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

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Mammals
 

Bat Evolution, Ecology, and Conservation

Rick A Adams and Scott C Pedersen

Recent advances in the study of bats have changed the way we understand this illusive group of mammals. Bat Evolution, Ecology, and Conservation consist of 25 chapters and 57 authors from around the globe all writing on the most ... ....

660 pages | 68 colour & 58 b/w illustrations, 20 tables |

Hardback | NYP 07/2013 | 9781461473961 | #206961A | £133.00 Add to basket

 

Bear: Spirit of the Wild

Paul Nicklen

Following on the heels of his National Geographic blockbuster Polar Obsession, Paul Nicklen turns his keen photographic eye to North American bears. Stunning images shot by the renowned photojournalist are enriched with personal accounts ... ....

208 pages | colour photos |

Hardback | NYP 10/2013 | 9781426211768 | #206619A | £29.99 Add to basket

 

Giants of the Desert

The Elephants of the Namib and the World They Live in

Fritz Eloff

The Kaokoveld, one of the world's most forbidding wastes, is host to an assortment of animals that have found ways of surviving in this hostile environment. Here giraffes go entirely without water, and rhinos climb towering mountains ... ....

150 pages | colour photos |

Hardback | 10/2010 | 9781869193904 | #207042A | £18.95 Add to basket

 

Giraffe

Biology, Behaviour and Conservation

Anne Innis Dagg

With its iconic appearance and historic popular appeal, the giraffe is the world's tallest living terrestrial animal and the largest ruminant. Recent years have seen much-needed new research undertaken to improve our understanding of ... ....

260 pages | 75 b/w illustrations, 3 tables |

Hardback | NYP 11/2013 | 9781107034860 | #206104A | £49.99 Add to basket

Paperback | 01/2014 | 9781107610170 | #206452A | £0.00 Add to basket

 

Handbuch der Saugetiere Europas DVD-ROM

Jochen Niethammer and Franz Krapp

This German standard work, encompassing 14 volumes, is now available in its entirety on DVD-ROM in fully searchable PDF format.

4700 pages | illustrations, distribution maps, tables |

Paperback | 05/2013 | 9783891047729 | #206907A | £134.76 Add to basket

 

Mammal Tracks and Signs of Southern Africa

Lee Gutteridge and Louis Liebenberg

Tracking is a much-loved, yet difficult, subject that attracts at least some of the attention of almost every bush-goer who ventures into the wild places of southern Africa. The ability to accurately read difficult, partial or little-seen ... ....

290 pages | colour photos, b/w illustrations |

Paperback | NYP 10/2013 | 9781431408061 | #206923A | £9.95 Add to basket

 

Primate Neuroethology

Michael J Platt and Asif A Ghazanfar

Why do people find monkeys and apes so compelling to watch? One clear answer is that they seem so similar to us – a window into our own minds and how we have evolved over millennia. As Charles Darwin wrote in his Notebook ... ....

704 pages | illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 06/2013 | 9780199338900 | #206848A | £140.00 Add to basket

 

Primates, Pathogens, and Evolution

Jessica F Brinkworth and Ekaterina Pechenkina

The immune systems of humans and non-human primates have diverged such that these animals show inter- and intra-species variation in susceptibility, symptoms, and survival of particular infectious diseases. Variation in primate immunity ... ....

592 pages | 10 colour & 21 b/w illustrations, 12 tables |

Hardback | NYP 07/2013 | 9781461471806 | #206962A | £117.00 Add to basket

 

Spar och Sparning av Stora Rovdjur

Ake Aronson

This book is a guide to the art of interpreting traces of the four large predators wolf, lynx, wolverine, and bear. Knowledge of predator populations number, distribution and development is essential for the credibility of predator management. ....

336 pages | illustrations |

Paperback | 12/2011 | #206397A | £72.99 Add to basket

 

The Mammals of Derbyshire

David Mallon, Debbie Alston and Derek Whiteley

The Mammals of Derbyshire contains almost 200 pages of information, distribution maps and photographs. It is the result of over 4 years of mammal recording and a collation of previous data. with a total of over 85,000 records. ....

196 pages | colour photos, colour illustrations, colour distribution maps |

Paperback | 04/2013 | 9780950039688 | #206684A | £14.99 Add to basket

 

The Medina Guide to the Arabian Horse

Kitty Carruthers and Gillian Whitworth

No comparable work exists in print which tells in such vivid detail of the 'history, mystery and magic' of this noble breed. Fully illustrated throughout with photographs, paintings, drawings, maps and calligraphy covering the ... ....

144 pages | colour photos |

Paperback | 06/2012 | 9780957023413 | #207044A | £14.95 Add to basket

 

The Purebred Arabian Horses of Iraq

Myths and Realities

Mohammed Al-Nujaifi, Osama bin Abdulaziz Al-Nujaifi and Atheel bin Abdulaziz Al-Nujaifi

For the first time, the story of Iraq's purebred Arabian horses is recounted in words and pictures by a prominent Iraqi whose family has been breeding horses for generations, since the family migrated north from Arabia with their ... ....

240 pages | colour photos |

Hardback | 11/2012 | 9781909339019 | #207045A | £34.99 Add to basket

 

Tigers Forever

Saving the World's Most Endangered Big Cat

Steve Winter

Tigers Forever is a dramatically close encounter with tigers in their native lands, documented by award-winning National Geographic photographer Steve Winter, who tells the story of the worldwide fight to protect the species. ....

224 pages | 120+ colour photos |

Hardback | NYP 11/2013 | 9781426212406 | #206618A | £29.99 Add to basket

 
Birds
 

A Complete Identification Book of the Birds in the Eastern Part of Russia, Parts 1-3 (3-Volume Set)

MV Kalyakin

This book is the most comprehensive and colourful guide to the birds of European Russia. It contains photographs illustrating every species described, including all of the major plumages depending on season and age. The book covers 483 nesting ... ....

892 pages | colour photos, distribution maps |

Hardback | 11/2012 | 9785934573929 | #206760A | £299.00 Add to basket

 

Aves del Ecuador (2-Volume Set)

Guia de Campo

Robert S Ridgely and Paul J Greenfield

This is a Spanish translation of The Birds of Ecuador. Volume 1 contains detailed information on the ecology, status, and distribution of all species. Introductory chapters deal with geography, climate and vegetation; bird migration in Ecuador ... ....

1584 pages | 96 colour plates, 117 b/w illustrations, 2 colour maps, 1596 distribution maps |

Paperback | 01/2006 | 9789978315019 | #207050A | £149.00 Add to basket

 

Beautiful Owls

Portraits of Arresting Species from Around the World

Marianne Taylor

From Minerva's sacred companion to the intellectual leader of 100 Acre Wood in Winnie the Pooh, these most mysterious members of the kingdom of birds have long been revered as feathery embodiments of wisdom and vigilance, as ... ....

112 pages | 100 colour photos |

Paperback | NYP 07/2013 | 9781908005977 | #206733A | £12.99 Add to basket

 

Bird Populations

Ian Newton

In the latest addition to the New Naturalist series, Ian Newton explores bird populations and what causes their fluctuation – food supplies, competitors, predators, parasites, pathogens and human activity. The combination ... ....

496 pages | 200 colour photos and colour illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 08/2013 | 9780007429530 | #199403A | £44.99 Add to basket

Paperback | NYP 08/2013 | 9780007527984 | #199404A | £24.99 Add to basket

 

Birds of Australia - MP3 sound collection

Fred van Gessel

Featuring:

- 600 bird species of Australia - 1984 (stereo) recordings - with extra information where and when each recording was made - 15 hours of birdsounds (aprox. 15 CDs) - uses 670 Mb on an MP3-player

...

Paperback | 05/2013 | #206978A | £74.99 Add to basket

 

Birdwatching in New Hampshire

Eric A Masterson

Designed to appeal to expert and backyard birdwatchers alike, this comprehensive guide reveals where, when, and how to watch and enjoy birds in New Hampshire. It not only offers the latest information about the seasonal status and distribution ... ....

208 pages | maps |

Paperback | 04/2013 | 9781584659860 | #206966A | £19.50 Add to basket

 

Birdwatching in Sardinia & Corsica (Region ALL)

Steve Evans and Nick Williams

Sardinia, the second largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, is a fabulous place to spend a holiday birdwatching. It offers a wide range of habitats which are home to many resident bird species, and it's use of traditional farming ... ....

1 disc, runtime: 56 min, region ALL, rating: E |

Paperback | 01/2009 | #206776A | £11.99 Add to basket

 

Birdwatching in Slovenia (Region ALL)

Steve Evans

Slovenia is one of the smallest countries in Central Europe and offers a rich variety of habitat and landscape, including - Snow capped mountains, mature mixed woodland, grassy meadows, marshes, rivers & lakes. It's also home to ... ....

1 disc, runtime: 71 min, region ALL, rating: E |

Paperback | 12/2011 | #206778A | £11.99 Add to basket

 

Birdwatching in Southern Portugal (Region ALL)

Steve Evans

Portugal is a fantastic country for all year round Birdwatching, although the country really comes alive during Spring. It is possible to see many of the Iberian specialities here including Azure-winged Magpie, Great Bustard ...

1 disc, runtime: 68 min, region ALL, rating: E |

Paperback | 12/2011 | #206781A | £11.99 Add to basket

 

Birdwatching in The Canary Islands (Region ALL)

Tenerife & Fuerteventura

Steve Evans

The Canary Islands are located just off the northwest coast of mainland Africa. They are made up of seven main islands and six islets. These islands are a major attraction for birdwatchers from all over as they are home to six endemic species ... ....

1 disc, runtime: 53 min, region ALL, rating: E |

Paperback | 12/2011 | #206780A | £11.99 Add to basket

 

California Condors in the Pacific Northwest

Jesse D'Elia and Susan M Haig

Despite frequent depiction as a bird of California and the desert southwest, North America's largest avian scavenger once graced the skies of the Pacific Northwest, from northern California to British Columbia. This important volume ... ....

184 pages | b/w photos, b/w illustrations |

Paperback | NYP 06/2013 | 9780870717000 | #207016A | £17.95 Add to basket

 

Contributions to the History of Australasian Ornithology, Volume 2

William E Davis Jr, Harry F Recher and Walter E Boles

This memoir deals with the people and institutions which changed the face of modern ornithology in Australia, New Zealand, and the surrounding region.

532 pages | b/w photos |

Hardback | 01/2012 | 9781877973499 | #207049A | £47.99 Add to basket

 

Field Guide to Shorebirds of South Africa

Roy Cowgill and Stephen Davis

This unique new guide will help identify the more common waders (shorebirds) in South Africa and will appeal to both experienced birders as well as novices. Using classification, characteristics and behaviour, and based on an ...

184 pages | colour photos |

Paperback | NYP 07/2013 | 9781431406470 | #206955A | £16.95 Add to basket

 

Freeway Birding, San Francisco to Seattle

Harry G Fuller

In Freeway Birding, San Francisco to Seattle, Harry Fuller describes in detail hundreds of birding sites beside or a short distance off the freeway. Now you can snag a few minutes of birding while you stretch your legs!

352 pages | 100 maps |

Paperback | 02/2013 | 9780976832133 | #206958A | £28.99 Add to basket

 

Green Birding

How to See More Birds and Protect the Environment at the Same Time

Richard Gregson

Backyard birdwatching book with a US focus. - Where to look for birds close to home – often-overlooked spots in cities and suburban neighborhoods that can be bird magnets - How to get deeper by studying the birds ...

134 pages | illustrations |

Paperback | 04/2013 | 9780811726153 | #206967A | £16.99 Add to basket

 

Hornbills of the World

A Photographic Guide

Pilai Poonswad, Alan Kemp and Morten Strange

Hornbills (order: Bucerotiformes) are a group of distinctive and charismatic birds found only in Tropical Asia and sub-saharan Africa. There are two families (bucorvidae and bucerotidae), 15 genera, 57 species and 75 subspecies; 32 species ... ....

212 pages | colour photos, colour distribution maps |

Paperback | 05/2013 | 9789810735289 | #205415A | £44.99 Add to basket

 

Les Oiseaux de Mer et de Rivage par la Couleur

Marc Duquet, Alban Larousse, Francois Desbordes and Szabolcs Kokay

Made specially for beginner birdwatchers this book discusses identfying birds at sea and shore by their least visible aspect: their colours.  Practical and handy, this small identification guide can be taken during each fishing trip ... ....

128 pages | 120 colour illustrations |

Paperback | 04/2013 | 9782603019429 | #206662A | £15.99 Add to basket

 

Marine Birds of the Eastern United States and the Bay of Fundy

Distribution, Numbers, Trends, Threats, and Management

Ian CT Nisbet, Richard R Veit, Sasha A Auer and Timothy P White

This monograph reviews the distribution and numbers of 83 marine species (31 breeding species) that occur regularly along the east coast of the US, in the Bay of Fundy, or in waters of the continental shelf. It assesses trends in numbers ... ....

188 pages |

Hardback | 01/2013 | 9781877973482 | #206963A | £40.50 Add to basket

 

Megas Seen in Britain and Ireland, Volume 1: 2004-2008 (Region ALL)

Steve Evans

Features all the Mega rarities filmed in 2004-2008. Birds featured include: Alder Flycatcher, Little Blue Heron, Scarlet Tanager, Brown Shrike, Greater Sandplover, Masked Shrike, Brown Flycatcher, Pacific Diver, Mourning Dove, Long-billed ... ....

2 discs, runtime: 130 min, region ALL, rating: E |

Hardback | 01/2009 | #206774A | £14.99 Add to basket

 

Multimedia Identification Guide to North Atlantic Seabirds: Pterodroma Petrels

Bob Flood, Ashley Fisher and Martin Elliott

This identification guide on the pterodroma petrels of the North Atlantic is the culmination of many years of at-sea observations by the authors. It is the second in what is planned to be a four-part series on regular and vagrant bird ... ....

316 pages | 350+ colour photos, 40 illustrations, 11 colour distribution maps, 2 DVDs (Region ALL) |

Hardback | NYP 06/2013 | #205537A | £42.50 Add to basket

 

Multimedia Identification Guide to North Atlantic Seabirds: Storm-petrels & Bulwer's Petrel

Bob Flood and Ashley Fisher

This identification guide on the storm-petrels of the North Atlantic is the culmination of many years of at-sea observations by the authors. It is the first in what is planned to be a four-part series on regular and vagrant bird species ... ....

212 pages | 135 photos, 41 illustrations, 11 colour distribution maps, 2 DVDs |

Hardback | 12/2011 | 9780956886705 | #192841A | £39.99 Add to basket

Hardback | NYP 07/2013 | #206693A | £39.99 Add to basket

 

Rare & Scarce Birds Seen in Britain & Ireland 2008 (Region ALL)

Steve Evans

A personal account of the rare and scarce birds seen in Britain and Ireland in 2008. Birds featured include: Little Blue & Green Heron, Alder Flycatcher, Scarlet Tanager, Greater Sandplover, Steppe Grey & Brown Shrike ...

3 discs, runtime: 164 min, region ALL, rating: E |

Hardback | 01/2009 | #206770A | £14.99 Add to basket

 

Rare & Scarce Birds Seen in Britain 2006 (Region ALL)

Steve Evans

A personal account of the rare and scarce Birds seen in Britain in 2006 Birds featured include: Long-billed Murrelet, Black-eared Kite, Stilt Sandpiper, Pallid Harrier, Sora, Kildeer, Scop's Owl, Roller, Ivory Gull and many, many more ... ....

2 discs, runtime: 140 min, region ALL, rating: E |

Hardback | 01/2007 | #206763A | £14.99 Add to basket

 

Rare & Scarce Birds Seen in Britain 2007 (Region ALL)

Steve Evans

A personal account of the rare and scarce birds seen in Britain in 2007. Birds featured include: Mourning Dove, Pacific Diver, American Robin, Iberian Chiffchaff, Hudsonian Whimbrel, Wilson's Snipe, Roller, Sharp-tailed Sandpiper ... ....

2 discs, runtime: 134 min, region ALL, rating: E |

Hardback | 01/2008 | #206767A | £14.99 Add to basket

 

Rare & Scarce Birds Seen in Britain 2009 (Region ALL)

Steve Evans

A personal account of the rare and scarce birds seen in Britain in 2009. Birds featured include: Pacific Diver, Eastern-crowned Warbler,Steppe Grey & Brown Shrike, Sandhill Crane, Glaucous-winged Gull, White-throated Sparrow ... ....

2 discs, runtime: 135 min, region ALL, rating: E |

Hardback | 01/2010 | #206771A | £14.99 Add to basket

 

Rare & Scarce Birds Seen in Britain 2011-2012 (Region ALL)

Steve Evans

A personal account of the rare and scarce birds seen in Britain from 2011-2012. Birds featured include: American Buff-bellied Pipit, Eastern Olivaceous Warbler, Baillon's Crake, Short-billed Dowitcher, Little Swift ...

2 discs, runtime: 147 min, region ALL, rating: E |

Hardback | 01/2013 | #206773A | £14.99 Add to basket

 

Rare & Scarce Birds Seen in Britain, Ireland & Western Europe 2010 (Region ALL)

Steve Evans

A personal account of the rare and scarce birds seen in Britain, Ireland & Western Europe in 2010. Birds featured include: White-tailed Lapwing, Oriental Pratincole, Marmora's Warbler, Trumpeter Finch, Pied-billed Grebe ... ....

2 discs, runtime: 148 min, region ALL, rating: E |

Hardback | 01/2011 | #206772A | £14.99 Add to basket

 

Roberts Bird Guide

A Comprehensive Field Guide to Over 950 Bird Species in Southern Africa

Hugh Chittenden

A comprehensive field guide to over 950 bird species in southertn Africa.This is the first comprehensive field guide in southern Africa that gives information on food and breeding strategies. Included too, are the meaning of scientific ... ....

456 pages | 166 plates with colour illustrations |

Paperback | 10/2009 | 9781770097148 | #207046A | £19.95 Add to basket

 

Ruta Barrancoli: A Bird-Finding Guide to the Dominican Republic

Steven C Latta, Kate J Wallace, Dana Gardner and Dax Roman E

Ruta Barrancolí is the first national birding trail in the Caribbean and Latin America. Ruta Barrancolí: A Bird-Finding Guide to the Dominican Republic gives full descriptions of 44 sites, and includes 33 ... ....

241 pages | 32 plates with colour illustrations; colour photos, 33 colour maps |

Paperback | 12/2012 | 9780615625683 | #206749A | £24.99 Add to basket

 

Sasol Checklist of Birds in Southern Africa

Birdlife South Africa

Back by popular demand, Sasol Checklist of Birds in Southern Africa is a new, updated edition of what was long a popular resource. It lists all the birds to be seen in the region and provides a simple way of recording ... ....

32 pages |

Paperback | NYP 07/2013 | 9781775840084 | #206734A | £5.99 Add to basket

 

Second Atlas of Breeding Birds in Pennsylvania

Andrew M Wilson, Daniel W Brauning and Robert S Mulvihill

Twenty years after the first Atlas of Breeding Birds in Pennsylvania was published, the Second Atlas of Breeding Birds in Pennsylvania brings our knowledge of the state's bird populations up to date, documenting current distribution ... ....

586 pages | illustrations |

Hardback | 11/2012 | 9780271056302 | #206964A | £60.99 Add to basket

 

The Birds of America

John James Audubon

The Birds of America is one of the best known natural history books ever produced and also the most valuable – a complete set sold at auction in December 2010 for GBP7.3 million, which is a world record for a book.

448 pages | 435 colour illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 10/2013 | 9780565093396 | #206593A | £34.99 Add to basket

 

The Griffons of the Nebrodi Mountains / Grifoni Dei Monti Nebrodi

Nature Photo-Reportage from Sicily / Fotoreportage Naturalistico Della Sicilia

Cannavale Alfonso

This coffee table book gives a photographic portrait to the griffon population of the Nebrodi Mountains in Sicily, Italy.

128 pages | 138 colour photos |

Hardback | 04/2013 | 9788890704109 | #206899A | £67.50 Add to basket

 

The Raptors of Iowa

James F Landenberger

This long-awaited collection of James Landenberger's paintings of Iowa birds of prey presents thirty-two full-page, full-color species, from the common turkey vulture to the red-shouldered hawk of Mississippi River woodlands to the ... ....

128 pages | colour illustrations |

Paperback | 04/2013 | 9781609381660 | #206965A | £26.95 Add to basket

 

Welcher Vogel ist das?

Strand und Koste, 78 Arten Einfach Bestimmen

Holger Haag

Practical and authoratitive nature guide detailing 78 popular coastal birds.

96 pages | ~100 colour photos |

Paperback | 02/2013 | 9783440133859 | #207101A | £7.99 Add to basket

 

What the Robin Knows

How Birds Reveal the Secrets of the Natural World

Jon Young

A lifelong birder, tracker, and naturalist, Jon Young is guided in his work and teaching by three basic premises: the robin, junco, and other songbirds know everything important about their environment, be it backyard or forest; by tuning ... ....

241 pages | b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 05/2012 | 9780547451251 | #197992A | £18.50 Add to basket

Paperback | 05/2013 | 9780544002302 | #207015A | £13.99 Add to basket

 

What's That Bird (4CD set)

Recognising Birds by Their Songs and Calls

Tomasz Ogrodowczyk, Dariusz Graszka-Petrykowski and Simon Fellows

What's That Bird is an English-language version of the highly acclaimed Polish 4CD guide for recognizing birds by their songs and calls, covering 160 of the most common European species (see the table of contents for the ... ....

100 pages | colour illustrations |

Paperback | 05/2013 | #206809A | £33.00 Add to basket

 

Yorkshire Bird Report 2011

Yorkshire Naturalists' Union (YNU)

248 pages | colour photos |

Paperback | 01/2013 | #206948A | £12.00 Add to basket

 
Reptiles & Amphibians
 

Amphibians and Reptiles of Somaliland and Eastern Ethiopia

Based on Two Field Trips in 2010 / 2011

Tomas Mazuch

Somaliland (formerly British protectorate and later part of the Somali Republic) and eastern Ethiopia were until a hundred years ago of interest to explorers and travelers from Europe and America. Since then, bar a few minor exceptions ... ....

80 pages | 370+ colour photos |

Hardback | 03/2013 | 9788090543904 | #206915A | £74.50 Add to basket

 

Amphibians of the Eastern Europe, Part 1

Order Caudata

Yevgen Pysanets

Amphibians of the Eastern Europe, Part 1 is concerned with the distribution, abundance, behavior, life history and modern taxonomic of the caudate amphibians of Eastern Europe. It is based on an extensive and comprehensive analysis ... ....

205 pages | colour & b/w photos, colour & b/w illustrations, colour distribution maps, tables |

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

 

Colored Atlas of Chinese Amphibians and Their Distributions

Fei Liang

This illustrated book consists of two parts. Part one provides a general introduction of natural environment conditions, species diversity and distribution of amphibians, and ecological types of amphibians of China. Part two focuses on ... ....

620 pages | 3480 colour photos and illustrations |

Hardback | 12/2012 | 9787536475458 | #206977A | £274.00 Add to basket

 

North American Amphibians

Distribution and Diversity

David M Green, Linda Weir, Gary S Casper and Michael J Lannoo

Some 300 species of amphibians inhabit North America. North American Amphibians reflects the enormous growth in interest about amphibians and the increased intensity of scientific research into their fascinating biology and ... ....

416 pages | colour photos, distribution maps |

Hardback | NYP 11/2013 | 9780520266728 | #206469A | £51.99 Add to basket

 
Fishes
 

Biology of European Seabass

F Javier Sanchez Vazquez and Jose A Munoz-Cueto

Biology of European Seabass presents up-to-date reviews on key topics of seabass biology, written by leading scientific experts with extensive knowledge of seabass as well as their respective field of expertise.

450 pages | 24 colour & 50 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 11/2013 | 9781466599451 | #206470A | £81.99 Add to basket

 

Freshwater Fishes of Bangladesh

AKM Ataur Rahman

Bangladesh being a huge delta formed by the Giant rivers – Padma (Ganges, Jamuna, Brahmaputra) and the Meghna and their innumerable tributaries, has one of the richest inland fishery resources of the world. The ecological character ... ....

400 pages | colour photos, b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 01/2013 | #206827A | £142.00 Add to basket

 

L'Aquarium Ecologique

Respect de l'Environnement, Economies d'Energie

Kai Alexander Quante

How do you run an aquarium economically and cost-effectively? Which kind of plants and fish are sustainable choices? This guide to sustainable aquarium management covers all aspects of keeping an environmentally-friendly aquarium.

80 pages | colour photos |

Hardback | 04/2013 | 9782603019283 | #206661A | £13.99 Add to basket

 

Otolith Atlas of Taiwan Fishes

Chien-Hsiang Lin and Chih-Wei Chang

The otolith, an aragonite crystal found in the labyrinth of the inner ear, functions mainly as an aid to the balance and hearing of teleost fishes. The morphology of otolith is species-specific and useful for the identification of fishes ... ....

400 pages | colour plates |

Hardback | 12/2012 | 9789860353563 | #206941A | £109.00 Add to basket

 

Shark Stories

Al J Venter

Al Venter has been free-diving (without cages) with sharks for 40 years and has had three of his friends killed by them. The international author known for his war writing now turns his efforts on highlighting their importance to the ... ....

324 pages | colour photos |

Paperback | 07/2012 | 9781869196929 | #207047A | £16.95 Add to basket

 

Sharks and People

Exploring Our Relationship with the Most Feared Fish in the Sea

Thomas P Peschak

At once feared and revered, sharks have captivated people since our earliest human encounters. Children and adults alike stand awed before aquarium shark tanks, fascinated by the giant teeth and unnerving eyes. And no swim in the ocean ... ....

256 pages | 188 colour photos |

Hardback | NYP 10/2013 | 9780226047898 | #206727A | £31.50 Add to basket

 

Sharks: Ancient Predators in a Modern Sea

Salvador Jorgensen

Sharks are exquisite creatures refined and honed by competitive forces that have lived in balance with ocean prey for millions of years. They live in every ocean habitat on Earth, from shallow tide pools to the deep abyss, and from the ... ....

224 pages | 150 colour photos |

Hardback | NYP 10/2013 | 9781770852334 | #206726A | £24.99 Add to basket

 

The Carangids of India

A Monograph

KK Joshi

Fishes of the family Carangidae constitute one of the important commercial fisheries of India. There have been reports on their distribution, abundance and biological aspects but no attempt has been made towards a comprehensive study on ... ....

437 pages | colour photos, colour illustrations |

Hardback | 12/2011 | 9788190121972 | #206695A | £31.99 Add to basket

 

The Physiology of Fishes

David H Evans, James B Claiborne and Suzanne Currie

This edition replaces the 3rd edition.

672 pages | illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 11/2013 | 9781439880302 | #205371A | £76.99 Add to basket

 
Invertebrates
 

Agrilus, Agriloides et Autarcontes de Guyane

Gianfranco Curletti and Stephane Brule

Covers three beetle groups found in Guyana

86 pages | 6 colour plates |

Paperback | 01/2011 | 9782353870844 | #206968A | £49.50 Add to basket

 

Bahamian Seashells

1161 Species from Abaco, Bahamas

Colin Redfern

Bahamian Seashells is a comprehensive study of 1161 species of marine mollusks occurring in the Bahamas. Included are all the species most likely to be encountered in the northern Bahamas, together with many that are uncommon ... ....

501 pages | 3600 colour & 170 b/w photos |

Hardback | 01/2013 | #206685A | £180.00 Add to basket

 

Bugs Rule!

An Introduction to the World of Insects

Whitney Cranshaw and Richard Redak

Bugs Rule! provides a lively introduction to the biology and natural history of insects and their noninsect cousins, such as spiders, scorpions, and centipedes. This richly illustrated textbook features more than 830 color photographs ... ....

472 pages | 830+ colour photos, 18 tables |

Hardback | NYP 09/2013 | 9780691124957 | #206592A | £37.95 Add to basket

 

Butterflies and Burnets of the Alps and Their Larvae, Pupae and Cocoons

Paolo Paolucci

Butterflies and Burnets of the Alps and Their Larvae, Pupae and Cocoons contain more than 2000 colour drawings of 254 species of butterflies (Hesperioidea and Papilionoidea), 27 species of Burnets (Zygaena) and a good number of ... ....

480 pages | 2000+ colour illustrations |

Hardback | 05/2013 | 9788890332333 | #206747A | £69.99 Add to basket

 

Cerambycidae, Dorcasominae de Madagascar

Andre Villiers, Rene-Michel Quentin and Eduard Vives

Covers Malagasy Dorcasominae, is a subfamily of the longhorn beetle family (Cerambycidae). This revision has been 50 years in the making.

390 pages | 6 colour plates, 631 b/w illustrations |

Paperback | 01/2011 | 9782353870882 | #206969A | £94.50 Add to basket

 

Cerambycinae de Borneo

Joan Bentanachs, Eduard Vives and Steven Bosuang

Covers the Cerambycinae, a subfamily of the longhorn beetle family (Cerambycidae), of Borneo and is the second volume to deal with Bornean fauna.

114 pages | 22 colour plates |

Paperback | 01/2012 | 9782353870936 | #206970A | £54.99 Add to basket

 

Classification of Mollusca (2-Volume set + CD-ROM)

A Classification of Worldwide Mollusca

Victor Millard

Provides an up-to-date framework of the systematics of the Phylum Mollusca from Class through Subgenus. Includes authors, dates, and synonomy for for all levels of classification to allow subsequent workers to trace the recent history of ... ....

2762 pages |

Hardback | 11/2011 | #206687A | £416.00 Add to basket

 

Guida ai Coleotteri Bruchidi della Fauna Italiana

Sistematica e Biologia, Gestione e Controllo

Marcello Franco Zampetti and Maria Stella Rici

This is a taxonomic treatment of the subfamily Bruchinae (bean weevils or seed beetles), as found in Italy. Includes identification keys.

430 pages | 76 plates with colour photos |

Paperback | 01/2012 | #206910A | £84.99 Add to basket

 

Handbook of Zoology: Annelida

Wilfried Westheide and Guenter Purschke

Handbook of Zoology: Annelida is the first of three volumes in the Handbook of Zoology series which cover morphology, anatomy, reproduction, development, ecology, phylogeny and systematics of Annelida. Annelida, the segmented ... ....

520 pages | 350 illustrations |

Paperback | 02/2014 | 9783110291469 | #206858A | £319.00 Add to basket

 

Handbook of Zoology: Gastrotricha, Cycloneuralia and Gnathifera, Volume 2

Nematoda

Andreas Schmidt-Rhaesa

This section of the Handbook of Zoology is intended as a comprehensive and exhaustive account of the biology of the taxa Gastrotricha, Nematoda, Nematomorpha, Priapulida, Kinorhyncha, Loricifera, Gnathostomulida, Micrognathozoa ... ....

565 pages |

Hardback | NYP 11/2013 | 9783110273755 | #206856A | £250.00 Add to basket

 

Handbook of Zoology: Nematomorpha, Priapulida, Kinorhyncha, Loricifera

Andreas Schmidt-Rhaesa

This volume includes a general introduction, a chapter on fossil representatives of the Cycloneuralia and chapters on the taxa Nematomorpha, Priapulida, Kinorhyncha and Loricifera. The taxa described herein include the parasitic horsehair ... ....

391 pages | 400 black & white illustrations, 25 colour illustrations, 400 schw.-w. u. 25 farb. Abb. |

Hardback | 12/2012 | 9783110219388 | #206859A | £231.00 Add to basket

 

Insect Morphology and Phylogeny

Rolf G Beutel, Frank Friedrich, Si-Qin Ge and Xing-Ke Yang

This definitive handbook provides an in-depth treatment of insect morphology. The up-to-date overview of insect morphology is complemented by a chapter on innovative morphological techniques (e.g., µ-computer tomography, 3-D modeling ... ....

465 pages |

Hardback | NYP 11/2013 | 9783110262636 | #206863A | £127.00 Add to basket

 

Jellyfish Blooms

Kylie A Pitt and Cathy H Lucas

Jellyfish are one of the most conspicuous animals in our oceans and are renowned for their propensity to form spectacular blooms. The unique features of the biology and ecology of jellyfish that enable them to bloom also make them successful ... ....

310 pages | 20 colour & 10 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 09/2013 | 9789400770140 | #206627A | £126.00 Add to basket

 

Keeping Bees and Making Honey

Alison Benjamin and Brian McCallum

Keeping Bees and Making Honey is a stunning, comprehensive and attractive lifestyle guide to beekeeping packed with images, information, practical advice, useful resources and recipes. Whether you have a tiny balcony or acres of ... ....

144 pages | 100 colour photos, 30 colour illustrations |

Paperback | NYP 07/2013 | 9781446303559 | #206732A | £14.99 Add to basket

 

Les Cahiers Magellanes Hors-serie, Volume 34

Enoplotrupes (E.) rhinoceros sp. nov. and E. (Tyrannotrupes) tyrannus subgen. nov. sp. from India and Myanmar

D Kral, V Maly and J Schneider

Covers Coleoptera, Geotrupidae and describes two new species.

11 pages | 1 colour plate |

Paperback | 01/2012 | 9782353870974 | #206960A | £6.99 Add to basket

 

Libellen Europas

Der Bestimmungsfuehrer

Klaas-Douwe B Dijkstra and Richard Lewington

This is a German translation of the Field Guide to the Dragonflies of Britain and Europe.

320 pages | 1000 line drawings |

Paperback | NYP 10/2013 | 9783258078106 | #206931A | £56.99 Add to basket

 

Research Papers on Arachnida: Araneae in China

China Scientific Book Services (CSBS)

Collection of 33 recent papers on spiders in China, see table of contents for more details.

Paperback | 01/2012 | #206935A | £96.50 Add to basket

 

The Biology of Squat Lobsters

Gary CB Poore, Shane T Ahyong and Joanne Taylor

Squat lobsters of the superfamilies Chirostyloidea and Galatheoidea are highly visible crustaceans on seamounts, continental margins, shelf environments, hydrothermal vents and coral reefs. About 1000 species are known. They frequently ... ....

384 pages | colour photos, b/w illustrations, maps |

Paperback | 12/2011 | 9780643101722 | #206980A | £174.00 Add to basket

 

The Cone Shells of Florida

An Illustrated Key and a Review of the Recent Species

John K Tucker and Emilio F Garcia

This is the first clearly written and fully illustrated guide to the marine Mollusks in the families Conidae and Conolithidae found in the waters off Florida from the shoreline to the continental shelf. Written and illustrated by long ... ....

155 pages | 48 plates with colour photos |

Hardback | 01/2013 | 9780984714018 | #206686A | £84.99 Add to basket

 

The Monarch Butterfly in New Zealand

George Gibbs

The bright orange and black monarch is arguably the world's best-loved butterfly, and has become New Zealand's most domesticated and observed one. The Monarch Butterfly in New Zealand is a response to the unique educational ... ....

56 pages | colour photos, colour illustrations |

Paperback | 04/2013 | 9780473239206 | #206959A | £38.50 Add to basket

 

The Science of Forensic Entomology

David B Rivers and Gregory A Dahlem

The Science of Forensic Entomology is designed to meet the growing needs of colleges, universities, and forensic investigative agencies in training undergraduates, graduate students, and criminal investigators the principles ... ....

392 pages |

Hardback | NYP 11/2013 | 9781119940364 | #206644A | £94.99 Add to basket

Paperback | NYP 11/2013 | 9781119940371 | #206645A | £37.50 Add to basket

 

The Witt Catalogue Volume 6: A Taxonomic Atlas of the Eurasian and North African Noctuoidea

Noctuinae I

Zoltan Varga, Peter Gyulai, Laszlo Ronkay and Gabor Ronkay

The sixth volume is the first covering the covers the Noctuinae. It contains 49 colour plates and 118 genitalia figures.

313 pages | 49 plates with colour illustrations, 118 b/w photos |

Hardback | 05/2013 | 9786155279010 | #206748A | £160.00 Add to basket

 

Welcher Schmetterling ist das?

140 Arten Einfach Bestimmen

Wolfgang Dreyer

A practical and authoritative pocket nature guide. With 140 known native butterflies.

128 pages | 150 colour photos |

Paperback | 04/2013 | 9783440133828 | #207100A | £7.99 Add to basket

 
Palaeontology
 

A Systematic Atudy of the Bivalvia (Mollusca) from the Grimmertingen Sand Member and from the Klimmen Member

R Marquet, J Lenaerts and J Laporte

A fauna of 112 species of bivalves (Mollusca) from the earliest part of the Oligocene (Grimmertingen Sand Member in Belgium and Klimmen Member in The Netherlands) is described and figured. Their relations with records from the North Sea ... ....

118 pages | 38 plates with b/w photos; 7 illustrations, 4 tables |

Paperback | 01/2012 | #206908A | £57.50 Add to basket

 

Foraminifera and their Applications

Robert Wynn Jones

In a one-stop resource, Foraminifera and their Applications provides a state-of-the-art overview of all aspects of pure and applied forams studies. Building from introductory chapters on the history of foraminiferal research ... ....

385 pages | 112 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 11/2013 | 9781107036406 | #206251A | £44.99 Add to basket

 

Miocene Chondrichthyes from Winterswijk - Miste, the Netherlands

T Bor, T Reinecke and S Verschueren

Some 50 species of chondrichthyan taxa (Elasmobranchs: sharks and batoids; Holocephaleans: chimaeras) are described from temporary excavations in the very fossiliferous, glauconite-rich layers of the Miste Bed, Aalten Member of the Breda ... ....

136 pages | 58 plates with b/w photos; 18 illustrations, 5 tables |

Paperback | 01/2012 | #206909A | £76.99 Add to basket

 

Oxygen: A Four Billion Year History

Donald E Canfield

The air we breathe is twenty-one percent oxygen, an amount higher than on any other known world. While we may take our air for granted, Earth was not always an oxygenated planet. How did it become this way?

256 pages | 20 b/w photos, 8 colour & 35 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 11/2013 | 9780691145020 | #206595A | £19.95 Add to basket

 

Palaeontologia Sinica, Whole Number 197, New Series B, Number 35 (2-Volume Set)

Trilobite Fauna of the Changhia Formation (Cambrian Series 3) from Shandong and Adjacent Area, North China

Yuan Jinliang

There is a long standing debate about the Cambrian biostratigraphy of North China. We propose herein a revision of Cambrian Series 3 trilobite zonation of North China to improve its utility for correlation between North China Platform ... ....

999 pages | 241 plates with illustrations |

Paperback | 01/2012 | 9787030358080 | #206757A | £198.00 Add to basket

 

Pterosauriers

Vliegende Tijdgenoten Van De Dinosauriers

Mark Witton, Ilja Nieuwland and Andre J Veldmeijer

Pterosaurs or flying reptiles were the first vertebrates to evolve flight. These distant relatives of modern reptiles and dinosaurs lived from the Late Triassic (over 200 million years ago) to the end of the Cretaceous (about 65 million ... ....

130 pages | 152 colour & 29 b/w illustrations |

Paperback | 03/2011 | 9789088900648 | #206624A | £21.99 Add to basket

 

Pterosaurs

Flying Contemporaries of the Dinosaurs

Ilja Nieuwland, Andre J Veldmeijer and Mark Witton

Pterosaurs or flying reptiles were the first vertebrates to evolve flight. These distant relatives of modern reptiles and dinosaurs lived from the Late Triassic (over 200 million years ago) to the end of the Cretaceous (about 65 million ... ....

134 pages | 29 b/w illustrations |

Paperback | 05/2013 | 9789088900938 | #206623A | £24.99 Add to basket

 

The Holocene

An Environmental History

Neil Roberts

The Holocene refers to the period since the end of the last Ice Age some 12,000 years ago. Understanding the climatic and other environmental changes (both natural and anthropogenic) that have occurred over this period is of crucial importance ... ....

352 pages |

Hardback | NYP 11/2013 | 9781118712573 | #206605A | £84.99 Add to basket

Paperback | NYP 10/2013 | 9781405155212 | #206606A | £32.50 Add to basket

 

When the Invasion of Land Failed

The Legacy of the Devonian Extinctions

George R McGhee Jr.

The invasion of land by ocean-dwelling plants and animals was one of the most revolutionary events in the evolution of life on Earth, yet the animal invasion almost failed – twice – because of the twin mass extinctions of the ... ....

360 pages | 12 colour & 48 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 11/2013 | 9780231160568 | #206919A | £92.99 Add to basket

Paperback | NYP 11/2013 | 9780231160575 | #206920A | £30.95 Add to basket

 

Windows on the African Past

Current Approaches to African Archaeobotany

Ahmed G Fahmy, Stefanie Kahlheber and A Catherine D'Andrea

Archaeobotany has significantly increased our knowledge of the relationships between humans and plants throughout the ages. As is amply illustrated in Windows on the African Past, botanical remains preserved in archaeological ... ....

242 pages | 73 illustrations, 62 tables |

Paperback | 12/2011 | 9783937248325 | #207024A | £69.99 Add to basket

 
Marine & Freshwater Biology
 

The Nano-Reef Handbook

The Ultimate Guide to Reef Systems under 15 Gallons

Chris Brightwell

Any reef aquarium that contains less than 15 gallons of water is considered a nano-reef aquarium. These tiny ecosystems are almost as popular in the fishkeeping community as full-size marine aquarium setups, and with the proper information ... ....

192 pages | colour photos |

Paperback | 05/2013 | 9780793807178 | #206708A | £19.50 Add to basket

 
General Natural History
 

Between Man and Beast

An Unlikely Explorer, the Evolution Debates, and the African Adventure That Took the Victorian World by Storm

Monte Reel

The unbelievably riveting adventure of an unlikely young explorer who emerged from the jungles of Africa with evidence of a mysterious, still mythical beast – the gorilla – only to stumble straight into the center of the biggest ... ....

352 pages | illustrations |

Hardback | 03/2013 | 9780385534222 | #206906A | £24.50 Add to basket

 

Biographical Notes of Antonie Augustus Bruijn (1842-1890)

His life as a Marine Officer in the Dutch Navy and Lifetime as a Trader in Naturalia on Ternate, the Moluccas, Indonesia

C J Heij

Antonie Augustus Bruijn entered the service of the Koninklijke Marine (Royal Dutch Navy) at an early age, as this was tradition in his family. After ten years of his dedication to the Royal Dutch Navy, Bruijn was honourably discharged in ... ....

145 pages | 87 colour & b/w photos, colour & b/w illustrations |

Paperback | 01/2011 | 9789794932940 | #206542A | £20.50 Add to basket

 

Canon EOS 5D Mark III

The Guide to Understanding and Using Your Camera

James Johnson

The Canon EOS 5D Mark III is the latest in Canon's line of full-frame DSLR cameras. Its impressive array of capabilities and advanced controls allow the photographer ever more influence over the final image. With this comes more ... ....

276 pages | colour photos, colour illustrations |

Paperback | 01/2013 | 9781937538156 | #206762A | £30.99 Add to basket

 

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

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

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

1794 pages | illustrations |

Paperback | NYP 09/2013 | 9781107610767 | #206865A | £150.00 Add to basket

 

David Busch's Canon EOS 6D Guide to Digital SLR Photography

David Busch

David Busch's Canon EOS 6D Guide to Digital SLR Photography is your one-stop resource and reference for the Canon EOS 6D, an advanced, full-frame camera featuring built-in WiFi and GPS, along with 20 megapixels of resolution ... ....

400 pages | illustrations |

Paperback | NYP 08/2013 | 9781285434629 | #206819A | £18.99 Add to basket

 

David Nash: A Natural Gallery

Michelle Payne

This lavishly illustrated new book celebrates the year-long exhibition at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Stunning colour photography documents the exhibition in its entirety, allowing outdoor works to be appreciated against a changing ... ....

192 pages | 180 colour photos |

Hardback | 03/2013 | 9781842464632 | #206877A | £31.99 Add to basket

 

Dispelling the Darkness

The Voyage of Alfred Russel Wallace and Evolution without Darwin

John van Wyhe

"The facts of variability, of the struggle for existence, of adaptation to conditions, were notorious enough; but none of us had suspected that the road to the heart of the species problem lay through them, until Darwin and Wallace ... ....

300 pages |

Hardback | NYP 09/2013 | 9789814458795 | #204774A | £70.99 Add to basket

Paperback | NYP 09/2013 | 9789814458801 | #205337A | £25.99 Add to basket

 

Distance and Memory

Peter Davidson and Robert MacFarlane

In these painterly essays Davidson reflects on art, place, history and landscape. Distance and Memory is his testament to the cold, clear beauty of the north.

Paperback | NYP 06/2013 | 9781847771551 | #206891A | £14.95 Add to basket

 

Escaping Into Nature

The Making of a Sportsman-Conservationist and Environmental Historian

John F Reiger

"It was only by escaping into nature that I could obtain the peace and harmony I sought." – from the Introduction in Escaping into Nature, prominent wildlife conservationist and environmental historian John Reiger ... ....

263 pages | illustrations |

Paperback | 04/2013 | 9780870717109 | #206743A | £22.50 Add to basket

 

European Encounters with the Yamana People of Cape Horn, Before and After Darwin

Anne Chapman

European Encounters with the Yamana People of Cape Horn, Before and After Darwin is a documented narration of dramas played out from 1578 to 2000 in the Cape Horn area, Tierra del Fuego, by the native Yamana and Charles Darwin ... ....

746 pages | 54 b/w illustrations, 2 maps |

Hardback | 04/2010 | 9780521513791 | #206634A | £78.99 Add to basket

Paperback | NYP 08/2013 | 9781107617025 | #206635A | £26.99 Add to basket

 

First Animal Encyclopedia

Anita Ganeri

Every child loves animals. Find out more about them with the brilliant First Animal Encyclopedia. From giant giraffes to tiny tiger cubs, find out all about some of the world's most amazing animals with this informative first ... ....

64 pages |

Hardback | NYP 11/2013 | 9781408842522 | #206269A | £8.99 Add to basket

 

Flora Atlantica, Volume 1

Sive Historia Plantarum Quae in Atlante, Agro Tunetano et Algeriensi Crescunt

Rene Louiche Desfontaines

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. A member, and later president, of the Académie des Sciences, French botanist and doctor René Louiche Desfontaines (1750–1833) spent ... ....

474 pages |

Paperback | NYP 06/2013 | 9781108064323 | #206647A | £33.99 Add to basket

 

Flora Atlantica, Volume 2

Sive Historia Plantarum Quae in Atlante, Agro Tunetano et Algeriensi Crescunt

Rene Louiche Desfontaines

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. A member, and later president, of the Académie des Sciences, French botanist and doctor René Louiche Desfontaines (1750–1833) spent ... ....

468 pages |

Paperback | NYP 06/2013 | 9781108064484 | #206648A | £33.99 Add to basket

 

Flora Atlantica, Volume 3

Sive Historia Plantarum Quae in Atlante, Agro Tunetano et Algeriensi Crescunt

Rene ... Louiche Desfontaines

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. A member, and later president, of the Académie des Sciences, French botanist and doctor René Louiche Desfontaines (1750–1833) spent ... ....

274 pages | 261 plates with b/w line drawings |

Paperback | 06/2013 | 9781108064491 | #206649A | £22.99 Add to basket

 

Four Fields

Tim Dee

In his first book since the acclaimed The Running Sky Tim Dee tells the story of four green fields. Four fields spread around the world: their grasses, their hedges, their birds, their skies, and their natural and human histories.

256 pages |

Hardback | NYP 08/2013 | 9780224090728 | #206737A | £16.99 Add to basket

 

Gapping, Raddling and Snagging

An Illustrated Glossary of Terms Associated with Woodland Management in South Yorkshire 1086 - c. 1900

Melvyn Jones

This glossary of woodland terms includes those terms that have been recorded in woodland account books and surveys over the centuries and sometimes confirmed by personal recollection. The glossary stems from more than 30 years of archive ... ....

82 pages | colour & b/w photos, colour & b/w illustrations |

Paperback | 04/2013 | 9781904098492 | #206949A | £9.99 Add to basket

 

Glorious Gentlemen

Tales from Scotland's Stalkers, Gillies and Keepers

Bruce Sandison

In Glorious Gentlemen Bruce Sandison takes the reader on a magical journey as seen through the eyes of some of Scotland's best-known and most respected gillies, stalkers and keepers – men who have spent their whole lives ... ....

320 pages | 8pp. colour |

Paperback | NYP 09/2013 | 9781845025328 | #206886A | £11.99 Add to basket

 

History of British Birds, Volume 1

Containing the History and Description of Land Birds

Thomas Bewick

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. Thomas Bewick (1753–1828) is synonymous with finely crafted wood engravings of the natural world, and his instantly recognisable style influenced ... ....

372 pages |

Paperback | NYP 06/2013 | 9781108065405 | #206651A | £23.99 Add to basket

 

History of British Birds, Volume 2

Containing the History and Description of Water Birds

Thomas Bewick

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. Thomas Bewick (1753–1828) is synonymous with finely crafted wood engravings of the natural world, and his instantly recognisable style influenced ... ....

424 pages | 232 b/w line drawings |

Paperback | NYP 06/2013 | 9781108065078 | #206650A | £25.99 Add to basket

 

Lost and Found in the Arctic

HMS Investigator and the Search for Franklin

Andrew Cohen

In 1850, HMS Investigator was sent to search for the lost Franklin expedition. The explorers failed in that mission, but succeeded in locating the final link of the Northwest Passage route that Franklin had been seeking. After multiple ... ....

128 pages | 125 illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 09/2013 | 9781459719491 | #206638A | £20.99 Add to basket

 

Mawson and the Ice Men of the Heroic Age

Scott, Shackleton and Amundsen

Peter FitzSimons

Douglas Mawson, born in 1882 and knighted in 1914, was Australia's greatest Antarctic explorer. On 2 December 1911, he led an expedition from Hobart to explore the virgin frozen coastline below, 2000 miles of which had never felt the ... ....

768 pages |

Paperback | 04/2013 | 9781742752792 | #206905A | £18.99 Add to basket

 

Nikon D5200 For Dummies

Julie Adair King

Invaluable photography advice for D5200 beginners. The Nikon D5200 is one of Nikon's most advanced cameras offered in the entry-level line of dSLRs. Nikon D5200 For Dummies goes beyond the user's manual to deliver a helpful ... ....

384 pages | colour illustrations |

Paperback | 05/2013 | 9781118530474 | #206820A | £21.99 Add to basket

 

November's Fury

The Deadly Great Lakes Hurricane of 1913

Michael Schumacher

On Thursday, November 6, the Detroit News forecasted "moderate to brisk" winds for the Great Lakes. On Friday, the Port Huron Times-Herald predicted a "moderately severe" storm. Hourly the warnings became more and more ... ....

240 pages | 77 b/w photos and illustrations, 1 map |

Hardback | NYP 11/2013 | 9780816687190 | #206814A | £18.50 Add to basket

 

Swat!: A Fly's Guide to Staying Alive

Mike Barfield

Swat!: A Fly's Guide to Staying Alive tells in cartoon form about the life of a housefly and the many dangers it faces. It is a fun tale...as well as an engaging one for children, and informative too, based on the real facts ... ....

32 pages | colour illustrations |

Paperback | 04/2013 | 9781908241184 | #206393A | £6.99 Add to basket

 

Taxidermy

Alexis Turner

From style wilderness to height of cool, taxidermy has staged an extraordinary comeback. No longer confined to stately homes, stuffed animals are appearing everywhere from modern apartments to luxury department stories.

256 pages | 337 colour illustrations |

Hardback | 05/2013 | 9780500516706 | #206928A | £19.95 Add to basket

 

The Girl with No Name

The Incredible True Story of a Child Raised by Monkeys

Marina Chapman and Lynne Barrett-Lee

In 1954, in a remote mountain village in South America, a little girl was abducted. She was four years old. Marina Chapman was stolen from her housing estate and then abandoned deep in the Colombian jungle. That she survived is a miracle ... ....

336 pages | illustrations |

Hardback | 04/2013 | 9781605984742 | #206655A | £23.99 Add to basket

 

The Last Wild

Piers Torday

In a world where animals no longer exist, twelve-year-old Kester Jaynes sometimes feels like he hardly exists either. Locked away in a home for troubled children, he's told there's something wrong with him. So when he meets a ... ....

320 pages |

Hardback | 03/2013 | 9781780878287 | #207055A | £9.99 Add to basket

 

The New Northwest Passage

A Voyage to the Front Line of Climate Change

Cameron Dueck

The Open Passage Expedition successfully sailed through the Northwest Passage during the summer of 2009. The crew not only succeeded in a sailing some of the most dangerous waters in the world, but also learned more about the people and ... ....

256 pages | 30 illustrations |

Paperback | 02/2013 | 9781908737151 | #206879A | £8.99 Add to basket

 

The Sunlit Summit

The Life of W. H. Murray

Robin Lloyd-Jones

William Hutchison Murray (1913 - 1996) was one of Scotland's most distinguished climbers in the years before and after the Second World War. As a prisoner of war in Italy he wrote his first classic book, Mountaineering in Scotland ... ....

386 pages | 50 illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 08/2013 | 9781908737380 | #206885A | £19.99 Add to basket

 

The Three-Legged Society

The Lives of the Westmorland Naturalists George Stabler, James M. Barnes and Joseph A. Martindale

Ian D Hodkinson and Allan Steward

The Lake District and its surrounding countryside was a significant centre of botanical research in the nineteenth century. It is striking that the main explorers were not prominent academics but ordinary individuals with inquiring minds ... ....

110 pages | 26 plates with 67 colour & b/w photos and colour & b/w illustrations |

Paperback | 01/2013 | 9781862202979 | #206700A | £14.95 Add to basket

 

Tom Weir: An Anthology

Tom Weir and Hamish M Brown

Tom Weir as a popular television personality climaxed a long life as explorer, naturalist and photographer. His dedication took him from impoverished Glasgow to the ends of the earth and this selection, some never before published ... ....

320 pages | 60 b/w photos |

Paperback | NYP 06/2013 | 9781908737281 | #206882A | £14.99 Add to basket

 

Trout Streams of the Heart

Chad Hanson

Forging a bond with rugged places and wild creatures, casting to brook trout, or reflecting on the forces that compel people to fly-fish, Chad Hanson proves himself a formidable guide. In prose that is wise and observant, he brings us ... ....

152 pages |

Paperback | 04/2013 | 9781612480824 | #206742A | £14.50 Add to basket

 

Underwater Photography

A Guide to Capturing the Mysteries of the Deep

Trent Burkholder

Explore the underwater world of photography through this informative guide written in simple language, covering the technical, mechanical, and compositional factors that contribute to producing quality images. View 120 beautiful color photographs ... ....

160 pages | 120 colour photos, 18 colour illustrations |

Hardback | 01/2013 | 9780764342349 | #206808A | £27.50 Add to basket

 

Walking in Extremadura

Discover Spain's Secret Paradise

Gisela Radant Wood

It is a wealth of walking routes to this unblemished region of Spain. It includes information on estimated distances, walking times, and degree of difficulty. Extremadura, on the western border of Spain with Portugal, is an important area ... ....

288 pages | colour photos, colour maps |

Paperback | 11/2012 | 9788489954953 | #206838A | £25.50 Add to basket

 

White River

A Journey Up and Down the River Findhorn

Jamie Whittle

In White River Jamie Whittle, traveller and environmental lawyer, returns to his origins by the River Findhorn in Morayshire to make the journey from its mouth to its source on foot, and to return again by canoe.

192 pages | illustrations |

Paperback | 03/2013 | 9781908737236 | #206881A | £8.99 Add to basket

 
Regional & Travel
 

Insider's Guide: Top Wildlife Photography Spots in South Africa

Shem Compion

Insider's Guide: Top Wildlife Photography Spots in South Africa is a field guide that shows readers the best places to photograph wildlife in South Africa. Much of the information regarding good wildlife photography is local ... ....

224 pages | colour photos |

Paperback | 10/2010 | 9781770098350 | #207048A | £18.95 Add to basket

 

Kinabalu

Antony van der Ent

“The people of Sabah possesses on this famous mountain of what I believe is the most richest and most remarkable assemblage of plants in the world. There is no other place in the world that supplies in so short a journey ... ....

160 pages | colour photos |

Hardback | 04/2013 | 9789838121422 | #206900A | £79.99 Add to basket

 

La Nature en Bord de Chemin

Marc Giraud and Fabrice Cahez

With more than 700 photos, La Nature en Bord de Chemin travels through lands and seasons of France. This book is a great incentive for walkers and natural history enthusiasts alike to step outdoors.

256 pages | 700+ colour photos |

Hardback | 04/2013 | 9782603018774 | #206660A | £26.50 Add to basket

 

La Nature en Languedoc-Roussillon

Francois Legendre and Jean Ramiere

Languedoc-Roussillon in France offers an exceptional variety of landscapes and environments. A varied landscape harbours both common and rare or endemic species. François Legendre and Jean Ramière invite the reader to discover ... ....

192 pages | colour photos, colour illustrations, map |

Paperback | 03/2013 | 9782862666853 | #206942A | £34.99 Add to basket

 

La Nature en Midi-Pyrenees

Jean Ramiere

Nature in the central Pyrenees offers an exceptional variety of landscapes, and animal and plant species. A varied landscape harbours both common and rare or endemic species. Jean RamiŠre invites the reader to discover this biodiversity. ....

192 pages | colour photos, colour illustrations, map |

Paperback | 04/2012 | 9782862666617 | #206943A | £34.99 Add to basket

 

National Geographic Illustrated Guide to Nature

From Your Back Door to the Great Outdoors

National Geographic

Bursting with beautiful images and completely authoritative text, this comprehensive nature field guide will help families, amateur adventurers, and empty nesters enjoy and understand nature – from wilderness camping to their own ... ....

448 pages | colour photos |

Hardback | NYP 11/2013 | 9781426211744 | #206664A | £32.99 Add to basket

 

Nature Journal

LJ Davenport and John C Hall

Nature Journal is an innovative presentation of the best columns and photographs from L. J. Davenport's popular column in Alabama Heritage magazine. Readers of the magazine have come to relish his artful and often ... ....

256 pages | 26 colour illustrations |

Paperback | 08/2010 | 9780817355692 | #206954A | £22.50 Add to basket

 

New York Wildlife Viewing Guide

Where to Watch Wildlife

Watchable Wildlife

New York is a beautiful state with diverse habitats and landscapes. That means plenty of unique wildlife ! Use New York Wildlife Viewing Guide on your next exploration. You'll find detailed descriptions of nearly ... ....

216 pages |

Paperback | 05/2013 | 9781591933755 | #206657A | £13.50 Add to basket

 

On Track: Quick ID Guide to Southern and East African Animal Tracks

Chris Stuart and Mathilde Stuart

Following the success of the earlier Scatalog, On Track: Quick ID Guide to Southern and East African Animal Tracks is another quick and quirky identification guide, this time to tracks of the region's most commonly found mammals ... ....

40 pages | colour photos, b/w illustrations |

Paperback | 03/2013 | 9781920572532 | #206718A | £6.99 Add to basket

 

On the Rocks

Bryan Nelson and John Busby

The second in the new series Wildlife and People by Langford Press.

304 pages | colour illustrations |

Paperback | 05/2013 | 9781904078562 | #206892A | £19.99 Add to basket

 

Parque Nacional del Teide

Patrimonio Mundial - Miradas

Damian Borges, Manuel Fuentes and Julio Gonzalez

This coffee table book collects panoramic landscape photos of three Spanish photographers taken in Teide National Park (Parque Nacional del Teide), a national park located in the Tenerife Canary Islands, Spain.

241 pages | colour photos |

Hardback | 05/2013 | 9788492648955 | #207030A | £49.99 Add to basket

 

Saugetiere der Alpen

Der Bestimmungsfuehrer fuer alle Arten

Laura Canalis

High peaks, deep valleys, sunny slopes, shady valleys – the Alpine arc has different habitats and therefore offers an exceptional variety of animals a home. Säugetiere der Alpen portrays with meaningful photographs ... ....

270 pages | 400 colour photos |

Paperback | NYP 09/2013 | 9783258077901 | #206929A | £35.99 Add to basket

 

Scatalog: Quick ID Guide to Southern African Animal Droppings

Kevin Murray

Scatalog: Quick ID Guide to Southern African Animal Droppings is a quick and quirky identification guide to animal dung or droppings. Each animal group (carnivores, primates, antelope, rats and mice, reptiles, birds) is briefly ... ....

40 pages | colour photos, colour illustrations, 1 colour table |

Paperback | 07/2011 | 9781770079557 | #206719A | £9.99 Add to basket

 

Sounds of the African Bush

Gordon King and Doug Newman

Animals are often heard before they are spotted, and this book serves as an excellent guide to help identify 76 creatures (mammals, birds, amphibians and insects), based primarily on their calls. For each of the species listed, there is ... ....

48 pages | 85 colour photos, colour distribution maps, includes CD |

Paperback | 05/2013 | 9781920572419 | #206705A | £9.99 Add to basket

 

Strands: A Year of Discoveries on the Beach

Jean Sprackland

Strands: A Year of Discoveries on the Beach describes a year's worth of walking on the ultimate beach: inter-tidal and constantly turning up revelations: mermaid's purses, lugworms, sea potatoes, messages in bottles ... ....

256 pages |

Paperback | NYP 06/2013 | 9780099532439 | #206833A | £8.99 Add to basket

 

The Countryside Companion

Dennis Kelsall and Mike Read

Do you enjoy a country walk or want to enrich your walking holidays by knowing more about the English countryside? Or perhaps you're a city dweller who wants to go on a ramblers holiday? The Countryside Companion is the ... ....

96 pages | colour photos |

Paperback | 03/2013 | 9781780591100 | #206880A | £11.99 Add to basket

 

The Fire Outside My Window

A Survivor Tells the True Story of California's Epic Cedar Fire

Sandra Millers Youngers

The Fire Outside My Window reveals the story of the Cedar Fire, the largest fire in California's recorded history, which ravaged the San Diego area in late 2003, burning nearly 280,000 acres, destroying more than 2200 homes ... ....

256 pages |

Paperback | NYP 09/2013 | 9780762791804 | #206811A | £19.50 Add to basket

 

The Historic Landscape of Devon

A Study in Change and Continuity

Lucy Ryder

The 19th century historic landscape of Devon developed from earlier patterns of landholdings and settlement that are, today, not always easily discernible on the ground. The study of Tithe Survey landholdings, field-names, and associated ... ....

256 pages | col illus |

Paperback | 02/2012 | 9781905119387 | #206854A | £37.99 Add to basket

 

Treasures on Tiger Tracks

A Bi-lingual Nature Guide to Kalakad Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve

T Ganesh, R Ganesan, M Soubadra Devy and Jahnavi G Pai

Many field guides usually focus on a single group (taxon). For those interested in identifying the most common plants and animals, it becomes necessary to carry many such books to the field. Field guides in general use technical terms ... ....

323 pages | colour illustrations, colour maps |

Paperback | 01/2009 | #206940A | £38.50 Add to basket

 

Wildlife of Bangladesh: A Checklist

From amphibia to mammalia, with Bengali names

Reza Khan

This is a revised version of a checklist published by the author in 1982 that anybody will able to carry in the field. Also, the readers will able to tick the animal species they see, observe or record in nature. Also included are miniature ... ....

127 pages | colour plates |

Paperback | 01/2010 | 9847012401095 | #206939A | £24.99 Add to basket

 
Botany & Plant Science
 

A Guide to Finding Mosses in Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire

Peter Creed and Tom Haynes

This second in the series of attractively-designed pocket guides, A Guide to Finding Mosses in Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire describes over 200 species of mosses and liverworts that you are likely to find in Berks ... ....

72 pages | 272 colour photos, 2 b/w illustrations |

Paperback | 04/2013 | 9781874357568 | #206621A | £5.95 Add to basket

 

A Guide to Finding Orchids in Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire

Peter Creed and Rachel Hudson

The counties of Berks, Bucks and Oxon are home to 36 species of orchid (including some of Britain's rarest species) – more than any other area of Britain – what better place to start looking?

72 pages | 80+ colour photos |

Paperback | 04/2013 | 9781874357575 | #206620A | £5.95 Add to basket

 

Arnoldo's Zakflora

Wat in het Wild Groeit en Bloeit op Aruba, Bonaire en Curacao

ASJ van Proosdij

Arnoldo's Zakflora is the definitive work on the flora of Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao, covering all 566 plant species to be found on the three islands. For each species a short description is given, including the vernacular ... ....

320 pages | ~180 colour photos |

Paperback | 01/2012 | 9789057301629 | #207022A | £39.99 Add to basket

 

Atlas y Libro Rojo de los Briofitos Amenazados de Espana

R Gariletti and B Albertos

This new installment in this series of red data books and atlases that collect current information on the distribution and conservation status of Spanish biodiversity focuses on bryophytes. Following the editorial line of the earlier publications ... ....

287 pages | colour illustrations |

Paperback | 01/2012 | 9788480148368 | #206976A | £45.99 Add to basket

 

Catalogo Floristico del Parque Nacional de Ordesa y Monte Perdido

Jose Luis Benito Alonso

A catalog of the vascular flora of Ordesa and Monte Perdido National Park, situated in the Pyrenees of Huesca province, Aragon, Spain.

321 pages | 615 distribution maps |

Paperback | 04/2012 | 9788493958107 | #206973A | £44.99 Add to basket

 

Champignons de France et d'Europe occidentale

Guide Illustre de plus de 1500 Especes et Varietes

Marcel Bon

This field guide presents 1500 varieties of mushrooms, both common and rare, edible and poisonous, with illustrations of mature mushrooms and markers for easy identification (drawings of spores, characteristic odor, and color changes after ... ....

368 pages | colour illustrations |

Paperback | 09/2012 | 9782081288218 | #206932A | £31.99 Add to basket

 

Ferns of Alabama

John W Short and Daniel D Spaulding

A field guide to the more than 120 species of ferns and fern allies occurring naturally in the state, Ferns of Alabama provides yet another window into Alabama's amazing biodiversity. Ferns of Alabama is ...

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

Paperback | 10/2012 | 9780817356477 | #206952A | £35.50 Add to basket

 

Flora Algarum Marinarum Sinicarum, Volume 5: Bacillariophyta (No. 3)

Cheng Zhaodi

This volume records 221 species, 65 varietas belonging to 20 genera, Naviculaceae, 2 genera, Cymbellaceae, 1 genus, Auriculaceae  and 1 genus, Gomphonemaceae, describing their morphological characteristics, ecological features ... ....

252 pages |

Hardback | 01/2013 | 9787030367990 | #206933A | £43.50 Add to basket

 

Flora Algarum Sinicarum Aquae Dulcis, Volume 16: Bacillariophyta: Cymbellaceae

Shi Zhi Xin

This book systematically introduces 180 species and 33 varietas, 11 genera belonging to Cymbellaceae, describing their morphological characteristics, cell structure , reproduction and ecological habit. Appendix 1 is an English Key to the ... ....

174 pages | 43 plates |

Paperback | 01/2013 | 9787030369208 | #206934A | £43.50 Add to basket

 

Flora del Bajio y de Regiones Adyacentes, Volume 177

Familia Dioscoreaceae

Victoria Sosa and Ismael G Valdivieso

Volume 177 covers the family Dioscoreaceae.

38 pages |

Paperback | 03/2013 | #206875A | £14.50 Add to basket

 

Flora del Bajio y de Regiones Adyacentes, Volume 178

Familia Compositae Tribu Liabeae

Rosario Redonda-Martinez

This volume deals with the family Compositae, tribe Liabeae.

11 pages |

Paperback | 03/2013 | #206876A | £14.50 Add to basket

 

Fungi non Delineati 62: Cortinaires de France

Xavier Carteret

The author describes and illustrates twenty-five rare or little known taxa in the genus Cortinarius Cortinarius azureovelatus var. subcaligatus, C. perrugatus, C. eucaerulescens ...

Paperback | 01/2012 | #207020A | £24.50 Add to basket

 

Fungi non Delineati 63-64: Funghi Rari, Critici o Interessanti dalla Finlandia

Matteo Carbone

The authors describe 27 interesting species collected during their trip in Finland. Hypocrea nybergiana, Gyromitra ambigua, Helvella hyperborea, H. palustris, Otidea tuomikoskii, O. formicarum, O. caligata, Peziza alcis ... ....

colour illustrations, b/w line drawings |

Paperback | 01/2012 | #207021A | £33.99 Add to basket

 

Guide des Rosiers Sauvages

500 Especes, Varietes et Hybrides du Monde

Patrick Masure

Wild (also called botanical) roses are much more hardy than their overtly-cultivated counterparts. This guide to wild roses describes more than 500 species of rose, varieties and hybrids. A must-have guide to gardeners interested in cultivating ... ....

256 pages | colour photos |

Hardback | 04/2013 | 9782603019009 | #206659A | £30.99 Add to basket

 

How to Enjoy WA Wildflowers

Jim Barrow

Describes good spots to look for wildflowers in Western Australia and how to put together touring routes ranging from Shark Bay to Hyden, Albany and Esperance. Perth is not neglected and one-day trips from there (including walks in ... ....

128 pages | colour photos |

Paperback | 02/2013 | 9780957781733 | #206979A | £36.99 Add to basket

 

How to Eradicate Invasive Plants

Teri Dunn Chace

Unfortunately, invasive plants like kudzu, ragweed, and Himalayan blackberry won't go away on their own. Luckily, How to Eradicate Invasive Plants offers a clear, practical solution to an increasingly common problem.

336 pages | 208 colour photos |

Paperback | NYP 06/2013 | 9781604693065 | #206895A | £14.99 Add to basket

 

If Trees Could Talk

Meg's Guide to Bushveld Trees

Megan Emmett

The trouble with trees is that most people get completely root-bound trying to learn them. But the truth is that one doesn't need to be a botanist to enjoy trees; or a rocket scientist to identify them. Over almost two decades of ... ....

312 pages |

Paperback | NYP 08/2013 | 9781431406210 | #207043A | £16.95 Add to basket

 

Indian Erysiphaceae

YS Paul and VK Thakur

Indian Erysiphaceae is a monographic work on the powdery mildew fungi based on the teliomorphic stage collected on 86 different host species from various agroecological zones of Himachal Pradesh. So Far, 22 genera and about 300 ... ....

175 pages | colour photos, illustrations |

Hardback | 09/2005 | 9788172334178 | #206696A | £28.99 Add to basket

 

Invaluable Trees

Cultures of Nature, 1660-1830

Laura Auricchio, Elizabeth Heckendorn Cook and Giulla Pacini

Trees and tree products have long been central to human life and culture, taking on intensified significance during the long eighteenth century. As basic raw material they were vital economic resources, objects of international diplomatic ... ....

360 pages | 12 b/w illustrations |

Paperback | 08/2012 | 9780729410489 | #207040A | £89.99 Add to basket

 

La Vegetacion del Parque Nacional de Ordesa y Monte Perdido

Jose Luis Benito Alonso

This the revised second edition of the first edition published in 2006 and describes the vegetation of Ordesa and Monte Perdido National Park, situated in the Pyrenees of Huesca province, Aragon, Spain.

350 pages |

Paperback | 04/2012 | 9788493781149 | #206974A | £45.50 Add to basket

 

New York City of Trees

Benjamin Swett

We know that trees improve living conditions in cities by filtering and cooling the air, absorbing excess rainwater, and making neighborhoods more attractive. But little has been said about their role as witnesses to the city's past ... ....

160 pages | colour photos |

Hardback | 05/2013 | 9781593720520 | #206652A | £18.50 Add to basket

 

Nieuwe Atlas van de Nederlandse Flora

Floron

This distribution atlas brings together the results of more than a century of cataloguing wild plants in the Netherlands. The historical distribution data of three periods of cataloguing (before 1950, 1950- 1980 and 1975-2005) are displayed ... ....

176 pages | colour illustrations, colour distribution maps |

Hardback | 12/2011 | 9789050114134 | #207025A | £49.99 Add to basket

 

O Pinheiro Brasileiro

Joao Rodrigues de Mattos

Extraordinary work with complete description, biology and history of Brazilian pine tree.

704 pages | illustrations |

Paperback | 01/2011 | 9788532805560 | #206972A | £87.50 Add to basket

 

Pathfinders in Tasmanian Botany

An Honour Roll of People Connected Through Naming Tasmanian Plants

Dick Burns

This 250 page book offers profiles of 31 people who are commemorated in the names of Tasmanian plants. Among the people profiled are the collectors who roamed Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania), the botanists who described and named the ... ....

260 pages | colour photos, colour illustrations |

Paperback | 09/2012 | 9780646580388 | #206957A | £54.50 Add to basket

 

Plant Biographies

Plant's Eye View of the Planet and Man

Sue C Eland and Professor Gren Lucas

Plant Biographies contains over 4,000 species and genera, more than 40,000 botanical synonyms and even more common names (in very many languages), and over 800 reference works are addressed. All information is searchable and ... ....

5000 pages | 11 colour photos |

Paperback | NYP 11/2013 | 9780957653900 | #206698A | £59.99 Add to basket

 

Plant Mutation Breeding and Biotechnology

QY Shu, BP Forster and H Nakagawa

This comprehensive book covers the underlying scientific principles, state-of-the-art technologies and methodologies of plant mutagenesis. It covers historical development and commonly used terminologies, chemical and physical mutagenesis ... ....

616 pages | 258 illustrations |

Hardback | 10/2012 | 9781780640853 | #206806A | £125.00 Add to basket

 

Plant Resources of Tropical Africa, Volume 7, Part 2

Timbers 2

PROTA 7 deals with the timbers of Tropical Africa. Because the group is very large, it has been subdivided into 2 volumes.

804 pages | b/w line drawings, b/w distribution maps |

Paperback | 01/2012 | 9789290814955 | #207032A | £48.50 Add to basket

Paperback | 01/2012 | 9789290814962 | #207033A | £58.99 Add to basket

 

Plant Resources of Tropical Africa, Volume 7, Part 2 [French]

Bois d'oeuvre 2

PROTA 7 deals with the timbers of Tropical Africa. Because the group is very large, it has been subdivided into 2 volumes.

891 pages | b/w line drawings, b/w distribution maps |

Paperback | 01/2012 | 9789290814979 | #207034A | £48.50 Add to basket

Paperback | 01/2012 | 9789290814986 | #207035A | £58.99 Add to basket

 

Planting: A New Perspective

Piet Oudolf and Noel Kingsbury

Planting: A New Perspective, by famed landscape architects Piet Oudolf and Noel Kingsbury, is a groundbreaking moment in horticulture. It is the first book to share Oudolf's original planting plans and plant groupings and ... ....

280 pages | 268 colour photos, 30 colour illustrations |

Hardback | 04/2013 | 9781604693706 | #206869A | £29.99 Add to basket

 

Teaming with Nutrients

The Organic Gardeners Guide to Optimising Plant Nutritition

Jeff Lowenfels

Just as he demystified the soil food web in his book Teaming with Microbes, in this new work Teaming with Nutrients, organic gardening expert Jeff Lowenfels explains the basics of plant nutrition from an organic gardener's perspective. ....

250 pages | 67 colour photos and colour illustrations |

Hardback | 06/2013 | 9781604693140 | #206816A | £17.99 Add to basket

 

The Flora of Northamptonshire & the Soke of Peterborough

Gill Gent and Rob Wilson

A description of the flowering plants of this English county, the first to be published since the 1930s. Covering 1831 species with notes on habitat type, distribution, occurrence and historical information with latest dates recorded at ... ....

594 pages | colour photos, colour & b/w illustrations, b/w distribution maps |

Hardback | 03/2013 | #206691A | £39.99 Add to basket

 

The Flora of Renfrewshire

Keith Watson

This is the first full flora of the Vice County of Renfrewshire (Renfrewshire, East Renfrewshire, Inverdyde and parts of southend north-west Glasgow). It marks the culmination of over 50 years of field recording by local botanists and ... ....

24 plates with colour photos; 660+ distribution maps |

Hardback | NYP 07/2013 | 9781874357544 | #206710A | £44.99 Add to basket

 

The Savage Garden

Cultivating Carnivorous Plants

Peter D'Amato

This new edition of The Savage Garden is fully revised to include the latest developments and discoveries in the carnivorous plant world, making it the most accurate and up to date book of its kind. Beautiful, exotic ...

384 pages | 200+ colour photos |

Paperback | NYP 08/2013 | 9781607744108 | #206701A | £17.99 Add to basket

 

The Tradescants' Orchard

The Mystery of a Seventeenth-Century Painted Fruit Book

Barrie Junniper and Hanneke Grootenboer

In the early seventeenth century there was eager interest, among the leisured classes, in fruits from the Mediterranean and beyond, not least for the kitchen gardens and orchards of England's grand houses.

128 pages | 81 colour illustrations |

Hardback | 04/2013 | 9781851242771 | #206740A | £29.99 Add to basket

 

The Vegetable Gardener's Guide to Permaculture

Creating an Edible Ecosystem

Christopher Shein

Once a fringe topic, permaculture is moving to the mainstream as gardeners who are ready to take their organic gardening to the next level are discovering the wisdom of a simple system that emphasizes the idea that by taking care of the ... ....

272 pages | 151 colour photos, 30 illustrations |

Paperback | 01/2013 | 9781604692709 | #206758A | £16.99 Add to basket

 

Veldgids Korstmossen van Duin, Heide en Stuifzand

Andre Aptroot, Kok van Herk and Laurens Sparrius

The Veldgids Korstmossen van Duin, Heide en Stuifzand is a handy field guide to 65 species of soil-inhabiting lichens found in Dutch dunes, heaths and shifting sands. The book covers all major and characteristic lichens from the ... ....

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

Hardback | 01/2011 | 9789081149501 | #207026A | £39.99 Add to basket

 

Welcher Baum ist das?

Park und Garten, 120 Arten einfach bestimmen

Margot Spohn

Practical and authoratitive nature guide detailing 120 native trees in parks and gardens.

96 pages | 160 colour photos |

Paperback | 02/2013 | 9783440133866 | #207102A | £7.99 Add to basket

 

Wildflowers of the Mountain West

Richard M Anderson, Jerry L Goodspeed and JayDee Gunnell

Many recreational hikers have stopped along the trail to admire a wild-flower only to wonder what, exactly, they are seeing. This is a useful field guide that makes flower identification easy for the general outdoor enthusiast.

328 pages | colour photos |

Paperback | 10/2012 | 9780874218954 | #206944A | £20.99 Add to basket

 
Animal & General Biology
 

Bangladesh Journal of Zoology, Volume 40, No. 1

Humayun Reza Khan

See table of contents for contributions.

153 pages | colour & b/w photos, colour & b/w illustrations, tables |

Paperback | 06/2012 | #206828A | £77.99 Add to basket

 

Bangladesh Journal of Zoology, Volume 40, No. 2

Humayun Reza Khan

See table of contents for contributions.

101 pages | b/w photos, b/w illustrations, tables |

Paperback | 12/2012 | #206829A | £77.99 Add to basket

 

Biochemistry of Signal Transduction and Regulation

Gerhard Krauss

Originally based on a graduate course taught by the author, Biochemistry of Signal Transduction and Regulation has once again been extensively updated to incorporate key new findings in biological signaling. With over half of the ... ....

680 pages | 270 illustrations |

Paperback | NYP 09/2013 | 9783527333660 | #206736A | £84.99 Add to basket

 

DNA Replication

Stephen D Bell, Marcel Mechali and Melvin L DePamphilis

DNA replication is essential for the propagation of life on Earth. Cells in living organisms must be able to synthesize a complete copy of their DNA with extraordinary precision, so that they can pass this genetic material on to their ... ....

562 pages |

Hardback | 04/2013 | 9781936113484 | #206868A | £84.99 Add to basket

 

DNA USA

A Genetic Portrait of America

Bryan Sykes

Bryan Sykes, one of the world's leading geneticists and best-selling author of The Seven Daughters of Eve, sets his sights on America, one of the most genetically variegated countries in the world. Sykes embarks on a road trip ...

369 pages | colour & b/w illustrations |

Paperback | NYP 08/2013 | 9780871403582 | #206832A | £11.99 Add to basket

 

Genetic Twists of Fate

Stanley Fields and Mark Johnston

News stories report almost daily on the remarkable progress scientists are making in unraveling the genetic basis of disease and behavior. Meanwhile, new technologies are rapidly reducing the cost of reading someone's personal DNA ... ....

240 pages | 42 b/w illustrations |

Paperback | 02/2013 | 9780262518642 | #206870A | £10.95 Add to basket

Hardback | 11/2010 | 9780262014700 | #206871A | £17.95 Add to basket

 

Handbook of Proteolytic Enzymes (3-Volume Set)

Neil D Rawlings and Guy Salvesen

The third edition of the Handbook of Proteolytic Enzymes is a comprehensive reference work for the enzymes that cleave proteins and peptides, written by acknowledged experts in the field and containing over 850 chapters.

4094 pages |

Hardback | 12/2012 | 9780123822192 | #206782A | £485.00 Add to basket

 

How To...: Collected Articles from BSAVA Companion

Mark Goodfellow

This new book brings together 40 of the best ‘How to…’ articles published in Companion (the BSAVA’s monthly membership magazine) over the past four years into an easy reference book.

272 pages | colour & b/w photos, colour & b/w illustrations |

Paperback | 05/2013 | 9781905319503 | #206815A | £44.99 Add to basket

 

Statistics for Veterinary and Animal Science

Aviva Petrie and Paul Watson

Banish your fears of statistical analysis using this clearly written and highly successful textbook. Statistics for Veterinary and Animal Science, Third Edition is an introductory text which assumes no previous knowledge of ... ....

391 pages | b/w illustrations, tables |

Paperback | 04/2013 | 9780470670750 | #206614A | £34.99 Add to basket

 

The Long and the Short of It

The Science of Life Span and Aging

Jonathan Silvertown

Everything that lives will die. That's the fundamental fact of life. But not everyone dies at the same age: people vary wildly in their patterns of aging and their life spans – and that variation is nothing compared to ... ....

192 pages | 2 b/w photos, 1 table |

Hardback | NYP 10/2013 | 9780226757896 | #206728A | £17.50 Add to basket

 

Veterinary Ophthalmology (2-Volume Set)

Kirk N Gelatt, Brian C Gilger and Thomas J Kern

Veterinary Ophthalmology, Fifth Edition is a fully updated version of the gold-standard reference for diseases and treatment of the animal eye in veterinary medicine. With an internationally renowned list of contributing authors ... ....

2260 pages | illustrations |

Hardback | 05/2013 | 9780470960400 | #206616A | £218.99 Add to basket

 
Evolutionary Biology
 

Evolutionary Analysis (International Edition)

Jon C Herron

By presenting evolutionary biology as a dynamic, ongoing research effort and organizing discussions around questions, Evolutionary Analysis helps you think like a scientist as you learn about evolution. The authors convey the ... ....

864 pages |

Paperback | 12/2012 | 9780321828989 | #207018A | £67.99 Add to basket

 

Paleopoetics

The Evolution of the Preliterate Imagination

Christopher Collins

Christopher Collins introduces an exciting new field of research traversing evolutionary biology, anthropology, archaeology, cognitive psychology, linguistics, neuroscience, and literary study. Paleopoetics maps the selective ... ....

272 pages | 7 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 02/2013 | 9780231160926 | #206761A | £23.99 Add to basket

 

Symbolic Species Evolved

Theresa Schilhab

This anthology is a compilation of the best contributions from Symbolic Species Conferences I, II (which took place in 2006, 2007). In 1997 the American anthropologist Terrence Deacon published "The Symbolic Species: The Coevolution ... ....

301 pages | 13 black & white illustrations, 5 colour illustrations |

Hardback | 03/2012 | 9789400723351 | #206853A | £135.00 Add to basket

 

The Accidental Species

Misunderstandings of Human Evolution

Henry Gee

The idea of a missing link between humanity and our animal ancestors predates evolution and popular science and actually has religious roots in the deist concept of the Great Chain of Being. Yet, the metaphor has lodged itself in the ... ....

232 pages |

Hardback | NYP 10/2013 | 9780226284880 | #206741A | £17.99 Add to basket

 

The First Three Minutes of Life

Christina Reed

The story of evolution has been well-documented over the last century through fossil discoveries and radiometric dating methods. But one mystery that is often neglected in the story of the evolution of life because it is so difficult to ... ....

288 pages |

Hardback | NYP 10/2013 | 9780470036693 | #206825A | £16.99 Add to basket

 

The Human Story

Where We Come from and How We Evolved

Charles Lockwood and Chris Stringer

The Human Story is a guide to man's ancestors, from the earliest hominids such as Sahelanthropus, dating back six to seven million years, through to our own species, Homo sapiens. Over the past 25 years the ... ....

112 pages | colour illustrations, colour maps |

Paperback | NYP 09/2013 | 9780565093228 | #206629A | £9.99 Add to basket

 

The Princeton Guide to Evolution

Jonathan B Losos, David A Baum, Douglas J Futuyma, Hopi E Hoekstra, Richard E Lenski and All Moore

The Princeton Guide to Evolution is a comprehensive, concise, and authoritative reference to the major subjects and key concepts in evolutionary biology, from genes to mass extinctions. Edited by a distinguished team of evolutionary ... ....

848 pages | 4 b/w photos, 16 colour & 97 b/w illustrations, 1 map, 23 tables |

Paperback | NYP 11/2013 | 9780691149776 | #206594A | £67.99 Add to basket

 

The War of the Sexes

How Conflict and Cooperation Have Shaped Men and Women from Prehistory to the Present

Paul Seabright

As countless love songs, movies, and self-help books attest, men and women have long sought different things. The result? Seemingly inevitable conflict. Yet we belong to the most cooperative species on the planet. Isn't there a way ... ....

256 pages | 6 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 04/2012 | 9780691133010 | #205573A | £16.95 Add to basket

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Trees of Life

A Visual History of Evolution

Theodore W Pietsch

For the past 450 years, tree-like branching diagrams have attempted to show the complex and surprising interrelationships of organisms, both living and fossil, from viruses and bacteria to birds and mammals. This stunning book celebrates ... ....

358 pages | 5 b/w photos, 226 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 05/2012 | 9781421404790 | #196616A | £36.50 Add to basket

Paperback | NYP 06/2013 | 9781421411859 | #206924A | £22.50 Add to basket

 
Ecology
 

Alien Invasive Plants in Israel

Jean-Marc Dufour-Dror

Alien Invasive Plants in Israel was first written and edited in Hebrew as it was initially intended for the Israeli public. Yet, since invasive plants essentially ignore regional and political borders, the author decided to publish ... ....

213 pages | colour photos, colour distribution maps |

Paperback | 01/2012 | 9789659029228 | #206704A | £17.99 Add to basket

 

Ecological Processes Handbook

Luca Palmeri, Alberto Barausse and Sven Erik Jorgensen

Ecology is cross-disciplinary field involving many different aspects of science. Written with this in mind, Ecological Processes Handbook introduces ecological processes, ranging from physical processes, to chemical processes and ... ....

416 pages | 25 colour & 95 b/w illustrations, 42 tables |

Hardback | NYP 08/2013 | 9781466558472 | #205609A | £81.99 Add to basket

 

Food Webs and Biodiversity

Foundations, Models, Data

Axel G Rossberg

Food webs have now been addressed in empirical and theoretical research for more than 50 years. Yet, even elementary foundational issues are still hotly debated. One difficulty is that a multitude of processes need to be taken into account ... ....

400 pages |

Hardback | NYP 08/2013 | 9780470973554 | #206824A | £49.99 Add to basket

 

How to Eradicate Invasive Plants

Teri Dunn Chace

Unfortunately, invasive plants like kudzu, ragweed, and Himalayan blackberry won't go away on their own. Luckily, How to Eradicate Invasive Plants offers a clear, practical solution to an increasingly common problem.

336 pages | 208 colour photographs |

Paperback | NYP 06/2013 | 9781604693065 | #206894A | £14.99 Add to basket

 

Invasive Species

What Everyone Needs to Know

Daniel Simberloff

Of the 7000 estimated non-native species present in North America, approximately 1000 are invasive. Clearly, invasive species are in the minority, but their small numbers don't keep them from causing billions of dollars in economic ... ....

240 pages |

Hardback | NYP 09/2013 | 9780199922017 | #206598A | £49.99 Add to basket

 

Life Everlasting

The Animal Way of Death

Bernd Heinrich

When a good friend with a severe illness wrote, asking if he might have his "green burial" at Bernd Heinrich's hunting camp in Maine, it inspired the acclaimed biologist to investigate a subject that had long fascinated him ... ....

256 pages |

Hardback | 06/2012 | 9780547752662 | #198760A | £23.99 Add to basket

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Mutualistic Networks

Jordi Bascompte and Pedro Jordano

Mutualistic interactions among plants and animals have played a paramount role in shaping biodiversity. Yet the majority of studies on mutualistic interactions have involved only a few species, as opposed to broader mutual connections ... ....

208 pages | 2 b/w photos, 88 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 11/2013 | 9780691131269 | #206596A | £30.95 Add to basket

 

Rethinking Invasion Ecologies from the Environmental Humanities

Iain Mccalman and Jodi Frawley

Research from a uniquely humanist perspective has much to offer in interrogating the social and cultural ramifications of invasion ecologies. Written by a team of international scholars, Rethinking Invasion Ecologies from the Environmental ... ....

256 pages |

Hardback | NYP 08/2013 | 9780415716567 | #206746A | £89.99 Add to basket

Paperback | NYP 08/2013 | 9780415716574 | #206753A | £26.99 Add to basket

 

The Year in Ecology and Conservation Biology 2013

Richard S Ostfeld and William H Schlesinger

As in past installments of The Year in Ecology and Conservation Biology series, this year's volume contains a diverse collection of timely reviews in conservation biology and scientific, policy, and management implications ... ....

252 pages |

Paperback | NYP 06/2013 | 9781573318839 | #205648A | £86.95 Add to basket

 
Habitats & Ecosystems
 

An Ecosystem Approach to the Management of Sediment and Sediment Liabilities

Eugene Peck

The ecological health and economic value of rivers and estuaries depend upon a physical „infrastructure" that includes clean sediment, clean water and stable hydrology. Problems involving sediment quantity or sediment quality ... ....

300 pages |

Hardback | NYP 09/2013 | 9783110275858 | #206860A | £148.00 Add to basket

 

Conservation and Management of Tropical Rainforests

An Integrated Approach to Sustainability

Eberhard F Bruenig

Tropical rainforests fascinate scientists and explorers. The richness and variety of forms, and the diversity of species have been acknowledged for centuries. Measures to protect endangered species within this ecosystem were already thousands ... ....

376 pages |

Hardback | NYP 11/2013 | 9781780641409 | #205929A | £94.99 Add to basket

 

Dancing with the River

People and Life on the Chars of South Asia

Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt and Gopa Samanta

This remarkable book provides a rare look at the microcosmic world of "hybrid landscapes" – an increasingly popular topic among geographers and environmentalists – by examining chars, which are part-land, part-water ... ....

288 pages | 11 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 06/2013 | 9780300188301 | #206878A | £39.99 Add to basket

 

Dryland East Asia

Land Dynamics Amid Social and Climate Change

Jiquan Chen, Shiqiang Wan, Geoffrey Henebry, Jiaguo Qi, Garik Gutman, Ge Sun and Martin Kappas

Drylands in East Asia (DEA) is home to more than one billion people with an environment vulnerable to natural and anthropogenic changes. One of the critical needs in the region is to fully understand how dryland ecosystems respond to the ... ....

415 pages |

Hardback | NYP 06/2013 | 9783110287868 | #206861A | £148.00 Add to basket

 

Eden Project: The Guide

Eden Project

Revised and updated, this highly illustrated guide to the Eden Project site has a clear user-friendly explanation of all the exhibits, in a landscape format. Eden Project: The Guide takes the visitor from the Visitor ...

64 pages | colour illustrations |

Paperback | NYP 07/2013 | 9781905811915 | #206823A | £5.99 Add to basket

 

Governing Marine Protected Areas

Resilience through Diversity

Peter JS Jones

In this challenging volume, the author addresses some key challenges related to the effective and equitable governance of marine protected areas (MPAs). These challenges are explored through an analysis of twenty MPA case studies from ... ....

192 pages | 20 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 11/2013 | 9781844076635 | #196387A | £49.99 Add to basket

 

Island: How Islands Transform the World

J Edward Chamberlin

Ever since the dawn of human history, islands have been at the heart of our desires – and our fears. Drawing on anthropology, literature, biology, art, philosophy and earth science, Island tells the groundbreaking story of ... ....

224 pages | illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 08/2013 | 9781909653382 | #206883A | £14.99 Add to basket

 

Peatlands: Guidance for Climate Change Mitigation Through Conservation, Rehabilitation and Sustainable Use

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

Peatland drainage – mainly for agriculture, grazing and forestry – and peat fires are responsible for almost one quarter of carbon emissions from the land use sector. Peatlands and organic soils contain 30 percent of the world ... ....

112 pages |

Paperback | 01/2013 | 9789251073025 | #206766A | £17.95 Add to basket

 

Shadow and Ghost Woodlands: A Survey Guide

Christine Handley and Ian D Rotherham

This short survey guide is an introduction to investigating landscapes, looking for shadow and ghost woodlands. These are often 'lost woods', which do not appear on maps as woodlands, or even have names can be indicators of former ... ....

62 pages | b/w photos, b/w maps, tables |

Paperback | 05/2013 | 9781904098515 | #206950A | £9.99 Add to basket

 

Soil Carbon Monitoring Using Surveys and Modelling

General Description and Application in the United Republic of Tanzania

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

Soil Carbon Monitoring Using Surveys and Modelling describes the application of survey- and modelling-based methods for monitoring soil organic carbon stock and its changes on a national scale.

60 pages | colour & b/w illustrations |

Paperback | 02/2013 | 9789251072714 | #206785A | £21.50 Add to basket

 

The Ash and the Beech

The Drama of Woodland Change

Richard Mabey

From ash die-back to the Great Storm of 1987 to Dutch elm disease, our much-loved woodlands seem to be under constant threat from a procession of natural challenges. Just when we need trees most, to help combat global warming and to ... ....

304 pages | illustrations |

Paperback | NYP 06/2013 | 9780099587231 | #206804A | £9.99 Add to basket

 

The Conquest of Everest

Original Photographs from the Legendary First Ascent

George Lowe and Huw Lewis-Jones

29 May 2013 is the sixtieth anniversary of the first ascent of Mount Everest. The allure of Everest remains undimmed, and the publication of this unique book celebrates this most majestic of mountains, with exclusive access to the ... ....

240 pages | 163 illustrations, 62 in colour |

Hardback | 05/2013 | 9780500544235 | #206889A | £24.95 Add to basket

 

The Woodland Way

A Permaculture Approach to Sustainable Woodland

Ben Law

A book for everyone who loves trees and woodlands. This completely revised and updated edition of the 2001 classic The Woodland Way is written from the heart by an innovative woodsman who is deeply committed to sustainability. ....

208 pages | colour illustrations |

Paperback | 05/2013 | 9781856231275 | #206898A | £18.95 Add to basket

 

Trees Beyond the Wood

An Exploration of Concepts of Woods, Forests and Trees

Ian D Rotherham, Christine Handley, Mauro Agnoletti and Tomasz Samojlik

Trees Beyond the Wood was written for a conference organised to celebrate twenty years of work since the first major conference on the theme of ancient trees and woodlands held in Sheffield, UK. It was held almost ten years after ... ....

378 pages | b/w photos, b/w illustrations, tables |

Paperback | 04/2013 | 9781904098409 | #206951A | £24.99 Add to basket

 

Wildlife Damage Management

Prevention, Problem Solving, and Conflict Resolution

Russell F Reidinger Jr.

Whether you are a student in a wildlife degree program or a professional wildlife biologist, you will find all the up-to-date information on wildlife damage in the pages of this clear, comprehensive text.

264 pages | 22 b/w photos, 27 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 10/2013 | 9781421409443 | #206926A | £54.99 Add to basket

 
Conservation & Biodiversity
 

Conservation Biology: Voices from the Tropics

Navjot S Sodhi, Luke Gibson and Peter H Raven

Unprecedented habitat loss, species declines, climate warming, and pollution are culminating in an environmental crisis that needs to be addressed with innovative and radical solutions. The crisis runs deep in the tropics, where two-thirds ... ....

320 pages |

Hardback | NYP 11/2013 | 9780470658635 | #205058A | £49.99 Add to basket

 

Conservation, Biodiversity and International Law

Alexander Gillespie

This important and timely book provides a rigorous overview of the defining issues presently facing conservation at international level. The author provides detailed coverage of topics ranging from the classification of species right through ... ....

624 pages | no illustrations |

Hardback | 01/2012 | 9780857935151 | #195971A | £135.00 Add to basket

Paperback | 05/2013 | 9781781001974 | #206725A | £39.99 Add to basket

 

Ivory, Horn and Blood

Behind the Elephant and Rhinoceros Poaching Crisis

Ronald Orenstein and Iain Douglas-Hamilton

As recently as ten years ago, out of every ten African elephants that died, four fell at the hands of poachers. The figure today is eight. Rhinoceroses are being slaughtered throughout their ranges. The Vietnamese one-horned rhinoceros ... ....

192 pages | 24 pages with colour photos |

Hardback | NYP 10/2013 | 9781770852273 | #206729A | £19.99 Add to basket

 

Lost Animals

Extinction and the Photographic Record

Erroll Fuller

Flick through any book on extinct animals and the eye is immediately drawn to the handful of photographs that will appear, often tinted sepia or black and white (usually featuring the same small number of images, again and again).

240 pages | colour & b/w photos |

Hardback | NYP 11/2013 | 9781408172155 | #206232A | £21.99 Add to basket

 

Wildlife Management and Conservation

Contemporary Principles and Practices

Paul R Krausman and James W Cain III

Wildlife Management and Conservation presents a clear overview of the management and conservation of animals, their habitats, and how people influence both. The relationship among these three components of wildlife management is ... ....

368 pages | 110 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 10/2013 | 9781421409863 | #206927A | £63.99 Add to basket

 

Wildlife in Airport Environments

Preventing Animal-Aircraft Collisions Through Science-Based Management

Travis L DeVault, Bradley F Blackwell and Jerrold L Belant

The pilot watches the instrument panel and prepares for touchdown – a routine landing until a burst of birds, a coyote, or a herd of deer crosses the runway! Every year, pilots experience this tension and many aircraft come into... ....

256 pages | 53 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 10/2013 | 9781421410821 | #206921A | £48.50 Add to basket

 
Environmental Science
 

Animal Waste, Water Quality and Human Health

A Dufour and Jamie Bartram

Domestic animals contaminate recreational waters and drinking-water sources with excreta and pathogens; but this threat to public health is inadequately understood and is insufficiently addressed in regulations. More than 85% of the world ... ....

488 pages |

Hardback | 10/2012 | 9781780401232 | #206665A | £79.99 Add to basket

 

Apocalyptic Planet

Field Guide to the Everending Earth

Craig Childs

The earth has died many times, and it always comes back looking different. In an exhilarating, surprising exploration of our planet, Craig Childs takes readers on a firsthand journey through apocalypse, touching the truth behind the ... ....

368 pages |

Hardback | 10/2012 | 9780307379092 | #201568A | £23.99 Add to basket

Paperback | NYP 07/2013 | 9780307476814 | #206731A | £17.50 Add to basket

 

Applications of Activated Sludge Models

Damir Brdjanovic, SCF Meijer and CM Lopez-Vazquez

In 1982 the International Association on Water Pollution Research and Control (IAWPRC), as it was then called, established a Task Group on Mathematical Modelling for Design and Operation of Activated Sludge Processes. The aim of the ... ....

400 pages |

Hardback | NYP 10/2013 | 9781780404639 | #206678A | £110.00 Add to basket

 

Climate Change and Displacement

Multidisciplinary Perspectives

Jane McAdam

Climate Change and Displacement brings together a variety of disciplinary perspectives on the phenomenon of climate-induced displacement. With chapters by leading scholars in their field, it collects in one place a rigorous ... ....

276 pages | b/w illustrations |

Paperback | 12/2012 | 9781849463560 | #206768A | £19.99 Add to basket

Hardback | 09/2010 | 9781849460385 | #206849A | £48.99 Add to basket

 

Environmental Histories of the Cold War

JR McNeill and Corinna R Unger

Environmental Histories of the Cold War explores the links between the Cold War and the global environment, ranging from the environmental impacts of nuclear weapons to the political repercussions of environmentalism.

376 pages | 10 b/w illustrations, 1 map, 2 tables |

Paperback | NYP 08/2013 | 9781107694354 | #206630A | £21.99 Add to basket

Hardback | 04/2010 | 9780521762441 | #206631A | £60.99 Add to basket

 

Essentials of Oceanography

Plus Mastering Oceanography with Etext - Access Card Package

Alan P Trujillo and Harold V Thurman

How do the oceans work? Essentials of Oceanography, Eleventh Edition, takes an interdisciplinary approach to help readers answer this question. The latest edition of this book brings together the interrelated spheres that compose ... ....

576 pages | colour photos, colour illustrations, colour maps, tables |

Paperback | 04/2013 | 9780321813947 | #206805A | £51.99 Add to basket

 

Faecal Sludge Management

Systems Approach for Implementation and Operation

Linda Strande, Mariska Ronteltap and Damir Brdjanovic

It is estimated that literally billions of residents in urban and peri-urban areas of Africa, Asia, and Latin America are served by onsite sanitation systems (e.g. various types of latrines and septic tanks). Until recently, the management ... ....

500 pages |

Paperback | NYP 11/2013 | 9781780404721 | #206677A | £125.00 Add to basket

 

Fire on Earth

An Introduction

Andrew C Scott, David MJS Bowman, William J Bond, Stephen J Pyne and Martin E Alexander

Fire on Earth: An Introduction transcends individual subfields to bring together our current understanding of this significant topic. Fire on Earth: An Introduction will go beyond a summary of existing data to provide a ... ....

476 pages | illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 10/2013 | 9781119953579 | #206639A | £84.99 Add to basket

Paperback | NYP 10/2013 | 9781119953562 | #206640A | £39.95 Add to basket

 

Global Weirdness

Severe Storms, Deadly Heat Waves, Relentless Drought, Rising Seas and the Weather of the Future

Climate Central

Produced by Climate Central – a highly regarded independent, nonprofit journalism and research foundation founded in 2008 – and reviewed by scientists at major educational and research institutions the world over ...

224 pages | illustrations |

Hardback | 07/2012 | 9780307907301 | #206653A | £18.99 Add to basket

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High Tide on Main Street

Rising Sea Level and the Coming Coastal Crisis

John Englander and Jean-Michel Cousteau

The book that described a superstorm hitting Atlantic City and New York City – exactly one week before Sandy hit. Just one of dozens of scenarios in this amazing book. Find out the other forecasts. Getting rave reviews from experts ... ....

244 pages |

Paperback | 10/2012 | 9780615637952 | #206837A | £19.99 Add to basket

 

In the Shadow of the Sabertooth

A Renegade Naturalist Considers Global Warming, the First Americans and the Terrible Beasts of the Pleistocene

Doug Peacock

Our climate is changing fast. The future is uncertain, probably fiery, and likely terrifying. Yet shifting weather patterns have threatened humans before, right here in North America, when people first colonized this continent.

200 pages |

Paperback | NYP 09/2013 | 9781849351409 | #206779A | £11.99 Add to basket

 

Mass Flow and Energy Efficiency of Municipal Sewage Treatment Plant

Ye Shi Cao

Mass Flow and Energy Efficiency of Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plants presents the results of a series of studies that examined the mass flow and balance, and energy efficiency, of municipal wastewater treatment plants ... ....

132 pages | b/w illustrations |

Paperback | 09/2011 | 9781843393825 | #206672A | £68.99 Add to basket

 

Nanotechnology for Water and Wastewater Treatment

Piet Lens, Jurate Virkutyte and Veeriah Jegatheesan

The rapid development of nanoscience enables a technology revolution that will soon impact virtually every facet of the water sector. Yet, there is still too little understanding of what nanoscience and nanotechnology is, what can it do ... ....

500 pages |

Hardback | NYP 06/2013 | 9781780404585 | #206682A | £129.00 Add to basket

 

Our Once and Future Planet

Restoring the World in the Climate Change Century

The environmental movement is plagued by pessimism. And that's not unreasonable: with so many complicated, seemingly intractable problems facing the planet, coupled with a need to convince people of the dangers we face, it's hard ... ....

544 pages |

Hardback | NYP 10/2013 | 9780226907390 | #206810A | £24.50 Add to basket

 

Source Separation and Decentralization for Wastewater Management

Tove A Larsen, Kai M Udert and Judit Lienert

Is sewer-based wastewater treatment really the optimal technical solution in urban water management? This paradigm is increasingly being questioned. Growing water scarcity and the insight that water will be an important limiting factor ... ....

520 pages |

Hardback | 02/2013 | 9781843393481 | #206683A | £125.00 Add to basket

 

The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars

Dispatches from the Front Lines

Michael E Mann

The ongoing assault on climate science in the United States has never been more aggressive, more blatant, or more widely publicized than in the case of the Hockey Stick graph – a clear and compelling visual presentation of scientific ... ....

384 pages | 20 illustrations |

Hardback | 03/2012 | 9780231152549 | #198052A | £19.95 Add to basket

Paperback | NYP 10/2013 | 9780231152556 | #206925A | £13.95 Add to basket

 

Trace Metals in Aquatic Systems

Robert Mason

Trace Metals in Aquatic Systems provides a detailed examination of the concentration, form and cycling of trace metals and metalloids through the aquatic biosphere, and has sections dealing with the atmosphere, the ocean, lakes ... ....

440 pages |

Hardback | 04/2013 | 9781405160483 | #206663A | £74.99 Add to basket

 

Vital Signs 2013

The Trends That Are Shaping Our Future

The Worldwatch Institute

From meat consumption to automobile production to hydropower, Vital Signs 2013 documents over two dozen trends that are shaping our future in concise analyses and clear tables and graphs. The twentieth volume of the Worldwatch Institute ... ....

160 pages |

Paperback | NYP 08/2013 | 9781610914567 | #206617A | £11.99 Add to basket

 

Water-Energy Interactions of Water Reuse

Valentina Lazarova, Kwang-Ho Choo and Peter Cornel

The focus of Water-Energy Interactions of Water Reuse is to collect original contributions and some relevant publications from recent conference proceedings in order to provide state-of-art information on the use of energy in .. ....

360 pages | b/w illustrations |

Paperback | 05/2012 | 9781843395416 | #206674A | £98.99 Add to basket

 
Physical Sciences
 

30 Arduino Projects for the Evil Genius

Simon Monk

The bestselling project-based book for Arduino now covers Arduino Uno and Leonardo! The much-anticipated update to the groundbreaking 30 Arduino Projects for the Evil Genius, now in its Second Edtion, covers the latest advances ... ....

224 pages |

Paperback | NYP 07/2013 | 9780071817721 | #206821A | £16.99 Add to basket

 

A Dictionary of Geology & Earth Sciences

Michael Allaby

This leading dictionary – now in its fourth edition – offers wide-ranging and authoritative coverage of the earth sciences and related topics in over 7,500 clear and accessible entries. Coverage includes geology, planetary ... ....

672 pages |

Paperback | NYP 07/2013 | 9780199653065 | #206822A | £12.99 Add to basket

 

Anthropogenic Geomorphology

A Guide to Man-Made Landforms

Jozsef Szabo, Lorant David and Denes Loczy

Today, society's impact on the geographical environment, and especially on the Earth's surface, is obvious. Yet up until the last century, the forces of nature held sway, with mankind vulnerable and exposed to its vagaries. ....

260 pages | 27 tables |

Hardback | 02/2010 | 9789048130573 | #206997A | £103.50 Add to basket

 

COMETS!: Visitors from Deep Space

David J Eicher and David H Levy

Join David J. Eicher in this fast-paced and entertaining journey through the history, present, and future of these important yet mysterious cosmic bodies. From ancient times, humans have been fascinated by 'broom stars' and ... ....

250 pages |

Paperback | NYP 11/2013 | 9781107622777 | #207009A | £19.99 Add to basket

 

Directory of Geoscience Departments, 2013

Carolyn Wilson

The Directory of Geoscience Departments 48th Edition is the most comprehensive directory and source of information about geosciences departments and researchers available. It is an invaluable resource for individuals working in the geosciences ... ....

460 pages |

Paperback | 03/2013 | 9780922152933 | #206694A | £41.99 Add to basket

 

Gemstones of the World

Walter Schumann

Gemstones of the World is the single, cornerstone volume that every hobbyist, jeweller, jewellery maker and rock-hound needs. This updated edition of Gemstones of the World contains a new chapter on the treatment of ... ....

272 pages | 1500+ colour photos |

Hardback | NYP 07/2013 | 9781454909538 | #206612A | £22.99 Add to basket

 

Geodiversity

Valuing and Conserving Abiotic Nature

Murray Gray

The first book to focus exclusively on the subject, Geodiversity: Valuing and Conserving Abiotic Nature, Second Edition describes the interrelationships between geodiversity and biodiversity, the value of geodiversity to society ... ....

504 pages |

Hardback | NYP 10/2013 | 9780470742143 | #206601A | £89.99 Add to basket

Paperback | NYP 10/2013 | 9780470742150 | #206602A | £37.50 Add to basket

 

Geology Underfoot Along Colorado's Front Range

Lon Abbott and Terri Cook

The transition from the relatively flat Great Plains to the craggy peaks of Colorado's Front Range is one of North America's most abrupt topographical contrasts. The epic, 1800-million-year geologic story behind this amazing land ... ....

338 pages | colour photos, colour illustrations |

Paperback | 12/2012 | 9780878425952 | #206803A | £22.50 Add to basket

 

How Big is Big and How Small is Small

The Sizes of Everything and Why

Timothy Paul Smith

How Big is Big and How Small is Small is about how big the universe is and how small quarks are, and what the sizes of dozens of things are between these two extremes. It describes the sizes of atoms and planets, quarks and galaxies ... ....

272 pages | 61 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 11/2013 | 9780199681198 | #206079A | £24.99 Add to basket

 

Made in Madagascar

Sapphires, Ecotourism, and the Global Bazaar

Andrew Walsh

Since the 1990s, the Ankarana region of northern Madagascar has developed a reputation among globe-trotting gemstone traders and tourists as a source of some of the world's most precious natural wonders. Although some might see Ankarana ... ....

128 pages | illustrations, maps |

Paperback | 12/2012 | 9781442603745 | #206590A | £16.99 Add to basket

 

Natural Disasters in a Global Environment

Anthony N Penna and Jennifer S Rivers

Natural Disasters in a Global Environment is a transnational, global and environmental history of natural and man-made disasters. Detailed case studies of past and present events are presented in a historical narrative, making ... ....

360 pages |

Paperback | 04/2013 | 9781118252338 | #206872A | £26.50 Add to basket

 

Notes from the Holocene

A Brief History of the Future

Dorion Sagan

In a thought-provoking, humorous, and engaging style, Dorion Sagan combines philosophy, science, and an understanding of illusion to probe the deep questions of existence. Operating on the precept that the universe is far weirder than we ... ....

224 pages | 0 |

Paperback | 01/2008 | 9781933392325 | #206852A | £11.95 Add to basket

 

Nothing: Insights from the New Scientist into the Amazing World of Nothingness

New Scientist

All too easily, we ignore or dismiss the fascinating possibilities of emptiness and non-existence. But without nothing, or rather what we've long taken to be nothing – we'd be nowhere. For centuries, scientists have known ... ....

256 pages |

Paperback | NYP 11/2013 | 9781846685187 | #204906A | £7.99 Add to basket

 

Organic Chemistry

A Mechanistic Approach

Tadashi Okuyama and Howard Maskill

Organic Chemistry: a mechanistic approach provides readers with a concise review of the essential concepts underpinning the subject. It combines a focus on core topics and themes with a mechanistic approach to the explanation of ... ....

656 pages | 1650 colour illustrations |

Paperback | NYP 10/2013 | 9780199693276 | #199368A | £38.99 Add to basket

 

Roadside Geology of Georgia

Pamela J Gore and William Witherspoon

Ride along with geologists Pamela Gore and Bill Witherspoon on this extraordinary tour of the Peach State s varied terrain. In 35 detailed and densely illustrated road guides, the authors examine Georgia s fascinating geology and reveal ... ....

360 pages |

Paperback | 04/2013 | 9780878426027 | #206759A | £19.99 Add to basket

 

Roadside Geology of New Jersey

David P Harper

From the glacially scoured quartzite ridge that hosts the Appalachian Trail to the spectacular columnar basalt of Orange Mountain, New Jersey packs a boatload of geology into a small area. Its nineteenth-century marl pits were the birthplace ... ....

345 pages |

Paperback | 04/2013 | 9780878426003 | #206812A | £19.99 Add to basket

 

Spectrums: Our Mind-boggling Universe from Infinitesimal to Infinity

David Blatner

The universe is a mind-boggling place, full of things seemingly too big and too small to understand. How can we visualise the minuscule world of the atom and the vastness of our galaxy? How can we grasp a billionth of a second and a billionth ... ....

192 pages |

Paperback | 03/2013 | 9781408838594 | #206912A | £12.99 Add to basket

 

Stardust: The Cosmic Seeds of Life

Sun Kwok

How did life originate on Earth? For over 50 years, scientists believed that life was the result of a chemical reaction involving simple molecules such as methane and ammonia cooking in a primordial soup. Recent space observations have ... ....

289 pages | 50 colour & 24 b/w illustrations |

Paperback | 04/2013 | 9783642328015 | #206656A | £22.95 Add to basket

 

The Universe in Zero Words

The Story of Mathematics as Told Through Equations

Dana MacKenzie

Most popular books about science, and even about mathematics, tiptoe around equations as if they were something to be hidden from the reader's tender eyes. Dana Mackenzie starts from the opposite premise: He celebrates equations. ....

224 pages | 17 b/w photos, 26 colour & 12 b/w illustrations |

Paperback | NYP 08/2013 | 9780691160160 | #206636A | £13.95 Add to basket

 

Why is the Penis Shaped Like That?

And Other Reflections on Being Human

Jesse Bering

Why do testicles hang the way they do? Is there an adaptive function to the female orgasm? What does it feel like to want to kill yourself? Does "free will" really exist? And why is the penis shaped like that anyway?

352 pages | no illustrations |

Paperback | 08/2012 | 9780374532925 | #198375A | £17.99 Add to basket

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Your Ticket to the Universe

A Guide to Exploring the Cosmos

Kimberley K Arcand and Megan Watzke

Beginning with our home planet, Your Ticket to the Universe embarks on an entertaining and accessible trip to the most interesting stops known in the cosmos. Learn about objects nearby within our Solar System (our backyard in ... ....

240 pages | illustrations |

Paperback | 05/2013 | 9781588343758 | #206913A | £19.99 Add to basket

 
Sustainable Development
 

A History of Ecology and Environmentalism in Spanish American Literature

Scott M DeVries

A History of Ecology and Environmentalism in Spanish American Literature undertakes a comprehensive ecocritical examination of the region's literature from the foundational texts of the nineteenth century to the most recent ... ....

352 pages |

Hardback | NYP 08/2013 | 9781611485158 | #206813A | £57.95 Add to basket

 

Aldo Leopold

A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Ecology and Conservation

Aldo Leopold and Curt Meine

Since his death in 1948, Aldo Leopold has been increasingly recognized as one of the indispensable figures of American environmentalism. A pioneering forester, sportsman, wildlife manager, and ecologist, he was also a gifted writer whose ... ....

931 pages | illustrations |

Hardback | 03/2013 | 9781598532067 | #206658A | £29.99 Add to basket

 

Arctic Marine Governance

Opportunities for Transatlantic Cooperation

Elizabeth Tedsen, Sandra Cavalieri and R Andreas Kraemer

Arctic Marine Governance draws on the results of the Arctic TRANSFORM project, funded by the European Commission's Directorate General of External Relations (2008-2009), which engaged experts in a transatlantic discussion of ... ....

250 pages | 5 colour & 15 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 10/2013 | 9783642385940 | #206637A | £89.99 Add to basket

 

Benchmarking of Control Strategies for Wastewater Treatment Plants

Ulf Jeppson, Peter Vanrolleghem and John Copp

Wastewater treatment plants are large non-linear systems subject to large perturbations in wastewater flow rate, load and composition. Nevertheless these plants have to be operated continuously, meeting stricter and stricter regulations. ....

100 pages |

Paperback | NYP 09/2013 | 9781843391463 | #206680A | £68.99 Add to basket

 

Best Practice Guide on the Control of Arsenic in Drinking Water

Prosun Bhattacharya, Dragana Jovanovic and David Polya

This Best Practice Guide on the Control of Arsenic in Drinking Water arises from the knowledge collected by the European Research Network COST Action 637 involving 27 European countries and the USA. Besides the large number of ... ....

120 pages |

Paperback | NYP 11/2013 | 9781843393856 | #206577A | £59.99 Add to basket

 

Best Practice Guide to Preparing Urban Water Use Efficiency Plans

Lisa Maddaus, William Maddaus and Michelle Maddaus

Many communities are facing water scarcity in developing and developed countries alike. There are numerous publications and on-going research studies documenting the changes in our climate and potential for worsening shortages in our future ... ....

128 pages |

Paperback | NYP 09/2013 | 9781780405230 | #206669A | £74.99 Add to basket

 

Community Action for Conservation

Mexican Experiences

Luciana Porter-Bolland, Isabel Ruiz-Mallen, Claudia Camacho-Benavides and Susannah R McCandless

This book provides an in-depth analysis on community conservation in Mexico. The volume explores vivid examples and case studies that illustrate some of the critical issues at stake, including the participation of local communities in ... ....

250 pages | 12 colour & 9 b/w illustrations, 13 tables |

Hardback | NYP 11/2013 | 9781461479550 | #206628A | £126.50 Add to basket

 

Countdown: Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth?

Alan Weisman

In his bestselling book The World Without Us, Alan Weisman considered how the Earth could heal and even refill empty niches if relieved of humanity's constant pressures. Behind that groundbreaking thought experiment was his hope that ... ....

528 pages |

Hardback | NYP 09/2013 | 9781408702673 | #207041A | £19.99 Add to basket

 

Detection of Pathogens in Water Using Micro and Nano-technology

Giampaolo Zuccheri and Nikolaos Asproulis

Detection of Pathogens in Water Using Micro and Nano-Technology aims to promote the uptake of innovative micro and nano-technological approaches towards the development of an integrated, cost-effective nano-biological sensor use ... ....

322 pages | b/w illustrations |

Paperback | 08/2012 | 9781780401089 | #206666A | £98.99 Add to basket

 

Disasters and Minewater

Good Practice and Prevention

Harvey Wood

Disasters and Minewater: Good Practice and Prevention draws together all of the major minewater catastrophes that have occurred over the last half century. It examines incidents to find useful and positive information of great ... ....

144 pages | b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 01/2012 | 9781780400068 | #206668A | £78.99 Add to basket

 

EcoMind

Changing the Way We Think, to Create the World We Want

Frances Moore Lappe

In EcoMind, Frances Moore Lappé – a giant of the environmental movement – confronts accepted wisdom of environmentalism. Drawing on the latest research from anthropology to neuroscience and her own field expertise ... ....

288 pages | no illustrations |

Hardback | 09/2011 | 9781568586830 | #195981A | £17.99 Add to basket

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Energizing Sustainable Cities

Assessing Urban Energy

Arnulf Grubler and David Fisk

Urban systems now house about half of the world's population, but determine some three quarters of the global economy and its associated energy use and resulting environmental impacts. The twenty-first century will be increasingly ... ....

240 pages | 16 colour & 30 b/w illustrations, 23 tables |

Paperback | 08/2012 | 9781849714396 | #206800A | £29.99 Add to basket

Hardback | 08/2012 | 9781849714389 | #206850A | £105.00 Add to basket

 

Environmental Ethics

An Introduction and Learning Guide

Kees Vromans, Rainer Paslack, Gamze Yucel Isildar, Rob de Vrind and Jurgen Walter Simon

As the destructive consequences of environmental problems such as global warming, water scarcity and resource and biodiversity destruction have been felt ever more heavily, people are becoming more aware of the importance of and their... ....

200 pages | illustrations |

Paperback | 05/2012 | 9781906093723 | #206836A | £19.99 Add to basket

 

Evolution of Water Supply Through the Millennia

Andreas N Angelakis, Larry W Mays and Demetris Koutsoyiannis

Evolution of Water Supply Through the Millennia presents the major achievements in the scientific fields of water supply technologies and management throughout the millennia. It provides valuable insights into ancient water supplies ... ....

584 pages | b/w illustrations |

Paperback | 04/2012 | 9781843395409 | #206667A | £115.00 Add to basket

 

Farming the Waters for People and Food

Proceedings of the Global Conference on Aquaculture 2010

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

The Global Conference on Aquaculture 2010 brought together a wide-range of experts and important stakeholders and reviewed the present status and trends in aquaculture development, evaluated the progress made in the implementation of the ... ....

908 pages |

Hardback | 02/2013 | 9789251072332 | #206765A | £105.00 Add to basket

 

Flood Risk

Planning, Design and Management of Flood Defence Infrastructure

Paul B Sayers

Flood Risk: Planning, Design and Management of Flood Defence Infrastructure is the definitive practical handbook on design and maintenance of flood defences, providing a coherent and focused reference for best practice.

352 pages |

Hardback | 07/2012 | 9781780404561 | #206670A | £74.99 Add to basket

 

Flood Risk and Social Justice

From Quantitative to Qualitative Flood Risk Assessment and Mitigation

Zoran Vojinovic, Michael B Abbott, Philip O'Kane and Jean A Cunge

Flood Risk and Social Justice is a response to the rising significance of floods and flood-related disasters worldwide, as an initiative to promote a socially just approach to the problems of flood risk. It integrates the human ... ....

600 pages |

Hardback | 03/2012 | 9781843393870 | #206671A | £135.00 Add to basket

 

Global Food Futures

Feeding the World in 2050

Brian Gardner

By 2050 the world will be faced with the enormous challenge of feeding 9 billion people despite being affected by climate change, rising energy costs and pressure on food growing land and other major resources. How will the world produce ... ....

264 pages | 21 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 08/2013 | 9780857851543 | #206817A | £54.99 Add to basket

Paperback | NYP 08/2013 | 9780857851550 | #206818A | £19.99 Add to basket

 

Growing Greener Cities in Africa

First Status Report on Urban and Peri-Urban Horticulture in Africa

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

African policymakers need to act now to steer urbanization from its current, unsustainable path toward healthy, greener cities that ensure food and nutrition security, decent work and income, and a clean environment for all their citizen ... ....

112 pages |

Paperback | 06/2012 | 9789251072868 | #206783A | £20.50 Add to basket

 

Hyperobjects

Philosophy and Ecology After the End of the World

Timothy Morton

Having set global warming in irreversible motion, we are facing the possibility of ecological catastrophe. But the environmental emergency is also a crisis for our philosophical habits of thought, confronting us with a problem that seems ... ....

240 pages | 8 colour plates, 15 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 10/2013 | 9780816689224 | #206632A | £55.99 Add to basket

Paperback | NYP 10/2013 | 9780816689231 | #206633A | £18.50 Add to basket

 

Milestones in Water Reuse

The Best Success Stories

Valentina Lazarova, Takashi Asano and Akica Bahri

Milestones in Water Reuse: The Best Success Stories illustrates the benefits of water reuse in integrated water resources management and its role for water cycle management, climate change adaptation and water in the cities of ... ....

408 pages |

Paperback | 01/2013 | 9781780400075 | #206673A | £98.99 Add to basket

 

Parched City

Plunder, Pollution, Profiteering: A History of London's Public and Private Drinking Water

Emma M Jones

With original stories from London's archives, Parched City tracks drinking-water obsessions through a popular architectural, environmental and social history tale. Naturally we meet Dr John Snow, but we also encounter lesser ... ....

361 pages |

Paperback | NYP 06/2013 | 9781780991580 | #206867A | £17.99 Add to basket

 

Potable Water Solutions

Beyond Reverse Osmosis

Stewart Burn, Stephen Gray and Don Begbie

Potable Water Solutions: Beyond Reverse Osmosis is a practical handbook for evaluating desalination technology and solutions, covering use and implications, supplies and treatment. It is written for utility managers & professionals. ....

250 pages |

Hardback | NYP 11/2013 | 9781780404608 | #206798A | £88.99 Add to basket

 

Processes of Life

Essays in the Philosophy of Biology

John Dupre

John Dupré explores recent revolutionary developments in biology and considers their relevance for our understanding of human nature and human society. Epigenetics and related areas of molecular biology have eroded the exceptional ... ....

336 pages |

Hardback | 01/2012 | 9780199691982 | #195176A | £29.99 Add to basket

Paperback | NYP 01/2014 | 9780198701224 | #207037A | £19.99 Add to basket

 

Shifting Sands

Blakeney Point and the Environmental Imagination

Andy Stoddart

Blakeney Point has always been at the forefront of new knowledge and new ideas. It has reflected our understandings and our perceptions of nature, holding up a mirror to how we view the natural world, but it has also been a pioneer ... ....

171 pages | 10 b/w photos |

Paperback | 04/2013 | 9781484043011 | #206738A | £13.99 Add to basket

 

Solar Electricity Handbook

A Simple Practical Guide to Solar Energy - Designing and Installing Photovoltaic Solar Electric Systems

Michael Boxwell

The Solar Electricity Handbook is a practical and straightforward guide to using electric solar panels. Assuming no previous knowledge, the book explains how solar panels work, how they can be used and explains the steps you need ... ....

200 pages | b/w illustrations |

Paperback | 11/2012 | 9781907670282 | #206971A | £9.99 Add to basket

 

State of the World 2013

Is Sustainability Still Possible?

The Worldwatch Institute

Every day, we are presented with a range of "sustainable" products and activities-from "green" cleaning supplies to carbon offsets – but with so much labelled as "sustainable," the term has become essential ... ....

441 pages | b/w photos, b/w illustrations, tables |

Paperback | 04/2013 | 9781610914499 | #206716A | £13.99 Add to basket

 

Sustainable Diets and Biodiversity

Directions and Solutions for Policy, Research and Action

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

Sustainable Diets and Biodiversity highlights the alarming pace of biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation and the consequent negative impacts on poverty and health. It makes a compelling case for re-examining food systems ... ....

307 pages | colour illustrations |

Paperback | 01/2013 | 9789251073117 | #206784A | £71.50 Add to basket

 

Sustainable Energy Pricing

Nature, Sustainable Engineering, and the Science of Energy Pricing

Gary M Zatzman

The petroleum sector is possibly the largest and most dominant economic sector in the globalized economy. However, for reasons explored in Sustainable Energy Pricing, although none of the existing economic development models fit ... ....

608 pages | illustrations |

Hardback | 02/2012 | 9780470901632 | #206893A | £117.00 Add to basket

 

Sustainable Resource Development

Gary M Zatzman

"True sustainability" is the line of engineering research and practice that is giving rise to a series of Scrivener textbooks, such as Khan & Islam's best-selling The Greening of Petroleum Operations.

544 pages | illustrations |

Hardback | 01/2013 | 9781118290392 | #206769A | £130.00 Add to basket

 

The Oil Road

Journeys from the Caspian Sea to the City of London

James Marriott and Mika Minio-Paluello

From Caspian drilling rigs and Caucasus mountain villages to Mediterranean fishing communities and European capitals, The Oil Road is a journey through the heart of our oil-obsessed society. Blending travel writing and investigation ... ....

380 pages | illustrations |

Hardback | 07/2011 | 9781844676460 | #206625A | £16.99 Add to basket

Paperback | NYP 09/2013 | 9781781681282 | #206626A | £12.99 Add to basket

 

The Sustainable Business

A Practitioner's Guide to Achieving Long-Term Profitability and Competitiveness

Jonathan T Scott

Recommended for managers, employees, teachers and students, this readable and informative guide explains the importance of waste minimization as a first step toward sustainability. Within its pages, the breadth and depth of long-term ... ....

232 pages |

Hardback | 01/2013 | 9781907643897 | #206789A | £59.99 Add to basket

Paperback | 01/2013 | 9781906093839 | #206790A | £19.99 Add to basket

Paperback | 01/2013 | 9781906093839 | #206791A | £19.95 Add to basket

 

The Sustainable Business Workbook

Waste Elimination

Jonathan T Scott

The companion to The Sustainable Business. Use this Workbook to increase your knowledge and understanding, subject-specific skills and personal and transferable skills.

32 pages |

Spiralbound | 01/2013 | 9781906093846 | #206793A | £9.95 Add to basket

 

Volunteer: A Traveller's Guide to Making a Difference Around the World

Volunteer: A Traveller's Guide to Making a Difference Around the World is a one-stop guide to choosing and organising a more meaningful travel experience: - Information on raising funds and what to expect on a ... ....

272 pages |

Paperback | NYP 08/2013 | 9781743216897 | #206884A | £12.99 Add to basket

 
Data Analysis
 

A Primer on Mathematical Models in Biology

Lee A Segel and Leah Edelstein-Keshet

A Primer on Mathematical Models in Biology grew out of a course that the highly respected applied mathematician Lee Segel taught at the Weizmann Institute. A Primer on Mathematical Models in Biology represents the unique ... ....

Paperback | 05/2013 | 9781611972498 | #205369A | £47.99 Add to basket

 

Concise Encyclopaedia of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology

Marketa J Zvelebil and John M Hancock

Concise Encyclopaedia of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, 2nd Edition is a fully revised and updated version of this acclaimed resource.

768 pages |

Hardback | NYP 11/2013 | 9780470978726 | #206610A | £99.99 Add to basket

Paperback | NYP 11/2013 | 9780470978719 | #206611A | £49.99 Add to basket

 

Deep Metazoan Phylogeny: The Backbone of the Tree of Life

New Insights from Analyses of Molecules, Morphology, and Theory of Data Analysis

Johann-Wolfgang Waegele, Thomas Bartholomaeus, Bernhard Misof and Lars Vogt

The growing success of molecular methods has challenged traditional views of animal evolution and a large number of alternative hypotheses are hotly debated today. For the deep metazoan phylogeny project, data sets of hitherto unmatched ... ....

500 pages |

Hardback | NYP 09/2013 | 9783110277463 | #206862A | £159.00 Add to basket

 

Explorations of Mathematical Models in Biology with Maple

Mazen Shahin

With an emphasis on Maple applications to showcase graphical and numerical techniques, Explorations of Mathematical Models in Biology with Maple investigates and analyzes the behavior of solutions of mathematical models and also ... ....

320 pages |

Hardback | NYP 11/2013 | 9781118032114 | #206830A | £76.95 Add to basket

 

Imaging Marine Life

Modern Techniques in Marine Biology

Emmanuel G Reynaud

Written by an international team of experts from the Tara Oceans Marine Biology Imaging Platform (TAOMI), this is the first and only compendium on marine imaging technologies, and includes all known underwater as well as on-land techniques ... ....

350 pages |

Hardback | 11/2011 | 9783527327447 | #206600A | £99.99 Add to basket

 

Introduction to Bioinformatics

Arthur M Lesk

A vast amount of biological information about a wide range of species has become available in recent years as technological advances have significantly reduced the time it takes to sequence a genome or determine a novel protein structure ... ....

480 pages |

Paperback | NYP 11/2013 | 9780199651566 | #206873A | £32.99 Add to basket

 

Introduction to Bioinformatics

Arthur Lesk

A vast amount of biological information about a wide range of species has become available in recent years as technological advances have significantly reduced the time it takes to sequence a genome or determine a novel protein structure ... ....

480 pages |

Paperback | NYP 11/2013 | 9780199651566 | #206896A | £32.99 Add to basket

 

Managing Your Biological Data with Python

Allegra Via and Anna Tramontano

For end-users of bioinformatics databases and tools, Managing Your Biological Data with Python explains how to independently manage large biological data sets with Python. It covers basic aspects of computer usage as well as the ... ....

306 pages | 50 b/w illustrations |

Paperback | NYP 11/2013 | 9781439880937 | #206288A | £38.99 Add to basket

 

Statistical Geoinformatics for Human Environment Interface

Wayne L Myers and Ganapati P Patil

Statistical Geoinformatics for Human Environment Interface presents two paradigms for studying both space and interface with regard to human/environment: localization and multiple indicators.

213 pages | 148 b/w photos and illustrations, 19 tables |

Hardback | 08/2012 | 9781420082876 | #206714A | £49.99 Add to basket

 
Reference
 

Oxford Guide to Effective Writing and Speaking

How to Communicate Clearly

John Seely and John Seely

The Oxford Guide to Effective Writing and Speaking is the essential guide for everyone who needs to communicate in clear and effective English, both written and spoken. John Seely looks at the key factors to consider in tailoring ... ....

400 pages |

Paperback | NYP 09/2013 | 9780199652709 | #206975A | £14.99 Add to basket

 

Scientific Style and Format

The CSE Manual for Authors, Editors and Publishers

Council of Science Editors

Scientific Style and Format is the most recognised, authoritative reference for authors, editors, publishers, students and translators in all areas of science and related fields. This 7th edition has been completely updated and ... ....

658 pages | b/w illustrations, tables |

Hardback | 06/2006 | 9780977966509 | #206709A | £40.50 Add to basket

 

Successful Grant Proposals in Science, Technology and Medicine

A Guide to Writing the Narrative

Sandra Oster and Paul Cordo

There are many resources on grant writing in science, technology and medicine, but most do not provide the practical advice needed to write the narratives of grant proposals. Designed to help novice and experienced investigators write ... ....

350 pages | 6 b/w illustrations, 20 tables |

Hardback | NYP 11/2013 | 9781107038097 | #205605A | £54.99 Add to basket

Paperback | NYP 11/2013 | 9781107659308 | #205606A | £27.99 Add to basket