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Mammals
 

Belize Field Guide: Mammals, Amphibians and Reptiles

Mark Wainright

Includes mammals with tracks, reptiles, and amphibians. The 140 plus illustrations on this fold-out field guide were created by British naturalist, Mark Wainwright, who lives ....

13 pages | Col illus | HML Enterprises

Unbound | 2009 | 1888538899 | #181132A | £5.25 Add to basket

 

Do Bats Drink Blood?

Fascinating Answers to Questions About Bats

Barbara A Schmidt-French and Carol A Butler

Bat biologist Barbara A. Schmidt-French and writer Carol A. Butler offer a compendium of insightful facts about bats in this accessible and expertly written question-and-answer ....

176 pages | 16 colour & 25 black-&-white photographs | Rutgers UP

Pbk | NYP 09/2009 | 0813545889 | #181257A | £19.99 Add to basket

 

Extended Family: Long Lost Cousins

A Personal Look at the History of Primatology

Colin Groves

Working from an encyclopedic knowledge of primates throughout human history, Colin Groves provides a quick-reading narrative that serves equally well as an introduction ....

227 pages | illus | Conservation International

Pbk | 2008 | 1934151254 | #177101A | £13.99 Add to basket

 

Island Bats

Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation

Edited by Theodore H Fleming and Paul A Racey

The second largest order of mammals, Chiroptera comprises more than one thousand species of bats. Because of their mobility, bats are often the only native mammals on isolated ....

592 pages | 17 colour plates, 47 halftones, 49 line drawings, 46 tables | Chicago UP

Hbk | NYP 01/2010 | 0226253309 | #180731A | £44.99 Add to basket

 

The Jackson Elk Herd

Intensive Wildlife Management in North America

Mark S Boyce

The management of the elk population at Jackson Hole, Wyoming, has been the subject of a long-standing controversy among wildlife biologists, with critics of the winter feeding ....

306 pages | Figs, tabs | CUP

Pbk | 2009 | 0521110203 | #181216A | £29.99 Add to basket

 

Lemurs of Madagascar

Pocket Identification Guide

RA Mittermeier, E Louis, M Richardson, W Konstant, O Langrand et al

This laminated pocket guide with illustrations to identify 116 species and individual maps for locating them is the tool to have on hand. In addition, you can use the ....

22 pages | colour illus | Conservation International

Unbound | 2008 | 1934151300 | #181442A | £6.99 Add to basket

 

Lemurs of Madagascar: Nocturnal Lemurs

Pocket Identification Guide

RA Mittermeier, E Louis, M Richardson, W Konstant, O Langrand et al

The nocturnal pocket guide presents 65 species of lemurs - some of them only just described - from eight genera: Allocebus, Avahi, Cheirogaleus, Daubentonia, Lepilemur, ....

20 pages | Illus, maps | Conservation International

Unbound | 2008 | 1934151319 | #181443A | £6.99 Add to basket

 

The Little Seal

Ram Papish

The northern fur seal spends most of its life in the open ocean of the North Pacific, from California up through Alaska and down to Japan. These seals travel hundreds of ....

24 pages | 20 colour plates | Chicago UP

Hbk | NYP 10/2009 | 1602230684 | #181143A | £10.99 Add to basket

 

Marmosets and Tamarins

Pocket Identification Guide

A Rylands, RA Mittermeier, AF Coimbra-Filho, EW Heymann et al

A folding pocket guide devoted to the callitrichids, among the most widespread and engaging of New World monkeys. ....

20 pages | col illus, maps | Conservation International

Unbound | 2008 | 1934151203 | #181444A | £6.99 Add to basket

 

Monkeys of the Guianas: Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana

Pocket Identification Guide

RA Mittermeier, AB Rylands, GM van Roosmalen et al

This laminated pocket guide with colour illustrations and line drawings to identify species and individual maps for locating them is the tool to have on hand. In addition, ....

22 pages | Illus, col illus, maps | Conservation International

Unbound | 2008 | 193415119X | #177212A | £6.99 Add to basket

 

Myxomatosis

Frank Fenner and FN Ratcliffe

The outbreaks of myxomatosis among rabbits in Australia in 1950 and in Europe in 1952 provided scientists with opportunities of observing the course of the interaction of a ....

428 pages | CUP

Pbk | 2009 | 0521112966 | #181412A | £27.99 Add to basket

 

Otters

Ecology and Conservation

C F Mason and S M Macdonald

This book focuses on the European otter, describing its life history, including fresh information and providing details of survey methods and the state of populations ....

236 pages | B/w illus, tabs | CUP

Pbk | 2009 | 0521101344 | #181160A | £17.99 Add to basket

 

Planet Ape

Desmond Morris and Steve Parker

"Planet Ape" brings you face to face with your closest living relatives, the Great Apes. Gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobos and orang-utans are only a hair's breadth away from us in ....

288 pages | 30 artworks, 200 photographs | Mitchell Beazley

Hbk | NYP 10/2009 | 1845334418 | #181246A | £29.99 Add to basket

 

Primatas do Amapá

Guia de Identificacao de Bolso

Jose de Sousa, Claudia R Silva and Thais P Kasecker

This laminated folding pocket guide provides an overview of the primates of Amapa, one of the northernmost states of Brazil and a haven for Amazonian primates. ....

21 pages | Col illus, maps | Conservation International

Unbound | 2008 | 1881173526 | #181441A | £6.99 Add to basket

 

The Real Chimpanzee

Sex Strategies in the Forest

Christophe Boesch

The Real Chimpanzee encapsulates the fascinating behaviour of wild chimps and discusses the differences observed in different populations across the species, and across the ....

181 pages | B/w illus, figs | CUP

Hbk | 2009 | 0521110084 | #181275A | £65.00 Add to basket

Pbk | 2009 | 0521125138 | #181276A | £25.99 Add to basket

 

The Rise of Mammals

The Paleocene and Eocene Epochs

T Holmes

The Paleocene epoch was a time of recovery for mammals and birds, survivors of the Mesozoic era. As the Earth continued to change as the continents drifted further apart, ....

163 pages | Chelsea House Publishers

Hbk | 2009 | 0816059632 | #181159A | £31.50 Add to basket

 

The Smallest Anthropoids

Edited by Susan M Ford, Leila M Porter and Lesa C Davis

This volume represents a comprehensive examination of the newly recognized callimico/marmoset clade, which includes the smallest anthropoid primates on earth. It ....

450 pages | Illus, tabs | Springer

Hbk | NYP 10/2009 | 1441902929 | #181183A | £135.00 Add to basket

 

South Asian Primates

Pocket Identification Guide

S Molur, S Walker, D Brandon-Jones et al

This laminated pocket guide with over illustrations to identify 44 species species and individual maps for locating them is the tool to have on hand. The area covered includes ....

20 pages | Illus, maps | Conservation International

Unbound | 2008 | 1934151173 | #177213A | £6.99 Add to basket

 

The Urban Whale

North Atlantic Right Whales at the Crossroads

Edited by Scott D Kraus and Rosalind Rolland

In 1980 a group of scientists censusing marine mammals in the Bay of Fundy was astonished at the sight of 25 right whales. It was, one scientist later recalled, "like ....

543 pages | 34 color illustrations, 116 halftones, 48 line illustrations, 21 tables | Harvard UP

Hbk | 2007 | 0674023277 | #160706A | £42.95 Add to basket

Pbk | NYP 10/2009 | 0674034759 | #181339A | £14.95 Add to basket

 

The Walrus in Greenland

EW Born

Excessive hunting has reduced the populations of these once abundant pinnipeds. In some parts of Greenland the walrus is still a resource that provides meat and income in a ....

79 pages | Col illus | Atuagkat

Pbk | 2005 | 8779752217 | #179046A | £44.99 Add to basket

 

Weddell Seal

Consummate Diver

Gerald L Kooyman

This book describes the environment and behaviour patterns of the Weddell seal. Based on his numerous expeditions to the Antarctic, Dr Kooyman has analysed the seal's diving ....

148 pages | CUP

Pbk | 2009 | 0521112419 | #181407A | £16.99 Add to basket

 

The White Bears of Greenland

EW Born

Gives an overview of the polar bear's life, especially in Greenland - and of how it may change in the future. The book describes the animal's biology but otherwise concentrates ....

128 pages | Col illus, maps | Atuagkat

Pbk | 2008 | 8779754058 | #179045A | £44.99 Add to basket

 

The Year of the Gorilla

George B Schaller

This seminal work chronicles George B. Schaller's two years of travel and observation of gorillas in East and Central Africa in the late 1950s, high in the Virunga volcanoes on ....

290 pages | 30 halftones, 27 line drawings, 3 maps | Chicago UP

Pbk | 1988 | 0226736482 | #004749A | £18.50 Add to basket

Pbk | NYP 11/2009 | 0226736474 | #181138A | £17.50 Add to basket

 
Birds
 

Birds of Costa Rica

A Field Guide

Carrol L Henderson, Steve Adams and Alexander F Skutch

At the biological crossroads of the Americas, Costa Rica hosts an astonishing array of plants and animals - over half a million species! Ecotourists, birders, and biologists ....

400 pages | Texas UP

Pbk | NYP 01/2010 | 0292719655 | #180984A | £20.99 Add to basket

 

A Birdwatching Guide to Lesvos

Steve Dudley

A Birdwatching Guide to Lesvos sets new standards in 'where to watch' bird guides. In this guide, Steve Dudley shares his in-depth knowledge of this popular Aegean Island. He ....

272 pages | Col photos, maps | Arlequin Press

Pbk | 2009 | 1905268068 | #181376A | £19.99 Add to basket

 

Conservation Biology of Hawaiian Forest Birds

Implications for Island Avifauna

Edited by Thane K Pratt, Carter T Atkinson, Paul C Banko, James D Jacobi et al

Hawaii's forest bird community is the most insular and most endangered in the world and serves as a case study for threatened species globally. Ten have disappeared in the past ....

640 pages | 97 black-&-white illustrations + 32 colour images | Yale UP

Hbk | NYP 01/2010 | 0300141084 | #180648A | £60.00 Add to basket

 

The Migration of Birds

Seasons on the Wing

Janice Hughes

Ornithologist Janice M. Hughes describes the findings of the most recent research and surveys as-yet-unanswered questions. She unravels the exciting contributions of ....

208 pages | col photos | Firefly Books

Hbk | NYP 11/2009 | 1554074320 | #180997A | £29.99 Add to basket

 

A Photographic Guide to the Birds of Sri Lanka

Silva Wijeyeratne, Deepal Warakagoda and TSU De Zylva

Describes, in detail, 252 species including the Sri Lanka Blue Magpie and the Sri Lanka Wood Pigeon. It includes a regional distribution map showing the best bird sites, ....

144 pages | 300 col photos, col map | New Holland

Pbk | 2008 | 1847733182 | #181418A |

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Seabirds

Feeding Ecology and Role in Marine Ecosystems

Edited by JP Croxall

Originally published in 1986, this book is concerned with the ways in which seabirds function as predators in the marine environment; in particular about how they find and ....

420 pages | CUP

Pbk | 2009 | 0521105102 | #181156A | £26.99 Add to basket

 

The Shelduck

A Study in Behavioural Ecology

IJ Patterson and Chris Furse

This book augments discussions of behavioural ecology with a comprehensive study of a single species, using it to illustrate and discuss many theoretical issues. Taking the ....

288 pages | ill | CUP

Pbk | 2009 | 0521113350 | #181149A | £21.99 Add to basket

 

Systematics and Taxonomy of Australian Birds

Les Christidis and Walter E Boles

Lists all species of birds that have been recorded from the Australian mainland, Tasmania, island territories and surrounding waters. ....

277 pages | Tabs | CSIRO

Hbk | 2008 | 0643065113 | #170240A | £44.95 Add to basket

Pbk | 2008 | 0643096027 | #181384A | £31.95 Add to basket

 

Wesley

The Story of a Remarkable Owl

Stacey O'Brien

On Valentine's Day 1985, biologist Stacey O'Brien met a four-day-old baby barn owl - a fateful encounter that would turn into an astonishing 19-year saga. With nerve damage in ....

240 pages | B/w photos throughout | Constable Robinson

Pbk | 2009 | 1849010587 | #181435A | £7.99 Add to basket

 
Reptiles & Amphibians
 

Black Python: Morelia Boeleni

Ari R Flagle and Erik D Stoops

Covers captive management, husbandry, natural history and ecology, reproductive strategies as well as other related topics. ....

157 pages | 140 col photos | Chimaira

Hbk | 2009 | 3930612860 | #157942A | £48.00 Add to basket

 

Frogs of Madagascar, Genus Mantella

Pocket Identification Guide

O Jovanovic, F Rabemananjara et al

This laminated pocket guide with colour photos to identify 16 species and individual maps for locating them is the tool to have on hand. Includes species descriptions and ....

16 pages | colour photos | Conservation International

Unbound | 2008 | 1934151009 | #177217A | £6.99 Add to basket

 

Frogs: Inside Their Remarkable World

Ellin Beltz

Covers the history of the frog, its unique anatomical makeup, its place in the natural world, and threats that are seriously reducing its numbers. It includes all 31 families ....

175 pages | 125 col photos | Firefly Books

Hbk | 2005 | 1552978699 | #156423A | £19.99 Add to basket

Pbk | NYP 09/2009 | 1554075025 | #181492A | £18.95 Add to basket

 

Grenouilles de Madagascar du Genre Mantella

Guide d'Identification de Poche

O Jovanovic, F Rabemananjara et al

This laminated pocket guide with colour photos to identify 16 species and individual maps for locating them is the tool to have ....

16 pages | colour photos | Conservation International

Unbound | 2008 | 1934151009 | #181535A | £6.99 Add to basket

 

Guide and Reference to the Amphibians of Western North America (North of Mexico) and Hawaii

RD Bartlett and Patricia P Bartlett

Each of the species is grouped alphabetically by scientific name within each order. Color photographs are accompanied by descriptive text that details the appearance, ....

256 pages | 159 colour photos, 8 b/w photos, 103 maps | Florida University Presses

Pbk | NYP 08/2009 | 0813032989 | #181448A | £25.50 Add to basket

 

Guide and Reference to the Snakes of Western North America (North of Mexico) and Hawaii

RD Bartlett and Patricia P Bartlett

Contains information on how to search for herpetofauna, habitat descriptions, captive care, and a section on reptiles and the law. This guide is suitable for amateur or ....

278 pages | 190 colour photos, 6 b/w photos, 85 maps | Florida University Presses

Pbk | 2009 | 0813033012 | #181449A | £25.50 Add to basket

 

Guide and Reference to the Turtles and Lizards of Western North America (North of Mexico) and Hawaii

RD Bartlett and Patricia P Bartlett

Information on how to search for herpetofauna, habitat descriptions, captive care, and a special section on reptiles and the law make this guide the perfect resource for amateur ....

315 pages | 228 colour photos, 8 b/w photos, 125 maps | Florida University Presses

Pbk | 2009 | 0813033128 | #181450A | £25.50 Add to basket

 

Lizards and Crocodilians of the Southeast

Whit Gibbons, Judy Greene and Tony Mills

This heavily illustrated, lively, and accessible guide covers twenty native and thirty-nine introduced species of lizards and crocodilians found in the Southeast. ....

240 pages | 330 colour photos, 18 maps | Georgia UP

Pbk | 2009 | 0820331589 | #181206A | £21.50 Add to basket

 

Tortugas Marinas de America

JV Rueda-Almonacid et al

This laminated pocket guide with colour photos to identify sea turtle species and a distribution map for locating them is the tool to have on hand. ....

12 pages | colour photos | Conservation International

Unbound | 2008 | 1934151068 | #177215A | £6.99 Add to basket

 

Las Tortugas y los Cocodrilianos de los Paises Andinos del Tropico

JV Rueda-Almonacid, JL Carr, RA Mittermeier, RB Mast, RC Vogt et al

Describes the terrestrial, marine and river turtles and crocodiles in the Andes tropical countries. Chapters include information on conservation, morphology, ecological ....

537 pages | Col photos, maps, illus | Conservation International

Pbk | 2007 | 1934151106 | #181445A | £16.99 Add to basket

 

Turtles and Tortoises of Madagascar and Adjacent Indian Ocean Islands

Pocket Identification Guide

TE Leuteritz, J Gerlach, RA Mittermeier et al

This laminated pocket guide with illustrations to identify 20 species on Mauritius and the Seychelles and individual maps for locating them is the tool to have on hand. In ....

20 pages | colour illus | Conservation International

Unbound | 2008 | 1934151157 | #177216A | £6.99 Add to basket

 
Fishes
 

L'Anguille Européenne

Indicateurs d'abondance et de colonisation

Edited by Gilles Adam, Eric Feunteun, Patrick Prouzet and Christian Rigaud

A study of the threatened European eel Anguilla anguilla, dealing with biology, behaviour, ecology and environmental threats. ....

393 pages | Col & b/w figs, tabs | Quae

Pbk | 2008 | 275920085X | #180527A | £78.00 Add to basket

 

Fish Diseases and Disorders, Volume 2

Non-Infectious Disorders

Edited by JF Leatherland and PTK Woo

Written by leading authorities in the field, this new edition of Volume 2 in the successful Fish Diseases and Disorders trilogy has been thoroughly updated with new ....

386 pages | B/w photos, illus | CABI

Hbk | NYP 12/2009 | 1845935535 | #179807A | £85.00 Add to basket

 

Fishes of the Open Ocean

A Natural History and Illustrated Guide

Julian Pepperell

The largest, swiftest, highest-leaping and most migratory fishes on the planet all live in the open ocean. Beautifully adapted to their world, they range from tiny drift fishes ....

272 pages | 4-colour illustrations throughout | UNSWP

Hbk | NYP 11/2009 | 0868407003 | #181237A | £33.50 Add to basket

 

Gonorynchiformes and Ostariophysan Relationships

A Comprehensive Review

Edited by Terry Grande et al

An understanding of gonorynchiform morphology and systematic inter- and intra-relationships has proven vital to a better ....

600 pages | Science Publishers/Enfield

Hbk | NYP 08/2009 | 1578083745 | #164840A | £91.00 Add to basket

 

Sharks of the World

Leonard Compagno, Marc Dando and Sarah Fowler

Everyone's heard of the Great Whites. But most people know little of the hundreds of other types of sharks that inhabit the world's oceans. Written by two ....

480 pages | 128 color plates. 500 line illus. 500 maps. | Princeton UP

Pbk | 2009 | 0691120722 | #181147A | £21.95 Add to basket

 
Invertebrates
 

100 Butterflies and Moths

Portraits from the Tropical Forests of Costa Rica

Jeffrey C Miller, Daniel H Janzen and Winifred Hallwachs

Walking a forest trail in Costa Rica, a visitor might be struck by the sight of an iridescent blue morpho butterfly fluttering ahead in the filtered daylight, or an ....

256 pages | 221 col photos, 1 map | Belknap Press

Hbk | 2007 | 067402334X | #164280A | £29.95 Add to basket

Pbk | NYP 11/2009 | 067403483X | #181336A | £18.95 Add to basket

 

100 Caterpillars

Portraits from the Tropical Forests of Costa Rica

Jeffrey C Miller, Daniel H Janzen and Winifred Hallwachs

Every bright monarch butterfly or striking luna moth started out in a far subtler form of nature's mosaic, a humble caterpillar. It is this early stage of life--crafted by ....

264 pages | 207 col illus | Belknap Press

Hbk | 2006 | 0674021908 | #158653A | £29.95 Add to basket

Pbk | NYP 11/2009 | 0674034821 | #181337A | £18.95 Add to basket

 

Account of the Crustacea of Norway, Vol. III: Cumacea

GO Sars

The third volume of Sars's comprehensive "Account of the Crustacea of Norway", Cumacea covered all known Norwegian Cumaceans at the time of publication (1900). 72 plates ....

Plates | Pisces Conservation

CD | 2007 | 1904690521 | #181309A | £24.73 Add to basket

 

Advances in the Systematics of Diplopoda II

Edited by SI Golovatch and R Mesibov

Contains three papers - the first paper focuses on the family Haplodesmidae (Polydesmida), presenting a review of the rather speciose genus Eutrichodesmus which ....

110 pages | Figs, illus, photos | Pensoft

Pbk | 2009 | 9546424897 | #181515A | £34.00 Add to basket

 

Agricultural Entomology

D Hill

A comprehensive global view of the insect groups that are of major significance to worldwide agriculture. ....

640 pages | 312 b/w photos, 436 illus | Timber Press

Hbk | 1994 | 0881922234 | #037411A | £65.00 Add to basket

Pbk | 2009 | 1604691018 | #181152A | £56.00 Add to basket

 

Arthropod Fauna of the UAE, Volume 2

Edited by Antonius van Harten

42 authors from 18 countries have contributed to this new volume. ....

786 pages | 835 plates, 308 figs, 4 maps | Dar Al Ummah

Hbk | 2009 | 9948150902 | #175383A | £38.00 Add to basket

 

Atlas d'Ortòpters de Catalunya

Josep Maria Olmo-Vidal

428 pages | Figs, maps | Llibreria de la Generalitat

2006 | #177073A | £58.00 Add to basket

 

Biology of the Land Crabs

Edited by Warren W Burggren and Brian R McMahon

Interest in land crabs has burgeoned as biologists have increasingly focused on the evolution of terrestriality. Before the publication of this volume in 1988, there had ....

492 pages | CUP

Pbk | 2009 | 0521112923 | #181151A | £31.99 Add to basket

 

Butterflies of the Indian Region

W Blyth

Previous books on Indian butterflies have been almost entirely concerned with their identification. They dealt with them as objects to collect rather then as living ....

523 pages | 27 col plates, 45 b/w illus | Today & Tomorrow

Hbk | 1982 | 8170192323 | #181531A | £89.00 Add to basket

 

Les Crevettes Cotieres de Madagascar

Biologie, Exploitation, Gestion

A Caveriviere, C Chaboud and T Rafalimanana

Study of the Madagascan shrimp, including its biology, ecology and management. ....

362 pages | Figs, tabs | IRD

Pbk | 2008 | 2709916452 | #180854A | £45.50 Add to basket

 

Dragonflies and Damselflies

Model Organisms for Ecological and Evolutionary Research

Edited by Alex Cordoba-Aguilar

Dragonflies and Damselflies documents the latest advances in odonate biology and relates these to a broader ecological and evolutionary research agenda. Despite being ....

290 pages | illus | OUP

Hbk | 2008 | 0199230692 | #172284A | £65.00 Add to basket

Pbk | NYP 12/2009 | 0199567581 | #180782A | £32.50 Add to basket

 

Dust Mites

Matthew J Colloff

Dust mites are present in almost every home - in our beds, clothing and carpets. Conservatively, at least 100 million people are affected by house dust mite allergy ....

320 pages | Springer

Hbk | NYP 08/2009 | 9048122236 | #120649A | £135.00 Add to basket

 

Field Guide to the Larvae and Exuviae of British Dragonflies

Volume 2: Damselflies (Zygoptera)

Steve Cham

The second volume of Steve Cham's exuvia identification guides. As with the previous volume on Dragonflies, it is a new approach ....

76 pages | col photos, drawings | British Dragonfly Society

Pbk | 2009 | 0955647118 | #181422A | £8.50 Add to basket

 

Insect Museum

Sonia Dourlot

This innovative reference explores the fascinating world of insects and allows readers to discover the intricacies of these tiny creatures in a striking and completely ....

256 pages | 450 col photos, 114 line draw | Firefly Books

Hbk | NYP 11/2009 | 1554074835 | #181073A | £36.99 Add to basket

 

Insects of Surinam

Maria Sybilla Merian and Katharina Schmidt-Loske

This title presents the life story of a butterfly. It is the masterwork of an entomological pioneer. At a time when few women were educated or literate - and rarely ....

192 pages | Taschen

Hbk | 2009 | 3822852783 | #181111A | £24.99 Add to basket

 

Land Snails and Slugs of Russia and Adjacent Countries

A Sysoev and AA Schileyko

This is the first (since 1952), original and full-colour account of the entire fauna of terrestrial molluscs of most of the Palearctic. It covers 46 families, 225 genera and ....

454 pages | col plates | Pensoft

Hbk | 2009 | 9546424749 | #181150A | £96.00 Add to basket

 
Palaeontology
 

The Complete Ice Age

How Climate Change Shaped the World

Edited by Brian Fagan

Written by three distinguished experts and overseen by a leading historian of climate change, Brian Fagan, The Complete Ice Age reveals how climate fluctuated wildly between ....

240 pages | 216 illus | Thames & Hudson

Hbk | NYP 10/2009 | 0500051615 | #181361A | £24.95 Add to basket

 

Extinctions in the History of Life

Edited by Paul D Taylor

Extinction is the ultimate fate of all biological species - over 99% of the species that have ever inhabited the Earth are now extinct. The long fossil record of life provides ....

191 pages | B/w photos, figs, tabs | CUP

Hbk | 2004 | 0521842247 | #147449A | £44.99 Add to basket

Pbk | 2009 | 0521114896 | #181369A | £24.99 Add to basket

 

The Fossil Hunter

Dinosaurs, Evolution, and the Woman Who Changed Science

Shelley Emling

In 1811, when she was only twelve years old, Mary Anning discovered the first dinosaur skeleton - of an ichthyosaur - while fossil hunting on the cliffs of Lyme Regis. Mary, ....

256 pages | Palgrave

Hbk | NYP 10/2009 | 0230611567 | #181241A | £15.99 Add to basket

 

Fossils Alive!

or New Walks in an Old Field

Nigel H Trewin

Imagine being a time-traveller, traveling back millions of years in time to join wildlife safaris and visit ancient environments teeming with life. In Fossils Alive!, ....

211 pages | Col illus | Dunedin Academic Press

Hbk | 2008 | 1903765889 | #181533A | £19.95 Add to basket

 

An Introduction to Plant Fossils

Christopher J Cleal and Barry A Thomas

This book provides an excellent practical introduction to the study of plant fossils, and is written for those who have had little previous experience of this type of ....

256 pages | 104 figs, 2 tables | CUP

Hbk | NYP 09/2009 | 0521887151 | #181093A | £70.00 Add to basket

Pbk | NYP 09/2009 | 0521715121 | #181279A | £29.99 Add to basket

 

Molluscan Paleontology of the Chesapeake Miocene

Edward J Petuch and Mardie Drolshagen

A complete compendium of Miocene species since 1904, this long-awaited field guide lists nearly 500 species. It illustrates 260 species, including more than 60 not found in any ....

168 pages | 60 black & white illustrations | CRC Press

Hbk | NYP 09/2009 | 1439811598 | #181262A | £69.99 Add to basket

 

Studies in the Vegetational History of the British Isles

Essays in Honour of Harry Godwin

Edited by Donald Walker and Richard Gilbert West

This collection of essays, presented to Professor Godwin to mark his retirement in 1968, is a set of case-studies of the history of British vegetation during the last million ....

284 pages | CUP

Pbk | 2009 | 052111201X | #181401A | £21.99 Add to basket

 
Marine & Freshwater Biology
 

Basking with Humpbacks

Tracking Threatened Marine Life in New England Waters

Todd McLeish

This book takes a refreshing follow-up to the critically acclaimed "Golden Wings & Hairy Toes". "Basking with Humpbacks" offers an exciting, close-up look at some of the rarest ....

240 pages | 11 illustrations | New England UP

Hbk | NYP 09/2009 | 158465676X | #181187A | £22.95 Add to basket

 

Coral Reefs

Biology, Threats and Restoration

Edited by Thomas B Davin and Anna P Brannet

Coral reefs are ancient and extremely complex communities functioning as a single unit. They are the 'rain forests of the sea,' containing the richest biodiversity of all ....

Nova Science

Hbk | 2009 | 1606921045 | #181210A | £79.99 Add to basket

 

A Reef in Time

The Great Barrier Reef from Beginning to End

J.E.N Veron

Like many coral specialists fifteen years ago, J. E. N. Veron thought Australia's Great Barrier Reef was impervious to climate change. "Owned by a prosperous country and ....

289 pages | Col plates, figs | Belknap Press

Hbk | 2008 | 0674026799 | #168534A | £25.95 Add to basket

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World Ocean Census

A Global Survey of Maritime Life

Darlene Trew Crist, Gail Scowcroft and James M Harding

The Census of Marine Life was launched in 2000 with the goal of producing the first-ever ocean census by 2010. Two thousand scientists from 82 nations agreed to the mandate to ....

256 pages | 400 col photos | Firefly Books

Hbk | NYP 10/2009 | 1554074347 | #181490A | £29.99 Add to basket

 
General Natural History
 

Audubon: Beyond Birds

Plant Portraits and Conservation Heritage of John James Audubon

E Small, PM Catling, J Cayouette and B Brookes

John James Audubon was one of the world's greatest painters of wildlife. He is best known for The Birds of America, a gigantic 4 volume set of 435 paintings that to this ....

266 pages | col paintings | NRC

Hbk | 2009 | 0660198940 | #178355A | £29.99 Add to basket

 

Charles Darwin

An Anthology

Edited by Marston Bates, Philip S Humphrey and Lionel Tiger

Although his name has become a household word after he published "The Origin of the Species", a one-volume edition of his writings that covers the full gamut of his ....

499 pages | illustrations | Transaction Books

Pbk | 2009 | 1412809940 | #181438A | £30.95 Add to basket

 

Charles Darwin and Victorian Visual Culture

Jonathan Smith

Although The Origin of Species contained just a single visual illustration, Charles Darwin's other books, from his monograph on barnacles in the early 1850s to his volume ....

378 pages | CUP

Hbk | 2006 | 0521856906 | #168239A | £67.00 Add to basket

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Charles Darwin's Notebooks from the Voyage of the Beagle

Edited by Gordon Chancellor and John van Wyhe

This is the first full edition of the notebooks used by Darwin during his epic voyage in the Beagle. It contains transcriptions of all fifteen notebooks, which now survive as ....

656 pages | 312 figs, 10 maps, 3 tables | CUP

Hbk | 2009 | 0521517575 | #181272A | £85.00 Add to basket

 

Darwin's Camera

Art and Photography in the Theory of Evolution

Phillip Prodger

Tells the extraordinary story of how Charles Darwin changed the way pictures are seen and made. In his illustrated masterpiece, Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals ....

304 pages | 112 halftone illustrations | OUP

Hbk | NYP 10/2009 | 0195150317 | #181219A | £24.99 Add to basket

 

Deep Nature

Photographs from Iowa

Linda Scarth, Robert Scarth and John Pearson

Photographers Linda and Robert Scarth have an incredible eye for that magic moment when small becomes beautiful. Matched with patience and skill, their eye for magic produces ....

128 pages | 75 colour photos | Iowa UP

Hbk | NYP 10/2009 | 1587298244 | #181245A | £25.50 Add to basket

 

The Earwig's Tail

A Modern Bestiary of Multi-Legged Legends

May R Berenbaum

Throughout the Middle Ages, enormously popular bestiaries presented people with descriptions of rare and unusual animals, typically paired with a moral or religious ....

216 pages | 26 drawings | Harvard UP

Hbk | NYP 09/2009 | 0674035402 | #181327A | £17.95 Add to basket

 

An Infinity of Things

How Sir Henry Wellcome Collected the World

Frances Larson

Tells the story of one of the largest private collections ever created, and the life of the man behind it. Wellcome planned a great museum filled with treasures from all ....

320 pages | 8pp colour plates, 30 in-text b/w illustrations | OUP

Hbk | NYP 09/2009 | 0199554463 | #181220A | £18.99 Add to basket

 

James Van Allen

The First Eight Billion Miles

Abigail Foerstner

Astrophysicist and space pioneer James Van Allen (1914-2006), for whom the Van Allen radiation belts were named, was among the principal scientific investigators for ....

396 pages | 52 photos | Iowa UP

Hbk | 2007 | 0877459991 | #172448A | £35.50 Add to basket

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Life Stories

Sir David Attenborough

A personal view of the natural world "I daresay my mind would wander over a range of animals remarkable for the extravagance of their reproductive techniques" - Sir David ....

224 pages | 140 col illus, With index | Harper Collins

Hbk | NYP 10/2009 | 000733883X | #181247A | £19.99 Add to basket

 

Life in the Wild

DK Publishing

From the exquisite fragility of butterflies to the might and majesty of killer whales, explore the incredible diversity of life on Earth in this lavishly illustrated ....

360 pages | Dorling Kindersley

Hbk | NYP 09/2009 | 0756656966 | #181103A | £39.50 Add to basket

 

The Lion's Eye

Seeing in the Wild

Joanna Greenfield

Joanna Greenfield dreamed of traveling to East Africa to study one of the last known populations of wild chimpanzees. When she was offered a once-in-a-lifetime chance, the ....

256 pages | Little, Brown

Hbk | 2009 | 0316328480 | #181184A | £16.99 Add to basket

 

The Making of Mr Gray's Anatomy

Bodies, Books, Fortunes and Fame

Ruth Richardson

Gray's Anatomy is probably one of the most iconic scientific books ever published: an illustrated textbook of anatomy that is still a household name 150 years since its first ....

288 pages | Illus | OUP

Hbk | 2008 | 0199552991 | #175357A | £16.99 Add to basket

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The Nature Book

What it is and How it Lives

Marianne Taylor

There is so much to know about the ever changing natural world, but it's impossible to remember everything we have ever learnt about the range of subjects encompassed by the ....

192 pages | Ill | Michael O'Mara

Hbk | NYP 09/2009 | 1843173530 | #181254A | £9.99 Add to basket

 

Pharaoh's Flowers

The Botanical Treasures of Tutankhamun

FN Hepper

`By studying not only the floral wreaths on the coffins, but the linen gloves, the palm-leaf sandals, the bread, seeds, fruits, lamps, honey jars and decorative objects ....

150 pages | B/w photos,line illus | Kew RBG

Hbk | 2009 | 098177363X | #181356A | £24.99 Add to basket

 

Pollen

The Hidden Sexuality of Flowers

Rob Kesseler and Madeline Harley

This book is the result of the shared fascination of an artist and a scientist with the perfect design of organisms too small to be seen without a microscope - pollen grains, ....

264 pages | Col photos | Papadakis

Hbk | NYP 10/2009 | 1906506000 | #181109A | £34.99 Add to basket

 

Red Sky at Night

The Book of Lost Country Wisdom

Jane Struthers

Ever wondered how to predict the weather just by looking at the sky? Or wanted to attract butterflies to your garden? Is there a knack to building the perfect bonfire? ....

288 pages | B/w illus | Ebury Press

Hbk | NYP 09/2009 | 0091932440 | #181538A | £9.99 Add to basket

 

The Secret Life of a Snowflake

An Up-Close Look at the Art and Science of Snowflakes

Kenneth Libbrecht

This is the story of a single snowflake - from its creation in the clouds, following its fall to earth, and its brief sparkling appearance on a child's glove. It features ....

48 pages | 50 colour, 3 diagrams | Voyageur Press

Hbk | NYP 10/2009 | 0760336768 | #181250A | £9.99 Add to basket

 

Slicing the Silence

Voyaging to Antarctica

Tom Griffiths

From Scott and Shackleton to sled dogs and penguins, stories of Antarctica seize our imagination. In December 2002, environmental historian Tom Griffiths set sail with the ....

399 pages | Line illus | Harvard UP

Hbk | 2007 | 0674026330 | #168529A | £22.95 Add to basket

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Wildlife Photographer of the Year, Portfolio Nineteen

Edited by Rosamund Kidman Cox

"Wildlife Photographer of the Year Portfolio 19" is undoubtedly the most outstanding new collection of nature photographs available. The book showcases more than 120 stunning ....

160 pages | Photos | BBC Books

Hbk | NYP 10/2009 | 1846077605 | #181243A | £24.99 Add to basket

 
Regional & Travel
 

Antarctica

Secrets of the Southern Continent

David McGonigal

The Antarctic is the coldest, driest, and windiest region on Earth--yet it continues to capture our imagination. Antarctica: Secrets of the Southern Continent tells its story ....

400 pages | 600 photos, maps, illus | Frances Lincoln

Hbk | NYP 09/2009 | 0711229805 | #181486A | £44.99 Add to basket

 

The Galapagos

Exploring Darwin's Tapestry

John Hess

Charles Darwin arrived at the Galapagos Islands some three centuries after their discovery. Thousands of seafarers had been there before him, but in these islands Darwin ....

224 pages | 188 colour illustrations, index | Missouri UP

Hbk | 2009 | 0826218377 | #181440A | £42.50 Add to basket

 

Galapagos Both Sides of the Coin

Graham Watkins and Pete Oxford

A spectacular photographic homage to the Galapagos Islands-officially endorsed by both the Galapagos National Park and the Charles Darwin Foundation. This unmatched volume ....

256 pages | Imagine Publishing

Hbk | NYP 09/2009 | 0982293933 | #181188A | £39.50 Add to basket

 

The Mississippi

A Visual Biography

Quinta Scott

Consider the Misi-zibi, the Great River: what natural forces took sixty thousand years to shape, we Americans molded to our needs in three hundred, ....

352 pages | 200 colour illustrations, 14 maps | Missouri UP

Hbk | 2009 | 0826218407 | #181118A | £63.95 Add to basket

 

National Trust Walker's Notebook

National Trust

The National Trust cares for some of Britain's most beautiful locations to take a walk - from green space on your doorstep to really wild and remote landscapes. The National ....

152 pages | Col photos | Frances Lincoln

Pbk | 2009 | 0711229996 | #181523A | £6.84 Add to basket

 

Polar Obsession

Paul Nicklen

Paul Nicklen's bold expeditions take him underwater to deliver close-up, first-ever documentation of the lives of leopard seals, whales, walruses, polar bears, bearded ....

240 pages | 150 colour photographs | National Geographic

Hbk | NYP 10/2009 | 1426205112 | #181144A | £24.99 Add to basket

 

Rivers

A Voyage into the Heart of Britain

Griff Rhys Jones

In punts canoes and rowing boats, Griff Rhys Jones takes us on a tour of Britain's beautiful and extraordinary rivers. He battles through the gorges and waterfalls of ....

288 pages | Hodder

Pbk | NYP 01/2010 | 0340918640 | #181230A | £8.99 Add to basket

 

South Pacific DVD

One Ocean. 20,000 Islands. A Quarter of The World's Water. The extraordinary wildlife, culture and history of this immense, fascinating ocean and its myriad islands are ....

2 discs, | BBC Video

DVD | 2009 | BBCDVD2940 | #180711A |

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Tree of Rivers

The Story of the Amazon

John Hemming

Describes the passionate struggles that have taken place in order to utilize, protect and understand the wonder that is the Amazon. ....

368 pages | 70 b&w illus, maps | Thames & Hudson

Hbk | 2008 | 0500514011 | #173248A | £19.99 Add to basket

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Vanishing Wilderness of Antarctica

Colin Monteath

If we consider Europe and Asia as two distinct continents, then there are seven continents in all, scattered across Earth. In fifth place, in size order, is Antarctica. ....

272 pages | 328 colour photographs | White Star Ediz

Hbk | NYP 10/2009 | 885440487X | #181252A | £24.99 Add to basket

 
Botany & Plant Science
 

Algae of Ukraine: Diversity, Nomenclature, Taxonomy, Ecology and Geography

Volume 2: Bacillariophyta

Edited by Petro M Tsarenko, Solomon P Wasser and Eviatar Nevo

Deals with 945 species in 157 genera of Coscinodiscophyceae, Mediophyceae, and Bacillariophyceae. For all taxa nomenclatural data including basionym, main synonyms, ....

413 pages | 18 b/w plates, line drawings | Gantner

Hbk | 2009 | 3906166791 | #164885A | £98.00 Add to basket

 

The Auricula

History, Cultivation and Varieties

Allan Guest

This delightful book presents the history and development of the Auricula to both the casual reader and enthusiast. It sets out both traditional and more recent methods of ....

200 pages | 200 colour illustrations | Garden Art Press

Hbk | 2009 | 187067362X | #181122A | £19.95 Add to basket

 

Australia's Remarkable Trees

Richard Allen and Kim Baker

Some of the 50 trees in this book are doted on in beautiful gardens but most live in difficult places, battling against drought, wind, fire, ice and snow. Writer Richard ....

272 pages | 500 photos | Melbourne UP

Hbk | NYP 09/2009 | 0522856691 | #181107A | £51.50 Add to basket

 

Bamboos of India

SS Negi and Bishen Singh Mahendra Singh

A handy reference book on the bamboos of India covering, in brief all aspects of this diverse group of plants. It includes valuable and authentic information on different ....

222 pages | Col plates | Vedams

Hbk | 2009 | 8121107419 | #181526A | £70.00 Add to basket

 

The Biology of Vines

Edited by FE Putz and HA Mooney

The climbing habit in plants has apparently evolved numerous times. Species that climb are well represented in habitats ranging from tropical rain forests through temperate ....

544 pages | 6 b/w photos, 15 tables, 50 illus | CUP

Pbk | 2009 | 052110713X | #181375A | £34.99 Add to basket

 

The Bizarre and Incredible World of Plants

Wolfgang Stuppy, Rob Kesseler and Alexandra Papadakis

Pollen, seeds and fruit as you have never seen them before. Following the publication of three groundbreaking books, each created by a scientist and an artist using SEM images, ....

144 pages | Papadakis

Hbk | NYP 08/2009 | 1906506027 | #181108A | £19.99 Add to basket

 

Bloom-again Orchids

Tips and Tricks for Glorious Displays Year After Year

Judy White

Orchids have a reputation as the divas of the plant world: fussy, difficult-to-grow plants that - on top of all that - are prohibitively expensive. But there are plenty of ....

132 pages | 100 color photos | Timber Press

Pbk | NYP 10/2009 | 1604690550 | #181346A | £9.99 Add to basket

 

Botanica Magnifica

Jonathan Singer

"Botanica Magnifica" features two hundred and fifty stunning photographs by Hasselblad Laureate-winner Jonathan Singer. Inspired by the size and scope of "Audubon's Birds of ....

364 pages | 510 full-color illustrations | Abbeville

Hbk | NYP 10/2009 | 0789210339 | #181089A | £130.00 Add to basket

 

Bulb

Anna Pavord

In this personal selection and authoritative guide to the most gorgeous bulbs on the earth, Anna Pavord, world-famous author of "The Tulip", writes charmingly about her ....

544 pages | 600 full-colour photographs | Mitchell Beazley

Hbk | NYP 09/2009 | 1845334159 | #181104A | £29.99 Add to basket

 

The Complete Chile Pepper Book

A Gardener's Guide to Choosing, Growing, Preserving, and Cooking

Dave DeWitt and Paul W Bosland

Chile peppers are hot - in every sense of the word. They add culinary fire to thousands of dishes from a variety of cuisines and inspire near-fanatical devotion in those who ....

336 pages | 283 color photos, 7 drawings | Timber Press

Hbk | NYP 09/2009 | 0881929204 | #181512A | £24.99 Add to basket

 

Conifers of the World

The Complete Reference

James E Eckenwalder

This definitive work provides up-to-date descriptions of all the true conifers of the world. It is the first comprehensive update of conifer taxonomy in nearly a century. ....

704 pages | 67 colour photos, 295 b&w photos, 240 line drawings, 67 dist maps | Timber Press

Hbk | NYP 11/2009 | 0881929743 | #181102A | £50.00 Add to basket

 

Contributions to the Flora of Kerala

The Family Acanthaceae

S Remadevi and MS Binoj Kumar

The family Acanthaceae has been studied and revised taxonomically for the State of Kerala. The study reveals that there are 33 genera, 147 species and 4 varieties in the ....

194 pages | Vedams

Hbk | 2009 | 8121107075 | #181529A | £51.50 Add to basket

 

Cortinarius in Sweden

Karl Soop

A survey of this interesting and ecologically critical fungal genus, covering the Swedish flora but largely applicable to Europe as a whole. The book comprises a key and ....

156 pages | Col plates | Karl Soop

Pbk | 2008 | 9197480371 | #180202A | £78.00 Add to basket

 

Cottonwood and the River of Time

On Trees, Evolution, and Society

Reinhard F Stettler

"Cottonwood and the River of Time" looks at some of the approaches scientists have used to unravel the puzzles of the natural world. With a lifetime of work in forestry and ....

288 pages | 44 illustrations | Washington UP

Pbk | 2009 | 0295988800 | #181123A | £18.99 Add to basket

 

Designing with Plants

P Oudolf and N Kingsbury

Piet Oudolf's gardens excite the senses and stir the emotions. Representing a giant step forward from the conventional colour-themed border, this new approach to gardening gives ....

160 pages | 300 Col photos | Conran Octopus

Pbk | NYP 11/2009 | 1840915269 | #181483A | £16.99 Add to basket

 

The Encyclopedia of Herbs

A Comprehensive Reference to Herbs of Flavor and Fragrance

Arthur O Tucker and Thomas DeBaggio

This meticulously researched compendium provides every aspect of growing, identifying, harvesting, preserving, and using more than 500 species of herbs. Thorough profiles ....

604 pages | 141 line drawings | Timber Press

Hbk | NYP 10/2009 | 0881929948 | #181352A | £34.99 Add to basket

 

Flora of Australia, Volume 57

Lichens 5

Emphasises several speciose and ecologically significant families that colonise the bark of trees and shrubs in monsoon vine forest and in coastal and montane rainforest across ....

708 pages | ABRS

Hbk | 2009 | 0643096647 | #122469A | £125.00 Add to basket

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The Flora of Cork City and County

Tony O'Mahony

Cork is the largest county in Ireland yet no general account of the flora of this extensive area exists. This work, comprehensive and enjoyable, is an enduring ....

260 pages | Collins Press

Hbk | NYP 10/2009 | 1848890206 | #181098A | £39.99 Add to basket

 

From Plant Traits to Vegetation Structure

Chance and Selection in the Assembly of Ecological Communities

Bill Shipley

Plant community ecology has traditionally taken a taxonomical approach based on population dynamics. This book contrasts such an approach with a trait-based approach. ....

296 pages | 1 fig, 9 tables | CUP

Hbk | NYP 11/2009 | 052111747X | #181281A | £75.00 Add to basket

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Fungi and Environmental Change

Edited by JC Frankland, N Magan and GM Gadd

Fungi play a vital role in the functioning of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, yet they have received little attention in the debate on environmental change. This volume ....

351 pages | Figs, tabs | CUP

Pbk | 2009 | 0521106257 | #181373A | £32.99 Add to basket

 

Gardening with Shape, Line, and Texture

A Plant Design Sourcebook

Linden Hawthorne

"Gardening with Shape, Line and Texture" bridges the gap between garden design books and plant reference encyclopedias. Leading landscaper Linden Hawthorne looks at plants from ....

400 pages | 600 color photos | Timber Press

Hbk | NYP 11/2009 | 0881928887 | #181343A | £34.99 Add to basket

 

Germplasm Diversity and Evaluation: Algae, Fungi and Lichens

NS Atri, RC Gupta, MIS Saggoo, VK Singhal et al

This book is an attempt to acquaint readers about various aspects of germplasm study and evaluation in lower groups. The major portion of the book is devoted to topics on fungal ....

230 pages | Col plates, figs | Vedams

Hbk | 2009 | 8121107266 | #181527A | £75.00 Add to basket

 

Germplasm Diversity and Evaluation: Angiosperms

NS Atri, RC Gupta, MIS Saggoo et al

Germplasm diversity, exploration, conservation and evaluation are the major aspects covered in this book. The subject matter covered has special relevance in agricultural ....

248 pages | figs | Vedams

Hbk | 2009 | 8121107341 | #181528A | £75.00 Add to basket

 

Glossary of the British Flora

H Gilbert-Carter

First published in 1950, this alphabetical glossary gives the meaning, pronunciation, and derivation of the generic, trivial, and varietal names of plants mentioned in ....

124 pages | CUP

Pbk | 2009 | 0521114888 | #181126A | £14.99 Add to basket

 

The Gossler Guide to the Best Hardy Shrubs

More Than 350 Expert Choices for Your Garden

Eric Gossler, Marjory Gossler and Roger Gossler

For most home owners, shrubs are an essential part of the yard or garden because they provide shade, flowers, and foliage from spring through autumn. Unfortunately, the ....

204 pages | 150 color photos | Timber Press

Hbk | NYP 09/2009 | 0881929085 | #181350A | £24.99 Add to basket

 

Grass Evolution and Domestication

Edited by GP Chapman

In relation to the origin and spread of grasses, domestication is a recent event confined to about the last ten thousand years and to relatively few grasses. ....

412 pages | Illus | CUP

Pbk | 2009 | 052110727X | #181396A | £39.99 Add to basket

 

Der Grosse Zander (Two Volume Set)

Enzyklopadie der Pflanzennamen

Siegmund Seybold, Nils Bodeker et al

Encyclopaedia of Plant Names Volume 1: Genera Volume 2: Species and Cultivars ....

1968 pages | Illus | Ulmer Verlag

Hbk | 2008 | 3800154064 | #181514A | £131.00 Add to basket

 

Introduction to the History of Mycology

GC Ainsworth

In this volume, first published in 1976, Dr Ainsworth gives a straightforward account of the main views held about fungi for the past three millennia and the development of the ....

376 pages | CUP

Pbk | 2009 | 0521112958 | #181127A | £25.99 Add to basket

 

Introduction to the History of Plant Pathology

GC Ainsworth

The losses caused to staple crops by diseases and disorders and by depredations of pests are a worldwide problem at a time of population increase and food shortage. Plant ....

332 pages | CUP

Pbk | 2009 | 0521112834 | #181409A | £24.99 Add to basket

 

Lone Star Wildflowers

A Guide to Texas Flowering Plants

LaShara J Nieland and Willa F Finley

This title explores the botany, ecology, and rich lore of Texas wildflowers, in easy-to-locate color groupings. Each spring throughout the celebrated hill country and ....

326 pages | 485 colour photos | Texas Tech UP

Pbk | 2009 | 0896726444 | #181342A | £25.50 Add to basket

 

Meadows by Design

Creating a Natural Alternative to the Traditional Lawn

John Greenlee and Saxon Holt

For Greenlee, a meadow isn't a random assortment of messy, anonymous grasses. Rather, it is a shimmering mini-ecosystem, in which regionally appropriate grasses combine with ....

280 pages | 281 colour photographs | Timber Press

Hbk | NYP 11/2009 | 0881929263 | #181347A | £24.99 Add to basket

 

The Metamorphosis of Plants

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Gordon L Miller

"The Metamorphosis of Plants," originally published in 1790, was Goethe's first major attempt to describe what he called in a letter to a friend "the truth about the "how" of ....

136 pages | 60 col photos, 3 col illus, 21 b/w illus | MIT Press

Hbk | NYP 09/2009 | 0262013096 | #181312A | £16.95 Add to basket

 

The Montane Heathland Lichen Guide

Andrea Britton

'The Montane Heathland Lichen Guide' is a new field guide aimed at hill walkers, naturalists, field ecologists or anyone interested in learning more about the lichens to ....

50 pages | Illus, photos | Macaulay LURI

Pbk | 2008 | #181487A | £12.50 Add to basket

 

The Most Important Invasive Plants in Hungary

Edited by Zoltan Botta-Dukat and Lajos Balogh

Contains monographs on Hungarian invasive alien species. 21 chapters of the book deal with 31 species. These species are also invasive in other European countries and some of ....

255 pages | Tabs | HAS Institute Ecology & Botany

Pbk | 2008 | 9638391421 | #181522A | £42.00 Add to basket

 

The New Low-Maintenance Garden

How to Have a Beautiful, Productive Garden and the Time to Enjoy It

Valerie Easton

Modern life, with its ever-growing demands, leaves little time for the pleasures of gardening. But sometimes gardening itself is the culprit: elaborate, traditional ....

284 pages | 246 colour photos | Timber Press

Hbk | NYP 10/2009 | 0881929166 | #181351A | £19.99 Add to basket

 

Ombellifères de France, Tome 2

JP Reduron

Covers Bulpleurum to Echinophora. ....

578 pages | SBCO

Hbk | 2007 | #181431A | £84.00 Add to basket

 

Ombellifères de France, Tome 3

JP Reduron

Covers Eryngium, Heracleum, Laserpitium. ....

586 pages | Illus | SBCO

Pbk | 2007 | #181432A | £84.00 Add to basket

 

Origin and Geography of Cultivated Plants

NI Vavilov

The work of Nickolay Ivanovich Vavilov has formed the basis of much of the study of plant genetic resources that is carried out. In recognition of his contribution to plant ....

536 pages | 28 line diagrams, 33 half-tones | CUP

Pbk | 2009 | 0521111595 | #181397A | £34.99 Add to basket

 

Orquideas de la Region de Valparaiso

Sergio Moreira

Deals with 21 species of orchid native to the central zone of Chile. ....

85 pages | Photos, illus | Museo Nacional de HN

Pbk | 2009 | 9568201076 | #181130A | £55.00 Add to basket

 

Plant Microevolution and Conservation in Human-influenced Ecosystems

D Briggs

As human activities are increasingly domesticating the Earth's ecosystems, new selection pressures are acting to produce winners and losers amongst our wildlife. With particular ....

520 pages | 12 tones 18 tables | CUP

Hbk | NYP 11/2009 | 0521818354 | #181176A | £75.00 Add to basket

Pbk | NYP 11/2009 | 0521521548 | #181175A | £34.99 Add to basket

 

Plant Polysaccharides

Peter Ulvskov

This timely volume provides comprehensive coverage of these most important compounds which are a vital part of all plants' structure, and in energy storage systems. ....

352 pages | 100 illus | Blackwell

Hbk | NYP 2010 | 1405181729 | #170311A | £105.00 Add to basket

 

Plant Systematics

An Integrated Approach

Gurcharan Singh

The focus of the present edition has been to further consolidate the information on the principles of plant systematic, include detailed discussion on all major systems of ....

720 pages | 450 col photos on 37 col plates | Science Publishers/Enfield

Pbk | NYP 08/2009 | 157808668X | #181473A | £45.50 Add to basket

 

Plant-derived Natural Products

Edited by Anne E Osbourn and Virginia Lanzotti

Plants produce a huge array of natural products (secondary metabolites). These compounds have important ecological functions, providing protection against attack by herbivores ....

612 pages | Illus | Springer

Hbk | 2008 | 0387854975 | #181110A | £135.00 Add to basket

 

Plants

Michael Allaby

This volume in the new "Discovering the Earth" set examines the efforts made by scientists in the fields of environment, environmental protection, and environmental ....

256 pages | colour photographs & line illustrations | Facts on File

Hbk | NYP 11/2009 | 0816061025 | #181088A | £34.50 Add to basket

 

Plants and UV-B

Responses to Environmental Change

Edited by Peter Lumsden

One of the predicted consequences of the depletion of stratospheric ozone is an increase in the amount of ultraviolet light reaching the surface of the earth, in particular UV-B ....

355 pages | 5 b/w photos, 68 illus, 21 tabs | CUP

Hbk | 1997 | 0521572223 | #067093A | £74.99 Add to basket

Pbk | 2009 | 052111411X | #181416A | £34.99 Add to basket

 

Progress in Botany, Volume 71

Edited by Ulrich E Luttge, Wolfram Beyschlag, Burkhard Budel and Dennis Francis

With one volume each year, this series keeps scientists and advanced students informed of the latest developments and results in all areas of the plant sciences. The present ....

380 pages | 45 black & white illustrations, 4 colour illustrations, 11 black & white | Springer

Hbk | NYP 11/2009 | 3642021662 | #181091A | £135.00 Add to basket

 

The Pruning of Trees, Shrubs and Conifers

George E Brown

One of the essential horticultural references, here presented with an update of all nomenclature and new foreword by John Bryan. The unique encyclopedia details the best ....

338 pages | 86 col and b/w photos, 55 line illus | Timber Press

Hbk | 2004 | 0881926132 | #144993A | £22.50 Add to basket

Pbk | NYP 09/2009 | 160469002X | #181349A | £14.99 Add to basket

 

Recent Developments in Management of Plant Diseases

Edited by Ulrich Gisi, Ilan Chet and ML Gullino

Plant disease management remains an important component of plant pathology and is more complex today than ever before including new innovation in diagnostic kits, the ....

400 pages | Springer

Hbk | 2009 | 1402088035 | #181124A | £130.00 Add to basket

 

The Rock Garden Plant Primer

Easy, Small Plants for Containers, Patios, and the Open Garden

Christopher Grey-Wilson

It is not necessary to have a traditional rock garden to enjoy rock garden plants. In fact, these colorful, small plants are perfect for the pots, containers, window boxes, ....

232 pages | 302 colour photos | Timber Press

Hbk | NYP 11/2009 | 088192928X | #181344A | £19.99 Add to basket

 

The Royal Horticultural Society Address Book

Brent Elliott

The RHS Address Book showcases the work of Lilian Snelling MBE (1879-72), in particular her mature style, which formed the outstanding model for the British botanical artists ....

112 pages | Col illus | Frances Lincoln

Hbk | 2009 | 0711230021 | #181524A | £12.71 Add to basket

 

The Royal Horticultural Society Diary 2010

Brent Elliott

The RHS Diary 2010 showcases the work of Lilian Snelling MBE (1879-72), in particular her mature style, which formed the outstanding model for the British botanical artists ....

112 pages | Col illus | Frances Lincoln

Hbk | 2009 | 0711230005 | #181525A | £12.71 Add to basket

 

The Seeds of Dicotyledons: Volume 1

EJH Corner

First published in 1976, Professor Corner's study is a major work of botanical scholarship and reference. The most unsatisfactory part of the ....

324 pages | illustrations | CUP

Pbk | 2009 | 0521116058 | #181114A | £16.99 Add to basket

 

The Seeds of Dicotyledons: Volume 2, Illustrations

EJH Corner

First published in 1976, Professor Corner's study is a major work of botanical scholarship and reference. The most unsatisfactory part of the ....

564 pages | illustrations | CUP

Pbk | 2009 | 0521116031 | #181112A | £34.99 Add to basket

 

Shoot Apex and Leaf Growth

Robert Francis Williams

First published in 1975, this book is a comprehensive and quantitative study of the shoot apex and leaf growth. Its central purpose is to provide precise quantitative ....

268 pages | CUP

Pbk | 2009 | 0521112877 | #181410A | £19.99 Add to basket

 

Water Transport in Plants Under Climatic Stress

M Borghetti, J Grace and A Raschi

The prospect of future climate change has stimulated research into the physiological responses of plants to stress. Water is a key factor controlling the distribution and ....

320 pages | 139 line illus, 1 b/w photo | CUP

Pbk | 2009 | 0521112001 | #181400A | £22.99 Add to basket

 

The Well-Designed Mixed Garden

Building Beds and Borders with Trees, Shrubs, Perennials, Annuals, and Bulbs

Tracy DiSabato-Aust

Covers mixed garden design concepts, exploring color, texture, form, principles, and maintenance. ....

440 pages | 277 col photos, 25 col illus, tabs | Timber Press

Hbk | 2003 | 0881925594 | #137780A | £24.99 Add to basket

Pbk | NYP 11/2009 | 0881929670 | #181348A | £19.99 Add to basket

 

Wild Flowers of the North Highlands of Scotland

Ken Butler and Ken Crossan

Stunning volume of photographs and detailed descriptions which reveals the intricate beauty of plant life in far north of Scotland. Botanist Ken Butler and photographer Ken ....

192 pages | photographs throughout | Birlinn

Pbk | 2009 | 1841588326 | #181117A | £14.99 Add to basket

 

The Wild Garden

W Robinson

Originally published in 1870, this book had a revolutionary message that forever changed the concept of garden design. This reprint is a facsimile of the deluxe limited edition ....

356 pages | 85 b/w illus | Timber Press

Hbk | NYP 11/2009 | 0881929557 | #181345A | £19.99 Add to basket

 
Animal & General Biology
 

Animals

A Visual Guide to the Animal Kingdom

Dr Keith Laidler

Embark on an incredible journey through the dizzying diversity, complexity and majesty of the Animal Kingdom. Discover how primitive slime fungi cells coalesce and function ....

208 pages | 350 colour illustrations | Quercus Publishing

Hbk | NYP 10/2009 | 184916004X | #181242A | £24.99 Add to basket

 

Animals

Michael Allaby

A volume in the new "Discovering the Earth" set, which examines the efforts made by scientists in the fields of environment, environmental protection, and environmental ....

256 pages | full-colour photographs & line illustrations | Facts on File

Hbk | NYP 11/2009 | 0816061017 | #181137A | £34.50 Add to basket

 

Bats Sing, Mice Giggle

The Secret Lives of Animals

Karen Shanor and Jagmeet Kanwal

"Bats Sing, Mice Giggle" tracks many years of research by hundreds of scientists that reveals how wild animals, as well as pets, have inner, secret lives of which until ....

256 pages | Icon Books

Hbk | NYP 08/2009 | 1848310714 | #181146A | £14.99 Add to basket

 

Dazzled and Deceived

Mimicry and Camouflage

Peter Forbes

Nature has perfected the art of deception. Thousands of creatures - including butterflies, moths, fish, birds, insects and snakes - have honed and ....

300 pages | 20 colour images + 6 diagrams | Yale UP

Hbk | NYP 10/2009 | 0300125399 | #181140A | £18.99 Add to basket

 

Destination Wildlife

An International Site-by-Side Guide to the Best Places to Experience Endangered, Rare, and Fascinating Animals...

Pamela Brodowsky and National Wildlife Federation

From the world's only multi-species primate sanctuary in South Africa to the wild ponies of Assateague Island, to the Blue-Footed Boobies of the Galapagos Islands, Destination ....

400 pages | Illustrations | Perigee

Pbk | 2009 | 0399534865 | #181154A | £12.99 Add to basket

 

Dynamic Energy Budget Theory for Metabolic Organisation

SALM Kooijman

The Dynamic Energy Budget theory unifies the commonalities between organisms, as prescribed by the implications of energetics, and links different levels of biological ....

520 pages | 2 b/w illus, 330 figs, 17 tabs | CUP

Pbk | 2000 | 0521786088 | #106282A | £29.99 Add to basket

Pbk | NYP 11/2009 | 052113191X | #181280A | £39.99 Add to basket

 

Growth of Farm Animals

TLJ Lawrence, VR Fowler and J Novakofski

An understanding of the processes that change the shape and composition of farm animals is fundamental to all aspects of production. ....

384 pages | Tabs, figs | CABI

Pbk | NYP 12/2009 | 1845935586 | #179805A | £37.50 Add to basket

 

Human Genetic Diversity

Functional Consequences for Health and Disease

Julian C Knight

The secrets of our genetic heritage are finally being unlocked. The massive scientific effort to sequence the human genome is in fact just the beginning of a long journey as ....

504 pages | 190 illustrations | OUP

Hbk | 2009 | 0199227691 | #181227A | £75.00 Add to basket

Pbk | 2009 | 0199227705 | #181228A | £39.95 Add to basket

 

Improving Animal Welfare

A Practical Approach

T Grandin

New legislation on animal welfare standards has created the need for welfare programmes to be implemented on farms, during transportation and in slaughter plants, but while ....

320 pages | CABI

Pbk | NYP 12/2009 | 1845935411 | #179797A | £37.50 Add to basket

 

In Pursuit of the Gene

From Darwin to DNA

James Schwartz

The mystery of inheritance has captivated thinkers since antiquity, and the unlocking of this mystery - the development of classical genetics - is one of humanity's greatest ....

310 pages | 42 halftones | Harvard UP

Hbk | 2008 | 0674026705 | #173884A | £22.95 Add to basket

Pbk | NYP 11/2009 | 0674034910 | #181334A | £13.95 Add to basket

 

Insect Hemocytes

Development, Forms, Functions and Techniques

Ayodhya P Gupta

The function of insect blood cells has long puzzled scientists. This much-needed volume, first published in 1979, attempts to explain the forms and functions of insect ....

628 pages | CUP

Pbk | 2009 | 0521113032 | #181414A | £39.99 Add to basket

 

Life

Martha Holmes and Michael Gunton

"Life" is an ambitious, exhilarating and beautifully illustrated study of animal behaviour, exploring the key groups of animals that inhabit this planet and their ....

312 pages | Over 300 full colour photos | BBC Books

Hbk | NYP 09/2009 | 1846076420 | #181260A | £24.99 Add to basket

 

Machina Carnis

The Biochemistry of Muscular Contraction in Its Historical Development

Dorothy M Needham

Originally published in 1971, this is an account of the centuries of experiment and speculation that have led to our understanding of how muscles work. The book traces all ....

820 pages | CUP

Pbk | 2009 | 0521112672 | #181408A | £37.99 Add to basket

 

Molecular Physiology of Growth

Edited by PT Loughna and JM Pell

How do hormones and growth factors regulate animal growth in the developing embryo and after injury? What processes at the molecular level determine the growth patterns of ....

170 pages | 14 b/w photos, 24 line illus, 2 tabs | CUP

Hbk | 1996 | 0521471109 | #058617A | £49.99 Add to basket

Pbk | 2009 | 0521114535 | #181423A | £22.99 Add to basket

 

Protein Interaction Networks

Computational Analysis

Aidong Zhang

The analysis of protein-protein interactions is fundamental to the understanding of cellular organization, processes, and functions. Proteins seldom act as single isolated ....

292 pages | 79 line figures 11 plates 30 tables | CUP

Hbk | 2009 | 0521888956 | #181295A | £39.99 Add to basket

 

Salt Glands in Birds and Reptiles

Malcolm Peaker and JL Linzell

The aim of the authors in writing this monograph has been to provide a comprehensive and critical, but personal account of salt glands. Papers on salt glands are scattered ....

336 pages | CUP

Pbk | 2009 | 0521112036 | #181402A | £24.99 Add to basket

 

Small Animal Care and Management

Dean Warren

A highly researched text that covers numerous species, detailed by scientific names, as well as the history and the domestication of animals including information on safety, ....

608 pages | illustrations | Delmar

Hbk | 2009 | 141804105X | #181218A | £50.99 Add to basket

 

Zoology

Stephen A Miller and John P Harley

An introductory textbook, focusing on animal behaviour and habitats organized into 3 parts. Part one covers the common life processes, including ....

588 pages | Col photos, illus, figs, tabs | McGraw Hill

Pbk | 2006 | 0071100490 | #164059A | £45.99 Add to basket

Pbk | NYP 10/2009 | 0070164835 | #181142A | £46.99 Add to basket

 
Evolutionary Biology
 

Evolution

The Story of Life

Douglas Palmer and Peter Barrett

An astonishing new book is being created. Using all the available fossil record as evidence, it presents the entire four-billion-year story of life on Earth in one single ....

384 pages | photos, illus, artwork | Mitchell Beazley

Hbk | NYP 09/2009 | 184533339X | #181485A | £29.99 Add to basket

 

The Evolution of Air Breathing in Vertebrates

David J Randall, Warren W Burggren, Anthony P Farrell and M Stephe Haswell

First published in 1981, this book presents an original approach to an area of great importance in comparative zoology and physiology and evolutionary biology: the evolution ....

144 pages | CUP

Pbk | 2009 | 0521107156 | #181393A | £14.99 Add to basket

 

The Evolution of Population Biology

Edited by Rama Singh and Marcy Uyenoyama

This unique collection of essays deals with the foundation and historical development of population biology and its relationship to population genetics and population ecology on ....

492 pages | Figs, tabs | CUP

Hbk | 2003 | 0521814375 | #142158A | £97.00 Add to basket

Pbk | 2009 | 0521112117 | #181403A | £31.99 Add to basket

 

Exploring the Origin, Extent, and Future of Life

Philosophical, Ethical and Theological Perspectives

Edited by Connie Bertka

Where did we come from? Are we alone? Where are we going? These are the questions that define the field of astrobiology. New discoveries about life on Earth, the increasing ....

344 pages | 10 figs | CUP

Hbk | NYP 10/2009 | 0521863635 | #181277A | £65.00 Add to basket

 

Fire

The Spark that Ignited Human Evolution

Frances D Burton

The association between our ancestors and fire, somewhere around six to four million years ago, had a tremendous impact on human evolution, transforming our earliest human ....

256 pages | photo | New Mexico UP

Hbk | 2009 | 0826346464 | #181466A | £29.95 Add to basket

 

The Lives of the Brain

Human Evolution and the Organ of Mind

John S Allen

Though we have other distinguishing characteristics (walking on two legs, for instance, and relative hairlessness), the brain and the behavior it produces are what truly set us ....

352 pages | 39 halftones | Harvard UP

Hbk | NYP 10/2009 | 0674035348 | #181331A | £29.95 Add to basket

 

Major Topics in Primate and Human Evolution

Edited by BA Woods et al

The fragmentary fossil record of primates and hominids has generated fundamental, and often well publicised, differences of opinion about their evolution. ....

364 pages | Illus, diagrams, tabs | CUP

Pbk | 2009 | 0521113385 | #181415A | £34.99 Add to basket

 

Mind the Gap

Edited by Peter M Kappeler and Joan B Silk

What makes us human? What made us become the way we are? One way to answer these questions is to identify the traits that all humans share, traits that are universal ....

527 pages | Illus | Springer

Hbk | NYP 10/2009 | 3642027245 | #181141A | £64.99 Add to basket

 

The New Foundations of Evolution

On the Tree of Life

Jan Sapp

This is the story of a profound revolution in the way biologists explore life's history, understand its evolutionary processes, and reveal its diversity. It is about life's ....

400 pages | 1 black and white halftone, 30 line illustrations | OUP

Pbk | 2009 | 019538850X | #181425A | £22.99 Add to basket

 

Surviving

How Animals Adapt to Their Environments

Alessandro Minelli and Maria Pia Mannucci

Several million species inhabit the earth, survivors of more than three billion years of evolution. The plants and animals that have avoided extinction have had to adapt to a ....

200 pages | 100 col photos | Firefly Books

Hbk | NYP 10/2009 | 1554075203 | #181491A | £29.99 Add to basket

 

Too Smart for Our Own Good

The Ecological Predicament of Humankind

Craig Dilworth

We are destroying our natural environment at an increasing pace, and undermining the preconditions of our own existence. This book reveals that our ecologically disruptive ....

556 pages | 25 line figures, 35 figs, 2 tables | CUP

Hbk | NYP 12/2009 | 052176436X | #181285A | £55.00 Add to basket

Pbk | NYP 12/2009 | 052175769X | #181287A | £19.99 Add to basket

 

Why Don't Jumbo Jets Flap Their Wings?

Flying Animals, Flying Machines, and How They are Different

David E Alexander

What do a bumble bee and a 747 jet have in common? It's not a trick question. The fact is they have quite a lot in common. They both have wings. They both fly. And they're ....

288 pages | 32 illustrations | Rutgers UP

Hbk | 2009 | 0813544793 | #181462A | £22.95 Add to basket

 

Why Evolution Works (and Creationism Fails)

Matt Young, Paul K Strode and Kevin Padian

"Why Evolution Works (and Creationism Fails)" is an impassioned argument in favor of science - primarily the theory of evolution - and against creationism. Why impassioned? ....

224 pages | 18 illus | Rutgers UP

Hbk | 2009 | 0813545498 | #181463A | £61.50 Add to basket

Pbk | 2009 | 0813545501 | #181464A | £18.95 Add to basket

 
Ecology
 

Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, Volume 40

Annual Reviews

Hbk | NYP 12/2009 | 0824314409 | #178272A | £62.00 Add to basket

 

Bioinvasions and Globalization

Ecology, Economics, Management, and Policy

Edited by Charles Perrings, Hal Mooney and Mark Williamson

Bioinvasions and Globalization synthesises our current knowledge of the ecology and economics of biological invasions, providing an in-depth evaluation of the science and ....

288 pages | 40 illustrations and an 8 page colour plate section | OUP

Pbk | NYP 12/2009 | 0199560161 | #180688A | £37.50 Add to basket

 

Bioinvasions and Globalization

Ecology, Economics, Management, and Policy

Edited by Charles Perrings, Hal Mooney and Mark Williamson

Bioinvasions and Globalization synthesises our current knowledge of the ecology and economics of biological invasions, providing an in-depth evaluation of the science and ....

288 pages | 40 illustrations and an 8 page colour plate section | OUP

Hbk | NYP 12/2009 | 0199560153 | #181173A | £75.00 Add to basket

 

Community Ecology

Processes, Models, and Applications

Edited by Herman A Verhoef and Peter Morin

Community ecology is the study of the interactions between populations of co-existing species. This book provides a survey of the state-of-the-art in theory and applications ....

288 pages | 75 illustrations plus a colour plate section | OUP

Hbk | NYP 11/2009 | 0199228973 | #181090A | £65.00 Add to basket

Pbk | NYP 11/2009 | 0199228981 | #181249A | £32.50 Add to basket

 
Habitats & Ecosystems
 

Antarctic Communities

Species, Structure and Survival

Edited by B Battaglia, J Valencia and D Walton

Conservation of biodiversity is best achieved through the management of natural communities, but progress in increasing our understanding of communities remains slow. ....

484 pages | Figs, tabs | CUP

Hbk | 1997 | 0521480337 | #061207A | £129.99 Add to basket

Pbk | 2009 | 052111179X | #181399A | £31.99 Add to basket

 

The Architecture and Biology of Soils

Edited by K Ritz and IM Young

Soil is a fundamental and critical, yet often overlooked, component of terrestrial ecosystems. It is an extremely complex environment, supporting levels of diversity far ....

250 pages | CABI

Hbk | NYP 12/2009 | 1845935322 | #179779A | £75.00 Add to basket

 

Conservation Monitoring in Freshwater Habitats

Edited by Clive Hurford, Michael Schneider and Ian Cowx

The predicted changes to global weather patterns and increases in the human population will put unprecedented pressure on European freshwater habitats and the species that ....

394 pages | Springer

Hbk | NYP 10/2009 | 1402092776 | #181180A | £100.00 Add to basket

 

Enchanted by Prairie

Bill Witt and Osha Gray Davidson

June grass at sunset, Indian grass at sunrise, hawk moths and monarch butterflies nectaring on purple fringed orchids and rough blazing star, little bluestem and ....

96 pages | 64 colour photos | Iowa UP

Hbk | 2009 | 1587298031 | #181119A | £25.50 Add to basket

 

Environmental Impact Assessments

Edited by George T Halley and Yeram T Fridian

An (EIA) is an assessment of the possible impact-positive or negative - that a proposed project may have on the natural environment. The purpose of the assessment is to ensure ....

Nova Science

Hbk | 2009 | 1606926675 | #181196A | £107.50 Add to basket

 

Exploring the World of Aquatic Life

John Dawes

From the ocean depths to river rapids, fascinating aquatic life can be found in all climates and settings. Geared toward young students, the fresh, new "Exploring the World ....

480 pages | Chelsea House Publishers

Hbk | 2008 | 1604132558 | #181158A | £188.95 Add to basket

 

Fish and Wildlife

Principles of Zoology and Ecology

L DeVere Burton

"Fish & Wildlife, Principles of Zoology and Ecology, 3rd Edition", provides a broad-spectrum overview, for high school students, of the wild animals of North America ....

416 pages | illustrations | Delmar

Hbk | 2009 | 1435419634 | #181161A | £51.99 Add to basket

 

Forestry and Biodiversity

Learning How to Sustain Biodiversity in Managed Forests

Edited by Fred L Bunnell and Glen B Dunsworth

Sustainable management is a problem for countries that depend on natural resources. Forests contain much of the world's biodiversity and offer significant renewable ....

352 pages | 55 figures, 20 photos, 35 graphs, 4 maps, 20 tables | UBC Press

Hbk | 2009 | 0774815299 | #181203A | £60.50 Add to basket

 

The Impact of Climate Change on European Lakes

Edited by Glen George

In this book, scientists from eleven countries summarize the results of an EU project (CLIME) that quantified the effects of observed and projected changes in the climate on ....

450 pages | Springer

Hbk | 2009 | 9048129443 | #181195A | £117.00 Add to basket

 

International Wetlands

Ecology, Conservation and Restoration

Edited by Jose R Herrera

Wetlands are lands where saturation with water is the dominant factor determining the nature of soil development and the types of plant and animal communities living in the ....

Nova Science

Hbk | 2009 | 1604569999 | #181197A | £65.99 Add to basket

 

The Living Shore

Rediscovering a Lost World

Rowan Jacobsen

In the 1990s, a marine scientist named Brian Kingzett was commissioned to survey Canada's western coast. He saw amazing sights, from the wildest, most breathtaking ....

176 pages | Bloomsbury Publishing

Hbk | NYP 09/2009 | 1596916842 | #181212A | £19.99 Add to basket

 

Managing and Planning Landscape Change

Edited by David Miller, Gary Fry, Chris P Quine and Jane Morrice

As the importance of public participation in decision-making relating to planning in both urban and non-urban landscapes has increased in recent years, there has been a ....

264 pages | Springer

Hbk | 2009 | 1402096968 | #181125A | £109.50 Add to basket

 

Monitoring Forest Biodiversity

Improving Conservation Through Ecologically-Responsible Management

Toby Gardner

Forest biodiversity monitoring programs, by evaluating the performance of existing management regimes and helping to identify opportunities for improved practice, ....

192 pages | Earthscan

Hbk | NYP 12/2009 | 1844076547 | #181167A | £49.95 Add to basket

 

Mosdiertjes van de Zuidelijke Bocht van de Noordzee

Hans de Blauwe

This is the first identification work for marine and brackish water Bryozoans ("moss animals") of the Southern Bight of the North Sea. It has become a virtually complete ....

445 pages | Photos | VLIZ

2009 | 9081290037 | #181546A | £47.50 Add to basket

 

National Parks

Biodiversity, Conservation and Tourism

D Murphy

National Parks (NPs) are mainly designed to protect the remaining 'wilderness' of a given country and have primarily focused on the conservation of ....

Nova Science

Hbk | NYP 12/2009 | 1607414651 | #181171A | £107.50 Add to basket

 

Permafrost Ecosystems

Edited by Akira Osawa, Olga A Zyryanova, Yojiro Matsuura, Takuya Kajimoto and R Wein

Drawing from a decade-long collaboration between Japan and Russia, this important volume presents the first major synthesis of current knowledge on the ecophysiology of the ....

540 pages | 10 colour illustrations | Springer

Hbk | NYP 10/2009 | 1402096925 | #181099A | £153.00 Add to basket

 

Planted Forests

An Analysis of their future

Edited by J Evans

Planted forests have superseded naturally regenerating forests as the principal source of industrial forest products. This change has many policy implications, not least that ....

240 pages | illus | CABI

Hbk | NYP 12/2009 | 1845935640 | #179781A | £75.00 Add to basket

 

Preserving Nature in the National Parks

A History

Richard West Sellars

This groundbreaking book, now reissued with a new foreword and epilogue that bring the book up to the 2009 change in presidential administrations, traces the epic clash of ....

440 pages | B/w photos | Yale UP

Pbk | NYP 10/2009 | 0300154143 | #181238A | £19.99 Add to basket

 

The Production Ecology of Wetlands

The IBP Synthesis

Edited by DF Westlake, J Kvet and A Szczepanski

Wetlands are unique and fragile environments that provide a transition between aquatic and terrestrial habitats. Focusing on freshwater wetlands with emergent vegetation, this ....

592 pages | 50 line figures, 94 tables | CUP

Hbk | 1999 | 0521228220 | #076986A | £125.00 Add to basket

Pbk | 2009 | 052111330X | #181128A | £37.99 Add to basket

 

Reforesting Landscapes

Edited by Harini Nagendra and Jane Southworth

The 21st century has seen the beginnings of a great restoration effort towards the world's forests, accompanied by the emergence of an increasing literature on ....

454 pages | 15 colour illustrations | Springer

Hbk | NYP 09/2009 | 1402096550 | #181105A | £135.00 Add to basket

 

Salt Marshes

A Natural and Unnatural History

Judith S Weis and Carol A Butler

Tall green grass. Subtle melodies of songbirds. Sharp whines of muskrats. Rustles of water running through the grasses. And at low tide, a pungent reminder of the treasures ....

272 pages | 72 illustrations | Rutgers UP

Hbk | NYP 08/2009 | 081354548X | #181264A | £46.00 Add to basket

Pbk | NYP 08/2009 | 0813545706 | #181263A | £22.50 Add to basket

 

Seasonally Dry Tropical Forests

Edited by Stephen H Bullock, Harold A Mooney and E Medina

The tropics are regions of severe seasonal droughts. Until recently tropical `dry forests' were more widespread than rain forests, but have received scant attention. This ....

450 pages | 4 b/w photos, 75 illus, 85 tabs | CUP

Pbk | 2009 | 0521112842 | #181371A | £31.99 Add to basket

 

Socio-economic Research Methods in Forest Management

J Herbohn et al

Forest management relies on understanding and managing the interaction of people and communities with forests. An understanding of the key social and economic factors is ....

416 pages | CABI

Hbk | NYP 12/2009 | 1845935268 | #179782A | £75.00 Add to basket

 

Sustainable Redevelopment of the Iraqi Marshlands

Edited by Robert France

The Iraqi marshlands housed a 3000+ year-old civilization until Saddam Hussein ruthlessly drained the marsh region following the 1991 uprising. Many of the insurgents ....

400 pages | Routledge

Hbk | 2006 | 0415952255 | #167458A | £59.99 Add to basket

 

Thai Forestry

A Critical History

Ann Danaiva Usher

For nearly a century, Thai state forestry focused overwhelmingly on extracting timber and keeping local people away from the forest. According to official accounts, the ....

240 pages | Silkworm Books

Pbk | NYP 11/2009 | 9749511735 | #181178A | £23.99 Add to basket

 

Tropical Rainforests and Agroforests Under Global Change

Edited by Teja Tscharntke, Christoph Leuschner, Edzo Veldkamp, Heiko Faust and Guhard

Tropical rainforests disappear at an alarming rate causing unprecedented losses in biodiversity and ecosystem services. Despite an increased recognition of the value of ....

500 pages | Springer

Hbk | NYP 09/2009 | 364200492X | #181189A | £135.00 Add to basket

 

The Woodlot Management Handbook

Making the Most of Your Wooded Property for Conservation Income or Both

Stewart Hilts and Peter Mitchell

How to get the most out of a parcel of land by growing trees for timber, selling firewood and preserving land for future generations. ....

320 pages | col photos, illus | Firefly Books

Pbk | NYP 10/2009 | 155407553X | #181493A | £16.95 Add to basket

 
Conservation & Biodiversity
 

Animals on the Edge

Reporting from the Front Line of Extinction

Chris Weston and Art Wolfe

Chris Weston and Art Wolfe are among the finest wildlife photographers at work today as well as being passionate advocates of wildlife conservation. This book features their ....

224 pages | 179 colour illustrations | Thames & Hudson

Hbk | NYP 10/2009 | 0500543828 | #181097A | £18.95 Add to basket

 

Biodiversity in Environmental Assessment

Enhancing Ecosystem Services for Human Well-being

Roel Slootweg, Asha Rajvanshi, Vinod B Mathur and Arend Kolhoff

Human induced development activities are introduced with insufficient attention to their consequences for our living environment, even in cases where environmental assessments ....

300 pages | 1 tone 35 tables 21 figures | CUP

Hbk | NYP 11/2009 | 0521888417 | #181174A | £75.00 Add to basket

Pbk | NYP 11/2009 | 0521716551 | #181177A | £37.99 Add to basket

 

Designing Conservation Projects

Julian Caldecott

What are the challenges involved in protecting biodiversity in tropical terrestrial and coastal ecosystems? What practical lessons can be learned from conservation projects? ....

312 pages | Illus, tabs, maps | CUP

Hbk | 1996 | 0521473284 | #050841A | £69.99 Add to basket

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Endangered Species Act

Primer, Evaluation and Prospects

Edited by Harold B Carleton Jr

The Endangered Species Act (ESA) protects species identified as endangered or threatened with extinction and attempts to protect the habitat on which they depend. It is ....

Illustrations | Nova Science

Hbk | 2009 | 1606922858 | #181200A | £57.50 Add to basket

 

Evolutionary Conservation Biology

Edited by Regis Ferriere, Ulf Dieckmann and Denis Couvet

As anthropogenic environmental changes spread and intensify across the planet, conservation biologists have to analyze dynamics at large spatial and temporal scales. ....

448 pages | 121 line figures 8 tables | CUP

Hbk | 2004 | 0521827000 | #128464A | £70.00 Add to basket

Pbk | 2009 | 0521116082 | #181201A | £29.99 Add to basket

 

The Game of Conservation

International Treaties to Protect the World's Migratory Animals

Mark Cioc and James LA Webb

"The Game of Conservation" is a brilliantly crafted and highly readable examination of nature protection around the world. Twentieth-century nature conservation treaties often ....

232 pages | illustrations | Ohio State UP

Hbk | 2009 | 0821418661 | #181204A | £38.50 Add to basket

Pbk | 2009 | 082141867X | #181205A | £21.50 Add to basket

 

Handbook of Nature Conservation

Global, Environmental and Economic Issues

Edited by Jason B Aronoff

Nature conservation includes under its umbrella disciplines, such as landscape ecology, restoration ecology, theoretical ecology, ecological modelling, ecological economics, ....

Nova Science

Hbk | 2009 | 1606929933 | #181198A | £162.50 Add to basket

 

Mapping Species Distributions

Janet Franklin

Maps of species' distributions or habitat suitability are required for many aspects of environmental research, resource management and conservation planning. These include ....

250 pages | 31 line figures 6 tones 20 tables | CUP

Hbk | NYP 01/2010 | 0521876354 | #181166A | £70.00 Add to basket

Pbk | NYP 02/2010 | 0521700027 | #181165A | £34.99 Add to basket

 

On Our Watch

The Race to Save Australia's Environment

Nicola Markus

"On Our Watch" provides a detailed snapshot of the condition of Australia's remarkable plants, wildlife and their living landscapes. It explains the main threats to species ....

376 pages | Melbourne UP

Pbk | 2009 | 0522855954 | #181455A | £29.95 Add to basket

 

Relict Species

Edited by Jan Christian Habel, Joachim Kosuch and Thorsten Assmann

This book gives an overview of the importance of phylogeographic research on relict species and presents the first conclusions and findings on the conservation of relict ....

350 pages | Springer

Hbk | NYP 10/2009 | 3540921591 | #181101A | £90.00 Add to basket

 

Sahonagasy Action Plan

Conservation Programs for the Amphibians of Madagascar

Edited by Franco Andreone and Herilala Randriamahazo

This book presents the action plan to foster a general awareness of the essential actions required to safeguard Malagasy amphibians and a guide to encourage conservation ....

96 pages | Col photos | Conservation International

Pbk | 2008 | 8886041837 | #181446A | £8.99 Add to basket

 

Species Management

Challenges and Solutions for the 21st Century

John Baxter and Colin A Galbraith

The book contains the papers read at the Scottish Natural Heritage's 2008 conference on the subject and provides the reader with valuable, high quality, up-to-date information ....

300 pages | Stationery Office (TSO)

Hbk | NYP 10/2009 | 0114973482 | #181145A | £27.50 Add to basket

 

Wildlife

Destruction, Conservation and Biodiversity

Edited by John D Harris and Paul L Brown

Wildlife includes all non-domesticated plants, animals, and other organisms. Domesticating wild plant and animal species for human benefit has occurred many times ....

Nova Science

Hbk | 2009 | 1606929747 | #181162A | £81.99 Add to basket

 

The Year in Ecology and Conservation Biology, 2009

Richard S Ostfeld and William H Schlesinger

This volume features in-depth reviews of the major issues and emerging topics in ecology and conservation biology. The contributors are among the top researchers in the field. ....

300 pages | Illustrations, maps | Wiley-Blackwell

Pbk | 2009 | 1573317535 | #181208A | £70.00 Add to basket

 
Environmental Science
 

Adjudicating Climate Change

State, National, and International Approaches

Edited by William CG Burns and Hari M Osofsky

Courts have emerged as a crucial battleground in efforts to regulate climate change. Over the past several years, tribunals at every level of government around the world ....

416 pages | 2 tables | CUP

Hbk | NYP 08/2009 | 0521879701 | #181306A | £50.00 Add to basket

 

Amazon Rush Gold and Environmental Mercury Contamination

Daniel Marcos Bonotto and Ene Gloria da Silveira

The importance of the Amazon area to sustain the global equilibrium in the environment has been recognised world-wide. This has been much more accentuated in the present days ....

Nova Science

Hbk | 2009 | 1607416093 | #181383A | £57.50 Add to basket

 

Arctic Melting

How Climate Change Is Destroying One of the World's Largest Wilderness Areas

Chad Kister

This book shares amazing on-site details only the Alaskans and intent visitors know firsthand. [Author Chad Kister] tells of seeing the shocking differences of melting from ....

212 pages | Common Courage Press

Pbk | 2009 | 1567513867 | #181211A | £19.50 Add to basket

 

Challenged by Carbon

The Oil Industry and Climate Change

Bryan Lovell

Is there a low-carbon future for the oil industry? Faced with compelling new geological evidence, the petroleum industry can no longer ignore the consequences of climate change ....

208 pages | 33 line figures, 33 tones, 8 tables | CUP

Hbk | NYP 10/2009 | 0521197015 | #181310A | £55.00 Add to basket

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Changing Climates in North American Politics

Institutions, Policymaking and Multilevel Governance

Edited by Henrik Selin and Stacy D VanDeVeer

North American policy responses to global climate change are complex and sometimes contradictory and reach across multiple levels of government. For example, the U.S. ....

352 pages | 2 illus | MIT Press

Hbk | NYP 09/2009 | 0262012995 | #181317A | £38.95 Add to basket

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Climate Change and Groundwater

Edited by W Dragoni and BS Sukhija

There is a general consensus that for the next few decades at least, the Earth will continue its warming. This will inevitably bring about serious environmental problems. ....

192 pages | illustrations | Geological Society

Hbk | 2008 | 1862392358 | #181501A | £90.00 Add to basket

 

Climate Change in Africa

Camilla Toulmin

Climate change is a major challenge for us all, but for African countries it represents a particular threat. This book outlines current thinking and evidence and the impact ....

144 pages | Zed Books

Pbk | NYP 10/2009 | 1848130155 | #181259A | £12.99 Add to basket

 

The Climate Crisis

An Introductory Guide to Climate Change

David Archer and Stefan Rahmstorf

An incredible wealth of scientific data on global warming has been collected in the last few decades. The history of the Earth's climate has been probed by drilling into polar ....

272 pages | 6 tables | CUP

Hbk | NYP 12/2009 | 0521407443 | #181168A | £55.00 Add to basket

Pbk | NYP 12/2009 | 0521732557 | #181169A | £19.99 Add to basket

 

A Climate For Life

Meeting the Global Challenge

RA Mittermeier, M Totten, LL Pennypacker, F Boltz, CG Mittermeier et al

With the combined knowledge of more than 30 scientists and some of the most stunning climate images every captured, A Climate for Life: Meeting the Global Challenge, is one ....

359 pages | Col photos, illus | Conservation International

Hbk | 2008 | 0981832105 | #181447A | £36.99 Add to basket

 

Economic Theory and Global Warming

Hirofumi Uzawa

Hirofuni Uzawa, one of the leading economic theorists of the past 40 years, extends economic theory to cover global warming and how to address it. He constructs a ....

200 pages | 5 line illus, 3 tabs | CUP

Hbk | 2003 | 0521823862 | #138692A | £47.99 Add to basket

Pbk | 2009 | 052106659X | #181293A | £16.99 Add to basket

 

El Niño

Historical and Paleoclimatic Aspects of the Southern Oscillation

Edited by HF Diaz and V Markgraf

The El Nino/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) phenomenon is a recurrent feature of the climate in tropical regions. A primary example of large scale coupled ocean-atmosphere ....

490 pages | 159 line illus, tabs, maps | CUP

Pbk | 2009 | 0521111617 | #181372A | £31.99 Add to basket

 

Environmental Biology

Edited by Mike Calver, Alan Lymbery, Jennifer McComb and Mike Bamford

Environmental Biology offers a fresh, problem-solving treatment of the topic for students requiring a biology background before further study in environmental science, ....

688 pages | 21 graphs | CUP

Pbk | 2009 | 0521679826 | #181274A | £44.99 Add to basket

 

Forecast

The Surprising--and Immediate--Consequences of Climate Change

Stephan Faris

Climate change has already been altering lives on our planet for a generation: the critically acclaimed Forecast shows, through Stephan Faris' vivid on-the-ground ....

256 pages | Henry Holt

Pbk | NYP 11/2009 | 0805090843 | #181179A | £10.99 Add to basket

 

Forestry and Climate Change

Edited by PH Freer-Smith, MSJ Broadmeadow and JM Lynch

Climate change is one of the greatest challenges we face - both in terms of its potential impact on our societies and the earth, and the scale of international ....

260 pages | diagrams | CABI

Hbk | 2007 | 1845932943 | #168744A | £70.00 Add to basket

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Gaia in Turmoil

Climate Change, Biodepletion and Earth Ethics in an Age of Crisis

Edited by Eileen Crist, H Bruce Rinker and Bill McKibben

Gaian theory, which holds that Earth's physical and biological processes are inextricably bound to form a self-regulating system, is more relevant than ever in light ....

352 pages | MIT Press

Hbk | NYP 11/2009 | 0262033755 | #181319A | £39.95 Add to basket

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Global Environmental Change and Human Security

Edited by Richard A Matthew, Jon Barnett, Bryan McDonald, Karen L O'Brien and Dabelko

In recent years, scholars in international relations and other fields have begun to conceive of security more broadly, moving away from a state-centered concept of national ....

328 pages | 3 illus | MIT Press

Hbk | NYP 12/2009 | 0262013401 | #181321A | £37.95 Add to basket

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Global Warming

Edited by Ibrahim Dincer, Arif Hepbasil, Adnan Midilli and T Hikmet Karakoc

Global Warming: Engineering Solutions goes beyond discussing the definition and causes of climate change, and offers concrete solutions for solving global warming. Innovative ....

600 pages | 50 black & white illustrations, 50 black & white line drawings | Springer

Hbk | NYP 12/2009 | 1441910166 | #181172A | £117.00 Add to basket

 

Human Footprints on the Global Environment

Threats to Sustainability

Edited by Eugene A Rosa, Andreas Diekmann, Thomas Dietz and Carlo C Jaeger

The colossal human ecological footprint now threatens the sustainability of the entire planet. Scientists, policymakers, and other close observers know that any understanding ....

328 pages | 1 illus | MIT Press

Hbk | NYP 12/2009 | 0262013150 | #181323A | £39.95 Add to basket

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Integrated Regional Assessment of Global Climate Change

Edited by C Gregory Knight and Jill Jager

Integrated Regional Assessment (IRA) promotes a better understanding of how regions contribute to global environmental change. This book provides a detailed treatment of ....

424 pages | 17 tables | CUP

Hbk | NYP 09/2009 | 0521518105 | #181308A | £70.00 Add to basket

 

Interdisciplinary Aspects of Climate Change

Edited by Walter Leal Filho and Franzizska Mannke

It is widely acknowledged that information, communication and education on climate change are important tools in the search for solutions to the social, economic or ....

507 pages | figs, tabs, graphs | Peter Lang

Hbk | 2009 | 363158153X | #181353A | £83.00 Add to basket

 

Low Carbon, High Growth

Latin America Responses to Climate Change - An Overview

Edited by Pablo Fajnzylber and John D Nash

There is an increasing consensus in the scientific community that climate change is a real and present threat. Despite the large uncertainty on the timing, magnitude and even ....

250 pages | col photos, maps, tabs | World Bank

Pbk | 2009 | 0821376195 | #181457A | £24.95 Add to basket

 

Now or Never

Tim Flannery

In Now or Never, the internationally acclaimed author of The Weather Makers returns to the subject of climate change with a book that is at once a forceful call to action and ....

176 pages | Atlantic Monthly Press

Hbk | NYP 10/2009 | 0802118984 | #181182A | £10.99 Add to basket

 

Seabed Fluid Flow

The Impact on Geology, Biology and the Marine Environment

Alan Judd and Martin Hovland

Seabed fluid flow involves the flow of gases and liquids through the sea bed. Such fluids have been found to leak through the seabed into the marine environment in seas ....

492 pages | 21 line diagrams, 189 half-tones, 4 tables | CUP

Hbk | 2007 | 0521819504 | #165673A | £86.00 Add to basket

Pbk | 2009 | 0521114209 | #181368A | £50.00 Add to basket

 

So Foul and Fair a Day

A History of Scotland's Weather and Climate

Alastair Dawson

In "So Foul and Fair a Day", Professor Alastair Dawson provides for the first time a detailed account of Scotland's past weather and climate conditions and the effects that ....

320 pages | illustrations throughout | Birlinn

Pbk | NYP 10/2009 | 184158567X | #181239A | £14.99 Add to basket

 

The State of the Earth

Environmental Challenges on the Road to 2100

Paul K Conkin

The pace of human progress accelerated profoundly in the twentieth century, spawning revolutionary advances in medicine, agriculture, and industry. Between 1900 and 2000, ....

320 pages | 16 illustrations | Kentucky UP

Hbk | 2006 | 0813124115 | #167505A | £29.95 Add to basket

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The Tree Rings' Tale

Understanding Our Changing Climate

John Fleck

The science of tree rings - dendroclimatology - had not been developed when John Wesley Powell made his epic voyages down the Colorado River in 1869, 1871, and 1872. ....

104 pages | 62 colour photographs, 1 map | New Mexico UP

Hbk | NYP 11/2009 | 0826347576 | #181234A | £19.95 Add to basket

 

The Weather of the 1780s Over Europe

John Kington

John Kington's book, the first of its kind, gives a definitive account of the weather in the 1780s over Europe based on historical weather maps. These charts are unique in ....

180 pages | CUP

Pbk | 2009 | 0521113075 | #181367A | £22.99 Add to basket

 

What's the Worst That Could Happen?

Cutting Through the Hubbub Over Global Warming

Greg Craven

This book doesn't focus on "what" to think about global warming, but "how" to think about it, so you can come up with your own conclusion without having to buy into what ....

224 pages | Perigee

Pbk | NYP 08/2009 | 0399535012 | #181192A | £10.99 Add to basket

 

When the Planet Rages

Natural Disasters, Global Warming and the Future of the Earth

Charles Officer and Jake Page

In New England, 1816 was called the Year Without a Summer. Crops failed throughout America and, in Western Europe, it was even worse, with food riots and armed groups ....

248 pages | 66 line illus. | OUP

Pbk | NYP 01/2010 | 019537701X | #181068A | £10.99 Add to basket

 

World Ethics and Climate Change

From International to Global Justice

Paul G Harris

More than two decades of international negotiations have failed to stem emissions of greenhouse gases that are causing global warming and climate change. This book ....

224 pages | Edinburgh UP

Hbk | NYP 11/2009 | 074863911X | #181354A | £59.50 Add to basket

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Physical Sciences
 

Beware Invisible Cows

My Search for the Source of the Universe

Andy Martin

What really happened at the moment of the Big Bang? And how the hell do we know? And why is finding out so important? And who are these people who design and build these ....

320 pages | Simon & Schuster

Pbk | 2009 | 1847374166 | #181419A | £12.99 Add to basket

 

The Big Bang

Mike Perricone

Less than a hundred years ago, science seriously debated whether a cosmic array of stars and galaxies extended beyond the Milky Way. Discoveries and theories have revealed a ....

128 pages | col photos, illus, glossary | Chelsea House Publishers

Hbk | 2009 | 1604130156 | #181458A | £29.95 Add to basket

 

The Bluffer's Guide to the Cosmos

Daniel Hudon

Be an instant expert on the cosmos. No science required. ....

92 pages | B/w illus | Oval Books

Pbk | 2009 | 1903096421 | #180720A | £4.99 Add to basket

 

The Crowded Universe

The Search for Living Planets

Alan Boss

We are nearing a turning point in our quest for life in the universe-we now have the capacity to detect Earth-like planets around other stars. But will we find any? In The ....

256 pages | illustrations | Basic Books

Hbk | 2009 | 0465009360 | #181421A | £15.99 Add to basket

 

Deep-Sky Video Astronomy

Steve Massey and Steven Quirk

A concise guide to using modern integrating video cameras for deep-sky viewing and imaging with the kinds of modest telescopes available commercially to amateur ....

185 pages | Col & b/w figs | Springer

Pbk | 2009 | 0387876111 | #181405A | £22.99 Add to basket

 

Earthquake and Volcano Deformation

Paul Segall

Earthquake and Volcano Deformation is the first textbook to present the mechanical models of earthquake and volcanic processes, emphasizing earth-surface deformations that ....

424 pages | col illus | Princeton UP

Hbk | NYP 01/2010 | 0691133026 | #180673A | £67.00 Add to basket

 

Earthquakes in the Mediterranean and Middle East

A Multidisciplinary Study of Seismicity up to 1900

NN Ambraseys

This book examines historical evidence from the last 2000 years to analyse earthquakes in the eastern Mediterranean and Middle East. Early chapters review techniques of ....

800 pages | 83 tones, 23 maps, 179 figures, 14 graphs | CUP

Hbk | NYP 09/2009 | 0521872928 | #181299A |

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Essentials of Paleomagnetism

Lisa Tauxe

More than 400 years ago William Gilbert said, 'The Earth itself is a great magnet'. Today, we know that it is also a great magnetic tape recorder. This work is a ....

512 pages | line illus, tabs | California UP

Pbk | NYP 01/2010 | 0520260317 | #180690A | £36.99 Add to basket

 

The Facts on File Space and Astronomy Handbook

Revised Edition

Joseph A Angelo

In order to comprehend the universe and how it works, one must first have a firm understanding of astronomy and space exploration. "The Facts on File Space and Astronomy ....

352 pages | b&w photos, line illus, tabs | Facts on File

Hbk | 2009 | 0816073880 | #181461A | £34.50 Add to basket

 

Four Centuries of Geological Travel

The Search for Knowledge on Foot, Bicycle, Sledge and Camel

PN Wyse Jackson

In the last four centuries geologists have traversed the globe, searching for economically important materials or simply to satisfy their intellectual curiosity. ....

424 pages | Illustrations, maps | Geological Society

Hbk | 2007 | 186239234X | #181502A | £108.00 Add to basket

 

Gems, Granites and Gravels

Knowing and Using Rocks and Minerals

RV Dietrich and BJ Skinner

'Every person on earth uses, either directly or indirectly, ten metric tons of minerals each year.' So write Dr R. V. Dietrich and Dr Brian J. Skinner in their new book Gems, ....

173 pages | Illus | CUP

Pbk | 2009 | 0521107229 | #181363A | £22.99 Add to basket

 

Geomorphology and Global Environmental Change

Edited by Olav Slaymaker, Thomas Spencer and Christine Embleton-Hamann

How will global environmental change affect the landscape and our interaction with it? Apart from climate change, there are other important catalysts of landscape change, ....

450 pages | 36 figs, 16 plates, 50 tables | CUP

Hbk | 2009 | 0521878128 | #181298A | £44.99 Add to basket

 

Heliophysics

Plasma Physics of the Local Cosmos

Edited by Carolus J Schrijver and George Siscoe

Heliophysics is a developing scientific discipline integrating studies of the Sun's variability, the surrounding heliosphere, and climatic environments. Over the past few ....

446 pages | 34 figs, 16 plates, 12 tables | CUP

Hbk | 2009 | 0521110610 | #181300A | £39.99 Add to basket

 

Interiors of the Planets

AH Cook

Planets have excited the minds of man since prehistory. In our own time planetary science has become a rapidly developing area of astronomical research, as the ....

364 pages | CUP

Pbk | 2009 | 052110601X | #181426A | £32.99 Add to basket

 

Mapping the World

Stories of Geography

Caroline Laffon and Martine Laffon

More than the detailed representation of the geographical areas that their makers explored, maps reveal their makers' worldview as well as the myths, beliefs and legends ....

187 pages | 87 col maps, illus | Firefly Books

Hbk | NYP 09/2009 | 1554075254 | #181489A | £29.99 Add to basket

 

Megaflooding on Earth and Mars

Edited by Devon Burr, Victor R Baker and Paul Carling

Megaflooding is the sudden discharge of exceptional volumes of water. Megafloods have significantly altered the terrain of Earth and Mars, and may have acted as triggers for ....

368 pages | 57 figs, 32 plates, 12 tables | CUP

Hbk | NYP 09/2009 | 0521868521 | #181307A | £80.00 Add to basket

 

Meteorites

Caroline Smith, Sara Russell and Gretchen Benedix

Meteorites are rocks from space that have fallen to the Earth's surface. Once considered bad omens, they are now recognised as giving us a unique insight into the nature of ....

112 pages | 100 col photos, maps, diags | Frances Lincoln

Pbk | NYP 09/2009 | 0565092391 | #181488A | £9.99 Add to basket

 

The Moon Observer's Handbook

Fred W Price

The Moon is one of the easiest astronomical bodies to observe, and this book explains in a practical way everything that an amateur astronomer needs to know in order to ....

332 pages | CUP

Pbk | 2009 | 0521113156 | #181429A | £34.99 Add to basket

 

Plate Tectonics

Stephen M Tomecek

The development of the plate tectonic theory was one of the great revolutions in the history of science. Before the plate tectonic theory, most scientists believed that ....

104 pages | col photos, illus, glossary | Chelsea House Publishers

Hbk | 2009 | 1604130148 | #181459A | £31.50 Add to basket

 

Predicting the Unpredictable

The Tumultuous Science of Earthquake Prediction

Susan Elizabeth Hough

An earthquake can strike without warning and wreak horrific destruction and death, whether it's the cataclysmic 2008 Sichuan quake in China that killed tens of thousands ....

272 pages | Illus, maps | Princeton UP

Hbk | NYP 01/2010 | 0691138168 | #180666A | £18.95 Add to basket

 

Relativity, Gravitation and Cosmology

A Basic Introduction

Ta-Pei Cheng

Einstein's general theory of relativity is introduced in this advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate level textbook. Topics include special relativity, in the formalism ....

400 pages | 240 line ilustrations | OUP

Hbk | NYP 11/2009 | 0199573638 | #181251A | £55.00 Add to basket

Pbk | NYP 11/2009 | 0199573646 | #181253A | £27.50 Add to basket

 

Secrets of the Universe

How We Discovered the Cosmos

Paul Murdin

For anyone who has ever been fascinated by the night sky, this beautifully designed introduction to astronomy and its history reveals the compelling story of mankind's ....

342 pages | over 400 col illus | Thames & Hudson

Hbk | NYP 10/2009 | 050025155X | #181360A | £24.95 Add to basket

 

Slope Deposits

Edited by Arno Kleber and Heinz Veit

Since the 1960s the development of ideas in Germany regarding certain types of slope deposits - i.e., those covering entire slopes or major parts of them ('cover beds') - ....

400 pages | Elsevier

Hbk | NYP 01/2010 | 0444531181 | #180638A | £83.00 Add to basket

 

Sudoku and Magic Squares

The Remarkable World of Mathematical Puzzles

Seymour S Block and Santiago A Tavares

Sudoku has become a vastly popular and even addictive game. But fans may not know that Sudoku is a recent offshoot of the venerable Magic Square, which dates back over 4,000 ....

256 pages | 50 halftones, 260 line illustrations | OUP

Pbk | 2009 | 0195367901 | #181236A | £7.99 Add to basket

 

Universe

Order without Design

Carlos I Calle

Is the universe designed for life? Physicists have discovered that many seemingly unconnected phenomena, which took place millions of years apart, played a crucial role ....

304 pages | colour photos | Prometheus

Hbk | 2009 | 1591027144 | #181420A | £23.50 Add to basket

 

Waves and Mean Flows

Oliver Buhler

Interactions between waves and mean flows play a crucial role in understanding the long-term aspects of atmospheric and oceanographic modelling. Indeed, our ability to ....

370 pages | 10 tones, 25 figures | CUP

Hbk | NYP 09/2009 | 0521866367 | #181303A | £55.00 Add to basket

 
Sustainable Development
 

Asthma: The Biography

Mark Jackson

Asthma is a familiar and growing disease today, but its story goes back to the ancient world, as we know from accounts in ancient texts from China, India, Greece and Rome. It ....

256 pages | 15 black and white illustrations | OUP

Hbk | NYP 10/2009 | 0199237956 | #181222A | £12.99 Add to basket

 

Biofuels

John Tabak

Obtaining sufficient supplies of energy in an environmentally responsible way is one of the biggest concerns of the 21st century. Of all the problems associated with energy ....

204 pages | col photos, line illus, glossary, chronology | Facts on File

Hbk | 2009 | 0816070822 | #181451A | £34.50 Add to basket

 

Biofuels

Production, Application and Development

A H Scragg

Explores the production of biofuels as alternatives to fossil fuels, focusing on the technological issues that need to be addressed for any new fuel source. Each type of ....

256 pages | 143 figs | CABI

Pbk | NYP 12/2009 | 1845935926 | #181358A | £39.95 Add to basket

 

Biofuels

Edited by Jonathan R Mielenz

With the dwindling supplies of fossil fuels and growing concerns regarding climate changes due to greenhouse gases from these fuels, public opinion has swung dramatically ....

280 pages | Illus, tabs | Humana Press

Hbk | NYP 09/2009 | 1607612135 | #181106A | £72.00 Add to basket

 

Biopesticides

Pest Management and Regulation

Edited by W Grant, D Chandler, J Greaves, G Prince, M Tatchell and A Bailey

Biological controls that utilize natural predation, parasitism or other natural mechanisms, is an environmentally friendly alternative to chemical pesticides. Chemical ....

256 pages | CABI

Hbk | NYP 12/2009 | 1845935594 | #179747A | £65.00 Add to basket

 

Breeding for Disease Resistance in Farm Animals

Edited by SC Bishop, FW Nicholas, JB Owen and RFE Axford

This third edition provides an updated review of the principles of animal breeding for advanced health and disease resistance. Authored by experts, it uses examples covering ....

512 pages | CABI

Hbk | NYP 12/2009 | 1845935551 | #179799A | £95.00 Add to basket

 

Cholera: The Biography

Christopher Hamlin

Cholera is a frightening disease. Victims are wracked by stomach cramps and suffer intense diarrhoea. Death can come within hours. Though now seeming a distant memory in ....

256 pages | 15 black and white illustrations | OUP

Hbk | NYP 10/2009 | 019954624X | #181224A | £12.99 Add to basket

 

Coal and Oil

John Tabak

Coal and oil are two of the world's most important sources of primary energy. A multi-trillion dollar infrastructure has been created to locate, produce, transport, ....

208 pages | col photos, line illus, tabs | Facts on File

Hbk | 2009 | 0816070830 | #181452A | £34.50 Add to basket

 

Confessions of an Eco Sinner

Travels to Find Where My Stuff Comes From

Fred Pearce

Fred Pearce does not do orthodoxies; he has made it his business to challenge accepted wisdom. So, travelling from Liverpool to Alaska, from Dubai to India and the Far East to ....

400 pages | Eden Project Books

Hbk | 2008 | 1905811101 | #171765A | £12.99 Add to basket

Pbk | 2009 | 1905811128 | #181436A | £7.99 Add to basket

 

Conservation of Natural Resources

Edited by Nikolas J Kudrow

Natural resources conservation consists of reducing soil erosion, enhancing water supplies, improving water quality, increasing wildlife habitat, and reducing damages ....

Nova Science

Hbk | 2009 | 1607411784 | #181209A | £107.50 Add to basket

 

Crop Protection

From Agrochemistry to Agroecology

J-P Deguine, P Ferron and D Russell

This book is a synthesis and a celebration of a large body of agro-ecological research carried out on the management of the pests of cotton, one of the world's major crops and ....

220 pages | Science Publishers/Enfield

Pbk | NYP 09/2009 | 1578086523 | #181477A | £59.50 Add to basket

 

Crop Ruminant Interactions in Developing Countries

Edited by I Baltenweck, SJ Staal and PK Thornton

Production of meat and milk in developing countries is burgeoning under increasing demand, and future increases will occur mostly in mixed crop-livestock systems, which ....

320 pages | CABI

Hbk | NYP 12/2009 | 1845933931 | #179798A | £85.00 Add to basket

 

Diabetes: The Biography

Robert Tattersall

Diabetes is a disease with a fascinating history and one that has been growing dramatically with urbanization. According to the World Health Authority, it now affects ....

256 pages | 15 black and white illustrations | OUP

Hbk | NYP 10/2009 | 0199541361 | #181223A | £12.99 Add to basket

 

Dirty Water

One Man's Fight to Clean Up One of the World's Most Polluted Bays

Bill Sharpsteen

"Dirty Water" is the riveting story of how Howard Bennett, a Los Angeles schoolteacher with a gift for outrageous rhetoric, fought pollution in Santa Monica Bay - and won. The ....

249 pages | photos | California UP

Hbk | NYP 01/2010 | 0520256603 | #180684A | £21.50 Add to basket

 

Earth in Our Care

Ecology, Economy, and Sustainability

Chris Maser and Okechukwu Ukaga

'What about the twenty-first century? Will we finally accept our responsibilities as guardians of planet Earth, the biological living trust, for the beneficiaries, the ....

304 pages | Rutgers UP

Hbk | 2009 | 0813545595 | #181207A | £42.50 Add to basket

 

The Eco-Design Handbook

A Complete Sourcebook for the Home and Office

Alastair Fuad-Luke

Scrutinizing every aspect of our designed world to select the products that are most innovative, ecologically sensitive and consumer-friendly, The Eco-Design Handbook ....

352 pages | 850 col illus | Thames & Hudson

Pbk | NYP 11/2009 | 0500288399 | #181359A | £16.95 Add to basket

 

Ecologic

The Truth and Lies of Green Economics

Brian Clegg

Looking after 'The Environment' should be straightforward - no-one wants to destroy the world. And yet in every 'green' area we are either failing to take the essential steps ....

352 pages | Eden Project Books

Pbk | 2009 | 190581125X | #177307A | £9.99 Add to basket

 

Ecology without Nature

Rethinking Environmental Aesthetics

Timothy Morton

In Ecology without Nature, Timothy Morton argues that the chief stumbling block to environmental thinking is the image of nature that most writers on the topic promote: ....

258 pages | Harvard UP

Hbk | 2007 | 0674024346 | #164284A | £36.95 Add to basket

Pbk | NYP 09/2009 | 0674034856 | #181341A | £16.95 Add to basket

 

The Economics of Regulation in Agriculture

Compliance with Public and Private Standards

Edited by F Brouwer, G Fox and R Jongeneel

This work debates and investigates the the cross-compliance system - whereby farmers comply with certain standards relating to the environment, food safety and animal and ....

272 pages | CABI

Hbk | NYP 12/2009 | 1845935578 | #179745A | £65.00 Add to basket

 

Environment, Development, and Sustainability

Perspectives and Cases from Around the World

Edited by Gordon Wilson, Pam Furniss and Richard Kimbowa

As the human population continues to grow and places increasing demands on the planet we inhabit we face the biggest challenge of our time: how can we exploit the natural ....

320 pages | 55 line drawings | OUP

Pbk | NYP 09/2009 | 0199560641 | #181269A | £23.99 Add to basket

 

Environmental Activism in China

Lei Xie

Major environmental degradation is a serious problem for China as the country's economy continues to grow at a phenomenal pace. In recent years environmental organizations have ....

240 pages | 23 black & white tables, 14 black & white line drawings | Routledge

Hbk | 2009 | 0415478693 | #181214A | £75.00 Add to basket

 

Fundamental and Applied Limnology

Effects of Land-Use on Hydromorphology and Biota in Streams across Europe

Edited by M Boersma

116 pages | 38 figs, 36 tabs | Schweizerbart'sche

Pbk | 2009 | #180633A | £122.00 Add to basket

 

Governance for the Environment

New Perspectives

Edited by Magali A Delmas and Oran R Young

We live in an era of human-dominated ecosystems in which the demand for environmental governance is rising rapidly. At the same time, confidence in the capacity of ....

296 pages | 4 tables | CUP

Hbk | NYP 08/2009 | 0521519381 | #181304A | £50.00 Add to basket

Pbk | NYP 08/2009 | 0521743001 | #181305A | £18.99 Add to basket

 

Groundwater/Surface Water Ecotones

Biological and Hydrological Interactions and Management Options

Edited by Janine Gibert, Jacques Mathieu and Freda Fournier

Aquatic ecosystems have formed the focus of several UNESCO research projects because of the impact on them of human activities such as intensification of agricultural activity, ....

264 pages | 151 line fig, 1 fig, 38 tables | CUP

Pbk | 2009 | 0521112826 | #181365A | £19.99 Add to basket

 

Handbook of Soil and Groundwater Biogeochemistry

Edited by Olin C Braids and Peter Swarzenski

With an exponentially increasing human population on earth, and a finite amount of dry land, the stress put on both land and sea productivity is ....

1000 pages | Illus | Springer

Pbk | 2009 | 1402097727 | #181185A | £318.50 Add to basket

 

The Hydrogen Economy

Opportunities and Challenges

Edited by Michael Ball and Martin Wietschel

In the light of global energy use, the cost of energy services, concerns over energy supply security, climate change and local air pollution, this book centres on the ....

440 pages | 119 tones, 104 tables, 221 figures | CUP

Hbk | NYP 09/2009 | 0521882168 | #181301A | £75.00 Add to basket

 

Hysteria: The Biography

Andrew Scull

The nineteenth century seems to have been full of hysterical women - or so they were diagnosed. Where are they now? The very disease no longer exists. In this fascinating ....

256 pages | 15 black and white illustrations | OUP

Hbk | NYP 10/2009 | 019956096X | #181225A | £12.99 Add to basket

 

If You Love This Planet

How to Heal the Earth

H Caldicott

From the leader and spokeswoman of the anti-nuclear movement comes a revised and updated edition of this groundbreaking, widely acclaimed classic. Exploring dangerous global ....

224 pages | Norton

Pbk | 2009 | 0393333027 | #181194A | £11.99 Add to basket

 

Infectious Diseases: A Geographical Analysis

Emergence and Re-emergence

AD Cliff et al

The last four decades of human history have seen the emergence of an unprecedented number of 'new' infectious diseases: the familiar roll call includes AIDS, Ebola, H5N1 ....

560 pages | Figs, tabs | OUP

Hbk | 2009 | 0199244731 | #181233A | £100.00 Add to basket

 

Introduction to Physical Hydrology

Martin Hendriks

Water dominates our lives: we live on a planet with much water and our lives depend on it in many ways. Despite the seeming abundance of water on the planet human activity and ....

304 pages | 180 colour line drawings | OUP

Pbk | NYP 12/2009 | 0199296847 | #181267A | £26.99 Add to basket

 

Linkages of Sustainability

Edited by Thomas Graedel and Ester Van Der Voet

Humanity faces immense hurdles as it struggles to define the path toward a sustainable future. The multiple components of sustainability, all of which demand attention, make ....

430 pages | 55 illus | MIT Press

Hbk | NYP 11/2009 | 0262013584 | #181325A | £29.95 Add to basket

 

The Little Green Data Book 2009

World Bank

A reference on key environmental data for over 200 countries. It includes key indicators on agriculture, forestry, biodiversity, energy, emission and pollution, and water and ....

244 pages | illus | World Bank

Pbk | 2009 | 082137849X | #181456A | £11.50 Add to basket

 

Management of Recreation and Nature-based Tourism in European Forests

Edited by Ulrike Probstl

This book provides for the first time a Europe-wide overview on the state of the art of management of recreation and nature tourism in forests. It describes the current ....

Springer

Hbk | NYP 10/2009 | 3642031447 | #181100A | £90.00 Add to basket

 

The Mineral Nutrition of Livestock

E J Underwood and N Suttle

The fourth edition of this important book covers the advances in livestock mineral nutrition, updated with more illustrations and additional material on the ....

614 pages | Figs, tabs | CABI

Pbk | 2001 | 0851995578 | #119860A | £45.00 Add to basket

Hbk | NYP 12/2009 | 1845934725 | #179803A | £85.00 Add to basket

 

Natural Gas and Hydrogen

John Tabak

Whether solid, liquid, or gaseous, the phase of a fuel has important implications for how it can be used. In the United States approximately 20 per cent of the nation's ....

203 pages | colour photos, line illus, glossary | Facts on File

Hbk | 2009 | 0816070849 | #181468A | £34.50 Add to basket

 

Nature Conservation Law

Colin T Reid

This essential work offers a comprehensive and clear guide to the law on nature conservation in Great Britain. The 3rd edition takes into account significant changes in ....

429 pages | - | Green

Hbk | 2009 | 0414016955 | #181190A | £68.00 Add to basket

 

Nuclear Energy

John Tabak

Commercial nuclear power has long been one of the most controversial of all power-generating technologies, but the debate has not always been particularly informed. ....

206 pages | col photos, line illus, tabs, charts, glossary, | Facts on File

Hbk | 2009 | 0816070857 | #181469A | £34.50 Add to basket

 

Nutrition, Immunity and Infections

P Shetty

Infectious diseases are an important cause of malnutrition. Recurrent infections increase the risk of malnutrition while poor nutritional status results in lowered ....

250 pages | CABI

Pbk | NYP 12/2009 | 0851995314 | #179810A | £34.99 Add to basket

 

The Philosophy of Animal Minds

Edited by Robert Lurz

This volume is a collection of fourteen new essays by leading philosophers on issues concerning the nature, existence, and our knowledge of animal minds. The nature of ....

336 pages | 5 tables | CUP

Hbk | NYP 09/2009 | 0521885027 | #181289A | £50.00 Add to basket

Pbk | NYP 09/2009 | 0521711819 | #181292A | £18.99 Add to basket

 

Physiology of the Pea Crop

Nathalie Munier-Jolain, Veronique Biarnes, Isabelle Chaillet and J Lecoeur

This book was written both by researchers from different disciplines and plant physiologists who have been working together for many years on the production of plants ....

310 pages | Science Publishers/Enfield

Hbk | NYP 09/2009 | 1578085705 | #181472A | £61.00 Add to basket

 

Plant Resources for Food, Fuel and Conservation

Robert Henry

Agriculture and food production have a large footprint on the landscape globally and compete for space with land for nature conservation. This book explores the competition ....

256 pages | index, figures | Earthscan

Hbk | NYP 12/2009 | 1844077217 | #181170A | £49.95 Add to basket

 

The Plot: A Biography of an English Acre

Madeleine Bunting

Guardian columnist Madeleine Bunting is one of the most high-profile left-wing commentators in Britain. But her father was deeply conservative, with romantic, ....

304 pages | Granta

Hbk | NYP 10/2009 | 1847080855 | #180806A | £18.99 Add to basket

 

Principles of Tropical Horticulture

Modular Texts

DJ Midmore

Principles of Tropical Horticulture leads the reader through a background of environmental influences and plant physiology to an understanding of production and ....

300 pages | CABI

Pbk | NYP 12/2009 | 1845935152 | #179748A | £34.99 Add to basket

 

Regulating Global Trade and the Environment

P Street

Examining the roles of international institutions, multinational corporations and other transnational players in framing the trade and environment debate, this book takes a ....

240 pages | Routledge

Hbk | NYP 12/2009 | 0415277892 | #175643A | £60.00 Add to basket

 

Rural Landscapes and Agricultural Policies in Europe

Edited by Annette Piorr and Klaus Muller

The reform of the European agricultural policy aims at stimulating the development of European towards more sustainability and more competitiveness in global markets, by ....

330 pages | 180 colour illustrations | Springer

Hbk | 2008 | 3540794697 | #181191A | £118.50 Add to basket

 

Science in Environmental Policy

The Politics of Objective Advice

Ann Campbell Keller

Scientists often bring issues to the policy agenda, translating scientific questions into everyday language and political terms. When Roger Revelle characterized Earth as a ....

304 pages | MIT Press

Hbk | NYP 08/2009 | 0262013126 | #181315A | £38.95 Add to basket

Pbk | 2009 | 0262512963 | #181316A | £19.95 Add to basket

 

Science, Policy, and the Value-Free Ideal

Heather E Douglas

The role of science in policymaking has gained unprecedented stature in the United States, raising questions about the place of science and scientific expertise in the ....

256 pages | Pittsburgh UP

Pbk | 2009 | 0822960265 | #181467A | £23.95 Add to basket

 

Seasonal Food

A Guide to What's in Season When and Why

Paul Waddington

Unless you are a farmer, grower, or food expert, it is likely that your knowledge of what's in season and when is pretty slim. Despite a renaissance in British home cooking, ....

256 pages | Eden Project Books

Pbk | 2009 | 1905811365 | #181437A | £7.99 Add to basket

 

The Simple Science of Flight

From Insects to Jumbo Jets

Henk Tennekes

Introduction to the mechanics of flight, based on years of observation. ....

137 pages | 80 illus, figs, tabs | MIT Press

Pbk | NYP 10/2009 | 0262513137 | #181313A | £16.95 Add to basket

 

Solar and Geothermal Energy

John Tabak

Solar energy and geothermal energy have a good deal in common. They are abundant and widely, if unevenly, distributed. They are two of the least environmentally disruptive ....

206 pages | col photos, line illus, glossary, chronolog | Facts on File

Hbk | 2009 | 0816070865 | #181454A | £34.50 Add to basket

 

Sustainable Communities

Edited by Woodrow W Clark II

Written as a case textbook and a professional reference book for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in a variety of disciplines, Sustainable Communities contains ....

300 pages | 87 illustrations | Springer

Hbk | NYP 12/2009 | 144190218X | #180351A | £60.99 Add to basket

 

Sustainable Natural Resource Management

For Scientists and Engineers

Daniel R Lynch

Natural resources support all human productivity. The sustainable management of natural resources is among the preeminent problems of the current century. Sustainability and ....

248 pages | 108 line figures 14 tables 151 exercises | CUP

Hbk | 2009 | 0521899729 | #181270A | £34.99 Add to basket

 

Temperate and Subtropical Fruit Production

Edited by DJ Jackson and NE Looney

Effective fruit production requires general knowledge of fruit husbandry, such as nutrition, propagation, pruning and training, effects of climate and crop protection as ....

332 pages | B/w photos, b/w illus, figs, tabs | CABI

Pbk | NYP 12/2009 | 1845935012 | #179746A | £37.50 Add to basket

 

Urban Wildlife Management

Clark E Adams, Kieran J Lindsey and Sarah J Ash

An instant bestseller and winner of major awards, Urban Wildlife Management is the first comprehensive text to examine the issues that have led to the need for human-wildlife ....

311 pages | illus | CRC Press

Hbk | 2006 | 084939645X | #155025A | £53.99 Add to basket

Hbk | NYP 11/2009 | 1439804605 | #181136A | £63.99 Add to basket

 

Water

Edited by John Knechtel

Water is the chemical matrix required for life, the molecular chain that connects all organisms on the planet. But in the twenty-first century, water may replace oil as the ....

320 pages | 200 col illus | MIT Press

Hbk | NYP 10/2009 | 0262013290 | #181314A | £11.95 Add to basket

 

Wheat Science - Today and Tomorrow

Edited by LT Evans and WJ Peacock

First published in 1981, Wheat Science - Today and Tomorrow was intended to survey the past, assess contemporary circumstances in the early 1980s and project the future course ....

304 pages | CUP

Pbk | 2009 | 0521105935 | #181395A | £21.99 Add to basket

 

Where We Belong

Beyond Abstraction in Perceiving

Paul Shepard

The fourteen essays in "Where We Belong" exemplify Paul Shepard's interdisciplinary approach to human interaction with the natural world. Drawn from Shepard's entire career ....

312 pages | 36 B/w photos | Georgia UP

Hbk | 2003 | 0820324205 | #138679A | £28.50 Add to basket

Pbk | 2009 | 082033345X | #181439A | £21.50 Add to basket

 

Why Animal Suffering Matters

Philosophy, Theology and Practical Ethics

Andrew Linzey

How we treat animals arouses strong emotions. Many people are repulsed by photographs of cruelty to animals and respond passionately to how we make animals suffer for food, ....

224 pages | OUP

Hbk | NYP 09/2009 | 0195379772 | #181244A | £16.99 Add to basket

 

The Wild Life

A Year of Living on Wild Food

John Lewis-Stempel

Walking around his Herefordshire farm one October, John Lewis-Stempel saw a trout flash in the brook, mushrooms sprinkle the fields, a squirrel eat hazelnuts, and thought: ....

304 pages | a dozen b/w line + map | Transworld

Hbk | 2009 | 0385613903 | #181129A | £16.99 Add to basket

 

Wind and Water

John Tabak

There are enormous reserves of energy in the winds and the tides and in the temperature difference between the upper and lower regions of the oceans. If the energy produced ....

224 pages | col photos, line illus, glossary, tabs, charts | Facts on File

Hbk | 2009 | 0816070873 | #181470A | £34.50 Add to basket

 

The World is Blue

How Our Fate and the Ocean's are One

Sylvia A Earle

Through compelling personal stories Sylvia Earle puts the peril of the ocean and its life in perspective for a wide public audience. Less than 10 percent of all fish species ....

320 pages | 30 colour photographs, 4 maps | National Geographic

Hbk | NYP 10/2009 | 1426205414 | #181186A | £14.99 Add to basket

 
Data Analysis
 

Analysis of Biological Networks

Edited by Bjorn H Junker and Falk Schreiber

This is the first book of its kind to provide readers with a comprehensive introduction to the structural analysis of biological networks at the interface of biology and ....

346 pages | Figs, tabs | Wiley

Hbk | 2008 | 0470041447 | #181381A | £63.95 Add to basket

 

Control Theory and Systems Biology

Edited by Pablo A Iglesias and Brian P Ingalls

Issues of regulation and control are central to the study of biological and biochemical systems. Thus it is not surprising that the tools of feedback control ....

384 pages | 138 illus | MIT Press

Hbk | NYP 11/2009 | 0262013347 | #181326A | £33.95 Add to basket

 

The Early Evolution of Metazoa and the Significance of Problematic Taxa

Edited by Alberto Simonetta and Simon Conway Morris

One of the great enigmas of evolutionary biology has been how to treat animals of problematic systematic position. Many are known only as fossils, so this area has been ....

308 pages | CUP

Pbk | 2009 | 0521111587 | #181364A | £31.99 Add to basket

 

Modeling Evolution

an introduction to numerical methods

Derek A Roff

Computer modeling is now an integral part of research in evolutionary biology. The advent of increased processing power in ....

352 pages | 70 line illustrations | OUP

Pbk | NYP 12/2009 | 0199571147 | #179994A | £37.50 Add to basket

 

Systema Naturae 250 - The Linnaean Ark

Andrew Polaszek

The advent of relational data basing and data storage capacity, coupled with revolutionary advances in molecular sequencing technology and specimen imaging, have led ....

256 pages | 50 black & white illustrations | CRC Press

Hbk | NYP 11/2009 | 1420095013 | #181231A | £63.99 Add to basket

 
Reference
 

The Art of Being a Scientist

A Guide for Graduate Students and Their Mentors

Roel Snieder and KL Larner

This is a hands-on guide for graduate students and young researchers wishing to perfect the practical skills needed for a successful research career. By teaching junior ....

296 pages | 6 figs | CUP

Pbk | NYP 08/2009 | 0521743524 | #181283A | £19.99 Add to basket

 

Encyclopedia of Life Science

Katherine Cullen

Intended to complement the material typically taught in high school biology and introductory college biology courses, "Encyclopedia of Life Science" is a new, ....

896 pages | Two volume set, col photos, line illus, glossary | Facts on File

Hbk | 2009 | 0816070083 | #181460A | £140.00 Add to basket

 

Museums in a Troubled World

Robert R Janes

Are museums irrelevant? Museums are rarely acknowledged in the global discussion of climate change, environmental degradation, the inevitability of depleted fossil fuels, ....

224 pages | 20 black & white halftones | Taylor & Francis

Hbk | 2009 | 0415463009 | #181553A | £70.00 Add to basket

Pbk | 2009 | 0415463017 | #181554A | £22.99 Add to basket

 

Science Research Writing

A Guide for Non-Native Speakers of English

Hilary Glasman-Deal

This book is designed to enable non-native English speakers to write science research for publication in English. It is a practical, user-friendly book intended as a fast, ....

500 pages | Imperial College Press

Hbk | 2009 | 1848163096 | #181552A | £36.99 Add to basket