A Systemic Review of Sulawesi Bunomys (Muridae, Murinae) With the Description of Two New Species

Guy G Musser

Two new species of Bunomys are described, B. karokophilus and B. torajae, both from the west-central mountain region of central Sulawesi. The descriptions are presented within the context ...

African Wild Dogs

On the Front Line

Brendan Whittington-Jones

About 450 is optimistically the number of free-ranging African wild dogs left in South Africa. If ever a charismatic, African species could be considered an underdog in the face of human development, the wild dog, Lycaon pictus ...

Among the Bone Eaters

Encounters with Hyenas in Harar

Marcus Baynes-Rock and Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

Large carnivores in wild places are usually studied by biologists inside vehicles using telemetry and noninvasive methods. So what happens when an anthropologist studies a clan of spotted hyenas, Africa's second-largest carnivores ...

An Indomitable Beast

The Remarkable Journey of the Jaguar

Alan Rabinowitz

The jaguar is one of the most mysterious and least-known big cats of the world. The largest cat in the Americas, it has survived an onslaught of environmental and human threats partly because of an evolutionary history unique among wild ...

Badger Behaviour, Conservation and Rehabilitation

70 Years of Getting to Know Badgers

George E Pearce

A fascinating insight into badger biology, life in the sett, rescue and rehabilitation, consultancy, badgers and farming, and badger-watching with George E. Pearce – an expert on badgers. He has surveyed over 700 sites, visited over ...

Bats of Estonia and Adjacent Regions

Matti Masing

Bats of Estonia and Adjacent Regions gives a summary of bat research carried out by Dr. Matti Masing and his colleagues in Estonia and elsewhere in Europe during the last 40 years. It is the first book about all 15 bat species ...

Bats of Somalia and Neighbouring Areas

Benedetto Lanza, Ugo Funaioli and Marco Riccucci

A detailed guide to the bat fauna of Somalia and neighbouring areas, featuring 65 fine colour plates by Ugo Funaioli.

Guide to Mammals of Salta Province, Argentina / Guía de los Mamíferos de la Provincia de Salta, Argentina

Michael A Mares, Ricardo A Ojeda, Ruben M Barquez, Enrique Guanuco and Patr Capllonch de Barquez

Salta Province, which lies astride the Tropic of Capricorn in extreme northwest Argentina, encompasses many of South America's major habitats: montane moist forest, thorn forest, lowland desert, highland desert, and deciduous forests ...

How Dogs Work

Raymond Coppinger, Mark Feinstein and Gordon M Burghardt

How well do we really know dogs? People may enjoy thinking about them as "man's best friend," but what actually drives the things they do? What is going on in their fur-covered heads as they look at us with their big, expressive ...

Les Chauves-Souris de France, Belgique, Luxembourg et Suisse [Bats of France, Belgium, Luxembourg and Switzerland]

Michele Lemaire and Laurent Arthur

This book summarizes all available knowledge of the 34 bat species in the francophone area. For this second edition, the authors conducted a comprehensive update of the data. Much information from recent observations has been added.

Mammals of Alabama

Troy L Best and Julian L Dusi

Beautifully designed and sturdily bound for rugged field use, Mammals of Alabama is the first and only exhaustive guidebook to Alabama's diverse and fascinating mammalian fauna. European and American naturalists ...

Peterson Field Guide to Finding Mammals in North America

Vladimir Dinets

To see a fog shrew, should you go to Muir Woods National Monument? If you're planning to visit Yellowstone National Park, what animals can you expect to see? When should a photographer visit to get a shot of a gray fox?

Picturing Dogs, Seeing Ourselves

Vintage American Photographs

Ann-Janine Morey

Dogs are as ubiquitous in American culture as white picket fences and apple pie, embracing all the meanings of wholesome domestic life family, fidelity, comfort, protection, nurturance, and love as well as symbolizing some of the less ...

Seal

Victoria Dickenson

Playful and inquisitive, seals have long been interested in humans – and humans have reciprocated that interest, falling for their beauty, grace, and charm as they frolic alongside our boats or loll on sandy shores. In this newest ...

Skunk

Alyce L Miller

Solitary, nocturnal creatures, skunks generally go about their business unnoticed. But then there's that thing they do . . . and oh, boy, when they do it, no one can ignore them. But there's far more to skunks than the ...

The Carnivore Way

Coexisting with and Conserving North America's Predators

Cristina Eisenberg

What would it be like to live in a world with no predators roaming our landscapes? Would their elimination, which humans have sought with ever greater urgency in recent times, bring about a pastoral, peaceful human civilization?

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 Mandrill

A Case of Extreme Sexual Selection

Alan F Dixson

Living in the remote forests of western central Africa, the mandrill (Mandrillus sphinx) is notoriously elusive and has evaded scientific scrutiny for decades. Yet, it is the largest and most sexually dimorphic of all the Old World ...

The Travels of the Oostende Whale Skeleton

Nicholas Redman

In 1827, a dead whale was found floating in the North Sea by some fishermen, and then towed to Oostende, Belgium, where first the carcass and then the skeleton were put on display. Hence it became known as "The Ostend Whale" ...

The Wild Mammals of Japan

SD Ohdachi, Y Ishibashi, MA Iwasa, D Fukui and T Saitoh

Includes accounts for 170 species of mammals in Japan. It is the most comprehensive and up-to-date guide available, and will be of interest to anyone in the world who has an interest in Japanese mammals. Descriptions for each species ...

Whales' Bones of France, Southern Europe, the Middle East and North Africa

Nicholas Redman and Richard C Sabin

Whales' Bones of France, Southern Europe, the Middle East and North Africa is a record of whale bone monuments in around 250 locations in France, Portugal (including the Azores and Madeira), Spain (including the Canary Islands) ...

Wolf: Legend, Enemy, Icon

Rebecca L Grambo and Daniel J Cox

In this updated and expanded edition with 16 new pages, Rebecca Grambo paints an intimate portrait of an animal that has fascinated, inspired and terrified people throughout human history. Drawing on a wide variety of sources, the author ...

A Check-List of the Birds of Keyhaven-Lymington and Milford-on-Sea

Ed Wiseman

A checklist of the birds recorded from this popular and productive birding area. The modern day checklist is compared to the hundred year old checklist of Milford-on-Sea, written by Kelsall & Coles. The checklist was delivered to ...

A Field Guide to the Birds of Wesleyan

Oliver James

The sixteen birds detailed in this charming field guide will be well known to birders in Connecticut, but the attention to detail and personality quirks in each bird's description make A Field Guide to the Birds of Wesleyan special ...

A Pocket Guide to the Birds of Meghalaya

Anwaruddin Choudhury

The Indian state of Meghalaya has more than 600 species of birds, with 25 globally threatened, 17 near-threatened, and nine restricted-range species. A Pocket Guide to the Birds of Meghalaya is the first such book for the state.

An Oological Record of British Raptors

Tony Ladd and Errol Fuller

Tony Ladd, an experienced graphic designer and wildlife artist, has produced a truly remarkable publication with all the hallmarks of a Victorian Journal from the olden days. Through thousands of hours research and visits to the great ...

Australian Predators of the Sky

Penny Olsen and Sean Dooley

Our relationship with the birds of prey has always been conflicted. Raptors are admired for their strength and independence, but despised for their depredations on livestock and favourite garden birds, while the owls are at once respected ...

Avian Cognition

Exploring the Intelligence, Behavior, and Individuality of Birds

Debra S Herrmann

Unlike any other book, Avian Cognition thoroughly examines avian intelligence, behavior, and individuality. Preferences, choices, motivation, and habits of species, flocks, and individual birds are discussed and compared.

Birds of Kangaroo Island

A Photographic Field Guide

Chris Baxter

This comprehensive account covers all 267 bird species recorded on Kangaroo Island, South Australia. Each species is illustrated by full colour photographs and information is provided on habits, habitats, breeding, status, abundance and ...

Birds of Minnesota State Parks

Robert B Janssen and Carrol L Henderson

Each of Minnesota's 75 state parks is represented by a birding-oriented description, a page of recommended places to visit, and a map. The parks are a haven for birds, often providing the only suitable habitat for a species in the ...

Birds of New England

Todd Telander

Falcon Pocket Guide: Birds of New England is a field guide to more than 300 of the most common and sought-after species in the region. Anatomically correct illustrations and detailed descriptions about each bird's prominent ...

Birds of Siberia, Volume 1 [Russian]

B Ryabitsev

This is the first complete illustrated guide to the birds of Siberia and contains descriptions of more than 550 species of birds observed in the whole of Siberia between the Urals and the Far East. The book consists of two volumes, sold ...

Birds of Siberia, Volume 2 [Russian]

B Ryabitsev

This is the first complete illustrated guide to the birds of Siberia and contains descriptions of more than 550 species of birds observed in the whole of Siberia between the Urals and the Far East. The book consists of two volumes, sold ...

Booming from the Mists of Nowhere

The Story of the Greater Prairie-Chicken

Greg Hoch

For ten months of the year, the prairie-chicken's drab colors allow it to disappear into the landscape. However, in April and May this grouse is one of the most outrageously flamboyant birds in North America. Competing with each other ...

Fastest Things on Wings

Rescuing Hummingbirds in Hollywood

Terry Masear

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

Florida Seashore & Wildlife

Todd Telander

Falcon Pocket Guide: Florida Seashore & Wildlife is a field guide to 180 of the most commonly found shells, plants, and animals along Florida's coast. Anatomically correct illustrations and detailed descriptions make it ...

Hampshire Bird Report 2011

Hampshire Ornithological Society (HOS)

The major part of the book is taken up with the Systematic list, covering the species recorded in the county during the year. The book also contains regular papers including the Review of the Year and the Ringing Report and various appendices ...

Hampshire Bird Report 2012

Hampshire Ornithological Society (HOS)

The major part of the book is taken up with the Systematic list, covering the species recorded in the county during the year. The book also contains regular papers including the Review of the Year and the Ringing Report and various appendices ...

Hampshire Bird Report 2013

Hampshire Ornithological Society (HOS)

The major part of the book is taken up with the Systematic list, covering the 266 species recorded in the county during the year. The book also contains regular papers including the Review of the Year and the Ringing Report and various ...

Hand Guide to the Birds of New Zealand

Hugh Robertson, Barrie Heather and Derek Onley

The Hand Guide to the Birds of New Zealand is a trusted, invaluable reference for lovers of New Zealand birds. Comprehensive and easy to use, this new edition features: - 374 species, including 35 new additions ...

Ireland's First in Over 100 Years: Lough Derg White Tailed Sea Eagles (Region 0)

Nigel Beers Smith

Ireland’s First White Tailed Sea eagles in over 100 years The author filmed and photographed this historic event for over 6 months, every single day, from the start, right up to the chicks fledging. This documentary is the story of ...

Multimedia Identification Guide to North Atlantic Seabirds: Albatrosses and Fulmarine Petrels

Bob Flood and Ashley Fisher

Innovative new concept to seabird identification using words, photographs, illustrations, 2 DVDs. Cross-comparison of all species covered: Atlantic Yellow-nosed, Indian Yellow-nosed, Grey-headed, Black-browed, Shy, and Tristan Albatrosse ...

Photo Guide to Birds of Costa Rica

A Field Guide

Richard Garrigues

Few ecosystem destinations are as abundant in their biodiversity as Costa Rica. Having the right field guides in hand can make all the difference when you're enjoying the country's birdlife. Photo Guide to Birds of Costa Rica ...

Swallow

Angela Turner

Known as heralds of spring and beautiful, elegant flyers, swallows are among the most beloved of familiar birds. Because they return with the spring, swallows, as Angela Turner explains, have long been associated with the renewal of life ...

The Field Guide to the Birds of New Zealand

Hugh Robertson, Barrie Heather and Derek Onley

The Field Guide to the Birds of New Zealand is the modern classic of the genre – the tried and trusted reference for lovers of New Zealand birds. Comprehensive, reliable and easy to use, this fourth revised edition ...

The Finnish Bird Ringing Atlas, Volume II / Suomen Rengastusatlas II

Jari Valkama, Pertti Saurola, Aleksi Lehikoinen, Esa Lehikoinen, Markus Piha, Petri Sola and Velmal

This second volume of the Finnish Bird Ringing Atlas contains more data than the first. Not only is the number of species higher, but also the data used in this volume comprise 92% of the ringing data and 77% of the recovery data stored ...

The Galapagos Hawk / El Gavilan de Galapagos

Tjitte de Vries and Therese Newenham

First monograph in a new series. The Galapagos Hawk / El Gavilán de Galápagos describes the biology and ecology of the Galagapos Hawk, Buteo galapagoensis.

The Urban Birder

David Lindo and Stephen Moss

Anyone can become an Urban Birder. You can do it anywhere and any time, whether you've got the day to spare, on your way to work, during your lunch break or just looking out of a window. Look up and you will see. The Urban Birder is an inspirational ..

Tout Savoir sur les Oiseaux d'Europe [Everything about the Birds of Europe]

Marc Duquet and Francois Desbordes

This guide provides all the numerical and factual information known about the 439 species of birds regularly seen in Europe (including of course all the nesting birds, migrating birds and those overwintering in France): classification ...

Type Specimens of Birds in the American Museum of Natural History, Part 12

Passeriformes: Ploceidae, Sturnidae, Buphagidae, Oriolidae, Dicruridae, Callaeidae, Grallinidae, Corcoracidae, Artamida

Mary LeCroy

This 12th and last part of Type specimens of birds in the American Museum of Natural History includes taxa in the passerine families included in volume 15 of Peters' ...

Winter's Hawk

Red-Tails on the Southern Plains

James W Lish

Every autumn, thousands of migrating Red-tailed Hawks arrive on the southern Great Plains to spend the winter, and Oklahoma is one of the best places to observe this amazing phenomenon. Above the prairie, as Oscar Hammerstein wrote, they ...

Bushmaster: Raymond Ditmars and the Hunt for the World's Largest Viper

Dan Eatherley

Raymond Ditmars (1876–1942), the first curator of reptiles at New York's famous Bronx Zoo, brought cold-blooded animals to public attention as never before. Through wildly successful books and movies, he inspired a generation of ...

Contributions to the History of Herpetology, Volume 1

Kraig Adler

In 1989, SSAR issued the first volume in what became a series of three containing the biographies (with portraits and signatures) of 786 herpetologists from throughout the world. The biographies provide key details of each person’s ...

Die Zwergohreule (Otus scops) in Oesterreich [The Eurasian Scops Owl in Austria]

Bestand, Oekologie und Schutz in Zentraleuropa unter Besonderer Berucksichtigung der Kaernter Artenschutzprojekte

Gerald Malle and Remo Probst

In this extensive monograph all aspects of the life of this particular Austrian owl species are treated for the first time: their identification features and moulting cycles, the taxonomy, food, breeding biology, phenology and reproduction ...

Eye of Newt and Toe of Frog, Adder's Fork and Lizard's Leg

The Lore and Mythology of Amphibians and Reptiles

Marty Crump

Frogs are worshipped for bringing nourishing rains, but blamed for devastating floods. Turtles are admired for their wisdom and longevity, but ridiculed for their sluggish and cowardly behavior. Snakes are respected for their ability to ...

Herpetological Collecting and Collections Management

John E Simmons

This is the 3rd edition of this popular herpetological circular. John Simmons has greatly expanded the information on the history of collections, laws and permits needed for collecting in the US and internationally. The Collection Management ...

Le Lezard Ocelle

Un Geant sure le Continent Europeen

Florian Dore, Marc Cheylan and Pierre Grillet

The ocellated lizard dates back to the mid Pliocene epoch, extending from 5.3 to 2.6 to million years ago. Specialists now distinguish four different species (Timon lepidus, T. nevadensis, T. tangitanus, and ...

My First Book of Southern African Frogs

Jeanne Tarrant and Sally MacLarty

Frogs are appealing and colourful creatures. Children may be familiar with stages of the frog's curious life cycle, and see their eggs or tadpoles in local streams; and everyone has heard their calls. My first book of Southern African ...

Reptiles & Amphibians

Todd Telander

Falcon Pocket Guide: Reptiles & Amphibians is a field guide to 180 of the most common and sought-after reptile and amphibian species in the USA. Anatomically correct illustrations and detailed descriptions about each animal's ...

Texas Turtles & Crocodilians

A Field Guide

Troy D Hibbitts, Terry L Hibbitts and David Haynes

Texas has a large and diverse turtle population, with forms that are found nowhere else (Cagle's Map Turtle and the Texas Map Turtle) and wide-ranging species that barely touch the state, including the Painted Turtles and the ...

Turtles of the United States

Carl H Ernst and Roger W Barbour

The first comprehensive work in its field to be published since 1952, Turtles of the United States offers a survey of current knowledge concerning the life history of the forty-nine species of turtles native to the United States ...

Venomous Terrestrial Snakes of the Middle East

Findlay E Russell and James R Campbell

This volume provides an overview on the venomous snakes species of the region, snakebite and the available antisera.

1000 Marine Fishes Illustrated [Japanese]

Kato Shoichi

This book showcases 1000 fish species, mainly saltwater fish, recorded in Japan. The photos will help the reader to distinguish between juveniles, males, and females. Quick reference tables give information on features such a body shape ...

Annual Fishes

Life History Strategy, Diversity, and Evolution

Nibia Berois, Graciela García and Rafael O de Sa

Annual fishes inhabit isolated bodies of freshwater in Africa and South America that dry up seasonally. They provide a unique opportunity to serve as a model organism for studies in vertebrate biology, such as behavior, sexual selection ...

British Seahorses

This booklet on British seahorses allows you to learn more about these amazing animals, these 'Little horses of the sea'. It is full of facts and information about what makes these incredible fish be able to survive in our waters ...

Great White

James Woodford

"I remember thinking two things at the time. Firstly, if it had wanted to eat us we wouldn't have stood a chance and second, it didn't want to eat us." When James Woodford was confronted by half a dozen sharks ...

Guía de Peces para Aguas Continentales en la Vertiente Occidental del Ecuador [Guide to the Freshwater Fish of Western

Nowhere in the world are freshwater fishes more diverse than in Neotropical streams. Niches such as wood-eating and blood sucking exist nowhere else on the planet than in the Neotropics, and nearly all niches occupied by freshwater fishes ...

The Biology and Ecology of Parrotfishes

Andrew Scott Hoey, David Roy Bellwood and Roberta Martini Bonaldo

Parrotfishes (subfamily Scarinae, family Labridae), named for their brightly colored bodies and beaklike jaw, are a unique group of marine fishes that have captured the attention of researchers, conservationists and the general public ...

200 Hermit Crabs Illustrated [Japanese]

Kato Shoichi and Arima Kei Hito

This field guide describes 200 species of hermit crab that can be found in the waters around Japan. The descriptions mention habitat, and identifying features and characteristcs. The book also touches on photography techniques.

Oestergoetlands Trollslaendor [Dragonflies in Oestergoetland]

Tommy Karlsson and Claes Svedlindh

Östergötlands Trollsländor is a compilation of the results of a survey of dragonflies in the Swedish county Östergötland during 2008-2012, together with older records. The survey was performed by the ...

A Pictorial Guide Butterflies of Gorumara National Park

Sumita Ghatak and Arjan Basu Roy

This book is a first attempt to compile baseline information about various butterflies reports from Gorumara National Park, West Bengal, India. It compiles information about more than 300 butterfly species, out of which five species have ...

Atlas of Lifetime Coloring of the Cephalopods (Portraits of Cephalopods) [Russian]

DO Alekseev and Various Artists Bizikov

Atlas of Lifetime Coloring of the Cephalopods (Portraits of Cephalopods) contains detailed descriptions of 66 species of cephalopods, including information about their distribution, biology and economic importance, characteristics ...

Beetle

Adam Dodd

Ancient and strange, beetles call to mind a lost world of Egyptian magic and belief – a reminder of the fascination they've long held for human culture. In Beetle, Adam Dodd offers a richly illustrated, engaging account ...

Biologie der Spinnen [Biology of Spiders]

Rainer F Foelix

This third German edition is based on the previous versions of this classical book, but has been revised to include the up-to date knowledge on spider biology. In contrast to many spider books on the market (mainly field guides and ...

Butterflies

Ronald Orenstein and Thomas Marent

Here are some of the most colorful, spectacular and sometimes weird examples of the world's butterflies and moths. From the common swallowtail to the iridescent blue morpho, Thomas Marent's stunning photographs provide a close-up ...

Cetoniimania, Volume 7 [English / French]

S Rojkoff

Contains 5 contibutions on Cetoniinae groups from Africa, Asia, and Oceania.

Changing Global Perspectives on Horseshoe Crab Biology, Conservation and Management

Ruth H Carmichael, Mark L Botton, Paul KS Shin and Siu Gin Cheung

Changing Global Perspectives on Horseshoe Crab Biology, Conservation and Management reports significant progress of scientific research on horseshoe crabs, including aspects of evolution, genetics, ecology, population dynamics ...

Conchiglie del Mondo [Shells of the World]

Guida ai Molluschi Marini, d'Acqua Dolce e Terrestri di Tutto il Mondo

Mauro Doneddu and Egidio Trainito

A guide to help you discover the beautiful forms of shells from all the world's seas, and how to recognize them. An indispensable tool for those who are passionate about collecting them, whether beginner or expert. Includes over 3,000 ...

Das Grosse Buch der Bienen [The Big Book of Bees]

Jutta Gay and Inga Menkhoff

Over 600 hobbyist beekeepers live in Berlin alone – and their numbers are growing daily. Reason enough to look at the fascinating world of bees even closer. This magnificent illustrated book gives an insight into the most exciting ...

Fauna Sinica: Insecta, Volume 55: Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae [Chinese]

Yuan Feng, Yuan Xiangqun and Xue Guoxi

Fauna Sinica: Insecta, Volume 55: Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae contains two parts. The first part is a general account. The second part is a systematic account of Chinese skippers. Out of a total of 370 species, 200 species are studied ...

Folia Heyrovskyana, Supplement 14: Revision of Anthaxia (Haplanthaxia) aeneocuprea Species-Group (Coleoptera: Buprestida

Svatopluk Bíly

The Anthaxia (Haplanthaxia) aeneocuprea Kerremans, 1913 species-group is defined, keyed and all the 56 included species are fully illustrated. Twenty-five new species are described. All available bionomical data ...

Get Started in Beekeeping

All You Need for Happy, Healthy Bees

Adrian Waring and Claire Waring

Written by two of the UK's most well-known and respected experts in the beekeeping community, this is a new and updated edition of a popular reference title which contains everything the beginner, or even intermediate, beekeeper could ...

Handsome Beetles in Thailand, Volume 1 [Thai]

Sukhasawadi Pholpinit

Handsome Beetles in Thailand, Volume 1 has been written by Dr. Sukhsawad Pholphinit from Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand. She is specialized in beetles, especially the Cerambycidae. The book contains additional ...

Het Veen, de Vlinder en de Openbaring

Caspar Janssen

On a gorgeous summer's day, one hundred years ago, an unsuspecting schoolboy from the Dutch province of Friesland caught a Lycaenid butterfly that was thought to be extinct. The discovery was a sensation for lepidopterists ...

Hmyzí Rodiny a Staty [Insect Families and States]

Jan Zdarek

This is a supplemented and expanded edition of a popular 1997 book on social insects, Pro?ì Vosy, V?ìely, ?îmeláci, Mravenci a Termiti…aneb Hmyzí Státy, written by an entomologist, a university ...

Indian Bumblebees

Malkiat S Saini, Rifat H Raina and Harpreet Singh Ghator

Indian Bumblebees covers the first revisionary taxonomical work on Indian Bumblebees, it deals with 48 species out of which an extensive detail of 37 species has been provided, Indian Bumblebees is an outcome of extensive ...

Insect Behavior

Robert W Matthews and Janice R Matthews

Insect Behavior is the second edition of the text that for thirty years served as the fundamental introduction to a field of study that has been growing enormously. Today, new technologies and understandings are allowing ...

Insect Diets

Science and Technology

Allen Carson Cohen

Dr. Allen Carson Cohen's new edition of Insect Diets: Science and Technology continues to provide a current, integrated review of the field of insect diets. It reaffirms and expands upon the belief that the science of diet ...

Life Extension

Lessons from Drosophila

Alexander M Vaiserman, Alexey A Moskalev and Elena G Pasyukova

Life Extension looks at aging through research on Drosophila, the fruit fly that is one of the most widely used model organisms in bio-gerontology. Work in model organisms can expand the theoretical knowledge of aging ...

Los

Javier I Sanchez Almazan

The polychaete collection, part of the collection of invertebrates of the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (MNCN), Spain, has experienced a rapid growth over the last twenty years, thanks to the research activity of many Spanish and ...

Nudibranchi del Mediterraneo [Nudibranchs of the Mediterranean]

Mauro Doneddu and Egidio Trainito

A guide for lovers of shellfish and for all those who love to discover the beauty of the Mediterranean. The descriptive part contains information for over 180 different species. A total of over 300 images form a complete documentation on ...

Odonati d'Italia

Guida al Riconoscimento e Allo Studio di Libellule e Damigelle

C Galliani, R Scherini and A Piglia

A guide to the recognition and study of dragonflies and damselflies in Italy. The book gives detailed guidance and simple consultation, and is suitable for both beginners and for an audience of more experienced users who want to deepen ...

Outstanding Birdwing Butterflies (2-Volume Set)

Gilles Deslisle and Jean-Pierre Sclavo

This is the most complete reference book about Birdwing Butterflies to date, and is a work for ornithopterists as well as for lepidopterists who wish to specialize in this extraordinary genus of butterflies, but will also be of interest ...

Planet of the Bugs

Evolution and the Rise of Insects

Scott Richard Shaw

Dinosaurs, however toothy, did not rule the earth – and neither do humans. But what were and are the true potentates of our planet? Insects, says Scott Richard Shaw – millions and millions of insects. Starting in the shallow ...

Pristionchus pacificus

A Nematode Model for Comparative and Evolutionary Biology

Ralf J Sommer

This edited volume on the nematode model Pristionchus pacificus describes an integrative approach to evolutionary biology. It aims for a merger of evolutionary and comparative biology with mechanistic approaches based on genetic ...

Ragni: Biologia, Ecologia e Rapporti con l'Uomo

Riccardo Groppali

Known to all and frightening to some, spiders are an integral part of various human cultures: with positive roles in legends that bestow them even with the creation of the world, or negative roles as representatives of evil forces.

Susswassermollusken: Ein Bestimmungsschlussel fur die Muscheln und Schnecken im Susswasser der Bundesrepublik Deutsch

Peter Gloer

This work allows the identification of 74 freshwater snail species and 44 mussel species that occur in Germany. This even covers the species occurring in neighboring countries. Where it is essential for identification, anatomical features ...

Taschenlexikon der Spinnen Mitteleuropas: Die Haufigsten Arten im Portrat [Field Guide to the Spiders of Central Europ

Wolfgang Willner

Spiders are fascinating creatures. In proven style and design, this field guide treats the 400 most common species of spiders in Central Europe. Starting with brilliant pictures, all kinds of features, distribution, ways of life and ...

Taschenlexikon der Wildbienen Mitteleuropas: Alle Arten im Portraet [Field Guide to Wild Bees of Central Europe]

Erwin Scheuchl and Wolfgang Willner

In Central Europe, there are around 850 species of wild bees. In this field guide the reader will find the most important information about all spceis, from the nomenclature / systematics of characteristics, food sources, nest construction ...

The Bee Keeper's Problem Solver

100 Common Problems Explored and Explained

James E Tew

With the rise in popularity of beekeeping, it's more important than ever that new starters and even seasoned beekeepers are able to solve their bee problems. The Bee Keeper's Problem Solver provides the information you need ...

The Geometrid Moths of Europe, Volume 5

Ennominae I

Peder Skou and Pasi Sihvonen

Half of European Ennominae, a total of 141 species are covered in The Geometrid Moths of Europe, Volume 5: Ennominae I, including difficult genera like Crocallis, Aspitates and Dyscia. Not less than ...

The Reproductive System and Gametogenesis of Bombyx mori

An Ultrastructural Point of View 2

Keiichiro Miya, Koichi Suzuki, Masanobu Goryo and Toshinobu Yaginuma

This book is a summary of the microstructure of the reproductive organs in the silkworm Bombyx mori.

ZooKeys 497: Identification Guide to Some Diaptomid Species (Crustacea, Copepoda, Calanoida, Diaptomidae) of "de la P

Gilmar Perbiche-Neves, Geoffrey Allan Boxshall, Daniel Previattelli, Marcos Gomes Nogueira and Fa

A group formed by zoologists from Brazil and England present an identification guide for species of planktonic calanoid copepods (Diaptomidae) from “de la Plata” basin, the second largest in South America and tenth ...

ZooKeys 499: A Revision of the Neotropical Caddisfly Genus Leucotrichia Mosely, 1934 (Hydroptilidae, Leucotrichiinae)

Robin E Thomson and Ralph W Holzenthal

The microcaddisfly genus Leucotrichia (Trichoptera, Hydroptilidae) is endemic to the New World and species diversity is greatest in Central and northern South America. The small adults of many of the species have large ...

ZooKeys 502

This issue contains the following 8 contributions:     Cherax (Astaconephrops) pulcher, a new species of freshwater crayfish (Crustacea, Decapoda, Parastacidae) from the Kepala Burung ...

British Polacanthid Dinosaurs

Observations on the History and Palaeontology of the UK Polacanthid Armoured Dinosaurs and their Relatives

William T Blows

130 million years ago, armoured dinosaurs roamed what is now southern England, parts of Europe and the USA. These were the Polacanthidae, and today their remains are becoming better known and understood.

Catalogo de Fosiles de El Salvador

Daniel Huziel Aguilar Calles and Mauricio Alejandro Molina Leddi

Description of some pieces of the paleontological collection housed at the Museum of Natural History, El Salvador. Includes bibliographical references.

Fossils

The Key to the Past

Richard A Fortey

This is a clear and authoritative introduction to fossils, their study and their use in reconstructing the history of life on Earth. Paleontologist Richard Fortey explains in accessible language what fossils are, how they form, and how ...

From Fish to Human: The March of Vertebrate Life In China [English / Chinese]

Corwin Sullivan, Yuan Wang and Brian Choo

This is a history of vertebrate life in China reconstructed by three palaeontologists from three different countries, which not only answers the classic philosophic question: "where did we come from", but also opens a window to ...

High Resolution Archaeology and Neanderthal Behavior

Time and Space in Level J of Abric Romani (Capellades, Spain)

Eudald Carbonell i Roura

The aim of High Resolution Archaeology and Neanderthal Behavior is to provide a new insight on Neanderthal behaviour using the data recovered in level J of Romani rockshelter (north-eastern Spain). Due to the sedimentary dynamics ...

Oxygen: A Four Billion Year History

A Four Billion Year History

Donald E Canfield

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

Palaeovertebrata Sinica, Volume 3: Basal Synapsids and Mammals Fascicle 1 (Series no. 14): Basal Synapsids [Chinese]

Li Jinling and Liu Jun

47 species in 30 genera, 12 families, and 6 undentified species are described. 65 fossil pictures and figures are provided.

Palaeovertebrata Sinica, Volume 3: Basal Synapsids and Mammals Fascicle 3 (Series no. 16): Eulipotyphlans, Proteutheres,

Li Chuankui and Qiu Zhuding

This volume is a summary of data obtained since 2012. A total of 275 species in 38 families and 171 genera are described, and 287 fossil pictures and figures are provided.

The Worst of Times

How Life on Earth Survived Eighty Million Years of Extinctions

Paul B Wignall

Two hundred and sixty million years ago, life on Earth suffered wave after wave of cataclysmic extinctions, with the worst – the end-Permian extinction – wiping out nearly every species on the planet.

Plancton: Aux Origines du Vivant

Christian Sardet

Ask anyone to picture a bird or a fish and a series of clear images will immediately come to mind. Ask the same person to picture plankton and most would have a hard time conjuring anything beyond a vague squiggle or a greyish fleck.

The Extreme Life of the Sea

Stephen R Palumbi and Anthony R Palumbi

The ocean teems with life that thrives under difficult situations in unusual environments. The Extreme Life of the Sea takes readers to the absolute limits of the aquatic world – the fastest and deepest, the hottest and oldest ...

Vertical Reefs

Life on Oil and Gas Platforms in the Gulf of Mexico

Mary Katherine Wicksten

On a clear night, the bright lights of oil platforms sparkle in the Gulf of Mexico. Thousands of these platforms off the coasts of Texas and Louisiana play an important role in the lives of underwater species who find food, shelter, and ...

50 Years of Wildlife Photographer of the Year

How Wildlife Photography Became Art

Rosamund Kidman Cox

This is a collection of the most beautiful and memorable pictures taken over the 50-year history of what is now the world's most prestigious wildlife photography competition. The pictures also tell the story of how the competition has ...

A Monograph of the Fossil Reptilia of the Liassic Formations

Sir Richard Owen

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. Discoveries of fossil reptiles in the sea cliffs of south-western England helped to consolidate ideas of 'deep time' and extinction by revealing ...

A Monograph on the Fossil Reptilia of the Mesozoic Formations

Sir Richard Owen

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. Sir Richard Owen (1804-92) produced a series of monographs on the fossil reptiles found in the Mesozoic and Tertiary rocks of the United Kingdom, describing ...

A Scientific Peak

How Boulder Became a World Center for Space and Atmospheric Science

Joseph P Bassi

Scroll through a list of the latest incredible scientific discoveries and you might find an unexpected commonality-Boulder, Colorado. Once a Wild West city tucked where the Rocky Mountains meet the Great Plains, it is now home to some of ...

An Illustrated Coastal Year

The Seashore Uncovered Season by Season

Celia Lewis

Written and presented in the same style as 2013's popular An Illustrated Country Year, Celia Lewis's beautiful new book covers the wildlife found on and around the seashore, above and under water.

Animal Stories

A Lifetime Collection

Max Evans, Keith Walters and Luther Wilson

Legendary western author Max Evans has spent his entire life working with cows and horses. These rangeland animals, and other creatures both domestic and wild, play pivotal roles in his stories. This magnificent collection, beautifully ...

Australasian Nature Photography: ANZANG Eleventh Edition

Australian Geographic

The bioregion of Australia, New Zealand, Antarctica and New Guinea possesses a unique natural heritage stretching back 50 million years to the break-up of Gondwana. This annual photography competition focuses on this extraordinary legacy ...

Australia on Horseback

The Story of the Horse and the Making of a Nation

Cameron Forbes

The first horse set foot in Australia on 30 January 1788, one of seven aboard the First Fleet's Lady Penrhyn, which also carried a cargo of female convicts. From then on, horses carried explorers who opened up the country ...

Awesome Snake Science!

40 Activities for Learning about Snakes

Cindy Blobaum

From cobras and copperheads to pythons and boas, all types of snakes are covered in Awesome Snake Science! of 40 science experiments, art projects, and games that help budding herpetologists gain a greater appreciation for these ...

Bird Watching for Kids

Bite-Sized Learning & Backyard Projects

George H Harrison

US-centric. A fascinating opportunity for children to learn how to attract birds to their own backyards. Bird Watching for Kids is filled with entertaining and fulfilling projects that allow children to interact with nature while ...

Cereals of Antiquity and Early Byzantine Times

Wheat and Barley in Medical Sources (Second to Seventh Centuries)

Maciej Kokoszko, Krzysztof Jagusiak and Zofia Rzeznicka

The present book entitled Cereals of Antiquity and Early Byzantine Times: Wheat and Barley in Medical Sources (Second to Seventh Centuries), penned by Maciej Kokoszko, Krzysztof Jagusiak and Zofia Rze??nicka, aims at a detailed ...

Charles Darwin: Pocket GIANTS

Stephen Webster

Pocket GIANTS is an accessible and informative series about some of the most fascinating figures in world history – kings, queens, writers and artists. When Darwin announced his theory of evolution by natural ...

Chimp Rescue

Clare Hibbert

Chimp Rescue follows the ups and downs of the lives of these special animals as they are cared for at a specialist chimp sanctuary on Ngamba Island in Lake Victoria, Africa and focuses on both individual animals and the incredible ...

Communicating Environmental Patriotism

A Rhetorical History of the American Environmental Movement

Anne Marie Todd

Environmental patriotism, the belief that the national environment defines a country's greatness, is a significant strand in twentieth century American environmentalism. Communicating Environmental Patriotism is the first to ...

David Brower

The Making of the Environmental Movement

Tom Turner and Bill McKibben

In this first comprehensive authorized biography of David Brower, a dynamic leader in the environmental movement over the last half of the twentieth century, Tom Turner explores Brower's impact on the movement from its beginnings ...

Die Vermessung der Erde: Die Geschichte der Kartografie von der Papyrusrolle bis zum GPS [Measuring the Earth: The Histo

Reinhard Barth

Maps have accompanied the history of mankind for millennia. They give testimony of how our ancestors saw their environment, and by which religious or philosophical ideas they were guided, which grotesque mistakes they made at times and ...

East of Ireland Walks

On River and Canal

Lenny Antonelli

River and canal walks can have special appeal, the scenery always changing due to flowing water, weirs, locks and the changing countryside. Ireland's rivers and canals are rich in wildlife, history and folklore, and many can be explored ...

Ecological Imperialism

The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900

Alfred W Crosby

People of European descent form the bulk of the population in most of the temperate zones of the world – North America, Australia and New Zealand. The military successes of European imperialism are easy to explain; in many cases ...

Einstein's Masterwork

1915 and the General Theory of Relativity

John Gribbin

In 1915, Albert Einstein presented his masterwork to the Prussian Academy of Sciences - a theory of gravity, matter, space and time: the General Theory of Relativity. Einstein himself said it was 'the most valuable theory of my life' ...

Feral Cities

Adventures with Animals in the Urban Jungle

Tristan Donovan

We tend to think of cities as a realm apart, somehow separate from nature, but nothing could be further from the truth. In Feral Cities Tristan Donovan digs below the urban gloss to uncover the wildlife that we share our streets ...

Flora: Federico Cesi's Botanical Manuscripts (3-Volume Set)

Brent Elliott, Luigi Guerrini and David N Pegler

This three-volume catalogue presents five manuscripts containing some 780 mainly botanical drawings, now in the library of the Institut de France. They were produced for Federico Cesi in the 1620s to further the researches of the scientists ...

From Eve to Evolution

Darwin, Science, and Women's Rights in Gilded Age America

Kimberly A Hamlin

From Eve to Evolution provides the first full-length study of American women's responses to evolutionary theory and illuminates the role science played in the nineteenth-century women's rights movement.

Genesis: Velky Pribeh Biologie [Genesis: The Story of Biology]

Jan Sapp

Why has biological research gone down the routes it went down? This book gives a description of the birth and evolution of Lamarck's theory of evolution after Darwin, the beginnings and development of cell and developmental biology ...

How are Insects Helpful?

Molly Aloian

From eating pests to being a source of food for other animals, insects play a vital role in the world. This exciting new title, How are Insects Helpful?, examines some of the many ways insects are helpful to other living ...

Hurricane Waves

Clifford Ross, Jay A Clarke, Phong Bui, Jay Clarke, Orville Schell and Joseph Thompson

To photograph storm-tossed waves during a hurricane, Clifford Ross goes into the surf himself, deploying a wetsuit, flotation vest, and a rope that tethers him to his assistant back on the beach. The result is a series of stunningly dramatic ...

Hyper Nature

Philippe Martin

Philippe Martin revolutionized digital nature photography by "stacking" images. To take one photograph, he will shoot a subject hundreds of times, stack the images into a composite, and then clean up the composite image pixel ...

Ice Bear

Nicola Davies and Gary Blythe

This is an informative, gorgeously illustrated study of the majestic polar bear. Huge, magnificent, alone, a white bear moves through the frozen Arctic. Powerful hunter, tender mother and gentle playmate – she shares this land of ...

Isaac Newton: Pocket GIANTS

Andrew May

Pocket GIANTS is an accessible and informative series about some of the most fascinating figures in world history – kings, queens, writers and artists. Why is Isaac Newton a pocket GIANT? Because he discovered the law of gravity ...

Last Man Off

A True Story of Disaster and Survival on the Antarctic Seas

Matt Lewis

The waters of Antarctica, June 6th 1998. 23-year-old Matt Lewis has just started his dream job. An observer aboard a deep sea fishing boat, he is mesmerized by his new surroundings: glistening icebergs, killer whales and majestic albatross ...

Life Atomic

A History of Radioisotopes in Science and Medicine

Angela NH Creager

After World War II, the US Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) began mass-producing radioisotopes, sending out nearly 64,000 shipments of radioactive materials to scientists and physicians by 1955. Even as the atomic bomb became the focus of ...

Life Cycle of Insects

Molly Aloian

Vivid photographs and engaging text combine to explain how insects grow and change. This informative title, Life Cycle of Insects, introduces readers to complete and incomplete metamorphosis and encourages readers to compare ...

Local Realities and Environmental Changes in the History of East Asia

Ts'ui-Jung Liu

Environmental history has evolved into a well-established historical subfield which has broadened the horizons of historical research, beyond human affairs, to include the study of human interactions with natural and man-made environments ...

Lonely Planet's Wild World

Lonely Planet Publications

Featuring breath-taking photographs of the natural world, Lonely Planet's Wild World is a beautiful photography book that will get your heart racing. The follow-up to the super-sized bestseller ...

Mining and Communities in Northern Canada

History, Politics, and Memory

Arn Keeling and John Sandlos

For indigenous communities throughout the globe, mining has been a historical forerunner of colonialism, introducing new, and often disruptive, settlement patterns and economic arrangements. Although indigenous communities may benefit from ...

Monograph on the Reptilia of the Kimmeridge Clay and Portland Stone

With a Monograph on the British Fossil Cetacea from the Red Crag

Sir Richard Owen

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. The discovery of marine reptiles in the Jurassic rocks of central and southern England helped spark a revolution in the earth sciences, opening new ...

National Parks of Costa Rica

Gregory Basco, Robin Kazmier and Rodrigo Gomez-Lobo

The unique geography and climate of Costa Rica provide the small country with extraordinary biodiversity – North American and South American species of flora and fauna can be found side by side there, taking advantage of the ...

Natural Resources and Economic Growth

Learning from History

Marc Badia-Miro, Vicente Pinilla and Henry Willebald

The relationship between natural capital and economic growth is an open debate in the field of economic development. Is an abundance of natural resources a blessing or a curse for economic performance? The field of Economic History offers ...

Naturalists at Sea

Scientific Travellers from Dampier to Darwin

Glyn Williams

On the great Pacific discovery expeditions of the "long eighteenth century", naturalists for the first time were commonly found aboard ships sailing forth from European ports. Lured by intoxicating opportunities to discover exotic ...

Pancha Tantra [English / French / German]

Walton Ford and Bill Buford

At first glance, Walton Ford's large-scale, highly-detailed watercolors of animals recall the prints of 19th century illustrators John James Audubon and Edward Lear. A closer look reveals a complex and disturbingly anthropomorphic ...

Pongo

Jesse Hodgson

Pongo lived deep in the dark dark depths of the rainforest. The trees grew so tightly together that hardly any sunshine ever reached down to the forest floor. Pongo is a debut book by the talented illustrator Jesse Hodgson.

Population, Tradition, and Environmental Control in Colonial Kenya

Martin S Shanguhyia

Population, Tradition, and Environmental Control in Colonial Kenya examines the social history of the politics of land management in colonial western Kenya from 1920 through 1963, a period of rapid economic and social change.

Rachel Carson and Her Sisters

Extraordinary Women Who Have Shaped America's Environment

Robert K Musil

In Rachel Carson and Her Sisters, Robert K. Musil redefines the achievements and legacy of environmental pioneer and scientist Rachel Carson, linking her work to a wide network of American women activists and writers and introducing ...

Restoration and History

The Search for a Usable Environmental Past

Marcus Hall

Once a forest has been destroyed, should one plant a new forest to emulate the old, or else plant designer forests to satisfy our immediate needs? Should we aim to re-create forests, or simply create them? How does the past shed light on ...

Sharks Have Six Senses

John F Waters and Bob Barner

In the ocean, sharks are near the top of the food chain. Sharks have the same five senses as humans do, but they have an extra sixth sense that makes them especially deadly hunters. What is this sense and how does a shark use all six senses ...

Skydancer

Martin Bradley and Iolo Williams

Martin Bradley's third book, Skydancer, is an educational children’s book aimed to engage the younger generation in wildlife, conservation and to spotlight a species in trouble and fighting for its survival.

The Annotated Malay Archipelago by Alfred Russel Wallace

Alfred Russel Wallace and John van Wyhe

The Malay Archipelago, the classic account of Victorian naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace's travels through Southeast Asia, first appeared in 1869 and has been much loved by generations of readers ever since. Despite numerous ...

The Art of Australian Geographic Illustration

Alasdair McGregor

Twenty seven years of excellence in illustration is celebrated in this sumptuously presented book from Australian Geographic. The illustrator's art has been one of the cornerstones of Australian Geographic since ...

The Dingle Peninsula

A Walking Guide

Adrian Hendroff

The spectacular Dingle Peninsula in southwest Ireland extends westward into the Atlantic from Tralee to Slea Head. Voted among the Top 100 destinations in the world by TripAdvisor and referred to as 'the most beautiful place on earth ...

The East India Company and the Natural World

Vinita Damodaran, Anna Winterbottom and Alan Lester

The East India Company and the Natural World is the first work to explore the deep and lasting impacts of the largest colonial trading company, the British East India Company, on the natural environment. The EIC both contributed ...

The English Lakes

Harriet Martineau

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. The Lake District was a popular tourist destination in the mid-Victorian period, and the changes it underwent following the arrival of the railway ...

The Human Shore

Seacoasts in History

John R Gillis

Since before recorded history, people have congregated near water. But as growing populations around the globe continue to flow toward the coasts on an unprecedented scale and climate change raises water levels, our relationship to the ...

The Lagoon

How Aristotle Invented Science

Armand Marie Leroi

In the Eastern Aegean lies an island of forested hills and olive groves, with streams, marshes and a lagoon that nearly cuts the land in two. It was here, over two thousand years ago, that Aristotle came to work. Aristotle was ...

The Mountain

A Political History from the Enlightenment to the Present

Bernard Derbarbieux, Gilles Rudaz, Jane Marie Todd and Martin F Price

What is a mountain? Seems like a simple question, right? But if we take the question seriously, the answers turn out to be complicated, wide ranging, and fascinating. In The Mountain, geographers Bernard Debarbieux and Gilles Rudaz ...

The Other Side of the Ice

One Family's Treacherous Journey Negotiating the Northwest Passage

Sprague Theobald and Allan Kreda

Sprague Theobald, an award-winning documentary filmmaker and expert sailor with over 40 000 offshore miles under his belt, always considered the Northwest Passage – the sea route connecting the Atlantic to the Pacific – the ...

The RHS Birthday Book

Brent Elliott

Birthdays and anniversaries are never easy to remember. The RHS Birthday Book is the place to keep all your important dates together so that you will never have to suffer the embarrassment of forgetting them again.

The Restless Clock

A History of the Centuries-Long Argument Over What Makes Living Things Tick

Jessica Riskin

Today, a scientific explanation is not meant to ascribe agency to natural phenomena: we would not say a rock falls because it seeks the center of the earth. Even for living things, in the natural sciences and often in the social sciences ...

The Sea and Civilization

A Maritime History of the World

Lincoln Paine

A monumental, wholly accessible work of scholarship that retells human history through the story of mankind's relationship with the sea. An accomplishment of both great sweep and illuminating detail, The Sea and Civilization ...

Untamed: The Wild Life of Jane Goodall

Anita Silvey and Dame Jane Goodall

Jane Goodall, one of the most recognized scientists in the Western world, became internationally famous because of her ability to observe and connect with another species. A girl of humble beginnings and training, she made scientific ...

Walden: Roads Classic

Henry David Thoreau

A reprint of a classical work in the Classics by Roads series. In March 1845, Henry David Thoreau moved into a small cabin in the woods surrounding Walden Pond. Here he conducted a two-year social experiment, removing ...

What is an Insect?

Molly Aloian

More than half of all the animals on Earth are insects. This informative overview title, What is an Insect? introduces readers to the world of insects and identifies the defining characteristics and behaviors common to all ...

Where Do Insects Live?

Molly Aloian

Insects, like all living things, need a place to call home. In this fact-filled title, readers will get a close-up look at different insect habitats, including those underground, above ground, and in water.

Wild Australasia

Celebrating Ten Years of the ANZANG Photo Competition

Chrissie Goldrick

The ANZANG Nature Photographer of the Year Competition was founded in 2004 and this book showcases the best photographs from the ten years. The bioregion of Australia, New Zealand, Antarctica and New Guinea (ANZANG) possesses a unique ...

Wildlife Photographer of the Year Desk Diary 2016

The Natural History Museum (London - UK)

The Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition is the international showcase for the very best photography featuring natural subjects. The Museum's 2016 week-to-view diaries feature stunning photographs of the natural world from ...

Wildlife Photographer of the Year Pocket Diary 2016

The Natural History Museum (London - UK)

The Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition is the international showcase for the very best photography featuring natural subjects. The Natural History Museum's 2016 week-to-view diaries feature stunning photographs of the natural ...

Woolly Mammoth

Mick Manning and Brita Granstrom

Have you ever wondered what life was like for the Woolly Mammoth? It was very hard! These kings of the elephant race faced the harsh Ice Age climate and the threat of natural predators – none more terrifying than Man and his merciless ...

A Natural History and Field Guide to Australia's Top End

Penny van Oosterzee, Ian Morris, Diane Lucas and Noel Preece

An essential guide for those travelling to Australia's Top End. Written and compiled by renowned naturalists and photographers, A Natural History and Field Guide to Australia's Top End is split into two parts, one covering ...

All the Wild That Remains

Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, and the American West

David Gessner

Archetypal wild man Edward Abbey and proper, dedicated Wallace Stegner left their footprints all over the western landscape. Now, award-winning nature writer David Gessner follows the ghosts of these two remarkable writer-environmentalist ...

California Seashore & Wildlife

Todd Telander

Falcon Pocket Guide: California Seashore & Wildlife is a field guide to 180 of the most commonly found shells, plants, and animals along California's coast. Anatomically correct illustrations and detailed descriptions ...

City Creatures

Animal Encounters in the Chicago Wilderness

Gavin Van Horn

We usually think of cities as the domain of humans – but we are just one of thousands of species that call the urban landscape home. Chicago residents knowingly move among familiar creatures like squirrels, pigeons, and dogs, but ...

Fauna de Honduras en Peligro de Extincion

Peces, Anfibios, Reptiles, Aves, Mamíferos

Jose Modesto Canales

Honduras, a Central American country with an area of 112 492 km², is located in the intertropical zone of the planet and in Mesoamerica; it has a high diversity of terrestrial and marine ecosystems where many animal and plant ...

Grasses & Grazers of Botswana and the Surrounding Savanna

Veronica Roodt

An accessible reference to the grasses and grazers of this region, Veronica Roodt's book details the fascinating ways in which these plants and animals have evolved together. Grasses & Grazers of Botswana and the Surrounding ...

Guide des Milieux Naturels de Suisse

La Reference pour Identifier et Interpreter tout les Milieux de Suisse

Raymond Delarze, Yves Gonseth, Stefan Eggenberg and Mathias Vust

Everyone knows what a swamp, a forest or scree is. These are terms commonly used to describe elements of the landscape. Looking closely, one realizes that these categories include many different natural environments, each housing a different ...

Natur in Deutschland: Entdecken, Erleben, Geniessen [Nature in Germany: Discovering, Experiencing, Enjoying]

Hans Otzen

Germany offers a magnificent diversity of landscapes. Here, one will find different natural habitats such as coastal dunes and cliffs, the lowlands with heaths and lakes, wooded mountain ranges with volcanoes and volcanic lakes, the Alpine ...

Stadtnatur im Wandel

Artenvielfalt in Frankfurt am Main

Indra Starke-Ottich, Dirk Boensel, Thomas Gregor, Andreas Malten, Christina Mueller and Geor Zizka

"Times, they are a-changing, and we change with them". This saying is true not only for humans, but for the whole of nature But what changes can be observed in the urban nature in Frankfurt, Germany? What causes these changes ...

The Bangladesh Sundarbans

Enayetullah Khan

The Sundarbans is the world's largest mangrove forest, which stretches from Bangladesh to India. lt was declared a RAMSAR site in 1992 and a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1997. The forest is almost 10,000 square kilometers, and roughly ...

The Dandenong Ranges

Kornelia Freeman and Ulo Pukk

With 32 more pages, this new, updated and expanded edition includes many new place descriptions, stunning photographs and recommended walks complete with maps. This stunning book showcases the beauty and splendour of both the public and ...

The Falkland Islands and Their Natural History

Images and Observations by a Naturalist

Ian J Strange

The Falkland Islands and Their Natural History is a replacement for a popular book written by the author in 1987. Brought up to date with new photographs and information it presents a picture of the Islands' unique wildlife ...

The Natural History Museum of El Salvador: Beginnings, Evolution and Future / Museo de Historia Natural de El Salvador:

Secretraría de Cultura de la Presidencia

Spanish and English versions bound back to back and upside down, each with its own title page. Details the beginnings, evolution and future of the Natural History Museum of El Salvador.

The Nature of Wyre

A Wildlife-Rich Forest in the Heart of Britain

Brett Westwood, Peter Shirley, Rosemary Winnall and Harry Green

On the borders of Shropshire and Worcestershire, the Wyre Forest is one of Britain's most important ancient woodlands and its survival, just 25 miles from the centre of Birmingham, is a modern miracle. Its history and geographical ...

The Polar Regions

Adrian Howkins

The environmental histories of the Arctic and Antarctica are characterised by contrast and contradiction. These are places that have witnessed some of the worst environmental degradation in recent history. But they are also the locations ...

Yosemite

Kate Nearpass Ogden

In 1851 a small militia trekked through California's Sierra Nevada Mountains and discovered a site so spectacular that, over the succeeding century and a half, many millions followed in order to experience the splendour of Yosemite.

A Shakespearean Botanical

Margaret Willes

When Falstaff calls upon the sky to rain potatoes in The Merry Wives of Windsor, he is highlighting the late sixteenth-century belief that the exotic vegetable, recently introduced to England from the Americas, was an aphrodisiac ...

Ancient Plants and People

Contemporary Trends in Archaeobotany

Marco Madella, Carla Lancelotti and Manon Savard

Mangroves and rice, six-row brittle barley and einkorn wheat. Ancient crops for prehistoric people. What do they have in common? All tell us about the lives and cultures of long ago, as humans cultivated or collected these plants for food ...

Apples: A Field Guide

Michael Clark

Apples are second only to roses as the most enquired about plants at the Royal Horticultural Society. With the help of this completely revised new edition of Apples: A Field Guide anyone wanting to name an apple should be able ...

Astounding Mushrooms

Alain Bellocq and Jaroslav Maló

Astounding Mushrooms features gorgeous full-color photographs of more than 200 mushroom species in their wild habitat. The close-up images reveal every size of growth, every shade of color, every shadow of silhouette, and every ...

Atlas de la Flore Patrimoniale du Val d'Oise

Fabrice Pierrat, Sebastien Filoche and Frederic Hendoux

For over ten years, the Conservatoire Botanique National du Bassin Parisien (CBNBP) and the County Council of Val d'Oise have worked together to develop knowledge about the flora of the region of Val d'Oise, northern France, and ...

Atlas of Woody Plant Stems

Evolution, Structure, and Environmental Modifications

Fritz Hans Schweingruber, Annett Boerner and Ernst-Detlef Schulze

The Atlas of Woody Plant Stems gives a unique assemblage of microscopic slides of wood anatomy and of the respective species in nature and demonstrates the reaction of stem anatomy to environments in which plants form woody ...

Bryoflore du Mont Lozere

Jacques Bardat, Pierre Boudier and Robert Gauthier

The Mont Lozère, France, encompasses some 40,000 ha and peaks at nearly 1,700 m altitude. It is a geological whole, morphologically and climatically unique on the southern edge of the Massif Central in contact with the Causses ...

CHENIA: Contributions to Cryptogamic Biology, Volume 11

Wei Jiang-Chun, Wu Peng-Cheng, Zhang Lie and Jia Yu

CHENIA: Contributions to Cryptogamic Biology, Volume 11 contains proceedings of the International Symposium on Systematic Lichenology and Bryology that was held in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China in October, 2010. It contains ...

Chinese Medicinal Identification

An Illustrated Approach

Zhongzhen Zhao, Hubiao Chen, Ping Guo and Eric Brand

For centuries, pharmacists and clinicians have relied on the traditional method of macroscopic identification to assess the quality and authenticity of medicinal materials. Macroscopic identification uses the naked senses to assess herbal ...

Ecology of Leaf Longevity

Kihachiro Kikuzawa and Martin J Lechowicz

Leaf longevity is a fundamental process underlying patterns of variation in foliar phenology and determining the distinction between deciduous and evergreen plant species. Variation in leaf longevity is associated with a wide array of ...

Field Guide to the Common Grasses of Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska

Iralee Barnard

Once covered by wild grasses, America's heartland is by nature a grassland, populated with plants whose ecological importance, practical value and subtle beauty we are only now beginning to comprehend. Of the 3,000 species of wild plant ...

Fiori delle Prealpi [Flowers of the Prealps]

Luciano Vinco and Gianfranco Caoduro

This little book is a useful tool for the rapid identification of the most common flowers in the Prealps. The plants have been photographed in their natural environment and are ordered on their time of flowering; the page dedicated to each ...

Flora Belarusi - Griby, Tom 1: Boletales: Amanitales: Russulales [Flora Belarusi - Mushrooms, Volume 1]

OS Gapienko, IAA Shaporova and VI Parfenova

This volume is devoted tp the orders Boletales, Amanitales, and Russulales. A total of 232 species and forms are describes, registered in the territory of the Republic of Belarus. The authors give the keys to the species, genera, and family ...

Flora Belarusi - Griby, Tom 2: Anamorfnye Griby, Kniga 1: Temnookrashennye Gifomitsety [Flora of Belarus - Mushrooms, Vo

DB Belomesiatseva and TG Shabashova

This volume Includes 103 genera and 215 species of dark-colored filamentous fungi identified in the territory of Belarus. The authors give the keys to the genera and species, detailed diagnoses, information on the terms of host plants and ...

Flora Mesoamericana, Volume 2 (Part 3): Saururaceae a Zygophyllaceae [Spanish]

Gerrit M Davidse, Mario S Sousa, Sandra Knapp, Fernando Chiang C and Carmen Ulloa Ulloa

Volumen 2(3) is the latest volume of Flora Mesomericana, the first major regional flora ever written in Spanish. The Flora describes, for the first time, all the vascular plants growing in the southeasternmost states of Mexico ...

Flora Vodoemov i Vodotokov Astrakhanskoi Oblasti [Flora of the Ponds and Streams of the Astrakhan Oblast]

Aleksei Pavlovich Laktionov, NO Meshcheriakova and VN Pilipenko

The monograph reflects the results of a study of the flora of the reservoirs and waterways of the Astrakhan oblast, southern Russia. A total of 436 taxa of vascular plants are describes. Each type is characterized by basic criteria such ...

Flora of Colorado

Jennifer Ackerfield

Colorado has a rich diversity of ecosystems and vegetation communities, ranging from 3 500 ft to over 14 000 ft in elevation, and ultimately supports over 3 300 vascular plant species. Flora of Colorado is a comprehensive guide ...

Flora of Oregon, Volume 1

Pteridophytes, Gymnosperms, and Monocots

Stephen C Meyers, Thea Jaster, Katie E Mitchell, Linda K Hardison and John Myers

The Oregon Flora Project, Oregon State University, and Botanical Research Institute of Texas Press have collaborated to publish the Flora of Oregon, the first comprehensive flora of Oregon in over 50 years – with illustrations ...

Flora of Sultanpur National Park, Gurgaon District, Haryana

MR Debta and SK Srivastava

The inventorisation and documentation of indigenous flora is an essential prerequisite for formulating effective conservation strategies. Keeping this in view, the Department of Forests, Haryana, India, has approached Botanical Survey of ...

Flora of West Bengal, Volume 1

Ranunculaceae to Moringaceae

Stretching between the high Himalayan territory in the northern limit and the Bay of Bengal in the south, the present political boundary of the state of West Bengal enjoys a unique landmark from floristic point of view. It is the only ...

Flora of West Bengal, Volume 2

Leguminosae to Aizoaceae

TK Paul, P Lakshminarasimhan, HJ Chowdhery, SS Dash and P Singh

The second part of flora deals with the families Leguminosae to Aizoaceae. See the table of contents for a complete listing.

Flore du Cameroun, Volume 41 [English]

Anthericaceae

Charlotte Sletten Bjora, Inger Nordal, Jean Michel Onana and YB Harvey

Volume 41 treats the 22 species of Chlorophytum known from Cameroon. Several are documented here for the first time from that country. Few people know that most of the world's c.215 species of Chlorophytum are native ...

Garden Plants: Flowers & Trees in India

Premananda Das, Rupinder Khullar and Reeta Khullar

Flowers and plants have enchanted our lives since time immemorial, and many professionals, garden enthusiasts and nature lovers have encapsulated their knowledge, experiences and feelings to highlight the beauty, utility, and role of plants ...

Gardens in France / Jardins de France en Fleurs / Gaerten in Frankreich

Angelika Taschen, Deidi von Schaewen and Marie-Francoise Valery

From stylized Zen gardens in Provence to cactus displays on the Cote d'Azur, from classical palace gardens to quaint domestic beds, travel round the most beautiful gardens in France, home to some of the most elegant, charming, and ...

Giardini Botanici ed Escursioni Floristiche

In Italia, Francia, Svizzera, Germania, Austria, Slovenia

Adriano Bernini

This book describes 51 botanical gardens and 100 floristic excursions in Italy, France, Switzerland, Germany, Austria and Slovenia.

Grasses in Your Pocket

A Guide to the Prairie Grasses of the Upper Midwest

Anna B Gardner, Michael Hurst, Deborah Lewis and Lynn G Clark

At the time of European settlement, tallgrass prairie was the iconic landscape in much of the Upper Midwest. Although its extent has been drastically reduced, intact prairie remnants exist, prairie species persist along roadsides, and ...

Green Retreats

Women, Gardens and Eighteenth-Century Culture

Stephen Bending

Green Retreats presents a lively and beautifully illustrated account of eighteenth-century women in their gardens, in the context of the larger history of their retirement from the world – whether willed or enforced ...

Green: A Field Guide to Marijuana

Chris Erikson, Dan Michaels and Erik Christiansen

Green: A Field Guide to Marijuana presents an eye-popping package and is filled with hyperdetailed photography of individual buds. This essential guide to marijuana is smart, practical and exceedingly beautiful.

Guia de Camp de la Flora de la Serra de Vandellos, la Vall de Llors i l'Hospitalet de l'Infant

Agustín García and Roberto Bueno

On the coast of Tarragona, a port city in northeastern Spain’s Catalonia region, halfway between the capital and the Ebro delta, there is a small area where the light of the Mediterranean feeds flowers, shrubs, and plants, producing ...

Holubinky [Russula]

Radomír Socha, Vaclav Halek, Jirí Baier and Jirí Hak

This book is the most comprehensive so far released by the publisher in their series of floras on the members of the family Russulaceae, which, after Boletaceae, are the most popular and best-known group of fungi collected for kitchen ...

Il Larice (El Lares)

L'Albero che si Veste d'Oro

Dino Dibona

There are many books on flowers, fewer on trees and even fewer monographs on a single forest species. Yet each of us remembers a tree (or tree species) in particular, that more than others has sparked interest in observing when it bears ...

In Pursuit of Hidden Camellias

32 Camellia Species from Vietnam and China

George Orel and Anthony Stephen Curry

In Pursuit of Hidden Camellias showcases the work of two Australian researchers, Dr. George Orel and Tony Curry. Their book opens a door to a previously undiscovered, or forgotten, world: the Camellia species of Southeast Asia.

In Their Branches

Stories from ABC Radio National Trees Project

Gretchen Miller

A very special collection of over one hundred stories, memories, and reflections on trees that have had a special meaning in the lives of Australians, from ABC Radio National. We all have a favourite tree. We scaled their trunks in childhood ...

Jewels of the Plains

Wildflowers of the Great Plains Grasslands and Hills

Claude A Barr, James H Locklear and H Lincoln Foster

From Abronia to Zinnia, Jewels of the Plains describes the natural history and garden merits of more than five hundred Great Plains wildflowers. Considered the authoritative guide by native plant enthusiasts and ...

Krasnaia Kniga Respubliki Belarus': Rasteniia: Redkie i Nakhodiashchiesia pod Ugrozoi Ischeznoveniia Vidy Dikorastushchi

IM Kachanovskii

The Red Book of the Republic of Belarus is an annotated and illustrated list of rare and endangered species in Belarus species of wild animals and plants for protection. The previous edition of the plants volume included 274 plant species ...

L'Art de Creer les Jardins

Narcisse Vergnaud and Joseph Disponzio

It is said that to understand a garden one needs a plan, a description, and a plant list. Vergnaud’s L’Art de Créer les Jardins includes them all. And for good measure he adds a bibliography of important gardens ...

Lamiacees de France

Andre Gonard

This full-color book treats the Lamiaceae family, including many species that are brightly colored and have culinary, medicinal, and cosmetic uses. All species of France are covered, accompanied by photos and a distribution map.

Le Guide des Champignons

France et Europe

Guillaume Eyssartier and Pierre Roux

This field guide describes approximately 3000 species of mushrooms found in Europe, of which more than 1400 are illustrated by photographs, which is an absolute record among the mushrooms guides, even globally. Leafing through this guide ...

Les Orquídies del Bergueda [The Orchids of Bergueda]

Marc Sola, Carles Navarro and Artur Lluent Vallet

This richly illustrated field guide document the orchid flora of the Berguedà, an inland comarca (county) in Catalonia, Spain, lying partly in the Pyrenees and Pre-Pyrenees, and partly in the Catalan Central Depression. This is an ...

Les Plantes Vasculaires Atlantiques, les Pyreneo-Cantabriques et les Elements Floristiques Voisins dans la Peninsula

Vascular Atlantic and Pyrenean-Cantabrian Plants, and the Neighbouring Floristic Elements in the Iberian Peninsula and F

Pierre Dupont

To start with, Les Plantes Vasculaires Atlantiques, les Pyrénéo-Cantabriques et les Éléments Floristiques Voisins dans la Péninsule Ibérique et en France was to be the mere updating of ...

Les Plus Belles Fleurs des Alpes

Bernard Nicollet and Bertrand Bodin

Alpine flowers are admired for their beauty and their amazing adaptations to extreme living conditions. Combining the superb photography of Bertrand Bodin, this book invites you to discover the most beautiful flowers of the Alps.

Medical Mycology

Current Trends and Future Prospects

Mehdi Razzaghi-Abyaneh, Masoomeh Shams-Ghahfarokhi and Mahendra Rai

The identification of medically important fungi has been an important area of study that warrants further extensive research. The use of traditional and molecular methods of identification, provides new insights into differentiation of ...

Mojave Desert Wildflowers

A Field Guide to Wildflowers, Trees, and Shrubs of the Mojave Desert, Including the Mojave National Preserve, Death Vall

Pam Mackay, John S Reid, Stephen Ingram, Tim Thomas and RT Hawke

The Mojave Desert eco-region extends from eastern California to northwestern Arizona, southern Nevada, and southwestern Utah, and boasts plant communities as diverse as alkali sinks, dune systems, Joshua tree woodland, pinyon juniper wood ...

Mousses & Hepatiques de France [Mosses and Livertworts of France]

Manuel d'Identification des Especes Communes

Vincent Hugonnot, Jaoua Celle and Florine Pepin

Mosses and liverworts play a big role in many ecosystems, including peatlands and forests. With this new field guide, dedicated to bryophytes, the authors give you the identification keys necessary to identify the 170 most common species ...

Mushrooms of the Rocky Mountain Region

Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming

Vera Stucky Evenson and Denver Botanic Gardens

In Mushrooms of the Rocky Mountain Region, Vera Evenson, curator of the Sam Mitchel Herbarium of Fungi at the Denver Botanic Gardens, covers species of mushrooms found in Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming. This comprehensive ...

Orchids of the Hunter Region

Elisabeth Burton

Over 150 orchid species were found while collecting orchid specimens from the Hunter Region for the herbarium at the Botanic Gardens Trust, Sydney. Orchids of the Hunter Region is a pictorial guide to those orchids, with ...

Photographic Field Guide to the Plants of the Western Hajar Mountains, Sultanate of Oman with a Complete Checklist of Va

Annette Patzelt

The Western Hajar Mountains of northern Oman are botanically rich, with a variety of interesting and beautiful native plant species. Photographic Field Guide to the Plants of the Western Hajar Mountains, Sultanate of Oman with a ...

Plant Guide: Maritime Succulent Scrub Region, Northwest Baja California, Mexico / Guía de Plantas de la Region del Mat

Jim Riley, Jon P Rebman and Sula Vanderplank

The Plant Guide: Maritime Succulent Scrub Region, Northwest Baja California, Mexico is a bilingual wildflower guide designed to reach a broad audience of botanists, conservationists, and lay people. But the Guide is more than a ...

Progress in Botany, Volume 66

Genetics, Physiology, Systematics, Ecology

Karl Esser, Ulrich E Luettge, Wolfram Beyschlag and J Murata

With one volume each year, this series keeps scientists and advanced students informed of the latest developments and results in all areas of the plant sciences.The present volume includes reviews on genetics, cell biology, physiology ...

Progress in Botany, Volume 67

Genetics-Physiology-Systematics-Ecology

Karl Esser, Ulrich E Luettge, Wolfram Beyschlag and J Murata

With one volume each year, Progress in Botany keeps scientists and advanced students informed of the latest developments and results in all areas of the plant sciences. The present volume includes reviews on genetics, cell ...

Schimmelpilze und deren Bestimmung [Moulds and their identification]

Liliane E Petrini and Orlando Petrini

The procedure for the determination of moulds is described in detail, which facilitates the reader's entry into the practice of determination. Based on simplified identification keys, individual, frequently occurring species can be ...

Single-Pollen Genotyping

Yuji Isagi and Yoshihisa Suyama

Pollination is one of the most important processes in plant reproduction. It directly influences reproductive success and fitness and the genetic structure of the plant population. Methods exist to infer the pattern and distance of pollenation ...

Somatic Embryogenesis

Abdul Mujib and Jozef Samaj

Somatic embryogenesis, the initiation of embryos from previously differentiated somatic cells, is a unique process in plants. Somatic Embryogenesis expands our view of a subject that is important for plant biotechnology, genetic ...

Suomen Rupijakalat [Crustose Lichens of Finland]

Soili Stenroos, Saara Velmala, Juha Pykala and Teuvo Ahti

Suomen Rupijäkälät presents the crustose lichens of Finland, as well as some accompanying mushrooms, for a total of 300 species. Suomen Rupijäkälät is a continuation of the Tieto-Finlandia ...

The Ancient Yew

A History of Taxus baccata

Robert Bevan-Jones

The gnarled, immutable yew tree is one of the most evocative sights in the British and Irish language, an evergreen impression of immortality, the tree that provides a living botanical link between our own landscapes and those of the ...

The Cycads (2-Volume Set)

Loran M Whitelock and Duke Benadom

There are few plants, with the possible exception of palms, that can rival cycads for variety of foliage, size, and form. In spite of such diversity, however, cycads represent an ancient lineage whose fossil history extends over 200 million years.

The Cycads, Volume 1: Asia and Australia (Collector's Edition)

Loran M Whitelock and Duke Benadom

The Collector's edition is essentially the same as the standard edition, but with silver-foil stamping on the spine and on the front & back and with 135 gsm Egyptian Dynic Saifu cloth over 3 mm Graphic Board on the book.

The Cycads, Volume 2: Africa and the Americas (Collector's Edition)

Loran M Whitelock and Duke Benadom

The Collector's edition is essentially the same as the standard edition, but with silver-foil stamping on the spine and on the front & back and with 135 gsm Egyptian Dynic Saifu cloth over 3 mm Graphic Board on the book.

The Geobiology and Ecology of Metasequoia

Ben A LePage, Christopher J Williams and Hong Yang

The plant fossil record provides evidence that the genus Metasequoia was widely distributed and experienced a wide range of climatic and environmental conditions throughout the Northern Hemisphere from the early Late Cretaceous ...

The Jones Nature Prints

Nature Printing and the Victorian Fern Cult

Michael Hayward

Between 1876 and 1880, Col. A. M. Jones produced 48 sets of nature prints to illustrate the varieties of the British native ferns that were then being collected or raised. Around 300 large prints were sent to each subscriber.

The Mushroom at the End of the World

On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins

Anna lowenhaupt Tsing

Matsutake is the most valuable mushroom in the world – and a weed that grows in human-disturbed forests across the northern hemisphere. Through its ability to nurture trees, matsutake helps forests to grow in daunting places.

Trees in Towns and Cities

A History of British Urban Arboriculture

Mark Johnston

This is the first book on the history of trees in Britain's towns and cities and the people who have planted and cared for them. It is a highly readable and authoritative account of the trees in our urban landscapes from the Romans ...

Wild Flowers of Namaqualand

A Botanical Society Guide

Annelise le Roux

Namaqualand is justifiably famous for the floral wonderland it becomes in spring, when seas of bright flowers carpet the land. Astonishingly, the carpet comprises some 3 800 species, of which 28% are endemic.

Wollongong's Native Trees

Leon Fuller and Bryon McGregor-Cawthorne

Illustrated with over 700 photographs, this book details the 156 indigenous tree species of the Wollongong area, New South Wales, Australia.

A Planet of Viruses

Carl Zimmer, Judy Diamond and Charles Wood

The past year has been one of viral panic – panic about viruses, that is. Through headlines, public health warnings, and at least one homemade hazmat suit, we were reminded of the powerful force of viruses. They are the smallest ...

Animal Behavior

Michael D Breed and Janice Moore

Animal Behavior, Second Edition, covers the broad sweep of animal behavior from its neurological underpinnings to the importance of behavior in conservation. The authors, Michael Breed and Janice Moore, bring almost 60 years of ...

Bacteria in Agrobiology: Plant Nutrient Management

Dinesh K Maheshwari

The future of agriculture strongly depends on our ability to enhance productivity without sacrificing long-term production potential. An ecologically and economically sustainable strategy is the application of microorganisms, such as the ...

Biology: An Australian Focus

Bruce Knox, Pauline Ladiges, Barbara Evans and Robert Saint

Biology: An Australian Focus reflects on worldwide biological research and knowledge to provide a global outlook with Australian examples and cases woven throughout. Students are able to connect with what they're learning and ...

Current Techniques in Small Animal Surgery

M Joseph Bojrab, Eric Monnet, Don Ray Waldron and James P Toombs

Current Techniques in Small Animal Surgery, Fifth Edition provides current information regarding surgical techniques from the perspective of clinicians who are performing specific procedures on a regular basis. It is intended to ...

Discovering Human Sexuality

Simon LeVay, Janice Baldwin and John Baldwin

This is an alternative version of Simon LeVay and Janice Baldwin's acclaimed textbook, Human Sexuality, which is now in its fourth edition. This version has been prepared in response to requests for a text that maintains the evidence-based approach ...

Do Unto Animals

A Friendly Guide to How Animals Live, and How We Can Make Their Lives Better

Tracey Stewart and Lisel Ashlock

Through hundreds of charming illustrations, a few homemade projects, and her humorous, knowledgeable voice, Stewart provides insight into the secret lives of animals and the kindest ways to live with and alongside them. At home, she shows ...

Exotic Animal Hematology and Cytology

Terry W Campbell

Exotic Animal Hematology and Cytology, Fourth Edition updates the most comprehensive reference available on exotic animal hematology and cytology of all major species. - Acts as both an atlas and a text, offering high ...

Functional Surfaces in Biology, Volume 2

Adhesion Related Phenomena

Stanislav N Gorb

Functional Surfaces in Biology, Volume 2 is devoted to the rapidly growing area of science dealing with structure and properties of biological surfaces in their relation to particular functions. This volume, written by a ...

Genetic Resources as Natural Information

Implications for the Convention on Biological Diversity and Nagoya Protocol

Manuel Ruiz Muller and Joseph Henry Vogel

Demonstrating the shortcomings of current policy and legal approaches to access and benefit-sharing (ABS), Genetic Resources as Natural Information is based on the premise that genetic resources are widely distributed across countires ...

Honeybee Veterinary Medicine

Apis mellifera L.

Nicolas AL Vidal-Naquet

Honeybees are an essential part of farming and the wider ecosystem. Since the middle of the 1990s bee populations around the world have suffered dramatic decline through diseases, intoxication, and unknown causes. Veterinarians have had ...

Induction of Bone Formation in Primates

The Transforming Growth Factor

Ugo Ripamonti

The effects of the bone morphogenetic protein family (BMP) of growth factors on bone formation are well documented, but the TGF-beta isoforms are much less studied and have the potential to shed light on the apparent redundancy of bone ...

Landscape Genetics

Concepts, Methods, Applications

Niko Balkenhol, Samuel Cushman, Andrew Storfer and Lisette Waits

Despite the substantial interest in landscape genetics from the scientific community, learning about the concepts and methods underlying the field remains very challenging. The reason for this is the highly interdisciplinary nature of the ...

Mammalian Endocrinology and Male Reproductive Biology

Shio Kumar Singh

Mammalian Endocrinology and Male Reproductive Biology provides comprehensive and current coverage of the area of endocrinology and male reproductive biology, covering not just humans, but mammals in general. It incorporates the ...

Microbiology: A Clinical Approach

Anthony J Strelkauskas, Jennifer E Strelkauskas, Angela Edwards, Beatrix Fahnert and Gregor Pryor

As with the successful first edition, the new edition of Microbiology: A Clinical Approach is written specifically for pre-nursing and allied health students. It is clinically-relevant throughout and uses the theme of infection ...

Molecular Biology of RNA

David J Elliott and Michael Ladomery

RNA plays a central, and until recently, somewhat underestimated role in the genetics underlying all forms of life on earth. This versatile molecule not only plays a crucial part in the synthesis of proteins from a DNA template, but is a ...

Natural Kinds and Classification in Scientific Practice

Catherine Kendig

Natural kinds are an important topic in current philosophical debate. Previous work on kinds has looked at the relationship between concepts of kinds and the contents of the world. This edited collection examines kinds from a new focal ...

Odd Couples

Extraordinary Differences Between the Sexes in the Animal Kingdom

Daphne J Fairbairn

While we joke that men are from Mars and women are from Venus, our gender differences can't compare to those of other animals. For instance: the male garden spider spontaneously dies after mating with a female more than fifty times ...

On the Wing

The Evolution of Animal Flight

David E Alexander

From airplanes to birds, the phenomenon of flight has always amazed and mystified humans. Therefore, it is unsurprising that scientists have invested a substantial amount of research into unraveling the secrets of flight evolution.

People, Parasites, & Plowshares

Learning From Our Body's Most Terrifying Invaders

Dickson D Despommier and William C Campbell

Dickson D. Despommier's vivid, visceral account of the biology, behavior, and history of parasites follows the interplay between these fascinating life forms and human society over thousands of years. He focuses on long-term host-parasite ...

Practical Handbook of Microbiology

Emanuel Goldman and Lorrence H Green

The Practical Handbook of Microbiology, Third Edition presents basic knowledge about working with microorganisms in a clear and concise form. It also provides in-depth information on important aspects of the field-from classical ...

Reptiles and Amphibians

Self-Assessment Color Review

Fredric L Frye

This edition in the Self-Assessment Color Review series portrays 200 new reptile and amphibian cases, many illustrated in color. Species covered include snakes, lizards, tortoises, and frogs. Exercises accompany the case studies ...

Sex on Earth

A Celebration of Animal Reproduction

Jules Howard

1000 million years ago, a sexual revolution occurred on Earth. Sex happened for the first time; from this moment the world became ever more colourful and bizarre, ringing with elaborate songs and dances, epic battles, and rallying cries ...

Skulls: Die Faszinierende Schaedel-Sammlung des Alan Dudley

Simon Winchester, Nick Mann, Dieter Kuhaupt and Hans W Kothe

In Skulls: Die Faszinierende Schädel-Sammlung des Alan Dudley, Simon Winchester tells the captivating story of skulls, both human and animal, and of one man who has spent a lifetime obsessively assembling what is the largest ...

Tajemství Genu: Od Vzniku Zivota po Genom Cloveka [The Mystery of Genes: Life Since the Human Genome]

Eduard Kejnovsky and Vaclav Paces

Did life originate on Earth's surface, in the depths of the oceans, or in the earth's crust? Or is possible that life forms, or at least the building blocks of life have an extraterrestrial origin? The core of this book is the ...

The Biology of Parasites

Richard Lucius, Brigitte Loos-Frank, Richard K Grencis, Boris Striepen and Robert Poulin

A long needed parasitology text incorporating the latest knowledge in cell and molecular biology of parasites. The Biology of Parasites covers each class of animal parasites including all major human parasites.

The Body: A Very Short Introduction

Chris Shilling

The human body is thought of conventionally as a biological entity, with its longevity, morbidity, size and even appearance determined by genetic factors immune to the influence of society or culture. Since the mid-1980s, however, there ...

An Introduction to Molecular Evolution and Phylogenetics

Lindell Bromham

DNA can be extracted and sequenced from a diverse range of biological samples, providing a vast amount of information about evolution and ecology. The analysis of DNA sequences contributes to evolutionary biology at all levels, from ...

Biosocial Becomings

Integrating Social and Biological Anthropology

Tim Ingold and Gísli Palsson

All human life unfolds within a matrix of relations, which are at once social and biological. Yet the study of humanity has long been divided between often incompatible 'social' and 'biological' approaches. Reaching beyond ...

Body by Darwin

How Evolution Shapes Our Health and Transforms Medicine

Jeremy Taylor

We think of medical science and doctors as focused on treating conditions-whether it's a cough or an aching back. But the sicknesses and complaints that cause us to seek medical attention actually have deeper origins than the superficial ...

Causes and Consequences of Human Migration

An Evolutionary Perspective

Michael H Crawford and Benjamin C Campbell

Migration is a widespread human activity dating back to the origin of our species. Advances in genetic sequencing have greatly increased our ability to track prehistoric and historic population movements and allowed migration to be described ...

Coevolution of Life on Hosts

Integrating Ecology and History

Dale H Clayton, Sarah E Bush and Kevin P Johnson

For most, the mere mention of lice forces an immediate hand to the head and recollection of childhood experiences with nits, medicated shampoos, and traumatic haircuts. But for a certain breed of biologist, lice make for fascinating science ...

Demography and Evolutionary Ecology of Hadza Hunter-Gatherers

Nicholas Blurton Jones

The Hadza, an ethnic group indigenous to northern Tanzania, are one of the few remaining hunter-gatherer populations in existence. With a history spanning 130 000 years but rapidly losing their land and traditional ways of life ...

Evolutionary Biology

Concepts, Biodiversity, Macroevolution and Genome Evolution

Pierre Pontarotti

The annual Evolutionary Biology Meetings in Marseilles serve to gather leading scientists, promote the exchange of ideas and encourage the formation of international collaborations.

Evolving Ourselves

How Un-Natural Selection is Changing Life on Earth

Juan Enriquez and Steve Gullans

'We are the primary drivers of change. We will directly and indirectly determine what lives, what dies, where and when. We are in a different phase of evolution; the future of life is now in our hands.' Why are rates of ...

God is Watching You

How the Fear of God Makes Us Human

Dominic Johnson

"And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die." The Flood that God used to destroy the ...

Great Transformations in Vertebrate Evolution

Kenneth P Dial, Neil Shubin and Elizabeth L Brainerd

How did flying birds evolve from running dinosaurs, terrestrial trotting tetrapods evolve from swimming fish, and whales return to swim in the sea? These are some of the great transformations in the 500-million-year history of vertebrate ...

Intelligence in Ape and Man

David Premack

What is language and what is the nature of the intelligence that can acquire it? Intelligence in Ape and Man, originally published in 1976, describes 10 years of research devoted to these questions. The author describes his ...

Language in Prehistory

Alan Barnard

For ninety per cent of our history, humans have lived as 'hunters and gatherers', and for most of this time, as talking individuals. No direct evidence for the origin and evolution of language exists; we do not even know if early ...

Organisms, Agency, and Evolution

Denis M Walsh

The central insight of Darwin's On the Origin of Species is that evolution is an ecological phenomenon, arising from the activities of organisms in the 'struggle for life'. By contrast, the Modern Synthesis theory of evolution, which rose to ...

Prehension: The Hand and the Emergence of Humanity

Colin McGinn

Prehension: The Hand and the Emergence of Humanity is a hymn to the hand. In Prehension, Colin McGinn links questions from science to philosophical concerns to consider something that we take for granted: the importance ...

Sex Itself

The Search for Male & Female in the Human Genome

Sarah S Richardson

Human genomes are 99.9 percent identical – with one prominent exception. Instead of a matching pair of X chromosomes, men carry a single X, coupled with a tiny chromosome called the Y. Tracking the emergence of a new and distinctive ...

Shaping Humanity

How Science, Art, and Imagination Help Us Understand Our Origins

John Gurche

What did earlier humans really look like? What was life like for them, millions of years ago? How do we know? In Shaping Humanity, internationally-renowned paleo-artist John Gurche describes the extraordinary process ...

Stress Ecology

Environmental Stress as Ecological Driving Force and Key Player in Evolution

Christian EW Steinberg

Not all stress is stressful; instead, it appears that stress in the environment, below the mutation threshold, is essential for many subtle manifestations of population structures and biodiversity, and has played a substantial role in the ...

Tales of the Ex-Apes

How We Think About Human Evolution

Jonathan Marks

What do we think about when we think about human evolution? With his characteristic wit and wisdom, in Tales of the Ex-Apes anthropologist Jonathan Marks explores our scientific narrative of human origins – evolution ...

The Politics of Evolution

David F Prindle

The controversy over teaching evolution or creationism in American public schools offers a policy paradox. Two sets of values – science and democracy – are in conflict when it comes to the question of what to teach in public ...

The Real Planet of the Apes

A New Story of Human Origins

David R Begun

Was Darwin wrong when he traced our origins to Africa? The Real Planet of the Apes makes the explosive claim that it was in Europe, not Africa, where apes evolved the most important hallmarks of our human lineage – such as ...

The Runes of Evolution

How the Universe Became Self-Aware

Simon Conway Morris

How did human beings acquire imaginations that can conjure up untrue possibilities? How did the Universe become self-aware? In The Runes of Evolution, Simon Conway Morris revitalizes the study of evolution from the perspective of ...

The Secret of Our Success

How Culture is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter

Joseph Henrich

Humans are a puzzling species. On the one hand, we struggle to survive on our own in the wild, often unable to solve basic problems, like obtaining food, building shelters, or avoiding predators. On the other hand, human groups have produced ...

Women After All

Sex, Evolution, and the End of Male Supremacy

Melvin Konner

There is a human genetic fluke that is surprisingly common, due to a change in a key pair of chromosomes. In the normal condition the two look the same, but in this disorder one is malformed and shrunken beyond recognition. The result is ...

Carrion Ecology, Evolution, and Their Applications

Mark Eric Benbow, Jeffery Keith Tomberlin and Aaron M Tarone

In recent years, there have been major technological innovations allowing important microbial mechanisms and interactions with arthropods that drive carrion decomposition to be described.

Connectivite de l'Habitat Prairial et Pullulations de Rongeurs

Claire Poirson

Landscape connectivity has frequently been used from a conservation point of view. Here the concept has been applied to a species whose abundance is a problem, the fossorial water vole and its cyclic and periodic outbreaks, on the Jura ...

Ecology in Action

Fred Singer

Taking a fresh approach to integrating key concepts and research processes, this undergraduate textbook encourages students to develop an understanding of how ecologists raise and answer real-world questions. Four unique chapters describe ...

Patterns in Nature

The Analysis of Species Co-Occurrences

James G Sanderson and Stuart L Pimm

What species occur where, and why, and why some places harbor more species than others are basic questions for ecologists. Some species simply live in different places: fish live underwater, birds do not. Adaptations follow: most fish have ...

Poisson-Lion! [Red Lionfish]

Eric Rolland and Michel Kulbicki

Until recently, the red lionfish (Pterois volitans) was unknown in the Antilles. Today, it is everywhere and it is not uncommon, when diving, to come cross his unmistakable silhouette. Its sting is more painful than dangerous ...

Population Systems

A General Introduction

Alan A Berryman and Pavel Kindlmann

Population Systems: A General Introduction is concerned with the general principles and theories of population ecology, based on the idea that the rules governing the dynamics of populations are relatively simple, and ...

Routledge Handbook of Forest Ecology

Kelvin S-H Peh, Richard T Corlett and Yves Bergeron

This comprehensive handbook Routledge Handbook of Forest Ecology provides a unique resource covering all aspects of forest ecology from a global perspective. It covers both natural and managed forests, from boreal, temperate ...

American Zoo

A Sociological Safari

David Grazian

Orangutans swing from Kevlar-lined fire hoses. Giraffes feast on celebratory birthday cakes topped with carrots instead of candles. Hi-tech dinosaur robots growl among steel trees, while owls watch animated cartoons on old television set ...

Costa Rican Ecosystems

Maarten Kappelle, Rodrigo Gomez and Thomas E Lovejoy

In the more than thirty years since the publication of Daniel H. Janzen's classic Costa Rican Natural History, research in this small but astonishingly biodiverse, well-preserved, and well-studied Latin-American nation has evolved from a ...

Deutschlands Fluesse [Germany's Rivers]

Leander Brandt and Mina Brandt

Subject of songs, romanticized, lifelines for millions and highly frequented waterways: Deutschlands Flüsse is a fascinating journey along the banks of the rivers Rhine, Main, Danube and Elbe – to name only the ...

Earth Matters

How Soil Underlies Civilization

Richard D Bardgett

For much of history, soil has played a major, and often central, role in the lives of humans. Entire societies have risen, and collapsed, through the management or mismanagement of soil; farmers and gardeners worldwide nurture their soil ...

Ecosystems of California

Harold A Mooney and Erika Zavaleta

This long-anticipated reference and sourcebook for California's remarkable ecological abundance provides an integrated assessment of each major ecosystem type its distribution, structure, function, and management. A comprehensive synthesis ...

Lebensraum Meer: Menschen, Kuesten, Handelsrouten [The Marine Environment: People, Coasts, Trade Routes]

Wolfgang Korn and Ulli Kulke

All life comes from the water – and from time immemorial the sea has exerted an incomparable fascination: as thoroughfare and recreation area, as food provider and waste dump, as source of raw materials and energy supplier ...

Soil and Water Chemistry

An Integrative Approach

Michael E Essington

The second edition of a bestseller, Soil and Water Chemistry: An Integrative Approach maintains the balanced perspective that made the first edition a hugely popular textbook. The second edition includes new figures and tables ...

Soils, Plants and Clay Minerals

Mineral and Biologic Interactions

Bruce Velde and Pierre Barre

Soils, Plants and Clay Minerals treats the inter-relations between plants and minerals in an entirely new way in that it introduces the notion of eco-engineering, that is, the manipulation of the mineral world by the living world ...

Temperate Agroforestry Systems

Andrew M Gordon and Scott M Newman

The first edition of Temperate Agroforestry Systems explored the development of temperate agroforestry systems, concentrating on those areas within the temperate zones where the greatest advances, adoptions and modifications had ...

The Amazon Varzea

The Decade Past and the Decade Ahead

Miguel A Pinedo-Vazquez, Mauro L Ruffino, Christine J Padoch and Eduardo S Brondízio

The Amazon Várzea takes a multi-disciplinary and critical look at what has changed over the last ten years in one of the world's most important and dynamic ecosystems, the Amazon floodplain or várzea.

The Soils of Serbia

Pavle Pavlovic, Nikola Kostic, Branko Karadzic and Miroslava Mitrovic

The main objective of The Soils of Serbia is to present the distribution and diversity of major soil types in Serbia. It focuses on giving a detailed description of the physical, chemical and biological properties of soil and ...

Wildlife in the Marches

Mark Lawley

The Welsh Marches' gentle countryside makes a delightful, miniature mosaic of ever-varying views. Lanes, tracks and paths criss-cross hills that are more mound than mountain, neither spectacularly high nor steep, attracting discerning ...

Animals in Emergencies

Learning from the Christchurch Earthquakes

Annie Potts and Donelle Gadenne

After the 7.1 magnitude earthquake that shook Canterbury, New Zealand on September 4, 2010, the news media were quick to report, with understandable relief, that no lives had been lost. In fact, this first quake killed at least 3,000 ...

Conociendo las Especies Raras y Endemicas

Leonel Marineros

Discusses the endangered species of fauna and flora of Honduras. Includes bibliographical references.

Conservation and Development

Andrew Newsham and Shonil Bhagwat

How can we reconcile environmental conservation and economic development? Conservation and Development asks what is entailed in approaching environmental conservation and economic development simultaneously, and how that changes ...

Conservation of Freshwater Fishes

Gerard P Closs, Martin Krkosek and Julian D Olden

Freshwater fish are one of the most diverse groups of vertebrates, but are also amongst the most threatened. With contributions from leaders in the field, this is the first assessment of the global state of freshwater fish diversity ...

Guardians of the Brazilian Amazon Rainforest

Environmental Organizations and Development

Luiz C Barbosa

The Amazon region is the focus of intense conflict between conservationists concerned with deforestation and advocates of agro-industrial development. Guardians of the Brazilian Amazon Rainforest focuses on the contributions of ...

Insect Conservation in Urban Environments

Tim R New

Includes chapters on assessing changes among assemblages and in individual species, the variety of general threats (notably habitat changes and impacts of alien species) and more particularly urban threats. The first global overview and ...

Lions in the Balance

Man-Eaters, Manes, and Men with Guns

Craig Packer

From flat-topped acacia trees to great migrations of wildebeest across an edgeless expanse of grass, the Serengeti is one of the world's most renowned ecosystems. And at the apex of this incredible landscape prowls its seemingly ...

Paradise Saved

The Remarkable Story of New Zealand's Wildlife Sanctuaries and How They are Stemming the Tide of Extinction

Dave Butler, Tony Lindsay and Janet Hunt

New Zealanders will all have heard of Tiritiri Matangi and all know about the Karori wildlife sanctuary. Since they were established, over 100 more wildlife sanctuaries have sprung up, all round New Zealand, where control of predators has ...

Quantified: Redefining Conservation for the Next Economy

Joe S Whitworth

Google, Apple, Amazon, Uber: companies like these have come to embody innovation, efficiency, and success. How often is the environmental movement characterized in the same terms? Sadly, conservation is frequently seen as a losing battle ...

Rapid Biological and Social Inventories Report, Volume 27: Peru: Tapiche-Blanco [English / Spanish]

Nigel Pitman

In October 2014 an interdisciplinary team of geologists, biologists, and social scientists carried out a rapid inventory of the biological and cultural diversity of the remote Tapiche and Blanco watersheds of Amazonian Peru.

Science and Conservation in the Galapagos Islands

Frameworks & Perspectives

Stephen J Walsh and Carlos F Mena

In this launch of the Galapagos series, Science and Conservation in the Galapagos Islands provides a broad "framing" assessment of the current status of social and ecological systems in the Galapagos Islands, and the ...

The Annihilation of Nature

Human Extinction of Birds and Mammals

Gerardo Ceballos, Anne H Ehrlich and Paul R Ehrlich

The Annihilation of Nature shows us the face of Earth's sixth great mass extinction, revealing that this century is a time of darkness for the world's birds and mammals. In The Annihilation of Nature, three of ...

The Quiet Extinction

Stories of North America's Rare and Threatened Plants

Kara Rogers

In the United States and Canada, thousands of species of native plants are edging toward the brink of extinction, and they are doing so quietly. They are slipping away inconspicuously from settings as diverse as backyards and protected ...

Whaling and International Law

Malgosia Fitzmaurice

Whales are regarded as a totemic symbol by some nations and as a natural marine resource by others. Whaling and International Law presents a complex picture of legal problems surrounding the interpretation of the International ...

Where Have All the Animals Gone?

Travels with Karl Ammann

Dale Peterson and Karl Ammann

In this new memoir, nature historian Dale Peterson (author of Jane Goodall: The Woman Who Redefined Man) describes his travels through Africa with Swiss wildlife photographer Karl Ammann. Dedicated to stopping the slaughter of endangered bushmeat ...

Climate Change and Temperate Forests

Impact, Responses and Management Strategies

Gebhard Schueler, Steffen Schobel and Paul Nolan

On a regional level, climate change has serious impacts on the environmental, societal and economic worlds. Hand-in-hand with this will be an inevitable shift in forest site conditions in the next decades with serious implications for ...

Climate System Dynamics and Modeling

Hugues Goosse

Climate System Dynamics and Modeling presents all aspects of climate system dynamics, on all timescales from the Earth's formation to modern human-induced climate change. It discusses the dominant feedbacks and interactions ...

Dynamics and Predictability of Large-Scale, High-Impact Weather and Climate Events

Jianping Li, Richard Swinbank, Richard Grotjahn and Hans Volkert

Based largely on an International Commission on Dynamical Meteorology (ICDM) workshop, this timely volume, written by leading researchers in the field, covers a range of important research issues related to high-impact weather and extreme ...

Ecological Climatology

Concepts and Applications

Gordon B Bonan

The third edition of Gordon Bonan's comprehensive textbook introduces an interdisciplinary framework to understand the interaction between terrestrial ecosystems and climate change. Ideal for advanced undergraduate and graduate students ...

Fierce Climate, Sacred Ground

An Ethnography of Climate Change in Shishmaref, Alaska

Elizabeth Marino

With three roads and a population of just over 500 people, Shishmaref, Alaska seems like an unlikely center of the climate change debate. But the island, home to Inupiaq Eskimos who still live off subsistence harvesting, is falling into ...

Heinz-Wolfram Kasemir: His Collected Works

Valdislav Mazur and Lothar H Ruhnke

This publication presents the collected works of Heinz-Wolfram Kasemir, a prolific researcher in many branches of atmospheric electricity, with commentaries by Lothar Ruhnke and Vladislav Mazur. Because many of his papers were not reviewed ...

Killing the Koala and Poisoning the Prairie

Australia, America, and the Environment

Corey JA Bradshaw and Paul R Ehrlich

Though separated by thousands of miles, the United States and Australia have much in common. Geographically both countries are expansive-the United States is the fourth largest in land mass and Australia the sixth-and both possess a vast ...

Lightning: Nature and Culture

Derek M Elsom

Nature's own spectacular firework display, lightning is awe-inspiring, beautiful and dangerous. Early civilizations believed lightning was so powerful that only gods and goddesses could wield such formidable forces. By the eighteenth ...

Oceanography and Marine Biology: An Annual Review: Volume 53

RN Hughes, DJ Hughes, IP Smith and AC Dale

Ever-increasing interest in oceanography and marine biology and their relevance to global environmental issues create a demand for authoritative reviews summarizing the results of recent research. Oceanography and Marine Biology: An Annual ...

Oceans: Environmental Issues, Global Perspectives

Environmental Issues, Global Perspectives

James Fargo Balliett

Covering 71 percent of the planet, these saline bodies of water provided the unique conditions necessary for the building blocks of life to form billions of years ago. Oceans: Environmental Issues, Global Perspectives explains ...

On the Burning Edge

A Fateful Fire and the Men Who Fought it

Kyle Dickman

On June 28, 2013, a single bolt of lightning sparked an inferno that devoured more than eight thousand acres in northern Arizona. Twenty elite firefighters the Granite Mountain Hotshots walked together into the blaze, tools in their hands ...

Our Once and Future Planet

Restoring the World in the Climate Change Century

Paddy Woodworth

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

Partial Order in Environmental Sciences and Chemistry

Rainer Brueggemann and Lars Carlsen

The environmental and chemical sciences are ever more reliant on computers. This dependence needs formalization, and the theory of algebraic relations is one possibility. Under algebraic relations, "order" turns out to be of ...

Principles of Toxicology

Karen E Stine and Thomas Miller Brown

Reflecting the broad and interdisciplinary nature of toxicology, this third edition of Principles of Toxicology explores the biochemical, physiological, and environmental aspects of the subject. This new edition is updated and ...

Rethinking Greenland and the Arctic in the Era of Climate Change

New Northern Horizons

Frank Sejersen

This ground-breaking book investigates how Arctic indigenous communities deal with the challenges of climate change and how they strive to develop self-determination. Adopting an anthropological focus on Greenland's vision to boost ...

A Geological Excursion Guide to the Stirling and Perth Area

MAE Browne and Con Gillen

The Stirling and Perth area comprises some wonderfully varied geology, from the Dalradian metamorphic rocks in the southern Highlands to a range of sedimentary and igneous rocks within the Midland Valley. The eighteen excursions in ...

Assynt: The Geologists' Mecca

PM Dryburgh, SM Ross, CL Thompson and Graham Leslie

The Assynt district of Sutherland has long been recognised as a jewel in the crown of Scottish geology; and in October 2004 the North-west Highlands, of which Assynt forms an integral part, was accorded Geopark status by the European ...

Campi Flegrei [English]

Giovanni Orsi, Lucia Civetta and Roberto Moretti

The densely populated Campi Flegrei resurgent caldera is one of the widest known, best studied and highly dangerous volcanoes of the world. Campi Flegrei will synthesize the current knowledge of this volcano, through different ...

Copahue Volcano

Franco Tassi, Orlando Vaselli and Alberto Tomas Caselli

Copahue Volcano provides a comprehensive description of the volcanological, petrological and geochemical features of the Copahue volcano, located at the border between Argentina and Chile. Scientific studies are limited for this ...

Das Grosse Buch der Mineralien und Kristalle [The Big Book of Minerals and Crystals]

Adalberto Giazotto, Federico Pezzotta, Giovanni Pratesi, Jeffrey Scovil, Ines Klaehn and K Schuler

Originally published in Italian as Cristalli. With over 500 specimens the mineral collection of Adalberto Giazotto is not only one of the largest worldwide, it also includes some of the by far most beautiful examples ...

Demain: Les Animaux du Futur

Marc Boulay and Sebastien Steyer

2014 + 10 million years... that is the future to which Demain: Les Animaux du Futur takes us. The human race has disappeared from the face of the Earth, but not life itself. It is this life that the reader discovers in a compelling ...

Enciclopedia dos Minerais do Brasil, Volume 1: Elementos Nativos e Halogenetos

Paulo Cesar Pereira das Neves and Daniel Atencio

Enciclopédia dos Minerais do Brasil represents the largest-ever compilation of information on minerals from Brazil. This work covers a broad spectrum of information about Brazil's minerals, including their occurrence ...

Enciclopedia dos Minerais do Brasil, Volume 2: Sulfetos e Sulfossais

Paulo Cesar Pereira das Neves and Daniel Atencio

Volume 2 in this planned six-volume series deals with sulfuric minerals from Brazil.

Encyclopedia of the Solar System

Tilman Spohn, Doris Breuer, Torrence V Johnson and Jr.,Wesley T Huntress

The Encyclopedia of the Solar System, Third Edition provides a framework for understanding the origin and evolution of the solar system, historical discoveries, and details about planetary bodies and how they interact-with an ...

Fundamentals of Hydrology

Tim Davie and Nevil Quinn

Fundamentals of Hydrology, Third Edition provides an absorbing and comprehensive introduction to the understanding of how fresh water moves on and around the planet and how humans affect and manage the freshwater resources available ...

How UFOs Conquered the World

The History of a Modern Myth

David Clarke

A history of the various manifestations and shifting meaning of the Twentieth Century's single great contribution to mythology: the UFO. Neither a credulous work of conspiracy theory nor a sceptical debunking of belief in 'flying ...

Isoscapes: Understanding Movement, Pattern, and Process on Earth Through Isotope Mapping

Jason B West, Gabriel J Bowen, Todd E Dawson and Kevin P Tu

Stable isotope ratio variation in natural systems reflects the dynamics of Earth systems processes and imparts isotope labels to Earth materials. Carbon isotope ratios of atmospheric CO₂ record exchange of carbon between the ...

Mercury's Interior, Surface, and Surrounding Environment

Latest Discoveries

Pamela Elizabeth Clark

This SpringerBrief details the MESSENGER Mission, the findings of which present challenges to widely held conventional views and remaining mysteries surrounding the planet. The work answers the question of why Mercury is so dense, and the ...

Meteorite: Nature and Culture

Maria Golia

Meteorites are among the rarest objects on Earth, yet they have left a pervasive mark on our planet and civilization. Arriving amidst thunderous blasts and flame-streaked skies, meteorites were once thought to be messengers from the gods ...

Molekuele: Die Elemente und die Architektur aller Dinge [Molecules: The Elements and the Architecture of Everything]

Theodore Gray, Nick Mann and Hubert Mania

In Moleküle: Die Elemente und die Architektur aller Dinge Gray goes beyond the 118 elements in the periodic table to explore, through fascinating stories and stunning photographic imagery, what he considers to be the most ...

Neviditelny Lidsky Svet / Invisible Human World

Viktor Sykora

People spend most of their lives in the same environment, surrounded by familiar objects. But are they really that familiar? Most of the information we receive about the world is through sight, which has its limitations. How will our world ...

Rocks and Minerals in Thin Section

A Colour Atlas

WS MacKenzie, AE Adams and Kate H Brodie

The Second Edition of this concise, clear, and handy-sized volume, highly respected and successful authors explain to the reader, with the help of 180 superb color photomicrographs, how to observe, describe and identify thin section samples ...

Sound: A Very Short Introduction

Mike Goldsmith

Sound is integral to how we experience the world, in the form of noise as well as music. But what is sound? What is the physical basis of pitch and harmony? And how are sound waves exploited in musical instruments?

Surf, Sand, and Stone

How Waves, Earthquakes, and Other Forces Shape the Southern California Coast

Keith Heyer Meldahl

Southern California is sandwiched between two tectonic plates with an ever-shifting boundary. Over the last several million years, movements of these plates have dramatically reshuffled the Earth's crust to create rugged landscapes ...

The Astrophotography Manual

A Practical and Scientific Approach to Deep Space Imaging

Chris Woodhouse

Capturing the serene beauty of planets, stars, and celestial bodies is both fine art and scientific discovery. Fascinating, challenging, and extremely rewarding, astrophotography is a pursuit that is greatly enhanced by gaining access to ...

The Basics of Crystallography and Diffraction

Fourth Edition

Christopher Hammond

The Basics of Crystallography and Diffraction provides a clear and very broadly based introduction to crystallography, light, X-ray and electron diffraction – a knowledge which is essential to students in a wide range of ...

The Cambridge Double Star Atlas

Bruce Macevoy and Wil Tirion

The Cambridge Double Star Atlas is back. It is the first and only atlas of physical double stars that can be viewed with amateur astronomical instruments. Completely rewritten, this new edition explains the latest research into ...

The Nature of Space and Time [Revised Edition]

Stephen Hawking and Roger Penrose

This reprint features a new afterword by the authors. Einstein said that the most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible. But was he right? Can the quantum theory of fields and Einstein's ...

Thermal Convection, Magnetic Field, and Differential Rotation in Solar-Type Stars

Hideyuki Hotta

This thesis describes the studies on the solar interior where turbulent thermal convection plays an important role. The author solved, for the first time, one of the long-standing issues in solar physics, i.e., the maintenance mechanism ...

Treatise on Geophysics (11-Volume Set)

Gerald Schubert, Barbara Romanowicz, Adam Dziewonski, G David Price, Lars Stixrude and Tho Herring

Treatise on Geophysics, Second Edition, is a comprehensive and in-depth study of the physics of the Earth beyond what any geophysics text has provided previously. Thoroughly revised and updated, it provides fundamental and ...

Volcanoes: A Folding Pocket Guide to Volcanoes, Earthquakes, Hot Springs, Geysers & More

James R Kavanagh

Educational and entertaining, this folding pocket field guide Volcanoes provides a simplified introduction to the different types of volcanoes, volcanic hazards (including flying debris, pyroclastic flows, geysers and mud ...

Altered Genes, Twisted Truth

How the Venture to Genetically Engineer Our Food Has Subverted Science, Corrupted Government, and Systematically Deceive

Steven M Druker and Dame Jane Goodall

Altered Genes, Twisted Truth tells the fascinating and frequently astounding story of how the massive enterprise to reconfigure the genetic core of the world's food supply was born, how it has routinely advanced through ...

Becoming Salmon

Aquaculture and the Domestication of a Fish

Marianne Elisabeth Lien

Becoming Salmon is the first ethnographic account of salmon aquaculture, the most recent turn in the human history of animal domestication. In this careful and nuanced study, Marianne Elisabeth Lien explores how the growth of ...

Beyond the Tragedy in Global Fisheries

DG Webster

The oceans are heavily overfished, and the greatest challenges to effective fisheries management are not technical but political and economic. In Beyond the Tragedy in Global Fisheries, D. G. Webster describes how the political ...

Biomass Assessment Handbook

Energy for a Sustainable Environment

Frank Rosillo-Calle, Peter de Groot, Sarah L Hemstock, Jeremy Woods and Jose Goldemberg

The increasing importance of biomass as a renewable energy source has led to an acute need for reliable and detailed information on its assessment, consumption and supply. Responding to this need, and overcoming the lack of standardised ...

Coastal Water Bodies

Nature and Culture Conflicts in the Mediterranean

Felicita Scapini and Gabriele Ciampi

There is a need of books addressing the links between science and the real world with a sound scientific baseline. Coastal Water Bodies targets researchers of various disciplines, for an integrated sustainable management of water ...

Coastal and Marine Environmental Site Guide

S John, N Meakins, K Basford, H Craven and P Charles

Any construction project, irrespective of the location, size or nature of the development, will have environmental consequences. This is particularly true when working on the coast or at sea given the often sensitive nature of the environment ...

Community Seed Banks

Origins, Evolution and Prospects

Ronnie Vernooy, Pitambar Shrestha and Bhuwon Sthapit

Community seed banks first appeared towards the end of the 1980s, established with the support of international and national non-governmental organizations. Community Seed Banks is the first to provide a global review of their ...

Crop Epigenetics

Graham King

Crop Epigenetics offers a comprehensive look at the science of agricultural epigenetics. Grounded with an introduction to the fundamental epigenetic molecular mechanisms of inheritance and the role these play in programming development ...

Development for Sustainable Agriculture

The Brazilian Cerrado

Akio Hosono, Carlos Magno Campos da Rocha and Yutaka Hongo

Brazil has become one of today's major producers and net exporters of grains. This was achieved by converting barren land into one of the most productive agricultural regions in the world. Since the mid-1970s, the tropical savanna ...

Endangerment, Biodiversity and Culture

Fernando Vidal and Nelia Dias

The notion of Endangerment stands at the heart of a network of concepts, values and practices dealing with objects and beings considered threatened by extinction, and with the procedures aimed at preserving them. Usually animated by a ...

Environment and Politics

Timothy Doyle, Doug McEachern and Sherilyn MacGregor

Environment and Politics, Fourth Edition is a concise introduction to this ever-expanding field, explaining the key concepts, conflicts, political systems and the practices of policy-making.

Environmental Life Cycle Assessment

Olivier Jolliet, Myriam Saade, Shanna Shaked and Alexandre Jolliet

From raw materials through materials processing, manufacture, distribution, use, repair and maintenance, and disposal or recycling, Environmental Life Cycle Assessment demonstrates how to conduct environmental assessments for ...

Environmental Politics in Egypt

Activists, Experts, and the State

Jeannie L Sowers

Environmental Politics in Egypt examines the evolution and development of environmental politics in Egypt, and how networks operate inside an authoritarian system. Drawing on extensive fieldwork conducted in Egypt between 1997 ...

European Fisheries at a Tipping-Point / La Pesca Europea Ante Un Cambio Irreversible

Thomas Hojrup and Klaus Schriewer

European Fisheries at a Tipping Point faces the difficult fact that European fishing is at a dangerous crossroads. It deals with the problem that the privatization of fishing rights and the introduction of Individual Transferable ...

Flourishing Within Limits to Growth

Following Nature's Way

Sven Erik Jorgensen, Brian D Fath, Soren Nors Nielsen, Federico Maria Pulselli and Daniel Fiscus

Decades of research and discussion have shown that the human population growth and our increased consumption of natural resources cannot continue – there are limits to growth.

Food Wars

The Global Battle for Mouths, Minds and Markets

Tim Lang and Michael Heasman

In the ten years since publication of the first edition of Food Wars much has happened in the world of food policy. Food Wars, Second Edition brings these developments fully up to date within the original analytical framework ...

Green Building with Concrete

Sustainable Design and Construction

Gajanan M Sabnis

Green Building with Concrete: Sustainable Design and Construction, Second Edition provides an overview of all available information on the role of concrete in green building. A handbook offering viewpoints from worldwide experts ...

Hamburgers in Paradise

The Stories Behind the Food We Eat

Louise O Fresco

For the first time in human history, there is food in abundance throughout the world. More people than ever before are now freed of the struggle for daily survival, yet few of us are aware of how food lands on our plates. Behind every ...

Handbook of Plant Nutrition

Allen V Barker and David J Pilbeam

In 2007, the first edition of Handbook of Plant Nutrition presented a compendium of information on the mineral nutrition of plants available at that time-and became a bestseller and trusted resource. Updated to reflect recent advances ...

Homo sapiens: An Appraisal of Modern Humans

Rajan Jaisinghani

Why Homo sapiens, a seemingly intelligent species, continues to irreparably damage the earth, so vital to not only our own survival but to that of all the intertwined living things around us, is passionately and insightfully ...

Methodism in the American Forest

Russell E Richey

During the nineteenth century, camp meetings became a signature program of American Methodists and an extraordinary engine for their remarkable evangelistic outreach. Methodism in the American Forest explores the ways in which ...

Mindreading Animals

The Debate Over What Animals Know About Other Minds

Robert W Lurz

Animals live in a world of other minds, human and nonhuman, and their well-being and survival often depends on what is going on in the minds of these other creatures. But do animals know that other creatures have minds? And how would we ...

Nature's Ghosts

Confronting Extinction from the Age of Jefferson to the Age of Ecology

Mark V Barrow

The rapid growth of the American environmental movement in recent decades obscures the fact that long before the first Earth Day and the passage of the Endangered Species Act, naturalists and concerned citizens recognized – and ...

Plastic Water

The Social and Material Life of Bottled Water

Gay Hawkins, Emily Potter and Kane Race

How did branded bottles of water insinuate themselves into our daily lives? Why did water become an economic good – no longer a common resource but a commercial product, in industry parlance 'fast moving consumer good' ...

Psychology for Sustainability

Britain A Scott, Elise L Amel, Susan M Koger, Christie M Manning and Deborah Winter

Psychology for Sustainability, 4th Edition – known as Psychology of Environmental Problems: Psychology for Sustainability in its previous edition – applies psychological theory and research to so-called ...

Research and Development on Genetic Resources

Public Domain Approaches in Implementing the Nagoya Protocol

Evanson Chege Kamau, Gerd Winter, Peter-Tobias Stoll and Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias

National implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) provisions has yielded enough challenges for providers and users of genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge alike. The Nagoya Protocal brings novel ...

Routledge International Handbook of Green Criminology

Nigel South and Avi Brisman

Academic and general interest in environmental crimes, harms, and threats, as well as in environmental legislation and regulation, has grown sharply in recent years. The Routledge International Handbook of Green Criminology is ...

Sounding the Limits of Life

Essays in the Anthropology of Biology and Beyond

Stefan Helmreich

What is life? What is water? What is sound? In Sounding the Limits of Life, anthropologist Stefan Helmreich investigates how contemporary scientists – biologists, oceanographers, and audio engineers – are redefining ...

Sustainability

Kent E Portney

The word "sustainability" has been connected to everything from a certain kind of economic development to corporate promises about improved supply sourcing. But despite the apparent ubiquity of the term, the concept of sustainable ...

Sustainable Transportation in Natural and Protected Areas

Francesco Orsi

Protected areas are at the centre of nature-based tourism, which is increasingly popular across the world. As visitor numbers increase, so does awareness of the harmful effects that large crowds may have on both natural resources and ...

Tapping Molecular Wilderness

Drugs from the Chemistry-Biology Interface

Yongyuth Yuthavong

Tapping Molecular Wilderness is for readers with some background in science, concerning the search for drugs, starting from molecular diversity in nature or molecular wilderness. Drug molecules may be used as such, or as starting ...

The Business Guide to Sustainability

Practical Strategies and Tools for Organizations

Darcy Hitchcock and Marsha Willard

The Business Guide to Sustainability is a practical introduction to implementing a comprehensive sustainability strategy in any organization. Written by top business consultants, this useful book can be applied in both large and ...

The Rise and Fall of Countryside Management

A Historical Account

Ian D Rotherham and Hazel N Thomas

For at least half a century since the emergence of Country Parks and Forest Parks, countryside services have provided leisure, tourism, conservation, restoration and regeneration across Britain. Yet these services are currently being ...

Tourism and Sustainability

Development, Globalisation and New Tourism in the Third World

Martin Mowforth and Ian Munt

'If unequal opportunities are large within many countries they are truly staggering on a global scale', so concludes the World Bank's 2006 World Development Report. It is a global unevenness within which the barriers to immigration ...

Wasting the Rain

Rivers, People and Planning in Africa

Bill Adams

Wasting the Rain offers an experienced and constructive evaluation of the ways in which water resources have been developed in Africa. Adams argues that the best hope of productive development lies in working and engaging with local people ...

Bayesian Data Analysis in Ecology Using Linear Models with R, BUGS and Stan

Including Comparisons to Frequentist Statistics

Franzi Korner-Nievergelt, Tobias Roth, Stefanie von Felten, Jerome Guelat, Bettina Almasi and K

Bayesian Data Analysis in Ecology Using Linear Models with R, BUGS, and Stan examines the Bayesian and frequentist methods of conducting data analyses. The book provides the theoretical background in an easy-to-understand approach ...

Ecological Informatics

Scope, Techniques and Applications

Friedrich Recknagel

Ecological Informatics: Understanding Ecology by Biologically-Inspired Computation promotes interdisciplinary research between ecology and computer science on elucidation of principles of information processing in ecosystem ...

57 Ways to Screw Up in Grad School

Perverse Professional Lessons for Graduate Students

Kevin D Haggerty and Aaron Doyle

Don't think about why you're applying. Select a topic for entirely strategic reasons. Choose the coolest supervisor. Write only to deadlines. Expect people to hold your hand. Become "that" student.

Adhesive Compendium for Conservation

Jane L Down

The Adhesive Compendium for Conservation offers information, guidelines and research results on the proper use of adhesives in conservation. The book is broken down into three sections: the first provides information on liquid ...

Copyright for Archivists and Records Managers

Tim Padfield

As an archivist or records manager it is essential to keep up to date with the complexities of copyright legislation, and Copyright for Archivists and Records Managers will prove an invaluable tool in enabling you to do so.

Elephants are Not Picked from Trees

Animal Biographies in the Gothenburg Museum of Natural History

Liv Emma Thorsen

"Elephants are not picked from trees" are the words of Swedish taxidermist and conservator David Sjölander, spoken while he was in Angola looking for a fine bull elephant specimen in the autumn of 1948. At the age of 62 ...

Handbook for Science Public Information Officers

W Matthew Shipman

Whether sharing a spectacular shot from a deep-space probe, announcing a development in genetic engineering, or crafting an easy-to-reference list of cancer risk factors, science public information officers, or PIOs, serve as scientific ...

Houston, We Have a Narrative

Why Science Needs Story

Randy Olson

Ask a scientist about Hollywood, and you'll probably get eye rolls. But ask someone in Hollywood about science, and they'll see dollar signs: moviemakers know that science can be the source of great stories, with all the drama and ...

Information Now

A Graphic Guide to Student Research

Matt Upson, C Michael Hall and Kevin Cannon

Every day researchers face an onslaught of irrelevant, inaccurate, and sometimes insidious information. While new technologies provide powerful tools for accessing knowledge, not all information is created equal. Valuable information may ...

Integrated Pest Management for Cultural Heritage

David Pinniger and Annette Townsend

Integrated Pest Management for Cultural Heritage is a practical, colour- illustrated, working handbook for the curator, conservator and all persons concerned with the management of collections. It is an essential guide to the ...

Off to College

A Guide for Parents

Roger H Martin

For many parents, sending their child off to college can be a disconcerting leap. After years spent helping with homework, attending parent-teacher conferences, and catching up after school, college life represents a world of unknowns.

Winter in the Wilderness

A Field Guide to Primitive Survival Skills

Dave Hall and Jon Ulrich

Camping or backpacking in winter is appealing for many who enjoy the serenity of wilderness settings without the crowds and bustle of the summer season. But as rewarding as they can be, these outings require special preparation and a ...