Din Lumea Mamiferelor, Volume 6: Mamifere Acvatice [The World of Mammals, Volume 6: Marine Mammals]

Dumitru Murariu

This Romanian series, which started off in 1989, can be seen as a popular science precursor of the Handbook the Mammals of the World, with an aim of bringing together disparate information on mammals orders.

Fauna Romaniei: Mammalia, Volume XVI, Fascicle 1: Insectivora [English]

Dumitru Murariu

This fascicle in the Fauna Romaniei covers insectivorous mammals.

Fragile Balance

The Extraordinary Story of Australian Marsupials

Christopher R Dickman, Rosemary Woodford Ganf and Timothy Flannery

This book distinguishes the diverse marsupial group from other mammals and places it in its geographic context. It covers all species in Australia and draws together many unique biological traits that characterise these marsupials.

Pit Bull

The Battle Over an American Icon

Bronwen Dickey

The hugely illuminating story of how a popular breed of dog became the most demonized and supposedly the most dangerous of dogs – and what role humans have played in the transformation. When Bronwen Dickey brought her ...

Snow Leopards

Tom McCarthy, David Mallon and Philip Nyhus

Snow Leopards is the only comprehensive work on the biology, behavior, and conservation status of the snow leopard, a species that has long been one of the least studied, and hence poorly understood, of the large cats.

Sri Lanka's Tame Elephants

Jayantha Jayewarden

This book gives an overview of the relationship between elephants and men in Sri Lanka, which goes back to prehistoric times.

The Eurasian Beaver Handbook

Ecology and Management of Castor fiber

Roisin Campbell-Palmer

Beavers are widely recognised as a keystone species which play a pivotal role in riparian ecology. Their tree felling and dam building behaviours coupled with a suite of other activities create a wealth of living opportunities that are ...

The Horse

A Biography of Our Noble Companion

Wendy Williams

Through the life of the horse, natural and human history meet. They have been our companions in work and leisure for thousands of years; as a species we have profited immeasurably from their resilience, strength and intelligence.

A Natural History of Australian Parrots

A Tribute to William T. Cooper (1934-2015)

Joseph M Forshaw and William T Cooper

This book is the final collaboration of Joseph M. Forshaw and William T. Cooper and combines the finest Cooper artwork with an updated, authoritative Forshaw text. Presented as a deluxe edition ...

A Pictorial Field Guide to Birds of India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh

Bikram Grewal, Sumit Sen, Sarwandeep Singh, Nikhil Devasar, Garima Bhatia, Tim Inskipp and Inskipp

This book covers over 1,300 species and distinct sub-species of birds found in the Indian subcontinent. It contains over 4,000 colour photographs including depictions of flight, plumage, hunting style and much more. Many of the photographs ...

An Illustrated Field Guide to the Fauna of Sri Lanka, Volume 9: Birds

Rajika Gamage

From the preface: "An Illustrated Field Guide to the Fauna of Sri Lanki, Volume 9: Birds is the second of a series of field guides, which focuses on the amazing wild life of Sri Lanka. The stimulus for this volume ...

An Illustrated Guide to the Birds of Sri Lanka

Sarath Kotagama and Gamini Ratnavira

Based on the expertise and experience of professor Sarath Kotagama as President of the Field Ornithology Group Sri Lanka, this book is in-depth and richly illustrated guide to the birds of Sri Lanka.

Atlante degli Uccelli Nidificanti in Provincia di Bergamo [Atlas of Nesting Birds in the Province of Bergamo]

Enrico Bassi, Enrico Cairo, Roberto Facoetti and Roberto Rota

This volume represents a "snapshot" of the current avifauna in Bergamo, a province in the Lombardy region of Northern Italy, which is the results of 6 years of work by 136 ornithologists and enthusiasts who have made ...

Aves de Espana [Birds of Spain]

Eduardo de Juana and Juan M Varela Simo

Third edition, revised and updated, of the most popular field guide to the identification of the birds of Spain, with more than 40,000 copies of previous editions sold. Recommended by SEO/Birdlife. Contains updated information on all birds ...

Bird Photographer of the Year

Chris Packham

In a unique collaboration between the British Trust for Ornithology, Nature Photographers Ltd and William Collins, this beautiful book accompanies a new photographic competition celebrating some of the best bird photography of the year.

Birding Across the Border

Where to Watch Birds in Varanger and the Murmansk Region

Bjorn Frantzen, Morten Gunther, Eugene Potorochin and Yuliya Solntseva

Visitors from many countries come to the Norwegian-Russian border area to experience the variety of landscapes: mountains, fjords, valleys, bird cliffs, virgin forests, salmon rivers and endless wilderness. Birders are attracted by the ...

Birdlife of the Indian Subcontinent

Biswajit Roy Chowdhury

Birdlife of the Indian Subcontinent is a photographic guide that provides a wide variety of information on birds of the Indian subcontinent. The superb photographs and accompanying text make identification of a particular bird ...

Birds of the Algarve and Southern Alentejo: An Annotated Checklist [Portuguese]

Goncalo Elias

Birds of the Algarve and Southern Alentejo: An Annotated Checklist focuses on the territory of southern Portugal, namely Algarve (Faro district) and southern Alentejo (Beja district) as well as on the adjacent marine areas, which ...

Delaware Birds

A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Species

James R Kavanagh and Raymond Leung

The First State is the permanent or migratory home of 415 species of birds. This beautifully illustrated guide highlights over 140 familiar and unique species and includes a map featuring prominent bird-viewing areas. Laminated for durability ...

Extinct Birds of Hawai'i

Michael Walther and Julian P Hume

Extinct Birds of Hawaii captures the vanishing world of unique bird species that has slipped away in the Islands mostly due to human frivolity and unconcern. Richly illustrated, including paintings by Julian P. Hume (many painted specifically ...

Fastest Things on Wings

Rescuing Hummingbirds in Hollywood

Terry Masear

Before he collided with a limousine, Gabriel, an Anna's hummingbird with a head and throat cloaked in iridescent magenta feathers, could spiral 130 feet in the air, dive 60 miles per hour in a courtship display, hover, and fly backwards ...

Feather Brained

My Bumbling Quest to Become a Birder and Find a Rare Bird on My Own

Bob Tarte

For much of his life, the closest Bob Tarte got to a nature walk was the stroll from parking lot to picnic table on family outings. But then a chance sighting of a dazzling rose-breasted grosbeak in wife-to-be Linda's backyard prompted ...

Finding Birds in Eastern Poland

Dave Gosney

This book gives precise details on how to find the most exciting birds in Poland Dave Gosney writes: ‘‘If you want to see Aquatic Warbler in Europe, then, realistically, Poland is now your only hope, since ...

Finding Birds in Eastern Poland - the DVD (All Regions)

Dave Gosney

Travel with Dave Gosney to the fabulous Biebrza marshes, the forests of Białowieża and the impressive Tatra mountains in search of eagles, owls, woodpeckers, flycatchers and warblers including the fast-disappearing Aquatic Warbler ...

Finding Birds in San Diego County

Henry Detwiler

A guide to the most productive locations to watch birds in San Diego County, California. With a seasonal birding calendar, maps, directions, target bird lists, and extensive notes. San Diego is a birder's paradise, with a county list ...

Handbook of Bird Biology

Irby J Lovette and John W Fitzpatrick

Premier textbook from the world-famous Cornell Lab of Ornithology - Full colour throughout with more than 800 illustrations - Suitable for academic studies as well as recreational birdwatchers - Nontechnical discussion of ...

Identification Guide of European Non-Passerines

A BTO Field Guide

JK Baker

This major guide improves on the original by now comprehensively covering 119 species, with descriptions of ageing and sexing methods, moult, biometrics and racial differences. It complements Lars Svensson's ...

Identification Guide to Birds in the Hand

Laurent Demongin, Herve Lelievre and George Candelin

This English version of Guide d'Identification des Oiseaux en Main, updated with 51 extra species, gives all ornithologists who handle birds the essential information regarding accurate identification of species and subspecies, measurements ...

Ornitologia Italiana, Volume 9: Emberizidae - Icteridae: Aggiornamenti e Check-list [Updates and Checklist]

Pierandrea Brichetti and Giancarlo Fracasso

This volume covers the Emberizidae to Icteridae. The authors, as in previous volumes, present all the information representing the current knowledge of birds. This final volume also includes updates and corrections for previous volumes ...

Peterson Field Guide to Birds of Northern Central America

Jesse Fagan, Oliver Komar, Robert Dean and Peter Burke

A field guide to the birds of Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras, abundantly illustrated and with comprehensive coverage of both endemic and migrant birds Birding is one of the fastest-growing sectors of the tourism ...

Pictorial Pocket Guide to the Common Birds of Sri Lanka

Sarath Kotagama

From the preface: "Since the publication of the Pictorial Pocket Guide to the Common Birds of Sri Lanka (2000), the follow-up Pocket Guide 01: Common, Endemic & Threatened Birds (2006), and the ...

Raptors in Focus

Dick Forsman

Join Dick Forsman, widely acclaimed as the world expert on the birds of prey of the Western Palearctic and beyond, in his quest to find and photograph all the raptors of Europe during dozens of trips to all corners of the continent and ...

Rote Liste der in Niedersachsen und Bremen Gefahrdeten Brutvogel [Red List of Endangered Breeding Birds in Lower Saxony

Thorsten Kruger and Markus Nipkow

This publication presents the red list of threatened breeding birds of Lower Saxony and Bremen. For classification, the criteria proposed by the IUCN and approved both by the Bundesamt für Naturschutz (BfN, Federal Agency for Nature ...

Scarlet Experiment

Birds and Humans in America

Jeff Karnicky

Emily Dickinson's poem "Split the Lark" refers to the "scarlet experiment" by which scientists destroy a bird in order to learn more about it. Indeed, humans have killed hundreds of millions of birds – for ...

Terrestrial Gamebirds & Snipes of Africa

Guineafowls, Francolins, Spurfowls, Quails, Sandgrouse & Snipes

Rob Little

This definitive, full-colour monograph on the gamebirds and snipes of Africa includes everything needed to better understand the 74 species that fall into six groups: guineafowls and Congo peafowl, francolins and partridges, spurfowls ...

The Peregrines of Norwich Cathedral

Robin Chittenden

A beautiful book with stunning photography by well-known wildlife photographer, Robin Chittenden. The Peregrines of Norwich Cathedral has breath-taking photography from one man’s love for these incredible birds of prey.

The Role of Collections in Ornithology

The Extended Specimen

Michael S Webster

The Role of Collections in Ornithology highlights the research potential for ornithological specimens, and stimulates ornithologists poised to initiate a renaissance in collections-based ornithological research. Contributors illustrate ...

True Pheasants

A Noble Quarry

Julie Murray

The family Phasianidae includes some of nature's most striking avian gems. Not only are they among the grandest, most sought after in aviculture, they are as diverse and breathtaking as the landscapes they inhabit.

World's Best Bird Song

The Songs and Calls of 80 Iconic Species

Hannu Jannes

This beautifully illustrated and very useful book and audio CD combination brings together 80 of the most remarkable species from around the world.

Amphibians and Reptiles of Land Between the Lakes

Edmund J Zimmerer, David H Snyder, A Floyd Scott and David F Frymire

Known for its natural beauty, Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area is the largest inland peninsula in the United States. Consisting of 170,000 acres of forested and protected public land between Kentucky Lake (Tennessee River) ...

Identifier les Reptiles de France Metropolitaine [Identifying Reptiles of Metropolitan France]

Jean Muratet

- A collection of reference images for further work - A scientific popularisation of developments in taxonomy updated with the latest knowledge - A rich iconography of more than 2500 images, some unpublished - The criteria ...

Les Reptiles des Pyrenees [The Reptiles of the Pyrenees]

Gilles Pottier and Juan Pablo Martinez Rica

This herpetological fauna of the Pyrenees is the result of a naturalistic work, combined with a literature survey and photographic report. It offers a wide summary of data from multiple disciplines (systematics, taxonomy, biology, ecology ...

Reptilien Bestimmen: Eier, Jungtiere, Adulte, Hautungen, Totfunde [Identifying Reptiles: Eggs, Juveniles, Adults, Molts

Burkhard Thiesmeier, Michael Franzen, Norbert Schneeweiss and Ulrich Schulte

In this rugged and fieldwork-suitable identification guide all thirteen species of native German reptiles and various escaped species are presented in more than 300 photos, including distribution maps. All species are illustrated in their ...

Turning Turtles in Tortuguero

Stories from the Origins of Sea Turtle Conservation

Anne Ake, Larry Ogren and Archie Carr

In Turning Turtles in Tortuguero readers will learn about the world's longest running sea turtle research station established in 1955 in Tortuguero, Costa Rica by Dr. Archie Carr. They will meet the biologists who came to ...

Bacterial Fish Pathogens

Disease of Farmed and Wild Fish

Brian Austin and Dawn A Austin

Bacterial Fish Pathogens puts emphasis on the isolation, taxonomy, diagnosis (phenotypic, serology and molecular biology), epizootiology, pathogenicity mechanisms, and methods of disease control (by vaccination, immunostimulation ...

Common Reef Fishes of North Sulawesi, Indonesia

Jianguo Du and Wenjia Hu

Common Reef Fishes of North Sulawesi, Indonesia is a cooperative achivement by the Third Institute of Oceanography, State Ocean Administration and the Indonesia Ocean Research Center. This program investigated 325 species of reef ...

Fauna Sinica: Osteichthyes: Perciformes IV [Chinese]

Liu Jing

This volume is the fourth part of Perciformes, which includes 184 species of fishes from Chinese coastal waters belonging to 72 genera, 17 families and 4 suborders: Zoarcoidei, Trachinoidei, Blennoidei, and Callionymoidei. This book gives ...

Field Guide to Reef Fishes of Sri Lanka (2-Volume Set)

Arjan Rajasuriya and Shantha Jayaweera

Using his marine experience of nearly four decades, the author has provided accurate descriptions of selected reef fishes, with precise illustrations by Shantha Jayaweera. These two books fill a gap, as country-specific field guides for ...

Les Poissons de Mer [Marine Fish]

Jean-Claude Quero and Pierre Porche

A richly illustrated field guide to common marine fish.

Marine Fishes of Portugal / Peixes Marinhos de Portugal

Nuno Vasco Rodrigues

The main goal of Marine Fishes of Portugal is to present the most common fish species of the Portuguese coast. More than 200 species are presented through photos, most of them never published before, taken in the natural habitat ...

Pesci dei Mari Italiani [Marine Fish of Italian Waters]

Paolo Manzoni

A complete and accurate guide, rigorous in content and full of information, to know and recognize all of the marine fish from Italian waters. More than 350 species are described, and more than 500 colour photos highlight the anatomical ...

Sri Lankan Freshwater Fishes

Madura de Silva, Nadika Hapuarachchi, Thilak Jayaratne, Dominic Robeson and Lasith Siriwardana

This photograph-driven book lists 92 species of freshwater fish in Sri Lanka, of which 50 are endemic. In addition, 23 estuarine fish and 27 exotic fish are also present in all their bright hued glory. To photograph these fish, the author ...

What a Fish Knows

The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins

Jonathan Balcombe

Do fishes think? Do they really have three-second memories? And can they recognize the humans who peer back at them from above the surface of the water? In What a Fish Knows the myth-busting ethologist Jonathan Balcombe addresses ...

A Field Guide to Butterflies of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem

Diane M Debinski, James A Pritchard and Lynn Thorensen

Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks, while mostly noted for grizzly bears, elk, moose, and other large mammals, also host a high species diversity of butterflies, owing to the ecosystem's vast area of pristine habitat.

Ants of Sri Lanka

RK Sriyani Dias

The book describes all the ant species recorded in Sri Lanka up to date, with over 125 species, both terrestrial and fossorial. The book also highlight major ant species in Sri Lanka with microscopic and line drawings. It covers many aspects ...

At the Size Limit - Effects of Miniaturization in Insects

Alexey A Polilov

At the Size Limit – Effects of Miniaturization in Insects addresses microinsects, their structure and their differences from larger relatives. Moreover, it discusses structural changes that accompany extreme diminution in ...

Butterflies In and Around Phobjikha Valley

Bhutan Royal Society for Protection of Nature

Butterflies In and Around Phobjikha Valley is a guide on butterflies mostly found in Phobjikha Valley, Wangduephodrang, Bhutan. Some Butterflies listed in this book are from lower elevation covering the area (along the highway) ...

Diving Beetles of the World

Systematics and Biology of the Dytiscidae

Kelly B Miller and Johannes Bergsten

Among the hundreds of thousands of species of beetles, there is one family, containing some 4,300 species, that stands out as one of the most diverse and important groups of aquatic predatory insects. This is the Dytiscidae, whose species ...

Fauna Romaniei: Insecta, Volume X , Fascicle 7: Coleoptera: Buprestidae [Romanian]

Sergiu Panin, Nicolae Savulescu and Adrian Ruicanescu

Volume 10, fascicle 7 deals with the beetle family Buprestidae.

Fauna Sinica: Insecta, Volume 65: Diptera: Rhagionidae: Athericidae [Chinese]

Yang Ding

This volume records 140 species belonging to 12 genera with 122 figures and 6 plates. The general account deals with research history, morphylogical characteristics, taxonomy, distrbution, biology and economic importance.

Fauna Sinica: Invertebrata, Volume 45: Ciliophora, Oligohymenophorea, Peritrichida [Chinese]

Shen Yunfen and Gu Manru

A total of 5 genera, 73 species of Mobilina and 33 genera, 434 species of Sessilina are dealt with in this volume. A detailed account of morphological features, habitats and geographical distribution of families, genera and species are ...

Field Guide for Swallowtails of Bhutan

Ugyen Wangchuck Institute for Conservation and Environment (UWICE)

Swallowtail butterflies are large, colourful, fork-tailed butterflies that compose the family Papilionidae. Globally there are over 550 species, and though the majority of them are distributed in tropical regions, species of the family ...

Field Guide to Hesperiidae (Skippers) of Bhutan

Ugyen Wangchuck Institute for Conservation and Environment (UWICE)

This is an illustrated field guide to 93 species of Hesperiid butterfly recorded in Bhutan.

Field Guide to the Moths of Great Britain and Ireland

Paul Waring, Martin Townsend and Richard Lewington

The third edition of the Field Guide to the Moths of Great Britain and Ireland has been fully revised, updated and restructured, bringing it in line with the latest thinking in taxonomy. Moths are illustrated in their natural ...

I Coleotteri delle Riserve Naturali Gestite dall'U.T.B. di Belluno [The Beetles of the Natural Reserves Managed by UTB B

Enzo Gatti, Marialuisa Dal Cortivo and Monica Sommacal

The product of over 35 years of studies and research conducted by the National Forest Service on its Bellunesi nature reserves, this volume of more than 900 pages and more than a thousand photos for the first time documents the extraordinary ...

Identification and Geographical Distribution of the Mosquitoes of North America, North of Mexico

Jr.,Richard F Darsie, Ronald A Ward, Chien C Chang and Taina Litwak

More than ten years after its initial publication, Identification and Geographical Distribution of the Mosquitoes of North America, North of Mexico is now available in paperback. This book updates the successful guide to North American ...

Land Snails on the Solomon Islands, Volume 3

Trochomorphidae and Systematical Review of all Other Families

Andre GJ Delsaerdt

This is the final volume of Land Snails on the Solomon Islands, revising the Trochomorphidae and all the other, smaller families of land shells not yet treated (Helicinidae, Cyclophoridae, Diplommatinidae, Pupinidae, Assimineidae ...

Moths of Victoria, Part 7: Bark Moths and Allies - Geometridae (D)

Marilyn Hewish, Peter Marriott, Ted Edwards, Axel Kallies, Stephen Williams and Catherine Byrne

Part seven in a series of ten to twelve which will cover the 2,000 species of Victorian moths. This part is the final of the geometrids covering the bark moths and others.

Naturgeschichte der Seeigel [The Natural History of Sea Urchins]

Jacob Theodor Klein, Thomas Heinzeller, Bernhard Ruthensteiner and Armin Geus

"A real treasure has been recovered". Firstly, this refers to the the sea urchins that were recovered from the collection of Jacob Theodor Klein, on the other hand it refers to his book Naturgeschichte der Seeigel that ...

Nautilus: Beautiful Survivor

500 Million Years of Evolutionary History

Wolfgang Grulke

The chambered nautilus is one of the oldest living things on our planet. Since the dawn of civilisation its form has inspired artists, designers and architects. The nautilus has survived whatever the world has thrown at it for more than ...

Nymphalids: Brush-Footed Butterflies of Bhutan

Ugyen Wangchuck Institute for Conservation and Environment (UWICE)

Found across the world and with almost 6000 species described, the Nymphalidae family has the highest diversity of butterflies. Groups such as admirals, emperors, fritillaries, browns, sergeants, sailers, and tortoiseshells fall within ...

Rainbow Dust

Three Centuries of Delight in British Butterflies

Peter Marren

Much more than just another field guide or a natural history of butterflies. Rainbow Dust explores the ways in which butterflies delight and inspire us all, naturalists and non-naturalists alike. In this uniquely eloquent and ...

South Indian Butterflies

Field Guide

K Gunathilagaraj, TNA Perumal, KC Jayaram and M Ganesh Kumar

This field guide to the butterflies of south India in particular, and the Indian subcontinent in general, covers close to 300 species. The intricate details of each species are carefully described.

The Honey Bee Illustrated

Margaret Cowley and Dave Hall

The Honey Bee Illustrated is an absolute "must" for anyone taking the BBKA Module 5 examination. First published as separate articles in Bee Craft magazine between 2011 and 2014 and re-printed now as a complete ...

Tiger Spiders

Ranil P Nanayakkara

Poecilotheria is a genus of the spider family Theraphosidae currently containing some 16 species of arboreal tarantula, commonly known as tiger spiders, native to Sri Lanka and India. The author was part of island-wide research ...

ZooKeys 583: Litteratura Coleopterologica (1758-1900)

A Guide to Selected Books Related to the Taxonomy of Coleoptera with Publication Dates and Notes

Yves Bousquet

The Coleoptera are possibly the most studied group of insects. This is not surprising since they are tremendously numerous, extremely diversified in shape, color and size, and relatively easy to collect and mount. In addition they are ...

ZooKeys 588: Synopsis of Central Andean Orthalicoid Land Snails (Gastropoda, Stylommatophora), Excluding Bulimulidae

Abraham SH Breure and Valentin Mogollon Avila

The land snail fauna of several South American countries is very incompletely known despite quite extensive literature. For Bolivia there is only an incomplete and outdated list from 1953, Peru is covered by a name list only (2003), and ...

Avian Evolution

The Fossil Record of Birds and Its Paleobiological Significance

Gerald Mayr

Knowledge of the evolutionary history of birds has much improved in recent decades. Fossils from critical time periods are being described at unprecedented rates and modern phylogenetic analyses have provided a framework for the ...

Chicxulub: The Impact and Tsunami

The Story of the Largest Known Asteroid to Hit the Earth

David Shonting and Cathy Ezrailson

This book tells the story of the catastrophic impact of the giant 10 km asteroid Chicxulub into the ancient Gulf of Mexico 65.5 million years ago. Chicxulub: The Impact and Tsunami begins with a discussion of the nature of asteroids ...

Dinosaurs: How They Lived and Evolved

Darren Naish and Paul M Barrett

From the Victorian golden age of dinosaur discovery to the cutting edge of twenty-first century fossil forensics Dinosaurs: How They Lived and Evolved unravels the mysteries of the most spectacular group of animals our planet ...

Mesozoic Biotas of Scandinavia and its Arctic Territories

BP Kear, J Lindgren, JH Hurum, J Milán and V Vajda

Scandinavia and its Arctic territories of Svalbard and Greenland represent geographical regions with a long history of Mesozoic palaeontology. However the last few decades have witnessed a surge of new discoveries, especially from the ...

Paleobiology of Ammonoids and Their Relatives

Alistair McGowan

The first text to provide in-depth coverage of all the major cephalopod taxa from a paleobiological view, both extant and extinct, Paleobiology of Ammonoids and Their Relatives summarizes the state of knowledge of paleobiology ...

Pyramid Valley and Beyond

Discovering the Prehistoric Birdlife of North Canterbury, New Zealand

Richard N Holdaway and Rod Morris

Describes the original avifauna of North Canterbury as revealed by the fossil evidence in the Pyramid Valley site and other sites in the area, gives the history of the Pyramid Valley site and its environment, and relates the past environment ...

The Princeton Field Guide to Dinosaurs

Gregory S Paul

The best-selling Princeton Field Guide to Dinosaurs remains the must-have book for anyone who loves dinosaurs, from amateur enthusiasts to professional paleontologists. Now extensively revised and expanded, this dazzlingly illustrated ...

The Princeton Field Guide to Prehistoric Mammals

Donald R Prothero and Mary Persis Williams

After the mass extinction of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, mammals became the dominant terrestrial life form on our planet. Roaming the earth were spectacular beasts such as saber-toothed cats, giant mastodonts, immense ground sloths ...

Faune et Flore de la Mer Mediterranee: Guide Visuel [Marine Wildlife of the Mediterranean]

Enric Ballesteros and Toni Llobet

Faune et Flore de la Mer Méditerranée 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 ...

Rotifers (Rotifera) - Freshwater Fauna of Poland

Stanislaw Mikolaj Radwan, Irena Bielanska-Grajner and Jolanta Ejsmont-Karabin

Rotifers (Rotifera) are animals which occur in every type of aquatic environment, both marine and freshwater. They owe their wide distribution to rapid reproduction. Due to their abundance, they play an important role in freshwater ecosystems ...

Allan Cunningham: Letters of a Botanist Explorer 1791-1839

AE Orchard and TA Orchard

Allan Cunningham is rightly celebrated as the leading botanist in Australia in the first half of the 19th century. He was also an accomplished explorer, and a pioneer physical geographer, plant geographer and ecologist at a time when ...

Aquaria: In Kunst, Literatur und Wissenschaft [Aquaria: In Art, Literature and Science]

Ursula Harter and Monika Wagner

Made curious by the way the symbolist painter Odilon Redon referred to his images of the underwater world as "aquariums", Ursula Harter set off in search of answers to the questions: When were the first "aquarium buildings ...

Autumn: An Anthology for the Changing Seasons

Melissa Harrison

A beautiful collection that captures the unfolding of autumn.

Birds in Norfolk

A National and International Perspective

Andy Brown and James McCallum

Birds in Norfolk is a celebration of Norfolk's birdlife. It is written by Andy Brown and includes 115 watercolour paintings and numerous watercolour sketches by James McCallum. Norfolk is famed as the best county ...

Camping by the Waterside

The Best Campsites by Water in Britain and Ireland

Stephen Neale and Martin Dorey

This stylish and inspiring book contains all the information campers need to make the most of the wonderful waterside locations throughout the UK and Ireland. Covering all kinds of camping (caravan, campsite and wild) ...

Chloris

Ioannis K Schinezos, Roberta Pagano and Alessandro Minelli

A beautiful book of stunning black and white pictures, mainly close-up shots of the green universe. The brief text, written by Prof. Alessandro Minelli, join curious informations and scientific accuracy. Dr. Filippo Prosser ...

Cicerone Guides: St Oswald's Way and St Cuthbert's Way

With the Northumberland Coast Path

Rudolf Abraham

This guide describes two long-distance trails through the unspoilt scenery of Northumberland and the Borders. St Oswald's Way begins at Heavenfield and its 97 miles take in rolling farmland and the Simonside Hills before reaching the ...

Darwin, Darwinism and Conservation in the Galapagos Islands

The Legacy of Darwin and its New Applications

Diego Quiroga and Ana Maria Sevilla

Darwin, Darwinism and Conservation in the Galapagos Islands explores how Darwin's legendary and mythologized visit to the Galapagos affected the socioecosystems of the Islands, as well as the cultural and intellectual traditions ...

Darwin, Literature and Victorian Respectability

Gowan Dawson

The success of Charles Darwin's evolutionary theories in mid-nineteenth-century Britain has long been attributed, in part, to his own adherence to strict standards of Victorian respectability, especially in regard to sex. Gowan Dawson ...

Endeavouring Banks

Exploring the Collections from the Endeavour Voyage 1768 - 1771

Neil Chambers, Sir David Attenborough, Anna Agnarsdottir, Jeremy Coote, Philip J Hatfield and Gas

When English naturalist Joseph Banks (1743–1820) accompanied Captain James Cook (1728–1779) on his historic mission into the Pacific, the Endeavour voyage of 1768–1771, he took with him a team of collectors and illustrators ...

Explorers' Botanical Notebook

In the Footsteps of Theophrastus, Marco Polo, Linnaeus, Flinders, Darwin, Speke and Hooker

Florence Thinard, Yannick Fourie and Barb Collishaw

"The greatest pleasure of naturalists (understated by certain utilitarians) is to discover new species, to point to new islands on the map of nature, and to populate continents that seem to be deserts" ...

Fingers in the Sparkle Jar

Lessons in Life and Death

Chris Packham

"Every minute was magical, every single thing it did was fascinating and everything it didn't do was equally wondrous, and to be sat there, with a Kestrel, a real live Kestrel, my own real live Kestrel on my wrist! I felt like ...

Global Population

History, Geopolitics, and Life on Earth

Alison Bashford

Concern about the size of the world's population did not begin with the "population bomb" in 1968. It arose in the aftermath of World War I and was understood as an issue with far-reaching ecological, agricultural, economic ...

Heat: Extreme Adventures at the Highest Temperatures on Earth

Sir Ranulph Fiennes

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

House of Lost Worlds

Dinosaurs, Dynasties, and the Story of Life on Earth

Richard Conniff

This fascinating book tells the story of how one museum changed ideas about dinosaurs, dynasties, and even the story of life on earth. The Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, now celebrating its 150th anniversary, has remade the way ...

Hybrid Knowledge in the Early East India Company World

Anna Winterbottom

Hybrid Knowledge in the Early East India Company World presents a new reading of the English East India Company 1660-1720. It shows how innovative works – covering natural history, ethnography, theology, linguistics, medicine ...

In The Field

The Art of Field Recording

Cathy Lane and Angus Carlyle

This is unique and important collection of interviews with contemporary sound artists who use field recording in their work. From its early origins in wildlife sound and in ethnographic research, field recording has expanded over the last ...

Innocents in Dry Valleys

An Account of the Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition, 1958-59

Colin Bull, Eddie Robertson and Peter Barrett

In the summer of 1958, physicist Colin Bull, along with a biologist and two undergraduate geology students from Victoria University of Wellington, launched an exploration of the Dry Valleys of Victoria Land, Antarctica – the first ...

Japan: An Environmental History

Conrad Totman

From the outset, society in Japan has been shaped by its environmental context. The lush green mountainous archipelago of today supports a population of over 127 million people and one of the most advanced economies in the world. How has ...

King's Collectors for Kew

James Bowie and Allan Cunningham, Brazil 1814-1816

AE Orchard and TA Orchard

In 1814, with the close of the Napoleonic Wars, Sir Joseph Banks persuaded the Prince Regent (later King George IV) to send two collectors to the colonies of New South Wales and the Cape of Good Hope to gather propagating material to ...

Landskipping: Painters, Ploughmen and Places

Anna Pavord

Landskipping is a meditation on the iridescent British landscape that will reshape the way we think about our country In the late eighteenth century, landscape began to emerge as a cultural phenomenon in Britain.

Lines from Nature

John Busby

John Busby's drawings and paintings live and breathe the magic of their subject. His gannets soar and hang, stall and drift again, riding the currents of air as lightly as the pencil glides. How beautifully his young foxes leap ...

Living in the Sound of the Wind

A Personal Quest for W.H. Hudson, Naturalist and Writer from the River Plate

Jason Wilson

W. H. Hudson was brought up on the pampas, where he learnt from gauchos about frontier life. After moving to London in 1874, Hudson lived in extreme poverty. Like his friend Joseph Conrad, Hudson was an exile, adapting to England. He never ...

Love, Madness, Fishing

A Memoir

Dexter Petley grew up in the 1960s and 70s, on the borders of Kent and Sussex. It was a time of eeking out a living mending cars, exterminating pests or hop picking. Boys were taught to fish by their fathers during the weekends, cast ...

Mechanism of the Heavens

Pierre Simon Laplace and Mary Somerville

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. Published in 1831, this work forms part of a collection of introductory volumes suggested by Henry, Lord Brougham and Vaux, the Lord Chancellor, for ...

On Trails

From Anthills to the Alps, How Trails Make Sense of a Chaotic World

Robert Moor

A strikingly original debut from a tremendous new talent, Robert Moor explores how trails help us understand the world, from the biological phenomenon of how ant trails are formed to hiking paths that span continents and oceans, from ...

Photographing North Wales

A Photo-Location Guidebook

Simon Kitchin, Don Williams, Iolo Williams, Stuart Holmes and Mick Ryan

Photographing North Wales is a comprehensive photo-location guidebook to North Wales including: Snowdonia National Park, the Isle of Anglesey, the North Wales Coast, Llyn Peninsula, Llangollen and the North East. The book guides ...

Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum

How Humans Took Control of Climate

William F Ruddiman

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

Prehistoric Predators

Brian Switek and Julius Csotonyi

Discover the most dangerous carnivores that ever roamed the Earth in this exciting and action-packed exploration of prehistoric predators, featuring a unique cover that feels like dinosaur-skin! The biggest baddies of the prehistoric ...

Rivers Run

An Angler's Journey from Source to Sea

Kevin Parr

Rivers Run is a love letter to Britain's rivers and waterways by well-known angler and naturalist Kevin Parr. On a journey around his favourite watery hideaways – such as the River Stour in Dorset, the Exe in Devon, the ...

Show Me the Bone

Reconstructing Prehistoric Monsters in Nineteenth-Century Britain and America

Gowan Dawson

Nineteenth-century paleontologists boasted that, shown a single bone, they could identify or even reconstruct the extinct creature it came from with infallible certainty – "Show me the bone, and I will describe the animal!"

Sociable Knowledge

Natural History and the Nation in Early Modern Britain

Elizabeth Yale

Working with the technologies of pen and paper, scissors and glue, naturalists in early modern England, Scotland, and Wales wrote, revised, and recombined their words, sometimes over a period of many years, before fixing them in printed ...

Spring: An Anthology for the Changing Seasons

Melissa Harrison

It is a time of awakening. In our -fields, hedgerows and woodlands, our beaches, cities and parks, an almost imperceptible shift soon becomes a riot of sound and colour: winter ends, and life surges forth once more. Whether in town or country ...

The Big Cat Man

An Autobiography

Jonathan Scott

This new autobiography by wildlife celebrity Jonathan Scott celebrates the extraordinary life of one of the world's most popular wildlife presenters and photographers. From his childhood on a Berkshire farm in the UK to his rise to ...

The Botanist and the Judge

Allan Cunningham in Tasmania 1818-1819

AE Orchard and TA Orchard

On Christmas Day, 1818, the tiny Naval Cutter Mermaid, under the command of Lieut. Phillip Parker King, sailed through Sydney Heads en route to Tasmania, where King intended to survey the newly discovered harbours of Port Davey and ...

The Dales Way

Peter Stott

The Dales Way runs for 79 miles (127 km) from Ilkley in the Yorkshire Dales to Bowness in the Lake District. The route heads north through Wharfedale, crisscrossing the river, and rises over high moorland to pick up River Dee through ...

The Dingle Way

Sandra Bardwell and Jacquetta Megarry

The Dingle Way runs 111 miles (179 km) around the beautiful Dingle Peninsula. It starts and finishes in Tralee, accessible by train or bus from Dublin and from Kerry Airport. The complete walk takes eight days, but it can easily be shortened ...

The Florilegium

The Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney: Celebrating 200 Years

Colleen Morris, Louisa Murray, Brett Summerell, Shirley Sherwood and Beverly Allen

A major collection of contemporary botanical illustration. Forty-one Australian and twenty-three overseas artists have contributed by invitation one or more works of significant plants in the three Sydney botanic gardens. This collection ...

The Keartons

Inventing Nature Photography

John Bevis

In 1892, brothers Richard and Cherry Kearton took the first ever photograph of a bird's nest with eggs. Realising the camera's potential to reveal secrets of the natural world, they resolved to make the best possible records of ...

The Masters of Nature Photography, Volume Two

Wildlife Photographer of the Year

Rosamund Kidman-Cox

The master photographers making up The Masters of Nature Photography, Volume Two are Tim Laman (Lexington, MA), Brian Skerry (Uxbridge, MA), Steve Winter (Hoboken, NJ) Art Wolfe (Seattle), Hannu Hautala (Finland), Klaus Nigge ...

The Natural History of Edward Lear (1812-1888)

Robert McCracken Peck and Sir David Attenborough

Before he became celebrated as the writer and illustrator of nonsense poetry, Edward Lear was a prolific painter of natural history subjects who earned near-universal praise for the accuracy, originality and elegant style of his animated ...

The Tree

John Fowles and William Fiennes

John Fowles' writing life was dominated by trees. From the orchards of his childhood in suburban Essex, to the woodlands of wartime Devon, to his later life on the Dorset coast, trees filled his imagination and enriched his many acclaimed ...

Theodore Roosevelt in the Field

Michael R Canfield

Never has there been a president less content to sit still behind a desk than Theodore Roosevelt. When we picture him, he's on horseback or standing at a cliff's edge or dressed for safari. And Roosevelt was more than just an ...

Where the Wild Thyme Blew

Growing up with Nature in the Fifties and Sixties

Peter Marren

Where the Wild Thyme Blew is the story of a boy growing up in the lost England of sixty years ago. And turning, most reluctantly, into a man. It is also about the circumstances that turn a child into a naturalist and how nature ...

Wildlife Photographer of the Year Desk Diary 2017

The Natural History Museum (London - UK)

The Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition is the international showcase for the very best photography featuring natural subjects. The Museum's 2017 week-to-view diaries feature stunning photographs of the natural world from ...

Wildlife Photographer of the Year Pocket Diary 2017

The Natural History Museum (London - UK)

The Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition is the international showcase for the very best photography featuring natural subjects. The Natural History Museum's 2017 week-to-view diaries feature stunning photographs of the natural ...

Wildlife Photographer of the Year, Portfolio 26

Rosamund Kidman-Cox

For more than 50 years, the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition has championed honest and ethical wildlife photography, while pushing the boundaries of artistic freedom, technical skill, and narrative excellence. This powerful ...

Winter: An Anthology for the Changing Seasons

Melissa Harrison

A beautiful collection of natural history writing that captures the unfolding of winter.

A Visual Celebration of Borneo's Wildlife

Fanny Lai and Bjorn Olesen

This Borneo wildlife pictorial offers nature lovers, visitors to Borneo and armchair explorers an unparalleled introduction to this mysterious treasure island. Illustrated with more than 350 images, taken by Bjorn Olesen and ...

Bhutan's Natural Heritage

A Legacy of the Monarchs

Bhutan Royal Society of Protection of Nature and Lam Dorji

From the preface: "This book has been brought out to put on record the natural heritage that Bhutan possesses at the time of transition to a parliamentary democracy. While it is not comprehensive and exhaustive, it serves ...

Cave Fauna of Bulgaria

Petar Beron

This collates all the current knowledge from the Bulgarian and foreign literature about the fauna of the caves in this country. The brief introduction of the book reviews the history of studies on karst and caves in Bulgaria. The caves ...

Everglades: An Ecosystem Facing Choices and Challenges

Anne Ake

An engaging look at the "Everglades", its history, its plants and animals, and the challenges scientists trying to save the River of Grass face today.

Fauna of Uttar Pradesh, Part 1: Vertebrates

Kolkata The Director of the Zoological Survey of India and Kailash Chandra

This 22nd state fauna produced by the Zoological Survey India reports on extensive surveys conducted in Uttar Pradesh. The first part reports 699 vertebrate species.

Fauna of Uttar Pradesh, Part 2: Invertebrates

Kolkata The Director of the Zoological Survey of India

This 22nd state fauna produced by the Zoological Survey India reports on extensive surveys conducted in Uttar Pradesh. The second part reports 2,174 invertebrate species.

Historic Glacier National Park

The Stories Behind One of America's Great Treasures

Randi Minetor

Historic Glacier National Park captures the most interesting moments in the park's history, the slices of life in northwestern Montana that provide an idea of what life was like for those who chose to explore this gloriously ...

Natural History of Tenerife

Philip Ashmole and Myrtle Ashmole

Tenerife is a remarkable island, dominated by Mount Teide, an active volcano higher than any mountain in mainland Spain. The island has extraordinary volcanic landscapes, and thousands of species of plants and animals that are found only ...

Naturewatch: How to Spot and Track British Wildlife

Simon King

Naturewatch is the ultimate guide to watching British wildlife, from renowned naturalist and TV presenter Simon King. More and more people are discovering the joys of being out and about in the British countryside. Yet surprisingly ...

River of Gold

Narratives and Exploration of the Great Limpopo

Mike Gardner, Peter Norton and Clive Walker

In this most exquisitely designed book, rich with photographs and story, the authors explore the Limpopo River's history, its ancient past, wildlife, landscapes, early kingdoms and their people, warfare, trade, slaves, 19th-century ...

Summer: An Anthology of the Changing Seasons

Melissa Harrison

Summer is a season of richness: gold against blue; sun dazzle on water; sweet fragrance, and the sound of insects, filling the air. We feel the sand between our toes, or the grass beneath our feet. In these long, warm days, languid and ...

The Greater World of Little Things

Ross Gardner

Look and look again! This is the advice from the author to us as we attempt to understand the complexities of the natural world, with wildlife unfolding unceasingly through the seasons, and with us − of course − an integral ...

The Long Mynd

Its History and Wildlife

Barrie Raynor

The Long Mynd is a heath and moorland plateau that forms part of the Shropshire Hills in Shropshire, England. This book describes its history and wildlife, covering topics such as geology, history, landscape, heather, woods, sheep, ponies ...

The Mara

Anup Shah

This is the visual story of life in Maasai Mara, Kenya, wild home of African big game and one of the world's most famous wildlife reserves. Anup Shah's distinctive style of photography propels the reader into the middle of this ...

The Prince Edward Islands

Land-Sea Interactions in a Changing Ecosystem

Steven L Chown and Pierre W Froneman

This book provides a modern, synthetic overview of what is known about the structure, functioning and interactions of marine and terrestrial systems at the Prince Edward Islands. Building on more than 50 years of biological, geological ...

A Field Guide to Mushrooms of Britain and Europe

Alison Linton

There is huge and growing interest in the fascinating world of fungi. This field guide is aimed specifically towards the many beginners to the subject of mushrooms, although it is also suitable for those with a little more knowledge.

A New Atlas of the Seaweeds of Kent

The Flora Past and Present with Summaries for Essex, London, Sussex and Pas de Calais

Ian Tittley

A New Atlas of the Seaweeds of Kent introduces the reader to the study of seaweeds, their history in the county, and describes the Kent coast, its habitats and the seaweed communities present. The current status of the flora is ...

A Pictorial Book of the Ornamental Plants and Orchids of Royal Botanical Garden, Serbithang, Volume 1

Ministry of Agriculture and Forests, Bhutan National Biodiversity Centre

This book is a collection of photographs of plants found at the Royal Botanical Garden, Serbithang. It is divided into two parts and for ease of identification, the photographs are arranged according to the dominant colours of the flowers ...

A Pictorial Guide to the Wild Flowers of Bhutan

A Pictorial Guide book with wonderful pictures photographed by the author himself, covering about 200 species, and with reference to species distribution ranges. Will be useful for researches, foresters, students, horticulturists, and ...

A Survey of the Bryophytes Known from the Aegean Islands

Ruprecht Doll

This is the first illustrated bryophyte flora of Greece. It will promote the knowledge and exploration of bryophytes in this area and all the Mediterranean. Take a lens and you will discover a new wonderful, till now unknown world and ...

Actualizacion del Catalogo de la Flora Vascular Silvestre de La Rioja: Estado de Conocimiento en el Invierno-Primavera

Juan Antonio Alejandre Saenz, Jose Antonio Arizaleta Urarte, Javier Benito Ayuso and Mateo San

This work provides an updated and annotated list of all species of vascular flora present in La Rioja, a province in northern Spain, in spring 2016. It is a starting point for development of a future atlas of the vascular ...

Algae-Based Biopharmaceuticals

Sergio Rosales-Mendoza

Algae-Based Biopharmaceuticals constitutes a key reference on the use of algae in the biopharmaceuticals production field; providing an updated outlook on the achievements accomplished thus far and transmitting a prospective ...

Atlas Flora Danica [Danish] (3-Volume Set)

Per Hartvig

In 1992 one of the most ambitious projects in botany in recent times was started: the Atlas Flora Danica. Members of the Dansk Botanisk Forening, the Danish Botanical Society, divided the country into 1,300 squares, each measuring ...

Blue Orchid and Big Tree

Plant Hunters William and Thomas Lobb and the Victorian Mania for the Exotic

Sue Shephard and Toby Musgrave

This is the story of two of England’s most prolific plant hunters who travelled and collected during the heyday of the Victorian mania for acquiring exotic new trees and plants from around the world. The Cornish-born brothers were ...

Carnation

Twigs Way

From wedding bouquets to funeral wreaths, carnations can be seen everywhere in human culture. Their colorful but delicately folded petals have made them one of the foremost decorative flowers, from the gardens of the Ottoman Empire to ...

Carnivorous Plants of Britain and Ireland

A Field Guide to the Native and Non-Native Carnivorous Plants of Britain and Ireland

Tim Bailey and Stewart McPherson

Carnivorous plants include some of the most extraordinary organisms in the vegetable kingdom. Though rare amongst plants as a whole, there are more than 700 species of plant that trap and kill animals for their own nourishment worldwide.

China's Bamboo

Culture, Resources, Cultivation and Utilization

Yang Yuming

This is a book about the culture, resources, cultivation and utilization of China's bamboo. First it gives an introduction to historical and cultural situations of bamboo research and production in China as well as other countries.

Conoscere i Funghi Velenosi e i Loro Sosia Commestibili [Knowing Poisonous Mushrooms and the Edible Ones They Resemble]

Italo Milanesi

This book provides vital information on poisonous mushrooms in a simple and complete fashion, and should be of interest to mushroom hunters to prevent poisoning by fungi. - 192 richly illustrated pages with over 180 colour photos in ...

Conservation of Wild Orchids of Kodagu in the Western Ghats

T Ananda Rao and Samar Singh

From the preface:

"This publication is an important output of the Biodiversity Hotspots Conservation Programme undertaken by WWF-India since 1992, with the support of the MacArthur Foundation in USA. The Western Ghats and the ...

Delaware Trees & Wildflowers

A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Species

James R Kavanagh and Raymond Leung

The state tree, the American Holly, is one of thousands of species of plants growing in the diverse ecosystems found throughout Delaware. This beautifully illustrated guide highlights over 140 familiar and unique species of trees, shrubs ...

Discover Avenue Trees [of Bangalore]

Karthikeyan S

From the introduction: "In many cities, planners have often brought in trees from various parts of the world that bloom at various times of the year and provide shade. Residents of the city, who had space, also planted in ...

Ethno Medicinal Plants of Raigad District, Maharashtra

Rajendra D Shinde and Kalpit Ganesh Mhatre

Ethno Medicinal Plants of Raigad District, Maharashtra is intended to be a popular guide on medicinal plants – their identification, classification, nomenclature, and their uses. Designed primarily for Indian scholars ...

Fascicles of Flora of India, Fascicle 27

Cyperaceae: Mapanioideae; Cyperaceae: Cyperoideae; Tribe: Schoeneae and Sclerieae

P Singh and Sangita Dey

Volume 27 deals with Cyperaceae subfamilies Mapanioideae and Cyperoideae and the tribes Schoeneae and Sclerieae.

Fascinating Lichens of Sri Lanka

Gothamie Weerakoon and H Thorsten Lumbsch

This book provides an introduction to the fascinating and diverse lichens of Sri Lanka. The book does not contain extensive descriptions typical of lichen field guides, as the author wanted to make this book accessible for anyone who wishes ...

Fitogeografia do Brasil: Uma Atualizacao de Bases e Conceitos [Phytogeography of Brazil: An Update of Basics and Conce

Orlando Graeff

One of the goals of this work is to characterize the dynamics and interrelationships of the natural processes in the field of plant science allied to geology, geography and biology. The author Orlando Graeff has undertaken ...

Flora Neotropica, Volume 115: Quiinaceae

Julio V Schneider and Georg Zizka

A taxonomic monograph of the Quiinaceae is presented and covers aspects of taxonomic history, morphology, anatomy, phylogeny, biogeography, and ecology. The Quiinaceae comprise four genera (Froesia, Lacunaria ...

Flora Neotropica, Volume 116: Prionolejeunea: Lejeuneaceae, Jungermanniopsida

Anna Luiza Ilkiu-Borges

Based on the examination of types and additional specimens, currently 21 species and 3 newly described taxa of Prionolejeunea are recognized; 26 names are proposed as new synonyms. Prinololejeunea is characterized by the ...

Flora of Peninsular Malaysia, Series II: Seed Plants, Volume 5

Ruth Kiew, RCK Chung, LG Saw and E Soepadmo

The Flora of Peninsular Malaysia, Series ll provides revisions for seed plant families that occur in Peninsular Malaysia. Volume 5 includes revisions of 28 genera and 123 species in 8 families, namely Aristolochiaceae, Buxaceae ...

Flora of the Pan-Himalaya, Volume 30: Brassicaceae

Ihsan Ali Al-Shehbaz

Volume 30 of the Flora of the Pan-Himalaya is one of the first of the 50 volumes in the series, which will be published in approximately 80 parts. It is devoted to mustard family (Brassicaceae or Cruciferae). The Brassicaceae is ...

Flora of the Pan-Himalaya, Volume 47: Aquifoliaceae, Helwingaceae, Campanulaceae, Lobeliaceae, Menyanthaceae

De-Yuan Hong, Hang Sun, Mark F Watson, Jun Wen and Xian-Chun Zhang

Volume 47 of the Flora of the Pan-Himalaya is one of the first of the 50 volumes in the series, which will be published in approximately 80 parts. It includes five families (Aquifolaceae, Helwingiaceae, Campanulaceae ...

Flora: An Artistic Voyage Through the World of Plants

Sandra Knapp

Flora: An Artistic Voyage Through the World of Plants contains 20 essays on the history of key plant families, including cacti, daffodils, iris, magnolia, poppies, roses, tulips and waterlilies. It explains how plants have adopted ...

Floral Mimicry

Steven D Johnson and Florian P Schiestl

This is the first definitive book on floral mimicry, providing a wider treatise on floral adaptation and plant evolution. It reviews the latest advances in the chemical ecology of mimicry systems, written by the world's leading researchers ...

Flowers and Herbs in Pelion: With 12 Hiking Descriptions / Blumen under Krauter im Pilion: Mit 12 Wanderbeschreibungen

Giorgos Giannakaros and Rainer Scheppelmann

In 174 images, this plant guide describes 25 trees and 80 flowers and herbs found in Pelion, a mountain at the southeastern part of Thessaly in central Greece. There is also a short introduction to Pelion's fauna, and an appendix with ...

Funghi Ipogei: Catalogo Illustrato delle Specie della Brianza, dei Territori Lariani e delle Zone Limitrofe [Hypogeous F

Mario Sarasini, Angelo Bincoletto and Antonio de Vito

Funghi Ipogei: Catalogo Illustrato delle Specie della Brianza, dei Territori Lariani e delle Zone Limitrofe is the second volume in the series Monografie di Pagine di Micologia. The text presents the new and updated ...

Fungi Europaei, Volume 14: Hebeloma (Fr.) P. Kumm. [English]

HJ Beker, U Eberhardt and Jan Vesterholt

Fungi Europei is the most exhaustive and authoritative series of illustrated monographs on fungi published to date. Volume 14 covers the genus Hebeloma and provides full descriptions of gross morphology and microanatomy ...

Fungi: Applications and Management Strategies

Sunil Kumar Deshmukh, JK Misra, Jalpa P Tewari and Tam ís Papp

Fungi: Applications and Management Strategies deals with the application of fungi and the strategic management of some plant pathogens. It covers fungal bioactive metabolites, with emphasis on those secondary metabolites that ...

Guide des Plantes Mediterraneennes: Littoral de la France Continentale et de la Corse [Guide to Mediterranean Plants:

Guilhan Paradis and Herve Gomila

The Mediterranean coast of mainland France and Corsica presents a rich panorama of plants. This lavishly illustrated guide describes more than 330 plants from the Mediterranean coasts. Each species is presented accurately: morphological ...

Guia de Flores Silvestres del Valle de San Millan de la Cogolla [Wildflower Guide to Valle de San Millan de la Cogolla

Emiliano Navas Sanchez and Valle Camacho

This guide, with more than 300 photographs taken in the wild, and 90 illustrations, introduces the reader in a simple way to the nearby yet unknown world of wildflowers. And therein lies its value: to teach, educate, and invite the reader ...

Indian Flowering Plants

DG Shimp

The flowering plants of India are one Of the richest flora of the world due to a wide range of climate, topology and environments in the country. It is thought there are over 15,000 species of flowering plants in India, which account for ...

Malaysian Herbal Monograph, Volume 3

Malaysian Herbal Monograph Committee, Abdul Latif Mohmood and Rasadah Mat Ali

Volume 3 is a compilation of 20 monographs of medicinal plants that are widely used in Malaysia. This information forms the basis of quality control and scientific reference for herbal materials in the Malaysian herbal industry.

Marine Biomedicine

From Beach to Bedside

Bill J Baker

Marine Biomedicine: From Beach to Bedside assesses current efforts in marine biomedicine and evaluates the implications of recent advances on the future of the field. Richly illustrated in full color to enhance reader ...

Microalgae: Current Research and Applications

Maria-Nefeli Tsaloglou

Microalgae, also known as phytoplankton, are abundant microorganisms, which are found in freshwater and marine environments. Phytoplankton are critical to global biogeochemistry since they produce the bulk of oxygen on Earth through photographs ...

Monographie des Leguminosae de France, Tome 4: Tribu des Fabeae, des Cicereae et des Genisteae [Monograph on the Legumin

Pierre Coulot, Philippe Rabaute, Nigel Maxted and Daniel Pifko

After the publication in late 2013 of the third volume of the Monographie des Légumineuses de France, this is the fourth volume, devoted to two major tribes of the flora of France, the Fabeae and Genisteae. This publication ...

Most Common Freshwater Algae Images of Zhejiang Province (Drinking Water Sources) [Chinese]

Chen Qian

The Zhejiang Environmental Monitoring Center in China has been undertaking a major biological monitoring of drinking water sources since 2006, and gradually uncovered the algal community structure and its variation in order to develop ...

Mushrooms of Ontario and Eastern Canada

George Barron

Photographic field guide to over 600 mushrooms and fungi of Ontario, Québec, Atlantic Canada, and the north-eastern United States. Includes stunning photographs and detailed species information. Also includes notes on edibility.

Orchids of Jamaica

Ancile Gloudon and Cicely Tobisch

Orchids of Jamaica catalogs over 100 species of orchids that are found in Jamaica. The book includes descriptions of the plant, flower, growth habits as well as photographs or line drawings. It also lists the latest reclassification ...

Orquidies del Ripolles [Orchids of Ripolles]

J Canals

This is an identification Guide and distribution atlas to the of orchids of Ripollès, a county in Catalonia, Spain. Illustrated with many high-quality photos and elaborate texts, it contains lots of details to identify each species ...

Papaya: Biology, Cultivation, Production and Uses

Parmeshwar Lal Saran, Ishwar Singh Solanki and Ravish Choudhary

With coverage that ranges from basic information to advanced research, Papaya: Biology, Cultivation, Production and Uses pulls together the vast literature scattered over various sources into one practical resource.

Plant Identification for Phase 1 Habitat Survey: Grassland and Marsh

Hilary Wallace, Mark Duffell and Lizzie Harper

This guide is designed to help you identify the indicator species needed to carry out a Phase 1 habitat survey of grassland and marsh habitats, following the guidelines set out in the ...

Plants of Arogyashram & Their Healing Powers

Trees, Shrubs and Herbs

BV Venkatesha Murthy

This book profiles 214 plant species grown in the herbal garden surrounding the Arogyashram, in the state of Karnataka, India. This Ayurvedic nursing home has been operative for over 50 years and this book is a collection of writings on ...

Plants on Plants - The Biology of Vascular Epiphytes

Gerhard Zotz

Vascular Epiphytes critically reviews advances in our understanding of the biology of vascular epiphytes since Andreas Schimper's 1888 seminal work. It addresses all aspects of their biology, from anatomy and physiology to ...

Plants: Healers and Killers

Michael Radcliffe Lee

Plants have been known for their medicinal properties for many centuries. In mythology and tales of ancient times lie clues to their usage and often the embellished claims of legend hold a grain of scientific truth.

Poppy

Andrew Lack

Few weeds have been more successful throughout history than the poppy. Hated by farmers for its stubbornness, the poppy has been a favorite of artists and poets, due to its distinct and brilliant color, and it has functioned symbolically ...

Roots and Root System of Trees / Koreny a Korani Stromu

Jan Jenik, Miloslav Studnicka and Jan Cermak

The chapters incorporated in this volume contain introductory data and problems referring to a botanical and silvological branch called rhizology. Roots of plants – unlike the aboveground organs – fulfill their ...

Rothmaler - Exkursionsflora von Deutschland: Band 4

Gefasspflanzen: Kritischer Band

Frank Muller, Christiane M Ritz, Erik Welk and Karsten Wesche

This newly designed "Kritische" volume complements the "Grund" and "Atlas" volumes of Rothmaler Exkursionsflora and allows the determination of about 900 families from hard-to-identify genera of the ...

Terrestrial Orchids

Naresh Swami

Terrestrial Orchids is part of a research program to study and photograph orchid species from the Eastern Himalayas, covering the regions of Eastern Nepal, Sikkim, Darjeeling district, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam and Nagaland.

The Diatom Flora and Cyanobacteria from Caves on Kauai, Hawaii

Taxonomy, Distribution, New Species

Laura H Miscoe, Jeffrey R Johansen, John Patrick Kociolek, Rex L Lowe, Melissa A Vaccarino and Pie

This book provides two thoroughly illustrated floras of cave algae of Kauai, the oldest of the large inhabited islands in the Hawaiian Archipelago. These caves are a hot spot of algal diversity. The first flora describes and illustrates ...

The Flora of Lanarkshire

Peter Macpherson

The Flora of Lanarkshire by the late Peter Macpherson is the first comprehensive flora of this Scottish county. Past President of the BSBI, the author was official plant recorder for Lanarkshire vice county (VC) 77 for over 35 years.

The Genus Aquilegia L. (Ranunculaceae) in Italy / Il Genere Aquilegia L. (Ranunculaceae) in Italia

Nardi Enio

The genus Aquilegia L. (Ranunculaceae) includes numerous species of plants are easily recognizable because of characteristic flowers with long petals in a croissant shape. This work, which has a strictly experimental approach the ...

The Long, Long Life of Trees

Fiona Stafford

Since the beginnings of history trees have served humankind in countless useful ways, but our relationship with trees has many dimensions beyond mere practicality. Trees are so entwined with human experience that diverse species have ...

The Saprolegniaceae

With Notes on Other Water Molds

William Chambers Coker

A reprint of a classical work in the UNC Press Enduring Edition series. Originally published in 1923. The Saprolegniaceae: With Notes on Other Water Molds contains descriptions of direct observations on, and ...

Trees: A Complete Guide to Their Biology and Structure

Roland Ennos

Trees, the largest of all living things, are vital components of the landscape and have been exploited by humans since the beginnings of our history. They cover huge areas of the globe, from the rainforests of the central tropics to the ...

True Truffle (Tuber Spp.) in the World

Soil Ecology, Systematics and Biochemistry

Alessandra Zambonelli, Mirco Iotti and Claude Murat

True Truffle (Tuber Spp.) in the World focuses on the taxonomic diversity of the genus Tuber as economically important truffles. In contributions by internationally respected scientists, it examines truffle systematics ...

Type Specimens in China National Herbarium (PE), Volume 4: Angiospermae(1) [English / Chinese]

Lin Qi

Volume 4 of Type Specimens in China National Herbarium (PE) includes 489 type specimens from Sparganiaceae to Liliaceae (1) (Angiospermae, Monocotyledoneae), comprising 267 holotypes, 185 isotypes, 9 lectotypes, 1 syntype ...

Welcher Pilz ist Das? [Which Mushroom is That?]

Markus Fluck

This comprehensive mycological guide allows quick identification of fungal groups through the practical determination key. Large-format colour photographs and drawings with all essential features of more than 270 species of fungi in ...

Welcher Pilz ist das?: 170 Pilze Einfach Bestimmen [Which Mushroom is That?: Easily Identifying 170 Mushrooms]

Markus Fluck

Welcher Pilz ist das? is the practical mycological guide in your pocket. Use the Kosmos colour code to determine species easily.

Animal Physiology

Richard W Hill, Gordon A Wyse and Margaret Anderson

Animal Physiology, Fourth Edition presents all the branches of modern animal physiology with a strong emphasis on integration of physiological knowledge, ecology, and evolutionary biology. Integration extends from genes to organs ...

Avian Medicine

Jaime Samour

Combining the in-depth coverage of a text with the practicality of a clinical manual and the visual detail of an atlas, Avian Medicine, 3rd Edition is the complete, all-in-one guide to every aspect of avian care. Written by some ...

Biochemistry: The Molecular Basis of Life

Trudy McKee

Biochemistry: The Molecular Basis of Life, International Sixth Edition, offers deeper coverage of the chemistry of reactions while emphasizing the relationship between biochemistry and human biology.

Campbell Biology

Lisa A Urry, Michael L Cain, Steven A Wasserman, Peter V Minorsky and Jane B Reece

Note: Thisi s a standalone product; MyLab™ & Mastering™ does not come packaged with this content. The Eleventh Edition of the best-selling text Campbell Biology sets you on the path to success in biology ...

Colour and Vision

Through the Eyes of Nature

Steve Parker

Colour and Vision examines the evolution, variation and impact of eyes and colours in the natural world. Starting from a time before image forming eyes had developed, Steve Parker traces how the evolution of colour and vision ...

Developmental Biology

Scott F Gilbert and Michael JF Barresi

A classic gets a new coauthor and a new approach: Developmental Biology, Eleventh Edition keeps the excellent writing, accuracy, and enthusiasm of the Gilbert Developmental Biology book, streamlines it, adds innovative ...

Ecological and Environmental Physiology of Mammals

Philip C Withers, Francisco Bozinovic, Christine Cooper, Ariovaldo Cruz Neto and Shane Maloney

This book summarizes our current knowledge of the complex and sophisticated physiological models that mammals provide for survival in a wide variety of ecological and environmental contexts: terrestrial, aerial, and aquatic.

Herding Hemingway's Cats

Understanding How Genes Work

Kat Arney

The language of genes has become common parlance. We know they make your eyes blue, your hair curly or your nose straight. The media tells us that our genes control the risk of cancer, heart disease, alcoholism or Alzheimer's.

Philosophy of Biology

Peter Godfrey-Smith

Philosophy of Biology is a concise, comprehensive, and accessible introduction to the philosophy of biology written by a leading authority on the subject. Geared to philosophers, biologists, and students of both ...

Welcome to the Microbiome

Getting to Know the Trillions of Bacteria and Other Microbes in, on, and Around You

Rob DeSalle and Susan L Perkins

Suddenly, research findings require a paradigm shift in our view of the microbial world. The Human Microbiome Project at the National Institutes of Health is well under way, and unprecedented scientific technology now allows the censusing ...

Aux Origines de la Vie: Une Nouvelle Histoire de l'Evolution [On the Origins of Life: A New History of Evolution]

Abderrazak El Albani, Roberto Macchiarelli and Alain R Meunier

This book tells the story of a group geologists who, when travelling to Gabon to do a simple sampling of ancient sediments, made a startling discovery: fossils of complex structures older than 2 billion years. These fossils represent the ...

Charles Darwin: The Shaping of Evolutionary Thinking

Lance Workman

There are few aspects of the modern world that remain untouched by Charles Darwin's legacy. His ideas have affected everything from science to religion, and have influenced debates about ethics, animal welfare and nature versus nurture ...

Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics

Andrew P Hendry

In recent years, scientists have realized that evolution can occur on timescales much shorter than the "long lapse of ages" emphasized by Darwin – in fact, evolutionary change is occurring all around us all the time.

Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Biology (4-Volume Set)

Richard Kliman

Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Biology is the definitive go-to reference in the field of evolutionary biology. It provides a fully comprehensive review of the field in an easy to search structure. Under the collective leadership of ...

Eternal Ephemera

Adaptation and the Origin of Species from the Nineteenth Century Through Punctuated Equilibria and Beyond

Niles Eldredge

One of evolution's fundamental questions is how the skein of life on Earth remains unbroken yet is constantly renewed by new species. What accounts for the scientific paradox that all organisms and species are ephemeral, and yet life ...

Evolution by Natural Selection

Confidence, Evidence and the Gap

Michaelis Michael

A persistent argument among evolutionary biologists and philosophers revolves around the nature of natural selection. Evolution by Natural Selection: Confidence, Evidence and the Gap explores this argument by using a theory of ...

How the Zebra Got its Stripes

And Other Darwinian Just So Stories

Leo Grasset and Barbara Mellor

Why do giraffes have such long necks? Why are zebras striped? Why are buffalo herds broadly democratic while elephants prefer dictatorships? What explains the architectural brilliance of the termite mound or the complications of the hyena's ...

In the Blink of an Eye

How Vision Kick-Started the Big Bang of Evolution

Andrew Parker

The Cambrian explosion is the 'big bang' of evolution – a period of less than five million years during which life on Earth rapidly developed both armaments and defences. Animals suddenly became both hunters and the hunted ...

Kurze Geschichte der Evolutionstheorien: Von den Anf ñngen ber Darwin bis zur Frankfurter Theorie [A Brief History of

Manfred Grasshoff

The Kurze Geschichte der Evolutionstheorien provides a historical analysis of the origin of evolutionary biology and evolutionary research. It was not an illuminating inspiration or even just Charles Darwin, which introduced the ...

Processes in Human Evolution

The Journey from Early Hominins to Neandertals and Modern Humans

Francisco Jose Ayala and Camilo J Cela-Conde

The discoveries of the last decade have brought about a completely revised understanding of human evolution, due to the recent advances in genetics, palaeontology, ecology, archaeology, geography, and climate science. Written by two leading ...

Seven Deadly Colours

The Genius of Nature's Palette

Andrew Parker

In clear and accessible style Parker shows how colour plays a vital role in the struggle for life, and that nature's palette is far more miraculous than had been previously imagined – so miraculous that it fools and misleads ...

Detecting and Responding to Alien Plant Incursions

John R Wilson, F Dane Panetta and Cory Lindgren

Ecologists, land managers and policymakers continue to search for the most effective ways to manage biological invasions. An emerging lesson is that proactive management can limit negative impacts, reduce risks and save money.

Ecology of Urban Environments

Kirsten M Parris

Studies the distribution, abundance and behaviour of organisms, their interactions with each other and with their urban environment - Case studies with questions to improve retention and understanding - Uses existing ecological ...

Natural Systems

The Organisation of Life

Markus P Eichhorn

Organised into four sections, this text discusses the organisation of the living world. - Links ecology, biodiversity and biogeography - Bridges modern and conventional ecology - Builds sequentially from the concept and ...

Non-Native Species and Their Role in the Environment

The Need for a Broader Perspective

Radu Cornel Guia u

The young field of invasion biology – initially a branch of ecology and conservation biology – has greatly expanded, particularly in the last two and a half decades or so. As a result, the potential negative effects of introducing ...

The New Ecology

Rethinking a Science for the Anthropocene

Oswald J Schmitz

Our species has transitioned from being one among millions on Earth to the species that is single-handedly transforming the entire planet to suit its own needs. In order to meet the daunting challenges of environmental sustainability ...

The Theory of Ecological Communities

Mark Vellend

A plethora of different theories, models, and concepts make up the field of community ecology. Amid this vast body of work, is it possible to build one general theory of ecological communities? What other scientific areas might serve as ...

Managing Your Woodland for Wildlife

David Blakesley, Peter Buckley, Tharada Blakesley and Margaret Hanton

For this second edition all chapters have been thoroughly revised, and the book is now published in A4 format. Most woodland management has been highly beneficial for wildlife over the centuries, creating habitats which have ...

Soil Carbon

Science, Management and Policy for Multiple Benefits

Steven A Banwart, Elke Noellemeyer and Eleanor Milne

Covers the broad science and policy background, and includes describing land management options that improve the soil carbon status and hence increasing the benefits that humans derive worldwide from the environment. The different chapters ...

Soils and Human Health

Eric C Brevik and Lynn C Burgess

Despite the connections between soils and human health, there has not been a great amount of attention focused on this area when compared to many other fields of scientific and medical study. Soils and Human Health brings together ...

Soils in the Nexus

A Crucial Resource for Water, Energy and Food Security

Jes Weigelt, Alexander Muller, Charlotte Beckh and Klaus Topfer

Soils are crucial if we are to ensure water, energy and food security for nine billion people by 2050. Soils sustain biodiversity and – if managed wisely – contribute to the mitigation of climate change. At the same time, the ...

The Nature and Properties of Soils

Raymond R Weil and Nyle C Brady

Developed for Introduction to Soils or Soil Science courses, The Nature and Properties of Soils, Fifteenth Edition, can be used in courses such as Soil Fertility, Land Resources, Earth Science and Soil Geography. Help readers ...

The Soils of the USA

Larry T West, Michael J Singer and Alfred E Hartemink

The Soils of the USA provides an overview of the distribution, properties, and function of soils in the U.S., including Alaska, Hawaii, and its Caribbean territories. It discusses the history of soil surveys and pedological ...

An Introduction to Conservation Biology

Richard B Primack and Anna A Sher

For this new undergraduate conservation biology textbook, coauthor Anna Sher joins longtime Sinauer author Richard Primack in creating a book that combines the readability of Primack’s ...

Biodiversity in Agricultural Landscapes of Southeastern Brazil

Carla Gheler-Costa, Maria Carolina Lyra-Jorge and Luciano Martins Verdade

The state of São Paulo, Brazil, is one of the most densely populated and developed areas in South America. Such development is evident both in terms of industrialization and urbanization, as well as in agriculture, which is heavily ...

Cat Wars

The Devastating Consequences of a Cuddly Killer

Peter P Marra and Chris Santella

In 1894, a lighthouse keeper named David Lyall arrived on Stephens Island off New Zealand with a cat named Tibbles. In just over a year, the Stephens Island Wren, a rare bird endemic to the island, was rendered extinct. Mounting scientific ...

Extinction: A Radical History

Ashley Dawson

Some thousands of years ago, the world was home to an immense variety of large mammals. From wooly mammoths and saber-toothed tigers to giant ground sloths and armadillos the size of automobiles, these spectacular creatures roamed freely ...

Flight Ways

Life and Loss at the Edge of Extinction

Thom van Dooren

A leading figure in the emerging field of extinction studies, Thom van Dooren puts philosophy into conversation with the natural sciences and his own ethnographic encounters to vivify the cultural and ethical significance of modern-day ...

Integrating Biological Control into Conservation Practice

R van Driesche, Daniel Simberloff, Bernd Blossey, Charlotte Causton, Mark Hoddle and Christi Marks

Invasive species have a critical and growing effect upon natural areas. They can modify, degrade, or destroy wildland ecosystem structure and function, and reduce native biodiversity. Landscape-level solutions are needed to address these ...

National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plan, Bhutan 2014

Royal Government of Bhutan Ministry of Agriculture and Forests

This document outlines the national biodiversity strategies and action plan that Bhutan has formulated. According to the country's developmental philosophy dubbed Gross National Happiness, environmental conservation is one of the ...

Plant Biodiversity

Monitoring, Assessment and Conservation

Abid A Ansari and Sarvajeet Singh Gill

Plants are important components to the ecosystem. They are the base of the food chain and play a significant role in energy flow and biogeochemical cycling of nutrients between terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. They must constantly ...

The National Red List 2012 of Sri Lanka

Conservation Status of the Fauna and Flora

Ministry of Environment, Sri Lanka Biodiversity Secretariat and National Herbarium. Departmen

Sri Lanka is regarded as a biodiversity hotspot. The National Red List 2012 of Sri Lanka evaluates all flowering plants, ferns, mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and major groups of invertebrates, including various insect ...

World Heritage Conservation

The World Heritage Convention, Linking Culture and Nature for Sustainable Development

Claire Cave and Elene Negussie

The UNESCO World Heritage Convention has become one of the most successful UN instruments for promoting cultural diplomacy and dialogue on conservation of cultural and natural heritage. World Heritage Conservation provides an ...

The Madhouse Effect

How Climate Change Denial is Threatening Our Planet, Destroying Our Politics, and Driving Us Crazy

Michael E Mann and Tom Toles

The award winning climate scientist Michael E. Mann and the Pulitzer Prize–winning political cartoonist Tom Toles have fought at the frontlines of climate denialism for most of their careers. They have witnessed the manipulation of ...

Why Are We Waiting?

The Logic, Urgency, and Promise of Tackling Climate Change

Lord Nicholas Herbert Stern and Richard Layard

The risks of climate change are potentially immense. The benefits of taking action are also clear: we can see that economic development, reduced emissions, and creative adaptation go hand in hand. A committed and strong low-carbon ...

A Building Stones Guide to Central Manchester

Four Walks Through the City Centre

Morven Simpson, Fred Broadhurst, Peter del Strother and Jennifer Rhodes

This book features four self-guided walks through the city centre of Manchester, showing the geological origins of the building stones used around the city.

Berliner Hohlenkundliche Berichte, Volume 63: The Unknown North of Laos, Part 6: 2014-2015

Karst and Caves of the Provinces Luang Prabang, Houaphan, Oudomxay and Xieng Khouang

Michael Laumanns

This volume presents the results of the 2014 and 2015 international expeditions to Northern Laos and describes a total of 23 km of passages from 70 caves. Includes the Tham Houay Ngot-Pang Ngoy System (3620 m long) and Tham Lo (2103 m) ...

Field Guide to the Carboniferous Sediments of the Shannon Basin, Western Ireland

James L Best and Paul B Wignall

The Carboniferous Shannon Basin of Western Ireland has become one of the most visited field areas in the world. It provides an ideal opportunity for examining a wide range of ancient sedimentary environments, including carbonate shelf ...

Geobrittanica: Geological Landscapes and the British Peoples

Mike Leeder and Joy Lawlor

Geobrittanica: Geological Landscapes and the British Peoples concerns the geological legacy of Britain, an inheritance bequeathed by its bedrock to the peoples who have lived on the island for the eleven millennia since the ...

Origin and Evolution of the Cape Mountains and Karoo Basin

Bastien Linol and Maarten J de Wit

It has been 25 years since the last major conference and excursion across the Cape-Karoo was held, the results of which were subsequently published in a small book. This new book emerged from a recent follow up Imbizo (= South African ...

The Big Picture

On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself

Sean B Carroll

Already internationally acclaimed for his elegant, lucid writing on the most challenging notions in modern physics, Sean Carroll is emerging as one of the greatest humanist thinkers of his generation as he brings his extraordinary intelligence ...

The Physics of Life

The Evolution of Everything

Adrian Bejan

The Physics of Life explores the roots of the big question by examining the deepest urges and properties of living things, both animate and inanimate: how to live longer, with food, warmth, power, movement and free access to other ...

The Quaternary of Skye

Colin K Ballantyne and J John Lowe

Produced to accompany the QRA Annual Field Meeting based in Portree, Isle of Skye, 20-23 May, 2016.

The Surface Cartography of the Sun and the Stars

Jean-Pierre Rozelot and Coralie Neiner

The mapping of the surface of stars requires diverse skills, analysis techniques and advanced modeling, i.e. the collaboration of scientists in various specialties. The Surface Cartography of the Sun and the Stars gives insights ...

Collision Course

Endless Growth on a Finite Planet

Kerryn Higgs

The notion of ever-expanding economic growth has been promoted so relentlessly that "growth" is now entrenched as the natural objective of collective human effort. The public has been convinced that growth is the natural solution ...

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 ...

End Game

Tipping Point for Planet Earth?

Anthony D Barnosky and Elizabeth A 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 ...

Environmentalism of the Rich

Peter Dauvergne

Over the last fifty years, environmentalism has emerged as a clear counterforce to the environmental destruction caused by industrialization, colonialism, and globalization. Activists and policymakers have fought hard to make the earth ...

The God Delusion (10th Anniversary Edition)

Richard Dawkins and Daniel C Dennett

The God Delusion caused a sensation when it was published in 2006. Within weeks it became the most hotly debated topic, with Dawkins himself branded as either saint or sinner for presenting his hard-hitting, impassioned rebuttal ...

Thinking Like a Mall

Environmental Philosophy After the End of Nature

Steven Vogel

Environmentalism, in theory and practice, is concerned with protecting nature. But if we have now reached "the end of nature," as Bill McKibben and other environmental thinkers have declared, what is there left to protect?

What's So Controversial About Genetically Modified Food?

John T Lang

The rampant use of genetically modified food incites public debate among activists, ethicists, scientists, regulators, and industry representatives. While proponents portray genetic modification as scientific progress, opponents reframe ...

Who's Afraid of Academic Freedom?

Akeel Bilgrami and Jonathan R Cole

In these seventeen essays, distinguished senior scholars discuss the conceptual issues surrounding the idea of freedom of inquiry and scrutinize a variety of obstacles to such inquiry that they have encountered in their personal and professional ...

Zoonoses: Animal Exposure and Human Disease

Daniel S Shapiro

Globally, there are numerous infectious diseases, normally found in vertebrates other than humans, that have been documented to be transmitted to humans and cause human infections. These "zoonotic infections" are the topic of ...

Discrete Data Analysis with R

Visualization and Modeling Techniques for Categorical and Count Data

Michael Friendly and David Meyer

Discrete Data Analysis with R: Visualization and Modeling Techniques for Categorical and Count Data presents an applied treatment of modern methods for the analysis of categorical data, both discrete response data and frequency ...

Dynamical Biostatistical Models

Daniel Commenges and Helene Jacqmin-Gadda

Dynamical Biostatistical Models presents statistical models and methods for the analysis of longitudinal data. The book focuses on models for analyzing repeated measures of quantitative and qualitative variables and events history ...

Linear Mixed-Effects Models Using R

A Step-by-Step Approach

Andrzej Galecki and Tomasz Burzykowski

Linear mixed-effects models (LMMs) are an important class of statistical models that can be used to analyze correlated data. Such data are encountered in a variety of fields including biostatistics, public health, psychometrics, education ...

Spatial Point Patterns

Methodology and Applications with R

Adrian Baddeley, Ege Rubak and Rolf Turner

Spatial Point Patterns: Methodology and Applications with R shows scientific researchers and applied statisticians from a wide range of fields how to analyze their spatial point pattern data. Making the techniques accessible to ...

Better Presentations

A Guide for Scholars, Researchers, and Wonks

Jonathan Schwabish

Whether you are a university professor, researcher at a think tank, graduate student, or analyst at a private firm, chances are that at some point you have presented your work in front of an audience. Most of us approach this task by ...

Digital Curation

A How-to-Do-it Manual

Gillian Oliver and Ross Harvey

This second edition of Digital Curation outlines the essential concepts and techniques that are crucial to preserving the longevity of digital resources. The first edition of Digital Curation provided in-depth ...

Libraries: A Design Manual

Nolan Lushington, Wolfgang Rudorf and Liliane Wong

Libraries as a building type have been subjected to substantial changes in particular in the past ten years. Milestones such as Rem Koolhaas' Seattle Central Library from 2004 reinvented the typology completely and reflected a developing ...

The Death of Expertise

Tom Nichols

In recent years, a cult of anti-expertise has engulfed America. While the United States has long been prone to bouts of anti-intellectualism, because of far-reaching technological and social transformations the current variant is of a ...

The Scientist's Guide to Writing

How to Write More Easily and Effectively Throughout Your Scientific Career

Stephen B Heard

The ability to write clearly is critical to any scientific career. The Scientist's Guide to Writing provides practical advice to help scientists become more effective writers so that their ideas have the greatest possible ...

The Slow Professor

Challenging the Culture of Speed in the Academy

Maggie Berg and Barbara K Seeber

If there is one sector of society that should be cultivating deep thought in itself and others, it is academia. Yet the corporatisation of the contemporary university has sped up the clock, demanding increased speed and efficiency from ...