Antelope Conservation

From Diagnosis to Action

Jakob Bro-Jorgensen, David Mallon and Richard Despard Estes

First global comprehensive review of this ecologically diverse set of species - Conservation of antelopes who serve as prey is critical to ensure conservation of corresponding predator species - Ecological diverity of these ...

Because They Needed Me

The Incredible Story of Rita Miljo, and of Her Struggle to Save the Orphaned Baboons of South Africa

W Michael Blumenthal and Rita Miljo

In May of 2007, noted American poet and novelist and son of Holocaust refugees Michael Blumenthal went to South Africa to volunteer at C.A.R.E., a rehabilitation center for orphaned and injured baboons founded by Rita Miljo.

Conservation Biology of Small Cetaceans

Perspectives from Whaling and Research in Japan

Toshio Kasuya and William Perrin

Conservation Biology of Small Cetaceans summarizes and analyzes the biology, ecology, exploitation and management of small cetaceans in Japan. It describes the various types of cetacean fisheries in Japan and their historical ...

Coyote America

A Natural and Supernatural History

Dan E Flores

With its uncanny night howls, unrivaled ingenuity, and amazing resilience, the coyote is the stuff of legends. In Indian folktales it often appears as a deceptive trickster or a sly genius. But legends don't come close to capturing ...

Elephant House

Dick Blau, Nigel Rothfels and Mike Keele

In Elephant House, photographer Dick Blau and historian Nigel Rothfels offer a thought-provoking study of the Oregon Zoo's Asian Elephant Building and the daily routines of its residents – human and pachyderm alike.

Evolution of Gibbons and Siamang

Phylogeny, Morphology, and Cognition

Ulrich H Reichard, Hirai Hirohisa and Claudia Barelli

Evolution of Gibbons and Siamang provides insight into gibbon diet and community ecology, the mating system and reproduction, and conservation biology, all topics which represent areas of substantial progress in understanding ...

How the Camel Got Its Hump

John Hare

This book describes in question and answer format the evolution of the wild camel and the other members of the camelid family such as the Llama, Alpaca, Quanaco and Vicuña. It highlights the unique properties of camelids and especially ...

Marine Mammal Conservation and the Law of the Sea

Cameron SG Jefferies and John Norton Moore

Marine mammal conservation remains a hot-button international environmental issue, but progress towards addressing key conservation and management issues within existing governance structures-most notably the International Whaling Commission ...

Predator-Prey Interactions

Co-Evolution Between Bats and Their Prey

David Steve Jacobs and Anna Che Bastian

Predator-Prey Interactions provides a comprehensive review of the evolution of traits associated with predation and predator defense for bats and all of their prey, both invertebrates (e.g. insects) and vertebrates (e.g. frogs) ...

Primate Behavioral Ecology

Karen B Strier

This comprehensive introductory text integrates evolutionary, ecological, and demographic perspectives with contemporary noninvasive molecular and hormonal techniques to understand how different primates behave and the significance of ...

Sociality in Bats

Jorge Ortega Reyes

Sociality in Bats provides new insights into the social behavior of bats – one of the most fascinating topics currently being pursued by researchers. After an introduction reviewing the history of research in bat behavioral ...

The Age of the Horse

A History of Humans and Horses

Susanna Forrest

Man has always been fascinated by Equus caballus, recasting horse power into many forms: a hunk of meat, an industrial and agricultural machine, a luxury good, a cherished dancer, a comrade in arms and a symbol of a mythical past ...

The Dartmoor Pony

Tracey Elliot-Reep

Dartmoor covers an area of 368 square miles (954 km²), making it the largest and wildest area of open country  in the south west of England. Ponies have roamed Dartmoor for thousands of years and are an integral part of ...

The Fox Book

Jane Russ

The Fox Book, with its stunning photogography and fascinating facts, is a must-have for all fox lovers, featuring details of the life cycle and the differences between the rural fox and the urban fox. Just as in the best-selling ...

The King of the Gobi

The Story of the Wild Bactrian Camel

John Hare, Arnulf Muller-Helmbrecht, Yuan Guoying and Yuan Lei

The story, in simple English, of the critically endangered wild camel, its unique properties and its struggle for survival in the inhospitable and frequently waterless Gobi Desert in China and Mongolia. Lavishly illustrated with stunning ...

The Meaning of Horses

Biosocial Encounters

Dona Lee Davis and Anita Maurstad

The Meaning of Horses: Biosocial Encounters examines some of the engagements or entanglements that link the lived experiences of human and non-human animals. The contributors discuss horse-human relationships in multiple contexts ...

The Water Vole Mitigation Handbook

Mike Dean, Rob Strachan, Derek Gow, Richard M Andrews, Fiona Mathews and Paul RF Chanin

The Water Vole Mitigation Handbook, endorsed by the Water Vole Steering Group and CIEEM, provides the latest guidance on mitigating the effects of development on water voles. The first in a new series of practitioner guidance from ...

The Wild Camel Breeding Centre in Mongolia

John Hare

The breeding centre for wild camels at Zakhyn Us in Mongolia is the only place in the world where the wild camel breeds in captivity. This book describes in a question and answer format the history and successful development of the centre ...

Whales and Elephants in International Conservation Law and Politics

A Comparative Study

Ed Couzens

Whales and elephants are iconic giants of the marine and terrestrial animal world. Both are conspicuous representatives of wildlife conservation. The issues of whaling and the ivory trade are closely linked, both legally and politically ...

Whales' Bones of Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands

Nicholas Redman

This book is a record of the whale bone monuments in Australia, including Norfolk Island, New Zealand, including Chatham Island and Stewart Island, and on the Pacific islands – Fiji, Hawaii, Solomon Islands and Tonga.

Why the Wild Camel is Critically Endangered

John Hare

This informative reader contains details of all the current threats to the critically endangered wild camel in China and Mongolia. Lavishly illustrated with dramatic photographs it is written in a question and answer format and is suitable ...

A Field Guide to the Birds of Korea

Woo-Shin Lee, Tae-Hoe Koo, Jin-Young Park, Takashi Taniguchi, Chan-Yong Choi, Han-Kyu Kim and Allen

A magnificent field guide, the first covering the whole of the Korean peninsula. The illustrations (depicting all species recorded in the Peninsula up to June 2014) are superb, with species descriptions and maps given on facing pages.

Atlas Ptaku Ceske a Slovenske Republiky [Bird Atlas of the Czech and Slovak Republics]

Jan Dungel and Karel Hudec

This is a full-colour guide to identifying birds nesting or frequently seen in the Czech and Slovak republics. A total of 118 colour pictures show over 400 bird species. The text contains information on individual species covering ...

Birds of Montana

Jeffrey S Marks, Paul Hendricks and Daniel Casey

Birds of Montana is the first comprehensive reference on the state's birds since Saunders published A Distributional List of the Birds of Montana in 1921, and it is the only work that provides a thorough review of ...

Birds: A Complete Guide to Their Biology and Behaviour

Jonathan Elphick

Explore the wonders of the avian world with this comprehensive and fully illustrated guide to every aspect of bird life. Highly respected ornithologist and wildlife expert, Jonathan Elphick, begins by defining the distinguishing features ...

Cranes, Herons & Egrets

The Elegance of Our Tallest Birds

Stan Tekiela

When you imagine these graceful, elegant birds, perhaps you picture them in shallow water, standing on one leg, waiting for fish – but there's much more to these cultural touchstones. Award-winning photographer Stan Tekiela takes ...

Discover Shetland's Birds

A Photographic Guide to Shetland's Breeding, Wintering and Migrant Birds

Paul Harvey, Rebecca Nason and Jimmy Moncrieff

A stunning and informative guide to the birds people can expect to see in Shetland. Paul Harvey is a resident expert on Shetland birds, and Rebecca's Nason's photography is second to none. Shetland is well placed to ...

Falcon

Helen Macdonald

The fastest animal alive, the falcon deserves attention not just for the combination of speed, power, beauty and ferocity that has made it an object of fascination for thousands of years, but for the light it sheds on the cultures through ...

Field Guide to Birds of the West Indies

Taryn Simon

In 1936, an American ornithologist named James Bond published the definitive taxonomy Birds of the West Indies. Ian Fleming, an active bird-watcher living in Jamaica, appropriated the name for his novel's lead character.

Finding Birds on the Great Texas Coastal Birding Trail

Houston, Galveston, and the Upper Texas Coast

Jr.,Ted Lee Eubanks, Robert A Behrstock and Seth Davidson

The Texas coast offers rich avian treasures for expert birders and beginners alike, if only they know where to look. For those familiar with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department's maps to the Great Texas Coastal Birding Trail ...

Game Drive Birds of Southern Africa

Philip van den Berg

A must-have book for bird lovers everywhere! Game Drive Birds of Southern Africa is designed to be rewarding to birdwatchers around the world, while being particularly useful to visitors to southern Africa. While not a comprehensive ...

History Of Ornithology In Malta

Joe Sultana and John J Borg

Despite their small size, the Maltese Islands have a rich history that spans 7000 years. For centuries, their strategic location in the heart of the Mediterranean Sea was coveted by successive powers as a base for control and expansion.

Hummingbirds: A Life-Size Guide to Every Species

A Life-Size Guide to Every Species

Michael Fogden, Marianne Taylor, Sheri L Williamson and Chris Packham

Hummingbirds have always held popular appeal, with their visual brilliance, extraordinary flight dexterity, and jewel-like size and colour. But it is almost as if their beauty has blinded us to their importance. Only recently has their ...

Looking for the Ivory-Billed-Woodpecker in Eastern Cuba

Alberto R Estrada

The author tells how he was involved in a project to find a bird almost extinct, the Ivory-billed Woodpecker. That situation gave him the opportunity to participate, between 1985 and 1993, in a series of scientific expeditions to the region ...

Malabar Ornithological Survey, 2010-2011

C Sashikumar, CK Vishnudas, S Raju, PA Vinayan, VA Shebin and Bransdon S Corrie

From the preface: "Dr. Sálim Ali conducted an extensive bird survey in the Travancore and Cochin Princely states of Kerala in 1933. Based on this survey, he wrote a book named Birds of Travancore and Cochin ...

Nests, Eggs, & Incubation

New Ideas About Avian Reproduction

D Charles Deeming and S James Reynolds

Nests, Eggs, and Incubation brings together a global team of leading authorities to provide a comprehensive overview of the fascinating and diverse field of avian incubation. Starting with a new assessment of the evolution of avian reproductive ...

Owls: A Guide to Every Species

Marianne Taylor

The charm and mystique of owls resonates through human history. From ancient myth and superstition to the most popular modern children's stories, these beautiful, deadly birds are harbingers of good and bad news, icons of fear and ...

Peterson Reference Guide to Woodpeckers of North America

Stephen A Shunk

From the iconic Woody Woodpecker to the ubiquitous Northern Flicker, woodpeckers have long captivated our attention. Their astonishing anatomy makes them one of the most specialized bird families in the world, and their keystone ecological ...

Seltene Voegel in Deutschland 2014 [Rare Birds in Germany 2014]

Deutsche Avifaunistische Kommission (DAK)

Next to the rarity report for 2014, the fourth release of Seltene Vögel in Deutschland also contains interesting contributions on the occurrence of the Sandhill crane outside its regular distribution range, the influx of ...

Struik Pocket Guide: Birds of East Africa

Dave Richards

This pocket-sized photographic guide to the birds of East Africa features 296 birds likely to be spotted in the region. - Colourful photographs illustrate diagnostic features and plumage differences between male and female or breeding ...

Terytoryi, Vazhnyia Dlia Ptushak u Belarusi: Kataloh [Directory of Important Bird Areas in Belarus]

SV Levy

This book summarizes the results of 20 years of work on bird conservation programmes and includes a description of all Important Bird Areas (IBAs) in Belarus, their current state, and the current borders. The results do not only reveal ...

The Backyard Birdsong Guide - Eastern and Central North America

A Guide to Listening

Donald E Kroodsma, Larry McQueen and Jon Janosik

Discover seventy-five unique birds from Eastern and Central North America as you enjoy their sounds at the touch of a button – reproduced in high quality on the attached digital audio module – while reading vivid descriptions ...

The Backyard Birdsong Guide - Western North America

A Guide to Listening

Donald E Kroodsma, Larry McQueen and Jon Janosik

Discover seventy-five unique birds from Western North America as you enjoy their sounds at the touch of a button – reproduced in high quality on the attached digital audio module – while reading vivid descriptions of their ...

The Complete Guide to Bird Photography

Field Techniques for Birders and Nature Photographers

Jeffrey Rich

Birding is a popular pastime, and more enthusiasts than ever are taking up the task of photographing the winged wonders they encounter in the field. In The Complete Guide to Bird Photography, author Jeffrey Rich discusses the ...

The House of Owls

Tony Angell and Robert Michael Pyle

For a quarter of a century, Tony Angell and his family shared the remarkable experience of closely observing pairs of western screech owls that occupied a nesting box outside the window of their forest home. The journals in which the author ...

The Life of the Robin

David Lack, Peter Lack, David Harper, David Lindo and Robert Gillmor

The Robin has now been voted Britain's favourite bird – a friendly presence in thousands of gardens, year round. Its life was hardly understood when David Lack – who has been called Britain's most influential ornithologist ...

The Second Atlas of Breeding Birds in Ohio

Paul G Rodewald, Matthew B Shumar, Aaron T Boone, David L Slager and Jim McCormac

Twenty-five years after the publication of the state's first breeding bird atlas, The Second Atlas of Breeding Birds in Ohio brings our knowledge of the state's bird populations up to date and provides important new information ...

Tuco: The Parrot, the Others, and a Scattershot World

Brian Brett

For thirty years, Brian Brett shared his office and his life with Tuco, a remarkable parrot given to asking such questions as "Whaddya know?" and announcing "Party time!" when guests showed up at Brett's farm.

Welcher Gartenvogel ist das?: 126 Gartenvoegel Einfach Bestimmen [Which Garden Bird is That?: Easily Identifying 126 Spe

Volker Dierschke

Alligators of Texas

Louise Hayes-Odum and Philippe Henry

Found only in the United States, the American alligator ranges in Texas through 120 counties, from the Sabine River to the Rio Grande, across a swath of river drainages and coastal marshes that include both the backwater swamps of the ...

Amphibien und Reptilien der Neotropis: Entdeckungen Deutschsprachiger Forscher in Mittel- und Sudamerika

Axel Kwet and Manfred Niekisch

The first travelers and scientists that explored the amphibians and reptiles of the "new continent" did so under often adventurous conditions. This book tells their stories and reports the results of from a science history ...

Die Amphibien und Reptilien des Neusiedler See-Gebietes [The Amphibians and Reptiles of the Lake Neusiedl Area]

Silke Schweiger and Heinz Grillitsch

This field guide is the result of a multi-year mapping project of the herpetofauna of the Lake Neusiedl area, a large lake in Central Europe, straddling the Austria-Hungarian border. The project was funded by the Nationalparkverwaltung ...

Peterson Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians: Eastern and Central North America

Robert Powell, Roger Conant and Joseph T Collins

The new edition of this definitive guide reflects 25 years' worth of changes in our knowledge of reptiles and amphibians. It includes descriptions of 122 newly recognized or recently established non-native species, updated maps, and ...

Snakes: An Anthology of Serpent Tales

Willee Lewis and George Plimpton

The organisation of this collection allows us to appreciate snakes from both a profane and a sacred perspective. Snakes are also presented here as creatures inhabiting the garden of life – for better or worse, while another section ...

Tracks & Sign of Reptiles & Amphibians

A Guide to North American Species

Filip A Tkaczyk and Jonah Evans

This new book in the Tracks & Sign series aims to set the same standard for reptile and amphibian tracking as Mammal Tracks and Sign: A Guide to North American Species did for mammals . It's an invaluable resource for both beginning and ...

Biology and Ecology of Toxic Pufferfish

Ramasamy Santhanam

This is the first comprehensive book on the biology and ecology of pufferfish, also known as blowfish, swellfish, and globefish. Covering 197 species of pufferfish recorded so far from the marine, brackish, and freshwater ecosystems of ...

Fishes of the Texas Laguna Madre

A Guide for Anglers and Naturalists

David A McKee, Jr.,John W Tunnell, Henry Compton and Janice D Fechhelm

Anglers treasure the Laguna Madre, a shallow lagoon resting along one hundred miles of the South Texas coast that offers some of the best fishing in the Gulf of Mexico. Its lush environment of seagrass meadows, tidal flats, submerged rocks ...

The Dragon Behind the Glass

A True Story of Power, Obsession, and the World's Most Coveted Fish

Emily Voigt

A riveting journey into the bizarre world of the Asian arowana or "dragon fish" – the world's most expensive aquarium fish – reveals a surprising history with profound implications for the future of wild animals ...

The Shark Handbook

The Definitive Guide to the World's Most Fascinating Sharks

Gregory Skomal and Nick Caloyianis

This fully revised and updated edition of the bestselling The Shark Handbook features an all-new, expanded feature on the Great White Shark, plus stunning, full-colour photos and a complete overview of every known shark in the ...

Tigers of the Sea

Shark Fishing Around the World

Hugh D Wise

Originally published in 1936. Long before shark attacks made headlines from New Jersey to Florida, Tigers of the Sea explored the depths of the oceans in search of all types of sharks, many species of which had yet to be discovered ...

1000 Beautiful Butterflies

Adrian Hoskins

This wonderfully illustrated book is essentially a photographic guide to the butterflies of the world. It will cover 1,000 species from every corner of the globe, encompassing all key families and species, including the likes of monarchs ...

A Guide to the Aculeate Wasps of Japan [Japanese]

Mamoru Terayama and Hiroshi Suda

This book details all 847 Japanese species belonging to the Hymenopteran subclade of the Aculeata, a group of wasps. Some 515 photos show over 1000 individuals. Identification and life history of the Aculeata are described.

A Review of the Planthoppers (Hemiptera: Fulgoroidea) of the United States

Charles R Bartlett, Lois B O'Brien and Stephen W Wilson

The systematics of planthoppers north of Mexico is reviewed with particular emphasis on the contiguous United States. This overview includes a synopsis of each family, a checklist of all species reported north of Mexico, synonymies since ...

Alien Species and Insect Conservation

Tim R New

This overview of the roles of alien species in insect conservation brings together information, evidence and examples from many parts of the world to illustrate their impacts (often severe, but in many cases poorly understood and unpredictable ...

Ants of Florida

Identification and Natural History

Mark Deyrup

Ants are familiar to every naturalist, ecologist, entomologist, and pest control operator. The identification of the 233 species of Florida ants is technically difficult, and information on Florida ants is dispersed among hundreds of ...

Backyard Insects [of Australia]

Paul A Horne and Denis Crawford

Love them or loathe them, we can't avoid insects. From aphids to flies, ladybirds to wasps, insects of all shapes and sizes share our homes and gardens. Now in updated edition, the bestselling Backyard Insects explores the ...

Biology and Ecology of Antarctic Krill

Volker Siegel

Biology and Ecology of Antarctic Krill gives a unique insight into the current knowledge of krill population dynamics including distribution, biomass, production, recruitment, growth and mortality rates. Detailed analysis is provided ...

Cetoniimania, Volume 8 [English / French]

The volumes in these series contain articles on the flower chafers, a group of scarab beetles comprising the subfamily Cetoniinae.

Cockroaches: Ecology, Behavior, and Natural History

Ecology, Behavior, and Natural History

William J Bell, Louis M Roth, Christine A Nalepa and Edward O Wilson

This definitive volume provides a complete overview of suborder Blattaria, highlighting the diversity of these amazing insects in their natural environments. Beginning with a foreword by E. O. Wilson ...

Coleopteres de Rhone-Alpes: Elateridae [Beetles of the Rhone-Alpes: Elateridae]

L Leseigneur, J-L Ollagnon and Cedric Audibert

This fifth and last volume of the series Coléoptères de Rhône-Alpes deals with the family of Elaterids or click beetles. The inventory contains more 17,000 records, and is the result of the assessment of 30,000 specimens ...

Coleopteres du Monde: Une Encyclopedie [The Book of Beetles]

Patrice Bouchard

More than one fifth of all known life forms on this planet are beetles. They are extraordinarily visually diverse: renowned British geneticist JBS Haldane, when asked what could be inferred about God from a study of His works, replied ...

Dragonflies & Damselflies of Gloucestershire

Their Distribution and Status

Ingrid Twissell and Adam Hart

The present publication includes a checklist and accounts of all 35 species of Odonata that have occurred in the two vice-counties with accompanying maps, flight-time histograms and photographs, as well as their breeding and Red List status ...

Freshwater Crustacean Zooplankton of Europe

Cladocera & Copepoda (Calanoida, Cyclopoida) Key to Species Identification, with Notes on Ecology, Distribution, Methods

Leszek A Bledzki and Jan Igor Rybak

Freshwater Crustacean Zooplankton of Europe provides a user-friendly, species level taxonomic key based on morphology, current nomenclature, and modern taxonomy using molecular tools which fulfill the most pressing needs of both ...

Galen i Insekter: En Berattelse om Smakrypens Magiska Varld [A Buzz in the Meadow]

Dave Goulson, Helena Sjostrand Svenn and Gosta Svenn

In Galen i Insekter Goulson tells the story of how he bought a derelict farm in the heart of rural France, together with 33 acres of surrounding meadow and how, over a decade, he has created a place for his beloved bumblebees to ...

Guide des Plus Beaux Papillons et Leurs Fleurs Favorites: France, Belgique, Luxembourg, Suisse [Guide to the Most Beauti

Dominique Martire, Franck Merlier and Bernard Turlin

A unique guide for its special attention given to flowers that attract butterflies! This book presents 300 butterflies and moths, including the most beautiful in France and neighboring countries. For each species a precise description ...

Insect Microscopy

Andrew Chick

Insects, and their close relatives, the arachnids, centipedes, millipedes and woodlice, make ideal material for study by the recreational microscopist. Moreover for the entomologist, the addition of the use of the microscope to their ...

Lepidotteri Eteroceri D'italia: Geometridae: Ennominae II [Heterocerous Lepidoptera of Italy: Geometridae: Ennominae II]

Claudio Flamigni, Gabriele Fiumi and Paolo Parenzan

This long-awaited second volume on the Italian moth subfamily Ennominae is now available. This volume includes 40 genera with a total of 101 species for which are indicated: synonyms, general distribution, Italian distribution, phenology ...

Les Cahiers Magellanes Hors-serie, Volume 35 [English]

The Panorpidae from North Korea and Northeast China

Li Jingke, Zhang Xue-Ping, Lin Lin and Gao Meixiang

This booklet describes new members of scorpionfly family Panorpidae from North Korea and Northeast China.

Les Nouveaux Cahiers Magellanes, No. 19 [English / French / German]

Volume 19 contains contributions in several languages on longicorn beetles.

Les Nouveaux Cahiers Magellanes, No. 20 [English / French / German]

Carolus Holzschuh and P Teocchi

Volume 20 contains contributions in several languages on longicorn beetles.

Living Mollusks

Charles E Rawlings

In his internationally acclaimed, award-winning book, Living Shells, Dr. Rawlings introduced his readers to the amazing world of living seashells. In Living Mollusks, Dr. Rawlings, once again, propels the reader into the fascinating world of the ...

Living Shells

Charles E Rawlings

Welcome to the mysterious oceanic realm, home to exotic creatures great and small. Amidst the many wonders of the reef exist vibrant shells, full of life, in many textures and colors. Within these pages you will discover the most rare ...

Luehdorfia japonica of Hida Region [Japanese]

Toshitsugu Ichihara

This publication covers in particular the Hida region, an approximately 100 km × 80 km area, central Honshu, Japan) with the purpose of providing distributional and morphological information on the butterfly ...

Planktic Foraminifers in the Modern Ocean

Ecology, Biogeochemistry, and Application

Ralf Schiebel and Christoph Hemleben

Planktic Foraminifers in the Modern Ocean provides a comprehensive overview of the taxonomy, biology, sedimentation, and carbonate geochemistry of modern species. Students, early career and advanced scientists alike will profit ...

Pollination Services to Agriculture

Sustaining and Enhancing a Key Ecosystem Service

Barbara Gemmill-Herren

It is only recently that the immense economic value of pollination to agriculture has been appreciated. At the same time, the alarming collapse in populations of bees and other pollinators has highlighted the urgency of addressing this ...

Registry of World Record Size Shells

Over 4000 Changes since the last Edition

Registry of World Record Size Shells

This continuously updated registry lists world record shell sizes (given in mm). The 13th edition contains over 4,000 changes since the last edition. Size continues to be an issue among shell collectors and researchers.

Spider Ecophysiology

Wolfgang Nentwig

With over 43 000 species, spiders are the largest predacious arthropod group. They have developed key characteristics such as multi-purpose silk types, venoms consisting of hundreds of components, locomotion driven by muscles and hydraulic ...

Suomen Lukit ja Valeskorpionit [Finnish Harvestmen and Pseudoscorpions]

Annika Uddstrom and Veikko Rinne

This book presents the harvestmen and pseudoscorpions of Finland. Look at a flower close-up, and you might see pseudoscorpions in spectacular close-up. Harvestmen may look like a bubble with pairs of legs sticking out in every direction ...

The Genus Goliathus Volume 1: Goliathus cacicus Olivier

Mirco Morani

The Genus Goliathus, a series of six volumes dedicated to the species of the most famous group of cetonid beetles, starts with a synopsis on Goliathus cacicus. The book presents a complete revision of this genus covering ...

The Healing Bee

Roch Domerego and Francine Sagar

It has always been a well-known fact that products from the beehive are good for human health. However, recent scientific research has proved that various substances produced by honeybees, as well as innumerable possible combinations with ...

Water Bugs of Singapore and Peninsular Malaysia

Anh Duc Tran, Chang Man Yang and Lanna Cheng

An introduction for all families of waterbugs within its area, and a working tools targeted both at students and at the general public fascinated with the biodiversity of the tropics. Waterbugs are members of the insect order Hemiptera ...

What is Happening to the Honey Bees?

An Update on (the Mechanisms of) Colony Collapse Disorder

Clint Perry

Clint Perry is currently a Marie Curie postdoctoral fellow in the Bee Sensory and Behavioural Ecology Group at Queen Mary University of London. He is broadly interested in the evolution and neuroethology of cognitive abilities.

Winter Noctuid Moths of Japan [Japanese]

Hideki Kobayasi, Keiichiro Shikata and Keitaro EDA

The beautiful and excellent winter noctuid moths (Noctuidae) of Japan are shown on 47 colour plates (103 species, 807 specimens) with magnified photos of all included taxa and showing the variation of each taxon in natural size.

ZooKeys 573: The Coleoptera of New Brunswick and Canada

Providing Baseline Biodiversity and Natural History Data

Reginald Webster, Patrice Bouchard and Jan Klimaszewski

New taxonomic, distribution, and habitat data are presented for species belonging to 51 families of Coleoptera from New Brunswick and Canada, including a checklist of all the species currently known from New Brunswick. New distributional ...

ZooKeys 575: Annotated Catalogue of the Tachinidae (Insecta, Diptera) of the Afrotropical Region, with the Description o

James E O'Hara and Pierfilippo Cerretti

The Tachinidae are a diverse family of flies with a recognized fauna of about 1500 genera and 8500 species worldwide. All species are parasitoids of other arthropods, mostly insects, during their larval stage. This monograph catalogues ...

Birds of Stone

Chinese Avian Fossils from the Age of Dinosaurs

Luis M Chiappe and Meng Qingjin

When fossils of birds from China's Jehol region first appeared in scientific circles, the world took notice. These Mesozoic masterpieces are between 120 and 131 million years old and reveal incredible details that capture the diversity ...

Changing Climates, Ecosystems and Environments Within Arid Southern Africa and Adjoining Regions

Jurgen Runge

Changing Climates, Ecosystems and Environments Within Arid Southern Africa and Adjoining Regions is volume 33 of the yearbook series Palaeoecology of Africa presenting the outcome of a 'tribute conference' to the ...

Fossilium Catalogus Animalia, Volume 152 [English]

Lower Cretaceous Ammonites VII - Hoplitoidea & Engonoceratoidea

Jaap Klein

From the introduction: "The classification in this Fossilium Catalogus partially follows that of Wright et al., 1996, but for the Hoplitoidea I follow many of the ideas and proposals of Cooper & Owen ...

Fossilium Catalogus Animalia, Volume 153 [German]

Catalogus Trilobitorum cum Figuris (Trilobites Carbonici et Permici, VII. Bollandiinae)

Gerhard Hahn and Renate Hahn

This seventh part of the catalog of the Carboniferous and Permian trilobites includes the subfamily of Bollandiinae. They are limited to the Carboniferous and Permian subfamilies. This includes 6 genera, 51 species and 7 subspecies.

Fossilium Catalogus Animalia, Volume 154 [English]

Lower Cretaceous Ammonites VIII - Turrilitoidea 1; Anisoceratidae, Hamitidae, Turrilitidae, including the Upper Cretaceo

Jaap Klein

From the introduction: "The classification in this Fossilium Catalogus largely follows that of Wright et al., 1996, but some ideas of Cooper, 1999, Monks, 1999 and Monks, 2002. are taken into account.

Palaeo Ichthyologica, Volume 14 [English]

Orangel A Aguilera, Werner Schwarzhans and Philippe Bearez

From the foreword:  

"This now is the second compendium of articles dealing with the fossil otoliths that were collected from Central America during several decades. Following the initial study of the otoliths of the ...

Paleoecology: Past, Present and Future

Past, Present and Future

David J Bottjer

Paleoecology is a discipline that uses evidence from fossils to provide an understanding of ancient environments and the ecological history of life through geological time. This text covers the fundamental approaches that have provided ...

Paleontology: A Philosophical Introduction

A Philosophical Introduction

Derek Turner

In the wake of the paleobiological revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, paleontologists continue to investigate far-reaching questions about how evolution works. Many of those questions have a philosophical dimension. How is macroevolution ...

The Sauropod Dinosaurs

Life in the Age of Giants

Mark Hallett and Mathew J Wedel

From The Land Before Time to Jurassic Park, images of fantastically large, long-necked, plant-eating dinosaurs have captured our imaginations. These are the sauropods: centerpieces of museums and gentle giants of the ...

Deadly Oceans

Nick Robertson-Brown

Join ace divers and photographers Nick and Caroline Robertson-Brown as they tour the world in search of the deadliest sea creatures.

Fire in the Sea

Bioluminescence & Henry Compton's Art of the Deep

David A McKee, Henry Compton, Larry J Hyde, Michael Barrett, Jennifer Hardell and Mark D Anderson

The cold, stygian dark of the extreme sea depths is home to some of our planet's strangest creatures. Even their names evoke a science fiction adventure: dragonfishes, greeneyes, viperfishes, mirrorbellies, lanternfishes.

Guide des Organismes Exotiques Marins: Littoral Atlantique et Littoral Mediterraneen [Guide to Exotic Marine Organisms

Philippe Goulletquer

This is the first guide devoted to exotic marine plants and animals. Sargasso, slipper limpet, Caulerpa ... many animal and plant species from elsewhere colonize our coasts and estuaries, some of which become invasive.

Marine Species of Santiago Islands / Especies Marinhas da Ilha de Santiago / Meeresbewohner der Insel Santiago

Emanuel Charles D'Oliveira

With the occupation of the Cape Verde islands, which began nearly 550 years ago, a transformation of the islands has also been triggered. So many animals and plants have been introduced, that descibing the virgin state of the islands ...

The Rocky Shore Name Trail (Waterproof)

A Key to Common Seashore Animals and Plants

Andy Simms, Clare Cremona, Mark Ward and Peter Ward

Rocky Shore Name Trail: the totally waterproof version – an 8-panel laminated fold-out chart will help you to identify some of the seashore animals, lichens and seaweeds that you are most likely to see. It also describes ...

Animal Surprises

Nicola Davies and Abbie Cameron

Discover the delights of nature with zoologist, poet and top children's book author, Nicola Davies. Follow her young adventurer as she treks through the jungle, dives deep down into the sea and climbs high up into the trees.

Arctique [Arctic]

Vincent Munier

Vincent Munier showcases his best pictures from the Arctic. He brought them from different polar expeditions lead in winter during the past 6 years, generally alone and with full autonomy. In the cold, pulling heavy sleds ...

Audubon: America's Greatest Naturalist and His Voyage of Discovery to Labrador

Peter B Logan and Jeffrey L Ward

The Birds of America. One man's dream to illustrate and publish a work depicting all the birds of North America. Midway through the nearly twelve-year project, the French-American painter and naturalist John James Audubon was ...

Behold the Beautiful Dung Beetle

Cheryl Bardoe and Alan Marks

Simple science text and dramatic illustrations give a close-up view of the fascinating world of the dung beetle. When an animal lightens its load, dung beetles race to the scene. They battle over, devour, hoard, and lay their eggs in the ...

Botanical Drawing Using Graphite and Coloured Pencils

Sue Vize

Drawing with graphite and coloured pencils enables the artist to capture every detail of a plant, and to enjoy, study and celebrate their wonderful forms. Whether the illustration is a striking monotone or vibrant with colour, pencils ...

Convergence: The Deepest Idea in the Universe

Peter Watson

Convergence: The Deepest Idea in the Universe is a history of modern science with an original and significant twist. Various scientific disciplines, despite their very different beginnings, and disparate areas of interest have ...

Country Matters

Clare Leighton

ln this book from 1937, the acclaimed writer and engraver Clare Leighton takes on a series of country subjects, including Tramps, Plucking Primroses, The Pub and The Flower Show. With senses well attuned to her part of England in the ...

Cowal Way: With Isle of Bute

Michael Kaufmann and James McLuckie

The Cowal Way is a waymarked trail running for 57 miles (92 km) across the rugged Cowal peninsula, an unspoiled area of the Highlands just west of Glasgow. It is best walked from Portavadie on Loch Fyne to finish at Inveruglas on Loch Lomond ...

Cumbria Way

Paddy Dillon

The Cumbria Way runs for 73 miles northward from Ulverston, through unspoiled dales with stone-built farms, skirting around charming lakes and passing beneath rugged fells. Busy tourist centres such as Ulverston, Coniston and Keswick ...

Elisabeth Schiemann 1881-1972: Vom AufBruch der Genetik und der Frauen in den UmBruchen des 20. Jahrhunderts

Reiner Nurnberg, Ekkehard Hoxtermann and Martina Voigt

The Berlin plant geneticist Elisabeth Schiemann was one of the most important women in the science of her time. She was amongst the first female university students and professors in Germany, was a member of the first generation of geneticists ...

Eye for Detail

Images of Plants and Animals in Art and Science, 1500-1630

Florike Egmond

Image-transforming techniques such as close-up, time lapse, and layering are generally associated with the age of photography, but as Florike Egmond shows in Eye for Detail, they were already being used half a millennium ago.

Feral Animals in the American South

An Evolutionary History

Abraham H Gibson

The relationship between humans and domestic animals has changed in dramatic ways over the ages, and those transitions have had profound consequences for all parties involved. As societies evolve, the selective pressures that shape domestic ...

Georgiana Molloy - The Mind That Shines

A Biography of One of Australia's First Female Botanical Collectors

Bernice Barry

This meticulously researched biography tells the extraordinary story of Georgiana Molloy, one of Australia's first internationally successful female botanists. From the refined beauty of 19th century England and Scotland, to the dramatic ...

Havergey

John Burnside

The search for an ideal society has intrigued us for thousands of years. Politicians, writers and philosophers of every generation have proposed their visions, from Plato's Republic and Thomas More's Utopia ...

Indian Forester, Scottish Laird

The Botanical Lives of Hugh Cleghorn of Stravithie

Henry J Noltie and Charles WJ Withers

Hugh Francis Clarke Cleghorn (1820-1895) was one of the many remarkable Scottish surgeons who worked for the East India Company, but who used an official posting as a base for research upon India's rich flora, and recording it visually ...

Indian Forester, Scottish Laird & The Cleghorn Collection (2-Volume Set)

Henry J Noltie, Charles WJ Withers and Simon Milne

A new two-part work on Indian environmental history and botanical art. Can also be bought separately. Hugh Francis Clarke Cleghorn (1820–1895) was one of the many remarkable Scottish surgeons who worked for the East India ...

Into the Blue

Nicola Davies and Abbie Cameron

Follow a young adventurer as she treks through the jungle, dives deep down into the sea, and climbs high up into the trees. Into the Blue features delightful characters from the deep blue sea, and is fully illustrated in color ...

Inventing Chemistry

Herman Boerhaave and the Reform of the Chemical Arts

John C Powers

In Inventing Chemistry, historian John C. Powers turns his attention to Herman Boerhaave (1668-1738), a Dutch medical and chemical professor whose work reached a wide, educated audience and became the template for chemical knowledge ...

Love Is Wild

Portraits On The Edge

Sean Davis Lee

The breathtaking Love Is Wild photography collection redefines the relationship between man and the animal kingdom, showcasing man not as conqueror and consumer of nature's resources, but as a conscientious co-habitant and ...

Mathematics Across Cultures

The History of Non-Western Mathematics

Helaine Selin

Mathematics Across Cultures: The History of Non-Western Mathematics consists of essays dealing with the mathematical knowledge and beliefs of cultures outside the United States and Europe. In addition to articles surveying Islamic ...

Photographing the Lake District

A Guide to the Most Beautiful Places & How to Improve Your Photography

Stuart Holmes

Photographing the Lake District is a comprehensive photographic-location guidebook to the most beautiful places to take photographs in the English Lake District. The book guides the reader to beautiful places and gives advice on ...

Remembering Dr. S.C. Dutt: The Parasitologist

MC Agrawal

The main aim of the book is to make scholars aware about the eminent Indian scientist Dr. S.C. Dutt and his outstanding contributions towards helminthology. This book is unique as it provides exclusive information related to Dr S.C.Dutt ...

Shadows Across the Sahara

Travels With Camels from Lake Chad to Tripoli

John Hare

Riding Pasha, his beloved white camel, John Hare set out from the shrinking shores of Lake Chad with 25 camels, 4 Tuaregs, a Chinese professor, a white Kenyan rancher and a young Englishman. His objective: to reach Tripoli, following an ...

Snow

Marcus Sedgwick

Of all weathers, snow is the one that has always affected the author Marcus Sedgwick the most. While many people's idea of the ideal holiday involves sun, sea and sand, he makes trips to cold and snowy parts of the world: Russia ...

The Arctic

Capturing the Majestic Scenery, Wildlife, and Native Peoples of the Far North

Jennifer Kingsley and Sven-Olof Lindblad

Stunning scenery, magnificent wildlife, and native cultures bring the Arctic to life in this unparalleled collection of photography. In never-before-seen photos from the world's finest nature photographers, The Arctic introduces ...

The Botanical Wallchart

Art from the Golden Age of Scientific Discovery

Anna Laurent

Botanical charts are experiencing a resurgence in interest, both as pieces of art and as objects of scientific and historical significance, and The Botanical Wallchart documents this extraordinary convergence of disciplines that ...

The Cleghorn Collection

South Indian Botanical Drawings, 1845 to 1860

Henry J Noltie and Simon Milne

After Cleghorn's death his outstanding collection of drawings, and books relating to forestry and botany, was divided between the University of Edinburgh and what became the National Museum of Scotland. The latter share was transferred to ...

The Elegant Fowl

A Printmakers' Parliament of Owls

Alan Marshall

The Elegant Fowl gathers together the original prints of more than 90 British artists with an enthusiasm for owls.

The Embattled Wilderness

The Natural and Human History of Robinson Forest and the Fight for Its Future

Erik Reece, James J Krupa and Wendell Berry

Robinson Forest in eastern Kentucky is one of America's most important natural landscapes – and one of the most threatened. Covering fourteen thousand acres of some of the most diverse forest region in temperate North America ...

The English Revolution and the Roots of Environmental Change

The Changing Concept of the Land in Early Modern England

George Yerby

This study brings a new perspective to a pivotal debate: the causes of the English Revolution. It pinpoints the economic motives behind the opposition to the crown, and shows their connection to the changing mind-set and political ...

The Great Animal Orchestra

Bernie Krause, Bruce Alberts and Vinciane Despret

Opening in June 2016 at the Fondation Cartier Pour l'Art Contemporain in Paris, the exhibition The Great Animal Orchestra will introduce an exclusive acoustic and sensory experience, unveiling the fascinating musical complexity of the ...

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 Making of the British Landscape

An Alternative History from the Ice Age to the Present

Nicholas Crane

Nicholas Crane's new book brilliantly describes the evolution of Britain's countryside and cities. It is part journey, part history, and it concludes with awkward questions about the future of Britain's landscapes. Nick Crane ...

The Man Who Found Captain Scott - Antarctic Explorer and War Hero

Surgeon Captain Edward Leicester Atkinson (1811- 1929) DSO, AM, MRCS, LRCP, Royal Navy

Michael C Tarver and Alasdair J Walker

This is a story of a Royal Naval surgeon who took part in the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910-1913, led by Captain Robert Falcon Scott RN. Surgeon Atkinson was one of sixteen men who set out towards the South Pole from which Scott and ...

The Naturalist

Theodore Roosevelt, a Lifetime of Exploration, and the Rise of American Natural History

Darrin P Lunde

A captivating new account of how Theodore Roosevelt's lifelong passion for the natural world set the stage for America's wildlife conservation movement and determined his legacy as a founding father of today's museum naturalism ...

The Oracle of Oil

A Maverick Geologist's Quest for a Sustainable Future

Mason Inman

In 1956, geologist and Shell Oil researcher Marion King Hubbert delivered a speech that has shaped world energy debates ever since. Addressing the American Petroleum Institute, Hubbert dropped a bombshell on his audience ...

The People's Galleries

Art Museums and Exhibitions in Britain, 1800-1914

Giles Waterfield

This innovative history of British art museums begins in the early 19th century. The National Gallery and the South Kensington Museum (now the Victoria and Albert Museum) in London may have been at the center of activity, but museums in ...

The Word Bird

Nicola Davies and Abbie Cameron

Discover the delights of nature with zoologist, poet and top children's book author, Nicola Davies. Follow her young adventurer as she treks through the jungle, dives deep down into the sea and climbs high up into the trees.

Tracks and Shadows

Field Biology as Art

Harry W Greene

Intellectually rich, intensely personal, and beautifully written, Tracks and Shadows is both an absorbing autobiography of a celebrated field biologist and a celebration of beauty in nature. Harry W. Greene, award-winning author ...

Trees, Woods and Forests

A Social and Cultural History

Charles Watkins

Throughout human history our relationship with trees, woods and forests has remained central to the development of our technology, culture and expansion as a species. In this engaging book, Charles Watkins examines and challenges our ...

Ascension: The Story of a South Atlantic Island

Duff Hart-Davis

The bleak, volcanic island of Ascension, 800 miles from its nearest neighbour St. Helena, was described by a Victorian naval officer as 'one of the strangest places on the face of the earth'. It is still exceedingly ...

Beastly London

A History of Animals in the City

Hannah Velten

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

Bradford and the Journey to the Desert of Lop

Dawn Van Zant and Alexander Levitas

Written for children, this book tells the story of a young boy called Bradford and his search for the elusive wild camel in the Desert of Lop. Full of excitement and adventure, it is an enthralling tale for young children which, at the ...

Children of Eden

A Tribute to the Wildlife of Sri Lanka

Rajiv Welikala and Gehan de Silva Wijeyeratne

Children of Eden: A Tribute to the Wildlife of Sri Lanka contains 120 of the best images that Sri Lankan photographer Rajiv Welikala has captured over 17 years. The images cover a vast variety of species, from the more charismatic ...

Connecticut Wildlife

A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Species

James R Kavanagh and Raymond Leung

The state insect – the praying mantis – is one of thousands of species of animals inhabiting the diverse ecosystems found throughout Connecticut. This beautifully illustrated guide highlights over 140 familiar and unique species ...

Coral Wonderland

The Best Dive Sites of the Great Barrier Reef

Nigel Marsh

The Great Barrier Reef is the largest reef system in the world. Stretching over 2300 km along the Queensland coast it would take several lifetimes to explore every one of its 3000 reefs. To assist divers looking for the best of the Great ...

Explore Texas

A Nature Travel Guide

Mary O Parker, Jeff Parker and Carter P Smith

If you are interested in birdwatching, wildlife viewing, or stargazing; flowers, geology, or water; nature centers, festivals, or photography, a destination in Texas awaits you. From the desert gardens of Big Bend to hawk watching ...

Knowing Your Place: Wildlife in Shingle Street

Jeremy Mynott

Shingle Street is a tiny hamlet on the Suffolk coast perched precariously between land and sea. There are only some sixty adults and children living here – but that's just the population of Homo sapiens. We are surrounded by ...

Podvodnyi mir Kazantipskogo Prirodnogo Zapovednika: K 15-Letiiu Kazantipskogo Prirodnogo Zapovednika [Underwater Kazanti

AR Boltachev

The book is devoted to the results of many years of hydrobiological studies at the Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas, now the Institute of Marine Biological Research, which were done within the framework of the agreement on ...

The British Wildlife Year

Dominic Couzens

In this unique book Dominic Couzens provides a precise record of what happens in the natural world in Britain for each week of the year. What sets The British Wildlife Year apart from other wildlife books is that it includes ...

Wilder Wales

Julian Rollins, Chris Packham and Drew Buckley

Wilder Wales brings together a year in the Welsh countryside through descriptions of some of the nation's wildest and most atmospheric locations along with the plants and animals that bring those landscapes alive.

150 Plantes Autour de Saint-Galmier et dans la Plaine du Forez: Pour de Petites Promenades Botaniques des Bords de Loire

[150 Plants Around Saint-Galmier and Plaine du Forez: For Small Botanical Walks from the River Loire to Monts du Matin]

Claudette Fau, Jean Rieu and Jean-Marie Pelt

This flora is intended to help readers look at the wildflowers around them and help to identify them, know them, love them and protect them. To this end, the authors began by identifying plants that flourished around their home in Saint-Galmier

A Compendium of Tree Species of Nepal

Ram Bichari Thakur and Nirmala K Phulara

This book gives an overview of the tree species found in Nepal, with species entries illustrated with black-and-white line drawings.

A Field Guide to Grasses, Sedges and Rushes

Dominic Price

Are you overwhelmed by Agrostis? Confused by Carex? Jittery about your Juncus? This book aims to simplify the identification of this fascinating group of plants, using characters that are both easy ...

Advances in Botanical Research, Volume 78

Genomes and Evolution of Charophytes, Bryophytes, Lycophytes and Ferns

Stefan A Rensing

Advances in Botanical Research publishes in-depth and up-to-date reviews on a wide range of topics in plant sciences. The series features several reviews by recognized experts on all aspects of plant genetics, biochemistry, cell biology ...

Agaricus of North America

Richard W Kerrigan

Often glibly called “the Meadow mushrooms”, about 90% of Agaricus species actually reside in forest and other non-grassland habitats. This group includes Button mushrooms, Meadow mushrooms, Almond mushrooms, Horse mushrooms ...

Arboles Singulares de la Provincia de Albacete [Unique Trees of the Province of Albacete]

Vicente Benlloch Marti, Alejandro Martin Albiar and Consuelo Lopez Moreno

This book is more than a catalog of trees that stand out for their size, their rarity or age. It is a treasure map. To find each of these 190 trees in Albacete, a city and municipality in the Spanish autonomous community of ...

Arbres, Arbustos i Enfiladisses d'Andorra [Trees, Shrubs and Vines of Andorra]

Josep Antoni Conesa Mor, Clara Pladevall Izard and Marta Dominech Ferres

This field guide treats all 153 species of flora and woody vines that grow naturally in Andorra, each with a fact sheet and explanatory notes. The guide Incorporates photographs and original drawings of each plant, as well as ...

Atlas of Images of Thin Layer Chromatograms of Lichen Substances / Bilderatlas von Dunnschichtchromatographen Flechten-

Felix Schumm and John Alan Elix

This book contains a collection of coloured images of plates obtained by thin layer chromatography of many lichen substances as an aid for their determination. The images show mounted runs obtained in solvents A, B/B’ and C commonly ...

Bulbs of the Eastern Mediterranean

Oron Peri and Brian Mathew

The Eastern Mediterranean countries of Israel, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, Jordan, Cyprus and north-east Egypt offer a rich and varied bulbous flora. In Bulbs of the Eastern Mediterranean more than 400 species are illustrated with ...

Cannabis: Evolution and Ethnobotany

Evolution and Ethnobotany

Robert C Clarke and Mark D Merlin

Cannabis: Evolution and Ethnobotany is a comprehensive, interdisciplinary exploration of the natural origins and early evolution of this famous plant, highlighting its historic role in the development of human societies.

Catalogue of Nepalese Flowering Plants (3-Volume Set)

Keshab Raj Rajbhandari and Sushim Ranjan Baral

Volume 1 cover gymnosperms and monocotyledons, volume 2 covers dicotyledons (Ranunculaceae to Dipsacaceae), and volume 3 covers dicotyledons (Compositae to Salicaceae). This is a revision and update of Catalogue of Nepalese Vascular ...

Catalogue of Nepalese Flowering Plants: Supplement 1

Keshab Raj Rajbhandari, Ganga Datt Bhatt, Rita Chhetri, Sanjeev Kumar Rai and Yam Bahadur Thapa

This is the first supplement to the Catalogue of Nepalese Flowering Plants which was published in three parts by the Department of Plant Resources in 2010, 2011 and 2012. The Catalogues were prepared on the basis of the plant ...

Changes in the Use of Wild Food Plants in Estonia

18th - 21st Century

Renata S ukand and Raivo Kalle

Changes in the Use of Wild Food Plants in Estonia is a systematized overview of wild edible plants eaten in the territory of present Estonia, with a focus on the systematic changes within the field. Starting in the end of 18th ...

Compendium of Sunflower Diseases and Pests

Robert M Harveson, Samuel G Markell, Charles C Block and Thomas J Gulya

This all-new disease and insect compendium for sunflower crops will serve as a vital field guide at universities, extension offices, diagnostic labs, farms, and even homes where sunflowers are grown. It includes nearly 300 images and ...

Connecticut Trees & Wildflowers

A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Species

James R Kavanagh and Raymond Leung

The state flower, the mountain laurel, is one of thousands of species of plants growing in the diverse ecosystems found throughout The Constitution State. This beautifully illustrated guide highlights over 140 familiar and unique species ...

Copper-Cobalt Flora of Upper Katanga and Copperbelt

Field Guide

Francois Malaisse, Michel Schaijes and Claire D'Outreligne

The copper-cobalt outcrops of Upper Katanga and north-western Zambia host a particular flora which comprises an estimated 750 species of which more than 400 are treated in this copper-cobalt field guide. The aim of ...

Die Farn- und Blutenpflanzen der Kanarischen Inseln [The Ferns and Flowering Plants of the Canary Islands]

Thomas Muer, Herbert Sauerbier and Francisco Cabrera Calixto

In some 1,300 pages over 2,000 vascular plants from the Canary Islands are presented in this book in words and pictures. Almost all of the approximately 650 endemic taxa are mapped to one or more photos. There are also numerous, mostly ...

Field Manual of Diseases on Grasses and Native Plants

R Kenneth Horst

Field Manual of Diseases on Grasses and Native Plants is a reference manual on diseases which attack grasses, forage, native flowers, and weeds. The manual identifies various types of diseases which are known to invade these ...

Field Manual of Diseases on Trees and Shrubs

R Kenneth Horst

Field Manual of Diseases on Trees and Shrubs is a reference manual on diseases which attack trees, shrubs, and vines. Field Manual of Diseases on Trees and Shrubs identifies various types of diseases which are known to ...

Flora Argentina, Volume 15 [Spanish]

Dicotiledoneas Basales: Annonaceae, Aristolochiaceae, Atherospermataceae, Cabombaceae, Ceratophyllaceae, Hydnoraceae, L

Fabio Gonzalez, Fernando Omar Zuloaga, Manuel Joaquin Belgrano and Ana Maria Ramona Anton

Flora Vascular de la Républica Argentina, Volume 15 Dicotiledoneas Basales is part of a new Spanish flora that follows up on the Flora Fanerogamica Argentina that was published in 106 fascicles between 1992 and ...

Flora Argentina, Volume 7(1) [Spanish]

Dicotyledoneae: Asteraceae I: Anthemideae a Gnaphalieae

Fernando Omar Zuloaga, Manuel Joaquin Belgrano and Ana Maria Ramona Anton

Flora Vascular de la Républica Argentina, Volume 7(1) Asteraceae I is part of a new Spanish flora that follows up on the Flora Fanerogamica Argentina that was published in 106 fascicles between 1992 and 2008.

Flora Argentina, Volume 7(2) [Spanish]

Dicotyledoneae: Asteraceae II: Cichorieae, Helenieae a Mutisieae

Fernando Omar Zuloaga, Manuel Joaquin Belgrano and Ana Maria Ramona Anton

Flora Vascular de la Républica Argentina, Volume 7(2) Asteraceae II is part of a new Spanish flora that follows up on the Flora Fanerogamica Argentina that was published in 106 fascicles between 1992 and 2008.

Flora Argentina, Volume 7(3) [Spanish]

Dicotyledoneae: Asteraceae III: Senecioneae a Vernonieae

Susana E Freire

Flora Vascular de la Républica Argentina, Volume 7(3) Asteraceae III is part of a new Spanish flora that follows up on the Flora Fanerogamica Argentina that was published in 106 fascicles between 1992 and 2008.

Flora del Bajio y de Regiones Adyacentes Fasciculos Complementarios, Volume 30

Catalogo Preliminar de las Especies de Arboles Silvestres de la Sierra Madre Oriental [Preliminary Catalogue of Species

Jerzy Rzedowski

Following the example of several other regions of Mexico, the Sierra Madre Oriental (SMOR), a mountain range in northeastern Mexico, is still far from being properly explored and studied in terms of its flora. The clearest evidence ...

Flora of Iraq, Volume 5, Part 1: Elatinaceae to Sphenocleaceae

Shahina A Ghazanfar

The Flora of Iraq is the only botanical guide for this region in the Middle East. It enables anyone documenting, studying, or managing Iraq's vast and rich flora to identify the area's vascular cryptogams (plants that ...

Flora of Thailand, Volume 13, Part 1

Achariaceae, Adoxaceae, Cannabaceae, Caprifoliaceae, Ericaceae, Salicaceae & Ulmaceae

Thawatchai Santisuk, Henrik Balslev, Bob Harwood, Bruce Webber, Nobuyuki Fukuoka and Phuphathanaph

Tthis volume deals with the families Achariaceae, Adoxaceae, Cannabaceae, Caprifoliaceae, Ericaceae, Salicaceae, and Ulmaceae.

Flora of the Guianas, Series A: Meliaceae

Sylvia Mota de Oliveira

A critical, illustrated look at the flora of Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana, designed to treat phanerogams as well as cryptogams of the area. This volume covers the Meliaceae family, and provides plant descriptions, distribution ...

Flore Ornementale de Nouvelle-Caledonie [Ornamental Flora of New Caledonia]

Gildas Gateble

A true botanical paradise of the South Pacific, New Caledonia is home to thousands of floral treasures both original and surprising. This book invites the reader on a colourful journey to discover the ornamental pearls of the country.

Flore du Gabon, Volume 46: Convolvulaceae, Passifloraceae

Marc SM Sosef

Volume 46 treats the families Convolvulaceae and Passifloraceae.

Flore du Gabon, Volume 47: Aloaceae, Meliaceae, Peridiscaceae, Rhizophoraceae

Marc SM Sosef

Volume 47 treats the families Aloaceae, Meliaceae, Peridiscaceae, and Rhizophoraceae.

Flore du Gabon, Volume 48: Eriocaulaceae, Ochnaceae, Scrophulariaceae

Marc SM Sosef

Volume 48 treats the families Eriocaulaceae, Ochnaceae, and Scrophulariaceae.

Folia Malaysiana, Volume 17(1)

A Latiff and Datuk Seri Lim Chong Keat

This issue features three challenging taxonomic accounts by C.K. Lim, our coeditor, who is also the founder Director of Suriana Botanic Conservation Gardens, concerned with the verification of species, here for Zingiberaceae and Musaceae ...

Guide de la Flore du Littoral Sableux Mediterraneen: De la Camargue au Roussillon [Guide to the Flora of the Coastal

Benoit Larroque, Jean Favennec, Frederic Andrieu and Paul Rouveyrol

Aimed at the general public, this practical book has been designed to be accessible to anyone who wants to discover the coastal flora. A collaboration between several managers and coastal environment experts, it covers more than 300 species ...

Identification Guide to Southern African Grasses

L Fish, AC Mashau, MJ Moeaha and MT Nembuda

Grasses are very important features of the landscape and occur to a greater or lesser extent in all of the vegetation types of southern African. The importance of good grazing grasses for both wild and domesticated animals is well known.

Les Plantes de Menorca [The Plants of Menorca]

Pere Fraga i Arguimbau, Irene Estaun Clariso, Mireia Comas Casademont and Eva Cardona Pons

The Mediterranean region covers an area of ​​about two million square kilometers and accounts for only 1% of the planet's surface, but one can find 20% of the vascular flora from around the world here. That is why the Mediterranean ...

Orchidees d'Europe: Fleur et Pollinisation [European Orchids: Flowers and Pollination]

Jean Claessens and Jacques Kleynen

Jean Claessens and Jacques Kleynen are nature photographers specialized in extreme macro photography. After becoming familiar with the orchids, they became interested in the structure and function of this flower and began research on ...

Pine Wilt Disease in Europe

Biological Interactions and Integrated Management

Edmundo Sousa, Fernando Vale and Isabel Abrantes

Pine wilt disease (PWD) results from complex interactions, especially those among the pinewood nematode (PWN), Bursaphelenchus xylophilus (Steiner & Bührer, 1934) Nickle, 1970, its insect vector, Monochamus ...

Plant Resources of Tropical Africa, Volume 11, Part 2

Medicinal Plants 2

GH Schmelzer and Ameenah Gurib-Fakim

PROTA 11 deals with the medicinal plants of Tropical Africa. Because the group is very large, it has been subdivided into 4 volumes. In PROTA 11(1), published in 2008, a total of 894 medicinal plants, belonging to a selection of 29 botanical ...

Pocket Guide to Wildflower Families

Faith Anstey

Weatherproof, spiral bound, pocket-size book – specially designed for you to take out of doors in town or countryside, to help you identify the family to which a wild flower belongs. It has 36 sturdy pages, including a flowchart to ...

RHS Plant Finder 2015

Janet Cubey

The RHS Plant Finder is Britain's most essential gardening annual. Listing over 70,000 accurately named plants, it is the ultimate guide to plants and where to find them. Contact details, websites and opening times are included ...

RHS Plant Finder 2016

72,000 Plants and Where to Find Them

James Armitage, Dawn Edwards, Kalman Konyves, Neil Lancaster, Rosalyn Marshall and Janet Cubey

Britain's best plant directory, including over 72,000 plants, with information on where to buy them. This edition includes over 3500 new plants, contact details for nearly 500 nurseries, and a new section on RHS Award of Garden Merit ...

Rare Plants of the Gobi Desert

Their Struggle for Survival

John Hare and Dame Jane Goodall

Superbly illustrated picture booklet shows some of the rare medicinal plants to be found in or near the Gobi Desert in China and Mongolia with a description of their use. The text and photographs have been checked by botanical authorities ...

Ressources Vegetales de l'Afrique Tropicale, Volume 11, Pars 2

Plantes Medicinales 2

Ameenah Gurib-Fakim and GH Schmelzer

PROTA 11 deals with the medicinal plants of Tropical Africa. Because the group is very large, it has been subdivided into 4 volumes. In PROTA 11(1), published in 2008, a total of 894 medicinal plants, belonging to a selection of 29 botanical ...

Rosas Silvestres Ibericas: Guia de Identificacion [Wild Roses of the Iberian Peninsula: Identification Guide]

Joel Calvo Casas and Elise Ross-Nadie

This work is the culmination of a collection project done in order to obtain a living collection of Iberian wild roses. This guide is intended for visitors to identify wild roses by means of accessible and easy-to-use indicators ...

Sacred Trees of Ireland

Christine Zucchelli

Trees mirror in many ways the life cycle of human beings: they are born from seed, they breathe and drink, they grow to maturity, reproduce and eventually die from age or disease. Their branches, roots and the veins of their leaves resemble ...

Schmeil-Fitschen: Die Flora Deutschlands und Angrenzender Lander [The Flora of Germany and Neighbouring Countries]

Gerald Parolly and Jens G Rohwer

With over 2.5 million copies sold, Schmeil-Fitschen Die Flora Deutschlands und Angrenzender Länder (often simply known as the Schmeil-Fitschen), is the most successful flora of its kind since its first publication with Quelle ...

Southern California Mountains Wildflowers

A Field Guide to Wildflowers of the San Bernadino Mountain Range Up to 5,000 Feet, Including San Gabriel, San Jacinto,

Pam Mackay and Timothy Thomas

Of the mountains of southern California, the San Bernardino Mountain Range is the most diverse, with over 1,600 species of native plants. Mojave Desert Wildflowers presents 350 to 400 plant species of the San Bernardino Mountains ...

Steinbachs Naturfuehrer Bauume und Straucher [Steinbach's Field Guide Trees and Shrubs]

Bruno P Kremer

Beech, maple, oak, ash: trees and shrubs are everywhere – in the woods, in fields, in gardens and in parks. With this nature guide you can reliably identify all the main trees and shrubs found in Germany in gardens and parks.

Taxonomic Revision of Gaillardia (Asteraceae)

Bill L Turner and Tom Watson

Most of the Phytologia Memoirs are dedicated to The Comps of Mexico, a long-running series of systematic accounts of all the tribes and genera of the family Asteraceae. Volume 13 is a special issue, giving a taxonomic ...

Taxonomic Revision of Lejeuneaceae

Subfamily Ptychanthoideae (Marchantiophyta) in China

Jian Wang, Rui-Liang Zhu and S Robbert Gradstein

Taxonomic Revision of Lejeuneaceae is the first treatment of the Chinese members of the Ptychanthoideae, a subfamily of Lejeuneaceae, provides detailed descriptions and illustrations of 38 species from 11 genera. Lejeuneaceae are ...

The Comps of Mexico: A Systematic Account of the Family Asteraceae, Chapter 1

Tribe Eupatorieae

Bill L Turner

The Comps of Mexico is a long-running series of systematic accounts of all the tribes and genera of the family Asteraceae. Chapter one in this treatment deals with the tribe Eupatorieae.

The Comps of Mexico: A Systematic Account of the Family Asteraceae, Chapter 10

Subfamily Coreopsideae

Bill L Turner

The Comps of Mexico is a long-running series of systematic accounts of all the tribes and genera of the family Asteraceae. Chapter ten in this treatment deals with the subfamily Coreopsideae.

The Comps of Mexico: A Systematic Account of the Family Asteraceae, Chapter 11

Tribe Helenieae

Billie L Turner

The Comps of Mexico is a long-running series of systematic accounts of all the tribes and genera of the family Asteraceae. Chapter 11 in this treatment deals with the tribe Helenieae.

The Comps of Mexico: A Systematic Account of the Family Asteraceae, Chapter 12

Tribe Bahieae and Tribe Chaenactideae

Billie L Turner

The Comps of Mexico is a long-running series of systematic accounts of all the tribes and genera of the family Asteraceae. Chapter 12 in this treatment deals with the tribes Bahieae and Chaenactideae.

The Comps of Mexico: A Systematic Account of the Family Asteraceae, Chapter 13

Tribes Madieae and Perityleae

Billie L Turner

The Comps of Mexico is a long-running series of systematic accounts of all the tribes and genera of the family Asteraceae. Chapter 13 in this treatment deals with the tribes Madieae and Perityleae.

The Comps of Mexico: A Systematic Account of the Family Asteraceae, Chapter 14

Tribe: Neurolaeneae. Tribe: Heliantheae: Subtribes: Ambrosiinae, Chromolepidinae and Dugesiinae

Billie L Turner

The Comps of Mexico is a long-running series of systematic accounts of all the tribes and genera of the family Asteraceae. Chapter 14 in this treatment deals with tribe Neurolaeneae, and the subtribes Ambrosiinae, Chromolepidinae ...

The Comps of Mexico: A Systematic Account of the Family Asteraceae, Chapter 15

Tribe Ecliptinae (Part 1), Genera: Baltimora, Calyptocarpus, Clibadium, Damnxanthodium, Delilia, Eclipta, Jefea, Lasiant

Billie L Turner

The Comps of Mexico is a long-running series of systematic accounts of all the tribes and genera of the family Asteraceae. Chapter 15 in this treatment deals with the first part of the tribe Ecliptinae, covering genera Baltimora ...

The Comps of Mexico: A Systematic Account of the Family Asteraceae, Chapter 16

Subtribe Ecliptineae (Part 2), Genera: Perymenium, Plagiolophus, Rensonia, Sphagneticola, Synedrella, Tuxtla, Wamalchita

Billie L Turner

The Comps of Mexico is a long-running series of systematic accounts of all the tribes and genera of the family Asteraceae. Chapter 16 in this treatment deals with the second part of the tribe Ecliptinae, covering genera ...

The Comps of Mexico: A Systematic Account of the Family Asteraceae, Chapter 17

Subtribe Enceliinae, Genera: Encelia, Flourensia, Geraea, Helianthella / Subtribe Engelmanniinae, Genera: Berlandiera, B

Billie L Turner

The Comps of Mexico is a long-running series of systematic accounts of all the tribes and genera of the family Asteraceae. Chapter 17 in this treatment deals with the subtribes Enceliinae (genera Encelia ...

The Comps of Mexico: A Systematic Account of the Family Asteraceae, Chapter 18

Subtribe Helianthinae (Part 1a), Genera: Aldama, Bahiopsis, Calanticaria, Davilanthus, Dendroviguiera, Gonzalezia

Billie L Turner

The Comps of Mexico is a long-running series of systematic accounts of all the tribes and genera of the family Asteraceae. Chapter 18 in this treatment deals with the first half of the first part of the subtribe Helianthinae and ...

The Comps of Mexico: A Systematic Account of the Family Asteraceae, Chapter 19

Subtribe Helianthinae (Part 1b), Genera: Helianthus, Heliomeris, Hymenostephium, Iostephane, Lagascea, Sclerocarpus, Sid

Billie L Turner

The Comps of Mexico is a long-running series of systematic accounts of all the tribes and genera of the family Asteraceae. Chapter 19 in this treatment deals with the second half of the first part of the subtribe Helianthinae and ...

The Comps of Mexico: A Systematic Account of the Family Asteraceae, Chapter 20

Subtribes: Montanoinae (Montanoa), Rojasianthinae (Rojasianthus), Rudbeckiinae (Ratibida, Rudbeckia), Spilanthinae (Acme

Billie L Turner

The Comps of Mexico is a long-running series of systematic accounts of all the tribes and genera of the family Asteraceae. Chapter 20 in this treatment deals with the several subtribes, namely Montanoinae (genus Montanoa ...

The Comps of Mexico: A Systematic Account of the Family Asteraceae, Chapter 6

Tribe Tageteae and Tribe Anthemideae

Bill L Turner

The Comps of Mexico is a long-running series of systematic accounts of all the tribes and genera of the family Asteraceae. Chapter six in this treatment deals with the tribes Tageteae and Anthemideae.

The Comps of Mexico: A Systematic Account of the Family Asteraceae, Chapter 8

Tribe Liabeae and Tribe Vernonieae

Bill L Turner

The Comps of Mexico is a long-running series of systematic accounts of all the tribes and genera of the family Asteraceae. Chapter eight in this treatment deals with the tribes Liabeae and Vernonieae.

The Comps of Mexico: A Systematic Account of the Family Asteraceae, Chapter 9

Subfamily Mutisioideae

Bill L Turner

The Comps of Mexico is a long-running series of systematic accounts of all the tribes and genera of the family Asteraceae. Chapter nine in this treatment deals with the subfamily Mutisioideae.

The Illustrated Guide to Edible Wild Plants

US Department of the Army

In a situation where survival is at stake, plants can provide crucial food and medicine. Their safe usage requires absolutely positive identification, knowing how to prepare them for eating, and a solid awareness of any dangerous properties ...

The Lycopods and Ferns of the Drakensberg and Lesotho

Jacobus P Roux and G Cooper-Driver

The Lycopods and Ferns of the Drakensberg and Lesotho is the most comprehensive account of the native and naturalised lycopod and fern species occurring in the Drakensberg and Lesotho region. With a history reaching back into the ...

The Mistletoes of Subtropical Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria

John T Moss and Ross Kendall

It is intended that The Mistletoes of Subtropical Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria be used as both a reference and a field guide. It provides a detailed introduction to mistletoes and their biology and deals with all ...

Thoreau's Wildflowers

Henry David Thoreau, Geoff Wisner and Barry Moser

Some of Henry David Thoreau's most beautiful nature writing was inspired by the flowering trees and plants of Concord. An inveterate year-round rambler and journal keeper, he faithfully recorded, dated, and described his sightings of ...

Type Specimens in China National Herbarium (PE), Volume 5: Angiospermae(2) [English / Chinese]

Lin Qi

Volume 5 of Type Specimens in China National Herbarium (PE) includes 498 type specimens from Liliaceae (2) (Angiospermae, Monocotyledoneae) to Salicaceae (Dicotyledoneae), comprising 319 holotypes,106 isotypes, 40 lectotypes ...

Wild Flowers of Britain

Month by Month

Margaret Erskine Wilson

Margaret Erskine Wilson, late President of Kendal Natural History Society, was a keen amateur botanist and watercolourist. In 1999, she donated to the Society 150 sheets of watercolour paintings representing a thousand British and Irish ...

Biocommunication of Ciliates

Gunther Witzany and Mariusz Nowacki

This is the first coherent description of all levels of communication of ciliates. Ciliates are highly sensitive organisms that actively compete for environmental resources. They assess their surroundings, estimate how much energy they ...

Biology: Concepts and Applications

Cecie Starr, Christine A Evers and Lisa Starr

In the new edition of Biology: Concepts and Applications, authors Cecie Starr, Christine A. Evers, and Lisa Starr have partnered with the National Geographic Society to develop a text designed to engage and inspire.

Cell Signalling

John T Hancock

Signalling within and between cells is one of the most important aspects of modern biochemistry and cell biology. An understanding of signalling pathways is vital to a wide range of biologists, from those who are investigating the causes ...

Critical Neuroscience

A Handbook of the Social and Cultural Contexts of Neuroscience

Suparna Choudhury and Jan Slaby

Critical Neuroscience brings together multi-disciplinary scholars from around the world to explore key social, historical and philosophical studies of neuroscience, and to analyze the socio-cultural implications of recent advances ...

Fungal Infection

Diagnosis and Management

Malcolm D Richardson and David W Warnock

Fungal Infection: Diagnosis and Management, 4th Edition is a concise and up-to-date guide to the clinical manifestations, laboratory diagnosis and management of superficial, subcutaneous and systemic fungal infections.

Genetics and Philosophy

An Introduction

Paul E Griffiths and Karola Stotz

In the past century, nearly all of the biological sciences have been directly affected by discoveries and developments in genetics, a fast-evolving subject with important theoretical dimensions. In this rich and accessible book ...

If a Lion Could Talk

Animal Intelligence and the Evolution of Consciousness

Stephen Budiansky

The study of animal intelligence has developed enormously over the last decade. Herons 'fish' using twigs as bait, monkeys add and subtract, ravens solve complex puzzles. Stephen Budiansky steers clear of sentimental attempts to ...

Life on the Edge

The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology

Jim Al-Khalili and Johnjoe McFadden

Life is the most extraordinary phenomenon in the known universe; but how does it work? Even in this age of cloning and synthetic biology, the remarkable truth remains: nobody has ever made anything living entirely out of dead material.

Life's Engines

How Microbes Made Earth Habitable

Paul G Falkowski

For almost four billion years, microbes had the primordial oceans all to themselves. The stewards of Earth, these organisms transformed the chemistry of our planet to make it habitable for plants, animals, and us.

Milk: The Biology of Lactation

Michael L Power and Jay Schulkin

After drawing its first breath, every newborn mammal turns his or her complete attention to obtaining milk. This primal act was once thought to stem from a basic fact: milk provides the initial source of calories and nutrients for all ...

Nature's Greatest Migrations

Marianne Taylor

This beautifully illustrated book on the world's most impressive and spectacular movements of animals, includes various species of mammals, birds, fish and invertebrates.

Principles of Genetics

D Peter Snustad and Michael J Simmons

Principles of Genetics is one of the most popular texts in use for the introductory course. It opens a window on the rapidly advancing science of genetics by showing exactly how genetics is done. Throughout, the authors incorporate ...

Skeletons: The Extraordinary Form and Function of Bones

Andrew Kirk

Bone is one of the most extraordinary materials in the natural world – flexible and strong, available in a number of types and densities. Yet we only absorb quite how amazing it is when we look at the range of different jobs it can ...

Sociobiology of Caviomorph Rodents

An Integrative Approach

Luis A Ebensperger and Loren D Hayes

Fully integrative approach to the sociobiology of caviomorph rodents. - Brings together research on social systems with that on epigenetic, neurendocrine and developmental mechanisms of social behaviour. - Describes the social ...

The End of Sex and the Future of Human Reproduction

Henry T Greely

Within twenty, maybe forty, years most people in developed countries will stop having sex for the purpose of reproduction. Instead, prospective parents will be told as much as they wish to know about the genetic makeup of dozens of embryos ...

The Oxford Handbook of Social Neuroscience

Jean Decety and John T Cacioppo

The complexities of the brain and nervous system make neuroscience an inherently interdisciplinary pursuit, one that comprises disparate basic, clinical, and applied disciplines. Behavioral neuroscientists approach the brain and nervous ...

The Psychology of the Human-Animal Bond

A Resource for Clinicians and Researchers

Christopher Blazina, Guler Boyraz and David S Shen-Miller

Since the domestication of dogs and cats thousands of years ago, the connection between humans and animals has been complex and evolving.Today, it is a significant area of psychological study, and of practice in areas as diverse as animal ...

Arch Lake Woman

Physical Anthropology and Geoarchaeology

Douglas W Owsley, Margaret A Jodry, Jr.,Thomas W Stafford, Jr.,C Vance Haynes and Denn Stafford

The Arch Lake human burial site, discovered in 1967 in eastern New Mexico, contains the third-oldest known remains in North America. Since its original excavation and removal to Eastern New Mexico University's Blackwater ...

Commingled Human Remains

Methods in Recovery, Analysis, and Identification

Bradley J Adams and John E Byr

Commingled human remains are encountered in situations ranging from prehistoric ossuaries to recent mass fatality incidents. Commingled Human Remains: Methods in Recovery, Analysis, and Identification brings together tools from ...

Darwin's Hunch

Science, Race, and the Search for Human Origins

Christa Kuljian

The Homo naledi announcement in September 2015 dominated the news and headlines for months internationally. The public reaction to the find clearly indicated a fascination in the search for human origins, and that the concept of ...

Does Altruism Exist?

Culture, Genes, and the Welfare of Others

David Sloan Wilson

David Sloan Wilson, one of the world's leading evolutionists, addresses a question that has puzzled philosophers, psychologists, and evolutionary biologists for centuries: Does altruism exist naturally among the Earth's creatures ...

How Science Works: Evolution

A Student Primer

R John Ellis

Evolution is just a theory, isn't it? What is a scientific theory anyway? Don't scientists prove things? What is the difference between a fact, a hypothesis and a theory in science? How does scientific thinking differ from religious ...

Human Motives and Cultural Models

Roy G D'Andrade and Diego Claudia Strauss

A full understanding of human action requires an understanding of what motivates people to do what they do. For too many years studies of motivation and of culture have drawn from different theoretical paradigms. Typically, human motivation ...

The Biology of Desire

Why Addiction is Not a Disease

Marc Lewis

Through the vivid, true stories of five people who journeyed into and out of addiction, a renowned neuroscientist explains why the "disease model" of addiction is wrong and illuminates the path to recovery. The psychiatric ...

The Philosophy of Human Evolution

A Philosophical Introduction

Michael Ruse

The Philosophy of Human Evolution provides a unique discussion of human evolution from a philosophical viewpoint, looking at the facts and interpretations since Charles Darwin's The Descent of Man. Michael Ruse explores such ...

Visions of Culture

An Introduction to Anthropological Theories and Theorists

Jerry D Moore

This classic textbook, now in its fourth edition, offers anthropology students a succinct, clear, and balanced introduction to theoretical developments in the field. The key ideas of 25 major theorists are briefly described and ...

What Teeth Reveal About Human Evolution

Debbie Guatelli-Steinberg

Over millions of years in the fossil record, hominin teeth preserve a high-fidelity record of their own growth, development, wear, chemistry and pathology. They yield insights into human evolution that are difficult, if not impossibl ...

A Biogeoscience Approach to Ecosystems

Edward A Johnson and Yvonne E Martin

Biogeoscience is a rapidly growing interdisciplinary field that aims to bring together biological and geophysical processes. A Biogeoscience Approach to Ecosystems builds an enhanced understanding of ecosystems by focusing on the ...

An Introduction to Disturbance Ecology

A Road Map for Wildlife Management and Conservation

Corrado Battisti, Gianluca Poeta and Giuliano Fanelli

An Introduction to Disturbance Ecology represents an introductory review of disturbance ecology and threat analysis, providing schematic concepts and approaches useful for work on sites that are affected by the impact of human ...

Atlas of Weed Mapping

Hansjorg Krahmer

Weeds are variously defined as plants growing where they are not wanted, plants that interfere with human activity. Weeds affect everyone in the world by reducing crop yield and quality, delaying or interfering with harvesting, interfering ...

Interactions Between Biosphere, Atmosphere and Human Land Use in the Amazon Basin

Laszlo Nagy, Bruce R Forsberg and Paulo Artaxo

Interactions Between Biosphere, Atmosphere and Human Land Use in the Amazon Basin offers a panorama of recent scientific achievements produced through the framework of the Large-Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere programme (LBA) and other ...

Learning Landscape Ecology

A Practical Guide to Concepts and Techniques

Sarah E Gergel and Monica G Turner

Learning Landscape Ecology meets a great demand for training in spatial analysis tools accessible to a wide audience. Landscape ecology continues to grow as an exciting discipline with much to offer for solving pressing and ...

Multispecies Studies

Thom van Dooren, Ursula Munster, Eben Kirksey, Deborah Bird Rose, Matthew Chrulew and Lowenhaupt T

A special issue of Environmental Humanities. The emerging field of multispecies studies, grounded in passionate immersion in the lives of fungi, microorganisms, animals, plants, and others, is opening up novel ways of ...

Routledge Handbook of Ecosystem Services

Marion Potschin, Roy Haines-Young, Robert Fish, R Kerry Turner and Robert Watson

The idea that nature provides services to people is one of the most powerful concepts to have emerged over the last two decades. It is shaping our understanding of the role that biodiverse ecosystems play in the environment and their ...

The Grey Squirrel Management Handbook

Charles Dutton

This new handbook reviews and compares methods of control of grey squirrels, how to identify damage to trees by grey squirrels and where you might expect to find damage in the woods. It provides information on equipment needed, where to ...

The Mathematics Behind Biological Invasions

Mark A Lewis, Sergei V Petrovskii and Jonathan R Potts

The Mathematics Behind Biological Invasions investigates the mathematical analysis of biological invasions. Unlike purely qualitative treatments of ecology, it draws on mathematical theory and methods, equipping the reader with ...

22 Ideas That Saved the English Countryside

The Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE), Peter Waine, Oliver Hilliam and Andrew Motion

The Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) is one of the world's longest running environmental groups, marshalling the conservation movement in England since 1926. This book celebrates the achievements of the CPRE and associated ...

Aquatic Functional Biodiversity

An Ecological and Evolutionary Perspective

Andrea Belgrano, Guy Woodward and Ute Jacob

Aquatic Functional Biodiversity: An Ecological and Evolutionary Perspective provides a general conceptual framework by some of the most prominent investigators in the field for how to link eco-evolutionary approaches with functional ...

Arboreal: Words from the Woods

Ali Smith, Simon Leatherdale, Alan Garner, Alec Finlay, Simon Armitage, David J Nash and F Stafford

Published in memory of the great botanist and writer Oliver Rackham, Arboreal gathers together the most compelling writers on landscape to explore our cultural relationship with trees and woods. The anthology is a collaboration ...

Catastrophe and Regeneration in Indonesia's Peatlands

Ecology, Economy and Society

Kosuke Mizuno, Motoko S Fujita and Shuichi Kawai

The serious degradation of the vast peatlands of Indonesia since the 1990s is the proximate cause of the haze that endangers public health in Indonesian Sumatra and Borneo, and also in neighbouring Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand.

Celebrating Soil

Discovering Soils and Landscapes

Megan R Balks and Darlene Zabowski

This richly illustrated book celebrates the diversity, importance, and intrinsic beauty of soils around the world and helps the reader to understand the ways that soils are related to the landscapes in which they form.

Floodplain Meadows - Beauty and Utility

A Technical Handbook

Emma Rothero, Sophie Lake and David Gowing

A brand new handbook on species-rich floodplain meadows. Comprehensive and beautifully illustrated, the handbook covers everything you need to know about the history, management, restoration and creation of this vitally important, yet ...

Forests, Business and Sustainability

Rajat Panwar, Robert Kozak and Eric Hansen

Forests are under tremendous pressure from human uses of all kinds, and one of the most significant threats to their sustainability comes from commercial interests. Forests, Business and Sustainability presents a comprehensive ...

Mountain: Nature and Culture

Veronica della Dora

Majestic and awe-inspiring, mountains demand our attention. Through the centuries, they have both repulsed and attracted. They have been appreciated and despised as sites of divine and diabolic sublimity, as the dwellings of gods and demons ...

Paludiculture - Productive Use of Wet Peatlands

Climate Protection - Biodiversity - Regional Economic Benefits

Wendelin Wichtmann, Christian Schroder, Hans Joosten, Michael Succow and Martin Frick

Peatlands cover some 4 million km² worldwide. Approximately 15% of this area – particularly in the temperate zone and the (sub)tropics – is drained, largely to be used for conventional agriculture and forestry.

Paludikultur - Bewirtschaftung Nasser Moore: Klimaschutz - Biodiversitat - Regionale Wertschopfung

Wendelin Wichtmann, Christian Schroder, Hans Joosten, Michael Succow and Martin Frick

Peatlands cover some 4 million km² worldwide. Approximately 15% of this area – particularly in the temperate zone and the (sub)tropics – is drained, largely to be used for conventional agriculture and forestry.

Piriformospora Indica

Sebacinales and their Biotechnological Applications

Ajit Varma, Gerhard Kost and Ralf Oelmuller

Sebacinales have emerged as a fascinating order with mutualistic plant-fungal symbionts that consists of exclusively beneficial fungi. This volume of Soil Biology presents an overview of the current results in Sebacinales research ...

The Chemistry of Soils

Garrison Sposito

A revised edition to the bestselling The Chemistry of Soils incorporating new research from the last eight years in the fields of environmental chemistry, ecosystem biogeochemistry, and scientific agriculture.

Urban Environments - History, Biodiversity and Culture

Ian D Rotherham

This volume is a retrospective publication of contributions originally to two national conferences / seminars held in Sheffield, on the theme of 'Urban Environments – History, Biodiversity and Culture'. To the updated ...

Biodiversity and Biogeographic Patterns in Asia-Pacific Region, Volume 1

Statistical Methods and Case Studies

Youhua Chen and Juan J Morrone

This brief book is dedicated to the quantitative analyses and systematic discussion of spatial biodiversity and biogeographic patterns in the Asia-Pacific region comprised of China, India and adjacent countries.

Dodging Extinction

Power, Food, Money, and the Future of Life on Earth

Anthony D Barnosky

Paleobiologist Anthony D. Barnosky weaves together evidence from the deep past and the present to alert us to the looming Sixth Mass Extinction and to offer a practical, hopeful plan for avoiding it. Writing from the front lines of extinction ...

Recovering Biodiversity in Indian Forests

G Viswanatha Reddy, K Ullas Karanth, N Samba Kumar, Jagdish Krishnaswamy and Krithi K Karanth

Recovering Biodiversity in Indian Forests demonstrates how varying levels of human disturbance manifested through different management regimes influence composition, richness, diversity and abundance of key mammal, bird and plant ...

Reintroduction of Fish and Wildlife Populations

David S Jachowski, Joshua J Millspaugh, Paul L Angermeier and Rob Slotow

Reintroduction of Fish and Wildlife Populations provides a practical step-by-step guide to planning, implementing, and evaluating the successful re-establishment of animal populations in former habitats or the introduction of the ...

The Red Book of the Republic of Moldova / Cartea Rosie a Republicii Moldova

The third edition of the Red Book of the Republic of Moldova includes 216 species of animals and 218 species of plants. The new version of the book has 75 species of plants more that were not previously considered as rare, but that are ...

Wildlife Conservation in Farm Landscapes

David B Lindenmayer, Damian Michael, Mason Crane, Sachiko Okada, Philip Barton, Karen Ikin and Flor

An increasing number of Australians want to be assured that the food and fibre being produced on this continent have been grown and harvested in an ecologically sustainable way. Ecologically sustainable farming conserves the array of species ...

Environmental Crises in Central Asia

From Steppes to Seas, from Deserts to Glaciers

Eric Freedman and Mark Neuzil

Environmental conditions do not exist in a vacuum. They are influenced by science, politics, history, public policy, culture, economics, public attitudes, and competing priorities, as well as past human decisions. In the case of Central ...

Storm: Nature and Culture

John Withington

Gales, cyclones, blizzards, tornados, and hurricanes – few things demonstrate the awesome power of nature like a good storm. Devastating, diverse, and sometimes appearing completely out of nowhere, storms are also a source of both ...

The White Planet

The Evolution and Future of Our Frozen World

Jean Jouzel, Claude Lorius and Dominique Raynaud

From the Arctic Ocean and ice sheets of Greenland, to the glaciers of the Andes and Himalayas, to the great frozen desert of Antarctica, The White Planet: The Evolution and Future of Our Frozen World takes readers on a spellbinding ...

What's Really Happening to Our Planet?

The Facts Simply Explained

Tony Juniper and HRH The Prince Of Wales

What's Really Happening to Our Planet? is the only book to fully review the current state of the planet and the way in which our unchecked human activity could change the world forever, with a perspective on what we can do ...

Animal Record Breakers

Thousands of Amazing Facts and Spectacular Feats

The Natural History Museum (London - UK) and Mark Carwardine

Animal Record Breakers is the definitive guide to the most exceptional creatures on Earth, from the strongest and shortest to the longest and laziest. Packed with thousands of amazing facts and the latest discoveries, it features ...

Earth History and Palaeogeography

Trond H Torsvik and L Robin M Cocks

Using full-colour palaeogeographical maps from the Cambrian to the present, this interdisciplinary volume explains how plate motions and surface volcanism are linked to processes in the Earth's mantle, and to climate change and the ...

Furry Logic

The Physics of Animal Life

Matin Durrani and Liz Kalaugher

Furry Logic looks in detail at the animals that use cool physics in weird and intriguing ways as part of their daily battle to survive. It details the role of physics in the lives of a number of animals, as uncovered by scientists ...

Near-Earth Objects

Finding Them Before They Find Us

Donald K Yeomans

Of all the natural disasters that could befall us, only an Earth impact by a large comet or asteroid has the potential to end civilization in a single blow. Yet these near-Earth objects also offer tantalizing clues to our solar system's ...

On the Scent

A Journey Through the Science of Smell

Paolo Pelosi

In humans, the perception of odours adds a fourth dimension to life, from the scent of flowers, the aroma of foods, and all the subtle smells in the environment. But how many types of odours can we distinguish? Why do we like the food we ...

Patterns in Nature

Why the Natural World Looks the Way It Does

Philip Ball

Though at first glance the natural world may appear overwhelming in its diversity and complexity, there are regularities running through it, from the hexagons of a honeycomb to the spirals of a seashell and the branching veins of a leaf.

Tank om..: Seriosa Vetenskapliga Svar pa Absurda Hypotetiska Fragor [What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd

Randall Munroe, Helena Sjostrand Svenn, Gosta Svenn and Gabriel Setterborg

Randall Munroe left NASA in 2005 to start up his hugely popular site XKCD 'a web comic of romance, sarcasm, math and language' which offers a witty take on the world of science and geeks. It's had over a billion page hits ...

The Continental Drift Controversy, Volume 2

Paleomagnetism and Confirmation of Drift

Henry R Frankel

Resolution of the sixty year debate over continental drift, culminating in the triumph of plate tectonics, changed the very fabric of Earth Science. This four-volume treatise on the continental drift controversy is the first complete history ...

The Continental Drift Controversy, Volume 3

Introduction of Seafloor Spreading

Henry R Frankel

Resolution of the sixty-year debate over continental drift, culminating in the triumph of plate tectonics, changed the very fabric of Earth science. This four-volume treatise on the continental drift controversy is the first complete history ...

The Continental Drift Controversy, Volume 4

Evolution into Plate Tectonics

Henry R Frankel

Resolution of the sixty-year debate over continental drift, culminating in the triumph of plate tectonics, changed the very fabric of Earth science. This four-volume treatise on the continental drift controversy is the first complete history ...

The Geology of Australia

David Johnson and Bob Henderson

The Geology of Australia documents the rich and spectacular heritage of the Australian continent over the last 4400 million years. Now in its third edition, The Geology of Australia provides a comprehensive overview of ...

The Geology of Eigg

John D Hudson, Angus D Miller and Ann Allwright

Eigg is a small island, but it displays a remarkable variety of geology in a beautiful setting, in a way that is readily appreciated by those without any special knowledge of geology. There is an inspiring precedent in the visit of that ...

A Metaphysics for Scientific Realism

Knowing the Unobservable

Anjan Chakravartty

Scientific realism is the view that our best scientific theories give approximately true descriptions of both observable and unobservable aspects of a mind-independent world. Debates between realists and their critics are at the very ...

Biological Classification

A Philosophical Introduction

Richard A Richards

Modern biological classification is based on the system developed by Linnaeus, and interpreted by Darwin as representing the tree of life. But despite its widespread acceptance, the evolutionary interpretation has some problems and ...

Contemporary Metaethics

An Introduction

Alexander Miller

This new edition of Alexander Miller's highly readable introduction to contemporary metaethics provides a critical overview of the main arguments and themes in twentieth- and twenty-first-century contemporary metaethics. Miller traces ...

Neither Brain Nor Ghost

A Nondualist Alternative to the Mind-Brain Identity Theory

W Teed Rockwell

In this highly original work, Teed Rockwell rejects both dualism and the mind-brain identity theory. He proposes instead that mental phenomena emerge not merely from brain activity but from an interacting nexus of brain, body, and world.

Process Philosophy

A Survey of Basic Issues

Nicholas Rescher

Process Philosophy surveys the basic issues and controversies surrounding the philosophical approach known as process philosophy. Process philosophy views temporality, activity, and change as the cardinal factors for our understanding ...

Religion Explained

The Human Instincts That Fashion Gods, Spirits and Ancestors

Pascal Boyer

Why are there religious beliefs in all cultures? Do they have features in common and why does religion persist in the face of science? Pascal Boyer shows how experimental findings in cognitive science, evolutionary biology and cultural ...

Routledge Handbook of Ocean Resources and Management

Hance D Smith, Juan Luis Suarez de Vivero and Tundi S Agardy

This comprehensive handbook provides a global overview of ocean resources and management by focusing on critical issues relating to human development and the marine environment, their interrelationships as expressed through the uses of ...

Saving Truth from Paradox

Hartry Field

Saving Truth from Paradox is an ambitious investigation into paradoxes of truth and related issues, with occasional forays into notions such as vagueness, the nature of validity, and the Gödel incompleteness theorems.

State of the World 2016

Can a City be Sustainable?

The Worldwatch Institute

Cities are the world's future. Today, more than half of the global population, 3.7 billion people, are urban dwellers, and that number is expected to double by 2050. There is no question that cities are growing; the only debate is over ...

The Dirty Side of the Garment Industry

Fast Fashion and its Negative Impact on Environment and Society

Nikolay Anguelov

When thinking about lowering or changing consumption to lower carbon footprints, the obvious offenders come easily to mind: petroleum and petroleum products, paper and plastic, even food. But not clothes. Although the clothing industry ...

The Ethics of Intercultural Communication

Bo Shan and Clifford Christians

The revolution in media technologies and the political upheavals intertwined with them demand a new media ethics. Given the power of global media corporations and the high-speed electronics of media technologies worldwide, more and more ...

The Myth of Morality

Richard Joyce

In The Myth of Morality, Richard Joyce argues that moral discourse is hopelessly flawed. At the heart of ordinary moral judgements is a notion of moral inescapability, or practical authority, which, upon investigation, cannot be ...

The Politics of Knowledge and Global Biodiversity

Alice BM Vadrot

The establishment of the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) points to the crucial role attributed to science and knowledge for the successful implementation of biodiversity politics by both scientists ...

Game Theory in Action

An Introduction to Classical and Evolutionary Models

Stephen Schecter and Herbert Gintis

Game Theory in Action is a textbook about using game theory across a range of real-life scenarios. From traffic accidents to the sex lives of lizards, Stephen Schecter and Herbert Gintis show students how game theory can be applied ...

Research Methods for the Biosciences

Debbie Holmes, Peter Moody, Diana Dine and Laurence Trueman

Research Methods for the Biosciences is the perfect resource for students wishing to develop the crucial skills needed for designing, carrying out, and reporting research, with examples throughout the text drawn from real ...

The Analysis of Biological Data

Michael C Whitlock and Dolph Schluter

Knowledge of statistics is essential in modern biology and medicine. Biologists and health professionals learn statistics best with real and interesting examples. The Analysis of Biological Data, Second Edition, by Whitlock and ...

Where the Animals Go

Oliver Uberti and James Cheshire

Until the twentieth century, the study of animals was limited to what a naturalist could observe. 'Tracking animals' meant following their footprints and droppings. In 1900, scientists began the first bird-banding schemes and ...

Managing Conflict Through Communication (International Edition)

Dudley Cahn and Ruth Abigail

Managing Conflict Through Communication helps students approach conflict constructively and learn more positive conflict management and resolution skills. Narratives and case studies make the material accessible and ...

The Return of Curiosity

What Museums are Good for in the 21st Century

Nicholas Thomas

Over the last twenty years museums have proliferated, attracting new audiences and assuming new prominence in public life. The Return of Curiosity offers a fresh perspective on museums and what they may now be good for.

Traditions of Systems Theory

Major Figures and Contemporary Developments

Darrell P Arnold

The term 'systems theory' is used to characterize a set of disparate yet related approaches to fields as varied as information theory, cybernetics, biology, sociology, history, literature, and philosophy. What unites each of these ...

Writing a Proposal for Your Dissertation

Guidelines and Examples

Steven R Terrell

This user-friendly guide helps students get started on – and complete – a successful doctoral dissertation proposal by accessibly explaining the process and breaking it down into manageable steps. Steven R. Terrell demonstrates ...