Bats

Phil Richardson

Highly recommended introduction. Illustrated by Guy Troughton. ....

Bears

A Brief History

Bernd Brunner

Examines the shared history of people and bears. Combining history, literature, and science, this book presents the interactions between the two species and explores how ....

Chimpanzee Politics

Power and Sex among Apes

Frans de Waal

The first edition of Frans de Waal's "Chimpanzee Politics" was acclaimed not only by primatologists for its scientific achievement but also by politicians, business leaders, ....

The Evolution of Artiodactyls

Edited by Donald R Prothero and Scott E Foss

Artiodactyls are diverse and successful hoofed mammals. A tremendous amount of research has been conducted on this important order. This work synthesizes this research and ....

Field Guide to the Mammals of Southern Africa

Chris Stuart and Tilde Stuart

Southern Africa has a wealth of mammal species, a total of 337 - all of which are covered in this fully revised comprehensive field guide. While the term 'African ....

The Functional and Evolutionary Biology of Primates

Russell H Tuttle

Reprint of the original edition, published in 1972. ....

Handbuch der Fledermäuse Europas und Nordwestafrikas

Biologie, Kennzeichen, Gefährdung

Christian Dietz and Otto von Helversen

Handbook of the bats of Europe and Northwest Africa. The most comprehensive book on the subject available, covers all 41 species, their biology, distribution, status, ecology, ....

Lagomorph Biology

Evolution, Ecology, and Conservation

Edited by Klaus Hackländer, Paulo Celio Alves and Nuno Ferrand

Lagomorphs are a mammalian order which includes rabbits, hares and pikas. They are distributed throughout the world and are of both scientific and public interest as they ....

The Last Stand of the Orangutan

State of Emergency: Illegal Logging, Fire and Palm Oil in Indonesia's National Parks

Edited by Christian Nellerman

This publication has been carried out on behalf of the Great Ape Survival Partnership (GRASP), established by UNEP and UNESCO in collaboration with a wide range of ....

Mammalogy

Adaption, Diversity, and Ecology

George Feldhamer, Lee Drickamer, Stephen H Vessey and Joseph F Merritt

The Class Mammalia is amazingly diverse, ranging from whales to marsupials to bats to primates. The more than 5,400 species occupy many habitats, with mammals present on all ....

Orangutan Diary - DVD

The presenters and crew spend a moving, inspiring and involving week in the heart of the biggest Orang-utan rehabilitation centre, providing a uniquely intimate and engaging ....

The Otter

Gordon Woodroffe

This booklet provides detailed research and information on recognition and relatives; aquatic adaptations; field signs; communication; coastal and freshwater otters; ....

A Photographic Guide to the Mammals of South-East Asia

Including Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Java, Sumatra, Bali and Borneo

Charles M Francis

South-east Asia is one of the richest parts of the world in terms of mammals, with over 150 species recorded there and species new to science still being described on a regular ....

Whales and Dolphins of the World

Mark Simmonds

Lavishly illustrated reference published in association with the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society. It covers the 80 species of whales, dolphins and porpoises that ....

The Atlas of Breeding Birds of Alberta

A Second Look

Edited by The Federation of Alberta Naturalists

After five years of extensive field research by over 1200 volunteers, The Atlas of Breeding Birds of Alberta: A Second Look will emerge in beautiful, large, hard cover ....

Las Aves Esteparias en Castilla y Leon

Distribucion, Poblacion y Tendencia

Javier Garcia Fernandez

Bibliographie d'Ornithologie de Provence et de Corse (1552-2004)

Walter Belis and Frank Dhermain

This issue of Faune & Nature contains two bibliographies: ....

Birder's Conservation Handbook

100 North American Birds at Risk

Jeffrey V Wells

Until now there has been no single, comprehensive resource on the status of North America's most threatened birds and what people can do to help protect them. "Birder's ....

Birding Essentials

All the Tools, Techniques, and Tips You Need to Begin and Become a Better Birder

Jonathan Alderfer and Jon L Dunn

Teaches how to begin and improve birding, what to look and listen for, and how to make sense of what is seen and heard. A unique visual component shows actual field guide ....

Birds and Wind Farms

Risk assessment and mitigation

Manuela de Lucas, Guyonne FE Janss and Miguel Ferrer

Presents a scientific approach for the assessment of the hazard this new industry poses on bird populations. ....

The Birds of Gwent

Andrew Baker

The County Avifauna series provides detailed information on the range and status of bird species at county level. Each title includes a breakdown of rarity records, and there ....

Cockatoos

Matt Cameron

For much of the last century, the cockatoo was generally viewed as a common part of the landscape. Today, some species are struggling to hang on in an environment that has been ....

Condor

To the Brink and Back - The Life and Times of One Giant Bird

John Nielsen

The California condor has been described as a bird "with one wing in the grave." Flying on wings nearly ten feet wide from tip to tip, these birds thrived on the carcasses of ....

Field Guide to Owls of California and the West

Hans Peeters

Most owls are almost perfectly adapted to life in the dark. Their vaguely humanoid faces reflect the spectacular evolution of their hearing and vision, which has made flight, ....

Fifty Uncommon Birds of the Upper Midwest

Nancy Overcott

Gardner and Overcott selected species that are uncommon because of dwindling populations, species that may be common elsewhere but not in the Upper Midwest, species ....

El Milano Real en España: Il Censo Nacional (2004)

Iris E Cardiel Olmedo

Distribution data for the Red Kite (Milvus milvus) in Spain. ....

Norfolk Island ... the Birds

Margaret Christian

Photo identification guide to all birds on Norfolk Island. Includes information on extinct species (with colour drawings), endemic species, breeding species and visitors & ....

Numbers and Distribution of Waterbirds and Wetlands in the Asia-Pacific Region

Results of the Asian Waterbird Census: 2002-2004

ZWD Li and T Mundkur

This report summarises the results of the Asian Waterbird Census in 2002, 2003 and 2004, comprising counts at 2,032 sites in 22 countries. Of these sites, 459 met the criteria ....

Owls of the United States and Canada

A Complete Guide to their Biology and Behavior

Wayne Lynch

Owls have become the stuff of lore and legend - from the Roman myth that an owl foot could reveal secrets to the First Nations belief that an owl feather could give a ....

Peterson Reference Guides: Gulls of the Americas

Steve NG Howell and Jon Dunn

Covering the thirty-six species of gulls that occur in North and South America, this unparalleled resource includes detailed identification information for the many plumages ....

A Photographic Guide to Birds of India and Nepal

Bikram Grewal

A country of huge scenic diversity, India is a birdwatcher's paradise and a popular tourist destination. The many species found in India and Nepal range from the mighty ....

A Photographic Guide to Birds of Peninsular Malaysia and Singapore

Geoffrey Davison and Chew Yen Fook

This is a compact, easy-to-use bird identification guide for any birdwatcher visiting Malaysia and Singapore. ....

A Photographic Guide to the Birds of China including Hong Kong

John MacKinnon and Nigel Hicks

This is a compact, easy-to-use bird identification guide for any birdwatcher visiting China and Hong Kong. ....

Ptaki Poznania - Stan Jakosciowy I Ilosciowy Oraz Jego Zmiany W Latach 1850-2000 (The Birds of Poznan)

Jerzy Ptaszyk

Birds of Poznan - their qualitative and quantitative condition and its changes in the period 1859-2000. ....

Raptors of Eastern North America

Brian K Wheeler

Helps birders and biologists navigate the pitfalls of raptor identification, including raptors' often extreme variation by age and sex as well as the existence of numerous ....

Raptors of Western North America

Brian K Wheeler

Helps birders and biologists navigate the pitfalls of raptor identification, including raptors' often extreme variation by age and sex as well as the existence of numerous ....

Typusexemplare der Vogelsammlung im Museum Heineanum Halberstadt / Type specimens in the Bird Collection of the Museum Heineanum

Halberstadt

Christiane Quaisser and Bernd Nicolai

The White-Cheeked Geese

Taxonomy, Ecophysiographic Relationships, Biogeography, and Evolutionary Considerations, Volume 1

Harold C Hanson

The taxonomy of the white-cheeked geese (Branta canadensis, B.maxima, B.lawrensis, B.hutchinsii, B.leucopareia and B.minima) has perhaps been more poorly understood than ....

Wings of Spring

Courtship, Nesting, and Fledging

Tom Vezo and Chuck Hagner

With over 200 images by one of the country's top nature photographers, this beautiful and informative book tells the age-old story of how birds migrate to their nesting ....

Anfibios y Reptiles de la Peninsula Iberica e Islas Baleares

Toni Aragon

Photo identification guide to the reptiles and amphibians of Portugal and Spain (including the Balearic Islands). ....

Field Guide to Reptiles of Southern Africa

Graham Alexander and Johan Marais

This title is intended as a companion volume to 'A Complete Guide to the Snakes of Southern Africa'. It features the 516 reptile species for the subregion (27 tortoises, ....

Systematics and Zoogeography of Philippine Amphibia

Robert Inger

Dr Robert Inger's 1954 monograph "Systematics and Zoogeography of Philippine Amphibia" is a classic herpetological work that is a valuable source of information for SE Asian ....

Checklist of the Parasites of Fishes of Vietnam

J.Richard Arthur and Bui Quang Te

This publication contains information about literature reviews on the parasites of Vietnamese fishes dating from the earliest known record (Billet 1898) to the end of ....

Great White Sharks Preserved in European Museums

Alessandro De Maddalena

The author has condensed virtually everything that is known about the great white sharks that are preserved in European museums in this book. Available data of 105 great white ....

Transgenic Fish in Developing Countries

Edited by AR Kapuscinski, KR Hayes, S Li and G Dana

The decline of many individual and wild fish stocks commanded an increase in aquaculture production to meet the protein demands of a growing population. Transgenic methods ....

Ants of North America

A Guide to the Genera

Brian L Fisher and Stefan P Cover

Ants are among the most conspicuous and the most ecologically important of insects. This concise, easy-to-use, authoritative identification guide introduces the fascinating and ....

The Butterflies and Moths of Northern Ireland

Robert Thompson and Brian Nelson

The first complete account of the butterflies and moths of Northern Ireland - the species that live here, their habitats, the threats they face, the places to find them ....

Butterflies of Vietnam, Volume 2: Papilionidae

Alexander L Monastyrskii

Les Cahiers Magellanes, No. 64

Description of a new genus and species of Macrotomini from Sumatra

Ziro Komiya and Alain Drumont

Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Prioninae. ....

Les Cahiers Magellanes, No. 65

Synonymies, diagnoses et bionomie de quelques Lamiaires africains (XIe note)

Pierre Téocchi, Eric Jiroux and Jerome Sudre

The Collembola of Fennoscandia and Denmark: Part 2: Entomobryomorpha and Symphypleona

Arne Fjellberg

This volume completes the survey of the ca. 400 species of springtails, which can be found in Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Iceland, the Faroes and the Arctic Islands ....

Dragonflies and Damselflies of Namibia

Frank Suhling and Andreas Martens

The diversity of dragonflies and damselflies in Namibia is surprisingly high for such an arid country. This book describes 127 species recorded in Namibia and their distribution ....

Encyclopedia of the Swedish Flora and Fauna: Skalbaggar: Långhorningar

Coleoptera: Cerambycidae

Edited by Bo G Svensson and Bengt Ehnström

Covers about 130 species of longhorn beetles know from Sweden, Finland, Norway and Denmark. ....

Folia Heyrovskyana, Supplement 12: A Revision of the Anthaxia (Anthaxia)

Funerula Species-Group (Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Anthaxiini)

Svatopluk Bily

Forensic Entomology

An Introduction

Dorothy E Gennard

A concise introduction to entomology in a forensic context and also a practical guide to collecting entomological samples at the crime scene. Assuming little prior knowledge of ....

Indian Encyrtidae (Hymenoptera : Chaleidoidea)

Mohammad Hayat

Keys to genera and species, and a catalogue. ....

Die Land- und Sü wasserschnecken der Balearischen Inseln

Karl-Heinz Beckmann

Freshwater and marine molluscs of the Balearics. Including the description of a new subspecies of Xerocrassa in the main text and the descriptions of 9 new species from the ....

The Lepidoptera of Israel, Volume II: Noctuidae

VD Kravchenko, M Fibiger, A Hausmann and GC Mueller

Volume 2 summarizes information pertaining to 420 noctuid moth species currently recorded in Israel, illustrated with 38 life-sized color plates. ....

Longicorn Beetles of Japan

Manual with Keys and Illustrations

Edited by Nobuo Obayashi and Tatsuya Niisato

Covers 946 species. ....

The Natural History of the Rose Bedeguar Gall and its Insect Community

Simon Randolph

The gall known as the Rose Bedeguar or Robin's Pincushion is a common, strikingly conspicuous and attractive gall, usually found on wild dog roses. It is caused by a tiny ....

A Photographic Guide to Insects of New Zealand

Brian Parkinson and Don Horne

The country's long isolation from from other land masses has led to a flowering of remarkable species including the world's heaviest insect (giant eweta) and largest ....

A Revised Checklist of the Non-marine Mollusca of Britain and Ireland

RA Bank, G Falkner and T von Proschwitz

Reprint from Heldia, Vol. 5, Part 3: pp 41-72 (2007) . ....

Seashells of Southern Florida

Living Marine Mollusks of the Florida Keys and Adjacent Regions: Bivalves

Paula M Mikkelsen and Rudiger Bieler

Located where the Atlantic Ocean, Gulf of Mexico, and Caribbean Sea converge, the Florida Keys are distinctive for their rich and varied marine fauna. The Keys are home ....

Taxonomic Revision of the Ant Genus Linepithema (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

Alexander L Wild

The Neotropical ant genus Linepithema is revised at the species level for the first time. Following extensive synonymy, nineteen species are recognized, including six new ....

White as a Ghost

Winter Ticks And Moose

Bill Samuel

In 'White as a Ghost: Winter Ticks & Moose', Dr. Samuel brilliantly combines science and day-to-day language to provide insight into what is known and not known, about winter ....

The Crato Fossil Beds of Brazil

Window into an Ancient World

David Martill, Gunter Bechly and Robert Loveridge

A beautifully illustrated volume describes the flora and fauna of the Lower Cretaceous Crato Formation of Brazil, one of the world's most important fossil deposits, exhibiting ....

The Dinosauria

Edited by D Weishampel, P Dodson and H Osmólska

When The Dinosauria was first published more than a decade ago, it was hailed as "the best scholarly reference work available on dinosaurs" and "an historically ....

Evolution

What the Fossils Say and Why it Matters

Donald R Prothero

Over the past twenty years, paleontologists have made tremendous fossil discoveries, including fossils that mark the growth of whales, manatees, and seals into land mammals ....

Geochronology

Emerging Opportunities

Edited by Thomas D Olszewski

Mammoths

Giants of the Ice Age

Adrian Lister and Paul Bahn

A dazzling visual record of one of Earth's most extraordinary species, this updated and revised edition of "Mammoths: Giants of the Ice Age" integrates exciting new research to ....

The Rise of Animals

Evolution and Diversification of the Kingdom Animalia

Mikhail A Fedonkin, James G Gehling et al

Among the major events in evolutionary history, few rival in importance the appearance of animals. A reference providing a synthesis of the early radiation of the animal ....

Sea Monsters

Prehistoric Creatures of the Deep

Michael Everhart

An amazing plunge into the Cretaceous oceans of 80 million years ago, a merciless realm ruled by the most ferocious animals ever to stalk the seas of planet Earth. More ....

Marine Life of Fiji & Tonga DVD

A Video Identification Guide

Josh Jensen and Liz Harlin

This Video ID Guide covers the incredible biodiversity of this fantastic diving region. It contains video clips of almost every species of marine plant and animal the authors ....

Response of Marine Ecosystems to Global Change

Ecological Impact of Appendicularians

Edited by G Gorsky, MJ Youngbluth and D Deibel

Appendicularians are common in all the world's oceans. Although these free swimming tunicates are the most primitive chordates, having the smallest chordate genome known, ....

Up Close and Personal, Volume 1

An Underwater View of Vancouver Island

Wendy Carey

Vancouver Island offers some of the best scuba diving in the world. Jacques Cousteau has described diving here as, "the best temperate water diving in the world and second best ....

100 Natural Wonders of the World

AA

There are one hundred wonders of the natural world in this fantastic coffee table book. Discover an array of wonders, from Ayers Rock to the Dead Sea and The Giant's Causeway ....

100 Years of Wildlife

Michael Bright

Ever since 1907, when a flickering film about birds enthralled a cinema audience, we've been fascinated by watching the natural world on film. Accompanying the BBC two-hour ....

Beyond War

The Human Potential for Peace

Douglas P Fry

The classic opening scene of 2001, A Space Odyssey shows an ape-man wreaking havoc with humanity's first invention--a bone used as a weapon to kill a rival. It's an image ....

Bones, Rocks and Stars

The Science of When Things Happened

Chris Turney

What is the Turin Shroud? When were the Pyramids built? Where are the branches on the human family tree? Why did the dinosaurs die out? How did the Earth take shape? With ....

Buffon: La Nature en Majesté

Yves Laissus

Buffon: Oeuvres

Stephane Schimitt, Michel Delon and Cedric Cremiere

Charles Knight

Educator, Publisher, Writer

Valerie Gray

A modern study of Charles Knight, a nineteenth-century educational reformer, author, and publisher. It reexamines the evidence to offer assessments of Knight's life and work ....

Close-Up and Macro: A Photographers Guide

Robert Thompson

A comprehensive and fully illustrated guide to taking close-up photographs in the natural world. Suitable for both digital and film users, the book draws on the author's ....

The Clouded Leopard

A Book of Travels

Wade Davis

For many years and through many of the world's most remote regions, Wade Davis has travelled in search of the rare places where cultural diversity survives, untainted by ....

Coast from the Air

Neil Oliver

Viewed from the air, even the most familiar landscapes take on a startling new life. The countryside becomes a pattern; the coast becomes an edge. Humanity recedes and the land ....

Collins Complete Photography Manual

Steve Bavister et al

Everything you need to know about photography, both digital and film, written by a team of experts. This comprehensive and superbly illustrated guide covers all aspects from ....

Developing Vision and Style

A Landscape Photography Masterclass

David Ward, Joe Cornish and Charlie Waite

The authors are among Britain's best known and most respected landscape photographers; all three also write about their work in books and magazines and regularly lead the ....

The Earth From The Air: 365 New Days

Yann Arthus-Bertrand

This stunning daybook presents 365 entirely new, utterly dazzling images from master aerial photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand. The pictures cover every corner of every ....

Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures

Edited by H Selin

The second edition of this landmark encyclopaedia will contain approximately 1000 entries dealing in depth with the history of the scientific, technological and medical ....

Les Esprits de Vanikoro: Le Mystere Laperouse

Le Mystère Lapérouse

Francois Bellec

Extreme Places

AA

This is a beautiful book transporting you to the highest, hottest, coldest, most dramatic and most remote places on earth. Discover the icy expanse of the Baltoro ....

Francois Peron - An Impetuous Life

Naturalist and Voyager

Edward Duyker

In 1800 Francois Peron, an ambitious young medical student not long released from the French revolutionary army, gained a place as an assistant zoologist on Nicolas Baudin's ....

Georges Cuvier: Naissance d'un Genie

Philippe Taquet

Good Observers of Nature

American Women and the Scientific Study of the Natural World, 1820-1885

Tina Gianquitto

Examines nineteenth-century American women's intellectual and aesthetic experience of nature and investigates the linguistic, perceptual, and scientific systems that were ....

Hoshino's Alaska

Michio Hoshino

Michio Hoshino travelled from his native Japan to Alaska in 1972 for what was intended to be a short two-week visit. He stayed for three months. Having found a deep affinity ....

In Defense of Nature

John Hay

Originally published in 1969, "In Defense of Nature" is an eloquent and prescient plea on behalf of the natural world. Devoid of sentimentality yet lyrical and deeply moving ....

In the Blink of an Eye

The World As You Have Never Seen It

John Brackenbury

A collection of photographs revealing aspects of the world around us, that are either too small to notice or so quick as to be invisible to the human eye. Featuring 100 ....

J. Robert Oppenheimer

A Life

Abraham Pais

The late Abraham Pais wrote the definitive biography of Albert Einstein, "Subtle is the Lord" which won an American Book Award. As a distinguished physicist and Einstein's ....

The Joy of Science

Richard A Lockshin

This book, by a practicing and successful scientist, explores why questions arise in science and looks at how questions are tackled, what constitutes a valid answer, and ....

Lamarck, Philosophe de la Nature

Pietro Corsi, Jean Gayon, Gabriel Gohau and Stephane Tirard

A Life of J. C. Beaglehole

New Zealand Scholar

Tim Beaglehole and T.H Beaglehole

The life of one of New Zealand' s greatest scholars, J. C. Beaglehole, is presented through firsthand writings, including previously unpublished letters, in this ....

Light on the Earth: Collection 2

Edited by Rosamund Kidman Cox

Features 12 of the wildlife photographers and portfolios of their own photographs. This title presents scenes of animal behaviour and portraits of wild creatures. It emphasises ....

The Loss of Certainty

Herman von Helmholtz's Mechanism at the Dawn of Modernity. A Study on the Transition from Classical to Modern Philosophy of Nature

Gregor Schiemann

Two seemingly contradictory tendencies have accompanied the development of the natural sciences in the past 150 years. On the one hand, the natural sciences have been ....

Låt Inte Råttor Eller Mal Fördärva...

Linnésamlingar i Uppsala

Edited by Anna Sjögren, Roland Moberg and Annika Windahl Ponten

The title of this work translates as "Don't let rats and moths ruin..." - these were the last words of Linnaeus to his wife, asking her to take care of his collections. ....

Monkey Trials and Gorilla Sermons

Evolution and Christianity from Darwin to Intelligent Design

Peter J Bowler

From the beginning, Darwin's dangerous idea has been a snake in the garden, denounced from pulpits then and now as incompatible with the central tenets of Christian faith. ....

Natural Dyes

Sources, Tradition, Technology, Science

Dominique Cardon

At a time when more and more plants and animals are threatened with extinction by humanity's ever-increasing pressure on the land and oceans of the planet, this book sets ....

Ornithology, Evolution, and Philosophy

The Life and Science of Ernst Mayr 1904-2005

Jürgen Haffer

This book is the first detailed biography of Ernst Mayr (1904 - 2005). Ernst Mayr was the `architect' of the Synthetic Theory of Evolution, and the greatest evolutionary ....

Oudry's Painted Menagerie

Portraits of Exotic Animals in Eighteenth Century Europe

Edited by Mary Morton

This volume - published to coincide with an exhibition at the J. Paul Getty Museum to be held from May 1 to September 2, 2007 - is the first to focus on the series of life-size ....

A Passion for Systems

Linnaeus and the Dream of Order in Nature

Nils Uddenberg

Linnaeus introduced his pioneering sexual systems for plants for the first time in 1735. His contemporaries were shocked by Linnaeus' frank comparisons with the sexual ....

Planet Earth: The Photographs

Alastair Fothergill

This book brings together a very special collection of pictures. "Planet Earth" is now regarded as the ultimate wildlife TV series, and its magic lies in its photography. ....

Planet Ocean: Voyage to the Heart of the Marine Realm

Laurent Ballesta and Pierre Descamp

Spanning the vast range of Earth's marine environments, from Greenland to the Polynesian Islands, this book reveals hidden landscapes of unsurpassed beauty and awe. These ....

Rare, Wild and Free

Mike Tomkies

A collection of the author's finest writings and wildlife photographs from the 20 years he spent in the remotest parts ....

Science and History

A Reassessment of the Historiography of Science

Joseph Agassi

Professor Joseph Agassi has published his Towards an Historiography of Science in 1963. It received many reviews by notable academics, including Maurice Finocchiaro, Charles ....

Science in the Marketplace

Nineteenth-Century Sites and Experiences

Edited by Aileen Fyfe and Bernard Lightman

The nineteenth century was an age of transformation in science, when scientists were rewarded for their startling new discoveries with increased social status and authority. ....

Scott of the Antarctic

David Crane

A biography of Captain Scott - the pivotal figure in pre-First World War Antarctic exploration, this illustrated book re-examines the courage and tragedy of Scott's ....

Slicing the Silence

Voyaging to Antarctica

Tom Griffiths

From Scott and Shackleton to sled dogs and penguins, stories of Antarctica seize our imagination. In December 2002, environmental historian Tom Griffiths set sail with the ....

Through the Eyes of the Condor

An Aerial Vision of Latin America

Robert Bartlett Haas

To create this portfolio, Haas covered 14 countries and astonishing 80% of the land mass of Latin America. In magnificent colour, he captures the majesty of the Amazon, the ....

Timeless Wonders

A Fantastic Journey Through the World's Natural Beauties

Robert J Moore

This book offers an extensive collection of photographs and clear, concise texts that describe Earth's natural treasures from major geological, biological and scenic ....

Unseen Companions

Big Views of Tiny Creatures

David Spears, Madeline Spears and Adrian Warren

Most of us are aware that we share our lives and our homes with countless tiny creatures, plants, fungi and bacteria. Our bodies alone present an amazing array of ....

Wild at Heart

Man and Beast in Southern Africa

Chis Johns and Peter Godwin

In evocative photographs and accompanying text, this book crisscrosses southern Africa - from the Kalahari Desert and Drakensburg Mountains to the Skeleton Coast and Zambesi ....

Wildlife Photographer of the Year, Portfolio Seventeen

Rosamund Kidman Cox

This new collection of stunning wildlife photographs represents the best images taken by top nature photographers around the world that have been submitted to the 2006 Wildlife ....

William and Lawrence Bragg, Father and Son

The Most Extraordinary Collaboration in Science

John Jenkin

In 1912 Lawrence Bragg explained the interaction of X-rays with crystals, and he and his father (William) thereby pioneered X-ray spectroscopy and X-ray crystallography. They ....

The Wizard of Humbug Forest

The Story of Thomas Paine Bellchambers 1858-1929

Phillip S Bellchambers

This revised edition is the story of the renowned naturalist, Thomas Paine Bellchambers, 1858-1929. The first section describes Tom's background, character and philosophy. The ....

American Environmental History: An Introduction

Carolyn Merchant

Environmental history first emerged as a distinct area of scholarship in the early 1970s and has been growing steadily ever since. By studying the many ways diverse peoples have ....

British Wildlife eGuide

Paul Sterry

A mobile version of the best-selling photo guide Complete British Wildlife by Paul Sterry. Covers the mammals, birds, fish, reptiles and amphibians, and invertebrates ....

Culturing Wilderness in Jasper National Park

Studies in Two Centuries of Human History in the Upper Athabasca River Watershed

Edited by IS Maclaren

In 1907, the Canadian government designated a vast section of the Rocky Mountains as Jasper Forest Park. This work reveals the history of the upper Athabasca River ....

Field Guide to the Natural World of New York City

Leslie Day

There is a secret world within New York City, a universe of creatures great and small living side-by-side with the Big Apple's Homo sapiens. Divided into sections for ....

The First Eden - DVD

David Attenborough

A glorious portrait of the landscape, wildlife and plants of the Mediterranean, presented by Sir David Attenborough. From the earliest human settlements to the cities ....

Galapagos: Photo Safari Companion

Alain Pons and Christine Baillet

Galapagos, is, and no doubt always will be, associated with Darwin and his theories of evolution. These remote, volcanic islands remain home to more rare and extant plants and ....

Ganges

Jon Nicholson

The Ganges River (Gang Ma or Great Mother) is the holiest river in the world. Rising from the pure glacial meltwaters of the Himalaya, it flows down onto India's Northern ....

Hispaniola

A Photographic Journey through Island Biodiversity

Edited by Eladio Fernandez

A Dominican-based conservationist and photographer, Fernandez is documenting the efforts of a distinguished team of international scientists as they unravel the workings of ....

Kenya: Photo Safari Companion

Alain Pons and Christine Baillet

Kenya, is home to a rich assortment of mammals and birds and has long been a popular safari destination for naturalists, wildlife enthusiasts and photographers. This book ....

Madagascar: Photo Safari Companion

Alain Pons and Christine Baillet

Madagascar, which lies off the east coast of Africa is the world's fourth largest island. It is home to many enchanting animals including lemurs and chameleons. The ....

The Natural History of the Bible

An Environmental Exploration of the Hebrew Scriptures

Daniel Hillel

Traversing river valleys, fruitful fields, forested highlands, undulating grasslands, barren desert wastelands, and seacoasts, the Israelites came into contact with the ....

The Nature of Britain

Alan Titchmarsh

A guide to British wildlife. It offers a closer look at the animals and plants of Britain's landscape, with chapters ranging from Mountains, Lakes, Forests and Seashores ....

Secrets of the Savanna

Twenty Three Years in the African Wilderness Unravelling the Mysteries of Elephants and People

M Owens and D Owens

When the Owenses arrived at North Luangwa National Park in the mid-1980s, the park had been abandoned to poachers. Corrupt local officials, and even the scouts who were hired ....

Tanzania: Photo Safari Companion

Alain Pons and Christine Baillet

Tanzania has a history of wildlife protection and around 14 per cent of the country's land mass is given over to national parks and conservation areas. Perhaps best known is ....

Voyages to the South Seas

In Search of Terres Australes

Danielle Clode

Presents an epic narrative encompassing a remarkable period of French and Australian history - when Australia was France's Mars and marsupials were her aliens. This is the ....

Wild Amazon

A Photographer's Incredible Journey

Nick Gordon

Covering two and three quarter million square miles, Amazonia crosses the political borders of nine countries. Some 50 per cent of the world's terrestrial species, ....

Wildlife Detective

Alan Stewart

An insightful and humorous account of over 40 years policing a sector of criminal activity about which much of the public and even some police officers are unaware. ....

The African Baobab

Rupert Watson

The baobab is surely the botanical symbol of Africa, instantly recognizable from afar and a compelling icon of the African landscape. This age-old 'upside-down tree' ....

Algae and Cyanobacteria in Extreme Environments

Edited by Joseph Seckbach

A unique collection of essays, contributed by leading scientists from around the world, devoted to algae - and some related microbes - observed in unexpected harsh habits, ....

American Chestnut

The Life, Death, and Rebirth of a Perfect Tree

Susan Freinkel

The American chestnut was one of America's most common, valued, and beloved trees - a "perfect tree" that ruled the forests from Georgia to Maine. But in the early twentieth ....

Ancient Herbs

Marina Heilmeyer

The forty plants presented in this book comprise both herbs and other plants that were important for culinary, medicinal and cult purposes in classical antiquity. Thus olive ....

Los Arboles y Arbustos de la Peninsula Iberica e Islas Baleares

Especies Silvestres y las Principales Cultivadas

Gines A Lopez Gonzalez

Camellias

The Gardener's Encyclopedia

Jennifer Trehane

For decades, large swathes of the United States and Europe believed camellias to be altogther too tender for garden use, their exquisite blooms in pure colors giving the ....

Citrus

A History

Pierre Laszlo

Walk into your local grocery store and down the produce aisle, and you'll find a dazzling array of citrus, from navel oranges and clementines to grapefruit and key ....

Corticolous Crustose and Microfoliose Lichens of Northeastern Brazil

Marcela Eugenia and Silva Cáceres

A total of 456 species of corticolous crustose and microfoliose lichens are reported from the states of Rio Grande do Norte, Paraiba, Pernambuco, Alagoas and Sergipe in ....

Cuttings

Christopher Lloyd

This selection of over 100 columns originally printed in The Guardian, reflects the author's passions and challenges, his eagerness to experiment, his appetites and his ....

Exotic Planting for Adventurous Gardeners

Christopher Lloyd

Illustrated with hundreds of photographs, this title is about the most exciting plants grown by the author in his garden at Great Dixter in East Sussex. ....

Ferns of Kinabalu

An Introduction

John H Beaman and Peter J Edwards

The Kinabalu flora includes about 5000 species of vascular plants, of which some 12 percent are ferns. They occur from the lowest elevations to the highest and in every ....

Flora Malesiana, Series 1: Volume 17, Part 1: Moraceae - Genera other than Ficus

Flora de la Reserva Nacional de Río Clarillo

Guía de identificación de especies

Gustavo Aldunante, Paulina Riedemann, Sebastian Teillier and H Niemeyer

The book is an identification guide to the National Reserve of Rio Clarillo. ....

Flora of the Loess Plateau in Central China

A Field Guide

Edited by Cun-Gen Chen, Anton Fischer, Walter Hermann and Ping-Hou Yang

The Loess Plateau of Central China is a breathtaking landscape with a long cultural history, and with a very rich and spectacular flora. The Flora Loessplateau ....

Gardens and Cultural Change

A Pan-American Perspective

Edited by Michel Conan and Jeffrey Quilter

Gardens contain time, culture, and nature. They are powerful symbolic spaces onto which a society can project its ideals, either to conjure or contrive cultural change, rooting ....

Guia de Los Arboles y Arbustos de la Peninsula Iberica y Baleares

G Lopez Gonzalez

Guide Alla Flora - II

Le Guide Di Dryades 3 - Serie Flore II (F-II)

Pier Luigi Nimis and Stefano Martellos

Includes dichotomous keys for the identification of vascular plants in four areas of Friuli (NE Italy). The four keys, whose outline was produced by an original software ....

The Head Gardeners

Toby Musgrave

A study of the great Victorian and Edwardian head gardeners, a group of self-made men who transformed gardening from menial labour into a profession. This book aims to ....

The Hillier Manual of Trees and Shrubs

Edited by J Hillier and A Coombes

This revised pocket edition features 1500 new plant entries, for a total of over 10,500 plants representing more than 650 genera, all ....

How To Identify Trees in Southen Africa

Piet van Wyk and Braam van Wyk

With about 1800 native species of trees in southern Africa, plus several hundred more that have been introduced, the challenge of identifying even a small portion of these is ....

Identifying Trees

An All-Season Guide to Eastern North America

Michael D Williams

Identify trees in any season, not just when they are in full leaf. This field-tested guide features color photos showing bark; branching patterns; fruits, flowers, or nuts; ....

Impatiens

The Vibrant World of Busy Lizzies, Balsams, and Touch-Me-Nots

Raymond J Morgan

Many gardeners know of Impatiens walleriana, the species that lies behind the myriad colorful garden varieties that brighten up containers, window boxes, and shady spots ....

The Middle East Garden Traditions

Unity and Diversity; Questions, Methods, and Resources in a Multicultural Perspective

Edited by Michel Conan

This book unites new information and surprising results from the last fifteen years of garden research, at a remove from the cliches of Orientalism. Garden archaeology reveals ....

The National Plant Collections Directory 2007

National Council for the Conservation of Plants and Gardens

Contains details of the 650 National Plant Collections in the UK, including opening times, directions, facilities and availability of plants for sale. ....

Photographic Guide to the Wild Flowers of Britain and Northern Europe

Bob Gibbons

One of the most comprehensive collections of colour photographs of European plants (including many species of tree) ever published, the "Philip's Photographic Guide to ....

Physiological Ecology of Tropical Plants

Ulrich E Luttge

The fully revised and updated 2nd edition of this book covers all major tropical ecosystems from tropical forests to savannas, salinas, inselbergs and paramos. Tropical ....

Plant People

Behind-the-Scenes at Britain's Best-loved Gardening Institution

Carolyn Fry

No nation feels quite as passionately about its gardens as the British and no institution embodies this passion more than The Royal Horticultural Society. Famous for ....

Policies and Pleasaunces: A Guide to the Gardens of Scotland

Katie Campbell

An informative and fascinating guide for anyone exploring Scotland's heritage. Whether you are a casual tourist, dedicated gardener or garden historian, Katie Campbell's vivid ....

Protea

Colin Paterson-Jones

Protea is a spectacular introduction to the fascinating protea family in southern Africa. The title covers all of the protea groups, their origins, distribution, and the ....

RHS Garden Finder 2007-2008

More Than 1,000 Gardens to Visit and Enjoy

Edited by Charles Quest-Ritson

A guide to gardens in the UK. It lists the gardens in A-Z by country or region and details include: a brief description of each garden outlining highlights and key ....

Rafflesia: Magnificent Flower of Sabah

MS Kamaruddin

Reprint of the 1991 edition. Rafflesia expert Professor Dr Kamarudin Mat Salleh's close connections to Sabah stem ....

The Royal Horticultural Society Treasury of Trees

Writers and Artists in the Garden

Charles Elliot

The latest in "Frances Lincoln's" series of "RHS Treasuries", this charming anthology brings together a wealth of poetry and prose from a broad range of writers, from the ....

Saxifragacées

Flore pratique adaptée à la France; Utilisation des espèces horticoles et ornementales

André Gonard

Trees and Woodlands of South India

Archaeological Perspectives

Eleni Asouti and Dorian Q Fuller

This volume introduces the ecological history of woodland vegetation in South India. It incorporates a critical overview of the theories of ecological development on the ....

Trees of the California Landscape

Charles Hatch

From the iconic lone cypress on the Monterey coastline to the palm trees of Beverly Hills and the magnificent coastal redwoods, trees are a defining element of California's ....

A Year at Kew: Series 3 DVD

The Complete Third Series

Alan Titchmarsh

Narrated by Alan Titchmarsh, this critically acclaimed BBC2 series is a month-by-month journey through the world's greatest botanical garden. It follows the work of Kew's ....

A Year in the Life of Kew Gardens

Joanna Jackson

With over a million visitors a year, the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, is one of the world's best-loved gardens. As well as having a fascinating history and holding an ....

The Animals Reader

The Essential Classic and Contemporary Writings

Edited by Linda Kalof and Amy Fitzgerald

The study of animals - and the relationship between humans and other animals - is now one of the most fiercely debated topics in contemporary science and culture. ....

Beasts

Factual and Fantastic

Elizabeth Morrison

Manuscripts of the Middle Ages teem with pictures of animals, ranging from fierce hunting hawks tied to their owners' wrists, to proud lions added to the coats of arms of ....

The Biofilm Primer

J. William Costerton

This book details the widely accepted hypothesis that the majority of bacteria in virtually all ecosystems grow in matrix-enclosed biofilms. The author, who first ....

A Cultural History of Animals: 6 Volume Set

Edited by Linda Kalof and Brigitte Resl

A Cultural History of Animals is a multi-volume project on the history of human-animal relations from ancient times to the present. The set of six volumes covers 4500 years of ....

Deadly Companions

How Microbes Shaped our History

Dorothy H Crawford

Ever since we started huddling together in communities, the story of human history has been inextricably entwined with the story of microbes. They have evolved and spread ....

Early Modern Zoology: The Construction of Animals in Science, Literature and the Visual Arts

Edited by K.A.E Enenkel, E.E.P Kolfin and P.J Smith

The new definition of the animal is one of the fascinating features of the intellectual life of the early modern period. The sixteenth century saw the invention of the new ....

Environmental Genomics

Edited by C. Cristofre Martin

The goal of Environmental Genomics is to serve as a manual for an environmental scientist who wishes to embrace genomics to answer environmental questions. The volume ....

Essential Reproduction

Martin H Johnson

Provides a completely integrated and multidisciplinary approach to the study of mammalian reproduction for all students taking courses in reproductive physiology. ....

Gene Essentiality

Protocols and Bioinformatics

Edited by Svetlana Gerdes and Andrei L Osterman

This book contains a comprehensive collection of experimental and computational strategies and techniques for microbial genome-scale essentiality studies, developed and ....

The Great Brain Debate: Nature or Nurture?

John E Dowling

Whether our personality, intelligence, and behavior are more likely to be shaped by our environment or our genetic coding is not simply an idle question for today's ....

Imaging Cellular and Molecular Biological Functions

Edited by Spencer L Shorte and Friedrich Frischknecht

`Imaging cellular and molecular biological function' provides a unique selection of essays by leading experts, aiming at scientist and student alike who are interested in ....

Physiological Ecology

How Animals Process Energy, Nutrients, and Toxins

William H Karasov and Carlos Martinez del Rio

Unlocking the puzzle of how animals behave and how they interact with their environments is impossible without understanding the physiological processes that determine their use ....

Proteome Research

Concepts, Technology and Application

Edited by M.R Wilkins, R.D Appel, K.L Williams and D.F Hochstrasser

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

Pseudomonas, Volume 5: A Model System in Biology

Edited by Juan-Luis Ramos and Alain Filloux

This volume collects new information on the genomics of saprophytic soil Pseudomonas, as well as functions related to genomic islands. Pseudomonas are ubiquitous inhabitants and ....

Robustness and Evolvability in Living Systems

Andreas Wagner

Explores why genetic changes do not cause organisms to fail catastrophically and how evolution shapes organisms' robustness. This book looks at this problem, starting with ....

The Smaller Mystery Carnivores of the Westcountry

Jonathan Downes and Karl Schuker

Examines the current status in Cornwall, Devon, Somerset and Dorset of three species thought to be extinct: the Wildcat, the Pine Marten and the Polecat. ....

Darwin

Michael Ruse

The definitive work on the philosophical nature and impact of the theories of Charles Darwin, written by a well-known authority on the history and philosophy of Darwinism. ....

Dynamics of Cancer

Incidence, Inheritance, and Evolution

Steven A Frank

The onset of cancer presents one of the fundamental problems in modern biology. This book produces the comprehensive analysis of how particular genetic and environmental ....

Enhancing Evolution

The Ethical Case for Making Better People

John Harris

Decisive biotechnological interventions in the lottery of human life - to enhance our bodies and brains and perhaps irreversibly change our genetic makeup - have been widely ....

Evolution in Health and Disease

Edited by Stephen S Stearns and Jacob C Koella

In this fully revised and updated edition, the editors have integrated a completely new set of contributions from the leading researchers in the field to describe the latest ....

Historians and Nature

Comparative Approaches to Environmental History

Ursula Lehmkuhl and Hermann Wellenreuther

Historians and Nature considers five cutting-edge questions facing environmental historians today. How can we historicise nature? Is nature a historical actor? How have ....

Modeling Infectious Diseases in Humans and Animals

M Keeling and Pejman Rohani

This book is intended for epidemiologists, evolutionary biologists, and health-care professionals, real-time and predictive modeling of infectious disease is of growing ....

The Moral Brain

Essays on the Evolutionary and Neuroscientific Aspects of Morality

Edited by Johan Braeckman, Jan Verplaetse and Jelle De Schrijver

Scientists no longer accept the existence of a distinct moral organ as phrenologists once did. A generation of young neurologists is using advanced technological medical ....

On Evolution

John C Avise

John Avise is one of the most distinguished evolutionary biologists of our time. From how to define a species to the folly of faulty applications of cladistics to connections ....

On the Nature of Limbs

A Discourse

Richard Owen

The most prominent naturalist in Britain before Charles Darwin, Richard Owen made empirical discoveries and offered theoretical innovations that were crucial to the proof ....

Selection

The Mechanism of Evolution

Graham Bell

Adaptation is caused by selection continually winnowing the genetic variation created by mutation. In the last decade, our knowledge of how selection operates on populations in ....

Where the Wild Things Are Now

Domestication Reconsidered

Rebecca Cassidy and Molly Mullin

Domestication has often seemed a matter of the distant past, a series of distinct events involving humans and other species that took place long ago. Today, as genetic ....

The Ecology of Browsing and Grazing

Edited by Iain J Gordon and Herbert H.T Prins

This book shows how large herbivores react to the changes of their environment. ....

First Ecology

Ecological Principles and Environmental Issues

Alan Beeby and Anne-Maria Brennan

Provides a critical and evaluative introduction to the science of ecology. Alan Beeby and Anne-Maria Brennan present a succinct survey of ecology, describing and explaining ....

Principles and Standards for Measuring Primary Production

Edited by Timothy J Fahey and Alan K Knapp

This is the first book to establish a standardized method for measuring net primary productivity (NPP) in ecological research. ....

The Spatial Distribution of Microbes in the Environment

Edited by Rima Franklin and Aaron Mills

Microbes are very small and, as individuals, are capable of influencing a portion of the environment only slightly larger than their own body size, i.e., a few microns. ....

Temporal Dimensions of Landscape Ecology

Wildlife Responses to Variable Resources

Edited by John A Bissonette and Ilse Storch

Over the past twenty-five years, the effects of the spatial distribution and scaling of resources on animal populations have been increasingly studied in wildlife biology, ....

California Grasslands

Ecology and Management

Mark R Stromberg, Jeffrey D Corbin and Carla M D'Antonio

Grasslands are one of California's most important ecosystems in terms of both biodiversity and economic value. Bringing together the large amount of research ....

The Coastal Guide of South Africa

Jacana Maps

The Coastal Guide of South Africa is a basic guide to the coastline's biodiversity, from dune to ocean, developed in order to offer beach enthusiasts, holidaymakers and ....

Diatom Monographs, Volume 9: Diversity and Ecology of Benthic Diatom Communities in Relation to Acidity, Acidification and Recovery of Lakes

Janina Kwandrans

Flood Hazards and Health

Roger Few

Flood hazards and the risks they present to human health are an increasing concern across the globe. This book provides assessment and discussion of the global health ....

Foundation Papers in Landscape Ecology

Edited by John A Wiens, Michael R Moss, Monica G Turner and David J Mladenoff

Landscape ecology focuses on spatial heterogeneity, or the idea that where things are and where they are in relation to other things can have important consequences for a ....

Geomorphology of Desert Environments

Edited by Anthony J Parsons and Athol D Abrahams

About one-third of the Earth's land surface experiences a desert climate, and this area supports approximately 15% of the planet's population. This percentage continues to ....

Landslides and Climate Change

Challenges and Solutions

Robin McInnes

Investigates the relationship between landslides and climate change. This work considers proactive approaches to hazard and risk management, combining geohazard modelling and ....

Mangroves V1.0: A Multimedia Identification System of Mangrove Species

J Prosperi, BR Ramesh, P Grard, LP Jayatissa, S Aravajy and D Depommier

Mangroves is a graphical identification system of plant species, the only tool of its kind available on South-Asian Mangroves at present. The system, entirely graphic, ....

A Year in the Life of Greenwich Park

Anthony Quiney

London's oldest enclosed Royal Park, first established in 1433, Greenwich Park includes several notable buildings and offers some of the finest views of London and the River ....

Biodiversity Hotspots Through Time

Using the Past to Manage the Future

Edited by Katherine J Willis, Lindsey Gillson and Sandra Knapp

International targets set for reducing the rate of biodiversity loss - the 2010 target - and ensuring environmental stability (Millennium Development Goals) have helped to focus ....

Biodiversity and Human Livelihoods in Protected Areas

Case Studies from the Malay Archipelago

Edited by Navjot S Sodhi, Greg Acciaioli, Maribeth Erb and Alan Khee-Jin Tan

Protected areas have emerged as major arenas of dispute concerning both indigenous and environmental protection. In the Malay Archipelago, which contains two of the ....

Especies Protegidas en Asturias: Catalogos Asturianos de Especies Amenazadas de la Fauna Vertebrada y de la Flora Con Sus Planes de Proteccion (y Otras Normas Protectoras)

Edited by Carlos Lastra-Lopez

Habitat Management for Conservation

A Handbook of Techniques

Malcolm Ausden

Habitat management is commonly used to maintain and enhance the biological interest of many areas of semi-natural habitat where natural processes no longer create suitable ....

People and Animals

Traditional livestock keepers: guardians of domestic animal diversity

Edited by Kim-Anh Tempelman and Ricardo A Cardellino

Domestic animal diversity is being lost at an alarming rate. Worldwide, local livestock breed are being crossed or replaced with higher-yielding animals. In collaboration with ....

Disaster Management

N.C Mahanti and S.K Samal

Disaster Management discusses to the management of both man made and natural disasters including the most recent natural disaster the Tsunami of 26th December 2004 as also the ....

Disaster Management Handbook

Pinkowski Jack

Using a case-based approach, Disaster Management Handbook is a comprehensive reference that shares firsthand accounts and theoretical analyses of disasters and the ....

Forestry and Climate Change

Edited by PH Freer-Smith, MSJ Broadmeadow and JM Lynch

Climate change is one of the greatest challenges we face - both in terms of its potential impact on our societies and the earth, and the scale of international ....

Handbook of Disaster and Emergency Policies and Institutions

John Handmer

From the Asian tsunami to hurricanes Katrina and Rita to the recent earthquake in Pakistan, disasters both natural and human-induced are leading to spiralling costs in ....

Measuring Vulnerability to Natural Hazards

Towards Disaster Resilient Societies

Jorn Birkmann

Presents a range of approaches to measuring vulnerability and contains experiences and examples from Africa, Asia, the Americas, and Europe to illustrate the theoretical ....

Migratory Species and Climate Change

Impacts of a Changing Environment on Wild Animals

UNEP

There is substantial evidence that wildlife is being affected by climate change. As a group, migratory wildlife appears to be particularly vulnerable because of the use of ....

Paleoindian or Paleoarchaic?

Great Basin Human Ecology at the Pleistocene-Holocene Transition

Edited by Kelly E Graf and Dave N Schmitt

Were the earliest inhabitants of the Great Basin "Paleoindians" in the traditional sense? Were they highly mobile foragers? Did they hunt large, now extinct animals like ....

Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum:

How Humans Took Control of Climate

William F Ruddiman

The impact on climate from 200 years of industrial development is an everyday fact of life, but did humankind's active involvement in climate change really begin with the ....

Radioactivity and Pollution of the Arctic Seas

Observations, Modelling and Simulations

OM Johannessen, VA Volkov, LH Pettersson, H Drange, Y Gao et al

"Polar Seas Oceanography" describes a new tool called the Generic Model System for simulations and assessment of potential radioactive spreading in the Arctic regions, ....

Resisting Global Toxics

Transnational Movements for Environmental Justice

David Naguib Pellow

Every year, nations and corporations in the "global North" produce millions of tons of toxic waste. Too often this hazardous material - linked to high rates of illness and ....

Risk Assessment of Chemicals

An Introduction

Edited by C.J van Leeuwen and T.G Vermeire

This book is the 2nd edition of a book published in 1995. The first book was written parallel to major developments in the science of risk assessment following the ....

Weather World

Photographing the Global Spectacle

MET OFFICE

A visual celebration of the diversity and unpredictability of the weather in all its forms - from the benign beauty of a clear sky to the explosive impact of lightning and ....

What We Know About Climate Change

Kerry Emanuel

The vast majority of scientists agree that human activity has significantly increased greenhouse gases in the atmosphere - most dramatically since the 1970s. In February 2007 ....

Albert Einstein

On the Occasion of the 125th Anniversary of his Birth in Ulm

Edited by Frank Steiner

Celebrating the 125th year of Albert Einstein's birth a series of public lectures was held in his home town of Ulm, Germany. This book combines the outstanding lectures given ....

Asteroseismology

C Aerts, J Christensen-Dalsgaard and D.W Kurtz

The recent research domain of asteroseismology refers to the study of the internal structure of pulsating stars through the interpretation of their frequency spectra. ....

Biology in Space and Life on Earth

Effects of Spaceflight on Biological Systems

Edited by Enno Brinckmann

This concise yet comprehensive treatment of the effects of spaceflight on biological systems includes issues at the forefront of life sciences research, such as ....

Cometography: A Catalogue of Comets

Volume 3: 1900-1932

Gary W Kronk

Provides a complete discussion of every comet seen during the first part of the twentieth century. Cometography uses the most reliable orbits known to determine the ....

Cosmological Enigmas

Pulsars, Quasars, and Other Deep-Space Questions

Mark Kidger

Weaves together history, science, and science fiction to consider questions about the bigness of space and the strange objects that lie trembling at the edge of infinity. ....

The Cosmos

A Beginner's Guide

Adam Hart-Davis and Paul Bader

Adam Hart-Davis brings us the latest news from the boundaries of the universe. By travelling the world to interview scientists at the sharp end of astronomical research - ....

Critical Excitation Methods in Earthquake Engineering

Izuru Takewaki

Since the occurrence of earthquakes and their properties are very uncertain even with the present knowledge, it is too difficult to define reasonable design ground motions ....

Direct Imaging of Exoplanets (IAU C200)

Edited by Claude Aime

The direct detection and analysis of exoplanets, planets orbiting distant stars, is considered to be the next great frontier in astrophysics. This volume reports the ....

Discrete Multivariate Analysis

Y Bishop, SE Fienberg and PW Holland

"At last, after a decade of mounting interest in log-linear and related models for the analysis of discrete multivariate data, particularly in the form of multidimensional ....

Earth

The Biography

Iain Stewart and John Lynch

Each chapter of this book examines one of the Earth's most powerful forces - meteor impacts, plate tectonics, the ocean, the atmosphere and ice - and explore their central ....

Earth's Oldest Rocks

Edited by Martin J Van Kranendonk, Hugh Smithies and Vickie Bennett

Provides a comprehensive overview of all aspects of early Earth, from planetary accretion through to development of protocratons with depleted lithospheric keels by c. ....

Fundamentals of Astrodynamics and Applications

D.A Vallado

Fundamentals of Astrodynamics and Applications is rapidly becoming the standard astrodynamics reference for those involved in the business of spaceflight. What sets ....

Fundamentals of Basin Modeling

Thomas Hantschel and Armin, I Kauerauf

This text contains the first comprehensive presentation of methods and algorithms used in basin modeling. It provides geoscientists and geophysicists with an extensive ....

Gemstones

Properties, Identification and Use

Arthur Thomas

A comprehensive guide to the fascinating world of precious and semi-precious crystals. As well as the naturally occurring minerals that have long been prized as gemstones, ....

Genomic Signal Processing

Ilya Shmulevich and Edward R Dougherty

Genomic signal processing (GSP) can be defined as the analysis, processing, and use of genomic signals to gain biological knowledge, and the translation of that knowledge into ....

Geologic Hazards

A Field Guide for Geotechnical Engineers

Roy E Hunt

Geologic hazards pose the greatest threat to human safety for any geotechnical undertaking, but it is the engineer's ability to recognize and cope with these hazards. ....

Geology of Snowdonia

Matthew Bennett

Snowdonia has a great story to tell, of ancient oceans, mountains, volcanoes and climate change. The mountain landscape of Snowdonia is the result of everything that has ....

The Global Circulation of the Atmosphere

Tapio Schneider and Adam H Sobel

Despite major advances in the observation and numerical simulation of the atmosphere, basic features of the Earth's climate remain poorly understood. Integrating the ....

The Grand Contraption

The World as Myth, Number, and Chance

David Park

The Grand Contraption tells the story of humanity's attempts through 4,000 years of written history to make sense of the world in its cosmic totality, to understand its ....

Gravel Bed Rivers

From Process Understanding to the Restoration of Mountain Rivers

Edited by M Rinaldi, P Ergenzinger, H Habersack, T Hoey and H Piegay

Based on the interdisciplinary approaches between earth science, engineering, physical geography, ecology and management, this text focuses on the theoretical questions, ....

The Great Atlas of the Universe

Professor L Benacchio

From the first attempts of Galileo to the advances of new technology, the entire story of space conquest is told here. ....

Icy Worlds at the Edge of the Solar System

Keith Noll

The Kuiper belt is one of the most exciting regions for exploration and scientific research in planetary science. In Icy Worlds at the Edge of the Solar System, a series ....

In Search of Superstrings

John Gribbin

Since Einstein's time, a "theory of everything" - one coherent mathematical model that would encompass all the forces and particles of nature - has become the Holy Grail of ....

Integrable Systems in Celestial Mechanics

Diarmuid O'Mathuna

This work focuses on the two integrable systems of relevance to celestial mechanics, both of which date back to the 18th century. Under discussion are the Kepler (two-body) ....

Introduction to the Geology of Southern California and its Native Plants

Clarence A Hall

With its active fault systems, complex landforms, and myriad natural habitats, southern California boasts a rich and dynamic geologic environment. This abundantly illustrated ....

Isolated Neutron Stars: from the Surface to the Interior

Edited by Silvia Zane, Roberto Turolla and Dany Page

This book collects the contributions presented at the conference Isolated Neutron Stars: From the Surface to the Interior, held in London in April 2006. Forty years after the ....

Making Beautiful Deep-Sky Images

Astrophotography with Affordable Equipment and Software

Greg Parker

This book is based around the author's beautiful and sometimes awe-inspiring colour images and mosaics of deep-sky objects. ....

The Man Who Ran the Moon

James Webb

Neil Armstrong will forever be the first man on the Moon. But the person most responsible for putting him there is, incredibly, unknown. Drawing on original sources, ....

Mantle Plumes

A Multidisciplinary Approach

Edited by Joachim RR Ritter and Ulrich R Christensen

The concept of mantle plumes, hot buoyant rock masses that rise in the mantle, is a key to understand intraplate volcanism in the framework of modern plate tectonics. Recent ....

The Mathematics of Egypt, Mesopotamia, China, India, and Islam

A Sourcebook

Edited by Victor J Katz

In recent decades it has become obvious that mathematics has always been a worldwide activity. But this is the first book to provide a substantial collection of English ....

Mining the Earth's Heat: Hot Dry Rock Geothermal Energy

D.W Brown, D.V Duchane, G Heiken and V.T Hriscu

The main purpose of Mining the Earth's Heat: Hot Dry Rock Geothermal Engergy is to preserve the concepts and data developed during the last 35 years, so that a new ....

The Night Sky Companion

A Yearly Guide to Sky-Watching 2008 - 2009

Tammy Plotner

The The Night Sky Companion is far more than just an observing guide. It is a year's journey into the science and facts of astronomy and space travel, along with some of its ....

The Observer's Sky Atlas

With 50 Star Charts Covering the Entire Sky

E Karkoschka

This atlas presents star charts and information for all who observe the night sky with small telescope, binoculars or the unaided eye, emphasizing constellations and ....

Observing the Sun with Coronado TM Telescopes

Edited by Philip Pugh

At around the turn of the millennium, the introduction of the Coronado range of solar telescopes and filters heralded the `coming of age' of amateur solar astronomy. ....

The Paraboloidal Reflector Antenna in Radio Astronomy and Communication

Theory and Practice

Jacob WM Baars

Reflector antennas are widely used in the microwave and millimeter wavelength domain. Radio astronomers have developed techniques of calibration of large antennas with radio ....

Populations of High-Energy Sources in Galaxies (IAU S230)

Edited by EJA Meurs

For the last 40 years astronomers have observed sources of intense X-ray radiation from beyond our Solar System. These have been associated with remarkable objects, such as ....

Seeing the Constellations

A Complete Global Resource for Astronomers

Jeff Farinacci

Seeing the Constellations is a reference book for amateur astronomers. It contains, for each constellation, a star chart showing the Bayer labels, a table for many of the stars ....

Seismic Geomorphology: Applications to Hydrocarbon Exploration and Production

R. J Davies

We are poised to embark on a new era of discovery in the study of geomorphology. The discipline has a long and illustrious history, but in recent years an entirely new way ....

The Seismogenic Zone of Subduction Thrust Faults

Timothy H Dixon and Casey Moore

Subduction zones, one of the three types of plate boundaries, return the Earth's surface to its deep interior. Because subduction zones are gently inclined at shallow depths and ....

Solar Sails

A Novel Approach to Interplanetary Travel

Giovanni Vulpetti, Les Johnson and Gregory Matloff

Solar sailing is a topic of growing popular and media interest. Solar sail propulsion will make space exploration more affordable and offer access to destinations within (and ....

Space Exploration 2008

David Harland and Brian Harvey

The aim of the Space Exploration annuals is to provide a yearly update on recent space launches, missions and results, to be published every September. The annual will cover ....

Star Maps

History, Artistry, and Cartography

Nick Kanas

With the construction of the International Space Station, and new plans for manned missions to the Moon, Mars and beyond, there is renewed interest in the heavens. An ....

State of the Universe 2008

New Images, Discoveries and Events

Martin Ratcliffe

The 2008 annual covers all major astronomical news on topics beyond the Solar System, placing them in the context of the longer-term goals of astronomers and astrophysicists ....

Supercontinent

Ten Billion Years in the Life of Our Planet

Ted Nield

To understand continental drift and plate tectonics, the shifting and collisions that make and unmake continents, requires a long view. The Earth, after all, is 4.6 billion ....

Sustainable Solar Housing, Volume 1

Strategies and Solutions

Edited by Robert Hastings and Maria Wall

Volume 1 presents strategies and solutions, offering the reader a solid platform for assessing environmental and economic concerns for housing projects, and offers guidance ....

Sustainable Solar Housing, Volume 2

Exemplary Buildings and Technologies

Edited by Robert Hastings and Maria Wall

Volume 2 offers a detailed analysis of exemplary buildings in different European countries and examines in-depth the various technological options available. Aided by ....

Access to Environmental Justice: A Comparative Study

Andrew Harding

Sets out to study the extent to which citizens can and do exert influence over their urban environments through the legal 'gateways' in eleven countries as well as different ....

The Agri-Environment

John Warren, Clare Lawson and Kenneth Belcher

Both an academic textbook and practical guide to farm conservation, this book discusses how agriculture has changed over time and how the species that inhabit the ....

Agricultural Biotechnology and Intellectual Property Protection

Seeds of Change

J Kesan

Scientists are becoming progressively more involved in developing methods for increasing agricultural productivity and designing plants with certain qualities. As such, genetic ....

Agricultural Production

Organic and Conventional Systems

Okoro M Akinyemi

This book examines production efficiency and economic benefits of agricultural production systems, comparing both organic and conventional systems. Diseases and pest ....

The Assault on Reason

How the Politics of Blind Faith Subvert Wise Decision-making

Al Gore

We live in an age when the 30-second television spot is the most powerful force shaping the electorate's thinking, and America is in the hands of an administration less ....

Beans

A History

Ken Albala

This is the story of the bean, the staple food cultivated by humans for over 10,000 years. From the lentil to the soybean, every civilization on the planet has cultivated ....

Cereals

Edited by Marcelo J Carena

Agriculture depends on improved cultivars, and cultivars are developed through proper plant breeding. Unfortunately, applied plant breeding programs that are focused on ....

Cities of the Future

Towards Integrated Sustainable Water and Landscape Management

Paul Brown Vladimir Novotny

This book is developed from and includes the presentations of leading international experts and scholars in the 12-14 July, 2006 Wingspread Workshop. ....

A Contract with the Earth

Newt Gingrich and Terry L Maple

While acknowledging that liberals and conservatives do not see eye to eye on many issues, the authors argue that environmental stewardship is a mainstream value that ....

Development Aid and Environmental Protection

Conference Volume of the 4th Chemnitz Symposium "Europe and the Environment"

Edited by Klaus Dieter John and Dirk TG Rubbelke

Poverty reduction and climate change mitigation are among the most prominent global challenges. These challenges are addressed by means of the Millenium Development Goals ....

Economic Valuation of River Systems

Edited by Fred J Hitzhusen

Environmental economists, ecological engineers and aquatic biologists detail in this volume their research on the benefits and costs of various water quality, ....

Environmental Accounting and Sustainability

An Integrated Analysis

Edited by A Markandya, A Hunt, N Dale and P Mason

This volume combines economic and sustainability approaches to national accounting of the environment. It will demonstrate how green accounting can evolve and be more ....

Environmental Justice and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

International & Domestic Legal Perspectives

Laura Westra

More than 300 million people in over 70 countries make up the world's indigenous populations. Yet despite ever-growing pressures on their lands, ....

Environmental Policy Integration in Practice

Shaping Institutions for Learning

Mans Nilsson and Katarina Eckerberg

Presents the first ever detailed examination of EPI at the national policy level, focusing on the key sectors of energy and agriculture within Sweden, a country that is ....

A Guide to International Environmental Law

Alexandre Kiss and Dinah Shelton

This work aims to present the essential elements of international environmental law. The book provides a general overview of why and how the international system elaborates ....

How Much Should a Person Consume?

Environmentalism in India and the United States

Ramachandra Guha

Based on research conducted over two decades, this accessible and deeply felt book provides a provocative comparative history of environmentalism in two large ecologically ....

Increasing the Contribution of Small Scale Fisheries to Poverty Alleviation And Food Security

C Bene, G Macfayden and EH Allison

The objectives of these Technical Guidelines are to provide a focus on small-scale fisheries and their current and potential role in contributing to poverty alleviation ....

Managing Water

Avoiding Crisis in California

Dorothy Green

Water in California is controlled, stored, delivered, and managed within a complex network of interlocking and cooperating districts and agencies. Unraveling and ....

Non-chemical Weed Management

Principles, Concepts and Technology

Mahesh K Upadhyaya and Robert E Blackshaw

The increase in organic farming and concerns about potential negative effects on human health and the environment is creating a demand for pesticide-free food and alternative ....

Organic Farming

An International History

Edited by William Lockeretz

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

Original Selfishness

Original Sin and Evil in the Light of Evolution

Daryl P Domning and Monika K Hellwig

Defends an idea that the age-old theological and philosophical problems of original sin and evil have already been solved. The author explains the workings of modern ....

The Origins and Spread of Domestic Plants in Southwest Asia and Europe

Sue Colledge and James Conolly

In this major new volume, leading scholars demonstrate the importance of archaeobotanical evidence in the understanding of the spread of agriculture in southwest ....

Planet Savers

301 Extraordinary Environmentalists

Kevin Desmond

Protecting the planet is everyone's work. But we all have our own heros in whatever area we are working. This book brings together the varied stories of the hundreds of movers ....

Restoring Floodplains in Europe

Policy Contexts and Project Experiences

Timothy Moss and Jochen Monstadt

Despite the considerable advancement of scientific knowledge on the functioning of floodplain ecosystems and the regulation of rivers there exist in Europe as yet very few ....

Rivertown

Rethinking Urban Rivers

Edited by Paul Stanton Kibel

Today's urban riverfronts are changing. The decline of river commerce and riverside industry has made riverfront land once used for warehouses, factories, and loading docks ....

Science for Sale

The Perils, Rewards, and Delusions of Campus Capitalism

Daniel S Greenberg

In recent years the news media have been awash in stories about increasingly close ties between college campuses and multimillion-dollar corporations. U.S. universities, the ....

The Stated Preference Approach to Environmental Valuation

Volumes 1, 2 and 3

Edited by Richard T Carson

Vol 1: Foundations, Initial Development, Statistical Approaches Vol 2: Conceptual and Empirical Issues ....

Structures of Scientific Collaboration

Wesley Shrum, Joel Genuth and Ivan Chompalov

Collaboration among organizations is rapidly becoming common in scientific research as globalization and new communication technologies make it possible for researchers from ....

This Cold House

The Simple Science of Energy Efficiency

Colin Smith

Does turning the thermostat down on a winter's night offset the costs of reheating the house in the morning? Is heating oil cheaper than natural gas? Blending science with ....

WTO Rules for Agriculture Compatible with Development

Jamie Morrison and Alexander Sarris

Despite the many discussions concerning the desirability of incorporating development dimensions into the current round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations, there has been a ....

Water Lifting Devices

A Handbook for Users and Choosers

Peter Fraenkel and Jeremy Thake

This is an updated and expanded new edition (formerly Water Pumping Devices), surveying the water-lifting technologies that are available and appropriate for smallholdings. It ....

Water Reuse: An International Survey

Contrasts, Issues and Needs Around the World

Edited by Blanca Jimenez and Takashi Asano

Water Reuse: An International Survey presents detailed description and expert analysis of different global water reuse practices broken down into regional perspectives. ....

Water and Health in an Overcrowded World

Edited by Tim Halliday and Basiro Davey

This book takes a global view of public health in discussing the contribution that environment, poverty, and lifestyle make to the health, disease, and disability of ....

Water in the Middle East

Cooperation and Technological Solutions in the Jordan Valley

Edited by K David Hambright, F Jamil Ragep and Joseph Ginat

While the book highlights the complexities pertaining to regional water scarcity and inequitable distribution, the contributors offer no definitive conclusions or facile ....

When the Rivers Run Dry

What Happens When Our Water Runs Out?

Fred Pearce

Some of the world's largest rivers - the Nile, the Yellow River and the Indus - no longer reach the sea. Exhausted by the demand of humans to irrigate crops, fill taps and ....

Worst-Case Scenarios

Cass R Sunstein

Nuclear bombs in suitcases, anthrax bacilli in ventilators, tsunamis and meteors, avian flu, scorchingly hot temperatures: nightmares that were once the plot of Hollywood ....

Advances in 3D Geo Information Systems

Edited by P.V Oosterom, S Zlatanova, F Penninga and E Fendel

The book will focus on comparing several types of 3D models (and this is unique). Due to the rapid developments in sensor techniques more and more 3D data becomes available. ....

Applied Statistics Using SPSS, STATISTICA, MATLAB and R

Joaquim P. Marques de Sa

This successful textbook is intended for students, professionals and research workers who need to apply statistical analysis to a large variety of practical problems using ....

Design and Analysis of Simulation Experiments

Jack P.C Kleijnen

Simulation is a widely used methodology in all Applied Science disciplines. It provides a flexible, powerful and intuitive tool for investigating how to design a process or ....

Ecological Modeling

A Commonsense Approach to Theory and Practice

William E Grant and Todd M Swannack

In addition to providing a common-sense introduction to the basic principles of systems modeling, the authors suggest a practical strategy for dealing with pitfalls commonly ....

Geographic Information Systems, Remote Sensing and Mapping for the Development and Management of Marine Aquaculture

James McDaid Kaptsky

The objective of this document is to illustrate the ways in which Geographical Information Systems (GIS), remote sensing and mapping can play a role in the development ....

Interactive and Dynamic Graphics for Data Analysis

With R and GGobi

Dianne Cook and Deborah F Swayne

This richly illustrated book describes the use of interactive and dynamic graphics as part of multidimensional data analysis. Chapters include clustering, supervised ....

Landscape Analysis using Geospatial Tools

Edited by Marguerite Madden

The subject of Landscape Analysis using Geospatial Tools is the combination of geospatial tools such as remote sensing, geographic information systems (GIS), Global ....

The Microscope and the Eye

A History of Reflections, 1740-1870

Jutta Schickore

The microscope's technical capabilities and uses expanded dramatically in the early nineteenth century, when it emerged as an important tool for medical education and ....

Modeling Biology

Structures, Behaviors, Evolution

Edited by Manfred D Laubichler and Gerd B Muller

Abstract and conceptual models have become an indispensable tool for analyzing the flood of highly detailed empirical data generated in recent years by advanced techniques in ....

Multiscale Modeling

A Bayesian Perspective

Marco A.R Ferreira and Herbert K.H Lee

A wide variety of processes occur on multiple scales, either naturally or as a consequence of measurement. This book contains methodology for the analysis of data that ....

Remote Sensing

The Image Chain Approach

John R Schott

This book deals with the fundamental ideas underlying the rapidly growing field of remote sensing. John Schott explores energy-matter interaction, radiation propagation, ....

Topics in Biostatistics

Edited by Walter T Ambrosius

Biostatistics can be a language nearly indecipherable to those not trained to speak it. In Topics in Biostatistics, a broad survey of biostatiscal methods, techniques are ....

Human Remains and Museum Practice

UNESCO

Human Remains and Museum Practice reflects the discussions held at the Museum of London as part of an international symposium on the political and ethical dimensions of the ....

Numerical Recipes

The Art of Scientific Computing

WH Press, SA Teukolsky, WT Vetterling and BP Flannery

The essential text and reference for modern scientific computing now also covers computational geometry, classification and inference, and much more. ....