 7 species holotypes, 49 paratypes, and 3 new subspecies descriptions).

Svenska Nakensnackor [Swedish Nudibranchs]

Klas Malmberg and Kennet Lundin

The colourful and elusive nudibranchs are prized motives for a growing number of underwater photographers and other interested scuba divers. This is the first book ever to treat all the about ninety species of nudibranch gastropods ...

Synopsis of Adventive Species of Coleoptera (Insecta) Recorded from Canada, Part 3: Cucujoidea

Jan Klimaszewski, David Langor, HE James Hammond, Georges Pelletier, Yves Bousquet and Car Bourdon

A synopsis of adventive species of Cucujoidea (Coleoptera) in Canada is presented. Of the 548 Cucujoidea species recorded from Canada, 89 species in 48 genera and 12 families are reported as adventive, constituting 16.1% of the Canadian ...

The Cuckoo Bees of the Genus Stelis Panzer, 1806 in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East

A Review and Identification Guide

Max Kasparek

Bees belonging to the genus Stelis parasitize on other bee species and are therefore also called "cuckoo bees". The Cuckoo Bees of the Genus Stelis Panzer, 1806 in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East provides ...

The Principles of Bee Improvement

Jo Widdicombe

Jo Widdicombe, B.Sc. (Hons.) Environmental Science, has been beekeeping for over 30 years and has been a member of BIBBA for more than 25 years, serving on the BIBBA Committee. Jo worked as a Seasonal Bee Inspector for 5 years and is a ...

The Sequel to

Suguru Igarashi and Motohiro Harada

This is the 3rd volume of the series The Life Histories of Asian Butterflies. In this latest volume, the life histories of 194 species are introduced by beautiful and vivid images with detailed description.

True Bugs (Heteroptera) of the Neotropics

Antonio R Panizzi and Jocelia Grazia

The goal is to cover the heteropteran fauna, in order to give the readers an idea about the diversity and importance of true bugs of this zoogeographical region. True Bugs (Heteroptera) of the Neotropics is not a catalog of the ...

ZooKeys 486: Annotated Type Catalogue of the Chrysididae (Insecta, Hymenoptera) Deposited in the Collection of Radoszkow

Paolo Rosa and Zai-Fu Xu

Oktawiusz Wincenty Bourmeister-Radoszkowski was a renowned hymenopterologist and one of the founders of Russian Entomological Society. The Radoszkowski collection is housed in the Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals of the ...

ZooKeys 490: Revision of the Ceratocapsine Renodaeus Group: Marinonicoris, Pilophoropsis, Renodaeus, and Zanchisme, with

Thomas J Henry

Plant bugs in the Renodaeus genus group form a monophyletic part of the tribe Ceratocapsini in the subfamily Orthotylinae. All taxa are restricted to the New World, with most occurring from the southern United States to northern ...

Late Miocene Suidae from Eurasia

The Hippopotamodon and Microstonyx Problem Revisited

Martin Pickford

The nomenclature of Late Miocene suines of Eurasia has been the subject of active debate since 1926, when Pilgrim erected the genera Microstonyx and Dicoryphochoerus. The discovery of additional fossil material at three ...

Lower Permian Freshwater Sharks and Fishes of Texas and Oklahoma

Kieran Davis

This is the only book like it on the market and is a one stop reference for anyone interested in the freshwater aquatic fauna of the Lowland Plains fauna of the Lower Permian of Arhcer County, Texas and Waurika, Oklahoma. The book updates ...

Lower Permian Vertebrates of Oklahoma, Volume 1

Waurika

Kieran Davis

Lower Permian Vertebrates of Oklahoma, Volume 1 is the only book like it on the market and is a one stop reference for anyone interested in the vertebrate fauna of the Lowland Plains fauna of the Lower Permian. The book can be used ...

Lower Permian Vertebrates of Oklahoma, Volume 2

Richards Spur

Kieran Davis

Lower Permian Vertebrates of Oklahoma, Volume 2 is the only book like it on the market and is a one stop reference for anyone interested in the vertebrate fauna of the upland fauna of the Lower Permian. The book perfectly compliments ...

Palaeovertebrata Sinica, Volume 1: Fishes, Fascicle 1 (Serial no. 1): Agnathans [Chinese]

Zhu Min

This volume, with 92 fossil pictures and figures, deals with 82 species belonging to 61 genera, and 18 families. Their identification characteristics, location and biostratigraphy are provided.

Palaeovertebrata Sinica, Volume 2: Amphibians, Reptiles and Birds, Fascicle 1 (Serial no. 11): Dinosaur Eggs [Chinese]

Zhao Zihui, Wang Qiang and Zhang Shukang

Palaeovertebrata Sinica, Volume 2: Amphibians, Reptiles and Birds, Fascicle 1 (Serial no. 5): Amphibians [Chinese]

Wang Yuan

This volume is a summary of morphology, taxonomology, and biostratigraphy of fossil amphibians in China. It descibes 34 species and 10 undentified species belonging to 27 genera 5 orders.

The Global Thermohaline Paleocirculation

Elena V Ivanova

Originally published in Russian in 2006, this is the first English translation of this important book on paleoceanography and paleoclimatology. Its initial publication was followed by a surge of interest in this subject prompting the ...

The Guanshan Biota [English / Chinese]

Hu Shixue

The early Camrian Guanshan biota (approx.age 515–510 Mya ) represents a typical Burgess Shale-type fauna from the Wulongqing Formation of eastern Yunnan, China. Stratigraphically, the Guanshan biota is slightly younger than the ...

A Guide to Finding Seashore & Rockpool Life in Somerset

Nigel Phillips

Seaweeds and marine creatures like crabs are a familiar sight on a beach – but what type of seaweed and what type of crab? On Somerset's beaches you can find around 120 seaweeds and 12 species of crab. But what else might you ...

Bloomsbury Concise Pond Wildlife Guide

Sandra Doyle, Lyn Wells, Szabolcs K??kay, Stephen Message, Bridgette James and David A Sutton

This beautifully illustrated mini field guide is packed with information on more than 190 species of animal and plant that inhabit still-water bodies such as ponds, pools and small lakes in northern Europe. A vast number of species occurs ...

Marine Life of St. Helena

Judith Brown

Situated in the South Atlantic 1,800 km from Africa, the isolated sub-tropical island of St Helena provides a home to both eastern and western Atlantic inshore marine species. Habitats of golden and volcanic black sand, algae encrusted ...

Marine Macrophytes as Foundation Species

Emil Olafsson

Marine macrophytes (macroalgae, seagrasses, and mangroves) comprise thousands of species distributed in shallow water areas along the world's coastlines. They play a key role in marine ecosystems regarding biodiversity and energy ...

Sea Fishes of the Mediterranean

Including Marine Invertebrates

Lawson Wood

Sea Fishes of the Mediterranean reveals the fascinating wealth of sea life found in this diverse but little-documented region. This compact and easy-to-use guide, illustrated with many specially-commissioned colour photographs taken ...

A Barrel of Monkeys

A Compendium of Collective Nouns for Animals

Susie Dent

We're all familiar with 'a flock of sheep' but what are the collective nouns for racehorses, pigs, zebras or giraffes? Drawing on a range of sources, from fifteenth-century hunting terms to more recent inventions that have ...

A Synopsis of the Classification of the British Palaeozoic Rocks

With a Systematic Description of the British Palaeozoic Fossils in the Geological Museum of the University of Cambridge

Adam Sedgwick and Frederick McCoy

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. Adam Sedgwick (1785-1873), one of the founders of modern geology, was Woodwardian Professor of Geology at Cambridge from 1818 until his death.

A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening

With a View to the Improvement of Country Residences, Comprising Historical Notices and General Principles of the Art

Andrew Jackson Downing

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. This 1841 work by the American landscape designer and writer Andrew Jackson Downing (1815-52), reissued here in its 1849 fourth edition, was the first ...

Animal Companions

Pets and Social Change in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Ingrid H Tague

Although pets existed in Europe long before the eighteenth century, the dominant belief was that pet keeping was at best frivolous and at worst downright dangerous. In Animal Companions, Ingrid Tague explores the eighteenth-century ...

Banksia Lady

Celia Rosser - Botanical Artist

Carolyn Landon

This is the story of Celia Rosser, internationally acclaimed Botanical Illustrator, who ultimately dedicated her life to painting the entire genus of Banksia, the only artist to have done such a thing. Her dedication to the task ...

Big History and the Future of Humanity

Fred Spier

Featuring a variety of updates and revisions, Big History and the Future of Humanity, Second Edition, presents an accessible and original overview of the entire sweep of history from the origins of the universe and origins of ...

Botanical Sketchbook

A Guide and Inspiration for any Botanical Artist

Mary Ann Scott, Margaret Stevens and Sir Roy Strong

A sketchbook can be many things: to some it is a record of a landscape or people in a cafe prior to painting them; to others it is a visual memory of a traveller's journey, more personal than the image captured by a camera.

Colonialism, Development, and the Environment

Railways and Deforestation in British India, 1860-1884

Pallavi V Das

Colonialism, Development, and the Environment focuses on the colonial encounter between Britain and India in the field of economic development, including scientific/technological changes, and the environmental impact of this ...

De Corporibus Marinis Lapidescentibus Qu' Defossa Reperiuntur

Addita Dissertatione Fabii Column' de Glossopetris

Agostino Scilla and Fabio Colonna

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. In 1747 the Roman publisher Venantius Monaldinus produced a Latin edition of two early works proposing the animal origins of fossils (reproduced here ...

Early Responses to the Periodic System

Kaji Masanori, Helge S Kragh and Gabor Pallo

The reception of the periodic system of elements has received little attention. Many historians have studied Mendeleev's discovery of the periodic system, but few have analyzed how the scientific community perceived and employed it.

Elephant Company

The Inspiring Story of an Unlikely Hero and the Animals Who Helped Him Save Lives in World War II

Vicki Constantine Croke

Billy Williams came to colonial Burma in 1920, fresh from service in World War I, to a job as a "forest man" for a British teak company. Mesmerized by the intelligence, character, and even humor of the great animals who hauled ...

Environment and Society in the Japanese Islands

From Prehistory to the Present

Bruce L Batten and Philip C Brown

Over the long course of Japan's history, its people profited from their rich natural environment while simultaneously facing significant environmental challenges. Over time, they have altered their natural environment in numerous ways ...

Global Tree Project

Shinji Turner-Yamamoto, Patricia J Graham and Justine Ludwig

The Global Tree Project is an international art initiative from artist Shinji Turner-Yamamoto that seeks to open and affirm connections between audiences and the natural world. Working with identifiable imagery the artist encourages audience ...

Harvesting the Biosphere

What We Have Taken from Nature

Vaclav Smil

The biosphere – the Earth's thin layer of life – dates from nearly four billion years ago, when the first simple organisms appeared. Many species have exerted enormous influence on the biosphere's character and ...

Heat: Extreme Adventures at the Highest Temperatures on Earth

Ranulph Fiennes

Ranulph Fiennes, the world's greatest living explorer, has travelled to some of the remotest most dangerous parts of the globe. Well-known for his experiences at the poles and climbing Everest, he has also endured some of the hottest ...

Herpetology at Kansas

A Centennial History

William E Duellman and Kraig Adler

Herpetology at Kansas represents a substantial and critical chapter in the history of the discipline of herpetology. It chronicles the people-faculty and students alike-who have contributed to maintaining and expanding KU's ...

Historia Ambiental no Rio Grande do Sul

Elenita Malta Pereira, Fabiano Quadros Ruckert and Neli Galarce Machado

História Ambiental no Rio Grande do Sul is the first collection of the Brazilian state's environmental history. The contributions, divided into three main sections: ...

Killarney to Valentia Island

The Iveragh Peninsula: A Walking Guide

Adrian Hendroff

The Iveragh Peninsula, the largest in southwest Ireland, stretches from Killarney to Bolus Head and attracts thousands of visitors annually. The Ring of Kerry coastal road winds along its fringes and sandstone peaks soar high above.

Life on Planet WWF

From Archbishops to Belly Dancers - My Time at WWF

CY Chong

C.Y. Chong's captivating and insightful revelation about what it's like to spend over two decades at WWF. This light-hearted collection of memoirs tells the compelling story of a company executive who walked away from global ...

Looking for the Goshawk

Conor Mark Jameson

Looking for the Goshawk traces Conor Jameson's travels in search of the Goshawk, a magnificent yet rarely seen (in Britain at least) raptor. Each episode of the narrative arises from personal experience, investigation, and ...

Map: Poems After William Smith's Geological Map of 1815

Michael McKimm

The poems in this anthology celebrate a map, a man, and a science. The science is geology. The man is William Smith (1769 – 1839), civil engineer and geologist. The map is Smith's masterpiece: ...

Menageries in Britain 1100-2000

Christine E Jackson

Menageries in Britain 1100–2000 traces the history of menageries ('…a collection of wild animals in cages or enclosures especially one kept for exhibition... in zoological gardens or a travelling show.

Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle Between the Years 1826 and 1836 (3-Volume

Charles Darwin, Robert Fitzroy and Phillip Parker King

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. In the years leading up to Charles Darwin's famous voyage on the Beagle, the ship and its captain Robert Fitzroy (1805-65) had participated in a ...

Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle Between the Years 1826 and 1836, Volume 1

Proceedings of the First Expedition, 1826-1830

Charles Darwin, Robert Fitzroy and Phillip Parker King

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. In the years leading up to Charles Darwin's famous voyage on the Beagle, the ship and its captain Robert Fitzroy (1805-65) had participated in an ...

Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle Between the Years 1826 and 1836, Volume 2

Proceedings of the Second Expedition, 1831-1836

Charles Darwin, Robert Fitzroy and Phillip Parker King

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. In the years leading up to Charles Darwin's famous voyage on the Beagle, the ship and its captain Robert Fitzroy (1805-65) had participated in an ...

Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle Between the Years 1826 and 1836, Volume 3

Journal and Remarks 1832-1836 by Charles Darwin

Charles Darwin, Robert Fitzroy and Phillip Parker King

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. In the years leading up to Charles Darwin's 1832-6 voyage on the Beagle, the ship and its captain Robert Fitzroy (1805-65) had participated in an ...

Norway Landscapes

Hanne Malat and Frank van Groen

The photographer couple Hanne Malat and Frank van Groen take us on an adventure through the diverse landscapes of Norway, away from the main tourist trails. The photographs deliver unexpected insights into the raw and unspoiled nature of ...

Outlaw Weeds of the West

Karen M Sackett and Ed Jenne

Author Karen Sackett informs readers of all ages of the wily ways of weeds, including the creepy trickster Dalmatian toadflax, which looks like a garden snapdragon but spreads long distances underground, and the hitchhiking outlaw hounds ...

Oxford Visual Dictionary of Animals

The Dictionary that Shows You What Words Mean

Oxford University Press (OUP)

New in the internationally successful Visual Dictionary series, the Oxford Visual Dictionary of Animals introduces animals from around the world through highly illustrated dynamic spreads in thematic sections. There are over ...

Paleoethnobotanical Study of Ancient Food Crops and the Environmental Context in North-East Africa, 6000 BC-AD 200/300

Alemseged Beldados

Archaeobotanical investigation was conducted on a total of thirty two thousand (n = 32 000) pot fragments, baked clay and fired clay collected from different sites belonging to five Cultural Groups in Eastern Sudan. The Cultural Groups ...

Parler Latin pour Classer la Nature

L'Heritage de Linnee

Philippe Cibois

Looks at the history of the usage of Latin to classify and describe nature in antique texts.

Penguin's Way

Johanna Johnston and Leonard Weisgard

With a new children's book imprint, the Bodleian Library brings beloved classics back into print, beginning with a beautiful storybook about the life of a fascinating Antarctic species. Originally published in 1962 ...

Ralph Steadman's Nextinction

Birds in Trouble

Ralph Steadman and Ceri Levy

The follow-up to the award-winning Extinct Boids, Ralph Steadman's Nextinction features more of the incredible art of cartoonist Ralph Steadman. This time the focus is not on the birds that are gone, but the ones that there's still time to save.

Scientific Papers of Asa Gray (2-Volume Set)

Asa Gray and Charles Sprague Sargent

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. Born in the state of New York, Asa Gray (1810-88) abandoned a medical career to pursue his true interest in botany. He sought the mentorship of the ...

Scientific Papers of Asa Gray, Volume 1

Asa Gray and Charles Sprague Sargent

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. Born in the state of New York, Asa Gray (1810-88) abandoned a medical career to pursue his true interest in botany. He sought the mentorship of the ...

Scientific Papers of Asa Gray, Volume 2

Asa Gray and Charles Sprague Sargent

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection.

Born in the state of New York, Asa Gray (1810-88) abandoned a medical career to pursue his true interest in botany. He sought the mentorship of the ...

South!

Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton

Ernest Shackleton sailed to the South Pole as the First World War broke out in Europe, intent on making the first ever trans-Antarctic crossing. South! is Shackleton's first-hand account of the epic expedition, which he described ...

Suffolk Coast Walk

Peter Caton

Combining travel writing with a walking guide, Suffolk Coast Walk provides a wonderful insight into this fascinating county and is the companion book to Essex Coast Walk by the same author. Peter Caton explores all ...

The Art of Rearing Silk-Worms

Vincenzo Dandolo

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. This 1825 translation was published as part of a project to introduce the culture of silkworms into Britain and especially into Ireland, as ...

The Daily Journal of an Antarctic Explorer 1956-1958

Guyon Warren and Karen J Warren

Guyon Warren was one of a small group of men who spent 15 consecutive months in the Antarctic in the late 1950s. He helped establish Scott Base, right from the construction of the first hut. However, it is with his explorations out on the ...

The Eduard Gubelin Story

The Art & Science of Gems

Gubelin Foundation

Edward Josef Gubelin (1913-2005), was a pioneer of Gemstone research. His lifelong studies of inclusions in gemstones changed the science of gemology and his work laid the foundation for the microscopic identification of gemstones of all ...

The Georgian Menagerie

Exotic Animals in Eighteenth-Century London

Christopher Plumb

In the eighteenth century, it would not have been impossible to encounter an elephant or a kangaroo making its way down the Strand, heading towards the menagerie of Mr. Pidcock at the Exeter Change. Pidcock s was just one of a number of ...

The Intimate Bond

How Animals Shaped Human History

Brian M Fagan

Animals, and our ever-changing relationship with them, have left an indelible mark on human history. From the dawn of our existence, animals and humans have been constantly redefining their relationship with one another, and entire ...

The Shark and the Albatross

Travels with a Camera to the Ends of the Earth

John Aitchison

The Shark and the Albatross is the story of a cameraman's encounters with animals in remote, exotic and dangerous places. John Aitchison gives vivid descriptions of the lives of polar bears and penguins, seals and ...

The Song of the Magpie Robin

A Memoir

Zafar Futehally, Shanthi Chandola and Ashish Chandola

Birder, naturalist, and writer, Zafar Futehally was born in 1920 into a business family of Bombay. He grew up in Andheri, then one of the greenest areas of the city, and went on to join the family trade. However, it was with Salim Ali ...

The Spotted Lion

Kenneth Gandar Dower

Kenneth Gandar Dower (1908-1944) wrote a classic African expedition memoir based on his adventures in search of a beast known only from rumors and stories, a lion with a spotted pelt. Gandar Dower describes the many obstacles incurred ...

They Laughed at Galileo

How the Great Inventors Proved their Critics Wrong

Albert Jack

From the wireless to the computer, and from hula hoops to interplanetary travel, inventions and discoveries have changed our lifestyles in ways that would have astounded our ancestors. Each of them was originally developed by visionaries ...

Trees in Paradise

A California History

Jared Farmer

California now has more trees than at any time since the late Pleistocene. This green landscape, however, is not the work of nature. It's the work of history. In the years after the Gold Rush, American settlers remade the Californian ...

Trekking in Ladakh

Radek Kucharski

This trekking guidebook gives detailed descriptions of eight different treks across the Ladakh, Zanskar and Markha Valley in northern India. Ranging from moderate difficulty to very demanding, each trek is broken down into multiple stages ...

Waste into Weapons

Recycling in Britain During the Second World War

Peter Thorsheim

During the Second World War, the United Kingdom faced severe shortages of essential raw materials. To keep its armaments factories running, the British government enlisted millions of people in efforts to recycle a wide range of materials ...

Whale's Way

Johanna Johnston and Leonard Weisgard

With a new children's book imprint, the Bodleian Library brings beloved classics back into print, beginning with a beautiful storybook about the life of a fascinating species. Originally published in 1962, Whale's Way by ...

A Love of Limestone (Region 2 / B)

David Christopher Hollis

This stunning DVD explores Limestone Pavements, a remarkable and declining wildlife habitat in Britain. It shows the unique wildlife which makes a home there and reveals the secrets of how and when this fabulous landscape feature came about ...

A Swirl of Water: The Natural history of a Woodland Stream (Region 2)

David Christopher Hollis

A Swirl of Water is the first in the Black Country Lad Explores series. It shows a typical woodland stream in lowland Britain throughout the year. Narrated by the Black Country Lad it has been a labour of love to explore ...

A Year in the Woods (Region 2 / B)

David Christopher Hollis

This gorgeous DVD film has been three years in the making. It explores the wildlife of a British woodland through the seasons and is lovingly produced by the Black Country Lad. See the wood through the cold of winter as animals struggle ...

Atlantic Forest: Fragile Exuberance / Mata Atl? ntica: Fr? gil Exuber? ncia

Um Ensaio Art?ístico

Antonio Wuo

Photographic study of the Brazilian Atlantic forest and its wildlife.

Autumn in the Picos de Europa (Region 2)

A Celebration of the Autumn Landscape and Wildlife of the Picos de Europa in Northern Spain

David Christopher Hollis

The Picos de Europa in northern Spain is one of the most beautiful areas of Europe. High mountains, lush green valleys, rushing rivers and exquisite meadowlands make this the ideal destination for anyone interested in wildlife.

Best Birdwatching Sites: North Wales

Alan Davies and Owen Roberts

From the wader-thronged Dee Estuary to the seabird attractions of Anglesey, from mountains and moors to song-filled woodland, the counties of Clwyd and Gwynedd have lots to offer visiting birdwatchers. After its launch in 2007 ...

Britain's Meadowlands (Region 2)

David Christopher Hollis

Since the Second World War Britain has lost more than 90% of its traditionally managed meadows to development and changes in farming practices. These days attitudes have evolved and the importance of these ancient habitats has been fully ...

Cape Cod Adventure Set

Map & Naturalist Guide

National Geographic and Waterford Press

Cape Code Adventure Set consists of a Pocket Naturalist Guide and National Geographic Map, offering a perfect resource for travelers wanting "hands on" information on what to see and where to go to find some of the ...

Colorado Wildlife

Todd Telander

Colorado Wildlife is a field guide to 180 of the most common and sought-after wildlife species in the region. Anatomically correct illustrations and detailed descriptions about each animal's prominent physical attributes and ...

Death Valley National Park Adventure Set

Map & Naturalist Guide

National Geographic and Waterford Press

Death Valley National Park Adventure Set consists of a Pocket Naturalist Guide and National Geographic Map, offering a perfect resource for travelers wanting "hands on" information on what to see and where to go to find ...

Denali National Park & Preserve Adventure Set

Map & Naturalist Guide

National Geographic and Waterford Press

Denali National Park & Preserve Adventure Set consists of a Pocket Naturalist Guide and National Geographic Map, offering a perfect resource for travelers wanting "hands on" information on what to see and where to ...

Divoka Príroda Prahy a Blízkeho Okolí

Pruvodce Tou Castí Prazske Prírody, o Kterou se Nikdo Nestara, Malokdo ji Zna a Skoro Nikdo ji Nema Rad

Radek Mikulas and Jan Albert Sturma

Writing a new wilderness guide on a place that is rapidly transforming is a difficult task. Geologist Radek Mikuláš and botanist Jan Šturma chose, described and photographed several dozens of locations in Prague and ...

East Kinabalu

A Guide to the Eastern Part of Mount Kinabalu

Chin Shui Hiung, Christopher Chin and K Ravi Mandalam

This book is a guide to the remote and rugged eastern part of Mount Kinabalu, the tallest mountain on the island of Borneo. The western part of the mountain is readily accessible by a scrambling trail that has been developed over several ...

England's Coastal Heritage

A Review of Progress Since 1997

Peter Murphy

The English Heritage Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey (RCZAS) programme has produced a wealth of new information, with over 45 survey reports now completed. Alongside this, the offshore survey completed as part of the Marine Aggregation ...

Everglades National Park Adventure Set

Map & Naturalist Guide

National Geographic and Waterford Press

Everglades National Park Adventure Set consists of a Pocket Naturalist Guide and National Geographic Map, offering a perfect resource for travelers wanting "hands on" information on what to see and where to go to find ...

From Ox Cart to eMail

The Kenya Story of Delia Craig

Natasha Breed

Today a thriving sanctuary and popular safari destination, the Lewa Wildlife Conservancy, in the heart of Kenya, began life almost 100 years ago as a plot of black cotton soil and tangled savannah parcelled out to a British immigrant from ...

Glacier Bay National Park & Preserve Adventure Set

Map & Naturalist Guide

National Geographic and Waterford Press

Glacier Bay National Park & Preserve Adventure Set consists of a Pocket Naturalist Guide and National Geographic Map, offering a perfect resource for travelers wanting "hands on" information on what to see and where ...

Glacier/Waterton Lakes National Parks Adventure Set

Map & Naturalist Guide

National Geographic and Waterford Press

Glacier/Waterton Lakes National Parks Adventure Set consists of a Pocket Naturalist Guide and National Geographic Map, offering a perfect resource for travelers wanting "hands on" information on what to see and where to ...

Grand Canyon National Park Adventure Set

Map & Naturalist Guide

National Geographic and Waterford Press

Grand Canyon National Park Adventure Set consists of a Pocket Naturalist Guide and National Geographic Map, offering a perfect resource for travelers wanting "hands on" information on what to see and where to go to find ...

Grand Teton National Park Adventure Set

Map & Naturalist Guide

National Geographic and Waterford Press

Grand Teton National Park Adventure Set consists of a Pocket Naturalist Guide and National Geographic Map, offering a perfect resource for travelers wanting "hands on" information on what to see and where to go to find ...

Great Smoky Mountains National Park Adventure Set

Map & Naturalist Guide

National Geographic and Waterford Press

The Great Smoky Mountains National Park Adventure Set consists of a Pocket Naturalist Guide and National Geographic Map, offering a perfect resource for travelers wanting "hands on" information on what to see and where ...

Guide to Wildlife of Burial Grounds

Caring for God's Acre, Chris Shields and Lizzie Harper

Churchyards, cemeteries and burial grounds are found all across the UK and many have become living sanctuaries for wildlife. This fold-out chart shows some of the plants and animals you may find, and gives a brief insight into the history ...

Heathlands (Region 2)

David Christopher Hollis

Come and explore the magic and beauty of Britain's lowland heaths. A wealth of wildlife awaits you in this gentle and informative DVD. Its full of gorgeous wild creatures from Dragonflies to Thrushes, Bog Orchids to Natterjack Toads ...

Iguazu - Fauna: Pocket Guide / Guia de Bolsillo / Guía de Bolso

Marcelo Beccaceci, G Teo, Diego Florio and María Fernanda R Amaya

This trilingual guide includes the great variety of fauna that live in Iguazú National Park, and covers commonly seen birds, mammals, reptiles, and birds. Very useful for tourists and nature lovers.

Linville Gorge/Mount Mitchell, Pisgah National Forest Adventure Set

Map & Naturalist Guide

National Geographic and Waterford Press

Linville Gorge/Mount Mitchell, Pisgah National Forest Adventure Set consists of a Pocket Naturalist Guide and National Geographic Map, offering a perfect resource for travelers wanting "hands on" information on what to ...

Offshore Sea Life ID Guide: East Coast

Steve NG Howell and Brian L Sullivan

Two-thirds of our planet lies out of sight of land, just offshore beyond the horizon. What wildlife might you see out there? This handy guide, designed for quick use on day trips off the East Coast, helps you put a name to what you find ...

Olympic National Park Adventure Set

Map & Naturalist Guide

National Geographic and Waterford Press

Olympic National Park Adventure Set consists of a Pocket Naturalist Guide and National Geographic Map, offering a perfect resource for travelers wanting "hands on" information on what to see and where to go to find some ...

Our Precious Ponds (Region 2)

David Christopher Hollis

You can no doubt fondly remember trips to catch newts and frogs at a local pond. Sadly this simple pleasure has largely disappeared along with many small village and field corner ponds. The loss is, in part, due to urban expansion, development ...

Rare & Unusual British Wildflowers, Part 1 (Region 2)

A Celebration of the Many Rare and Strange Plants found in the UK

David Christopher Hollis

Sit back in your armchair and join the Black Country Lad as he explores the rich and wonderful rare wildflowers of Britain. This edition is filmed with a love of his subject which shows in the attention to detail seen here. Each species ...

Rare & Unusual British Wildflowers, Part 2 (Region 2)

Another Celebration of the Many Rare and Strange Plants found in the UK

David Christopher Hollis

Sit back in your armchair and join the Black Country Lad as he explores the rich and wonderful rare wildflowers of Britain. This edition, part 2 of a series, filmed in widescreen format, is a celebration of a love for his subject which ...

Redwood National & State Parks Adventure Set

Map & Naturalist Guide

National Geographic and Waterford Press

Redwood National & State Parks Adventure Set consists of a Pocket Naturalist Guide and National Geographic Map, offering a perfect resource for travelers wanting "hands on" information on what to see and where to go ...

Rocky Mountain National Park Adventure Set

Map & Naturalist Guide

National Geographic and Waterford Press

Rocky Mountain National Park Adventure Set consists of a Pocket Naturalist Guide and National Geographic Map, offering a perfect resource for travelers wanting "hands on" information on what to see and where to go to find ...

Sepilok Forest

Preserving Sabah's Natural Heritage

Wendy Hutton and Cede Prudente

There's a great deal more to Sepilok than the famous Orang-utan Rehabilitation Centre. That is the theme of this book, which comes up with a lot of surprising information about Sabah's most accessible conservation area.

Sequoia/Kings Canyon National Park Adventure Set

Map & Naturalist Guide

National Geographic and Waterford Press

Sequoia/Kings Canyon National Park Adventure Set consists of a Pocket Naturalist Guide and National Geographic Map, offering a perfect resource for travelers wanting "hands on" information on what to see and where to go ...

Sezonnaia Xhizn' Prirody Verkhnei Kolymy [Seasonal Life of Nature in the Upper Kolyma Region]

Nadezhda Viacheslavovna Sinel'nikova and MN Pakhomov

Sezonnaia Xhizn' Prirody Verkhnei Kolymy is devoted to the analysis of phenological phenomena in the Upper Kolyma region. Average long-term phenological data are presented. The effects of interannual and year-by-year changes ...

Shenandoah National Park Adventure Set

Map & Naturalist Guide

National Geographic and Waterford Press

Shenandoah National Park Adventure Set consists of a Pocket Naturalist Guide and National Geographic Map, offering a perfect resource for travelers wanting "hands on" information on what to see and where to go to find ...

The Glorious Colours of Autumn (Region B)

David Christopher Hollis

The Black Country Lad Explores the colours of autumn in all their beauty, see the stunning beauty of the New forest in all its fabulous autumn colour. A section on the fungi of autumn shows some of the species that may be encountered before ...

The Picos de Europa, Part 1: Woodlands and Meadows (Region 2)

A Celebration of the Landscape and Wildlife of the Picos de Europa in Northern Spain

David Christopher Hollis

The Picos de Europa in northern Spain is one of the most beautiful areas of Europe. High mountains, lush green valleys, rushing rivers and exquisite meadowlands make this the ideal destination for anyone interested in wildlife.

The Picos de Europa, Part 2: Mountains, Rivers and Rocky Places

A Celebration of the Landscape and Wildlife of the Picos de Europa in Northern Spain (Region 2)

David Christopher Hollis

The Picos de Europa in northern Spain is one of the most beautiful areas of Europe. High mountains, lush green valleys, rushing rivers and exquisite meadowlands make this the ideal destination for anyone interested in wildlife.

The Southwest

Australia's Biodiversity Hotspot

Victoria Laurie

Victoria Laurie offers us in words and pictures the southwest of Australia, a land triangle that encompasses a multitude of natural worlds. One third of all known Australian plant species is found growing in the southwest, and the region ...

The Wildflowers of the Burren (Region 2)

David Christopher Hollis

The Burren is a spectacular region of Karst limestone rocks in County Clare southern Ireland. It is around 250 sq km of open limestone hills and moon-like 'pavements' world renowned for the plants they support. The pavements are ...

The Wildlife of Shetland's Simmer Dim (Region 2)

A Celebration of Shetland's Summer Wildlife in Pictures, Sounds and Video

David Christopher Hollis

The Shetland Isles, lying some 100 miles north of mainland Scotland with the North Sea to the east and the Atlantic to the west, these windswept but incredibly beautiful islands are a Mecca for birdwatchers worldwide. Its been estimated ...

The Wildlife of the Picos de Europa

And Other Great Sites Within Easy Reach

David Christopher Hollis

This new book is a unique reference guide to the plants and animals which inhabit the Picos de Europa, a spectacular high mountain area which straddles Cantabria, Asturias and Leon in Northern Spain. It's designed to help the reader ...

The Wildlife of the Picos de Europa: An Identification Guide

David Christopher Hollis

The Picos de Europa, a range of mountains 20 km inland from the northern coast of Spain, is a truly fabulous place to visit. With over 1400 different species of flowering plant and more than 140 species of butterfly it's one of ...

Wildlife Soundscapes, CD 1: Woodlands

David Christopher Hollis

British woods are rich places to go and listen to birdsongs. Each spring they come alive with the trembling phrases of Wood Warblers and the lovely fluting songs of Blackbirds. All are here so sit back and enjoy their simple pleasures.

Wildlife Soundscapes, CD 2: The Coast

David Christopher Hollis

Our coasts are a rich source of evocative wildlife sounds. Who among us cannot remember with fondness the cries of wheeling gulls at the seaside? But there is so much more to be experienced so sit back and enjoy the sounds of the coast.

Wildlife Soundscapes, CD 3: The Sounds of Summer

David Christopher Hollis

The lazy days of Summer are great for a walk in your local countryside. Birdsong is at its height and meadows buzz with the sounds of crickets and grasshoppers. Join the author in this celebration of the warm, sunny days of typical British ...

Yellowstone National Park Adventure Set

Map & Naturalist Guide

National Geographic and Waterford Press

Yellowstone National Park Adventure Set consists of a Pocket Naturalist Guide and National Geographic Map, offering a perfect resource for travelers wanting "hands on" information on what to see and where to go to find ...

Yosemite National Park Adventure Set

Map & Naturalist Guide

National Geographic and Waterford Press

Yosemite National Park Adventure Set consists of a Pocket Naturalist Guide and National Geographic Map, offering a perfect resource for travelers wanting "hands on" information on what to see and where to go to find some ...

Zion National Park Adventure Set

Map & Naturalist Guide

National Geographic and Waterford Press

Zion National Park Adventure Set consists of a Pocket Naturalist Guide and National Geographic Map, offering a perfect resource for travelers wanting "hands on" information on what to see and where to go to find some of ...

A Beleza das Plantas Suculentas

Angeline Martini and Daniela Biondi

A Beleza das Plantas Suculentas provides information and several photos about succulent plant species sold in Brazil. The idea for this book came from the need to systematize both the aesthetic and scientific information concerning ...

A Fascination for Fungi: A Celebration of the Weird and Wonderful World of Fungi (Region 2 / B)

David Christopher Hollis

Explore the often weird, always startling world of our British Fungi. This colourful and informative DVD celebrates our mushrooms in all their glory and splendour. Look out for Death Caps, Dapperlings, Lawyers Wigs, Blushers and a whole ...

A Guide to Finding Orchids in Hampshire & the Isle of Wight

Peter Creed and Rachel Hudson

Wild orchids excite people. They are exotic, strange, delicate and beautiful. And beneath their intriguing appearance is an equally fascinating biology – many species have developed intimate relationships with fungi to grow and ...

A Guide to Mushrooms (Agaricales, Basidiomycetes) [Russian]

LG Perevedentseva

A Revision of Axinaea (Melastomataceae)

Elvira Cotton, Finn Borchsenius and Henrik Balslev

The dissertation is a revision of the US plant genus Axinaea (Melastomataceae, Merianieae). The genus contains 41 species, eight of which here described as new to science. Forty of the species occurs exclusively in the Andes ...

Bloomsbury Concise Herb Guide

Christina Hart-Davies, Bridgette James and David A Sutton

This beautifully illustrated mini field guide is packed with information on the most common herbs from around the world. Many of these plants grow wild in Britain and other parts of Europe, and can also be cultivated in gardens.

Burdekin Delta Tree Guide

Greg Calvert

This handy guide allows for quick identification of the most common trees and shrubs used for revegetation purposes in the Burdekin Delta region. There is a strong focus on the many uses of these plants, and includes valuable knowledge ...

Compendium of Grape Diseases, Disorders, and Pests

Wayne F Wilcox, Walter D Gubler and Jerry K Uyemoto

Grapes are the most widely planted fruit crop with 7.5 million hectares grown throughout the world. They are also one of the most management intensive crops in existence. Couple this with the fact that a comprehensive diagnostic and pest ...

Compendium of Soybean Diseases and Pests

Glen L Hartman, John C Rupe, Edward J Sikora, Leslie L Domier, Kevin L Steffey and Jeffrey A Davis

Soybean is one of the most significant crops grown in the world today. Soybeans are also hosts to a long list of diseases and insect pests, and that list grows each year. New and practical references that help users identify and manage ...

Ethnobotany: Himalayan Region

SK Sood, Anjna Kharwal, TN Lakhanpal and AK Bhatnagar

From the preface: "The history and development of ethnobotany is as old as human civilization. There is practically no human activity in which plants do not play a role. Although our country, lndia, is renowned the world ...

Etnobotanica Abulense

Las Plantas en la Cultura Tradicional de Avila

Emilio Blanco Castro

This book is the epitome of ethnobotanical cultural heritage of the province of Ávila (Castilla and León, Spain), its subject matter is the knowledge and popular beliefs about the plants and the environment, a richly diverse ...

Fascicles of Flora of India, Fascicle 26

Fabaceae: Caesalpinioideae, Tribe Cercideae

P Singh and Saswati Bandyopadhyay

Volume 26 deals with the Cercideae, a tribe in the pea family, Fabaceae.

Flora of Tumkur District, Karnataka

Veeralinga Bhaskar, CG Kushalappa and KS Jagadishchandra

This book on the flora of Tumkur District, Karnataka, reports 918 taxa including 26 infra-specific taxa falling under 504 genera and 139 families, encompassing 13 fern and 1 gymnosperm families. Among the major findings include discovery ...

Flore Pratique du Maroc, Volume 1: Pteridophyta, Gymnospermae, Angiospermae (Lauraceae - Neuradaceae)

Manuel de Determination des Plantes Vasculaires

Mohamed Fennane, Mohamed Ibn Tattou, Joel Mathez, Aicha Ouyahya, Jalal El Oualidi and Pierre Quezel

The first volume of this flora for Morocco treats the Pteridophya, gymnosperms and the following angiosperm families: Aizoaceae, Amaranthaceae, Aristolochiaceae, Basellaceae, Berberidaceae, Betulaceae, Brassicaceae (Cruciferae ...

Flore Pratique du Maroc, Volume 2: Angiospermae (Leguminosae - Lentibulariaceae)

Manuel de Determination des Plantes Vasculaires

Mohamed Fennane, Mohamed Ibn Tattou, Aicha Ouyahya, Jalal El Oualidi and Joel Mathez

Volume 2 of this flora for Morocco continues the coverage of the angiosperms. It includes identification keys and describes the following families: Acanthaceae, Aceraceae, Anacardiaceae, Apiaceae (Umbelliferae), Apocynaceae ...

Flore Pratique du Maroc, Volume 3

Manuel de Determination des Plantes Vasculaires

Werner Greuter

The third and final volume of this flora for Morocco, which includes identification keys, continues the coverage of the angiosperm families and describes the following families: Adoxaceae, Alismataceae, Alliaceae, Amaryllidaceae ...

Foliicolous Lichens of India

KP Singh and A Pinokiyo

Foliicolous lichens, one of the important components of biodiversity in wet or moist, high humid, foggy tropical and subtropical forests, are confined mostly on the upper surface of live leaves of plants. This interesting group of epiphytes ...

Guide to the Vascular Plants of Tennessee

Edward W Chester, B Eugene Wofford, Joey Shaw, Dwayne Estes and David H Webb

The product of twenty-five years of planning, research, and writing, Guide to the Vascular Plants of Tennessee is the most comprehensive, detailed, and up-to-date resource of its kind for the flora of the Volunteer State, home ...

Hybrid Flora of the British Isles

Clive Anthony Stace, Christopher D Preston and David A Pearman

Covering 909 hybrids, with identification notes and detailed accounts of their habitats, distribution and chromosome numbers, together with details on fertility or sterility. There are many distribution maps of the commoner hybrids in ...

Introduction to Horticultural Science

Richard N Arteca

Ideal for any introductory course in horticulture science, the Second Edition of Introduction to Horticultural Science covers everything your students need to know in a comprehensive format that is easy to understand.

Jambu da Amazonia - Acmella oleracea [(L.) R. K. Jansen]

Características Gerais, Cultivo Convencional, Organico e Hidroponico

Monica Trindade Abreu de Gusmao and Sergio Antonio Lopes de Gusmao

This publication aims to disseminate information about Acmella oleracea, a species of flowering herb in the family Asteraceae, based on results of studies coming from the productive sector and educational and research institutions ...

Legends of the Flowers

Janet Hepworth and WRH Johnson

Originally written in 1930 by Janet Hepworth, and illustrated throughout with delicate woodcuts by WRH Johnson. Our gardens are full of history and the story of flowers is a part of the story of mankind. Flowers are woven into ...

Liste Rouge des Lichens du Canton de Geneve

Mathias Vust, Philippe Clerc, Christine Habashi, Jean-Claude Mermilliod, Bertrand von Arx and Loiz

This new cantonal Red List, the result of collaboration between the Conservatory and Botanical Gardens of the City of Geneva (CJBG) and the Directorate General of Nature and Landscape of the State of Geneva (DGNP), completes the qualitative ...

L'Atlas de la Flore de Maine-et-Loire

Julien Geslin, Pascal Lacroix, Jean le Bail and Dominique Guyader

With this book, the National Botanical Conservatory of Brest and its partners offer a different perspective on a department already known for its important horticultural sector linked to its specialized production and research.

Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica: Volumen VIII

Dicotiledoneas (Sabiaceae - Zygophyllaceae) [MSB131]

Barry E Hammel, Michael H Grayum, Cecilia Herrera and Nelson Zamora

Solanaceae, with 180 species, is by far the largest family in Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica: Volumen VIII. Most of its species are herbs or shrubs, a few of them epiphytic or hemiepiphytic. The family contributes a great variety ...

Notre Flore Alpine

Un Guide Botanique pour Randonneurs et Alpinistes

Elias Landolt, David Aeschimann, Beat Baumler and Nathalie Rasolofo

Every walker and climber marvels at a flower meadow. And who has not been amazed by a small flower emerging from a crack in a rock, to direct its petals to the sun? But who can name them in the field without error? Who knows the plants ...

Orchidees de Tunisie

Roland Martin, Errol Vela and Ridha Ouni

This book is the result of the hard work of three orchidologists. They offer us a book accessible to non-specialists and informative to frequent travelers that are botanists. It is particularly welcome since few books on the North African ...

Palmeiras do Distrito Florestal sustentavel da BR-163

Guia de campo

Gleissiane Alves, Ana Luísa Kerti Mangabeira Albernaz and Maria Aparecida Lopes

Field guide to palms in this conservation area in the State of Para, Brazil.

Plant Behaviour & Intelligence

Anthony Trewavas

Plant Behaviour and Intelligence provides a convincing argument for the view that whole cells and whole plants growing in competitive wild conditions show aspects of plant behaviour that can be accurately described as ...

Plant Diseases and Their Management in Organic Agriculture

Maria R Finckh, Ariena HC van Bruggen, Lucius Tamm, Nicolas Lampkin and Sally Miller

Managing diseases in organic cropping systems is a major challenge to growers in every country who must meet rigorous restrictions. And depending on the crop and climatic region, organic production methods can vary greatly.

Plants and Vegetation of North-West Persian Gulf [English / Farsi]

The Coasts and Islands of Khore Musa, Mahshahr and Adjacent Areas

Hossein Akhani and Nafiseh Samadi

Plants and Vegetation of North-West Persian Gulf is a useful identification guide for the flora of South Iran, in particular Khuzestan Province and the countries surrounding the Persian Gulf. In the first chapter, the ...

Rescue of a Garden

Restoring a Lost Garden in Brundall, Norfolk

Janet Muter

Now, regularly open to the public, these impressive gardens are a tribute to the ceaseless work of Janet Muter. Over 60 000 people have visited, raising tens of thousands of pounds for charity. This lavishly illustrated book, recounting ...

The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants, Volume 13

Flowering Plants: Monocots - Poaceae

Elizabeth A Kellogg

The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants, Volume 13 is the outcome of a modern phylogenetic analysis of the grass family based on multiple sources of data, in particular molecular systematic studies resulting from a concerted ...

The Flora and Vegetation of Shropshire

Alex Lockton and Sarah Whild

The Flora and Vegetation of Shropshire is a remarkable new publication which describes the distribution and ecology of every one of the plants and types of vegetation types found wild in the county. It takes knowledge and understanding ...

Unsere Alpenflora

Elias Landolt, David Aeschimann, Beat Baumler and Nathalie Rasolofo

Every walker and climber marvels at a flower meadow. And who has not been amazed by a small flower emerging from a crack in a rock, to direct its petals to the sun? But who can name them in the field without error? Who knows the plants ...

Vascular Differentiation and Plant Growth Regulators

Lorin W Roberts, Peter B Gahan and Roni Aloni

The vascular tissue of higher plants has been an object of continuous detailed study since the invention of the light microscope. As relevant new physical, chemical and biochemical techniques and concepts have appeared over the years ...

Vegetal Politics

Belonging, Practices and Places

Lesley Head, Jennifer Atchison, Catherine Phillips and Kathleen Buckingham

Vegetal Politics was published as a special issue of Social and Economic Geography. Cultural geography has a long and proud tradition of research into human-plant relations. However, until recently, that ...

Wetland Plants of Townsville-Burdekin Flood Plain

Greg Calvert and Laurence Liessmann

Wetland Plants of Townsville-Burdekin Flood Plain meets the need for a wetland plant identification resource for North Queensland. This book has a strong focus on wetland plants found in Townsville-Burdekin region, particularly ...

What Have Plants Ever Done for Us?

Western Civilization in Fifty Plants

Stephen A Harris

When did the British Government become the world's largest drugs pusher? What tree is frequently used to treat cancer? Which everyday condiment is the most widely traded spice on the planet? Plants are an indispensable part of our ...

Wood-Rotting Non-Gilled Agaricomycetes of Himalayas

IB Prasher

The present volume by the author is based on the outcome of extensive explorations in the Himalayas for more than a decade. It incorporates the original research findings along with that based on literature survey. It is intended to provide ...

Circadian Rhythms and Biological Clocks, Part A

Amita Sehgal

Two new volumes of Methods in Enzymology continue the legacy of this premier serial with quality chapters authored by leaders in the field. Circadian Rhythms and Biological Clocks, Part A and ...

Circadian Rhythms and Biological Clocks, Part B

Amita Sehgal

Two new volumes of Methods in Enzymology continue the legacy of this premier serial with quality chapters authored by leaders in the field. Circadian Rhythms and Biological Clocks ...

Comparative Biology of the Normal Lung

Richard A Parent

Comparative Biology of the Normal Lung, 2nd edition, offers a rigorous and comprehensive reference for all those involved in pulmonary research. This fully updated work is divided into sections on anatomy and morphology, physiology ...

Evolutionary Developmental Biology of Invertebrates, Volume 2

Lophotrochozoa (Spiralia)

Andreas Wanninger

This multi-author, six-volume work summarizes our current knowledge on the developmental biology of all major invertebrate animal phyla. The main aspects of cleavage, embryogenesis, organogenesis and gene expression are discussed in an ...

Free Radicals in Biology and Medicine

Barry Halliwell and John MC Gutteridge

Free Radicals in Biology and Medicine has become a classic text in the field of free radical and antioxidant research. Now in its fifth edition, Free Radicals in Biology and Medicine has been comprehensively rewritten ...

Improving Animal Welfare

Temple Grandin

By taking an entirely practical approach, Improving Animal Welfare aims to help those working with animals to apply methods for improving welfare, bridging the gap between scientific research and practical application.

Microbial Life of Cave Systems

Annette Summers Engel

The earth's subsurface contains abundant and active microbial biomass, living in water, occupying pore space, and colonizing mineral and rock surfaces. Caves are one type of subsurface habitat, being natural, solutionally ...

Molecular Evolution and Population Genetics for Marine Biologists

Yuri Kartavtsev and MS Johnson

Research in modern experimental and theoretical population genetics has been strengthened by advances in molecular techniques for the analysis of genetic variability. The evolutionary relationships of organisms may be investigated by ...

Moonstruck: How Lunar Cycles Affect Life

Ernest Naylor

Throughout history, the influence of the full Moon on humans and animals has featured in folklore and myths. Yet it has become increasingly apparent that many organisms really are influenced indirectly, and in some cases directly, by the ...

Radiology of Australian Mammals

Larry Vogelnest and Graeme Allan

Interest in the conservation and welfare of Australian native wildlife continues to grow. Veterinarians are frequently presented with injured, diseased or orphaned animals and there is increasing veterinary involvement in conservation ...

Social Behaviour in Animals

With Special Reference to Vertebrates

Niko Tinbergen

Originally published in 1953, this is a classic study in animal behaviour, drawing on the author's own extraordinary studies of insects, fish, and birds, as well as on the literature. The concept 'community' is taken in its ...

Social Recognition in Invertebrates

The Knowns and the Unknowns

Laura Aquiloni, Elena Tricarico, M Vannini and R Elwood

Social Recognition in Invertebrates uses a wide range of case studies from different invertebrate taxa to describe the numerous forms of social recognition occurring in this large group of animals, and traces the evolution of the ...

The Design of Mammals

A Scaling Approach

John William Prothero

Despite an astonishing 100 million-fold range in adult body mass from bumblebee bat to blue whale, all mammals are formed of the same kinds of molecules, cells, tissues and organs and to the same overall body plan. A scaling approach ...

The Neuron

Cell and Molecular Biology

Irwin B Levitan and Leonard K Kaczmarek

The Fourth Edition of The Neuron: Cell and Molecular Biology provides a comprehensive first course in the cell and molecular biology of nerve cells. The book begins with properties of the many newly discovered ion channels that ...

Voices of the Wild

Animal Songs, Human Din, and the Call to Save a Natural Soundscape

Bernie Krause

Since 1968, Bernie Krause has traveled the world making sound recordings of more than 15 000 species through his organization Wild Sanctuary. In his previous book ...

David Attenborough's Conquest of the Skies (Region 2)

Sir David Attenborough

David Attenborough embarks on an extraordinary journey to unravel one of nature's most gripping stories the evolution of flying animals. The power of flight is one of the greatest miracles of nature. Over one hundred billion creatures ...

David Attenborough's Conquest of the Skies 3D (Region B)

Sir David Attenborough

David Attenborough embarks on an extraordinary journey to unravel one of nature's most gripping stories the evolution of flying animals. The power of flight is one of the greatest miracles of nature. Over one hundred billion creatures ...

Evolution of External Genital Development

MB Renfree and M Schmid

Special Topic Issue: Sexual Development 2015, Vol. 9, No. 1. Providing new insights into the developmental mechanisms involved in the evolution of external genitals, the articles in this special issue provide a comparative ...

Morphodynamics

Adolf Seilacher and Alan D Gishlick

Morphodynamics is defined as the unique interaction among environment, functional morphology, developmental constraints, phylogeny, and time – all of which shape the evolution of life. These fabricational patterns and ...

Mutualism

Judith L Bronstein

Mutualisms, interactions between two species that benefit both of them, have long captured the public imagination. Their influence transcends levels of biological organization from cells to populations, communities, and ecosystems.

Population Wars

A New Perspective on Competition and Coexistence

Greg Graffin and Caroline Greeven

From the very beginning, life on Earth has been defined by war. Today, those first wars continue to be fought around and literally inside us, influencing our individual behavior and that of civilization as a whole. War between populations ...

The Aesthetic Brain

How We Evolved to Desire Beauty and Enjoy Art

Anjan Chatterjee

The Aesthetic Brain takes the reader on a wide-ranging journey through the world of beauty, pleasure, and art. Chatterjee uses neuroscience to probe how an aesthetic sense is etched in our minds and evolutionary psychology to ...

The Evolution of Sex Determination

Leo W Beukeboom and Nicolas Perrin

Sexual reproduction is a fundamental aspect of life. It is defined by the occurrence of meiosis and the fusion of two gametes of different sexes or mating types. Sex-determination mechanisms are responsible for the sexual fate and development ...

The Improbable Primate

How Water Shaped Human Evolution

Clive Finlayson

Taking an ecological approach to our evolution, Clive Finlayson considers the origins of modern humans within the context of a drying climate and changing landscapes. Finlayson argues that environmental change, particularly availability ...

The Species Problem

A Philosophical Analysis

Richard A Richards

There is long-standing disagreement among systematists about how to divide biodiversity into species. Over twenty different species concepts are used to group organisms, according to criteria as diverse as morphological or molecular ...

We Are Our Brains

From the Womb to Alzheimer's

Dick F Swaab and Jane Hedley-Prole

Based groundbreaking new research, We Are Our Brains is a sweeping biography of the human brain, from infancy to adulthood to old age. Renowned neuroscientist D. F. Swaab takes us on a guided tour of the intricate inner workings ...

Biodiversity and Earth History

Jens Boenigk, Sabina Wodniok and Edvard Glucksman

This uniquely interdisciplinary textbook explores the exciting and complex relationship between Earth's geological history and the biodiversity of life. Its innovative design provides a seamless learning experience, clarifying major ...

Organism and Environment

Ecological Development, Niche Construction, and Adaptation

Sonia E Sultan

This is an advanced text discussing ecological development (eco-devo) set in the context of natural environments. It emphasizes the niche construction, population biology, and ecological community dimensions of ecological development.

Biodiversity of Semi-Arid Landscape

Baseline Study for Understanding the Impact of Human Development on Ecosystems

Sunil Nautiyal, Katari Bhaskar and YD Imran Khan

This study presents authentic data compiled from field experiments and investigations, and provides a point of reference for any future changes associated with anthropogenic activity in semi-arid ecosystems. Three years of continuous and ...

Boreal and Temperate Trees in a Changing Climate

Modelling the Ecophysiology of Seasonality

Heikki Hanninen

Boreal and temperate tree species are adapted to the seasonally varying climatic conditions with their annual cycle of development. The reason is that the frost hardy dormant phase and the susceptible growth phase are synchronized with ...

Carbon Accounting and Savanna Fire Management

Brett Murphy, Andrew Edwards, Mick Meyer and Jeremy Russell-Smith

In the context of Australia's developing carbon economy, fire management helps to abate emissions of greenhouse gases and is an important means of generating carbon credits. The vast high-rainfall savannas of northern Australia are ...

Controlling Tropical Deforestation

Alan Grainger

Reprint of a book originally published in 1992. Tropical rain forest is being cleared so rapidly and on such a scale that it is a major global environmental problem, threatening the survival of half of the world's plant and ...

Forest Plans of North America

Jacek P Siry, Pete Bettinger, Krista Merry, Donald L Grebner, Kevin Boston and Chris Cieszewski

Forest Plans of North America presents case studies of contemporary forest management plans developed for forests owned by federal, state, county, and municipal governments, communities, families, individuals, industry, investment ...

Land of Sweeping Plains

Managing and Restoring the Native Grasslands of South-Eastern Australia

Nicholas Williams, Adrian Marshall and John A Morgan

Native temperate grasslands are Australia's most threatened ecosystems. Grasslands have been eliminated from across much of their former extent and continue to be threatened by urban expansion, agricultural intensification, weed invasion ...

Lochnagar: The Natural History of a Mountain Lake

The Natural History of a Mountain Lake

Neil L Rose

The remote mountain loch of Lochnagar is one of the most studied freshwater bodies in Europe. It is an area of outstanding, although harsh, natural beauty, a favourite destination for hill-walkers and a rare UK habitat for many alpine ...

Money Trees

The Douglas Fir and American Forestry, 1900-1944

Emily K Brock

Money Trees is an interdisciplinary history of the crucial decades that shaped the modern American conception of the value of the forest. It begins with early 20th century environmental changes in the Douglas Fir forests of the ...

Plantation Politics

Forest Plantations in Development

Caroline Sargent and Stephen Bass

Originally published in 1992. Plantations are playing an increasingly important part in the development and the economies of the South. Plantation Politics is the first book to examine their rationale and purpose ...

Restoration of Boreal and Temperate Forests

John A Stanturf

This substantially updated new edition reflects the growing recognition that large areas of forests are degraded globally. This edition describes forest restoration in the context of rapid social, economic, environmental, and climate change ...

The Drama of Conservation

The History of Pureora Forest, New Zealand

Carolyn M King

The Drama of Conservation offers a sweeping history of Pureora Forest Park, one of the most significant sites of natural and cultural history interest in New Zealand. The authors review the geological history of the ...

The Science of Open Spaces

Theory and Practice for Conserving Large, Complex Systems

Charles G Curtin

From the days of the American Frontier, the term "open spaces" has evoked a vision of unspoiled landscapes stretching endlessly toward the horizon, of nature operating on its own terms without significant human interference.

The Threatening Desert

Controlling Desertification

Alan Grainger

Reprint of a book originally published in 1990. Lands lost to desert may effectively be lost for ever, so desertification is humanity's most obvious despoliation to the planet. It is certainly one of the most serious environmental ...

Toward a Natural Forest

The Forest Service in Transition (A Memoir)

Jim Furnish and Char Miller

Jim Furnish joined the U.S. Forest Service in 1965, enthusiastic and naive, proud to be part of such a storied and accomplished agency. Nothing could have prepared him for the crisis that would soon rock the agency to its foundation ...

Biodiversity Hotspots

Distribution and Protection of Conservation Priority Areas

Frank E Zachos and Jan Christian Habel

Biodiversity and its conservation are among the main global topics in science and politics and perhaps the major challenge for the present and coming generations. Biodiversity Hotspots written by international experts from different ...

Cocoa and Chocolate

A Short History of Their Production

Walter Baker & Co.

A facsimile edition of a book originally published in 1886. Cocoa and Chocolate is a short story of the production and use of chocolate and cocoa, with a full and particular account of their properties, and of the various methods ...

Conservation Education and Outreach Techniques

Susan K Jacobson, Mallory D McDuff and Martha C Monroe

The conservation of biological diversity depends on people's knowledge and actions. Conservation Education and Outreach Techniques presents the theory and practice for creating effective education and outreach programmes for ...

Inglorious: Conflict in the Uplands

Mark Avery and Chris Packham

Driven grouse shooting, where flocks of Red Grouse are chased by lines of beaters so that they fly over lines of 'guns' that shoot the fast-flying birds, is a peculiarly British fieldsport. It is also peculiarly British in that ...

Polar Bears on the Edge

Heading for Extinction while Management Fails

Morten Jorgensen

Polar bears are threatened from many sides. Most people think that the only really big problem they face are the effects of climate change. This myth is being perpetuated by almost all the persons and institutions who have a say in polar ...

Policing Wildlife

Perspectives on the Enforcement of Wildlife Legislation

Angus Nurse

Wildlife crime is a fringe area of criminal justice, despite its importance as one of the highest value areas of global crime and its long term effects on ecosystems. Policing Wildlife examines the enforcement of wildlife law ...

Relict Species

Phylogeography and Conservation Biology

Jan Christian Habel and Thorsten Assmann

Relict Species provides an overview of the importance of research on relict species and presents conclusions and findings on the conservation of these species. There are relict species and populations from nearly all plant and ...

Securing Wilderness Landscapes in South Africa

Nick Steele, Private Wildlife Conservancies and Saving Rhinos

Harry Wels

Private wildlife conservation is booming business in South Africa! Nick Steele stood at the cradle of this development in the politically turbulent 1970s and 1980s, by stimulating farmers in Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) to pool resources in ...

The Predator Paradox

Ending the War with Wolves, Bears, Cougars, and Coyotes

John A Shivik

The longest armed conflict carried out by the United States government, beginning in 1914, is our war with mammalian predators. The death toll is tremendous: federal agents kill ninety thousand wolves, bears, coyotes, and cougars every ...

Wildlife Habitat Management

Concepts and Applications in Forestry

Brenda C McComb

Balancing species-specific management with biodiversity conservation concerns, Wildlife Habitat Management integrates silvicultural and forest planning techniques with principles of habitat ecology and conservation biology.

Assessment of Climate Change for the Baltic Sea Basin

The BACC Author Team

Assessment of Climate Change for the Baltic Sea Basin offers an up-to-date overview of the latest scientific findings in regional climate research on the Baltic Sea basin. This includes climate changes in the recent past ...

Fatal Isolation

The Devastating Paris Heat Wave of 2003

Richard C Keller

In a cemetery on the southern outskirts of Paris lie the bodies of nearly a hundred of what some have called the first casualties of global climate change. They were the so-called abandoned victims of the worst natural disaster in French ...

Fluorine: Chemistry, Analysis, Function and Effects

Victor R Preedy

Fluorine is best known for its role in the prevention of cavities and in improving oral and bone health however equally there are millions of people around the world suffering from dental fluorosis due to chronic exposure to high levels ...

Mining in Ecologically Sensitive Landscapes

Mark Tibbett

Mining in Ecologically Sensitive Landscapes explores the interface between geology and botany, and mining and conservation. Many areas of unusual geology that contain ore-bearing bodies also support unique ecological communities ...

Responding to a Changing Arctic

Report of Session 2014-15

House of Lords - Select Committee on the Arctic

The Arctic is changing. Temperatures in the region are increasing at twice the global average, causing a range of physical and environmental changes. Sea ice is thinning and receding, although the pattern of change is variable, while ...

Responses of Fruit Trees to Global Climate Change

Fernando Ramírez and Jose Kallarackal

Global climate change is expected to produce increased carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere, higher temperatures, aberrant precipitation patterns and a host of other climatic changes that would affect all life on this planet.

Slick Water

Fracking and One Insider's Stand Against the World's Most Powerful Industry

Andrew Nikiforuk

The fossil fuel industry and many environmental groups tout hydraulic fracturing – "fracking" – as a panacea, with slick promises of energy independence, greenhouse gas reductions, and benefits to local economies.

The Optimistic Environmentalist

Progressing Toward a Greener Future

David R Boyd

Yes, the world faces substantial environmental challenges – climate change, pollution, and extinction. But the surprisingly good news is that we have solutions to these problems. In the past fifty years, a remarkable number of ...

Active Volcanoes of Chiapas (Mexico): El Chichon and Tacana

Teresa Scolamacchia and Jose Luis Macías

Active Volcanoes of Chiapas (Mexico): El Chichón and Tacaná summarizes the studies carried out at two of the most active volcanoes of Chiapas (Mexico): El Chichón and Tacaná. El Chichón erupted ...

Berliner Hoehlenkundliche Berichte, Volume 57: Malaysian Cave Bibliography (up to 2014)

Liz Price

This bibliography covers the whole of Malaysia, i.e. Peninsula, Sabah and Sarawak, and contains almost 5 200 entries on Malaysian caves and karst, dating from the 1700s to 2014. In addition there is an extensive newspaper biblio covering ...

Berliner Hoehlenkundliche Berichte, Volume 58: Bulgarian Speleological Studies in Albania 1991-2013

Alexey K Zhalov

Beside scientific studies on the geosettings, tectonics, cave climatology, and biospeleology as well as an overview about the history of cave exploration in Albania this volume presents the 52 most important caves of the Albanian Alps.

Dynamics of the Earth

Theory of Planet Motion Based on Dynamic Equilibrium

VI Ferronsky and SV Ferronsky

In their search for solutions to problems concerning the dynamics of the Earth as a self-gravitating body, the authors have applied the fundamentals found in their book "Jacobi Dynamics" (1987, Reidel). First, satellite observations ...

Forming Backgrounds of Earthquake-Induced Geohazards in the Eastern Marginal Zone of the Tibetan Plateau [English / Chin

Zhang Yongshuang

Based on a comprehensive study of earlier data and a large number of geological field surveys, this book uses maps and photos to form a realistic picture of the terrain of the eastern Tibetan plateau and shows a rapid change as a result ...

Galaxy: Mapping the Cosmos

James Geach

The numbers involved when it comes to discussing stars, galaxies and the inconceivably vast tracts of empty space between them are staggering. With hundreds of billions of galaxies in the observable universe, all of varying shapes, sizes ...

Geology Underfoot in Western Washington

David Tucker

Ancient volcanoes preserved as deeply eroded scraps. Seafloors forced high into the sky. Fossils of a long-extinct, 385-pound flightless bird that roamed subtropical floodplains. From the crest of the Cascades to the Pacific, and from the ...

Jadite: Identification & Price Guide

Joe Keller and David Ross

When Joe Keller and David Ross introduced the first book ever written dedicated to jadite, it was met with critical and popular enthusiasm. It was a tour de force! Now this fourth edition, there are over a thousand pieces illustrated in ...

Limnology and Palaeolimnology of Mongolia [Russian]

YY Dgebuadze

A compendium of the geology as well as fresh- and brackish-water biota of Mongolia, both fossil and recent.

Mineral Treasures of the Ozarks

Bruce L Stinchcomb

The Ozarks highland region of the Midwest, located in southern Missouri and northern Arkansas, contains beautiful mineral specimens for those with sharp eyes and a keen interest to discover minerals. Over 500 images represent the collections ...

Monkeys, Myths and Molecules

Separating Fact from Fiction in the Science of Everyday Life

Joe Schwarcz

The internet is a powerful beast when it comes to science; the answer to any query you may have is just a few keystrokes away. But when there are multiple answers from various sources, how do we know what information is reliable?

NASA Gemini Owners' Workshop Manual

1965 - 1966 (All Missions, All Models)

W David Woods and David M Harland

NASA's Gemini space flight programme followed on from the pioneering Mercury missions which put the first US astronauts into space. The Gemini spacecraft was an agile flying machine for fighter pilots, which gave the US the tool it ...

New Space Frontiers

Venturing into Earth Orbit and Beyond

Piers Bizony

It is easy to imagine that the space shuttle's retirement has edged the Space Age toward closure, at least in terms of human flight beyond the bounds of earth. In fact, there are more people-carrying ships being constructed now than ...

Origins: The Scientific Story of Creation

Jim Baggott

What is the nature of the material world? How does it work? What is the universe and how was it formed? What is life? Where do we come from and how did we evolve? How and why do we think? What does it mean to be human? How do we know?

Poas Volcano

The Pulsing Heart of Central America Volcanic Zone

Franco Tassi, Orlando Vaselli and Raul Mora-Amador

Poás Volcano: The Pulsing Heart of Central America Volcanic Zone provides a comprehensive description of the volcanological, petrological and geochemical features of the Poás Volcano (Costa Rica), one of the most ...

Rivers - Physical, Fluvial and Environmental Processes

Pawel Rowinski and Artur Radecki-Pawlik

Rivers – Physical, Fluvial and Environmental Processes describes the domain of research and investigation of physical, chemical and biological attributes of flowing water, and it deals with a cross-disciplinary field of ...

Rocks, Gems, and Minerals

Garret H Romaine

Rocks, Gems, and Minerals is a field guide to more than 100 of the most common and sought-after rocks, gems, and minerals hidden throughout North America. Conveniently sized to fit in your pocket and featuring full-color, detailed ...

Stratigraphy and Paleolimnology of the Green River Formation, Western USA

Michael Elliot Smith and Alan R Carroll

Stratigraphy and Paleolimnology of the Green River Formation, Western USA presents a suite of detailed stratigraphic and sedimentologic investigations of the Eocene Green River Formation of Wyoming, Colorado and Utah, one of the ...

Studies of Historical Earthquakes in Southern Poland

Outer Western Carpathian Earthquake of December 3, 1786, and First Macroseismic Maps in 1858-1901

Barbara Guterch and Jan Kozak

Studies of Historical Earthquakes in Southern Poland examines old and new data on some of the 18th and 19th century earthquakes that either occurred or were clearly felt in southern regions of Poland. Particular emphasis is put ...

The Central Asian Orogenic Belt

Alfred Kroener

This volume provides a state-of-the-art account of the geology of part of Central Asia named The Central Asian Orogenic Belt (CAOB). This Belt formed by accretion of island arcs, ophiolites, oceanic islands, seamounts, accretionary wedge ...

The Earth's Heterogeneous Mantle

A Geophysical, Geodynamical, and Geochemical Perspective

Amir Khan and Frederic Deschamps

The Earth's Heterogeneous Mantle highlights and discusses recent developments that have contributed to an improved understanding of observed mantle heterogeneities and their relation to the thermo-chemical state of ...

The Geology of the Arctic

Uwe Kroner

The Geology of the Arctic offers a concise overview of the geology of the Arctic as a whole. It addresses the task of describing the evolution of both continental and oceanic crust. The Geology of the Arctic presents a ...

The Universe in Your Hand

A Journey Through Space, Time and Beyond

Christophe Galfard

Internationally renowned physicist Christophe Galfard takes us on a wonder-filled journey through the past, present and future of the universe – a journey into scientific fact. The Universe in Your Hand is a popular science ...

Volcan De Colima

Managing the Threat

Nick Varley and Jean-Christophe Komorowski

Volcán de Colima is an important volcano: it has frequent large Plinian or sub-Plinian eruptions; its activity frequently switches between various regimes, which provides the opportunity to study these transitions from their causes ...

A Field Philosophers Guide to Fracking

How One Texas Town Stood Up to Big Oil and Gas

Adam Briggle

When philosophy professor Adam Briggle moved to Denton, Texas, he had never heard of fracking. Less than three years later he would successfully lead a citizens' initiative to ban hydraulic fracturing in Denton – the first Texas ...

Asking the Earth

Farms, Forestry and Survival in India

Winin Pereira and Jeremy Seabrook

Originally published in 1991. The need to produce food without the destructive chemical horrors of much modern farming, for an intelligent use of dwindling natural resources and for humane forms of production is universal, the ...

Big World, Small Planet

Abundance Within Planetary Boundaries

Johan Rockstrom, Mattias Klum and Peter Miller

"Abundance within planetary boundaries requires a deep mind-shift. Not growth without limits. Not limits to growth, but growth within limits." We've entered the Anthropocene the era of massive human impacts on Earth which ...

Eco-Business: A Big-Brand Takeover of Sustainability

Peter Dauvergne and Jane Lister

McDonalds promises to use only beef, coffee, fish, chicken, and cooking oil obtained from sustainable sources. Coca-Cola promises to achieve water neutrality. Unilever has set a deadline of 2020 to reach 100 percent sustainable agriculture ...

Groundswell: The Case for Fracking

Ezra Levant

In Groundswell, Ezra Levant examines the fracking revolution. With natural gas in abundance, prices fall and the stranglehold by energy companies like Russia's Gazprom loosens. OPEC, environmentalists, and communities through ...

Marine Fishes in India

Their Importance in Health & Nutrition

Kajal Chakraborty, KK Vijayan, P Vijayagopal, BP Mohanty and G Syda Rao

From the foreword: "Marine Fishes in India provides valuable information on the nutritional significance of marine fish consumption to human health. The biochemistry of the various nutritional elements along with ...

Natural Resources and Conflict in Africa

The Tragedy of Endowment

Abiodun Alao

Conflict over natural resources has made Africa the focus of international attention, particularly during the last decade. From oil in Nigeria and diamonds in the Democratic Republic of Congo, to land in Zimbabwe and water in the Horn of Africa ...

Naturalizing Heidegger

His Confrontation with Nietzsche, His Contributions to Environmental Philosophy

David E Storey

In Naturalizing Heidegger, David E. Storey proposes a new interpretation of Heidegger's importance for environmental philosophy, finding in the development of his thought from the early 1920s to his later work in the 1940s ...

No Timber Without Trees

Sustainability in the Tropical Forest

Duncan Poore and BCY Freezailah

Originally published in 1989. Much of the world's tropical timber is still supplied from natural forest, but under current systems of management the forests are rapidly becoming exhausted. Unless management practices change ...

Plastic-Free: How I Kicked the Plastic Habit and How You Can Too

Beth Terry

Like many people, Beth Terry didn't think an individual could have much impact on the environment, until she read an article the oceans filling with plastic while she was recovering from a surgery. She decided that day to kick her plastic ...

Progress in Marine Conservation in Europe

NATURA 2000 Sites in German Offshore Waters

Henning von Nordheim, Dieter Boedeker and Jochen C Krause

Progress in Marine Conservation in Europe offers insight in the identification and selection procedure of marine protected areas in the German exclusive economic zones (EEZs) of the North – and Baltic Seas.

Saving the Seed

Genetic Diversity and European Agriculture

Renee Vellve and Jaap Hardon

Originally published in 1992. Genetic diversity is essential to the security of agriculture. Without the availability of a wide range of plant varieties and the genetic resources they contain, crops cannot adapt to combat the ...

Shale Gas and Fracking

The Science Behind the Controversy

Michael Stephenson

Shale Gas and Fracking: The Science Behind the Controversy explains the relevant geological principles before examining the peer-reviewed evidence and presenting it through a simple and compelling illustrated narrative.

The Anthropocene Project

Virtue in the Age of Climate Change

Byron Williston

The recent Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change suggested that continuing inaction on climate change presents a significant threat to social stability. IPCC chairman Rajendra Pachauri put the ...

The Renewable Energy Home Handbook

Lindsay Porter

The Renewable Energy Home Handbook is biased towards the practical, and covers the installation of all leading types of alternative domestic energy sources – from ground- and air-source heat pumps, PV solar electricity ...

The UK Pesticide Guide 2015

Martin A Lainsbury

The UK Pesticide Guide is the most authoritative source of information on pesticides and adjuvants for UK agriculture, horticulture, forestry and amenity use. Edited by a leading authority in the field, this new edition is thoroughly updated ...

What is This Thing Called Science?

Alan F Chalmers

A brand new edition of an internationally renowned science bestseller Now well into its fourth decade, What is This Thing Called Science? has become something of a classic the world over, available in nineteen languages.

Field Methods in Marine Science

From Measurements to Models

Scott Milroy

Field Methods in Marine Science: From Measurements to Models is an authoritative guide of the methods most appropriate for field research within the marine sciences, from experimental design to data analysis. Written for upper-level ...

Using R at the Bench

Step-By-Step Data Analytics for Biologists

Martina Bremer and Rebecca W Doerge

Using R at the Bench: Step-by-Step Data Analytics for Biologists is a convenient bench-side handbook for biologists, designed as a handy reference guide for elementary and intermediate statistical analyses using the free/public ...

Oxford Handbook of Expedition and Wilderness Medicine

Chris Johnson, Sarah R Anderson, Jon Dallimore, Shane Winser, David A Warrell, Chris Imray and Moor

Revised for its second edition to include the latest national and international guidelines, the Oxford Handbook of Expedition and Wilderness Medicine continues to be the essential resource for expedition medics and all well-informed ...

Saunders Comprehensive Veterinary Dictionary

Virginia Studdert, Clive Gay and Douglas Blood

The new edition of Blood's classic Comprehensive Veterinary Dictionary has been completely redesigned, revised and updated for today's veterinary team. Now with a wide range of superb full-colour illustrations, well over ...