Big Cat Diary DVD: Series 4

The series that brought Kenya's big cats into our homes is back. Presenters Simon King and Jonathan Scott are joined by Saba Douglas-Hamilton in an adventure series starring ....

Deer: Law and Liabilities

John Thornley and Charlie Parkes

The completely revised and updated edition deals with the law and liabilities relating to deer in the UK. In addition one chapter deals with Europe in terms of visitors to and ....

Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals

Edited by William Perrin, Bernd Wursig and JGM Thewissen

This thorough revision of the classic first edition brings this authoritative book right up-to-date. Articles describe every species in detail, based on the very latest ....

The Gestural Communication of Apes and Monkeys

Josep Call and Michael Tomasello

"The Gestural Communication of Apes and Monkeys" is an intriguing compilation of naturalistic and experimental research conducted over the course of 20 years on gestural ....

Monkeys of the Atlantic Forest of Eastern Brazil Pocket Identification Guide

RA Mittermeier, AF Coimbra-Filho, MCM Kierulff et al

This laminated pocket guide with over 35 illustrations to identify species and individual maps for locating them is the tool to have on hand. In addition, you can use ....

Natural World: Badgers - DVD

Secrets of the Sett

BBC

Badgers are loved by some and hated by others. Yet few people have ever seen one alive. So how does the badger maintain its secret life? This film follows a badger family ....

Natural World: Lobo - DVD

The Wolf That Changed America

BBC

This is a true story about a man who came to New Mexico in 1893 to kill a wolf but ended up saving the American wilderness instead. Ernest Thompson Seton's epic duel became a ....

Natural World: On the Trail of Tarka - DVD

BBC

In 1927, Henry Williamson wrote Tarka the Otter, about the life and death of an otter in Devon. This film goes in search of Tarka's descendents. Do they still fish the same ....

Orangutans

Ecology, Evolution, Behaviour, and Conservation

Edited by Serge A Wich, Sri Suci Utami Atmoko, Tatang Mitra Setia and CP van Schaik

This book describes one of our closest relatives, the orangutan, and the only extant great ape in Asia. It is increasingly clear that orangutan populations show extensive ....

The Spectral Tarsier

Sharon L Gursky

Whales and Dolphins of the European Atlantic

The Bay of Biscay, English Channel, Celtic Sea and coastal SW Ireland

Dylan Walker and Graeme Cresswell

Provides a comprehensive photographic guide to the cetaceans of the European Atlantic, covering all 18 regularly occuring and 13 rare living species recorded. The text covers ....

Atlas des Oiseaux Nicheurs de la Grande Comore, de Moheli et d'Anjouan

M Louette et al

Observations from 1981 to 2006 by RMCA ornithologists and collaborators were used to produce the present Atlas of breeding birds of the Union of the Comoros, consisting of ....

The Birds of Leicestershire and Rutland

Rob Fray, Roger Davies, Dave Gamble, Andrew Harrop and Steve Lister

"The County Avifaunas" are a growing series of books, each of which gives details of the status and range of every species on the county list, with a detailed breakdown of ....

Birdwatching in Norfolk

Paul Doherty

This film covers 164 species including all the Norfolk specialities. ....

Collins Field Guide: Birds of Eastern Africa

Ber Van Perlo

Eastern Africa is becoming an increasingly popular destination for people who want to see first-hand the abundant widlife of this vast continent. ....

Collins Field Guide: Birds of Southern Africa

Ber Van Perlo

`Birds of Southern Africa' is the only field guide to illustrate and describe all species commonly found in South Africa, Namibia, Lesotho, Swaziland, Botswana, ....

Collins Field Guide: Birds of the Palearctic - Non-Passerines

Norman Arlott

A field guide to all the non-passerines or songbirds found from Britain, eastwards to Japan, and as far south as the Sahara and Himalayas. ....

The Golden Oriole

Jake Allsop and Paul Mason

One of Britain's rarest breeding birds, the Golden Oriole is also one of its most charismatic. Females are a vivid green, while the males of this species are a stunning ....

New Zealand Birds - An Identification Guide

Stuart Chambers

This book will help readers to learn about the birds they see around them using the simplest and most obvious identifying feature - colour. The bird species in this book ....

A Photographic Guide to the Birds of Jamaica

Audrey Downer, Ann Haynes Sutton, Robert Sutton and YJ Rey-Millet

With a rich avifauna of more than 300 species that includes some 25 endemics, the island of Jamaica is an increasingly popular birding destination. Containing hundreds of ....

Reed and Bush Warblers

Peter Kennerley and David Pearson

Covers the genera Urosphena, Cettia, Bradypterus, Locustella, Acocephalus and Hippolais. Most are nondescript in appearance and exhibit behavioural traits which make them more ....

The Reptiles and Amphibians of Dorset

David C Wareham

With a foreword by Mark O'Shea. ....

A Wild Australia Guide: Lizards

Steve Parish and Steve Swanson

Australia is home to more than 840 species of reptiles that are contained within sixteen families - and we are still counting. Of these, the lizards are particularly ....

A Wild Australia Guide: Snakes

Steve Parish and Steve Swanson

Australia is home to 191 snake species, and in no other region of the world are venemous snakes in such abundance. This Guide offers an excellent insight into the lives of ....

ANSP Special Catfish Volume

Edited by John Lundburg

13 papers on the taxonomy and systematics of catfishes from Africa, Asia and South America including descriptions of one new tribe, one new genus and thirteen new species, ....

Biology, Conservation and Sustainable Development of Sturgeons

R Carmona, A Domezain, M Garcia-Gallego and J.A Hernando

Sturgeons are considered "living fossils", sharing many morphological and biological features with ancestral fish. Furthermore, sturgeons are of the utmost interest from an ....

The Catfishes of Africa

A Handbook for Identification and Maintenance

Lothar Seegers

African catfishes are a particularly diverse group of fishes. However, only a few of them have gained a permanent place in the aquarium hobby, mainly because they are ....

Pike and Freshwater Predator Fishing in the British Isles

Steve Rogowski

This book deals with fishing for pike other freshwater predatory fish especially catfish, eels, perch and zander. There are chapters on all five of these species and ....

Rescue of Sturgeon Species in the Ural River Basin

V Lagutov and Viktor Lagutov

The Ural river, the third longest river in Europe, is a unique ecosystem. Unlike other large European rivers the river has not been regulated and the natural hydrological ....

A Wild Australia Guide: Freshwater Fishes

Steve Parish

Australia is fortunate to offer the fish enthusiast a wide variety of species, which live in a diversity of environments and display fascinating survival strategies. This ....

A Wild Australia Guide: Sharks and Rays

Steve Parish

The evolutionary perfection of sharks and rays in their natural habitat is truly mesmerising. Despite apparently little need for any changes in body plan over the past ....

The Book of Indian Butterflies

Isaac Kehimkar

The Book of Indian Butterflies describes 734 species of butterflies that commonly occur in the Indian subcontinent. Most descriptions are illustrated with colour images ....

British Butterflies - An Interactive Guide

This DVD-ROM reference guide provides comprehensive multimedia coverage of all 61 butterfly species that regularly occur in Britain and Ireland (including the recently ....

British Moths and Butterflies

A Photographic Guide

Chris Manley

Packed with the stunning photography of Chris Manley, this new photographic guide is the perfect guide to Britain's moths and butterflies. Its coverage is broad, including all ....

The Butterflies (Hesperioidea and Papilionoidea) of North Asia (Asian Part of Russia) in Nature, Vol. 2

P Gorbunov and O Kosterin

Contains information on 206 species in the remaining families (Nymphalidae, Danaidae, Libytheidae, Satyridae). In particular, it contains original descriptions of 12 new ....

A Conchological Iconography: The Family Acavidae, Excluding Ampelita

K Groh and GT Poppe

Costa Rica: Arachnids Insects

Enrique Leal

Laminated field guide with illustrations of insects and spiders commonly found in Costa Rica. Each species has ....

Insect Ecology and Conservation

A Handbook of Techniques

Michael J Samways, Melodie A McGeoch and Timothy R New

This biotic jewel we call Earth is a rare phenomenon in terms of its molecular complexity relative to the monotony of the universe. Insects, in turn, add a further ....

The Lives of Ants

Laurent Keller

The Lives of Ants combines natural history with molecular biology, genetics, and even the latest developments in robotics, to explore the intricately organized societies of ....

SBF Volume 44: Polychaetes: Interstitial Families

W Westheide

The minute polychaetes that occur in the interstitial spaces within sandy marine sediments are a diverse phylogenetic assemblage, representing seven separate orders (all ....

Sea Slugs of the Red Sea

N Yonov

This book brings together, for the first time, all known information on the species of sea slugs of the Red Sea, belonging to 130 genera and 52 families. The contents include ....

A World Catalogue and Bibliography of the Jewel Beetles (Coleoptera: Buprestoidea), Volume 4

Agrilinae: Agrilina through Trachyini

C Bellamy

This fourth volume in the World Catalogue and Bibliography of the Jewel Beetles deals with the remainder of Agrilinae (including the enormous genus Agrilus) through to ....

Ecology and Applications of Benthic Foraminifera

John Murray

In this volume John Murray investigates the ecological processes that control the distribution, abundance, and species diversity of benthic foraminifera in environments ....

Encyclopedia of Paleoclimatology and Ancient Environments

Edited by Vivien Gornitz

The Encyclopedia of Paleoclimatology and Ancient Environments is the first major reference work in its field. It provides the comprehensive overview required by the ....

The Biology of Rocky Shores

C Little, GA Williams and C Trowbridge

This book is about how animals and plants on rocky seashores live - how they feed, grow, reproduce and interact, and why they are found in particular places but not in others. ....

The Great Barrier Reef

Biology, Environment and Management

Pat Hutchings and Mike Kingsford

This book gives readers a broad overview of biological and physical attributes of the Great Barrier Reef and, where relevant, other reefs of the world. Contemporary pressing ....

The Accidental Mind

How Brain Evolution Has Given Us Love, Memory, Dreams, and God

David J Linden

You've probably seen it before: a human brain dramatically lit from the side, the camera circling it like a helicopter shot of Stonehenge, and a modulated baritone voice ....

Landscape Photographer of the Year

C Waite

Following in the outstanding success of the first edition, this wonderful celebration of landscape photography shortlists the winning photographs from the second Landscape ....

Natural World: The Bear Man of Kamchatka - DVD

BBC

The incredible story of the man who's devoted his life to the grizzly bears of the Kamchatka Peninsula. The Russian mafia killed Charlie Russell's beloved bears - but now ....

Nature Detectives' Handbook

Barbara Taylor and Ray Mears

Helps you explore and understand the world around you - from your own garden to woods and nature trails further afield. This resource contains fifty fact files plus ....

Nature's Way

Observations of a Good Earthkeeper

Marion Dusoir Ennes and Howard Ennes

Marion Dusoir Ennes was fascinated by nature's wonders. During her childhood on a farm she found companionship with the local flora and fauna, and throughout her life she ....

Pheromone

The Insect Artwork of Christopher Marley

Christopher Marley

This book presents the compositions of Christopher Marley: assemblages of real insect bodies that display brilliant colour and otherworldly form. The colours are entirely ....

Standards and their Stories

How Quantifying, Classifying, and Formalizing Practices Shape Everyday Life

Martha Lampland

Examines the social and moral consequences of standardization, from computers and electricity to shoe size. ....

Bradt Wildlife Guide: New Zealand

Julian Fitter

Full colour throughout, New Zealand Wildlife provides a comprehensive overview of the natural history of the country's archipelago. Famous for its flightless birds such as ....

The Making of the American Landscape

Michael P Conzen

This is the only compact yet comprehensive survey of environmental and cultural forces that have shaped the visual character and geographical diversity of the settled American ....

Natural World: Earth Pilgrim - DVD

A Spiritual Journey into the Landscape of Dartmoor

Satish Kumar

This spiritual journey sees conservationist Satish Kumar spend one year exploring the beauty of England's Dartmoor National Park - the largest and wildest area of open ....

North York Moors - The Official National Park Guide

Ian Sampson

Covers wildlife, climate, customs, recreation, geology and culture. ....

South Africa - The Insider's Guide

Ian Michler and Tessa van Schaik

This is an all-in-one guide packed with photographs, expert information and practical tips for making the most of a holiday in this spectacular country. ....

Southern England

The Geology and Scenery of Lowland England

Peter Friend

Most people share an enthusiasm for beautiful and breathtaking scenery, explored variously through the physical challenge of climbing to the top of the tallest mountains ....

The Wildlife of Southern Africa

A Field Guide to the Animals and Plants of the Region

Edited by Vincent Carruthers

This new edition of the best-selling and well-known illustrated field guide to the animals and plants of southern Africa is fully updated with all the latest taxonomy and ....

The Afterlife of a Tree

A Bobiec, JM Gutowski, WF Laudenslayer, P Pawlaczyk and K Zub

Forests, home to two-thirds of all plant and animal species, are the hub of biological diversity. That is why WWF has for years focused its efforts on protecting the most ....

Desmid Flora of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, USA

Karolina Fucikova, John D Hall, Jeffrey R Johansen and Rex Lowe

Drawn After Nature

The Complete Botanical Watercolours of the 16th-Century Libri Picturati

J de Koning, G van Uffelen and A Zemanek

For over 300 years, the Preussische Staatsbibliothek in Berlin held a most remarkable collection of botanical watercolours. They were catalogued as part of the library's ....

Flora of the Liverworts and Hornworts of New Zealand, Volume 1

JJ Engel and D Glenny

A Flora of the Liverworts and Hornworts of New Zealand is an illustrated guide to an important component of New Zealand's green plant flora, to be published in three ....

The Gardens at Kew

Allen Paterson

With over a million visitors a year, Kew is one of the world's best-loved gardens. As well as having a fascinating history and holding an unchallenged position as the world's ....

Introduction to Plant Physiology

William G Hopkins and Norman P Hunter

Botanists who want to gain a strong foundation in fundamental concepts of plant physiology consistently rely on Hopkins. The book provides them with accurate, modern, ....

Pitcher Plants of Borneo

Anthea Phillipps, Anthony Lamb and Ch'ien C Lee

Found from Madagascar and the Seychelles to Indo-China, New Guinea and Australia, it is on the island of Borneo that the tropical pitcher-plants reach their greatest diversity. ....

Plant Breeding Reviews, Volume 31

Jules Janick

Presents state-of-the-art reviews on plant genetics and the breeding of all types of crops by both traditional means and molecular methods. ....

Plant Breeding Reviews, Volume 32

Jules Janick

Plant Breeding Reviews presents state-of-the-art reviews on plant genetics and the breeding of all types of crops by both traditional means and molecular methods. Many of ....

Plant Signal Transduction

Methods and Protocols

Edited by Thomas Pfannschmidt

During recent years, research has greatly expanded our understanding of the sophisticated molecular network of responses which enable plants to develop, survive and ....

Plant Systems Biology

Gloria Coruzzi and Rodrigo Gutierrez

Systems biology is a new field that seeks to integrate high-throughput biological studies with other scientific disciplines including mathematics, engineering and ....

Recombinant Proteins from Plants

Methods and Protocols

Loic Faye, Veronique Gomord and Veronique Gomord

The past decade has seen the emergence of plants as a viable alternative to the current production systems for therapeutic proteins. In Recombinant Proteins from Plants, expert ....

Self-incompatibility in Flowering Plants

Evolution, Diversity, and Mechanisms

Edited by Vernonica E Franklin-Tong

Great progress has been made in our understanding of pollen-pistil interactions and self-incompatibility (SI) in flowering plants in the last few decades. This book covers ....

Synopsis Fungorum, Volume 23

G Robledo, L Ryvarden, RA Fortey, MC Aime, TW Henkel, M Mata et al

Trees and Shrubs of Mpumalanga and the Kruger National Park

Ernst Schmidt, Mervyn Lotter and Warren McCleland

This is a complete guide to every tree and woody shrub indigenous to the province of Mpumalanga and the entire Kruger National Park. Designed for use by beginner tree ....

The Virtual Plant

DF Cutler and Ted Botha

"The Virtual Plant CD-ROM" is a companion to the book "Plant Anatomy", an essential reference for undergraduates taking courses in plant anatomy, applied plant anatomy and ....

Advanced Genetic Analysis

Genes, Genomes, and Networks in Eukaryotes

Philip Meneely

Advanced Genetic Analysis explores the question "How can the principles of genetics be used as analytical tools to solve biological problems?" Drawing on the latest ....

Beyond the Synapse

Cell-Cell Signaling in Synaptic Plasticity

R Douglas Fields

Formation of synapses and the changes in their connections during life are the basis for learning and memory and recovery from brain disease or injury. Much interest has been ....

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

William H Elliot and Daphne C Elliot

Molecular tools and biochemical processes are now central to much of our understanding of the biological and biomedical sciences - from the study of ecological interactions ....

The Emergence of Social Cognition in Three Young Chimpanzees

Michael Tomasello, Malinda Carpenter and R. Peter Hobson

This Monograph reports a series of ten studies on the social-cognitive abilities of three young chimpanzees, ages to four years. ....

Exploring Proteins

Nicholas Price

Exploring Proteins offers a complete course in developing the skills to be able to understand the way proteins behave and the methods used to separate, identify and ....

Eye, Retina, and Visual System of the Mouse

Leo M Chalupa and Robert W Williams

Recent years have seen a burst of studies on the mouse eye and visual system, fueled in large part by the relatively recent ability to produce mice with precisely defined ....

An Introduction to the Visual System

Martin J Tovee

Martin Tovee offers a concise but detailed account of how the visual system is organised and functions to produce visual perception. He takes his readers from first principles; ....

Invasion Biology

Mark Davis

With the exception of climate change, biological invasions have probably received more attention during the past ten years than any other ecological topic. Yet this is the ....

Measuring Metabolic Rates

A Manual for Scientists

John RB Lighton

Measuring metabolic rates is central to important questions in many areas of scientific research. Unfortunately these measurements are anything but straightforward, and ....

Parasitic Diseases of Wild Birds

Edited by Carter T Atkinson

Parasitic Diseases of Wild Birds provides thorough coverage of major parasite groups affecting wild bird species. Broken into four sections covering protozoa, heminths, ....

Perspectives on Animal Behaviour

J Goodenough, B McGuire and RA Wallace

Perspectives on Animal Behavior introduces biologists and psychologists to the scientific reasoning and methodology in the field while also addressing development and ....

Protocells

Bridging Nonliving and Living Matter

Edited by S Rasmussen, M Bedau, L Chen, D W Deamer, D Krakauer and N Packard

"Protocells" offers a comprehensive resource on current attempts to create simple forms of life from scratch in the laboratory. These minimal versions of cells, known as ....

RNA-Protein Interaction Protocols

Ren-Jang Lin

Due to the vital biological importance of RNA and proteins functioning together within a cell, a protocol volume describing experimental procedures to study their interactions ....

Thermal Adaptation

A Theoretical and Empirical Synthesis

MJ Angilletta

Temperature impacts the behaviour, physiology and ecology of all organisms more than any other abiotic variable. In this book, the author draws on theory from the more general ....

African Landscapes

Interdisciplinary Approaches

Michael Bollig and Olaf Bubenzer

Landscape studies provide a crucial perspective into the interaction between humans and their environment, shedding insight on social, cultural, and economic topics. The ....

Big Questions in Ecology and Evolution

Thomas N Sherratt

This book provides an introduction to a range of fundamental questions that have taxed evolutionary biologists and ecologists for decades. All of the questions posed have at ....

The Cambridge Companion to the "Origin of Species"

Michael Ruse and Robert J Richards

The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin is universally recognised as one of the most important science books ever written. The Origin of Species is also a work of great ....

Chemical Evolution and the Origin of Life

Horst Rauchfuss and T N Mitchell

The recent dramatic growth of research into the origins of life has led to the formation of a new, interdisciplinary branch of science Exo/Astrobiology, the ambitious goal of ....

Evolution

The First Four Billion Years

Edited by Michael Ruse, Joseph Travis and Edward O Wilson

Spanning evolutionary science from its inception to its latest findings, from discoveries and data to philosophy and history, this book is the most complete, ....

Evolution and Human Behaviour

Darwinian Perspectives on Human Nature

John Cartwright

Evolutionary psychology occupies an important place in the drive to understand and explain human behavior. Darwinian ideas provide powerful tools to illuminate how ....

Evolution and the Levels of Selection

Samir Okasha

Does natural selection act primarily on individual organisms, on groups, on genes, or on whole species? Samir Okasha provides a comprehensive analysis of the debate in ....

Evolution of Communicative Flexibility

Complexity, Creativity, and Adaptability in Human and Animal Communication

Edited by D Kimbrough Oller and Ulrike Griebel

The evolutionary roots of human communication are difficult to trace, but recent comparative research suggests that the first key step in that evolutionary history may ....

The Evolutionary Biology of Human Female Sexuality

Randy Thornhill and Steven W Gangestad

Research conducted over the last fifteen years has placed in question many of the traditional conclusions about the evolution of human female sexuality. Women have not ....

Evolutionary Conservation Genetics

J Hoglund

Conservation genetics focuses on understanding the role of genetic variation for population persistence. This book is about the methods used to study genetic variation ....

H.G. Bronn, Ernst Haeckel, and the Origins of German Darwinism

A Study in Translation and Transformation

Sander Gliboff

The German translation of "Darwin's The Origin of Species" appeared in 1860, just months after the original, thanks to Heinrich Georg Bronn, a distinguished German ....

Language Complexity as an Evolving Variable

Geoffrey Sampson, David Gil and Peter Trudgill

This book presents a challenge to the widely-held assumption that human languages are both similar and constant in their degree of complexity. For a hundred years or more the ....

The Loom of Life

Unravelling Ecosystems

Menno Schilthuizen

In an age of increasing environmental problems, ecology has had to grow up fast from a discipline dealing with relatively simple interactions between species to one that tries ....

Men

Evolutionary and Life History

Richard G Bribiescas

Males account for roughly 50 percent of the global population, but in America and other places, they account for over 85 percent of violent crime. A graph of relative risk of ....

The Mermaid's Tale

Four Billion Years of Cooperation in the Making of Living Things

Kenneth M Weiss and Anne V Buchanan

Even after 150 years, Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection is irresistibly compelling. But, how can this idea - in which competition prevails - be consistent with ....

Origins of Human Communication

M Tomasello

Human communication is grounded in fundamentally cooperative, even shared, intentions. In this original and provocative account of the evolutionary origins of human ....

Perspectives in Animal Phylogeny and Evolution

Alessandro Minelli

Traditional hypotheses on the phylogenetic relationships of the major animal groups have been deeply shaken by modern developments in molecular phylogenetics, developmental ....

The Prehistory of Language

Edited by Rudolf Botha and Chris Knight

'When, why, and how did language evolve?' 'Why do only humans have language?' This book looks at these and other questions about the origins and evolution of language. It does ....

Selection

The Mechanism of Evolution

Graham Bell

Adaptation is caused by selection continually winnowing the genetic variation created by mutation. In the last decade, our knowledge of how selection operates on populations in ....

Ecology and Evolution of Parasitism

Hosts to Ecosystems

Frederic Thomas, Jean-Francois Guegan and Francois Renaud

Is it possible to omit parasites when studying free-living organisms? The answer is clearly no! Parasites have evolved independently in numerous animal lineages, and now ....

Agrarian Landscapes in Transition

Comparisons of Long-term Ecological and Cultural Change

Charles Redman, David R Foster and Charles L Redman

With hundreds of acres of agricultural land going out of production every day, the introduction, spread, and abandonment of agriculture represents the most pervasive ....

Anthropology and Fisheries Management in the United States

Methodology For Research

P Ingles and J Sepez

Considers how the cultures and communities of all those who are involved in fisheries must be taken into account when managing our marine ecosystem in a sustainable manner. ....

Biogeography and Ecology of the Rain Forests of Eastern Africa

Edited by Jon C Lovett and Samuel K Wasser

Eastern African rain forests are remarkable in their high level of endemism. Miocene uplift of the central African plateau separated these montane and coastal forests from ....

Biology of Alpine Habitats

A Global Perspective

Laszlo Nagy and Georg Grabherr

This book is unique in providing a global overview of alpine (high mountain) habitats that occur above the natural (cold-limited) tree line, describing the factors that have ....

The Biology of Caves and Other Subterranean Habitats

Edited by David C Culver and Tanja Pipan

Caves and other subterranean habitats with their often strange (even bizarre) inhabitants have long been objects of fascination, curiosity, and debate. The question ....

Cumulative Environmental Impact Assessment

TV Ramachandra, MD Subash Chandran, KV Gururaja and Sreekantha

An ecosystem is a complex of interconnected living organisms inhabiting a particular area or unit of space, together with their environment and all their interrelationships ....

Ecology of Aquatic Systems

Mike Dobson and Chris Frid

Aquatic systems exhibit incredible diversity - from mountain streams to deep oceans, from lakes and ponds to the estuaries that link river and sea. Despite their distinct ....

Forest Ecosystems

David A Perry, Ram Oren and Stephen C Hart

This acclaimed textbook is the most comprehensive available in the field of forest ecology. Designed for advanced students of forest science, ecology, and environmental ....

The Forest and the City

The Cultural Landscape of Urban Woodland

Cecil C Konijnendijk

Amsterdamse Bos, Bois de Boulogne, Epping Forest, Grunewald, Zoni~nwoud; throughout history, cities in Europe and elsewhere have developed close relationships with nearby ....

Large-scale Ecosystem Restoration

Five Case Studies from the United States

Mary Doyle and Cynthia A Drew

"Large-Scale Ecosystem Restoration" presents case studies of five of the most noteworthy large-scale restoration projects in the United States: Chesapeake ....

Procedures for the Quarantine of Live Aquatic Animals

A Manual

JR Arthur et al

This well-illustrated manual brings together, in a concise and practical format, recommendations for the construction, security and operation of facilities for the ....

Sanctuary

Global Oases of Innocence

Michael Tobias and Jane Morrison

Featuring over twenty sanctuaries in twenty countries, including public and private, ancient and new, this book celebrates the sheltering of innocence in all its forms, ....

Smallholder Tree Growing for Rural Development and Environmental

Services | Lessons from Asia

Denyse J Snelder and Rodel Lasco

Recent history reveals both that the large-scale reforestation projects of the 20th century have often been less successful than anticipated, and that tree growing by ....

Biodiversity: Integrating Conservation and Production

Case Studies from Australian Farms, Forests and Fisheries

Ted Lefroy, Kay Bailey, Tony Norton and Greg Unwin

In June 2007, twenty years after the Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke announced the Decade of Landcare, 250 farmers, foresters and fishers from all states met in Launceston ....

Checklist of Legally Protected British Species

Fauna and Flora Protected By British and International Legal Instruments Arranged Alphabetically by Scientific and Common English Names

Edited by Christopher J Betts

Several hundred wild species, some of them widespread and even common, enjoy significant legal protection in Britain. Knowing which they are, and how extensive and strict their ....

Restraint and Handling of Wild and Domestic Animals

ME Fowler

Restraint and Handling of Wild and Domestic Animals, Third Edition, offers an introduction to the basic principles of animal restraint and an overview of techniques ....

The Design of Climate Policy

Edited by Roger Guesnerie and Henry Tulkens

Debates over post-Kyoto Protocol climate change policy often take note of two issues: the feasibility and desirability of international cooperation on ....

The Economics of Climate Change Policies

Macroeconomic Effects, Structural Adjustments and Technological Change

Rainer Walz and Joachim Schleich

The protection of the earth's atmosphere requires substantial efforts to reduce CO2 and other greenhouse gas emissions. In order to meet these targets, governments have started ....

Five Discoveries by Harald Sverdrup

An Introduction to Physical Oceanography

SA Kitaigorodskii and J Cherniawsky

Harold Ulik Sverdrup was a truly outstanding Norweigan scientist. His family background and education were strongly conditioned by contemporary Scandinavian culture, history ....

Handbook of Environmental Data on Organic Chemicals

Karel Verschueren

This CD contains all the information needed to use potentially dangerous chemicals prudently. Arranged in alphabetical order by chemical name, this reference provides: ....

Modelling Environmental Dynamics

Martin Paegelow and Maria Teresa Camacho Olmedo

Modelling environmental dynamics is critical to understanding and predicting the evolution of the environment in response to the large number of influences including ....

Political Theory and Global Climate Change

Edited by Steve Vanderheiden

Climate change will shape the political, economic, and cultural landscape as surely as it shapes the natural landscape. It challenges our existing political institutions, ....

Scientists Debate Gaia

The Next Century

Edited by Stephen H Schneider et al

A multidisciplinary reexamination of the Gaia hypothesis, which was introduced by James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis in the early 1970s. The Gaia hypothesis holds that Earth's ....

Strategic Bargaining and Cooperation in Greenhouse Gas Mitigations

An Integrated Assessment Modeling Approach

Zili Yang

The impact of climate change is widespread, affecting rich and poor countries and economies both large and small. Similarly, the study of climate change spans many ....

Weather by the Numbers

The Genesis of Modern Meteorology

Kristine C Harper

For much of the first half of the twentieth century, meteorology was more art than science, dependent on an individual forecaster's lifetime of local experience. In ....

Biological Modeling and Simulation

A Survey of Practical Models, Algorithms, and Numerical Methods

Russell Schwartz

There are many excellent computational biology resources now available for learning about methods that have been developed to address specific biological systems, but ....

Chemistry3

Introducing Inorganic, Organic and Physical Chemistry

A Burrows

Chemistry3 establishes the fundamental principles of all three strands of chemistry: organic, inorganic and physical. By building on what students have learned at school, ....

Darwin's Lost World

The Early History of Life on Earth

Martin Brasier

Darwin puzzled over why ancient Precambrian rocks seemed barren of life. Brasier describes the quest to shed light on Darwin's Lost World, the discovery of its strange ....

The Evolving Universe and the Origin of Life

The Search for Our Cosmic Roots

Pekka Teerikorpi, Mauri Valtonen, Harry Lehto, Arthur Chernin, K Lehto and

Sir Isaac Newton famously said, regarding his discoveries, "If I have seen further it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants." ....

Historical Encyclopedia of Natural and Mathematical Sciences (5 Volume Set)

Ari Ben-Menahem

This milestone extensive work combines the essentials of history - biography, chronology, political and economic background - with the observations, theories, ....

The Sun from Space

K Lang

This volume is a comprehensive, up-to-date account of solar astrophysics and how our perception and knowledge of this star have evolved as mankind has elucidated ever more ....

Sustainable Stormwater Management

Thomas H Cahill, Michele Adams and Wesley Horner

"Sustainable Stormwater Management" introduces engineers and designers to ideas and methods for managing storm water in a more ecologically sustainable fashion. It provides ....

Adaptive Governance

The Dynamics of Atlantic Fisheries Management

DG Webster and Oran R Young

The rapid expansion of the fishing industry in the last century has raised major concerns over the long-term viability of many fish species. International fisheries ....

Advances in Vertebrate Pest Management: Volume IV

Edited by DP Cowan and CJ Feare

While we rightly strive to reverse downward trends in biodiversity on agricultural land, in aquatic habitats and in forest, and to enhance biodiversity in urban and suburban ....

Arsenic Pollution

A Global Synthesis

Peter Ravenscroft, Hugh Brammer and Keith Richards

Arsenic Pollution summarizes the most current research on the distribution and causes of arsenic pollution, its impact on health and agriculture, and solutions by way of water ....

Atmospheric Justice

A Political Theory of Climate Change

Steve Vanderheiden

When the policies and activities of one country or generation harm both other nations and later generations, they constitute serious injustices. Recognizing the broad threat ....

Biofuels, Solar and Wind as Renewable Energy Systems

Benefits and Risks

Edited by David Pimentel

With shortages of fossil energy, especially oil and natural gas, and heavy biomass energy use occurring in both developed and developing countries, a major focus has ....

Environmental Change and Globalization

Double Exposures

Robin Leichenko and Karen O'Brien

Environmental Change and Globalization: Double Exposures explores the connections between two of the most transformative processes of the twenty-first century: global ....

The Future of Animal Farming

Renewing the Ancient Contract

Marian Stamp Dawkins and Roland Bonney

Does animal welfare have a place in sustainable farming, or do the demands of a rising human population and the threat of climate change mean that the interests of animals ....

The Global Environment, Natural Resources, and Economic Growth

Alfred Greiner, Alfred Greiner and Will Semmler

Recently, the public attention has turned toward the intricate interrelation between economic growth and global warming. This book focuses on this nexus but broadens the ....

The Green Guide: BREEAM Specification

Jane Anderson and David Shiers

This easy-to-use guide helps specifiers, designers and their clients assess the relative environmental impacts of hundreds of elemental specifications for roofs, walls, floors ....

Grow It, Eat It

From plot to plate, this is a cookery and gardening book in one, from the experts at the RHS. Is your child a budding gardener or chef? Children will love learning how to plant ....

Insatiable Curiosity

Innovation in a Fragile Future

Helga Nowotny and Mitch Cohen

Curiosity is the main driving force behind scientific activity. Scientific curiosity, insatiable in its explorations, does not know what it will find, or where it will lead. ....

Institutions and Environmental Change

Principal Findings, Applications, and Research Frontiers

Oran R Young, Leslie King, Heike Schroeder, Frank Biermann, Carl Folke and

Studies show that institutions play a role both in causing and in addressing problems arising from human-environment interactions. But, the nature of ....

International Law and the Environment

PW Birnie and AE Boyle

As conservation of the environment plays an increasingly important role within society, International Law and the Environment continues to be the essential read for students ....

Natural Experiments

Ecosystem-Based Management and the Environment

Judith Layzer

Scholars, scientists, and policymakers have hailed ecosystem-based management (EBM) as a remedy for the perceived shortcomings of the centralized, top-down, expert-driven ....

The Power of Words in International Relations

Birth of an Anti-Whaling Discourse

Charlotte Epstein

In the second half of the twentieth century, worldwide attitudes toward whaling shifted from widespread acceptance to moral censure. Why? Whaling, once as important to the ....

Recreational Hunting, Conservation and Rural Livelihoods

B Dickson, J Hutton and B Adams

For the first time, this book addresses many of the issues that are fundamental to an understanding of the real role of recreational hunting in conservation and rural ....

Renewable Energy in Power Systems

LL Freris, David Infield and Murray Thomson

Renewable Energy (RE) sources differ from conventional sources in that, generally they cannot be scheduled, they are much smaller than conventional power stations and are ....

Resolving Messy Policy Problems

Handling Conflict in Environmental, Transport, Health and Ageing Policy

Steven Ney

Our lives increasingly take place in more complex and interconnected networks. Accordingly, the policy problems that governments are called upon to deal with have ....

The Sea, Volume 15: Tsunamis

Eddie N Bernard and Allan R Robinson

With the recent catastrophe in Indonesia, the topic of tsunamis could not be more timely. This book, volume fifteen in a distinguished series surveying the frontiers of ....

Socially Responsible Investment Law Regulating the Unseen Polluters

Benjamin J Richardson

Environmental harm is commonly associated with companies that extract, consume, and pollute our shared natural resources. Rarely are the 'unseen polluters', the financiers ....

Solar Revolution

The Economic Transformation of the Global Energy Industry

Travis Bradford

An innovative analysis that shows how the shift to solar energy - in particular, the use of photovoltaic cells - is both economically advantageous and inevitable, and will rival ....

Sustainable Wells

Maintenance, Problem Prevention, and Rehabilitation

Stuart A Smith and Allen E Comeskey

Focusing on operational practicality, Sustainable Wells: Maintenance, Problem Prevention, and Rehabilitation serves as a comprehensive guide to state-of-the-art ....

Tourism Enterprises and Sustainable Development

International Perspectives on Responses to the Sustainability Agenda

Leslie David

The tourism industry has increasingly recognized and responded to growing environmental concerns. In recent years, there has been an emergence of a variety of categories of ....

Urban Environmental Management and Technology

Keisuke Hanaki

The importance of urban environmental management in the face of formidable challenges is being increasingly highlighted. This book offers a comprehensive overview of science and ....

Water, Environmental Security and Sustainable Development

Murat Arsel and Max Spoor

This co-edited volume provides a unified scholarly treatment of intensifying debates on the relationship between water scarcity and environmental security in Central Eurasia. ....

Building Bioinformatics Solutions

With Perl, R and MySQL

Conrad Bessant, Ian Shadforth and Darren Oakly

Modern bioinformatics encompasses a broad and ever-changing range of activities involved with the management and analysis of data from molecular biology experiments. Despite the ....

Creating Scientific Concepts

Nancy J Nersessian

How do novel scientific concepts arise? In "Creating Scientific Concepts", Nancy Nersessian seeks to answer this central but virtually unasked question in the problem of ....

Geographic Databases and GIS

Emmanuel Stefanakis

The author highlights the technological aspects of GIS. Specifically, it focuses on its database and database management system. The methodologies for modeling and handling ....

Optimization Models, Technology and the Environment

Edited by R Boucekkine et al

This book covers a wide range of topics in mathematical modelling of interlinked economic, technological and environmental processes. The main unifying theme of the book ....

Statistics

A Very Short Introduction

David J Hand

Modern statistics is very different from the dry and dusty discipline of the popular imagination. In its place is an exciting subject which uses deep theory and powerful ....

Communication Skills for the Biosciences

A Divan

Effective scientific communication is a skill highly-prized by potential employers, and is central to success during postgraduate study. Communication Skills for the ....

Practising Science Communication in the Information Age

Theorising Professional Practices

Edited by Richard Holliman, Jeff Thomas, Sam Smidt, Eileen Scanlon and E Whitelegg

What is the impact of open access on science communication? How can scientists effectively engage and interact with the public? What role can science communication ....

Study and Communication Skills for the Biosciences

Stuart Johnson

Communication Skills for the Biosciences reviews the essential skills a bioscience student needs to reach their full potential during their studies, and to enhance their ....