Bat Bioacoustics

M Brock Fenton, Alan D Grinnell, Arthur N Popper and Richard R Fay

Arguably biosonar is one of the 'eye-opening' discoveries about animal behavior and the auditory systems of echolocators are front and center in this story. Echolocation by bats has proven to be a virtual gold mine for colleagues ...

Bibliographia Mammalogica Romaniae [Romanian]

Dumitru Murariu and Sorin Geacu

About 1,800 titles of the scientific papaers and books on the Romanian mammals are listed in this bibiliography. For some Romanian papers, titles are translated. Most titles are rigorously included up to 1987, after that inclusion is more ...

Catalogue of Chiroptera in the Collection of the Zoological Survey of India (2-Volume Set)

Mrinal Kanti Ghosh

This 2-volume set comprises occasional paper 232 and 281, with the former listing specimens of Megachiroptera, and the latter specimens Microchiroptera in the holdings of the Zoological Survey of India.

Der Fuchs in der Stadt [The Fox in the City]

Lutz Artmann

The fox is one of the animals that is exemplary for the recapture of the city by nature. Today foxes have settled in many cities in Germany. As primarily nocturnal animals, they use the times and places where an encounter with humans is ...

Din Lumea Mamiferelor, Volume 4: Mamifere Galericole [The World of Mammals, Volume 4: Burrowing Mammals]

Dumitru Murariu

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

Dolphin Confidential

Confessions of a Field Biologist

Maddalena Bearzi

Who hasn't fantasized about the unique thrill of working among charismatic and clever dolphins in the wild? We need not live this solely in our imaginations anymore. With Dolphin Confidential Maddalena Bearzi invites all of ...

Fauna Romaniei: Mammalia, Volume XVI, Fascicle 4: Lagomorpha, Cetacea, Artiodactyla, Perissodactyla [Romanian]

Dumitru Murariu

This fascicle in the Fauna Romaniei covers the orders Lagomorpha, Cetacea, and the even- and odd-toed ungulate orders of the Artiodactyla and Perissodactyla.

Gobi Grizzlies

Tracking a Myth to Save a Desert

Douglas H Chadwick and Joe Riis

In the tradition of Douglas Chadwick's best-selling adventure memoir, The Wolverine Way, Gobi Grizzlies creates a portrait of these rarest of bears' fight for survival in one of the toughest, most remote settings on Earth. He demonstrates why saving ..

Habitat Suitability Analysis of Chinkara, Gazella bennetti in Rajasthan

A Remote Sensing and GIS Approach

JRB Alfred, PL Kankane, Arun Kumar, PS Roy, Sarnam Singh and Mamta Verma

This paper presents a habitat suitability analysis of Chinkara, Gazella bennetti in Rajasthan, based on remote sensing and GIS approaches.

Handbuch der Fledermause Europas und Nordwestafrikas: Biologie, Kennzeichen, Gefuhrdung [Handbook of Bats of Europe an

Christian Dietz, Otto von Helversen and Dietmar Nill

Knowledge on the variety of bat species is only in its infancy. Every year new species are discovered and knowledge about them is constantly growing. This book presents all 51 species in Europe, plus the latest developments and everything ...

How the Camel Got Its Hump [Mongolian]

John Hare

This book describes in question and answer format the evolution of the wild camel and the other members of the camelid family such as the Llama, Alpaca, Quanaco and Vicuña. It highlights the unique properties of camelids and especially ...

Identificacao de Mastofauna por Vestígios [Mammal Identification Using Remains]

Armando Castello Branco and Michel Garcia Margonato

Identificação de Mastofauna por Vestígios is a work that seeks to meet the demand for educational materials for both the undergraduate and graduate students training in areas related to the environment ...

Les Chauves-Souris de Rhone-Alpes [Bats of the Rhone-Alpes]

Stephane Vincent and Groupe Chiropteres Rhone-Alpes

Published in March 2014, this atlas provides a reference on the state of knowledge for all 30 species of bats found in the Rhône-Alpes, France. A synthesis of over 60,000 data point collected between 1890 and late 2012 ...

Les Mammiferes de Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur [The Mammals of Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur]

Ligue de Protection des Oiseaux (LPO) and Groupe d'Etude des Cetaces de Mediterranee

This book covers all mammals of the French region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur (PACA), including cetaceans, for a total of 114 species of the 130 species found in France. A period of 6 years of work and the collaboration ...

Mamífers de Catalunya [Mammals of Catalonia]

Jaume Sane

This guide introduces the reader to the exciting world of mammals found in or having existed in Catalonia. The reader will meet bats flitting in the summer nights and ungulates, mice, shrews and small carnivores making a secret life in ...

Manatees: Our Vanishing Mermaids

M Timothy O'Keefe

Manatees are among nature's strangest-looking, gentlest animals. They're among America's most endangered mammals and were the basis for ancient tales of mermaids, legendary creatures that were half-fish and half-human.

Monkeytalk: Inside the Worlds and Minds of Primates

Julia Fischer and Jr.,Frederick B Henry

Monkey see, monkey do – or does he? Can the behavior of non-human primates – their sociality, their intelligence, their communication – really be chalked up to simple mimicry? Emphatically, absolutely: no. And as famed ...

Reflections of Elephants

Bobby-Jo Clow and David Blissett

Elephants are enormous, unmistakable – and irreplaceable. No other creature has such a long-shared history with humanity while remaining largely undomesticated. But today, despite 4000 years of coexistence, we seem determined to ...

Rio de Janeiro Primatology Center / Centro de Primatologia do Rio de Janeiro

Russell A Mittermeier and Tania Machado

Documents research about neotropical primates in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Status Survey of Chinkara and Desert Cat in Rajasthan

PL Kankane

Rajasthan hosts major populations of several mammalian species of great conservation significance though they are not restricted to the state or to deserts. Such species are caracal, wolf, jungle cat, leopard, tiger, chowsingha, black ...

Taxonomic Studies on Indian Muridae and Hystricidae (Mammalia: Rodentia)

VC Agrawal

Out of 29 families of rodents found in the world, four families (Sciuridae, Muridae, Dipodidae, and Hystricidae) occur in India. The family Muridae, which is by far the largest family, is represented in India by 28 genera and 68 species ...

The Giraffe

Biology, Ecology, Evolution and Behaviour

Bryan Shorrocks

Provides a comprehensive overview of one of nature's most engaging mammals - Covers fossil history, taxonomy, genetics, physiology, biomechanics, behavior, ecology, and conservation - Includes genetic analysis of five of the ...

The Last Dance

The Tragic Story of India's Dancing Bears

Alan Knight

The Last Dance looks at how the barbaric practice of dancing bears worked and how the coalition set about bringing it to an end and rescuing every bear off the streets of India. It exposes the terrible suffering the bears endure ...

The Lives of Hawai'i's Dolphins and Whales

Natural History and Conservation

Robin W Baird

Ocean currents, winds, and rainfall all work together to create a marine oasis around the Hawaiian Islands, providing a home for many species of dolphins and whales normally found in the deep oceans of the world.

The Story of the White Rhinoceros

JG du Toit

The author cosinders the prospect of the rhinoceros facing extinction twice in his lifetime hard to grasp. Despite the dedicated efforts of the conservation authorities and private game farmers, the situation seems to be increasingly ...

Unicornis: The Great Indian One-Horned Rhinoceros

Arup Kumare Dutta

The Great Indian One-Horned Rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis, Linnaeus), which once roamed across the alluvial plains of mega-rivers such as the Indus, the Ganges and the Brahmaputra, today survives precariously in a few small ...

Voracious Science & Vulnerable Animals

A Primate Scientist's Ethical Journey

John P Gluck

The National Institute of Health recently announced its plan to retire the fifty remaining chimpanzees held in national research facilities and place them in sanctuaries. This significant decision comes after a lengthy process of examination ...

Yellowstone Bison

Conserving an American Icon in Modern Society

PJ White, Rick L Wallen, David E Hallac, Katrina L Auttelet and Jennifer A Jerrett

Yellowstone Bison: Conserving an American Icon in Modern Society examines the history of bison conservation and management in the United States, compiles the latest scientific information about Yellowstone bison, and discusses ...

Zebra Stripes

Tim Caro

From eminent biologists like Alfred Russel Wallace and Charles Darwin to famous authors such as Rudyard Kipling in his Just So Stories, many people have asked, "Why do zebras have stripes?" There are many explanations ...

A Birder's Handbook to Manipal

Ramit Singal

Manipal's birding community, situated in the state of Karnataka in India, as well as its bird list has grown a lot since the release of the first edition of this book. This second edition looks towards addressing the shortcomings of ...

An Atlas of the Birds of NSW & the ACT, Volume 2

Richard M Cooper, Ian AW McAllan, Christopher CP Brandis and Brian R Curtis

This Atlas provides a comprehensive inventory and distributional analysis of the birds of New South Wales (NSW), the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) and the waters of the western Tasman Sea. The principal aims of the NSW Bird ...

Australia's Fascinating Birds

Donald Henry Goodsir and Nicola Oram

Birds are fascinating, lively, colourful creatures that can be encountered almost everywhere. The presence of birds certainly brings colour and interest to our lives. They can signal the change of seasons or as in Columbus' case, the ...

Aves do Brasil Oriental: Guia de Bolso [Birds of Eastern Brazil: Pocket Guide]

Tomas Sigrist

This pocket guide was developed as a more practical means of field identification of birds, both by limiting the geographic area and the size of this publication, in contrast with previous publications by Avis Brasilis.

Avifauna of the Southeastern Himalayan Mountains and Neighboring Myanmar Hill Country

Swen C Renner, John H Rappole, Christopher M Milensky, Myant Aung, Nay Myo Shwe and Thein Aung

Avifauna of the Southeastern Himalayan Mountains and Neighboring Myanmar Hill Country provides significant new insights into the biology and biogeography of the birds that inhabit the northernmost tip of Myanmar. The area's ...

Birdscaping Australian Gardens

Using Native Plants to Attract Birds to Your Garden

George Adams

Wake up to the beautiful sound of birdsong every day. Discover how to identify the most common garden birds, and how to choose, grow and maintain the native plants that will attract them to your backyard. From acacias to eucalypts, and ...

Chinese Birds Illustrated [Chinese]

Guo Dongsheng

This book records 1069 species birds from China with 1420 photos. They belong to 24 orders, 88 families.

Collins Life-Size Birds

The Only Guide to Show British Birds at Their Actual Size

Paul Sterry and Rob Read

Collins Life-Size Birds is a photographic celebration of Britain and northern Europe's richly varied birdlife. The photographs are gloriously detailed, appealing to both beginners and experienced birdwatchers.

Die 100 Besten Vogelbeobachtungsplatze in Deutschland: Mit GPS Daten [The 100 Best Birdwatching Sites in Germany: With

Redaktion Der Falke

This special issue of the journal Falke reliably leads the reader to the best birdwatching sites in Germany! Would you rather like to see certain species of birds? No problem: A comprehensive list of species gives appropriate ...

Die Vogelwelt von Rheinland-Pfalz, Band 3: Greifvogel bis Spechtvogel (Accipitriformes-Piciformes)

Christian Dietzen

Already some nine months after the publication of Volume 2 the publisher is now publishing Die Vogelwelt von Rheinland-Pfalz, Volume 3. With 896 pages, this is the most extensive volume and for many ornithologists also the most ...

Fascinating World of Owls / Faszinierende Welt der Eulen

Friedhelm Weick

Owls as nocturnal creatures fascinate almost everybody with their eerie cries. Once the epitome of wisdom and messenger of the gods the well-known illustrator Friedhelm Weick could not escape these spirits of the night. After numerous ...

Florida Birds

A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Species

James R Kavanagh and Raymond Leung

A birder's paradise, Florida has diverse habitats ranging from northern forests and prairies to the vast subtropical Everglades. Florida is home to over 535 species of permanent or migratory species of birds. This beautifully illustrated ...

Greifvogel: Artproblem und Evolutionstheorie - Okofunktionell Betrachtet [Raptors: Species Problem and Evolutionary

Wolfgang Baumgart

The author, born in 1940 and a vet by profession, has since early youth been especially thrilled by raptor ornithology. This book presents the results and insights of his past six decades of research. The focus is on the large hawk with ...

Guía de Identificacion de Aves Susceptibles de ser Confundidas [The Helm Guide to Bird Identification: An In-Depth Look

Keith Vinicombe, Alan Harris and Laurel Tucker

Guía de Identificación de Aves Susceptibles de ser Confundidas covers tough species identification issues by looking at tricky pairs or groups of birds, and comparing and contrasting their respective features.

Guide d'Identification des Limicoles d'Europe [Waders of Europe]

Lars van Gejl, Theunis Piersma and Marie-Anne Tattevin

Steltlopers van Europa is an in-depth and richly illustrated book covering all 82 wader species breeding in Europe, including rare species and vagrants. Includes bird sounds with QR codes and detailed photos show unique features, plumage ...

Hummingbirds: How to Attract and Feed with a Backyard Habitat

Brian Grant

Hummingbirds are fascinating bird species that captivate anyone who has ever seen one to learn more about these "jewels of the sky." In Hummingbirds: How To Attract And Feed With A Backyard Habitat you will discover...

Idaho Birds

A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Species

James R Kavanagh and Raymond Leung

The Gem State's diverse habitats are the permanent or migratory home of 409 species of birds, including the stunning state bird, the sky blue mountain bluebird. This beautifully illustrated guide highlights over 140 familiar and unique ...

Identificacion en Vuelo de Aves Rapaces de Europa, Africa del Norte y Oriente Medio [Flight Identification of Raptors

Dick Forsman and Manuel Pijoan

Raptors are notoriously hard to identify, even if seen well. Contrary to expectation, it is actually easier to identify raptors in flight, rather than perched, and it is fortunate that most raptors are usually seen in flight! This is the ...

Long Hops

Making Sense of Bird Migration

Mark Denny

In Long Hops, physicist Mark Denny explains, in a clear, conversational style, the science of bird migration – from the intricacies of bird aeronautics to the newly unraveled mysteries of their magnetic compasses.

Ocells Aquatics [Waterfowl]

Jaume Sane

This guide introduces the reader to the exciting world of waterfowl. It is a tool to learn about the birds that live in swamps, marshes, rivers and lakes, as well as those located near the coast or even at sea in the Iberian peninsula.

Pocket Garden Birdwatch: Australian Edition

David Andrew and Mark Ward

Birdwatching can be done from your doorstep with Pocket Garden Birdwatch, which has been carefully adapted from the UK edition to ensure it is relevant to the Australian environment. You'll find all the information you need to create ...

Remarkable Birds

The Beauty and Wonder of the Avian World

Mark Avery

We share the Earth with more than 10,000 species of birds and we have always been enchanted by them. Here, over 60 birds, organized thematically into eight sections, cover all aspects of our relationship with birds.

The Meaning of Birds

Simon Barnes

One of our most eloquent nature writers offers a passionate and informative celebration of birds and their ability to help us understand the world we live in. As well as exploring how birds achieve the miracle of flight; why birds sing ...

Threatened Birds of Odisha

Asad R Rahmani, Manoj V Nair and MR Maithreyi

This book is one among the smaller state-specific companion volumes to the comprehensive Threatened Birds of India by the first author. Here, the authors describe eight Critically Endangered, five Endangered, eleven Vulnerable and ...

Tweet of the Day

A Year of Britain's Birds from the Acclaimed Radio 4 Series

Brett Westwood, Stephen Moss and Carry Akroyd

Wherever we are, there are birds. And wherever there are birds, there is birdsong. It's always a pleasure (and a relief) to hear sounds which prove the world's still spinning: whether it's the sighing of migrating redwings on ...

Why Birds Matter

Avian Ecological Function and Ecosystem Services

Cagan H Sekercioglu, Daniel G Wenny and Christopher J Whelan

For over one hundred years, ornithologists and amateur birders have jointly campaigned for the conservation of bird species, documenting not only birds' beauty and extraordinary diversity, but also their importance to ecosystems worldwide ...

A Checklist of North American Amphibians and Reptiles: The United States and Canada, Volume 1: Amphibians

Jr.,MJ Fouqette and Alain Dubois

In the spirit of Stejneger & Barbour and Karl Schmidt, Fouquette & Dubois present Volume 1 (Amphibians) of a new edition of a checklist of the herpetofauna of North America. This will be followed by Volume 2, Reptiles. This checklist ...

Herpetofauna Mexicana, Volume 1: Snakes of Mexico

Peter Heimes

Serpents have played an important role in the mythology, religion and daily life of the people of ancient Mexico, which is testified by the fact that images of these creatures can be found in virtually all types of archaeological remains ...

Les Amphibiens et Reptiles de Rhone-Alpes [The Amphibians and Reptiles of the Rhone-Alpes]

Groupe Herpetologique Rhone-Alpes

This atlas provides a reference on the state of knowledge for all 43 native species of reptiles and amphibians of the Rhône-Alpes, France (nearly three quarters of the species of continental France). A synthesis of over ...

Reptile Life in the Land of Israel

Yehudah Leopold Werner

Yehudah's book is far more than the usually published field guide. The introductory part provides very detailed descriptions of the biology of the reptiles, otherwise only found in books such as Laurie Vitt's ...

Reptiles of North Carolina

William M Palmer, Alvin L Braswell and Renaldo Kuhler

Originally published in 1995. Based on more than twenty years of research in the field and in museum collections, Reptiles of North Carolina is the definitive work on the 71 reptile species found in the state. It is an indispensable ...

Sea Turtles

The Watchers' Guide

Timothy O'Keefe and Peter CH Pritchard

Discover how and where you can witness sea turtles nesting in Florida. This book not only gives an excellent overview of sea turtle life, it also provides the specifics of appropriate personal conduct and behavior for human beings on ...

Serpentes Peconhentas e Acidentes Ofídicos no Brasil [Venomous Snakes and Snakebites in Brazil]

Paulo Sergio Bernarde

The author presents information on 62 species of venomous snakes known to Brazil and their snakebites. The book contains data on biology, ecology, behavior, habitat, recognition of venomous snakes and their popular names, geographical ...

Requins du Monde: Plus de 500 Especes Decrites [Sharks of the World: More Than 500 Species Described]

David A Ebert, Sarah Fowler, Marc Dando, Christian Dronneau and Bernard Seret

Requins du Monde is the essential book for everyone interested in sharks, from the expert requiring a major reference work, to the layperson fascinated by their beauty, biology and diversity. Packed with unique colour ...

Review of the Flying Fish Family Exocoetidae in the Indian Waters

RP Barman and SS Mishra

Flying fishes are typical members of the epipelagic fish community that inhabits surface waters of the open ocean and inshore areas. The taxonomy of flying fishes is very confusing, especially for those of the Indian coast. Some of their ...

Revision of the Genus Labeo Cuvier from the Indian Region with a Discussion on Its Phylogeny and Zoogeography: Pisces: C

KC Jayaram and J Jeyachandra Dhas

From the introduction: "Catla, Mrigal and Rohu constitute the major carps of Indian waters. These are of high economic value and because of their quick growing nature and rich flesh content, they are extensively cultivated ...

Tarpons: Biology, Ecology, Fisheries

Stephen Spotte

Tarpons arose from an ancient lineage, and just two species exist today, confined to the tropics and subtropics: Megalops atlanticus in the western and eastern Atlantic and Megalops cyprinoides distributed widely across ...

A Field Guide to the Damselflies & Dragonflies of Arizona and Sonora

Richard A Bailowitz, Doug Danforth and Sandy Upson

This damselfly and dragonfly guide covers all 167 species occurring in Arizona and Sonora including those inhabiting the two neighboring states. A Field Guide to the Damselflies & Dragonflies of Arizona and Sonora ...

A Koros-Maros Nemzeti Park Allatvilaga: Gerinctelenek [The Koros-Maros National Park Fauna: Invertebrates]

Deli Tamas and Danyik Tibor

Körös-Maros National Park is one of the 10 national parks in Hungary, located in Békés county, in the Southern Great Plain. This book is a richly illustrated inventory of the invertebrate fauna found here.

A Natural History of Ladybird Beetles

Michael EN Majerus, Helen E Roy and PMJ Brown

The Coccinellidae are a family of beetles, known variously as ladybirds or ladybugs. In Britain alone, some 46 species belong to the Coccinellidae family, although only 26 of these are recognisably ladybirds. Composed largely of ...

A Photographic Guide to Land Snails of China [Chinese]

Wu Min

This book with images of land snails contains brief texts that will be a big help to shellfish enthusiasts. Based on years of practical field experience the author prepared this comprehensive guide to land snails. Practical information ...

A Taxonomic Guide to the Stick Insects of Borneo

Francis Seow-Choen

The culmination of a lifetime's work, this beautifully produced monograph of Bornean Phasmids is the most up-to-date guide to all 337 known species or subspecies of phasmid that a reader is likely to come across in Borneo. Identification ...

Butterflies of Mumbai

Nelson Rodrigues

There is something about the butterfly that fills the viewer's heart with delight; but although they are nature's most charming creatures, very few people know much about their mysterious lives. This easy-to-refer nature guide ...

Butterflies of Vietnam: An Illustrated Checklist

Alexander L Monastyrskii and Alexey L Devyatkin

Excellent small book on the butterflies of Vietnam, professionally produced with good colour photographs and well organised text. There is an introduction, and notes on the checklist, followed by the checklist, which gives latin names ...

Butterflies of the Neotropical Region, Part 1

Papilionidae & Pieridae

Bernard D'Abrera

This book is completely different from the first edition of 1981. The text is totally new and the plates have been completely re-scanned and colour separated - you will not recognise them. Also there have been many new colour plates added.

Butterfly Walks in Wiltshire

Butterfly Conservation Wiltshire Branch

Wiltshire is one of the finest counties in the United Kingdom for its abundance and variety of butterflies. All but a dozen of the resident species can be found within its borders and some are more abundant here than anywhere else in the ...

Cassidae: An Amazing Family of Seashells

Gilbert Verbinnen, Luc Segers, Frank Swinnen, Kurt Kreipl and David Monsecour

After studying more than 5000 shells belonging to the family Cassidae, we tried to judge objectively, avoiding both splitting and lumping and thus only presenting our survey's finds. So, according to this study, 98 species are recognised ...

Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 3

Scarabaeoidea - Scirtoidea - Dascilloidea - Buprestoidea - Byrrhoidea

Ivan Lobl and Daniel Lobl

Taxonomy provides the basic building blocks of our understanding of the diversity of life on this planet. It stems from innate human curiosity; confronted with an unknown species or object we ask "what is it?" Taxonomists recognise ...

Centipedes in Captivity

The Reproductive Biology and Husbandry of Chilopoda

Orin McMonigle

Stories about sinister centipedes are legendary but behind the myths lie an important, valuable, and harmless group of invertebrate predators performing a vital service to ecosystems by helping to keep plant-eating pest populations in ...

Cetoniimania, Volume 9 [English / French]

G Flutsch, S Rojkoff and JP Legrand

Contains six contributions on beetles of the genus Cetonia from Africa and Asia.

Checklist of Calliphoridae (Diptera) of India

BC Nandi

Calliphorid flies are very important in medical, sanitary, veterinary, forensic and agricultural sciences and are distributed in all zoogeographical regions. The adult flies have a great role in transmitting various types of viruses, bacteria ...

Coleopteres du Bassin Parisien: Guide d'Identification de Terrain [Beetles of the Paris Basin: Field Identification

Bruno Meriguet and Pierre Zagatti

The objective of this work is to enable field identification of the most common and remarkable beetles of the Paris basin, France, by a simple and accessible method, based on their silhouettes, colours and patterns. The book presents ...

Coleoptera Poloniae, Volume 3: Tenebrionoidea (Mycetophagidae, Ciidae, Mordellidae, Zopheridae, Meloidae, Pyrochroidae,

Daniel Kubisz, Dariusz Iwan and Piotr Tykarski

The book catalogues distribution data on occurrence of families of Tenebrionoidea. Having reviewed available distribution data, the authors consider species belonging to the following families: Mycetophagidae, Ciidae, Mordellidae ...

Die Landschnecken Deutschlands: Finden - Erkennen - Bestimmen [The Land Snails of Germany: Finding - Recognizing

Vollrath Wiese

In the second edition of the this up-to-date determination work on land snails all 242 species occurring in Germany are illustrated in colour and extensively presented in the form of a field guide. The outer particulars of the shells are ...

Earthworms of Hungary (Annelida: Oligochaeta, Lumbricidae)

Csaba Csuzdi and Andras Zicsi

From the preface: "Hungary represents the only country in the World where continuous earthworm research has been carried out from the end of the 19th century till now. This 120 years of faunistic and taxonomic research has ...

Encyclopedia of South American Aquatic Insects: Neuroptera (Including Megaloptera)

Illustrated Keys to Known Families, Genera, and Species in South America

Charles W Heckman

This order once encompassed all insects with a complex network of wing veins, regardless of whether their metamorphosis was incomplete or complete. By the early 20th century, most of the species had been transferred to new orders, leaving ...

Finding Butterflies in Arizona

A Guide to the Best Sites

Richard A Bailowitz, Hank Brodkin, Priscilla Brodkin and Kenn Kaufman

The second in a series of state guides to butterfly-watching, Finding Butterflies in Arizona will appeal equally to those who simply enjoy these beautiful insects and to the serious observer who keeps a life list. With 334 species ...

Fjadermott i Norden: En Falthandbok [Pterophoridae in Scandinavia: A Field Guide]

H Elmqvist and Roland Johansson

A field guide to the 58 plume moth species (Pterophoridae) found in Scandinavia (Sweden, Norway, Denmark) and Finland, with colour photographs and drawings of adults, larvae and pupae, distribution maps, charts showing flight times and ...

Florida Butterflies & Moths

A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Species

James R Kavanagh and Raymond Leung

Florida's state butterfly – the exotic and unmistakable zebra long wing – is one of over 1,320 species of butterflies and moths found in this region. This beautifully illustrated guide highlights over 70 familiar and unique ...

For the Love of Lobster

Celebrating Atlantic Canada's Favourite Crustacean

Denise Adams

You don't have to travel very far in Atlantic Canada to see an image of a red lobster on a roadside billboard or dominating a restaurant menu. In recent decades, the once-lowly crustacean, traditionally reserved for the lunch pails ...

Fourmis d'Europe Occidentale: Le Premier Guide Complet d'Europe [Ants of Western Europe: The First Complete Guide to

Claude Lebas, Christophe Galkowski, Rumsais Blatrix and Philippe Wegnez

This field guide presents over 400 ant species of Western Europe: description, distribution, possible confusion species, habitat and biology. Never before has such a collection of work been published. This book forms a comprehensive introduction ...

Grasshoppers of Northwest South America - A Photo Guide, Volume 1: The Western Fauna (North Choco, Central and Western

Juan Manuel Cardona Granda

The first book of its kind for South America. This is the first volume of an intended trilogy of photo guides to the grasshoppers inhabiting Northwest South America. Dozens of species of common and not so easily found, dazzling and cryptic ...

Grasshoppers of Northwest South America - A Photo Guide, Volume 2: The Eastern Fauna (The Eastern Cordillera and the Lla

Juan Manuel Cardona Granda

This is the second volume of an intended trilogy of photo guides to the grasshoppers inhabiting Northwest South America. Dozens of species of common and not so easily found, dazzling and cryptic grasshoppers and katydids either living in ...

Guia de Campo de los Polinizadores de Espana [Field Guide to Pollinators of Spain]

Luis Oscar Aguado Martín, Alberto Fereres Castiel and Elisa Vinuela Sandoval

This work is possibly the most complete guide to pollination and pollinators that has been written in Europe. In the first part the different types of wind and zoophilic pollination that can occur are presented, and within the ...

Guide to the Dragonflies of the UK and Ireland (Region 2)

Paul Hopkins and Mike Lithgow

This three DVD set covers all the resident and vagrant damselflies and dragonflies of the UK and Ireland. It covers every species to have occurred including those which are now extinct. Additional species which may occur as vagrants or ...

Hawaii Butterflies & Moths

A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Species

James R Kavanagh and Raymond Leung

The Hawaii state butterfly, the Kamehameha Butterfly – the first butterfly discovered on the islands in 1821 – is one of over 20 species of butterflies and moths found in this region. This beautifully illustrated guide highlights ...

Invertebrates in Freshwater Wetlands

An International Perspective on Their Ecology

Darold P Batzer and Dani Boix

Wetlands are among the world's most valuable and most threatened habitats, and in these crucially important ecosystems, the invertebrate fauna holds a focal position. Most of the biological diversity in wetlands is found within ...

Lepidopteros Diurnos del Parque Nacional Marítimo-Terrestre de las Islas Atlanticas de Galicia [Diurnal Lepidoptera

Pablo Cobos

A monograph on the butterflies of the Atlantic Islands of Galicia National Park in the autonomous community of Galicia, Spain. Carefully illustrated with many photos and maps. It aims to present in a simple and accessible way the butterflies ...

Nudibranquios de la Costa Vasca: El Pequeno Cantabrico Multicolor [Nudibranchs of the Basque Coast: The Small Multicol

Luis M Naya Garmendia

Nudibranchs are marine invertebrates of the class Gastropoda (Mollusca). In this book, lavishly illustrated, some of the species that inhabit the Basque coast are described and their taxonomic classification is presented. All the photographs ...

Other Minds

The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness

Peter Godfrey-Smith

Peter Godfrey-Smith is a leading philosopher of science. He is also an accomplished scuba diver whose underwater videos of warring octopuses have attracted wide notice. In Other Minds, he brings his parallel careers together ...

Papillons du Monde [Butterflies of the World]

Adrian Hoskins and Guilhem Lesaffre

A lavishly illustrated book covering the butterflies of the world with informative text written by an expert author who has spent many years watching and studying Lepidoptera around the world. Opening chapters cover the evolution, anatomy ...

Research Materials on Mecoptera in China [English / Chinese]

China Scientific Book Services (CSBS)

This book contains following papers: 1. Structures of the female reproductive systems in Panorpidae (Mecoptera) with remarks on their taxonomic significance 2. Six new species of Mecoptera from China 3. Panorpidae ...

Research Materials on Trichoptera in China [English / Chinese]

China Scientific Book Services (CSBS)

This book contains following papers: 1. Faunistic study on Trichoptera of Yunnan 2. Five new species of Philopotamidae (Trichoptera) from Yunnan, China 3. Studies on Trichoptera in Xinjaing 4. Studies on Trichoptera ...

Saginae of Europe: Classification, Biology, Genetics, Acoustics, Ethology, Threats/Les Saginae d'Europe: Identification

Michele Lemonnier-Darcemont, Christian Darcemont, Klaus-Gerhard Heller and Anne-Marie Dutrillaux

A synthesis of current knowledge on the genus Saga (Orthoptera, Tettigoniidae) in Europe. Includes chapters on morphology and life cycle, (cyto-)genetics, ethology, bioacoustics, ecology, threats and conservation, breeding notes ...

Saltamontes de Colombia - Guía Fotografica, Volumen 2: Fauna Oriental y Norte Parcial (Santander, Llanos y Cordilleras

Juan Manuel Cardona Granda

This is the second volume of an intended trilogy of photo guides to the grasshoppers inhabiting Northwest South America. Dozens of species of common and not so easily found, dazzling and cryptic grasshoppers and katydids either living in ...

Scallops: Biology, Ecology, Aquaculture, and Fisheries

Sandra L Shumway and G Jay Parsons

Scallops: Biology, Ecology, Aquaculture and Fisheries, Third Edition, continues its history as the definitive resource on scallops, covering all facets of scallop biology, including anatomy, taxonomy, physiology, ecology, larval ...

Struik Pocket Guide: Butterflies of East Africa

Dino J Martins and Steve Collins

Butterflies are among the most familiar and popular of all the insects, and butterfly watching makes an absorbing hobby. This handy, compact guide serves as an introduction to the amazing butterfly diversity of East Africa. It introduces ...

Suffolk Dragonflies

Nick Mason and Adrian Parr

The new atlas of the dragonflies of Suffolk confirms that major changes have taken place since the previous book by Howard Mendel in 1992, with most species fairing well. A number have, indeed, shown some quite spectacular increases in ...

The Business of Bees

An Integrated Approach to Bee Decline and Corporate Responsibility

Jill Atkins and Barry Atkins

Our bee populations are under threat. Over the past 60 years, they have lost much of their natural habitat and are under assault from pesticides and intensive farming. We rely on bees and other insects to pollinate our fruit and vegetables ...

The Darkling Beetles of Ohio

Charles A Triplehorn and Kenneth D Karns

This booklet is based on the author's 1952 MSc thesis. It consists of keys to genera and species (exclusive of the Alleculinae), with the Lagriinae included in the key to genera only. Brief descriptions of each species known to occur ...

The Eastern Australian Cymbiola Swainson, 1831

New Revision of the Subgenus Cymbiolacca Iredale, 1929

Patrice Bail and Allan Limpus

The group of Australian Recent populations forming the subgenus Cymbiolacca, formerly named the "pulchra Complex" is revised. Five new valid species are recognized: C. (Cymbiolacca) ...

The Fabulous Insects

Essays by the Foremost Nature Writers

Charles Neider

From spiders that lasso their prey to ants that kill elephants, these 24 essays discuss a wide variety of insects and arachnids: dragonflies, wasps, walking sticks, emperor moths, cicadas, beetles, butterflies, honey bees, and the praying ...

The Weavers

The Curious World of Insects

Geetha Iyer

Did you know... - Dance flies of the family Empididae have been courting their mates for eons by presenting them with silk-wrapped prey as nuptial gifts. - There are at least twenty-three different categories of silk, each the ...

Uranie, Castnie e Saturnie di Roberto Vinciguerra [Uraniidae, Castniidae, and Saturniidae of Roberto Vinciguerra]

Alfonso Iorio and Alberto Zilli

A selection of the most interesting and rare moths of Vinciguerra collection. 80 color plates to show 80 specimens of Uraniidae, 175 specimens of Castniidae and 68 specimens of Saturniidae. This is the first time that so many species of ...

Wood Ant Ecology and Conservation

Jenni A Stockan and Elva JH Robinson

Wood ants play an ecologically dominant and conspicuous role in temperate boreal forests, making a keystone contribution to woodland ecosystem functions and processes. Wood ant taxonomy and global distributions set the scene for this ...

Archaeozoology of the Near East, Volume 10

Proceedings of the Tenth International Symposium on the Archaeozoology of South-Western Asia and Adjacent Areas

Bea De Cupere, Veerle Linseele and Sheila Hamilton-Dyer

This volume presents the proceedings of the 10th international meeting of the working group "Archaeozoology of South-Western Asia and Adjacent Areas" (ASWA X). The meeting took place at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences ...

Bioarchaeological and Forensic Perspectives on Violence

How Violent Death is Interpreted from Skeletal Remains

Debra L Martin and Cheryl P Anderson

Every year, there are over 1.6 million violent deaths worldwide, making violence one of the leading public health issues of our time. And with the 20th century just behind us, it's hard to forget that 191 million people lost their ...

Dinosaurs Ever Evolving

The Changing Face of Prehistoric Animals in Popular Culture

Allan A Debus and JD Lees

From their discovery in the 19th century to the dawn of the Nuclear Age, dinosaurs were seen in popular culture as ambassadors of the geological past and as icons of the "life through time" narrative of evolution. They took on ...

Dragons of the Skies: Recent Advances on the Study of Pterosaurs from China [English / Chinese]

Lu Junchang, Jin Xingsheng and Gao Chunling

In recent years, lots of well-preserved, beautiful pterosaurs have been found in Middle Jurassic to Early Cretaceous rocks of the most productive regions in the world. They can match the Jurassic German Solnhofen and the pterosaur fossil ...

Footprints in Stone

Fossil Traces of Coal-Age Tetrapods

Ronald J Buta and David C Kopaska-Merkel

The Steven C. Minkin (Union Chapel) Paleozoic Footprint Site ranks among the most important fossil sites in the world today, and Footprints in Stone recounts the accidental revelation of its existence and detailed findings about ...

Rivers in Prehistory

Andrea Vianello

Rivers have often been the gateway to natural wilderness and the first element of a natural landscape that humans made their own. Some rivers have become the symbol of whole civilisations, such as the Nile or the Tiber to Egyptians and ...

Species and Speciation in the Fossil Record

Warren D Allmon and Margaret M Yacobucci

Although the species is one of the fundamental units of biological classification, there is remarkably little consensus among biologists about what defines a species, even within distinct sub-disciplines. The literature of paleobiology ...

Advances in Marine Biology, Volume 71

Barbara E Curry

The series Advances in Marine Biology has been providing in-depth and up-to-date reviews on all aspects of marine biology since 1963 – more than 50 years of outstanding coverage from a reference that is well known for its ..

A Man of Salt and Trees

The Life of Joy Morton

James Ballowe

A Man of Salt and Trees is the first full-length biography of Joy Morton (1855-1934), founder of The Morton Arboretum – an internationally acclaimed outdoor museum of woody plants – and Morton Salt – the brand ...

Across Forest, Steppe, and Mountain

Environment, Identity, and Empire in Qing China's Borderlands

David A Bello

In Across Forest, Steppe, and Mountain, David Bello offers a new and radical interpretation of how China's last dynasty, the Qing (1644-1911), relied on the interrelationship between ecology and ethnicity to incorporate the ...

Alfred Brehm: Biografie in Zeit- und Selbstzeugnissen [Alfred Brehm: A Documentary and Autobiography]

Hans-Dietrich Haemmerlein

For years, the author lived in the Upper Lusatian rectory Diehsa where Alfred Brehm's mother was born and raised until 1824. Among the ancestors of today's zoology authors amongst Thuringians and Francs there are 20 more Upper ...

Ancient Skies, Ancient Trees

Beth Moon, Clark Strand and Jana Grcevich

Throughout much of the world, night skies are growing increasingly brighter, but the force that protects the remaining naturally dark sky, unpolluted by artificial light, is the same that saves its ancient trees: isolation. Staking out ...

Attenborough at 90 (Region 2)

This very special film sees award-winning writer, broadcaster and naturalist Sir David Attenborough talk to presenter Kirsty Young about his life and career as he approaches his 90th birthday. Filmed in front of a live audience and with ...

Auguste de Saint-Hilaire (1779-1853): Un Botaniste Francais au Brasil / Um Botanico Frances no Brasil

Denis Lamy, Marc Pignal, Corinne Sarthou and Sergio Romaniuc-Neto

Botanist Auguste Prouvensal de Saint-Hilaire landed in Brazil with the delegation of the Duc de Luxembourg in December, 1816, when this country was first opening more widely to foreign scientists and artists. He returned to France six years ...

Basilius Besler's Florilegium

The Book of Plants

Klaus Walter Littger, Werner Dressendorfer and Basilius Besler

A magnificent pictorial document of the flowers grown in the greatest German garden of its time, the Hortus Eystettensis is in a class of its own when it comes to the range of flowers engraved. First published in 1613 ...

Black & White Phototips [for Nature Photography]

Heinrich van den Berg

Black & White Phototips lets you learn the fine art of black and white nature photography from the masters. It is the fourth in the Phototips series, aimed at photographers who want to hone their skills to produce breathtaking ...

Camouflaged Wildlife

Joe McDonald and Mary Ann McDonald

This beautifully illustrated book on camouflaged animals will include some of nature's greatest designs and is one of the most remarkable compilations of pictures on the subject ever published.

Charley Harper's Animal Kingdom

Todd Oldham and Charley Harper

Celebrated designer Todd Oldham opens another treasure trove of unseen and unpublished illustrations in the new AMMO Books release, Charley Harper's Animal Kingdom. Todd has done it again by going deeper into Charley Harper ...

Confessions of a Wildlife Filmmaker

The Challenges of Staying Honest in an Industry Where Ratings Are King

Chris Palmer and Dame Jane Goodall

While working as a lobbyist for environmental conservation on Capitol Hill, Chris Palmer quickly discovered that Congressional hearings were bland events, poorly attended by the majority of Representatives and Senators and with far less ...

Conservation Photography Handbook

How to Save the World One Photo at a Time

Boyd Norton

Photographers have a skill few possess. Photographs have power. They can be used to save wild places. Now your photos have a purpose and your camera has a cause. Conservation Photography Handbook is a call to action ...

Darwin Becomes Art

Aesthetic Vision in the Wake of Darwin: 1870 - 1920

Hugh Ridley

Darwin Becomes Art analyses Darwin's influence on art and the effect of his science on experiences of beauty. The first chapter discusses Darwin's great forerunner, Alexander von Humboldt, and his contribution to thinking ...

Das Herbarium des Felix Platter: Die Alteste Wissenschaftliche Pflanzensammlung der Schweiz

Burgerbibliothek Bern

Presenting an important cultural treasure from a 16th century bibliophile The city physician of Basel, Felix Platter (1536-1614), is considered an important scholar of his time. Convinced that his own observations were more ...

Documenting the World

Film, Photography, and the Scientific Record

Gregg Mitman and Kelley Wilder

Imagine the twentieth century without photography and film. Its history would be absent of images that define historical moments and generations: the death camps of Auschwitz, the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the Apollo lunar landing ...

Drawing & Painting Cats

Wild and Domestic Cats in Watercolour, Acrylic, Ink, Pastel and Pencil

Vic Bearcroft

Award-winning animal artist Vic Bearcroft presents his versatile and complete guide to all aspects of drawing and painting cats. From your first pencil sketches to breathtaking finished artworks in a variety of popular and more unusual ...

Environment, Modernization and Development in East Asia

Perspectives from Environmental History

Ts'ui-Jung Liu and James Beattie

Environment, Modernization and Development in East Asia critically examines modernization's long-term environmental history. Using local-level studies and the idea of co-production, it suggests new frameworks for understanding ...

Fife Coastal Path

Sandra Bardwell and Jacquetta Megarry

The Fife Coastal Path runs around the coastline of eastern Scotland for 117 miles (187 km) from Kincardine on the Forth to Newburgh on the Tay. Starting west of the magnificent Forth bridges, the route heads through former mining towns ...

Great Glen Way

Walk or Cycle the Great Glen Way

Jacquetta Megarry and Sandra Bardwell

This guidebook (fully updated 2014) contains all you need to plan and enjoy a holiday walking or cycling along Scotland's historic Great Glen (77 miles / 125 km). The Way runs between Fort William and Inverness, beside Scotland's ...

Hadrian's Wall Path

Gordon Simm and Jacquetta Megarry

This popular National Trail follows the line of the Roman Wall, with many forts and milecastles in the World Heritage Site. Has background on the history, archaeology and wildlife, with detailed route description from Bowness-on-Solway ...

Huxley at Work

With the Scientific Correspondence of T.H. Huxley and the Rev. Dr George Gordon of Birnie, Near Elgin

Michael Collie

Tells the story of the correspondence between George Gordon and T.H. Huxley. George Gordon was a notable figure in the fields of geology, palaeontology, archeology and local history and in his time as a Minister in the Church of Scotland ...

John Muir Way

A Scottish Coast-to-coast Route

Sandra Bardwell and Jacquetta Megarry

The John Muir Way runs for 134 miles (215 km) coast-to-coast across Scotland's centre, from Helensburgh on the Clyde to Dunbar on the North Sea. The route is suitable for users of all kinds, and it readily breaks into ten sections ...

Kalahari Phototips

Photographer on Location

Hannes Lochner

With Kalahari Phototips, photographers will learn how to master nature photography in arid regions in the company of Hannes Lochner, the world's acknowledged expert in Kalahari nature photography. Kalahari Phototips ...

Knallbunt & Unsichtbar: Farbenpracht und Tarnung in der Tierwelt [Colourful and Invisible: Colours and Camouflage in the

Konrad Wothe and Martin Rasper

This extraordinary photographic book, through the unique pictures of the award-winning photographer Konrad Wothe, shows the animal world in all its colours. Whether birds, insects, amphibians, reptiles or mammals – they all ...

Macrophotography: Techniques for Exploring the Natural World

Dennis Quinn

In this unique book, Dennis Quinn turns his macro lenses upon the natural world and teaches readers to choose and use the tools they need to capture magical images of all manner of bugs, flowers, reptiles, and more. In each of the 60 ...

Mary Queen of Scots Way

Paul Prescott

This new route crosses central Scotland from coast to coast, passing through many places strongly linked with Mary Queen of Scots. It runs for 107 miles (172 km) from Arrochar on Loch Long to St Andrews on the Fife coast, crosses Loch Long ..

Meisterwerke der Naturgeschichte Select: Schatze aus der Bibliothek des Natural History Museum, London [Rare Treasures

Judith Magee, Monika Niehaus and Coralie Wink

The Library of the Natural History Museum contains one of the most exciting and comprehensive collections of natural history literature and artworks to be found anywhere in the world. It holds over half a million artworks, comprising one ...

Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium: Transformation of the Surinamese Insects / Verandering der Surinaamsche Insecten

Maria Sybilla Merian, Redmond O'Hanlon, Ella Reitsman and Bert van de Roemer

Maria Sibylla Merian was a German naturalist and scientific illustrator. She is considered by none other than David Attenborough to be among the most significant contributors to the field of entomology, because of her careful observation ...

Nationalpark Schwarzwald [Black Forest National Park]

Klaus Echle, Joachim Wimmer and Wolfgang Schlund

The Black Forest National Park was established in 2014 in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, as a unique large nature reserve. On more than 10,000 hectares of nature has been granted free reign without correcting interference. But also ...

Natural Resources in European History

A Conference Report

William N Parker and Antoni Maczak

Natural Resources in European History pulls together several papers from the Bellagio Conference on Natural Resources and Economic Development which took place in 1977. Originally published in 1978, this report focuses on papers exploring ...

Olhai as Aves do Ceu: Registro Fotografico da Avifauna Serra Catarinense [Behold the Birds of the Air: Photographic

Dario Lins

This coffee table book depicts the avifauna of Serra Catarinense, a mountain pass in Santa Catarina, a state in southern Brazil. This ecosystem has a high bird biodiversity with many endemic individuals that are rare and endangered.

On Thin Ice

An Epic Final Quest into the Melting Arctic

Eric Larsen, Eugene Buchanan and Hudson Lindenberger

In March 2014, Eric Larsen and Ryan Waters set out to traverse nearly 500 miles across the melting Arctic Ocean, unsupported, from Northern Ellesmere Island to the geographic North Pole. Despite being one of the most cold and hostile environments ...

Platypus

Sue Whiting and Mark Jackson

Platypus leaves his burrow in the riverbank and dives into the cool green pool. It is dusk and he is hungry. Platypus is always busy, always moving, looking for his next meal. Follow platypus as he plays, swims, dives and scurries around ...

Reading Darwin in Arabic, 1860-1950

Marwa Elshakry

In Reading Darwin in Arabic, Marwa Elshakry questions current ideas about Islam, science, and secularism by exploring the ways in which Darwin was read in Arabic from the late 1860s to the mid-twentieth century. Borrowing from ...

Robert Fortune

A Plant Hunter in the Orient

Alistair Watt

This is the first full biography of the great Scottish plant collector Robert Fortune, famous for working in China and Japan from 1843 until 1861. This detailed presentation of his life includes an extensive analysis of his travels ...

Sen'Trees' of Mumbai

Sharad Chaphekar, Chandrakant Lattoo and Mugdha D Karnik

This book is the culmination of a course run by the Centre for Extra-Mural Studies – A Tree Appreciation Course. The participants of the course were very enthusiastic, and they exchanged notes on the trees they had seen ...

Snow on the Lindis

My Life at Morven Hills Station

Madge Snow and Bee Dawson

Snow on the Lindis is Madge Snow's story of living at Morven Hills Station on the Lindis Pass. Morven Hills is one of New Zealand's famous stations – once an enormous 400,000 acres. The great stone woolshed is one ...

St Cuthbert's Way

From Melrose to Lindisfarne

Ronald Turnbull

Follow the footsteps of St Cuthbert in this easy-going walk of 62 miles (100 km) from Melrose Abbey in the Scottish borders to the Holy Island of Lindisfarne in the North Sea. The route passes many fine abbeys, hill forts and castles and ...

The Curious Naturalist

Nature's Everyday Mysteries

Sy Montgomery

Award-winning author Sy Montgomery takes you on an exploratory adventure through the seasons, into the woods, along the seashore, over frozen lakes, and right outside the back door.

The Development of Ornithology and Species Knowledge in Central Europe

Juergen Haffer, Hand Hudde and Brian Hillcoat

This work has two distinct aspects, as suggested in its title: an outline of the history of Central European ornithology, concluding with the worldwide influence of the “New Avian Biology” of Erwin Stresemann, and an account ...

The Kerry Way

Sandra Bardwell

The Kerry Way runs around Ireland's most beautiful peninsula for 126 miles (203 km), starting from Killarney. It features mountain scenery and coastal panoramas, and is rich in geology and wildlife. The book contains clear mapping ...

The Kintyre Way

Sandra Bardwell and Jacquetta Megarry

This fully waymarked trail runs for 89 miles southward from the beautiful natural harbour of Tarbert to Dunaverty, near the Mull of Kintyre. Criss-crossing the entire peninsula, you pass castles, abbeys and prehistoric remains, sometimes ...

The Least Likely Man

Marshall Nirenberg and the Discovery of the Genetic Code

Franklin H Portugal

The genetic code is the Rosetta Stone by which we interpret the 3.3 billion letters of human DNA, the alphabet of life, and the discovery of the code has had an immeasurable impact on science and society. In 1968, Marshall Nirenberg ...

The Man Who Built the Sierra Club

A Life of David Brower

Robert Wyss

David Brower (1912–2000) was a central figure in the modern environmental movement. His leadership, vision, and elegant conception of the wilderness forever changed how we approach nature. In many ways, he was a twentieth-century ...

The Moray Coast Trail

With Dava and Moray Ways

Sandra Bardwell

Guidebook to the Moray Coast Trail with 44 miles / 70 km of beach walking, coastal paths, quiet roads and old railways. Its views are across coves, beaches and skerries to the Moray Firth and North Sea. Book also covers the Dava Way which ...

The Noise of Ice

Antarctica

Enzo Barracco and Sir Ranulph Fiennes

When the photographer Enzo Barracco decided to mount a photographic expedition to Antarctica, inspired by the example of Sir Ernest Shackleton, he had much more than simple cold to contend with. As the world's last empty continent ...

The Penguin Lessons

A True Story

Tom Michell

'I was hoping against hope that the penguin would survive because as of that instant he had a name, and with his name came the beginning of a bond which would last a life-time.' Tom Michell is in his roaring twenties: single ...

The Prisoner of Kathmandu

Brian Hodgson in Nepal 1820-43

Charles Allen

The Prisoner of Kathmandu is the story of Brian Hodgson, Britain's "father of Himalayan studies." Born in 1801, Hodgson joined the Bengal Civil Service as a privileged but sickly young man. Posted to Kathmandu as a ...

The Ridgeway

Max Landsberg

The Ridgeway National Trail runs for 87 miles (139 km) through south-west England along one of Europe's most ancient pathways. This waterproof guidebook contains detailed directions for walkers and advice for cyclists. It is full of ...

The Rob Roy Way

From Drymen to Pitlochry

Jacquetta Megarry and Rennie McOwan

This long-distance walk from Drymen to Pitlochry was co-developed by Rucksack Readers in 2001 and is now widely recognised as a great trail. It runs for 77 miles (124 km) along some of Scotland's finest lochs and glens, using historic ...

The Trees of North America

Michaux and Redoute's American Masterpiece

Francois Andre Michaux, Thomas Nuttall, David Allen Sibley, Gregory Long and Marta McDowell

François Andre Michaux (1770-1855) was a French botanist whose work on the trees of North America gave the world's first illustrated account of American trees east of the Mississippi. From 1841 to 1849 the English botanist and ...

The Vegetable Garden / Der Gemusegarten / Les Plantes Potageres

Werner Dressendorfer and Petra Lamers-Schutze

Originally published between 1850 and 1895, Album Vilmorin: Les Plantes Potagères (The Vegetable Garden) brought garden glory to the printed page. Featuring 46 magnificent color plates, the book was a marvel of agro-botany ...

Views of Nature

Alexander von Humboldt, Mark W Person, Stephen T Jackson and Laura Dassow Walls

While the influence of Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859) looms large over the natural sciences, his legacy reaches far beyond the field notebooks of naturalists. Von Humboldt's 1799–1804 research expedition to Central and ...

Visions of Wildness

Peter Slater, Sally Elmer and Raoul Slater

Peter Slater needs no introduction to Australian natural history enthusiasts. He has been publishing books celebrating the country's wildlife for many decades, not least the renowned Slater Field Guide to Australian Birds. For Visions of Wildness

Waste into Weapons

Recycling in Britain During the Second World War

Peter Thorsheim

During the Second World War, the United Kingdom faced severe shortages of essential raw materials. To keep its armaments factories running, the British government enlisted millions of people in efforts to recycle a wide range of materials ...

What Galileo Saw

Imagining the Scientific Revolution

Lawrence Lipking

The Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century has often been called a decisive turning point in human history. It represents, for good or ill, the birth of modern science and modern ways of viewing the world. In What Galileo Saw ...

Wild Encounters

Iconic Photographs of the World's Vanishing Animals and Cultures

David Yarrow

Capturing the splendor and very soul of what remains wild and free in our world through incredibly intimate – close enough to touch – portraits, Wild Encounters: Iconic Photographs of the World's Vanishing Animals ...

Wildlife Photography

Advanced Field Techniques for Tracking Elusive Animals and Capturing Magical Moments

Joe Classen

Wildlife photography is an adventure – and as any great adventure story unfolds, odds are, there are bound to be some great risks involved. Whether it's the risk or the reward – or both – that motivates wildlife ...

Wildlife Spectacles

Mass Migrations, Mating Rituals, and Other Fascinating Animal Behaviors

Vladimir Dinets

Equal parts nature guide, adventure story, and coffee table book! People are captivated by wild animals by their strength and their size and by the things they do to stay alive. Wildlife Spectacles dives deep into this wonder ...

Wonders are Collectible - Taxidermy

The Beauty of Beetles, Bugs and Butterflies

Jeroen Lemaitre

Aren't we all rendered speechless by the ultimate beauty that nature has to offer? Don't we all want to capture it and indulge in these images forever? To capture animals in all their glory in such a way that it shows every flamboyant ...

World Environmental History

Jerry H Bentley, David Christian, Ralph C Croizier, John R McNeill and William H McNeill

World Environmental History, a Berkshire Essential, explores how the biosphere is affected by human interventions such as climate change, deforestation, waste management, water and wind energy, population growth, oil ...

World's Great Nature Myths

Gary Ferguson

Popular nature writer Gary Ferguson tells sixty wonderful stories from cultures around the world. Folklore with a bit of fairy tale, these stories about animals and natural events entertain with wit and whimsy. You'll read ...

A Field Guide to Texas Critters

Common Household and Garden Pests

Bill Zak

A handy guide for identifying and dealing with common pests. Includes information on pests that infest your home and garden.

Arctica: The Vanishing North

Sebastian Copeland and Sir Richard Branson

Few landscapes convey Nature in all of its untamed splendor like the Arctic. Fewer still conjure respect like the seldom traveled and ethereal North Pole. Yet, sadly, this largely pristine and mostly misconceived treasure is now in jeopardy ...

Colorado's Backyard Wildlife

A Natural History, Ecology, & Action Guide to Front Range Urban Wildlife

Carol Ann Moorhead

Introduces a variety of animals and habitats that exist along Colorado's Front Range.

Crossbill Guide: Eastern Andalucía

Cordoba to Cabo de Gata, Spain

Albert Vliegenthart, Bouke ten Cate, Dirk Hilbers and Kees Woutersen

Andalucía is a region of contrast. There are wild mountains and extensive marshes, dry semi-desert and barren karst, but also leafy woodlands laced with murmuring streams. The biodiversity is the highest of any of the Spanish regions ...

Crossbill Guide: Western Andalucía

Huelva to Malaga, Spain

Dirk Hilbers

Andalucía is a region of contrast. There are wild mountains and extensive marshes, dry semi-desert and barren karst, but also leafy woodlands laced with murmuring streams. The biodiversity is the highest of any of the Spanish regions ...

Crow Never Dies

Life on the Great Hunt

Larry Frolick and Paul Carlucci

"You should always go moose hunting with a partner." – James Itsi For over 50,000 years, the Great Hunt has shaped human existence, creating a vital spiritual reality where people, animals, and the land ...

Delaware Wildlife

A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Species

James R Kavanagh and Raymond Leung

The state butterfly – the eastern tiger swallowtail – is one of thousands of species of animals inhabiting the diverse ecosystems found throughout The First State. This beautifully illustrated guide highlights over 140 families ...

Die Alpen: Sehnsuchtsort, Heimatidyll, Naturlandschaft [The Alps: Nostalgic Place, Idyllic Home, Natural Landscape]

Detlev Arens

Grandiose backdrop for a stunning biodiversity: circa 30,000 animal and 4,500 plant species occur in the Alps on some 190,800 square kilometers – which is more than half of the surface area of Germany. There are also 15 million ...

Fauna of Button Island National Parks, South Andamans, Bay of Bengal

DV Rao and DRK Sastry

From the introduction: ""The Andaman and Nicobar Islands in the Bay of Bengal are endowed with a rich biodiversity in the various ecosystems in both the terrestrial and marine environments. Because of long temporal ...

Flora and Fauna of Gujarat Vidyapith [English / Hindi]

Aalap Brahmbhatt

This coffee table book will help people visiting and studying at the campus of Gujarat Vidyapith University, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India, to appreciate and understand the rich biodiversity here.

Florida Wildlife

A Folding Guide to Familiar Animals

James R Kavanagh and Raymond Leung

The state marine mammal – the manatee – is one of thousands of species of animals inhabiting the diverse ecosystems found throughout the Sunshine State. This beautifully illustrated guide highlights over 140 familiar and unique ...

Georgia Wildlife

A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Species

James R Kavanagh and Raymond Leung

The state reptile – the gopher tortoise – is one of thousands of species of animals inhabiting the diverse ecosystems found throughout Georgia. This beautifully illustrated guide highlights over 140 familiar and unique species ...

Guía de Huellas y Rastros de la Sierra de Guadarrama [Guide to the Tracks and Trails of the Sierra de Guadarrama]

Fernando Gomez Velasco and Paloma Troya Santamaría

Wildlife tends to avoid contact with humans and that may make a place of great biodiversity such as the Sierra de Guadarrama (a mountain range forming the main eastern section of the Sistema Central, the system of mountain ranges along ...

Guide to Shapwick Heath National Nature Reserve

Julie Merrett, Simon Clarke, Mike Langman, Chris Shields and Lizzie Harper

Shapwick Heath National Nature Reserve is a magnificent 530 hectare wetland reserve situated at the heart of the Somerset Moors and Levels. It forms part of the 'Avalon Marshes', one of the largest areas of wetland in the UK.

Hawaii Seashore Life

An Introduction to Familiar Species

James R Kavanagh and Raymond Leung

The Hawaiian coastline encompasses a variety of diverse habitats that are home to thousands of species of plants and animals. This beautifully illustrated guide highlights over 140 familiar and unique species of marine mammals, birds ...

Hawaii Wildlife

A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Species

James R Kavanagh and Raymond Leung

The state marine mammal – the humpback whale – is one of thousands of species of animals inhabiting the diverse ecosystems found thoughout the Aloha State. This beautifully illustrated guide highlights over 140 familiar and unique ...

Kruger Self-Drive

Routes, Roads & Ratings

Ingrid van den Berg and Philip van den Berg

Kruger Self-Drive is the perfect drive guide to the world's greatest eco-park. It includes suggested routes to take you to every camp in the Kruger National Park, offers a comprehensive guide to all the roads and viewing ...

La Font Roja: Guia per a la Visita: Flora, Fauna i Patrimoni [Carrascal de la Font Roja Nature Reserve: Visitor's Guide:

A Bonet Jornet and B Terrones Contreras

Carrascal de la Font Roja Nature Reserve in Alicante, Spain, is a place of incomparable beauty and ecological wealth, and, along with the neighboring Sierra de Mariola, is considered by many the big lung of the central regions of Valencia ...

Ori Gersht: Forces of Nature

Ori Gersht, Andrea Firmenich and Johannes Janssen

Blurred landscapes, falling trees and the lofty peaks of the Pyrenees – the extraordinary aesthetics of Ori Gersht's work seduce the viewer. But beneath the beautiful first appearances lie the sites of historical events ...

Parks and Gardens of Melbourne

Kornelia Freeman and Ulo Pukk

Following the bestselling Dandenong Ranges, Yarra Valley, Mornington Peninsula and Laneways of Melbourne, this new sumptuous large format, hard cover 300-plus-page coffee table book with over 1500 stunning ...

People and Wildlife in Northern North America

Essays in Honor of R. Dale Guthrie

S Craig Gerlach and Maribeth S Murray

23 papers, mostly from the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Alaska Anthropological Association marking the retirement of R.D. Guthrie in 1996 and reflecting his interests in archaeology, anthropology, palaeontology, palaeoecology and taphonomy ...

Quartz and Feldspar

Dartmoor: A British Landscape in Modern Times

Matthew Kelly

Granite, a tough composite of quartz, feldspar and mica, is the stuff of Dartmoor, the most formidable of the five granite bosses punctuating Britain's southwest peninsula. A miserable place of rain and bog or a sunny upland of exquisite ...

Sacred Nature

Life's Eternal Dance

Angela Scott and Jonathan Scott

A work of staggering beauty that showcases the life work and extraordinary talents of Jonathan and Angela Scott: creators of Big Cat Diaries. Their sheer talent as photographers and the unique empathy their work reveals with the ...

Stewart Island

Rakiura National Park

Neville Peat

Stewart Island is an increasingly popular holiday destination for eco-tourism and outdoor recreation, with many bush walks and a wealth of natural features to enjoy. Neville Peat introduces the attractions of the island what to see and ...

The Family Album of Wild Africa

Laurent Baheux

Many have tried to convey the true spirit of Africa's animals in words, photography, or in music. There may be no challenge greater; Africa's fauna are vast in number and rich in diversity. In this finely crafted collection ...

The Okavango Companion

All-in-One Guide to Common Animals and Plants

Peter Hancock and Richard Randall

The Okavango Companion is one of a series of all-in-one field guides to wild places in Botswana. It covers the common and conspicuous mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and plants in the Okavango wetland system. Clear photography ...

The Wood for the Trees

The Long View of Nature from a Small Wood

Richard A Fortey

From one of our greatest science writers, this biography of a beech-and-bluebell wood through diverse moods and changing seasons combines stunning natural history with the ancient history of the countryside to tell the full story of the ...

Wildlife on Your Doorstep

Mark Ward

A practical title which will inspire people to study their local wildlife on a regular basis.

A Guide to Hoyas of Borneo

Anthony Lamb and Michele Rodda

The genus Hoya was established by Robert Brown in 1811 and was named after Thomas Hoy, gardener at Syon Park in England. Hoyas are mostly herbs with creeping or climbing stems and mostly epiphytic in trees, but some are small ...

A Guide to Rocky Mountain Plants

Ruth Ashton Nelson and Roger L Williams

A completely revised edition of Williams's previous work with the late Ruth Ashton Nelson, Handbook of Rocky Mountain Plants, this edition uses simple and clear keys to identify more than 350 species of plants found in the Rocky Mountain region ...

Advances in Cold-Tolerance Research on Camellia sinensis LO Kuntze

Zhaotang Ding and Yu Wang

Tea, Camellia sinensis, (L.) is a chilling-sensitive plant, and the research of its cold-resistant mechanism is one of the most important directions in tea science discipline in recent years.

Alaska's Mushrooms

A Wide-Ranging Guide

Gary A Laursen and Neil McArthur

For the seriously dedicated as well as the merely curious shroomer, Alaska's Mushrooms is a wide-ranging guide to the fungi of the Last Frontier. Alaska's Mushrooms, featuring detailed descriptions of 114 species ...

Anderson's Flora of Alaska and Adjacent Parts of Canada

An Illustrated Descriptive Text of All Vascular Plants Known to Occur Within the Region Covered

Jacob Peter Anderson and Richard W Pohl

Flora of Alaska and Adjacent Parts of Canada, originally published in 1959, was the first modern flora of the vascular plants of Alaska and adjacent areas of Canada. The Flora represented the life work of botanist Jacob Peter Anderson ...

At the Desert's Green Edge

An Ethnobotany of the Gila River Prima

Amadeo M Rea, Gary Paul Nabhan and Takashi Ijichi

Paperback reprint of this 1997 ethnobotany book. The Akimel O'odham, or Pima Indians, of the northern Sonoran Desert continue to make their home along Arizona's Gila River despite the alarming degradation of their habitat ...

Baobabs of the World

The Upside-Down Trees of Madagascar, Africa and Australia

Andry Petignat and Louise Jasper

A photographic masterpiece, this beautiful book is a fitting tribute to the baobab – an extraordinary and majestic tree found principally in Madagascar, and peripherally in Africa and Australia. The first section offers ...

Biocontrol Agents of Phytonematodes

Tarique Hassan Askary and Paulo Roberto Pala Martinelli

Highlighting the use of biocontrol agents as an alternative to chemical pesticides in the management of plant parasitic nematodes, Biocontrol Agents of Phytonematodes reviews the current progress and developments in the field.

Biodiversidad, Usos Tradicionales y Conservacion de los Productos Forestales no Maderables en Cuba

Sonia Rosete Blandariz and Nancy E Ricardo Napoles

The Cuban archipelago, on account of its biological heritage and diversity and the variety of its natural forests, is considered as one of the major countries in the Caribbean region with biodiversity wealth and high endemism.

Boletes of Eastern North America

Alan E Bessette, William C Roody and Arleen Rainis Bessette

Of all the groups of wild mushrooms, none have engendered more enthusiasm and affection than the boletes. Their inherent beauty, abundance, and, for many, culinary appeal have firmly established boletes in the hearts of mushroom hunters ...

Bromelias: Gigantes do Brasil [Bromeliads: Giants from Brazil]

Leonardo de Melo Versieux and Maria das Gracas Lapas Wanderley

Morphological descriptions, taxonomic key, notes on taxonomic history and cultivation, collector index, updated bibliography and conservation status of each of the 34 species described are provided. Includes three new species, new synonyms ...

California Mushrooms

The Comprehensive Identification Guide

Dennis E DesJardin, Michael G Wood and Frederick A Stevens

California is one of the most ecologically rich and diverse regions of North America, and home to hundreds of species of mushrooms. In California Mushrooms, mycologist experts Dennis Desjardin, Michael Wood, and Fred Stevens ...

Collected Species of The Genus Camellia: An Illustrated Outline [English / Chinese]

Gao Jiyin and Clifford R Parks

The purpose of this book is to provide an illustrated outline of the great diversity of flowering trees in the Genus Camellia. Comments and brief descriptions are provided for 199 named species, forms and varieties out of 280 ...

Dali Camellia [English / Chinese]

Du Yunxian

This book introduces the cultivars of Dali camellia and popularizes the knowledge on camellia cultivation. This book contains over 60 cultivars shown in delicate pictures, and a brief introduction for each to introduce the main characters ...

Defensive Plant Coloration

Anti-Herbivory Plant Coloration and Morphology

Simcha Lev-Yadun

This book presents visual plant defenses (camouflage, mimicry and aposematism via coloration, morphology and even movement) against herbivores. It is mainly an ideological monograph, a manifesto representing the author's current ...

Dictionary of Commemorative Plant Generic Names, Volume 13: Heterodaneae to Hornungia

Sudhir Chandra

The present work represents Volume 13 of the projected 27 volumes. It is hoped to cover 18,000 to 20,000 commemorative names in the total work covering all fields of botany. Generic names have been used as markers through which ...

Dictionary of Commemorative Plant Generic Names, Volume 14: Horsfieldia to Hyphobarlettia

Sudhir Chandra

The present work represents Volume 14 of the projected 27 volumes. It is hoped to cover 18,000 to 20,000 commemorative names in the total work covering all fields of botany. Generic names have been used as markers through which ...

Dictionary of Commemorative Plant Generic Names, Volume 15: Ibbetsonia to Janraia

Sudhir Chandra

The present work represents Volume 15 of the projected 27 volumes. It is hoped to cover 18,000 to 20,000 commemorative names in the total work covering all fields of botany. Generic names have been used as markers through which ...

Dictionary of Commemorative Plant Generic Names, Volume 16: Janseella to Juttadinteria

Sudhir Chandra

The present work represents Volume 16 of the projected 27 volumes. It is hoped to cover 18,000 to 20,000 commemorative names in the total work covering all fields of botany. Generic names have been used as markers through which ...

Ectomycorrhizal Fungi in China

Lin Xiaomin

Ectomycorrhizal fungi are fungi that can form ectomycorrhizas (a form of symbiotic relationship that occurs between a fungal symbiont and the roots of various plant species) with the roots of trees and are important bio-resources.

Environmental Mycology in Public Health

Fungi and Mycotoxins Risk Assessment and Management

Carla Viegas, Ana Catarina Pinheiro, Raquel Sabino, Susana Viegas, Joao Brandao and C Veríssimo

Environmental Mycology in Public Health: Fungi and Mycotoxins Risk Assessment and Management provides the most updated information on fungi, an essential element in the survival of our global ecology that can also pose a significant ...

Expeditions to the Mountains of Amazonia / Expedicoes as Montanhas da Amazonia

Marcus A Nadruz Coelho, Denise Pinheiro da Costa, Gustavo Martinelli and Miguel Avila Moraes

In an objectively and richly illustrated form, this work brings together new and old species of mountainous vegetation that were collected and studied by a methodical scientific approach, and at the same time with a reverence to sample ...

Feral Opuntioid Cacti in Australia, Part 1

Cylindrical-Stemmed Genera: Austrocylindropuntia, Cylindropuntia and Corynopuntia

RJ Chinnock

The State Herbarium of South Australia has published the first part of Bob Chinnock’s revision of weedy cacti in Australia.

Field Guide to the Wild Mushrooms of Pennsylvania and the Mid-Atlantic

Bill Russell

To most Americans, mushrooms are the brown lumps in the soup one uses to make a tuna casserole, but to a select few, mushrooms are the abundant yet often well-hidden delicacies of the forests. In spite of their rather dismal reputation ...

Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia and Surrounding States

Linda G Chafin, Hugh Nourse and Carol Nourse

Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia and Surrounding States is the first field guide devoted exclusively to Georgia's wildflowers, while also including a large number of plants found in neighboring states.

Field Studies in the Lasiosphaeriaceae and Helminthosphaeriaceae Sensu Lato

Ann Bell and Daniel P Mahoney

Field Studies in the Lasiosphaeriaceae and Helminthosphaeriaceae Sensu Lato represents some 10-15 years of part time field studies on wood inhabiting fungi belonging to the ascomycete families Lasiosphaeriaceae & ...

Flora and Vegetation of Bali Indonesia

An Illustrated Field Guide

Edgar Heim

This well illustrated field guide describes about 500 of the most common and eye-catching plants growing on Bali and the adjacent Java, most of them are illustrated with pictures. It is a comprehensive and valuable field guide for tourists ...

Flora of Lower Subansiri District, Arunachal Pradesh (India), Volume 2

GD Pal

Lower Subansiri, Arunachal Pradesh, India, is botanically very rich and home to many genera and species. Though several scientists, such as Panigrahi & Naik (1961), and Sastry & Sahni (1969) have collected plants from the districts ...

Flora von Rhodos und Chalki, Band 1 [Flora of Rhodes and Halki, Volume 1]

Andreas Kleinsteuber, Michael Ristow and Michael Hassler

With over 1,500 species of ferns and flowering plants, the Greek island of Rhodes, loved by tourists, is one of the richest floristic regions in the Mediterranean. Here species of the western and central Mediterranean meet with Aegean ...

Garden Administration in the Girsu Province during the Neo-Sumerian Period

Angela Greco

The present work, a revised and translated version of the auhor's PhD thesis, aims at examining the management of gardens, in particular palm groves, in the Girsu province (present-day Iraq) during the third dynasty of Ur, also known ...

Garden Friends

Plants, Animals and Wildlife That are Good for Your Garden

Ed Ikin

Introducing helpful wildlife into your garden will help to control pests, maintain a natural chemical-free balance and encourage your garden to bloom, whether you have a large garden, an allotment or a simple window box. Some plants are ...

Georgia Trees & Wildflowers

A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Species

James R Kavanagh and Raymond Leung

The state flower, the Cherokee rose, is one of thousands of species of plants growing in the diverse ecosystems found throughout the Peach State. This beautifully illustrated guide highlights over 140 familiar and unique species of trees ...

Guía de Campo del Sistema Central [Field Guide to the Central System]

Modesto Luceno, Pablo Vargas, Bernardo García and Samuel Guerra

This guide shows the natural heritage of the central mountains of the Iberian Peninsula, especially its plant, animal and fungal diversity of the Upper Central System, one of the main systems of mountain ranges in the Iberian Peninsula.

Guide d'Identification des Arbres du Mali [Identification Guide to the Trees of Mali]

Moctar Sacande, Sidi Sanogo and Henk J Beentje

Guide d'Identification des Arbres du Mali is the result of over ten years research in collaboration with Kew's Millennium Seed Bank Project. Over 300 woody plant species are described in the book, with accompanying keys ...

Guide to Ancient Woodland Indicator Plants

Alastair Hotchkiss and Lizzie Harper

Ancient woodlands have been around for centuries. In the UK they date back to medieval times, and have developed ecosystems that are rich, complex and irreplaceable. They are also a delight to visit, often with spectacular carpets of ...

Guide to Trees Introduced Into South Africa

Hugh Glen and Braam van Wyk

Southern Africa is home to more than 2,000 introduced (not indigenous) trees. These non-native species are encountered daily and form a familiar part of our urban landscapes, growing successfully in parks, gardens, along road sides, and ...

Hawaii Trees & Wildflowers

A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Species

James R Kavanagh and Raymond Leung

The state flower, the yellow hibiscus, is one of thousands of species of plants growing in the diverse ecosystems found throughout Hawaii. This beautifully illustrated guide highlights over 140 familiar and unique species of trees, shrubs ...

Idaho Trees & Wildflowers

A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Species

James R Kavanagh and Raymond Leung

Idaho's Operation Wildflower program is to have native species growing along the state highways. The state flower, the syringa, is one of thousands of species of plants growing in the diverse ecosystems found throughout the state.

Illustrations of the New Camellia Hybrids that Bloom Year-Round [English / Chinese]

Gao Jiyin

Illustrations of the New Camellia Hybrids that Bloom Year-Round shows the new varieties of camellia hybrids created by the Four Seasons Palm Garden Co. over a decade, with the aim to promote innovation and application of domesticated ...

Illustrierte Flora von Mitteleuropa, Band 6, Teil 2B: Spermatophyta: Angiospermae: Dicotyledones 4

Arndt Kaestner, Friedrich Ehrendorfer and Eckehart J Jaeger

Volume 6, part 2B focuses on the Rubiaceae, a family of flowering plants, commonly known as the coffee, madder, or bedstraw family.

Mushrooms of Northeastern North America

Alan E Bessette, Arleen Rainis Bessette and David W Fischer

This encyclopaedic volume, including 1500 species and 650 illustrations, shows the diversity of mycoflora throughout all of northeastern North America. It provides a reference for mushroom identification in the region, and has full descriptions ...

Mycena d'Europa, Volume 2 [Italian]

Giovanni Robich

Volume 2 gives descriptions and illustrations of 165 taxa in the fungus genus Mycena, 83 of which are new taxa, and approximately 180 photocolours in habitat and 306 microscopical features, and 165 micrographies.

Natural Gardening for Birds

Create a Bird-Friendly Habitat in Your Backyard

Julie Zickefoose

Bird-watchers everywhere dream of a landscape dotted with fruiting shrubs, nests tucked into twining vines, and birds flocking to feeding stations. Let Natural Gardening for Birds show you how to lay out the welcome mat for birds ...

Orchidee D'Italia: Guida alle Orchidee Spontanee [Orchids Of Italy: Guide to Spontaneous Orchids]

Gruppo Italiano per la Ricerca sulle Orchidee Spontanee (GIROS)

The book is a monograph on Italian orchids, updated with the latest research. It contains details of all the 29 genera and all the 189 species and subspecies known in Italy. Information is included on distribution and flowering period.

Orquideas de Zamora Chinchipe: Ecologia y Descripcion, Volume 1

Epidendroideae 1: Subtribus Zygopetalinae, Stanhopeinae, Coeliosidinae, Catasetinae y Oncidiinae

Marco M Jimenez V and Marco M Jimenez L

This series will be complete 5 volumes. Volume 1 deals with the first part of the orchid subfamily Epidendroideae, specifically subtribes Zygopetalinae, Stanhopeinae, Coeliosidinae, Catasetinae, and Oncidiinae. Zamora Chinchipe is a ...

Petite Flore de France: Belgique, Luxembourg et Suisse [Small Flora of France: Belgium, Luxembourg and Switzerland]

Regis Thomas, David Busti and Margarethe Maillart

This guide is a concise and practical book to determine the most common plant species in France and its neighboring countries. It includes only the most common species, those that occur at every step in the French plains and hills, mountains ...

Plant Ecology in a Changing World

James R Ehleringer, Todd E Dawson and Darren R Sandquist

Addressing issues of global change from an evolutionary perspective, Plant Ecology in a Changing World is divided into four parts. It discusses the impact of climate change on the spatial distribution of plants; the means by which ...

Plant Evolution

An Introduction to the History of Life

Karl J Niklas

Although plants comprise more than 90% of all visible life, and land plants and algae collectively make up the most morphologically, physiologically, and ecologically diverse group of organisms on earth, books on evolution instead tend ...

Plant Life of the Dolomites: Vegetation Tables

Erika Pignatti and Sandro Pignatti

Plant Life of the Dolomites provides an in-depth analysis of over 100 plant communities of the Dolomite vegetation. The data is based on the phytosociological releves, which have been collected by the authors in nearly 2000 ...

Plant Love

The Scandalous Truth About the Sex Life of Plants

Michael Allaby

Get ready for the shocking truth about botanical sex. Who knew that bee orchids trick insects into having sex with them, avocado flowers are female one day and male the next, and some flowers are the insect equivalent of nightclubs where ...

Plantes de Kabylie / Imghan n Tensawt [Plants of Kabylie]

Said Zidat

Plantes de Kabylie / Imghan n Tensawt is a collection of more than 200 plants with a Kabyle-French-Latin lexicon and more than 450 pictures to help better identify them. The book includes illustrations of Berber signs and patterns with a ...

Plants of the Villages and the Parks of Nunavik / Plantes des Villages et des Parcs du Nunavik

Marcel Blondeau, Claude Roy and Alain Cuerrier

Designed for inhabitatns of Nunavik, Quebec, tourists of the Far North and amateur and professional botanists, this new edition of this trilingual guide replaces the Atlas des Plantes des Villages du Nunavik. It presents more than ...

RHS Companion to Wildlife Gardening

Chris Baines

Wildlife is a more significant and mainstream issue for gardeners than when this best-selling book was published in 1985 as How to Make a Wildlife Garden. Fully revised, updated and freshly illustrated, this new edition brings RHS research ...

Riisikad: The Genus Lactarius in Estonia [Estonian]

Kuulo Kalamees

The first volume of the series Eesti Elurikkus (Estonian Biodiversity) the aim of which is to publish monographic reviews of plant taxa found in Estonia. Instead of a complete encyclopedia of the more than 25,000 plants species

Seaweed Sustainability

Food and Non-Food Applications

Brijesh Kumar Tiwari and Declan J Troy

Seaweed Sustainability: Food and Non-Food Applications is the only evidence-based resource that offers an abundance of information on the applications of seaweed as a solution to meet an increasing global demand for sustainable ...

Tarnad: The Genus Carex in Estonia [Estonian]

Thea Kull, Mare Toom and Jaan Liira

Covers all 73 Carex taxa in Estonia, 69 of which have species status, whereas others are defined as subspecies of varieties. Review of history, systematics, morphology and ecology of sedges, followed by keys to generative and ...

The Botanic Garden by Erasmus Darwin (2-volume set)

Adam Komisaruk and Allison Dushane

The Botanic Garden (1791) is a set of two poems, The Economy of Vegetation and The Loves of the Plants, by the British poet and naturalist Erasmus Darwin. The Economy of Vegetation celebrates technology ...

The Genus Carex L. (Cyperaceae) in the Kashmir Himalaya, India

A Taxonomic Appraisal

Ehtisham Ul Haq, Ghulam Hassan Dar, BA Wafai and Jacob Koopman

This book deals with all the species, subspecies and varieties of the genus Carex L. (Cyperaceae) found in the Kashmir Himalaya, the northwestern biogeographic zone in India, and an important centre of distribution of Carices in ...

The Plant Lover's Guide to Hardy Geraniums

Robin Parer

Hardy geraniums are a mainstay of the garden, treasured as much for their handsome foliage and easy-going nature as for their charming flowers, which range from pure white to pink, rose, magenta, lilac, violet, and blue.

The Sinister Beauty of Carnivorous Plants

Matthew M Kaelin and Peter D'Amato

The alluring nature of carnivorous plants is on stunning display in this fine art-style collection of botanical photographs. Over 140 color images show in minute detail species, hybrids, and cultivars from around the world, many painstakingly ...

The Wood Book

Francesc Zamora Mola

The Wood Book presents descriptions and colour photographs of over 100 species of trees and bushes from all parts of the globe. It also explores their utility as a renewable resource, prized for the ease with which they can be ...

Tree Aloes of Africa

Ernst J van Jaarsveld and Eric Judd

Aloes and the flat-topped Acacia species are characteristic of the African landscape and are true icon species of Africa. Aloes remain one of the most popular garden succulents due to their attractive ´¼éowers, their appealing architecture ...

Victoria's Cryptic Orchids

Rudie H Kuiter

Victoria's Cryptic Orchids is a comprehensive guide to selected terrestrial genera and comprises species that usually blend in exceptionally well with their surroundings. It includes the Beard, Elbow, Onion, Midge, Duck ...

A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived

The Stories in Our Genes

Adam Rutherford

This is a story about you. It is the history of who you are and how you came to be. It is unique to you, as it is to each of the 100 billion modern humans who have ever drawn breath. But it is also our collective story, because in every ...

Advances in Insect Physiology, Volume 49

Russell Jurenka

Advances in Insect Physiology provides readers with the latest interdisciplinary reviews on the topic. It is an essential reference source for invertebrate physiologists, neurobiologists, entomologists, zoologists, and insect ...

An Introduction to Polysaccharide Biotechnology

Stephen E Harding and Gary G Adams

An Introduction to Polysaccharide Biotechnology, Second Edition offers an up-to-date account of the production and uses of polysaccharides. New chapters focus on vaccines, encapsulation, and bioactivity.

Beyond Words

What Animals Think and Feel

Carl Safina

In a world where we usually measure animals by human standards, prize-winning author and MacArthur Fellow Carl Safina takes us inside their lives and minds, witnessing their profound capacity for perception, thought and emotion, showing ...

Biological Invasions and Animal Behaviour

Judith S Weis and Daniel Sol

How does behaviour affect biological invasions? Can it explain why some animals are such successful invaders? With contributions from experts in the field and covering a broad range of animals, from insects to mammals ...

Cell and Molecular Biology

BN Pandey, Sunil P Trivedi, Kamil Jaiswal and DK Gupta

This book contains papers presented at the 18th All India Congress of Zoology and National Seminar on Current Issues on Applied Zoology and Environmental Sciences with Special Reference to Eco-restoration & Management of Bioresources ...

Cracking the Aging Code

The New Science of Growing Old - And What It Means for Staying Young

Josh Mitteldorf, Dorion Sagan and Colin Dickerman

A revolutionary examination of why we age, what it means for our health, and how we just might be able to fight it. In Cracking the Aging Code theoretical biologist Josh Mitteldorf and award-winning writer and ecological ...

Have Bacteria Won?

Hugh Pennington

Today, we are far less likely to die from infection than at any other time in history, but still we worry about epidemics, the menace of antibiotic resistance and modern 'plagues' like Ebola. In this timely new book ...

I Contain Multitudes

The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life

Ed Yong

Your body is teeming with tens of trillions of microbes. It's an entire world, a colony full of life. In other words, you contain multitudes. These microscopic companions sculpt our organs, protect us from diseases, guide our behaviour ...

Textbook of Biotechnology

Chandrawati Jee and Shagufta

The use of biotechnology has been in existence long, ever since human beings used yeast for brewing and bacteria for products such as cheese and yoghurt. However, the wide-scale, technologically sophisticated use of the field has only ...

The Ecology of Animal Senses

Matched Filters for Economical Sensing

Gerhard von der Emde and Eric J Warrant

The collection of chapters in The Ecology of Animal Senses present the concept of matched filters: response characteristics "matching" the characteristics of crucially important sensory inputs, which allows detection ...

The Human Superorganism

How the Microbiome is Revolutionizing the Pursuit of a Healthy Life

Rodney Dietert

The origin of asthma, autism, Alzheimer's, allergies, cancer, heart disease, obesity, and even some kinds of depression is now clear. Award-winning researcher on the microbiome, professor Rodney Dietert presents a new paradigm in human ...

The Nature of Sex

The Ins and Outs of Mating in the Animal Kingdom

Carin Bondar

In The Nature of Sex, 'biologist with a twist' Carin Bondar presents the fascinating diversity of the reproductive habits of the animal kingdom, and through approachable explanations and humorous examples succeeds in making ...

Chance in Evolution

Grant Ramsey and Charles H Pence

Humans, however much we would care to think otherwise, do not represent the fated pinnacle of ape evolution. The diversity of life, from single-celled organisms to multicellular animals and plants, is the result of a long, complex, and ...

Debating Darwin

Robert J Richards and Michael Ruse

Charles Darwin is easily the most famous scientist of the modern age, and his theory of evolution is constantly referenced in many contexts by scientists and nonscientists alike. And yet, despite how frequently his ideas are evoked, there ...

Evolutionary Biology

Convergent Evolution, Evolution of Complex Traits, Concepts and Methods

Pierre Pontarotti

Evolutionary Biology: Convergent Evolution, Evolution of Complex Traits, Concepts and Methods\ presents selected contributions to the 19th Evolutionary Biology Meeting, which took place in September 2015 in Marseille. It consists ...

The Evolutionary Biology of Human Body Fatness

Thrift and Control

Jonathan CK Wells

This comprehensive synthesis of current medical and evolutionary literature addresses key questions about the role body fat plays in human biology. It explores how body energy stores are regulated, how they develop over the life-course ...

An Introduction to Molecular Ecology

Graham Rowe, Michael Sweet and Trevor JC Beebee

An Introduction to Molecular Ecology combines theoretical concepts with practice-driven examples to showcase the latest molecular and genomic techniques and their impact on the study of ecology. The opening chapters ...

Aquatic Ecology

SR Mishra and DN Saksena

With ever increasing scientific information, it has not been possible for researchers and scientists to get their work published in comparatively fewer number of journals in each branch of science. With this intention, the present book ...

Exoticos Invasores: Bioinvasores Selvagens Introduzidos no Estado do Rio de Janeiro e Suas Implicacoes

Savio Freire Bruno and Vanessa Trally Bard

A study of the impact of invasive species in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro.

Urban Ecology (4-Volume Set)

Ian Douglas

Urban ecology is a rapidly developing area of research and study. Drawing on the work of many disciplines – including geography, planning, landscape architecture, sociology, economics, anthropology, engineering, and climatology ...

AA National Parks of Britain

Roly Smith and Sir Chris Bonington

The National Parks are the most celebrated and diverse areas of Britain's unique rural landscape. Each with it's own distinct character, from the rugged mountainous countryside of the Cairngorms in Scotland to the open heathland ...

Agroforestry for the Management of Waterlogged Saline Soils and Poor-Quality Waters

Jagdish Chander Dagar and Paramjit Minhas

Land degradation caused by salinity and waterlogging is a global problem afflicting about one billion hectares and endangering the food security of at least 75 countries. Since the social, economic and environmental costs of on ...

Bogs and Fens

A Guide to the Peatland Plants of the Northeastern United States and Adjacent Canada

Ronald B Davis

The word is spreading among outdoor enthusiasts and nature lovers that bogs and fens (peatlands) are among the most fascinating and beautiful places to visit. This growing reputation, along with the development of boardwalks that allow ...

Der Deutsche Wald: Naturereignis, Wirtschaftsraum, Sehnsuchtsort [The German Forest: Natural Phenomenon, Scientific Labo

Detlev Arens

With some 11,500,000 hectares, forest covers about one third of Germany. In a highly entertaining and distinguished fashion, Detlev Arens shows the reader Germany's forest in all its diversity. He presents the various species ...

Ecology of Freshwaters

Earth's Bloodstream

Brian R Moss

A fifth edition is in preparation. The fourth edition of this established textbook continues to provide a comprehensive and stimulating introduction to rivers, lakes and wetlands and is written as a basis for an entire course ...

Estuaries: A Lifeline of Ecosystem Services in the Western Indian Ocean

Salif Diop, Peter Antonius Scheren and John Ferdinand Machiwa

Estuaries: A Lifeline of Ecosystem Services in the Western Indian Ocean provides recent environmental, ecological and hydrodynamic information for the major estuaries and the coastal marine systems of the Western Indian Ocean ...

Limnological Investigation on Ward's Lake

A Wetland in Shillong, Meghalaya, N.E. India

JRB Alfred and MP Thapa

From the introduction: "Aquatic ecosystems are essential segments of the environment of man. The study of lake ecosystems – limnology – involves, basically, the causal relationships of biotic communities to their ...

Mangroves as Fish Habitat

Karen J Murchie and Pedram P Daneshgar

With the continuing destruction of mangrove forests world-wide, their importance to fish populations by providing habitat connectivity, nursery grounds and trophic function is a rapidly expanding research area, and one that is increasingly ...

Messages from Islands

A Global Biodiversity Tour

Ilkka A Hanski

From a small island in the Baltic Sea to the large tropical islands of Borneo and Madagascar, Messages from Islands is a global tour of these natural, water-bound laboratories. In this career-spanning work, the late Ilkka Hanski ...

Nature's Temples

The Complex World of Old-Growth Forests

Joan Maloof and Andrew Joslin

Gain a better understanding of old-growth forests and why they matter! An old-growth forest is one that has formed naturally over a long period of time with little or no disturbance from humankind. They are increasingly rare and largely ...

Savanne: Lebensraum fur Pflanzen, Tiere und Menschen [The Savannah: Living Space for Plants, Animals and Humans]

Karen Hahn and Julia Krohmer

The savannah is the dominant type of landscape of Africa. Wide grass plains with acacia trees, lions, zebras and wildebeest are included, as well as dense tree grasslands. but savannas are far more than a habitat for plants and animals ...

Science, Conservation, and National Parks

Steven R Beissinger, David D Ackerly, Holly Doremus and Gary E Machlis

As the US National Park Service marks its centennial in 2016, parks and protected areas worldwide are under increasing threat from a variety of factors, including storms and fires of greater severity, plant and animal extinctions, the ...

The Red Sea Ecosystem and Fisheries

Dawit Tesfamichael and Daniel Pauly

The Red Sea Ecosystem and Fisheries is the first comprehensive coverage of Red Sea fisheries to inform researchers and decision makers. The Red Sea is a geologically young sea, but also an area with the oldest record of human ...

Advances in Ecological Research, Volume 53

Ecosystem Services: From Biodiversity to Society, Part 1

Guy Woodward and David A Bohan

This two-part volume presents a series of papers on the theme of Ecosystem Services (ES). ES are the natural functions and processes of ecosystems that have social, economic or ecological value to humans. The ubiquity of these socioeconomic ...

Advances in Ecological Research, Volume 54

Ecosystem Services: From Biodiversity to Society, Part 2

Guy Woodward and David A Bohan

This two-part volume presents a series of papers on the theme of Ecosystem Services (ES). ES are the natural functions and processes of ecosystems that have social, economic or ecological value to humans. The ubiquity of these socioeconomic ...

Advances in Marine Biology, Volume 70: A Biophysical and Economic Profile of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Island

Alex D Rogers, Christopher Yesson, Pippa Gravestock and Barbara E Curry

The current hiatus in the establishment of a network of marine protected areas (MPAs) in the Antarctic means that other routes to conservation are required. The protection of overseas territories in the Antarctic and sub-Antarctic represents ...

Can't Chew the Leather Anymore

Musings on Wildlife Conservation in Yellowstone from a Broken-Down Biologist

PJ White and Robert A Garrott

The conservation of wildlife in and near Yellowstone, the world's first national park, is complex and often contentious because federal and state management agencies, local residents, visitors, and various stakeholder groups have a ...

Coexistence: The Ecology and Evolution of Tropical Biodiversity

Jan Sapp

Coexistence: The Ecology and Evolution of Tropical Biodiversity is about tropical biology in action – how biologists grapple with the ecology and evolution of the great species diversity in tropical rainforests and ...

Commercial Use of Biodiversity

Resolving the Access and Benefit Sharing Issues

Shivendu K Srivastava

The benefits from genetic resources are mostly drawn from the commercial use of traditional knowledge held by indigenous communities. Commercial Use of Biodiversity discusses the issues of access to these resources and the ...

Imagining Extinction

The Cultural Meanings of Endangered Species

Ursula K Heise

We are currently facing the sixth mass extinction of species in the history of life on Earth, biologists claim – the first one caused by humans. Activists, filmmakers, writers, and artists are seeking to bring the crisis to the ...

South Africa's Strategy for Plant Conservation

Domitilla Raimondo

South Africa, as a signatory to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), is committed to the implementation of a national strategy to conserve plants that aligns with the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation. With 6% of the world's ...

The Fight for Beauty

Our Path to a Better Future

Dame Fiona Reynolds

We live in a world where the drive for economic growth is crowding out everything that can't be given a monetary value. We're stuck on a treadmill where only the material things in life gain traction and it's getting harder ...

Vanishing America

Species Extinction, Racial Peril, and the Origins of Conservation

Miles A Powell

Putting a provocative new slant on the history of U.S. conservation, Vanishing America reveals how wilderness preservation efforts became entangled with racial anxieties – specifically the fear that forces of modern civilisation ...

Wilderei im Ratischen Dreilandereck: Grenzuberschreitende Recherchen mit einer Spurensuche bis nach Tibet

Heinrich Haller

In the border triangle Switzerland-Italy-Austria, surrounded by the Alps, poaching has a long tradition. Starting from the Swiss National Park in Engadin illegal hunting is documented and interpreted cross-border. Investigations into the ...

Wildtiermanagement: Eine Einfuhrung [Wildlife Management: An Introduction]

Klaus Robin, Roland Graf and Reinhard Schnidrig-Petrig

Wildlife and people live close together in the densely populated regions of central Europe. This coexistence is not always free of conflict: the habitat quality of many species is affected by human activities in many cases, and the nature ...

Climate Change: What Everyone Needs To Know

What Everyone Needs to Know

Joseph Romm

Climate change will have a bigger impact on humanity than the Internet has had. The last decade's spate of superstorms, wildfires, heat waves, and droughts has accelerated the public discourse on this topic and lent credence to climate ...

Climate, Environment and Cree Observations

James Bay Territory, Canada

Marie-Jeanne S Royer

Climate, Environment and Cree Observations examines the effects of climate and environmental change in the Eastern James Bay, Canada. This socio-environmentally oriented volume integrates scientific literature with the establishment ...

Seafloor Mapping Along Continental Shelves

Research and Techniques for Visualizing Benthic Environments

Charles W Finkl and Christopher Makowski

This university-level reference work covers a range of remote sensing techniques that are useful for mapping and visualizing benthic environments on continental shelves. Chapters focus on overviews of the history and future of seafloor ...

A Concise Geologic Time Scale: 2016

James G Ogg, Gabi Ogg and Felix M Gradstein

A Concise Geologic Time Scale: 2016 presents a summary of Earth's history over the past 4.5 billion years, as well as a brief overview of contemporaneous events on the Moon, Mars, and Venus. The authors have been at the forefront ...

Bauen wie die Biene, Fliegen wie der Vogel: Wenn die Natur die Wissenschaft Inspiriert [Building like Bees, Flying like

Mat Fournier and Yannick Fourie

Fascinating images, a thrilling reading experience: When nature inspires science

What do corrugated iron, the first alarm, solar panels and the Japanese bullet train have in common? All four inventions have been inspired by nature.

Earth's Deep History

How It Was Discovered and Why It Matters

Martin JS Rudwick

Earth has been witness to mammoths and dinosaurs, global ice ages, continents colliding or splitting apart, comets and asteroids crashing catastrophically to the surface, as well as the birth of humans who are curious understand it all.

Enciclopedia dos Minerais do Brasil, Volume 3: Oxidos e Hidroxidos [Encyclopedia of Brazilian Minerals, Volume 3

Paulo Cesar Pereira das Neves, Daniel Atencio and Ruy Paulo Philipp

Volume 3 in this planned six-volume series deals with oxides and hydroxides from Brazil.

Environmental Impact of Mining and Mineral Processing

Management, Monitoring, and Auditing Strategies

Ravi K Jain, Zengdy Cui and Jeremy K Domen

Environmental Impact of Mining and Mineral Processing: Management, Monitoring, and Auditing Strategies covers all the aspects related to mining and the environment, including environmental assessment at the early planning stages ...

Geological Evolution of Tasmania

Keith D Corbett, Patrick G Quilty and Clive R Calver

This 660-page volume is the third compilation of the geological knowledge of Tasmania prepared as a volume sponsored by the Geological Society of Australia, Tasmania Division. The ten chapters in ...

Homo Deus

A Brief History of Tomorrow

Yuval Noah Harari

During the twentieth century, humankind has managed to do the impossible: we have brought famine, plague and war under control. Today, more people die from obesity than from starvation; more people die from old age than from infectious ...

Introduction to Stellar Structure

Walter J Maciel

In the first part of Introduction to Stellar Structure, the author presents the basic properties of the stellar interior and describes them thoroughly, along with deriving the main stellar structure equations of temperature ...

Modern Mysteries of the Moon

What We Still Don't Know About Our Lunar Companion

Vincent S Foster

There are still many questions that remain about the Moon, which Modern Mysteries of the Moon examines. From concentric craters to lunar swirls, water vapor and lunar reverberations on impact, Foster collects it all for a fascinating ...

Moons of the Solar System

From Giant Ganymede to Dainty Dactyl

III,James A Hall

Moons of the Solar System captures the complex world of planetary moons, which are more diverse than Earth's sole satellite might lead you to believe. New missions continue to find more of these planetary satellites, making ...

Planet Earth Owner's Workshop Manual

The Pratical Guide to Earth (4.5 Billion Years Old)

David Baker

The purpose of the book is to provide factual information and to explain the physical world in which we live by first setting the Earth within the context of the planetary system which orbits the Sun. Inevitably, because Earth is part of ...

Planetary Vistas

The Landscapes of Other Worlds

Paul Murdin

The word "landscape" can mean picture as well as natural scenery. Recent advances in space exploration imaging have allowed us to now have landscapes never before possible, and Planetary Vistas collects some of the ...

Predicting the Unpredictable

The Tumultuous Science of Earthquake Prediction

Susan Elizabeth Hough

An earthquake can strike without warning and wreak horrific destruction and death, whether it's the cataclysmic 2008 Sichuan quake in China that killed tens of thousands or a future great earthquake on the San Andreas Fault in California ...

Rocks: A Very Short Introduction

Jan Zalasiewicz

Rocks, more than anything else, underpin our lives. They make up the solid structure of the Earth and of other rocky planets, and are present at the cores of gas giant planets. We live on the rocky surface of the planet, grow our food on ...

The Gecko's Foot

How Scientists are Taking a Leaf from Nature's Book

Peter Forbes

Bio-inspiration is a form of engineering but not in the conventional sense. Extending beyond our established and preconceived notions, scientists, architects and engineers are looking at imitating nature by manufacturing 'wet' materials ...

The Geology of the Canary Islands

Valentin R Troll and Juan-Carlos Carracedo

The Geology of the Canary Islands provides a concise overview of the geology and volcanology of the Canary Islands, along with 27 carefully planned day excursions comprising trips on all of the islands. Each stop includes a description ...

The Moon's Largest Craters and Basins

Images and Topographic Maps from LRO, GRAIL, and Kaguya

Charles J Byrne

This most recent book from lunar expert Charles J. Byrne combines the latest comprehensive imagery, topography and gravity data from all three recent Moon missions, Kaguya, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and GRAIL. These major polar-orbiting ...

The Phoenix

An Unnatural Biography of a Mythical Beast

Joseph Nigg

Arising triumphantly from the ashes of its predecessor, the phoenix has been an enduring symbol of resilience and renewal for thousands of years. But how did this mythical bird become so famous that it has played a part in cultures around ...

The Quaternary Periglaciation of Kent

JB Murton and DP Giles

This field guide was produces to accompany the QRA and Engineering Group of the Geological Society Field Meeting to Kent, based in Margate, 10^th–12^th June 2016.

The Solar System in Close-Up

John Wilkinson

In response to the new information gained about the Solar System from recent space probes and space telescopes, the experienced science author Dr. John Wilkinson presents the state-of-the art knowledge on the Sun, solar system planets ...

Ecology of Wisdom

Writings by Arne Naess

Arne Naess, Alan Drengson and Bill Devall

'The smaller we come to feel ourselves compared with the mountain, the nearer we come to participating in its greatness.' Philosopher, mountaineer, activist and visionary, Arne Naess's belief that all living things have value ...

Environment Auditing

AK Shrivastava

In India, Environment Auditing practices have been started with a small beginning. Presently, it has been made mandatory for those industries who are identified as a polluting industries. But this is not the end of environment auditing ...

Environmental Management and Conservation (2-Volume Set)

RK Khitoliya

From time immemorial, great Indian philosophers, seers and saints have stressed the necessity for protecting and wisely using India's natural resources. But the strides of modern sciene and technology have taken towards achieving ...

Managing the Impacts of Human Activities on Fish Habitat

The Governance, Practices, and Science

Neil Fisher, Patrice LeBlanc, C Alwyn Rose and Barry Sadler

Fish species and their habitat are under threat from the impact of overfishing, pollution, and development. Managing the Impacts of Human Activities on Fish Habitat reviews the science, governance, and practice of assessing and ...

Of Limits and Growth

The Rise of Global Sustainable Development in the Twentieth Century

Stephen J Macekura

Of Limits and Growth connects three of the most important aspects of the twentieth century: decolonization, the rise of environmentalism, and the United States' support for economic development and modernization in the Third ...

Pursuing Sustainability

A Guide to the Science and Practice

Pamela Matson, William C Clark and Krister Andersson

Sustainability is a global imperative and a scientific challenge like no other. This concise guide provides students and practitioners with a strategic framework for linking knowledge with action in the pursuit of sustainable development ...

Sustainable Agriculture

Dinabandhu Sahoo and Syed Zahoor Qasim

Papers presented at a national symposium held at New Delhi during 20-21 February 1998.

Synthetic Biology

A Primer

Geoff Baldwin, Travis Bayer, Robert Dickinson, Tom Ellis, Paul S Freemont, Richard I Kitney and Pol

Synthetic Biology: A Primer (Revised Edition) presents an updated overview of the field of synthetic biology and the foundational concepts on which it is built. This revised edition includes new literature references, working and ...

The Sustainable Role of the Tree in Environmental Protection Technologies

Edita Balternaite, Pranas Baltrenas and Arvydas Lietuvninkas

The Sustainable Role of the Tree in Environmental Protection Technologies describes ways of using trees and their byproducts in environmental protection technologies and methodologies throughout their lifecycles. The tree, the ...

Cause and Correlation in Biology

A User's Guide to Path Analysis, Structural Equations, and Causal Inference with R

Bill Shipley

Many problems in biology require an understanding of the relationships among variables in a multivariate causal context. Exploring such cause-effect relationships through a series of statistical methods ...

Standard Deviations

Flawed Assumptions, Tortured Data, and Other Ways to Lie with Statistics

Gary Smith

Did you know that having a messy room will make you racist? Or that human beings possess the ability to postpone death until after important ceremonial occasions? Or that people live three to five years longer if they have positive initial ...

Catalogue of the Hungarian Oological Collections

Laszlo Haraszthy

This bilingual catalogue gives an overview of the oological collection of the Hungarian Natural History Museum.

Exploring Discovery

The Front Door to Your Library's Licensed and Digitized Content

Kenneth J Varnum

In the context of libraries, "discovery" is the process of finding appropriate resources to meet an information need. We are in a new age of discovery where technology has enabled today's researchers to explore increasingly ...

Managing Metadata in Web-Scale Discovery Systems

Louise F Spiteri

Managing Metadata in Web-Scale Discovery Systems shows you how to harness the power of linked data and web-scale discovery systems to manage and link widely varied content across your library collection. Libraries are ...

Managing Previously Unmanaged Collections

A Practical Guide for Museums

Angela Kipp and Janice Klein

Managing previously unmanaged collections can be challenging. The process of securing the collection and making it accessible needs the mindset of a collections manager as well as the one of a project manager. The target audience are museum ..

Museum Participation

New Directions for Audience Collaboration

Kayte McSweeney and Jen Kavanagh

Genuine participation is about much more than simply "taking part". But many museums' commitment to engagement and participation remains at this superficial level. Larger museums, in particular, struggle to engage with their ...