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Welcome to the August NHBS Monthly
Catalogue, the ultimate buyer's guide to new and forthcoming titles in natural
history, conservation and the environment. This month's highlights include new paperback editions of several classic works: Hugh Tyndale-Briscoe's Life of Marsupials, Jay Savage's The Amphibians and Reptiles of Costa Rica, Thomas Eisner's For Love of Insects, David Rains Wallace's Beasts of Eden, Agusti and Anton's Mammoths, Sabretooths and Hominids, and de Waal and Tyack's Animal Social Complexity. Our massive SUMMER SALE continues. There are over 1700 titles at special summer prices. Visit the SUMMER SALE page to pick up a bargain. View this Monthly Catalogue as a web page or save/print it as a .pdf document. Discounts for libraries, organisations and large orders Are you a librarian or responsible for book purchasing within your organisation, or are thinking of placing a large order? NHBS provides a specialised supply service for libraries, organisations and bulk purchasers - handling everything from researching hard to obtain titles to arranging documentation and shipment. We are usually able to offer competitive packages - please contact customer.services@nhbs.co.uk to discuss what we can offer. |
Zoology:
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| Mammals | Go to subject web page |
Camel: Management and Diseases
Falah K Al-Ani Contents: Domestication, distribution, population; The camel in Pre-Islamic & Islamic State; Socio-economics of camels; Classification & breeds; Husbandry; Use & production .... | 455 pages | B/w photos | Alsharq printing press Hbk | 2004 | 2876145286 | #154584A | £69.00 BUY |
Extraordinary Egg-laying Mammal Michael Augee, Brett Gooden and Anne Musser Introductory book on this living fossil whose relatives were walking the earth over 100 million years ago. .... | 144 pages | Colour illus | CSIRO Pbk | NYP 12/2005 | 0643092048 | #154394A | £27.50 BUY |
Hugh Tyndale-Biscoe Explores this unusual group of mammals, covering the extraordinary diversity of forms around the world, in Australia, New Guinea and the Americas. Research has revealed them .... | 442 pages | Illus | CSIRO Hbk | 2005 | 0643062572 | #149232A | £49.50 BUY Pbk | 2005 | 0643091998 | #153571A | £29.95 BUY |
A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. Volumes 1 and 2 Edited by DE Wilson and DeeAnn M Reeder Eagerly awaited third edition of this absolutely indispensable reference on the mammal species of the world. .... | 2000 pages | Johns Hopkins UP Hbk | NYP 12/2005 | 0801882214 | #152905A | £83.00 BUY |
Conservation Beyond Crisis Edited by John E Reynolds, William F Perrin, Randall R Reeves et al Marine mammal conservation presents a number of challenges for scientists and other stakeholders, especially using natural resources in ways that avoid crisis management. .... | 304 pages | 31 halftones, 8 line drawings | Johns Hopkins UP Hbk | NYP 11/2005 | 0801882559 | #152486A | £33.50 BUY |
Harriet J Smith What parent hasn't wondered "What do I do now?" as a baby cries or a teenager glares? Making babies may come naturally, but knowing how to raise them doesn't. As .... | 394 pages | 21 halftones, 1 line illus | Harvard UP Hbk | NYP 02/2006 | 0674019385 | #154598A | £18.95 BUY |
Edited by Dario Maestripieri The contributors, internationally known experts in primatology and psychology, focus primarily on social processes in areas including aggression, conflict resolution, .... | 619 pages | Illus, tabs | Harvard UP Hbk | 2004 | 067401152x | #142357A | £41.95 BUY Pbk | NYP 10/2005 | 0674018478 | #154606A | £24.95 BUY |
Reindeer Management in Northernmost Europe Linking Practical and Scientific Knowledge in Social-Ecological Systems Edited by BC Forbes, M Bölter, L Müller-Wille, J Hukkinen, F Müller and N Gunslay The management of reindeer herds in northernmost Europe has been dramatically altered by changes in the environment, largely the result of human activities. This volume .... | 380 pages | 67 illus, 2 in colour | Springer Hbk | NYP 02/2006 | 3540260870 | #154644A | £104.00 BUY |
The Starkey Project: A Synthesis of Long-Term Studies of Elk and Mule Deer
Edited by MJ Wilson One of the most comprehensive field research projects ever attempted, The Starkey Project examines the effects of land use on elk and mule deer in national forests and .... | Alliance CG 2005 | 1891276409 | #154415A | £54.50 BUY |
Ruth Padel Asia in the twenty-first century as China's shadow grows, Asia poised on the edge of change - and a woman exploring its threatened jungles for the animal they call the soul .... | 429 pages | Maps | Little, Brown Hbk | 2005 | 0316726001 | #153944A | £17.99 BUY |
Walker's Marsupials of the World
Ronald M Nowak Authoritative and engaging, this volume from the Walker's Mammals series focuses on marsupials, pouched animals whose unusual method of reproduction-between egg laying and .... | 232 pages | 137 halftones | Johns Hopkins UP Hbk | NYP 09/2005 | 0801882222 | #154409A | £30.00 BUY Pbk | NYP 09/2005 | 0801882117 | #154410A | £15.50 BUY |
R Baldwin Arabian whales and dolphins are among the most fascinating and least understood cetaceans. Over 20 species live in the region, where their habitat includes some of the .... | 111 pages | Col photos, figs, distribution maps | Rob Baldwin Hbk | 2003 | 0952660502 | #150764A | £34.50 BUY |
Whales and Dolphins of the World
M Simmonds Whales, dolphins, and porpoises have fascinated humankind for centuries. Amazingly diverse, they have evolved specializations that allow them, despite being air-breathing .... | 160 pages | Col illus, 1 col map | MIT Press Hbk | 2005 | 0262195194 | #154337A | £19.95 BUY |
World Atlas of Great Apes and their Conservation
Julian Caldecott and Lera Miles Despite the dedicated efforts of many individuals and organizations, the great apes--our closest living relatives--are on the very edge of extinction. This sweeping atlas .... | 424 pages | 150 col illus, 50 maps | California UP Hbk | 2005 | 0520246330 | #153946A | Normally £29.95 NHBS OFFER PRICE: £24.95 |
| Birds | Go to subject web page |
Bibliographie der Deutschen Vogelkundlichen Literatur von 1480 bis 1850
R Schlenker | 241 pages | 93 figs, illus | Hiersemann Hbk | 2004 | 3777204250 | #153719A | £195.00 BUY |
Series Editors: Geoffrey E Hill and Kevin J McGraw Much-needed new multi-part work on bird coloration. .... | |
The Birds of Hong Kong and South China
Clive Viney, Karen Phillips and Lam Chiu Ying The new 8th edition has just been issued (July 2005). This is the standard field guide for the region, which has steadily improved over the years. With more than 100 colour .... | 244 pages | 91 col plates, b/w illus, 4 maps | Government Printer Pbk | 2005 | #154379A | £22.95 BUY |
The Birds of Syria (Translated from the German Version written by Wolfgang Baumgart
T Bannister et al Photocopy translation from the German version written by Wolfgang Baumgart in 1995. .... | 100 pages | - | OSME Photocopy | 2003 | #154573A | £15.50 BUY |
Development of Displays and Secondary Sexula Traits in the Shelduck (Tadorna tadorna)
Heinz Duttman | 298 pages | 46 b/w figs, tabs, 4 col photos | Sierke-Verlag Pbk | 2004 | 393389302X | #154182A | £39.95 BUY |
Extinction and Biogeography of Tropical Pacific Birds
David W Steadman Looks set to be a major publication for 2006. .... | 480 pages | 108 halftones, 133 line drawings | Chicago UP Hbk | NYP 03/2006 | 0226771415 | #154544A | £78.00 BUY Pbk | NYP 03/2006 | 0226771423 | #154543A | £31.50 BUY |
How to Identify Raptors In Flight Jerry Liguori Intriguing new approach to hawk identification in North America, based on a wide range of colour photos that provide depth and breadth of perspective as a means to aid .... | 160 pages | 339 colour photos, 32 b/w photos | Princeton UP Hbk | NYP 10/2005 | 0691118248 | #154437A | £35.95 BUY Pbk | NYP 10/2005 | 0691118256 | #154438A | £12.95 BUY |
In the Company of Crows and Ravens
John M Marzluff and Tony Angell From the cave walls at Lascaux to the last painting by Van Gogh, from the works of Shakespeare to those of Mark Twain, there is clear evidence that crows and ravens .... | 400 pages | 108 b/w illus | Yale UP Hbk | NYP 11/2005 | 0300100760 | #154421A | £18.95 BUY |
Introduction to Birds of the Southern California Coast
Joan Easton Lentz This easy-to-use, concise, informative guide is a must for anyone who wants to leave behind Southern California's noisy freeways and crowded beaches in search of the wild .... | 240 pages | 120 colour plates, 51 line drawings, 16 maps | California UP Hbk | NYP 11/2005 | 0520237803 | #154490A | £35.95 BUY Pbk | NYP 11/2005 | 0520243218 | #154491A | £12.95 BUY |
The Lung-Air Sac System of Birds Development, Structure, and Function John N Maina In biology, few organs have been as elusive as the lung-air sac system of birds. Considerable progress has recently been made to fill the gaps in the knowledge. While .... | 210 pages | 94 illus, 5 in colour | Springer Hbk | NYP 02/2006 | 3540255958 | #154633A | £77.00 BUY |
An Identification Guide Joseph Forshaw and Frank Knight New parrot identification guide, not to be confused with Forshaw's earlier `Parrots of the World', first published by David & Charles in 1978. This new book, as the subtitle .... | 400 pages | 121 colour plates, 6 line illus | Princeton UP Hbk | NYP 02/2006 | 0691092516 | #154439A | £41.95 BUY |
Reed Warblers at Rostherne Mere Working Today for Nature Tomorrow M Calvert An account of Voluntary Warden Malcolm Calvert's 30 year study of reed warblers at Rostherne Mere National Nature Reserve (NNR). .... | 144 pages | 24 Col photos, illus | English Nature Pbk | 2005 | 1857168712 | #154425A | £10.00 BUY |
The Birds and Mammals of Caithness Robert Innes Shearer's Contributions to the Natural History of Caithness 1859-1867 Edited by H Clark This book presents a series of essays describing the birds and mammals of Caithness. When they were written very little had been published on the wildlife of the county. .... | 258 pages | Illus | Hugh Clark Pbk | 2004 | 095491970X | #154414A | £22.95 BUY |
Penny Olsen Australia's Wedge-tailed Eagle is the country's largest true eagle and one of the new large predators and scavengers. It is closely related to the other large eagles of the .... | 144 pages | Colour illus | CSIRO Pbk | NYP 11/2005 | 0643091653 | #154396A | £27.50 BUY |
| Reptiles & Amphibians | Go to subject web page |
The Amphibians and Reptiles of Costa Rica A Herpetofauna between Two Continents, between Two Seas Jay M Savage Provides the most comprehensive, up-to-date treatment of the biology and evolution of Costa Rican herpetofauna ever produced. Savage begins with detailed discussions of the .... | 934 pages | 516 col plates, 335 line illus, 36 tabs, 396 maps | Chicago UP Hbk | 2002 | 0226735370 | #127184A | £52.50 BUY Pbk | NYP 10/2005 | 0226735389 | #154533A | £32.00 BUY |
| Fishes | Go to subject web page |
California and Adjacent Waters Edited by Larry G Allen, Daniel J Pondella II and Michael H Horn Massive compilation on this diverse and extensive group. .... | 700 pages | 125 colour plates, 65 b/w photos, 130 line drawings, 20 tables | California UP Hbk | NYP 01/2006 | 0520246535 | #154503A | £48.95 BUY |
Guide de Détermination des Poissons du Bassin Inféeieur de L'Ogooué
JD Mbega and GG Teugels Covers 139 species fropm the L'ogooue Basin in Gabon. .... | 165 pages | Col and b/w illus | Namur Presses Universitaires Pbk | 2003 | 2870374119 | #147129A | £34.00 BUY |
| Invertebrates | Go to subject web page |
Thomas Eisner According to Eisner, to understand the success of insects is to appreciate our own shortcomings. Recounting exploits and discoveries in his lab at Cornell and in the field .... | 448 pages | Col plates, b.w plates, illus | Harvard UP Hbk | 2004 | 0674011813 | #142343A | £19.95 BUY Pbk | NYP 10/2005 | 0674018273 | #154604A | £12.95 BUY |
Chicago Field Museum Division of Insects Marrying art and entomology, Illinois Insects and Spiders is a unique introduction to local biodiversity. Artist Peggy Macnamara celebrates the state's burgeoning insect and .... | 124 pages | 28 colour plates [by Peggy Macnamara] | Chicago UP Pbk | 2005 | 0226501000 | #154532A | £11.50 BUY |
Biology, Host-Parasite Relationships, Impact and Management DD Colwell, MJR Hall and PJ Scholl This book provides an in-depth review and analysis of the biology of adults and larvae of the Family Oestridae (commonly known as botflies, or warble flies). Oestrid flies .... | 384 pages | CABI Hbk | NYP 09/2005 | 0851996841 | #138307A | £85.00 BUY |
Defenses of Insects, Spiders, Scorpions, and Other Many-Legged Creatures Thomas Eisner, Maria Eisner and Melody Siegler Readable and well illustrated book on the defence systems of invertebrates. .... | 360 pages | 350 colour illus, 150 chemical formulas | Harvard UP Hbk | NYP 12/2005 | 0674018826 | #154596A | £18.95 BUY |
| Palaeontology | Go to subject web page |
Walking Whales, Dawn Horses, and Other Enigmas of Mammal Evolution David Rains Wallace Wallace deftly moves over varied terrain - drawing from history, science, evolutionary theory, and art history - to present a lively account of fossil discoveries and an .... | 340 pages | 18 b/w photos, 2 illus | California UP Hbk | 2004 | 0520237315 | #144915A | Normally £15.95 NHBS OFFER PRICE: £12.50 Pbk | 2005 | 0520246845 | #154524A | £10.95 BUY |
A Very Short Introduction Keith Thomson In this delightful book, Keith Thomson provides a remarkably all-encompassing explanation of fossils as a phenomenon. How did Darwin use fossils to support his theory .... | 144 pages | 24 b/w illus | OUP | 0192805045 | #154615A | £6.99 BUY |
Mammoths, Sabertooths and Hominids 65 Million Years of Mammalian Evolution in Europe Jordi Agusti and Mauricio Anton A journey through time from the aftermath of the extinction of the dinosaurs to the glacial climax of the Pleistocene epoch; from the rain forests of the Paleocene and the .... | 316 pages | Col illus, b\w illus | Columbia UP Hbk | 2002 | 0231116403 | #127178A | £28.00 BUY Pbk | NYP 10/2005 | 0231116411 | #154466A | £16.00 BUY |
Evolution and Paleobiology Edited by Kristina A Curry Rogers and Jeffrey A Wilson Sauropod dinosaurs were the largest animals ever to walk the earth, and they represent a substantial portion of vertebrate biomass and biodiversity during the Mesozoic Era. The .... | 363 pages | 70 b/w photos, 55 line illus | California UP Hbk | NYP 12/2005 | 0520246233 | #154505A | £41.95 BUY |
Ice Age Extinctions and the Rewilding of America Paul S Martin As recently as 11,000 years ago--"near time" to geologists--mammoths, mastodons, gomphotheres, ground sloths, giant armadillos, native camels and horses, the dire wolf, .... | 240 pages | 17 b/w photos, 12 line illus | California UP Hbk | NYP 11/2005 | 0520231414 | #154486A | £18.95 BUY |
| Marine & Freshwater Biology | Go to subject web page |
Another World: Colours, Textures and Patterns of the Deep
D Winkel This spectacular new book of underwater macrophotography by Dos Winkel presents nature's most extreme paint palette - that of the World's coral reefs. The photographs in this .... | 240 pages | Col photos | Antique Collectors Hbk | NYP 09/2005 | 1905377002 | #154521A | £29.50 BUY |
Faune et Flore Sous-Marines de la Méditerranée Identifier Facilement 289 Espèces Lawson Wood A colour identification guide to the 289 fauna and flora species of the mediterranean. It covers Gibraltar, Spain, Malta, France, Corsica, Sadinia, Italy, Croatia, Greece, .... | 128 pages | 300 Col photos, line illus, 1 map | Delachaux et Niestle Pbk | 2003 | 2603013084 | #154173A | £23.95 BUY |
Guide to Sea Anemones and Corals Of Britain and Ireland
C Wood The cool temperate waters around Britain & Ireland contain a huge variety of marine life and the sea anemones and corals, the Anthozoa, are some of the brightest and most .... | 128 pages | 200 col photos, illus | MCS Pbk | 2005 | 0948150416 | #154338A | £18.50 BUY |
Edited by Klaus Rohde This comprehensive, authoritative and up-to-date work provides the definitive overview of marine parasites worldwide. It is an invaluable reference for students and .... | 592 pages | Photos, illus | CSIRO Hbk | NYP 11/2005 | 0643090258 | #154402A | £62.50 BUY |
Steven N Murray, Richard F Ambrose and Megan N Dethier Monitoring changes in the intertidal zone of rocky shores has never been more critical. This sensitive habitat at the interface of land and ocean may well be the marine .... | 300 pages | 19 b/w photos, 32 line illus | California UP Hbk | NYP 01/2006 | 0520247280 | #154500A | £32.50 BUY |
Zooplankton of the South Atlantic Ocean
Edited by D Boltovskoy There is so much information on this e-monograph that it has been produced as a DVD-ROM instead of two CD-ROMs to make it function more effectively. It is a unique taxonomic .... | ETI DVD | 2005 | 9075000766 | #154587A | Normally £79.95 NHBS OFFER PRICE: £42.51 |
| General Natural History | Go to subject web page |
Philippe Bourseiller Novel photographic book - a photo and an action for each day of the year. .... | 752 pages | 365 full colour photos | Abrams Hbk | NYP 10/2005 | 0810959518 | #154408A | £19.95 BUY |
The Revealing Natural History of Animals in the Bible Michael Bright Did the whale swallow Jonah, or could the culprit have been a great white shark? What kind of animals were Leviathan and Behemoth? What sort of lions confronted Daniel in the .... | 320 pages | Robson Books Hbk | 2005 | 1861058314 | #154432A | £9.99 BUY |
Before Victoria: Extraordinary Women of the British Romantic Era
E Campbell Denlinger While a great deal has been written about romanticism's revolutionary ideology and aesthetics, another, less well known change was also occurring in British life; the .... | 192 pages | Photos | Columbia UP Hbk | 2005 | 0231136307 | #154335A | £22.50 BUY |
Complexity in Chemistry, Biology, and Ecology
Edited by Danail D Bonchev and Dennis Rouvray The contemporary scientific method is built on reductionism. The surprising finding that this paradigm has limits gave rise to the concept of complexity. This book presents the .... | 300 pages | Springer Hbk | NYP 10/2005 | 0387232648 | #154647A | £73.00 BUY |
A Distribution of Macromammals in South Africa Over the Last 30,000 Years Monographs of the Transvaal Museum 12 I Plug and S Badenhorst | Northern Flagship Institution | 0907990185 | #154589A | £39.50 BUY |
Endeavour: The Story of Captain Cook's First Great Epic Voyage
P Aughton Gives a vivid account of life on board the Endeavour and its epic journey into the unknown between 1768 and 1771. Captain James Cook's voyage resulted in the mapping of .... | 320 pages | Col illus | Phoenix Pbk | 2003 | 0753817322 | #154342A | £7.99 BUY |
Henry Oldenburg: Shaping the Royal Society
M Boas Hall The career of Henry Oldenburg illuminates the development of the Royal Society during the late 17th century. He fostered the talents of many of the best-known scientists of .... | 382 pages | - | OUP Hbk | 2002 | 0198510535 | #154423A | £70.00 BUY |
A Rare and Curious History of Romantic Collectors Judith Pascoe In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the activity of collecting became democratized and popularized, allowing all kinds of people to become caught up in the .... | 224 pages | 26 halftones | Cornell UP Hbk | NYP 12/2005 | 0801443628 | #154556A | £18.50 BUY |
Into the Cool: Energy Flow, Thermodynamics, and Life
Eric D Schneider and Dorion Sagan Scientists, theologians, and philosophers have all sought to answer the questions of why we are here and where we are going. Finding this natural basis of life has proved .... | 344 pages | 30 halftones, 3 tables | Chicago UP Hbk | 2005 | 0226739368 | #154536A | £21.00 BUY |
The Sierra Club Guide to Map, Compass & GPS WS Kals Although designed for use in North America, this handbook will be valuable to travellers around the world. .... | 248 pages | 21 b/w photos, 43 b/w illus, 12 maps, 8 tables, colour topo foldout map | Sierra Club Pbk | NYP 10/2005 | 1578051223 | #154498A | £10.95 BUY |
The Last Voyage of Captain Cook: With Ledyard's Selected Letters and and Siberian Journal
J Ledyard A collection of selected letters and excerpts from journals by the eighteenth-century explorer offers an eyewitness account of the final voyage of Captain Cook, including a .... | 450 pages | - | National Geographic Pbk | 2005 | 0792293479 | #154350A | £9.99 BUY |
Consciousness and the Origins of Art David Lewis Williams The Mind in the Cave puts forward the most plausible explanation yet proposed for the origins of image-making and art. David Lewis-Williams skilfully interweaves a lifetime .... | 320 pages | 94 illustrations, 27 in colour | Thames & Hudson Pbk | 2004 | 0500284652 | #154352A | £12.95 BUY |
The Natural History Museum Book of Predators
S Parker The Natural History Museum illustrates the many fascinating and ingenious ways that predators such as sharks, grizzly bears, crocodiles, pythons and wolves have evolved .... | 128 pages | 200 col photos | Carlton Books Ltd Hbk | 2001 | 1842223844 | #154562A | £14.99 BUY |
Samurai William: The Adventurer Who Unlocked Japan
G Milton Samurai William tells how, in 1598, William Adams, an English seaman of humble origin, sailed out of Rotterdam on a Danish ship en route to the East Indies. After 20 months at .... | 416 pages | - | Sceptre Pbk | 2003 | 0340794682 | #154351A | £7.99 BUY |
Scotland's Coast: A Photographer's Journey
J Cornish Joe Cornish has now turned his attention to the magnificent scenery of Scotland's 6,000-mile coastline. He has travelled from the Mull of Galloway in the south to the tip .... | 160 pages | Photos | Aurum Press Hbk | 2005 | 1845130790 | #154324A | £25.00 BUY |
An East Anglian Year of Nature Hugh Brandon-Cox Fine wildlife and countryside art book on East Anglia. .... | 72 pages | Watercolours, photos | Grice Chapman Pbk | 2003 | 0954572637 | #154430A | £14.95 BUY |
Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons
George Pendle Brilliant Rocket Scientist Killed in Explosion screamed the front-page headline of the Los Angeles Times on June 18, 1952. John Parsons, a maverick rocketeer whose work had .... | 368 pages | Harcourt Brace Hbk | 2005 | 015100997X | #154341A | £19.50 BUY |
An Anthology Elizabeth A Bohls and Ian Duncan With widely varied motives - scientific curiosity, commerce, colonization, diplomacy, exploration, and tourism - British travellers fanned out to every corner of the world in .... | 560 pages | OUP Pbk | NYP 11/2005 | 0192840517 | #154609A | £12.99 BUY |
An Environmental History of the Early Modern World John F Richards Offers a global perspective, identifying four historical processes that accelerated environmental change from c. 1500 to 1800: intensified human land use along settlement .... | 682 pages | 6 tabs, 27 maps | California UP Hbk | 2003 | 0520230752 | #137503A | £48.95 BUY Pbk | NYP 01/2006 | 0520246780 | #154527A | £15.95 BUY |
When Science and Christianity Meet
Edited by DC Lindberg Providing historical contexts for the science and religion debate, this work explores key interactions between Christianity and science from the middle ages through to the .... | 368 pages | Illus | Chicago UP Hbk | 2003 | 0226482146 | #154426A | £20.50 BUY |
| Regional & Travel | Go to subject web page |
The Broken String: The Last Words of an Extinct People
N Bennun The first people of South Africa, Stone-Age hunters and gatherers from the mountains and the arid flats of the interior, did not survive the arrival of settlers from Europe. .... | 320 pages | Illus | Penguin Pbk | 2005 | 0141008237 | #154357A | £8.99 BUY |
Columbia Guide to American Environmental History
Carolyn Merchant How and why have Americans living at particular times and places used and transformed their environment? How have political systems dealt with conflicts over resources and .... | 448 pages | - | Columbia UP Hbk | 2002 | 0231112327 | #131590A | £32.50 BUY Pbk | NYP 10/2005 | 0231112335 | #154468A | £15.50 BUY |
Experience the California Coast A Guide to Beaches and Parks in Northern California Edited by California Coastal Commission Counties Included: Del Norte, Humboldt, Mendocino, Sonoma, Marin. .... | 304 pages | 300 colour illus, 49 maps | California UP Pbk | NYP 11/2005 | 0520245407 | #154487A | £15.95 BUY |
German Exploration of the Polar World: A History, 1870-1940
DT Murphy story of the generations of German polar explorers who braved the perils of the Arctic and Antarctic for themselves and their country. Such intrepid adventurers as Wilhelm .... | 304 pages | B/w photos | Nebraska UP Hbk | 2002 | 0803232055 | #154326A | £43.00 BUY |
The Great Tamaulipan Natural Province
Patricio Robles Gil, Exequiel Ezcura, E Peters, E Pallares and A Excurra Another fantastic Conservation International book, in the format and approach of 'Hotspots Revisited.' .... | 360 pages | Illus in colour photos throughout | Conservation International Hbk | NYP 11/2005 | 9686397736 | #154554A | £35.00 BUY |
Japan in the Twenty-first Century: Environment, Economy, and Society
PP Karan The ancient civilization of Japan, with its Shinto shrines and Buddhist temples, is also closely associated with all that is new and modern. Looking outward, Japan sees what it .... | 480 pages | Maps, photos | Kentucky UP Hbk | 2005 | 0813123429 | #154330A | £54.95 BUY |
L'Habillement du Rwanda Ancien
JB Cuypers | 208 pages | 2 Maps, 62 figs, 41 b/w photos | MRAC 2005 | 9075894538 | #154579A | £24.95 BUY |
The Natural History of the Bible An Environmental Exploration of the Hebrew Scriptures Daniel Hillel Traversing river valleys, fruitful fields, forested highlands, undulating grasslands, barren desert wastelands, and seacoasts, the Israelites came into contact with the .... | 432 pages | Illus | Columbia UP Hbk | NYP 01/2006 | 0231133626 | #154462A | £22.50 BUY |
South Georgia: Gateway to Antarctica
L Kohl-Larsen South Georgia has been the gateway to the Antarctic for many of the early expeditions to the Continent but few spent much time there. Ludwig Kohl-Larsen first visited the island .... | 336 pages | B/w photos | The Erskine Press Hbk | 2002 | 1852970758 | #154327A | £28.50 BUY |
Sydney's Bushland: More Than Meets the Eye
J Howell and D Benson Much of Sydney's beauty can be attributed to its native bushland. It is a rich and valuable resource which is often taken for granted. This book explores and promotes the .... | 128 pages | Col photos | RBGS Pbk | 2000 | 0731393422 | #154590A | £20.95 BUY |
Tecpan, Guatemala: A Modern Maya Town in Global and Local Context
EF Fischer What does it mean to be Maya in the modern world? Focusing on a Guatemalan town, this case study explores the cultural, political, and economic changes of this society over .... | 184 pages | Westview Press Pbk | 2002 | 0813337224 | #154367A | £14.95 BUY |
Time to Stare: Wildlife in a Corner of Britain
Ray Armstrong Well produced book, drawing on Ray Armstrong's 25 years observation of nature centred on the village of Trellech, Monmouthshire. .... | 144 pages | Coilour photographs | Grice Chapman Pbk | 2005 | 0954572661 | #154431A | £19.95 BUY |
The Western Shores of Turkey: Discovering the Aegean and Mediterranean Coasts
J Freely The Western coast of Turkey has captivated travellers for centuries. With its dramatic mountains and idyllic bays and promontories, scattered with ancient ruins, it is not .... | 405 pages | Maps | Tauris Pbk | 2004 | 1850436185 | #154368A | £15.50 BUY |
Iain Green Fabulous photographic book on the amazing wildlife diversity of London. For more of Iain Green's great photos, see www.iaingreen.co.uk. .... | 176 pages | 175 large format colour photos | Tiger Books Hbk | NYP 10/2005 | 0954311515 | #154384A | £25.00 BUY |
Exploring the Natural History of Lancashire, Manchester and North Merseyside. Edited by M Edmunds, T Mitcham, G Morries and D Bellamy Written by local experts, the book's aim is to introduce anyone who enjoys exploring the natural wonders of this region, and is packed full of superb images of treasures both .... | 340 pages | Col photos, figs, maps | WT Lancashire Hbk | 2004 | 1859361188 | #151306A | £32.00 BUY |
Wormwood Forest: A Natural History of Chernobyl
Mary Mycio The utterly extraordinary story of how the zone around Chernobyl has become Europe's largest wildlife sanctuary. .... | 304 pages | Joseph Henry Press Hbk | NYP 11/2005 | 0309094305 | #154392A | £17.95 BUY |
Yellowstone to Yukon: Freedom to Roam
Florian Schultz Illustrates the principles-and the viability-of the Yellowstone to Yukon (Y2Y) conservation initiative. Essay contributors tell of their travels through the region and .... | 192 pages | Mountaineers Books Hbk | NYP 10/2005 | 0898869897 | #154343A | £22.95 BUY |
| Botany & Plant Science | Go to subject web page |
V Bucur New edition of the book first published by CRC Press in 1995. .... | 455 pages | 202 illus | Springer Hbk | NYP 02/2006 | 3540261230 | #154622A | £154.00 BUY |
Un Amour d'Orchidee: Le Mariage de la Fleur et de l'insecte
Albert Roguenant et al The French authors of this new book include an entomologist, botanists, and several orchid growers. They hav reviewed the literature, and contributed their own ideas and .... | 479 pages | Col photos, col illus | Belin Pbk | 2005 | 2701140129 | #153999A | £45.00 BUY |
Biodiversity and Ecophysiology of Yeasts
Edited by Carlos A Rosa and Gabor Peter In the last few decades more and more yeast habitats that were not investigated earlier, spanning cold climates to tropical regions and dry deserts to rainforests, have been .... | 560 pages | 40 illus | Springer Hbk | NYP 12/2005 | 3540261001 | #154637A | £176.00 BUY |
The Botanical Gardens at the Huntington
Edited by Huntington Botanical Gardens The Huntington Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California, are a remarkable showcase of exotic plants from all over the world, and this lavishly illustrated volume depicts many .... | 200 pages | 270 colour photos | Huntingdon Library Pub Pbk | NYP 12/2005 | 0873282159 | #154413A | £15.95 BUY |
A Signature of Photosynthesis Edited by George C Papageorgiou and J Govindjee Chlorophyll a Fluorescence: A Signature of Photosynthesis highlights chlorophyll (Chl) a fluorescence as a convenient, non-invasive, highly sensitive, rapid and quantitative .... | 820 pages | 8pp in colour | Springer Hbk | 2004 | 140203217X | #154627A | £187.00 BUY |
Curtis's Botanical Calendar 2006
Edited by R Wilford The beautiful annual calendar which figures 12 finely reproduced plates from the Curtis Botanical Magazine. .... | 12 pages | Col illus | Kew RBG Poster | 2005 | #154365A | £6.95 BUY |
Edited by Timothy J Motley, Nyree Zerega and Hugh Cross Evolutionary biologists, geneticists, molecular biologists, and anthropologists address concerns that we are losing the diversity of crop plants that provide food for most of .... | 384 pages | Columbia UP Hbk | NYP 02/2006 | 0231133162 | #154483A | £45.00 BUY |
Toward a Renaissance of Morphology in Plant Systematics Edited by Tod F Stuessy, Veronika Mayer and Elvira Horandl Important volume that makes the case for the continuing value of plant morphology in plant systematics, published at a time when the dominance of molecular systematics seems .... | 326 pages | Illus | Koeltz Hbk | 2003 | 3906166074 | #154336A | £58.00 BUY |
Demons in Eden: The Paradox of Plant Diversity
Jonathan Silvertown Looks set to become a classic work on plant ecology. .... | 160 pages | 8 col plates | Chicago UP Hbk | NYP 11/2005 | 0226757714 | #154297A | £17.50 BUY |
Wayne A Sinclair and Howard H Lyon Second edition of the standard reference for the United States and Canada, which contains much valuable information for horticulturalists and botanists elsewhere. .... | 616 pages | 2414 colour photos, 350 halftones and line drawings, 1 table, CD-ROM | Comstock Hbk | NYP 11/2005 | 0801443717 | #154555A | £44.50 BUY |
Flora Malesiana, Series 1: Volume 17, Part 2
Edited by CC Berg et al | 730 pages | Figs | National Herbarium, Neth Pbk | 2005 | 9071236617 | #134697A | £82.00 BUY |
A Field Guide Hanno Schafer New enlarged edition of this useful guide, which provides short descriptions for 650 of the about 1200 species of vascular plants found in the islands, including 400 full .... | 346 pages | 400 colour photos | Backhuys Hbk | 2002 | 3823613685 | #134245A | £18.95 BUY Hbk | 2005 | 9057821583 | #154404A | £27.50 BUY |
Edited by DJ Boland and MIH Brooker New edition of this authoritative reference, describing and illustrating nearly 300 species - 70 are new to this edition. Australia has an amazingly diverse range of .... | 752 pages | Colour illus, figures | CSIRO Hbk | NYP 12/2005 | 0643069690 | #154403A | £62.50 BUY |
Growth Dynamics of Conifer Tree Rings Images of Past and Future Environments Edited by Eugene A Vaganov, Malcolm K Hughes and Alexander V Shashkin Each tree ring contains an image of the time when the ring formed, projected onto the ring's size, structure, and composition. Tree rings thus are natural archives of past .... | 350 pages | 178 illus | Springer Hbk | NYP 02/2006 | 3540260862 | #154645A | £100.00 BUY |
Handbook of Mangroves in the Philippines
JH Primavera This book presents taxonomic references on 35 mangrove species on the island of Panay in the Philippines. It contains key information on each of the species as well as .... | 106 pages | Col figs | SEAFDEC Aqua Dept Pbk | 2004 | 9718511622 | #154412A | £49.50 BUY |
Introduction to California Soils and Plants Serpentine, Vernal Pools, and Other Geobotanical Wonders Arthur R Kruckeberg Carnivorous pitcher plants, pygmy conifers, and the Tiburon jewel flower, restricted to a small patch of serpentine soil on Tiburon Peninsula in Marin County, are just a few of .... | 216 pages | 134 colour & 14 b/w photos, 11 line drawings, 6 maps, 6 tables | California UP Hbk | NYP 12/2005 | 0520233719 | #154488A | £29.95 BUY Pbk | NYP 12/2005 | 0520233727 | #154489A | £12.50 BUY |
Light-Harvesting Antennas in Photosynthesis
Edited by BR Green and WW Parson Light-Harvesting Antennas in Photosynthesis is concerned with the most important process on earth - the harvesting of light energy by photosynthetic organisms. This book .... | 544 pages | Springer Hbk | 2003 | 0792363353 | #154631A | £154.00 BUY |
Medicinal Plants Traded on South Africa's Eastern Seaboard
A Von Ahlefeldt et al Traditional heatlhcare needs along South Africa's eastern seaboard drive a huge demand for the hundreds of medicinal plant species offered in informal trade. Two Durban .... | 267 pages | Col photos, dist maps | IPTRAD Pbk | 2003 | 0620315695 | #154523A | £45.50 BUY |
Missing Jigsaw Pieces: The Bushplants of the Cooks River Valley
D Benson The book discusses what the Cooks River Valley is likely to have been like as a natural landscape, and the changes that have come about in the area as a result of farming and .... | 80 pages | RBGS 1999 | #154593A | £11.50 BUY |
The Mycota, Volume 13: Fungal Genomics
Edited by K Esser Through the integration of bioinformatic, genetic, transcriptomic, proteomic, metabolomic, phenomic and other massive datasets, genomics is revealing exciting new .... | 270 pages | 37 illus, 6 in colour | Springer Hbk | NYP 12/2005 | 354025594X | #154634A | £84.50 BUY |
Our Native Trees and How to Identify Them: A Popular Study of Their Habitats and their Peculiarities
HL Keeler Our Native Trees and How to Identify Them, first published by Charles Scriber's Sons in 1900, was warmly received at a time when America was rapidly urbanizing and public .... | 574 pages | Illus | Kent State UP Pbk | 2005 | 0873388380 | #154564A | £17.95 BUY |
Outbreeding Mechanisms in Flowering Plants An Evolutionary Perspective From Darwin Onwards C Leach In this book both the fitness effects of different breeding systems and plant outbreeding mechanisms, in particular self-incompatibility in all its variety, are .... | 147 pages | 20 figures, 28 tables | Gebrder Borntraeger Pbk | 2005 | 3443500293 | #154317A | £24.50 BUY |
The Photochemistry of Carotenoids
Edited by HA Frank, A Young, G Britton and RJ Cogdell Each of the twenty chapters in The Photochemistry of Carotenoids is written by leading experts in the area of carotenoid research and gives a comprehensive overview of a .... | 420 pages | Springer Hbk | 1999 | 0792359429 | #154632A | £128.50 BUY |
Photosynthesis, Photobiochemistry and Photobiophysics
Bacon Ke Photosynthesis: Photobiochemistry and Photobiophysics is the first single-authored book in the Advances in Photosynthesis Series. It provides an overview of the light reactions .... | 792 pages | Springer Hbk | 2001 | 0792363345 | #122878A | £222.50 BUY |
Photosynthetic Nitrogen Assimilation and Associated Carbon and Respiratory Metabolism
Edited by Christine H Foyer and Graham Noctor This book focuses on the very latest developments in our understanding of how plants use light energy and fixed carbon to assimilate nitrate and ammonium into the organic .... | 304 pages | Springer Hbk | 2002 | 0792363361 | #136866A | £115.50 BUY |
Plant Diversity and Complexity Patterns Local, Regional and Global Dimensions IB Friis and H Balslev It is now generally assumed that there are somewhere between 220,000 and 420,000 species of vascular plants globally, and they are prominent in nearly all terrestrial ecosystems .... | 603 pages | Royal Danish Academy Hbk | 2005 | 8773043044 | #154429A | £98.00 BUY |
From Cell to Ecosystem Edited by H Lambers and M Ribas-Carbo Respiration in plants, as in all living organisms, is essential to provide metabolic energy and carbon skeletons for growth and maintenance. As such, respiration is an .... | 250 pages | Springer Hbk | NYP 10/2005 | 1402035888 | #154628A | £94.00 BUY |
Plant-Pollinator Interactions: From Specialization to Generalization
Edited by Nickolas M Waser and Jeff Ollerton Just as flowering plants depend on their pollinators, many birds, insects, and bats rely on plants for energy and nutrients. This plant-pollinator relationship is essential to .... | 488 pages | 66 line drawings, 13 tables | Chicago UP Hbk | NYP 11/2005 | 0226874001 | #154534A | £31.50 BUY |
Rare Bushland Plants of Western Sydney
T James and D Benson Provides short descriptions and conservation assessments of the declared rare species of the area, together with descriptions of the main plant communities, and a list of .... | Line illus, col photos | RBGS Pbk | 1999 | 0724296409 | #154591A | £9.95 BUY |
The Riverside Gardens of Thomas More's London
C Paul Christianson All but forgotten today, eight historic gardens that once flourished along the length of the Thames in early Tudor London are here historically recreated and analysed in this .... | 160 pages | 80 b/w and 40 colour illus | Yale UP Hbk | NYP 10/2005 | 0300109059 | #154419A | £25.00 BUY |
S Urquhart Gardens can have many different functions: some exist to provide food or medicines, some for pleasure and recreation, while others serve to proclaim their owners' status, wealth .... | 304 pages | Col photos | Birlinn Hbk | NYP 10/2005 | 1841583634 | #154582A | £30.00 BUY |
The Rare plants of Sanliurfa (Geophytes)
Hasan Akan, Ismail Eker and Maruf Balos A really practical fieldguide to the rare plants of the region. Contains species descriptions, latin names, local names, collection localities and flowering times. Fully .... | 95 pages | Col photos | Akan Pbk | 2005 | 9752706096 | #154566A | £13.95 BUY |
Useful Plants: An Introduction to Economic Botany
Edited by Wim Krommenhoek and de Kort.Ingrid Plants are essential for the survival of our planet and the many life Forms on it. Food plants like cereals, vegetables, pulses, root crops, fruits and nuts are hugely .... | - | ETI CD | 2005 | 907500074X | #154729A | £23.33 BUY |
Wildflowers and Grasses of Kansas: A Field Guide
MJ Haddock This is the first book on Kansas wildflowers or weeds to appear in 25 years. It supersedes earlier guides not only in the number of species it includes, plus its .... | 384 pages | 325 col photos, 18 illus | Kansas UP Pbk | 2005 | 0700613706 | #154563A | £15.95 BUY |
Edited by Amparo Querol and Graham H Fleet Yeasts play a key role in the production of many foods and beverages. This role now extends beyond their widely recognized contributions to the production of alcoholic .... | 485 pages | 52 illus, 2 in colour | Springer Hbk | NYP 02/2006 | 3540283889 | #154636A | £184.00 BUY |
| Animal & General Biology | Go to subject web page |
The Revolutionary Science of Biofluorescence Vincent Pieribone and David Gruber In the early 1960s, in a small shack on the Washington coast, a young, self-educated Japanese scientist performed an experiment to determine what made a certain jellyfish .... | 206 pages | 33 colour illus, 14 halftones | Harvard UP Hbk | NYP 02/2006 | 0674019210 | #154597A | £15.95 BUY |
Intelligence, Culture, and Individualized Societies Edited by Frans BM de Waal and Peter L Tyack Primatologists have long speculated that intelligence, at least in monkeys and apes, evolved as an adaptation to complex social relations. But social complexity in other .... | 616 pages | 49 b/w photos, 74 line illus, 11 tabs | Harvard UP Hbk | 2003 | 0674009290 | #133281A | £32.95 BUY Pbk | NYP 10/2005 | 0674018230 | #154605A | £18.95 BUY |
Bacterial and Bacteriophage Genetics
Edward A Birge Genetic investigations and manipulations of bacteria and bacteriophage have made vital contributions to our basic understanding of living cells and to the development of .... | 559 pages | B\w plates, illus, figs, tabs | Springer Hbk | NYP 11/2005 | 0387239197 | #154621A | £56.00 BUY |
Beasts of the Earth: Animals, Humans, and Disease
EF Torrey Humans have lived in close proximity to other animals for thousands of years. Recent scientific studies have even shown that the presence of animals has a positive effect on .... | 208 pages | Rutgers UP Hbk | 2005 | 0813535719 | #154339A | £17.50 BUY |
International Edition (With GradeBook Access Card) S Freeman Biological Science is a dynamic reference that involves students in the process of scientific discovery. Infused with the spirit of inquiry, Biological Science teaches .... | 1283 pages | Col figs, illus, col photos | Prentice-Hall Hbk | 2005 | 0131409417 | #150419A | £43.99 BUY Pbk | 2005 | 0131975889 | #154313A | £43.23 BUY |
Brain Arousal and Information Theory Neural and Genetic Mechanisms Donald Pfaff Arousal is fundamental to all cognition. It is intuitively obvious, absolutely necessary, but what exactly is it? In Brain Arousal and Information Theory, Donald Pfaff .... | 222 pages | 5 halftones, 42 line illus, 10 tables | Harvard UP Hbk | NYP 12/2005 | 0674019202 | #154602A | £28.95 BUY |
D Voet This text uses a more brief and qualitative approach to present biochemistry with chemical rigor, focusing on the structures of biomolecules, chemical mechanisms, and .... | 1264 pages | Figs, tabs | Wiley Hbk | 2004 | 0471214957 | #154474A | £34.95 BUY |
Headless Males Make Great Lovers and Other Unusual Natural Histories
Marty Crump and Alan Crump Headless Males Make Great Lovers and Other Unusual Natural Histories celebrates the extraordinary world of animals with essays on curious creatures and their amazing .... | 207 pages | 108 line drawings, 1 table | Chicago UP Hbk | NYP 10/2005 | 0226121992 | #154531A | £17.50 BUY |
Gideon Defoe Lesbian lizards; intercourse that lasts for six months; mind-control sperm; dance .... | 160 pages | colour photos | Orion Hbk | NYP 10/2005 | 0297851128 | #154616A | £9.99 BUY |
Edwin H McConkey Explains the basics of the human genome: what it is, what it does, and its implications in health and disease. In seven clear and concise lectures, Dr. McConkey conveys the .... | 118 pages | Figs | Jones & Bartlett Pbk | 2004 | 0763723843 | #154277A | £16.99 BUY |
Louis M Schoonhoven, Joop JA Van Loon and Marcel Dicke New edition of this key text, first published by Chapman & Hall in 1997. .... | 480 pages | 213 line illus, 11 halftones, 2pp colour plates | OUP Hbk | NYP 11/2005 | 019852594X | #154613A | £75.00 BUY Pbk | NYP 11/2005 | 0198525958 | #154614A | £34.95 BUY |
Matthias Clauss and Georg Breier | 307 pages | Figs | Birkhauser Hbk | 2005 | 3764364599 | #154275A | £80.00 BUY |
National Research Council Revised edition of the standard work first published in 1980. .... | 700 pages | National Academy Press Pbk | NYP 10/2005 | 0309096545 | #154386A | £53.99 BUY |
Neural Networks and Animal Behavior
Magnus Enquist and Stefano Ghirlanda How can we make better sense of animal behavior by using what we know about the brain? This is the first book that attempts to answer this important question by applying .... | 256 pages | 12 halftones, 102 line illus, 6 tables | Princeton UP Hbk | NYP 10/2005 | 0691096325 | #154442A | £58.00 BUY Pbk | NYP 10/2005 | 0691096333 | #154443A | £26.95 BUY |
Nutrient Requirements of Beef Cattle
National Research Council | 250 pages | National Academy Press Pbk | 2000 | 0309069343 | #154388A | £20.99 BUY |
Respiration in Archaea and Bacteria Diversity of Prokaryotic Respiratory Systems Edited by Davide Zannoni The book summarizes the achievements of the past decade in the biochemistry, bioenergetics, structural and molecular biology of respiratory processes in selected .... | 310 pages | Springer Hbk | 2004 | 1402020023 | #154629A | £104.00 BUY |
Respiration in Archaea and Bacteria Diversity of Prokaryotic Electron Transport Carriers Edited by Davide Zannoni This book, entitled Respiration in Archaea and Bacteria, summarizes the achievements of the past decade in the biochemistry, bioenergetics, structural and molecular biology of .... | 350 pages | Springer Hbk | 2004 | 1402020015 | #154630A | £121.00 BUY |
Piotr Naskrecki Fabulous photographs of the teeming animal life that surrounds us -- which we only see as fast moving blobs. .... | 260 pages | 450 colour photos | Harvard UP Hbk | NYP 11/2005 | 0674019156 | #154595A | £21.95 BUY |
Trading the Genome: Investigating the Commodification of Bio-Information
B Parry Many suppliers of the genetic and biochemical resources from which this information is drawn come from economically vulnerable developing countries. The Biodiversity .... | 352 pages | B/w photos | Columbia UP Hbk | 2004 | 0231121741 | #154325A | £26.00 BUY |
Edited by RA Eatock, RR Fay and AN Popper Vertebrate Hair Cells provides a current overview of the mechanosensory receptor cells of the vertebrate inner ear. Each chapter is written by experimentalists active in .... | 305 pages | 84 illus | Springer Hbk | NYP 12/2005 | 0387952020 | #154623A | £77.00 BUY |
| Evolutionary Biology | Go to subject web page |
Perspectives on the Evolution of Mammals, Birds, and Reptiles Edited by Matthew Carrano, Timothy Gaudlin, Richard Blob and John Wible Living amniotes-including all mammals, birds, crocodilians, snakes, and turtles-comprise an extraordinarily varied array of more than 21,000 species. Found in every major .... | 448 pages | 37 halftones, 86 line drawings, 47 tables | Chicago UP Hbk | NYP 11/2005 | 0226094774 | #154541A | £66.50 BUY Pbk | NYP 11/2005 | 0226094782 | #154542A | £28.00 BUY |
Respecting the Living World Graham Harvey 'Animism' is now an accepted term for describing ways in which man engages with some of his other-than-human neighbours (e.g. animals, plants, rocks, clouds), on the .... | 304 pages | Illus | Christopher Hurst Hbk | NYP 10/2005 | 1850657572 | #154469A | £30.00 BUY Pbk | NYP 10/2005 | 1850657580 | #154470A | £14.95 BUY |
Complexities: Beyond Nature and Nurture
Edited by Susan McKinnon and Sydel Silverman Recent years have seen a growing impetus to explain social life almost exclusively in biological and mechanistic terms, and to dismiss cultural meaning and difference. Daily .... | 296 pages | 5 halftones, 2 figures | Chicago UP Hbk | 2005 | 0226500233 | #154537A | £35.00 BUY Pbk | 2005 | 0226500241 | #154538A | £14.00 BUY |
An Introduction Eugenie, C Scott With a Foreword by Niles Eldredge. .... | 296 pages | California UP Pbk | NYP 11/2005 | 0520246500 | #154526A | £12.95 BUY |
Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in Nature and People Joan Roughgarden Fascinating discussion of diversity in gender and sexuality among fish, reptiles, amphibians, birds, and mammals, including primates explaining how this diversity .... | 474 pages | - | California UP Hbk | 2004 | 0520240731 | #144914A | £17.95 BUY Pbk | NYP 12/2005 | 0520246799 | #154522A | £11.95 BUY |
How Life on Earth Nearly Ended 250 Million Years Ago Douglas H Erwin Some 250 million years ago, the earth suffered the greatest biological crisis in its history. Around 95% of all living species died out--a global catastrophe far greater .... | 264 pages | 32 halftones, 32 line illus | Princeton UP Hbk | NYP 02/2006 | 0691005249 | #154433A | £15.95 BUY |
From So Simple a Beginning: Darwin's Four Great Books Edited, with introductions, by Edward O.Wilson Charles Darwin Very well priced single volume collection of `Voyage of the HMS Beagle' (1845), `The Origin of Species' (1859), `The Descent of Man' (1871) and The Expression of Emotions in .... | 1504 pages | 101 illustrations, map | Norton Hbk | NYP 11/2005 | 0393061345 | #154428A | £28.00 BUY |
The Scientific Quest for Life's Origins Robert M Hazen Tells the tale of transforming scientific advances in our quest for life's origins. This book attempts to portray the great adventure - the effort to deduce how life began on .... | 288 pages | Joseph Henry Press Hbk | NYP 10/2005 | 0309094321 | #154391A | £17.95 BUY |
Synergy, Cybernetics, and the Bioeconomics of Evolution Peter A Corning In recent years, evolutionary theorists have come to recognize that the reductionist, individualist, gene-centered approach to evolution cannot sufficiently account for the .... | 504 pages | 9 line drawings | Chicago UP Hbk | NYP 10/2005 | 0226116131 | #154539A | £49.00 BUY Pbk | NYP 10/2005 | 0226116166 | #154540A | £20.00 BUY |
Impact of the Environment on Human Migration in Eurasia
Edited by EM Scott, Andrey Yu Alekseev and Ganna Zaitseva Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop, held in St. Petersburg, 15-18 November 2003. .... | 334 pages | Springer Hbk | 2004 | 1402026544 | #154697A | £90.00 BUY Pbk | 2004 | 1402026552 | #154696A | £42.00 BUY |
Essays on Human, Primate, and Mammal Evolution Edited by Daniel Lieberman, Richard Smith and Jay Kelley This volume, published in honor of the occasion of David Pilbeam's 65th birthday, covers major topics in human, primate, and mammalian evolution, mostly from the Miocene to the .... | 352 pages | EJ Brill Hbk | NYP 11/2005 | 0391042475 | #154618A | £34.50 BUY |
Macroevolution: Diversity, Disparity, Contingency Essays in Honor of Stephen Jay Gould Edited by Elisabeth S Vrba and Niles Eldredge A fine tribute to the late Stephen Jay Gould, with contributions from many leading paleontologists and evolutionary biologists. .... | 210 pages | 42 figues, some in colour | Paleontological Society Pbk | 2005 | 1891276492 | #154545A | £17.50 BUY |
Resolving Darwin's Dilemma Marc W Kirschner and John C Gerhart In the 150 years since Darwin, the field of evolutionary biology has left a glaring gap in understanding how animals developed their astounding variety and complexity. The .... | 352 pages | 40 b/w illus | Yale UP Hbk | NYP 11/2005 | 0300108656 | #154418A | £18.95 BUY |
Systematics and the Origin of Species: On Ernst Mayr's 100th Anniversary
Edited by Jody Hey, Walter M Fitch and Francisco Ayala In December 2004, the National Academy of Sciences sponsored a colloquium on Systematics and the Origin of Species to celebrate Ernst Mayr s 100th anniversary and to explore .... | 250 pages | National Academy Press Hbk | NYP 10/2005 | 0309095360 | #154390A | £23.00 BUY |
Uncommon Dissent: Intellectuals Who Find Darwinism Unconvincing
Edited by WA Dembski Recent years have seen the rise to prominence of ever more sophisticated philosophical and scientific critiques of the ideas marketed under the name of Darwinism. In Uncommon .... | 350 pages | - | ISI Books Hbk | 2004 | 1932236309 | #154333A | £21.50 BUY |
| Ecology | Go to subject web page |
How Planets Move and Populations Grow L Ginzburg and M Colyvan This book proposes a new approach to population biology and ecology. The current paradigm for analyzing population dynamics focuses attention on the growth rate as the .... | 184 pages | - | OUP Hbk | 2004 | 019516816X | #154322A | £18.50 BUY |
Paddy Coker and Paul Ganderton Provides a detailed overview of the major topics within biogeography. Divided into three parts, this text looks at basic biological and physical processes underlying species .... | 283 pages | Col photos, b/w photos | Prentice Hall Pbk | 2005 | 0582318297 | #143973A | £26.99 BUY |
The Evolution of American Ecology, 1890-2000
Sharon E Kingsland In the 1890s, several initiatives in American botany converged. The creation of new institutions, such as the New York Botanical Garden, coincided with radical reforms in .... | 320 pages | 8 line drawings, 5 halftones | Johns Hopkins UP Hbk | NYP 11/2005 | 0801881714 | #154411A | £33.50 BUY |
The Evolution of Animal Communication Reliability and Deception in Signaling Systems William A Searcy and Stephen Nowicki Gull chicks beg for food from their parents. Peacocks spread their tails to attract potential mates. Meerkats alert family members of the approach of predators. But are .... | 288 pages | 45 line illus, 1 table | Princeton UP Hbk | NYP 10/2005 | 0691070946 | #154449A | £55.00 BUY Pbk | NYP 10/2005 | 0691070954 | #154450A | £26.95 BUY |
Edited by Rosie Hails, H Charles, J Goffray and John Beringer Presents a review of the recent reseach and illustrates how molecular, genetic and modelling techniques have provided considerable new insights into the understanding of .... | 336 pages | B/w photos, figs, tabs | CUP Hbk | | 0521840015 | #154321A | £65.00 BUY Pbk | 2003 | 0521549345 | #144349A | £32.95 BUY |
Hormones and Animal Social Behavior
Elizabeth Adkins-Regan Research into the lives of animals in their natural environments has revealed a rich tapestry of complex social relationships and previously unsuspected social and mating .... | 416 pages | 13 halftones, 35 line illus | Princeton UP Hbk | NYP 10/2005 | 069109246X | #154440A | £51.95 BUY Pbk | NYP 10/2005 | 0691092478 | #154441A | £29.95 BUY |
Biocultural Adaptations in Human Communities Holger Schutkowski The human condition is composed of culturally mediated biology, and this inherently dual nature is key to our understanding of human/environment interaction. Human Ecology .... | 300 pages | 36 illus | Springer Hbk | NYP 12/2005 | 3540260854 | #154646A | £84.50 BUY |
Fact and Theory in Nature James Lazell Guana, in the British Virgin Islands, is home to a remarkably diverse assortment of animal and plant life: mangroves, flamingos, iguanas, frogs, birds, snakes, spiders, .... | 416 pages | 40 colour illus, 14 line illus, 19 tables | California UP Hbk | NYP 10/2005 | 0520243528 | #154502A | £32.50 BUY |
Metacommunities: Spatial Dynamics and Ecological Communities
Edited by Marcel Holyoak, Mathew A Leibold and Robert D Holt Until recently community ecology-a science devoted to understanding the patterns and processes of species distribution and abundance-focused mainly on specific and often .... | 520 pages | 73 line drawings, 8 tables | Chicago UP Hbk | NYP 10/2005 | 0226350630 | #153067A | £66.50 BUY Pbk | NYP 10/2005 | 0226350649 | #153066A | £27.00 BUY |
Climate, Geography, Ecology Edited by Ashraf MT Elewa In the common sense, migration is considered by many authors as a mechanism for avoiding unfavorable environments by moving to expectedly more auspicious locations at different .... | 337 pages | 67 illus | Springer Hbk | NYP 10/2005 | 3540266038 | #154650A | £69.00 BUY |
Out of Eden: An Odyssey of Ecological Invasion
A Burdick A stunning work of narrative nonfiction that asks: what is natural? Now as never before, exotic animals and plants are crossing the globe, borne on the swelling tide of human .... | 336 pages | Illus | Farrer, Straus & Giroux Hbk | 2005 | 0374219737 | #154416A | £19.50 BUY |
Diversity and Dynamics on a Continental Archipelago Martin L Cody This thorough and meticulous study, the result of nearly a quarter-century of research, examines the island biogeography of plants on continental islands in Barkley Sound, .... | 315 pages | 114 line illus, 20 tables | California UP Hbk | NYP 01/2006 | 0520247299 | #154501A | £32.50 BUY |
| Habitats & Ecosystems | Go to subject web page |
Edited by Jennifer McCullough This report aims to promote regional conservation and sustainable development. .... | 248 pages | Col plates, tabs, figs | Conservation International Pbk | 2005 | 1881173755 | #150989A | £14.00 BUY |
The Aquatic Ecosystems of the Pastaza River Basin, Ecuador and Peru
Edited by Philip W Willink | 250 pages | Conservation International Pbk | 2004 | 1881173771 | #154548A | £14.00 BUY |
Results from the Russian Drifting Stations I Frolov, ZM Gudkovich, VF Radionov, AV Shirochkov and LA Timokhov This unique group of authors from the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute in St. Petersburg, Russia, have all achieved individual doctoral theses on various aspects of .... | 319 pages | Springer Hbk | NYP 11/2005 | 3540241426 | #154651A | £100.00 BUY |
Edited by Carlos A Lasso | 358 pages | Conservation International Pbk | 2005 | 1881173763 | #154549A | £14.00 BUY |
A Biological Assessment of Laguna del Tigre National Park, Peten, Guatemala
Edited by Brandon T Bestelmeyer and Leanne E Alonso | 221 pages | 13 color plates, 3 halftones, 37 tables | Conservation International Pbk | 2001 | 188117333X | #154550A | £14.00 BUY |
Cold War Ecology: Forests, Farms, and People in the East German Landscape, 1945-1989
Arvid Nelson East Germany, its economy, and its society were in decline long before the country's political collapse in the late 1980s. The clues were there in the natural landscape, .... | 416 pages | 65 b/w illus | Yale UP Hbk | NYP 01/2006 | 0300106602 | #154422A | £22.50 BUY |
Walter Deas and Jean Deas Phiotographic introduction to coral reefs. .... | 296 pages | Colour illus | WA Museum Pbk | NYP 10/2005 | 1920843183 | #154400A | £27.50 BUY |
Ecosystems and Land Use Change (Geophysical Monograph)
RS Defries Land use is at the center of one of the most vexing challenges for the coming decades: to provide enough food, fiber and shelter for the world's population; raise the standard .... | 344 pages | Illus | AGU Hbk | 2004 | 0875904181 | #154332A | £69.00 BUY |
Environmentally Friendly Coastal Protection
C Zimmermann, RG Dean, V Penchev and HJ Verhagen Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Environmentally Friendly Coastal Protection Structures, Varna, Bulgaria, 25-27 May 2004. .... | 276 pages | Springer Hbk | 2005 | 1402032994 | #154708A | £73.00 BUY Pbk | 2005 | 1402033001 | #154709A | £34.00 BUY |
Fluxes of Carbon, Water and Energy of European Forests
Edited by R Valentini This is a synthesis of several studies on fluxes of carbon, water and energy conducted in a range of European forests encompassing different climates, soils and biomes. The .... | 270 pages | 142 figs | Springer Hbk | 2002 | 3540437916 | #136507A | £57.50 BUY |
Forest Ecosystems and Environments Scaling Up from Shoot Module to Watershed Edited by T Kohyama, J Canadell, DS Ojima and LF Pitelka Reprinted from Ecological Research, Vol 20 (3), 2005. .... | 160 pages | Springer Hbk | 2005 | 4431260749 | #154624A | £69.00 BUY |
M Krott First English edition of `Politikfeld - analyse Forstwirtschaft', published by Blackwell Wissenschafts-Verlag in 2001. .... | 323 pages | Springer Hbk | NYP 09/2005 | 1402034784 | #154625A | £69.00 BUY |
The Historical Ecology Handbook A Restorationist's Guide to Reference Ecosystems Edited by Dave Egan and Evelyn Howell Makes essential connections between past and future ecosystems, bringing together leading experts to offer a much-needed introduction to the field of historical ecology .... | 457 pages | B\w pgotos, figs, tabs, maps | Island Press Pbk | 2005 | 1597260339 | #154382A | £23.50 BUY |
Human Impacts on Amazonia: The Role of Traditional Knowledge in Conservation and Development
Darrell A Posey and Michael J Balick From the pre-Columbian era to the present, native Amazonians have shaped the land around them, emphasizing utilization, conservation, and sustainability. These priorities stand .... | 368 pages | 16 illus | Columbia UP Hbk | NYP 11/2005 | 0231105886 | #138357A | £48.00 BUY Pbk | NYP 11/2005 | 0231105894 | #154478A | £22.50 BUY |
Jan Mayen Island in Scientific Focus
Edited by Stig Skreslet Proceedings of the NATO ARW on Joint International Scientific Observation Facility on Jan Mayen Island, Oslo, Norway from 11 to 15 November 2003. .... | 363 pages | Springer Hbk | 2004 | 1402029551 | #154702A | £102.00 BUY Pbk | 2004 | 140202956X | #154701A | £41.00 BUY |
The Legacy of Sprawl Elizabeth A Johnson and Michael W Klemens Sprawl creates and contributes to habitat loss, fragmentation, pollution, and a host of other environmental problems. This new collection focuses on the impact of sprawl on .... | 400 pages | 30 line illus, 25 halftones | Columbia UP Hbk | NYP 11/2005 | 0231127782 | #154484A | £48.00 BUY Pbk | NYP 11/2005 | 0231127790 | #154485A | £26.00 BUY |
Peru: Ampiyacu, Apayacu, Yaguas, Medio Putumayo
Edited by Nigel Pitman | 274 pages | Chicago Field MNH Pbk | 2004 | 0914868667 | #154553A | £21.00 BUY |
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Risk Methodologies for Technological Legacies
Dennis Bley and Vitaly A Eremenko Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute, Bourgas, Bulgaria from 2 to 11 May 2000. .... | 400 pages | Springer Hbk | 2003 | 1402012578 | #154672A | £119.00 BUY Pbk | 2003 | 1402012586 | #154671A | £48.50 BUY |
The Search for Alternatives Edited by Cheryl A Palm, Stephen A Vosti, Pedro A Sanchez and Polly J Ericksen Every year about 130,000 km2 of humid tropical rain forest is destroyed. Caused in part by the slash-and-burn practices of both large- and small-scale farmers in Brazil, .... | 480 pages | 58 illus | Columbia UP Hbk | NYP 10/2005 | 0231134509 | #154476A | £51.50 BUY Pbk | NYP 10/2005 | 0231134517 | #154477A | £26.00 BUY |
Soil Physical Measurement and Interpretation for Land Evaluation A Laboratory Handbook (Australian Soil & Land Survey Handbook) NJ McKenzie et al This operational laboratory handbook offers a standard set of soil physical measurement methods that are intended to be cost-effective and well-suited to land resource survey. .... | 320 pages | CSIRO Hbk | 2002 | 0643067671 | #154401A | £49.50 BUY |
The Tallgrass Restoration Handbook For Prairies, Savannas and Woodlands Edited by Stephen Packard and Cornelia F Mutel A hands-on manual that provides a detailed account of what has been learned about the art and science of prairie restoration and the application of that knowledge to .... | 463 pages | Illus, figs, tabs | Island Press Pbk | 2005 | 1597260347 | #154381A | £23.50 BUY |
Tropical Forests: Regional Paths of Destruction and Regeneration in the Late Twentieth Century
Thomas K Rudel Addressing decades of rain forest destruction, concerned scientists, often in concert with various environmental movements, have amassed an impressive amount of information .... | 234 pages | 24 illus | Columbia UP Hbk | NYP 11/2005 | 0231131941 | #154479A | £47.00 BUY Pbk | NYP 11/2005 | 023113195X | #154480A | £21.00 BUY |
LB Leopold Leopold looks at the subject of river morphology, with a description of the river and its shape, size, organization and action. This is a technical and personal view of the .... | 320 pages | 24 b/w illus, 103 line illus, 14 tabs | Harvard UP Hbk | 1994 | 0674937325 | #032029A | £28.50 BUY Pbk | NYP 02/2006 | 0674018451 | #154607A | £12.95 BUY |
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Corridors as a Strategy for Biodiversity Conservation Anthony B Anderson and Clinton N Jenkins Offers a comprehensive and insightful overview of the design and effectiveness of corridors. The authors' multifaceted analysis combines a succinct review of the .... | 256 pages | Illus | Columbia UP Hbk | NYP 02/2006 | 023113410X | #154472A | £48.00 BUY Pbk | NYP 02/2006 | 0231134118 | #154475A | £22.50 BUY |
Correction Lines: Essays on Land, Leopold, and Conservation
C Meine The last fifteen years have been a period of dramatic change, both in the world at large and within the fields of ecology and conservation. The end of the Cold War, the dot-com .... | 304 pages | - | Island Press Hbk | 2004 | 1559637315 | #154334A | £36.50 BUY |
Impacts of Sakhalin II Phase 2 on Western North Pacific Gray Whales and related Biodiversity
RR Reeves et al Important contribution to the ongoing controversies over the Sakhalin Island oil and gas development project. .... | 123 pages | IUCN Pbk | 2005 | 2831708745 | #154617A | £10.00 BUY |
Issues, Methods, and Application Edited by Cheryl Asa and Ingrid Porton This collection of essays is the first major work in more than a decade to discuss the critical issue of wildlife contraception and the first ever to take up .... | 288 pages | Johns Hopkins UP Hbk | NYP 10/2005 | 0801883040 | #148199A | £43.50 BUY |
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Advances in Urban Stormwater and Agricultural Runoff Source Controls
Edited by J Marsalek, WE Watt, E Zeman and H Sieker Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Source Control Measures for Stormwater Runoff, St. Marienthal-Ostritz, Germany, 8-12 November 2000. .... | 340 pages | Springer Hbk | 2002 | 1402001533 | #154661A | £100.00 BUY Pbk | 2002 | 1402001541 | #154660A | £46.00 BUY |
Aeronomy of the Middle Atmosphere Chemistry and Physics of the Stratosphere and Mesosphere Guy P Brasseur and Susan Solomon Since the Industrial Revolution the chemical composition of the atmosphere has changed at a rate unprecedented in recent history. Ozone depletion emerged as one of the most .... | 655 pages | Springer Hbk | NYP 09/2005 | 1402032846 | #154719A | £54.00 BUY |
Air Pollution Processes in Regional Scale
Edited by Dimitrios Melas and Dimiter Syrakov Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop, Kallithea, Halkidiki, Greece, from 13 to 15 June 2003. .... | 420 pages | Springer Hbk | 2003 | 1402016263 | #154685A | £115.50 BUY |
Air-Sea Exchange: Physics, Chemistry and Dynamics
Edited by Gerald L Geernaert This book is the first to introduce a multi-disciplinary approach to extending our understanding of air-sea interaction, where the atmospheric boundary layer, ocean mixed .... | 592 pages | Springer Hbk | 2000 | 0792359372 | #108144A | £134.50 BUY |
Approaches to Handling Environmental Problems in the Mining and Metallurgical Regions
Edited by Walter Leal Filho and Irina Butorina Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop, Mariupol, Ukraine, from 5 to 7 September 2002. .... | 310 pages | Springer Hbk | 2003 | 1402013221 | #154673A | £96.00 BUY Pbk | 2003 | 140201323X | #154674A | £46.00 BUY |
Atmospheric Aerosol Properties, Formation Processes and Impacts
Edited by K Kondratyev, LS Ivlev, VF Krapivin and CA Varostos This book provides the first comprehensive analysis of how aerosols form in the atmosphere through in situ processes as well as via transport from the surface (dust .... | 510 pages | 75 illus | Springer Hbk | NYP 10/2005 | 3540262636 | #154717A | £115.50 BUY |
Averaging of Meteorological Fields
Edited by RL Kagan This book gives a comprehensive and detailed discussion of statistical averaging of meteorological fields, with assessments of associated errors. A great deal of work on .... | 296 pages | Springer Hbk | 1997 | 079234801X | #154723A | £77.00 BUY |
A Gelencser This monograph provides a unique and comprehensive coverage of the nature and atmospheric role of carbonaceous aerosol particles, these big unknowns of the global .... | 352 pages | Springer Hbk | 2004 | 1402028865 | #151940A | £69.00 BUY |
Climate Change: A Natural Hazard
W Kininmonth The author argues that the very complexity itself of the system we call climate is a far more likely cause of global warming than any of the activities of mankind. The .... | 286 pages | Illus | Multi-Science Pbk | 2004 | 0906522269 | #154348A | £58.50 BUY |
Edited by Alexander Kokhanovsky Clouds affect the climate of the Earth, and they are an important factor in the weather. Therefore, their radiative properties must be understood in great detail. This book .... | 305 pages | Springer Hbk | NYP 10/2005 | 1402039557 | #154718A | £69.95 BUY |
Current Problems of Hydrogeology in Urban Areas, Urban Agglomerates and Industrial Centres
Edited by Ken WF Howard and Rauf G Israfilov Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop, held in Baku, Azerbaijan, 29 May-1 June 2001. .... | 504 pages | Springer Hbk | 2002 | 1402006004 | #154662A | £134.50 BUY Pbk | 2002 | 1402006012 | #154663A | £54.00 BUY |
Earth System Science in the Anthropocene Emerging Issues and Problems Edited by Eckart Ehlers and Thomas Krafft Earth System Science in the Anthropocene aims to provide an in-depth perspective and update on special topics in Global Environmental Change in relation to Human Security. .... | 320 pages | 38 illus | Springer Hbk | NYP 10/2005 | 3540265880 | #154649A | £77.00 BUY |
Environmental Protection Against Radioactive Pollution
Edited by N. Birsen and Kairat K Kadyrzhanov Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop, held in Almaty, Kazakhstan, 16-19 September 2002. .... | 248 pages | Springer Hbk | 2005 | 1402017898 | #154689A | £76.00 BUY Pbk | 2004 | 1402017901 | #154688A | £38.00 BUY |
Environmental UV Radiation: Impact on Ecosystems and Human Health and Predictive Models
Edited by Francesco Ghetti, Giovanni Checcucci and Janet F Bornman Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute, held in Pisa, Italy, June 2001. .... | 360 pages | Springer Hbk | NYP 09/2005 | 1402036957 | #154710A | £90.00 BUY Pbk | NYP 09/2005 | 1402036965 | #154711A | £41.00 BUY |
National Research Council In order to answer important questions about ecosystems and biodiversity, scientists can .... | 216 pages | National Academy Press Pbk | 2005 | 0309095808 | #154385A | £25.99 BUY |
Global Atmospheric Change and its Impact on Regional Air Quality
Edited by Ian Barnes Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Global Atmospheric Change and its Impact on Regional Air Quality, held in Irkutsk, Russian Federation, August 21-27, 2001. .... | 344 pages | Springer Hbk | 2002 | 1402009585 | #136021A | £92.50 BUY Pbk | 2002 | 1402009593 | #136022A | £48.50 BUY |
A Guide for Surface Flux Measurement and Analysis Edited by Xuhui Lee, William Massman and Beverly Law The Handbook of Micrometeorology is the most up-to-date reference for micrometeorological issues and methods related to the eddy covariance technique for .... | 250 pages | Springer Hbk | 2004 | 1402022646 | #154720A | £61.50 BUY |
Introduction to Boundary Layer Meteorology
R Stull | 684 pages | Springer Hbk | 1988 | 9027727686 | #154725A | £138.50 BUY Pbk | 1988 | 9027727694 | #040105A | £44.00 BUY |
Metalliferous Sediments of the World Ocean Fundamental Theory of Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Sedimentation Evgeny Gurvich All available information on metalliferous sediments (MS) in recent and ancient oceans and the Red Sea is summarized in this monograph. The main features of their composition, .... | 330 pages | Springer Hbk | NYP 10/2005 | 3540278699 | #154652A | £92.50 BUY |
Microphysics of Clouds and Precipitation
HR Pruppacher and JD Klett This book provides the most comprehensive treatment to date of the microphysical processes which lead to cloud and precipitation formation. Emphasis is placed on .... | 976 pages | Springer Hbk | 1997 | 0792342119 | #154724A | £168.50 BUY |
Pathogens in the Marine Environment Edited by Shimshon S Belkin and Rita R Colwell The release of non-disinfected wastewaters into the marine environment is a common worldwide practice, in under-developed as well as in highly developed countries. .... | 465 pages | 49 illus | Springer Hbk | NYP 10/2005 | 0387237089 | #154620A | £54.00 BUY |
Physics and Modelling of Wind Erosion
Shao Yaping This book provides a comprehensive summary of the recent developments in wind-erosion research and a clear outline of its future directions. The physics of wind-erosion, from .... | 408 pages | Springer Hbk | 2001 | 0792366573 | #154722A | £100.00 BUY |
Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum: How Humans Took Control of Climate William F Ruddiman The impact on climate from 200 years of industrial development is an everyday fact of life, but did humankind's active involvement in climate change really begin with the .... | 272 pages | 16 halftones, 14 line illus, 4 tables, 7 maps | Princeton UP Hbk | NYP 10/2005 | 0691121648 | #154434A | £15.95 BUY |
S Raghavan This book covers the entire range of developments in the operational and research use of RADAR for meteorological applications, such as aviation, precipitation measurement and .... | 564 pages | Springer Hbk | 2003 | 1402016042 | #154721A | £121.00 BUY |
Radiation Safety Problems in the Caspian Region
Edited by Mohammed K Zaidi and Islam Mustafaev Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Radiation Safety Problems in the Caspian Region, Baku, Azerbaijan, 11-14 September 2003. .... | 249 pages | Springer Hbk | 2004 | 1402023766 | #154694A | £87.00 BUY Pbk | 2004 | 1402023774 | #154695A | £34.00 BUY |
Radionuclides and Heavy Metals in Environment
Edited by Marina V Frontasyeva, Vladimir P Perelygin and Peter Vater Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Monitoring and Man-Made Radionuclides and Heavy Metals Waste in Environment, Dubna, Russia, 3-6 October 2000. .... | 408 pages | Springer Hbk | 2001 | 1402000588 | #154659A | £115.50 BUY Pbk | 2001 | 1402000596 | #154658A | £51.50 BUY |
Remaining Issues in the Decommissioning of Nuclear Powered Vessels
Edited by Ashot A Sarkisov and LG LeSage `Including Issues Related to the Environmental Remediation of the Supporting Infrastructure.' Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop, held in Moscow, .... | 420 pages | Springer Hbk | 2003 | 1402013531 | #154676A | £115.50 BUY Pbk | 2003 | 140201354X | #154675A | £51.50 BUY |
Use of Humic Substances to Remediate Polluted Environments: From Theory to Practice
Edited by Irina V Perminova, Kirk Hatfield and Norbert Hertkorn Proceedings of the NATO Adanced Research Workshop on Use of Humates to Remediate Polluted Environments: From Theory to Practice, held in Zvenigorod, Russia, 23-29 .... | 506 pages | Springer Hbk | 2005 | 1402032501 | #154706A | £125.00 BUY Pbk | 2005 | 140203251X | #154707A | £50.00 BUY |
Variability of Air Temperature and Atmospheric Precipitation in the Arctic Rajmund Pryzbylak This book presents for the first time a comprehensive analysis of various aspects of air temperature and atmospheric precipitation variability over a period of instrumental .... | 332 pages | Figs, tabs | Springer Hbk | 2002 | 1402009526 | #135843A | £66.00 BUY |
Weakly Interacting Molecular Pairs: Unconventional Absorbers of Radiation in the Atmosphere
Edited by Claude Camy-Peyret and Andrei A Vigasin Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop held in Abbaye de Fontevraud, France, from 25 to 28 March 2002. .... | 308 pages | Springer Hbk | 2003 | 140201595X | #154682A | £88.50 BUY Pbk | 2003 | 1402015968 | #154681A | £44.00 BUY |
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Asymmetric Organocatalysis: From Biomimetic Concepts to Applications in Asymmetric Synthesis
A Berkessel Asymmetric catalysis represents still one of the major challenges in modern organic chemistry. Besides the well-established asymmetric metal-complex-catalysed syntheses and .... | 300 pages | Figs | Wiley Hbk | 2004 | 3527305173 | #154504A | £105.00 BUY |
Catalysis in Asymmetric Synthesis
JMJ Williams Asymmetric synthesis has become a major aspect of modern organic chemistry. The importance of stereochemical purity in pharmaceutical products has been one driving .... | 208 pages | Figs | Sheffield AP Hbk | 2002 | 1850759847 | #154516A | £39.00 BUY |
Catalysts for Fine Chemical Synthesis Metal Catalysed Carbon-Carbon Bond-Forming Reactions 3 SM Roberts et al The chemist has a vast range of high-tech catalysts to use when working in fine chemical synthesis but the catalysts are generally hard to use and require both time, skill and .... | 268 pages | Figs | Wiley Hbk | 2004 | 0470861991 | #154465A | £92.00 BUY |
Chromatography: Concepts and Contrasts
JM Miller The first edition of Chromatography: Concepts and Contrasts, published in 1988, was one of the first books to discuss all the different types of chromatography under one cover. .... | 490 pages | Figs | Wiley Hbk | 2004 | 0471472077 | #154508A | £54.50 BUY |
Directions in Strong Motion Instrumentation
Edited by Polat Gulkan and John G Anderson Proceedings of the NATO SFP Workshop on Future Directions in Instrumentation for Strong Motion and Engineering Seismology, Kusadasi, Izmir, May 17-21, 2004. .... | 315 pages | Springer Hbk | NYP 09/2005 | 1402037821 | #154712A | £83.00 BUY |
Fractal Behaviour of the Earth System
Edited by VP Dimri The book fills a gap in the steadily expanding field of applying fractals to the earth science system. In this book the concept of fractal-scaling is applied to a variety of .... | 208 pages | 72 illus, 19 in colour | Springer Hbk | NYP 11/2005 | 3540265325 | #154648A | £61.50 BUY |
Mary Hill New edition of the guide first published in 1975. .... | 400 pages | 117 colour illus, 16 b/w photos, 39 line illus, 12 maps | California UP Pbk | NYP 10/2005 | 0520236963 | #154493A | £12.95 BUY Hbk | NYP 10/2005 | 0520236955 | #154492A | £32.50 BUY |
Integration of Earth Science Research on the Turkish and Greek 1999 Earthquakes
Naci Görür, Gerassimos A Papadopoulos and Nilgün Okay Proceedings of the NATO Seminar on Integration of Earth Science Research on the Turkish and Greek 1999 Earthquakes and Needs for Future Cooperative Research, held in Istanbul, .... | 224 pages | Springer Hbk | 2002 | 1402006535 | #154664A | £71.50 BUY Pbk | 2002 | 1402006543 | #154665A | £38.50 BUY |
Mechanisms in Organic Reactions
RA Jackson Aids in identifying basic reaction types in organic chemistry and methods for determining mechanisms, including product studies, kinetics and the identification of .... | 192 pages | Figs, tabs | RSC Pbk | 2004 | 0854046429 | #154511A | £19.95 BUY |
Mitigation and Financing of Seismic Risks: Turkish and International Perspectives
Edited by Paul R Kleindorfer and Murat R Sertel Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Mitigation and Financing of Earthquake Risks in Turkey, held in Ankara, Istanbul from 22-24 June 2000. .... | 304 pages | Springer Hbk | 2001 | 0792370988 | #154655A | £92.50 BUY Pbk | 2001 | 0792370996 | #154654A | £48.50 BUY |
Natural Enemy, Natural Ally: Toward an Enviromental History of Warfare
RP Tucker How has war changed and damaged the environment? How has nature influenced war? As the first collection of essays on war and environmental history, Natural Enemy, Natural Ally .... | 280 pages | Maps | Oregon State UP Pbk | 2004 | 0870710478 | #154331A | £30.50 BUY |
The Organic Chemistry of Biological Pathways
J McMurry Written by best selling author John McMurry and leading researcher Tadhg Begley, The Organic Chemistry of Biological Pathways provides an accurate treatment of major .... | 490 pages | Figs, tabs | Roberts and Company Publishers Hbk | 2005 | 0974707716 | #154456A | £35.00 BUY |
Quantum Mechanics in Chemistry
GC Schatz and MA Ratner This book looks at symmetry, rotations and angular momentum addition; introduces basic formalism of time-dependent quantum mechanics and occupation number representations; .... | 361 pages | Dover Hbk | 2003 | 0486420035 | #154461A | £17.00 BUY |
Seismic Assessment and Rehabilitation of Existing Buildings
Edited by S Tanvir Wasti and Güney Ozcebe Proceedings of the NATO Science for Peace Workshop, Izmir, Turkey, from 13 to 14 May 2003. .... | 564 pages | Springer Hbk | 2003 | 1402016247 | #154683A | £146.00 BUY Pbk | 2003 | 1402016255 | #154684A | £56.00 BUY |
Studies In Military Geography And Geology
DR Caldwell This book contains a selection of papers from the International Military Geology and Geography Conference, held at the U.S. Military Academy, West Point, New York in June .... | 348 pages | Figs | Kluwer Hbk | 2005 | 1402031041 | #154359A | £79.00 BUY |
EM McCash Covers solid surfaces and their properties on both small and large scales. It looks at how atoms and molecules interact with surfaces and how and why they subsequently react .... | 194 pages | 110 line figs | OUP Pbk | 2001 | 0198503288 | #154453A | £23.99 BUY |
The Unified Modelling Language User Guide
G Booch One of the most important recent developments in software engineering is the Unified Modelling Language (UML) standard for documenting software designs. Written by UML's .... | 496 pages | Addison Wesley Longman Hbk | 2005 | 0321267974 | #154406A | £42.99 BUY |
Use Case Driven Object Modeling with UML: A Practical Approach
D Rosenberg | 192 pages | Addison Wesley Longman Pbk | 1999 | 0201432897 | #154407A | £24.99 BUY |
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Integrating Science, Policy, and Decision Making Roald D, Brunner et al Drawing on five detailed case studies from the American West, the authors explore and clarify how to expedite a transition toward adaptive governance and break the gridlock .... | 368 pages | Columbia UP Hbk | NYP 09/2005 | 0231136242 | #154481A | £51.50 BUY Pbk | NYP 09/2005 | 0231136250 | #154482A | £26.00 BUY |
Adaptive Governance and Water Conflict
Edited by John T Scholz and Bruce Stiftel Water policy seems in perpetual crisis. Increasingly, conflicts extend beyond the statutory authority, competence, geographical jurisdictions, and political .... | 300 pages | 6 tables, 4 figures | RFF Hbk | NYP 09/2005 | 1933115181 | #154458A | £50.00 BUY Pbk | NYP 09/2005 | 193311519X | #154459A | £20.00 BUY |
Elastic Rebound on an Urban Planet Susan Elizabeth Hough and Roger G Bilham Earthquakes rank among the most terrifying natural disasters faced by mankind. Out of a clear blue sky-or worse, a jet black one-comes shaking strong enough to hurl furniture .... | 416 pages | 50 halftones, 50 line illus | OUP Hbk | NYP 10/2005 | 0195179137 | #153644A | £24.99 BUY |
Antibiotics: Actions, Origins, Resistance
C Walsh This text focuses on natural products with antibiotic activity elaborated by microbes to act as chemical weapons on neighbouring bacteria, especially those few structural .... | 2003 pages | Figs | ASM Hbk | 2003 | 1555812546 | #154515A | £67.00 BUY |
An Introductory Text RR Stickney There are now many introductory courses in aquaculture given at colleges and universities, but there is a lack of appropriate general textbooks for such courses. .... | 288 pages | CABI Pbk | NYP 09/2005 | 0851990819 | #154380A | £27.50 BUY |
Assessment and Management of Environmental Risks: Cost-Efficient Methods and Applications
Edited by Igor Linkov and Jose Palma-Oliveira The management of environmental contamination requires decision makers to weigh existing risks against the potential effects of implementing environmental policies, considering .... | 456 pages | Springer Hbk | 2001 | 1402000243 | #154656A | £130.50 BUY Pbk | 2001 | 1402000251 | #154657A | £51.50 BUY |
Behavioral Ecology and the Transition to Agriculture
Edited by Douglas J Kennett and Bruce Winterhalder This innovative volume is the first collective effort by archaeologists and ethnographers to use concepts and models from human behavioral ecology to explore one of .... | 440 pages | 3 b/w photos, 33 line illus, 22 maps, 33 tables | California UP Hbk | NYP 01/2006 | 0520246470 | #154499A | £38.95 BUY |
Biorenewable Resources: Engineering New Products from Agriculture
R Brown Immense potential for sustainable development lies in the production of fuels, chemicals, and materials from bioresources. This timely book provides comprehensive .... | 304 pages | Iowa State UP Pbk | 2003 | 0813822637 | #154513A | £59.50 BUY |
Edited by DAJ Rand et al Clean Energy presents a broad survey of the energy problems facing society over the coming decades and the prospects for their solution. The book emphasizes the importance .... | 383 pages | Illus & photos | RSC Hbk | 2004 | 0854045465 | #154517A | £120.00 BUY |
Comparative Risk Assessment & Environmental Decision Making Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop held in Rome Italy October 13-16 Edited by Igor Linkov and Abou Bakr Ramadan Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop, held in Rome (Anzio), Italy, October 13-16, 2002. .... | 452 pages | Springer Hbk | 2004 | 1402018959 | #149741A | £121.00 BUY Pbk | 2004 | 1402018967 | #149742A | £49.50 BUY |
The Epic Struggle Over Dams, Displaced People, and the Environment Jacques Leslie | 352 pages | - | Farrer, Straus & Giroux Hbk | 2005 | 0374281726 | #154424A | £19.50 BUY |
Science and Technology Related to Security Edited by Pelagio Castelo Branco, Hiltmar Schubert and Jose Campos Impact of Conventional Munitions on Environment and Population Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Defense Industries: Science and .... | 386 pages | Springer Hbk | 2004 | 1402027931 | #154700A | £104.00 BUY Pbk | 2004 | 140202794X | #154699A | £42.00 BUY |
Defense and the Environment: Effective Scientific Communication
Edited by Katarina Mahutova, John J Barich III and Ronald A Kreizenbeck Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop, Bratislava, Slovak Republic, from 22 to 26 April 2003. .... | 244 pages | Springer Hbk | 2004 | 1402020821 | #154692A | £80.00 BUY Pbk | 2004 | 140202083X | #154693A | £42.00 BUY |
Educating our Children for a Sustainable World Edited by Michael K Stone and Zenobia Barlow Based on the work of the Center for Ecoliteracy, California. .... | 256 pages | 7 b/w photos | Sierra Club Pbk | NYP 11/2005 | 1578051533 | #154495A | £10.95 BUY |
Enhancing Urban Environment by Environmental Upgrading and Restoration Environmental Upgrading of Municipal Pollution Control Facilities and Restoration of Urban Waters, Rome, Italy from 6 to 9 November 2003 Edited by J Marsalek et al Proceedings of the NATO ARW on Enhancing Urban Environment: Environmental Upgrading of Municipal Pollution Control Facilities and Restoration of Urban Waters, Rome, Italy from .... | 394 pages | Springer Hbk | 2004 | 1402026927 | #151945A | £104.00 BUY Pbk | 2004 | 1402026935 | #154698A | £45.00 BUY |
The Strategy of Environmental Treaty-Making Scott Barrett Environmental problems like global climate change and stratospheric ozone depletion can only be remedied if states cooperate with one another. But sovereign states usually care .... | 446 pages | OUP Hbk | 2003 | 0199257337 | #154610A | £27.50 BUY Pbk | NYP 11/2005 | 0199286094 | #154611A | £12.99 BUY |
Environmental Challenges in the Mediterranean 2000-2050
Edited by Antonio Marquina Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop, held in Madrid, Spain, 2-5 October 2002. .... | 400 pages | 14pp in colour | Springer Hbk | 2004 | 1402019483 | #154691A | £104.00 BUY Pbk | 2004 | 1402019491 | #154690A | £45.00 BUY |
An Economic History of World Agriculture, 1800-2000 Giovanni Federico In the last two centuries, agriculture has been an outstanding, if somewhat neglected, success story. It has fed an ever-growing population with an increasing variety of .... | 520 pages | 4 line illus, 65 tables | Princeton UP Hbk | NYP 11/2005 | 069112051X | #154435A | £32.50 BUY |
UNEP UNEP has encapsulated significant recent and topical environmental issues and developments in this readable and reliable series - to inform, guide and stimulate .... | |
Human and Ecological Risk Assessment: Theory and Practice
DJ Paustenbach This book provides a relatively complete source of information on the field of health risk assessment. It describes all aspects of why risk assessments are conducted and how .... | 1592 pages | Figs, tabs | Wiley Hbk | 2002 | 0471147478 | #154399A | £97.50 BUY |
Hunters, Herders, and Hamburgers The Past and Future of Human-Animal Relationships Richard W Bulliet Part cultural anthropology, part history of the animal products industry, this is a work of great erudition, full of insightful perspectives. .... | 264 pages | Illus | Columbia UP Hbk | NYP 10/2005 | 0231130767 | #154460A | £18.00 BUY |
Implementing Ecological Integrity Restoring Regional and Global Environmental and Human Health Edited by Philippe Crabbe, Alan Holland, Lech Ryszkowski and Laura Westra The concept of ecological integrity is used in environmental policy but is usually left undefined. The definition proposed by the Integrity Group is quite demanding: it tends .... | 492 pages | Springer Hbk | 2000 | 0792363515 | #111556A | £146.00 BUY Pbk | 2000 | 0792363523 | #154653A | £51.50 BUY |
Indigenous People, Poverty and Human Development in Latin America 1994-2004
Edited by G Ha and HA Prationos Indigenous people constitute a large portion of Latin America's population and suffer from widespread poverty. This book provides the first rigorous assessment of changes in .... | 464 pages | Palgrave Hbk | NYP 12/2005 | 1403999384 | #154420A | £65.00 BUY |
Integrated Technology for Environmental Monitoring and Information Production
Edited by NB Harmanciogammalu, SD Ozkul, O Fistikoglu and P Geerders Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop, Marmaris, Turkey, from 10 to 16 September 2001. .... | 496 pages | Springer Hbk | 2003 | 1402013981 | #154678A | £134.50 BUY Pbk | 2003 | 140201399X | #154677A | £51.50 BUY |
An Introduction to Sustainable Development
Peter Rogers, Kazi F Jalal and John A Boyd An Introduction to Sustainable Development presents the concept and practice of sustainable development as a process that meets the needs of the present generation .... | 300 pages | 30 line drawings | Harvard UP Pbk | NYP 11/2005 | 0674019644 | #154603A | £18.95 BUY |
Portraits of 50 Bay Area Environmental Elders John Hart and Nancy Kittle The San Francisco Bay Area abounds in natural beauty. Despite a burgeoning population of 6.7 million, the region is blessed with incomparable open space: vibrant hills, .... | 160 pages | 46 duotone photos | California UP Hbk | NYP 10/2005 | 1578051517 | #154494A | £18.95 BUY |
Environment and Development in Malaysia Jeffrey R Vincent and Rozali Mohamed Ali The remarkably rich natural environment of Malaysia attracts the interest of both industry and the environmental community. Managing Natural Wealth analyzes major natural .... | 488 pages | 99 tables and figures | RFF Hbk | 2005 | 1933115203 | #154457A | £56.50 BUY Pbk | 2005 | 1891853813 | #144683A | £22.00 BUY |
Modern Tools and Methods of Water Treatment for Improving Living Standards
Edited by Alexander Omelchenko, Alexander A Pivovarov and W Jim Swindall Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Modern Tools and Methods of Water Treatment for Improving Living Standards, Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, November 19-22, 2003. .... | 334 pages | Springer Hbk | 2005 | 1402031149 | #154705A | £87.00 BUY Pbk | 2005 | 1402031157 | #154704A | £42.00 BUY |
Monitoring for a Sustainable Tourism Transition: The Challenge of Developing and Using Indicators
G Miller and L Twining-Ward Sustainable tourism is not a static target, but a dynamic process of change, a transition. This book considers how monitoring using indicators can assist tourism to .... | 224 pages | - | CABI Pbk | NYP 09/2005 | 0851990517 | #153082A | £27.50 BUY |
Natural Resource and Environmental Economics
Yue Ma, Roger Perman, James McGilvray and Michael Common Outlines the application of rigorous economic theory to the environment. .... | 600 pages | Figs, tabs | Prentice-Hall Pbk | 2003 | 0273655590 | #154376A | £35.99 BUY |
The New Gaia Atlas of Planet Management
Edited by Norman Myers and Jennifer Kent New edition of the classic environmental handbook. .... | 304 pages | 29 colour & 16 b/w photos | Gaia Books Hbk | NYP 09/2005 | 1856752097 | #137227A | Normally £25.00 NHBS OFFER PRICE: £19.95 |
Nutrient Requirements of Dairy Cattle
Committee on Animal Nutrition | 381 pages | Figs, tabs | National Academy Press Pbk | 2001 | 0309069971 | #119529A | £35.99 BUY |
Edited by Aldo Chircop and Moira L McConnell Published in cooperation with the International Ocean Institute and Dalhousie University Law School, Ocean Yearbook 18--a commemorative volume honoring Elisabeth Mann .... | 950 pages | Chicago UP Hbk | 2004 | 0226104494 | #154528A | £91.00 BUY |
Edited by Aldo Chircop and Moira L McConnell Published in cooperation with the International Ocean Institute and Dalhousie University Law School, Ocean Yearbook,Volume 19 presents original, peer-reviewed articles, reviews, .... | 950 pages | Chicago UP Hbk | 2005 | 0226104508 | #154529A | £91.00 BUY |
RKM Hay and JR Porter The first edition of this successful book published in 1989 was the first student text to digest and assimilate the many advances in crop physiology. This long awaited second .... | 352 pages | Blackwell Pbk | NYP 04/2006 | 1405108592 | #154309A | £29.95 BUY |
The Quest For Environmental Justice Human Rights and the Politics of Pollution Edited by Robert D Bullard Part I presents an overview of the early environmental justice movement and highlights key leadership roles assumed by women activists. Part II examines the lives of people .... | 384 pages | 5 maps, 2 tables | Sierra Club Hbk | NYP 11/2005 | 1578051525 | #154496A | £29.95 BUY Pbk | NYP 11/2005 | 1578051207 | #154497A | £12.50 BUY |
The RFF Reader in Environmental and Resource Management
Edited by Wallace E Oates The second edition of the popular RFF Reader brings together much of the best work published by researchers at Resources for the Future. .... | 320 pages | RFF Hbk | NYP 09/2005 | 1933115165 | #154454A | £50.00 BUY Pbk | NYP 09/2005 | 1933115173 | #154455A | £23.50 BUY |
Recognizing the Autonomy of Nature Theory and Practice Thomas Heyd This collection explores the theoretical and practical implications of a crucial aspect of environmental policy and philosophy: the autonomy of nature. The contributors begin .... | 240 pages | Columbia UP Hbk | NYP 12/2005 | 0231136064 | #154471A | £29.50 BUY |
Renewable Energies for Central Asia Countries: Economic, Environmental and Social Impacts
Edited by Aldo Iacomelli Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Advanced Renewable Energies for Central Asia Countries: Economic-Environmental and Social Impacts, held in Tashkent, .... | 182 pages | Springer Hbk | NYP 09/2005 | 1402039247 | #154713A | £62.00 BUY Pbk | NYP 09/2005 | 1402039255 | #154716A | £27.00 BUY |
Understanding Contaminant Biogeochemistry and Pathogen Removal Edited by Chittaranjan Ray Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop, held in Tihany, Hungary, from 5 to 8 September 2001. .... | 268 pages | Springer Hbk | 2002 | 1402009542 | #136019A | £80.50 BUY Pbk | 2002 | 1402009550 | #136020A | £46.00 BUY |
Riverbank Filtration Hydrology Impacts on System Capacity and Water Quality Edited by Stephen A Hubbs Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Effect of Riverbed Clogging on Water Quality and System Capacity, held in Bratislava, Slovak Republic, from 7 to 10 .... | 355 pages | Springer Hbk | NYP 09/2005 | 1402039360 | #154715A | £90.00 BUY Pbk | NYP 09/2005 | 1402039379 | #154714A | £41.00 BUY |
Stormwater Management, Volume 25, No 1 - Spring 2005 (LakeLine)
Edited by WW Jones | 68 pages | Col figs, tabs, photos | NALMS Pbk | 2005 | #154183A | £11.95 BUY |
Super-State: The New Europe and its Challenge to America
S Haseler Europe's divergence from America, on issues like war with Iraq and trade competition, is becoming increasingly ill-tempered. With the Euro flourishing and a European defence .... | 240 pages | - | Tauris Hbk | 2004 | 1860648436 | #154344A | £23.50 BUY |
Sustainability: A Philosophy of Adaptive Ecosystem Management
Bryan G Norton This promises to be a very valuable and interesting contribution to the tired debates on sustainability. Norton is a respected scientist, author of the seminal `The Preservation .... | 544 pages | 12 line drawings | Chicago UP Hbk | NYP 11/2005 | 0226595196 | #154546A | £63.00 BUY Pbk | NYP 11/2005 | 0226595218 | #154547A | £26.50 BUY |
Territory: A Short Introduction
D Delaney This short introduction conveys the complexities associated with the term "territory" in a clear and accessible manner, and provides an interdisciplinary survey of the many .... | 176 pages | - | Blackwell Hbk | 2005 | 1405118318 | #154361A | £50.00 BUY |
At The Fringes of Modernity, Volume 2: African Pastoralist Studies
Edited by S Van Wolputte and Verswijer This collection of 5 essays focuses on cultural transformation, whether within the context of ritual or in that of resistance against (post) colonial rule. Like the first .... | 240 pages | 1 map, 3 tabs, 51 b/w photos | MRAC 2005 | 9075894627 | #154576A | £31.00 BUY |
Theory and Evidence Brian R Copeland and M Scott Taylor Establishes a powerful theoretical framework for examining the impact of international trade on local pollution levels and for developing an integrated treatment of the links .... | 304 pages | Illus, tabs | Princeton UP Hbk | 2003 | 0691113556 | #142043A | £22.95 BUY Pbk | NYP 09/2005 | 0691124000 | #154452A | £14.95 BUY |
Urban Water Management Science Technology and Service Delivery
Edited by R Arsov, J Marsalek, WE Watt and E Zeman Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop, held in Borovetz, Bulgaria, 16-20 October 2002. .... | 348 pages | Springer Hbk | 2003 | 1402015399 | #154679A | £96.00 BUY Pbk | 2003 | 1402015402 | #154680A | £46.00 BUY |
The Water Business: Corporations Versus People
AC Holland Privatization of water supplies began in England in 1989 under Margaret Thatcher; in the next 10 years, nearly GBP10 billion went in profits to the new water companies. Today, .... | 304 pages | - | Zed Books Pbk | 2005 | 1842775650 | #154346A | £9.99 BUY |
The Story of Water from the Big Bang to the Rise of Civilization and Beyond Robert Kandel Covering a vast array of scientific fields and recent discoveries, Kandel traces water in all its chemical states as it cycles through the seas, the atmosphere, land, icecaps .... | 312 pages | Figs | Columbia UP Hbk | 2003 | 0231122446 | #132977A | £20.00 BUY Pbk | NYP 02/2006 | 0231122454 | #154463A | £12.95 BUY |
Watercourse Co-operation in Northern Europe: A Model for the Future
M Fitzmaurice One of the problems in global water management is the sharing of watercourses by neighbouring countries, a situation that continues to lead to many long-lasting .... | 206 pages | Figs | CUP Hbk | 2004 | 9067041726 | #154329A | £50.00 BUY |
World Culture: Origins and Consequences
J Boli This book explores the development, content, and impact of world culture. Combining two of the most fruitful theoretical perspectives on world culture - the world polity .... | 272 pages | Blackwell Hbk | 2005 | 0631226761 | #154349A | £55.00 BUY |
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Basic One-and Two-Dimensional NMR Spectroscopy
H Friebolin A classic among NMR textbooks, this thoroughly enlarged and updated fourth edition now also includes: .... | 430 pages | Figs | Wiley Pbk | 2005 | 3527312331 | #154520A | £34.95 BUY |
GIS for Emergency Preparedness and Health Risk Reduction
Edited by DJ Briggs, P Forer, L Järup and R Stern Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop, held in Budapest, Hungary, 22-25 April 2001. .... | 340 pages | Springer Hbk | 2002 | 1402007981 | #154668A | £96.00 BUY Pbk | 2002 | 140200799X | #154669A | £46.00 BUY |
Guide to Analysis of DNA Microarray Data
S Knudsen | 126 pages | Illus | Wiley Pbk | 2004 | 0471656046 | #154323A | £21.95 BUY |
Handbook of Capture-Recapture Analysis
Steven C Amstrup, Trent L McDonald and Bryan FJ Manly Much-need practical handbook for scientists and conservationists capturing and analysing field data. .... | 296 pages | 20 halftones, 6 line illus, 74 tables | Princeton UP Hbk | NYP 01/2006 | 0691089671 | #154447A | £65.00 BUY Pbk | NYP 01/2006 | 069108968X | #154448A | £32.50 BUY |
Individual-based Modeling and Ecology
Volker Grimm and Steven F Railsback Individual-based models are an exciting and widely used new tool for ecology. These computational models allow scientists to explore the mechanisms through which population .... | 428 pages | 12 halftones, 34 line illus, 3 tables | Princeton UP Hbk | 2005 | 0691096651 | #154445A | £65.00 BUY Pbk | 2005 | 069109666X | #154446A | £32.50 BUY |
Mass Spectrometry in Biophysics Conformation and Dynamics of Biomolecules IA Kaltashov Before delving into the advanced concepts of mass spectrometry, this book presents a discussion of general biophysical concepts related to structure and dynamics of .... | 458 pages | Figs | Wiley Hbk | 2005 | 0471456020 | #154519A | £51.50 BUY |
The Nature of Scientific Evidence Statistical, Philosophical, and Empirical Considerations Edited by Mike L Taper and SR Lele An exploration of the statistical foundations of scientific inference, The Nature of Scientific Evidence asks what constitutes scientific evidence and whether scientific .... | 448 pages | 25 line drawings, 6 tables | Chicago UP Pbk | 2004 | 0226789578 | #154405A | £21.00 BUY |
Role of GIS in Lifting the Cloud Off Chernobyl
Edited by Jaromir Kolejka Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Role of Geoinformation Technology in Mitigation of Chernobyl Nuclear Accident, held in Yalta, Ukraine, 17-21 September .... | 171 pages | Springer Hbk | 2002 | 140200768X | #154666A | £48.50 BUY Pbk | 2002 | 1402007698 | #154667A | £30.50 BUY |
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Collaborative Access to Virtual Museum Collection Information Seeing Through the Walls B Callery Presents respected authorities exploring the world of virtual collections, from the identification and selection of objects to be included to providing online access using .... | 122 pages | Haworth Press Pbk | NYP 09/2005 | 0789029340 | #154427A | £12.95 BUY |
Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names
John Everett-Heath Is Abadan in Iraq named after a holy man from the 8th century, or a guard post? Or does it mean "a place from which you can see water"? You'll find the answer in this unique .... | 576 pages | OUP Pbk | NYP 10/2005 | 0198605374 | #154612A | £9.99 BUY |
A Guide for Book Publishing and Corporate Communications Amy Einsohn Second edition, with exercies and answer keys. .... | 573 pages | 16 figures, 24 tables | California UP Pbk | NYP 12/2005 | 0520246888 | #154525A | £12.95 BUY |
A Dictionary of Travel and Tourism Terminology
A Beaver This fully revised and updated second edition provides over 7000 definitions of travel and tourism terminology used throughout the world, highlighting the many differences .... | 432 pages | CABI Pbk | NYP 09/2005 | 0851990207 | #151444A | £29.50 BUY |
The Oxford Dictionary of Allusions
Edited by Andrew Delahunty, Sheila Dignen and Penelope Stock Allusions form a colourful extension to the English language, drawing on our collective knowledge of literature, mythology, and the Bible to give us a literary shorthand for .... | 480 pages | OUP Pbk | NYP 11/2005 | 0198609191 | #154608A | £9.99 BUY |
Social and Environmental Impacts in the North
Edited by Rasmus Ole Rasmussen and Natalia E Koroleva `Methods in Evaluation of Socio-Economic and Environmental Consequences of Mining and Energy Production in the Arctic and Sub-Arctic.' .... | 544 pages | Springer Hbk | 2004 | 1402016689 | #154687A | £132.00 BUY Pbk | 2004 | 1402016697 | #154686A | £52.00 BUY |