A Hippo Love Story

A Woman's Fight To Protect a Hippo Family

Karen Paolillo

When the threads that hold human society together unravel, the animal kingdom suffers. Karen Paolillo discovered this first-hand in Zimbabwe when she developed a close connection with thirteen hippos in their natural habitat, the Turgwe River. ....

Badger

Daniel Heath Justice

Viewed as fierce, menacing or mysterious, badgers have been both admired and reviled throughout human history. Their global reputation for ferocious self-defence has led to brutalization by hunters and sport-seekers; their association with ... ....

Bears: Without Fear

Kevin Van Tighem

Fear of bears seems almost to be part of what it is to be human. Our species emerged out of the depths of time into a world already populated by these great carnivores. Before we mastered iron and later developed firearms, we had few ... ....

Behavior and Ecology of the Northern Fur Seal

Roger L Gentry

A reprint of a classical work in the Princeton Legacy Library. Originally published in 1997. Covering the behavior and ecology of the northern fur seal, Behavior and Ecology of the Northern Fur Seal is a ...

Cats in China [Chinese]

IUCN SSC Cat Specialist Group

China is home to 13 species of feline, nearly one-third of all extant species. The IUCN Species Survival Commission Cat Specialist Group edited Cats in China to provide background information on all 13 felines, including distribution ... ....

Die Fledermause Europas

Kennen, Bestimmen, Schutzen

Christian Dietz and Andreas Kiefer

Each year, new bat species are discovered, not only in tropical rain forests, but also in Europe. Interest in these fascinating animals is constantly growing. Die Fledermäuse Europas presents some of the latest developments ... ....

Dog Behaviour, Evolution, and Cognition

Adam Miklosi

This is the first book to collate and synthesize the recent burgeoning primary research literature on dog behaviour, evolution, and cognition. The author presents a new ecological approach to the understanding of dog behaviour, demonstrating ... ....

Facial Growth in the Rhesus Monkey

A Longitudinal Cephalometric Study

Emet D Schneiderman

A reprint of a classical work in the Princeton Legacy Library. Originally published in 1992. For a wide spectrum of scientists from biomedical and dental researchers to primatologists and physical anthropologists ...

Five New World Primates

A Study in Comparative Ecology

John Terborgh

A reprint of a classical work in the Princeton Legacy Library. Originally published in 1984. Five New World Primates is an intensive study of five species of New World monkeys – all omnivores with a diet ... ....

Fur Seals

Maternal Strategies on Land and at Sea

Roger L Gentry and Gerald L Koogman

A reprint of a classical work in the Princeton Legacy Library. Originally published in 1986. The contributors to Fur Seals have accomplished a breakthrough in our ability to collect data on ocean-dwelling mammals ... ....

Goat

Joy Hinson

Adaptable, resilient, yet often overlooked, the goat – sometimes called the 'poor man's cow' – is found in nearly every part of the world where humans live. But our relationship with this strange yet familiar animal ... ....

India's Elephants

Annette Bonnier

India's Elephants offers candid images of mahouts (keepers) and the elephants with which they work. This coffee table book is organized by theme, including elephants in their natural habitat, decoratively painted and beaded ... ....

Lemuriens de Madagascar

Russell A Mittermeier

Madagascar is veritable laboratory of evolution and the second richest country in the world where primate diversity is concerned, with 98 endemic species. But it is also a fragile country and its natural riches are rapidly being depleted ... ....

Life on the Rocks

A Portrait of the American Mountain Goat

Bruce L Smith

The American mountain goat is one of the most elusive and least familiar species of hoofed mammals in North America. Confined to the remote and rugged mountains of the western United States and Canada, these extraordinary mountaineers are ... ....

Mouse

Georgie Carroll

Despite its minuscule size, the mouse has a large presence in the animal kingdom and the human imagination. Maligned for millennia, it has been considered one of the human race's greatest adversaries, responsible for problems ranging ... ....

Penguins and Dolphins: The Spy Collection (Region 2)

David Tennant

This collection contains two groundbreaking BBC series. Dolphins: Spy in the Pod From Spy Dolphin to Spy Tuna and Spy Turtle, for the first time an underwater menagerie of spy cameras infiltrate the secret ...

Primate Tourism

A Tool for Conservation?

Anne E Russon and Janette Wallis

Primate tourism is a growing phenomenon, with increasing pressure coming from several directions: the private sector, governments, and conservation agencies. At the same time, some primate sites are working to exclude or severely restrict ... ....

Primates as Pets

Eleventh Report of Session 2013-14, Report, Together with Formal Minutes Relating to the Report

House of Commons Food and Rural Affairs Committee

Urgent action is required to establish the numbers of primates kept in captivity by private individuals across the UK and to improve their welfare. Little is known about the types and numbers of primates being kept or traded by private ... ....

South Asian Mammals

Their Diversity, Distribution, and Status

Chelmala Srinivasulu and Bhargavi Srinivasulu

Until now, information on mammals in South Asia has never been brought together on a single platform providing alla inclusive knowledge on the subject. South Asian Mammals is the most up-to-date, comprehensive resource on the mammals ... ....

Status of Blackbuck Antilope cervicapra (Linnaeus, 1758) in Orissa

Atindra Murmu, Arun Kumar Roy Mahato, Subir Guha and Phakir Chandra Saren

This short contribution looks at the status of blackbuck Antilope cervicapra in Orissa, India. It reports on the population at the proposed community reserve, the social and herd composition, the blackbuck's habitat selection ... ....

The Action Plan for Australian Mammals 2012

John Woinarski, Andrew Burbidge and Peter Harrison

The Action Plan for Australian Mammals 2012 is the first review to assess the conservation status of all Australian mammals. It complements The Action Plan for Australian Birds 2010 (Garnett et al. 2011, CSIRO Publishing), and ... ....

The Cultural Lives of Whales and Dolphins

Hal Whitehead and Luke Rendell

In the songs and bubble feeding of humpback whales; in young killer whales learning to knock a seal from an ice floe in the same way their mother does; and in the use of sea sponges by the dolphins of Shark Bay, Australia, to protect the ... ....

The Homeward Wolf

Kevin Van Tighem

Wolves have become a complicated comeback story. Their tracks are once again making trails throughout western Alberta, southern British Columbia and the northwestern United States, and the lonesome howls of the legendary predator are ... ....

The Lesser Horseshoe Bat in Ireland

Surveys by The Vincent Wildlife Trust

Kate McAney, Ciara O'Mahony, Conor Kelleher, Andy Taylor and Sinead Biggane

Over a ten year period The Vincent Wildlife Trust undertook a number of winter and summer surveys along the west coast of Ireland in pursuit of the Lesser Horseshoe Bat. A range of structures were searched, both natural and man-made ... ....

The Wolverine Way

Douglas H Chadwick and Amy Shapira

Glutton, demon of destruction, symbol of slaughter, mightiest of wilderness villains...The wolverine comes marked with a reputation based on myth and fancy. Yet this enigmatic animal is more complex than the legends that surround it. ....

What's a Dog For?

The Surprising History, Science, Philosophy, and Politics of Man's Best Friend

John Homans

John Homans adopted his dog, Stella, from a shelter for all the usual reasons: fond memories of dogs from his past, a companion for his son, an excuse for long walks around the neighborhood. Soon enough, she is happily ensconced in the ... ....

Where Elk Roam

Conservation and Biopolitics of Our National Elk Herd

Bruce L Smith

As one of the world's largest and most social deer species, elk are of immense interest to wildlife enthusiasts. Their 500-800-pound tawny bodies, sweeping antlers, and fascinating behaviors draw millions to seek them in national parks ... ....

Wild Ways

A Field Guide to the Behaviour of Southern African Mammals

Peter Apps

Wild Ways brings together all the latest studies of the behaviour of southern Africa's rich and accessible mammal fauna, describing not only what mammals do, but also the often surprising reasons why they do it, and covers ... ....

500 Common Bird Calls in Southern Africa

Doug Newman

Identify bird calls with this handy guide and CD, which together feature 500 distinctive southern African species. The CD gives the best-known song or call of each species; 500 Common Bird Calls: In Southern Africa provides clear ... ....

A Photographic Guide to the Birds of Southeast Asia

Including the Philippines and Borneo

Morton Strange

Originally published in 2003, this was the very first comprehensive photographic guide to the birds of mainland Southeast Asia, the Philippines, and Borneo, including the birds of Peninsular Malaysia, Thailand, Indochina, South China ... ....

American Birding Association Field Guide to Birds of Florida

Bill Pranty and Brian E Small

From the dunes and great river swamps of the Panhandle, the flat woods, scrubs, dry prairies, and wetlands of the Peninsula to the coral reefs of the Keys, the Sunshine State provides habitats for an amazing variety of birds.

American Birding Association Field Guide to Birds of Massachusetts

Wayne R Petersen and Brian E Small

From the rolling Berkshire Mountains and river valleys of the west to the coastal eastern plains, dunes, and scrub forests of Cape Cod, Massachusetts is a birder's paradise. Nearly 500 species have been recorded in the Bay State making ... ....

Birding Trails: Montana

Chuck Robbins

235 birding trails with over 200 species. Now including GPS. Describes each birding trail with a list of key birds, the best time of year to visit each trail, the type of terrain, size, and complete directions to each area, many with maps ... ....

Birds in North-East Scotland Then and Now

Field Observations Mainly in the 1940s and Comparisons with Recent Records

Adam Watson and Ian Francis

Adam Watson as a schoolboy made field observations on birds in north-east Scotland during the 1940s and early 1950s. These are of special interest because hardly any local ornithologists lived there, and his main set of observations is ... ....

Birds of Australia

A Photographic Guide

Iain Campbell, Sam Woods, Nick Leseberg and Geoff Jones

Australia is home to a spectacular diversity of birdlife, from parrots and penguins to emus and vibrant passerines. Birds of Australia covers all 714 species of resident birds and regularly occurring migrants and features more ... ....

Birds of Hampi

Samad Kottur

The Hampi Worid Heritage Site, in the northern state of Karnataka, India, is known the world over for its archaeological grandeur, dramatic natural landscape and rich biodiversity. Its rocky hills, scrub jungle, mighty Tungabhadra river ... ....

Channel-billed Toucan / Tucano-de-bico-preto

A Photographic and Artistic Vision / Uma Visao Fotografica e Artística

Jose Felipe Monteiro Pereira

From the preface: "The research concerning the Channel-billed Toucan, executed by José Felipe Monteiro Pereira and here represented in his photographic recordings, shows a work of great care and dedication to animal observation ... ....

Common Birds of Nunavut

Mark L Mallory

Readers will discover the vibrant natural life of Nunavut with this richly visual guide to the diverse bird populations of the Arctic. Common Birds of Nunavut pairs beautiful photographs with detailed information on more than ... ....

Die Greifvogel Europas, Nordafrikas und Vorderasiens

Biologie, Kennzeichen, Bestande

Theodor Mebs

Birds of prey fascinate people since time immemorial - primarily through their impressive flight! This superb manual with approximately 800 selected photos and lifelike drawings describes in detail biology, behavior, adaptations, habitat ... ....

Eagle

Janine Rogers

Truly one of the most symbolic birds in the human imagination, eagles have been used for millennia to represent power, divinity, war, justice and freedom. Eagle explores the rich history of this majestic bird, an emblematic creature ... ....

Gamebirds of Southern Africa

Rob Little, Tim Crowe and Simon Barlow

Large-format volume containing 50 superbly executed illustrations of African gamebird species, each framed by full and detailed backgrounds depicting the bird in its favoured habitat. Each is supplemented by line drawings that give an ... ....

Glimpses of Australian Birdlife

Sally Elmer, Peter Slater and Raoul Slater

This beautifully photographed book captures the variety and brilliance of Australian birds in their natural habitat. Glimpses of Australian Birdlife by Sally Elmer and Peter Slater features stunning photos of small and large ... ....

Helping and Communal Breeding in Birds

Jerram L Brown

A reprint of a classical work in the Princeton Legacy Library. Originally published in 1987. An overview of the extensive and frequently controversial literature on communally breeding birds developed since the early ...

Hummingbirds

Ronald Orenstein, Michael Fogden and Patricia Fogden

The tiny hummingbird has long been a source of fascination for birdwatchers and naturalists alike. They number 300 species and Ronald Orenstein has a passion for all of them. Hummingbirds are the smallest birds in the world.

Io Lani: The Hawaiian Hawk

John L Culliney, Nathan Napoka and William S Chillingworth

A symbol of Hawaiian royalty – indomitable, swift, strong, and fierce – io, the Hawaiian hawk, Buteo solitarius, also represents a Hawai`i that has remained unchanged from its earliest days of wild splendor.

Korea Through her Birds

Windows into a World

Robert Newlin

Korea's birds deserve a wider audience. The country's geographical location, topography, temperate climate, and wealth of diverse habitats combine to support an extraordinarily attractive avifauna. Many visitors to Korea see the ... ....

RSPB Seabirds

Marianne Taylor and David Tipling

Seabirds are the living links between land, air and sea. They enjoy a freedom that even humans, with all our technological assistance, can barely imagine. Many species travel mind-boggling distances across the length and breadth of our ... ....

The Birds of Herefordshire 2007-2012

An Atlas of Their Breeding and Wintering Distributions

Mervyn Davies, Peter Eldridge, Chris Robinson, Nick Smith and Gerald Wells

The Birds of Herefordshire 2007-2012 is the first systematic assessment of the breeding and wintering distribution and abundance of the bird species of the county of Herefordshire. It is the culmination of a project, undertaken ... ....

The Devil's Cormorant

A Natural History

Richard J King

Behold the cormorant: silent, still, cruciform, and brooding; flashing, soaring, quick as a snake. Evolution has crafted the only creature on Earth that can migrate the length of a continent, dive and hunt deep underwater, perch comfortably ... ....

The Ostrich Communal Nesting System

Brian CR Bertram

A reprint of a classical work in the Princeton Legacy Library. Originally published in 1992. As the study of cooperative breeding systems expands, a number of key species form the examples that underpin our general understanding ... ....

Threatened Birds of Maharashtra

Asad R Rahmani, Raju Kasambe, Sujit Narwade, Pramod Patil and Noor I Khan

Threatened Birds of Maharashtra is the third in the Threatened Birds series published by the BNHS and OUP. Threatened Birds of Maharashtra brings information about the globally threatened bird species that are ... ....

Vocalizations of Leaf-warblers and Spectacled Warblers (Phylloscopus and Seicercus) (2CD)

Jochen Martens

Among the Old World songbirds the Leaf-warblers and Spectacled Warblers are most intriguing. Their uniform outer coloration of green and yellow makes them difficult to distinguish in the field and even in museum collections. Within their ... ....

Welcome to Subirdia

Sharing Our Neighborhoods with Wrens, Robins, Woodpeckers, and Other Wildlife

John M Marzluff and Jack DeLap

Welcome to Subirdia presents a surprising discovery: the suburbs of many large cities support incredible biological diversity. Populations and communities of a great variety of birds, as well as other creatures, are adapting to ... ....

A Guide to Australian Pythons in Captivity

Adam Elliott, Robert Johnson and Justin Julander

A Guide to Australian Pythons in Captivity is the latest pet owner/breeder reference on Australian pythons in captivity to be published in Australia. Written by Adam Elliott, with contributing authors, Dr Robert Johnson presenting ... ....

A Worldwide Travel Guide to Sea Turtles

Wallace J Nichols, Brad Nahill and Melissa Gaskill

Sea turtle populations around the world are endangered, and in recent years tourism has been a critical element in worldwide efforts to save them. More travelers seek meaningful experiences that bring them close to nature and wildlife ... ....

Amphibians of Nandankanan

Pratyush P Mohapatra, Manoj V Nair and Sudarsan Panda

A field guide to the amphibians of Nandankanan Sanctuary, a 400-hectare zoo and botanical garden in Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India. It includes an annotated checklist.

Lizard Ecology

Historical and Experimental Perspectives

Laurie J Vitt and Eric R Pianka

A reprint of a classical work in the Princeton Legacy Library. Originally published in 1994. In a collection rich in implications for all fields of ecology, leading lizard ecologists demonstrate the utility of the ...

Nature Guide Snakes and Other Reptiles and Amphibians

Dorling Kindersley (DK)

Have the world in your hands with these compact, affordable, illustrated natural history guides. From tiny frogs in the rainforest to giant tropical crocodiles, leaf through Nature Guide Snakes and Other Reptiles and Amphibians ... ....

ASA S3/SC1.4 TR-2014 Sound Exposure Guidelines for Fishes and Sea Turtles

A Technical Report Prepared by ANSI-Accredited Standards Committee S3/SC1 and Registered With ANSI

Arthur N Popper, Anthony D Hawkins, Richard R Fay, D Mann, S Bartol, Th Carlson, S Coombs and Elliso

This Technical Report presents the outcome of a Working Group that was established to determine broadly applicable sound exposure guidelines for fishes and sea turtles. After consideration of the diversity of fish and sea turtles ... ....

Der Zwergkarpfling (Least Killifish)

Michael Kempkes

Least Killifish (Heterandria formosa), despite their rather plain color and small size, are some of the most fascinating aquarium inhabitants. In particular, their reproductive biology is extremely interesting. The only 2 cm large ... ....

Identification Guide to the Deep-Sea Cartilaginous Fishes of the Indian Ocean

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

This fully illustrated guide is designed to assist with the identification of a selection of deep-sea cartilaginous fishes of the Indian Ocean that are of major, moderate or minor importance to fisheries.

Native Fishes of Ohio

Daniel L Rice and Gary Meszaros

Ohio's original heavily forested landscape included glacial lakes, large rivers, and streams that teemed with an abundant variety of fish, most of which remain resident today. Native Fishes of Ohio documents the more than ... ....

Review of the Circumtropical Monacanthid Fish Genus Cantherhines, with Descriptions of Two New Species

John E Randall

This volume deals with the circumtropical Monacanthid fish genus Cantherhines and describes two new species.

Salmon: A Scientific Memoir

Jude Isabella

Salmon: A Scientific Memoir investigates a narrative that is important to the identity of the Pacific Northwest Coast – the salmon as an iconic species. Traditionally it's been a narrative that is overwhelmingly about ... ....

Schneckenbuntbarsche (Shell-Dwelling Cichlids)

Wilhelm Eugen Klaas

The terms shell dwellers or shell-dwellers, shell-breeding, or ostracophil are descriptive terms for cichlid fish that use the empty shells of aquatic snails as sites for breeding and shelter. This guide describes in detail for the first ... ....

A Buzz in the Meadow

Dave Goulson

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

Abeilles et Pollinisation en Danger

Francois Couplan, Aymeric Lazarin and Guillaune Lazarin

In recent years, French beekeepers have observed a phenomenon of loss and abnormal loss of bee colonies. This view is shared by beekeepers in many countries, amongst others Germany and the United States. The bee is an insect pollinator essential ... ....

Advances in Studies on Asian Cerambycids (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae)

Papers by Alexandr I. Miroshnikov, Dedicated to the Memory of Dr. Judson Linsley Gressitt

Alexander Slipinski,Stanislaw Adam Konstantinov and Alexey Yu Solodovnikov

From the foreword: "Over the past few years, I have been privileged to study or revise a rich and highly interesting material of several little-known groups of longicorn beetles from eastern and southeastern Asia.

Atlas des Lepidopteres Gracillaridae Lithocolletinae de France

Jacques Nel and Thierry Varenne

Illustrations of the male and female genitalia of the Lithocolletinae (Gracillariidae) known from France, of which the genus Phyllonorycter comprises over 100 species. Species are grouped according to the larval host plants. ....

Biological Research on the Large Jellyfish from Bohai Sea and Northern Yellow Sea [Chinese]

Dong Jing

Covers research on five large jellyfish species done since 2003 by the Liaoning Provincial Institute of Marine Fisheries.

British Bumblebees

With Emphasis on the Old County Of Somerset

Robin Williams

British Bumblebees covers all mainland species, but tables have special emphasis on the County of Somerset. British Bumblebees contains descriptions and drawings showing all species and their variations, nesting habits ... ....

Caddisflies: The Underwater Architects

Glenn B Wiggins

Caddisflies constitute the insect order Trichoptera in which some 10 000 species are known in the world, including about 1400 in North America. Fossil evidence shows that caddisflies originated in the Triassic period, 200-250 million years ago. ....

Catalogue des Coleopteres de France

Marc Tronquet

The first complete catalogue of the Coleoptera of France since the Catalogue Raisonné des Coléoptères de France by Jean Sainte-Claire Deville (1935/38). Over 50 specialists have contributed to this work. ....

Der Kosmos Kaferfuhrer

Die Kafer Mitteleuropas

Karl Wilhelm Harde and Frantisek Severa

Beetles make up the most species-rich order of insects. Der Kosmos-K„ferf�hrer offers a representative overviewo of the fascinating beetle diversity of Central Europe with its over 1000 detailed color drawings. Fast and reliable determination ... ....

Die Ameisen Karntens

Verbreitung, Biologie, Okologie und Gefahrdung

Herbert Wagner

Herbert Wagner and ten other authors detail all 93 ant species known from Carinthia, Austria in this book.

Die Blattflohe (Psyllids)

Daniel Burckhardt

Psyllids are sap-sucking lice whose greatest biodiversity is in the tropics. Most of the 4000 described species are very host specific. Related psylla species often develop on related plant taxa and are usually affected by specific parasites ... ....

Dragonflies: Behaviour and Ecology of Odonata

Philip S Corbet

This outstanding monograph presents a critical review of information, published and unpublished, worldwide, on the behaviour and ecology of dragonflies in all stages of the life cycle for both physical and biotic environments.

Dung Beetle Ecology

Ilkka Hanski and Yves Cambefort

A reprint of a classical work in the Princeton Legacy Library. In many ecosystems dung beetles play a crucial role – both ecologically and economically – in the decomposition of large herbivore dung.

Earthworm Diversity and Ecology [of Uttar Pradesh]

Keshav Singh and Yogendra Kumar

From the preface: "In this study, we have investigated the biodiversity and distribution of earthworm fauna in northeastern Uttar Pradesh. I have reported that out of 11 species recorded, 7 species ...

Ecology, Systematics, and the Natural History of Predaceous Diving Beetles (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae)

Donald Yee

Predaceous diving beetles (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae) constitute one of the largest families of freshwater insects (~ 4200 species). Although dytiscid adults and larvae are ubiquitous throughout a variety of aquatic habitats and are significant ... ....

Fauna of India and the Adjacent Countries: Dermaptera, Part 3

GK Srivastava

From the preface: "With this part, the study on Dermaptera from India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka is complete. However, in future when further explorations are undertaken, especially in whole of the ... ....

Forage for Pollinators in an Agricultural Landscape

Andrew Matheson and Norman L Carreck

It is recognised that bees and other insect pollinators have intrinsic cultural value, and play an essential role in the diversity and resilience of our plant and animal life, through the pollination of agricultural crops and wild plants ... ....

Forest Entomology

Emerging Issues and Dimensions

Mujeeb Rahman and Mary Anto

Recent years have witnessed great advances in the field of basic and applied entomology. Gradual developments of both theoretical and field based studies during last few decades have changed the way researchers approach their work and ... ....

Handbook of Marine Prawns of India

G Sudhakara Rao, EV Radhakrishnan and Josileen Jose

The Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute realised the importance of crustaceans as an exportable resource and started concentrating on prawn fisheries resemch and development since the 1960s. The Institute published Bulletin 14 ... ....

Honeybee Ecology

A Study of Adaptation in Social Life

Thomas D Seeley

A reprint of a classical work in the Princeton Legacy Library. Originally published in 1985. Honeybee Ecology presents honeybees as a model system for investigating advanced social life among insects from ...

Illustrated Handbook of Coral [Chinese]

Xiaolin Dao Xin

This richly illustrated handbook on corals gives details on breeding, lighting, water flow rate, temperature and other factors important to keep these corals successfully in an aquarium.

Important Economic Cephalopoda and Fishery in China Coastal Waters [Chinese]

Chen Xinjun

Deals with the economically important cephalopods of China in seven chapters.

In Praise of Bees

A Cabinet of Curiosities

Elizabeth Birchall

This fascinating and comprehensive book explores the bee's place in human society from prehistoric cave paintings and inscribed clay tablets through to our contemporary world – a cabinet whose drawers are filled with nuggets of ... ....

Land Crabs of Hengchun Peninsula [Chinese]

Li Zhengzhan

A field guide to the land crabs of Hengchun Peninsula, China.

Landsnails of Taiwan [Chinese]

Bo-Chuan Hsieh, Wu Shu-Ping and Tsai Chi-Li

Describes 329 species belonging to 36 families.

Larvae of the North American Caddisfly Genera (Trichoptera)

Glenn B Wiggins

Caddisflies are among the most diverse groups of organisms living in freshwater habitats, and their larvae are involved in energy transfer at several levels within these communities.

Le Jardin Secret des Insectes

Monique Berger and Michel Gaudichon

The photos of Monique Berger, and texts by Michel Gaudichon allows the reader to discover the extraordinary relationships that insects have developed over time with flowers, and shows us how they respond to these two inherent constraints ... ....

Lenna, Safiirisoturi: Maailman Paivaperhoslajien Suomenkielinen Nimisto, Osa 1

Papilionidae, Pieridae, Nymphalidae s.l.

Kari Nissinen

A total of 7080 butterfly species currently have a Finnish vernacular name. The names of about 6800 of them are new and are published for the first time in list. The first part in a new series, it deals with the families Papilionidae, Pieridae ... ....

Les Anthicidae de la Faune de France (Coleoptera)

Paul Bonadona, R Allemand and V Marengo

Compilation of papers taken from two French journals, covering this beetle family.

Nordens Dyngbaggar [Dung Beetles of Northern Europe]

Tomas Roslin, Mattias Forshage, Frode Odegaard, Camilla Ekblad and Goran Liljeberg

It's just as easy to study dung beetles as to watch birds, and just as fun. But how can these insects thrive in other animal's faeces? How important are they in the natural cycle? And how do you differentiate Scandinavian dung beetles ... ....

Paivaperhoset Matkalla Pohjoiseen

Ilmasto Lampenee - Lajisto Muuttuu

Kimmo Saarinen and Juha Jantunen

A distribution atlast for Finnish butterflies, showing distribution and abundance since 1991 and the results of the work of over 700 volunteers who have, put together, collected data during 120 000 days of observation.

Pesticide Risk Assessment for Pollinators

David Fischer and Tom Moriarty

Pollinators play a vital role in ecosystem health as well as being essential to maintaining food security. With significant declines in both managed and wild pollinator populations in recent years scientists and regulators have sought an ... ....

Phytophagous Beetles of Europe, Tome 3

Anthribidae, Bruchidae, Curculionidae, Entiminae

Gaetan du Chatenet

The Curculionidae is the largest family of beetles and studying them is particularly difficult. However, Phytophagous Beetles of Europe, Tome 3 will help you to recognise the most common species and the most characteristic of the ... ....

RES Handbook, Volume 6, Part 6: The Vespoid Wasps (Tiphiidae, Mutillidae, Sapygidae, Scoliidae and Vespidae) of the Brit

Michael E Archer

A general introduction is provided to the natural history and external morphology for the following families of the Vespoidea: Tiphiidae, Mutillidae, Sapygidae, Scoliidae and Vespidae including the subfamilies Eumeninae, Polistinae and ... ....

Research Materials of Crustacea in China

China Scientific Book Services (CSBS)

This book is a compilation of 20 articles on Chinese Crustacea published in various Chinese Journals (e.g. Current Zoology, Science China (Earth Sciences), Science China (Life Sciences) ...

Suomen Verkkosiipiset

Suomen ja Euroopan Ensimmainen Kuvitettu Maaritysopas Verkkosiipisista

Teemu Rintala, Tomi Kumpulainen and Petri Ahlroth

Comprehensive, well illustrated guide to 85 species of Neuroptera and related groups known from Finland and neighbouring regions. Information on distribution, habitats, life history and status.

Texas Seashells

A Field Guide

Jr.,John W Tunnell, Noe C Barrera and Fabio Moretzsohn

Walking along the beach and picking up seashells is a favorite pastime enjoyed by millions of people every year. Texas Seashells: A Field Guide covers three hundred of the better-known or more common seashells found on Texas coastal ... ....

The Art of Beekeeping

Look After the Honey Bees - Honey Bees and Flowers in the Garden

Rebecca M Joseph

You may like to eat honey. Honeybees make honey for no profit, but the honeybees are in decline with parasites and whatever else that nature throws at them. I personally love to see the honeybee with pollen on its back legs ready to go ... ....

The Bee

A Natural History

Noah Wilson-Rich, Kelly Allin, Norman L Carreck and Andrea Quigley

Bees pollinate more than 130 fruit, vegetable, and seed crops that we rely on to survive. Bees are crucial to the reproduction and diversity of flowering plants, and the economic contributions of these irreplaceable insects measure in the ... ....

The Caddisfly Family Phryganeidae (Trichoptera)

Glenn B Wiggins

The goal of much of the scientific work in natural history museums is to explore and document the biological diversity of the planet. The Caddisfly Family Phryganeidae (Trichoptera) is an outstanding example of the museum tradition, offering ... ....

The Choanoflagellates

Evolution, Biology and Ecology

Choanoflagellates have three distinctive claims to fame: they are the closest, living, unicellular relatives of animals; they are a major component of aquatic microbial foodwebs (the microbial loop); and one group is remarkable for its ... ....

Wasps And Bees In Southern Africa

Sarah K Gess and Friedrich W Gess

In Wasps And Bees In Southern Africa, the authors have compiled all that is known for southern Africa of the biology of wasps and bees, important pollinators and predators, and have shown how agricultural land use and coastal ... ....

Wirbellose im Terrarium

Ingo Fritzsche and Benny Trapp

This new book series im Terrarium covers the entire spectrum of terrestrial animals from amphibians, reptiles to invertebrates. Each volume offers a detailed, practical introduction to the biology, husbandry and reproduction ... ....

ZooKeys 413

The Hyper-Diverse Ant Genus Tetramorium Mayr (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in the Malagasy region Taxonomic Revision of the

Francisco Hita Garcia and Brian L Fisher

The taxonomy of the Tetramorium naganum, T. plesiarum, T. schaufussii, and T. severini species groups are revised for the Malagasy region. A total of 31 species are treated, of which 22 are newly described and ... ....

Animal Fossils of Nagaland

TK Pal, R Venkatachalapathy, B Baraik and R Bandyopadhyay

This paper discusses a study on animal fossils found in Nagaland, a state in the far north-eastern part of India.

Animal Remains from South-Western Part of West Bengal, India and Their Relevance to the Ancient Civilization of the Area

Supriya Nandy and TK Pal

This study reports on animal remains from South-Western part of West Bengal, and how they relate to ancient human civilizations from the Palaeolithic, Mesolithic, and Neolithic. Ten important zooarchaeological sites within the study area ... ....

Eocene-Oligocene Climatic and Biotic Evolution

Donald R Prothero and William A Berggren

A reprint of a classical work in the Princeton Legacy Library. Originally published in 1992. The transition from the Eocene to the Oligocene epochs was the most significant event in earth history since the extinction ...

Extinct Madagascar

Picturing the Island's Past

Steven M Goodman, William L Jungers and Velizar Simeonovski

The landscapes of Madagascar have long delighted zoologists, who have discovered, in and among the island's baobad trees and thickets, a dizzying array of animals, including something approaching one hundred species of lemur.

Ferrantia, Volume 68: Beitrage zur Paleontologie des Unterdevons Luxemburgs, Volume 3

Christian Franke

Contains four contributions: Marine Fauna der Wiltz-Schichten (Ober-Emsium, Unter-Devon), der Mulde von Wiltz und der Daleider Mulden-Gruppe (Luxemburg,Deutschland). Teil 2: Crinoida In connection with the ...

Hadrosaurs

David A Eberth, David C Evans and Jack Horner

Hadrosaurs – also known as duck-billed dinosaurs – are abundant in the fossil record. With their unique complex jaws and teeth perfectly suited to shred and chew plants, they flourished on Earth in remarkable diversity during ... ....

Himalayan Fossil Fraud

A View from the Galleries

SK Shah

From the editor's note: "This article is not sensu stricto a scientific article but it has an important bearing on an incident in the History of Indian Palaeontology and Stratigraphy which changed and tightened ... ....

Phanerozoic Diversity Patterns

Profiles in Macroevolution

James W Valentine

A reprint of a classical work in the Princeton Legacy Library. Originally published in 1986. Here twenty-one leading paleontologists use important refinements in fossil diversity data to provide critical evaluations of ... ....

A Handbook of Harmful Marine Life

Ramasamy Santhanam

A Handbook of Harmful Marine Life has been written primarily to serve as a Handbook-cum-Reference for all the students of Life Sciences, viz Zoology Marine Biology Aquatic Biology and Environmental Sciences and as a general ... ....

Marine Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics of the Northwest Pacific Ocean

Sun Song, Andrey V Adrianov, Konstantin A Lutaenko and Sun Xiao-Xia

Marine Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics of the Northwest Pacific Ocean is prepared jointly by the Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IOCAS, Qingdao) and A.V. Zhirmunsky Institute of Marine Biology, Far East ... ....

Parasite Fauna in the Wetland Fishes of India

Ratnabir Singha, M Shomorendra Singh and Devashish Kar

The results of a study on the parasite faune of fish from Lake Dolu in the state of Assam, India, discussing the cestode, nematode and acanthocephala species found.

The Hadal Zone

Life in the Deepest Oceans

Alan Jamieson

The hadal zone represents one of the last great frontiers in marine science, accounting for 45% of the total ocean depth range. Despite very little research effort since the 1950s, the last ten years has seen a renaissance in hadal exploration ... ....

A King Salmon Journey

Debbie S Miller, John H Eiler and Jon Van Zyle

Two thousand miles is a staggering distance for any kind of journey. But imagine making it not by car or even foot – but by fin. That's what faces Chinook, a female king salmon, as she takes a dramatic trip to safely deliver her ... ....

A Primer of Astronomy

Robert Ball

First published in 1911 as the second edition of a 1900 original, A Primer of Astronomy provides a basic introduction to astronomy written by the former Astronomer Royal of Ireland. The text is illustrated with photographs, diagrams ... ....

A School of Dolphins

Charles Avery

Dolphins have long featured in Western art as religious and political symbols, but never before has there been an art book devoted to these beautiful and intelligent animals. Published to celebrate the sixtieth Anniversary of ...

A Wild Adventure

Thomas Watling: Dumfries - Convict - Artist

Tom Pow

Tom Pow's beautiful, powerful poems examine the remarkable life of Thomas Watling. Watling was born in Dumfries in September 1762 and raised by a long-suffering maiden aunt. Convicted of forging Bank of Scotland one-guinea notes he ... ....

Alps: Alpine Landscape Pictures

Olaf Unverzart

Serious Alpine photography began in the middle of the 19th century by photographers who lugged large plate cameras into inaccessible regions to produce some of the most spectacular images of their time. Nearly two hundred years later ... ....

Animal 123

Camilla de la Bedoyere

Every number from 1 to 20, then in 10s right up to 100. Includes birds and beetles, fish and fowl, and finishes with 100 wonderful fish to count. This is a magnificently illustrated title that will engage and develop any young ...

Animal Stars

Behind the Scenes With Your Favorite Animal Actors

Allen Anderson and Linda Anderson

What would make Ewan MacGregor ask to adopt the dog he worked with on the set of Beginners? From Joey in War Horse to the wolves in Game of Thrones, what we see on screen is only the tip of the iceberg.

Animalium

Jenny Broom and Katie Scott

Welcome to the Museum is a series of books set on the "walls" of the printed page, showcasing the world’s finest collections of objects – from natural history to art. Open 365 days a year and unrestricted ... ....

Arctic Miscellanies

A Souvenir of the Late Polar Search

James John Louis Donnet

In 1850, a small squadron of British naval vessels, under the command of Horatio Austin, sought to locate the missing Arctic expedition of Sir John Franklin. The ships were trapped in ice by September 1850 and the men were forced to endure ... ....

Badlands: An Illustrated Tribute

Robert Kroetsch

Originally published in 1975, Badlands has been heralded as a comic triumph for decades. The story starts in 1916, when scientist William Dawe leads a paleontological expedition into the badlands of Alberta, obsessed with achieving ... ....

Bateman: New Works

Robert Bateman

Robert Bateman is one of the world's greatest wildlife artists and most committed naturalists. This exquisite collection of recent works, all reproduced here for the first time in book form, is published in honor of his 80th birthday ... ....

Beautiful Destruction

Louis Helbig

The Alberta oil/tar sands are a place of superlatives, of awesome beauty and equally awesome destruction. They are a kaleidoscope of contrasts, colours and patterns keeping time with the seemingly unstoppable movement of machinery, smoke ... ....

Beyond the Big Ditch

Politics, Ecology, and Infrastructure at the Panama Canal

Ashley Carse

In this innovative book, Ashley Carse traces the water that flows into and out from the Panama Canal to explain how global shipping is entangled with Panama's cultural and physical landscapes. By following container ships as they ... ....

Biological Actions of Sex Hormones

Harold Burrows

Originally published in 1945, Biological Actions of Sex Hormones presents a detailed study of the nature of sex hormones and the reactions of living tissues towards them, providing a co-ordinated summary of experimental inquiries ... ....

BirdWingFeather

Siri Schillios

Bold lines, soft shapes, and happy colors form the birds in BirdWingFeather. On the right-hand page appears a painting of a lovely bird against a colorful sky. On the left-hand page appears a detail set of the painting ... ....

Canadian Wetlands

Places and People

Rod Giblett

In Canadian Wetlands, Rod Giblett reads the Canadian canon against the grain, critiquing popular representations of wetlands and proposing alternatives by highlighting the work of recent and contemporary Canadian authors, such ... ....

Canoe Nation

Nature, Race, and the Making of a Canadian Icon

Bruce Erickson

In the summer of 2007, the CBC declared the canoe to be one of the Seven Wonders of Canada. More than an ancient means of transportation and trade, it has come to represent a vision of Canada that encompasses our past and present.

Charles Darwin in Cambridge

The Most Joyful Years

John van Wyhe

Charles Darwin's years as a student at the University of Cambridge were some of the most important and formative of his life. Thereafter he always felt a particular affection for Cambridge. For a time he even considered a Cambridge ... ....

Charley Harper Coloring Book, Volume 1

Charley Harper

Painting complex creatures with simplicity, and without losing their true character, was a signature skill of Charley Harper (American, 1922–2007). He painted animals from all continents, both wild and domestic, and created now familiar ... ....

Charley Harper Coloring Book, Volume 2

Charley Harper

An avid naturalist, Charley Harper enjoyed painting the insects, plants, birds, and animals he loved. He masterfully portrayed a host of species using simple lines and shapes. From the smallest lady beetle to the largest monkey, Harper ... ....

Charley Harper Tree of Life Sticker Book

Charley Harper

Artist and animal-lover Charley Harper (American, 1922–2007) was raised on a farm in West Virginia. As a kid he would go exploring in the woods and fields near his home, taking along a pen and paper to sketch the critters he came ... ....

Charley Harper's What's in the Coral Reef?

Charley Harper and Zoe Burke

The third book in Pomegranate's successful Nature Discovery Series, Charley Harper's What's in the Coral Reef? explores the abundance and variety of coral reef sea life. Zoe Burke's rhyming text introduces ... ....

Cheetahs

Sally Morgan

Do you know where the word 'cheetah' comes from? That they can reach a top speed of 60 miles per hour when running? Or that the Ancient Egyptians used to keep cheetahs as pets? Become an expert on these fascinating big cats with ... ....

Christopher Marley's Incredible Insects Sticker Book

Christopher Marley

8 page softcover book with more than 200 reusable paper stickers (99 different designs) featuring photographs of insects by Christopher Marley. Includes a diagram identifying all the insects. As a kid, Christopher Marley was ...

Classification: Insects

Stephen Savage

Classification: Insects shows children how to identify and group insects according to their characteristics. It answers questions such as what is an insect? Where do insects live? What do insects eat? And how do insects move about ... ....

Climate Changes in Ancient Societies

Susanne Kerner, Rachael Dann and Pernille Bangsgaard

While most scientists agree that humans are bringing about unprecedented climate change on Earth, it is also true that Earth has undergone many periods of climactic variation without our help, and we, as a species, have had to cope with ... ....

Comparing Apples, Oranges, and Cotton

Environmental Histories of the Global Plantation

Frank Uekotter

Worldwide, plantations are key economic institutions of the modern era. From an environmental perspective, they are also the settings for some of the most powerful, consequential, and frequently destructive modes of production ever to have ... ....

Consolations of the Forest

Alone in a Cabin in the Middle Taiga

Sylvain Tesson and Linda Coverdale

In Consolations of the Forest, Sylvain Tesson explains how he found a radical solution to his need for freedom, one as ancient as the experiences of the hermits of old Russia: he decided to lock himself alone in a cabin in the ... ....

Could a Penguin Ride a Bike?

And Other Questions

Camilla de la Bedoyere and Aleksei Bitskoff

Could a Penguin Ride a Bike? provides a great introduction into the life of a penguin. By imagining animals in everyday scenarios, readers can learn about their size, diet and other features. For example, a penguin chick eats ... ....

Curiosity: How Science Became Interested in Everything

Philip Ball

There was a time when curiosity was condemned. To be curious was to delve into matters that didn't concern you – after all, the original sin stemmed from a desire for forbidden knowledge. Through curiosity our innocence was lost ... ....

Dive: The World's Best Diving Destinations

Lawson Wood

Where can I swim with turtles? How do you get to Stingray City? What is the best time of year to dive with sharks in the Bahamas? Here, you can find out. Packed with stunning pictures of marine life and ancient wrecks, insightful information ... ....

Dylan's Amazing Dinosaurs - the Tyrannosaurus Rex

ET Harper and Dan Taylor

Dylan loves exploring and learning all about dinosaurs. In his amazing treehouse he has a magic journal. Every time he opens it awesome things happen – even his toy pterodactyl comes to life! They fly off on dinosaur discovery missions ... ....

Earth and Industry

Stories from Gippsland

Erik Eklund and Julie Fenley

How have individuals and communities responded to change and interacted with the physical environments around them? In Earth and Industry: Stories from Gippsland Erik Eklund and Julie Fenley assemble contributors to examine ... ....

Elephants

Sally Morgan

Learn all about the amazing world of elephants, and follow their lives from calf to adult. What is the difference between the African and the African forest elephant? How much milk do the young calves drink? How do elephants communicate? ....

Essai de Geologie (3-Volume Set)

Ou, Memoires Pour Servir a l'Histoire Naturelle du Globe

Barthelemy Faujas-de-Saint-Fond

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. Barthélemy Faujas-de-Saint-Fond (1741-1819) abandoned the legal profession to pursue studies in natural history. Appointed a royal commissioner ... ....

Essai de Geologie, Volume 1

Ou, Memoires Pour Servir a l'Histoire Naturelle du Globe

Barthelemy Faujas-de-Saint-Fond

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. Barthélemy Faujas-de-Saint-Fond (1741-1819) abandoned the legal profession to pursue studies in natural history. Appointed a royal commissioner ... ....

Essai de Geologie, Volume 2, Part 1: Mineraux

Ou, Memoires Pour Servir a l'Histoire Naturelle du Globe

Barthelemy Faujas-de-Saint-Fond

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. Barthélemy Faujas-de-Saint-Fond (1741-1819) abandoned the legal profession to pursue studies in natural history. Appointed a royal commissioner ... ....

Essai de Geologie, Volume 2, Part 2: Volcans

Ou, Memoires Pour Servir a l'Histoire Naturelle du Globe

Barthelemy Faujas-de-Saint-Fond

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. Barthélemy Faujas-de-Saint-Fond (1741-1819) abandoned the legal profession to pursue studies in natural history. Appointed a royal commissioner ... ....

Exploring Science: Space

An Amazing Fact File and Hands-on Project Book: with 19 Easy-to-do Experiments and 300 Exciting Pictures

Ian Graham

Exploring Science: Space comes with 19 easy-to-do experiments and 300 exciting pictures. It deals with the stories and the science behind the challenge to explore the cosmos. It offers action-packed information on the history ... ....

Facing It

Epiphany & Apocalypse in the New Nature

M Jimmie Killingsworth

Blending memoir, cultural history, and a literary perspective, Facing It bears witness to controversies like Tellico and Chernobyl, global warming and local drought. But rather than merely drowning readers in waves of ecological ... ....

Firewood Banksia

Philippa Nikulinsky

A dazzling and wondrous celebration of Banksia menziesii (Firewood or Menzies' Banksia) by one of Australia's best botanical artists. After many field trips and long observation of the species, Philippa Nikulinsky has ... ....

Floral Jewels

From the World's Leading Designers

Carol Woolton

Throughout history, flowers have been the inspiration for jewellers and the people who wore their creations. Gabrielle Chanel's favourite flower was the camellia and since the 1920s the flower has become incorporated into every aspect ... ....

Fossils Sticker Book

The Natural History Museum (London - UK)

This colourful activity book from the Natural History Museum is the ideal introduction to fantastic fossils. It is crammed with 100 re-useable stickers of fossilized plants and animals, from ancient sea creatures and dinosaur claws to ... ....

Frederic W. Harmer: A Scientific Biography

John Kington

Comprising the first definitive account of the geological and palaeometeorological studies made by the British geologist, Frederic W. Harmer (1835-1924) this book contributes a previously missing chapter to the history of science.

Galen: On Respiration and the Arteries

David J Furley and James S Wilkie

A reprint of a classical work in the Princeton Legacy Library. Originally published in 1984. Professors Furley and Wilkie have provided a newly edited Greek text and a complete English translation with commentary of ...

Get the Scoop on Animal Poop!

From Lions to Tapeworms: 251 Cool Facts About Scat, Frass, Dung, and More!

Dawn Cusick

Poop gets a bad rap, but it's really very cool and useful. Animals use poop in many different ways: to trick predators and prey, send messages, feed themselves and their babies, build homes, mark their territories, and more.

Get the Scoop on Animal Puke!

From Zombie Ants to Vampire Bats, 251 Cool Facts about Vomit, Regurgiation, & More!

Dawn Cusick

It sounds like cheap pandering to children's obsession with the gross and disgusting, but actually it's a fantastic way to learn a lot of science. Following in the footsteps of the bestselling ...

Giraffes

Sally Morgan

Learn all about the amazing world of giraffes, and follow their lives from calf to adult. Do all giraffes have the same pattern on their fur? How long is a giraffe's tongue? What is necking and why do giraffes do it? Find out the answers ... ....

Governing the Sea in the Early Modern Era

Carole Shammas and Peter C Mancall

Early modern European governments and their subjects had difficulty agreeing to laws governing behavior on the sea – an environment that featured watery borders, rampant piracy, the threat of free trade, and the large-scale transport ... ....

Guide to the University Botanic Garden Cambridge

Humphrey Gilbert-Carter

Originally published in 1922, this book was created to provide an accessible guide to the plant varieties found in Cambridge University Botanic Garden. It was written by Humphrey Gilbert-Carter (1884-1969), the first academic Director of ... ....

Haeckel's Embryos

Images, Evolution, and Fraud

Nick Hopwood

Pictures from the past powerfully shape current views of the world. In books, television programs, and websites, new images appear alongside others that have survived from decades ago. Among the most famous are drawings of embryos by the ... ....

Horst: Patterns from Nature

Martin Barnes and Horst P Horst

Horst P. Horst (1906-1999) was one of the twentieth century's master photographers. A revered figure in the world of fashion image making, he charted sixty years of style for Vogue and House and Garden, from the ... ....

If You Happen to Have a Dinosaur

Linda Bailey and Colin Jack

If You Happen to Have a Dinosaur and you don't know what to do with it... why don't you use it as a can opener? It will make a terrific nutcracker too! This delightfully absurd exploration of the domestic uses of dinosaurs ... ....

In Praise of Darwin

George Romanes and the Evolution of a Darwinian Believer

J David Pleins

George John Romanes, close friend and colleague of Darwin, remains a misunderstood figure in the history of evolutionary science. Although his scientific contributions have been valued, his religious journey has been either neglected or ... ....

In Pursuit of a Shadow

By a Lady Astronomer

Elizabeth Brown

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. The title page calls the author of this 1888 work 'A Lady Astronomer'. She was Elizabeth Brown (1830-99), and the shadow she was pursuing was ...

Incredible Insects Coloring Book

Christopher Marley

Pomegranate’s Incredible Insects Coloring Book features 22 designs based on the stunning original artwork of Christopher Marley. Coloring pages are blank on the back so they can be cut out and displayed.

Legacy in Time

Three Generation of Mountain Photography in the Canadian West

Jr.,Henry Vaux

Among the early North American explorers in the Rogers Pass, Yoho and Banff regions of western Canada were members of the Vaux family of Philadelphia. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, George Vaux Jr. (1863–1927) ... ....

Letters Written During the Late Voyage of Discovery in the Western Arctic Sea

Sir Edward Parry (1790-1855) wrote accounts of his three Arctic expeditions, which have also been reissued in this series. Letters Written During the Late Voyage of Discovery in the Western Arctic Sea takes the form of letters ... ....

Life in the Jungle

Memoirs of a Forester

MN Jayakumar

M.N. Jayakumar's dream to share his experience of almost four decades in the jungles of India through true stories and photographs has taken shape in the form of this cofee table book. Life in the Jungle contains ...

Life in the Rainforest Coloring Book

Susan Koop and Michael Turco

Pomegranate’s Life in the Rainforest Coloring Book features 22 drawings to color. Coloring pages are blank on the back so they can be cut out and displayed. Did you know that tropical rainforests are home to the ... ....

Lions

Sally Morgan

Learn all about the amazing world of lions, and floow their lives from cub to adult. You'll be an expert in no time! Did you know that a lion's tongue feels like sandpaper? That there is an entire subspecies of lion living in a ... ....

Making a New Land

Environmental Histories of New Zealand

Eric Pawson and Tom Brooking

Presents an interdisciplinary perspective on one of the most rapid and extensive transformations in human history: that which followed Maori and then European colonisation of New Zealand's temperate islands. This is a new edition of ... ....

Memoirs of Hans Hendrik, the Arctic Traveller, Serving Under Kane, Hayes, Hall and Nares, 1853-1876

Translated from the Eskimo Language

Hans Hendrik, Henry Rink and George Stephens

First published in 1878, this English translation of the memoirs of Hans Hendrik (c.1834-89), a native Greenlander, provides a valuable alternative perspective on polar exploration in the nineteenth century. Inuit were often employed on ... ....

Mount Robson

Spiral Road of Art

Jane Lytton Gooch

When Jane Gooch first camped at Lake O'Hara in 1975, she could not have foreseen how important the Rockies would become in her life. She travelled from her home in Vancouver many times during the summer months to hike in the mountains ... ....

My First Summer in the Sierra

John Muir

In the summer of 1869, John Muir set out from California's Central Valley with a flock of sheep and trekked into the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. His journals describe the summer he spent in what would become Yosemite National Park ... ....

Narrative of the Arctic Land Expedition to the Mouth of the Great Fish River, and Along the Shores of the Arctic Ocean

In the Years 1833, 1834, and 1835

George Back

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. John Ross had disappeared while exploring the Northwest Passage in 1829. A lieutenant in the Royal Navy, George Back (1796-1878) had already served with ... ....

Naturalist's Voyage Round the World

The Voyage of the Beagle

Charles Darwin

When On the Origin of Species came out in 1859, it changed the understanding of life and was the foundation of evolutionary biology. All the material that he received for this book was from the famous expeditions he took on the Beagle during ... ....

On Safari - River, Bushveld, Desert

A Young Explorer's Guide

Nadine Clarke

This bumper edition, comprising three lively children's nature guides, brings together a treasure trove of information, colourful images, games and activities for young readers. A local guide leads adventurers on safaris ...

Opulent Oceans

Extraordinary Rare Book Selections from the American Museum of Natural History Library

Melanie LJ Stiassny

Join author Melanie Stiassny from the American Museum of Natural History on an epic, oceanic journey in this gorgeously illustrated volume from the popular Natural Histories series. These fascinating essays, taken from the museum's ... ....

Pemmican Empire

Food, Trade, and the Last Bison Hunts in the North American Plains, 1780-1882

George Colpitts

In the British territories of the North American Great Plains, food figured as a key trading commodity after 1780, when British and Canadian fur companies purchased ever-larger quantities of bison meats and fats (pemmican) from plains ... ....

Picasso's Animals

Boris Friedewald

One of the few under-examined aspects of Picasso's life and work was his love of animals. The son of a pigeon breeder and an aficionado of bullfighting, Picasso had an eye trained for capturing an animal's movement, shape, and ... ....

Pygmy Elephants

Matt Salusbury

If ever there was a contender for "giant dwarfs" or "the world's biggest dwarf", pygmy elephants are it. Even a five-foot at the shoulder pygmy elephant would still be a massive beast. I wanted to call this work ... ....

RSPB Bird Encyclopedia

Mike Unwin

This beautiful RSPB Encyclopedia will take you on an incredible journey through the world of birds, helping you find out about the amazing feathered creatures that share our planet. From tropical parrots and toucans to sea birds and eagles ... ....

Race Unmasked

Biology and Race in the Twentieth Century

Michael Yudell

Race, while drawn from the visual cues of human diversity, is an idea with a measurable past, an identifiable present, and an uncertain future. The concept of race has been at the center of both triumphs and tragedies in American history ... ....

Rapaces, Passionnement

Gerard Schmitt

The book immerses you in the world of birds of prey. It contains photographic essays of 17 species of raptors, and another 24 species breeding in France. Excerpts from field notes, anecdotes, and a brief biological description of each species ... ....

Raven and the Red Ball

Sarah Drummond

If a picture is worth a thousand words, Raven and the Red Ball packs a novel into just sixteen beautiful illustrations. Using not a single word of text, master storyteller Sarah Drummond has woven a rich and compelling tale ... ....

Remaking Wormsloe Plantation

The Environmental History of a Lowcountry Landscape

Drew A Swanson and Paul S Sutter

Why do we preserve certain landscapes while developing others without restraint? Drew A. Swanson's in-depth look at Wormsloe plantation, located on the salt marshes outside of Savannah, Georgia, explores that question while revealing ... ....

Resettling the Range

Animals, Ecologies, and Human Communities in British Columbia

John Thistle

The ranchers who resettled BC's interior in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries depended on grassland for their cattle, but in this they faced some unlikely competition from grasshoppers and wild horses. With the help of ... ....

Ripley's Believe it or Not! Dinosaurs

Fun, Facts and Gore...It's All About Dinosaurs...All With a Ripley Twist!

Robert Ripley

Ripley's Twists offer a unique way of looking at subjects that are of perennial fascination to children, blending information with entertainment and stunning photographs. This colourful and wacky book ...

Ripley's Believe it or Not! Oceans and Extreme Earth

Fun, Facts and Stories with a Ripley Twist!

Robert Ripley

This fantastic two-in-one book reveals the Earth as you've never seen it before. The pages of Ripley's Believe it or Not! Extreme Earth take you everywhere, from the tops of the highest mountains to the depths of the ... ....

Robert Bissell's Rabbits and Bears Coloring Book

Robert Bissell

Pomegranate’s Rabbits and Bears coloring book features 20 drawings based on the original works of art by Robert Bissell. Coloring pages are blank on the back so they can be cut out and displayed. Click on the small picture to see ... ....

Robert Pizzo's Amazing Animal Alphabet Coloring Book

Robert Pizzo

How would you color a Crabby Crab Cabbie? How would you ornament an Outlandish, Oboe-playing Octopus? In his book The Amazing Animal Alphabet of Twenty-Six Tongue Twisters, artist and author Robert Pizzo assembled a cast of crazy critters ... ....

Romanticism, Origins, and the History of Heredity

Christine Lehleiter

At the turn of the eighteenth century, selfhood was defined by the idea of a "tabula rasa" to be imprinted in the course of an individual's life. By the middle of the nineteenth century, however, the individual had become ... ....

Saving Turtles

A Kids' Guide to Helping Endangered Species

Sue Carstairs

Turtles have been around for 220 million years – longer than dinosaurs. But now their time might be running out. Of the roughly 300 species worldwide, more than half are threatened with extinction. Freshwater, marine and land turtles ... ....

Science Ink

Tattoos of the Science Obsessed

Carl Zimmer and Mary Roach

In Science Ink, each tattoo is accompanied by a reflection on the science in question by bestselling essayist and lecturer Zimmer. Body art meets popular science in this elegant, mind-blowing collection, written by renowned scientists ... ....

Seal Island

Julia Green

Grace looked directly at the seal pup and spoke softly to it. 'I'll be back soon. Don't give up'. Grace is excited about her holiday, staying with Granny at her house by the sea. A whole week exploring ... ....

Summits and Starlight

The Canadian Rockies

Paul Zizka and Glen Boles

Iconic and classic images of the Canadian Rockies are taken to new heights and completely reimagined in this stunning collection of contemporary photography by Paul Zizka. As a professional photographer and versatile adventurer, Paul has ... ....

Susan Stockdale's Birds Coloring Book

Susan Stockdale

Pomegranate’s Birds coloring book features 19 drawings of birds based on original art work by Susan Stockdale. Coloring pages are blank on the back so they can be cut out and displayed. You will find 19 of Susan Stockdale's ... ....

The Amazing Animal Alphabet of Twenty-Six Tongue Twisters

Robert Pizzo

Go ahead – try it! See if you can make it through Robert Pizzo's Amazing Animal Alphabet without taking time to untie your tongue twice or thrice! Never shilly-shallying in his search for the famous seashell-selling Sally ... ....

The Ambiguous Frog

The Galvani-Volta Controversy on Animal Electricity

Marcello Pera

A reprint of a classical work in the Princeton Legacy Library. Originally published in 1991. How do ideas become accepted by the scientific community? How and why do scientists choose among empirically equivalent theories ... ....

The Carbon Cycle

Crossing the Great Divide

Kate Rawles

In 2006 outdoor philosopher Kate Rawles cycled 4553 miles from Texas to Alaska, following the spine of the Rocky Mountains as closely as possible. Cycling across unforgiving but starkly beautiful landscapes in both the United States and ... ....

The Care of Natural Monuments

With Special Reference to Great Britain and Germany

Hugo Conwentz

Hugo Conwentz (1855-1922) was a German botanist and conservationist. In The Care of Natural Monuments, which was first published in 1909, Conwentz provides a guide to the protection of various natural habitats, with a particular ... ....

The Chinchaga Firestorm

When the Moon and Sun Turned Blue

Cordy Tymstra

The biggest firestorm documented in North America – 3 500 000 acres of forest burned in northern Alberta and British Columbia – created the world's largest smoke layer in the atmosphere. The smoke was seen around the world ... ....

The Ecology of War in China

Henan Province, the Yellow River, and Beyond, 1938-1950

Micah S Muscolino

The Ecology of War in China explores the interplay between war and the environment in Henan Province, a hotly contested frontline territory that endured massive environmental destruction and human disruption during the conflict ... ....

The Evolving God

Charles Darwin on the Naturalness of Religion

J David Pleins

In focusing on the story of Darwin's religious doubts, scholars too often overlook Darwin's positive contribution to the study of religion. J. David Pleins traces Darwin's journey in five steps.

The Fly Trap

A Book About Summer, Islands and the Freedom of Limits

Fredrik Sjoberg

Fredrik Sjöberg's mesmerising Swedish bestseller on travel, the joy of collecting and discovering the hidden wonders of life. The hoverflies are only props. No, not only, but to some extent. Here and there, my story is about ... ....

The Frozen Zone and its Explorers

A Comprehensive Record of Voyages, Travels, Discoveries, Adventures and Whale-Fishing in the Arctic Regions for One Thou

Alexander Hyde, AC Baldwin and WL Gage

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. This account by three American authors of one thousand years of exploration in the Arctic regions, culminating in the voyage and loss of the ...

The German Arctic Expedition of 1869-70

And Narrative of the Wreck of the Hansa in the Ice

Karl Koldewey, Lewis Mercier and Henry Walter Bates

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. This heavily illustrated book is an account of a German Arctic expedition, published in 1873-4 by its commander Karl Koldewey (1837-1908) and in this ...

The Humble-Bee

Its Life-History and How to Domesticate it, with Descriptions of All the British Species of Bombus and Psithyrus

Frederick William Lambert Sladen

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. This classic work by F. W. L. Sladen (1876-1921) was published in 1912. Captivated by the bees in the grounds of his home, he produced his first essay ... ....

The Impracticability of a North-West Passage for Ships, Impartially Considered

Peter Heywood

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. Peter Heywood (1772-1831) became known for his involvement in the 1789 mutiny aboard the Bounty. After evading a death sentence thanks to a royal pardon ... ....

The Life of Admiral Sir Leopold McClintock, K.C.B., D.C.L., L.L.D., F.R.S., V.P.R.G.S.

Clements R Markham and William Alexander

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. This biography of polar explorer Sir Leopold McClintock (his name is also spelled M'Clintock) was published in 1909 by his 'old messmate' ...

The Living Mountain

A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland

Nan Shepherd and Robert MacFarlane

The Living Mountain is a lyrical testament in praise of the Cairngorms. It is a work deeply rooted in Nan Shepherd's knowledge of the natural world, and a poetic and philosophical meditation on our longing for high and holy ... ....

The Natural History of the Order Cetacea

And the Oceanic Inhabitants of the Arctic Regions

Henry William Dewhurst

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. Before Henry William Dewhurst established himself in Bloomsbury, where he lectured in 1827-8 on anatomy and physiology, he served as a ship's surgeon ... ....

The Naturalist's and Traveller's Companion

John Coakley Lettsom

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. First published in 1772 and reissued here in its 1799 third edition, The Naturalist's and Traveller's Companion was intended to provide ... ....

The Odyssey of KP2

An Orphan Seal, a Marine Biologist, and the Fight to Save a Species

Terrie M Williams

When a two day-old Hawaiian monk seal pup is attacked and abandoned by his mother on a beach in Kauai, environmental officials must decide if they should save the newborn animal or allow nature to take its course. But as a member of the ... ....

The Origins of Energy and Environmental Policy in Europe

The Beginnings of a European Environmental Conscience

Thomas C Hoerber

The Origins of Energy and Environmental Policy in Europe examines the development of a European environmental conscience through successive steps of European integration in energy policy. In the 1960s-70s, the world was slowly ... ....

The Polar Regions

John Richardson

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. The Arctic explorer Sir John Richardson (1787-1865), who had accompanied both John Franklin and John Rae on major expeditions, expands here an article ... ....

The Right Tools for the Job

At Work in Twentieth-Century Life Sciences

Adela E Clarke and Joan H Fujimura

A reprint of a classical work in the Princeton Legacy Library. Originally published in 1992. The Right Tools for the Job examines scientific practice through studies of research tools in an array of twentieth ... ....

The Scientific Photographer

ASC Lawrence

Originally published in 1941, The Scientific Photographer seeks to inform the scientific community of the possible uses of photography in research or teaching. Lawrence gives an account of the possibilities and limitations of the ... ....

The South Pole (2-Volume Set)

An Account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the Fram, 1910-1912

Roald Amundsen and AG Chater

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. On 14 December 1911, Roald Amundsen (1872-1928) and his Norwegian team became the first humans to reach the South Pole, a month before their ill-fated ... ....

The South Pole, Volume 1

An Account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the Fram, 1910-1912

Roald Amundsen and AG Chater

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. On 14 December 1911, Roald Amundsen (1872-1928) and his Norwegian team became the first humans to reach the South Pole, a month before their ill-fated ... ....

The South Pole, Volume 2

An Account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the Fram, 1910-1912

Roald Amundsen and AG Chater

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. On 14 December 1911, Roald Amundsen (1872-1928) and his Norwegian team became the first humans to reach the South Pole, a month before their ill-fated ... ....

The U.S. Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin

A Personal Narrative

Elizabeth Kent Kane

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. Dr Elisha Kane (1820-57), the most famous of American Arctic explorers before Peary, published The U.S. Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John ...

The Ugly Animals

We Can't All be Pandas

Simon Watt

Mother Nature's more aesthetically challenged children have been neglected for too long. The plight of the panda is known the world over because of its teddy-like good looks, but most species are not so lucky.

The Voyage of the Discovery (2-Volume Set)

Robert Falcon Scott and EA Wilson

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. At the outset of the twentieth century, Antarctica was scarcely explored or understood. Penetrating the pack ice in the purpose-built Discovery, the ...

The Voyage of the Discovery, Volume 1

Robert Falcon Scott and EA Wilson

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. At the outset of the twentieth century, Antarctica was scarcely explored or understood. Penetrating the pack ice in the purpose-built Discovery, the ...

The Voyage of the Discovery, Volume 2

Robert Falcon Scott and EA Wilson

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. At the outset of the twentieth century, Antarctica was scarcely explored or understood. Penetrating the pack ice in the purpose-built Discovery, the ...

The Yeti Enigma

A DNA Dectective Story

Bryan Sykes

Almost, but not quite human, the yeti and its counterparts from wild regions of the world, still exert a powerful atavistic influence on us. Is the yeti just a phantasm of our imagination, or is it a real creature? A survivor from our own ... ....

The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle (3-Volume Set)

Under the Command of Captain Fitzroy, R. N., During the Years 1832 to 1836

Charles Darwin, Richard Owen, John Gould, Leonard Jenyns, Thomas Bell and George R Waterhouse

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. Published in five parts between 1839 and 1843, and reissued here in three volumes, The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle showcases the ...

Tikal: Paleoecology of an Ancient Maya City

David L Lentz, Nicholas P Dunning and Vernon L Scarborough

The primary theoretical question addressed in Tikal: Paleoecology of an Ancient Maya City focuses on the lingering concern of how the ancient Maya in the northern Peten Basin were able to sustain large populations in the midst of ... ....

Tropical Fish Coloring Book

Susan Koop and Alf Jacob Nilsen

Pomegranate’s Tropical Fish Coloring Book features 22 drawings to color. Coloring pages are blank on the back so they can be cut out and displayed. When you open your eyes in the warmer parts of the world's ...

Twenty Years on Ben Nevis

Being a Brief Account of the Life, Work, and Experiences of the Observers at the Highest Meteorological Station in the B

William T Kilgour

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. Not much is known about the life of William T. Kilgour, apart from the fact that in the late nineteenth century he spent two decades as an irregular ...

Weird Birds

Chris G Earley

Some birds look bizarre. Some behave that way. In almost all cases, their appearance has an important function -- in evolution or every day. This colorful book exposes more than 50 strange birds, preening, stretching, and showing their ... ....

Weird Frogs

Chris G Earley

Some frogs blend into the green of their ponds, and live an unremarkable existence. But some are strange looking, having adapted to a special environment. This colorful and informative book reveals a rare and close-up look at the odd ... ....

When I Am Not Myself

Kathy DeZarn Beynette

Fabulously fun artist Kathy DeZarn Beynette is back with another children's book of paintings and poems compassionately connecting humans with a menagerie of Earth's creatures. In When I Am Not Myself Kathy ...

Why Do Mammals Have Fur?

And Other Questions About Evolution and Classification

Pat Jacobs and Julia Bird

An original new science series which explores the key characteristics that divide the main animal and plant groups, and looks at how these characteristics have evolved over time. The information is supported by examples that highlight the ... ....

Why We Have Day and Night

Edward St. John Gorey and Peter F Neumeyer

In this curious tale, four children, accompanied by their faithful cat, stumble around in the dark and ask, “What’s going on when the lights go out?” A lot of imagination and a little bit of science (cue a flashlight and ... ....

Wild Horses, Wild Wolves

Legends at Risk at the Foot of the Canadian Rockies

Maureen Enns

Established in 1967, the Ghost River Wilderness Area, located along the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains in southern Alberta, is one of only three provincially designated wilderness areas in the province. As such, it is supposed to ... ....

Wild Life

Brad Wilson and Desmond Morris

Most nature books capture animals in their native habitats. Brad Wilson decided to try a different approach – bringing animals into his studio and photographing each against a solid black background. The results are electrifying. ....

Wildlife Photographer of the Year: Photo Album

The Wildlife Photographer of the Year Competition seeks to nurture an understanding of the environment through the photographer's lens, while at the same time championing new ways of imagining the world through artistic, technical and ... ....

Zoological Garden of Kolkata

Dedication of R. B. Sanyal

Dilip Mittra and Prithvish Nag

In the establishment of Calcutta Zoological Garden, certain factors played a decisive role for which one has to look back a few centuries when modern science was taking its shape. In the 16th and 17th centuries, it developed its first ... ....

Birds of the Hedgerow, Field and Woodland

Raphael Nelson

From Meadow Pipits to Jays via the Sedge Warbler, this is a treasure trove of illustrations.

Coast: BBC Series 8 (Region 2)

Nick Crane

Coast continues to explore the edge of our lives, the coastline that marries us to the sea. through a history of assault from Nazi Germany, freshwater voles and the infamous Guernsey privateers; the workers’ coast of ... ....

Coast: BBC Series 9 (Region 2)

Nick Crane

Coast continues to uncover the secrets of our shores, through untold tales of explorers from as far apart as Cornwall and Australia; it reveals little-known gems, including a coastal walk that takes in the history of Britain ... ....

Continental Divide

Wildlife, People, and the Border Wall

Krista Schlyer and Jamie Rappaport Clark

The topic of the border wall between the United States and Mexico continues to be broadly and hotly debated: on national news media, by local and state governments, and even in coffee shops and over the dinner table. By now, broad segments ... ....

Fauna of Bhadra Wildlife Sanctuary and Tiger Reserve Karnataka

Zoological Survey of India

the Bhadra Wildlife Sanctuary (BWLS) is a conservation area in the Karnataka State of India. It is situated amidst the Westem Ghats in Chikkarnagaluru and Shimoga districts of Karnataka. This volume gives an overview of its fauna, with ... ....

Fauna of Brahmani-Baitarani Estuarine Complex Odisha, Bay of Bengal w.s.r. to Ichthyofauna and Crustaceans

DV Rao and Shibananda Rath

This contribution in the Estuarine Ecosystem Series discusses the ichtyo- and crustacean fauna of the Brahmani-Baitarani Estuarine Complex in Odisha, Bay of Bengal, India. There is also a chapter on wetland avifauna.

Fauna of Nokrek Biosphere Teserve Meghalaya

Zoological Survey of India

The Nokrek Biosphere Reserve located at the tri-junction of the three administrative districts of the Gare Hills of Meghalaya is one of the twelve biosphere reserves in India. It is a National Citrus Gene Sanctuary-cum-Biosphere Reserve ... ....

Ferrantia, Volume 69: Die Hohlenfauna Luxemburgs

Dieter Weber

From 2007 to 2011, animals were collected from 82 natural caves and artificial caverns in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. The Ösling is the Northern part of Luxembourg and mainly consists of Devonian schist. Specimens were collected ... ....

Himalaya: Mountains of Our Destiny

Kuldip Singh Dhami

The book, in three parts, takes one a pictorial journey across the majestic Himalayas, across borders, from the land of the rising sun in the east to the extreme west; from Himalayan foothills to Trans-Himalayan regions, Himalayan wonders ... ....

Nordliches Cuxland

Markus Rahaus

In northern Cuxland where the Elbe and Weser flow into the North Sea, one can find one of the most unique landscapes of our planet the UNESCO World Natural Heritage Wadden Sea. Hundreds of thousands of birds live here, seals cavort on the ... ....

Resource Atlas of Datia

A Celebration of the Land and People of Datia

JK Bajaj and Pramod K Verma

This is the fourth volumein the series of District Resource Atlases that the Madhya Pradesh Council of Science and Technology (MPCST) plans to publish in collaboration with the Centre for Policy Studies. This volume takes up another ... ....

Resource Atlas of Sidhi and Singrauli

A Celebration of the Land and People

JK Bajaj

This is the second volume in the series of District Resource Atlases that the Madhya Pradesh Council of Science and Technology (MPCST) plans to publish in collaboration with the Centre for Policy Studies. The first volume in this series ... ....

Resource Atlas of Tikamgarh

A Celebration of the Land and People of Tikamgarh

JK Bajaj and Pramod K Verma

This is the third volume in the series of District Resource Atlases that the Madhya Pradesh Council of Science and Technology (UMPCST) plans to publish in collaboration with the Centre for Policy Studies. This volume describes the ... ....

Sierra de Cazorla Segura and las Villas, Sierra de Castril Hiking Map

A trekking map of Sierra de Cazorla, in Southern Spain.

The Blue Planet: Denmark's National Aquarium

Christian Bundegaard, Flemming Borreskov and Kim Herforth Nielsen

Inspired by the shape of water in endless motion, Denmark's new National Aquarium, The Blue Planet by Danish architects 3XN is shaped as a great whirlpool. Blue Planet Aquarium 3XN tells the story of the architecture of one ... ....

The Colonization of the Amazon

Anna Luiza Ozorio De Almeida

Deforestation in the Amazon, one of today's top environmental concerns, began during a period of rapid colonization in the 1970s. Throughout that decade, Anna Luiza Ozorio de Almeida, a Stanford-trained economist, conducted a complex ... ....

The Country Set

A Celebration of Britain's Best-Loved Wildlife

Hannah Dale

This beautiful little giftbook features 50 British birds and animals painted by Hannah Dale in her uniquely quirky, characterful style. From the red deer to the harvest mouse, from the sparrow to the barn owl, the nation's favourite ... ....

The Nature of Japan

From Dancing Cranes to Flying Fish

Mark Brazil and Hisashi Masuda

Long isolated from the neighbouring Asian continent lies a seemingly inscrutable, but fascinating island chain. The Japanese Archipelago is a treasure trove of natural wonders, ranging from coral reefs and tropical fish to sea-ice and ... ....

The Old Straight Track

Alfred Watkins and Robert MacFarlane

A beautiful new edition of a classic work of landscape history, in which Alfred Watkins introduced the idea of ancient 'ley lines' criss-crossing the English countryside. First published in 1925, The Old Straight Track ... ....

Travel and Field Guide of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area

Veronica Roodt

The Ngorongoro Conservation Area is in the north of Tanzania.

This guide consists of four parts:

A Travel Guide with general information about the history, geology, archeology, people, etc. Detailed tourist information ... ....

Trees and Shrubs of the Okavango Delta

Medicinal Uses and Nutritional Value

Veronica Roodt

An A5-size book in full colour, printed on quality paper. It describes 61 species found in this area of Botswana, each with a water colour illustration. Medicinal and food uses are discussed in detail. Other relating facts about wood ... ....

Vegetation Ecology of Socotra

Gary Brown and Bruno A Mies

Although the unique flora of the Socotra Archipelago with its high degree of endemism has received much attention recently, little information is available on the vegetation and related ecological aspects. Based on their extensive field ... ....

Wild Fauna of Gujarat

A Visual Journey Through Wilderness of Gujarat

CN Pandey

From the foreword: "Gujarat is one of the wildlife-rich states of India. It is not only outstanding from the view-point of overall diversity of wildlife, but also from the view-point of certain unique aspects related to ...

Wildlife of East Africa

A Photographic Guide

Dave Richards

This photographic guide to the wildlife of East Africa is an accessible introduction to the region's more conspicuous and interesting mammals, birds, reptiles, frogs, insects, flowers and trees. A colour photograph accompanies each ... ....

Wildlife on the Wind

A Field Biologist's Journey & an Indian Reservation's Renewal

Bruce L Smith

Wildlife on the Wind details the common fate shared by large mammal herds and Native peoples as Euro-American expansion swept the American West. As both were exploited and removed from much of the land, Indian tribes were ... ....

A Revised Moss Checklist of Peninsular Malaysia and Singapore

KT Yong, BC Tan, BC Ho, QY Ho and H Mohamed

A Revised Moss Checklist of Peninsular Malaysia and Singapore represents a summary and update of biological research conducted in Peninsular Malaysia and Singapore in the past 25 years after the first modern moss checklist of ... ....

Apple

Marcia Reiss

Apples have sustained, delighted and intoxicated people throughout history. This ubiquitous fruit has always been more than something to eat or drink; it is planted deep within the myths, religion and art of almost every culture.

Aquatic Plants in Britain and Ireland

Christopher D Preston and Jane M Croft

Over the past 50 years, major changes have taken place in the distribution of aquatic plants in Europe. Many species have declined whilst other species have increased in abundance or spread, including several that were originally introduced ... ....

Atlas of Plant Cell Structure

Tetsuko Noguchi, Shigeyuki Kawano, Hirokazu Tsukaya, Sachihiro Matsunaga, Atsushi Sakai and Karaha

Atlas of Plant Cell Structure presents beautiful photographs and 3D-reconstruction images of cellular structures in plants, algae, fungi, and related organisms taken by a variety of microscopes and visualization techniques. ....

Australia's Remarkable Trees

Richard Allen, Kimbal Baker and Tim Entwhistle

Elephantine Boabs dot the Kimberley region of Western Australia; cattle rub against giant Bottle Trees and Ironbarks in Queensland, and Strangler Figs with 40-metre girths thrive in our northern rainforests. Snow Gums and Shining Gums ... ....

Bamboo Diversity & Taxonomic Keys

Muktesh Kumar and KV Sankaran

From the preface: "Kerala Forest Research Institute (KFRI) has been engaged in several National and Internationally funded research projects on various aspects of bamboo.This compilation by the author is an exhaustive account ... ....

Bamboo: The Wonderful Grass

GK Ghosh

In order to sustain comfortable lives, human beings need materials for manufacturing and construction. During various parts of human history various types of materials were used such as iron, copper and latest being plastics.

Biocommunication of Fungi

Gunther Witzany

Fungi are sessile, highly sensitive organisms that actively compete for environmental resources both above and below the ground. They assess their surroundings, estimate how much energy they need for particular goals, and then realise ... ....

Biology and Silviculture of Muli Bamboo

Melocanna baccifera

Ratan Lal Banik

From the preface: "Melocanna baccifera plays an important socio-economic role in the livelihoods of millions of families in the Indian subcontinent. This species alone covers almost 70 to 95 per cent of bamboo ...

British Gardens in Time

The Greatest Gardens and the People Who Shaped Them

Katie Campbell, Chris Beardshaw and Nathan Harrison

British Gardens in Time takes four iconic gardens, each a product of its age, and provides a fascinating window into the creators and events that shaped them. The stories of their creation include obsession, escape, social ... ....

Cannabis

Chris Duvall

Cannabis, one of humanity's first domesticated plants, has been utilized for spiritual, therapeutic, recreational and even punitive reasons for thousands of years. Humans have excellent practical knowledge of the uses of cannabis ... ....

Coast Redwood

Tree of Dreams and Fortune

Gerald F Beranek

Gerald Beranek perpetuates the beauty of the coast redwoods with a second photo-rich book on these quiet giants. While hiking numerous trails through the redwood forests of the U.S. westcoast, he takes pictures of the big trees in their ... ....

Darwin's Orchids

Then and Now

Retha Edens-Meier and Peter Bernhardt

For biologists, 2009 was an epochal year: the bicentennial of Charles Darwin's birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of a book now known simply as ...

Edible Landscaping with a Permaculture Twist

How to Have Your Yard and Eat it Too

Michael Judd

Edible Landscaping with a Permaculture Twist is an American how-to manual for the budding gardener and experienced green thumb alike, full of creative and easy-to-follow designs that guide you to having your yard and eating it ... ....

Encyclopedia of Himalayan Medicinal Flora (3-Volume Set)

Shyamal K Basu, Anupama Mitra, Dulal Ch. Pal and Jayashree Datta

The Himalaya abodes a magnificent array of floristic diversity due to different climatic and soil niches. The entire Himalayan ranges can be divided into three major botanical regions, the western the central and the eastern Himalayas. ....

Essbare Pilze und Ihre Giftigen Doppelganger

Pilze Sammeln - aber Richtig

Hans E Laux

Mushroom picking is fun, but caution is required to prevent picking the wrong species. This field guide therefore faces off edible mushrooms with their inedible or poisonous look-alikes, and highlights the key differentiating traits in text and image. ....

Ethnobotanical Studies in India

Sanjeev Kumar

Ethnobotanical Studies in India has been designed to cover topics on ethnobotany from various parts of the country. Ethnobotanical Studies in India reflects various aspects of ethnoforestry, ethnotaxonomy, ethnoecology ... ....

Ethnobotany and Biocultural Diversities in the Balkans

Perspectives on Sustainable Rural Development and Reconciliation

Andrea Pieroni and Cassandra L Quave

Ethnobotany and Biocultural Diversities in the Balkans addresses recent and ongoing ethnobotanical studies in the Balkans. The book focuses on elaborating the relevance of such studies for future initiatives in this region, both ... ....

Exercises in Plant Disease Epidemiology

Katherine L Stevenson and Michael J Jeger

Exercises in Plant Disease Epidemiology, Second Edition provides a wide range of exercises to help users learn and practice the latest, most advanced methods for determining the spread and control of plant diseases.

Exkursionsflora fur Istrien

Walter K Rottensteiner

This flora covers approximately 3500 plant species, subspecies, varieties and hybrids that are found on the peninsula of Istria, the largest peninsula in the Adriatic Sea that is shared by Croatia, Slovenia, and Italy.

Flora of Melbourne

A Guide to the Indigenous Plants of the Greater Melbourne Area

Marilyn Bull and George Stolfo

Long-awaited and greatly expanded this fourth edition is a comprehensive guide to the indigenous plants of the Greater Melbourne area. It contains 1367 plant descriptions with colour photographs and line drawings.

Flora of Peninsular Malaysia, Series II: Seed Plants, Volume 4

R Kiew, RCK Chung, LG Saw and E Soepadmo

Volume 4 includes revisions of 161 species in 8 families, namely, Actinidiaceae, Cabombaceae, Crypteroniaceae, Goodeniaceae, Meliaceae, Memecylaceae, Opiliaceae and Pandaceae. Conservation status and distribution maps are provided for ... ....

Flora of the Seychelles

A Field Guide to Selected Plants

Steen G Hansen and Victorin F Laboudallon

Flora of the Seychelles focuses on the higher, flowering plants (omitting grasses, sedges, seagrasses, ferns, mosses and clubmosses), and gives amongst others updated information about the flowering season, the preferred habitat ... ....

Flore des Bryophytes du Quebec-Labrador, Volume 3

Mousses, Deuxieme Partie

Jean Faubert

Flore des bryophytes du Québec–Labrador intends to survey, describe, and provide identification means to all mosses, liverworts and hornworts known to occur naturally in Quebec and Labrador. Identification keys to ... ....

Foliage - An Illustrated Guide to Varieties, Cultivation and Care

With Step-by-step Instructions and Over 150 Inspiring Photographs

Bryan Greenwood

This is an illustrated guide to varieties, cultivation and care, with step-by-step instructions and over 150 inspiring photographs. Everything you need to know about choosing and growing stunning foliage in one handy practical guide. ....

Handbuch fur Pilzsammler

340 Arten Mitteleuropas Sicher Bestimmen

Andreas Gminder

The Handbuch für Pilzsammler explains in detail the practicalities of finding, collecting and preparing the main types of fungi. A total of 300 edible mushrooms and their poisonous look-alikes are described in detail. ....

Herbaceous

Paul Evans and Kurt Jackson

Climate change is eroding the familiar pattern of the seasons, so we turn instinctively to the life cycle of herbaceous plants to guide us through the year. The growing, flowering, seeding and dying back to earth of wild flowers, weeds ... ....

Horticultural Reviews, Volume 42

Jules Janick

Volume 42 contains the following chapters: Dedication: Pinhas Spiegel-Roy  Eliezer E. Goldschmidt 1. Ornamental Palms: Biology and Horticulture  T.K. Broschat, D.R. Hodel, and M.L. Elliott 2. Nitric Oxide ...

How the Earth Turned Green

A Brief 3.8-Billion-Year History of Plants

Joseph E Armstrong

On this blue planet, long before pterodactyls took to the skies and tyrannosaurs prowled the continents, tiny green organisms populated the ancient oceans. Fossil and phylogenetic evidence suggests that chlorophyll, the green pigment ... ....

Indian Medicinal Trees

Sanjay Singh and Shambhu Nath Mishra

From the preface: "A medicinal tree is a plant from which substances of medical value can be distilled or extracted. lndia's rich natural wealth and species diversity of such trees has been a key element in their ...

Kosmos Pilzfuhrer fur Unterwegs

Hans E Laux

With this field guide finding and determining of mushrooms on the go is easy. A simple criterion is the location: each mushroom has certain demands on its growing area. Therefore, some fungi occur only on wood, other only in coniferous forest ... ....

Monograph of the Genus Cornus

Andre Gayraud

Monograph of the Genus Cornus contains descriptions of 620 varieties of the genus Cornus with details on species, varieties, hybrids, and cultivars on five continents. Of international scientific interest ...

Pacific Northwest Foraging

120 Wild and Flavorful Edibles from Alaska Blueberries to Wild Hazelnuts

Douglas Deur

The Pacific Northwest is a veritable feast for foragers. The forests, meadows, streambanks, and even the weedy margins of neighborhoods are home to a surprising number of delicious wild edible plants. Douglas Deur, a lifetime Northwest ... ....

Paleoethnobotany: A Handbook of Procedures

Deborah M Pearsall

This new edition of the definitive work on doing paleoethnobotany brings Paleoethnobotany: A Handbook of Procedures up to date by incorporating new methods and examples of research, while preserving the overall organization and ... ....

Palms and People in the Amazon

Nigel Smith

Palms and People in the Amazon explores the degree to which landscapes have been enriched with palms by human activities and the importance of palms for the lives of people in the region today and historically. Palms are a prominent ... ....

Productivity Enhancement and Value Addition of Bamboos

Sanjay Singh and Rameshwar Das

From the preface: "Bamboo is an enduring and versatile natural resource with great species diversity and amenability to a range of environments. Having growth three times faster than most eucalyptus species; bamboos are ...

RHS Chelsea Flower Show

The First 100 Years, 1913-2013

Brent Elliott

2013 saw the publication of the best-selling RHS Chelsea Flower Show:a Centenary Celebration. This new paperback edition for 2014 captures the magic of the 2013 show by revealing the best gardens, people, plants and events that ... ....

Recent Advances in Weed Management

Bhagirath S Chauhan and Gulshan Mahajan

Recent Advances in Weed Management addresses recent developments in weed science. These developments include conservation agriculture and conservation tillage, climate change, environmental concerns about the runoff of agrochemical ... ....

Rhododendrons - An Illustrated Guide to Varieties, Cultivation and Care

With Step-by-step Instructions and Over 135 Beautiful Photographs

Lin Hawthorne

This is an illustrated guide to varieties, cultivation and care, with step-by-step instructions and over 135 beautiful photographs. It is a handy, practical guide to growing and caring for rhododendrons, with instructions for planting out ... ....

Succulent Paradise

Twelve Great Gardens of the World

Gideon F Smith and Estrela Figueiredo

Most botanical gardens include succulents in their collections; few are devoted solely to them. In Succulent Paradise, the reader is taken on a verbal and visual tour of twelve exceptional succulent gardens. See how a handful of ... ....

The Bamboo Book

19 Selected Indian Species

National Mission on Bamboo Application (NMBA) and Sanjiv Nair

From the preface: "NMBA launched the first edition of the Field Guide The Bamboo Book in February 2004. It received raving reviews from cultivators, researchers, bamboo entrepreneurs and government agencies.

The Big, Bad Book of Botany

The World's Most Fascinating Flora

Michael Largo

David Attenborough meets Lemony Snicket in The Big, Bad Book of Botany, Michael Largo's entertaining and enlightening one-of-a-kind compendium of the world's most amazing and bizarre plants, their history, and their lore ... ....

The Manual of Plant Grafting

Practical Techniques for Ornamentals, Vegetables and Fruit

Peter T MacDonald

This authoritative, practical guide describes the latest plant grafting techniques for students, professionals and enthusiastic amateurs. Author Peter MacDonald puts the latest grafting practices in the context of historical techniques ... ....

The Mycota, Volume 7: Systematics and Evolution: Part A

David J McLaughlin and Joseph W Spatafora

The Mycota, Volume 7: Systematics and Evolution: Part A includes treatments of systematics and related topics for both fungi and fungus-like organisms in four eukaryotic supergroups, as well as specialized chapters on nomenclature ... ....

The Organic Composting Handbook

Techniques for a Healthy, Abundant Garden

Dede Cummings

Great compost is one of the most important secrets of successful organic gardening. In this comprehensive guide, you'll learn everything you need to know about the various methods of composting and how to adapt them to your home and ... ....

Tree Flora Of Sabah and Sarawak, Volume 8

E Soepadmo, LG Saw, RCK Chung and R Kiew

This volume contains up-to-date accounts of three families, namely, Annonaceae, Buxaceae and Opiliaceae, comprising 165 recognisable species in 32 genera. Botanical line drawings and colour plates of selected species are included.

Trees and Shrubs of the Pacific Northwest

Mark Turner and Ellen Kuhlmann

In Trees and Shrubs of the Pacific Northwest, Mark Turner and Ellen Kuhlman cover 568 species of woody plants that can be found in Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, and northern California. The comprehensive field guides features ... ....

Trees in a Changing Environment

Ecophysiology, Adaptation, and Future Survival

Michael Tausz and Nancy Grulke

Trees in a Changing Environment delivers current state-of-the-science knowledge of tree ecophysiology, with particular emphasis on adaptation to a novel future physical and chemical environment. Unlike the focus of most books on ... ....

Van Rheede's Hortus Malabaricus English Edition (12-Volume Set)

With Annotations and Modern Botanical Nomenclature

Hendrik van Rheede and KS Manilal

Hortus Malabaricus English Edition (12 volumes) is the translation of the oldest comprehensive printed book on the natural plant Wealth of Asia and of the tropics, compiled and published in Latin by Van Rheede during 1678-1693. ....

Welcher Baum ist das?

Baume, Straucher, Ziergeholze

Joachim Mayer and Heinz-Werner Schwegler

This field guide shows the diversity of Central European trees and shrubs as well as common ornamental trees. A total 600 species, varieties and imported cultivars are described. The 1000 color photos, the clear identification keys and ... ....

Animal Behavior: Concepts, Methods, and Applications (International Edition)

Shawn Nordell and Thomas Valone

Animal Behavior: Concepts, Methods, and Applications, International Edition, uses a conceptual approach that puts the process of science and applications front and center. The text guides students through featured research examples ... ....

Animal Biology and Care

Sue Dallas and Emily Jewell

The perfect study companion, Animal Biology and Care, 3rd Edition is specifically designed for students on animal care, animal nursing assistant and veterinary care assistant courses. This edition is fully updated with new course ... ....

Biochemical Adaptation

Peter W Hochachka and George N Somero

A reprint of a classical work in the Princeton Legacy Library. Biochemical Adaptation discusses biochemical adaptation to environments from freezing polar oceans to boiling hot springs, and under hydrostatic ...

Comparative Cognition

Mary C Olmstead and Valerie A Kuhlmeier

Integrating developments from psychology, ethology and neuroscience, this is an undergraduate introduction to cognitive processes across species. The authors merge classic studies and contemporary research to give students a full picture ... ....

Comparative Physiology of Fasting, Starvation, and Food Limitation

Marshall D McCue

All animals face the possibility of food limitation and ultimately starvation-induced mortality. Comparative Physiology of Fasting, Starvation, and Food Limitation summarizes state of the art of starvation biology from the ecology ... ....

Eicosanoids in Invertebrate Signal Transduction Systems

David W Stanley

A reprint of a classical work in the Princeton Legacy Library. Originally published in 1999. Eicosanoids in Invertebrate Signal Transduction Systems generates a new paradigm for researching and understanding ...

Flight of Mammals

From Terrestrial Limbs to Wings

Alexandra A Panyutina, Leonid P Korzun and Alexander N Kuznetsov

Flight of Mammals offers a new explanation for the development of flight in mammals and offers detailed morphological descriptions of mammals with flapping flight. The skeletomuscular apparatus of the shoulder girdle and ... ....

Hypsodonty in Mammals

Evolution, Geomorphology and the Role of Earth Surface Processes

Richard H Madden

The evolution of high-crowned teeth, hypsodonty, is a defining characteristic of many terrestrial herbivores. To date, the most prominent focus in the study of the teeth of grazing herbivores has been co-evolution with grasses and grassland ... ....

In Search of Cell History

The Evolution of Life's Building Blocks

Franklin M Harold

The origin of cells remains one of the most fundamental problems in biology, one that over the past two decades has spawned a large body of research and debate. With In Search of Cell History, Franklin M. Harold offers a comprehensive ... ....

Molecular Biology and Biotechnology

Ralph Rapley and David Whitehouse

This popular textbook has been revised and updated to provide a comprehensive overview and to reflect the latest developments in this rapidly developing area. Continuing with the broad base style of both current molecular and traditional ... ....

Philosophical Issues in Microbiology

Maureen O'Malley

Microbes and microbiology are seldom encountered in philosophical accounts of the life sciences. Although microbiology is a well-established science and microbes the basis of life on this planet, neither the organisms nor the science have ... ....

Studying Vibrational Communication

Reginald B Cocroft, Matija Gogala, Peggy SM Hill and Andreas Wessel

Studying Vibrational Communication explains the key ideas, questions and methods involved in studying the hidden world of vibrational communication in animals. The authors dispel the notion that this form of communication is ... ....

The Dictyostelids

Kenneth Bryan Raper

A reprint of a classical work in the Princeton Legacy Library. Originally published in 1984. Kenneth Raper tells how dictyostelids are isolated, cultivated, and conserved in the laboratory; how myxamoebae aggregate to ... ....

The Mechanical Adaptations of Bones

John D Currey

A reprint of a classical work in the Princeton Legacy Library. Originally published in 1984. The Mechanical Adaptations of Bones relates the mechanical and structural properties of bone to its function in ...

The PCR Revolution

Basic Technologies and Applications

Stephen A Bustin

The invention of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1994 and remains one of the most important scientific discoveries of the twentieth century. More than 50 000 researchers in the United States use ... ....

African Genesis

Perspectives on Hominin Evolution

Sally C Reynolds, Andrew Gallagher and JT Francis Thackeray

The discovery of the first species of African hominin, Australopithecus africanus, from Taung, South Africa in 1925, launched the study of fossil man in Africa. New discoveries continue to confirm the importance of this region ... ....

Animal Species and Their Evolution

AJ Cain

A reprint of a classical work in the Princeton Legacy Library. Originally published in 1993 (this in turn was a re-issue of the 1954 original). Long before Charles Darwin undertook his first voyage, animal taxonomists ... ....

Anthropology Matters

Shirley A Fedorak

Anthropology Matters places the study of anthropology concretely in the world by which it is surrounded. It takes a question-based approach to introducing important anthropological concepts by embedding those concepts in contemporary ... ....

Anthropology: Appreciating Human Diversity

Conrad Phillip Kottak

A leading name in anthropology, Conrad Philip Kottak continues to define student learning in the general anthropology course. Anthropology: Appreciating Human Diversity offers an up-to-date holistic introduction to general anthropology ... ....

Anthropology: What Does It Mean to Be Human?

Robert H Lavenda and Emily A Schultz

Anthropology: What Does It Mean to Be Human? takes a question-oriented approach that helps students understand current anthropological issues, consider them critically, and apply them to their own lives. A unique alternative to ... ....

Evolution of the Social Contract

Brian Skyrms

In this new edition of Evolution of the Social Contract, Brian Skyrms uses evolutionary game theory to analyze the genesis of social contracts and investigates social phenomena including justice, communication, altruism, and ... ....

Evolutionary Biology: Genome Evolution, Speciation, Coevolution and Origin of Life

Pierre Pontarotti

Evolutionary Biology: Genome Evolution, Speciation, Coevolution and Origin of Life includes the most essential contributions presented at the 17th Evolutionary Biology Meeting in Marseille, which took place in September 2013. ....

Evolving Animals

The Story of Our Kingdom

Wallace Arthur

What do we know about animal evolution in the early twenty-first century? How much more do we know today than Darwin did? What are the most exciting discoveries that have been made in the last few decades? Covering all the main animal groups ... ....

Handbook of Evolution Theory in the Sciences

Thomas Heams, Philippe Huneman, Guillaume Lecointre, Marc Silberstein and Jean Gayon

The Darwinian theory of evolution is itself evolving and Handbook of Evolution Theory in the Sciences presents the details of the core of modern Darwinism and its latest developmental directions. The authors present current scientific ... ....

Mathematical Evolutionary Theory

Marcus W Feldman

A reprint of a classical work in the Princeton Legacy Library. Originally published in 1989. An international group of distinguished scientists presents an up-to-date survey of quantitative problems at the forefront ...

Molds, Molecules and Metazoa

Growing Points in Evolutionary Biology

Peter R Grant and Henry S Horn

A reprint of a classical work in the Princeton Legacy Library. Originally published in 1992. Through an integration of systematics, genetics, and related disciplines, the Modern Synthesis of Evolutionary Biology came ...

Naked Genes

Reinventing the Human in the Molecular Age

Helga Nowotny, Giuseppe Testa and Mitch Cohen

The molecular life sciences are making visible what was once invisible. Yet the more we learn about our own biology, the less we are able to fit this knowledge into an integrated whole. Life is divided into new sub-units and reassembled ... ....

Narabete Kuraberu Dobutsu Shinka Zukan [Animal Evolution Picture Book]

Satoshi Kawasaki

This picture book shows how different species diverged from common ancestors for some 30 species of reptiles, amphibians, birds, and mammals.

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Yuval Noah Harari

100 000 years ago, at least six human species inhabited the earth. Today there is just one. Us. Homo sapiens. How did our species succeed in the battle for dominance? Why did our foraging ancestors come together to create cities ... ....

Sexual Desire

The Enigmatic Urge

Frederick Toates

There are countless books on sex and an endless fascination with the subject. Varieties and vagaries of sexual desire have long been documented, but there has been little engagement with cutting-edge scientific research to uncover the ... ....

Social: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Connect

Matthew D Lieberman

In Social, renowned psychologist Matthew Lieberman explores groundbreaking research in social neuroscience revealing that our need to connect with other people is even more fundamental, more basic, than our need for food or shelter ... ....

The Biological Foundations of Organizational Behavior

Stephen M Colarelli and Richard D Arvey

In recent years, evolutionary psychology and behavioral genetics have emerged as prominent theoretical perspectives within the social sciences. Yet despite broad levels of commonality between the disciplines – including an emphasis ... ....

The Evolved Apprentice

How Evolution Made Humans Unique

Kim Sterelny

Over the last three million years or so, our lineage has diverged sharply from those of our great ape relatives. Change has been rapid (in evolutionary terms) and pervasive. Morphology, life history, social life, sexual behavior, and ... ....

The Parasite-Stress Theory of Values and Sociality

Infectious Disease, History and Human Values Worldwide

Randy Thornhill and Corey L Fincher

The Parasite-Stress Theory of Values and Sociality develops and tests an ecological and evolutionary theory of the causes of human values – the core beliefs that guide people's cognition and behavior – and their ... ....

Animals as Neighbors

The Past and Present of Commensal Species

Terry O'Connor

In this fascinating book Animals as Neighbors, Terry O'Connor explores a distinction that is deeply ingrained in much of the language that we use in zoology, human-animal studies, and archaeology – the difference between ... ....

Biosecurity: The Socio-Politics of Invasive Species and Infectious Diseases

Andrew Dobson, Kezia Barker and Sarah L Taylor

Biosecurity is the assessment and management of potentially dangerous infectious diseases, quarantined pests, invasive (alien) species, living modified organisms, and biological weapons. It is a holistic concept of direct relevance to the ... ....

Ecological Aspects of Social Evolution

Birds and Mammals

Daniel I Rubenstein and Richard W Wrangham

A reprint of a classical work in the Princeton Legacy Library. Originally published in 1987. Seeking common principles of social evolution in different taxonomic groups, the contributors to ....

Ecological Communities

Conceptual Issues and the Evidence

Jr.,Donald R Strong, Daniel Simberloff, Lawrence G Abele and Anne B Thistle

A reprint of a classical work in the Princeton Legacy Library. Originally published in 1984. Ecological Communities is the first to focus systematically on a much-debated topic: the conceptual issues of ...

Foundations of Macroecology

Classic Papers with Commentaries

Felisa A Smith, John L Gittleman and James H Brown

Macroecology is an approach to science that emphasizes the description and explanation of patterns and processes at large spatial and temporal scales. Some scientists liken it to seeing the forest through the trees, giving the proverbial ... ....

Insects, Fire and Conservation

Tim R New

A global synthesis of the impacts of wildfires and controlled burning on insects, bringing together much hitherto scattered information to provide a guide to improved conservation management practice. The great variety of responses by ... ....

Invasive Species in a Globalized World

Ecological, Social, and Legal Perspectives on Policy

Reuben P Keller, Marc W Cadotte and Glenn Sandiford

Over the past several decades, the field of invasion biology has rapidly expanded as global trade and the spread of human populations have increasingly carried animal and plant species across natural barriers that have kept them ecologically ... ....

Leks

Jacob Hoglund and Rauno V Alatalo

A reprint of a classical work in the Princeton Legacy Library. Originally published in 1995. The evolution of leks – clusters of small territories where males congregate and display in order to attract mates ...

Perspectives in Ecological Theory

Jonathan Roughgarden, Robert M May and Simon A Levin

A reprint of a classical work in the Princeton Legacy Library. Originally published in 1989. Perspectives in Ecological Theory presents an overview of current accomplishments and future directions in ecological ... ....

Antarctica: The Last Great Wilderness - 16 Postcards of Penguins & Icebergs

Ocean Explorer Publications

This booklet contains 16 tear-out postcards with photos of penguins and icebergs by renowned photographers such as Tui de Roy, Steve Bloom, and Nigel Sitwell. Antarctica is the fifth largest continent, a huge landmass of about ... ....

Biogeochemical Impacts of Forests

How Biogenic Secondary Aerosol Affects the Climate

Catherine Scott

Forests and vegetation emit biogenic volatile organic compounds (BVOCs) into the atmosphere which, once oxidized, can partition into the particle phase, forming secondary organic aerosols (SOAs). This thesis reports on a unique and ... ....

Climate Change in Deserts

Past, Present and Future

Martin Williams

Climate Change in Deserts reconstructs climatic changes in deserts and their margins at a variety of scales in space and time. It draws upon evidence from land and sea, including desert dunes, wind-blown dust, river and lake sediment ... ....

Eurasian Steppes

Ecological Problems and Livelihoods in a Changing World

Marinus JA Werger and Marja A van Staalduinen

Steppes form one of the largest biomes on earth. Ecological changes came slowly, and nomadic pastoralism long predominated in the steppes. As from the mid-18th century the rate of change increased, and drastic changes in steppe ecology ... ....

Forest Conservation in Protected Areas of Bangladesh

Policy and Community Development Perspectives

Mohammad Shaheed Hossain Chowdhury

Forest Conservation in Protected Areas of Bangladesh dealt with a number of issues under the broad subject matter of protected area focusing on the policy of collaborative management as a means to augment the forest conservation ... ....

Let the Water Do the Work

Induced Meandering, an Evolving Method for Restoring Incised Channels

Bill Zeedyk and Van Clothier

Let the Water Do the Work is an important contribution to riparian restoration. By "thinking like a creek", one can harness the regenerative power of floods to reshape stream banks and rebuild floodplains along gullied ... ....

National Parks and Nature Reserves

A South African Field Guide

Chris Stuart and Mathilde Stuart

South Africa's wide range of habitats sustains a richly diverse fauna and flora, most of it preserved by an intricate network of conservation areas that covers approximately 7.5% of the country's total land area.

Northscapes: History, Technology and the Making of Northern Environments

History, Technology, and the Making of Northern Environments

Dolly Jorgensen and Sverker Sorlin

Northscapes argues that the unique environments of the North have been born of the relationship between humans and nature. Approaching the topic through the lens of environmental history, these essays examine a broad range of ... ....

Saving Lake Winnipeg

Robert William Sandford

As reported by major media from all around the world, Lake Winnipeg was recognized by the Global Nature Fund as the world's "Threatened Lake of the Year" for 2013. While dramatic flooding now regularly wreaks havoc in cities ... ....

Shrinking Cities

Effects on Urban Ecology and Challenges for Urban Development

Marcel Langner and Wilfried Endlicher

Cities in industrialised countries have grown over time, yet shrinkage of cities occurs in many regions. This process has many impacts on urban ecology, which can be observed on urban brownfield sites in particular. The integration of the ... ....

Soils for Landscape Development

Selection, Specification and Validation

Simon Leake and Elke Haege

Soils for Landscape Development provides a clear, practical and systematic template for specifying landscape soils based on scientific criteria. The soil specifications provide essential information and a universally applicable ... ....

State of the World's Forests 2014

Enhancing the Socioeconomic Benefits from Forests

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and Jos? Graziano da Silva

It is time for forestry to shift perspective from trees to people, both for data collection and policy-making. State of the World's Forests 2014 argues that this will enable development of the socioeconomic benefits from ... ....

Stitching the West Back Together

Conservation of Working Landscapes

Susan Charnley, Thomas E Sheridan and Gary Paul Nabhan

News headlines would often have us believe that conservationists are inevitably locked in conflict with the people who live and work on the lands they seek to protect. Not so, across the western expanses of the United States, conservation ... ....

The Soils of Antarctica

James G Bockheim

The Soils of Antarctica divides Antarctica into eight ice-free regions and provides information on the soils of each region. Soils have been studied in Antarctica for nearly 100 years. Although only 0.35% (45 000 km²) ... ....

Urban Trees Vade Mecum

Tree Inspection and Examination

GJ van Prooijen

Urban Trees Vade Mecum: Tree Inspection and Examination deals with all aspects of tree condition and structure, as well as the various facets of the inspection process. Urban Trees Vade Mecum focuses on the main practices ... ....

Wildland Fuel Fundamentals and Application

Robert E Keane

A new era in wildland fuel sciences is now evolving in such a way that fire scientists and managers need a comprehensive understanding about fuels ecology and science to fully understand fire effects and behavior on diverse ecosystem and ... ....

Among Chimpanzees

Field Notes from the Race to Save Our Endangered Relatives

Nancy J Merrick and 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 ... ....

Austral Ark

The State of Wildlife in Australia and New Zealand

Adam Stow, Norman MacLean and Gregory I Holwell

Australia and New Zealand are home to a remarkable and unique assemblage of flora and fauna. Sadly though, by virtue of their long isolation, and a naive and vulnerable biota, both countries have suffered substantial losses to biodiversity ... ....

Biodiversites en Partage

Reconfigurations de Ruralites dans le Corridor Forestier Betsileo Tanala (Madagascar)

Herve Rakoto Ramiarantsoa and Chantal Blanc-Pamard

Environmental policies in Madagascar, including conservation of biodiversity, lead to new spatial reorganisations and changes in the relationship between a range of powers and local knowledge in rural areas. Based on extensive ... ....

Biodiversity in India, Volume 7

T Pullaiah, S Karuppusamy and S Sandhya Rani

Volume 7 of Biodiversity in india includes 18 chapters covering a broad spectrum of biodiversity. lt includes Balsaminaceae in Tamil Nadu, Loranthaceae and Viscaceae in Karnataka, Bryophytes of Western Ghats, Pholidota in the ... ....

Eco-History

An Introduction to Biodiversity and Conservation

Ian D Rotherham

An accessible introduction to biodiversity, conservation and the eco-cultural nature of landscapes. Key issues are addressed in short, focused chapters, supported by a detailed thousand-year timeline based on the British Isles.

In Search of Lost Frogs

The Quest to Find the World's Rarest Amphibians

Robin Moore

On August 9, 2010, 33 teams from 21 countries were dispatched to search for the Lost Frogs identified by Conservation International. On their list were a host of species including, in the top ten most wanted, the Rio Pescado Stubfoot Toad ... ....

In Vivo Conservation of Animal Genetic Resources

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

In vivo conservation encompasses a range of actions that can be taken to ensure the survival of livestock breeds or populations that are threatened with extinction. These guidelines address both "in situ" conservation ... ....

Large-Scale Conservation in the Common Interest

Susan G Clark, Aaron M Hohl, Catherine H Picard and Elizabeth Thomas

Many people working toward sustainability recognize the important role of conservation but are inadequately prepared to deal with the large spatial, temporal and complexity scales that are involved in large-scale conservation efforts. ....

Mendel's Ark

Biotechnology and the Future of Extinction

Amy Lynn Fletcher

Does extinction have to be forever? As the global extinction crisis accelerates, conservationists and policy-makers increasingly use advanced biotechnologies such as reproductive cloning, polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and bioinformatics ... ....

Our Uncommon Heritage

Biodiversity Change, Ecosystem Services, and Human Well-being

Charles Perrings

Biodiversity change is the biggest environmental problem of our time. It leads to much more than species extinctions, affecting the food we eat, the diseases we face, our vulnerability to fire and flood, and our ability to adapt to climate ... ....

Red List of the Endemic Plants of the Caucasus

Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Russia, and Turkey

James Solomon, Tatyana Shulkina and George Schatz

With over 2700 endemic plant taxa, including relict species, such as the near threatened Pinus eldarica, the Caucasus region is one of the world‘s most beautiful and important biodiversity hotspots. The Red List provides ... ....

Rewilding Our Hearts

Building Pathways of Compassion and Coexistence

Marc Bekoff

In wildlife conservation work, rewilding – to make wild once again – refers to the creation of corridors between preserved lands that allow declining populations to rebound. Marc Bekoff, one of our most engaging animal experts ... ....

Take Back Conservation

Dave Foreman

For one hundred years this network of wildlovers has fought to save wild things for their own sake, and has worked to set aside National Parks, Wilderness Areas, and other protected areas as the strongest tools to save wild things. ....

The Coral Battleground

Judith Wright and Margaret Thorsborne

The Great Barrier Reef lies off the coast of Queensland: 2000 kilometres of spectacular coral reefs, sand cays and islands, Australia's most precious marine possession. Teeming with life, it covers 350 000 square kilometres.

Wild Hope

On the Front Lines of Conservation Success

Andrew Balmford

Tropical deforestation. The collapse of fisheries. Unprecedented levels of species extinction. Faced with the plethora of gloom-and-doom headlines about the natural world, we might think that environmental disaster is inevitable.

A History of Environmentalism

Local Struggles, Global Histories

Marco Armiero and Lise Sedrez

'Think globally, act locally' has become a call to environmentalist mobilization, proposing a closer connection between global concerns, local issues and individual responsibility. A History of Environmentalism explores ... ....

An Introduction to Lightning

Vernon Cooray

An Introduction to Lightning about lightning summarizes the essence of physics and effects of lightning in a non-technical manner and provides an up-to-date description of the phenomenon of lightning in simple language.

Beyond Smoke and Mirrors

Climate Change and Energy in the 21st Century

Burton Richter

Global climate change is one of the most important issues humanity faces today. This updated, second edition assesses the sensible, senseless and biased proposals for averting the potentially disastrous consequences of global warming ... ....

Circulation Processes in the Atmosphere and Glacier Dynamics

Valerii V Fedotov

Circulation processes in the atmosphere are making significant changes in the annual, seasonal and diurnal variation of air temperature, which is determined mainly by solar energy with circulation processes in the atmosphere associated ... ....

Climate Change and Human Development

Hannah Reid

Whilst the world's poor are clearly hit hardest by climate change impacts, so too do they hold many of the solutions for how best to cope with its impacts, and at times reduce greenhouse gas emissions to zero.

Climate Conundrums

What the Climate Debate Reveals About Us

William B Gail

It is generally assumed that, in polite company, you don't talk politics, religion, or money. But in recent years, it seems "climate change" needs to be added to that list. Incorporating all of the above, few topics can ... ....

Climate, Science, and Colonization

Histories from Australia and New Zealand

James Beattie, Emily O'Gorman and Matthew Henry

Offering important new historical understandings of human responses to climate and climate change, this cutting-edge volume explores the dynamic relationship between settlement, climate, and colonization. The contributions gathered here ... ....

Flood Forecast

Climate Risk and Resiliency in Canada

Robert William Sandford and Kerry Freek

Hydro-climatic change is no longer an abstract or theoretical concept if you have been directly affected by the increase in the duration and intensity of extreme weather. In this new RMB Manifesto, two of Canada's most respected ... ....

Fundamentals of Ecotoxicology

The Science of Pollution

Michael C Newman

This new edition has been revised throughout, and is now in full color. It provides more international perspective, and adds more case studies from around the world. It also addresses environmental law.

Global Chorus

365 Voices on the Future of the Planet

Todd 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 ... ....

Managing Climate Risks and Adapting to Climate Change in the Agriculture Sector in Nepal

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

Managing Climate Risks and Adapting to Climate Change in the Agriculture Sector in Nepal provides detailed information about climate and its variability in Nepal, including past trends, future climate change projections and ... ....

Mediterranean Pelagic Habitat

Oceanographic and Biological Processes, an Overview

Maurizio Wurtz

The Mediterranean Sea is a highly variable and dynamic environment, with very high biologic diversity. However, human activities have a large impact on this environment and sometimes lead to permanent ecosystem shifts. A broad-based dynamic ... ....

Natural Wastewater Treatment Systems

Ronald W Crites, E Joe Middlebrooks, Robert K Bastian and Sherwood C Reed

Calling for ecologically and economically sound wastewater treatment systems, the authors of Natural Wastewater Treatment Systems explore the use of wetlands, sprinkler or deep irrigation, groundwater recharge, and other natural ... ....

Overheated: The Human Cost of Climate Change

Andrew T Guzman

Deniers of climate change sometimes quip that claims about global warming are more about political science than climate science. They are wrong on the science, but may be right with respect to its political implications. A hotter world ... ....

Particles in the Coastal Ocean

Theory and Applications

Daniel R Lynch, David A Greenberg, Ata Bilgili, Jr.,Dennis J McGillicuddy, James P Manning and Ar

The coastal ocean comprises the semi-enclosed seas on the continental shelf, including estuaries and extending to the shelf break. This region is the focus of many serious concerns, including coastal inundation by tides, storm surges or ... ....

Stung!: On Jellyfish Blooms and the Future of the Ocean

Lisa-ann Gershwin and Sylvia A Earle

Our oceans are becoming increasingly inhospitable to life – growing toxicity and rising temperatures coupled with overfishing have led many marine species to the brink of collapse. And yet there is one creature that is thriving in ... ....

The Cartoon Introduction to Climate Change

Yoram Bauman and Grady Klein

Climate change is no laughing matter, but maybe it should be. The topic is so critical that everyone, from students to policy-makers to voters, needs a quick and easy guide to the basics. The Cartoon Introduction to Climate Change ... ....

The Moral Challenge of Dangerous Climate Change

Values, Poverty, and Policy

Darrel Moellendorf

The Moral Challenge of Dangerous Climate Change examines the threat that climate change poses to projects of poverty eradication, sustainable development, and biodiversity preservation. It discusses the values that support these ... ....

The People's Republic of Chemicals

William J Kelly and Chips Jacobs

Maverick environmental writers William J. Kelly and Chip Jacobs follow up their acclaimed Smogtown with a provocative examination of China's ecological calamity already imperiling a warming planet. Toxic smog most people figured was ... ....

The Predictability of Weather and Climate

Tim N Palmer and Renate Hagedorn

The topic of predictability in weather and climate has advanced significantly in recent years, both in understanding the phenomena that affect weather and climate and in techniques used to model and forecast them.

The Two-Mile Time Machine

Ice Cores, Abrupt Climate Change and Our Future

Richard Alley

In the 1990s Richard B. Alley and his colleagues made headlines with the discovery that the last ice age came to an abrupt end over a period of only three years. In The Two-Mile Time Machine, Alley tells the fascinating history of global ... ....

The United States in a Warming World

The Political Economy of Government, Business and Public Responses to Climate Change

Thomas L Brewer

Addressing the widespread desire to better understand how climate change issues are addressed in the United States, The United States in a Warming World provides an unparalleled analysis of features of the US economic and political ... ....

Toxic Injustice

A Transnational History of Exposure and Struggle

Susanna Rankin Bohme

The pesticide dibromochloropropane, known as DBCP, was developed by the chemical companies Dow and Shell in the 1950s to target worm-like, soil-dwelling creatures called nematodes. Despite signs that it was dangerous, the chemical was ... ....

Voice and Environmental Communication

Jennifer Peeples and Stephen Depoe

Voice and Environmental Communication explores how people give voice to, and listen to the voices of, the environment. As anxieties around degrading environments increase, so too do the number and volume of voices vying for the ... ....

A Photographic Atlas of Selected Regions of the Milky Way

Barnard Edward Emerson and Gerald Orin Dobek

Edward Emerson Barnard's Photographic Atlas of Selected Regions of the Milky Way was originally published in two volumes in 1927. Together these volumes contained a wealth of information, including photographic plates of the ... ....

Celestial Shadows

Eclipses, Transits, and Occultations

Much of what we know about the universe comes from the study of celestial shadows. Celestial Shadows looks in detail at the way eclipses and other celestial shadows have given us amazing insights into the nature of the objects ... ....

Chemical Processes for a Sustainable Future

Fabrication of Functional Nanoshells

Trevor M Letcher, Janet L Scott and Darrell Patterson

Chemical Processes for a Sustainable Future summarises the recent achievements in surface-functionalised cells including fabrication, characterisation, applications and nanotoxicity. The chapters cover a range of different systems ... ....

Contemporary Human Geography (International Edition)

James M Rubenstein

Contemporary Human Geography is a beautifully crafted, modular springboard into essential human and cultural geography concepts, designed for the contemporary geography student. Topics within each chapter are organized into modules ... ....

Cosmic Catastrophes

Exploding Stars, Black Holes, and Mapping the Universe

J Craig Wheeler

From supernovae and gamma-ray bursts to the accelerating Universe, this is an exploration of the intellectual threads that lead to some of the most exciting ideas in modern astrophysics and cosmology. This fully updated second edition ... ....

Fault-Related Rocks

A Photographic Atlas

Arthur W Snoke, Jan Tullis and Victoria R Todd

A reprint of a classical work in the Princeton Legacy Library. Originally published in 1998. This is a richly illustrated reference book that provides a unique, comprehensive, and up-to-date survey of the rocks and ...

Flow in Porous Rocks

Energy and Environmental Applications

Andrew W Woods

Focusing on simplified models of physical flow processes, Flow in Porous Rocks develops a series of quantitative models to describe the recovery of oil and gas from hydrocarbon reservoirs (including fracking), the physics of ... ....

Galaxy: Mapping the Cosmos

James Geach

The numbers involved when it comes to discussing stars, galaxies and the inconceivably vast tracts of empty space between them are staggering. With hundreds of billions of galaxies in the observable universe, all of varying shapes, sizes ... ....

Geology & Fossils of the Hastings Area

Ken Brooks

Geology & Fossils of the Hastings Area begins with two local field trips, where various rocks and fossils are identified and then used to reconstruct a vivid picture of life in South-East England around 140 million years ago ... ....

Hubble: Window on the Universe (Legacy Edition)

Giles Sparrow

For 20 years the Hubble Space Telescope has been hurtling around our planet at 17 500 mph sending spectacularly sharp images of the universe back to Earth, but after two decades and 570 000 photographs, NASA is preparing to wind down this ... ....

Lake Kivu

Limnology and Biogeochemistry of a Tropical Great Lake

Jean-Pierre Descy, Francois Darchambeau and Martin Schmid

In the heart of Africa, a unique lake attracts the attention of scientists since the beginning of the 20th century. At the foot of the Virunga volcano chain, Lake Kivu harbors a vast amount of dissolved carbon dioxide and methane, making ... ....

Mars 3-D

A Rover's-Eye View of the Red Planet

Jim Bell

Planetary scientist Jim Bell leads us on another exhilarating tour of the Red Planet, and this revised, expanded edition of Mars 3-D includes the latest images from NASA's revolutionary Mars Science Laboratory mission. ....

Observing Variable Stars, Novae, and Supernovae

Gerald North and Nick James

Gerald North's complete practical guide and resource package instructs amateur astronomers in observing and monitoring variable stars and other objects of variable brightness. Descriptions of the objects are accompanied by explanations ... ....

Pearls of the Southern Skies

A Journey to Exotic Star Clusters, Nebulae and Galaxies

Auke Slotegraaf and Dieter Willasch

The celestial objects of the Southern Hemisphere are fascinating to astronomers everywhere. The southern stars, nebulae, and galaxies have exotic names like Omega Centauri, the Tarantula Nebula, Canopus, the Vela Supernova, the Coal Sack ... ....

Philip's Complete Guide to Stargazing

Robin Scagell

In a new flexi-paperback format, Philip's Complete Guide to Stargazing is an inspiring introduction to astronomy, providing all the information you need to explore the night sky. This is a comprehensive guide to an increasingly ... ....

Philip's Stargazing 2015

Month-by-Month Guide to the Northern Night Sky

Heather Couper, Nigel Henbest and Wil Tirion

Philip's Stargazing 2015 is a concise guide to the northern-hemisphere night sky, helping starwatchers to see the year's most fascinating events, whether observing with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope.

Philip's Stargazing with Mark Thompson

Mark Thompson

Philip's Stargazing with Mark Thompson provides the perfect introduction to the fascinating hobby of astronomy for beginners, written by TV's favourite astronomer. With 30 years' experience in observational astronomy ... ....

Ripley's Believe it or Not! Space

Robert Ripley

This bright, action-packed volume Ripley's Believe it or Not! Space reveals the high-tech world of space as you've never seen it before. It not only explains how to look at the night sky and how planets and stars ... ....

Starlight Detectives

How Astronomers, Inventors, and Eccentrics Discovered the Modern Universe

Alan Hirshfeld

In 1929, Edwin Hubble announced the greatest discovery in the history of astronomy since Galileo first turned a telescope to the heavens. The galaxies, previously believed to float serenely in the void, are in fact hurtling apart at an ... ....

The Archaean: Geological and Geochemical Windows into the Early Earth

Andrew Y Glikson

Archaean terrains contain a wealth of structural, stratigraphic, textural, mineralogical, geochemical and isotopic features allowing insights into the nature of the early Earth.

The Cultural Landscape

An Introduction to Human Geography (International Edition)

James M Rubenstein

Trusted for its timeliness, readability, and sound pedagogy, The Cultural Landscape: An Introduction to Human Geography emphasizes the relevance of geographic concepts to human challenges. The relationship between globalization ... ....

The Environments of the Sun and the Stars

Jean-Pierre Rozelot and Coralie Neiner

Based on lectures given at a CNRS summer school in France, The Environments of the Sun and the Stars covers many aspects of stellar environments (both observational and theoretical) and offers a broad overview of the field. ....

The Knowledge

How to Rebuild Our World from Scratch

Lewis Dartnell

Maybe it was a viral pandemic, or an asteroid strike, or perhaps nuclear war. Whatever the cause, the world as we know it has ended and you and the other survivors must start again. What key knowledge would you need to start rebuilding ... ....

The Mystery of the Missing Antimatter

Helen R Quinn and Yossi Nir

In the first fractions of a second after the big bang lingers a question at the heart of our very existence: why does the universe contain matter but almost no antimatter? The laws of physics tell us that equal amounts of matter and anti-matter ... ....

The Science of Discworld IV

Judgement Day

Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen

The fourth book in the Science of Discworld series, and this time around dealing with The Really Big Questions, Terry Pratchett's brilliant new Discworld story Judgement Day is annotated with very big footnotes ...

Tides in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Jean Souchay, Stephane Mathis and Tadashi Tokieda

Based on the lecture notes of a school titled "Tides in Astronomy and Astrophysics" that brought together students and researchers, Tides in Astronomy and Astrophysics focuses on the fundamental theories of tides at ... ....

Viewing and Imaging the Solar System

A Complete Guide for Amateur Astronomers

Jane Clark

Viewing and Imaging the Solar System: A Complete Guide for Amateur Astronomers is for amateur astronomers who are beginners or who want to move beyond the beginner level and develop better observing skills. Newcomers to astronomy ... ....

Volcanism and Global Environmental Change

Anja Schmidt, Kirsten Fristad and Linda Elkins-Tanton

Covering a key connection between geological processes and life on Earth, this multidisciplinary volume describes the effects of volcanism on the environment by combining present-day observations of volcanism and environmental changes ... ....

Working on Mars

Voyages of Scientific Discovery with the Mars Exploration Rovers

William J Clancey

Geologists in the field climb hills and hang onto craggy outcrops; they put their fingers in sand and scratch, smell, and even taste rocks. Beginning in 2004, however, a team of geologists and other planetary scientists did field science ... ....

150 Best Sustainable House Ideas

Francesc Zamora Mola

Highlighting the latest innovations in sustainable housing, this newest volume in the successful 150 Best series focuses on houses that have incorporated new methods of construction, layout, and design to create environmentally ... ....

Alternative Water Supply Systems

Fayyaz Ali Memon and Sarah Ward

Owing to climate change related uncertainties and anticipated population growth, different parts of the developing and the developed world (particularly urban areas) are experiencing water shortages or flooding and security of fit-for-purpose ... ....

An Altar in the Wilderness

Kaleeg Hainsworth

Father Kaleeg Hainsworth, an Eastern Orthodox priest with a lifetime of experience in the Canadian wilderness, grounds this manifesto in the literary, philosophical, mystical and historical teachings of the spiritual masters of both East ... ....

Animals and World Religions

Rightful Relations

Lisa Kemmerer and Norm Phelps

Despite increasing public attention to animal suffering, little seems to have changed: human beings continue to exploit billions of animals in factory farms, medical laboratories, and elsewhere. In this wide-ranging and perceptive study ... ....

Beekeeping for Poverty Alleviation and Livelihood Security, Volume 1

Technological Aspects of Beekeeping

Wim Reybroeck, Johan W Veen and Anuradha Gupta

For decades beekeeping has been used as a tool for rural development, and many examples of the successful establishment of beekeeping cooperatives, associations and companies in poverty regions can be cited. However, until now, no comprehensive ... ....

Beyond Nature and Culture

Philippe Descola, Lloyd Janet and Marshall Sahlins

Successor to Claude Lévi-Strauss at the Collège de France, Philippe Descola has become one of the most important anthropologists working today, and Beyond Nature and Culture has been a major influence in European ... ....

Cage Aquaculture in India

G Syda Rao, Imelda Joseph, KK Philipose and M Suresh Kumar

Cage Aquaculture in India is the major outcome of research that the CMFRI has done all along the Indian coast to establish the possibility of an innovation in mariculture in the country. The book will be useful for researchers ... ....

Climate Policy and Non-renewable Resources

The Green Paradox and Beyond

Karen Pittel, Frederick van der Ploeg and Cees Withagen

Recent developments suggest that well-intended climate policies – including carbon taxes and subsidies for renewable energy – might not accomplish what policy makers intend. Hans-Werner Sinn has described a "green paradox" ... ....

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 ... ....

Constructing Private Governance

The Rise and Evolution of Forest, Coffee, and Fisheries Certification

Graeme Auld

Recent decades have witnessed the rise of social and environmental certification programs that are intended to promote responsible business practices. Consumers now encounter organic or fair-trade labels on a variety of products, implying ... ....

Dams and Development in China

The Moral Economy of Water and Power

Bryan Tilt

China is home to half of the world's large dams and adds dozens more each year. The benefits are considerable: dams deliver hydropower, provide reliable irrigation water, protect people and farmland against flooding, and produce ... ....

Defensive Environmentalists and the Dynamics of Global Reform

Thomas K Rudel

As global environmental changes become increasingly evident and efforts to respond to these changes fall short of expectations, questions about the circumstances that generate environmental reforms become more pressing.

Earth System Governance

World Politics in the Anthropocene

Frank Biermann

Humans are no longer spectators who need to adapt to their natural environment. Our impact on the earth has caused changes that are outside the range of natural variability and are equivalent to such major geological disruptions as ice ... ....

Eating Earth

Environmental Ethics and Dietary Choice

Lisa Kemmerer

Contemporary environmental activists and the animal-rights community are more often than not considered separate movements, despite similar goals and attitudes toward desired change in the world. A fundamental distinction is seen in the ... ....

Ecological Research at the Offshore Windfarm Alpha Ventus

Challenges, Results and Perspectives

Anika Beiersdorf and Antje Radecke

At present and over the next few years, large-scale windfarms are being installed far off the coast of Germany in the North and Baltic Sea, making a major contribution to electricity generation from renewable energy sources.

Environmental Diplomacy

Negotiating More Effective Global Agreements

Lawrence E Susskind and Saleem H Ali

Environmental Diplomacy: Negotiating More Effective Global Agreements provides an accessible narrative on understanding the geopolitics of negotiating international environmental agreements and clear guidance on improving the ... ....

Essential Concepts of Global Environmental Governance

Jean-Frederic Morin and Amandine Orsini

Aligning global governance to the challenges of sustainability is one of the most urgent environmental issues to be addressed. Essential Concepts of Global Environmental Governance is a timely and up-to-date compilation of the ... ....

Every Twelve Seconds

Industrialized Slaughter and the Politics of Sight

This is an account of industrialized killing from a participant's point of view. The author, political scientist Timothy Pachirat, was employed undercover for five months in a Great Plains slaughterhouse where 2500 cattle were killed ... ....

FAO's BEFS (Bioenergy and Food Security) Approach

Implementation Guide

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

The objective of FAO's BEFS (Bioenergy and Food Security) Approach is to assist stakeholders, primarily policymakers, who wish to develop bioenergy options that safeguard food security. The guidance in this document is based ... ....

Fisheries Resource and Production Statistics of NE states of India

An Analytical Value Added Presentation

AK Roy and AD Upadhyay

From the preface: "The North-East Region of India, comprising the States of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Meghalaya, Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim and Tripura is blessed with rich biodiversity and fishery resources.

Frameworks for Water Law Reform

Sarah Hendry

This timely book designs and develops an original, analytical framework for water law reform processes, using case studies across four jurisdictions. Addressing the four principal areas of water law: integrated water resource management ... ....

Gold: Inside the Race for the World's Most Seductive Metal

Matthew Hart

Since the 2008 financial crisis the price of gold has sky-rocketed, from around $800 an ounce in August of that year to a peak of around $1,700 an ounce. Fortunes have been made, and this has kicked off an unprecedented gold-mining and ... ....

Green Polymer Chemistry

Biocatalysis and Materials II

HN Cheng

An edited volume from the American Chemical Society, discussing topics related to polymers, materials, biocatalysis, and biotechnology.

Groundwater Systems Analysis of Indian Coastal Deltas

Resource Potentials, Quality Trends, Saline-Fresh Water Interrelationships and Management Strategies

Indugula Radhakrishna

Coastal delta systems are prominent land forms and vibrant ecosystems rich in water resources and biodiversities, and play a vital role in the growth and development of agriculture, irrigation, drinking water and industrial needs and ... ....

Interspecies Ethics

Cynthia Willett

Interspecies Ethics explores animals' vast capacity for agency, justice, solidarity, humor, and communication across species. The social bonds diverse animals form provide a remarkable model for communitarian justice and ... ....

L'Or Bleu des Seychelles

Histoire de la Peche Industrielle au Thon dans l'Ocean Indien

Alain Fonteneau, Francis Marsac, Philippe Michaud and James Alix Michel

In 1976, the year of independence, there was no tuna industry in the Seychelles, and some experts predicted a major development of these fisheries. Today Victoria, the capital, has become one of the world's busiest ports and hosts ... ....

Leading Sustainable Change

An Organizational Perspective

Rebecca Henderson, Ranjay Gulati, Michael Tushman and David Jones

The business case for acting sustainably is becoming increasingly compelling – reducing our global footprint to sustainable levels is the defining issue of our times and it is one that can only be addressed with the active participation ... ....

Marine Historical Ecology in Conservation

Applying the Past to Manage for the Future

John N Kittinger, Loren McClenachan, Keryn B Gedan, Louise K Blight and Daniel Pauly

This innovative volume provides a blueprint for managing the challenges of ocean conservation using marine historical ecology – an interdisciplinary area of study that is helping society to gain a more in-depth understanding of ... ....

On Fracking

C Alexia Lane

Around the world, a significant shift from conventional to unconventional energy extraction is occurring like never before. As traditional energy sources dwindle and the demand for fossil fuels continues to increase, civilization seems ... ....

On-farm Feeding and Feed Management in Aquaculture

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

This technical paper reviews the current status of on-farm feeding and feed management in aquaculture. It contains a) ten case studies on feeding and feed management practices carried out in seven selected countries of Asia ...

Overfished Ocean Strategy

Powering Up Innovation for a Resource-deprived World

Nadya Zhexembayeva

We are living amidst a remarkable transformation. The linear, throwaway economy of today – in which we extract resources, create products, use them, and throw them away like a cheap plastic fork – is rapidly coming to a close ... ....