Nature's Architect

The Beaver's Return to Our Wild Landscapes

Jim Crumley

Hundreds of years after their extinction in these isles, beavers are back in Britain. These highly skilled engineers of the natural world have been reintroduced at several sites across the UK and, even as they become established, are already ...

Once They Were Hats

In Search of the Mighty Beaver

Frances Backhouse

Beavers, those icons of industriousness, have been gnawing down trees, building dams, shaping the land, and creating critical habitat in North America for at least a million years. Once one of the continent's most ubiquitous mammals ...

Secret History of Kindness

Learning from How Dogs Learn

Melissa Holbrook Pierson

Years back, Melissa Holbrook Pierson brought home a border collie named Mercy, without a clue of how to get her to behave. Stunned after hiring a trainer whose immediate rapport with Mercy seemed magical, Pierson began delving into the ...

Storytelling Apes

Primatology Narratives Past and Future

Mary Sanders Pollock

The annals of field primatology are filled with stories about charismatic animals native to some of the most challenging and remote areas on earth. There are, for example, the chimpanzees of Tanzania, whose social and family interactions ...

The Bats of Britain and Ireland

HW Schofield and AJ Mitchell-Jones

This is an excellent little introduction and identification guide to 14 species of bat found throughout Britain and Ireland. Each species description covers roosts, food & feeding, breeding, status & distribution, and identification ...

The Secret World of Red Wolves

The Fight to Save North America's Other Wolf

T DeLene Beeland

Red wolves are shy, elusive, and misunderstood predators. Until the 1800s, they were common in the longleaf pine savannahs and deciduous forests of the southeastern United States. However, habitat degradation, persecution, and interbreeding ...

Atlas Deutscher Brutvogelarten / Atlas of German Breeding Birds

Kai Gedeon et al

The Atlas of German Breeding Birds (Atlas Deutscher Brutvogelarten: ADEBAR) represents the first systematic and uniform approach to the recording of Germany’s breeding birds. There are 280 breeding bird species ...

Atlas de las Aves Nidificantes en la Provincia de Alicante

GM Lopez Iborra, A Banuls Patino, A Zaragozí Llenes, J Sala Bernabeu, A Izquierdo Rosique and

This atlas is the result of almost fifteen years of work. A group of more than fifty researchers toured the province to obtain quantitative information needed to make a series of maps showing in detail the distribution of the different ...

Better Birding

Tips, Tools, and Concepts for the Field

George L Armistead and Brian L Sullivan

Better Birding reveals the techniques expert birders use to identify a wide array of bird species in the field-quickly and easily. Featuring hundreds of stunning photos and composite plates throughout, Better Birding ...

Birding Guide to North-East Scotland

Including Part of the Cairngorms National Park

Mark Sullivan and Ian Francis

North-East Scotland is an area often overlooked by birdwatchers. Many travel to the well-known "honey-pots" such as Speyside, the North-West Highlands or the various island groups, without venturing eastward, or only pass through ...

Birds in the Sheffield Area 2013

Richard Hill and David Wood

The annual report of the Sheffield Bird Study Group for 2013 gives a review of the birding year, a systematic list of records, and arrival and departure dates of migrant species. Also included are two short reports of visits to Broomhead ...

Birds of Botswana

Peter Hancock and Ingrid Weiersbye

Here is the ultimate field guide to Botswana's stunningly diverse birdlife. Covering all 597 species recorded to date, Birds of Botswana features more than 1,200 superb colour illustrations, detailed species accounts ...

Birds of Madagascar and the Indian Ocean Islands

Frank Hawkins, Roger Safford and Adrian Skerrett

The Malagasy region contains one of the most extraordinary concentrations of biodiversity in the world. Its recognition as a zoogeographic region in its own right has recently been confirmed and, all taxa combined, the region was found ...

Birds of South-East Asia: Concise Edition

Craig Robson

The up-to-date text covers the identification, voice, habitat, behaviour and range of all the 1270 species and distinctive subspecies of this magnificent bird-rich region. The authoritative text is accompanied by over 140 full-colour plates ...

Birds of the Darwin Region

Niven McCrie and Richard Noske

Birds of the Darwin Region is the first comprehensive treatment of the avifauna of Darwin, a city located in Australia's monsoon tropics, where seasons are defined by rainfall rather than by temperature.

Lietuvos Paukskiu: Pazinimo Vadovas [Lithuanian Birds]

Vytautas Jusys, Saulius Karalius and Liutauras Raudonikis

Lietuvos Pauksciu: Pazinimo Vadovas describes all 380 bird species observed in Lithuania as of November 1st 2012. Most of these occur here naturally, but escaped and introduced species are also included. Lithuanian and

Parrots of the Wild

A Natural History of the World's Most Captivating Birds

Catherine A Toft, Timothy F Wright and James Gilardi

Parrots of the Wild explores recent scientific discoveries and what they reveal about the lives of wild parrots, which are among the most intelligent and rarest of birds. Catherine A. Toft and Tim Wright discuss the evolutionary ...

Robins and Chats

Peter Clement and Chris Rose

This authoritative handbook, part of the Helm Identification Guides series, looks in detail at the world's 170 species of robins and chats. This large family of small passerines was formerly considered to be part of the thrush ...

The Magic & Mystery of Birds

The Surprising Lives of Birds and What They Reveal About Being Human

Noah Strycker

In an entertaining and perceptive account of the lives of birds, from watching penguins in Antarctica to testing turkey vultures' sense of smell, Noah Strycker illuminates the surprising world of birds and their secret life.

Turaco Country

Reminiscences of East African Birding

Dale A Zimmerman and Narca Moore-Craig

Dale Zimmerman's singular memoir details a half-century of ornithological investigations in East Africa, at a time when Africa's fabled wildlife and wild habitats flourished beneath the snows of Kilimanjaro. Set against the political ...

Wildfowl of the Northern Hemisphere

Sebastien Reeber

The Wildfowl title in the Helm ID Guide series was first published in 1988, and was the third in the series. Astonishingly, there has never been a serious competitor or update, and the book is now badly out of date.

Zweiter Brutvogelatlas des Landes Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

Frank Voekler

In time for the 25th anniversary of Ornithologischen Arbeitsgemeinschaft Mecklenburg Vorpommern in Salem this second breeding bird atlas of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (a federated state in northern Germany, known as Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania) ...

A Field Guide to Reptiles of Queensland

Steve Wilson

Covers all of Queensland's 440 named species, including 135 that occur nowhere else. Includes colour photographs, line drawings, maps and descriptions for each species.

Des Tortues et des Iles

Voyage au Coeur de l'Ocean Indien

Jerome Bourjea and Hendrik Sauvignet

For over twelve years Jérôme Bourjea and Hendrik Sauvignet roamed the Indian Ocean to study sea turtles. Their research led them to many sites frequented by these animals, some of which are difficult to reach or ...

Biology, Ecology and Culture of Grey Mullets (Mugilidae)

Donatella Crosetti and Stephen JM Blaber

Mullets (grey mullets) are a family (Mugilidae) and order of ray-finned fish found in temperate and tropical waters worldwide. There are approximately 80 species of mullet; these fish have been considered an important food source in ...

Native Ornamental Fish of China: lllustrated Book [Chinese]

Zheng Shuming

Native Ornamental Fish of China: Illustrated Book 463 species of native ornamental fishes from China. Among them, 163 species are described in detail with 1-4 colour photos. Their Latin name, morphological characteristics, living ...

Sekai no Utsukushi Same Zukan [Beautiful Sharks Around the World]

Kazuhiro Nakaya

Sharks have long been thought of as horrible creatures. But rather than "ferocious creatures that attack people", typified by the great white shark, increasingly public perception is shifting to them being mild creatures ...

Sharks & Rays of the Arabian/Persian Gulf

Dareen K Almojil, Alec BM Moore, William Toby White and Faiza Yousef Al-Yamani

The Gulf has a unique diversity of sharks and rays, but for many years their correct identification has been problematic. This fully illustrated book – the first of its kind to focus on the Gulf – brings together the latest ...

All About Butterflies of Australia

Garry Sankowsky

This new title investigates the ever-popular subject of Australian butterflies. Early chapters explore the lifecycle of these insects, with stunning images showing the progression from egg through caterpillar and chrysalis stages to adult ...

Bibliotheca Diatomologica, Volume 62: Centric, Araphid and Eunotioid Diatoms of the Coastal Laurentian Great Lakes

Sampling, Taxonomic Descriptions and Environmental Characteristics

Euan D Reavie and Amy R Kireta

The authors present the first detailed description of the freshwater centric, araphid and eunotioid diatoms of coastal ecosystems of the Laurentian Great Lakes. 49 plates with hundreds of light micrographs of diatom taxa, from 28 genera ...

Biodiversity of South America, Volume 2

Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae

Roberto Pace

The work describes 149 new species and 8 new genera of Staphylinidae from South America, split over two parts, one treating the Chilean and Magellanean sub-regions, one the Andean and Brazilian sub-regions. For each new species photograph ...

Common Butterflies of Sri Lanka

Himesh Dilruwan Jayasinghe

Common Butterflies of Sri Lanka offers a very good introduction to butterflies for those who wish to learn more about this group by showing how to identify them in the field, main features of their lifecycle, behavior, distribution ...

Compendium of Bivalves 2

M Huber

This book completes Compendium of Bivalves published in 2010. It adds the 7 families (Thyasiridae, Lucinidae, Galeommatidae, Tellinidae, Cyrenidae, Ungulinidae, Teredinidae) missing from volume 1. It contains major additions and ...

European Bark and Ambrosia Beetles: Types, Characteristics and Identification of Mating Systems / Scolitidi d'Europa: Ti

Massimo Faccoli

Bark beetles are a group of forest beetles that burrow characteristics tunnels under the bark and wood of trees causing death. Since the morphological recognition of these small insects is particularly complex, the objective of this ...

Fibigeriana, Volume 3

The Vartian Collection, Part III: Papilionidae, Hesperiidae, Pieridae, Riodinidae, Lycaenidae and Nymphalidae

Martin Lodl, Sabine Gaal-Haszler, Zoltan Varga, Gyula M Laszlo, Gabor Ronkay and Laszlo Ronkay

The first and second volumes of Fibigeriana (published in 2012 and 2013) provided a comprehensive demonstration of the impressively species-rich Noctuoidea, Lasiocampoidea, Bombycoidea, Drepanoidea, Cossoidea, Zygaenoidea and ...

Mygales du Monde

Theraphosidae

Francois Teyssie and Pierre Escoubas

Mygales du Monde describes and illustrates almost 300 species of tarantulas of the Theraphosidae family by biogeographical zone. The descriptions enable non-specialists to identify each species, and provides additional information ...

Polyclads of Andaman and Nicobar Islands

CR Sreeraj, C Raghunathan, R Raghuraman and Krishnamoorthy Venkataraman

Describes the polyclads, a highly diverse clade of free-living marine turbellarian flatworms, found in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India.

Preparing the Ghost

An Essay Concerning the Giant Squid and its First Photographer

Matthew Gavin Frank

Moses Harvey was the eccentric Newfoundland reverend and amateur naturalist who first photographed the near-mythic giant squid in 1874, draping it over a shower curtain rod to display its magnitude. In Preparing the Ghost ...

Revision du Genre Calicnemis Laporte, 1832: Approches Morphologique et Genetique (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae, Dynastina

A Verdugo and Alain Drumont

A revision of the genus Calicnemis Laporte, 1832 (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Dynastinae), based on the examination of 480 specimens, including the typical material is presented. The genus Calicnemis includes species ...

Spider Families of the World and their Spinnerets (2-Volume Set)

John A Murphy, Michael J Roberts, Rowley G Snazell and Paul A Selden

Mike Roberts's renowned line drawings combine with John Murphy's extensive knowledge of worldwide spiders in this important new atlas of spiders of the world. Typical genera of every family of spiders (115 families on 327 plates) ...

Tarantulas of the World

Theraphosidae

Francois Teyssie and Pierre Escoubas

Tarantulas of the World describes and illustrates almost 300 species of tarantulas of the Theraphosidae family by biogeographical zone. The descriptions enable non-specialists to identify each species, and provides additional ...

The Bees in Your Backyard

A Guide to North America's Bees

Joseph S Wilson and Olivia J Messinger Carril

The Bees in Your Backyard provides an engaging introduction to the roughly 4 000 different bee species found in the United States and Canada, dispelling common myths about bees while offering essential tips for telling them apart ...

The Insect Cookbook

Food for a Sustainable Planet

Arnold van Huis, Henk van Gurp, Marcel Dicke, Fran? oise Takken-Kaminker and Di Blumenfeld-Schaap

Insects will be appearing on our store shelves, menus, and plates within the decade. In The Insect Cookbook, two entomologists and a chef make the case for insects as a sustainable source of protein for humans and a necessary ...

The Seashell Collector

A Keepsake Box for Your Treasures from the Sea

Ilya Temkin and American Museum of Natural History (AMNH)

This beautiful keepsake box set is the perfect gift for every beachcomber and shell lover. Inside, you'll find adjustable/removable dividers to help store and display your treasures; 15 postcards showcasing different shells; a 64-page ...

ZooKeys 493: Afrotropical Cynipoidea (Hymenoptera)

Simon van Noort, M Buffington and Mattias Forshage

ZooKeys 493: Afrotropical Cynipoidea (Hymenoptera) constitutes the first part of the initiative to document Afrotropical hymenopteran diversity and provides a current synthesis of Afrotropical cynipoid systematics, including an ...

Orukara Nazo no Zetsumetsu Seibutsu 100 [Mysteries of 100 Extinct Organisms]

Kawasaki Satoshi

This book shows a selection of 100 extinct animals, selected for their bizarre appearances.

Cone Shells of the Okeechobean Sea

Pliocene, Pleistocene

Edward J Petuch, Mardie Drolshagen and Guenther Herndl

In Cone Shells of the Okeechobean Sea, a total of 103 fossil cone species are redescribed and presented on 30 figure plates, their time ranges are compared in a diagram, and two new genera are introduced (Herndliconus ...

Ordovician Trilobites Of Southern Ontario, Canada And The Surrounding Region

An Illustrated Guide

Phillip A Isotalo and David M Rudkin

Trilobites are fascinating creatures that ruled the early Paleozoic seas. These arthropods first appeared in the Cambrian Period, lived for hundreds of millions of years and went extinct at the end of the Permian Period, around 251 million ...

T. rex and the Crater of Doom

Walter Alvarez and Carl Zimmer

A 2008 reprint of this 1998 book, with a new foreword by Carl Zimmer. Sixty-five million years ago, a comet or asteroid larger than Mt. Everest slammed into the Earth, causing an explosion equivalent to the detonation of a hundred ...

Amazing Rare Things

The Art of Natural History in the Age of Discovery

Sir David Attenborough, Susan Owens, Martin Clayton and Rea Alexandratos

From the fifteenth century onwards, as European explorers sailed forth on grand voyages of discovery, their encounters with exotic plants and animals fanned intense scientific interest. Scholars began to examine nature with fresh eyes ...

Baptized with the Soil

Christian Agrarians and the Crusade for Rural America

Kevin M Lowe

In the early twentieth century, many Americans were troubled by the way agriculture was becoming increasingly industrial and corporate. Mainline Protestant churches and cooperative organizations began to come together to promote agrarian ...

Beth Van Hoesen: Fauna & Flora

Beth van Hoesen and Bob Hicks

From her firehouse studio and home, printmaker Beth van Hoesen (1926–2010) made a career from observing creatures, casual moments, and overlooked things with sensitivity and diligence. She worked from life, drawing nudes and newborn ...

Cicerone Guides: Walking on the Isle of Man

40 Walks Exploring the Entire Island

Terry Marsh

40 half to full day walks on the coast and fells of the Isle of Man are explored in Cicerone Guides: Walking on the Isle of Man. Most of the walks are short and accessible for walkers of all abilities. For walkers looking for a ...

Cuvier's History of Natural Sciences, Volume 2 / L'Histoire des Sciences Naturelles de Cuvier, Volume 2

Nineteen Lessons on the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries / Dix-Neuf Lecons sur les Seizieme et Dix-Septieme Siecles

Theodore W Pietsch, Jean-Pierre Gasc and Beatrice D Marx

Here, for the first time in English, is Georges Cuvier’s extraordinary History of the Natural Sciences from Its Origin to the Present Day. Based on a series of public lectures presented by Cuvier from 1829 to 1832, this ...

Digital Nature Photography

The Art and the Science

John Gerlach and Barbara Gerlach

Identifying a beautiful image in nature is easy, but capturing it is often challenging. To truly seize the essence of a photograph shot out of the studio and in the world requires an artistic eye and impeccable set of photographic techniques ...

Dumont d'Urville: Explorer & Polymath

Edward Duyker

Explorer Jules-Sébastien-César Dumont d'Urville (1790–1842) is sometimes called France's Captain Cook. Born less than a year after the beginning of the French Revolution, he lived through turbulent times.

Environment, Society and Landscape in Early Medieval England

Time and Topography

Tom Williamson

The Anglo-Saxon period was crucial in the development of England's character: its language, and much of its landscape and culture, were forged in the period between the fifth and the eleventh centuries. Historians and archaeologists ...

Eye of the Beholder

Johannes Vermeer, Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek, and the Reinvention of Seeing

Laura J Snyder

On a summer day in 1674, in the small Dutch city of Delft, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek – a cloth salesman, local bureaucrat, and self-taught natural philosopher – gazed through a tiny lens set into a brass holder and discovered ...

Harper Ever After

The Early Work of Charley and Edie Harper

Sara Caswell-Pearce, Brett Harper, Charley Harper and Edie Harper

Charley Harper and Edie McKee met on the first day of school at the Art Academy of Cincinnati in 1940. They studied together, fell in love, survived World War II, married, and embarked on successful careers in art. Today, Charley's ...

How to Sketch: Plants & Trees

Matthew Pagett

Time spent sketching can be glorious as the chatter and demands of everyday life take a temporary back seat. How to sketch trees and plants encourages readers to look afresh, providing a complete beginner's guide to producing dynamic ...

John James Laforest Audubon

An English Perspective

Christine E Jackson

The Birds of America (London, 1827-38) is the largest bird book ever published. Audubon went to England in order to find a printer capable of printing the huge plates, 39" high and 29" wide, showing the birds life-size ..

Johnny Kingdom's Wild Exmoor

David Parker and Johnny Kingdom

Over the years Johnny Kingdom, Exmoor born and bred, has walked and filmed most of it, across all four seasons. And in his own, unique style. Johnny Kingdom's Wild Exmoor, which accompanies the television series ...

Methodus Plantarum Nova [English]

John Ray, Stephen A Nimis, Kathleen Tschantz Unroe, Michael A Vincent, Michael Black and Mar Chase

John Ray (1627-1705) contributed several important concepts to the field of plant taxonomy: first, the division of plants into groups based on seed leaves (Monocotyledonae and Dicotyledonae); second, the differentiation between flowering ...

Phasmid: Saving the Lord Howe Island Stick Insect

Rohan Cleave and Coral Tulloch

Phasmid: Saving the Lord Howe Island Stick Insect presents the amazing true story of the Lord Howe Island Phasmid, or Stick Insect. Believed to be extinct for nearly eighty years, the phasmids were rediscovered on Balls Pyramid ...

Pristine Seas

Journey to the Ocean's Last Wild Places

Enric Sala and Leonardo DiCaprio

There are places in the ocean virtually untouched by man. They offer a fascinating glimpse into our past and an inspiring vision for the future. They are the last pristine seas, and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Enric Sala ...

Rendering Nature

Animals, Bodies, Places, Politics

Marguerite S Shaffer and Phoebe SK Young

We exist at a moment during which the entangled challenges facing the human and natural worlds confront us at every turn, whether at the most basic level of survival – health, sustenance, shelter – or in relation to our comfortable ...

Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age

Inventor of the Electrical Age

W Bernard Carlson

Nikola Tesla was a major contributor to the electrical revolution that transformed daily life at the turn of the twentieth century. His inventions, patents, and theoretical work formed the basis of modern AC electricity, and contributed ...

The Beach Book

Loads of Things to do at Lakes, Rivers and the Seaside

Jo Schofield and Fiona Danks

You don't need to live right on the water's edge to have fun at the beach! The Beach Book is all about finding wild places at the seaside, as well as by lakes and rivers and making the most of opportunities to explore ...

The Five-Year Butterfly Hunt

Five Summers Photographing Our Native Butterflies

Phil Hall

A father and his young daughter, who set off on a holiday in Wales to observe whales and dolphins, stumble across the delights of Britain's native butterflies. Inspired by this, they start a quest to photograph all of 58 UK butterflies ...

The Rise of Modern Science Explained

A Comparative History

H Floris Cohen

For centuries, laymen and priests, lone thinkers and philosophical schools in Greece, China, the Islamic world and Europe reflected with wisdom and great perseverance on how the natural world fits together. As a rule, their methods and ...

The Vegetable Kingdom

Or, the Structure, Classification, and Uses of Plants Illustrated Upon the Natural System

John Lindley

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. Employed early in his career by Sir Joseph Banks, the botanist John Lindley (1799-1865) is best known for his recommendation that Kew Gardens should ...

The Youth Guide to the Ocean

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

The Youth and United Nations Global Alliance (YUNGA) is a partnership between United Nations agencies, civil society organizations and other groups working with children and young people. YUNGA aims to empower children and young people ...

When I was a Fish

Tales of an Ichthyologist

Mike Bruton

This fast-paced, highly readable book not only recounts the extraordinary life of Mike Bruton, one of the leading fish biologists in Africa, but also explores and discusses the various issues and topics in which he was involved as a ...

A Natural History of the Sonoran Desert

Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Steven John Phillips, Patricia Wentworth Comus and Mark Al Dimmitt

Covering southeasternmost California, much of southern and central Arizona, most of Baja California, and much of the state of Sonora in Mexico, the Sonoran Desert Region is home to an amazing variety of plants and animals.

A Naturalist's Guide to the Texas Hill Country

Nature Guide

Mark Gustafson

In A Naturalist's Guide to the Texas Hill Country, biologist Mark Gustafson introduces residents and visitors to the history, geology, water resources, plants, and animals found in the nineteen counties occupying the eastern ...

Birds and Plants of the Little Desert

A Photographic Guide

Ian Morgan, Graham Goods, Maree Goods and Alan Braithwaite

Illustrated by more than 950 photographs, Birds and Plants of the Little Desert allows readers to discover and identify over 200 birds and 430 plants that live in the Little Desert, Victoria. The majority of these photographs ...

Capturing Wildlife Moments in India

Ashok Mahindra

Many wildlife species in India are under tremendous threat from different sources, mainly from poaching, man-animal conflict, and deforestation. Their survival is dependent on strong laws and support from the Government, from the public ...

Flora and Fauna of the Bible

Peter Goodfellow

An engaging and informative study of all the most important plants and animals mentioned in the Bible, relating the references both to Bible times and to wildlife in the Holy Land now and, where appropriate, explaining the message or ...

Marine Wildlife of the Mediterranean

Enric Ballesteros and Toni Llobet

Marine Wildlife of the Mediterranean will be your constant companion on your coastal explorations and marine adventures. It will help you identify species you encounter while snorkeling or SCUBA diving, and will also be very handy ...

Minnesota Weather Almanac

Completely Updated for the New Normals

Mark W Seeley

Second edition of the popular weather almanac! Whether planning your garden, settling a bet, or making neighborly small talk, this fascinating guide will give you all the facts and figures, all the trials and tales you need.

Nature's Civil War

Common Soldiers and the Environment in 1862 Virginia

Kathryn Shively Meier

In the Shenandoah Valley and Peninsula Campaigns of 1862, Union and Confederate soldiers faced unfamiliar and harsh environmental conditions – strange terrain, tainted water, swarms of flies and mosquitoes, interminable rain and snow ...

Pelagos: Voyage Naturaliste au Large de la Mediterranee

Frederic Larrey, Thomas Roger and Jean-Michel Bompar

Did you know that only a few kilometers off the coast of the Mediterranean there lives an exceptional pelagic fauna? Whales and sperm whales, dolphins, sea turtles, seabirds, sunfish and skin-blue sharks coexist on the high seas, sometimes ...

Sensational Seas of Sabah

Jason Isley, Gilbert Woolley, Christian Loader, Datuk Seri Panglima Musa Haji Aman and Dat Manjun

Sitting in the heart of the Coral Triangle, home to the world's greatest marine diversity, Sabah is a magnet for divers from around the world. With its glorious tropical islands, teeming coral reefs, clear warm water and sandy beaches ...

The Chobe Companion

All-in-One Guide to Common Animals and Plants

Peter Hancock and Richard Randall

The Chobe Companion is one of a series of all-in-one field guides to wild places in Botswana. It covers the common and conspicuous mammals (29 species), birds (173 species), frogs and reptiles (13 species) and trees (36 species) ...

The Green Heart of Sabah

Danum Vallley, Maliau Basin, Imbak Canyon, Gunung Silam

Matt Oldfield, Jason Isley, Ch'ien C Lee, Christian Loader, Gilbert Woolley and Datuk Seri Pa Aman

The Green Heart of Sabah explores the richest terrestrial habitats on our planet – the tropical rainforests that cloak Sabah's interior. These forests are home to an incredible diversity of species and provide vital ...

Walking with Birds

Colin Whittle

Walking with Birds explores the wildlife, especially birds, of one of the most magnificent and popular Lake District valleys, close to the coast of Morecambe Bay. It is a culmination of over 50 years involvement with wildlife.

Nests, Eggs, and Incubation

New Ideas About Avian Reproduction

D Charles Deeming and S James Reynolds

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

A Guide to Begonias of Borneo

Ruth Kiew, Julia Sang, Rimi Repin and Joffre Ali Ahmad

Begonia is familiar as a garden plant grown for its beautiful foliage. Indeed there are few other genera that can challenge Begonia in variety of leaf shapes, colour and patterns. It often comes as a surprise to learn that the forests of ...

A Passion for Gardening

How the British Became a Nation of Gardeners

Twigs Way and Joe Swift

Ever since man discovered that plants could be eaten, their cultivation has been a necessity. But somewhere along the line it became first an interest and then a pleasure. And as people developed a passion for gardening, those in the business ...

Atlas of Wood Decaying Fungi of Central India

CK Tiwari, Jagrati Parihar, RK Verma and U Prakasham

A total of 2 783 specimens of wood-decaying fungi were collected from wood depots and forests of Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra and Orissa, on 86 woods of tree species. From these collections, 191 species of wood-decaying fungi ...

Bolets del País Valencia

Antoni Belda Antolí and Ana Alvarez Guinea

The aim of this book is to introduce the reader to the fascinating world of mycology, i.e. mushrooms and their environment. Inside, illustrated with many photographs, are the most representative species of Valencia, Spain, their culinary ...

Edible Wild Plants & Herbs

A Compendium of Recipes and Remedies

Pamela Michael and Christabel King

This is the perfect companion guide for every budding forager. Exquisitely illustrated with full-colour paintings of all the plants and herbs in Edible Wild Plants & Herbs, ranging from dandelion and sorrel to sea beet and ...

Flora del Bajío y de Regiones Adyacentes, Volume 187

Familia Cyatheacea

Karina Magdalena Grajales-Tam

Volume 187 treats the family Cyatheacea, which consists of 5 genera and 600 species worldwide. In Mexico it is represented by three genera of which one is found in the region studied.

Flora of Ecuador, Volume 92, Parts 82-84: Leguminosae - Key to Genera

Bertil Stahl, Gwilym P Lewis and Bente B Klitgaard

In Flora of Ecuador, Volume 92, Parts 82-84: Leguminosae – Key to Genera a key to all genera of Leguminosae occurring in or expected to occur in Ecuador is presented along with short descriptions of all genera, including ...

Folia Malaysiana, Volume 14(2)

A Latiff and Datuk Seri Lim Chong Keat

Papers included in this volume: - C.K. Lim: Five new species and work in progress on Elettariopsis (Zingiberaceae) in Peninsular Malaysia   1-18 - M. Mas Izzaty, C.S. Tawan, A. Ampeng & K. Meekiong: ...

Introduccion a la Micología en los Tropicos

Meike Piepenbring

Introducción a la Micología en los Trópicos is a key reference that provides critical information on all major groups of fungi found throughout the world's tropical regions. It provides solid theoretical ...

Introduction to Mycology in the Tropics

Meike Piepenbring

Introduction to Mycology in the Tropics is a key reference that provides critical information on all major groups of fungi found throughout the world's tropical regions. It provides solid theoretical knowledge of tropical ...

Landshaftnaia Arkhitektura Glavnogo Botanicheskogo Sada im. N.V. TSitsina RAN: Istoriia i Perspektivy: k 70-letiiu so Dn

History and Prospect]

AS Demidov

The book collects and summarizes the history of the design and construction of the Main Botanical Garden, at the Russian Academy of Sciences. It shows the cultural and scientific role of one of the largest objects of landscape architecture ...

Population Biology of Plant Pathogens

Genetics, Ecology, and Evolution

Michael G Milgroom

Just like nature itself, the field of population biology in plant pathogens is constantly evolving, yet it has been more than 25 years since a comprehensive book on this important topic has been produced.

Self-Sown Orchids of Greece

Antonis Alibertis

In 2009, the author heard on TV that, in about a hundred years time, the emperor penguins of the Antarctic will be almost extinct due to the rise of the temperature of our planet, a fact that will render the living conditions as well as ...

Sienet ja Metsien Luontoarvot [Mushrooms and the Natural Value of Forests]

Tea von Bonsdorff, Ilkka Kytovuori, Jukka Vauras, Seppo Huhtinen, Panu Halme and Teppo Rama

Many mushrooms are of excellent value as indicators of habitat protection. They are not always threatened with extinction or particularly rare species, but for their growth demand features that are ecologically valuable and only found in ...

Smut Fungi of Israel

Kyrylo G Savchencko, Solomon P Wasser, Vasyl P Heluta, Eviatar Neto and Paul A Volz.

Covers smut fungi (Ustilaginomycetes P.P., Exobasidiomycetes P.P., and Microbotryales) of Israel. A total of 73 species in 15 genera are described. Three genera (Macalpinomyces, Melanustilospora, and Schizonella ...

The Bacterium of Many Colors

Robert M Harveson

To phrase the timeless words of George Santayana, "Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it." The Bacterium of Many Colors imparts lessons of the past through a fascinating collection of ...

The Body Language of Trees

Encyclopedia of Visual Tree Assessment

Claus Mattheck, Klaus Bethge, Karlheinz Weber and Ralf Friese

The Body Language of Trees, produced as one of the Research for Amenity Trees series, was one of Claus Mattheck's most popular books. Although borrowing part of the title from the earlier edition, and essentially applying the ...

The Cabaret of Plants

Richard Mabey

From Ice Age artists to the Romantic poets, via colonialism and the nineteenth century botanical mania of empire, The Cabaret of Plants explores plant species which have challenged our imaginations, awoken that clichéd but ...

The Wild Flowers of the Isle of Purbeck, Brownsea and Sandbanks

Edward A Pratt

This is the second edition of The Wild Flowers of the Isle of Purbeck, Brownsea and Sandbanks, with updates of plant species and location, additional maps and photos. Over 1000 kinds are covered and over 5000 plant sites described ...

Vegetation of the Czech Republic, Volume 4 / Vegetace Ceske Republiky 4

Forest and Scrub Vegetation / Lesní a krovinna Vegetace

Milan Chytry, J Douda, J Rolecek, J Sadlo, K Boublík, R Hedl, M Vítkova and D Zeleny

The four-part monograph series Vegetation of the Czech Republic systematically summarizes what is known about the types of plant communities occurring in the Czech Republic. It describes the floristic composition, ecology, dynamic ...

Virulence Mechanisms of Plant-Pathogenic Bacteria

Nian Wang, Jeffrey B Jones, George W Sundin, Frank White, Saskia Hogenhout and Caroline Roper

Plant pathogenic bacteria cause dramatic yield and economic losses in agriculture, making it harder to meet the challenge of providing an adequate food supply for the world. Understanding the virulence mechanisms of plant pathology ...

Wild Flowers of Dare Valley Country Park

Tim CG Rich and Ceri Gait

A photographic guide to the wild flowers, trees and ferns that grow in Dare Valley Country Park, Aberdare, South Wales. With most of the 449 recorded plants and ferns photographed, this Flora is not only of interest to the botanist but ...

Zambian Mushrooms and Mycology

Marja Harkonen, Tuomo Niemela, Keddy Mbindo, Heikki Kotiranta and Graham Piearce

Introductory chapters on Zambian environment, groups and structures of larger fungi, fungal ecology (with an African perspective: mycorrhiza with trees in miombo savannas, symbiosis with termites, decay of wood).

Biochemistry

Jeremy M Berg, John L Tymoczko, Jr.,Gregory J Gatto and Lubert Stryer

For four decades, this extraordinary textbook played an pivotal role in the way biochemistry is taught, offering exceptionally clear writing, innovative graphics, coverage of the latest research techniques and advances, and a signature ...

Biochemistry: A Short Course

John L Tymoczko, Jeremy M Berg and Lubert Stryer

Derived from the classic text originated by Lubert Stryer and continued by John Tymoczko and Jeremy Berg, Biochemistry: A Short Course focuses on the major topics taught in a one-semester biochemistry course. With its short chapters ...

Diving Physiology of Marine Mammals and Seabirds

Paul Ponganis

Analysing the physiological adaptations of marine mammals and seabirds, Diving Physiology of Marine Mammals and Seabirds provides a comprehensive overview of what allows these species to overcome the challenges of diving to depths ...

Epigenomics: From Chromatin Biology to Therapeutics

Krishnarao Appasani and Azim Surani

Understanding mechanisms of gene regulation that are independent of the DNA sequence itself – epigenetics – has the potential to overthrow long-held views on central topics in biology, such as the biology of disease or the ...

Genome Mapping and Genomics in Human and Non-Human Primates

Ravindranath Duggirala, Laura Almasy, Sarah Williams-Blangero, Solomon FD Paul and Chittaran Kole

Genome Mapping and Genomics in Human and Non-Human Primates provides an introduction to the latest gene mapping techniques and their applications in biomedical research and evolutionary biology. It especially highlights the advances ...

Handbook of RNA Biochemistry (2-Volume Set)

Roland K Hartmann, Albrecht Bindereif, Astrid Schoen and Eric Westhof

This is the second edition of the highly acclaimed handbook and ready reference. Unmatched in its breadth and quality, around 100 specialists from all over the world share their up-to-date expertise and experiences, including hundreds of ...

The Hidden Half of Nature

The Microbial Roots of Life and Health

David R Montgomery and Anne Bikle

Our world is built on an invisible one we are barely beginning to understand. In The Hidden Half of Nature, geologist David R. Montgomery and biologist Anne Biklé argue that Earth's smallest creatures – microbes ...

A Foot in the River

Why Our Lives Change - and the Limits of Evolution

Felipe Fernandez-Armesto

We are a weird species. Like other species, we have a culture. But by comparison with other species, we are strangely unstable: human cultures self-transform, diverge, and multiply with bewildering speed. They vary, radically and rapidly ...

A New History of Life

The Radical New Discoveries About the Origins and Evolution of Life on Earth

Peter Ward and Joe Kirschvink

An estimated 4.6 billion years ago, the Earth and Moon were formed in a violent impact. On this, many agree, and even more that a long time after that, life began. However, few know that the first life on the Earth may not have emerged ...

An Ape's View of Human Evolution

Peter Andrews

Our closest living relatives are the chimpanzee and bonobo. We share many characteristics with them, but our lineages diverged millions of years ago. Who in fact was our last common ancestor? Bringing together ecology, evolution, genetic ...

The Evolution of Human Sociability

Desires, Fears, Sex and Society

Ron Vannelli

How do desires and fears motivate human sociability? What effect do these motivators have on reproductive, social and political behaviour? And, crucially, how might we understand them separate from preconceived notions of design or higher ...

The Social Evolution of Human Nature

From Biology to Language

Harry Smit

The Social Evolution of Human Nature sheds new light on the problem of how the human mind evolved. Harry Smit argues that current studies of this problem misguidedly try to solve it by using variants of the Cartesian conception ...

Alchemy in the Rain Forest

Politics, Ecology, and Resilience in a New Guinea Mining Area

Jerry K Jacka

In Alchemy in the Rain Forest Jerry K. Jacka explores how the indigenous population of Papua New Guinea's Porgeran highlands struggle to create meaningful lives in the midst of extreme social conflict and environmental degradation ...

Biochar in European Soils and Agriculture

Science and Practice

Simon Shackley, Greet Ruysschaert, Kor Zwart and Bruno Glaser

Aimed mainly at a professional audience, Biochar in European Soils and Agriculture is intended to provide a user-friendly handbook on biochar. It de-mystifies the scientific, engineering and managerial issues surrounding biochar ...

Ecosystem Services and River Basin Ecohydrology

Luis Chicharo, Felix Mueller and Nicola Fohrer

Ecosystem Services and River Basin Ecohydrology provides an integrated analysis of the methodologies and main processes occurring at the entire river basin, from upstream until the coast, by merging the biological and hydrological ...

Stream Ecosystems in a Changing Environment

Jeremy B Jones and Emily H Stanley

Stream Ecosystems in a Changing Environment synthesizes the current understanding of stream ecosystem ecology, emphasizing nutrient cycling and carbon dynamics, and providing a forward-looking perspective regarding the response ...

The High-Mountain Cryosphere

Environmental Changes and Human Risks

Christian Huggel, Mark Carey, John J Clague and Andreas Kaab

This edited volume, showcasing cutting-edge research, addresses two primary questions – what are the main drivers of change in high-mountains and what are the risks implied by these changes? From a physical perspective, it examines ...

Among Chimpanzees

Field Notes from the Race to Save Our Endangered Relatives

Nancy J Merrick and Dame Jane Goodall

Unbeknownst to much of the public, chimps are in trouble: censuses show them to be extinct in four African countries and nearly so in ten others. A large percentage of the remaining populations live in unprotected, increasingly fragmented ...

Operation Lock and the War on Rhino Poaching

John Hanks

The aggressive poaching of rhinos needs to be countered with equal aggression. So argued Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, the founder president of the World Wide Fund for nature (WWF), at a 1987 meeting with John Hanks, conservation ...

The Return of the Unicorns

Natural History and Conservation of the Greater One-Horned Rhinoceros

Eric Dinerstein and George B Schaller

Since 1984, Eric Dinerstein has led the team directly responsible for the recovery of the greater one-horned rhinoceros in the Royal Chitwan National Park in Nepal, where the population had once declined to as few as 100 rhinos.

Cotton Pesticides

Use, Evolution and Prospects

Muhammad Afzal

Covering the development of pesticide use over the last 30 years, this review assesses current practices and the impacts of pesticide regulation, including resistance development, pesticide residues, changes in pesticide application techniques ...

Darwin, Geodynamics and Extreme Waves

Sh U Galiev

Darwin, Geodynamics and Extreme Waves examines the reasons behind the resonant amplification of seismic and ocean waves that have the capacity to destroy cities and ocean-going vessels. Using Charles Darwin's important ...

Global Chorus

365 Voices on the Future of the Planet

Todd E MacLean

Global Chorus is a remarkable, illustrated collection of 365 daily meditations around some very large and increasingly crucial themes: "Do you think that humanity can find a way past the current global environmental ...

Impacts of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident on Fish and Fishing Grounds

Kaoru Nakata and Hiroya Sugisaki

Impacts of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident on Fish and Fishing Grounds presents the results from the Japanese Fisheries Research Agency's 3-year intensive monitoring of radionuclides in a variety of fish, plankton, benthos ...

Introduction to Modern Climate Change

Andrew Dessler

This is an invaluable textbook for any introductory survey course on the science and policy of climate change, for both non-science majors and introductory science students. The second edition has been thoroughly updated to reflect the ...

Rain: A Natural and Cultural History

Curtis R Carlson

It is elemental, mysterious, precious, destructive. It is the subject of countless poems and paintings; the top of the weather report; the source of all the world's water. Yet this is the first book to tell the story of rain.

Alien Skies

Planetary Atmospheres from Earth to Exoplanets

Frederic J Pont

Planetary atmospheres are complex and evolving entities, as mankind is rapidly coming to realise whilst attempting to understand, forecast and mitigate human-induced climate change. In the Solar System, our neighbours Venus and Mars provide ...

Dynamic Tectonics and Karst

Stefan Shanov and Konstantin Kostov

The karstic caves are favorable sites for tectonic events detecting, representing a conservative medium of three-dimensional framework where the tectonic deformations are well preserved. They also provide an environment conducive to dating ...

Earth Surface Processes and Environmental Changes in East Asia

Records from Lake-Catchment Systems

Kashiwaya Kenji, Ji Shen and Ju Yong Kim

Earth Surface Processes and Environmental Changes in East Asia examines relationships between climate-hydrological changes and other phenomena including land use and natural disasters during the Holocene and recent past.

Evaporites: A Geological Compendium

John K Warren

Evaporites: A Geological Compendium offers a comprehensive discussion of the role of evaporites in hydrocarbon generation and trapping, and new information on low temperature and high temperature ores. It also provides a wealth ...

Glaciation and Speleogenesis

Interpretations from the Northeastern United States

Max P Cooper and John E Mylroie

Focusing on glaciation and speleogenesis in the region of New York and New England, Glaciation and Speleogenesis serves as an example of a karst region that has experienced large-scale continental glaciation. It reviews the literature ...

Introducing Natural Resources

Graham Park

An illustrated introduction to the science surrounding the Earth's resources, both renewable and non-renewable.

Magnetoconvection

Nigel O Weiss and MRE Proctor

The last thirty years have seen great leaps forward in the subject of magnetoconvection. Computational techniques can now explain exotic nonlinear behaviour, transition to chaos and the formation of structures that can be observed on the ...

Mineral Resources, Economics and the Environment

Stephen Kesler and Adam Simon

Written for students and professionals, this revised textbook surveys the mineral industry from geological, environmental and economic perspectives. Thoroughly updated, the text includes a new chapter on technology industry metals as well ...

Origin and Formation of Coastal Boulder Deposits at Galway Bay and the Aran Islands, Western Ireland

Wibke Erdmann, Dieter H Kelletat, Anja M Scheffers and Simon K Haslett

Origin and Formation of Coastal Boulder Deposits at Galway Bay and the Aran Islands, Western Ireland presents geomorphological and sedimentological aspects of Holocene boulder ridges along the coastline of western Ireland ...

Ten Million Aliens

A Journey Through the Entire Animal Kingdom

Simon Barnes

Life on planet earth is not weirder than we imagine. It's weirder than we are capable of imagining. And we're all in it together: humans, blue whales, rats, birds of paradise, ridiculous numbers of beetles, molluscs the size of a ...

The Amoeba in the Room

Lives of the Microbes

Nicholas P Money

Animals and plants rule the world – or do they? A cup of seawater contains 100 million cells which are preyed upon by billions of viruses; a pinch of soil swarms with cryptic microbes whose activities are a mystery; 50 million tons ...

The Beka-Ocizla Cave System

Karstological Railway Planning in Slovenia

Martin Knez, Metka Petric, Tadej Slabe and Stanka Sebela

A proposed railway on the 5th European Railway Corridor (Venice-Kiev) between the northern Adriatic ports of Koper (Slovenia) and Trieste (Italy) and the interior of Slovenia required extensive karstological studies and planning.

The Early Earth

Accretion and Differentiation

James Badro and Michael J Walter

The Early Earth: Accretion and Differentiation provides a multidisciplinary overview of the state of the art in understanding the formation and primordial evolution of the Earth. The fundamental structure of the Earth as we know ...

The Earth

From Myths to Knowledge

Hubert Krivine, David Fernbach, Tariq Ali and Jacques Bouveresse

Our planet's elliptical orbit around the Sun and its billions-of-years existence are facts we take for granted, matters every literate high school student is expected to grasp. But humanity's struggle towards these scientific truths ...

The Impact of Discovering Life Beyond Earth

Steven J Dick

The search for life in the Universe, once the domain of science fiction, is now a robust research program with a well-defined roadmap, from studying the extremes of life on Earth to exploring the possible niches for life in the Solar System ...

Understanding Ethiopia

Geology and Scenery

Frances M Williams

Understanding Ethiopia is a detailed description of Ethiopia's geological story and enables non-specialist readers to share the author's thrill at gaining a deeper insight into the processes which produced, and continue ...

What Annually Laminated Sediments Reveal About the History of Environment and Civilization

Y Yasuda, H Kitagawa, K Yamada, M Okuno and Masayuki Takahashi

What Annually Laminated Sediments Reveal About the History of Environment and Civilization presents a proposal for interdisciplinary and international research that uses varve as an essential tool. The discovery and subsequent ...

p53: The Gene That Cracked the Cancer Code

Sue Armstrong

All of us have lurking in our DNA a most remarkable gene, which has a crucial job – it protects us from cancer. Known simply as p53, this gene constantly scans our cells to ensure that they grow and divide without mishap, as part of ...

Aguas Subterreneas

Conceitos e Aplicacoes sob uma Visao Multidisciplinar

Rodrigo Lilla Manzione

This book brings together key concepts and classical theories on hydrogeology, including a history of the exploitation of groundwater since the dawn of civilization; descriptions of Brazil's main aquifers, South America and the world ...

Coping with Climate Change

The Roles of Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and Maria Helena Semedo

Genetic resources for food and agriculture play a crucial role in food security, nutrition and livelihoods and in the provision of environmental services. They are key components of sustainability, resilience and adaptability in production ...

Creating Scientific Controversies

Uncertainty and Bias in Science and Society

David Harker

For decades, cigarette companies helped to promote the impression that there was no scientific consensus concerning the safety of their product. The appearance of controversy, however, was misleading, designed to confuse the public and ...

End Game

Tipping Point for Planet Earth

Anthony D Barnosky and Elizabeth Hadly

Overconsumption, population growth, dwindling resources, climate change, disease, contamination, storms, thirst, war... will the struggle to simply stay alive become humanity's future rather than its past? What happens when vast populations ...

Frackopoly: The Battle for the Future of Energy and the Environment

Wenonah Hauter

In Frackopoly: The Battle for the Future of Energy and the Environment, Wenonah Hauter, one of America's leading clean-water advocates, argues that the rush to fracking is dangerous to the environment and treacherous to human ...

International Climate Change Law

Daniel Bodansky, Jutta Brunnee and Lavanya Rajamani

International Climate Change Law, by three experts in the field, provides a comprehensive overview of the legal instruments and sources that govern the international response to climate change. Climate change is one of the fundamental ...

Mining and Energy Law

Samantha Hepburn

Mining and Energy Law is the only textbook available that encompasses a discussion of both the law and the policy of mining and resource regulation in existing and emergent areas, for the Commonwealth as well as for the states ...

The Encyclopedia of Livestock Breeds and Breeding

Valerie Porter and Lawrence Alderson

Over thousands of years, animal husbandry coupled with natural selection has given rise to a great diversity of livestock breeds. A major new reference work, The Encyclopedia of Livestock Breeds and Breeding describes breeds of ...

Where the Rivers Meet

Pipelines, Participatory Resource Management, and Aboriginal-State Relations in the Northwest Territories

Carly A Dokis

Oil and gas companies now recognize that industrial projects in the Canadian North can only succeed if Aboriginal communities are involved in decision-making processes. Where the Rivers Meet is an ethnographic account of Sahtu ...

Genome Analysis in R

Pawel Michalak

In recent years the amount of biological sequence data available for research has increased significantly and complete genome sequences have become commonplace. Next-generation sequencing (NGS) is expected to revolutionize biomedical ...

Geographic Information Science and Systems

Paul A Longley, Michael F Goodchild, David J Maguire and David W Rhind

Effective use of today’s vast geographic information (GI) resources requires more than just powerful technology for problem solving. It requires science to help us understand the way the world works, and to help us devise effective ...

Python for Scientists

John M Stewart

Python is a free, open source, easy-to-use software tool that offers a significant alternative to proprietary packages such as MATLAB and Mathematica. Python for Scientists covers everything the working scientist needs to know ...

Statistics Using IBM SPSS

An Integrative Approach

Sharon Lawner Weinberg and Sarah Knapp Abramowitz

Written in a clear and lively tone, Statistics Using IBM SPSS: An Integrative Approach provides a data-centric approach to statistics with integrated SPSS (version 22) commands, ensuring that students gain both a deep conceptual ...

Dictionnaire de Biogeographie Vegetale

Antoine Da Lage and Georges Metailie

Biogeography is a discipline as old as science itself. While remaining anchored to its fundamentals, which are the study of the distribution of flora and plant landscapes and the factors influencing this distribution, it is increasingly ...